The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Dec. 17 that North Carolina ranks sixth in the nation in appropriations to higher education for 1999-2000. That's quite a commitment, one hard to reconcile with the portrait painted by the UNC system. Set priorities, cut superfluous programs, until current needs and wants are affordable under the current funding level. Put simply, UNC simply must get its own house in order before asking us for more. Otherwise, the message from UNC to the students and to the legislature is that its urgent needs are still less urgent than the least urgent unnecessary expense it is unwilling to cut.
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