This past March, the Student Government Association passed a bill hoping to raise the cash value of meal swipes at UT, but Vol Dining declined.
SGA created the Meal Equivalency Bill to raise the cash value for meal swipes from $5.50 to $8 for the Tennessee Unlimited 5 and Tennessee Unlimited 7 meal plans. The increase in cash value would have allowed students with these plans to buy more with their meal swipes rather than having to resort to using dining dollars or other forms of payment for any purchase over $5.50. The implementation of this bill would have also likely increased the price for these meal plans.
Vol Dining did not implement this bill even after SGA lobbying. There were multiple contributing factors to this, one of which is the fact that UT already has a good deal among SEC schools, as explained by SGA representative Campbell Butler…