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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
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RIC Prepares New Website, Logo by BAILEY KESTNER Staff Writer
The UA Residents’ Interhall Congress is prepping a new logo and website, RIC executive members said. “Currently, the website is being operated by the UA Housing administration,” said Tyler Priest, RIC vice president. “The new website will be maintained by RIC members themselves, rather than the housing department.” The current website, which provides member biographies and group information, is rarely updated. Having the students run the website will
ensure more frequent updates and a detail-oriented layout, he said. “To bring more attention to the RIC and what we are about, we will be providing a link on the old website to the newest one and will also link the website to the RIC Facebook and Twitter accounts,” Priest said. The RIC logo will also be updated, to further draw awareness of the organization on campus. “The old logo was basically an image of a colonial style building with stairs, signifying government,” said Matt Morgan, advertising and
public relations executive. The RIC collectively decided that the logo was not appealing to the new freshmen class, he said. “We definitely want to ‘hook in’ the incoming freshmen, since they are the primary ones living in the residence halls,” he said. Morgan, RIC President Cameron Mussar, and Onnissia Harries, advertising and public relations executive, started discussing the idea of the new logo last semester, Morgan said. “It was toward the end of the term that we started working on design ideas
with the UA productions team in the Union,” Morgan said. “They helped us a lot and we went back and forth with design ideas until we got exactly what we wanted,” he said. “The new logo, nicknamed ‘The Link,’ features a red accent that indicates the group’s connection to Housing,” Morgan said. The logo will appear around campus on sidewalks, flyers and promotional items, Morgan said. The RIC will also be conducting an advertising campaign one week in February to place special emphasis on the new logo.
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from page 1 fees, multimedia contracts and fund-raising, Diamond said. “The tuition and fees will make up about 51.5 percent of the budget for general operating costs of the education and general programs at the university for this fiscal year,” said Don Pederson, vice chancellor for Finance and Administration. Diamond described tuition as “last-resort funds.” “Funding from the state has remained level for several years now, but the cost
of operating the UA has gone up,” he said. The UA is a land-grant university, which means the state provides funding. In the past, the cost of running a college was cheaper, so state funds covered more and students were charged less, Voorhies said. However, maintenance costs have increased in recent years. Since costs have risen and state funding has remained the same, students are charged more to compensate for the cost that private donations and state funds can’t cover, Diamond
said. “The demands on state governments for resources for higher education have grown in almost every state in the nation,” Diamond said. “Higher education is competing for funding with corrections, primary and elementary education, health care cost, general cost of growth and running a state government.” The cost of tuition is calculated by subtracting the sum of state funds and perstudent donations from the per-student cost. “Let’s say it cost the UA $20,000 to educate one stu-
dent,” Diamond said. “The state gives $7,000 and the UA raises $7,000 in private funds per student. The remaining cost is what decides tuition and fee prices. In this case, it would be $6,000.” Senior accounting major Michael Edwards said UA tuition is “more or less in-line with other schools. “They need to find a way to finance all the changes they make on campus. It could also be a product of inflation, but I feel like some of it may be inflated for no reason.”
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