'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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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'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.
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