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COMMENTARY:
BY ALESHA JONES Special to the Trilogy
The Ofcial Student Newspaper of the University of the District of Columbia
March 17, 2006
SOCCER VICTORY
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Students criticize administration's priorities
BY STEFAN C. LITTLE, JR. Editor-In-Chief
UDC Tuition Increase Hits Home
Is Civil Rights Dying
university master plan is the student center, he said. Every other university has a meeting place where students can congregate. That's my vision." uring the past two years, the UniversiSome students were not convinced mentionty of the District of Columbia (UDC) ing that various classrooms conditions on campus has gone undergone several changes, needed to be looked at rst before a student cenboth cosmetic and scal. As the scal ter is considered. According to Provost Wilhelmina changes are being implemented with the reported Reuben-Cooke, the lab classrooms in Bldg. 44 and about tuition increase, students wonder how the in- 68 classrooms will be renovated starting this sumcrease is going to affect them in the future and if mer. Reuben-Cooke reminded everyone that there there concerns are being addressed. are only three institutions with tuitions comparable Those questions were answered at the Tuition to UDC and with the tuition increase, UDC will Hall Town Forum in late January. Presented by the remain the lowest of any university. Undergraduate Student Government Association UDC has not seen an increase since the fall semes(USGA), the forum served as a platform for both ter of 1997. The undergraduate resident tuition was information and feedback. Dr. Clemmie Solomon, set at $75 per semester hour and resident graduate Vice President for Student Affairs discussed plans tuition at $198 per semester hour. Undergraduate for the reported student center, which the increase will assist with the funding. "The #1 plan in the TUITION, See page 5

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