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College costs high
CHARLOTTESVILLE — The chancellor of the state community college system says he’s more certain than ever that community college tuition, now about $900 a year for full-time students, is driving pupils away.
The state Board for Community Colleges has indicated it will lobby for additional money to cut the tuition by as much as a third.
“We are now close to pricing Mr. Jefferson’s ‘common people’ out of this system,” Chancellor Johnas F. Hockday told a meeting of community college officials Friday. “We have forced many of them to take fewer hours, thus cheating them of the opportunity of a complete education.”
Literacy also was a major subject of the meeting, where community college leaders said a major threat to state prosperity may be that a third of Virginia’s adults are functional illiterates.
Military secrets on line
RICHMOND — A federal appeals court Friday upheld the dismissal of a libel suit against Penthouse Magazine, ruling that the alleged victim could not press his case without revealing military secrets.
“Because there was simply no way this particular case could be tried without compromising sensitive military secrets, we conclude that the district court did not err in ruling that the case must be dismissed,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
The suit involved a 1977 article in Penthouse that described the use of animals by the U.S. Navy and Central Intelligence Agency.
Part of the article described scientist James W. Fitzgerald’s work with dolphins, and it alleged he tried to sell his classified research to other countries.
Fitzgerald sued the magazine, claiming it had libelously charged him with espionage.
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