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are described as critical areas, I as president of the

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college deal concretely with young people who are forced

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to work beyond their requirements in terms of their ability

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to succeed at college because they are tied in with con-

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tracts that tend to integrate a number of requirements and

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insist that they go to work. I can tell you that the

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tuition has gone up yearly because of lending laws that are

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not clearly identified.

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There has not been a single significant media

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in the State of Maryland that has opposed keeping this in

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the Constitution during all of our deliberations. On the

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other hand, there have been literally thousands of people

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who have stated the importance of this in terms of economic

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rights.

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I can also tell you that laboring people have

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said if they do not have this whole concept of collective

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bargaining at least they have this to hold on to, and these

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are the words that have been stated to me.

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We have stated in the hearing the importance of

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natural resources. If we are going to do more for that

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which is material than that which we do for peonle who cannot