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(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
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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.
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percent a year through the end of this deciM* 0Usl01 '
reaching 17.5 million by 2010.
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education is among the first places state te
lures and governors look to cut. And in;
states, lawmakers also have power to set ft
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CHICAGO (AP) — Police
pleaded for help Wednesday in
finding members of a mob that
pulled two men out of a van
after an accident and beat them
to death with bricks, stones and
their bare hands.
“This is a simple, senseless
double homicide committed by a
bunch of cowardly thugs,” Police
Superintendent Terry Hillard-
said. “These are
murderers. They
killed two inno
cent people.”
One person
was being held for
questioning, but
police said they
had made no
arrests.
Autopsies
showed that
Anthony Stuckey,
49, and Jack
Moore, 62, died
from multiple
injuries and blunt trauma.
Cook County medical officials
said. Both deaths were ruled
homicides.
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.
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“They hit them
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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.
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Authorities say man who allegedly sold
fake IDs to hijackers fled the country
PATERSON, NJ. (AP) — A man who allegedly sold fake ID5
two of the Sept. 11 hijackers apparently fled the countr y ^^nnie
just before authorities came to arrest him in a raid on his
and businesses Wednesday, investigators said. .
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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.
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