The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 2, 1991 - Page 7 College LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Middle-class college students are feeling the crunch of credit cards e bills as they try to supplement their tuition and living expenses, accord- ing to student advocacy groups. "It's a vicious circle and we're very worried about that," Selena Dong, legislative director of the U.S. Student Association in Washington, D.C., told Booth Newspapers. "It's not cars or stereos they've put on thcir credit cards but college costs."~ Results of a survey show the ex- tent of credit card debts among 400 students at Eastern Michigan University, Michigan State University and the University of Detroit Mercy. Ten percent of the students re- ported outstanding credit bills of more than $700 from educational or students face credit woes living expenses; 5 percent had more than $1,000. The average debt was $897. Theftelephone survey was over- seen by the Michigan Student Education Fund, which conducts re- search for a coalition that lobbies on can get the expenses down," said Jan, 23, a University student at the Flint campus who didn't want her real name used for fear the publicity would hurt her credit rating. Jan has accumulated a $1,000- plus debt from her Mastercard, four 'It's a vicious circle and we're very worried about that ... It's not cars or stereos they've put on their credit cards but college costs' -Selena Dong Legislative Director U.S. Student Association The $2,200 she receives in finan- cial aid every term doesn't cover miscellaneous living expenses in addition to her tuition, books, and fees. Student advocacy groups contend Jan's case and that of others are evi- dence of the squeeze the middle class feels over educational costs and its members' lack of access to federal grants. Results of the survey shows that students are taking longer to get de- grees because of the high cost of ed- ucation and financial pressure, said Peter Lutz, the fund's research di- rector. "We found out that students more and more are taking on unbe- lievable portions of debt through credit cards and student loans sim- ply because college education has become so expensive," Lutz said. FT behalf of students at 15 state public universities. Booth didn't say when the survey was conducted, whether subjects were selected randomly or what the margin of error was on the results. "At this point, I don't see how I ........... department store, and four gasoline cards. Jan, who comes from a middle- class Clarkston family, told Booth she has used her card to charge school books, clothes, food, trans- portation and medical expenses. 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