Tuition in $1 bills? Student protests college costs with cash
| Salt Lake City
Tuition in $1 bills? Yes, according to a University of Utah student who says he paid his tuition bill with 2,000 one-dollar bills as a silent protest against the rising cost of college.
Luq Mughal brought a metal case full of greenbacks to the school Tuesday, the deadline for payment. He says he collected the cash from several banks.
Mughal tells The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/1kY4Rij ) he spends weekends working to pay for his electrical engineering degree.
The 21-year-old says he gets a discount because his father is a faculty member and acknowledges his situation is far from the worst on campus.
Undergraduate in-state tuition rates have more than doubled in Utah over the past 10 years. Trustees set a 5 percent tuition hike this year, saying they needed to fund a cost-of-living raise for employees as state funding declines.
