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<title>Understanding USU’s student body fees</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kalani Kelly]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Utah State University’s student fees go through a multistep process and are reviewed annually for approval by students, the university president,…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span data-contrast="auto">Utah State University’s </span><span data-contrast="auto">student fees go through a multistep process and are reviewed annually for approval by students, the university president, the USU Board of Trustees</span> <span data-contrast="auto">and ultimately, the Utah Board of Higher Education.</span> <span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">According to USU Student Association </span><span data-contrast="auto">administrative assistant </span><span data-contrast="auto">Dexton </span><span data-contrast="auto">Lake, “Utah</span><span data-contrast="none"> State cares and they want to make things transparent”. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">USU’s student body fees are broken down into </span><span data-contrast="auto">twelve different categories</span><span data-contrast="auto">: activity, building, athletics, </span><span data-contrast="auto">A</span><span data-contrast="auto">ggie </span><span data-contrast="auto">S</span><span data-contrast="auto">huttle, health services, counseling and psychological services, </span><span data-contrast="auto">technology, campus recreation, library, music and theater, Aggie </span><span data-contrast="auto">Bike</span><span data-contrast="auto"> and Blue Goes Green. </span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}">The following fees are also based on full-time enrollment, or 12-18 credits per semester. </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The </span><span data-contrast="auto">a</span><span data-contrast="auto">ctivity </span><span data-contrast="auto">f</span><span data-contrast="auto">ee</span><span data-contrast="auto"> is </span><span data-contrast="auto">$36.93</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">per student per semester. The fee is</span><span data-contrast="auto"> u</span><span data-contrast="auto">sed by USUSA and the Student Involvement and Leadership Center;</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">$32.13</span> <span data-contrast="auto">goes directly to the center</span><span data-contrast="auto">. Student Involvement and Leadership</span><span data-contrast="auto"> provides varied opportunities for student growth through student government positions, volunteer opportunities, leadership training and diverse programming and activities. </span><span data-contrast="auto">$4.10 </span><span data-contrast="auto">goes to Student Media </span><span data-contrast="auto">to support </span><span data-contrast="auto">students working at The Utah Statesman, </span><span data-contrast="auto">Aggie Radio 92.3 FM, </span><span data-contrast="auto">AggieCribs</span><span data-contrast="auto">.com, video production and business, sales and marketing. </span><span data-contrast="auto">The funds generated from the fee </span><span data-contrast="auto">are primarily used for operational costs, which include printing costs of the paper, equipment, maintenance, and paid job opportunities for </span><span data-contrast="auto">students. The</span><span data-contrast="auto"> fee also allows for on-campus groups and student organizations to </span><span data-contrast="auto">pay a heavily reduced rate to advertise and promote events using several different mediums. </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The </span><span data-contrast="auto">b</span><span data-contrast="auto">uilding </span><span data-contrast="auto">f</span><span data-contrast="auto">ee is $147.19 and provides money for debt services on portions of the Student Fee and Housing System bonds and Student Fee/Spectrum Recreation Facilities Systems Bonds. In addition, this fee provides funds for operations, maintenance, capital renewal, activities</span> <span data-contrast="auto">and usage of the Taggart Student Center and Aggie Recreational Center facilities.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The </span><span data-contrast="auto">a</span><span data-contrast="auto">thletics </span><span data-contrast="auto">f</span><span data-contrast="auto">ee </span><span data-contrast="auto">is $138.33 and</span> <span data-contrast="auto">supports Utah State athletes and the </span><span data-contrast="auto">a</span><span data-contrast="auto">thletics </span><span data-contrast="auto">d</span><span data-contrast="auto">epartment. </span><span data-contrast="auto">It assists in funding the overall </span><span data-contrast="auto">“</span><span data-contrast="auto">mission</span><span data-contrast="auto">”</span><span data-contrast="auto"> of the </span><span data-contrast="auto">athletics</span><span data-contrast="auto"> departmen</span><span data-contrast="auto">t. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The aggie shuttle fee is </span><span data-contrast="auto">$21.95 and helps with operation costs for the 11 buses that travel around campus transporting students where they need to go. </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The health services fee is $48.20 and provides the students with access to physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, medical assistants, laboratory technologists, health educators, pharmacists, dietitians, counseling</span> <span data-contrast="auto">and radiology services.</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The counseling and psychological services fee, or CAPS, is $14.45 and is used to address mental health issues and to ensure staffing of mental health resources.</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The technology fee is $66.81 and provides full access to 12 computer labs and the multi-media center. Each semester, students receive $2.10 of free printouts on their student ID card with full access to printers and scanners.</span><span data-contrast="auto"> This fee also funds </span><span data-contrast="auto">services such as USU network and wireless infrastructure, authentication and </span><span data-contrast="auto">online security</span><span data-contrast="auto">, </span><span data-contrast="auto">institutional ERP system (Banner), </span><span data-contrast="auto">major software licensing</span> <span data-contrast="auto">and open access computer labs. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The campus recreation fee is $36.66 </span><span data-contrast="auto">and </span><span data-contrast="auto">supports the services, programs, and </span><span data-contrast="auto">staffing</span><span data-contrast="auto"> offered by campus recreation including but not limited to: aquatics, athletic training, club sports, fitness and wellness, informal recreation</span><span data-contrast="auto">, intramural sports and outdoor programs. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The library fee is $32.69 and is used to provide students with supplemental resources beyond what the Merrill-Cazier Library initially offer</span><span data-contrast="auto">s. The fee also</span><span data-contrast="auto"> funds expensive video-streaming options due to the need </span><span data-contrast="auto">for digital resources, as well as</span><span data-contrast="auto"> an open educational resources coordinator position, housed in the library. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The music and theater fee </span><span data-contrast="auto">is</span><span data-contrast="auto"> $10.61 </span><span data-contrast="auto">and was first implemented to help cover production</span><span data-contrast="auto"> and </span><span data-contrast="auto">promotion costs for fine arts content presented by Caine College of the Arts. Theatrical productions in the Morgan Theatre and Black Box Theatre, and music performances in the Daines Concert Hall, as well as other performance venues, are all offered at no cost to current USU students. The fee also supports the USU Marching Band in their performances at football games, the Pep Band, Tippets Gallery and the USU Scotsmen pipe band. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The Aggie Bike fee, originally $2.75, provides free bicycle lending, tool board use and education to the students.</span><span data-contrast="auto"> The fund sustains the basic operating costs of the program, including but not limited </span><span data-contrast="auto">to:</span><span data-contrast="auto"> The purchase of bike tools, parts and components, paint, supplies, a</span><span data-contrast="auto">dvertising materials, educational materials and the building upkeep and maintenance. </span><span data-contrast="auto">Additionally,</span><span data-contrast="auto"> the fee pays for student staff who assist students with personal b</span><span data-contrast="auto">ikes.</span> <span data-contrast="auto">All students can check out a 24-hour bicycle or a</span><span data-contrast="auto"> </span><span data-contrast="auto">three-month</span><span data-contrast="auto"> rental bicycle without having to pay. P</span><span data-contrast="auto">er recent changes, t</span><span data-contrast="auto">he fee will be removed from student fees and instead added as an extra charge on</span><span data-contrast="auto">to</span><span data-contrast="auto"> park</span><span data-contrast="auto">ing passes</span><span data-contrast="auto">. Aggie Blue Bikes will still be available for students. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">The Blue Goes Green fee is $3.03 and enables sustainable initiatives at USU through campus awareness events and the facilitation of the Blue Goes Green, or BGG, Student Grant. </span></p>
<p>More information is available at https://www.usu.edu/student-affairs/student-fees.</p>
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<title>Global Picnic joins forces with Blue Goes Green Farmers Market</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Allison Allred]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>Utah State University Student Association’s Diversity Week Global Picnic event joined forces with Utah State University’s Blue Goes Green Farmers…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Utah State University Student Association’s Diversity Week Global Picnic event joined forces with Utah State University’s Blue Goes Green Farmers Market for a collaborative event Oct. 3.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The market normally runs every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. September through mid-October. At the market, students can purchase everything from fresh vegetables and fruits grown in Cache Valley to local honey and fresh-cut flowers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Farmers market regulars, such as The Greenhouse, Blue Goes Green, Crumb Brothers, Common Ground and Student Organization for Society and Natural Resources were all in attendance either spreading awareness for their causes or selling their farmers market goods to the USU community.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SOSNR representative Richard Loveland has been working at the farmers market almost every week since it started, and he loves the opportunities to meet new people and educate them about different environmental issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, SOSNR was educating people about reusable plastics and was selling reusable straws to cut down on plastic waste.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The farmers market is a great place to go. You can meet a lot of people with similar interests and have lots of good food whether it be from Crumb Brothers or Dining Services,” Loveland says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a good opportunity to hang out between classes, even if it’s just 15 minutes, he says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to the farmers market regulars, students from different access and diversity organizations were present at the Taggart Student Center patio for the Global Picnic in conjunction with USUSA Diversity Week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> USUSA Diversity and Clubs VP Joshua Johnson says the goal of the Global Picnic is fundraising for access and diversity clubs, as well as marketing and PR.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For years now, people have had an expectation of what the Global Picnic was supposed to be. Neither the clubs nor the basic individual going to school at USU has had that expectation met. So I made it my goal this year to have those two meet at a happy crossroads,” he says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Johnson was excited about the opportunity to collaborate with not only one student organization, but also with Aggie Radio and the Government Relations Council, who held a voter registration booth at the event. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, multicultural organizations were present for the Global Picnic. Each organization sold different kinds of foods to students passing by, with proceeds from the food sales benefiting each organization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Asian Student Association, Black Student Union, Latinx Student Union, Native American Student Council and the Polynesian Student Union were all in attendance.</span></p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-22094040" class="wp-caption-text">Students walk through the Farmers Market at Utah State University on September 26, 2018. The USU Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday September through mid October by the Taggart Student Center, offering a variety of local produce and goods. (Megan Nielsen)</p></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eli Miller, a representative from the Black Student Union, was at the event helping the BSU serve Herm’s Inn Mac and Cheese to participants.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m just glad that USU has a program like this,” Miller says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miller said having a weeklong event devoted to diversity is something that is really cool and important.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Johnson feels that this event was the most successful it has been in years and hopes that events like the Global Picnic help USU students feel welcome on this campus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My biggest hope for the stereotypical student at USU is that they’ll see what’s happening during Diversity Week, they’ll feel comfortable in this setting and they’ll want to go out of their regular comfort zone into this new comfort zone in which they can spend time with these diverse students and really make meaningful connections,” Johnson says.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><a href="mailto:allisonallreddd@gmail.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">allisonallreddd@gmail.com</span></a></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">@allisonallreddd </span></em></p>
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<title>From apathy to awareness: USU initiates new Recycling Week</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bobbee Russell]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2017 03:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>A Utah State University-sponsored recycling awareness event began today in the Taggart Student Center’s Hub. The event was a collaboration…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Utah State University-sponsored recycling awareness event began today in the Taggart Student Center’s Hub.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The event was a collaboration between by USU’s Recycling center, Dining Services and Student Sustainability Office and will take place every day this week from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. During these times, volunteers will be available in the Hub to instruct students about recycling correctly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New recycling bins will have sensors with 25 phrases thanking people who recycle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bins with lids will replace the the old ones as well as the shadow box signs that were there before. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The new lids in the Hub will require a little more effort from students. For those who want to recycle, it won’t be a problem,” said Dining Services executive director Alan Andersen. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspiration for the event arose as a result of some of the campus community placing recyclable items in the incorrect bins. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Recycle awareness week is about informing the campus community and hopefully reducing the apathy about recycling,”Andersen said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To make recycling make economic sense, the USU Recycling Center relies on students who eat in the Hub to sort recyclable items. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andersen mentioned that the public wouldn’t want to pay extra for food items to employ someone to sort. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We can’t pay to sort. We rely on the consumer to sort,” Andersen said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">USU Dining Services is making an effort to make recycling socially acceptable. Andersen wants students to be willing to recycle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The problem has become noticeable to students. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I look inside different bins and there’s stuff in there that should be in other bins. It’s a problem,” said Ethan Hammer, freshman conservation and restoration ecology major. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recycling and waste intern Paige Morgan initiated an audit system where students will be able to see how much recycled materials are being collected. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morgan will use a scale showing the amount of material being recycled. Contamination will be sorted out. Then, the actual recycled materials will be weighed and the rate of contaminated material or recycled material will be announced to the public. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My goal for the audit is to see that there is an improvement from the contamination to recycling ratio. I hope that recycling is a lot higher than the contamination and that the recycling is highly usable,” Morgan said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morgan said she is grateful for the 17 volunteers who stepped up to help raise recycling awareness. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are many sustainability organizations on campus that brought in volunteers, including the USU Sustainability Club, the student sustainability office and the Student Organization for Society and Natural Resources, as well as natural resources classes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Hammer said he grew up loving service and is passionate about sustainability. For him, this event is “a good combination of both.” </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—<a href="mailto:-b96russell@gmail.com">b96russell@gmail.com</a></span></i></p>
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<title>A brief (contemporary) history of student fee proposals</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Floyd]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<p>The Utah State University Fee Board (USFB) will hold a vote on Feb. 8 to decide — among four other…</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Utah State University Fee Board (USFB) will hold a vote on Feb. 8 to decide — among four other fee proposals — whether to allow a new fee for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) to be brought before the general student body as a measure in the spring elections. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The USU student body hasn’t seen a new fee since the 2011-2012 school year, when a sparkling $3 fee for the university’s Blue Goes Green program first graced the tuition and fee schedule. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prior to that, USU students saw a new $1.25 Aggie Blue Bikes fee during the 2009-2010 school year. Before that, well, if you wanted to find anything, you’d have to search deep into the beginnings of the internet, sifting through odd PDF files and legislative documents stored in a database that may as well be David Bowie’s labyrinth (RIP, the Starman). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which is to say, it’s been a while. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So fee creations don’t happen often. This is because the fee structure is already tailored fairly well to fit students’ outside-of-the-classroom wants and needs. When a new fee does reach the USFB, generally, it is because a need among the student body manifests and, to suit that need, a fee is created. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both the Aggie Blue Bikes fee and the Blue Goes Green fee fall into a similar category in terms of need. Each fee was championed by those who wanted to see a more sustainable and environmentally friendly campus. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With that said, creating a fee is still a difficult process — after all, a “need” can quickly become something superfluous when paying for it becomes a reality. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take the Blue Goes Green fee, specifically. In USU’s 2011 elections — back when the acronym for the Utah State University Student Association was still ASUSU — the fee, according to the Statesman’s editor-in-chief at the time, Catherine Meidell, met considerable opposition by the USFB but was eventually approved by a vote of 2,305 to 1,952. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The student vote was split nearly fifty-fifty, meaning just over half the students at the time were all right with an extra $3 a year and a little under half were not. Creating a fee, by that token, is no small task — perhaps only a matter of a couple hundred votes. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CAPS fee, if the most recent USFB meeting is any indication, will possibly fare better than the Blue Goes Green fee did in 2011. Nearly every member of the USFB who participated in the discussion of the CAPS fee spoke in favor of it, citing USUSA’s recent initiative to declare a mental health a crisis on USU’s campus and to encourage other campuses across the state to do the same. As USUSA president Ashley Waddoups noted, it would be “very hypocritical if we don’t put our money where our mouth is.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, considering CAPS director David Bush’s presentation at the same meeting, wherein he indicated that a little over 1,200 students sought support from CAPS in the past year, the $3.50 CAPS fee may strike the general student body as something more urgent than, say, grant money for recycling programs did in the past. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That sense of urgency — again, spurred heavily by USUSA’s recent legislative initiative — is what, to many, makes the fee necessary. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It doesn’t matter where you go, mental health is an issue,” Matthew Clewett, USUSA’s student advocate vice president, said in the most recent USFB meeting. “We’re not just going to pass a resolution. It’s an appropriate step to show the student body is in full support.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Waddoups, too, stressed the urgency of the fee — especially for its lobbying power moving forward. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We can’t continue to ask for money, if we as students aren’t doing our part,” she said.</span></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">— jordan.floyd@aggiemail.usu.edu</span></i></p>
<p>Graphic by Emmalee Olsen</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the harvest season comes to a close, so does the first annual Utah State University Farmers’ Market.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Everybody who has been here has been thrilled with it, and how could you not be?” said Samantha Bunderson, a senior majoring in piano performance. “You see students come over and say, ‘Oh, I’ve always wanted there to be a farmers’ market here!’ or students like, ‘How long has this been going on? I love this.’ Some people get really excited.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bunderson leads a team of students who organize the Farmers’ Market every week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ve been planning all summer long getting ready for it. It’s done amazingly well,” said Logan Christian, Blue Goes Green outreach intern and a senior majoring in environmental studies. “It just kind of grew and grew and grew because more interns in the sustainability office jumped in with it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Around eight to 10 off-campus and student vendors set up booths weekly for the farmers’ market on the Taggart Student Center patio. Wares range from fresh vegetables, Navajo tacos, honeycomb, sushi, student art and more. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The base is it’s gotta be locally sourced and it’s gotta be sustainable,” Bunderson said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The market also features live musicians who add ambience to the on-campus market. The first day of the market was Sept. 1, and its popularity has continued to grow.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There is a huge diversity of people coming to this market,” Christian said. “It also kind of brings people together from all sorts of disciplines for a common objective and one big food community on campus.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The farmers’ market began as an idea to increase sustainability and access to fresh produce on campus. Bunderson and Christian submitted a grant for the Blue Goes Green Grant program. The grant asked for $6,000 to buy marketing supplies, table tents and tokens for the ‘double your dollars’ program. The grant was approved in May 2016.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Especially being an agricultural school, and having so many fabulous farms nearby, and fabulous farmers, too, it’s been great to work with them. Students don’t really have access to that,” Bunderson said. “There is the local Gardeners’ Market on Saturdays (in Logan), but a lot of students either don’t get there or don’t know about it. This increases awareness and it increases accessibility.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The best part of the market, Bunderson said, was that the ‘double your dollars’ program allows students to purchase produce at half price. Students can receive two $1 tokens for each dollar exchanged, up to $5.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Of course we should have a Farmers’ Market, we’re a public agriculture university,” said James Wirth, a senior majoring in interdisciplinary studies and sustainable food production. “Sustainability is a way of approaching the world that makes sure that there’s things left for the future generations.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wirth works as the sustainable food intern for Blue Goes Green office. He also collaborates with students who want to take part or set up a booth for the market.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the booths at the market is the Student Organic Farm. Ayla Stults-Lopez, a sophomore majoring in plant science with an emphasis on horticulture, is the manager for the Student Organic Farm. She said their program has been setting up a solitary booth on the TSC patio for years.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s really great that we have all these other people now because it brings attention to us. We’re not this lonely little stand selling fruit,” she said with a laugh.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Student Organic Farm grows produce on a third of an acre at 1750 N 800 E. The farm is USDA certified organic and has produce ranging from leafy greens to strawberries to pumpkins.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“People are always very supportive of it,” said Stults-Lopez. “People get excited when they see fresh organic produce that we harvest that day.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another booth is run by William Clarke, a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering. He began his own embroidery business, Little Pine Tree Embroidery, and creates products for students at the market.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I like doing it. I like seeing people wearing stuff they’ve always dreamt about having,” Clarke said. “It’s gotten my name out a lot more. Being out here, people can see the stuff I can do.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nathan Huntzinger, an 18-year-old high school graduate from North Logan, operates a honey products company called Bees Brothers. His booth has been at the USU Farmers’ Market since it opened.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s been a lot of fun at this market,” he said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tanner Warne, a sophomore majoring in education, said “Before, if you wanted to have the farmers’ market experience, for the college kids you’d have to go to the county one next to the courthouse. Now it’s cool because we’re bring the community into the school.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The market is open for the last week this season on Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There’s something here from everybody, and it’s all going to be cheap,” Bunderson said. “It benefits the whole community, I would say.”</span><br />
<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">-ashley.ruth.stilson@aggiemail.usu.edu</span></i></p>
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