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Texas' financial aid for college students could dwindle even more | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

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Texas' financial aid for college students could dwindle even more

11:35 PM CDT on Sunday, September 5, 2010

By ERIN MULVANEY / The Dallas Morning News
emulvaney@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – University of Texas junior Mariano Pintor said when he was growing up in Dallas, most of his friends thought "only rich kids go to college."

But Pintor, the son of a Dallas city maintenance worker, had plans: He wants to start some sort of business that will help people and make his parents proud. Thanks in part to an endangered state financial aid program, he's working on both.

"No one even told me that I could go to college," said Pintor, 20. He recalled walking through the campus after scoring his first "A" on an