CUNY Contingents Unite made a banner and brought two plastic crates to serve as a speaker's platform for a demonstration held outside Baruch College of The City University of New York on December 8, 2008. Students demand no budget cuts, no tuition hikes and no layoffs of adjunct instructors. See the informative sign: A CUNY Contingent is: in the video. We call on all CUNY students, adjunct instructors, staff and especially full-time professors to become ACTIVE in bolstering public education while politicians continue to tell us to accept "austerity." We need increased funding for public education not cuts, larger class sizes and layoffs.