A reader passes along a memo University of Arkansas Chancellor David Gearhart has sent to university employees. It says a hoped-for Christmas bonus, in a year without salary increases, will be scrapped because of the recent state budget cut. He said the university would be able to absorb health insurance premium increases for employees through June, 2010.

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