Board Presents
Budget Proposals
Jo Legislature
At the invitation of the special
committee on higher education of
the joint ways and means com
mittee of the Oregon legislature,
the state board of higher educa
tion presented its budget proposals
to that committee last Friday af
ternoon, February 2, Chancellor
Frederick M. Hunter said Wednes
day. These proposals were con
tained in the requests of the board
which were included in the 12tli
annual budget of the state of
Oregon.
The principal requests were $1,
811,000, supplemental, and $2,237,
j2£0 for the building program, and
$220,000 for classroom and labora
tory equipment in the state system
of higher education.
These requests had been reduced
by the budget director, Dr. Hunter
said, to $1,600,000 for the supple
mental appropriation for the mill
age, and $1,000,000 for buildings.
The state board of higher educa
tion urged the ways and means
committee to recommend appro
priations for the full amount in
both cases, according to the chan
cellor.
The statement was made that
J£e return of the veterans be pro
vided for, and that all of both ap
propriations and much more would
actually be necessary.
Members of the board present
were Willard L. Marks, president,
Leif Finseth, and R. E. Kleinsorge.
The central executive office was
represented by Dr. Charles Byrne,
H. A. Bork, and Dr. Hunter.
Building Fee
(Continued from page two)
power to tax the students directly
through the fund paid at registra
■*§ion. However, if it did not, the
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legislature, and the students vote
on the question.
Campus landscaping projects in
October 1935 used S36.000 of the
fund in addition to the §17,000
allotted by the PWA.
Quizzed on their latest reactions
to the building fee and the use to
which it has been put, the majority
of the students agree that it should
be continued, that it's “a good
thing.’’ The state, they believe,
should at least match the student
output. The students can't bear the
entire burden.
A §2,000,000 appropriation from
the state board will enable the
students to use a part of their
building fund' for the more per
sonal, local items that will be need
ed in addition to the actual build
ings.
Lineup of UO Future
(Continued from page tiuo)
several will be self-financed
through fees and gifts. The Donald
M. Erb memorial student union
building is expected to cost $700,
000, which the board believes will
be available immediately after the
war. An additional $200,000 may
be available from gifts, a larger
loan (if enrollments come up to
expectations!, or possibly a federal
grant.
Two additional dormitory wings,
also self-liquidating, and costing
$250,000 are planned, to double the
present housing capacity for wom
en. This project will also include
provisions for improved dining and
kitchen facilities for the existing
women’s dormitories.
Housing Conditions Acute
With, all the women’s dormitor
ies, coops, and sororities filled to
capacity and the overflow in John
Straub men's dormitory, the need
for these additional units is de
monstrably acute.
Proposed for the University for
the first biennium is a classroom,
laboratory, and natural history
museum building costing $600,000.
This building will provide modern
facilities for the sciences, and will
also release space at many other
points on the campus greatly need
ed by other departments. It has
been more than 20 years since any
major additions have been made to
the general classroom or labora
tory space.
In the 1947-1948 biennium a
$75,000 music building addition is
proposed to relieve overtaxed fa
cilities because of a recent marked
increase in music enrollment. Also
proposed for that biennium is the
remodeling of Villard hall at a
cost of $100,000.
Speech and Drama Building
For the 1949-1950 biennium an
appropriation of $140,000 itf re
quested for a speech and dramatic
arts building, which will release
space in Johnson hall, the admin
istrative building. The plan for
that two-year period includes a
$100,000 addition to the Commerce
building, which the large school of
business administration has long
needed.
In 1951-1952, $120,000 is asked
for an addition to and remodeling
of Oregon hall, which will double
the present capacity of the build
ing. Also scheduled are two sec
ond-story wings for added reading
space in the library and enlarge
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Ted Baker Wins
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For "meritorious achievement in I
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Baker, University sophomore, j
Wednesday received the Bronze j
Star medal. He served with the i
American division of the army in- j
fantry until his recent discharge,!
following wounds sustained in the
South Pacific. "It came very much
as a surprise,” Ted declared.
Ted is the son of Mr. and Mrs. I
Alton Baker, of University street.
He attended the U. of O. during
the fall and winter terms of 194 2
and 1943, leaving the campus with
the original ERC (enlisted reserve
corps) group in May, 1943. Now a
journalism major, Ted enrolled for
his freshman year as a business
administration major.
ment of the book stack rooms.
Condon hall will be enlarged to
house the social sciences in the
1953-1954 biennium at a cost of
$175,000.
A stranger sitting in on a card
game, astonished at irregularities,
could containhimself no longer.
“Say, did you see that sailor slip
the ace from the bottom of the
deck?” he protested. "Well,” said
one of the players, "it's HIS deal,
ain't it?”
State Lags Behind
(Continued from page two)
student fees, loans, grants, and
gifts, the Oregon state board of
higher education provided during
the prewar decade, 15 buildings on
the various campuses at an aggre
gate cost of approximately $3,000,
000.
Reports indicate that most states
are planning postwar expansion of
their higher educational facilities.
Illinois expects to spend upwards
of $30,000,000. reports the Oregon
state board's booklet on the mat
ter. Other densely populated states
such as New York. Wisconsin, and
California are averaging as much
as $30,000,000 for their postwar
education building plans. In com
parison, the state board of Oregon
asks only $2,000,000 to fulfill post
war educational needs in tire state.
A one million cut would reduce
drastically the usefulness of the
state system to the returning vet
erans. There simply will not be suf
ficient facilities.
Student Fee Packs Load
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remainder financed by PWA loan
from the federal government.
The men's physical education
building and Chapman hall were
also student financed structures
and were purchased to a large ex
tent by the student building fund.
Of the $100,000 spent in the
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building of the infirmary in 193-1,
the state appropriated $50,000.
matching the amount of govern
ment aid and the building fund.
Prior to that time Oregon stu
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Self-financing projects calling
for immediate postwar construc
tion on the campus are the pro
posed $250,000 addition to the
women's dormitories and the $700,
000 Erb Memorial building, cf
which $200,000 lias yet to be raised
by gifts or additional government,
loans.
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