Tuition hike sparks fight over Mexico university's mission

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 25, 1999| Author: Richard Chacon, Globe Staff | Copyright information

MEXICO CITY -- Instead of sitting in class last week at the National Autonomous University, Salvador Gomez Carrillo and Mario Rivera were in each other's faces.

The two undergraduates have been friends since they began attending college here in 1997. Now, however, they find themselves on opposite sides of an explosive issue that has paralyzed the hemisphere's largest university. For the first time in 50 years, Mexico's top public institution of higher education is raising its full-time...

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