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Last week, Seattlest editor-in-chief MvB set off a healthy discussion of the impacts of the governor's proposed 28% tuition rate hike. Today, the good folk over at Publicola take up the debate, linking to a nice piece from the Washington Policy Institute [PDF] on the "high-tuition/high-aid" model. The idea is that by transferring the cost from the state (through funding) to the students, the university in the process increases aid disbursement, and by developing financial aid programs actually low-income students, who wind up with more access to financial aid. Unfortunately, it turns out that's largely b.s.