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In my opinion, you are right on the mark with your March 10 editorial (“Smaller majors under siege”).

The Action Task Force, the in-house body charged with auditing the University of La Verne’s efficiency has submitted all of its 34 recommendations, but some of those ideas – particularly those aimed at examining the necessity of smaller majors for the good of the University - have been causing quite a ruckus among concerned students and faculty members lately, despite President Stephen Morgan’s reassurances that our beloved - yet under populated - majors are not on the chopping block.

Assessment and possible elimination of some of the school’s smaller majors, and guaranteed admission for legacy students are among the more than 15 recommendations made recently by a University committee charged with “finding” $8 million in the school's nearly maxed-out budget.

Campus news for the week of Feb. 24, 2006.