Collegian Pho UN 5-2531 VOL. 1. No. 11 Tui Walker In Appr Tuition up, app The University, resentatives, said $3.7 million during' request of $43.9 mil Gov. David L. La mended $34.2 million versity in his budget, the General Assemb This was about $9.7 of the University re President Eric A. Walker, in his letter, pointed out that the University is the third highest in the nation among land-grant universities in A is tuition charges. '1 (The University ranks near the bottom in appropriations received from states among the land-grant institutions.) A University backed bill for $43,9 million has been introduced in the Senate and the Adminis tration's bill for $34.2 million is in the House of Representatives. Six million dollars is needed fo "educate an additional 5600 students during the biennium and initiate $1 million worth of badly-needed research on pro duction pr able m s harassing Pennsylvania's farmers, miners and manufacturers," Walker said. "Without it we shall be forced to cut the coat to fit the cloth." The tuition fees are jest about as high as they can go, Walker said. "To raise tuition above the new rates . • , would place higher education hopelessly beyond the reach of many of our students, thereby violating the State's land grant commitments," he said. _ The University's financial plight began back in January when Walker first announced his rec ord-breaking $43.9 million bud get request to members of the University faculty. The next step was Gov. Lawrence's $34.2 mil lion recommendation to the Gen eral Assembly and only approval if sufficient taxes were raised to pay for the costs. Walker then appeared before both the Senate and House Ap propriation Committees for ex tended hearings on the Univer sity's needs. He explained the University's position and man date to the people of the Corn (Continued on page five) , #,.....,‘;:-(‘: it .!_ze.r....., ion to Rise $l3O a Year K's $3.9 Million Cut priation for Biennium opriation request down. in a letter to all State Senators and Rep he tuition increase will bring in about next biennium and therefore, its budget Ilion could be cut to roughly $4O million. r ence recom for the 'Urn message to y March 2. j illion 'short i•uest. Rainbow Girls At University For Conference The Order of Rainbow Girls will officially open its conference today with 2400 members a..lying on campus. This evening in Recreation Hall, tthe Grand Assembly will hold an informal meeting which will be followed by the formal opening of this year's assembly. The conference will .c o n t i n u e through Sunday, during which time the girls will hold discussion groups and nomination and election of grand officers. A retiring ceremony for the outgoing officers will be held tomorrow. The Grand Choir will sing at the formal initiation of new officers tomorrow afternoon. Drill and choir competition willi. be held Saturday for the various orders attending. On Monday, 350 leaders of the state orders arrived for a 3-day course of study at the University. They also prepared a talent and welcoming program to present to the additional members arriving today. Stone Named Head Of Biology Division Dr. Robert W. Stone, professor and head of the Department of Bacteriology has been named chairman of the new Division of Biological Sciences in the College of Agriculture. He will continue as professor 'and head of the Department of Bacteriology. The Board of Trustees at the University in June approved the organization of the Division, em bracing the departments of agri cultural and biological chemis try, bacteriology, botany and plant pathology, and zoology and ento mology. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1959 Parking Fee To Be Paid By Students Students will be charged a $l5 fee for on-campus parking permits beginning with the fall semester. According to a letter from President Eric A. Walker to all students and their parents, the money collected will be used to cover the cost of constructing and maintaining campus parking lots. The fee will be payable at reg istration when the student reg isters his car. It may also be paid at the bursar's office in Willard Hall after Sept. 21, the first day of classes. If the student does not obtain the parking permit at registra tion, he may obtain it from the Traffic Violations officer in the Hetzel Union Building. The fee will apply to all stu dents, including those with spe cial permits for student activi ties. Formerly parking permits were issued free of charge. According to Col. Lucien E. Bolduc of the Campus Patrol, roughly 2500 parking spaces are available. Preference for spaces will be given to the physically handicapped first, then to com muters, and then to upperclass men living in campus residence halls. Other spaces will be given to students living off campus. Except under special circum stances, undergraduate women and freshman men are not per mitted to have cars on campus. Flower Field Day Set far Tuesday The Department of Horticul ture will sponsor Flower Field Days Tuesday and Wednesday for approximately 40 representa tives of seed companies from all over the world. These companies have pre viously sent seeds which were grown in the University gardens under the direction of Robert Meahl, professor, of ornamental horticulture. 4th of Kind in U.S. New System to Be Installed Sunday Over 3200 campus tele-' phones will be connected to $450,000 worth of dial equip ment at 7:01 Sunday morning and the UNiversity dial ex-I chage will become the fourth of its complex kink in the United States. "The "inward dialing system" differs from the present system] primarily in that each telephone] —in residence halls and admini strative offices—is provided with a specific number which can be dialed directly by persons on campus, downtown, in surround ing communities and by long-dis tance operators. The dial equipment eliminates the handling of the calls by Uni versity operators. Over the past several years persons dialing into the campus were often held up for several minutes waiting for an open line to an operator. Present ly 35 Switchboard operators are amployed. With the mechanized rgiatt 37 Percent To Become The University announced Monday a 37 per cent tuition increase - for students, .effective Sept. 1. Tuition was raised $l3O a year for Pennsylvania residents and $2lO for out-of-staters because of steadily rising costs. The new figure brings the semester rate to $240 for State Eng Building Will Provide 4 Classrooms Work has started at the Uni versity on the construction of a one-story standard metal pre fabricated building that will pro vide four temporary classrooms for teaching engineering courses. The building, which will be 50 ft. by 100 ft., will be located north of the Power Plant on Bur rowes Road. - Walter H. Wiegand, director of physical plant planning and con struction, said that the building is` a part of a General State Author-1 ity project that includes altera-1 tions to Engineering Units A, 8,1 C, D and E. The alterations to the engineer: ing units include replacement of the sloping roofs , to provide more' space on the top floors of each of the units. Six fire stair towers will be built to replace stairways. The four temporary classrooms will compensate for space that will be lost during alterations. After completion of the altera tions, the temporary building will be moved from central campus and reassembled for use as a storage unit. 1006 Students to Attentd Post Session Classes - A total of 1006 students regis tered at the University Monday for the three-week Post Session, The new students, added to the more than 1200 enrolled for the Second Six Weeks Session, brings the campus total to more than 2200. The Post-Session registration includes 749 men and 257 women. The enrollment also includes 669 graduate students, 253 under graduates, and 84 special students. system this number will be cut to 12. Telephone officials point out . that the system is ideal for the University since the number of calls received on the campus is considerably higher than the number of calls placed on campus. In addition to speeding service for incoming calls, the new system will improve service •by making available an increased number of lines between the campus and the borough and also between the campus and long distance facili ties. For calls from one campus tele phone to another, the caller will dial the five digits of the number. This system is similar to that now in use except that five digits rather than the three or four now required. In the new telephone build ing behind Boucke Building Sunday a group of telephone technicians will be waiting for the signal which will climax the Bell Company's $450,060 im provement program. In their For Parking Only See Page 6 Fee Increase Effective students and $4BO for out-of staters. Previous rates were $175 and $375 respectively. President Eric A. Walker said Friday that most of the money gained—an expected $3.7 million during the next two years—will be turned into faculty and staff salary raises. "We've done our part in help ing to meet our financial obli gations," Walker said, and now it is time for the State to act. The new tuition figure was set by Walker and approved by the University's Board of Trustee's at their July executive commit tee meeting. The new fee schedule will put the main campus and the 14 cen ters on equal tuition basis. Pre viously tuition has been higher on Commonwealth campuses than on the main Campus. At the same time Walker an nounced tuition rises for fall, he also announced a newly adopted grant-in-aid plan for faculty and staff members with children enrolled at the Univer sity. The child of the faculty or staff member who i:egisters for a full academic schedule will pay only $6O pel. I,:mester, a savings of $lBO over non faculty and staff children en, rolled. Staff members and their dependents are therefore eli gible for a 75 per cent reduction in tuition fees. Previously, such dependents received a $5O fee exemption a semester. Walker said it would be tough on students planning on entering in the fall with tight budgets, but he didn't expect too many fall-outs. "They will box it.w or scrounge around for the money," he said. In a letter to parents and stu dents, Walker said "despite un remitting efforts to offset the ef fects of price inflation , . . the University has finally reached a point where it has no option hut to adjust its tuition charges to current conditions." "If student enrollment is not (Continued on page eight) hands they will hold the ends of strings which have been tied to small fools inserted between springs in the dial equipment to prevent connections between the new equipment and campus telephones. The supervisor in charge of the cutover operation will signal... "Pu 11"... and the master strings will release hundreds of tools simultaneously. As the tools fly out, the springs which held them will snap together and automatic ally connect large groups of cam pus telephones.. A summer directory was dis tributed this week to all offices ion campus for faculty and staff (members. In September a corn -Iplete directory listing students, !faculty, staff and campus person nel will be available. The faculty section will include not only cam pus phone numbers but also the person's title, department, office address, home address and phone !number and marital status. FIVE CENTS in Fall
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