Recent Budget Adjustments to Change Campus Life Next Year - Kristen Palmer, Houghton Star

Last Friday, Houghton students received an email announcing housing and meal plan changes for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year. According to Vice President for Student Life Sharra Hynes, $35 million is Houghton's operating budget, and the College is cutting 7%, roughly $2.5 million, of it. Houghton has been looking for ways to generate additional total revenue and will do so in a variety of ways, changes to housing and meal plans being two of them. Hynes, who recognizes that the email announcement has generated a "sort of buzz around campus," laid out the reasons behind the College's aforementioned budget adjustments during Wednesday night's Senate meeting.