San Diego
About 500 San Diego State University students held the second in a series of planned marches Wednesday to protest impending budget cuts that could mean dismissal of the campus’s several hundred part-time instructors and elimination of about 550 classes.
The marchers want President Thomas Day to take more of an estimated $19-million reduction from administration and less from classroom-related functions. They also want state legislators to find other areas of the state budget other than education to cut.
The state faces an estimated $12.6-billion shortfall for next year. Some students and faculty members have called for a one-day walkout from classes next Wednesday as their next protest.
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