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ORLANDO - Not every cut is equally painful.
The University of Central Florida is planning on "holding back" 8 to 12 percent of its state-allotted money, in anticipation of state budget cuts.
But that's an overall figure. And despite efforts to protect academics from the cuts, individual schools at the university campus say the budget reductions may be far deeper and more painful - than first expected.
"President Hitt is holding overall cuts at 8 percent, but our cuts are bigger," says Dr. Mike Meeske, director of the Nicholson School of Communications.
In fact, the school of communications is planning on cutting its budget by 23 percent.
"We've had to close a number of classes for the spring semester, and we've made cuts in some of our operating procedures, like longdistance phone calls, travel expenses and copying," says Meeske. "We hope some money will become available so we can open up the spring classes and get students in them by the beginning of the semester."
Holding back only 8 percent of the College of Health and Public Affairs budget will be done "with great difficulty," says Belinda...