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Caption: Book - Need for Student Council (1931)
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At Illinois, on the othei hand, the Student Union has never received a contribution from anyone either for in provemeni or maintenance ol its building. It has carri 1 heavy mortgage indebtedness on its property, has paid heavy tax s M\d other operating expenses, just as a com mercial con< rn would operate, but at the same time has been i pected to furnish the student body (without chai ) all the services furnished at othei universities, 1 he result was inevitable. A point has been reach d where The Illinois Union must discontinue most ol its free rvice t o t h e I l l i n o i s s t u d e n t b o d y , M\<\ o p e r a t e as a private bu iness concern, or it must receive assistance M\d peration from the University in carrying out its turn tioni [chuh <//<• generally recognized as a p< t ol th< machinery ol < nun/an university, The Illinois Union is / noi [fish m its motives li forced by necessity the I nion an OJ rate its property on a business basis without loss to any ni and with probable success, This howevei i^ noi
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