The committee has received 374 letters on the issue, nearly all of which criticized the move toward market-based accounting.

Some telephone user groups criticized the move, while the local phone companies praised it.

Republicans criticized the move saying, "They should teach students how to think, not what to think."

Rights groups criticised the move, saying they had little access to legal counsel.

Opposition political groups criticized the move as illegal, but took no other immediate steps to protest the action.

Democracy advocates criticized the move as a danger to civil liberties.

Lawyers and religious leaders have criticized the move as a threat to democratic freedoms.

Brokers and analysts criticized the move as a political intervention that hurt the economy.

Nonetheless, some Catholic supporters of abortion rights criticized the move, saying the money should be spent to help the poor.

The president's two principal critics on campus criticized the move.