ABOR Student Protest in the News

In the Wildcat:

http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2009/01/23/News/Regents.Plan.For.proposed.Future-3595188.shtml

http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2009/01/23/News/call-To.Audience.Turns.Into.Battle.Against.Budget.Cuts-3595191.shtml

"Following the meeting, Bruce said ASUA would be organizing a trip to the state's capitol in Phoenix on Wednesday, Jan. 28, with the intent of protesting the proposed budget cuts to the legislature. He said he wants as many students as possible to attend."

The Daily Star (by Aaron Mackey):
http://www.azstarnet.com/business/277129.php

"In what several regents described as the largest-ever crowd at a board meeting, business and community leaders and students packed the UA's Student Union Memorial Center's North Ballroom to protest the high levels of potential university budget cuts."

The AZ Republic:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/01/23/20090123regents0123.html

The Chronical of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/5853/proposed-higher-education-cuts-draw-record-crowd-to-arizona-regents-meeting

The Tucson Citizen (by Renee Schafer Horton, one of our favorites):

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/breakingnews/108348.php

"It was the largest crowd in recent history at a regents' meeting, dwarfing the groups of 200- to 400-plus people who protested tuition increases in the past, university officials said."

and

"The cuts, proposed by Sen. Bob Burns and Rep. John Kavanagh, respective chairmen of the Senate and House appropriations committees, would reduce the base budget of Arizona's three-university system by about 40 percent.
Burns and Kavanagh were not available for comment."

Maybe we should write them an e-mail or give them a call and ask why they seem unwilling to defend their own policies:
Burns: rburns@azleg.gov , (602) 926-5170
Kavanagh: jkavanagh@azleg.gov (602) 926-5993