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University Plans Expansion
With Upcoming Bond Issue

By Rod MacDonald
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Plans for the disposition of
$11.9 million in funds from the
upcoming bond issue show the
University expanding away from
the central Grounds area and
looking towards consolidation of
the College in the Cabell Hall-Lawn
part of the Grounds.

Paul J. Saunier, director of
University relations, told The
Cavalier Daily yesterday that the
bond issue, on the Virginia ballot in
the November 5 elections, will
release $11.9 million in state funds
and about $14 million in federal
funds for construction of four
major areas: the law-graduate
business area, the science center
area, the medical center, and the
Fine Arts Center-Architecture
school.

Construction Consequence

The consequence of this
construction, he said, will be that
the College, School of Graduate
Arts and Sciences, and School of
Commerce, which are growing
rapidly, will be able to expand
while remaining in their present
locations, filling the buildings
vacated by the other schools.

The specific plans for the
1968-70 building program are as
follows:

Duke Tract

1) The new Law-Graduate
Business' area (the Duke tract,
northwest of Copeley Hill): new
buildings for the School of Law and
the Graduate School of Business
Administration. Total costs, $9.3
million: $3.7 million in general
obligation bonds; $2 million in
"matching" Federal or other funds;
and $3.6 million in self-financed
dormitories, dining halls and related
facilities.

2) The "Science Center" area
(near the McCormick Road-Emmet
Street intersection): a new School
of Education and major new
buildings for the School of
Engineering and Applied Science.
Total costs, $8 million: $4.3
million in general obligation bonds;
and $3.7 million for self-financed
service facilities, including parking
structures near Newcomb Hall.

New Nursing School

3) The Medical Center (the
hospital area and the related
development south of Jefferson
Park Avenue): A new School of
Nursing and completion of funding
for the Medical Education and
Medical Communications building
Total costs, $7 million: $2 million
in general obligation bonds; 2.2 in
related Federal funds; and $2.8
million in revenue bonds for
self-financing service facilities,
including parking structures.
(Funds almost adequate for the
new Medical Education Building
were appropriated earlier.)

4) Fine Arts Center: the new
School of Architecture and Library,
part of a developing Fine Arts
Center on Carr's Hill which is to
include the Departments of Music,
Art, and Speech and Drama, is
already under construction.
Building for the latter three
departments are to follow in the
1970's.

Central Grounds

5) The Central Grounds: When
the construction projects in the
November 5 bond issue are
completed, the School of Law, the
Graduate School of Business
Administration, and the School of
Education will move to new
facilities. The use of the classrooms
and libraries of Clark Hall, Monroe
Hall, Peabody Hall (and later Cocke
Hall, Minor Hall and old Cabell Hall
which now houses Art, Music, and
Speech and Drama) therefore will
permit growth in the College,
Graduate School, and Commerce
without any major new
construction in the old Grounds
area. (The general obligation bond
issue includes a small amount of
funds for plans for renovation of
Memorial Gymnasium, but the
actual work would not be
programmed until the 1970's.)

Streets, Sewage

6) Utilities: the general
obligation bond issue includes $1.9
million for streets, water, sewage,
electrical services, etc., necessary
for the building program described
for the five areas above.

Mr. Saunier said in Friday's
Cavalier Daily that "it is absolutely
crucial" for every student to
register for voting by October 5 and
vote in November for the bond
issue.

News Helpful

The University's public relations
director added "news that we will
be able to expand and improve our
facilities on schedule will be an
immediate aid in recruiting
excellent faculty members, and in
improving the University's rising
competitive position in national
higher education.

"Without the funds, that
position will be hurt for some years
and as alumni our present students
will then be hurt as they begin their
careers over the nation."

Mr. Saunier went on, "If the
University gets the funds now
specified in the bond issue, every
student here will benefit. Some of
the planned facilities would be
completed and in use even before
present second-year students have
been graduated.