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Council Cites Insufficient
Facilities For Expansion

By RICHARD JONES

"Ten thousand students were enrolled five
years early," concludes a Student Council
analysis of the results of the Master Plan of
1965.

The Council prepared the report on the
Master Plan of 1965 in order to "compare the
facilities which were available in September,
1970" when student enrollment was 10,852 as
compared to the "facilities that the Master Plan
said should have been available for 10,000
students."

According to this report, the Committee on
the Future of the University revised upward the
estimates of further enrollment made in 1966.
The committee stated that "10,000 students
were enrolled five years earlier than expected
by the Master Plan."

At the present time, 11,850 students attend
the University.

The report also questions whether the prime
objective of the plan has been met, the
objective "of providing adequate classroom and
office space, since the facilities for 10,000
students will be completed when the
enrollment is presently 14,000."

The deficiency in beds for 1970 was 2,161,
according to the report. The report added that
the commitment of the Master Plan was
transformed between 1965 and 1970 from one
of providing sufficient housing for all students,
to one which pledged the University to provide
housing only for first-year students.

Only 3,212 beds were available in 1970, while
the total number of beds needed for single
students was 5,373 says the analysis. The report
states that there is a deficiency of 7,150 spaces
from the plan.

The development plan projected a parking
need of 12,050 spaces for a 10,000 student
enrollment. The report states that "last fall
with 10,852 students, there were 4,900 parking
spaces." 1.

Over 15,000 vehicles are now registered with
the Department of Security.

The report says that "a new plan is needed
to take into account the substantial changes of
the past six years, but the needs of the
University to provide adequate facilities for its
enrollment are the same as always."

Facilities were not adequate for the
enrollment of 1970 and, if expansion continues
apace, they will not be adequate for some
time," the report concludes.