Show Campus Grows Needs Financial Help There will be nearly twice the number of students attending the University in 1975 as compared to according to figures from the Coordinating Council of Higher Education which are based on past There are two factors that may cause this figure to vary still a population boom of college age students and a greater demand for a college Utah possesses both o these as has been evidenced in recent Because of the lack of foresight or lack of concern on the part of past legislators and the University is behind at a most critical period in its in its ability to handle the influx of new The need for new buildings we been recognized by most of the people immediately concerned with the when the University's million capital improvement request for the next biennium was presented before the state legislature George D. Clyde recommended a total of million in The legislature saw fit to go over the Governor's recommendation and give the University through S. B. a total of million for building over a three-biennium While this amount was below the University's request it would have been a starting point upon which to speed up Clyde vetoed the bill on several His first objection to the bill was that it would place the state in multi-million-dollar debt for at least six The bill would he cost more while giving the state less than would a program of interim Clyde's final point is the one that perhaps most concerns the University in the light of an alternate bill drafted in the last few days in session but never B. apparently attempts to deprive the and Utah Legislatures of their normal prerogatives in reviewing and determining building programs in the light of conditions as they may exist two and four years The alternate which the Governor reportedly would hold the authorization for construction to a single thus the above While the funds recommended to be spent on University building projects in the new bill over the-three are approximately the same in the alternate bill as those proposed in S. B. if a bill similar to the alternate bill is passed in a legislative the University two years hence will be faced with one looming we be guaranteed of funds to continue This anxiety can of itself cost the University valuable and even if building is given a go-ahead by the and Looking further into the alternate we find a total appropriation recommended for the first biennium for University building of as opposed to a million proposed in S. B. The figures would supposedly catch up with the vetoed appropriation within the following two unlike the defeated there is no guarantee that there will even be any Clyde rejected the bill because it would allegedly violate the of Utah We suggest in so he does the people of Utah an injustice through endangering the effectiveness of the building in future The Governor's concern for the economy of the state is It is unfortunate that he must risk so much of the future potential of the state to be found in the educational system simply for the sake of maintaining an economy that is in no serious |