In an opinion piece, Phil Power discusses the recent Cherry Commission's call for doubling post-secondary degress in 10 years. Power says he can't understand how we can endorse the Cherry Commission's report while "tolerating a state that is dangerously withdrawing support for our public universities." He notes that Wayne State University, along with Michigan's other two research universities, will be playing a most important role in the state's economic development, high-tech growth and entrepreneurship. He calls on Michigan's legislators to have the political courage to focus resources where they will do the most good. "We've been 'eating our seed corn' for the past few years by cutting appropriations to our best universities, and I hope Gov. Granholm and the new legislature have the wisdom - and the guts - to do something about it before it is too late."