1.   The changes in undergraduate financing have greatly worsened their financial position, and college is doing its best to relieve hardship with grants from its funds.

2.   And colleges do that all the time.

3.   Are colleges doing well to keepstudents afloat in an increasingly pressured environment of financial stresses and family dysfunction, eating disorders and AIDS?

4.   But they say colleges must do more than point a finger at public schools, if they want to reduce the burden.

5.   But when the NCAA was in a position last week to offer an opinion on what the colleges should do about the weekend, president Cedric Dempsey quickly retreated.

6.   By NCAA law, UT is obligated to do so although some colleges do so only to keep their entertainers eligible.

7.   Colleges do more than frown on people who go to extremes to qualify for financial aid.

8.   Elite universities have made diversity a prominent selling point and are unlikely to give it up, no matter what the public colleges do.

9.   Graduation rates might seem like a logical way to gauge how well a college is doing.

10.   Highlights what some Central Massachusetts colleges are doing to prevent smoking.