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Show tion from a faculty member in the audience. "Planning money is now available avail-able for a library, administration building, the largest student union building in the West, a new women's wo-men's gym, a swimming pool and a Fine Arts Center, in addition to the $5 million men's dormitory scheduled to be started in the near future," Mr. Edwards stated. Consideration of a more expanded expand-ed graduate school that would include in-clude areas for Ph.D. Degrees is also under serious study, but as yet no plans have been submitted to the Board of Trustees, vice president pres-ident Edwards declared. This expanded program will tend to make BYU the graduate school of an extensive Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints education educa-tion program. It would also mean more construction of junior colleges col-leges within the church education program. Building Program i To Double Present at BYU Campus building construction in the next six years at Bingham Young University will double the present building floor space. This is the prediction of William P. Edwards, BYU vice president in charge of Finance and Business Administration. In the same meeting, BYU president pres-ident Ernest L. Wilkinson predicted predic-ted that fall enrollment would be "nearly 9,000 students." He also noted that since the raise in entrance requirements, student rejections are running about 100 per cet ahead of last year. Vice president Edwards announced announ-ced the proposed building spree, which is unmatched in the university's univer-sity's history, in answer to a ques- |