The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, September 29, 1975 Page: 3 of 8
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Tuition hikes spur student strikes at many colleges
Soaring tuition is being met
with more than grumbling this
year as students across the
country organize tuition
strikes and file lawsuits to
protest rapidly increasing
tuition costs.
A tuition strike at Northern
Illinois University (NIU) cut
class attendance by as much
as two thirds on September 9,
according to organizers,
although department chair-
men said there was no
substantial change in
attendance. While students
have already paid tuition for
the fall semester, student
government members sug-
gested that a "possible tactic
for the future" would be to
withhold payment of tuition.
Striking students protested
an increase in tuition
recommended by the state
Board of Higher Education
that would increase the
proportion of total education
costs paid for by students from
25% to around 33% by 1980.
Tuition costs for an "average"
student would increase from
the $404 presently paid to $678
by 1980.
Demonstrations are being
planned for September 18 at
City University of New York
(CUNY) to protest a hike in
graduate tuition from $45 to
$75 per credit. Fees for
undergraduates have gone up
by $20, but student leaders
conceded that graduates "are
the ones really hit hardest" by
tuition jumps that could raise
the cost of getting a graduate
degree by more than $1300.
"People are dropping out like
flies," according to one student
government member.
Organizers claimed that
higher fees have been coupled
with decreases in money
allotted to educational
programs. The result,
according to Jay Hershenson,
a CUNY student, is that
students are "charged higher
fees and end up paying for
shit."
Hershenson said that unless
more state money is funneled
to CUNY, organizers will
attempt to bring students and
faculty together within the 18-
unit CUNY system for a joint
strike later in the month.
CUNY and NIU are not the
only colleges imposing tuition
increases this fall. The College
Entrance Examination Board
estimated that the average
total costs for attending a four-
year public college will be
$2679 this year. That's about a
12% increase from 1974 costs.
Private colleges registered a
9% jump, according to CEEB,
with average costs at $4391.
One of the effects of higher
tuition is to keep economically
disadvantaged persons and
In court ruling
Dorm privacy rights reiterated
A. U.S. District Court judge
in Michigan has ruled that
students are entitled to the
same rights of privacy in
dormitories as adults in their
homes. The ruling stems from
a suit brought by two Grand
Valley State College students
who were suspended when
college officials found
marijuana in their dorm room.
* * *
While other city dwellers
choke on pollution, some
Oakland, CA residents wash
catsup out of their hair
instead.
Government air pollution
experts have found that it
sometimes rains catsup near a
cannery in East Oakland.
Coming into contact with
steam clouds of residues
emitted from the factory is like
brushing into a large wad of
cotton candy, according to
Bay Area Air Pollution
Control engineers.
Pollution Engineer Don
Gilson said that the steam
"looks like catsup, but it tastes
like sugar, a sort of sugary
catsup."
After walking into the cloud,
he said, "My hair was sticky. I
had to wash it out as soon as I
got home."
Trees may follow women
and minorities as the next
group to be given protection
under the law if the theory of a
California law professor takes
hold.
Christopher Stone has
suggested that natural objects,
such as trees, be given legal
standing in courts. Attorneys
could be appointed by the court
to defend the interests of the
environment, much as
attorneys would be appointed
to defend a child. Any money
awarded in damages would go
to the benefit of the
environment.
For instance, if a polluter
were ordered to pay $10,000 in
damages to a tree or stream,
the money would go into a
trust fund tended by a legal
guardian. The money could be
used to reforest a cleared area
or restock a stream with fish.
Stone's theory is gaining
ground in legal circles. The
attorney general of New
Jersey used the argument in a
DOONESBURY
suit involving fish kills, and
California's attorney general
plans to use the same case to
win compensation for birds
and fish injured and killed in
the 1969 Santa Barbara oil
spill.
—college press service
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minorities out of the education
system, according to a
resolution passed at a recent
National Student Association
(NSA) convention. Partici-
pants in the convention
demanded that tuition be
frozen and that steps be taken
in the future to roll back tuition
costs.
NSA joined the fight against
higher education costs by
lobbying against President
Ford's veto of a bill that
appropriated $2.4 billion to
higher education institutions
in student loans, work-study
programs and other financial
aid.
Student lobbying and
demonstrations against
higher education costs haven't
begun exclusively with the
new school year, however.
Demonstrations against fund
cutbacks and tuition hikes
were held last year at
Brandeis, Brown, Princeton
and Rutgers, as well as the
universities of Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts.
Although most of the
protests were peaceful, more
militant protests at Brandeis
and Brown involved minority
students who occupied
buildings at both schools.
Rising tuition coupled with a
decrease in student financial
aid affects them most severely,
minority students claimed.
They also fear that univer-
sities will use hard times as an
excuse to curtail minority
recruitment.
But demonstrations aren't
the only form that student
tuition protests are taking.
Medical students at George
Washington University have
sued their school to block a rise
in tuition from the previous
$3200 charged per year to a
new bill of $5000 for the 1975-
76 school year.
The five students who filed
the class action suit claimed
that the increase is far more
than the $200 annual increase
projected in the catalogue they
were given when they enrolled.
University President Lloyd
Elliott said the university is in
"full sympathy" with medical
students faced with rising
costs, but added that tuition
increases were "the last
resort" since all other fund
sources have been exhausted.
If federal funds continue to
dry up, George Washington
administrators warned
students that tuition could go
as high as $10,000 per year.
Students have complained
that such astronomical tuition
costs would make the school a
haven for the rich—the only
ones still able to pay for
education.
—by anthony sehmitz
college press service
by Garry Trudeau
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Brewton, Gary. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, September 29, 1975, newspaper, September 29, 1975; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245253/m1/3/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.