WE DO IT WITH WAY LESS. In July, I compared Harvard College's operating deficit with our College of Liberal Arts budget.

It is, however, that $220m I wish to address. The organization chart is different at Northern Illinois University, but the operating budget of our College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, inclusive of external funding, is on the order of $100m, if memory serves. Their deficit could cover our expenses, and we may have more students on probation than they admit, to boot.

My memory didn't serve me. The operating budget of Liberal Arts is $70m, of which about $50m is tuition and state assistance. (My previous estimate overstated the external funding part.) Another $30m goes a long way toward operating Engineering as well. Let our cheers resound for Northern.