The economy is in a dismal state, universities are suffering from cutbacks, and many students must turn to any source of funds available if they are to make ends meet. Faced with this situation, the university has terminated the employment of some of its more productive departmental workers. Why? University regulations prohibit a student’s receiving financial aid and then working for an auxiliary income that exceeds a specified limit. Employees whose incomes had reached that limit were terminated. Now, the university must find other employees. Unfortunately, though, the university’s choice of students to fill the positions will not be based upon their abilities to perform, or even upon their financial need, but upon how much money they have made.
It may be concluded from information in the passage that the university
(A) has fired some student-employees and is looking for other student-employees to replace them
(B) has lost some full-time employees and will replace them with part-time student-employees
(C) is looking for new employees to replace some who have quit
(D) anticipates losing some employees and has already begun to seek replacements
(E) anticipates paying new employees lower wages than the former employees received