Ninety-four years of editorialfreedom
Vol. XCIV, No. 37-S
Copyrigh 1984
Ann Arbor, Michigan --Tuesday, August 14, 1984
Fifteen Cents
Twelve Pages
College costs to rise
6 percent nation-wide
From staff and wire reports
The average cost of attending college
this fall will rise 6 percent for students
living on campus, ending a three-year
string of double-digit increases, accor-
ding to an annual survey released
yesterday by The College Board.
For the third straight year, highly
selective Massachusetts Institute of
Technology will be the most expensive
college in the nation, with total annual
costs climbing 9 percent to $16,130.
THE 6 PERCENT average increase
students can expect this fall follows
three years of double-digit college cost
rises that ran well ahead of the nation's
overall inflation rate.
College officials have generally ex-
plained that steep tuition increases
were necessary to allow professors'
salaries to catch up after the severe in-
flation of the 1970s.
The annual College Board survey
examines the total costs of more than
3,200 public and private colleges, in-
cluding tuition and fees, books and sup-
plies, room and board, personal expen-
ses, and transportation.
The Blanchard administration an-
nounced yesterday that all of
Michigan's public four-year colleges
now have agreed to freeze their tuition
for in-state residents.
THE LAST TWO schools to agree
were Saginaw Valley State College and
Michigan Technological University,
according to Rick Cole, Gov. Blan-
chard's press secretary.
The board at Saginaw Valley rescin-
ded an earlier decision to increase
tuition by 4.8 percent this fall. hike this year. The total cost for in-
Tuition at the University was frozen state students at the University will
this year for in-state undergraduate range from $6,400 to $7,200. Out-state
students after three years of sharp studentscan expect to pay $10,300 to-
tuition increases. Out-state un- $11,000.
dergraduates and Rackham graduate
students will face a 7 percent tuition See COSTS, Page 5
L.A.
returns
to 'normaP
after '84
Olympics
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Olympic
villages are becoming university
dormitories again. The SWAT teams
are down from arena rooftops. Traffic,
smog, and crime are returning to
normal. Olympic organizers are
gleefully toting up the receipts.
And athletes and spectators alike are
returning to their hometowns to share
their joy or disappointment and to retell
the wonders of the 1984 Summer
Olympics in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
THERE IS much joy and
disappointment to share, and many
wonders to tell - including the fact that
these Games were held at all, let alone
that they are being touted in some
corners as the biggest, best and most
successful Olympics ever.
See OLYMPIC, Page 11
DOUG McMAHON/Daily
Pumping iron
It's not a beauty contest, it's the Ann Arbor "Ms. Jr. Michigan" women's body building contest held on Sunday night at
the Michigan Theater. The contestants came from all around the Ann Arbor area.
With this issue the Daily buries its
head back in the sand until classes
resume. Look for the free, 76-page
Sept. 6 edition when classes begin
again.
Inside:
* A Daily alumna offers an ode to the city. See
Page 3.
" Bruce Kimball heads the list of successful
Michigan Olympians. See Sports, Page 12.
Outside:
Partly sunny with a high in the low 84s.
Heptatitis search slows
By GEORGEA KOVANIS
University Hospital is reducing its effort to find the
Hepatitis-B carrier who infected five hospital
workers, a hospital spokesman said yesterday.
According to Stephen Hause, researchers have.
"pretty much run out of leads" in determining who
infected four nurses and one doctor. He added that
the hospital will not continue its stepped-up efforts to
locate the carrier who is believed to have been a
patient in the thoracic surgery ward where all of the
infected employees worked.
Caroline O'Donnell, one of the infected nurses, died
July 31 as a result of the virus. Three other nurses
and a doctor were also infected.
"The urgency of finding the source is pretty much
gone, Hause explained.
"A simple answer was not forthcoming," said Dr.
Dennis Schaberg, head of the hospital's infectious
disease control office. He added that there is a "high
likelihood no explanation will be forthcoming."
The hospital has followed-up on the obvious clues,
he said and because of this there is no need to have
five or six people working on the case full time.
However, he said, one researcher will still spend time
searching for the source of the fatal outbreak.