John Kelley

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Cutting Geology program not answer to budget woes

I am a fourth-year senior in the Department of Geological Sciences, a department that despite its prolific publication record and contributions to scholarship is now facing the ax. If the state revenues are as dire as predicted, the college will require that we cut all the lab managers, nontenured faculty and an office worker (we only have three). In simple terms, this means that for every $9 cut from the budget, one dollar comes directly from geology.