Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1952
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1496 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [May 26 CONTRACT FOR INSTALLATION OF STEAM SERVICE PIPING TO MEN'S RESIDENCE HALLS A N D AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY (18) The Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract to Gallaher and Speck, Inc., Chicago, the lowest bidder, for the installation of steam service piping from the steam tunnel to the first addition to the Men's Residence Halls and to the Agricultural Engineering Research Laboratory, now under construction, as follows: Men's Residence Halls Addition $17 950 Agricultural Engineering Research Laboratory 11 840 This contract will include construction of an underground concrete loop vault at each connection with the tunnel and the installation of insulated conduits carrying the steam line from the vault to the building in each case. Funds are available for this work in the budgets for these two construction projects. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. On motion of Mrs. Watkins, this contract was authorized. CONTRACT FOR GRAIN STORAGE BUILDING AT WRIGHT FARM (19) On April 24, 1952, the Board of Trustees awarded a contract for $3,735.88 for the construction of a twenty-six foot addition to the corn crib at Wright Farm No. 6 in DeKalb County to the Alexander Lumber Company, Shabbona, the lowest bidder. Prior to. signing a contract, the Alexander Lumber Company notified the University that it had made an error in the bid which should be $4,735-88. The Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Comptroller recommend that the contract be awarded to L. B. Hanna, Princeton, Illinois, whose bid of $4,065.87 is now lowest. I concur. On motion of Mrs. Holt, this contract was authorized. THESIS DEPOSIT REQUIREMENT (20) In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, a candidate must write an acceptable thesis, submitting two copies thereof together with an abstract of the thesis to the Graduate College, and satisfy publication requirements through one of these options: (a) depositing with the Graduate College one hundred printed copies of an abstract of the thesis, printed at his own expense; (b) depositing with the University $75 for the printing of one hundred copies of the thesis abstract by the University Press; (c) paying a $35 fee to have his entire thesis microfilmed and an abstract of it printed in Dissertation Abstracts;. (d) presenting evidence-of the publication of his thesis in its entirety or in abridged form by a standard journal or publisher. The $75 fee, established many years ago when printing costs were low, is no longer sufficient to cover the actual costs to the University Press of printing the abstracts it receives. Students who can have their abstracts printed elsewhere for less than $75 naturally do not elect the deposit option, but those whose abstracts would cost more take advantage of the least expensive method. In any case, the student always may satisfy the publication requirement through the microfilming method. The Executive Faculty of the Graduate College recommends that the option of depositing $75 for publication of the thesis abstract be discontinued. I concur. On motion of Mr. Nickell, this recommendation was approved. APPLICATION TO FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION FOR TELEVISION LICENSE (21) The Federal Communications Commission has now made definite allocations of television channels. Five channels have been allocated to the Urbana-
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