SAN DIEGO : Students Take Protest to Capital
About 200 San Diego State University students left for Sacramento on Monday to meet with state legislators in an attempt to prevent expected budget cuts in higher education.
Armed with alternative budget proposals that they said would raise revenue by closing tax loopholes and raising taxes on the rich, the students hope to meet with local state legislators and members of the Senate Budget Conference Committee, said Tim Doring, one of the SDSU student organizers.
“There are a lot of corporate loopholes that we can close to try to raise revenue to fund education,” said Doring, a senior majoring in public administration.
SDSU President Thomas Day recently announced plans to eliminate nine academic departments, sharply cut nine others and lay off 193 tenured and non-tenured professors out of a total faculty of about 1,400.
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