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consultation concerning any research problem in the Medical School"). Initially the bioengineering program, cooperating with the College of Engineering, Chicago Circle campus, would be located there. A proposal to acquire the property for the "Benjamin F . Goldberg Research Center" (to house the bioengineering program) was presented to the Board of Directors of the University of Illinois Foundation on December 2, 1971, and approval was given, subject to concurrence by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. T h e plan as presented provides for the temporary loan of that part of the building not initially required for the developing bioengineering program to the School of Public Health. This would enable the School to proceed with its plan to accept its first students in the fall of 1972. T h e Chancellor at the Medical Center and the Executive Vice President and Provost recommend that the University of Illinois Foundation be requested, through the Medical Center Commission, to acquire the property for the purposes described. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Howard, the recommendation was approved, on the condition that the property is available for sale, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Pogue, Mr. Steger, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hughes, Governor Ogilvie. Mr. Forsyth and Mr. Neal asked to be recorded as not voting.

LITIGATION RELATED TO FINANCIAL AID REVOCATION, URBANA (24) Chancellor Jack W . Peltason, Hearing Officer A. J. Rudasill, and the State Scholarship Commission (together with the members and certain administrative officers of the Commission) have been named as defendants in an action filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division (Case No. 71 C 2917) by the Undergraduate Student Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and by other students at that campus. T o date the University has not been included as a party. T h e Complaint alleges that the Illinois scholarship revocation law (Ch. 122, Sec, 30-17) is unconstitutional on its face and as applied in connection with actions taken to revoke the scholarships of certain University of Illinois students in 1971. T h e prayer for relief seeks temporary and permanent injunctions against the use and application of the law and a declaration that the same is repugnant to the U.S. Constitution, and requests orders requiring the defendants to pay to plaintiffs the amounts to which they were entitled as scholarship recipients, as well as damages, costs of suit, and attorneys fees. Chancellor Peltason and Hearing Officer Rudasill have requested the University to provide representation for them in their defense of the suit on the ground that all actions by them in the matter were taken under the statute in their respective capacities as Chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus and as Hearing Officer in the financial aid revocation procedures of the University. The University Counsel recommends that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to represent the Chancellor and Hearing Officer and to protect their interests and the University's interests in the proceedings. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . N e a l , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . LITIGATION RELATED TO FINANCIAL AID REVOCATION. CHICAGO CIRCLE (25) T h e University of Illinois, Chancellor Warren B. Cheston of the Chicago Circle campus, Director of Financial Aids Robert E. Mahoney of the Chicago Circle campus, and Sidney Morland, U.S. Commissioner of Education, have been named as defendants in an action filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division (Case No. 71 C 2959), by Jeanne Rasche, a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at Chicago Circle who was the recipient of an N D E A loan. As a result of her participation in a disruption at the R O T C Building at Chicago Circle, the plaintiff was convicted of violating the Illinois statute known as the "Criminal Trespass to State Supported