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Potential
Expensive eduction
in near future
As if the cost of education wasn't high enough, Gov. Tom Ridge is
attempting to have a budget proposal passed that would transfer state funds
from Tuition Challenge grants to PHEAA, which benefits private
universities, not public universities.
The proposal would cut the Tuition Challenge grant from $2lO to $lOO
per full-time, in-state student. This grant was developed to keep tuition
increases level at a maximum of 4.5 percent. State and state-related
universities benefited from this grant while more than 50 percent of PHEAA
funds go to private universities. More state funding for private universities
than what public universities receive contradicts the idea of a "private"
university and keeps the cost of education at a public university in
Pennsylvania among the highest in the nation.
The proposal has yet to be passed, but the potential plans on the rise do
not seem promising. The thought of the cost of education increasing is
enough to make one's stomach turn. Many students are paying for their
education with money they don't even have. They are going to owe the
government just about everything by the time they're finished with
schooling.
It doesn't make sense. Then, to raise tuition to an even more astronomical
amount and shun away many high-school graduates, transfers or other
students, who were at one point and time interested and set on enrolling in
the Penn State system, simply boggles the mind.
Education is one of the most valuable things a person can have, along
with being one of the most expensive. Gov. Ridge needs to reevaluate his
methods of fiddling with funds and where our state needs to drain money
from.
At this point, Penn State has the great potential of becoming "the most
powerful engine driving the economy of this common-wealth." President
of Penn State Joab Thomas said so. With such proposals as this one, the
only engine driving the economy will be that of a bus load of under
educated, unemployed high school graduates who couldn't afford to get a
solid education from Penn State University.
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Attention, Behrend Students!
As you may know from the recently
published piece in the Collegian, someone
took Dr. Tauber's cardboard statue of Joe
Paterno from the second floor of the
Academic Building sometime Thursday
evening a week ago.
Until now, it has been somewhat of a
joke, with students and colleagues asking
me, "Has Joe been returned?" I truely
expected the statue to be returned--safe and
sound, perhaps with some sort of funny
message tied to his neck. At this point it
still would have been funny. I would have
been among the first to laugh.
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But, at this point it is no longer a joke.
Along with my colleagues, I am not mad.
We are just plain disappointed. These
kinds of things should not happen here at
Behrend College. Although I have no
special love for Joe Paterno, the cardboard
figure, costing about $39.00, was a gift
from my daughter. I would like it to be
returned.
Will Joe be returned safe and sound? I
am losing hope.
Dr. R. Tauber
Professor of Education
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