March 19, 1999

Plan to Raise Tuition Sparks Mexican Protests

By RHONA STATLAND de LOPEZ

Students at Mexico's largest university have staged regular protests in recent weeks against a proposal to raise tuition at the cash-strapped institution. They have burned the university's rector in effigy and demanded that he disclose his annual salary, in an effort to embarrass him into backing down on the university's first tuition increase in more than 50 years. Under the rector's plan, the cost of tuition would