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Friday, March 13, the last day of second-term classes, was a crisp, late-winter Michigan afternoon. Exams would start Monday, but many Michigan State University [MSU] students had more important things on their minds. More than 500 undergraduates stood outside the Administration Building, carrying signs and chanting slogans. University President M. Cecil Mackey tried to slip in unnoticed through a back door, but the protesters spotted him and chased...
...cause that drew students into the streets of East Lansing in numbers unmatched since the bombing of Cambodia was neither solidarity with people halfway across the world, nor opposition to their university's "immoral investments." (MSU divested of its holdings in companies involved with South Africa several years ago, one of a handful of educational institutions to do so.) The driving force behind student militancy this year was self-preservation. Students sought to shield their academic interests from the budget ax, as the MSU administration struggled to cope with a budget deficit that was out of control...
...been apparent for some time that MSU is confronted with its most difficult financial problems of modern times." President M. Cecil Mackey, State of the University address, February...
...MSU depends heavily on state aid. Sixty-five per cent of its $200-million operating budget comes directly from state coffers. When Gov. William G. Milliken decreased the university's budget by $16 million this year--the legislature traditionally had appropriated increases that compensated for inflation--he pushed the university into making the most severe budget cuts of its 126-year history...
...They decided they would not try to compete with Harvard, but rather to serve the masses." Frederick H. Horne '56, MSU professor of chemistry...