Student Government hosted Chats with Mary Parker on Thursday in Free Speech Alley, but only one student noticed.Typically, Chancellor Michael Martin is guest of the Chats series. Today Martin was replaced by Mary Parker, executive director of Undergraduate Admissions and Student Aid, because SG officials wanted to give students a chance to speak with a student aid official.Although Parker stood in Free Speech Alley for an hour, only one student who was not associated with SG noticed and asked a question about his finances.And while students passed Parker’s table and didn’t ask her about anything, Parker told The Daily Reveille she disagrees with LSU System President John Lombardi’s comments to the Post Secondary Education Review Commission regarding an overhaul of the TOPS program.Lombardi suggested TOPS be changed to a one-time merit award due to the amount of students who qualify for TOPS despite demonstrating no financial need.”The best scenario would be to leave TOPS alone,” Parker said. “The impact of a cap on TOPS would drastically impact enrollment.”Parker said if the program has to be streamlined, the specifications for qualifying for TOPS should be raised to be less inclusive.Parker said this remedy would keep TOPS as a completely merit-based award as it was designed to be and also give high school students more incentive to reach the higher qualifications.Members of SG either fraternized with passing friends or attempted to attract attention to the free scantrons, rather than informing students who the nondescript University official standing behind the SG table was.When SG members did point out who Parker was, students said they didn’t have questions.—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]