“They come here with a lot of baggage,'' said registrar Manny King, a mentor to many students. “Alcoholism, single parents, drug use, high poverty, really no direction and no support.''
Freda Gipp, a Warner assistant and Haskell parent, said the debate over tuition is simply a sign of growing pains, not dysfunction: “Even though we've been around for 125 years, it's still early in the game for us as a college.''

