Deaf studies Program Closes

San Diego State University is shutting down its ASL/Deaf studies program by the School of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. The College of Health and Human Services cut $1.5 million from the school's budget. There are two dozen students in the program while there are 170 undergraduate students in speech-language pathology and audiology. The 24 students include eight seniors who have been promised enough classes for graduation. The other 16 students have to change majors if they want to remain at the school and many have lost both money and time because the credits they earned in the ASL/Deaf studies proram won't help them in other subjects. The San Diego State student government passed a resolution objecting to the change.