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In Attempt To Hold Down Tuition
Oswald Pleads
For More
State Money
Harrisburg, Pa., —Dr.
John W. Oswald, president
of The Pennsylvania State
University, today urged
approval .of the 1975-76
appropriation request of the
University.
He emphasized at the
hearing before the House of
Representatives Appropria
tions Committee that Penn
State’s request for $114.5
million is designed to
achieve six major objectives,
essential for the continued
effective operation of the
University. The objectives
are to:
--Cope with the inflated
costs of operation.
--Provide equitable salary
increases.
-Meet mandated State Re
tirement and Social Security
costs.
—Keep Penn State open to
the average Pennsylvania
family by holding down
tuition increases.
—lmprove the medical edu
cation per capita reimburse
ment which has gone four
years without an increase.
-Restore research and ex
tension program levels.
“We are deeply aware of
the difficult financial prob
lems faced by you and the
Governor at the present
time,” President Oswald
emphasized to the Commit
tee. “We are attempting to
do everything we can to deal
with the fiscal realities.
“Nevertheless, it is espe
cially critical that we
communicate to you the
serious problems for Penn
State that would be created
by an appropriation at the
level proposed in the
Governor’s budget docu
ment.”
Summer
3n Cnglanti
Penn State-Capitoi Cam
pus is offering a summer
education course which will
include a two-week trip to
England. The course will
begin with the summer term,
June 9, and the two week trip
will be taken from June 16
through July 1.
The purpose of the trip will
be to observe and participate
in the classrooms of
England. Students on the
trip will also explore British
teaching methods for pos
sible use in American
classrooms.
According to Dr. David
Ongiri, assistant professor
of education, the six credil
course is limited to 4C
persons. Ongiri stated thal
the classroom visitations
will be done in the city ol
Nottingham, England.
Persons interested in this
course should contact Dr
David Ongiri; call 787-7969
BOOKS OPEN
The SGA Treasurer's books
•re open to the public and can
be seen by appointment with
Jack Henry, Treasurer.
The amount recommended
is $l4 million short of the
appropriation requested.
Emphasizing the need to
keep Penn State open to the
people of Pennsylvania, Dr.
Oswald noted that his
appropriation request was
based on a strong policy
intention to avoid a tuition
increase in 1975-76. He
reminded the Committee
that Penn State tuition is
already among the highest in
the Nation for a state
university.
“With the University pri
marily dependent on two
sources of revenue, State
appropriations and tuition, a
substantial tuition increase
will be unavoidable if
appropriation amounts are
under the amounts con
sidered essential,” Dr. Os
wald said.
An inadequate appropri
ation presents critical prob
lems in other areas, too, Dr.
Oswald explained. These
include:
Salary increases, a high
priority item, which should
be at least commensurate
with those received by
personnel in other edu
cational institutions, gov
ernment, and private indus
try in the Commonwealth.
Costs for additional fuel
and utilities, up $2 million in
spite of extensive conser
vation efforts now in effect.
Cost of goods and
services necessary for de
partmental operations, a
problem becoming more
critical because most de
partmental budgets have
been reduced in recent years
and cannot be further cut
without seriously affecting
Records Vanishing
University Park, Pa.,
The Bicentennial cele
bration offers Americans in
all parts of the country a
great opportunity to learn
more about their past,
according to Dr. Frederick R.
Matson, newly elected pre
sident of the Archaeological
Institute of America (AIA).
And they had better take it
because time is very short.
Within the next decade,
much of the record will be
gone, warns Dr. Matson,
research professor of ar
chaeology at The Penn
sylvania State University.
Dr. Matson is encouraged by
the so-called Salvage Act
recently passed by Con
gress, which specified that
when any new contracts for
salvage or road building are
let, there must be a line item
providing for archaeological
studies before work begins.
“What is needed is both
professionally trained ar
chaeologists and volunteers
to work under their direction
to study and preserve site;
about to disappear undr
new shopping plazas, pari
ing lots and highways”, Di
Matson points out.
Projects funded by loc«
and national Bicentennii
commissions may suppoi
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REPORTER
The XGI softball team is leaving tonight (Friday) to
_■ participate in the softball tournament at University Park.
SV||i|lf Good luck! Don’t get too drunk!!
® j The bathtub race is on for Wednesday, May 7 at 1 pm
starting from the student center. The race will be run
around campus and the XGl’s will be right in there! We
hope we don’t get a mechanical failure like the XGl’s did
last year. Pres. Paul Skodacek worked on the tub last
weekend and is now looking for a crew of healthy pushers
- (that is bathtub pushers) to assist in getting the XGI tub
around campus. Should be great fun!!
On the sports scene, as of the time of this writing, the
XGI softball team is 3 and 0, and the bowling team is 14
and 10. Get your deposits in ($4) for the Phillies and
Braves baseball trip scheduled for Friday, May 16th.
The XGl’s went to the Shaeffer Brewery for a tour on
Friday night, April 25th and some of them have not been
seen since! I hope they will recover soon! It was reported
that Edna was trying to salvage some cans for her beer
and soda can drive!
At the meeting of April 15, James McFarland and David
Lang from University Center were officially accepted into
the frat and drank from the Friendship Mug. Of course,
yours truly sent the wrong person in to drink from the mug
the first time, but by this time, some of the people were
kind of starry-eyed and probably would not have known
the difference were it not for a certain few rowdies!
Spring Picnic Get your questionaire on the picnic into
the frat office! The picnic will be held on Saturday, May
31,1975 at Don Braun’s farm. Of course, alumni are the
frat’s invited guests. Rain date will be Sunday, June Ist.
University Park, Pa.,
A preliminary report on
smoking in classrooms and
other public facilities of the
University was presented at
a meeting of the University
Council.
Dr. Helen A. Guthrie, a
member of the subcom
mittee, in making the report,
said that the committee has
been examining the prob
lems from the standpoint of
health, safety, visual ap
pearance of facilities, per
sonal discomfort, and cus
todial and maintenance
problems.
She noted that the
subcommittee has had ex
tensive comments from
many sources over the past
few weeks and that the sub
committee, chaired by Dr.
Walter H. Walters, has
examined previous smoking
regulations, adopted in 1958
and 1964, which were
concerned primarily with
safety rather than health
hazards or personal ob
jections to smoking.
Council also continued its
discussion of ventilation and
other conditions in class
rooms as they relate to the
quality of instruction and
discussed these matters
with Ralph F. Spearly,
director of physical plant
maintenance and oper
ations, and William L.
Hetrick, director of physical
plant administration, who
attended the meeting.
The matter of classroom
smoking arose in this
discussion and was blamed
for some of the problems
that result in classrooms
where ventilation for one
reason or another is limited.
this work.
The record is still there. In
clearing the area around
Philadelphia’s Independence
Hall, for example, to create
the present park, excavators
found the shells of colonial
structures buried in older
buildings, small houses that
had been expanded over and
covered up in later times.
“There is real colonial and
19th century archaeology
waiting to be uncovered in
Pennsylvania”, continues
Dr. Matson, who has
supervised numerous exca
vations in this country and
the Near East.
A member of Penn State’s
faculty since 1948, Dr.
Matson was first appointed
as a professor of ceramics.
In 1953, he was named
professor of archaeology
and from 1957 to 1966 also
served as an assistant and
associate dean for research
and graduate study in the
Boycott Light-Meat Tuna
The Sierra Club has now
joined with a number of
other conservation groups in
support of a nationwide
boycott of “light meat” tuna.
This action was taken to
prtest the failure of the tuna
industry to comply with the
Marine Mammal Protection
Act of 1972 which allowed
tuna fishermen two years in
which to develop techniques
for taking yellowfin tuna
which would not entail the
slaughter of thousands of
porpoises. At issue is a
fishing technique developed
in the 1960’s by American
tuna fishermen in the
eastern tropical Pacific
which capitalizes on the
observed tendency of
yellowfin tuna to travel
below pods of porpoises.
Upon sighting the porpoises
on the surface, the fisher
men use motor launches to
drive them into nets where
the porpoises become en
trapped and are unable to
reach the surface to breathe,
resulting in death by
drowning. When the nets
are pulled up, the dead
porpoises are separated
from the tuna and thrown
back into the ocean.
It should be noted that
other species of tuna are not
taken in this way and,
indeed, other methods are
available for taking yellowfin
tuna. Japanese fishermen
catch twice as much tuna as
the Americans without
slaughtering porpoises. The
National Marine Fisheries
Service of the Department of
Commerce has capitulated
to pressure from the tuna
industry and, in a move to
subvert the intentions of the
Marine Mammal Protection
Act, has issued regulations
which would permit the
killing of up to 130,000
porpoises per year.
You are urged to support
this boycott by not buying
yellowfin tuna, which ap
pears on supermarket
XGI REPORTER
Jom Jensen
shelves as “light meat” or
“chunk light” tuna. Albacore
and Bonita are not fished
“on porpoise” and are not
being boycotted. In
addition, we suggest that
you write to the American
Tuna Association, 1 Tuna
Lane, San Diego, Cal. 92101,
telling them why you are not
buying light meat tuna.
Rohrbach Elected
Larry Rohrbach, Veterans
Coordinator at Penn State-
Capitol Campus, was re
cently elected President of
the Pennsylvania Associa
tion of Veteran Program Ad
ministrators (PAVPA).
Thirty colleges and uni
versities from the Common
wealth attended a meeting in
Harrisburg to formally or
ganize the state association.
PAVPA has been founded
for several reasons: 1) to
develop better communi
cations and active cooper
ation between participating
institutions; 2) to identify all
agencies within the Com
monwealth which provide
services to veterans and
develop a summary of those
services; 3) to offer assis
tance to individual insti
tutions in alternative funding
for veterans programs in
higher education; 4) to
promote the extension of
educational opportunities to
all veterans and dependents.
CAPITOL TRAILWAYS
TOURS
In the past several issues
of the C.C. Reader, Capitol
Trailways advertised tours
such as Mac Davis and John
Denver concerts. Our
readers will be interested in
their future programs. One
such tour is the 100th
running of the Preakness.
This event includes a
Preakness Party, and a trip
to Penn National Race Track.
Students can enjoy these
trips. They are total package
deals containing round trip
transportation and reser
vations.
MAY 1, 1975