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By Boomer Cardinale
The Associated Press
ALPHA CHI OMEGA
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PLEDGE CLASS
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Melissa Kitchens
Heather Taylor
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We welcome our 1993
Fall Pledge class. We love you!
BOSTON — The cost of higher
education continues to outpace
income, inflation and financial aid
this fall, even as colleges and uni
versities slash services, according
to the College Board.
The average tuition, room and
board climbed 6 percent to $6,207
at four-year public universities
and 5 percent to $15,818 at four-
year private colleges, the College
Board reported in a survey being
released Wednesday.
The increases were about the
same as last year's, as competition
sharpened for the dwindling
number of potential students.
"Colleges have simply come to
realize that the very markets they
wish to serve could not afford
them at the rate of increase they
were following," said David L.
Warren, president of the National
Association of Independent Col
leges and Universities.
"People are dropping out,"
said Tchiyuka Cornelius, a stu
dent at City University of New
York and president of the U.S.
Student Association.
"There are people who want to
go to college but just can't afford
to."
While inflation was 2.8 percent
from last fall to this fall, the aver
age tuition and fees at four-year
private universities and colleges
rose 6 percent to $11,025; room
and board brought the total to
$15,818. The average cost of two-
year private junior colleges went
up 7 percent, to $6,175.
Public university tuition rose 8
percent, to $2,527, after two years
of double-digit increases fueled
primarily by state budget short
falls; room and board boosted the
price to $6,207. The average cost
of community and public junior
colleges jumped 10 percent for the
third straight year, to $1,229.
"The fiscal crisis in the states is
not over," said James Appleberry,
president of the American Associ
ation of State Colleges and Uni
versities. "But it's certainly easing
up a bit."
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SAN ANTONIO - It pays to
advertise. Just ask Kimberly Tay
lor.
The 32-year-old San Antonio
bookkeeper and mother is marry
ing a Houston man she met
through a 14-by-48-foot billboard
advertisement.
The billboard read "4 Middle
Class White Males, 32-39, Seek
Wives, Kids OK." The ad was the
brainchild of four bachelors who
plopped down $2,500 to plaster
their plea along one of Houston's
business expressways.
Taylor didn't see it, but she did
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"I thought, 'Well, it says "Seek
ing Wives" and I'm seeking a
husband so I'll write a letter,'"
said Taylor, one of about 1,500
women with the same idea.
But Taylor was Ms. Right for
Richard Hindman, a 34-year-old
financial analyst.
She and Hindman had a lot in
common. Both are divorced; he
has a 12 -year-old daughter and a
14-year-old son and she a 12-year-
old son; they love the ocean; and
their horoscopes are compatible.
The couple fanned the flames
of love via telephone.
"I now own stock in South
western Bell," Hindman joked.
For Taylor, it was a fairy tale
come true.
"I felt like Cinderella. Richard
put me on a pedestal and kept me
there," she said.
Hindman wooed her with
flowers and an obvious interest in
making a commitment — some
thing previous beaus had been
lacking.
By Jason Brown
On Monday, they shared their
storybook romance on the syndi
cated talk show "Donahue,"
which featured several of the
Houston bachelors and women
who responded to the ad.
The show, taped last week in
two segments, had the couples
meet one day, sent them on a date
of dining and dancing in New
York that night and brought them
together the following day to re
lay dating details.
Taylor stole the show when she
said: "Actually, I think I got the
best deal of all because Richard
proposed to me last night and I
accepted."
It was around 2 a.m. in a hotel
room after that first "Donahue"
taping and date — their first face-
to-face meeting — that Hindman
surprised them both by propos-
ing.
"He was going to wait, but
then he looked in my eyes and
saw that I wanted him to/' Taylor
said. "I said yes, and then I asked
him, 'Will you marry me?' righl
back."
Unprepared, Hindman's be
trothal gift was a charm bracelet
with their horoscope signs that he
had planned to give her anyway.
The couple now are planning a
wedding on the beach, where
Taylor will wear the white wed
ding dress she never had the first
time around because of financial
reasons.
Hindman also promised her an
engagement ring.
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