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Get your FREE Thursday, August 1, 2002 NEi I THE BATTAij Lean state revenues drive tuition on colleges campust ea WWW.C0llege- COunnnc coo 1 <E>BA Summer % \ \ 4 1 2002 13^ ' and save money all over town. Available FRKK at all locations of 00ok: store l_OU PLOT’S I BtOO»C39frCTWlES ROIkHER S university bookstores (AP)—A second bad year for the economy is driving up tuition and fees on many public tour- year campuses as state revenues decline and costs keep escalating. “Last year, overall, wasn’t pretty. This year is worse,” said Travis Reindl, director of state pol icy analysis at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. “The situation’s pretty much caught up with everybody. The effects of the economic slow down are being fully felt.’ At private schools, which rely on tuition, fol lowed by private gifts and endowment income, a survey of some 225 schools found tuition and fees growing 5.8 percent on average this fall — up from last year’s 5.5 percent increase, said Tony Pals of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. That’s a “slight uptick,” Pals said. “But cer tainly not anything like you’re seeing on the public side.” The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, which represents the larger public institutions, posts a running tuition survey of its members on its Web site. Responses show hikes frequently of more than 5 percent for the upcoming academic year. Using the Web survey as a guide. The Associated Press asked college officials around the country about in-state tuition and fees this fall. The University of Colorado at Boulder is typ ical of public schools; it is raising tuition and fees 6 percent for in-state undergraduates, to $3,566 from last year’s $3,357. Other cases are more dramatic. — Texas A&M University tuition and fees will soar nearly 28 percent for incoming fresh man and transfer students, to $4,758 from last year’s $3,722. Returning students get a break in Ti the form of a more modest increase, lessf] percent, to $3,858. , — University of Kansas, up nearly 2iITidv, cent, from $2,884 to $3,484. — University of Iowa, a 19 percent rise ^ | — $3,522 to $4,191. ’MdJohnT — Washington State University, up 1(J contenders cent, from $3,898 to $4,520. non-waiver State cutbacks ended a seven-year ;.. There v freeze at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and; e,s ^a; University. They also forced building we nance funds to be cut in half. This fall, in |« ere tuition and fees are rising slightly morel] “It does percent, from $3,664 to $3,936. today. In California, the news looks more muq ,indents at pnblii iiisimmons since lawmi | are still working out the state budget. Under the proposed spending plan, ina tuition and fees at all California State and Univaj of California campuses would remain unctal for an eighth straight year — $1,876 at CalSi campuses and $3,859, on average, at UC’s. f But out-of-state students will pay far and money would be cut for libraries,equip and maintenance, among other things. Nationwide, what’s adding to school be pressures as state revenues drop is that r i children of baby boomers and adults are goiei )ern P st , er J ^ IS All thos COllCgC. Mr . The federal government has projected ^ 1 1 enrollment nationwide, now around 15 mi*" 4, ,L iere at two- and four-year campuses, will grm 1 percent a year through the end of this deciM* 0Usl01 ' reaching 17.5 million by 2010. Historically, in bad economic times, hifi education is among the first places state te lures and governors look to cut. 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The accident happened Tuesday evening in the middle- income Oakland neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side after the victims’ rental van veered over a curb and crashed into a stoop filled with people, injuring three women, one critically. Detective Phil Cline said the men were using the van to move furniture and it wasn’t known what caused the van to swerve. The group beat the two men with their hands, feet, bricks and u I really can't believe that anyone would kill someone >9 stones, police said. The size 1 the group wasn’t immediatel; known. Both men lived in the area. “They hit them that came off the side of A' building,” Taqvnto the Chicago Tribune. "The)# n’t have a chance. It wasabr# beat-down.” Julia Mitchell, 29, who across the stref from the accidt scene, said ' arrived and ma^ eye contact "t one of the t* men, lying on 1 -’ ground. “His e? were big and was scared, looked at blinked once exhaled, and knew that he died,” she said. Virginia Stuckey said herj was helping Moore move items from an ap artme '] t . T would not have been driv because he did not have a ver’s license. She said her was an unemployed day la and factory worker who lived with her since January. “I really can’t believe anyone would kill someone that,” said Stuckey, 72. they send them to prison. Toni Preckwinkle, a v alderman who represents area, said the neighborhood^ been improving over the several years. approached Teams c now player: liey can be A day ai Iked Sox 1 ft ninor leagi The rigf ERA. I’m go That’s wh) the game, b The Re< Yankees in 1 wild card rc “We’re know. 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Interpol was notified to be on the lookout for Egyptian 1 grant Mohamed El-Atriss, who faces charges of manufac u and distributing fraudulent documents and conspiracy. 5 El-Atriss, 43, sold a fake ID card to Khalid Almihdhar, who w , on the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, and one to . Aziz Alomari, who was aboard one of the planes that destroy the World Trade Center, said Sheriff Jerry Speziale. 1