'Tuition, Room, Board Hiked A self-styled austerity plan was announced to the University Senate last - week by President Eric A. Walker. In announcing a tuition and room and board increase, Walker said "It is almoSt certain that the Legislature will not give us the money we need to run the University." . Through necessity, he said, "there will be no new research projects undertaken, no new buildings ar ranged for and no extra students admitted." THERE WILL BE A $l5-A-TERM tuition in crease, effective in the fall term, boosting the present figure from $l6O to $175 for Pennsylvanians. The rate for out-of-state students win be raised from $320 to $350 per term. According to the latest figures, the Uni versity now has the highest tuition of any strictly state supported college in the nation. Walker told the senators that "all the money re ceived from the tuition increase will go to 'teaching faculty' salaries." He said later that the University has to maintain its "competitive position in recruiting t '1 : I Weather Forecast: Sunny, Hot VOL. 3. No_ 9 100 Men By Dorm Over 100 male students have been informed during the past week that they will have to seek housing accommoda tions off campus because of lack of space in the dormitories, James C. Campbell, director of special projects for business Obelisk Gets Coat of Paint From Vandals The obelisk, made up of build ing stones found in Pennsylvania and arranged in geological order, was the object of amateur decor ating of a rather crude sort some time previous to 9:30 Sunday morning. The "decorators" splashed gray and white paint on the landmark and the grass in front of it. The monument is located adjacent to the Mall near the Armory. According to Henry L. Yeagley, director of maintenance and utili ties, removal of the oil base paint will cost the University at least $4O to $5O. A member of the main tenance crew spent approximate ly a day and a half removing the paint, he said. The latest "decorating" of the obelisk was, Yeagley said, more damaging "by a good bit" than the time the obelisk was painted dur ing football season last fall. That time the Nittany Lion statue was also painted. It appeared, he added, that the pranksters had stood back and thrown the paint. "Paint reached up to a height of around nine feet." Ralph F. Spearly, depart ment coordinator of maintenance and utilities, estimated that a total of a gallon of paint was used. .pp 4) .00 ' . /556 .• 5.- f Hampered Limitations administration, said yesterday. In explaining this action, Camp bell said that students who ap plied for room assignments after the April 19 deadline were as signed to rooms according to their date of application. The students who had received no assignments when all the dormitory space was filled, were there who were told they had to find housing else -Iwhere. Campbell said he was not sure if all the students knew that they ,might not be able to live on cam pus if their room assignments were sent after the deadline, but all the men had been notified about the April 19 date. Those who applied when they should have, got rooms, he added. IF ANY OF THESE students report that they are unable to find a place to live, he said, they will be placed in dormitories on a temporary basis. However, he added, these quarters will not be the best to live or study in. Campbell said he doubted if students would feign inability to get housing elsewhere because of the poor facilities that will be provided on the temporary basis. Because the Department of Housing is never sure of the num ber of students who are going to apply, it is difficult to determine whether there will be enough I space available, he said. This, he added, is why these students were informed so late in the slimmer about the predicament. tor : .., ...1: .- , fok ~,,., Ed TV License Denied By DOTI DRASHER The University's application for an educational television channel has been denied tern porarily by the Federal Com munications Commission. The University and five other ,applicants for channel 3 in this region were all denied the FCC license. FU R THER INVESTIGATION into the problems and possibili ties for another TV station in this area are being conducted by the FCC now, Leslie P. Greenhill, as sociate director of academic re search and services, said yester day. and retaining faculty members."• The tuition-boost is expected to yield an estimated $1 million. "For every new course added, there will be a course dropped; for every new student taken in, there will be a student dropped; for every department head added, a department head will be dropped," Walker said. " We haven't got the money to expand. We must maintain the status quo." UNDER NEW REGULATIONS, room and board charges will be standardized at $265 per term fbr double rooms and $2BO for a single room. This term men paid $254 for a double room and women paid $260. For single rooms, men paid $268 and women paid $274. The new tuition and room and board charges were mailed last week by the University to the par ents of all students. In the same letter, approval of an "assured education plan" was also announced. This education plan would enable parents of un dergraduate and graduate students to borrow educa- FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10. 1961 House Kills Tax University May The House, yesterday, by a vote of 124 to 78, defeated the 2 per cent tax bill on rents, royalties and capital dividends that would have meant an extra $l l / 2 million more in appropriations for the University. Princeton Receives $35 Million Gift; Largest in History Princeton University has re ceived an endowment of $35 million to be used for a govern ment service school, Dr. Rob ert F. Goheen, president of the university, announced. The gift from a small group of anonymous donors is • the largest in the school's 215- year history. "The donors wish to provide gifted students and Govern ment officials with the finest possible preparation for careers in public service with special emphasis on foreign affairs," Goheen said. "The new graduate school will have a twofold objective," he explained, "to augment the flow of well-prepared people into positions of public respon sibility and to set, by example, new patterns of excellence throughout the nation in edu cation for the puk;ic service." The earliest date for the es tablishment of the new pro gram is expected to be in the fall of 1962. Princeton at the present has only two other professional schools, those of engineering and architecture. The denial to the six applicants was attributed to the FCC code on the minimum separation dis tances between TV transmitting towers, and the fact that the VHF channel would have to be "dropped into" this area, Green hill said. The denial to the University is "not personal" but it involves a much broader ptoblem of pres sure on the FCC to shorten the distance requirements for dual use of TV channels, he said. THE POSSIBILITY of taking advantage of the UHF channels which are not used at all in this region at the present time, is be ing considered, Greenhill added. VHF television accommodates 12 channels and UHF television Most of the Republicans in the House were joined by 29 Democrats to defeat the tional funds frOm a private banking institution and repay them on a monthly basis, THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the increase was fore cast in an earlier letter to parents which stated that a tuition raise would be unavoidable if the State did not provide an additional $6 million in the Univer sity's 1961-62 appropriation. The State Legislature presently has under con sideration an education bill which wcnQld add. SI I A million to the University's impending appropriation of $17,193,865. THIS EXTRA MONEY depends on approval of new tax legislation, and would still leave the Univer sity $4l million short of what Walker considers ne cessary for operating the institution during the cur rent fiscal year. Walker said that he had hoped to avoid the tui tion increase, but that he was faced with "the hard fact that competition for faculty and rising costs make it increasingly difficult for the University to match income and outgo." By MAXINE FINE Three Democrats who original ly were going lo vote for the bill, changed their mind before the roll call vote was taken. - Sen. Jo Hays, - D-Centre, said last night that he felt this was a par liamentary maneuver because, ac cording to procedure, if at least two people who vote with the prevailing side want a re-vote, the bill can be brought up again. He added that if this is what was in mind, there will probably be a re-vote next week. THE SENATOR said that per haps during this week and next enough pressure might be brought to bear for the bill, that legisla tors will adopt a more favorable attitude to the tax. In commenting on the defeat of this bill, Rep. Eugene Fulmer, R-Centre, said last night, "Peo ple don't believe we should tax thrift and therefore, this measure didn't pass." Fulmer said that the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to discuss several tax proposals next week which may serve as substitutes for the defeat ed measure. AMONG THEM. he said, were a personal property tax of six ;mills, two cent tax on soft drinks 'and the Sales and Use tax. Ful mer added that he would not vote for the personal property tax which, together with the defeated (Continued on page six) can accommodate up to 70 chan nels. "The use of UHF would tre mendously expand possibilities, for the use of dozens of new chan nels," he said. The University had asked a "small additional waiver" in its application, Greenhill said. He ex plained that the separation dis tance between the dual use of a TV channel is 175 miles and the Philadelphia area, which uses channel 3, is that far from the' University. BUT THE TV TOWER for the University would have to be lo cated on Rattlesnake Mountain which is located 160 miles' from Philadelphia. The investigations are "still in (Continued on page six) The Statistics Again --See Page 4 OM= Proposal; Be Hurt 'Dennis Resigns University Post For Corps Job Lawrence E. Dennis, vice !president for academic affairs lat the University, has . re signed, effective Sept. 30, to ,accept an appdintment as an associate director of the Peace Corps. Dennis will be responsible for the- administrative coordination of all matters relating to the re cruitment, selection and training of Peace Corps volunteers, as well as the development of per sonnel support services for vol unteers on assignment overseas. In March, Dennis was granted a six-month leave to join the or iginal executive staff as director of training of the Peace Corps in Washington. Seven Peace Corps training programs involving 500 volunteers have been [ activated under his direction and five more are planned between now and mid-September. President Eric A. Walker ac cepted the resignation "with re gret" and wished Dennis success in his new position. FIVE CENTS
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