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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Small portions: State universities facing tough times, Tallahassee Democrat

August 23, 2008

A comic used to tell a joke about a woman at a restaurant whose dinner entree fell below acceptable standards.

"I wouldn't feed this to my dog!" she tells the waiter. "And the portion is so small!"

With the fall semester set to begin Monday at Florida's public universities, these institutions are increasingly in danger of becoming a version of that restaurant.

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