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Some younger activists appeared visibly shaken, while even veteran protesters sounded weary and worried. "I reacted by just collapsing in fright," said longtime activist Paul Davis of Philadelphia ACT UP, the na tion's largest chapter of the AIDS ad vocacy group. Police arrested 391 protesters dur ing six days of sometimes-violent demonstrations coinciding with the convention, which ended Thursday. More than 200 remained in a detention center Saturday, most charged in con nection with brawls with police and traffic-blocking demonstrations that left 15 officers injured, including the police commissioner. Officials praised police for restraint during the convention that contrasted accusations of brutality, corruption and racism going back to the 1970s, includ ing the 1985 bombing of a West Philadelphia rowhouse where an an archistic organization operated and the July 12 videotaped police beating of a carjacking subject. Among those held in jail are promi nent leaders John Sellers of Berkeley, Calif.-based Ruckus Society and Kate Sorenson of Philadelphia Direct Action Group, who are being held on $1 mil lion bail though they are charged with misdemeanors. Philadelphia ACT UP leader Terrence McGuckin was held on $500,000 bail for misdemeanors. Protesters complain that medical at tention was denied, food and water was not made available for 18 hours, and that cells were so crowded some detainees were unable to move. Freestyling Ch< Amanda Skelton of Cleburn, Texas, warms up before the of Texas at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium on Sunday Community college enrollment increases ANI Brett Owens, a dent adviser am ical science anc major, helps Bill man internation pack and move Texas A&M Bookstore In The Memorial Student Center Still giving you the most cash for books!!! 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But so is the payoff: an associate's degree Ruibal hopes will land her a higher-paying job as a technician in radiology. When 14 million undergraduates surge onto college campuses this fall, 44 percent will be at the country's 1,132 community colleges like Nassau. The publicly supported two-year schools started out as a handful of junior colleges just over a century ago, then ex ploded after World War II to offer baby boomers a lower-cost education closer to home. A gen eration later, they are serving baby boomers' children. Community col lege enrollment will increase 12 to 14 per cent over the next five to 10 years as a result of the baby boom "echo," said Jacque line Woods, the De- was able to brush up on a there were eight two-year college 1950 there were 648. The notion of a two-year college,’ a makeover after World Warllasliif er education came to be considere; right, not just a privilege. A1 four-year schools furiously dormitories and faculty, commua colleges rose to help meet demand Today, they offer two-yeardegit corporate training and retraining,ee noncredit courses. Amongstudentsi traditional college age, 20 perce transfer to four-year institutions. Nassau Community College m part of the boom when it opened a courthouse in 1960 with about/'] students. Today, its enrollment is 20,1 growth can be traced in thearchk tu re of the former Air Force baseitno* occupies about 30 miles east of Ma r hattan: aging re lot of things that I had forgotten” — Brian Lieba Nassau Community College Student partment of Education's chief liaison to community colleges. For Ruibal and students like her, community college means affordable but few-frills learning. At Nassau, there are no dorms or fancy fraternities, but there are 4,000 parking spaces and day care on a sliding scale. Most communi ty college students live within an hour's drive of their campuses and also work. The schools promise lower tuition and open admission that puts higher education within easier reach of more students, from teen-agers just out of high school to retirees. The average tuition at public, four- year universities in 1999-2000 was $3,356, according to The College Board, which administers the SAT. Out-of-state tuition averaged $8,706, and four-year private college tuition averaged $15,380. The average at two-year public in stitutions: $1,627. The first junior colleges were creat ed in the 1890s to provide the first half of the four-year college course. In 1900, brick from the mi' tary days, mass!' '70s-era concrei structures and net er classroomsbeto walls of blue gte Many of its st dents, like are there for tech] cal skills; 63 ped go on to fourf schools. Brian Lieba, a) year-old crini Log r< justice major in his second year ath’ sau, plans to apply to four-year a leges this fall with the goal of earn' a law degree. "Now I feel I've been grooik said Leiba, a Marine with a point average who was elected sfo body president. "I was able to brush on a lot of things that I had forge* 1 Statistically, he also has a betters' at completing a bachelor's degree Federal studies find that 71 pert of students who transfer with atleat semester at a community college complete a bachelor's degree by age I * Tony Thrasl loads Bonfin ported to ar Inco Freshn By Maureen K/ The Battalion The last grou u men participate That tops the 68 percent who earn* this morning for grees after starting at a four-year#' ground where said Clifford Adelman, senior re@ analyst at the Department of Educah Administrators cite such figure: rebut assumptions that| open ad®- sion means lower standards. 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