<p>[Proposal</a> to shutter some UCs hits nerve](<a href=“http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/19/1n19uccuts221810-ucsd-profs-say-some-campuses-can-/?california&zIndex=134486]Proposal”>http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/19/1n19uccuts221810-ucsd-profs-say-some-campuses-can-/?california&zIndex=134486)</p>
<p>SACRAMENTO As it confronts an unprecedented financial crisis, the University of California is crackling with debate over some provocative proposals such as closing one or more campuses outlined in a letter signed by 21 UC San Diego department heads.</p>
<p>The professors argue that the world’s finest public university should preserve its elite, world-class research campuses namely UCSD, UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC San Francisco and impose proportionately deeper budget cuts on the less-renowned campuses in Merced, Riverside and Santa Cruz or, if necessary, shut them down.</p>