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California State University will accept no new admissions for the spring semester of 2013 – with a few exceptions – as part of a drastic cost-cutting strategy to reduce enrollment by about 16,000 students next spring, officials said Monday.

Another 20,000 to 25,000 qualified students could be barred from attending CSU in the 2013-14 academic year if voters reject a proposed tax measure that hasn’t yet qualified for the November ballot.

Failure of the tax measure would trigger an automatic funding cut of $200 million for CSU under a scenario proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. That loss would come on top of a $750 million budget hit that CSU already took this year.

The uncertainty has university planners guessing how many students they can afford to admit, and how many employees they can afford to pay.

“It’s made planning very difficult – and it’s made serving our students as they ought to be served very challenging,” said Robert Turnage, CSU’s budget czar, who said CSU’s budget gap stands at half a billion.

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Just when it appeared the South Hills High School baseball team was ready to run away with the local spotlight, Joe Gil and Charter Oak slapped the Huskies back to reality.

Gil delivered a two-out hit to the right-center field gap off of Huskies reliever Ty France that scored pinch-runner Alejandro Sanchez from second for a 2-1 Charter Oak win in eight innings on Wednesday afternoon in the Sierra League opener for both teams.

“He started me off with a curve ball and I knew he was going to come back with a fastball and I had to sit and wait for it because he was really bringing the heat,” Gil said. “He (France) got me the first at-bat and I wasn’t going to let it happen again.

“I knew it was in the gap. I was just waiting for him (Sanchez) to get home so we could start celebrating. It was just a great victory. We’re the two best teams in this league, I think. It was just a fight to the end.”

The win improved Charter Oak, this newspaper’s No.

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This is the second of three scouting reports for this weeks state semifinals up in Glens Falls. If you missed my look at Tuckahoe-Mechanicville, you can find it here.

No team has ever left Glens Falls with more state championship plaques than Mount Vernons nine, but the Knights face a program well versed in how to slay a giant. CBA upset defending state champ Newburgh two seasons ago, beating a loaded Half Hollow Hills West team along the way.

CBA and Mount Vernon have actually met two times previously in the state semifinals. Both were won by Mount Vernon, but not without CBA leaving the Knights with something to remember. The Brothers challenged Mount Vernons vaunted 2004 Federation champions, dictating the pace in a 52-49 thriller.

Heres a look at the matchup, including thoughts from both coaches, which I posted after the scouting report.

SCOUTING REPORT

Class AA state semifinal

Mount Vernon (21-2) vs.

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Law schools do not just accept every applicant they have. This is because they have a goal of providing only great lawyer graduates. Thus, they require several things from their applicants, including a personal statement. Mak

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The Higher Education Funding Council for England today announced the results of the allocation, which is only available to those institutions charging average tuition fees in 2012-13 of £7,500 or less.

Under the system, universities lost at least 9 per cent of their “core” allocation – generally made up of students with A-level grades below AAB – to form a pool of 20,000 places.

This pool has now been reallocated – on the basis of competitive bidding – as part of plans to lower the cost of student loans to the government and create competition from further education colleges.

A Hefce statement said bids “were assessed on criteria of quality, demand and cost”. In total, it received bids from 203 institutions for 36,000 places.

Final allocations were made on a pro rata basis, the statement said. This means each successful institution received an allocation that was calculated as a proportion of its original bid. As a result inst

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