Crowd speaks out against UW budget cut proposal
2/20/2015
WSAU Radio Wausau

By Larry Lee

People sounded off at UW Stevens Point Thursday night about Governor Scott Walker’s proposed 300-million dollar UW System budget cut. The lecture room at the Noel Fine Arts Center was packed with students, faculty, and was facilitated by Representative Katrina Shankland and Senator Julie Lassa. The crowd of about 160 was entirely pro-university and anti-Walker budget.

Lassa says there are many details they still don’t know about the Walker budget, and won’t know until early next month.  “It will take the (Legislative) Fiscal Bureau until the end of February to get all of their analysis done, and then the Joint Finance Committee will begin having the different state agencies come in before it and testify about their portions of the budgets, so we’re still at the very beginning, but there are a lot of details in this budget, and everyday, there’s more and more coming out in the media.”

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Chancellor; Budget