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BOSTON--As 600 angry college students gathered at the State House to protest proposed spending cuts in higher education, the Massachusetts House of Representatives resumed debate yesterday on the fiscal 1990 budget...
Shouting "We won't take no [for an answer]," students from state public colleges and universities jammed State House stairways for an indoor, noon-time rally to decry the "bare-bones" budget proposed by the House Ways and Means Committee...
Students spent the day visiting the offices of their state legislators, "power-lobbying" for an amendment filed by Rep. Stanley C. Rosenberg (D-Amherst). The amendment would restore $15.7 million in funds for higher education to what has been described as a "bare-bones" $12.3 billion House budget...
Orefice said the shanties and two-cent campaign are only two aspects of the campaign against the budget cuts. "There will also be a bus trip to the Statehouse to join students from the other state schools in lobbying against the cuts," she said...
...both Langley and Orefice said that they had not received any feed-back from state legislators, although the two-cent campaign and the shanties had generated much popular support. A letter-writing drive to protest the budget cuts had produced 1500 letters as of March...