New Releases Student Stand Up for Their Education Lincoln, NE ‹ Monday September 25, 2006 a news conference was held on the UNL campus by Students Against the Lid (SAL) concerning Initiative 423. The purpose of this news conference was to inform students about the impacts Initiative 423 would have on their college education. The goals of SAL were laid out by Adam Morfeld, Field Director, "Our Students against the Lid campus campaign will be comprised of two components, educating and engaging. First we will be educating the students about the negative effects of Initiative 423 through mediums such as the Daily Nebraskan, on campus posters, and our internet site www.studentsagainstthelid.com." "We will engage the students by asking student organizations for their support. We will also be holding events to further educate students on the negative effects of Initiative 423." Cassie Fleming, an out of state student from Colorado, shared her experiences with a similar amendments effect in her home state. "I did not look into Colorado schools because I knew that Colorado does a poor job of providing its young people, especially low-income students like me, with a chance to go to college. This is due to the effects of TABOR. From someone who has personally seen the effects of TABOR on higher education in Colorado, I hope the students, and Nebraska voters in general will vote no on initiative 423." Finally, the impacts of Initiative 423 to students were laid out by ASUN President, Matt Schaefer. "Initiative 423 will do two things to this University. First, it will damage the current incredibly high quality of education that our students receive here. Secondly, it will put a college degree out of reach for too many of our young people." President Schaefer also pointed out, "Research shows that if nitiative 423 passes, state support for the University could be completely eliminated in less than 20 years. If that were the case, tuition would increase more than six fold to $986 a credit hour. We would no longer be a public university; we would be a private college."