UI Students Approve Rec Center

Sat., Nov. 8, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

University of Idaho students want recreation, and they are willing to dig into their own pockets to pay for it.

In a voting turnout that “blew the national average out of the water,” they backed raising their fees $70 a semester for a recreation center, said Katie Cox, program assistant for institutional advancement.

About 35 percent, or 3,440 students, voted in the election over three days. Two-thirds favored the project.

A consulting firm told Cox she would be lucky to get a 20 percent turnout.

Now the administration will present the recreation center proposal to the state Board of Education for final approval. The goal is to have the 90,000-square-foot, $16 million center built by 2001, Cox said. , DataTimes

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