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Aug. 12, 2009

Money Well Spent?

With state revenues having plummeted, the state simply can't afford Irvine's law school, writes Stephen Bainbridge.

FORUM COLUMN

By Stephen Bainbridge

The University of California's budget problems are well documented. The system has to cut $813 million. The administration and regents have decided to do so by a draconian combination of faculty and staff furloughs, programs cuts and so.

A group of UC San Diego department chairs had a radical alternative: "Every state system of public education save California manages to sustain (at best) one flagship cam...

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