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Sports Weather - Wheeling Steubenville  WV students worry about
proposed budget cuts  Posted: Updated:  Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's
request that state agencies, including the higher education
system, cut 7.5 percent of their budgets has some college
students worried they may pay the price.  Adam Fridley, who
serves as the chief of staff of Marshall University's Student
Government Association and chairman of the Higher Education
Policy Commission's Advisory Council of Students, told a
legislative interim committee Jan. 7 that the cost of higher
education keeps increasing. That, on top of the governor's
budget cuts, could result in fewer students enrolling in
colleges because they can't afford it.  "We feel this is
incredibly problematic with respect to the Higher Education
Policy Commission budget and the CTC budget," Fridley told the
Legislative Oversight Commission on Educational Accountability.
"These budget cuts hit right at the heart of our colleges."