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Heading the list of topics to be discussed in the workshops and regionals of the conference is the Board of Student Life proposal. This Board, if adopted in the future by the University, may elimi nate student •government organizations and control every facet of the non-academic side of campus -life. Other topics to be discussed at the Conference are: dorm-polic ies concerning hours and visitation at Commonwealth Campuses, the W-20 rule concerning student publications, the proposed graduation of 2-year students on the campuses, housing, Senate selection, the Intercampus League Tournament, chartering of Commonwealth Campus organizations and the proposed Intergovernmental Rela tions .Act. According. to Donna Turjanica, conference secretary, only three campuses have thus far submitted topics for discussion, They are lialatend,, Fayette, and Ogontz. The Conference will open on Friday with registrations between 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Hetzel Union Building. Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency scholarship applications for the 1970-71 academic year beginning in September are available at the Office of Student Affairs. The applications are intended solely for students who currently are enrolled in the University but who are not presently receiving a State scholarship from this agency. The form also will be distributed to students who intend to en roll in the UniverSity this Fall but were graduated from high school prior to June of this year. Students who currently are receiving State scholarship grants will have renewal applications mailed to them later this month by ale agency. • All applications for PHEAA grants must be mailed to the agen cy no later than April 30. University Park, Pa. Feb.—ln recognition of _leis work in the field of higher education, Dr. Eric A. Walker, president of The Pennsylvania State University, has been awarded the All Pennsyl vania College Alumni Association of Washington, D.C., Citation. • The award was presented at a luncheon in Washington, the presentation made by the president of the Association, James R. Stoner, Washington attorney and graduate of Franklin and Mar shall College, Lancaster. Presidents and other representatives of ten Pennsylvania col leges attended the citation luncheon as distinguished guests. The engraved citation reads: "To Dr. Eric A. Walker. For out standing contributions toward preserving and extending the Amer ,can ideals of education." Dr. Walker, president of Penn. State since 1956, has announced his plans to retire on June 30 after 25 years at the University as professor and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering; director of the Ordnance Research Laboratory; dean of the College of Engineering; vice-president; and president. University Park - , Pa., Feb.—Officers of The Pennsylvania State University have advised students that their Spring tuition fees may have to be increased if the University's State appropriation is not forthcoming. In notices mailed Friday with all student billings for the Spring Term, the Office of the Bursar said: "Due to the current financial situation; the University may be forced to process a supplemental tuition charge during the Spring Term. This charge would be in addition to the regular tuition pay ment required in this billing." Current tuition charges for Pennsylvania residents are $2OO per Sirm for students at the University campus and $lBO for students at the University's 19 Commonwealth Campuses. Out-of-state residents are charged $450 per term at all loca tions. The University has submitted a $69.3 million budget request to the General Assembly for the 1969-70 fiscal year ,which began last July 1. Financial 'officers said a final decision on the potential _in crease in tuition, including the additional amount to be charged, would have to be made by late March in the absence of the Uni versity's requested appropriation. Tuition was last increased by $25. per term for Pennsylvanians and $5O per term for non-Pennsylvanians with the beginning of the current academic year last Septeinbei. - OSGA Conference Agenga Approved PHEAA Scholarship Applications Available President Walker Receives Citation Increase In Spring Tuition Predicted Tilt ?Tiffany TIM liW . . , l' 1 .i1!13M.,. . i . U i . , a L . OZ 1 N .aalA.h,W A . & . i . M . ._t i X U 1 ! b . a 1 M . W 1 A a Volume XXI—No. 17 Black Problem is Symptom Not Cause; States Phillips "Racism . . . began when our economic system needed cheap labor . . . the slave." This was the starting point of the Reverend Charming Emery Phillips' speech as he spoke to a crowd of over 200 in the Reed Lecture Room Wednesday evening. Phillips said that the black man is not a prob lem, but a systom of the problem. The problem is the "blighted eco nomic system," he stated, but dealing with the system keeps the American Society from dealing with the problem. Our economic problem can be stated in a nutshell, "We spell success in terms of 'profit', not how man develops as a human being," he said. Corporations have a power nearly equal to the visible government. For example Viet Nam) he quoted corporations (referring to our involvement in who were asked if they were ready to switch their production to the task of rebuilding our cities if we pull out of Viet Nam replied "No," and that they were "look ing forward" or increased military prolits. In the same Vein, Phillips stated that our defense blidget is 60% greater than the total income of India, while India's popula tion. is 2 1 // 4 times greater than ours. This is exemplary of our economic imbalance. He pointed out that at the same ROTC Added At Behrend In conjunction with the new 4- year program at. Behrend, it will also be possible upon graduation to receive a commission as a 2nd Lt. in. the 11. S. Army Reserve through Army ROTC. In general, the program con sists of a six week basic summer camp which will be conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and enroll ment in ROTC for two years. In the fall of the Junior year, those students who elect the 2 year 'ROTC program sign a contract which obligates them for two years of active duty upon grad uation and commissioning. Those students signing this contract immediately begin drawing $50.- 00 per month. During the sum mer following the Junior year each attends another six week summer camp which is located at Indiantown Gap Military Re servation near Harrisburg, Pa. After commissioning, officers nor mally report to active duty with in one to twelve months. The ex ceptions to this policy are those Cadets who are deferred to at tend graduate schools. Captain Lockwood, ROTC Gan non, College, will be in the Reed Seminar Room at 11:00 on Feb ruary 25 to discuss the 2 year ROTC program with those inter ested made sophomores. time as this economic system is flourishing, we are heading to ward a police state. There is a 4. . . pattern of suppression emerging," he remarked. For ex ample, the President had buses "ring th White House" to protect him from his constituents during the November Moratorium, or the purge of the Black Panthers. The . blighted economic system" is a "controlling Monster" which is giving dignity and respectabil ity to man's "baser instincts and Clockwise from center are Sheldon Greenwald, Charly Lee, Kathy Aloe, Eddie Fine, Denise Muia, and Terri Loftus. They are part of the cast of "Feiffer's People" which is being presented in the RUB Lecture Rm., Feb. 26, 27, 28, 8:30 p.m., $l.OO admission. Lobbyists Charge $ $ Lack Due To Politics UNIVERSITY PARK (APS)—Student lobbyists charged Tues day that political realities have blocked the University's $6.9 mill ion budget request in the State General Assembly. Don Paule and Tom Stillitano, Penn State's members of the Four University Coordinating Committee, return ed. here from Harrisburg Tues day after more than two weeks lobbying for the University's ap propriation. Stillitano, representing the Oragnization of Student Govern ment Associations (OSGA), said that the next step in the ap propriations drive will be a tele phone campaign in conjunction with the Commonwealth Cam puses. The Penn State committee is urging students to contact par ents about phoning the home of fices of their representatives. Paule said efforts to secure al locations have not ended, but there will be no "probable solu tions within the next two weeks." The committee members, met with legislative leaders and Gov. Ray- February 20, 1970 deemphasized our more noble in stincts . . . We don't see man as a greedy . . . self-protective crea ture . . ." he said. We can find man wrong only through his ig norance. Too many people hold the idea—educate the black man and your problems will be solved but all evidence points to the con trary. "Our economic system of wealth concentrated in the hands of a few is on a collision course (Continued on Page 3) mond P. Shafer to discuss possi bilities. The committee may have to take a different form of action, according to Paule. Student rep resentatives from Penn State University of Pittsburgh, Temple University and University of Pennsylvania are meeting this week to reappraise the situation and decide on. a course of action, Groups at the four state-:e lated universities will •be organ ized to "urge certaM candidates to seek legislative offices," Paule said. One student leader here has reported that a potential candi date may come from the student body. The House of Representatives wlil consider 41 bills concerning (Continued on Page 3)
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