Barbara Kennedy wrote:

>         To reiterate a raven message from Chancellor Stacy earlier this
> week (4/19), the conversations about a fiscal crisis and a search for
> additional state revenue in Nashville are real. Below is a news release
> that is intended to inform the community of the issues UTC may face if some
> sort of tax proposal is not implemented. Please continue to urge your
> elected leaders, who will reconvene Tuesday in Nashville, to consider the
> unpopular but necessary matter of increasing the amount of money Tennessee
> has to spend for vital state services i.e. higher education.

As an alternative, you might want to urge your elected leaders to
consider the much more popular solution that has produced far better
funding for higher education for our neighbors to the south in Georgia
than we have in Tennessee.  Adopting, or at least allowing the people
to vote on adopting, this solution could render a tax increase
unneccessary.

Joe Dumas
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering