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you for inviting me within that capacity. It is rare

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for you to hear from me along those terms. You should

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know that it is a highly important capacity because it

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is the most rapidly growing aspect of higher education

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in the whole country. About a million students are now

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in community colleges and there are about a little over

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4,000,000 in higher education. As far as Maryland is

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concerned, we now have about 10,000, 3,000 in the Baltimore

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Junior College alone.

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There are four points I want to make very

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hastily. First, I would like to endorse as President

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of the Baltimore Junior College Dr. Zimmerman's position

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and others in respect to Article A3 of the Declaration

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of Rights, and Article 8 of the Constitution, and

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particularly Section 52 of Article 3.

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You should know, by way of illustration, this

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matter of holding inviolate the funds particularly as the

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refer to the insensitive areas, especially for poor

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colleges such as the one I represent. We draw up a

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budget and unless we can be certain that the matching

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funds, as far as the current operating funds are