<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Laila Lalami has a very good piece on the UC budget crisis in this week's issue of The Nation. Dean Cullenberg circulated it to the department chairs in his monthly meeting this past Thursday. About that meeting: no definitive word on budget, budget cuts, but I will do what I can to keep you posted over the summer.<div><br></div><div>cw</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090629/lalami">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090629/lalami</a></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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