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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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606 NORTH PROSPECT AVENUE, CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS: Lot Twenty-Eight (28) in Washington Heights, an Addition to the City of Champaign, Illinois, situated in the City of Champaign, in the County of Champaign and State of Illinois. 706 WEST INDIANA AVENUE, URBAN A, ILLINOIS : The East Forty-Three and One-Half (43^) feet of Lot Fifty-Nine (59) of Lincoln Place, an Addition to the City of Urbana, Illinois, as shown by plat recorded in Plat Book "C" at page SO of the Records of Plats in Champaign County, Illinois, together with the appurtenant right-ofway for driveway along the west side of described premises, as shown by the agreement recorded at page 224 of Book 14 of the Miscellaneous Records of said Champaign County, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois. 1012 WEST STOUGHTON STREET, URBANA, ILLINOIS : All of Lot Seven (7) in Block Forty-Eight (48) of the Seminary Addition to Urbana, except the North Fifty (SO) feet thereof, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois. 808 SOUTH WEBBER STREET, URBANA, ILLINOIS : Lot Thirty-Nine (39) of Martha C. Hubbard's Second Addition to the City of Urbana, being a part of the Southwest Quarter (SW U) of the Northwest Quarter (NW \i) of Section Sixteen (16), Township Nineteen (19), North, Range Nine (9) East of the Third Principal Meridian, situated in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign, and State of Illinois. and which properties are hereinabove referred to as Tract A.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Livingston, Mrs. Rader, Mr. Swain; no, none; absent, Dr. Bakalis, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Neal, Mr. Steger, Governor Walker. (Mr. Steger left the meeting prior to the beginning of the Executive Session.)

LITIGATION INITIATED BY DELTA SIGMA PI

(28) The University of Illinois and Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, have been named as defendants in a suit filed in the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Case No. 74 C 1051) by the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi, a professional fraternity which has a chapter (Upsilon chapter) at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Delta Sigma Pi allows only male undergraduate students enrolled in colleges of commerce at various universities and colleges to be members. The complaint alleges that impending actions by the University and by the Secretary of HEW will deny the fraternity's constitutional rights unless the fraternity allows women to become members. Count I is directed against the Secretary of HEW and seeks to enjoin the Secretary from notifying colleges and universities that the men only membership policy of the fraternity violates the Education Amendments Act of 1972, and from refusing to grant or continue assistance to colleges and universities which have local chapters of Delta Sigma Pi because of its men only membership. Count II is directed against the University and seeks to enjoin the University from terminating its official recognition of Delta Sigma Pi because of its men only membership requirement. The University Counsel recommends that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University in the matter. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, authority was granted as recommended by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Hughes, Mr.