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College costs continue
to rise despite cuts
BOSTON — The cost of higher
education continues to outpace in
come, inflation and financial aid this
fall, even as colleges and universities
slash services, according to the Col
lege Board.
The average tuition, room and
board climbed 6 percent to $6,207 at
four-year public universities and 5
percent to $15,818 at four-year pri
vate colleges, the College Board re
Dorted in a survey being released
today.
The increases were about the same
than last year ’ s, as competition sharp
ened for the dwindling number of
potential students.
“Colleges have simply come to
realize that the very markets they
wish to serve could not afford them at
the rate of increase they were follow
ing,” said David L. Warren, president
of the National Association of Inde
pendent Colleges and Universities.
“People are dropping out,” said
Tchiyuka Cornelius, a student at City
University of New York and presi
dent of the U.S. Student Association.
“There are people who want to go to
college but just can’t afford to.”
While inflation was 2.8 percent
from last fall to this fall, the average
tuition and fees at four-year private
universities and colleges rose 6 per
cent to $11,025; room and board
brought the total to $15,818. The av
erage cost of two-year private junior
colleges went up 7 percent, to $6,175.
Public university tuition rose 8
percent, to $2,527, after two years of
double-digit increases fueled prima
rily by state budget shortfalls; room
and board boosted the price to $6,207.
The average cost of community and
public junior colleges jumped 10 per
cent for the third straight year, to
$1,229.
Thirty-eight percent of public uni
versities have [Hit off making repairs
to buildings, 30 percent have capped
enrollment, 31 percent have cut the
number of courses they offer and 45
percent have left full-time faculty
positions unfilled, the association said.
“Public institutions continue to be
under great pressure to increase tu
ition, but 1 think they’re also under
great political pressure to hold down
prices,” said Donald Stewart, presi
dent of the College Board.
“What you see is institutions just
cutting and slashing, and you’re get
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ting to the point where they don’t have
any more to cut.”
The cost of attending college rang
es from $120 a year at Antelope Val
ley College, a commuter school in
Lancaster, Calif., to $27,600 at Land
mark College in Putney, Vt., a two
year school for learning-disabled and
dyslexic students.
Turmoil hits Russia
MOSCOW — President Boris
Yeltsin moved to seize control of the
Russian state in a coup against his
enemies Tuesday, ousting the hard
line congress and announcing De
cember elections for a new parlia
ment.
The opposition
called Yeltsin’s
action a “coup
d’etat” and threat
ened to impeach
him. Lawmakers
said they would
name Vice Presi
dent Alexander
Rutskoi acting president.
Yeltsin warned that any attempt to
stand in his way would be “punished
by law.” In a national TV address,
Yeltsin claimed he was amending the
constitution by decree, but his action
effectively suspended the charter.
In Washington, the Clinton ad
ministration held out support to Yeltsin
and President Clinton said he would
try to call the Russian president.
Yeltsin’s main opponents, Rutskoi
and parliament speaker Ruslan
Khasbulatov, were inside the Russian
White House.
By midnight, several hundred anti
Yeltsin protesters gathered outside
the building, many waving red Soviet
hammer and sickle flags and erecting
makeshift barricades as police stood
nearby.
If Yeltsin succeeds in dissolving
the parliament and conducting Dec
11-12 elections, the vote could give
him a Congress more in tune with His
reformist policies.
Yeltsin’s action to break his
longstanding stalemate with lawmak
ers will need the strong backing of the
militai7 and security services.
Thirty-five military trucks loaded
with soldiers and policemen were
parked near Russia’s Central Bank
late Tuesday.
Khasbulatov urged the police and
military to ignore orders from the
president and appealed for a nation
wide general strike.
“Do not fulfill any illegal decrees
coming from the president,”
Khasbulatov said. “These decrees are
considered invalid.”
The constitution does not specifi
cally give the president authority to
dissolve parliament or call elections.
“Being the guarantor of security of
the state, I must offer a way out of the
stalemate, and to break this disas
trous, vicious circle,” the president
said in a rambling, 20-minute address
on national television.
Earthquake rocks Oregon, California
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A
moderate earthquake shook southern
Oregon and northern California, kill
ing a motorist in a rockslide, damag
ing buildings and cracking a highway
bridge. A second person died of an
apparent heart attack.
The quake, measuring 5.7 on the
Richter scale, struck at 8:29 p.m.
Monday and was centered 15 miles
northwest of Klamath Falls, said the
National Earthquake Information
Center in Golden, Colo. The center
had originally put its Richter reading
at 5.4.
“It felt 1 ike you were on a raft going
over a rapid,” said pol ice Officer John
Dees, who moved toOregon from Los
Angeles because he wanted to get
away from earthquakes. “You could
see transformers exploding over by
the railroad tracks and up on the hill.”
The quake, followed by two strong
aftershocks, caused scattered power
and phone outages in southern Ore
gon.
Kenneth Campbell of Phoenix was
killed by a 14-foot boulder that crashed
ontohispickupon a highway afModoc
Point, near the quake’s epicenter,
police said. His wife was unhurt.
In addition, 82-year-old Anna
Marion Horton of Chiloquin died late
Mnndav of an aooarent heart attack.
Police said her son told an officer she
was frightened by the house shaking.
[ SPORTS WIRE-1
Latest Elvis sighting could be at NFL game in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—The estate
of the late singer Elvis Presley has
joined the ownership group trying
to bring an NFL expansion fran
chise to Memphis.
William B. Dunavant Jr., who
leads the ownership group, and
Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. chief
executive officer Jack Soden made
the announcement at Graceland,
Presley’s former home-turned-tour
ist-attraction.
Dunavant said the estate, along
with Elvis Presley Enterprises,
would have a “significant” finan
cial stake in team ownership, but he
would not specify the amount.
Franchises cost $140 million
each. Dunavant said the league of
fice and NFL Properties, which
coordinates the league’s marketing
efTorts, reacted positively to the
news.
The estate of Presley, who died
in 1977, is valued at $50 million to
$100 million.
“To be able to bring the name of
Elvis Presley into our ownership
group, I can’t tell you what it means
to me personally or what it will
mean to our city,” Dunavant said.
“Elvis, Memphis, Memphis
music, NFL football—pretty good
combination for, hopefully, world
wide recognition for our city,'
Soden said.
The ownership group is sched
uled to present its offer to an NFL
expansion committee today in Chi
cago. T wo franchises will be award
ed Oct. 26 or 27.
Soden noted also that football
was Presley’s favorite sport and
that he loved to play and watch the
game.
“I can’t remember a time when
we’ve made a business decision or
a financial commitment that would
have been more enthusiastically
applauded by Elvis Presley,” Soden
said.
i-STATE WIRE
NAFTA would help Nebraska farmers
OMAHA — The North Ameri
can Free Trade Agreement would
help Nebraska com farmers and the
country as a whole, a spokesman
for the Nebraska Com Board said.
In statements prepared for testi
mony to the Senate Agriculture
Committee Tuesday, Michael
Bauerle of Champion said a study
commissioned by the Com Board
indicates that U.S. com exports
would expand under NAFTA and
the price of com in Nebraska would
increase.
“As com farmers, we can see
specific benefits for our product
under NAFTA,” said Bauerle of
the plan that would virtually elim
inate trade barriers between the
United States,Canada and Mexico.
Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.,
praised the study commissioned by
the Com Board.
“What I’m hearing from town
hall meetings and talking to Ne
braskans is that there is a lot of
confusion right now about
NAFTA,” Kerrey said. “This is a
disciplined, solid study that takes
an impartial look at the facts.”
The Nebraska Com Board,
which represents more than 32,000
Nebraska com producers, conducts
programs for market development,
research, promotion and education.
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McGinn had similar thoughts.
“I think that it would be bnlliant if
everyone could go to the doctor... if
Paul could go to the dentist without
having to worry about shelling out
$400, he said.
Tisdale said he partly blamed^
former political administrations for
the directionless and shiftless genera
tion called X.
Change and direction won’t occur,
he said, until Americans work togeth
er toward improved social and polit
ical goals.
“(The Clinton administration) is
trying to give people back the good ol*
American dream, but it’s not going to
happen,” Higgins said. “The success
that Clinton is changing — it won’t
work unless everyone is willing to let
it.”
Meanwhile, Tisdale said, mem
bers of Sideshow work toward their
own ideas of success based on creativ
ity in their music.
“This is creative success for us,”
he said. “This is what we want to do.
No one else is going to do anything
else for us.”
Sideshow used their creative suc
cess to tour the western United States
this summer promoting their May re
lease of “Eggplants and Sunspots,”
their fourth recorded effort.
During the month-long tour, the
band lived in their van and bummed
places to stay from their listeners.
“People let us stay at their houses,”
McGinn said. “They bought us food.”
“Hopefully the next time we go on
tour, the people who liked us will
bring other people who have never
heard us,” he said. “That is what this
success is all about.”
That type of creative success, band
members said, can’t be found in col
lege.
“I went to college, but it was such
a waste,” Tisdale said. He values ed
ucation as a way to gain knowledge,
he said, not a degree.
“I want to go and study entomolo
gy, which deals with insects, but only
because bugs are neat Tisdale said.
“It isn’t like I would actually want to
do anything with that knowledge. I
just want to learn about it.
--
If I am doing what
makes me happy,
why should I struggle
for what people call
success?
— Tisdale
Sideshow drummer
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“What I really want to do is wake
up each morning and leam something
new,” he said.
Attitudes similar to his, Tisdale
said, define Generation X’s idea of
success.
“Wouldn’t you rather be in some
crazy job than being totally bummed
out and having nothing to look for
ward to day after day?*Tisdale said.
“I want to go to college, and I want
to get a job. But there is just no point
to that kind of success,” he said.
“There’s no peak to it.”
Success depends not on position or
status, he said, but on experience.
“You could be one of the world’s
greatest athletes—maybe the great
est in the world—but what does that
mean?
“You get notoriety, fame, stardom
and all that,” Tisdale said. “But then
you could work in an old folk’s home
and have the exact same inner feel
ings of success.”
These ideas set the band members
apart from the rest of society and
make them a part Generation X.
* “It’s not like we’re down on Amer
ica, or anything,” Higgins said. “But
we’re not down with it either.”
Tisdale said any positive efforts he
could make toward eliminating his
Generation X stereotype would be
through Sideshow’s music.
“There is absolutely nothing that I
can do to make this world a better
place except make music and make
people happy through that music,
Tisaale said. “That’s all you can do
anymore. Just take care of you and
your friends and your family.”
Tisdale’s philosophy of looking
out for No. 1 could apply to the entirf
generation, he said.
“We’re all losers so wc might as
well enjoy it while we can,” he said.
“I don’t think that there is any hope lor
this generation."