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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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participation in Club social activities. Facilities of the Club will also be available for departmental meetings and other University uses without special charge. (e) T h e Club will maintain as high a standard of furnishings and service as is possible within its means. II. When the University desires possession of the present Club property, or in case it should be mutually agreed to terminate the Club's occupancy of the property prior to the realization of plans for permanent quarters, the Committee feels that the University should provide temporary quarters for the University Club upon rental terms comparable to those specified above. It is understood, however, that the nature of such temporary quarters will be such as may be found possible and suitable at the time. III. It is mutually agreed that the present Club building is obsolete and too limited in size to provide adequately for the sort of faculty-club organization that should be developed at the University of Illinois, and the University favors the development of a building project, such as a faculty-graduate student center, within which appropriate quarters for the University Club would be provided. As a means of implementing this policy, the University proposes: (a) T h e initiation of a trust fund to be devoted to the financing of a future building project and/or furnishing and equipping space to be occupied by the Club. (b) T h e creation of a joint committee to bring the proposal of a facultygraduate student center to the attention of the Building Program Committee for study and to the attention of the Gifts and Endowment Committee of the Alumni Association and the General Advisory Committee and to promote in other appropriate ways the realization of the project. (c) T h e Club will undertake to induce its members to contribute toward the fund for a future faculty-graduate student center, by turning in debentures, the value of which could be applied to that fund or by making other contributions. T h e University agrees to match all money contributed to this fund by members of the Club during the biennium ending June 30, 1045. Respectfully submitted,

J O H N R. FORNOF, Chairman KARL A. MEYER M A R T I N G. L U K E N

Special

Committee

On motion of Mr. Fornof, this purchase was authorized under the conditions recommended, and the appropriation of $22,500 was made from the General Reserve, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Davis, Mr. Fornof, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Mr. Nickell; no, none; absent, Mr. Green, Mr. Jensen, Dr. Luken, Dr. Meyer.

P U R C H A S E O F LAND IN URBANA (22) The Building Program Committee has called attention to the urgent need of acquiring additional land on the east side of the central portion of the Urbana campus for use in future developments of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. T h e Director of the Physical Plant has transmitted an offer of the property at the southeast corner of California and Mathews, at a cash price of $23,500. This offer must be accepted in the immediate future, as the owners have another buyer for the site. Early consideration should be given to other acquisitions in this area and in the block north on Illinois Street in which the University now owns one property and on which the University Club property is located. I concur in the recommendations of the Building Program Committee for the need of expansion in this area and believe serious consideration should be given to the offer now in hand. I recommend that the matter be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for consideration and report if possible at this meeting of the Board.

This matter was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, to inspect the property and report on Saturday morning (see page 750).