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Where Is Your Money Going? She enters her password and logs into Hokie Spa. After a few clicks, an itemized bill appears. Student activity fee, health service fee, athletic fee, recreational sports fee, student services fee, technology fee. She is paying them, and so are you. Do you know what they are? And more importantly, what they support? These are fees that all undergraduate and graduate students pay as part of tuition at Virginia Tech. This may not mean much to some, but for those who are venturing through college on their own means, every dollar counts. “Tuition payments seem simple enough,” said Evan Archer, sophomore human nutrition, foods, and exercise major. “I didn’t realize that these payments are distributed to so many general categories. I would like to know where my money is going.” The money collected from tuition payments support a multitude of services for students here at Virginia Tech. Unfortunately, not everyone understands what their money is going towards and what is available to them. |