Cash For Textbooks Mon. • Fri. Smith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 Block From Campus 345-1651 What Study-Crazed Students Say About Onsen )riseri HOUW.Y HOT TUB MMTAl Call J4S 904* for reservations. 1R&3 Gordon Avo.. logon# _Regional_ Students cross border to attend state schools IM l.lMAN U.tsli |API \\'.ishingtun Si.iti’ I iiivcrsilv .mil tin' I ’111\ i tmIv nt lil.ilm till* Imlli I,mil grant si:hi»i>Is iiii tllr Palnuse eight mill’s apart Itulli offer degrees m mnrr than 11)0 majors ami have largr catii puses m small town settings So \\!i\ ilo Inmilri'ds of Washington stmli’iils i ross the horili’r lo attend school in Ida ho and vic e versa7 Sorin' students who've made the cross-over cite academic reputation, si/e and a i hange of si enen Some (i47 undergraduates from Washington mm attend I I an iiu lease of 1 I peri ent sou e lflHn At WSI the enroll mi'iil of Idaho undergraduates has hovered at fewer than tun students for the past live sears I transferred from Mead to t ainzaga I Prep) hei ause it s\ as a smaller si hool and a more |ier sona! environment. said I ilia huge I I s student body |itesi dent .md .1 Spokane native It's the same tiling here It’s a smaller i atnpiis and tile people are extremely dim 11 to earth rile I I has 'I 1 I'l students while \\ St has more than ll> 0(H) "You get to know more pen pie and you’re on a more per sonal basis with everybody.’ says Amy Horns who left Spo kane to attend I I "()n a large rumpus il you yy.dked around and s.n\ ,1 person you'd |uxl say Hi ' Mere you're establishing f 1 iendships Hums is pay mg a le\y hull died dollars more per semester to attend I I but she said she i an easily make up for that by her oming an Idaho resident After you spend 1^ months here and establish your res idem y it is i he.iper to go here Ih.m to go to US I she said The (y\o states have a re< ip rui.il agreement li\ ulmli lli!> students frum e.u h state i .111 .it tend si haul .11 mss the harder .it .1 led 111 ed III Ilian rate I he a r i.ingcmenl was started in l'tH'i la ill.ike it e.isler far students ta enrall in programs they iinild nut get in their hame state Hut .is the number of unii|ue programs has diminished, the p.irti.il tuition waiver has come ta lie given ta students based an their .ii .idemii standing lame Amato, a Lewiston. Idaho sophomore studying zo alogv at \\ St savs the arrange ment saves him Si 'too a vear in attending the sc bool he feels is ai ademii alls superior "When you grow up in Lew iston WSl t is always looked at as such a better school." he said "Also so many people from m\ high si haul gradual ing i lass go to Idaho, and from the years above and the \ears below me. that at times it al most seems like high si ilonl again |ohn ( amphell. a Lewiston sophomore in WSI's hotel and rest.mrant program, agreed Most ol the people from m\ high school had attended the I 'I and I gist kind ol wanted to get out ol that atmosphere, the high school atmosphere and start ov er again.'' he said Like mam I !l students, a number of Idaho natives attend ing U'SL also cited size as a major factor in how they i house their school onlv this time, bigger was belter "(aiming from a small town, the e\( itemenl of going to a universitv that's probably the size ol northern Idaho, or northern Idaho without (aieur d Alone prettv mm h puts that in perspective." said Krik Fa I ter ol Priest Kiver Support for Portland State University programs urged POKTI .WI) (AP) Portland Stale I niversit\ laiulH and stall have been asked to light .1 plan to dismantle the university Huger lulgington. at ting university president, said Monthi\ the plan is a threat to Portland Slate employees l.dgingtnn addressed a fat ulty meeting in response to a propos al made to .1 governor's < oniniission that is studymg higher etlut .1 lion in the Portland are.i The commission is considering a proposal from the Oregon ( none d ol tin' American I lei Iroiiu s \ssm lation lh.it would trails fer Portland Stale s undergraduate and gradu.ile programs aside from engineering and 1 ompuler science to the t uiversity ot Ore gon I 'inlet the proposal Portland Stale’s engineering and 1 omputer si lem e programs would In- ini luded in a U ashinglon < 'ounty engi neering s< hool to run by ()regon State l niversity I dun I believe for