pennState
CAPITAL TIMES
WAR STIRS REACTION
AMONG STUDENTS
Since January 16, much has been
written regarding the Persian Gulf
Crisis. Instead of restating what has
already been printed in the past week, we
decided to let Penn State Harrisburg
students voice their concerns as we enter
week two:
Mike Rineer, 22,
Senior, Communications
Enola, Pa.
"I support the president 100%. We
should go into Iraq right now. The
longer it goes on the polls will change."
Sherry Asberry, 23
Senior, Communications
Middletown, Pa.
"[Saddam Hussein’s] out for his own
fame. I support our troops completely.”
Jim McGraw, 22
Senior, Environmental Engineering
Mechanichsburg, Pa.
"I think the war is going to last
longer then we originally thought.
[Hussein] is more powerful then we
predicted."
Robert Schrof, 23
Junior, Accounting
Unionville, Pa.
"I support the president because of
the nuclear potential Hussein was
attempting to create. We had to go to
war."
State strips University Hinds
Pot Byers
Capital Times Stqff
Penn State University was told to
return 5 percent of its state funding by
Governor Casey as a part of his $731
million deficit reduction program. This
involves giving back 3.5 percent of the
annual tuition challenge grant funds.
Last July the money was operating
revenue at Penn State for the 1990-91
school year. Within the next few weeks
it will become operating revenue for the
state.
Penn State Harrisburg Provost Ruth
Leventhal voiced concern over the
decision saying, "a cut of this magnitude
is very severe to the university,
particularly coming seven months into
the yearly budget."
Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg
Joe Hnatishion, 21
Senior, Accounting
Reading, Pa..
"[War] is something we had to do.
There were no other alternatives”
Harv Pittman
Lion's Den Cook
Middletown, Pa.
"I'm from the sixties and I was
against Vietnam. I am surprised that I
am in support of this war. If [U.S.
"If [U.S. Soldiers] are going to risk their lives
over there, we should support them."
soldiers] are going to risk their lives
over there we should support them"
Mark Jordan, 23
Graduate Student
Broomall, Pa.
"Saddam is a very sick man. I
support Bush's resolve to liberate
Kuwait and, in essence, terminate
Hussein. That will be the only way to
get Iraq to withdraw."
Brenda Bugdonovitch, 20
Junior, Elementary Education
"I support all of the people fighting
over there and hope they all come home
safely."
Steve Klein, 27
Professor Jim Hudson, head of the
college Faculty Council, said the budget
cuts should not directly affect the student
yet But, he added, the freeze has put a
hold on hiring new faculty, which could
create larger classes and eliminate others.
The cuts will come from supplies,
services, travel publications and other
program expenses within each
department. Expenses like
photocopying, long distance telephone
calls, and expensive field trips may be
cut.
Hudson said he’s seen worse budget
cuts in his 18 years at Penn State.
More than two-thirds of the
$145,000 that the college must return to
the state will come from non academic
.sector funds, said Elizabeth Fortner, head
of the Education department.
Senior, Finance
Philadelphia, Pa.
"We couldn't wait any longer, we had
to go in."
Mike Watts, 20
Junior, Humanities
Camarillo, Ca.
"I Support the war because Saddam is
a "mad man," he's stepped over the line
one too many times and now the check's
in the mail."
Suzanne Rosenblatt, 21
Senior, Public Policy
East Brunswick, N.J.
"I think Hussein wanted to take over
the entire Middle East, so we had to
invade.”
Madonna Onesky, 23
Senior, Secondary Education
Camp Hill, Pa.
"I back Bush 100%. I think anti-war
protesting in the U.S. is bulls-t"
Sylvia Badesso, 21
Senior, Secondary Education
Philadelphia, Pa.
"I think Hussein should have been
shot a long time ago. I hope it's a short
war with few casualties"
"The university is trying to find the
least painful way of finding the money
to return,” she said.
Professors who wish to attend
expensive international conferences are
being discouraged, she said.
I don’t think the student will notice
the differences," she said.
Leventhal agreed that the student
should not be affected right now, but
cautions against a future billion dollar
state budget deficit.
She points out that a large portion of
the deficit could again come from the
educational sector and that Penn State is
"vulnerable" toward losing its tuition
challenge money because the state did
not make the money a part of the
university's operating budget.
War Poll
The Capital Times polled 132
students at random to get their
reaction on the Gulf War. The
question posed was do you
support the current military action
taken the United States and its
allies. Are you for or against the
war? The staff realizes that this
question may seem vague on such
a complex subject, and this poll
only represents a purely
unscientific questioning of a
portion of the student body.
In Favor Against
109 23
She claims that in the past, the state
simply added on new money to the base
appropriation but this time with tuition
challenge money. Future budget cuts by
the governor may result in salary and
program cuts, as well as an increase in
tuition.
According to the budget document
the total operating budget which
annually exceeds $1 billion for Penn
State University and its branches is used
to support basic teaching, research,
public service programs, academic and
administrative activity.
The general funds budget feeds
programs in instruction, research,
academic support, student services,
student aid and special provisions.
See Funding on 4