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office, Mr. Hubbard remembers attending rallies and listening to Gov. Allen's responses to questions about higher education.
"He'd say it’s time that Virginia families get a break and the cost of a college education cease to rise,” he said. "He [Allen] implemented the tuition freeze while he simultaneously cut state support for higher-education funding."
A $1 million cut in funding, to George Mason has been proposed in the governor's 1997 budget amendments.
"I don't see where the promised break to Virginia's families has come," Mr. Hubbard said. "Break their backs, maybe. I don't see how he has given any financial relief to working-class families like my own trying to put their children through school."
Calling for the money committees * to stop making education a political issue, the GMU students asked that the gubernatorial candidates pledge to invest more in the state's colleges and universities.
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