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...most unusual gift, if not his largest, was a guarantee of college tuition for 61 pupils at P.S. 121. Lang was making a sentimental visit to his old school, and in the middle of what he recalls as a paralyzingly dull, rehearsed speech to the graduating sixth grade, the inspiration came to him. Suddenly he broke off and told the astounded youngsters that he would give them each $2,000 toward college tuition, with more where that came from, if they stuck with their books and finished school. Later he followed with a letter to every pupil, declaring "I will...
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...Congress passed legislation limiting the benefits that states can offer to undocumented immigrants. Congress said that states could no longer offer them in-state tuition rates. For New Mexico’s undocumented immigrants, this meant the cost of higher education had just risen by as much as 400 percent. Immigrants also lost access to scholarships that are available to all New Mexico students who maintain a certain GPA. Working immigrant families found themselves priced out of the market. Their children, who had broken no law, now had no opportunity to get a college education. The rhetoric at the time...
...some 250 students and faculty demonstrated against the presence of a Playboy magazine representative shopping for willing student bodies for a picture spread called "Girls of the PAC-10." At the University of Texas at Austin, 2,000 students marched to the state capitol building to protest a proposed tuition hike. The Reagan Administration's proposed 20% cut in student loans and grants, which has stimulated protests, also seems to have catalyzed more general student dissent and discontent...