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Editof la! Opinion
University Must Have
Higher Appropriations
The $34 million figure Governor David L. Lawrence
has asked for the University's biennium is a severe
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Lawience's recommendation, included in yesterday's
budget presented to the state legislature, falls nearly
Slu mill,on short of the amount President Eric A. Walker
had asked for the University, and is a scant four and one
half rwllion dollars above the amount granted for the
last bieoniutn.
This drastic blow to the University's finances comes
in the face of costly expansion plans aimed at preparing
the University for the tremendous educational demands
of the near future.
If Lawrence's request goes through the legislature
unchanged, it will put the University on a two-year auster
ity program it can ill afford at this, the most important
point in its history. This is what will happen:
E.,„ansion plans will come ,to a virtual standstill.
Em ollrnent figures will be frozen, and planned increases
dropped. Present research projects will be crippled, and
no new projects will be undertaken. The state-wie_ sys
tem of campuses for undergraduates and extension pro.
grarrv, for adults will be curtailed.
Perhaps most disappointing, the $8.3 million asked
for increase in faculty salaries will have to be shelved
for at least two years.
And, Walker said, as a last resort tuition and fee
charges may have to be raised to make ends meet.
It comes as a shock that Lawrence has asked so little
for the University at the very time it needs so much.
Granted the state is in a financial quagmire, and that it
can't afford to give as much as it would like for all re
quests; still it seems almost incredible that the governor
would ask such a slice in the request of the official state
university, in view of the tremendous pressure for educa
tion which has hit this country in the last few years.
And ev'n more surprising after a close look at Law
rence's budget message is that fact that he has asked
almost the same percent of increase for the other three
large state-aided institutkns, Pitt, Penn and Temple, as
he has for the University.
This is unreasonable, for these three institutions have
large private endowments to fall back on, while the Uni
versity is almost totally dependent on the state. Penn
State is, as Walker aptly put it, the ward of the state; it
will be a neglected one if the present budget request Is
not changed.
Lawrence's $34 million isn't enough—the University
has too much to do. It has to carry the burden of educating
the young people of the state. It has to provide a center
for a string of Penn State campuses. It has to develop
as a research center for state agencies and services. It has
to provide library facilities for the backbone of a planned
state library system. It has to raise the salaries of its
present long-suffering faculty members and have the
funds to attract more professors as the future demands.
President Walker will personally go before the state
legislature to request a boost in the University's appro
priations. The legislature must heed his request: there's
too much at stake not to.
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Letters
Fraternity Men's
'Secret' Cited
TO THE EDITOR: IFC President
Edward Hintz is to be congratu
lated for his deep insight, as evi
denced m Friday's Collegian arti
cle where he is quoted as saying
that "mental blocks have been
developed against the fraternity
system in the minds of freshmen
and these must be removed to
insure enough manpower to fill
the fraternities."
This is indeed an ominous prob
lem, and the casual observer can
easily see why so many worthy
Greeks fear and hate the de
ferred rushing system. God for
bid that too many freshmen learn
to live as independents and (poor,
misguided souls) like it—for once
the secret that four-fifths of the
men on campus have apparently
already discovered leaks out to
the fifth from whence the frat
ernity men of tomorrow will
come, Mr. Hintz and his Council
will need more than vigorous ad
ministration backing to solve
thPir problem.
However, there is one man who
may be able to help--and a Penn
State graduate, at that. His name,
of course. is Vance Packard, au
thor of that popular best seller,
"The Hidden Persuaders."
—Pamela Chamberlain, '6O
Gazette
TODAY
Christian Fellowship. 12:30 p.m., 213 HUB
Clasaified Ad Staff, 0:30 Dan., main office
Collegian Promotion Staff, 6:43 p.m, 215
Willard
Communion, 5:15 p.m., Wesley Foundation
Commuters, 12:30 p.m., 41 McElwain
Cwens. 5:15 p.m.,218 HIM
Dancing Class. 415 p m.. 6:30 p.m., DUB
Ballroom
Delta Sigma Pi, 7:30 p.m , Pi Kappa Phi
Freshman Regulations. 12:30 p.m., 212 HUB
' , rash Advisory Board, Telephone Commit.
tee and Secretariat, 1 p.m., 203 RUB
Home Economies Club Banquet, 5 :30 p.m.,
Methodist Center
1.C.G., 8 p.m., 202 RUB
Judicial. 6:15 p.m., 217 RUB
Marine Recruiting, 8 a.m.. RUB Cardroorn
hinder Board Lecture Series. 7 p.m., HUB
Asqembly
Neu Bayriseben Sehubplattlers. 7 p.m.. t
White Hall
Newman Club, Mixed-marriage Instructions,
7:45 p.m., Student Center
Nittany Grotto. 7 D.m„ 121 -Mineral In.
dustrie4
Philosophy Club, Juirer•Pas, "Unamuno's
Existentialism," 7:90 p.m., 212 -HUB
&xis) Recreation Committee, 5:00 p.m.,
212 HUB
Spring Week Publizity, 7 p.m., 216 HUB
Wesley Choir, 8;15 p.m., Wesley Fotinda
don
Young Republicans, 7:30 p.m., 218 RUB
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Brenda Dinkier, Arnold Bleiweis, Jack
Crosby. Albert Griffith, Bertram Herman,
Patricia Kampmeter, Linda Katzman, Rob.
ert Lott. Martha Manley. William Mendi.
eino. William Meyer, Barbara Reber, Carol
Rubinson. Rafael Santiago. Anita Shel
drake, William Updegrove.
Job Interviews
MARCH 28
Parke. Davis & Co.: BS: CHEM, BAcT.
200: MS: CHEM
Simmons Co.: BS:
ACCTG, BUS BIM
ECON, FIN, MKTG.
Erie Remiator Corp:: BS: CH E, EE. ENG
SCI, lE, PHYS. GRADS: F.E. PHYS.
The Lincoln Electric Co.: BS: CER. CH E,
CHEM, EE, ME. METAL, PAYS
Square "D" Co.: DS: EE.
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The international Nickel Co., Inc,: BS &
GRADS: METAL, lE.
Cummins Engine Co., Inc.: 135 & GRADS:
ACCTG, LA, BUS ADM. ME, EE, lE.
The National Drug Co.: BS: MKTG,
ECON. LA.
Carrier Corp.: BS A GRADS; ME
Camp Interviews
The following camps will interview at
the Student Employment Service. 112 Old
Main. Appointment must be made in ad.
Vance.
Camp Conrad Weiser, Reading, Pa.; (Men);
Mar. 3. 4.
Camp Wise. Ohio: (Men and Women?:
Mar. 5. 6
Camp Green Lane. Green Lane. Pa.; (Wom
en) ; Mar. 7.
Camp Quinibeelc, Vt.: (Women,: Mar. 19.
Stations to Broadcast
"Just New in Literature"
"Just New in Literature" will
be presented tonight over WDFM
and WMAJ.
Anita Kurman will interview
John Barth, professor of English
literature. Barth is the author of
"The Floating Opera," "The End
of the Road" and a third novel
just completed and as yet un
published.
The purpose of the program is
to acquaint students and towns
people with prominent campus
authors and to bring an aware
ness to the listening audience that
books, other than texts, should be
read.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Sibiu
"Oh, for heaven's sake. Fenslausky—not ANOTHER
note from that English teacher."
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Any Ads For
Liberal Artists?
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by lynn ward
Recently several of the colleges in this University
have come under jestful attack in these columns by
members of the Collegian's Board of Editors.
Criticism and acclaim has come to the writers of
these columns.
One particular criticism re
mains to be considered—that
all the writers are students in
the College of the Liberal Arts
and they have some evaluating
to do of that college.
Such is our
task.
Everyone.
(p a rticularly,
the home ee-
ers, the Bouc
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the el ed ers) •
know that four 0 . ..„
years spent in 7,
the liberal arts - ' .
prepares a •
would-be
graduate f o r
no p r a c tical MISS WARD
occupation.
This is certainly a serious
consideration.
What can the liberal artist
do but discuss science, phil
osophy, literature, the arts, tne
social sciences, the humanities
and so on? What kind of sal
aries do you get as a conver
sationalist -these days—or par
ticularly in times of recession?
Certainly he is a misfit in
our society of specialized engi
neers in their engineering
world, of chemists in the:r
chemistry world, of business
men in th ei r organization
world.
The liberal arts colleges
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yearly release into our society
thousands of students who pre
cipitate chaos by insisting
these specialists neglect thew
sacred duties to learn to com
municate with other people.
The liberal artist disrupts
the pattern of society by try
ing to relate the mysteries of
science to the agencies of de
fense. by drawing out of the
classics the time-proven bits
of philosophy for consideration
by the laymen, by demanding
these engineers enjoy them
selves while not working.
But the liberal artist says he
is a thinker. He claims he
thinks in different dimensions
in different tones and qualities.
See any help-wanted ads for
thinkers recently?
The liberal artist says he can
learn a specialized field after
graduation. Wouldn't you ask
why he wasted all that time
and money trying to see so•
ciety as a dynamic whole when
he is going to get specialization
anyway?
It brings to mind a friend
of ours who, upon completion
of his doctor's degree, was
asked by an Army buddy what
he was going to do.
"Well," our friend said,
"probably work in a Latin fac
tory."
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