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President Hitch says this morning that three austerity program for the University of California are you ready for this? Is going to weaken the academic standards, reduced the number of courses offered, curtail all of the new programs and has damaged the university on? I wonder if you

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would comment on it for me. Well, it's rather difficult for me to understand why they continue to make this case when the per student increase in spending is considerably higher. Thanet has been at any time in the last 10 years when the annual increase in the

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budget the total increase is the same percentage as the percentage of increase that's been granted over the last 10 years. Now the plane situation is the university and the college system were given number one priority. They have received the biggest increase in spending of any state

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agency. We made them number one