Show UNIVERSITY BUDGET ASKS FOR FOR NEXT BIENNIUM New Auditorium and Metallurgical Building Among Requests to Be Made of Legislature to Be Asked for Maintenance Auditorium to Cost A AN AUDITORIUM AN large arge enough to house the stu student ent body x at assemblies an addition to the lie metallurgy building and other improvements at the local institution arc asked for b by Dr George Thomas president of the University of Utah in a ap special p ci l request ques amounting u lt to a total of to be present presented In in conjunction with the annual budget of the university uni at the coming session of or the state legis legis- lature A total of ot for foZ maintenance li la called for tor In the budget for the year beginning July I 1 1925 1926 and ending June SO 30 96 1926 The budget for the biennium will double this amount and will equal I The largest single Item Item of oC the special requests Is for an auditorium auditorium auditorium audi audi- which It Is la estimated will cost the state The present present pres pres- ent eat assembly room will acc n date only about one-fifth one of the student bod body and Is la Inadequate for tr forthe forthe the needs of ot the Institution accordIng according accord accord- Ing Ing- to Dr Thomas METALLURGY BUILDING An addition to the metallurgy buildIng to coat cost approximately Is the second largest item This building bouses houe the university d departments and also the United States bureau of mines station lo located It- It at the university The milland milland mill milland and other experimental rooms have hll become so crowded that It Is difficult difficult difficult cult to do proper research h work the tha president declared The United States State government o has added to Its lIs budget In the operation of or the sia- sia Ca Cation I lion tion and In order to do it Its share hare of ot the work the university must mustI I appropriate for or the bl- bl Instead of ot 2 as has been done In the past biennium An additional stable estimated to cost 13 la requested for the reserve officers officers' training corps atthe m at t the university which has haa grown rom an enrollment of to one ono of during the past biennium The United States government supplies supplies sup sup- plies officers and equipment to instruct In Instruct Instruct In- In the students In irs military training and the university Is un under under under un- un der the sole lole obligation of ot housing SPECIAL REPAIRS Special repair work that has been under way in the gymnasium lum during durIng during dur dur- ing the past two years will m require for proper completion This Includes the providing of ot now new classrooms classroom and better accommodations accommodations tion for the women students In order to carry out proposed improvements in the boiler room for effecting a a. better heating sr tern tem It will III be necessary to ha have havo vo according to the tb special request It Is asked that the usual appropriation appropriation appropriation of or for the archeological arche- arche research work will IU again be allowed allowe d for the tho biennium Much excellent work haa baa been done stated Dr Thomas In this department in retaining within the state the prehistoric prehistoric prehistoric pre pre- historic relics relic of the cliff dwellers dweller and other ancients who ho Inhabited this section of or the th country EXTENSION DIVISION In order to properly serve sere t the h. h In Inter Interests In- In ter ta o ot of the people of ot the th stat state It will be necessary to have ha a special approbation for the extension diVision di division division di- di vision according to the report This work ork costs coats the state a ft comparatively t lively ve y limn small I sum urn for tor the service rendered and nd merits consideration said Dr Thom Thomas s. s Tho The exact amount to be requested has not yet been blen decided upon The budget for the coming year 26 1925 calls calla for a total amount of or for maintenance it la Is estimated that the for the period will be derived from tho following sources Mill 1111 tax land grant Interest funds lunds from ti-em the the- Salt Sl Lake board of ot education archeology 2000 Smith hughes tu- tu dent lent fees special |