Henry Powell, chair of the Academic Senate, said whatever the cause, losing graduate students will have a reverberating effect beyond the university, calling graduate students the "lifeblood" of the UC and critical to California’s "knowledge-based economy." "These kinds of cuts hurt the whole state because our economy is very dependent on discovery," he said. "Often innovative and powerful research is done by graduate students."

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by Alisha Azevedo, The Daily Californian.

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