It's just that I know how it goes. Smaller departments get the ax first. My old department will not fair well I'm sure. Which means the quality of education goes down, another unemployed soul and a net decline. An case could be made to use down economic times to go back to school, learn something new, create a new career. But you can't do that if you can't afford it. Making students pay for the cost of legislative mistakes seems unfair. Create a Permanent UA fund why don't we? A billion out of the tens of billions we have should do it....