Budget cuts seem like a constant factor of life at the University, but the truth of the matter is, the first mid-year cut came only seven months ago in January.Since then, there has been an undercurrent of panic around campus as we waited to find out how much money was going to be cut from the LSU System’s budget and how it was going to affect students.The numbers were just announced, and the University is going to be taking a cut of about $19 million.While this seems like a sigh of relief when compared to the expected $45 million that was predicted to be taken out of the University’s budget, it is still a large sum of money.Next on the agenda is figuring out exactly where the money is going to be taken from. Although Chancellor Michael Martin has told The Daily Reveille several times that the University has no fat to trim, our hope is that the University sees these cuts as a chance to consolidate and make LSU even more efficient. Let’s face it —we’ve all taken classes because they are easy A’s or classes that didn’t teach us a single thing. And if the University wants to keep its top tier status, trimming these classes won’t hurt.Millions of Americans are having to reconsider their personal budgets to save money in these harsh economic times, and the University is going to have to do the same. Hopefully adminstrators will  use the cuts as an opportunity to tighten their belts and re-evaluate what is important to the University.