It is clear that our new president, an engineer by training, has no "feel" for the environment, no "feel" for the nature of true, out-in-the-natural-world science, and no sense when it comes to what should matter for an educational institution. BU is not a glorified technical school as MIT is. It is a university that exists to provide students with an educational experience, not to train them in a technical profession. First we have him layoff/dismiss 6 CGS science faculty for what he described as an enrollment deficit (in actuality CGS had only ~70 fewer freshman this year, so how does 70 fewer students translate into 6 fewer faculty positions when the student to faculty ratio at CGS is 100:1 for science?). In actuality the faculty layoff was the result of the administration agreeing to cut 1 full year of science from the curriculum (because, geez, science isn't that important in today's world and students don't really like it all that much). Now he cuts out a major center that has supported environmental awareness for all levels of children and adults (from youngesters to older faculty) and has supported environmental research. What's next? Are we going to get rid of that fuzzy science called biology and only keep the higihly technical molecular and chemistry folks around? Brown is starting to make me long for John Silber's return--at least Silber understood the mission of a university even if he was a dictator.