ILLINOIS - The University of Illinois Board of Trustees

39 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
litigation Initiated by Candace Crayr
(34) A complaint has been filed in the Circuit Court of Champaign County (Case
No. 78-L-640) by Candace Crays seeking damages in excess of $20,000 for injuries
suffered in an alleged accident inside the Assembly Hall at the Urbana-Champaign
campus on February 15, 1978. The complaint alleges that the University negli-
gently allowed melted snow and ice, brought in on the shoes and clothing of the
assembled crowd, to accumulate on the stairs of the Assembly Hall thereby causing
a dangerous and unsafe condition in the building.
Pursuant to previous delegations by the Board of Trustees, the university
counsel has been given interim authorization to take such steps as are necessary or
appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests
of the University in this matter. The university counsel has recommended that such
authorization be ratified, approved, and confirmed in all respects.
I concur.
The student advisory vote was: Aye, Miss Kooper, Mr. Sobotka, Mr.
Watson; no, none.
On motion of Mr. Livingston, this recommendation was approved by
the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz,
Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez;
no, none; absent, Governor Thompson.
There being no further business, the board adjourned.
EARL W. PORTER
Secretary
GEORGE W. HOWARD I11
President