Michigan's public university system is headed toward major declines without a fundamental revamping of the way state government funds it, the presidents of the state's three largest universities said Wednesday at a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education hearing. President Irvin D. Reid indicated that the governor's goal of doubling the number of college graduates cannot be met under proposed funding levels. "We have sacrificed; we have pared, and pared again," he noted. "It took more than 135 years to build Wayne State University into a great university. It could take less than a decade to eliminate some of that greatness." The Gongwer report says that Reid and the presidents of U-M and MSU had "essentially the same message" for committee members: "The system is broken and must be fixed."