Budget cuts cause hang ups - Puja Mehta, Alestle

SIUE’s current budget situation has caused some departments to cut costs by removing office phones. Departments affected include English, history, sociology and criminal justice. Lynn Miller, office support specialist for the department of sociology and criminal justice studies, said the individual departments chose to cut their phone costs, as opposed to some of the other alternatives. “Our faculty decided to do this because they did not want to have to cut someone’s salary, miss some classes or take on a bigger load of teaching,” Miller said. http://www.alestlelive.com/news/article_e9591474-6543-11e4-a307-001a4bcf6878.html