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THE BATTALIOl
College costs increase over
last decade by 40 percent
By Steve Giegerich
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Steady increases in the cost
of going to college have wors
ened in recent years as cash-
strapped states have cut back on
education funding, according to
a new report that says tuition
and fees at the nation’s four-year
colleges are up more than 40
percent from a decade ago.
The College Board’s annual
Trends in College Pricing study,
released Tuesday, revealed that
public two- and four-year
schools, which rely more on
government money, have been
particularly hard hit.
David Ward, the president of
the American Council on
Education — which represents
the nation’s leading higher edu
cation institutions — called the
findings troublesome.
“We are in the middle of a
very difficult period in financing
higher education,” Ward said in
a statement. “I remain greatly
concerned about the long-term
viability of the social compact
that has served students and
families so well for more than
50 years.”
Using inflation-adjusted dol
lars, the average cost of tuition
and fees at state-supported four-
years schools is now 47 percent
higher than it was 10 years ago,
the study said. The average cost
of tuition and fees at private col
leges and universities, also
adjusted for inflation, has
grown by 42 percent over the
same period.
The College Board, a non
profit that owns the SAT, said
tuition for in-state students at
four-year public campuses
jumped 14.1 percent to $4,694
this fall. However, a dip in the
price of room and board —
assessed separately from tuition
and fees — means that students
living in residence halls are
actually paying $10,636, only
9.8 percent more than they did
in 2002-03.
The price hikes weren’t lim
ited to four-year state schools.
The study found that the
average tuition and fees
assessed by public two-year
colleges went up by 13.8 per
cent to $1,905.
And it now costs $26,854 to
attend a four-year, private
school, including tuition, fees,
room and board: that’s up 5.7
percent from last year.
The report said that 60 per
cent of undergraduates are using
financial aid packages to help
pay for college. While student
loans comprise a large portion
of the aid, over $40 billion in
state and federal grants that do
not have to be repaid were dis
tributed in 2002-03.
College costs ris
The average cost of colleger
risen over the past ten years
Here is how it breaks downty
institution type:
□ l993-'94 ■ 2003-04
Tuition and fees ^
clianse'
$1,509 39*/,
2 -yr. public |$2 0g7
4-yr. public
3,058
14,454
46
4-yr. private
11,821 44
■ 17,040
Total charges Percentas
change
$1,509 m
2-yr. public
$2,097
4-yr. public
7,538
19,929
4-yr. private
17,119 37
23,443
NOTE: Adjusted for inflation to 2003 dob!
all data are unweighted averages
SOURCE: The College Board
“It’s critical that
realize a college education ii
still in reach because offinar
cial aid,” said Gaston
Caperton, the president of tk
College Board.
Northern Ireland peacemaking stumbles
By Shawn Pogatchnik
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A day billed
as a breakthrough for Northern Ireland peace
making descended into a diplomatic shambles
Tuesday as Protestant leaders rejected the Irish
Republican Army’s biggest-ever disarmament
move as too secretive.
The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland,
Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, came to Northern
Ireland to launch a Nov. 26 election for the
province’s empty legislature, the intended bedrock
of a joint Catholic-Protestant administration for
this British territory.
Their mission was supposed to have been bol
stered by the IRA’s first act of disarmament in 18
months. But it ended late at night with their
acknowledgment that an agreement between the
two key parties — the IRA-linked Sinn Fein and
the Ulster Unionists, a major British Protestant
party — had slipped away.
“Yes the election’s going ahead, but we want it
in a positive atmosphere,” Blair said.
John de Chastelain, the retired Canadian gener
al trying to coax the IRA and other outlawed
groups to disarm, confirmed that the IRA had
allowed him to inventory and “decommission” a
cache of automatic rifles, explosives and other
weapons Tuesday. He said the amount of weapon
ry was “considerably larger” than on the previous
occasion in April 2002.
Blair and Ahem soon found themselves leading
an emergency negotiating session after Ulster
Unionist chief David Trimble — whose British
Protestant party is essential for any revival of
power-sharing — lambasted the IRA for insisting
on keeping its latest act of disarmament madden
ingly vague.
“We had made it very clear to the (British and
Irish) governments and General de Chastelain that
what we needed was a transparent report of majoi
acts of decommissioning,” said Trimble, wh
emphasized that Protestant voters needed to ta
the detail. “Unfortunately we have not had that,”
De Chastelain said the IRA wouldn’t allow Ii
to specify the volume or type of weapons diseas
ed, nor the method of disposal — the same poll
enforced during the IRA’s two previous weapfflf
shedding moves, in October 2001 and April 21
As a result, Trimble backed away from hii
intention to declare, that the Ulster Uniomsffwapf-
ed to resume power-sharing with Sinn Feitibased
on the latest IRA moves. Such a declaration was to
have been the last step in a string of choreo
graphed statements and events Tuesday,
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams called Trimble's
decision “deeply disappointing,” but defended tie
IRA’s detennination to keep its handover of weapon
ry secret — which is seen as a face-saving measure,
“I don’t know how this can be fixed in the short
term,” said Adams, who has been a senior
commander since the mid-1970s, according to sev
eral histories of the Northern Ireland conflict,
Adams dismissed the possibility of a genuine
misunderstanding between Sinn Fein and the
Ulster Unionists. He suggested instead
Trimble may have lost his nerve and that his part)
won’t be satisfied by anything the IRA does
“There could not have been, under any circum
stances, any misunderstanding at all. Do you think
the (British) prime minister and the
(Irish prime minister) would have flown in
once again if there had not been an agreement and
an agreed sequence?” Adams said.
Ahern said he found the day’s unraveling work
“deeply frustrating and annoying,” and poked fa
at the Ulster Unionists’ concerns.
“I’m not a soldier and I don’t want to be,
quite frankly 1 don’t care about the brand nameof
the guns and that sort of thing,” he said.
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