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page 4 september 24. 1981 Phased-out colleges ACROSS 2 Writing Implement 1 Likely 4 Naar 61rrllala 3 Preposition CROSS 4 European 11 Human mountains by Christopher Potter ridiculous and sublime effects erbated a chronic college budget beings 5 Molars WORD ANN ARBOR, MI CPS __ George Iowa State, for instance, won't be in deficiency 13 Kind 01 sali 6 Applauded Kish has taught geography at the this year's New York Times "Guide to Yet nowhere in America have the Is,_Prlnler's , 7Chapeau measure University of Michigan for 41 years. Colleges" because "budgetary rea- demons of inflation, unemployment 16 Manage 8 ThaSWMI- PUULE sop Though considered one of the best, sons" kept administrators from dis- and miserly legislatures more brutally 18Ar1lllclallan- 9 Iron symbol he may soon be a professor without a tributing the Times' questionaire to hamstrung colleges than in Michigan, guaQa 10Welrdar , department. Rodger Keller worked as students where missing tax revenues from the 19 Business 12 Italian rlvar FROM COLLEGE a horticulturist on the campus. He Massachusetts educators, reeling depressed auto industry have led to abbr. 14 Memoranda was dismissed in June. from the budget cuts in the wake of substantial budget slashes at all state 21 Cease 11 Cheer PRESS SERVICE Both men are victims of a budget last November's "Proposition 2%" tax schools 22 Narrow 20 Norse god 23 Army off. opening crunch that may take years .to abate revolt, are busily closing down Boston Campuses have tried to make up 24 Helps 24 While Kelier was one of six gardeners let Stale College and considering cios- for lost state funding by raising 26 Jumps 25 Quarral 39 Shaded 53 English go. Kish, however. isn't being fired ing two other community colleges to average public college costs to 28 Golf mound 27 Lath 41 Wampum streetcar His department is. The university balance the budget. $3350 29 Lapses 30 Masl 43 Simpler 57 Girl's nama wants to eliminate the geography "It's an absurd case of education "It's getting difficult for more and 31 Narrate 32 King 01 44 MO 58 Tin symbol beasls department after this school year following the dollar around instead of more families to pay for coHege," 33 Rupees 35 Appears 46 QI. part 60 CIA preoe- 48 Room (abbr.) cesser Such radical cuts and contractions vice verse." grouses Roger Chlrmess says Kalamazoo College's admis- 34 Scruff 37 Stalk 51 Ancient 62 Siala: Abbr have become commonplace at cot- of the Massachusetts Board of Re- sions director David Boros. whose 36 Platform 38 Aviator Greek coin 64 Digraph teges in at least a dozen states where gents for Public Education. "Some school is the state's most expensive. soured economies, citizen "tax revolt" institutions are having to delay open- "But we have no choice but to raise !g ~~~~~own "'-,.-..--- .. .,..----~..--..,;,:" .... - measures and budget-slashing legis- ing of colleqe." tuition ., 42 Carried 45 Sass lators have accidentally conspired to In California, the effects of the first "Currently, the only way many stu- 47 Fematerufls alter campus life even more dramati- tax-revolt measure _ 1978's Proposi- dents can come to college is through 49 Approach cally than the Reagan cuts of the ton 13 _ were supposed to hit substantial aid programs," says AI- 50 Pr8p05illon federal education budget. coneqes fully this year. But Morgan bion College Vice President James 52 Transpor1ed In Oregon, for example, state ooen. head 01 the Association of Hatcher 54 Manuscript budget cuts may force the end of the Independent Colleges and Universi- "But as federal aid is reduced, the (ab~r.) athletic programs at Oregon and ties, says astute use 01 the state's middle class family will have an 55 Latin con- Junction Oregon State. The University of IlIi- pre-13 budget surplus has forestalled extremely rough time" 56 Mendlcanl~ nois must soon close its clinical severe cutbacks in campus services Those realities have evoked varied 59 Zeus's medicine program for at least another year responses Irom state colleges. The beloved A surprise state budget cut "could "lt's mainly a matter of waiting until most radical remedies have been 61 Takeaway 63 Moloriess affect accreditation of some pro- next tan to find out how bad things adopted at Michigan State. the state's boals grams" at the University 01 Missis- really are," Odell says, noting that largest school 65 Apportions sippi. the university chancellor frets state educators must now figure out Facing a September shortfall of $30 66 Letter All but two state schools in Texas are how to cope with the effects of the million, MSU President Cecil Mackey 67 Bflt8fvetch without building funds. Missouri, Reagan cuts as well as the Proposi- first tried to cut every department and OOWN moreover, has imposed an indefinite ton 13 cuts layoff many tenured faculty mem- 1 Simian treeze on the state s entire education "We·re all singing a dismal Greek bers. while entirely eliminating the budget chorus to the same tune," laments in America), urban development, and Tuition costs: colleges of nursing (one of the largest These state-level crises - which Frank Duddy. Jr., president 01 the have gone almost unnoticed while Association of Independent Colleges the Dept. of Urban Planning and fred_e_"'_b"-,dg..e_I__-:___..;ha...'!L_ha..2..;bo;;:,t;;:,h_.,:dOC",_",~..lo~"a:::te=r~v~eo.."..e'.. h.._a"i.;.:;e..:e::::,,:;c-ICI;:Se ::cso~~ue:~d d~~uon~,~~:ti:~~ spiral out ofcontrol and Universities of Ohio. Duddy says Architecture. on the Reagan attention tocusec sonar denunciations of the president found BOOK ABODE forced the university to adopt a less pocketbook feels even smaller, where traditionally-high tuitions and Costs are highest in the Northeast, CPS -- If your already-shrunken severe plan. though the three imper- skyrocketing budgets departments' reason: college tuition have there's good energy bills were iled barely re-funded. rates have spiraled to new heights pushed the total costs of attending Used Books, Classics, Notes, Etc. Curren! plans have several depart- A just-released study by the Col- some schools into the five-figure lege Entrance Examination Board bracket 60 W. Main St., Westminster ~~~;~y~i~~~i~~:I~db~i~;r~h~~~~d~:~ found costs at four-year public col- Bennington College in Vermont tops 857-5553 At least 100 tenured teachers may leges and private institutions are up the list at $12,034. About a dozen yet be fired by 16 and 13 percent, respectively. other schools -- including Harvard, Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-4 p'.m. Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (~~Js b~=S)~,n:ta~::~~:n~OC~i~~~ It's the fourth such increase in as Bryn Mawr and Yale -- cos{·$11,OOO or more 10 attend this year. Closed Tuesdays past president of the Council of many years. Students at state schools Although Sunbelt schools as a this fall will pay an average $819 for i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii' Graduate Students. "But now I'm the year. while their counterparts at whole remain far less cosily, tuition in the South and Southwest is rising at ((4) it may not be worth the paper it's supplies, transportation and personal Southern Regional Education Board. scared that by the time I get my M.A., private schools ""ill pay $3709 the fastest rate, according to the Combined with room, board, books, printed on."' costs, public college undergrads will At the richer University of Michigan, "This year's tuition jump basically rellects last year's inllation," says Joe conditions aren't much better. Be- spend an average of $3873, ·while sides axing the geograpl1y depart- ment, the regents cut the extension private school undergrads spend Paul Case, who co-ordinated the $6885 this year, the College Board College Board study. 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