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<B>From: </B>Heike Schotten <Heike.Schotten@umb.edu><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:25:57 -0400<BR>
<B>To: </B>Heike Schotten <Heike.Schotten@umb.edu><BR>
<B>Conversation: </B>PROTEST UMASS FEE HIKES this Wednesday<BR>
<B>Subject: </B>FW: PROTEST UMASS FEE HIKES this Wednesday<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE="7"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:36.0px'>PROTEST FEE HIKES AT UMASS BOSTON! <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8<BR>
MEET AT 8:30 AM<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>Massachusetts Students United (MSU) Club Space, UMass Campus Center 2nd floor <BR>
Board of Trustees meeting (where we'll be protesting) is at 9AM in the Campus Center ballroom, 3rd floor Campus Center. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>The UMass Board of Trustees is going to vote Wednesday on a 7.5% fee increase for this fall, to increase the cost of UMass tuition+fees by<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> $800</FONT> to almost $12,000/year. This latest fee increase comes on the heels of another 15% fee increase just two years ago! UMass Boston is the only public university in the city, and is increasingly unaffordable to Boston residents. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:18.0px'>That's why we will be at the Board of Trustees meeting to tell the trustees that we want affordable public education in Boston--not fee hikes!<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>All who support public higher ed in Boston are welcome!<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman">There will also be a meeting/poster making session Tuesday, June 7 at 3pm in the MSU space, CC 2nd floor--Come if you can make it!
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Georgia, Times New Roman">Questions? fundumassboston@gmail.com or call Dan at 508-221-4344
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