Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936 [PAGE 534]

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BOASD OF TRUSTEES

[February 22

been a sufficient balance in the General Reserve such balances have not been transferred immediately but have been permitted to stand and to lapse at the end of the fiscal year. A recent survey (as of January 30, 1936) of departmental salaries budgets indicates that a total of $5,158 may be transferred at this time, and the Comptroller has been instructed to make this transfer immediately. A schedule of these items is hereby submitted to the Secretary of the Board and to the Comptroller for record. Additional balances, totalling $2,232, also remain unused at this time, but the departments concerned have indicated a probable need for these funds. Accordingly, I request authority to permit these balances to remain pending further investigation, their use by the departments to be subject to the approval of the President of the University. If it is found that they are not needed, they will be transferred to the General Reserve Fund, and a report of them will be made to the Board later. On motion of Mr. Mayer, this report was received for record, and authority was granted as requested.

LABORATORY FEE IN CHEMISTRY

(8) A recommendation that a laboratory fee of $12.50 be established in a new course in quantitative analysis (Chemistry 23b, for students in Ceramics and Ceramic Engineering only) to cover the expenses of materials used. This course is the same as Chemistry 24b except that the latter covers more time and gives an extra hour of credit. The laboratory materials and facilities necessary for Chemistry 23b are the same as those necessary for Chemistry 24b, in which the laboratory fee is $12.50.

On motion of Mr. Mayer, this fee was authorized.

REGIONAL SOYBEAN LABORATORY

(9) On September 28, 1935 (Minutes, page 404), the Board authorized the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station to apply to the United States Department of Agriculture for the establishment of one of the regional soybean research laboratories at the University of Illinois. The Director reports that the location of this laboratory in the Middle West will probably be determined before the next meeting of the Board and that the University must be in a position to act promptly. He therefore recommends, and I concur, that the Board authorize the President of the University and the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station to execute whatever memorandum of understanding may be necessary, and to which in their judgment the University should agree, in the establishment of such a laboratory, and to assign such space and facilities as can be conveniently made available. The immediate objective of the laboratory is to be confined to finding industrial uses for soybeans and soybean products. It is believed that by rearranging some of the work of the Agricultural Experiment Station the laboratory space may be made available for the ordinary needs of this work. Any extraordinary needs, either of temporary space or equipment and facilities, will be provided by the regional laboratory itself and paid for out of Federal funds assigned for this purpose. This laboratory will serve not only Illinois but all of the North Central States, and the work of the Agricultural Experiment Stations in this area will be integrated and correlated with it. On motion of M r . Barrett, this recommendation was approved.

SUPERVISION OF PLANS FOR FINANCING A N D CONSTRUCTION OF FRATERNITY A N D SORORITY HOUSES

(10) The Senate Committee on Student Affairs has been instructed to exercise such supervision, and such influence and restraints as seem reasonable, over the plans of fraternities and sororities for the construction and financing of new houses, on the ground that it is advisable and proper for the University, guardedly, to take cognizance of proposals of this type and if serious doubts exist concerning the wisdom of the proposed construction or financing to communicate such doubts to the students, giving reasons. Whether such groups with