The Highacres Colleg
Monday, December 19, 1977
In an attempt to reduce maintenance costs on campus, students living in the dorm
are responsible for waste disposal on each floor. From left to right; Matt Mar
cinek, Ed Wisenberger, and Lorre Nolen empty their trash cans in the bin outside
the dorm.
Rally Held By Students
At State Capitol
Students from Penn State university,
Temple University, The University of
Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and
Lincoln University attended a rally on
November 15 on the steps of the State
Capitol Building. Hie rally was held to
protest the state legislature’s failure to
pass a bill funding state colleges for the
1977-78 school year. The rally which began
at noon featured a program of speakers
who discussed the need for inexpensive,
public higher education in Pennsylvania.
Students from each legislative district
distributed letters and petitions from the
5,000 students present to the legislators.
Speakers at the rally included; Dr.
Helen Davies, a professor at the
University of Pennsylvania and a member
of the Board of Trustees of Penn State;
Karen Adams, a member of the staff at the
University of Pittsburgh; Marilyn
Skolnick, of the State Board<of the League
of Women Voters; Dr. Ralph Towne,
•President of the Faculty Senate at Tem
ple; Grant Ackerman, Student Govern
ment President at Penn State-University
Park; Ben Szwalbenest, Student Govern
ment President, Temple University;
Linda (Rhodes) Weaver, State Coor
dinator, from Penn State-Capitol Campus;
Bernie Payne, Student Government
President, University of Pittsburgh.
There were also a host of speakers from
the Commoiiwealth Association of
Students, the Pennsylvania Council of
Churches, and student speakers from the
University of Pennsylvania and Lincoln
University.
Penn State’s participation in the rally
was organized by the Council of Branch
Campus Student Government
Associations.
Published By Students of The Hazleton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University
By SUSAN RINGES
Collegian Staff Writer
The Penn State Berks campus went as
far as to re-arrange its final exam
schedule so a large number of students
could attend the rally. Students have the
right to an education and showed their
concern by rallying. The rally was held in
a peaceful, adult-like manner.
University Officials
Optimistic
By Cathy Rusinko
COLLEGIAN News Editor
University officials adopted cautious
optimism when it was learned that state
senators passed the major portion of a tax
program designed to generate needed
money for state schools.
“We’ll be in business,” William J.
David, Hazleton Campus Director said.
Though a part of the tax program is still in
the House of Representatives and the
Senate must pass the University’s in
dividual appropriation bill, David ex
plained that Penn State is in no danger of
closing its doors. “The only permanent
damage to the university, David said, is
the accumulation .of loan interest.” David
said that Penn State has been borrowing
approximately $9 million per month to
remain open and quoted present interest
owed by the university at a figure between
$300,000 and $500,000.
David added that there is no current
plan for a tuition increase for Spring
Term. He commented that the University
wants to keep its operations constant,
citing an inflationary increase as the only
type to be instituted if an increase is ab
solutely necessary.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Student earnings from campus-based
employment will be considered a resource
in a student’s financial aid package this
year, according to John F. Brugel,
University director of financial aid.
Brugel said his office will crack down on
wage monitoring this year in response to
federal guidelines .that require student aid
officers to treat student earnings like any
other aid source.
The regulations, which are not new but
were brought to the University’s attention
by auditors, apply to students receiving
federal National Direct Student Loans'
(NDSL), Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grant (SEOG) or College
Work-Study assistance.
“We’ve tried to study it and develop the
most cost efficient way of controlling
this,” Brugel said. “We’ve been reluctant
to get into this ballgame.”
Eric Godfrey, financial aid counselor
and one of the coordinators of wage
monitoring, said University departments
will be notified later this month that wages
of federal financial aid recipients will be
checked by the office.
Unemployment May Be Worse
Than Statistics Show
WASHINGTON, D.C.—President
Carter’s recently announced aim of
reducing unemployment to four percent by
1983 may prove embarrassingly timid.
Before that date, the government may
adopt a new way to measure unem
ployment that reflects a growing criticism
by economists: that the current unem
ployment index drastically under-reports
the true number of the jobless.
President Carter has appointed Sar A.
Levitan, a leading critic of the index, as
head of the new National Commission on
Employment and Unemployment
Statistics. The commission was created by
Congress last year, in response to growing
criticism from economists, to recommend
changes in the way the government
measures and reports employment and
unemployment.
If Levitan’s thinking becomes the basis
for a new official unemployment index,
that new measure will show that unem
ployment and the hardship it creates is
much more severe than the current index
reflects—especially in inner cities and
rural poverty areas. _
The result could be massive
redistribution to those areas and away
from suburbs of the annual $l6 billion in
federal subsidies for community
development, job creation, job training,
revenue sharing and other programs. The
money is currently distributed on the biass
of formulas that include the unem
ployment rate.
Levitan, director of the Center for Social
Policy Studies at George Washington
University, is a close associate of Labor
Secretary Ray Marshall, who
Congress on whether to implement what
the commission recommends. The
recommendations are expected by earlv
1979.
Student Earnings
Will Be Monitored
By 808 HEISSE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
By Paul Rosentiel
Pacific News Service
Student aid officials will monitor “any
part-time employment for a student ex
cept graduate assistanceships,” Godfrey
said.
According to Godfrey, . a student
receiving federal financial aid can earn
only enough money from a campus-based
job to enable him to match his estimated
need, which has already been determined
by the Office of Student Aid.
Any earnings exceeding a student’s need
estimate will be treated as an overaward
and the student will be notified and asked
to quit his job or face losing some federal
assistance.
Godfrey said the office will reduce an
over a warded student’s aid package to
return to his estimated need. He noted that
the policy in reducing overawards is to
decrease a loan before .a grant whenever
possible.
The policy, Godfrey said, does not apply
to students receiving state aid, such as
Pennsylvania Higher Educational Assis
tance Agency (PHEAA) grants or loans,
without receiving awards from the af
fected federal sources.
According to Levitan, our manner of
measuring unemployment is obsolete.
When it was developed in the late 19305, he
says, it was accurate to equate joblessness
with hardship. But today, unemployment
insurance and other public subsidies
soften the hardship for some of the
unemployed and, according to some
economists, defer job hunting. Meanwhile,
many' people are forced to take jobs that
still leave them below the poverty level.
“What we need is an index that will more
realistically reflect today’s needs in
today’s economy,” Levitan says.
Inside The
Collegian
Collegian Personality p. 8
Club News p. 4
Editorial p. 2
Entertainment Reviews.. p. 6
Letters To The Editor p. 3
Sports p. 7
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