This decision was predicated by a deficit, but when you add another layer of expense, it seems that you've added to the problem instead of solved it. I'm not sure the solution matches the need.

As a management team, if you give the college less money than your commitments, you doom it to fail.

The real problem lies in the Legislature ? the great unknown. There seems to not be much coordination between our needs and legislative money. In reality, it's a guessing game how much the Legislature will grant.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

I can no longer associate myself with an organization that is capable of making such an important decision so flagrantly on the basis of political influence, rather than the scientific and clinical evidence.

We are continually assessing what the impacts are, and the decision to run a campaign or not and/or the scale of that campaign will depend on that assessment. If the story tends to blow over quickly, we may simply have the same marketing message that we already have on the books. If there's an impact on the business, we might assess that situation differently.