
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 25, 1990                   TAG: 9006250072
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: EVANSTON, ILL.                                LENGTH: Short

NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS MAY PAY TUITION TAX

If Alderman Jack Korshak has his way, students at Northwestern University will be first in the nation to pay a tax on tuition.

The move came in the form of a proposed 0.5 percent tax on tuition, levied against students at Northwestern and three smaller colleges in Evanston - including two seminaries.

Most of Northwestern's nearly 10,500 students are undergraduates who would pay about $68 a year based on next year's annual tuition of $13,725. The tax would raise more than $700,000 a year, said Alderman Marjorie Collens.

The committee passed the tax proposal May 31. Collens, who opposes the plan, said it likely will be introduced to the full council today and could be decided July 9.

- Associated Press

by CNB