ITHACA, N.Y. -- Twenty Cornell professors have signed a resolution asking the administration to put the plan on hold. They say with recent budget cuts, it's not fiscally responsible to go ahead with the $50 million project.

Faculty at Cornell University were recently asked to cut their budgets by five percent ad with the university poised to drop a large chunk of change on a new building, some say it just isn't right.

"The idea of going ahead with Milstein at this time sounds to me like business as usual. And I think when we find ourselves in such difficult circumstances, we just can't do business as usual," said Abby Cohn, a linguistics professor at Cornell.

That's why 20 Cornell professors, along with some alumni, are asking the university to put the project on hold.

"The decision to move forward on a project that is not fully funded will have very serious ramifications for the general operating budget of the university," said Cohn.

The new center will connect the two older buildings which currently house the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. A center, the University says, is long overdue.

"We have a shortage of rooms in which to review student projects, for them to present their projects. We have a number of students occupying off-campus space because we don't have enough room to run our program properly here," said Mark Cruvellier, Chair of the Architecture Department at Cornell.

Besides being outdated, the current facilities aren't up to code on access for the disabled and other requirements.

"A handicap person who might want to study architecture here, it's impossible," said Vincent Mulcahy, an architecture professor at Cornell.

The department says postponing the project would just increase costs and another delay in bringing the building up to code could jeopardize their accreditation.

"It would be extremely short-sighted to postpone this plan. Our accreditation board is not going to hold on forever," Cruvellier said.

The professors will present their resolution to the faculty senate next Wednesday. But for now, Cornell plans to break ground in the spring.