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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1949
University Expenses Rise As High Costs Continue
The University operated for its first year, 1866, on a budget of $28,750, of which $20,000 was for new buildings. The University will spend $10,210,000 for operating expenses alone this year.
In addition to the operating expenses, which includes all auxiliary enterprises, $5,727,560 in legislative appropriations and about $1,000,- 000 in gifts are available for new buildings. visory capacity to the
Continued expansion and higher costs are the main reasons for the increase. Of the total operating expenses, the University is about 50 percent self-supporting. This money is from student veteran and non-veteran fees, interest on endowments, extension and correspondence fees, athletic revenue, dormitory revenue, Student Union returns, revenue from the medical center and other sources.
Dr. Ellis B. Stouffer, dean of the University, is chairman of the budget committee which acts in an advisory capacity to the chancellor. Raymond Nichols, executive secretary and assistant to the chancellor, believes that the budget will meet this year's expenses without use of the reserve fund.
The University received more money from the state legislature for the 2-year period 1949-51 than it spent in its first 50 years. The legislative grants for these two years are $15,838,060. University expenditures during its first 50 years totaled about $10,000,000.
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Mr. Nichols explained that money collected from students by assessment for the Union is used only for
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capital additions to the Union. Each student pays $$ a semester and $2 for the Summer Session in Union fees.
"Plans are being made for an addition to the Union building and should be finished before spring," said Mr. Nichols.
The smallest budget ever used by the University was presented in 1868. It was for $8,341.50 and was one of the few budgets that did not carry an appropriation for new buildings and equipment. Since that time
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