I'm sorry: they do not come from Tuition- rather it is a fee.

On a different note about this story, it is slightly misleading. The tuition increase that they voted for is a campus initiated tuition increase (CITI). The Board is hoping that this will replace a $200 "tax" that was mandated by the State Legislature this past year. The State Legislature approved a $200 tuition increase on every in-state student in a UNC School, but none of that will go back to the schools. It will instead be used to balance the state's budget. The BOT approved this CITI hoping that when the legislataure reconvenes next year, they will replace the "tax" with the CITI so that at least half of the money will come back to the Universities.

"get rid of the terrible football & basketball teams. the money saved on salaries, field maintenance, and any other expense related to those 2 wastes of time should lower tuition"

The money for that stuff does not come from Tuition and Fees.

I know having the cost of anything go up in the current economic climate sucks, but the cost for in state tuition is still a very good deal compared to most other states. Here's a list of current (as best I could find) semester undergraduate in state tuition and fees for NCSU and UNC versus other state schools in our region: NCSU: $2,763.50, UNC: $2,812.72, U. of SC: $4,578.00, VA Tech: $4,302.50, UGA: $3,765.00, UT Knoxville: $3,425.00.

get rid of the terrible football & basketball teams. the money saved on salaries, field maintenance, and any other expense related to those 2 wastes of time should lower tuition

If they wern't still paying Oblinger and Neilson's big going away salaries and setting up the fund to pay Mary Easley's suite they wouldn't need so much money.