College of Arts

I was walking to the engineering college the other day and as usual I pass by the college of arts buildings in the way there. Over the past few days while walking across the college of arts buildings on my way to engineer, I have seen lots of changes there, stuff written down the floor about the VC and furniture being moved etc..

So the other day I meet a professor in American Studies whom I knew through Golden Key. She tells me she's being made redundant due to the new college plan of closing the American Studies and Theater and Film Studies programmes. This actually came to me as a shock. I have been hearing arts students and staff moaning over the past 2 years about the redundancies and re-structuring in the college (2 years ago they got rid of a few lecturers in Islamic and religious studies), but didn't expect it to close two programmes completely. I told myself, a university got to have a sound education system for the populations(cheesy haha) and has to serve every aspect so the country is not in shortage of people in this field. Bear in mind its a public university (I can't think of any private universities in NZ). The university is doing this because the college is not generating enough money.
BUT then I realised, wohaa less arts students. That's cool, we engineering students always think about how easy they got it with their work load. They get time to play sports, go out etc.. while we're stuck in our labs doing endless assignments until early hours of the morning. Also what do American Studies and Theater and Film studies do exactly? Isn't it sort of watch a movie and explain why the main actress was crying in the 2nd scene? DUUUH

The only down-side I can think of is potentially less eye-candy :D