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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 24

required to do. It should be noted this figure is based on the best estimates that can be made at this time, and that additional funds may be required to complete this project. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a d o p t e d , a n d the appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Fornof, M r . Jensen, M r . Livingston, Mr. McKelvey, Dr. Meyer, M r . Nickell; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Davis, M r . Green, M r s . Grigsby, M r . K a r r a k e r , Dr. Luken. REPORT OF PROGRESS ON AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION (24) At the meeting of the Board on January 26, Mr. Davis suggested that there be presented at each subsequent meeting reports of progress on construction of the airport. Professor J. J. Doland, Supervising Engineer in charge of airport construction, has been asked to prepare such reports periodically, and his first report is submitted herewith. T h i s report w a s received for record. ADMISSION OF AMERICAN BORN JAPANESE STUDENTS (25) A statement concerning the practice of the University in dealing with applications for admission from American-born Japanese students since the beginning of World W a r I I . N o action was taken on this matter. TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS OF NON-CITIZENS (26) The following temporary appointments to the staff, as Research Assistants in the Engineering Experiment Station, from February 1 to August 31, 1944, at a salary of $75 a month in each case, have been approved by the President of the University: Bedros Kayayan, Sakip Altay, Nikifor Yanin Yakovljevitch. These men are also graduate students. They are not citizens of the United States and expect to return to their home countries ( T u r k e y and Yugoslavia) on completion of their studies. Because of military and other war service demands for engineers, the Station is unable to secure candidates qualified to fill these positions who are citizens of the United States. All of these students have executed the customary affidavits required of staff members, as modified to fit their particular cases. O n m o t i o n of D r . M e y e r , t h e a p p o i n t m e n t of t h e s e s t u d e n t s w a s approved. REPORT O F COMMITTEE ON PATENTS Dr. Meyer, for t h e C o m m i t t e e on P a t e n t s , p r e s e n t e d the following report. T h e Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees on July 28, 1943, referred to the Committee on Patents two recommendations from the President of the University that the regulations of the Board of Trustees governing cooperative research investigations sponsored by outside agencies, and the form of contract used to set up such investigations, be amended as follows: 1. T h e addition of a provision that an application for an extension of such an agreement must be made not less than thirty days before the original contract expires, and that the University reserve the right to decline to extend a contract if the scientific or scholarly results realized or reasonably anticipated do not warrant continuation of the program. 2. Elimination of the provision in the present regulations of the Board of Trustees that any equipment purchased from funds provided by the sponsor for use in an investigation shall become the property of the University. This involves reconsideration of a previous action of the Board. The first change is recommended as an administrative protection. Experience has shown that sponsors of cooperative research investigations are likely to assume that once a research project has been started it may be renewed automatically as long as they supply funds. All such projects should be reviewed periodically to determine whether the type of work being done and the results received justify the University in continuing any given program even though