Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938
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jgjg] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 853 GOVERNOR REQUESTED TO VETO APPROPRIATION BILL On motion of M r . A d a m s , the Governor was requested, in view of the lack of a two-thirds majority in the Senate and the resulting doubt as to its validity, to veto Senate Bill 10, the first bill to appropriate $700,000 for a building to replace University Hall. In taking this action, the Board renewed its request to the Governor to support and to approve the second bill ( S e n a t e Bill 57) for the same purpose and the same amount. MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT WILLARD The Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University. STUDENT CENTER BUILDING FEE (1) At a meeting of the University of Illinois Student Senate, the undergraduate governing body, held on June 12, 1938, the following resolution was passed: Resolved, that the Student Senate hereby declares itself in favor of a student fee of up to $5.00 per semester with the understanding that such fee shall be kept as low as possible to provide a Student Center for the University of Illinois student body. The Senate takes this stand because it feels that the savings which the student body will receive from low cost eating and dancing facilities as well as from used book exchange facilities, if such ever becomes necessary, will more than offset the fee which the student will be required to pay. The facilities for these important services to the student body are, as the Senate has expressed itself many times before, woefully inadequate at present and the Senate welcomes the opportunity to throw its support behind the Student Center which will solve these difficult problems. Very sincerely, EDGAR BARTON President of the Senate PHIL SIMON Acting Secretary The Board of Trustees has already indicated its approval of a service charge against all students in the Urbana departments to produce sufficient income to operate and maintain the Student Center Building when completed and to provide for the amortization of the bonds issued to finance its construction. This report was received for record. ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES A N D SITE FOR STUDENT CENTER BUILDING (2) At its meeting on November 21, 1936 (Minutes, page 120), the Board placed the supervision of the architectural work on the Student Center Building in the hands of the Physical Plant Department for the preparation of plans and superintendency of construction. The Director of the Physical Plant Department recommends that, in view of the demands on his organization for architectural work on other University
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