Freshmen adujust to campus life with
the assistance of First-Year programs
freshmen finance major said
he didn't know ANGEL exist
ed until he attended his First-
Year-Seminar class. "The
class for freshmen are really
helpful when it comes to
becoming familiar with the
campus and the University in
general," Kanchanasaku!
“The peer mentoring is good
for freshmen because they
might be more comfortable
talking to me about a problem
than to a professor and I can
direct them to the right place,"
said Kane.
Currently 63 freshmen live
on campus. Accomidations
for freshmen are primarily in
the 3000 and 4000 housing
Photo by Jennifer Kauffman
Lewis Kennedy,freshman Arcitectural Engineering major and Grego Bosley,
freshmen Electricial Enginering get down to work in the freshmen dorms.
Freshmen are adujusting to life away from home and making new friends.
Turgeon talks tough
have children you realize
that that is true. When I was
growing up, even if one of
my parents or grandparents
weren't around, the next
door neighbor was watching
and I couldn't get away with
anything. Very few communi
ties do that now. People are
afraid to get involved. Some
parents will say don't you
touch my kid. that’s my job
as a parent. I can guarantee
you that that kid is going to
be in trouble. I think we need
to change society to become
more responsible as well as
parents,” she said.
Turgeon talked about the
fairly recent phenomenon of
children being tried in court
as adults.
“The big push now c *o sen
tence children as adul ■>." aid
Turgeon. "I do not support
that concept but mou: and
more kids today ore ec.-mg
transferred to adult m:i:i for
prosecution and that s , ;I , e to
the legislature. Uncle the
Tom Ridge adminicleiW n.
they changed the juvenile
law to make more ( nines
adult crimes. That e me
political climate of iim v
she said.
Another issue that is usually
an occasion for heated
debate is mandatory mini-
mum sentencing. Turgeon
revealed her belief in the
cynical nature of their origin.
“I think that they're the politi
cians answer to re-election,”
buildings according to
George Young, coordinator of
Resident-Life. Programs were
held to help freshmen adjust
to living in the dorms. “How to
Adjust to Life on Campus”
was held on Aug 28 and “We
are an Apartment Family-
Now What?" held on Sept. 9
are a few programs present
ed Resident-Life. Staff mem
bers attended training cours
es specializing in freshman
student life to better assist
the first-year students.
The full list of majors is
available on the Penn State
Harrisburg website
at http://www.hbg. psu.edu/
hbg/programs/undergrad/i
ndex.html.
said Turgeon. “They don’t
serve the community well,”
she said
Turgeon talked about the
current sentencing guidelines
in PA.
“There are some guidelines
that I would like to change,”
said Turgeon. “Now you can
go to jail for three years if
you have three grams of
crack in your pocket versus if
you sexually assault a child
where the guidelines can be
as low as restorative sanc
tions and thatfs just wrong,”
Turgeon said.
Sentencing an individual to
do hard time is a heavy bur
den for even the most sea
soned judge. Turgeon
explained the process she
goes through when faced
with having to make such a
decision
"It's rough” admits Turgeon
“When you send somebody
away for twenty years or life
in jail you realize that you’re
taking that person’s freedom
away for a long time. But,
you also have the victim or
the victim’s survivors in the
courtroom and no matter
how long I put you in jail I
camt bring this life back that
you have ruined or devastat
ed that they have to live with
everyday of their life. So,
there’s no way for justice to
occur in a courtroom at a
sentencing because you
can t restore somebody’s life
who’s been harmed by ade
tendant.” she said.
Tips for
Freshmen
1. Cramming for
tests never works.
2. Go home to do
laundry to save $$
3. Eat at least one
meal per week
that doesn’t come
with a tray.
4. Class atten
dance is not
optional.
Penn State tuition goes through the
roof before semester begins
Newspaper survey
says Penn State has
most expensive in
state tuition
By MARTHA RAFFAELE
AP Education Writer
HARRISBURG, Pa.
recent newspaper survey
ranks Penn State University’s
tuition and fees the highest
among the nation's major
public universities, but the
university’s president said
Thursday he doesn’t expect
that distinction to stigmatize
his school.
This year, incoming Penn
State freshmen who are
Pennsylvania residents are
paying $10,856 in tuition and
fees, making it the most
expensive of the 67 “flagship”
public universities surveyed
in 50 states by USA Today.
The survey was published in
Wednesday’s editions of the
newspaper.
“Price itself isn’t a stigma, or
else no one would go to
Harvard or any one of the
many Pennsylvania private
schools that cost two or three
times as much as Penn
State.” university President
Graham Spanier said. “But it
doesn’t feel right to me for
the Commonwealth’s flagship
university to cost $lO,OOO ’
Penn State's tuition and fees
are 12 percent higher than in
the 2003-04 school year, and
30 percent higher than in
2002-03.
‘They’re jacking up prises for
everything these days. Here,
they’re building a lot of new
stuff, and I’m not sure I know
why,” said Nathan Baldwin, a
sophomore from the
Pittsburgh area. “I get finan-
Photo by Jennifer Kauffman
. Mike Staley, Pre-law major, eric Perera, Business major, Anthony Ike,Business
major, Joseph D. Brown, finance major enjoy lunch in the Towne Square
before heading off to class.
Video games are important for stress relief. These freshmen hang out in the
dorms letting off some steam from thier first week of classes at Penn State
Harrisburg. After they complete the games they will need to clean up.
cial aid, but as far as me and
my family goes, we’re pretty
much strapped.”
Penn State is one of three
schools whose annual costs
exceed $lO,OOO, according to
the survey. The others are
Rutgers University, at
$10,460, and the University
of Vermont, at $10,226.
Spanier attributed the higher
costs to a series of cuts in
state funding in the past
three years. Penn State’s
appropriation declined from
$334.8 million at the begin
ning of 2001-02 to $307.8
million in 2003-04 because of
the state’s budget woes.
“We aren’t happy about being
so expensive, since it chal-
lenges the fundamental con
cept of being a public univer
sity accessible to all. But this
is the unfortunate reality in
Pennsylvania after decades
of underfunding public higher
education,” Spanier said.
State aid for the current fiscal
year increased by 3 percent
to $317.2 million. It accounts
for about 11 percent of the
university’s budget.
Despite the funding cuts, the
university’s enrollment has
consistently grown. According
to the most recent figures, fall
2003 enrollment reached an
all-time high of 83,177 stu
dents.
The university received more
than 51,000 undergraduate
applications for the 2003-04
school year, and expects to
be “very close to that" this
year, said Randall Dieke,
assistant vice provost for
enrollment management and
director of undergraduate
admissions.
In 2002, the university
embarked on a five-year
campaign to raise $lOO mil
lion in need-based scholar
ships in response to declining
state funding. About $2O mil
lion has been raised so far,
Spanier said.
Penn State also recently
completed a separate cam
paign that raised more than
$1.3 billion, of which $3B mil
lion was set aside for
endowed scholarships.
Incoming freshmen receive
an average financial aid
package of $4,459,
spokesman Tysen Kendig
Ben Wygant, a junior major
ing in recreation and parks
management, receives some
financial aid and supplements
it by working during summers
and school breaks.
“I talk to a lot of my friends
who go to state schools, and
my sister goes to a state
school, and it’s a lot cheaper
than it is here,” said Wygant,
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