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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-07-11 06:20 PM
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BU community joins SUNY-wide protest
By Christina Pullano
Contributing Writer
Published: Friday, October 7, 2011
Updated: Friday, October 7, 2011 03:10

Students at Binghamton University joined others across the state Wednesday to rally against budget cuts and tuition hikes.

The BU protesters joined with a statewide student organization called New York Students Rising (NYSR), a group that coordinates rallies at SUNY and CUNY schools. A group of BU students called Concerned Binghamton Students partnered with NYSR over the summer to plan this rally.

Students were protesting NYSUNY 2020, a piece of legislation passed into law in New York during the summer authorizing the SUNY Board of Trustees to raise tuition for SUNY and CUNY campuses every year for the next five years ...

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