PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion An Interesting Look At Tuition Figures With a t umor of a tuition or board and room increase floating around the campus, it might he of interest to look at the astounding increase in tuition and fees that Penn State studehts have been forced to pay in recent years. When the students that ale now seniors began attend ing this Univetsity the tuition was $125 per semester. Dining their sophomore year it was increased to $175 a semester and now just four years later it's $240 a semester. When the last tuition raise was announced many stu• dents objected. They accused the administration of financing their long-range expansion plans at the stu dents' expense. Although many screamed and protested, when it came tune to pay-up most students (or in many cases their patents) sent the check for the new amount and chalked up the increase to inflation. But how much tuition inflation can we put up with? The 1956 to 1959 period saw an average increase of 12 per cent ►n the cost of consumer goods compared with a 92 per cent increase in Penn State tuition. Let's look at the real reasons for this marked upward trend. Dr. E► lc Walker, in estimating the budget for the current biennium, figured on an income of $57 million limn soul ces other than direct appropriation and a total expenditure of $lOl million. This left a gap of $44 million which he ►equested from the legislature. Ac everyone knows he didn't get the $44 million. Soon after making his request, Walker realized that he wasn't going to get all that he wished. Consequently, after much thought and consultation the administration decided to raise the tuition and reduce the request by $4 million. This idea worked beautifully in theory, but in prac tice it failed for the simple reason that the legislature i efused to meet the administration half-way and only approptiated $34 million—s 7 million short of what was needed. This $34 million appropriation represents a 30 per cent increase doling the past four years which hardly equates with the 92 per cent increase that students have been forced to pay. Perhaps pressure on the state legislatut e is what is needed to halt the geometric rise in cost to the students. And hei e are some important questions that those who pay the students' bills might want to ask of their elected officials. Why is 90 per cent of all subsidies to private colleges by state governments in the entire United States paid by Pennsylvania? Why is the tuition at Penn State the third highest of any state institution in the country? Why have Penn, Temple and Pitt received the same percentage increase in appropriations as Penn State dur ing the past four years and yet have only shown an in ci ease in enrollment of 3 per cent compared to a corres ponding upNyard trend of 20 per cent in Penn State's enrollment? If the tuition continues to rise at the same rate as it has during the past four years, in 10 years it'll cost $2OOO a year to attend this University. That's $lO a day! A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom 011 t Batty (follrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est.lBB7 Puhllshed Tue,day through Saturday morning during the Uniserslty year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as serond-class matter July 5, Mt at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mail Suhacription Trice: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor 4620.1 City Editor, (arol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria Wolford; Sports Editor, Sandy Padwe. Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroum; Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor, Elaine Miele: Copy Editor, Annabelle Rosenthal; Photography Editor, Frederic Bower; Make-up Editor, Joel Myers. Local Ad Mar., Brad nails; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Deisher; Credit Mgr, Mary Ann Crane; Ass't Credit Mgr., Neal Heitz; Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Kiesel; Co-Circulation Mgrs.. Rosalind Abe., Richard Effinger; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michal; Personnel Mgr., Becky Kohudlc; Office Secretary, Joanne Iluyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Lynn Cerefice; Wire Editor, Margie Zelko; Headline Editor, Barb Yunk; Assistants, Sandy Katinsky, Ellen Bleeeker, Joan Melvin, Alice Brunton, Karen Saldutti, Kathy Kuchta. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. ST.r.it COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager Letters Old Main Room Proposed For Anti-LP Group TO THE EDITOR: As a student who has witnessed the anti-Lion's Paw sentiments for the last sev eral years, may I offer this sug gestion to Messrs. Brandt, Byers, Sandstrom, and Elms. I suggest that you apply for a room on the fourth floor of Old Main so that you can also hold your secret meetings behind locked door. This room can also serve as a place to keep your printing press (for pamphlets and last-minute election flyers), your ballot boxes (to practice stuffing), your tape recorders (to trap par ty chairmen), your file cabinets (for your many books on how to tun a dirty campaign). Let's be realistic, gentlemen. If the aims and methods of your existing secret and unchartered organization were known, your group would be under a continual stream of well-deserved criticism. Most student organizations here at Penn State perform some serv ice, but I can find no service in yours. —William Bowers, '6O Cal Students Ask Stevenson Support TO THE EDITOR: Many students of the University of California campus and throughout Califor nia are rallying to the support of Adlai Stevenson for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. We would like to invite the stu dents of your campus to join us in our work. Thiough ialhes and petitions students can contribute an im portant part in demonstrating the continued popular support of Mr. Stevenson. If we, of the college community, can unite ourselves, our role may be decisive in in fluencing the nomination of this great statesman for president. Those who are interested may write to' STUDENTS FOR STEVENSON 2514 A Regent Berkeley 4, California —Students for Stevenson, University of California Gazette TOD kli Air Fora Glee ('lub, 3 p m HUB He worn Angel Flight, 7 p rn , 214 HUB FIX Inter% iewg, 2 p 111 . 212 MA Brdige Cluh, G .10 p 111., HUB earth OOM Camper Party, G 30 p m . 213 HUB Chrodian Fellowship, 12.41 p.m., 21S HUB Danee Concert, 3 p m , White Delta Sigma PI, tutni ing for Acetg. 201 Bourke , 21S HUB 7 •30 p.m , NH fa nY exam, 7 A) p.m . 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ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Foreign criticism of the Caryl Chessman execution repre sents a strange manifestation of mass psychology. Many criminal cases have attracted world attention and producted widespread demonstrations. But nearly always this has been due to political overtones or a strong presump tion of innocence. This, however, is a case in which a man committed crimes against women which are univer sally condemned, and the criti ci s m is directed primarily against the long delay rather than on doubt of guilt. The demand, far more pro nounced abroad than in the Unit ed States, has been for a re prieve on hu mane rather than on legal grounds. News papers and dem onstrators abroad have taken the ROBERTS line that if you are going to exe cute a roan you shouldn't take 12 years to do it. And yet here is a man who has been given - every consideration under law He was not •'xecuted until he himself admitted that every avenue to life had been ex plored. He said he could prove his innocence by producing the guilty party, but he never did it. He died saying that he would not involve others, He had money, a series of law yers, and above all he was given time. It was he, not society, who r WHAT'S THE BEST TNING TO DO WITH OLD REGRETS? A DO YOU SAVE ALL OF \OUR OLD REGRETS, CHARLIE SOLON? ~~ / '~ ~` ~. THURSDAY. MAY 5. 1960 prolonged the anguish. Judges of great legal ability and great hu manity, from the highest to the lowest, heard his pleas over the years and regularly turned him down. Yet a newspaper in Belgium, where there is a highly organized government of laws, criticizes the American legal system for per mitting "moral martyrdom" for 12 years. Only a very few foreign com mentators noted the extreme care for Chessman's rights. Hardly any of the foreign com mentators seem able to differenti ate between an execution under law and the old argument of whether that law is a good one. What they wanted was for the judges and the governor of Cali fornia to ignore the law. Gov. Edmund G. Brown never liked capital punishment. He even tried to get it repealed while the Chessman case was pending. But the United States has ar ranged it so the will of individual men shall not prevail above the law. If governors and judges could say with impunity, "This is a bad law and I will not permit its en forcement," then the whole struc ture of the nation would/ be threatened. WELL, I MINK MOST PEOPLE TRY TO GAVE TEIEM...TNEN TREY CAN Ti4EM OUT W AND THEN,ANDTAKE LOOK AT THE M ~ 4 - - , •• - • - c• VI ...• „.•.. -......, -....... 1111111111= soca leamail maw gaga ON, YES . ... r RAVE AN AWARD-WINNING COLLECTION! 1nn1i....... ~:,. r..__.„.....,...,_.„ ..- - -.._ . . _ ...... , ...
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