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Students Fight Tuition Hikes within University of North Carolina System.

By Diane Suchetka, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 3--They have typed up their stories -- more than 700 of them -- explaining how they can no longer afford college without working two or three jobs or sinking more than $10,000 in debt.

And they've compiled them in an inch-thick, 400-page book.

This is one of the weapons college students across North Carolina will use over the next few weeks to try to fight off tuition increases the state's 16 public universities are proposing.

The students also

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