Readers react to an article about the WSU College of Arts and Sciences, the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture and the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences cutting funding to two of the university’s environmental centers. The Water Research Center will lose $100,000 and the Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach will lose $90,000 next year in order to meet the 2.5 percent decrease in spending across the university.

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Daniel Stuart Hoffman: “I don’t disagree that if we are in the hole as much as Schulz says we are that spending should be cut, but the cuts are happening in all the wrong places. Water is only going to become a scarcer resource during the 21st century and onwards, to cut research there is abhorrent. Cutting Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture grad student stipends is also pretty bad. We are supposed to be driving to 25, remember? That is driving to be a top-25 research school. How the hell are we going to do that with these cuts?

Faith Martian: “So you will have less kids with more overpaid administrators. I know of two people applying to schools not looking at WSU because of these budget cuts. I am looking elsewhere for my son, also. The reputation of the school is at stake and administration is just worried about their salaries — oh and football.”

Kidd Marksen: “Excellent job, WSU. The cool kids are into destruction of the environment anyway. More capital and all that.”

Nick Hosler: “They need to make cuts, but I agree. I’d say one-quarter of people in the administration could disappear and I doubt their workload would change at all. Place is a bureaucratic mess.”