Thames just did a morning show on SL100. He was begging people to come and apply for Katrina assistance through USM. Enrollment projections must have them running scared at this point.
I have it on pretty good authority (an administrator at another school in the state) that USM's ads may be giving misleading impressions to students as to how much money they'll actually see. (I hope I equivocated enough in that sentence to stay out of trouble.)