Library Students Rally
for Threatened Arizona SIRLS
More than a dozen graduate students from the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science attended a town-hall meeting January 28 to plead for the school’s continued existence. Some 200 faculty members, students, and others came to voice their opinions on the university’s proposed restructuring plan.
The library students carried signs reading “Librarians focus on excellence” and “SIRLS grads serve the UA” and handed out fliers that detailed the school’s strengths. Recent graduate Lisa Bunker told those assembled that the school is profitable and has higher enrollments of American Indian and Hispanic students than the general campus population.
“People are not responding with anger,” UA President Peter Likins said in the January 29 Tucson Arizona Daily Star. “They’re good people, sharing their hurt, and that just makes me hurt all the more.” While he was at the meeting, state lawmakers in Phoenix proposed cutting an additional $16 million from the university budget, which Likens called potentially devastating.
Posted February 3, 2003.
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