Editor,
I would not cut funding for Accessibility Services. It is an absolute necessity for disabled students to get their education. I would keep services for students from other cultures or who have limited English because they also need these services to finish their education.
Groups for English-speaking, American-reared minorities who need to get together to help each other navigate a world dominated by not-them are useful, and professional associations are useful, but they need to carry an increasing share of the load themselves.
Also, the cuts in funding should be a flat percentage across the board, not 100 percent here and 69 percent there. Who gets to pick and choose who needs what? And what prevents it from becoming a popularity contest? And as for other clubs, groups, sororities and fraternities, sorry, it's a recession. The economy is imploding and nobody is exempt. Everybody has to take his or her licks except the groups that are absolutely necessary. And if athletics is self-supporting, why are we funding it above and beyond its own income?
Any move to add new vice presidents to redecorate the headquarters of the top dogs or to increase the salaries of top administrators should go into the deep freeze until the recession is over and the recovery is under way for at least a year. This probably means these administrative salaries should remain frozen until 2020.
Sorry folks - we all have to sacrifice something when the pie is shrinking.
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Patricia Mathews
UNM student
