Continuing Controversies Dome Projects Continued and the university was not billed for the second. The estimated cost of the asphalt covering was $36,000. The repairs were being funded by a construction reserve account for the project. Last year amidst student and community protest, the Ul administration instigated a project tacking a 4.5 million dollar addition to the Kibble Dome . That addition Is scheduled to be completed during the summer of 1982. The East End project, as it is known, provided $1.1 million to remodel the Memorial Gym and $75,000 to upgrade the outdoor practice field. The remainder
will go toward the two-story East the survey. Of the 237 who End addition Itself, the first floor favored the construction, 140 holding lockers and the second felt that it should be postponed. · holding physical education Although the East End offices and lome classrooms in Addition would provide long· addition to extra storage space. awaited locker room facilities for The multi-million dollar the Kibble Dome and the Ul project was financed by student athletes, it seemed ill-timed as fees totaling $3 million, private an editorial from the Argonaut contributions of $1 million, and suggested. "Can you Imagine the $500,000 from athletic reaction of legislators when they reserves. Last year before the final hear university adminstrators apprO¥al on the project had and regents screaming for better been given, the Idaho Argonaut funding one moment, and then printed a survey indicating that turning to student fees - a 81 percent of the students, source of funding for academic faculty, and staff were opposed building - for the erection of an to the proposed addition. A total elaborate athletic palace the of 1263 people participated in ·next?" the Argonaut asked. 0
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