COLLEGE, STUDENTS DEADLOCK IN STRIKE EDUCATION IDEALS CLASH WITH TODAY'S MEXICO.(News) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: July 2, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

What began as a dispute over tuition has turned into an angry battle for the soul of Latin America's largest university and the core of Mexican higher education. It doesn't look like it will end any time soon.

Students have shut down Mexico's National Autonomous University, occupying buildings for more than 10 weeks, even though the university has backed down on the issue that triggered the strike: an increase in the yearly tuition from a symbolic 2 cents to $145.