Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-02-09
UNIVERSITY ASKS
S10,500. 900 FOR
NEXT TWO YEARS

The University Of Illinois has asked
The state q Illinois for the sum Of
$lV,aoo,oeo 70 operate with and for
/ new buildings Tor the next two years.
Is of this sum Ss.0oo.o 600 is To be used
Tor operating expenses and np.keep
on present status.
The extra $500. 900 asked for is
Tor new buildings, equipment and
land.
The new buildings which the Uni
Sersity requests include: Library
commerce, new gym. wemen's resi-
denee hall and additional buildings in
the agricultural group including a
dairy barn and laboratory. and en-
lafgement Of power plant 10 accom-
modate the increased building.
Sixty thousand dellafs IS asked
for the purchase of more land which
will be needed within few years
and delay Of more time in the pur-
chase of same will cause the price to
greatly increase.
Governor Small In his budget pre-
sented to the legislature. cuts from
amount the University asks the sum
Of Sl,300.000.
The governors attitude evidently
means that should the legislature
vote the entire amount asked BY the
University, that unless he can be
shown by enough pressure that he
will veto any amount appropriated
above the S9,200,0o0, giving as We
understand, only the library and COM
meree buildings, besides maintenance
of the University proper.
Those who have taken the pains TO
interest themselves in needs of the
University wonder how the present
gym which was built some 80 years
ago has been able to accommodate the
ever increasing numbers who use Ii.
A most unsanitafy condition has
arisen here by having only the one
small swimming tank for the use of
so many. This year there is some
$500 students using the Gym and the
Annex for various athletic teams.
1t is a question how much longer
physical training can be maintained
on the present standard unless new
quarters are provided.
The University authorities had
hoped the new Gym would be real
lied this year so the present build.
ings could be converted into use by
the engineering group who are sorely
in need of more room.
The agricultural college need more
buildings, especially the dairy depart
ment, and they have asked for a new
barn for the pure bred and labora-
tory. Those of us who live in the
Twin Cities and have had occasion to
20 through the campus toward Mount
Hope cemetery, cannot help but mo-
.tice the egesare Of shackk. sheds and
wooden Structures called barns.
Governor Small has dairy farm at
his home in kankakee and we ven
ture to sayshe would not have such
dilapidated buildings on his own farm
and would invite him TO visit that
part of the campus and see If he could
say we have ovefdrawn the picture
one bit. -
Then the women's alumni of the
University, who have "been through
the milln in trying to find accommo-
dations for girls with proper sur
roundings, have insisted that the Uni
versity build a women's residence
hall, so that other girls who come
here will not have the same obstacles
to overcome that they did.
AnDkftI pik iNtili HitiSt Ndt
versity authorities did not ask for
and which the legislature should
make provision for, is adequate salary
and wages. Two years ago the legis-
lature voted appropriation for a gen
.eral increase in salaries and wages,
but after the distribution was made
investigation shows the amount
granted hardly brought the salaries
to the general average of the first
class universities of the country, and
certainly Illinois should be among the
leaders-not the followers.
State universities are democratic
institutions and are the only hope a
working man has got to give his chill
dren the best of a college education.
Few, if any, workers will ever be
able to send his son to Yale or Har-
ward or his daughter to Nassar or to
other endowed colleges, but every
state has its state university which
gives the poor mans boy or girl an
equal opportunity for an education
and start as the rich mans boy or
girl and he should see that that OPP
portunity is not retarded by lack OF
proper financial support from the
state.