clarionledger.com
November 21, 2009
Governor willing to listen to other ideas, his spokesman says
Kathleen Baydala
baydala@clarionledger.com
Declining revenue will result in changes to Mississippi higher education, according to the governor and state education officials. But supporters of the state's three public, historically black universities say an unfair share of the burden is being heaped upon them.
Several hundred students, alumni and supporters of Alcorn State, Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State universities gathered at the Capitol steps in Jackson on Friday afternoon to protest the proposed merger of the three schools. Clusters of purple and gold, kelly green and white and royal blue and white chanted, "No! No! No!"
"The governor's plan is absolutely racist," said Charles Chiplin, advisor of JSU's NAACP chapter. "We resent the notion of our three black schools being asked to merge when cuts aren't affecting the major white universities."
"We have given 247 years of free labor for this country, 110 to 115 of the worst kind of discrimination and now you want to put all of our schools under one roof. Not until hell freezes over," said Mississippi Valley State alumnus and state Sen. David Jordan, D-Greenwood.
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