The coalition is asking the administration to find the funding for its demands, and that students be involved in future budgetary planning.

Brown administrators have been negotiating with students protesting the budget, and have said repeated that they think they can work out their difference with the students through the negotiating process.

The Brown administration has proposed cuts of 15 per cent in faculty and 4.5 per cent in financial aid.

Harvard's faculty of Arts and Sciences will undergo a teaching staff cut of about 2 per cent this year, with no substantial reduction in financial aid. There have been no major protests about budgetary matters at Harvard this year.

The Brown coalition's leaders have said that they will consider a positive vote of over 50 per cent of those voting--no matter how small that number is--a strike mandate.

The coalition has set up a crowded, harried three-room, office at the center of Brown's campus, where it disseminates information and hold meetings.

Michael O'Neill, a member of the coalition, said yesterday he is confident that a large number of Brown students will vote in today's referendum, supporting the strike. He said he is sure the administration will respond to the coalition's demands by Sunday afternoon.

Although the proposed strike would only last a week. O'Neill said he thinks "the administration has to concede." If it does not, the coalition will plan "other actions" in support of its demands the following week, he said