With huge cuts also coming for the next two years, University of Washington officials project they will have to cut up to 500 slots for local kids for the 2012-13 freshman class. In other words, take this year’s front-page story and triple it.
People seem really hacked off about this. But it’s exactly what we told them to do. Make do with less.
— The Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat on how Washington voters are getting the university system that they voted for. In the fall they told the legislature not to raise taxes on the rich or on soda pop, but to instead cut state services.