Alternative Construction Sites Suggested by Shadow Cabinet

Counterproposals to President Buell G. Gallagher's blue-prints for additional facilities have been formulated by the recently established shadow cabinet.. Student Government President Shelly 'Sachs emphasized that a meeting with President Gallagher tomorrow night will determine their "feasibility." The goal of the shadow cabinet is to retain all facilities now used by students,J&chij&ng....thejSqTjth^ Campus and Mott Hall Lawns, Sachs stated. A total of 7̂5 additional offices to accommodate 150 faculty members should be erected, Sachs concurred, to "ease the burden" of office space. Although it will be more costly, the cabinet has suggested a two story structure of 52 offices between Wagner Hall and St. Nicholas Terrace. In addition, it has proposed a complex of 14 offices east of Mott Hall for use by the English department; this area is used less frequently than the two other lawns involved, he maintained. Approximately 14 more offices could be built at the far end of the South Campus Lawn behind the tree line, Sachs continued. This would elnninate the razing of a considfsrable number # of trees, he added. The shadow cabinet also suggested an alternative to paving the Mott Hall Lawn for faculty parking. It proposed that two parking lots be, created to hold a total of 66 cars, the number now using Jasper Oval. The Wagner Hall tennis court is the suggested site of one parking lot; the second area mentioned is the tennis court opposite Cohen Library bordering President Buell G. Gallagher revealed yesterday that the original plan to admit 1,200 extra students had been shelved after other City University schools refused to assume an equitable share of the increased quotas. CU Chancellor Albert H. Bowker announced on Sept. 27 that 5,000 additional freshmen would be admitted next Fall, and Dr. Gallagher agreed to accept 1,200 at the College. When Queens set its quota at 1,500, and Brooklyn and Hunter, 300 each, Dr. Gallagher announced the College would change its plans unless the other schools accepted enough freshmen to meet' the Chancellor's goal. Feasibility studies on the construction of 80 pre-fabricated classrooms and 134 faculty offices were released yesterday by Student Government Treasurer LarryYermack. The studies were not "plans or tentative plans for construction," he emphasized, but merely survSyis of spaee"availab% tTr"acconr=modate pre-fabricated structures. Prepared two weeks ago by the College's Office of Planning and Design, the studies were made public by Dr. Gallagher, Monday, at the shadow cabinet meeting. The President told the shadow cabinet that he wants to sign contracts for construction of facilities near Shepard and Eisner Halls "as soon as possible." pose of the studies, Yermack said, was to ascertain the maximum number of structures that could 1)0 built at the CoIU'Si-o.