Given that Rice told his staff to tighten their belts and prepare for cuts, it sounds like that is dismissing the community particularly given the lack of economic opportunity back home.

If Rice had framed it as deceasing administrative bloat or other items, it wouldn’t be as bad. It reeks of “Gosh, you can’t come after my pay and bennies but I can come after yours, poors.”

There is a lot of ways to balance the need to get out of the red while not cutting classes or lower paying jobs. It involves looking at how too heavy that school is and making cuts there. If secretaries can be responsible for doing two people’s jobs for one pay (previous rounds of cuts) then administration should be prepared to do the same. Never ask your people to do what you wouldn’t ask yourself.