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
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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.
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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
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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