More than 130,000 Wisconsin residents are UW alumni. If you're one of them, you may recieve a newsletter in the mail this week directing you to a website witth information on how the state budget battle could affect UW.

SaveBucky.com was designed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Part of WAA's mission is to advocate for higher education. WAA is asking state legislators to pass a budget that provides $70 million for core costs, including faculty salaries, advisors, custodians, supplies and campus police officers.

"We think it's critical," says WAA President and CEO Paula Bonner. "There is no investment we can make that has higher returns than the funding that comes into the university and what it turns around and does with that funding [for] students, research...and the quality of life."

The newsletter has two postcards with pre-paid postage that are addressed to the state senator and representative in your district.