Protesting Utah student pays tuition in $1 bills
![Utah tuition payment: Student Luq Mughal holds a case full of $1 bills at the University of Utah.: Student Luq Mughal holds a case full of $1 bills as he waits in a long line to pay his tuition at the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 21.]({"default":"http://newsbcpcol.stb.s-msn.com/amnews/i/47/3784c3e062b7b6f61dfaaaf5e75234/_h353_w628_m6_otrue_lfalse.jpg"})
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By Associated Press
University of Utah student Luq Mughal brought a metal case full of $1 bills to school, paying his $2,000 tuition in silent protest against the soaring cost of college.
SALT LAKE CITY — A University of Utah student 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 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.
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