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Date Posted: 09:17:56 02/19/09 Thu
Author: P. Wishik @ http://sos-saveourschools.blogspot.com/
Subject: The College, Cost and Crisis Conversation

With the current stimulus agreement in Congress making headlines across the country and in other areas of importance like the Midwest, it's not entirely shocking that it's one of the top subjects on people's minds and in their conversations.

Of particular note is the awareness many Louisianians have of the dire need the state has for additional funding for higher education, coupled with the knowledge they have of the cuts for educational funding recently made by Congress to this high-profile stimulus.

The conversation is popping up everywhere on LSU's campus: faculty offices, dining halls, the Student Union, organizational meetings and the LSU Student Senate, which last night expressed its strong disagreement with the exclusion of education from the stimulus and urged Louisiana's congressmen and women to vote against it.

I myself just left the UREC Student Recreation Complex and was delighted to hear multiple groups of people - across all ages - discussing the education-specific details of this stimulus and this crisis.

I strongly urge all of you to do the same: to foster awareness of this situation, to generate the buzz and conversation and to seek to enhance your own understanding.

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