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COSTS
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year they were 24 percent.
The rate of growth in private
borrowing slowed last year. But
that was at least partly because of
new rules allowing graduates stu-
dents to take out PLUS loans from
the federal government, reducing
their need for private loans. For
undergraduates, private borrow-
ing still rose 12 percent to $14.5
billion.
Including room and board
for students living on campus,
charges for public four-year col-
leges were $13,589, or 5.9 per-
cent higher than last year. Those
charges for in-state students at
the University of Michigan who
live in University housing average
$18,638 this year.
At private four-year schools,
average total charges come to
$32,307.
GeorgeWashingtonUniversityin
Washington, D.C. recently attract-
ed attention for becoming the first
major university with a published
yearly price, including room and
board, of more than $50,000.
However, the percentage of col-
lege-goers who paysuch large sums
is fairly small. Fewer than 10 per-
cent of students even attend colleg-
es with tuition and fees higher than
$30,000, according to the College
Board, and many of those students
receive financial aid. About 56 per-
cent of students at four-year col-
leges attend schools listing a price
under $10,000, and about one-third
attend schools charging under
$6,000.
The College Board's report does
not try to explain why prices keep
going up, though Sandy Baum, an
economist with the group and at
Skidmore College, points out that
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because of rising demand for high-
er education, more state appropria-
tions have not translated into more
money spent on each student.
The report comes as Congress is
in the early stages of considering a
proposal that could require some
colleges with large endowments
to spend more of their savings
to keep tuition down. Colleges
call the idea misguided and say it
wouldn't solve the underlying eco-
nomic issues explaining the price
increases.
For the first time, the College
Board report includes the rapidly
growing sector of for-profit educa-
tion, which now caters to about 8
percent of students. Their average
prices are also rising rapidly - to
$12,089, up 6.2 percent from last
year.
Peter McPherson, president of
the National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Col-
leges, issued a statement saying
that "leaders of America's public
research universities continue to
be concerned about the impact that
the cost of attending colleges has on
students and their families." But, he
said, the average net price of $2,600
at four-yearschools remains "excel-
lent value."
That contention is supported
in a recent paper by Mark Kan-
trowitz, publisher of the financial
aid Web site finaid.org. He tried
to estimate how much a four-
year college degree would have
to cost before it would no longer
be a good investment, given the
$1.2 million increase in expected
lifetime earnings that comes with
a bachelor's degree. His answer:
about $520,000 - or $130,000 a
year.
- Chris Herring and
The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
ATHLETICS
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University Board of Regents.
Athletic Department spokes-
man Bruce Madej yesterday
referred comment to Martin,
who was unavailable for com-
ment.
Along with the potential
integration of the Athletic
Department's budget, the report
calls for higher academic stan-
dards for student-athletes and
increased student-athlete par-
ticipation in campus life.
Classical Studies Prof. David
Potter, vice chair of the Senate
Assembly's Government Rela-
tions Advisory Committee, said
that while the COIA report
is valuable as a set of broader
guidelines, not every recommen-
dation necessarily applies to the
University of Michigan.
Les Thornton, an associate
professor ofeducationatthe Uni-
versity's Dearborn campus, cast
the lone dissenting vote in the
Senate Assembly's endorsement
of the proposed athletic reforms.
In his dissent, Thornton cited
the report's first recommenda-
tion, which states that student-
athletes should be admitted to
universities based solely on their
potential for academic success.
Thornton said this reform
would hurt the chances of cer-
tain black student-athletes who
may be admitted based on their
potential for athletic success
despite poor academic success in
high school.
Thornton said many of these
black students often go on to
achieve considerable success in
the classroom - success they
might not have otherwise had
without participating in athlet-
ics. .
"For many African-American
student-athletes, that's the only
way they would've gotten into
college," Thornton said.
In response, Potter said he
didn't think COIA authors intend-
ed to hurt the opportunities of
black students or limit their abili-
ties to attend universities.
The faculty-endorsed reforms
also recommend that the chair of
the University's Advisory Board
for Intercollegiate Athletics
- a governing body comprised
of faculty members, students,
alumni and staff - be a "senior
(tenured) faculty member," not
the athletic director.
University regent bylaws stip-
ulate that the athletic director
- a job currently held by Mar-
tin, who is not a faculty member
- chair the board.
The proposal also recom-
mends that the overall growth
rate in the Athletic Department's
operating costs be no greater
than the University's.
The University's general bud-
get increased1.9 percentbetween
the 2006-2007 fiscal year and
the 2007-2008 fiscal year. The
Athletic Department's budget,
meanwhile, increased 17.6 per-
cent during that same period.
The Athletic Department
is one of the few self-support-
ing departments in the nation,
meaning it funds its operating
budget entirely from its own
revenues.
In his concluding remarks,
Potter stressed the importance
of the recommendations but told
Senate Assembly members that
athletic reform is by no means a
quick process.
"These are all things that
move by small steps, and it won't
change overnight," Potter said.
STADIUM
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into ADA compliance. Plans call
for the planned luxury boxes to be
ADA compliant
A trial date has been set for Sep-
tember 2008.
The resolution also asks the Uni-
versity to take the renovations back
to the planning stages, upgrade the
stadium by adding seating available
to all fans and include more faculty
input in the decision.
Physics Prof. Keith Riles, who
signed the petition opposing the
renovations, moved for a vote on
Goldstein's proposals because
Goldstein is not a member of the
assembly.
Goldstein said he would await
the reaction of Coleman and the
regents before deciding his next
steps.
As of 6 last night, Coleman's
office hadn't received word of the
proposal, University spokeswoman
Kelly Cunningham said.
"As with every recommendation
or resolution by the Senate Assem-
bly, when she receives it, the presi-
dent will give the resolution the
most thoughtful consideration,"
Cunningham said.
Assistant General Council Jack
Bernard, chair of the University's
Council for Disability Concerns,
said in an interview that he was
concerned that Goldstein misrepre-
sented the lawsuit while gathering
signatures and presenting them to
the Senate Assembly.
Goldstein mentioned the addi-
tion of luxury boxes to the stadium
as a part of the violation of the ADA,
the basis for the lawsuit. Bernard
said the luxury boxes are not relat-
ed to the accessibility issues with
the renovation plans.
"This was not the source of the
litigation," he said. "It's a separate
matter."
Bernstein said he fully supports
the efforts of the assembly. He said
the vote shows the faculty feels the
administration is being dishonest
in its discussion about the renova-
tions.
John Pollack, a spokesman for
Save the Big House, an organiza-
tion opposed to luxury boxes, said
he hopes Coleman and the regents
listen to the opinion of the 600 fac-
ulty members.
"I applaud the faculty for taking
a united and strong stance on this
issue," he said.
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ENDOWMENT
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1997, has more than tripled in the
last 10 years.
Timothy Slottow, the Univer
sity's chief financial officer, and
Erik Lundberg, the University's
chief investment officer, could no
be reached for comment. Slottow
will speak about the University's
finances at Thursday's regents
meeting.
Over the last decade, the Uni
versity has lost millions of dol
lars in state funding. In 1997, the
University received $315 million
in state appropriations. This year
the University will receive abou
$334 million - about $60 million
less than the University would be
receiving if the 1997 figure were
adjusted for inflation.
The healthy gains could irk stu
HIJAB
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she doesn't always notice, but it's
something that makes her feel
like a much bigger part of her
community.
"It's something that - you
know-when I'mwalkingoutside
and down the street or whatever,
it kind of forces me to become
more conscious of the fact that
I'm a Muslim," Sediqe said.
LSA sophomore Raya Abu-
Zahra didn't start wearing a
headscarf until just a week and a
half before this school year. She
said she was worried her friends
from her first year at school
wouldn't recognize her.
"I thought I looked a lot dif-
ferent, but apparently I look the
same to everyone," she said.
For Abu-Zahra, reaching the
point at which she was com-
fortable wearing her headscarf
meant spending a year getting to
know herself and other cultures
at the University. After that, she
was ready to take the next step in
her relationship with her faith.
She said she was a little ner-
vous about wearing it out on her
first day, but her friends were
there to support her and took her
to see "Superbad."
Michael Bonner, a professor
of medieval Islamic history in
the Department of Near East-
ern Studies, said wearing hijab
is as old as Islam itself. In the
distant past, headscarves were
an unquestioned way of life - no
different than someone living in
a house or eating food. This is not
the case today.
"In our society, it's different,"
he said. "There's a choice. Or it's
forced on them, according to
some."
Some feel that headscarves
are a form of oppression, placed
on women as a method of con-
trol, he said.
Both Abu-Zahra and Sediqe
said that notion is preposterous.
When Sediqe started wear-
ing her headscarf at 11, she had
to spend months convincing her
mother she was mature enough,
dents after a summer where.the
University decided to raise tuition
by 7 percent. Although University
officials have said the endowment
can't be used to cut tuition because
the donations to the endowment
are earmarked for specific purpos-
i es, some legislators and experts
have suggested that returns on
t endowment investments could be
used to cut tuition and decrease
the need for state appropriations.
Experts speaking at a meeting
of the U.S. Senate Finance Com-
mittee last month suggested that
Congress consider legislation
that would require colleges with
endowments over $1 billion to use
at least 5 percent each year for uni-
t versity operations.
The University of Michigan had
the ninth-largest college endow-
ment in the United States and the
third largest among public institu-
- tions last year, according to data
she said. It took her grand-
mother's intervention - and a
lot of begging - for her mother
to allow her to begin wearing a
headscarf.
Abu-Zahra said wearing a
headscarf is a decision that she
made almost entirely on her own.
"This is for your religion; this
is for yourself; this is not for any-
one else," she said.
For her, wearing a hijab is a
symbol of strength and individ-
uality that keeps women from
being objectified, she said.
"Don't try being the girl that
every guy likes - be the girl that
guys call strong and open-mind-
ed, not beautiful," she said.
She said she doesn'treceive the
staresofrom men in public thatshe
used to.
Although it's a relatively
uncontroversial issue at the Uni-
versity, wearing headscarves has
come under fire in many other
places, Bonner said.
"For France especially, and in
Europe, there's a lot of controver-
sy around it," he said.
In America, however, "if peo-
ple decide to wearthe veil, people
don't usually get a lot of grief for
it."
Abu-Zahra said her mother
encountered a similar ban while
in Myrtle Beach, S.C. She said
her mother was in a mosque
when a member of the mosque's
congregation approached her
and told her how lucky she was
she hadn't. been caught by the
police and forced to remove her
headscarf.
Abu-Zahrasaidthatbeing Mus-
lim - and especially Palestinian
- occasionally makes her life dif-
ficult. She said that the aftermath
of the Sept. 11 attacks was "prob-
ably the worst time for me."
"I felt targeted a lot, espe-
cially by my teachers, which was
strange," she said.
Aside from a few extended
stares on the street, she said she
has never encountered anything
similar at the University. She
said that's the way she likes it
- she doesn't want to be stereo-
typed by her decision to wear a
headscarf.
from the National Association of
College and University Business
Officers. Harvard's endowment,
the largest in the country, is $34.9
billion. Yale's, the next largest, is
$22.5 billion.
The University's endowment
could surpass the University of
California system, which was
the second-largest public school
endowment last year and was $80
million larger than the Univer-
sity of Michigan's. The Univer-
sity of Texas system's $13.2 billion
endowment was the largest of any
public institution last year.
The University's Ann Arbor
campus receives more money from
the endowment than most Califor-
nia and Texas campuses, though -
while the University of Michigan
supports three campuses, the Uni-
versity of California's endowment
supports nine and the University
of Texas supports 15.
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ARICS
March 21to April 19)
The Sun and Mercury are lined up
opposite your sign. Listen to what others
have to say. Don't be quick to assume
that they're opposing you. Perhaps their
point of view is just different from yours.
TAtURUS
(April 20 to May 20)
Lots of silly, little errors have dogged
your steps at work lately. Don't worry
about this. Mercury is retrograde right
now, and ev ryone is feeling this way (in
oue way or the other).
GEMINI
(May 21 to June 20)
You want to have fun today. You're in
a playful frame of mind. Mysteries,
games, sports and pleasurable activities
will please you. Enjoy yourself!
CANCER
(June 21 to July 22)
Because the Sun and Mercury are so
closely aligned today, family discussions
will be intense in a meaningful way.
Whatever you focus on at home will
have your full attention.
LEO
(July 23 to Aug. 22)
You're unusually convincing today.
You're dramatic, enthusiastic and deter-
mined in all your speech patterns with
others. This is antamazing combo. Who
can resist you?
VIRGO
(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)
Trust your moneymaking ideas today.
Why not write them down?
Opportunities from the past for old ideas
might be your best shot.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)
Many of you are dealing with ex-
partners and old friends now. This could
be good or not so good, depending on
how the relationship turned out.
SCORPIO
(GeL. 23 to Nov. 21)
Secrets and alt kinds of unsolicited
information might come to you today.
Since this is the case, research into any-
thing likely will reveal what you're look-
ing for.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 2210o Dec. 21)
Takto friends and acquaintances from
the past. It's always an opportunity to
embellish your reality (or to see it for
what it is). Get together with old pals
and trade ies.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
You might run into an authority figure
from your past. If so, it might surprise
you how easily the conversation flows.
You have a lot to say and you're com-
fortable doing so.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20to Feb. 18)
Past opportunities related to travel or
education might suddenly pop up again.
If so, go along for the ride. You want
something interesting to happen.
PISCES
(Feb. 19to March 20)
You're extremely convincing today in
discussions about shared property, your
partner's earnings, other people's wealth
or how you might get funding or help
from someone. That covers a lot!
YOU BORN TODAY You're unusu-
ally versatile. Many of you have techni-
cal training in more than one area. This
is because you get bored easily, and you
seek excitement, stimulation and adven-
ture. You're definitely passionate about
everything you do. Your humor and per-
sonal charm make you a natural leader.
You have a wonderful, social year to
look forward to. All social occasions are
blessed!
Birthdate of: Michael Crichton, writer;
Ang Lee, director; Pete, soccer legend.
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