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Tuition increase raises questions by Brendan Noone co-sports editor
In the· past three years, Cabrini College has witnessed a 30 percent increase in tuition. For the next fiscal school year tuition will increase an additional eight percent, according to a letter circulated by President Antoinette Iadarola this Easter break. Students will experience an increase in tuition from $9,020 to $9,742, raising the tuition for residents to $16,532. Cited in the Easter break letter were four major reasons for the substantial increase. General inflation was the leading factor that contributed to the college's major increase for next year. The raising cost of energy was also cited as a notable parameter for the swell. Technology, for the development of the computer lab and most importantly the Holy
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Spirit library, also weighed in the decision process. A decline in federal and state financial aid was the final agent administrated. Elizabeth Cairns, the director of financial aid, contradicted the letter, stating that Cabrini College is expecting a nice increase in the financial aid budget. "Each student's situation is looked at by financial aid individually," Cairns said. "A package will be sent to upperclassmen May I to explain the situation." Sections not feeling the effects of the increase, according to the letter sent out over Easter break, will be the annual room deposit, the general fund and, most importantly to residents, room and board. Many of the students at the
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Transfer student Jim Andrews is captured in time as he prepares for his day in the life of Cabrini College. Most studentsbegin their morningsin a rush to brush. This issue focuses on students,faculty and administrationin their trials and tribulationsduring one day of college life. see SPECIAL EDITION pg.7
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Dozens die in Ranch Apocalypse: investigation pending by Doug Eppler assistant features editor
It took 51 days for federal agents to decide to move in force against the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It took less than an hour to watch the wooden complex burn to the ground. Last week. cult leader David Koresh warned that federal agents would be "devoured by fire" if they attempted to harm him. One week later, it was his own followers who had fallen to the blaze consuming his so-called Ranch Apocalypse. The compound ignited on Monday following repeated attempts by federal agents to force cult members out of the building using diluted, non-harmful. non-flammable tear gas. The blaze, apparently set by two members of the cult, destroyed the building in less than an hour, leaving nine survivors, of which eight were hospitalized for
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burns. None of the 17 children in the compound were among the survivors. Koresh and his second-in-command Steve Schneider were likewise presumed killed in the fire. Their fate, as of Tuesday, however. was unknown. The blaze began at approximately I :06 p.m. EST after federal armored vehicles delivered a final burst of the gas. Within three minutes, flames were visible on the south wing of the cityblock size fortress as winds up to 30 mph nursed the newborn fire. Firefighters alerted to the infant blaze were unable to move in for nearly an hour due to the I 00 to 200 rounds of ammunition fired at federal agents by cult members. As the trucks began to roll in, however, R. G. Wilson of the Waco Fire Department said. "There's no way you can do anything with that building right now." All water to the compound had been previously shut off by the FBI. Meanwhile, in Washington, President Clinton expressed his regret for the loss
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of life in Waco and said he instructed Attorney General Janet Reno to do what she thought necessary to end the standoff. Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live," Reno declared, "We considered every possible option. We realized that we would be in the best possible position with everything set as it was to possibly control a mass suicide." ·'Yes, we knew it was a possibility, but we didn't think he would do it,'' Reno added. "We made the best decision we could based on everything we knew. Based on what we know now, it was obviously wrong." Reno went on to say, "I talked to everyone who had a rQle... but it's my decision. The buck stops with me. I'm the one responsible." FBI agent Bob Ricks, speaking before a hungry pack of reporters, said he and his fellow agents. along with agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (A TF), were shocked by the outcome of the standoff.
"I can· t tell you the shock and the horror that all of us felt when we saw those flames coming out there,'' Ricks said. "It was 'Oh. my God, they're killing themselves.' We did not want that to occur." Twenty-four hours after the blaze. fingers started pointing. Clinton was quick to cite Koresh as the one to blame. "He killed those he controlled, and he bears ultimate responsibility for the carnage that ensued," Clinton said before the press on Tuesday. A survivor in federal custody, on his way to a preliminary court hearing, told reporters that it was not a suicide that caused the fire. He said rather that a tank piercing holes in the building knocked over a kerosene lamp. causing the fatal fire. According to federal agents. two survivors admitted to setting the blaze.
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