Lawmakers held a legislative hearing at Sonoma State University to address the severe cuts to 23 academic programs and college athletic programs. Faculty, staff, and students rallied before the hearing, voicing their concerns over the potential impacts of these cuts on university enrollment and culture. Baseball coach Jacob Garsez emphasized the importance of athletics in students' lives and argued for finding funding to save these programs, while Professor John Sullins warned of a 'death spiral' if cuts proceed, undermining the university's ability to attract new students.
"If you want to, there's a way, there always is a way to find the money," he said. "I don't have the exact numbers, but I have ran an athletics department before at the college level and I know that there's a very doable way to come up with those funds."
"Hopefully we can change this, we've got an opportunity today to make a change," John Sullins, a Sonoma State philosophy professor said.
"If we pull this department, that department out, athletics out, then what attracts new students?" he said. "I feel that we're in this death spiral like a mall that loses this store, that store, people stop coming."
"Sonoma State turned my life around, I'm going to start getting emotional, I'm a graduate, I met my wife here."
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