More than 1,000 Slippery Rock State College students, faculty and administrators gathered March 28, 1973, to protest proposed tuition hikes and a freeze on state funding for the 14 state colleges and universities. From left, are Jack Weller, president of AFSCME Local 819, John Coleman, president of student government, Irv Kuhr, president of the SRSC faculty association, Albert Watrel, college president, and Helen D. Wise, president-elect of the National Education Association.