Powers announced more budget cuts at state of the university address - Esther Perez, the UT Horn

In Bill Powers' fifth State of the University Address, the president evaluated the state of UT on it's 127th birthday in light of the recent budget cuts.On Wednesday, Powers stressed the importance of, what he called, reinventing the ways that the university carries out its main goal of educating students and performing research to be more efficient. Powers said that though the university has already undergone a 5 percent budget cut, it has been asked to map out a plan to cut the budget an additional 10 percent.With more cuts in the works, Powers called on the active input from the faculty, staff and students to determine where to use the resources available to UT that would promote long-term growth.