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Meantime the wrecking ball swings. By September of next year 107 local buildings will fall and approximately 117 families, 661 individuals (164 students), 39 businesses , and 10 institutions will seek relocation. Portland State's building allo– cation has always hung on the annual fall nose-count of stu– dents . This keeps the budget base forever retroactive . Enrollment dipped in '67, ergo no building requests for the '68 biennium. In fact the only academic building budgeted for construction in the next two years is Science II. Meantime buildings go down and blocks fill with parked cars. And piecemeal growth guaran– tees construction crews on cam– pus for at least 20 more years. PSU- Rest in pieces?