Costs of class
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1974
Students will pay $465,000 yearly
for University Center until 2001
By JIM PETERS
Staff Writer
The $28 million University
Center is financed in part by tuition
and building use fees, says W.C.
Freeman, executive vice president
for administration. Until May, 2001
students will be paying an estimated
$465,000 yearly on a $6.8 million
bond issue for the massive complex.
Approximately $210,000 of that
amount will come from tuition.
Under Texas laws, $5 of a full-time
student’s tuition may be used for
permanent improvements” each
semester.
Backless Benches Cost $428 Each
The rest of the principal and in
terest payments on the bond issue
will be financed by building use
fees.
The $2 per credit hour building
use fee also covers bonded inde
btedness for other projects such as
the expansion of the Library, G.
Rollie White Coliseum, the Univer
sity Health Center and Kyle Field.
However, about 65 per cent of the
sum is earmarked for the University
Center.
A $10 per semester Student
Center Complex Fee covers re
placement of furnishings as well as
maintenance and operation of the
complex.
Thus an average full-time student
each semester contributes $5 tui
tion, $7 in building use feas, and $10
in center complex fees towards the
three-building complex. In addi
tion, he or she pays a Student Ser
vices fee, of which a portion is used
for MSC and other activities.
The remainder of the cost of the
complex (apart from the bond issue)
is borne by state monies from the
Permanent Available Funds ($16.7
million) and from the interest on
university local funds ($2.5 million.)
The Former Students’ wing was fi
nanced through its own donations.
The $1.4 million construction
cost for the Board of Directors
annex was drawn from the Perma
nent University fund only.
The two-level board wing is lo
cated west of the Memorial Student
Center, extending from the end of
the motel housing area. The
“annex” consists of 12 suites on the
second floor for Board members,
visiting legislators and other dig
nitaries; and the board room, entr
ance hall and dining areas on the
first level.
Other major sections of the com
plex include the $10.5 million Au
ditorium and Conference Center,
the $10.9 million Memorial Student
Center and the Former Studetns’
wing. Outside landscape work cost
$668,000, Freeman said.
So far, the Board of Directors has
allocated $26.5 million for the com-:
plex. The balance of $1.5 million
will be allocated in the near future,
said Gen. A. R. Luedecke, vice
^president.
37 X $468 = $17,316
Number of Benches X Cost Per Bench = Total Cost of South American Steerhide Benches
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