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Ole Miss to see tuition hike for ‘10-11 BY KATE NICOLE COOPER
lingers as to why the University takes it from student’s pockets instead of raising the funds in another fashion. “We explore every avenue of revenue, such as private donations, and we do a very good job at Ole Miss,” Knight said. “Tuition is not our first choice, but when it comes down to balancing the books, tuition is what we have to use to do it.” When compared to other public colleges across the nation, the increase of 6.4 percent is relatively small. Schools in other parts of the country, such as California and Florida, are seeing doubledigit percentage increases. “I have partial financial aid, but my parents still pay for a certain amount of my school,” Andrea Pollard, a senior criminal justice major, said. “I have two brothers in school in San Diego, and (my parents) have to help them also. Not only do they have to help with their (my brothers’) tuition, now they have to pay more of mine.” For the many students on the
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It’s safe to say that at Ole Miss, students pay for quality when they pay their tuition at the beginning of every semester. The tuition fee is ever-changing at Ole Miss. So many may have breathed a sigh of relief when, for the 2009-2010 spring semester, tuition wasn’t raised for the first time in several years. However, it has been announced this spring that tuition will be raised for the upcoming 2010-2011 school year. This fall, in-state undergraduate students will pay $2,718 per semester, compared to last year’s $2,553. The additional $165 is a 6.4 percent increase from last year. “It’s a byproduct of the fact that we continue to receive fewer and fewer dollars from the State of Mississippi,” Dewey Knight, associate director of financial advising, said. “And as the support from that channel of revenue goes down, if we’re going to maintain our levels of quality and our standards of service, to cover the costs, there’s no other place to go but tuition.” For some, the question still
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Ole Miss campus that are paying for their own tuition, this could mean even less money in the students’ wallets. “It’s going to leave me with less money to do things I want to do, less money for fun. I have an academic scholarship, but it doesn’t provide for everything,” Chase Middleton, a senior biology and psychology major, said. Knight stressed that people need to realize that higher education is expensive, but the other
option of no higher education is even more expensive. Knight said tuition increases are likely a reality for the foreseeable future. The university will probably see an increase in tuition nearly every year. If the state continues to give the university less money, the school will have to make up for it some way. And unfortunately, the school may always be forced to resort to tuition increases, Knight said.
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BY RACHEL JOHNSON The Daily Mississippian
When asked, most students said their fast food choices were not based solely on the speed of a drive-through, but also on the food and where they wanted to eat on a given day. Are restaurants likewise motivated by multiple factors, or do they focus solely on the speed of the service they provide customers? Most restaurants time their drive-through service with a timer that begins when a customer pulls up to the order box and ends when the customer pulls away with their order. The timers count in seconds, and different restaurants have different standards for how long each order should take. For example, Taco Bell tries to keep orders around 30 sec-
onds, according to Bob Vasilyev, president of Vasco Properties, the franchise operator in Oxford. Wendy’s, however, would like to serve customers within 60 seconds, assistant manager Robert Shegog said. However, there are several factors that cause a drivethrough’s service to become slow. Shegog observed that there are mistakes made by both the customer and the restaurant. “A lot of times it’ll be us when we run out of meat or stuff, Shegog said. “A lot of times people come to the window and realize, ‘Oh, my purse is in the trunk,’ so then that makes our service time slow down.” Other times, it could be modifications to a regular menu item that cause the kitchen See FAST, PAGE 4
AUCTIONED IN NYC NEW YORK (AP) — A rare collection of signed William Faulkner books and personal itemxs, including one of his most acclaimed novels, “Light in August,” sold at auction Tuesday for $833,246. The collection of 90 items was nearly a complete representation of Faulkner’s work, said the auction house, Christie’s. The auction probably was the last chance to acquire such a large collection of the author’s work, Louis Daniel Brodsky, a poet and Faulkner scholar, said in an interview before the auction. The highest price went for “Absalom, Absalom!” a story about Southern poverty told entirely in flashbacks, which sold for $86,500. Inscribed in 1936 to novelist and journalist Malcolm Cowley, the first edition novel exceeded the $40,000 to $60,000 pre-sale estimate. Inscribed copies of “Absalom, Absalom!” are extremely rare, with only two others recorded at auction in the last 30 years, according to Christie’s. The first edition of “Light in August,” which centers on three characters and explores the devastating effects of racism and religious fanaticism in the South,
sold for $47,500. The book also is inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning author to Cowley, who was working on a profile of Faulkner for Life magazine. Christie’s did not identify either buyer, or the American seller. It had estimated that the collection would sell for more than $1 million. A few items offered a glimpse into the personal side of the author, whose stream of consciousness writings explored the complicated social system of the South. In a 1936 Western Union telegram to his 3-year-old daughter, Faulkner wished her “plenty of ghosts, goblins, witches and cats and owls on Halloween.” In a 1951 copy of “Sartoris,” Faulkner scribbled, “For Joan, it was all for her, even while she was asleep.” The author was referring to novelist Joan Williams, with whom he had an affair. “He’s not merely an American author,” said Tom Lecky, head of the auction house’s department of books and manuscripts. “He’s an international author.” Faulkner was a native of New Albany, Miss., then lived in Oxford, Miss. The University of Mississippi runs a museum at his Greek Revival house.
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