Students paying the price

Michael Gallin's major at UCLA may be African-American studies, but it might as well be finance. The undergraduate already walks or bikes to school to save on gas. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

He photocopies textbooks to cut expenses.

He shares his apartment with two roommates, and his meals have been reduced to turkey sandwiches or the occasional free cafeteria meal, courtesy of a friend's borrowed meal-plan card.

And Gallin's thrifty ways could become the norm for more California college students next year, now that the state's two public university systems have approved another round o