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Mhm. Mhm. Mr or Regent carter called this an elitist institution and suggested that there were some dangers in making the kind of cuts that you have proposed. Could you respond to that? Yes, I can say that that is possibly one of the best excuses to avoid

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a good, hard look is to just say we're elitist, don't look at us with such critical eyes. Sure, the university is an elitist institution. They only take from the top 12.5% of the high school graduates. That does not excuse having areas where economies can be found.

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Mr. Hitch, does the position taken by Mr or present a clear and present danger to the excellence of the university? Let me just repeat what region carter said. I think he made some very wise remarks. He said that it's true, that's so far very few of

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our senior distinguished professors have left. And it's very gratifying that that history, the real question is whether we are still competing and able to get the best of the younger people as we used to do, and he said, we won't really know for 15 or 20

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years