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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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It is difficult to make an exact estimate of the cost of this program. T h e following is a tentative estimate, indicating the financial implications of this proposal. 1. Director of Student Activities and Manager ofl the Illini Union Building I Minimum Maximum 2. Director of Student Housing and Executive | 5 2 0 °°° $30 000 Secretary of the Committee on Discipline. .. .J P a r t of the cost of this program would be carried in the budget of the Illini Union Building; i.e., the salary of the Manager would be paid out of the income of that building. T h e r e would also be some offsetting reduction in the budgets of the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women because they would be relieved of the student housing work and the supervision of student affairs.

At this point, Mr. Cleary, for the Committee on General Policy, reported a recommendation that the matter of the operating policies of the Illini Union Building (Minutes, February n , 1939, page 224) be referred to the Board for reassignment to another committee. On motion of Mr. Moschel, the matters of the reorganization of student activities and of the operating policies of the Illini Union Building were referred to the committee on Affiliated Student Activities for study and report at the earliest possible moment.

HEALTH SERVICE IN CHICAGO COLLEGES (14) By authority of the Board of Trustees the Health Service in the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy has been made a part of the general Health Service and placed under the administration of the University Health Officer. After conferring with the deans of the Chicago colleges he submits the following recommendations: 1. T h e appointment of an advisory committee of the Health Service of the Chicago colleges, to include the Dean of the College of Medicine as chairman, and the Deans of the Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy. 2. That all students entering the Chicago colleges for the first time be given physical examinations before registration. 3. T h a t an X-ray examination of the chest be a part of the physical examination of all students entering the Chicago colleges and that they be assessed a fee of $1.50 each to cover the necessary expenses. I concur in items I and 2, but wish to point out that there is a fundamental question of the policy involved in dealing with item 3, which may or may not be extended to the students on the Urbana campus. If the Board should decide to require an X-ray examination of all students entering Chicago Colleges at $1.50 per student, then it might seem logical to adopt a similar ruling for Urbana. Many students (but not all) are now paying a $3 a semester voluntary hospital fee, and all students will soon be required to pay a Union Building fee at Urbana amounting to approximately $9 a year. I am not convinced that we should extend the compulsory X-ray service and fee to Urbana, even though it may be approved for the Chicago Colleges. T h e probable annual operating expense for this service alone at Urbana might run as high as $6,500 a year. I am willing, however, to try this service at Chicago, as proposed in item 3, but do not wish to involve the Urbana Colleges in such a compulsory program at the present time.

On motion of Mrs. Plumb, this program was adopted for the Chicago Colleges.