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U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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the public transportation, will house the facilities directly related to students, such as the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs, the Office of Admissions and Records, and the Business Office. The completion of this building will permit the transfer of these offices from the present University Hall, thereby permitting the humanities departments to have the expansion space required in order that the enrollment projected for 1971 may be accommodated. Furthermore, it has now become clear that only a building specially designed for these administrative purposes will enable the University to handle the growing numbers of students without undue congestion and disruption of scheduled activities. O t h e r Capital P r o j e c t s Heating Plant Addition ($2,846,000). In order to provide heat and air conditioning to the Phase I I I buildings proposed for construction in the 1967-69 biennium, it is necessary to add to the Utilities Center area enough area to house the following additional equipment: (a) two high temperature hot water generators with pumps, motors, and appurtenances; (b) one 3,500 ton refrigeration unit for chilled water complete with appurtenances; (c) a cooling tower; (d) additional switch gear and electrical equipment to increase the capacity of the campus distribution system as required to service the new buildings. Land Acquisition ($3,169,000). The land acquisition to date for the Chicago Circle Campus was based on the original long-range planning for 20,000 undergraduate students by 1970. The current planning anticipates 25,500 students by 1974, of which approximately 3,500 will be graduate students. This change results in the need for more building space and more land than previously planned. Accordingly, the acquisition of forty-eight acres south of the campus and within Chicago's proposed Roosevelt-Halsted redevelopment project is recommended for the 1967-69 biennium. Movable Equipment ($8,748,000). The requested funds include two components : (a) funds for equipping the buildings that will be completed for use by the fall of 1969; (b) funds for the procurement of equipment that had to be deleted from the Phase I I budget. The estimate for movable equipment in Phase II was made of necessity before final costs of Phase I were known and before detailed status sheets could be prepared by the departments. Using the estimated Phase I costs, a percentage of estimated construction costs for Phase II was taken as the estimated cost of movable equipment. But between the time that the movable equipment budget was prepared and the preparation of the status sheets by new department heads, it became apparent that the mission of the Chicago Circle Campus would change under the Master Plan of the State Board of Higher Education. Instead of a predominantly undergraduate campus with more lower division than upper division students and a few graduate students, it became necessary to anticipate a larger proportion of upper division and graduate students, with a minority of lower division students and with strong emphasis on research. The equipment needs rise strikingly with the latter type of campus, particularly in "higher-cost" disciplines, such as laboratory sciences (biology, chemistry, geology, physics), applied sciences (engineering), and fine arts (architecture, art). All are heavily involved in Phase II. Thus a deficiency of some $4,109,000 resulted. The Phase I I I buildings scheduled for completion in 1969 and the basis for estimating the movable equipment needed are as follows: Behavioral Science Center (10 per cent of estimated construction costs); Science-Engineering Center (20 per cent of estimated construction cost for the part scheduled for completion in 1969); Physical Education Building (a total of $200,000). Remodeling ($1,273,000). These funds are needed for remodeling in the following buildings: (a) Central National Bank Building ($181,900 — previously unassigned areas, to be u s e b y Engineering, Psychology, and Sociology); Adams Hall and Burnham Hall ($285,000 — to reconvert to classrooms, space now used by the College of Architecture and A r t ) ; Science and Engineering Laboratories ($500,600 — to make possible more effective use of several laboratory areas in this building, in the light of needs and difficulties that have emerged as the several departments have worked in the present arrangement of the space); Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary Building ($175,500 — t o continue the remodeling of unused parts of this building for Geology and Psychology); Stein Building ($130,000 — to make usable certain areas of this temporary building that presently are unassigned, for Speech and Theatre, Sociology, and Social W o r k ) . Planning for 1969-71 ($1^00,000). In order to complete within a biennium