Repository: UIHistories Project: UIS History 1969-1995 (Sangamon State Univ) [PAGE 51]

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c Z l e t e d until May 1972. At the time this building was being constructed, the university also requested a new Laboratory-Office Building in its capital budget. The FY72 Capital Budget yielded an appropriation of $606,900 for preliminary planning studies for three new buildings: a Central Plant Building, a Public Affairs Center, and a Laboratory-Office Building. The Chicago architectural firm of.Metz, Train, Olsen, and Youngren were selected to prepare schematic plans for the Laboratory-Office Building. In July 1972 planning funds were released and schematic design proceeded. Concurrently, the university requested the balance of the planning funds. Construction funds also were requested in subsequent capital budgets. However, the university was only successful in getting the Public Affairs Center funded. Construction of the Laboratory-Office Building was not funded primarily due to slower than projected enrollment growth. The science faculty were not satisfied with the quality and functionality of Building "K." Although it had been remodeled and improved in 1976 and again in 1981, it still had numerous deficiencies that made it less than an adequate science educational facility. 8 ^ ™ ^ ^ ^u™verSi? SffhlfSnflB W V •

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