PAGE FOUR Back the Budget Request Editorial Opinion Start Flood of Letters It is time to.start the campaign in earnest. Students who are interested in saving hundreds of dollars in tuition costs and students interested in seeing their state University serve the needs of those seeking entrance should write to the legislators of their choice. Students should ask them to fight for and vote for the full $23 million appropriation requested by the Uni- versity. A complete list of all state senators and representa tives appears in this issue. Students should write to the senator and representa tives from their county or district, and more important, encourage their tax-paying parents to write. A flood of letters from raging headwaters in the Nil tany Valley should flash down upon Harrisburg and crest above the Susquehanna's banks at the Capitol. The letter campaign should reach every member of the State Legislature. But more especially, it should be concentrated on the Governor; on the Senate party lead ers, James S. Berger (Republican) and Charles R. Weiner (Democrat); on House majority leader Stephen McCann (Democrat) and House minority leader Willard F. Agnew, Jr. (Republican); on Rep. Dean J. Polen (D-Washington), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, which is working on the bill; and on all the members of this committee. House Appropriations Committee members are marked on the accompanying list with dots. These are the men who carry the most weight and will have the greatest influence on the outcome of the University’s appropriation request. Last week Rep. Polen introduced on the floor of the House an appropriation bill which included $18.5 million for the University. However, this does not represent any increase over the $17.1 million which the Governor recom mended, because it applies to a 13-month budget rather than the normal 12-month budget. The bill was immediately sent to Polen’s committee for action and this is where the University’s fate lies now. If any change in the amount proposed for the University Is to he made, it will probably have to be made in this committee. The letter campaign is most important at this time, A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom ©tjc Saihj (EoUegtan Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during tha University ye*r. Ttoe Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as eerond-flns* matter July I. 1934 at the Stats College. Pa. Post Office under tbs act of March t. IST?. Mall Subscription Pricei 93.00 per semester 95.00 per year. Mailing Address Box 261. State College, Fa. 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TODAY' Placement, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 203 HUH Angel Flight, T «U HUH Schuhplattlcr., 7 p.m., 201 Engineering AWH Komi end Hmi.ln* Committee, Science" Fiction Society, 7 p.m., 21* C::<0 p.m , 217 HUH U,j|, Bible Fellowship, K : :to p.m., 21$ HUD Student Handbook Business Staff, 8;80 Communion Service, 6:15 p.m., Wesley p.m., 217 HUD FoumtHtton TIM, 6 p.m., HUD assembly room ICG. 8 pm.. 203 HUD Wesley Foundation, 6:30 p.m., talk on IVCF, 12:45 p.m., 218 HUD Amish Poop la by Dr. Nook Ml student Council, 7:15, 217 HUD West Haifa Judicial, 1Z;15 p.m., tIT Newman Club, 7 p.m., HUD atiembly HUD room Poet’* Corner, 10:06 a.tn., HUB reading Fanhel, 6:30 p.m., 209 HUB room Business Manager CHESTER LUCIDO Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Former Rep. Discusses Appropriation TO THE EDITOR: While I sometimes disagree with good Democrat Joel Myers, there are times when I can be in al most complete accord with the thoughts offered by the young gentleman from Philadeipnia. For instance, concerning the matter of Penn State’s appro priation. Certainly, I agree, there is a desperate need for the full amount requested by Dr. Walker, but in his attempt to place the blame for past appropriation cuts, Mr. Myers has fallen somewhat short of the target, area. Knowing a little bit about the workings of our General Assembly, and the wiles of some assemblymen, permit me to say that placing the blame on ONLY the Legislature for Penn Stale's present financial plight will NOT move the av erage Legislator toward a more generous course during the appropriation hassle. Even though it is sad, but true, that there are too many members of the General As sembly who concern them selves very little, if at all, with Penn State’s financial needs, the blame for this institution’s monetary dilemma cannot be placed solely on the Legisla ture. Certainly the Legislature, in recent years, has not kept abreast of Penn State’s needs, and this letter is not a vindica tion of that body’s actions, but may I suggest that the execu tive branch of our state govern ment also be asked to demon strate some ability to face up to its educational responsibili ties! For instance, I suggest that the governor, in 1961, come The following is a list of state senators and representa tives grouped according to county. All correspondence for senators should be sent to the Senate Office Bldg, in Har risburg. Correspondence for representatives should be sent to the House Office Bldg., also in Harrisburg. • Indicates member of House Appropriations Committee. Senator D. Elmer Hawbaker Representative Francis Worley ALLEGHENY COUNTY Senators George J. Sarraf Robert D. Fleming Bernard B. McGinnis John H. Devlin Joseph D. Ripp Leonard C. Slaisey Representatives Willard F. Agnew, Jr., House Minority Leader • David M. Boies Thomas H. Cauley James F. Clarke Lee A. Donaldson, Jr. Edwin C. Ewing Jules Filo Thomas J. Foerster Laurence V. Gibb Maurice H. Goldstein Arthur O. Guesman George K. Haudenshield K. Leroy Irvis George E. Jenkins Walter T. Karnyk Harry A. Kramer Thomas F. Lamb Louis Leonard Paul F. Lutty Leo J. McLaughlin • Martin C. Mihm John J. Murray Edward A. Schuster, Sr. James C. Simmons Thomas F. Sullivan Ronald L. Thompson John T. Walsh Raymond E. Wilt ARMSTRONG COUNTY Senator Albert R. Pechan Representatives W. Mack Guthri • W. Stuart Helm Write to These Legislators Now! ADAMS COUNTY through with more .realistic ac tion than he did in'l9s9, when he arbitrarily took a multi million dollar cut out of Penn State’s budget request. Let's be honest, no matter which side of the aisle one sits on in the General Assembly, it is infinitely more difficult to restore millions to the Univer sity's budget after such drastic cuts as 10 million in 1957 by Gov. Leader and almost as much in 1959 by Gov. Law rence, than it is to vote for the full amount requested by the University and approved by the Governor. (This does not include GSA funds to Penn Stale. Those funds are of a dif ferent nature entirely.) Please do not construe this to mean I am suggesting the Republicans are for Penn State while the Democrats are not. This is ridiculous. The fact is, in recent years neither the Legislature nor the governor has demonstrated a very rea listic attitude in the cause of higher education. Pennsylvania has had its “road" governors, its "building” governors, its “mental health” governors and now a “high way safety" governor, but what Perm State really needs is a “higher education” governor! I feel certain if Dave Law rence would demonstrate the same aggressive nature in mat ters relating to higher educa tion that he did in matters re lating to the Pittsburgh renais sance, better legislative action would follow concerning Penn State. This Is not to deny the fact that Penn State would still need what it does not now have —a lot of influential champions BEAVER COUNTY Senator John Carl Miller Representatives • Robert Y Hamilton H. Beryl Klein Charles D. Stone BEDFORD COUNTY Senator Stanley G. Stroup Representative Percy G. Foor BERKS COUNTY Senator Gus Yatron Representatives Richard L. Adams Margaret S. Kooker Daniel F. McDevitt William G. Piper Leßoy A. Weidner BLAIR COUNTY Senator Charles R. Mallery Representatives Charles A. Auker Joseph R. Holliday Harold G. Miller BRADFORD COUNTY Senator Albert E. Madigan Representative Evan S. Williams BUCKS COUNTY Senator Marvin V. Keller Representatives James J. A. Gallagher Alan D. Williams, Jr, BUTLER COUNTY Senator Albert R. Pechan Representatives Thomas W. King, Jr. Albert L. McCandless CAMBRIA COUNTY Senator John J. Haluska Representatives Hiram G. Andrews E. J. Farabaugh Edward W. McNally Louis Rovansek CAMERON COUNTY Senator George B. Stevenson Representative • Edwin W. Tompkin* CARBON COUNTY Senator William Z. Scott Representative John F. Bonnet TUESDAY. MARCH 14. 1961 for its cause in the General Assembly. I was a member of the 1957 session of the General Assembly which restored some 2 million dollars of the amount cut from Penn State's request by Gov. Leader. If this kind of legislative ac tion was important and neces sary then, it certainly should have been equally important in 1959, when, to the best of my knowledge, not one legislator rose to his feet to plead Penn State’s cause. And now in 1961 the University's friends in the Legislatiure are once again conspicuous by their si lence. In closing, permit me to ob serve that Cong. Bill Green of Philadelphia ha 3 no trouble whipping that city’s large block of state legislators into line behind his pet projects, nor does Dave Lawrence show any reluctance to crack the patron age whip over the Pittsburgh delegation when he wants to. Perhaps with the support of both these fellows, higher edu cation could be given a big boost. Would it be whistling in the dark to suggest that these two astute politicians throw their political weight behind their only land grant institu tion's legitimate request for funds by "prodding" their re spective delegations into a more realistic attitude toward Penn State? Unfortunately nobody ever made votes carrying the banner for higher education, but no doubt Pennsylvania’s august General Assembly will once again debate at iength a bill suggesting an official state dog for the Commonwealth—it al ways does. —Bob Breon CENTRE COUNTY Senator Jo Hays Representative Eugene M. Fulmer CHESTER COUNTY Senator John H. Ware 111 Representatives William H. Ashton C. Timothy Slack Joseph P. Ujobai CLARION COUNTY Senator George B. Stevenson Representative Paige Varner CLEARFIELD COUNTY Senator Jo Hays Representatives • Harris G. Breth Ralph A. Marsh CLINTON COUNTY Senator George B. Stevenson Representative W. Max Bosstrt COLUMBIA COUNTY Senator Zehnder H. Confair Representative Albert E. Slrausser CRAWFORD COUNTY Senator Raymond P. Shafer Representatives George C. Magee Jr. Ralph S. Merry CUMBERLAND COUNTY Senator George N. Wade Representatives Arthur George Guy A. Kistler DAUPHIN COUNTY Senator M. Harvey Taylor Representatives James S. Bowman • Blaine C. Hocker Russel C. Reiser DELAWARE COUNTY Senator Clarence D. Bell Representatives Clyde R. Dengler D. Barry Gibbons John E. Grernminger Joseph W. Isaacs Mae W. Kernaghan Edwin E. Lippincott II Rocco A. Odorisio (Continued on page five)
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