UCSC arts dean defends closing Shakespeare Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Sentinel: One of Shakespeare Santa Cruz's most prominent names is charging UC Santa Cruz Arts Division and Dean David Yager with inflating SSC's operating deficit as a rationale for permanently closing down the popular theater company. In an "open letter" sent to the media, Mike Ryan -- considered by many to be SSC's most well-known actor -- said that in July, Yager presented him with budgetary numbers that contradict the "dishonest financial picture" the university presented in its announcement Monday that SSC would close after the 2013 holiday production.