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Chuck Zeglin of the Los Angeles Police Department’s career criminal apprehension section. “We recently found one site for a Crip gang back East that was trying to recruit,” Zeglin said. “One site for the P-town Gang in Kentucky has a thing on their site that you click on if you want to he a gang member. There’s a resume you have to fill out. But mostly we just find threats.’’ A growing number of police departments monitor the Web sites, but the information they have found has not led to signif icant criminal charges. The potential threat of chil dren communicating with gang members through the Web is a primary motivation for authori ties to monitor the sites, offi cials say. Victor Bond, founder of the Texas Gang Investigation Association and a detective in the gang unit of the Harris County SheritT’s Department, said the Websites promote violence. a One site for the P-town Gang in Kentucky has a thing on their site that you click on if you want to be a gang member. — Chuck Zeglin Las Angeles police Lack of housing effecting colleges HANOVER. N.H. (APt — A campus housing crunch at schools around the country is so bad that Dartmouth College has offered freshmen the chance to defer their first year in return for a year of free housing. Fourteen students out of the roughly 2,000 the Ivy League school accepted this year have taken Dartmouth up on its offer — worth about $5,000 — which was extended because of increased student enrollment. Other colleges and universi ties in a similar bind are build ing more dorms, converting study lounges into bedrooms or even renting hotels. “A lot of people asked me. ’Aren’t you going to be a year behind?’” said Anthony Bramante, who is delaying his entry into Dartmouth. “But others admitted that if given the chance to do it, they would.” Observers cite three reasons for the enrollment increases: the economy, demographics and the Internet. With the economic slow down, more high school gradu ates — estimated at 2.8 million this year — are choosing col lege over jobs, and the children of baby boomers are reaching college age. On top of that, the Internet has made applying to college easier. With students applying to more schools, admissions officers have had a tougher time gauging who will attend in the fall, said Barmak Nassirian, a policy analyst at in 227 the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. For instance. Bates College Lewiston, Maine, is one of schools that all use the same online undergraduate application. Bates has had to house four students, instead of three, in freshmen dorm rooms this year because of increased enrollment. Overcrowding is “all the more acute at the large public universities and the elite Ivy institutions,” Nassirian said. The problem seems unlike ly to go away. In the next decade, under graduate and graduate school enrollment is projected to increase 20 percent, from 14.8 million in 1999 to 17.7 million 2011, according to the Council on lege 1999, cent went by American Education. The council also says more high school seniors today arc- deciding to go straight to col- than in years past. In the group says, 63 per- of high school seniors to college within 12 months of graduation com pared with 49 percent in 1980. The enrollment increases may force some colleges to become more selective in the future. “I suspect that a number ot the colleges that are a little higher than they want to be in terms of enrollment will have to alter their admissions rates,” said Wylie Mitchell, dean of admissions at Bates. Other educators agree. extend their reach. TheNi Youth Gang Center es there are 720.<XX) gangi in the country. 1 eifel Jackson ,0U| ^pfeudic NEW “Young people can access them, see their colors and be motivated to join.” he said. Experts say the Internet has failed thus far to help gangs boost enrollment figures or gang in Little Rock. Arf ^ f just spent eight years in for drug trafficking. He this Sai \ meed the Nile n help ttaiu an then message out. jts “Youth can go on (the gatjrday. ‘ and see hov. that gang isti i * a t urc j a > about how good it is. aNvi^^lude th some guy is a Crip for li! they are going to want It said Jackson, who now w keep kids out of gangs. 1 gangs are showing off." 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