East Tennessee State University - Buccaneer Yearbook (Johnson City, TN)

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14 By Carl Forester Staff Writer Wait a minute! It's time to sit down and look where our money is going. Tuition for 9,472 students, as we are all painfully aware, went up some 2335 for in-state students, and more for out-of-state stu- dents. The registration fee for Tennessee residents for 1980 for 42 semester hours or more was $246 com- pared to $357 this fall. Out- of-state tuition in 1980 was 3747 compared to $765 this fall. Added to the tuition of $765 was a registration fee of 5357, bringing the total for ouf-of-state students to $4,422. Housing in one of over 44 residence halls cost from $250 to $337 as we returned this fall. We also paid $3909semester for rent in our two apartment-style dorms. Married student housing and the new gra- duate student apartments in the basement of Carter Hall ranged between $120 to $445 per month. Added to the rent for all these types of housing was a tele- phone charge of $35 per se- mester, where phones were available Then there is Off-campus housing, either in rooming houses or apartments. Rooming houses ranged from $30 to 850 per month, while apartments ranged from $75 to $300 per month, depending on size and lush- ness. Meals still seem to be a bargain in our university cafeterias and restaurants. For the 2i-meals-per-week tseven breakfasts, lunches and dinners, or 297 meals per semester; we paid PAYING BILLS WHERE DID All. 34 l2.4 4 per semester. That's an average cost of $4.39 per meal Remember, if we are eating in the boarding cafetria that's all-you-can- eat. For the lS-meal plan Uive breakfasts, lunches, and dinners; we paid $387.73 for 214 meals per semester. That is $1.839meal on the aver. age. On the lO-meal plan, we received any 10 meals during se ven days for a se- mester cost of 8355. 99 M42 Tuition UP 23 percent As EVERYONE KNOWS bills must be paid by September 7 or late fees wlll be Imposed. Remember the Ilnes In the Buslness Oftlce on the seventh. INCREASING INFLATION CAUSED a rise In many areas of student life, but ARA Food Sorvlce still seemed to offer good Iood at ialr cost. meals per semesters. That's an average-cost per meal of $2.54. For those students who chose not to purchase a meal plan, the cost was 3 i. 70 for breakfas t, $2.40 for lunch and dinner, and $3. 50 for special meals in the boarding line. Other campus facilities charge more for specialty item menus. By buying a meal ticket, we should be able to save the equivalent of $23 4.00Aemester, or as our ARA food service says, the equivalent of: o 75 six packs of your fa- vorite recreational be v- erage . 70.5 pink lzod shirts, in- cluding o$ sales tax 0 Books and supplies for one year 0 or an extravaganza ex- cursion to Lizard Lick, Tn. Buying books is always an easy way to spend large amounts of money. The buyeback policy is still in force at a little more than one half the value for those books which will be used next time: that is, if there isn't already a surplus of them on hand. We also paid $3 per se- mester for a post office box so we could receive letters from home, overdrawn no- tices from the bank, and junk mail. We also paid a 82 picture fee to have our pictures put in the yearbook. Speaking of the student publications, we received 30 copies of the East Tennessean news- paper per semester and a copy of the BUCCANEER yearbook, both of which are included in maintenance fees.

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PICKING UP HIS clothes was only one of the problems encountered by Senlor Jeff King from Town- send, Tennessee. King Is ihe presidem of Cooper Hall Dorm. Tanya Green, Star! GETTING YOUR ID card made Is an experlence most Freshman and transfer sfudenls undergo soon after arriving at ETSU. Freshman Regina Harrell geis her ID made by Student Photographer, Tammy Wllllams. y John Flanlgan, Staff 13 ORIENTATION

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15 PAYING BILLS