Veritas, Vol. 15, No. 21, February 17, 1975

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February 17, 1975
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Law Library Addition OK’d
The 1,100 students and 40 faculty members in the School of Law will have a new four-story addition to their library by next fall, President Stanford and Dean Soia Mentschikoff have announced. Preparations for construction are already underway.
The building will adjoin the existing library and faculty office buildings off Memorial Drive on main campus, and should be completed in nine months.
The new structure is made possible by a $600,000 bequest by the late Baron deHirsch Meyer, UM trustee and law school benefactor. Since total costs will be $1.5 million, additional gifts are now being sought, Dr. Stanford said.
The present law library, one of the largest in the South and 23rd in the country in volume count, contains more than 170,000 volumes, according to Law Librarian Mario Goderich. He said the addition will provide for another 230,000 books, for a total of 400,000 which will put the UM law library in the top three percent in the country.
Contained in the library will be: first floor—special law collections for research, reading rooms, reference and seminar rooms; second floor—general stacks, audio-visual area, legal periodicals and-the tax and estate planning collection; third floor—offices, faculty lounge and stacks for international, ocean law, Latin American, European and other special collections; fourth floor—Law Review offices, faculty and faculty assistants’ offices, moot court room stacks and clerestory roof.
story library, a two-story classroom building and a one-story student lounge.
The late Mr. Meyer, a Miami Beach attorney and financier who referred to UM as his adopted alma mater, received his bachelor’s degree in 1920 from the
University of Wisconsin, and was a 1923 graduate of Harvard Law School. He was the major donor of the entire law complex and served as a member of the UM Board of Trustees from 1955 until the date of his death, June 15, 1974.
Budget Measures Outlined
In an attempt to insure a balanced budget by the end of the fiscal year, May 31, President Stanford issued a memorandum January 23 to vice presidents, deans, directors, chairmen and faculty members.
To offset the $1.2 million deficit projected for this year, each division has been requested to recapture 3.912 percent of its budgeted costs.
Dr. Stanford outlined the steps to be taken to assure a balanced budget by May 31:
• Travel will be curtailed and permitted only when the travel is type A or type B as defined in the UM Policies and Procedures Manual, T-60f, dated September 15, 1972. Exceptions will be made only upon approval of the appropriate vice president.
t Positions that are now vacant or become vacant will not be filled except in cases of extreme urgency or “need-to-fill-to-operate.” Such exceptions will be justified and processed through the appropriate vice president and the Budget Committee.
Architect is Morris Lapidus Associates of Miami Beach and New York. Contractor is Frank J. Rooney, Inc., of Miami.
Dr. Goderich said the administration plans are to keep the new addition open 16 hours a day for study in surroundings designed to make students want to come to the library.
The present law school complex consists of a four-story building with classrooms, faculty offices, seminar rooms and student activities area; a four-story faculty and administrative office building, the three-
• Requests for expenditures against all “U” budgets which have insufficient funds to cover the requested charges will be returned to the originating departments without being processed. This does not preclude the transferring of funds under the lump sum policy from line items having sufficient funds, providing the account is not in an overall deficit condition ... It is strongly recommended that departmental phones be restricted to local calls only. Obligations incurred through contractual commitment supported by extramural funding will continue to be met.
•	Release time funds will be carefully controlled by the deans and directors and are frozen for all interests and purposes.
•	No work orders for Physical Plant alterations will be processed except for emergency situations approved by the appropriate vice president.
•	The ordering of any capital equipment is hereby suspended. Any exceptions because of emergency need will be approved first by the appropriate vice president.
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Spring Enrollment Up From 1974
Spring enrollment is up approximately 3.5 percent from the spring of 1974, according to preliminary figures released January 30 by Registrar George Smith. The total of full-time students, plus the full-time equivalents of part-time students, is 11,323, compared to 10,940 last year. (Full-time equivalents are calculated by dividing the total part-time student credits by 12 for undergraduate students and by nine for graduate and law students and adding this to the number of full-time students, explained Mr. Smith)
Total credit hours being taken this semester have also increased by 3.5 percent from last spring.
According to the enrollment report, all schools at UM have reported increases in enrollment compared to last spring except the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Education, which have shown slight decreases.
The number of new students admitted and registered for this semester is 1,276, excluding law and medicine—slightly less than in 1974.
The preliminary figures do not include a few late registrants, Mr. Smith said. Excluding medical school students, the total number of full and part-time students taking credit courses is 12,595, an increase of 331 over last spring’s 12,294.
The number of non-degree students had not been tabulated when Veritas went to press.
Telephone Service Undergoing Review
A department-by-department review of University telephone service is being conducted by John Galbraith, assistant business manager and purchasing agent, and Inez Gasson, from Southern Bell, with a view to saving money by changing or replacing equipment to get lower rates.
“It is to be emphasized,” Mr. Galbraith said, “that this is to recommend changes in equipment which can be effected without a loss of telephone service. The savings to the University from this survey could be substantial.”
It could take as long as two months for Mr. Galbraith and Ms. Gasson to visit every department on all three campuses and look at every piece of equipment.
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