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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ac
tivists say the detention center is
filled with screasns, that a man was
handcuffed in a crucifix-position to
force him to submit to fingerprinting
and that a woman on a hunger strike
writhed on the floor from lack of wa
ter and food.
Philadelphia police deny the accu
sations and say they have treated the
nearly 400 protesters arrested during
the Republican National Convention
fairly. Civil-rights attorneys who visit
ed the detention center said they found
no evidence to confirm abuse.
However, dozens of protesters told
similar stories after their releases be
ginning Thursday afternoon. 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.
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Amanda Skelton of Cleburn, Texas, warms up before the
of Texas at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium on Sunday
Community college
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — When
Veronica Ruibal returns to class at Nas
sau Community College next month,
she will be training at one hospital,,
working nights at another, battling
Long Island traffic to shuttle her tod
dler to daycare, and, she hopes, finding
a few spare moments for her husband.
The 25-year-old full-time student
smiles wearily at the thought. "I
know," she said. "It's a lot."
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.
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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
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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,
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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
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said Clifford Adelman, senior re@
analyst at the Department of Educah
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