Likins attacks gubernatorial proposal
Gov. Jane Dee Hull has requested that UA submit plans today for how it could cut an additional $30 million from this year's budget to pay for salary increases and recoup about $100 million of the state's swelling deficit.
Arguing that Hull is using the request to prove that the state cannot afford previously promised salary increases, University of Arizona President Peter Likins denounced the proposed scenarios as the most recent "strike" on the university's funding in a series of cuts beginning in April.
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