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Committee
decides to
increase
student fees
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Buck
Though the recession is techni
cally over, students may still need
to pay a little more next fall.
The Mandatory Student Fee
Committee met on Friday and
approved three funding requests to
increase student fees by a total of
sl2.
The three proposed increases
include $3 for the student activity
fee, $3 for a transportation fee and
$6 for the technolo
gy fee.
Campus Life
requested a $3
increase to the exist
ing $75 student
activity fee. The fee
would be used to
supplement increas
es in health insur
ance and benefits
for Campus Life
employees as well as
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the operating costs for the Campus
Life Business Office and the Tate
Student Center.
The University Campus Transit
System proposed a $3 increase to
the existing $lO3 transportation
fee. The fee would fund expected
rises in the cost of labor, benefits
and utilities as well as the operat
ing expenses related to the system
including covering the increasing
costs of Athens Transit fare.
The Office of the Chief
Information Officer and Enterprise
Information Technology Services
proposed a $6 increase to the exist
ing sll4 fee for the replacement of
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Soldier returns
to college after
deployments
By KATHRYN INGALL
The Red & Buck
Editor’s Note: The nation celebrates
Veteran's Day this Thursday, and
The Red & Black has taken this
opportunity to profile several
University-affiliated veterans. We
continue today with a profile of
Brett Barton, a veteran who has
served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When Brett Barton graduates
with a degree in political science
two years from now, he will have
experiences most undergraduates
could not imagine.
Since he entered the University
in 2004, he has served tours in both
Iraq and Afghanistan not to men
tion he is now a husband and soon
to-be father.
Barton Joined the Army National
Guard in 2004 after his first year of
coUege. After training, he was
deployed to Iraq in May of 2005.
The first half of his tour he was
stationed in Yusuflyah, Iraq, an area
known as the Triangle of Death.
Asa tank loader on a nearly
70-ton Abrams tank, he encoun
tered five IEDs, or improvised
explosive devices.
“It was just getting through the
next day and doing my job. I had
people counting on me,” Barton
said.
He was able to make phone calls
to family and friends once a month.
When he went to reapply to the
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Regents approve engineering
Some say vote
was rushed
By POLINA MARINOVA
The Red & Buck
Georgia Tech may now have
some competition.
At a meeting Tuesday after
noon, the Regents voted 9 8 to
approve the University's request
to offer degrees in civil, electri
cal and mechanical engineering
in the fall of 2012.
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ebrating the addition of the new
degrees, the state Legislature is
not as thrilled.
Last month, the Regents
tabled the University’s proposal
after Gov. Sonny Perdue advised
them to “slow down” and con
sult the Legislature before vot
ing.
Bert Brantley, director of
communications for the
Governor’s Office, said his office
received a report from the
Regents less than a week before
Tuesday’s meeting.
“I think what you see is you
have legislators who are raising
concern, and you have almost
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the majority of the board that
are concerned about It,”
Brantley said. “It really just
seems like it was a rushed deci
sion. It was almost as if they
were saying, ‘We’ve gotta go
ahead and vote on this because
if we ask anyone on their input,
we won’t be able to get it
passed.’”
Following the Regents’ deci
sion to table the University’s
proposal, University Prvaident
Michael Adams addressed the
issue at an “Open Mic with
Mike" Q&A session.
“To play the game as a major
research university, we’ve been
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playing sort of with two hands
behind us no medical school,
no engineering school,” Adams
said. “One of the things I’ve
tried to do during my time here
Is fill In the spots where we as a
flagship are deficient. I think we
need a full-scale engineering
college.”
At the session, Adams said
there were “clear cost issues
involved,” but he has spoken to
some of the Regents and to
Gov. Sonny Perdue about the
University’s plans to ftind it.
“It’s not a huge amount of
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