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Show USU Avoids Tuition Hike By SUZANNE DEAN Chronicle USU Correspondent LOGAN Officials at Utah State University are hoping to avoid the tiution increase, which threatens University of Utah students. If University of Utah President James C. Fletcher succeeds in his bid for higher tuition, pressure from Governor Calvin L. Rampton and from the Co-ordinating Council for Higher Education may force Utah State to also raise tuition, despite its official stand against a fee hike. "Our insitution has held we shouldn't raise tuition, tui-tion, but whether we should keep that sand, I don't know," said a spokesman on the Logan campus. Official Stand No Raise "This is our official stand according to an administrative admin-istrative decision made several weeks ago," he added, "but of course if the Governor and the Co-ordinating . Council decide all state institutions should raise, we'll be forced to raise also." Tuition at USU is already 624 under the University Uni-versity of Utah, however, the one million dollars collected from students makes up only a fraction of the school's $30 million dollar' total. The remainder comes through state support, gov ernment and private loans, grants, and scholarships, and an annual $156,000 in Federal support given under un-der the Federal Land Grant Act. Try To Keep Cost Down "Our tuition ($109 per quarter) was set by the legislature, the spokesman continued. "We try to keep it low because this is a land grant college and was established with the idea of providing well rounded education for the masses." He noted Ramp ton's cut in state support (due to lower-than-anticipated revenues) have already forced Utah State University to cut down on planned expenditures. ex-penditures. But he contended this cut would not affect the quality of education at the institution. Budget Cuts "We have tried to hold salaries and make the cuts in departmental budgets, travel and in the elimination elimina-tion of certain programs," he said. "These cuts would mean fewer supplies in some areas, less travel, and a delay in the purchase of some capital items, but don't see how it could effect educational quality," he added. After a motion by the Utah State University Student Stu-dent Senate petitions were circulated throughout he studentbody, and 3400 students indicated support for the administrations stand. |