European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes june 1977 but findings disputed report says private schools holding own letters to the editor by Edward new York not a study of 100 Pri vate colleges and universities has concluded contrary to widespread Independent institutions Are hording their own in Competition with their Public the just released by the association of american said that Pri vate fou year colleges were stable in finances and Quality of Aca Demic it also said that in relation to the total amount of Money a typical family has available to the Cost of attending an Independent institution has not gone up Over the last the competitive position of the private so far As student charges Are if about the same today As it was 10 years it the study ran into immediate fire from officials in the private sector of higher Edu Henry president of the com Mission on Independent colleges and which represents private col Leges in new York said that the conclusions have Little relation to what is going on in new were in desperate Straits trying to hold our he not Only do we have to catch up with but our faculty salary Levels Are 20 to 30 per cent below the Public institutions with whom we Are John president of the National association of Independent colleges and said that he had no quarrel with the general he How that the average costs were mis leading when applied to competitive institutions such As those in the Ivy where the differential Between them and a Public institution can often be even if its Only someone has to pay he you cant pay tuition Bills with percentages or the 70page study is the third in a series of assessments of private colleges and universities published by the whose 600 members Are Public and private institutions with interest in Liberal european edition co Billy Usa John i pair  Mert Elmer sins Lor u s annul Force the Sun so Ripe it pubic fwd in conjunction with Tow Arntold of not Imo Lloil of wort Mon of of eur Robin of dip uni in m comm cd my no or of including and Apo Noil surs ii 10 rur Mindl Ormom 1c Iii i Airstrip u7il a Hon York Dmick in York a in Sykond cuu paid news bureaus Ron building rom a Hury or aug Surg 404w5 Vojt Law my or Kojl Louii building Willwam org miliary or nun Norg u Raf co will my or cart slim ii Juno room in Moylon my circulation offices cd Mil h01ko or Mil 7jm Norta Mil common miliary the authors Are Howard an economist at the dare ont graduate and John director of the the reports have been based on a systematic Sample of 100 private fou year institutions ranging from Small Liberal arts colleges such College and Fisk University to major institutions such As Dartmouth College and Southern methodist the reports do Howe cover major research the two earlier which covered the years 1969 to 1974 and 1974 to re found private colleges and universities to be in a state of steadiness without they Howe that faculty salaries were not keeping Pace with inflation and that Many colleges seemed to be deferring maintenance and Library acquisition expenses in ways that could create future the new based on data for the last concluded that the private continued to maintain its enrolment and showed a slight improvement in us Abil Ity to attract qualified it found a substantial increase in the size of faculties during the last with the average Stu Den faculty ratio improving from to 1 to to and said that faculty salary in creases have once again caught up with in regarding the authors report with the slowing of inflation and a substantial 10 per cent increase in reve some of the financial ground lost during the severe inflation of was they found no deterioration in Overall debt position but warned that capital expenditures continued to fall last it is probable that depreciation and obsolescence Are taking their toll and that unmet capital needs Are they the report also went on to examine the competitive position of the private sector in relation to Public colleges and universities and concluded that it was relatively in the decade from 1965 to 1975 the aver age Dollar difference Between the Cost of room and Board at the two types has doubled from to the authors at the same they con the per capita disposable income of americans has also from to they the Dollar difference Between Public and private Stu Dent relative to the incomes from which these charges must be did not the authors noted that most discussions of comparative costs focus on the tuition Gap Between Public and private ins Titu they cited figures from the College scholarship service showing that private tuition and fees were nearly four times those in Public they that when All the costs involved in attending College including transportation and personal expenses were taken into this ratio was reduced to to or a difference of Only about 25 per this while still substantial in Dollar terms to is quite modest in relation to total which is of the order of to a they stated these calculations suggest that the competitive position of private higher education is much stronger than is often alleged on the basis of the soc Alied tuition and this perhaps explains in part the remarkable staying Power of the private the study also reported that the number of fou year private institutions is greater than it was in 1969 and that not a single m Stit ution in our Sample of 100 has ceased operation in the three years we have been in in Start a Salute to rare Plain speaking 1 just knew that somewhere in the Mili tary there had to be courageous people and chaplain Earl Barcome proved what i really cant believe is that this no complacent individual is actually a lieutenant Tell How did you manage to make rank and still not Compromise your principles u Only a few More lieutenant colonels like yourself or generals like Robert Wetzer would stand up and be counted i refer specifically to the wish Washy reply to Inez Simmons recent the answer evaded her question in a classic exactly As Anne letters question was it was the same the exact same cop out Anne Lester with the exception of a very few people i suspect that career and the Power and Money derived therefrom amazing aztecs the Aztec the Best restaurant in town a House of prostitution in a mexican Border town a genuine mexican Taco place wrong this is a recent Story new York times on Aztec culture published by the article shared the same glory with some what Story about the famous Hells is there supposed to be a comparison apparently the writer would have us believe that the aztecs were a dying of they ate each other cannibalism survival or religion neither of these subjects is defined or explained to its pertinence to Aztec Cul but this is not All of the names mentioned As authorities Are for eign to mexican history for Michael Harner and Woodrow the latter has recently estimated after 500 years that the aztecs sacrificed people a this is approximately people a one need not be a Mathe Matician to figure out that the whole race would have been extinct in a few this is definitely not the Issue of this particular i was born and raised in Chihuahua i spent six years in elementary three years studying at the Institute Tec no Logico Institute of technology and three years in a Catholic i lived in Mexico for a total of 20 years and never heard of such an absurd my ancestors did have ceremonial sacrifices but these were purely and these sacrifices took place Only once in the Aztec Calendar the victim was a Man or woman who had disgraced himself or can you picture in your mind people simultaneously sacrificed with axes made of Stone and the Vic Tims submitting to this voluntarily Victor Manuel Torres Germany has created the apathy that corrodes the veins of every decision making body in the or have these pillars of strength and Power simply got their Heads in the Clouds oblivious to the real everyday prob lems and concerns that surround them dare the readers to make any sense or derive any satisfaction from the reply to Simmons what did it say absolutely nothing simple the writer indeed Tell me How one working 12 to 14 hours a away in the Field training three to six months a year or a commander responsible for 200 men and their problems could possibly be expected to care one Iota whether the grass is the washing machines Are working or the kids and ladies Are fight ing be realistic simple Courtesy is one thing but one holding 24 30 50 no no 32 cars in 20 parking slots and inadequate storage and laundry facilities and its another the very Best friendships Are strained under those Condi the answer Simmons received was a  i can see Only faint Hope because of Inez Anne Wetzel and bar Are the readers satisfied with the answers were getting come fellow Wield your voice your concerns in the proper stand up and be if we Are not part of the so there we Are part of the maybe satisfactory answers will be Forth coming if we show the Powers that be we Lang Germany keep watch on kids i must respond to the writer of the Beautiful letter for a Speed zone in the housing my sympathy goes out to the poor Little girl who was hit by the but even More so to the 1 agree that there should be a Safe Speed zone put in the housing what Good will it do to reduce the Impact when the body is hit if the mothers Are going to play Cook or clean then the child should be kept inside until one of the parents can go out with the there is a Law that dogs must be kept on a Leash and in voice command of their owners All the when  a child be in the parents sight and in voice control at All since we As the writer states that even the Best trained children disobey the rules there Are very few perfect children or parents if so Why wait until some thing bad happens before suddenly becom ing concerned for the safety of the children Dunn Germany still a janitor Speed traps my husband was a janitor before he enlisted in the u is several years and he is still a he works with men with Over 14 years in service and there still by the time one gets to be a technical or master youd think the Days of cleaning strip Ping and would be Over i realize cleaning is but Why cant a janitor be hired these cos must have More important they could be i was touched by the letter about the Little girl who was hit by a truck in the housing area As recounted in a recent letter in How Many american or can say be or she never drives too fast through a housing area most of us Are what we need is something to deter in most Mobile Home Parks in the humps an built across the roads to discourage speeders and it i would like some comments from other readers on Clubb Germany