Protests won't stop college budget cuts - MELINDA DESLATTE, The Associated Press

A group of University of New Orleans students has reminded state lawmakers and Gov. Bobby Jindal just how nasty and angry the next round of budget cuts will be, getting into a tussle with police as part of a protest about the deep reductions on the horizon. But those students probably need to brace for the reality that appears to be slowly sinking in with the higher education community: Protests or not, the cuts are coming, and Jindal and Louisiana's legislators don't seem to have any plans to stop them. Jindal opposes any tax increases, House leaders are disinterested in raiding trust funds and everyone who makes the decisions seems resigned to a painful set of cuts that will fall disproportionately on college campuses - and those students who politicians repeatedly call the state's future.