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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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Foundation, the Baptist Student Center, the Y.W.C.A., and the University of Illinois was authorized by the Board of Trustees. The agreement 1 anticipated construction by the Y.W.C.A. of a new building on the corner of Fifth and John Streets by July 1, 1968. It was understood that facilities on the first floor of the Y.W.C.A. Building at 801 South Wright Street would be made available at no cost to the Y.W.C.A. until the new building was built, but not later than July 1, 1969. On June 20, 1967, the Board of Trustees authorized the purchase of the property at 801 South Wright from the University of Illinois Foundation at a price of $316,515. The Y.W.C.A. has had difficulty in planning the construction of new facilities and has requested continued occupancy of the first floor at 801 South Wright Street until July 1, 1969. However, the first floor of the building at 801 South Wright Street now occupied by the Y.W.C.A. is urgently required for expansion of the Chancellor's staff of the Urbana-Champaign campus. Therefore, the Y.W.C.A. has agreed to vacate the space in September, 1968, provided the University or the Foundation reimburse them in the amount of $7,500 so they may rent space within the Y.M.C.A. facility at 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. Accordingly, the Vice-President and Comptroller, the Chancellor concurring, recommends that the purchase price of the property at 801 South Wright to be paid the University of Illinois Foundation be adjusted to $324,015 including the payment of $7,500 to be made to the Y.W.C.A. for early occupancy of the first floor by the University. Funds are available in the state capital appropriations and have been released by the Governor. The Board of Directors of the University of Illinois Foundation has reviewed this proposal and has indicated willingness to modify its agreement with the Y.W.C.A., subject to approval by the University. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Clement, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Clement, Mr. Grimes, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Jones, Mr. Swain, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Page, Mr. Pogue, Governor Shapiro, Dr. Weatherly.

SITE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING, URBANA (48) T h e State Board of Higher Education in the "Campbell Report" has proposed the establishment of a medical sciences program for the Urbana campus. The program will provide basic teaching facilities and staff for one hundred premedical students with ultimate expansion to two hundred students. The curriculum is to be developed in the existing School of Life Sciences and will have close interrelationship with the staff, graduate, and instructional programs, and research among various divisions in the Department of Chemistry, as well as the Departments of Biology, Microbiology, the anatomies and other areas in the Life Sciences. Therefore, this facility should be located close to the existing departments in the Life Sciences. It is proposed that the site for the Medical Sciences Building be in the south one-half of the block bounded by Illinois Street extended, Goodwin Avenue, California Avenue, and Mathews Avenue, Urbana. Other peripheral sites have been explored but this is the only available site within reasonable proximity of the existing Life Sciences-Chemistry facilities. Designation of this area as the site for the structure will necessitate property acquisitions on which specific recommendations will be submitted at a later date. Accordingly, the President of the University, with the concurrence of appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the area on the north side of

1 Under this agreement, the University was to transfer to the Foundation property at 502 and 508 East John Street in exchange for the Foundation's agreement to acquire Y.W.C.A. property at 801 South Wright Street and grant the University an option to purchase that property for $316,515. The Foundation was then to acquire the property at 506 East John Street, and convey the north portions of the property at 502, 506, and 508 East John Street to the Baptist Student Center for the south portion of the property at 504 East John Street already owned by the Center. The Foundation would then exchange the south portions of property at 502, 504. 506, and 50S East John Street and $186,515 for the Y.W.C.A. property at 801 South

Wright Street.