More Trustee Business ...

A $57.1 million budget, trimmed downward by $743,000 from the original version, was approved for fiscal year 1975-76. The cut is designed to produce a break- even budget for next year, but among other economies will involve the elimination of the equivalent of 31 full-time positions among staff, service, and administrative personnel.

"Very few people will actually end up without a job," President Kemeny said, indicating that most personnel reductions would be made through attrition or by transferring employees to other positions vacated by retirement or voluntary departures. "We've achieved this significant cut without eliminating one single faculty position," he said, . . and without damaging the quality of education at the College."

To help ease the problem of overcrowded housing, the Trustees approved plans to build an apartment-style dormitory for 72 students near the present River Cluster dormitories west of Tuck Mall. Construction, estimated to cost $1 million, is expected to start about mid-August.

In a companion move, the Trustees voted to use the Hanover Inn Motor Lodge for student housing during fall, winter, and spring terms.

The Trustees also were given background information on another proposed construction project having only indirect relationship to the College but of enormous impact on the region. This is a pulp mill, costing $200 million, which Parsons & Whittemore company proposes to build on a yet undetermined site on the Connecticut River between the New Hampshire towns of Haverhill on the north and Walpole on the south. Several communities and concerned citizens groups along this 50-mile stretch (Hanover is located approximately in the middle) are studying potential economic and pollution effects.