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P: After querying 1,409 of its students, the University of Illinois answered an old question: How much does a year at college cost? The answer: from $844 for men who live in cooperative houses to $1,378 for those who live in fraternity houses; from $913 to $1,316 for coeds.

P: After eleven years of dishing up college courses for G.I.s, the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) ran into a mutiny: 16 major universities out of 46 campuses affiliated with USAFI flatly refused to sign the 1954 contract. The offending clause, which the 16 felt was an invitation to federal control of American education: "The contractor will not employ or retain for the performance of services under this contract such persons as are disapproved by the Government." Among the universities pulling out: Michigan, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

P: On its own initiative, Wayne University's top faculty council drew up a precedent-shattering ruling: any teacher, it said, who refuses to answer the questions of a congressional investigating committee will be promptly suspended or fired. Said President Clarence Hilberry: "If this policy statement had come from the administrators of Wayne University, it would mean little. But since it comes from the faculty's own council, it has tremendous importance."

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