Take Off! Mw* Trawl Nrtwort Struggling students turn to loans for aid (A!’) - Chiiil Goodwin works at Soars during thi> day and tends bar sit night to help pay his way at the University of Wis consin-Milwaukee He's tired, and he's broke most of the time The 20-year-old sophomore Is one of a growing number of college students caught between tuition hikes and financial aid cuts “Over the summer you make the money and try to stay above water until Christ mas," Goodwin said "Then you work over Christmas, get your tan return Un k and try to last through the spring " Fodonil. state and institutional aid rose li-ss than 8 |>urvenl Iasi year rind tin- maxi mum amount available from the federal gov ernment's principle grant program fell (rom S2.400 to S2..HH1. according to figures re leased last week by the College Board, an association of 2.800 colleges and universi ties Tuition and other costs rose an average of 1(1 percent at public colleges and ? percent at private sr bools Iasi year, the College Board said To make up the difference, students and their families have been forced to turn to loans In Goodwin's case, lhat means $2.MM) in loans to cover tuition, books and foes lor one year going to school lull time Living expenses are up to him "I have enough money to survive, but I had to borrow Sf> (or gas from my roommate Society expects us to become professionals, and to do that we have to go to school. But actually to be a student is very hard/ Giavanna Alvarez-Negretti, Emerson College student today, und I nndnd up SIB in thn holt: after buying groceries." ho s.nd Goodwin said students liko him develop a routine; work, study, tlion work some morn. Glitvunnu Alvnrez-Nugralli transferred to Boston's limorson College from thn Univer sity of Puerto Rico, whom n single Poll Grant covered lu;r tuition, room und board But Emerson was much more; exjumsive Thn 2t~yi