A proposal to raise fees for the Student Recreation Center will go to students for a vote March 6 and 7, after the Arizona Board of Regents voted Friday to allow the item onto a student ballot.

The $3 fee would go toward providing more exercise equipment and higher salaries for student employees at the recreation center - the largest student employer on campus, Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Ray Quintero said.

UA students currently pay $25 per semester to the recreation center, but that money goes toward paying off the building itself, Quintero said.

UA President Peter Likins pledged at the Board of Regents meeting to restore funding next fall to improve academic advising.

He said the university would not ask the academic advising task force to return money next year to help overcome budget shortfalls. The task force gave back $800,000 this year, out of $1.9 million that Likins had agreed to budget for advising improvements.

But he assured the regents that he still wants to invest in advising.

"(President Likins) is not going to waver from his pledge to put the $1.9 million into advising," said Provost George Davis.

When the task force handed back the money, it did so on the contingency that it not be asked to return it next year.

Likins said Friday that of the $1.1 million still allocated for advising this year, $900,000 has gone to retaining faculty and graduate teaching assistants and the remaining $200,000 could go for the same purpose, or to ease budget cuts.

When he originally agreed to allot the $1.9 million for advising, Likins said $1.1 million would go for retaining faculty and TAs.

The regents also approved $1 million for moving a greenhouse onto the roof of a parking garage under construction at East Sixth Street and North Highland Avenue. The greenhouse, now located by the Chemistry building, 1306 E. University Blvd., would eventually have to be moved, as the Chemistry building will be expanded.