In the fall of 1986 a proposed law regarding the French university system caused over 300,000 students to take to the streets demanding equality. The law was a relatively lukewarm modification designed to adapt the university to pressing economic realities; according to government statistics, one in three graduates was unemployed. It proposed a modest increase in fees and what was called selective orientation: a means of
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Kristin Ross (1991) studied this question.