Evening star., 1953-01-27
u.
Students 10 Pay
For Buildings
$40 Annual Fee
Sought in Budget
Of $22.2 Million
By Gene Goodwin
StuF Stuff Correspondent

StoF Stuff Correspondent
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 27.-Uni-
versity Of Maryland students will
start paying special $40-a-year
fee next fall to pay for a new
student union and auditorium
building and 10 new housing
units.
This was disclosed in the uni
versity's budget for next fiscal
year presented to the General
Assembly last night by Gov. Nc
Keldin.
Under the proposed budget,
tthe university would get $20.3
million for operating expenses
and $1.0 million for capital i'm
provements.
The university set up the spe-
cial fee construction program
under a 1851 law.
Although 1t is part Of the uni
versity'S budget, it is not subject
to approval by this Legislature.
Bids to Be Opened Today.
The University budget states
that bids on the student union
and the new housing units were
to be opened today. It is esti-
mated that the union and audi
torium building would cost $3.3
million and the housing units
would cost about 81 million.
The university's budget in
cludes most of the building prof.
ects that got its president, DR..
H. C. Byrd, shouted of the House
floor in the closing minutes of
the 1852 General Assembly.
These would have cost $578, 900
and were rejected after DR.. Byrd
boldly entered the House to try
to get the projects tackled onto
his 1852 bond bill.
Capital improvement funds the
Governor allowed the university
in his budget represent about
one-eighth of the total $15.2 mil
lion capital budget for the en-
tire State. The university was
allowed only $350.000 for capital
improvements in the current
budget.
The $20.3 million in operating
funds requested for the uni
versity is about $644, 900 higher
than the $19.7 million it received
in the current budget. Of the
proposed total appropriation,
$9.3 million is in general funds,
$10.4 in special funds (student
fees, grants and university ac-
tivities) and $588,18 in Federal
aid.
Gov. McKeldin pointed out in
his budget message that of 622
new Jobs proposed In his budget.
103 would be at the university,
including SIS at University Hos
pital, Baltimore.
5000 Undergraduates.
"It is estimated" the gov
ernor said, that 5000 University
of Maryland undergraduates will
be enrolled at College Park; l.
425 students in the professional
schools at Baltimore. and 325 at
the Maryland State College (for
Negroes) at Princess Anne. This
represents a net decrease of SO
under enrolment on which the
current budget is based, with 10
of the decrease in the profess
Sional schools and so at Princess
Anne"
For the first time since World
War II, the university anticipates
no revenues from the Veterans
Administration for CT Bill stu
dents. A total of $145,000 was
estimated from this source in the
current academic year.
Projects listed for the Col
lege Park campus in the uni
versity's proposed capital bud
get include:
New boiler house, $3.50, 900;
additional funds for completely
equipping engineering, physics.
chemistry and mathematics
buildings, $295. 900; additional
funds for construction of an
engine research laboratory, $780,
600: additional funds for con-
struction Of and equipping indus
trial arts and engineering build
ing. $115,000; remodeling old
gymnasium for use as 65-bed
mems dormitory, $85.000. and
extending steam distribution
system. $150.000.
Charles L. Benton, university
controller. said in explaining his
budget that the new Byrd Sta
dunn and university chapel were
built with surplus special funds.
Until last year, he said, the State
Board of Public Works allowed
the university to spend its sur
plus special funds on capital i'm
provementS; now the board de-
cides each year whether these
funds can be used by the univer-
sity or revert to the State.
The Governor allowed the uni
versity nothing for expansion Of
its Princess Anne branch. The
university had requested $3.7 mil
lion for capital improvements
there, but the State Planning
Commission recommended ig-
noring it.