$3 Million Gift

AMHERST--The Massachusetts state colleges and universities have received more than $3 million to computer equipment from An Wang, president of Wang Laboraties, and member of the Board of Regents, the governing body of the state schools.

Wang said that the curtailments in funding for higher education, at birth state and federal levels, creates the need for private support to insure quality education: particularly in the area of research and experiment training in the physical sciences, the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, the UMass--Amherst's daily newspaper, reported last week.

The computers are the third and largest gift recently given by corporations that have officials serving on L'Mass governing boards.