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[email protected]. NEWS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON THE Volume 8, Number 1 September 2003 BOSTON UMass Boston Addresses Budget Cut Challenges By Joe Peters and Ed Hayward A combination of budget cuts location. The economic downturn's stitutions in the country to reduce somewhat by the trustees' decision Many see the move to delay bus that touched all corners of the uni clamp on state revenues has student charges. The new increases to raise student fees, which are ex rerouting as a sign that the admin versity and a vote by the University brought about a 30 percent reduc correspond directly to cuts in fund pected to result in about $5.5 mil istration listened to the campus of Massachusetts Board of Trust tion in state support to UMass Bos ing recommended by the governor's lion for the Boston campus.