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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!
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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'
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Care of Chessman's
Rights Overlooked
By J. M. 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
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BEST TNING TO
DO WITH OLD
REGRETS? A
DO YOU SAVE ALL OF \OUR OLD
REGRETS, CHARLIE SOLON?
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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.
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