The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-01-06

Of reference work necessarily attend
ant on University work and that the
enrolment in the University is well
over 1900, it is evident that additional
library space is essential. In add
ton to providing adequate space for
the Library, the proposed two-story
addition to the Library will furnish
six class rooms that will be used to
care for the overflow from Science
Hall.
In Science Hall are located the en-
tire Medical School, the Public Health
Laboratories, The Department of Bio
logy, including full laboratory courses
in Zoology and Geology, including the
headquarters of the State Geological
Survey, and the Department Of Ply
sizes with it's entire complement of lab
oratories. In this one building are
ten full time instructors all conduct
ing full laboratory courses with an
enrolment of approximately 1000 stu
dents per week. To anyone at all
familiar with the necessities of lab
oratory course, in any of the above
departments, the overcrowded cordi-
ton of this building is obvious.
The School of Medicine, with an
enrolment OF approximately 90 STU
dents engaged in professional work.
together with the Public Health Lab
oratory, is crowded into six rooms on
the third floor of Science Hall, three
of which are occupied by the Public
Health Service, and the Medical School
is forced to use the attic for it's DIS
secting Laboratory, resulting in con-
dition probably not to be met with in
any other Class A medical school in
the country. This College should, by
all rights, have entire building in con-
j.. junction with the Public Health Labor
atories.
The third building asked for is a
dormitory. At the present time, with
an enrolment we'll over 100, the Uni
versity has rooming facilities for less
than 300 students. What this means
to the students can be seen from the
fact that out of the deficiencies report
ed for the first six weeks period Of
! this year, students rooming down
town received twice as many as those
rooming on the Campus. In addi-
ton to poor facilities for study offered
by down town rooms, the cost of such
rooms is at least twice that Of room
in a dormitory. Further argument
as to the necessity of additional dor
mitory space should be unnecessary
If this entire request for million
and d half were placed on mill tax,
the tax so placed would be less than
one-half mill. On the individual, this
would place burden so slight as to be
unnoticed, while it would mean to
the State at large a University which
will rank with foremost. Compared
with the budget requests of other
state universities, this request is as
nothing. The University of Mime
sofa is requesting budget of $12,-
000, 100000 for the coming biennium,
while that of Wisconsin is $14,000,000
and at the University of Illinois, the
building program alone, for short
period Of time. amounts to $4,000
900. In the light Of these figures, it
can easily be seen that the BUDGET re-
quest of the University Of North DE-
kota is child's play, and vet if this
request De granted, our oCaCc OI1-
versitv will retain its place as Glass
A school, while if the BUDGET be cut
conditions will force Redistribution
resulting in a lowering of classifica-
ton with the result that inctnad Of
going to their home university. our
students will be forced, in self-de-
Tense, to attend the university of some
other state.
When it is considered that the Uni
versity trains more people of college
grade than all other institutions, both
public and private, in the State Of
North Dakota, it is self-evident that
the budget as requested is, to say the
least conservative.