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Show Carter Brothers Construction Company of Cedar City will be general contractor for the new Southern Utah State College Trades and Industries Building. The low bid on the $1,024,000 building was accepted Thursday chitects for the life science laboratory and science building remodeling projects. SUSC is currently completing its Affirmative Action program and the Council passed a motion fully supporting the concept of the Equal Opportunity Employment Em-ployment and Affirmative Action programs. at the SUSC Institutional Council meeting. Construction of the new building will allow SUSC to consolidate nearly all of its 20 vocationally oriented programs in one facility. Finances for the building comes from an original appropriation ap-propriation of $762,000 made by the 1973 Utah State Legislature, a supplemental appropriation of $162,000 made during the recent special budget session of the Legislature, and $100,000 from the State Board of Vocational Education. Included in the bid are six alternates which will allow the college to include a full basement and black top parking in the project. Construction of the new facility is scheduled to begin early this spring, according to SUSC Physical Plant Controller, Merrill R. Kunz. Other newly appropriated State Building Board funds to be used at SUSC include $365,000 to construct a life sciences laboratory, and $60,000 to remodel the current science building basement now being used as the life sciences lab. An additional $100,000 has been earmarked for demolition of two temporary buildings and the construction of improved walks and parking facilities. The Institutional Council also approved a pilot spring quarter faculty exchange program with Dixie Junior College. This spring, SUSC will send anthropologist Richard Thompson to the Dixie campus in exchange for Robert Slack, an instructor in Asian history. A summer school budget for 1974 was approved at $83,450. Also approved were lists of names from which the State Building Board will select ar- |