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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 23

the second and twenty-fourth districts and to the Honorable Peter C. Granata of the seventeenth district.

T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has received the report of the President of the University with respect to the re-allocation of items in Senate Bill 662 in conformity to the action of the State Senate on June 19th reducing the total sum for the University from $15,287,920 by $2,293,188. The Board has approved the redistribution in full recognition of the fact that the Senate action will damage the effectiveness of the University's program in the next biennium. The elimination of the fine arts building alone will reduce the facilities at Urbana in 1948 by 25 classrooms. The Board respectfully calls your attention to the urgency of the University building items in H . B. 844. This includes $13,000,000 for crucial medical needs on the Chicago campus and $7,000,000 for Urbana-Champaign. The latter includes $1,400,000 for a veterinary building. We vigorously urge that full consideration be given in the House and the Senate to House Bill 844. T h e items in this bill are identified with mounting demands for the instruction of veterans, doctors, nurses, veterinarians, teachers, and others whose services are everywhere in such short supply as to endanger the public welfare. The Board of Trustees and the officers of the University will welcome a hearing on these issues. W e believe that we speak on behalf of the public interest as we are expected to do in matters of educational policy. CHANGES IN UNIVERSITY ( M E N ' S ) CLUB CONTRACT WITH UNIVERSITY

Mr. Fornof, for the special committee appointed May 27, 1947 (Minutes, page 367), to consider a change in contract with the University Club, reported as follows:

On May 27, 1947, the Board referred to the undersigned a recommendation of the President for a change in the contract of the University with the University (Men's) Club of Urbana, whereby the University would assume responsibility for food service at the Club. T h e original proposal placed on the University the probability of an operating loss estimated at $1,800 a year in addition to capital expenditures of approximately $16,000. That loss resulted chiefly from the provision that meals would be served to members of the Club at 10% less than menu prices. This provision has been withdrawn by the Club, which has agreed that meals will be served to members and non-members at the same price, and on a self-supporting basis. The University (through the Illini Union which will operate the food service) will extend credit privileges to all Club members. With these changes in the proposal, the special committee recommends that the recommendation of the President of the University be approved.

J O H N R. FORNOF F R A N K H. MCKELVEY K E N N E Y E. WILLIAMSON

On motion of Mr. Fornof, this recommendation was approved and adopted.

RELEASE OF PATENT ON WATER PURIFICATION PROCESS TO GOVERNMENT

The Legal Counsel presented the following report:

T h e Faculty Patent Committee had a meeting on June 13 to discuss the release of a discovery of Mr. Herbert E. Hudson, Jr., of a Water Purification Process and Apparatus, which discovery was made under Contract OEMsr-593. T h e Committee considered the matter and voted to recommend to the P r e s ident and the Board of Trustees that the same be released and that the Government be authorized to file an application for patent in the name of the discoverer, that the discoverer be directed to execute the necessary assignment to the Government, the Government to sustain all the costs incident thereto.

This matter was referred to the Committee on Patents for consideration and report.