Five.
What is the university without students?
We are the target audience for education (theoretically). Our wallets are the target for the state and school administrators (in practice).
What follows is common sense. Logic.
Defend our wallets. Do not allow your money to be a target. Do not sit idly by as President Stanley, Chancellor Zimpher, the Provosts, the SUNY Board of Trustees, state legislators and Governor Paterson reach their grubby, greedy fingers into your pockets!
The question then becomes: from whom, then, if not from the students?
It is the responsibility of the state to fund public education. This is a responsibility they have neglected. They have slashed our budget and raised our tuition year after year and have not been held accountable. It is time that their feet are held to the fire.
This is not a matter of “if” but, rather, “when”. We hold the power until we let it go. We let it go when we blink if faced with opposition. We must be militant, uncompromising and resilient. We must endure and fight the long campaign in the name of public education, student power and economic justice.
We have paid our taxes and they have squandered our money, throwing it to the private schools and to the bonfire of bureaucratic waste. They come to us, now, to collect more. They will not get more. They are not in a position to negotiate with us. They will listen and they will comply.
occupyny 
for the folks on twitter geeks spreading news fast, i would suggest using hash-tags to get the message out about what’s happening on the ground in nyc on march 4th. there’s already a fair number of california hash-tags (such as #occupyca)
#march4 is national and gaining momentum, although it’s still mostly focused on california
#ism is for ‘international student movement’
we could use #occupyny (to mirror the cali format and this site’s URL)