| Show Union 0 Re-emphasized On Robert president called the first meeting of the Union Building Memorial Members of this committee included two members of the Board of two faculty two members of the Alumni Douglas Union A. Ray and a representative of the Union Building The purpose of this meeting was to start the ball rolling to carry through a project to enlarge the present Union building as a war memorial to University of Utah students who served in World Wars I and A student vote in 1947 established a memorial fund into which each student was to pay ten dollars per Today plans are still being made on the and they now include a new student Union building to cost approximately and tentatively to be located on the ground just north of the new Now the question why a new student Porter director of the University of Wisconsin Union and consultant for the American Association of College in an extensive study of the present building presented a brochure listing its defects to the Union Building Memorial The brochure capably lists the inadequacies of the present Union pointing out the need for a new For Butts is attempting to serve a student body of with a building that provides approximately seven square feet per student whereas most existing or now being provide 12 to 20 square feet per student He goes on to list an inadequate food service in size and a check room too a poor ballroom location which interferes with the general use of the building when having a general meeting rooms for student affairs too spread offices located in awkward place several offices and so in his has expertly and persuasively shown the inadequacies of the present Since his a 1950 student headed by Sterling is pushing plans for the construction of the new The University of Utah needs a new student Every student on the campus should do everything in his power to aid the project now being A new Union will be another rung in the ladder of education at the University of For certainly adequate as pointed out in the recent issue of Life are a necessary part for the attainment of this With a new Union the University of Utah will take another step down the highway of progress and the end result will be better students with a brighter John |
