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No easy answers to UW’s financial woes

Letter to the editor: While UW-Madison professor Caroline Levine’s (Enough With Scott Walker and the GOP — I’m Leaving) concern about the erosion of state financial support for UW-Madison is justified, her narrow solutions are problematic. She suggests large increases in student tuition at the same time another article in Cap Times states that the average student graduates from the UW System with $29,000 in debt. She bemoans that only 27.5 percent of students can be admitted from out-of-state (who pay significantly higher tuition).