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Enrollment sees 4 percent jump over last year
WORLI WRAP Students approve tuition increase
By Barbara Dewailley
TULSA (AP)—The Oklahoma Student Government Association voted in favor of a six-year tuition hike proposed by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Representatives of 25 Oklahoma colleges and universities met Saturday in Shawnee, where they approved the tuition plan. "Students are saying we're willing to support these fee increases if the Legislature is willing to support higher education," said Craig Adkins, chairman of the association hoard of directors. The regents' proposal would raise tuition by about 9 percent a year over the next six years.
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Hard-liners want Gorbachev out MOSCOW (AP)—A small group of hard-liners advocating a return to dictatorship said Saturday that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has agreed to meet and discuss their plan to replace him. But Vladimir Voronin, head of the self-proclaimed National Salvation Committee, admitted he has no date yet for the meeting. Voronin and his allies have said they plan to persuade the current government to hand over power to their committee, and obscure body with an unknown number of members that is part of the legislature's Centrist Bloc, formed last fall. After taking power peacefully, the committee would suspend parliaments, the presidency, political parties and the press in order to have absolute power to implement its program and preserve the Soviet Union.
PLO factions fight in Lebanon SIDON, Lebanon (AP)—Guerrillas loyal to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat killed the local commander of a breakaway faction in house-to-house fighting Friday that left 28 others dead and 52 wounded, police said. The fighting began after the commander of Arafat's Fatah guerrillas in Lebanon was kidnapped by a rival and beaten, Palestine Liberation Organization and police sources said. After his release was won, the commander, identified by the PLO only as Col. Alaa, sought to punish the rebelliods faction. V See WORLD WRAP, back page.
TUESDAY February 19, 1991
Terry White, funeral science major, performs the traditional straight dance Wednesday night at the Back to Camelot Dinner and Dance at University Center. (Photo by Tim Parham)
n keeping with a current trend at Oklahoma colleges and universities, Central State University's spring semester enrollment is up 580 students from this time last year. Laura Tyree, CSU Institional Research and Planning Assistant, said current enrollment is 13,691 students. The Associated Press reported Feb. 13 University of Oklahoma enrollment up 2.8 percent, at 19,825, and Tulsa Junior College enrollment 1.85 percent, at 18,267. Darrel Gilliland, CSU registrar, said the most important reason for the increase in enrollment is probably the economy. Anytime the economy gets rough or people fear they might lose their jobs, they tend to return to college for more education or to update their skills, he said. Tyree said undergraduate enrollment accounts for 10,381 students, with the remainder being graduate students. Both groups
show a increase in enrollment from last spring. Minority student enrollment is also up, with the largest increase being among American Indians, with a 25.6 percent increase. Black student enrollment is up 10.7 percent, Asian American up 4.2 percent, and international up 5.4 percent, she said. "We do show a decrease of 2.6 percent in Hispanic enrollment," Tyree said. She said many women are going back to school. At this time CSU has 7,842 female students and 5,801 male students. "My theory for this is that there has been a substantial increase in requirements to get an education degree, or to keep one current. Since CSU is a highly educationoriented college, and more women are in that field, it seems obvious that more women would be enrolling here," she said. The College of Education does show an enrollment increase of 9.8 percent. The College of Liberal Arts and the College of Math and Science also logged slight increases, however, the College of Business did not have an enrollment increase. V
Earlier fee due date proposed Faculty senate OKs alteration By David LoBaugh
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resident Bill Lillard addressed the fa-
culty senate Feb. 14 concerning moving tuition due date one week forward, which later passed unanimously, along with three other proposals at their monthly meeting. Resolution 91-5 supports a recommendation by administrative Vice President Joyce Mounce and student services Vice Presi-
dent Dudley Ryan to require students to pay tuition fees at least one week before classes begin or face getting dropped. President Lillard addressed the senate, expressing his support of moving up the due date for tuition payment. "We've looked at it from a student's viewpoint, from the faculty members'. viewpoint and from administration's viewpoint and we've tried to chew holes in our own recommendation—so to speak— and we can't see where it will add any additional hardship on anyone," Lillard said. Proposal 91-12 states that a student who withdrawals after three-fourths of the semester will receive a withdrawal passing (WP) or a withdrawal failing (WF) mark. A "WP" would be assigned if a student
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was making a D or above and would count the same as a "W" and would have no affect on a student's grade point average. A "WF" would be given to a student who drops after the deadline and is failing the course. A "WF" would count the same as an F in figuring the grade point average. The proposal was sent back to committee last month after some of the wording was questioned and the content was disagreed on. The bill's major opponent, Sen. Lewis Irving, was not present at the meeting. Sen. Bart Binning told the senate that CSU is the only regional university in Oklahoma that does not have a "WP", "WF" policy and that this put transfer students at a disadvantage. V
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Moore senior Greg Oplotnik ripped through the competition Friday leading the No. 2-ranked Broncho wrestlers to their second straight regional championship.
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