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Show SUSC raises food rates heated by solar energy. -Aprpoved a mountain property land transaction with Utah State University. --Approved the receipt of grants, contracts and gifts totalling $101,010.73 for the latest reporting period. Gifts for the period had a total value of $4,269.74. Proposed food service rate increases have been approved ap-proved by the Southern Utah State College Institutional Council. At its June meeting, the council approved meal ticket rates in order to "(1) meet the anticipated increases in-creases in food, salaries, wages, employee benefits, and other costs, (21 maintain the operation as a self-supporting self-supporting auxiliary enterprise, en-terprise, and (3) hopefully not reduce the qulaity of services provided to SUSC students." The approved increase was $12 per quarter for each of the four SUSC meal ticket plans. The plans include two seven-day plans and two five-day plans. The average percentage increase is 5 8 percent. Council members also approved an increase in student fees for the 1977-78 school year. Three separate . fee increases totalling $15 per year per student were approved. New total fees per year will be $144. The approved increases will go lor student activities, $3; athletics. $9; and into a Union Building Fund, $:i. According to the approved proposal, the student activity ac-tivity increase was necessary "to continue student programs and activities ac-tivities already in existence but which, due to inflationary in-flationary and other factors, need a more constant source and level of funding to be continued at a viable level." The athletic fee was increased in-creased to basically allow the college to meet the increased in-creased costs of the women's athletic program, primarily as a result of meeting the requirements of Title IX. Inflation was a major reason for the requested Student Union fee increase. Even with the approved fees and recently approved tuition increases, SUSC is still the least expensive four-year four-year iastitution in Utah and one of the least expensive in the nation. In other business, the council: --Approved numerous routine fund transfers. --Approved schematic drawings for a new business building. Construction on the new building is tentatively scheduled to begin this fall. The building will be designed to be completely 1 |