At 8:30 am on February 24, Brian Cook had an unsettling—although not entirely unexpected—meeting with UAA’s College of Arts and Sciences’ Interim Dean, John Petraitis. “The Dean praised a lot of aspects of our department, and he said that we’d made changes and improvements to improve our enrollment. However, theatre has never really had a high enrollment, so we’re just going to cut it now,” explained Cook, who serves as the UAA Theatre Department Chair. Within five hours, Coo