PANIC! Budget Cuts Redux~

The list of proposed/finalized (idk?) budget cuts got released yesterday via email. You can find the full report here and the cuts themselves here. Warning: this document is long and kinda boring. I went through and pulled out some interesting cuts.

• The Oxford CMRS Exchange Program has been cut completely. Wonder how Maggie O'Brien will feel about that~
• Most departments lost some money, some more than others
• Larry Vote's summer program (I think this is the program that sends singers to Alba every summer?) got cut from 25k to only 10k.
• Nitze lost a lot (all?) of its money
• Alba-Italy Director position was cut
• Audio-Visual is losing 25k which sounds like a position has been cut
• Faculty Development lost 5k which sounds like a lot less Wine for faculty functions
• Campus Wellness Program has been cut (idk what that is, maybe First Responders Network?)
• They are removing a trash dumpster from PG FUCK THIS BULLSHIT
• River Concert Series is being reduced from 40k to 15k :/ :/ :/ (this was bound to happen eventually)

All of this is from my understanding of the spreadsheet, which may not be 100% accurate because even though I took a lot of accounting classes in high school, I never really understood it (we just shared our classwork via email, shoutout to B.A.T. c/o 2007 go Mavericks~) so I probably made some mistakes/have some misconceptions.

So there you have it, lots of cuts. I think International Education got his the hardest? Wonder how students will react~

Passports on Campus

If only there was a post office nearby where we could do the same thing!

Volcano Terrorism Cockblocks Oxford Kids

The volcanic terrorism that erupted in Iceland a few days ago has caused flights from merry ole England to be cancelled, which is pretty lame because the volcano coincided with the end of the semester for Oxford study abroad students. Coincidence? I think not.

What's important though is that the Office of International Education has failed to contact these stranded kids (as of Sunday morning) to figure out if they are okay/homeless/turning tricks on the street (lets hope so).

Kids over there started emailing dudes over here about this (I think someone's mom emailed Dean Bayless even), and I think that some have gotten their flights rescheduled and are on track to come back to the Americas.

Either way, hopefully the Office of International Education will make a greater effort in the future to ensure the safety of its students in the event of volcanic terrorism.

Also, Insert Lost reference/joke here (stuck on island, etc.).

UPDATE: Seems like a fair amount of people have had issues with Office of IE. I wonder if they are understaffed or just incompetent, probably the former.