VOLUMEXXXIII NUMBER 10
Textbooks Published by Faculty Members
Larson and Hostetler Offer Precalculus Series
by Michael Ross
Collegian News Editor
Drs. Roland Larson and Robert
Hostetler, authors of several math
Dr. Roland Larson and Dr. Robert Hostetler, authors of new math textbooks.
texts currently used at Behrend,
have recently published a series of
Precalculus texts. The four books,
Algebra and Trigonometry, Col
lege Algebra, Precalculus, and
Trigonometry were published in
January, and will be used for
Behrend math courses five and
six.
In addition to the four texts,
supplemental instructor’s guides
and solutions guides were written
by math instructors Meredythe
Burrows and Dianna Zook.
Larson, after earning his Ph.D
in Mathematics from the Univer
sity of Colorado, came to
Galletta Introduces Computer Science Text
by Barrett Parker
Collegian Staff Writer
Dennis Galletta, instructor of
recently had a Cobol tex
tbook published. COBOL with
an Emphasis 'on Structured Pro
gram Design took Galletta two
years (mainly on nights and
weekends) to publish. Of the
7,500 copies initially printed, 270
copies have already been sold bas
ed only on drafts sent to potential
buyers.
Galletta comments,“(We ex-,
pect) the bulk of the sales in July
Penn State
Behrend Collegia
Behrend in 1970: In 1973, he
started writing calculus texts and
was later joined by Hostetler in
1975.
Larson comments, “We had
written three manuscripts for the
calculus texts, each 1,000 to 1,500
typed pages and the publisher
simply turned them down.” In
1976 they tried again with the
assistance of math instructor
David Heyd who wrote all of the
problems and their solutions.
Calculus Ist Edition eventually
came out in 1979, and alhougb it
was not an “instant success,’’
Larson says, “it did well for a
first time publication.”
They’ve published eight books
since then including Mathematics
for Everyday Living, Brief
Dennis Galletta, MIS Instructor
STATION ROAD, ERIE, PA 16563
Calculus with Applications , and
Calculus 2nd Edition. Calculus
Second Edition is currently the
third* best selling colli calculus
text and controls ten percent of
the market, which consists of ap
proximately forty different
authors. Close to one-third of all
students in the Penn State system
that take calculus use Larson and
Hostetler’s book, even though it is
not used at University Park.
Larson and Hostetler, with the
help of their colleagues (Heyd,
Zook, and Burrows) and several
students, will be busy for the next
few years writing new books and
revising old ones.
Larson explains, “Each group
of texts is revised in a four year
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or August. Prentice-Hall pro
jected (the sales of) 10,000 copies
per year.” Prentice-Hall’s top
books sell-about 70,000 per year.
A graduate of Gannon Univer
sity and a Ph.D candidate at the
University of Minnesota, Galletta
has been teaching at Behrend
since 1978. Other than COBOL ,
and the Instructor’s Manual to
COBOL , he has had an article
printed in Proceeding of the Se
cond International Conference on
Informative Systems in conjunc
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Reagan Budget May Shut Out
36% of P.S.U. Students
by Julie Reynolds
Collegian Staff Writer
If President Reagan passes his
new budget, 36 percent of Penn
State students will not receive
guaranteed student loans. His
proposal to limit student loans to
a maximum of $4,000 a year, and
cut loans to students whose
parents’ combined income is over
$32,000 a year may keep over one
third of Penn State students from
returning to school.
The Undergraduate Student
Government. at University Park
has become actively involved in
opposing the budget proposal. A'
meeting was held at University
Park Feb. 9 and student govern
ment representatives from all
Penn State branch campuses were
asked to set up lobbying cam
paigns and petitions at their
respective campuses.
Will Kappa Delta Rho Chapter
Be Formed at Behrend?
by Greg Rathbun
Collegian Staff Writer
Kappa Delta Rho (KDR), a new
service fraternity is being formed
at Behrend College with the help
of Tim Carley. Carley, a 4th
semester business major said,
“We are a service fraternity, but
we do have social activities. Our
motto is to be the best fraternity
on campus and to do it with
class.”
Kappa Delta Rho was establish
ed at Middlebury College in 1904.
It has a chapter fraternity at
In This Issue
Fraternity Plans Delayed...page3
Movie Series Offered page 7
Avoid Term Paper Blues, .page 8
Volleyball-A-Thon players raise
funds.... page 11
MARCH 1,1985
According to Doug Gerow, Stu
dent Government Association
(SGA) president, “There are ap
proximately 80,000 students in the
Penn State system. In order to
have an impact, we need students
from all the branches of Penn
State to write to the state and
federal legislature.” Gerow states
that the branch campuses play a
major role because what is needed
is a lot of letters from all areas of
the Penn State system, rather than
from one concentrated area.
Says Gerow, “A unified effort
of University Park and branch
campuses is what can make this
program a success. The goal of
the campaign is to make students
aware of what they can do to help
and get students all across the
state to write letters to the
legislators.”
University Park and will soon
have a colony at Behrend. Donald
Stohl, the executive director of
KDR, thinks that the Behrend col
ony will become a provisional
chapter with 35 people by the spr
ing of 1986. The Behrend colony
will probably be called Alpha Phi.
Carley recently called a meeting
where the future brothers elected
officers and discussed upcoming
events. Carley ran unopposed for
president; Mark Stanley, second
semester engineering major, won
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