Show Classroom Proposal Aired By Board of Regents Construction of a new classroom building was proposed by A. Ray at the monthly meeting of the Board of Regents The construction of a new building would place the university in a better position for continuing its normal curriculum should the gov- find it necessary to take possession of the temporary structure now being used for classrooms at Fort According to the contract under the Fort Douglas buildings are being used by the university there is a recovery clause to be used in an sees a possible use by the armed services for induction purposes or by the Ninth service command or In either of these cases the university would be without sufficient This new building would be strictly for classrooms and would not contain any The board referred this matter to the building committee for study and The regents also approved for the purchase of two buildings for sale by the national If not the two on the Fort Douglas reservation would have to be torn down in order for the new state road to be built through the The university will pay approximately a building to have them moved with seven other buildings to the fine arts Bids have been advertised for the steam line and road to be built to the upper and contracts will be given out in the near the board members were also Approved by the board in this meeting was a contract with the Atomic Energy commission under a addition to the medical building construction was This will make the university a center for studying the effects of radioactive burns from the materials in atomic The contract also calls for for equipment for the for operational expenses and for A. Ray noted that the university now has in reserve in the building fund close to Gifts received during July by the university and accepted by the regents are as restricted restricted endowments and Sterling W. board announced that plans from the architects will be available on the proposed Home Economics building at the next board meeting set for |