<HTML>In a message dated 2/3/03 1:14:34 PM Central Standard Time, stranges@Oswego.EDU writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hiya!! Any of you NY State ( especially SUNY) tech's getting nervous about your job with all of this State deficit stuff?? :( A concerned citizen in Oswego </BLOCKQUOTE> Not just in NY. Alabama also has budget problems, as do most states. Although there are no guarantees, so far, there has been no talk about cutting the size of the music school, including my job. There is a hiring freeze at the university, but that's about as far as it has gotten. Wim UA</HTML>