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BATON ROUGE, La. — Chancellor Michael Martin doesn’t question the prestige the Louisiana State University Press brings to his school, with Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction and poetry, tomes on Southern history and culture and other noted works to its credit. What it doesn’t bring in is revenue, and like cash-strapped colleges across the country, LSU is tired of propping up its press.
LSU officials are considering downsizing it or closing it as they face state budget cuts that could surpass $40 million at the Baton Rouge campus alone.
“We allocated $500,000 of university money to the press in the last fiscal year. They spent $1.4 million,” Martin said last week. The Associated Press
