It’s budgeting season, folks. If you’ve got visitors from Chapel Hill coming your way, better have the hankies on hand.

See if you can guess which year each drastic pronouncement was made about the future of UNC:

A. “The state’s flagship university is being nickel-and-dimed to death.”
B. “How many small cuts do you take before you cry out in pain?”
C. “It is not too soon to be frightened for our own welfare.”
D. “We are talking about a real problem. I think this is the first round in a long, long process.”

Read 16 years’ worth of dire predictions from UNC here.

Answers: A. 1992; B. 2002; C. 1996; D. 2005.