The Michigan Daily-Thursday, November 15, 1979-Page 3 DEMONSTRA TORS MARCH ON CAPITOL Angry MSU students By TOM MIRGA Special to The Daily LANSING - A band of more than 150 angry Michigan State University students chanting "two, four, six, eight - can't afford to graduate" marched on the state Capitol here yesterday to protest a recent surge of tuition hikes that threatens to send a number of them out on the streets in search of em- ployment. Protesters said tuition fees have risen d0 per cent for in-state upperclassper- sons and 78.4 per cent for under- classpersons since the 1972-1973 school year. The rally on the Capitol steps was prompted by a 9.5 per cent increase ap- proved by that university's Board of trustees last July. That same month, this University's Regents hiked tuition fees by an average of 8.75 per cent. "STUDENTS ENROLLED in state higher education institutions cannot be forced to dig deeper into their pockets anymore," Association of Students at MSU (ASMSU) Chairperson Bruce Studer, told the group. "Instead of worrying about our studies, we're worrying about being bounced from the Vniversity with the next set of tuition hikes." One of the demonstrators, Tim Yake, said he would try to find a job during Christmas recess to raise funds to cover his soaring tuition fees. "If I don't make enough money over Christmas, I don't know if I'll have enough money to come back," the freshman agriculture student from Kalamazoo said. MSU LAW professor Zolton Ferency told the group the burden of financing higher education should not rest on the shoulders of the students but with the legislature. "There was a time we could say a college education is a luxury," he said, "but that time is long past. Today it is a necessity and should be) afforded to everybody. If the cost of education has to rise, the people in these halls bear the responsibility to find those resources." Ferency also said the nation's current financial malaise has forced the legislature to make choices between funding higher education and other state services. "WHEN iT comes to making those choices," he continued, "we have to put first things first. I would rather 10,000 students than build missile system or a nucle marine." Rep. Lynn Jondahl (D-E. L said shifting the burden of fi college education to students critical move that ran contrar establishment of public educati "When we fail to support education," the liberal Democ protest. educate "we fail to support socie an MX vestment in getting the ar sub- skills to help us solve the problems that confront us. 4ansing) JONDAHL ALSO warne nancing ts to beware of those peop was a set them against other gro y to the state assistance. "Don't h on. barriers between you an( higher the poor and the hungry w rat said, the same sources of fund rising tuitio ty. It's an in- he said. "Maintaining those kinds of insights and coalitions is critical." The represen- multitude of tative added that the issue of state fun- '' u o ding of education will worsen in the ad the studen- future, due to last year's passage of the ple who try to Headlee tax amendment. ups who seek MSU Board of Trustees member et people put Aubrey Radcliffe, who voted against det peolerpy tne July tuition hike, told the protesters d the elderly,pend o to continue the fight by sitting in on hoing as dpellon board meetings and by lobbying in the ina e egislature. "You are the final determinant of any course of action," he said. "Change will occur if enough people aren't afraid to come out and raise some hell." ASMSU leader Studer said the protest marked the beginning of an intensified lobbying effort aimed at state legislators. 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Alternative Action Films-,Young Frankenstein, 7, 9:15 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud. Ann Arbor Public Library-Georgia O'Keefe, 12:10, 7:30 p.m. PERFORMANCES School of Music Opera Theater-La.Boheme, 8 p.m., Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Residential College Players-The Alchemist, 7:30 p.m., East Quadrangle Auditorium. Ark-Rosalie Sorrells, Terry Garthewaite, and Bobby Louise Hawkins, Women's music and poetry, 9 p.m., 1421 Hill. Dept. of Theatre and Drama-Tango, 8 p.m., Trueblood Theater, Frieze. UAC-Soundstage Coffee House, music and poetry, 8 p.m., U Club, Michigan Union. SPEAKERS Center for West European Studies-Dirk Pauls, Consul of the German Federal Republic, "Contemporary German Political Problems," noon, Michigan League. Center for Japanese Studies-Janet Goff, "The Tale of Genji as a Source of the No," noon, Lane Hall. Turner Geriatric Clinic-Dr. Joseph Vaughn and Shirley Jones, R.N., "How to Winterize Your Aching Bones and Joints II," 1 p.m., 1010 Wall Str- eet. Trans, Res Senminatr Series-Theodore Keeler, University of Califor- nia-Berkley, "National Aggregate Model of Rail and Trucking Deregulation," 3:30 p.m., Rackham. Cellular and Molecular Biology-Dr. Mark Willingham, "Neoplastic Transformation of Cells by Animal Viruses," 4 p.m., 5330 Med. Sci. I. CICE-Dr. Stanley Butman, California Institute of Technology, "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence," 4 p.m., 1508 E. Engineering. Dept. of Engineering-Barbara Herrnstein Smith, "Narrative Transac- tions and Fictional Disclaimers," 4 p.m., MLB Lee. Rm. 2. Washtenaw Community College-Julian Bond, 11:30 a.m., Washtenaw Community College, Liberal Arts and Science Building, Lecture Hall II. Dept. f the History of Art-Eleanor Nunro, "Ame;can Women Artists," 4:30 p.m., Art School Aud. Michigan Economics Society-Gavin Wright, "Survey of Southern Labor History," 5 p.m., Third Floor, Econ. Building. Chemistry-Prof. Fred Lytle, Purdue University, "The Use of Lasers in Applied Spectrocopy," 8p.m., 1300 Chem. EXHIBITIONS College of Architecture and Urban Planning-"Canada-History through Architecture," east exhibition corridor, Art and Architecture Building. MEETINGS Jewish Hunger Task Force-Hunger Awareness Evening, 6 p.m., Markley, Concourse Lounge. Michigan International Relations Society, 7:30 p.m., Michigan Union, Conf. Room. Michigan Christian Fellowship-7 p.m., Michigan Union, check at main entrance for exact location. FED-Rally to kick off the picketing of the Regents' meeting, noon, East side of the Administration Building. GEO- membership meeting, 8p.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. MISCELLANEOUS UAC-Mini-course: Dream Analysis, 3:15 p.m., tickets from Ticket Cen- tral, Michigan Union. Forty-three per cent of all black students who enroll in the University drop out, according to the director of a major children's public interest group in Washington. Speaking on "Education and the Minority Child," Marian Wright Edelman, founder and director of the Children's Defense Fund, addressed more than 150 students at the Modern Language Building yesterday. THE DEFENSE fund has earned a high reputation on Capitol Hill and in the administration for its contributions to the child advocacy field. "Today is the anniversary of Brown vs. the Board of Education. Twenty-five years later, we're hearing that affir- mative action is no longer needed. But Brown's point hasn't stuck," Edelman said. There is one black high school student who disenrolls for every two who graduate, Edelman said, compared to one white "drop-out" for every four graduates. She said school suspension is three times greater for blacks than for whites and one-third of all black students attend schools which are 90 per cent black. EDELMAN SAID, however, there are, more whites on the average receiving poor education and living below the poverty level than blacks. She also pointed to increases in studen- ts' use of drugs, alcohol, in suburban schools. Suicide too is on the rise, ac- cording to Edelman. For these reasons, the organization has appealed to whites, she said, "since it is clear that the same policies can further the The term "minority implies a wide variety of children, she said, including not only poor, gifted, black, handicap- ped, and retarded, but also foster children. Edelman's group conducts research, monitors federal programs and lobbiesa on Capitol Hill on behalf of children. The group, The Children's Defense fund, lobbied successfully for the Child Welfare Reform Amendment of 1979, designed to give states advance notice of federal funding and subsidies for adoption. Defense fund staff plan to push Congress to extend Medicaid to foster children, regardless of the in- come of their parents. EDELMAN SA)ID strong opposition to a Child Assessment Program has come from Michigan Congressman David Stockman (R-St. Joseph). 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