I've been following this story for a couple days now just to see if I can get things straight. The short version is that SComm decided to hire four new faculty and built a search committee of current faculty from SComm and UND and people from the GFK community. Students asked to be on the committee and were denied, but kept trying to be involved in the process. These students (who, before people jump down my throat, do not represent all students in SComm, yadda yadda yadda) are making a case that what little input they had was marginalized and that the procedures followed by the committee were not appropriate.
Please read the material and make your own decision. If there are things I've missed, please post them (and I can move them into chronological order).
Disclosure: I'm on the side of the students making the complaint--I think students need more representation and should be taken more seriously. What incoming candidates say to students an what they say to current faculty are often interpreted differently, especially at a school where the administration pushes research over teaching so much. This being said, I will try to report what happens as accurately and in as unbiased a manner as possible and to offset my own opinions so that they are understood as such.