Many areas around campus have started trying to exist without a budget, and the Women’s Resource Center is no different.

In the center, the trend of people having to do more work than they were already doing continues.

In The Daily Eastern News, it was written that, “Leslie Ashley, the new office manager of the Women’s Resource Center, juggles both the center and the philosophy department,” after the former office manager for the center was laid off.

Now, not only does Ashley have two jobs to do now, but she also has to navigate two different sets of responsibilities.

As Ashley points out in the same article, not many people have “taken the opportunity to stop and look at is that each all of us are unique in our positions.”

Just because someone may have been the office manager in one area does not mean that they know the intricate responsibilities of the same position in another area.

Each department has their own little quirks and things that make them run that no other area has, and now many people, as Ashley does, have to learn all of these things.

The Women’s Resource Center also suffered an unfortunate loss when their former office manager Joe McLean was bumped to the foreign languages department, then laid off.

As McLean puts it, being laid off, bumping and other effects of this budget crisis are unbelievable.

The fact that 177 people this semester, including McLean, were laid off is deeply saddening and distressing for everybody at Eastern, especially when thinking about the reasons for these layoffs, and that once again they are due to nobody’s incompetence but the state.

The same people that should be protecting the people they serve are hurting them in deeper ways than anyone could have imagined.

This can be seen in the fact that the cuts are affecting the Women’s Resource Center and the women’s studies program at Eastern, one that challenges student’s perceptions and gives them “a lot of insight on how women are perceived today.”

This insight is important for every student to have, and the Women’s Resource Center is a great way for students to get this knowledge.

While it is unfair that the Women’s Resource Center is affected by the budget crisis, it is important to not lose hope and continue fighting for the resources and services provided by Eastern.

Although it is exhausting, as Jeannie Ludlow, coordinator of women’s studies, said, it is also important to not let what is happening “beat us into disempowerment.”

It is vital that the students and faculty of Eastern continue fighting for the funding the university needs to operate as they have been.

All of these cuts and problems highlight that.