I'm a liberal and I take issue with your comment. I too oppose cuts to education, but I limit that to K-12 education. The UA system is fundamentally broken, and while I support fixing it, the current version is costing the state an excessive amount of money for the return we're getting for it. Why are we dumping this amount of money into an institution that isn't helping reverse brain-drain in the state? I've spoken to numerous former UA students who left after a year because of the dysfunction that mires the UA system; poor professors, a board of regents more interested in making money off students than educating them, etc.