T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Wednesday
February 17, 2010
Volume 91, No.
77
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
INDEX
News 2, 3, 6
Opinion 4
Classifieds 5
Calendar 2
Police Report 2
BY SHARAYAH SHERROD
The Shorthorn staff...
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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Wednesday
February 17, 2010
Volume 91, No.
77
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
INDEX
News 2, 3, 6
Opinion 4
Classifieds 5
Calendar 2
Police Report 2
BY SHARAYAH SHERROD
The Shorthorn staff
Students could find themselves
paying for operating costs on a
building that is not yet built if a
tuition and fee proposal sent to the
UT System Board of Regents is approved as-is.
Two dollars of the proposed
3.
95 percent tuition increase will
go toward operating costs of the
special events center — something
a 2005 student-approved referendum stated would not happen
until the center is completed.
The fee in the proposal would
be implemented in fall 2011, but
according to the university’s Web
site, the special events center is not
scheduled to be completed until
2012.
The discrepancy lies between
the “Tuition and Fee Proposal Development” and “Referendum 0501,” which students voted to approve 869 to 497.
Section VI of the “Tuition
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