CORTLAND -- Students and staff at SUNY Cortland turned out to protest proposed cuts to the schools funding. 

Governor Patterson has proposed cutting $90 million from the State's SUNY budgets. Cortland students like Jesse Campanaro say the cuts would hurt those students who can least afford them. "We don't have money as it is. We are looking to come back to New York State and invest in the future of our state and our students can't afford this," Campanaro says.

The cuts represent almost twenty percent of the $500 million Governor Patterson wants to cut from the entire state budget. The states sixty four SUNY schools have already endured a $148 million cut last year. 

SUNY Cortland faculty and staff members like Jamie Dangler say further cuts this year would be devastating. "Class sizes have been increasing, programs have been halted, we're very fearful of the ability of this campus to operate with this level of cut," Dangler says.

Governor Patterson also is proposing to cut $53 million from the State's City University system, provide $260 less in state aid to full time community college students and cut $120 from every student in the tuition assistance program or TAP program.