Rutgers University students protest illegal immigrant tuition during president's fundraising speech
Published: Friday, September 24, 2010, 6:51 PM Updated: Friday, September 24, 2010, 6:56 PM
Members of the Latino Student Alliance and other students protest before the annual address to the University Community by Richard L. McCormick, president of Rutgers University, held on the New Brunswick campus.NEW BRUNSWICK — A group of Rutgers University students repeatedly interrupted a speech by the school president today as they sought lower tuition for illegal immigrants at New Jersey colleges.
Rutgers President Richard McCormick was forced by students to stop four times during his 32-minute State of the University speech at the student center in New Brunswick.
The students shouted questions about the university’s policy of charging out-of-state tuition to illegal immigrants who grew up in New Jersey. They asked the president to commit to changing the rule.
When McCormick politely declined to respond for a fourth time and continued his speech, about 50 students rose in unison and silently walked out of the hall with their fists