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Giving the official university position, acting news director Arthur Clifford said, "Students may follow their conscience, but faculty are not free to abstain from their responsibilities."
"The executive committee of the MSP shares our students' outrage at the repeated cuts in the University budget and opposes any further fee hikes, staff reductions or budget cuts...We request that the faculty not penalize students who are participating in the strike, absences should be excused, assignments and tests...
Nelson did not say how long the strike would last, but added that Amherst students are hoping to gather support from graduate students and other UMass campuses.
But the representative urged students to "recognize at what point the strike will have run its course. Most legislators are more influenced by lobbying."
"In our country there is little criminal activity...cases of AIDS and drugs are virtually unknown," he was quoted as saying. "Our people are asking themselves why they shouldn't just leave that as it is."