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ditorial Opinion
Call for Parents' Help
The student campaign to convince the state legislature
of the University’s need for additional funds, and thus
prevent a threatened tuition increase has apparently been
unsuccessful.
The last chance to avert a boost in tuition now lies
with the parents of University students. They must now
be the ones to take the campaign to their elected repre-
sentatives.
If they want to save about $lOO in added tuition costs
for their children next year, they will have to convince the
governor and the legislature of Penn State's need for
additional funds.
The legislature has delayed action on the University’s
annual appropriation for more than six weeks.
Governor David L. Lawrence has proposed a stand
still appropriation of $17.1 million for the University
but President Eric A. Walker insists that $23.1 million
is needed to finance the University's expansion program.
If Walker's request isn't granted, he has said that an
increase in tuition will be necesary to supply the expan-
sion funds.
The appropriation issue was first pushed aside because
of the delay in the Governor’s Education Committee Re
port. That report, made public April 2, endorsed Walker’s
long range expansion plans.
However, Lawrence refused to change his recommen
dation for the University’s budget.
In an attempt to avert a boost in tuition, students have
been urged to write their state representatives and
senalors asking their support for the $23.1 million appro-
priation.
However, the centers of political power, Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia, have apparently been unimpressed with
the University’s need, and the chances of Walker’s request
being approved appear slim.
• Tuition at Penn State is the third highest of all state
institutions in the country.
• Penn, Temple and Pitt, all private schools, received
the same percentage increase in appropriations from the
state as Penn State during the past five years, and yet
they have only shown an increase in enrollment of about
3 per cent as compared with an increase of more than
20 per cent in Penn State’s enrollment.
• Ninety per cent of all subsidies to private colleges
by state governments in the entire United States is paid
by the Pennsylvania legislature.
• Penn State's tuition has increased 92 per cent in the
past five years, but appropriations have increased only
30 per cent.
It seems probable that the appropriation bill will not
come up for a vote for at least two weeks, so there’s time
for one last barrage of post cards, letters, telephone calls
and personal visits to inform the legislators of these
injustices.
Other Opinions
'Ho-Hum 7 On Education
The Pennsylvania General Assembly is a place where:
—Legislation to give each of the representatives and sena
tors a 50 per cent increase in cash (a 53,000 expense account
every year) and a much falter pension can pass with the greatest
of ease, but
—Legislation to meet the critical financial needs of the
public schools, colleges and universities gets nowhere.
The entire question of education was shoved aside iwo years
ago on the pretense that a study was necessary.
This is the third straight Legislature to "ho-hum" on schol
arships and community colleges since they were proposed by
Governor Leader in 1357.
The report of a special committee on higher education, set
up in the Leader Administration, was set aside with no aefion.
So was a later higher education study by the Legislature's
Joint State Government Commission. And now there's talk that
further "study" is needed in the wake of the findings of Gover
nor Lawrence's special Committee on Education, set up by legis
lative resolution.
Pennsylvania's slogan for 1961 well might be: Ask not what
the Legislature can do for education—ask what the Legislature
can do for itself.
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—Reprinted from
Harrisburg Patriot
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Letters
Soph Cites
Parents' Role
TO THE EDITOR: This week
end would be the best time for
the students to request that
their parents contact the Gov
ernor and their legislators in
regard to the full $23.1 million
appropriation for Penn State.
Next week the House is in re
cess so the parents could phone
or personally contact their rep
resentative. Personal contact
would have the best effect.
In order to find out who
their legislators are, they may
contact either their local Cham
ber of Commerce or me. Out
of state students should con
centrate their efforts on Gover
nor David Lawrence.
The senators and represen
tatives are beginning to feel
pressure in regard to our ap
propriation. If enough pressure
is put on them they will back
us. The strongest pressure
would come from the parents
and other people of voting age.
Students also should write to
the Governor.
Our appropriation will be on
the floor of the House in about
three weeks. I, therefore, urge
you to act this weekend and
save yourself from a sizable
increase in tuition ($l2O per
year for Pennsylvania students)
next year.
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hower Chapel
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P.m.. 212 HUH
Newman Club, 7 p.m., 217-218 HUB
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assembly room
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Bookstore Committee, G p.m., 217 HUB
Bridge Club, 7 p.m., HUH card room
College of Education, 4:15 p.m., HUH
assembly room
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HUH main lounge
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p.m., 2H-215 HUH
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—Gomer Williams, ’63
TODAY
TOMORROW
MONDAY
Interpreting
Private Enterprise
Awakes to the Light
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Whenever Congress starts considering ways of mobil
izing private enterprise on the side of the foreign economic
development program, as one of its committees has been
doing recently, it runs in the problem of risks.
Investors move very slowly in countries whose very
political instability makes them
a prime object of American—
and Sov : -concern in the
cold war
However, the U.S, Chamber
of Commerce has now endorsed
an idea taking hold in Wash
ington that the new African
states need not take sides with
the West to qualify for help
toward economic and political
stability.
Respect their right to neu
trality but encourage them
with such economic aid as will
enable them to keep clear of
entanglement v/ith the Com
munist sphere, was the advice
of 3,000 delegates to the cham
ber's annual meeting.
Mori; and more the country
seems to be getting away from
the idea of demanding politi
cal alignment from those who
need aid the idea of attempt
ing to buy friends.
On another point the Cham
ber called on American private
enterprise to get behind the
Letters
Black Day For Budget?
TO THE EDITOR: Next week
the budget for Penn State
comes up for discussion and
vote in the state legislature at
Harrisburg.
This budget, if passed, will
result in a tuition rise. This
rise will cause some students to
drop out of college and put a
strain on the pocketbooks of
the rest. It could cause many
applicants to turn to some oth
er college or university where
the tuition isn’t so high.
It will be a black day in the
history of this university if
this happens. It could result in
a loss of prestige for the Uni
versity,
Many people may think that
a decrease of applicants would
show that the University isn’t
Reader Praises WDFM Show
TO THE EDITOR: Monday
night at 9;40 I happened to
tune in WDFM and the co
incidence brought the kind of
satisfaction that is always
worthy of note and compliment
to those responsible for it.
Sally Layfon, "Our Own Miss
Monitor," was quietly giving
e.e. cummings ihe kind of ad
vertising no poet should be
without.
Her readings were beauti
fully done , . . the kind of
doing that leads one to believe
that the reader not only thor
oughly enjoys her work but
also understands the work she
enjoys.
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SATURDAY. MAY 13. 1961
nation’s efforts to raise living
standards throughout the
world in “an enlightened and
imaginative pursuit of its own
interests.”
That's a point where private
enterprise, with some import
ant exceptions, has been weak
in imagination in realiza
tion that its own preservation
is one of the major objectives
of the cold war which it has
largely been leaving to govern
ment, and worth taking some
risks for.
The word “enlightened" also
has a special meaning against
the background of an ail-too
wide-spread feeling over the
world that American private
enterprise seeks a new field of
colonial exploitation before it
is interested.
Government officials, in
deed, have been much con
cerned over American business
practice and involvement in.
political activities in foreign
countries.
able to attract students. As I
have said it will be a black
day in the history of this uni
versity if this happens.
With the budget coming up
for discussion and vote next
week, this weekend is the last
time for students of Penn State
to "help cut the budget cut.”
They should talk to their
parents and tell them to write
to their representatives in the
legislature.
The $l7 million budget must
be defeated and the $23 mil
lion budget must replace it or
it must be amended by $6 mil
lion for the student’s sake and
the University’s sake.
I hope this black day never
comes.
—Fredrick Barlow. '64
Sally’s efforts are the sort
of thing that other radio lis
teners with a yen for “the
spoken word” should be told
about.
WDFM deserves a toast as
well for chosing to present a
program couched in poetic tex
tures and having the great good
fortune of finding someone like
Sally io present ihe works in
the way they were meant to
be enjoyed.
I sincerely hope others will
be as fortunate in their co
incidences; if not, I suggest
giving chance a push and mak
ing an appointment with Sally
Layton for a reading.
—Dale Peters, '6l
WAYNE HILINSKI
Business Manager