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being denied. What good is it to give that young man a

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loan or tell him that somebody or other has a scholar-

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ship, if the State isn't going to take care of him?

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So, this is the point, and I would urge you to give much

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consideration to this area, not just of autonomy, but

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this whole area of what the State is going to provide

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for by way of opportunity for its citizens in public

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higher education.

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If I may move on. A model of concise language

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Mrs. Bothe, I would agree with you here, and others, this

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is highly important. California law on schools and

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Constitution tends to spell everything out to the point

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where you can't even get a teacher's salary raise out

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there without getting an amendment of the Constitution.

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Our statement here has stood for 100 years,

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and I think this is the way it should be. Keep it simple

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concise and direct and leave the details to statutory

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enactment.

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I probably shouldn't go into this, the

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situations are clear-cut; the General Assembly, the

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chain of authority. That is all adequate. The next