Students Rally Against Proposed Cuts

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Governor Steve Beshear's budget calls for a reduction of 6.4 percent in state funding for postsecondary education, which is less than the proposed cuts of 8.5 percent for most state agencies. Hundreds of students from Kentucky's eight public universities rallied in the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday to protest proposed 6.4 percent budget cuts in higher education. Student body presidents from the universities and state lawmakers spoke to a crowd that Michah Fielden, chairman of the UK Board of Student Body Presidents, described as the largest student rally in Frankfort "in modern times." Some were there to question, if not protest, the current move to possibly make the University of Pikeville a state university.