'AGE FOUR Editorial Opinion The Statistics Again The University can once again claim to be in the superlatives. Now we have the highest tuition of any tax supported state college or university in the United States. Ranked against such schools as Massachusetts Institute of Technology which receive a good share of tax funds, but which also have private endowments, we rank a lowly third in tuition rates. It tires us to keep repeating the University's statis tical variances in the great tuition race, but try we must to convince the Pennsylvania public that the situation at Penn State is nothing to be ignored. One of the most amazing of the statistics that have been unearthed in this budget battle concerns our Legis lature's allocations to private colleges and universities. The Pennsylvania Legislature contributes more tax funds to private institutions than all the state legislatures in the nation combined. In fact they contribute 90 per cent of all the funds allocated to private instiutions in the United Slates. Only one of the University's sober statistics might take a turn for the better, now that the tuition has been raised. That is the rating of our faculty salaries. Now that an additional $1 million will be added to faculty salaries, our ratings in this area might come up a few steps from their cellar position. But even this money will hardly give the salaries enough of a boost to have them compare with another rating—the one which rates us as the 12th largest institute of higher education in the country. The statistics can be used to show the plight of the University. but who is listening? The lack of publicity on our problem is shocking. The paucity of Pennsylvania newspaper articles on the subject is even more shocking. This situation can be ex plained in part by an inadequate public relations job on the part of the University. But the fact that an educational institution needs a super public relation setup is unex plainable. The reason .fOr a lack of newspaper articles is quite evident. lt sterns from the same reason that the legislators favor the private schools—the big private schools in this state are in the big cities (which have a large voting pop ulation.) The big newspapers happen to be in these same cities and, of course, most of the collegiate coverage is given to schools within their circulation range, A Student-Operated Newspaper rnittltror Trillrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday, June 13 and every Thursday thereafter from June 22 through August 17. The Summer Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as eecond class matter July 8, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Moil Subscription Price: Fifty cents for 10 issues RICHARD LEIGHTON Editor ‹iaoB LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS r . r ' ' i l, N. ~._G, „ , ,1 # AS A MAITSI2 of PAGt— WE P 0141" 15XFVGT PROM'66OS?-SNAEF IMCX IN 111 . 1 ,4 0 roa-TH' REST Of m' AFTErNCOS 4' SUMMER COLLEGIAN. , STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager Snowed Besides The most astounding Uni versity policy change in recent years, which was enacted without notice or publicity, will put tremen dous financial pressure on many students and their par ents Hiding behind the news of the much - publi- cized "nominal" increase in tui- tion and room and board was a new regula- tion that re. quires all stu... dents to pay their tuition and room and board fees by August 25. Students who fail to meet the deadline will be assessed a "late fee" of $25! This is out rageous! Penn State students who are attending this or another uni versity this summer and others who are living away from home may not see their esti mated bill, let alone pay it, until the deadline is past. Still others, who are in the habit of paying their fees just before registration, may miss this unexpected and costly reg- accents The Talkati Early Thursday evening, Wayne Hilinski, Collegian business manager, and I were the only people in the Collegian offices. lAre were recuperating from our "issue night," the_. night night beforr and trying get caught u, on some wo we had let g out of ha n We did not pa tieularly w i s to be disturbe Somebody, think it was t j a n itor, call through the ci room th a "there was someone here to see the editor." To set the mood properly, I busied myself with some pap ers on the desk, and didn't look up until I knew my visitor was well within the office. When I did look up I got a surprise—l knew he was in the room. but I didn't see him. He was almost completely obscured by my desk. He stood almost three and a half feet high and was at the most nine years old. My guest had a cou ple of sheets of paper in his hand and he informed me that megaphone-at-large Chicago With Milk and 'Honey' CHICAGO The past week saw this city stricken by two of the most, severe forms of urban blight feared by large and small metro polises alike—a milkstrike and a state-wide c o n vention of t h e American Legion. T h e strikers made them selves (and without a doubt their p r o duct) conspicuous by their a b sence. And the Le gionaires made themselves (and there could not Miss Teichholtz be any doubt their product) conspicuous in their inimitable presence. As the strikers mei for 36 the Tuition Hike by !eel myers ulation which is buried in a yond suggestions made in this form letter from Old Main. column last week to supply Although the increase in tui- loans to needy students through Lion, rise in room and board Girard Trust Corn Exchange. charges, establishment of a However,, we strongly object General Deposit and the enact- to the unfair steps against the went of a $25 late fee will students taken in recent greatly increase the cosi for months and, therefore, urge University students, other pol- the Administration to imme icy changes will burden many diately reconsider: students still further. •The general deposit, which Students who pay their tui- required all continuing stu tion, room and board fees be- dents to deposit $25 with the fore the August 25 deadline, University for services that but later find they will be un- nearly half of the student body able to attend the fall term be- don't use. cause of illness, a family death, financial problems or scholas tic trouble will lose at least half of their room and board fees. If one of these unfortunate events prompts a student's withdrawal before the start of the term, he will lose at least one half of his room and board fees. IitYERS If it occurs after the first two weeks, everything is lost. Under the semester system, 90 per cent of all fees was re funded if a student withdrew in the first Week, 80 per cent was refunded if he withdrew in the second week and so on through the tenth week. We are in full sympathy with the strain being placed on Uni versity administrators by the weak-backed leg i s lators in Harrisburg, and we were glad to see the University went be- he was on a news scavanger hunt. As soon as he began to speak I knew the real reason he was in the office. The young man had a rather bad speech defect, and had been sent not only to get in formation, but to give him a chance to practice speaking and to help him overcome any fear of talking to people. His was one of a group of children, ranging in age from 8 to 18, who are attending a summer speech therapy session. It wasn't long before a little girl with the same assignment wandered in, and then two more young men and finally there were close to 10 children in the office. Outside in the Business Manager's office I could hear Wayne entertaining what sounded like a group of about the same size. At first, I found the most interesting facet of my visit to be the imagination behind it. But upon thinking of my part in the whole affair, I find that the most intriguing. When that youngster first spoke to me it was I who had to do the adjusting. I tried to pay too much attention to him, tried to figure out his next word and say it for him. It was soon evident that this type of conversation was embarrassing to my friend, which was in turn embarrassing to me. But straight hours with manage ment officials and Chicago's Mayor Daly, the Legionaires conferred, settling most of the important questions of our cen tury. As the milk strike meeting went into an all-night session the Legionaires decided that "civil liberties must be pro tected." They then compli mented the actions of the House Un-American Activities Committee for their "vigi lence." During the three-day period in which Chicago and its en virons were without milk, the Legionaires sought some diver sion from the solemnity of meetings, A fire engine roared and clanged through the heart of Chicago. Aboard were waving Legionaires ... and in the cen- THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1961 •The August 25 deadline on fee payment. In view of the short notice, 18 days, and the poor communication between University and parents,. this new regulation should not be effected until the winter term, so that students and parents can take the necessary finan cial steps to meet it. •The ridiculous policy on fee refunds for students forced to withdraw. This is like a grad uated income tax that taxes the poor more than the rich. •Room and board charges. The rate of $260 to $2BO a term is $26.50 to $2B a week, and includes missed meals. Many town independent men live comfortably for $23 to $29 a Week. We wonder if the recent consolidation of Food Service and Housing has not prompted beaurocratic inefficiency. isitors ve V dick Leighton it took the little crusader to teach me my manners. He was having difficulty with the wor d s "parking spaces" and was trying to ask me how many parking spaces were in the library lot. I vol unteered: "Parking spaces?" and he looked at me with a sort of exasperation, changed the whole structure of the sen tence and asked me "How many cars can the library parking lot hold?" After five minutes of con versation, I didn't notice the defect and was treating the child as I would my own kid brother—joking with him, cor recting him and laughing at him. Just before the group left, I had told them that an article on the program in which they were enrolled had appeared in that morning's Collegian. No one took advantage of my gambit for some Collegian rec ognition, so I dropped the mat ter. But when the children were crowding out of the office, my little friend walked up beside the desk, and, with great con centration, said very slowly, "The article was very nice." He said it without making a single mistake. Although I am fairly sure he didn't read the article, it was still quite a thankyou. by meg teichholtz ter, near the ringing fire bell was a waving, scantily-clad, reasonable facsimile of a Hol lywood blonde. , Crowds gathered as the spec tacle roared down the city streets. Later unidentified Le gionaires dropped a bag of sand from a hotel window. The bag hit a taxi roof and the driver remarked "it sounded like marbles rolling all over." The settling of the milk strike brought the strikers three paid vacations a year. They had no such holidays pre viously. Wages were raised, bringing the average milk man's salary up to $125 a week. And the end of the conven tion? It sent the local represen tatives back to their districts to campaign anew for their very own version of the Amer ican way of life.
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