密苏里州林肯大学的现任和前任学生于周三提起诉讼，指控该州数十年来对该机构资金拨款不足。
Current and former students at Lincoln University of Missouri filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the state has underfunded the institution for decades.
学生们要求该州向一个基金支付近5.49亿美元，用于校园维修及其他大学需求。案件的核心在于一项要求特定州资金流向赠地大学的法律。
The students want the state to pay almost $549 million to a fund that would go towards campus repairs and other university needs. The case centers around a law that requires certain state money to go to land-grant universities.
2023年，拜登政府发现包括密苏里州在内的多个州扣留了对历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的资金。
In 2023, the Biden administration found multiple states, including Missouri, held back funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
虽然该州在2022年为该大学筹集了资金，但诉讼声称这并不足够。
While the state raised the funds for the university in 2022, the lawsuit contends that it was not enough.
未被列入诉讼名单的林肯大学表示，对新发起的法律挑战不予置评。
Lincoln University, which was not named in the lawsuit, said it has no comment on the new legal challenge.
诉讼指出，密苏里州“三十多年来，扣留了联邦法律作为接受联邦赠地资金条件所要求的、应拨给林肯大学的州资金，且此举可追溯至密苏里州先前法定的种族隔离高等教育体系”。密苏里州长办公室表示“目前暂无评论”。
The lawsuit states that Missouri "for more than three decades, withheld from Lincoln University the state funding that federal law required as a condition of the federal land-grant money Missouri accepted, and did so on a basis traceable to Missouri's prior de jure system of racially segregated higher education." The Missouri governor's office said it "does not have a comment at this time."
诉讼还指控林肯大学受到与另一所赠地学校——密苏里大学——不同的待遇，后者获得了来自“展示我州”（Show-Me State，密苏里州别称）的全额资金。
The lawsuit also alleges Lincoln University was treated differently than the University of Missouri, another land-grant school, which received its full funding from the Show-Me State.
原告律师唐·卡洛韦（Don Calloway）告诉《纽约时报》：“资金不足的后果在今天依然非常明显，因此仅仅因为问题发生在过去，并不意味着我们没有义务去纠正它。”“这明显违反了该州的法定和合同义务。”《山丘》杂志已联系卡洛韦寻求评论。
“The ramifications of the underfunding are very present today, and so just because it goes back some time doesn’t mean that we don’t have an obligation to fix it,” Don Calloway, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told The New York Times. “It is a very clear breach of the state’s statutory and contractual obligation.”The Hill has reached out to Calloway for comment.