European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes thursday october 17, 1991public College tuition jumps 12%states budget woes Force biggest Rise in 8 years by Lee Mitgang a education writer new York a Public colleges and universities Are hitting students with the biggest tuition increases in eight years As campuses in at least 30.states struggle to make up deep budget cuts. Average tuition and fees at four year Public institutions Rose 12 percent to $2,137 this fall from $1,908 in 1990-91. Its the first return to double digit College inflation since 1983-84 when rates also went up 12 percent the College Board reported tuesday in its annual tuition Survey. Counting average room and Board charges of $3,351, the typical four year Public school Tab for state residents stands at $5,488. At two year Public colleges average tuition and fees Are up 13 percent to $1,022, compared with $906 the previous year. Average rates at four year private colleges went up by a far smaller 7 percent. But with tuition already High at Many such schools that still meant a big boost in the average rate a to $10,017, com new Haven pared with $9,340 in 1990. Total fixed charges including room and Board averaged $14,403, the Survey found. Among schools charging the most were a perennial Leader Bennington College in Bennington it. $23,200. A Sarah Lawrence College in Bronx Ville . $23,150. A Massachusetts Institute of technology in Cambridge $22,230. A Yale University in Conn. $22,200. A Wellesley College mass. $21,98. A Smith College in mass. $21,870. A Brandeis University mass. $21,280. A Harvard University and Radcliffe College in Cambridge mass. $20,655. Average two year private College tuition Rose 6 percent to $5,290. Room and Board at such schools averaged $3,734, also up 6 percent. A we want to hold Down prices but not in Wellesley Northampton in Waltham at the Point where we sacrifice Quality a said Richard Rosser president of the National association of Independent colleges and universities. A it is a great dilemma. We simply must find better ways Over time to finance  College Board president Donald m. Stewart blamed the increases on the recession. A although we Haven to seen double digit increases for Public institutions since 1983, Many people expected them this year because of the widely publicized cuts in state budgets a he said. Others said bad tuition news could outlast the economic downturn. A states face More competing demands on increasingly limited resources. Items like prisons and Public elementary and secondary education Are taking a bigger bite out of state budgets a said Arthur Hauptman a Washington based economist on higher education. The University of Oregon in Eugene raised tuition this fall by nearly one third to $2,598. Rates Rose 40 percent at the University of California system to $2,274. The 64-Campus state University of new York boosted tuition $500 to $2,150 a year following a $300 Rise in december. The Board calculated that a typical resident undergraduate can expect to spend $16,292 this year at a four year private school and $7,584 at a four year Public institution counting incidentals like transportation books and supplies and other personal expenses. Since 1987, averages in the boards annual Survey have been weighted to take into account enrolment in each sector. Before that the Board simply averaged what institutions of various types charged. The new calculation Aims at giving a truer picture of what a typical student spends. Most of the Survey data is in the College Cost Book published by the Board. It is available at libraries or at bookstores for $14.95. The College Board is a private nonprofit organization whose membership includes More than 2,800 institutions of higher and secondary , enthusiasts Swap tales on Riding the rails san Francisco apr not surprisingly Many took the train to this convention. But not in the usual Way. They hopped freight trains to get to the National Hobo associations annual Northern California convention where about 100 hobos a hobbyists a a professionals and wannabes a gathered tuesday to share the Joys and the perils of Riding the rails. Among them was Russ Hofvendahl a san Jose lawyer who was a Hobo for a year in 1938. He still winces about a trip through new Mexico during which he Rode with about 50 head of cattle. He stood the whole time for fear of being trampled. A boy that was murder a said Hofvendahl 69. A it was three or four hours. Too Damn Long i Tell  the National Hobo association boasts a membership of 3,800. They include writers stockbrokers and executives along with full time hobos. A a they be been doing it for 125 years. People still do it a said Garth Bishop of los Angeles. Bishop 50, goes by the rail name a Captain Cooke and publishes the bimonthly Hobo times. Bishop said he drove to the convention this time but usually travels Hobo style a and has since he was a teen Ager. A a that a really the Way to see America by Side bar Pullman a he said. Conventioneers acknowledged the dangers of a hobos life. There a the Chance they said of being accidentally crushed by a train running into bitter cold and being attacked by a a yes a hoods who prey on hobos. Railroads claim the risks outweigh the pleasures. They would like to Sec the Hobo go the Way of the steam engine. A a it a irresponsible in addition to being stupid a said Jim Reiter a spokesman for the association of american railroads in Washington. A this is something that should not be glorified. It should be  sex Hobo Russ Hofvendahl Center shares memories with Garth Quot Captain Cooke Bishop left and Brian  tells of taking Cash to Noriega by the los Angeles times Miami a a former panamanian bodyguard testified tuesday that he delivered More than $300,000 in Cash to the Home and office of Manuel a. Noriega and gave an additional $1.7 million to the former strongman a personal banker at the now discredited Bank of credit and Commerce International. The amounts detailed by Enrique Pereira former bodyguard to Noriega associate Cesar Rodriguez Are separate from alleged payoffs to Noriega of $600,000, which his former personal Pilot said he delivered. The new amounts also Are apart from $500,000 in a suitcase that a convicted colombian drug dealer last week testified he saw Noriega receive at a meeting with drug Barons. Pereira said that Rodriguez his employer told him in september 1982 a to take a briefcase to the old Many a Home to Gen. Noriega a Home a repeating a nickname that some of the former dictators associates used. Pereira said that his Boss a showed me what was inside a Money a and said it was $250,000.�?� the witness added that he went to Noriega a Home where a the Security chief told me to put it on top of a table that the old Man was having  Pereira told jurors at Noriega a racketeering and drug smuggling trial that he did not know the source of the Cash. But he said he had accompanied Rodriguez on a flight to fort Lauderdale fla., to get an aluminium suitcase filled with the Money. Previous testimony has established that colombians notorious Medellin Cartel often used fort Lauderdale As an Assembly Point for their . Cocaine profits. Rodriguez aside from his close Friendship with Noriega was a business partner of Floyd Carlton Caceres the former strongman a personal Pilot in an air charter business. Carlton earlier told jurors that he had delivered $600,000 to Noriega from colombian drug lords. Aside from the $250,000, Pereira testified that he later took $84,000 in a % briefcase to Noriega a military office in late 1983. He said that an additional $1.7 million was deposited at by Cir a Panama City Branch handled by Amjad Awan Noriega a personal banker who is expected to testify later