6/EDITORIAL S CAPITAL TIMES
eptember 21, 1992
Penn
Pepsi
Last summer PepsiCo made a $l4 million dollar deal with
Penn State University. Initially, it seems as though the
money came in the nick-of-time since the Pennsylvania State
Leglistature cut some of the university's funds.
But when you examine the numbers, the branch campuses
end up gaining little economically. It's common opinion that
University Park gets top priority when it comes to doling out
the funds. I guess that allocation of the Pepsi funds shouldn't
surprise us, but the flagrant breach of promise from the
administrators at University Park is becoming obvious.
Just last week during the Strategic Planning Committee
Meetings, Associate Provost Ernest K. Dishner called our
new library here at PSI-I "the number-one priority at
University Park." Maybe he should clarify the library as the
"number one academic priority."
That's because there are two types of priorities in the Penn
State University system---athletic and academic. And in the
infinite wisdom of the financial geniuses at main campus,
they chose to put $6 million toward a new
convocation/events center at University Park. The purpose
of this building is to host athletic and theatre events.
Another $6 million goes to the athletic department in
exchange for advertising and vending rights. The Pattee
Library gets $1 million and the Hetzell Union Building/Paul
Robeson Cultural Center gets a half-million-dollars. That
leaves a half-a-million dollars for the 20 branch campuses to
share.
Not only do the branch campuses receive crumbs, but the
money will trickle in over the next ten years. The allotment
to the branch campuses amounts to $2500 a year for ten years
for each campus. The PSH campus gets a whopping 0.2
percent from the Pepsi deal.
This slap-in-the-face comes at the same time as Joab
Thomas's mandate to cut our operating budget by 10 percent
over the next three years.
So in the spirit of Provost Leventhal's plea for suggestions
to alleviate this budget crisis, I would like to offer my
suggestion: Why not cut a private deal with Coca-Cola--
similar to the one at University Park, only on a smaller scale.
It's true we don't host football events, but if Coke had
exclusive rights here, I'm sure we would realize more than
$2500 a year.
We need a benefactor to get our new library started--why
not Coca-Cola? Yes, it sounds like a desperate proposal, but
I've lost faith in the decision makers at Univeristy Park to
honor our needs.
The only thing University Park has given us so far is lip
service and that does not help to erect a new building.
Lessons in cultural diversity
Dear Editor:
I just came from the "All Campus
Picnic/Concert" that was held today [Sept.
91 in the sculpture garden.
This picnic was a wonderful idea and a
nice thing to do for the faculty, staff and
students here at Penn State Harrisburg. I
had a nice time listening to the music and
eating my brownie with some lemonade.
Unfortunately, there was nothing else
there for me to eat but a lettuce salad!
All the other foods offered at the picnic
contained some kind of meat, namely
pork! Yes, it is my decision not to eat
State fails
challenge
Ann Feeney -ricUovern
Editor -Ln-ChLef
pork, and that decision might be based on
religion or vegetarian preferences, but I am
not the only one! If this is an "All
Campus Picnic," in a bogstingly
diverse university, why /doesn't it
cater to the diverse populations here on
campus?
Maybe someone should educate Penn
State Harrisburg as to what diverse means
before it labels itself as "Diverse Penn
State."
Jennifer Bresse Tazerouti,
Junior, Secondary Ed./English
Other grounds explored in
Dear Editor:
This letter is in response to an article
that appeared in the Sept. 4 issue of the
Capital Times titled, "No Middle Ground
in Reproductive Choice." This was a very
liberal article stating the benefits of
abortion. For those of you who are not
liberals and would like to hear the other
side read on.
First, let me state that I am not a
fanatic pm-lifer, and yes Lisa, I am a man.
And second, I think that abortion should
remain as a legal medical practice for
certain circumstances, such as you
mentioned in your article--severe
deformity, when the life of the mother is
in danger, rape, incest or when the mother
is very young. However, these account for
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"Gotta have it?"
abortion issue
only about 2 percent of the abortions
which occur in the United States each
year. The other 98 percent of abortions are
on adult women who became pregnant by
mistake. Perhaps if RU4B6 [abortion pill]
were legal, these abortions would be
tolerable, but how can our society consider
itself progressive when it condones high
suction hose and saline abortion
techniques that literally bum the baby
inside and out? (Remember, Lisa, the baby
feels pain at eight weeks.)
I would also like to answer many of
your statements. First, the morbid films
that women see are films of the actual
operations, which occur thousands of
See Letter, page 12