Tuition in $1 bills? Student protests college costs with cash
Tuition in $1 bills was paid by a Utah student as a silent protest agains the rising cost of college. Lug Mughal collected cash from several banks to pay his tuition in $1 bills.
Luke Mughal holds a briefcase full of $1 bills as he waits in a long line to pay his tuition at the Student Services Building on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City. Mughal is paying his tuition in $1 dollar bills to protest the high cost of tuition.
Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune/AP
Salt Lake City
Tuition in $1 bills? Yes, according to a University of聽Utah聽student who says he paid his聽tuition聽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 (聽) 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聽tuition聽rates have more than doubled in聽Utah聽over the past 10 years. Trustees set a 5 percent聽tuition聽hike this year, saying they needed to fund a cost-of-living raise for employees as state funding declines.