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Travel Ban Hits Appeals Court; Travelers Arrive to Tears

Family members who have just arrived from Syria embrace and are greeted by family who live in the United States upon their arrival at John F. Kennedy
International Airport in New York, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017.
(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Associated Press refugee ban edged up the Court. Travelers, tempo- Department prepared to elers from seven predomi-
WASHINGTON (AP) — The judicial escalator Monday, rarily unbound, tearfully ask a San Francisco-based nantly Muslim nations.
fierce battle over President headed for a possible final reunited with loved ones federal appeals court to re-
Donald Trump’s travel and face-off at the Supreme at U.S. airports. The Justice store Trump’s ban on trav- Continued on Page 4

Free Tuition? Not the Same as Free College, Students Say

Associated Press ered in full through schol- et items at nearly $13,000 a interviewed by The Associ- University of New York insti-
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — They arships and grants, still ex- year, and student fees and ated Press said that any tu- tutions. But “enough?” he
don’t mean to sound un- pects to graduate with a books tack on another ition help is welcome, but said. “No, not at all.”
grateful, but ... New York daunting $50,000 in debt. $3,000. Those extra expens- they could also use help The 19-year-old’s parents
public college students Or Buffalo State College es would not be covered paying for the many other in Queens work overtime
who would stand to gain junior Avery Edwards, who under Democratic Gov. costs of a college educa- to keep the financial bur-
from the nation’s most am- despite similar financial aid Andrew Cuomo’s Excel- tion. “It’s less that my par- den off of him and his twin
bitious free-tuition propos- expects to owe $20,000 sior Scholarship proposal, ents would have to pay. sister, who attends college
al are quick to point out a after collecting his degree which would pay only the It’s less that I would have in Delaware. His mother,
sobering reality from their next year. That’s because difference between finan- to pay,” said Nigel Peters, who already juggles posi-
own meager finances: tuition, at around $6,500 a cial aid and tuition at State a sophomore at Buffalo tions in accounting and
Free tuition doesn’t mean year, is just about a third of University of New York or State College, part of the retail, recently picked up a
free college. Take Brooklyn the typical four-year stu- City University of New York state’s sprawling public third job, at an arena box
College senior Florencia dent’s total public college campuses for full-time stu- college system, which in- office.
Salinas, who despite hav- bill in New York. Room and dents from families earning cludes 64 State University
ing her tuition nearly cov- board are the bigger-tick- $125,000 or less. Students of New York and 24 City Continued on Page 7