Alabama Statehouse rally held for higher ed funding - BOB JOHNSON, Business Week

A throng of college students and administrators waved signs and shouted slogans as bands played fight songs Thursday during a rally to push for more state funds for higher education in Alabama. Students also joined higher education officials in urging legislators to reach a fair solution to the crisis facing the state's prepaid college tuition program, known as PACT, without putting caps on tuition for PACT participants. University officials favor legislation assuring that PACT contracts will be paid, but oppose a House-passed bill that would cap tuition increases for PACT participants at 2.5 percent.