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Vol. XXV, No. 4
Penn State University, Delaware County Campus
November 11, 1993
P.S.U. Proposed Activities Fee
Causes Campus Controversy
By John Bishop
At the beginning of the fall
semester of next year, Penn State Delco
students may find that an additional
fee has been added to their tuition. A
Student Activities Fee is designed to
help pay for campus activities which
may be subjected to budget cuts.
Although the exact amount that each
student will be required to pay is still
subject to change, it has been estimated
to be an additional twenty-five dollars
per student.
“Nothing is official yet,” stated
Mr. “Pete” Coleman, the Director of
Student Affairs.” I believe in some kind
of a an activity fee, but I'm not sure
this is the right time because of the
economic situation. I'm not sure if
low enrollment at Commonwealth
campuses will fuel a problem. When
we have an activities fee will it cut
down on the amount of money that
we now receive? I have some mixed
emotions about it, but I do think some
sort of student activity fee should be
put into effect. “
Mr. Coleman also noted that
“Nation wide, most colleges do have
an activity fee. I feel strongly that a
student activity fee should be
implemented.” Many Penn State
Delco students, however, regard the
proposed fee with uncertainty.
“I think the campus offers a solid
variety of activities but students are
not active enough,” explained Krupa
Daniels the president of the Multi
Cultural Group. "I think it’s the
students right to get involved or not.
It's not right to force students to be
involved by charging students for
activities which they may or may not
participate,” she said.
Although the Student activities
fee is not official, various student
leaders claim that it was passed at the
last Council of Commonwealth
Student Government meeting. This
means that the proposed draft would
then have to be passed by the Board of
Trustees. The student activity fee was
first presented to the students of Penn
State Delco at the October 6th Student
Government Association meeting.
“It was mentioned in the meeting
that there were three or four drafts
and all we got to see was a proposal
for one of the drafts. We don’t even
know what draft it was a proposal for.
Whenever anyone asked a question,
they were told ‘It’s in the draft’, but
where is the draft? We didn’t see a
draft all we saw was a proposal and
now we don’t even know which draft
was passed,” stated Gopal Patel, Vice-
President of the Multi-Cultural Group.
Melissa Gerace, the Freshman
Representative who voted on the draft
of the proposed Student Activity Fee
at the C.C.S.G, explained, “ Nothing is
‘official’ but it’s been amended, re-
amended and now the vote is closed.
Our campus was unprepared. The
York campus had an argument for
everything. The problem is our campus
didn’t even get to see the draft . How
do you propose changes for a draft
that you don’t even get a chance to
see?”
Amy McCarthy, President of the
Student Government Association, was
also present at the C.C.S5.G meeting and
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Delco Gets Fulbright Scholar
By Jennifer Holland
In Delco’s Schedule of Classes for
the Spring Semester of 1994, a new
instructor's name appears under the
history courses. Fulbright Professor
Dr. Adam Lui, of the University of
Hong Kong will be instructing the
“History of Modern East Asia” course.
He will also be working with
individual students on specific
projects, which will count as an
Independent Studies course.
Dr. Lui, who was born in Hong
Kong, is the first Fulbright scholar to
reside at a Commonwealth
Educational Campus at Penn State.
In 1962, Dr. Lui received his Bachelor
degree at the University of Hong
Kong. Two years later he received
his Masters. - He then obtained his
Ph.D. at the School of Oriental &
African Studies at the University of
‘London. In 1979, he got the Harvard
Yenching Grant to assist research on
Chinese History.
Dr. Lui is married and has one
child. His busy schedule includes
television appearances and public
forums. His TV credits include an
interview on September 5, 1990, with
TVB (Pearl and Jade stations, local TV
stations) on the 1898 Sino-British
convention on immigration from
China to Hong Kong. He also
appeared on the “Hong Kong Morning
Show”, on October 4,1990, dealing
with the nature of the Manchu laws of
family and marriage. At the
University of Hong Kong, Dr. Lui gave
the opening address on “History Day”
from 1987 until 1992 and recently gave
a luncheon talk to the Y’s Men's Club
of Hong Kong at the Mandarin Hotel
in March of 1992.
Students interested in taking Dr.
Lui’s class in the spring semester
should register now for History 175
and History 496.
“Dracula” (Brad Perok) takes a bite out of “Blood Drop” (SGA
President Amy McCarthy) at the recent campus Bloodmobile at which
68 pints were collected.
Photo by: WES TOMLINSON
SGA Missing Main Issues
By Nicole Gibbs
Is the Student Government
Association tending to issues essential
to the student body? John Bishop, ex-
secretary to the student government,
doesn’t think so.
Being an officer in the student
government, John got to see a lot of
things that go on behind closed doors,
as he calls it, “red tape.” When he
decided to leave his office, John had
some strong feelings about how the
S.G.A. was attending to to the needs
of the student body. He said, “I didn’t
think we represented students as well
as we cauld have. All I did was sit
there, take notes, and eat pizza.”
Many students could care less
about what goes on in the Student
Government Association, but those
students who do cannot help but
wonder what is being accomplished.
John felt that he and the other S.G.A.
officers did not spend enough time on
important things things that might
concern students.
John stated, “The S.G.A. does an
excellent job of organizing events like
picnics, pumpkin sales, and the up
coming dance, but it doesn’t deal with
a lot of student issues, student concerns
like petitioning for a traffic light in
front of the school and the proposed
student activity fee which may be
added to the cost of tuition are issues
which I am very interested in.
Unfortunately the S.G.A. is not
stuctured to deal with things like this
and these are the most important
things of all.”
John feels that one of the jobs of
the S.G.A. is to make students aware
of the decision being made about
tuition and different student affairs.
The S.G.A. is supposed to represent
the view and concerns of the student
body. Whether or not it accomplishes
this goal is a matter of opinion.
to the club recently.
U.S. Representative Curt Weldon meets with Literacy Club officers (1.
to r.) Phil McShane, Tina Cavaliere, and Mary Lawrence after speaking
Photo by: WES TOMLINSON