PAGB FOUR
Editorial Opinion
All Set for Another
Hike in Your Fees?
Students who are residents of Pennsylvania last year
paid an average of 57 per cent more in fees than did their
counteiparts at “comparable land-grant institutions” in
other states.
This startling fact is revealed in President Eric A,
Walker’s “State of the University” report.
The standard fee paid the University is $350 a year.
This does not include activity, health service, residence
hall or dining fees. And, according to the report “students
studying at Penn State’s extension centers and campuses
paid even higher fees, of necessity set at levels which just
about covered the instructional costs involved.”
On the other hand, the report says, “the total state
appropriation was 35 8 per cent of the University’s income,
appreciably lower than the average for comparable land
grant institutions.”
Pennsylvania has long been known as a state not par
ticularly progressive in matters of educational and welfare
assistance. But the limited vision of the leaders of past
state governments is no reason why students should pay
$350 in fees yearly to attend the state land-grant institu
tion in Pennsylvania, while students in other state’s pay
an average of $223.
It should not be assumed that students at the Uni
versity have a right to expect special privileges in the
form of excessively low fees or that they are ungrateful
for the tremendous amount of aid the Commonwealth
now gives them.
But the state has an obligation to see that no promising
young person is denied a higher education for lack of
funds. It seems evident that Pennsylvania, one of the
richest and most populous states, is not meeting that obli
gation.
And it looks like the situation will get worse.
The legislature probably won't give the University
the $44 million President Eric A. Walker has requested
for the next biennium, but it can be expected to grant
part of the proposed $l6 million increase.
And, as has heen the policy in the past, the Board of
Trustees can be expected to raise student fees in a man
ner proportional with the increase in ihe state appropria
tion. v
We believe an increase in fees next fall would be
unfaii to students. But the only way to stop such an
increase is to convice both the trustees and the legislature
that they must make some changes in slicing up the
University’s budget pie.
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Anthem at Games
TO THE EDITOR: Can you ima
gine a church where the congre
gation and the choir all sit still
and listen while the organist
plays the music of inspiring and
uplifting hymns? Really the
words and music complement
each other. Probably all of us will
admit that the singing of the
words to the music adds a great
deal to the uplift of the soul.
I have heard on a few occasions
the singing of one stanza of the
National Anthem at football
games and indoor athletic events
and have always felt a deepened
sense of loyalty and gratitude to
my country. I experience similar
feelings when the Alma Mater «
sung.
Since I am not a student and
am bared from all indoor sports,
I am always to be found at the
radio when any athletic event is
being broadcast.
Music by the Penn State Band
or the electric organ is always
enjoyable, but I can not escape
the feeling that the student body
is missing something of great
value in not singing one stanza
of the National Athem at the be
ginning of each game and the Al
ma Mater (all stanzas) during the
intermission. In order to learn all
the stanzas of the National An
them, a different stanza could be
sung at different events.
In so doing we all will soon
learn the words of the Star Span
gled Banner and at the same time,
our sense of loyalty and devotion
to Uncle Sam will be greatly in
creased.
Why not give it a try at future
athletic events?
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UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
FEBRUARY 23
Little Man on Campus by Dick BiblM
"Worlhal's particular—he won't be seen with just anything."
Words to Spore
Added Challenges
For the Conniver
— By Dick Droyne
The new timetables which will come out next fall
listing classes offered for both fall and spring semesters—
should prove a great boon to the professional student, the
“academic conniver.”
The “conniver” is the student whose curriculum is
“how to go to school”; i.e., “col
legemanship.” The conniver ex
hausts his time and energy not
on the normal course of studies,
but rather on an extensive and
comprehensive plan on how to
handle college to best advan
tage, or, the turning to one’s
own benefit of the academic
world
Perhaps the primary con
cern of such a student, cer
tainly the most important day
to-day influence on his life, is
his'class schedule. His semester
is made or ruined by the ar
rangement of classes—-the cor
rect bunching together of hours
can provide a paradise of lei
sure time, while a sprinkling
of eight o’clocks and Saturdays
can bring such depression, and
gloom that even the weekend
is spent in despair over the
next week’s lineup.
And to such a student the
year-round timetable should
prove invaluable. The arrang
ing of the schedule will no
longer be a small-scale, blind
picking and choosing and hop
ing; for the whole academic
year will be laid out, challeng
ing the student to bend it to
his will.
No longer will the conniving
student take the eight o'clock
because he fears the course
will not be offered next se
mester; no longer will he sche
dule the hardest prof only to
find that the next semester the
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course has been given to the
easiest grader in the depart
ment.
For with the new timetable,
the year will be laid out in a
glittering panoply before the
student's dazzled eyes, and by
planning and weighing, inves
tigating arid measuring, the
perfect schedule may fall into
place.
But according to the profes
sional student, there are still
heights to climb in the depart
ment of idealizing college life
through the schedule.
One psych student, floored
by a series of eight o’clocks,
has gone on record as favoring
a list in the timetable of the
number of cuts allowed for
each course; the format sug
gested was: course number,
course description, section,
hours, room, instructor and
cuts.
Other advances have been
added to the list of possibilities
which lie behind the deceptive
simplicity of the timetable. For
instance, there could be a list
of the number of bluebooks in
cluded in the course, and whe
ther objective or essay; whe
ther pop quizzes are given;
whether a term paper is re
quired; cost of textbook; frat
ernity or sorority affiliation, if
any, of the instructor; grade
distribution during the last
semester; and remarks of stu
dents who have taken the
courses.
But even the most optimistic
of professional students do not
allow their hopes to rise this
high, for they realize that they
are still at the mercy of the
academic bureaucracy.
And when the practice sche
dules are put away, and the ta
bles are set up in Rec Hall, and
the great and the small become
as one in the Battle of the Reg
istration, then are all the
dreams and plans and wishes
trampled down and made into
dust by the grinning army of
the Closed Sections.