A great team making Alaska history. We have cut enough.  A healthy institution in the North would be expected to have a crackerjack volleyball program as well as Hockey, soccer, track, basketball and baseball and skiing.  They should be kept healthy and so should the state University system, that offers so much in the way of northern skills and technology and history.  I`m retired and I`ll pay my fair share of income taxes, like good citizens do in other states to keep infrastructure, schools and maintenance and public services up to snuff.  If my state and it`s citizens don`t want a proud university and k-12 education system, with 70 billion dollars available to "draw on" to help keep taxes low STILL, while maintaining the quality of education we all hope for,,.. then we are letting our own society and it`s binding fabric down. (even reinstating a state income tax would make us the second lowest income or sales- taxing state in the union..).