The vote was based on 31 specific complaints identified by the faculty union, including questionable use of university funds, poor leadership style and poor decision-making.
He said the administration believed that Cornell could make up the state's contribution to the supercomputer center with university funds.
The building was paid for through a state appropriation of $250,000 and university funds of $19,000.
The group became ineligible to receive university funds and was denied permission to meet or operate on school grounds.
"At what point do donor funds become university funds?"
Penn's $3.3 billion endowment is one of no more than a handful of university funds that lost money last year.
In 1965 £180,834 was spent on research with £51,328 coming from university funds and the rest from other sources.
The 5.7 million dollar building has been financed with 1.2 million in private donations and 4.5 million of university funds.
Thirteen of those companies, accounting for $45 million in university funds, are in the process of leaving the country.
Sergeant Foley said officials were investigating to determine whether university funds were used in that purchase.