MENTAL HOSPITAL SITE URGED FOR NEW CSU CAMPUS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The California State University Enrollment  system's chancellor said he favors creating a new Ventura County campus on the site of a mental hospital rather than building a new campus from scratch. Chancellor Barry Munitz argued Tuesday that it would be cheaper and faster to use the buildings of the soon-to-close Camarillo State Hospital. Munitz said he will urge the university Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. to authorize To empower another with the legal right to perform an action. The Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce. authorize v. to officially empower someone to act. (See: authority) an informal bid for the hospital grounds rather than consider building on a 260-acre plot of university-owned land nearby. The cost of building Cal State Channel Islands from scratch has been put at $120 million to $160 million. The cost of converting the 603-acre hospital is put at $60 million to $80 million. Unused hospital buildings would be leased to help cover costs. |
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