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sttamuht Monday, December 12, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9 U.S. Marines will stay, no withdrawal date set ima.ilK ve need /’ he said' pie m Washing ^ndra met m in mi Admini as"ven United Press International WASHINGTON — Presi- | dent Reagan is adamant the U.S. Marines will stay in Leba non “as long as necessary,” White House spokesman Lar ry Speakes said Sunday, and no date for their withdrawal has been set. I Speakes said that Reagan '‘is determined that there be no set date” for the American troops — a key contingent of the multinational peace keeping force — to come home, lest such a timetable en courage Syria to stiffen its re solve not to pull out of Lebanon. “No date has been set,” he said. Speakes was responding to a report on Israeli radio that Reagan intends to pull the Marines out of Lebanon by July. “They are going to be there as long as necessary,” Speakes said. “Once again, there’s no timetable.” Reagan’s political advisers, with an eye on the 1984 elec tions, have said that concern over Lebanon — where more than 250 Americans have been killed — is showing up in the otherwise rosy results of popularity and job approval polls. Administration officials said Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld will travel to Damacus, Syria, soon, prob ably today, for the First direct talks between top U.S. and Sy rian officials since September. The invitation was ex tended after U.S. bombing raids against Syrian positions in Lebanon last Sunday. Three Navy jets were downed in the strikes. One pilot was rescued, another killed, and the third is being held by Syria as “a prisoner of war.” It was not certain whether Rumsfeld will meet with Sy rian President Haffez Assad, who according to uncon firmed reports suffered a heart attack several weeks ago. ‘ The U.S. diplomat is expected to meet with Foriegn Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. The fact the Syrians are now willing to see Reagan’s personal envoy is taken in Washington as a “positive sign.” The Syrians flatly re fused to meet with former Middle East mediator Philip Habib, although sorhe meet ings were held with his Succes sor Robert McFarlahe, who became Reagan’s national security adviser. allege enrollments go up y on the if inesday, IS COmnttttB United Press International eal$”ofift® : There is some cheerful news li hedt. on the college circuit: : peaceaulT *The average total return on college and university invest ments was a record 42.2 percent ’ e , n in the 12-month period ending s Iasi June 30, a fiscal feat credited , 'i’ : 1 totne booming stock market. • An enrollment increase of 1.1 Inua [percent instead of an expected [decline, linked to a surge in part- time students at community, itechnical and junior colleges. 1 Preliminary reports L documenting those two facts come from the National Associa tion of College and University Business Officers and the Asso- V datum Council for Policy Analy- V0ld sis and Research, a coalition of committa \y as hi n gton-based higher edu- SU1 ,° ation groups. C aT [«rhe high-riding stock market :l1 ’ a< isthe reason endowment invest- m1r\ oi ft ment! , re t urnec l the record 42.4 Rrcent, the NACUBO said. I By comparison, in the pre- in d Njc, ; vious 12-month period, the en- iment at dowments registered a loss of ith on iht |9 percent; two years ago, there wasagainof 14.6 percent. In the M decade, the return averaged ^percent, very slightly ahead of the 8.4 percent inflation averat i grief. percent inrlation average for the period, the report said. stcamejeii«^ e - g h A. Jones, chairman of nnouncem ||i e jsjacUBO committee on in- 1 3 lwB tments which drew up the re- .‘l l’L.i port, said the record return has y made up for a lot of bad years. J totheifcW{ones, vice president for fi- Listhelif. at B erea College in Berea, psinEU Ky., noted that some colleges guerrillas, b they hadi t soldiers thers in & at in a rich® of eastern Ci or’s Archfc a y Dan® 1 nine hill®? h squads, in the pas'* rop ft rend. and universities most needing more funds from endowments did not gain as much as they could have from the upward stock swing. Hoping for a greater return, some sold off most of their stocks and invested in bonds. Bonds did not do as well as stocks in the 12-month period. The rise in the value of en dowment portfolios is not ex pected to trigger a stampede to cut record high tuitions, by the way. Though school policies dif fer, most just spend investment interest and dividends rather than cash in stocks significantly higher at the end of a year. The NACUBO survey in cluded 172 investment funds of 144 colleges and universities. The rise ranged from 33 per cent to 80 percent. The smaller return was ex perienced by a school that put about a third of its endowment in common stocks; the 80 per cent gain, by a school had 72 per cent of its investments in com mon stocks. Neither was identi fied. The 1.1 overall rise in enroll ments, meanwhile, comes at a time in which a shrinking num ber of 18-year olds had led to predictions of college enroll ment declines through the 1980s. “The increase is due primari ly to an increase in part-time en rollment in community, technic al, and junior rolleges, both pub lic and independent,” the report will gain them entry to the skil- said. led workforce. ■ Other facets of the post secondary school enrollment scene: —Profit-making schools, mainly business dr technical, ex perienced an 8.8 percent decline in part-time enrollment but a 13.4 percent increase in full time enrollment, the report said. “This is a significant change for these students, indicating the possiblity of an increased emph asis on job training and career change. —Full-time enrollment on the nation’s campuses essentially remained steady overall, going up only 0.8 percent compared to the overall part-time increase of 1.6 percent. —The number of First- professional students, those pri marily studying to be doctors or lawyers, dropped 2.2 percent in the public sector. ” It appears that the increasing costs of an education in these professions and the potential indebtedness incurred may be making these fields less attractive.” The results of the prelimin ary report are based on re sponses from 2,239 of the 3,259 accredited, degree-granting col leges and universities. 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