my name is kathy burick. nobody mentioned dance. i want to let you know it's in the arts. our department has had to cut between at least 30 classes. we have to limit the hours in the gym where people come to work out and the weight room. our department chair is a ardepthldepthardentlystruggling. we have to get people through and we're making it more difficult for them to get through than ever. you've heard a lot of testimony about that today. and i used to insist, we're asking students to do unreasonable things and unreasonable amounts of time. i'm losing my train of thought because i have so many about this. city was free. i'm doing this today because the city was free when i came 40 years ago. it was a broad, open -- you could study anything you wanted. you weren't forced to get in here, get out and get on with your life, if you didn't know what you wanted to do. this is when i came back to dancing. the attars were an honoured forum where it wasn't where i came from and now we're not only reducing the number of classes, so it's harder for students to get as in dance. thi