The Louisiana Stfctf university! board of supervisors Sunday i night voted to ask the legislature for $23,100,220 to provide for immediate building needs.
The board also approved a I resolution to authorize L S Uj President Troy Middleton to re-1 quest a deficiency appropriation of $90,000.
The deficiency came about I when the horse racing tax1 dedicated to university use failed to yield an expected $500,000,; which the university has com-j mitted to enlarging its central air conditioning system.
A move to increase the student fees at the LSU medical school in New Orleans from .$120 to $320 an academic year \ was referred to &
building and grounds committee headed by Percy Roberts of Baton Rouge.
The board was delayed an hour in getting started, then went into a two-hour secret session. The student fee increase proposal for the medical school reportedly took up much of the closed door time.
Board sources said the case of Dr. George H. Mickey, ousted dean of the graduate school still facing charges he murdered an unmarried woman an associate, also came up in the closed meeting but no definite action was taken. The exact nature of the discussion was not revealed.
REDUCED IN RANK
Dr. Mickey was reduced in rank to inactive professor of zoology after the East Baton Rouge parish grand jury deadlocked in trying to determine whether he should be sent to trial or freed. Mickey still is on $10,800 annual salary.
Gen. Middleton emphasized that- the 23 millions asked for building was for the entire university. This includes the campus at Baton Rouge, at New Orleans and near Alexandria.
Middleton asked a resolution favoring a legislative act to appropriate funds because he said the Legislature may act on the matter before the board's next meeting. The Legislature meets under a new administration May 9.
"I like your optimism," chairman Theo Cangelosi told the LSU president.
LSU's immediate building needs were listed as:
LSU in New Orleans $9,025,-220; LSU at Alexandria $1,-200,000; school of medicine $1,-500,000; experiment stations, 4-H Club camps $700,000; Baton Rouge campus $10,675,000.
The university offered an operating budget of $27,896,458, to be covered by prospective income.
At the same time the university said it will request state tax-supported appropriations totaling $24,072,094 for I960-.61.
The university said this is an increase of $3,267,785, or 15.7 per cent over the previous fiscal year's appropriations.
The medical school also asked that non-resident fees be increased from $400 to $900 a year effective next academic session.
The medical school showed figures indicating the present $120 annual student fee compares with $1100 at neighboring Tulane university medical school and $1280 at Johns Hopkins, the most expensive medical school in the nation.
The board also approved a
move to have a constitutional amendment offer 3d to the state to put LSU at Alexandria on the same basis as LSU at New Orleans by making it an integral part of the university.
LSUNO has constitutional status while LSUA is based on state legislative act.
