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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1966)
Board Hears Stadium Report f( onhniial from patjc Jj The board also heard a re port of the acceptance of pre liminary plans for a $250,000 computer center to house the University’s new IBM 300 corn puter. Tlie two story structure will be located near Kincaid St. and Commonwealth Hall University President Arthur Flemming also gave a report on the newly planned athletic stadium, at the Tuesday ses sion He said contributions had reached about $975,000 and that it was clear that the $1 mil lion goal would be ' reached and exceeded " He also showed the board a model "concept" ol a 40,000 seat stadium which could be built for $2 25 million. More Plans Later Preliminary plans will be pre si nted to the board at a later meeting. Flemming said some $900,000 of the remaining costs will come from a'hletic department re serves, and that he was confi dent that the remaining $325, 000 could be raised, although he was not prepared to say how Tuesday. Previous financing plans had indicated that only $800,000 would come from the athletic department. The stadium is planned to be built on an HO-aere tract in North Hank Park, across the Millraco, which is owned by the University. It would be built of carthfill and poured concrete construction, with walk ways around the rim, and wood plank seating Architects have suggested a completion date of July, 1007, Flemming told the board. Married Housing The body also got into a lengthy discussion of housing for married students when Southern Oregon College re quested an extension of cam pus boundaries to include some 7.2 acres primarily for that purpose. SOC President Elmo Steven son warned of an influx of married students as a result of the OI bill passed by Congress last month The bill entitles vet erans who have served since 1955 to federal money to at tend college. A board survey released at $106 Million Budget Passed The Slate Hoard of Hitcher Education approved its highest yearly operating budget in history Monday-—4106.326;769 The $10 million increase from this year is due to an unexpected increase in enrollment which hit last fall Excess student fee money got the schools by this year, but next year is a different atory. ENROLLMENT I P The last Legislature had geared its budget for a 42,000 student enrollment in the state system for the fall of 1966. But that total was hit last fall, and the revised estimate for the upcoming fall term is 40,219 Thus the budget increase i* necessary to provide for additional staff, faculty, and overhead costs. The budget allows for average faculty pay increases of 3 02 per cent next year, Average salary will climb to $11,362 from this >•« ar's $11,029 The I'niverisity expects 12,976 students next fall, and will have an operating budget of $14 1 million for the year Of the $100 million total, $37 million is for teaching, related research and general services Some $31.7 million is for research and other projects financed by gifts, grants and contracts, MORE GRANT FUNDS The remaining $175 million is for public services such as the I diversity s Medical School tuberculosis hospitals and extension services. About 49 per cent of the money comes from state-appropriated funds, the rest from other sources. During the current biennium, money from gifts, grants and j contracts has increased 82 per cent over the 1963-65 total of $33.8 million. EVERY GOOD GUY BUYS FOOD AT THE > Hamburgers Tater Dogs Bar-B-Q Beef Ham Sandwiches Hot Dogs Submarines Tater Tots Onion Rings o ( OPEN: 10 am-11 pm, Mon.-Thurs. 10 am-1 am, Fri.-Sat. 1 pm-1 1 pm, Sun. and the Best Root Beer anywhere! 2915 Willamette Volkswagen Specialists • Low Repair Charges • Workmanship Guaranteed • Factory Trained in Germany • Fully Equipped to Handle All German Makes GERMAN ALTO SERVICE 2045 FRANKLIN BlVD. 342-2912 the meeting showed that 22 per cent of the male students at five schools in the state system are married, but that only 24 per cent of those married live in housing provided by the insti tution. Ten Per Cent Housed And at SOC, only 10 per cent of the married males live in the school’s married student quar ters, while 19 per cent of the male students are married. Hoard member J. W. Forres ter, Jr., Pendleton, said that the state system is “on the verge of getting into this 'mar ried housing’ as we never have before” and that it will mean a "whale of a bundle” of pro jects. Richard Collins, board secre tary and budget officer, said that no accurate estimates have been made of the impact of the GI bill on next fall’s enrollment across the nation. One report claims that up to 250.000 men may return to school. If Oregon got one per cent, comparative to its popula tion, that would mean 2,500 new students with about three - fourths of those expected to en Fraternity Backs Blood Drive A blood drive will be held on the campus the first week of spring term. And part of the blood will go to soldiers in Viet Nam. The drive is being sponsor ed by the I.ane Memorial Blood Bank and Sigma Phi Epsilon, a University fraternity. The drive will be conducted at a table on the Student Un ion Terrace where students will be asked to sign up. They will be contacted later by the Lane Memorial Blood Bank for an appointment for giving the blood. Permission slips to be signed by parents will be avail able for students under 21. The blood will go to three different groups: • Plasma will go to the De fense Department for use in Viet Nam. • Whole blood will go to the University Donor club for use by the University community. • Ten per cent of the sec ond category will go to the Lane Blood Bank for the gen eral Lane area. Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone 342-1411, Ext 1818 ter public colleger Collins also indicated, how ever, that draft calls may off set any increases from the bill. Draft Calls The SOC request was granted, and the board approved a master plan to accommodate an en rollment of 8,000. Presently about 3,000 are enrolled at the Ashland school. In other business the board: • Approved a request to ask State Emergency Board for $18,767 to provide staff for the University’s Bureau of Munici pal Research to aid local gov ernments in applying for fed- ■ eral aid programs and services • Authorized the sale, sub ject to Emergency Board action, of $3.2 million in bonds to fi nance dormitories at the Uni versity, OSU and SOC to house some 757 students to meet in creased enrollments, plus a park ing structure addition at Port land State College. • Approved basic studies for a $1.28 million science building at Oregon College of Education. The new building will include five classroom-lecture halls, 11 laboratories and 27 offices. • Approved requests from 08U and PSC to offer four - year, basic norm programs in li brarianship. The University is presently the only state institution to of fer a master’s degree program in librarianship. 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