The board of supervisors of Louisiana State university voted unanimously Friday to deny admission of 12 Negro applicants to the university's classrooms.
They took the action shortly after their day-long session was opened to the press and public.
There was no discussion of the issue in the public session.
The board voted on a resolution presented by Dr. Harold W. Stoke, president of the university, which directs administrative officers to deny admission to Nephus Jefferson, Dan Columbus Simon, Willie Cleveland Patterson, Charles Edward Coney, Joseph H. Miller Jr., Roy Samuel Wilson, Lloyd E. Milburn, Lawrence Alvin Smith Jr., James Leo Perkins, Edison George Hogan, Harry A. Wilson and Anderson Williams.
The 12 were identified by Stoke as "Negroes who have asked for admission to various colleges of the university."Action on the resolution followed reorganization of the board by which Tom Dutton, New Orleans, becomes chairman, succeeding Thomas W. Liegh, Monroe. J. Stewart Slack, Shreveport, succeeds Charles Sherrouse, Gilbert, as vice-chairman. Sher-rouse, whose place on the board was vacated earlier this week by Gov. Earl K, Long on the ground that he had "failed to qualify," was succeeded as a board member by Lewis Gottlieb, Baton Rouge.
The board also gave approval to recommendations by the university president that sale of the $6,000,000 bond issue authorized by the Legislature be expedited and the funds allocated,
Resolutions adopted provided allocation of $2,000,000 of the fund for expansion of facilities of the medical school unit at New Orleans inat leaves approximately $2 000,000 for a new library, which the board gave first priority after the earmarked allocations. Earlier Stoke had presented his report to the board covering several proposed actions.
In his report to the board, Dr. Stoke recommended immediate sale of the bonds "in view of the availability of the tax revenues for their servicing and the uncertain future state of the market for such bonds."
He urged prompt action on the proposed addition to the university's medical school unit at New Orleans, estimated to cost $2,000,000, but advised careful deliberation on the completion of the football stadium and the choice between a library and an auditorium. The bill authorizing the bond issue set up priorities for the use of the funds.
Stoke pointed out that "priorities for construction have, within limits, been established by the Legislature, but specific allocation of funds remains the problem and privilege of the university."
He estimated that the bond issue would not provide enough funds for "everything in the original request," and declared that "sums spent on any one project must necessarily be at he expense of the others."
Preliminary reports, he said, set the cost of the medical school expansion at approximately $2,.-000,000,
This would provide about 70,000 dditional square feet of floor space.
"If the plan for a self-supporting project for a medical school dormitory can be carried through," he added, "a cafeteria can be planned for that dormitory and omitted from the plans for the medical school building, a net gain in educational space."
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