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Show Money... After A 30 Year Wait The University Of Utah 66 Building Story ir HI. ?V' V; . ' v o 0." 0 r Vl o mi i Ma .. m, 1 fj ' 0-- IT I :'J UE.'&IH. JfeffiF- - -,- WrA-H ? rtri h) tflAr con) AAf--. 3 0 Li 5 rst i.vHvt ti ; s u s i m. j? ri T l' j l11 2V0J Biology... $3.6 million Library... $6.7,t million tmj kja (till ( U-J-. - ...A Major Facial The first thing one reads in the University of Utah general catalog each year is that it is the oldest state 1 university west of the Missouri River... .founded Febru- l ary 28, 1850. Its 637 acres running along the eastern edge of the If Wasatch Mountain range encompasses 10 colleges, 2 s graduate schools, a summer school and a division of The Universitys 14,000 plus continuing education. students have more than 70 departments to choose from. Some 19 separate degrees are offered, administered by 1065 more than 800 faculty members. In the realm of acedemlcs many say the University of j! Utah compares with , and even surpasses, other western institutions such as Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Arizona and others. But lack of money appropriated by die Utah legislature for building during the past greatly crimped the universitys growth. A too small field house (seating only about 5,000) kept Jack Gardners Utes from really cracking the big time collegiate scene even during the Bill McGill era. The big teams wont play in Salt Lake until the new field-hou- se is completed insuring a larger gate. The College of Law almost lost its accreditation due to poor facilities and was saved in the nick of time upon the competition of the Moot Law Building in 1964. For many years the college of pharmacy was crammed into a small corner on the upper floor of Utahs antiquat1 ed gym. Their plight was greatly eased when Skaggs v . ,. drug aided the cause with a $200,000 donation anatne . X- competition Of the new pharqiacy buildiiig last year,; , For years physics, chemistry, biology, math and other $ sister sciences labored under similar conditions. (They were among the first buildings constructed on the University circle.) A long standing campus joke among students and faculty alike is the Annex, built during the World War II as a 'temporary building. After die war the government gave it to the University they promptly utilized it for class room and office space. Some 20 years later the building still stands housing VIEZZs::: the departments of psychology. Journalism, air science, continuing education and campus planning. (Business was moved out of the annex and into a new building last year.) Two years ago rumors were floating around campus that the wood in the Annex was rotten and some student engineers predicted that if it caught on fire it would burn down in less than 30 minutes. To end the rumors the campus fire department built a shack out of the same material of which the Annex was constructed..... they soaked the building in gasoline and lit it on fire an hour later it was still standing. Both candidates for governor in 1964 made (me of their campaign issues the inadequate buildings on the three state universities. Both promised to ask the legislature to bond, an activity balked at by both governors Clyde and Lee who believed in paying as you go. Governor Rampton got his bonding program through the Utah legislature to the tune of about $67 million of which the University of Utah received $27.8 million, Bruce Jenson, director of campus planning at the University, notes that another $8 million was received free gratis from the federal government in the form of grants. (Mr. Jenson notes that these grants were received largly due to the efforts of a shrewd businessman hired by the department of campus planning to do nothing but study ways to get federal money.) Mr. Jenson notes that although the money appropriated by the 65 legislature will pretty much take care of the university until 1970, by then more money will probably be needed for buildings if student enrollment reaches the anticipated figures. However, the legislature made it clear to us that this would have to do us for quite awhile, Mr. Jenson said. THE UNIVERSITY UNION was one of the spell. It was built with student funds. The University of Utah is presently getting a major face uplifting... to the time of almost $36million. In theUtah Legislature appropriated$27. 8 million for university building with the understanding that this would be the the supreme effort, at least for - 30-ye- ars f f M Education;ViSports and Special liysicalcenter... Events million $9 1 I - L'7- r i 1 Fine Arts... $3.5 milUon (Seeking $3,900,000 more in Federal funds) Behavorial Science... $2,950,000 (Seeking $750,000 more from the govermnent) Nursing... $2.6 miUion (Received notice of a grant for $1.5 million) Physics... $2.2 mUlion Chemistry... $3.3 miUion Pharmacy. ..$1.3 million( B uilding completed) a j"--" t U tah Building T ally juo ik isO '. several years. Another eight million dollars was raised for university building by applying and getting federal aid grants. Mr. Bruce Jensen, university director of campus planning, notes that when completed, the present smattering of buildings should pretty well accommodate students until 1070. After that either .. morefunds.will have to be appropriated or student enrollment curtailed. - LsS- . . . THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH as it appeared about 1912 . , . T'V- v r iif L r: L ; f vv first modem buildings after about a 30 year dry r flit :; i-- ! ??) taw f.rj '" it-j S tty i M- I iA v AS- 4. the new physics complex wmch adds beautiful twist to the campus. . . . this is part of a irt nmn i THIS BUILDING (The Annex) was despised so much by University students during year of the Clyde administration that governor Clyde was hanged in effigy, today parts ALTHOyGH the last of it have been remodeled into some of the nicest offices found anywhere on campus. However, the classrooms are in very bad shape. |