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Published by students of the Hazleton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University Hazleton, Pa*
.arate demonstration for Festival 10 (photo by Tim Mueller)
Arts Festival:
Something for everyone
"Patterns of Culture" is
this year's theme for the
eleventh annual Hazleton Pine
Arts Festival, to take place
at Highacres on May 7,8, and
9. The festival, which brings
together a great variety of
artists- from all over the coun
try, is sponsored by the Great
er Hazleton Fine Arts Council
in cooperation with the Penn
sylvania Council of the Arts
and the Endowment for the Arts.
Colleg
There's something for every
one at this year's festival.
Everitt Binns, Assistant to the
Bean of Student Affairs and a
co-chairman of the festival,
anticipates a minimum of 7500
persons attending the festival
this year (last year's attend
ance was 5000)., Says Binns,
"The festival is one of the
high points of the campus year.
It shows the community that the
-campus is involving itself in
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ian
Budget falls short
UNIVERSITY PARK—Gov. Milton
J. Shapp in his budget message
last month recommended an ap
propriation of $106,730,000 for
The Pennsylvania State Univer
sity for 1976-77.
The amount is an increase of
$4,022,000 or 3*91 percent in
crease over the $102,708,000
appropriated for the current
year.
University officials last
September had requested
$118,711,000 or an increase of
15.58 percent over the 1975-
7 6 appropriation. The request
included $5,690,000 for medical
education programs in the Col
lege of Medicine at The Milton
S. Hershey Medical Center of
the University, urging an in
crease in the per capita amount
for medical education from the
level of $7,465 that has been
in effect for a number of years
to $lO,OOO. The budget recom
mended by the Governor main-
tains. the $7,465 per capita
amount.
SGA elections
to be held
Elections for the office of
Student Government President
and Vice-President will be held
on April 5.
Ballots may be. cast in the
Commons from 9to 5 p.m., or
in the Bining Hall during meal
time.
To date, those running are
Ron Topolski foii' president with
Greg Bianchini as his running
mate for vice-president and Ron
Brum for president, with John
Page as his running-mate for
vice-president.
Elections for the office
of SGA Representatives will be
held May 10.
March 31* 1976
Vol. 11, No. 6