LAS CRUCES >> More than 2,000 students at New Mexico State University breathed a collective sigh of relief on Thursday when the university announced that it will pay the difference between tuition costs of the spring semester and the amount covered by the state’s Legislative Lottery Scholarships for students attending NMSU’s Las Cruces campus. Because of changes enacted in the 2014 state legislative session, NMSU students who qualify for the Legislative Lottery Scholarship now receive only 95 percent of the average tuition for four-year comprehensive universities in New Mexico, leaving NMSU students to pay as much as $129 out of their own pocket, or though other means of student aid.