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, Cook had assembled the roughly 50 theatre majors to share the news. “I definitely had students who were crying, and then there were other students who skipped the crying phase and went right to anger,” said Cook. Although t