re: Louisiana State Budget & TOPS

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Please kill TOPS it has caused an inflation of prices among universities

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I don't have a problem getting rid of TOPS. The problem is that the entire university infrastructure in the entire state is built around it, good or bad.

TOPS has taken the place of many scholarships, so if it's gone, there are no scholarships to take it's place, as there were in the past.

College tuition, fees, room/board, etc., are all outrageous due to TOPS. Are they going to cut those without TOPS? My kids paid more in fees above and beyond TOPS than I paid in straight tuition prior to TOPS.

It would cause a bad domino effect in student housing, especially in Baton Rouge. Lot's of apartment buildings around LSU would turn Section 8 if students have less disposable income. That's not the goverment's responsibility, but just fact that will happen.