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Advising program:
The University Faculty Senate has reaffirmed its
stand of leading students by the hand through their
four years at Penn State, or at least of letting the task
up to the individual colleges. '
At a. meeting Tuesday, the Senate approved
recommendations that each college be allowed to set
up its own advising program subject to minimum
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specifications set down by the Senate.
The specifications require that:
a named faculty adviser be available to each
student;
information be provided to each student regarding
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referral information be available to students with
special problems: and
a list of unfulfilled requirements be given each
student prior to his tenth term.
The recommendations at first appear to give the
student more freedom to select courses on his own
because they remove the requirement in the Senate’s
“Policies and Rules for Students” that the adviser’s
signature appear on registration and drop-add forms.
But Thomas E. Daubert, chairman of the Senate
Serves as employer ,
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Few people doubt the impact of the
University on the Centre Region. The
University’s role as employer, cultural
center 'and home of a vast block of
consumers is readily apparent.
The College of Business Ad
ministration recently completed a
report substantiating these generalities.
The report focuses on the University’s
effect as an employer, as a “generator of
flows of funds” and as a “neighbor in the
Centre Community.”
The report states, “One of the most
pronouneed effects on the University is
the provision of a livelihood and a
rather secure one at that— for a very
large number of persons.” It points out
that the University Park campus em
ployed 7,595 persons as of October, 1972
of which 4,379 live in the Centre
Region.
The report indicates the University is
responsible for half the jobs in the State
College-Bellefonte Labor Market Area
and employs three times more people
than Maytag Company.
As an employer, Penn State paid its
employes a total of $96.2 million in 1972,
, according to the report. $82.7 million was
repaid to full-time employes and $13.5
~ million to part time employes.
In addition to paying employes, the
report says the University adds $3.58
million to the local regional economy
through i the purchases of goods and
services. 1 These costs include:
. sl.B,million for goods; -
sl.2] million for telephone service;
$530,5f0r coal;
$34,248 for oil;
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Subcommittee on Advising, told the Senate that despite
the change, “many colleges may continue to require
the signature.”
The Senate report contends that each college should
set up its own advising system since the resources of
each college in providing -advising vary greatly. It
points out that in different majors the student-faculty
ratio varies from 50 to four.
But what is not pointed out is that the abilities of
students to select their own courses do not vary greatly
from major to major.
A self-advising program in the Cciflege of the Liberal
Arts indicates that students are Capable of planning
their own curricula. v i
In this program, liberal arts students are given the
option of having a faculty adviser or of acting as their
own adviser.
The program has been successful so far, the only
problem being contacting students about changes in
policy, according to Jim Kehhy, head of liberal arts
advising.
Questioned by The Daily Collegian, Daubert said
there had been no discussuion among his committee
regarding implementing self-advising programs and
giving each student the option of requesting a faculty
adviser. /
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$5,000 for interest; and
—54,000 for insurance premiums.
In addition, the University paid $3.78
million in stipends to students in the
1971-72 academic year, according to the
report.
Indirectly, the University brings funds
into the Centre Region .through con
struction-projects financed by the
General State Authority rather than by
the University. The report states more
than $l2 million was paid to contractors
for 24 projects on campus in 1972.
The money funneled to consumers by
the University readily finds its way to
local businesses. The report shows that
during 1972 University employes spent a
grand total of $52.8 million in the Centre
Region.
Examples of the expenditures are $9.4
million for housing, $10.9 million for
food, $5.8 million for automobiles and
$2.9 million on taxes.
The report emphasizes the effect of
University employes on the region by
pointing out that these employes pay a
total of $3.6 million in taxes to Centre
Region governments, including $689,000
in wage taxes.
In addition to providing the money
spent: by University employes, Penn
State drew into the Centre Region in 1972
31,000 students who spent a total of $55
million dollars including dormitory
costs,: according to the report.
Of this group, 26,000 undergraduate
students spent $28.6 million and 5,000
graduate students spent $26.2 million,
according to the report.
The: report indicates a total of $111.2
million was brought into the Centre
Region in 1972 because of the University.
According to the report, these figures
do no| take into account expenditures of
visitors to the University, General State
Authority contractors in,the area, part
time ; non-students employed by the
University or the local investment of
University employe and student savings.
The report indicates these “indirect”
spendings amount to about $43.4 million.
The report on the economic effects of
the University concludes: “There is no
question that the University is, directly
or indirectly, the major economic factor
in the Centre Region.”
The report cites other effects of the
University on the Centre Region in
Agnew holds on to records
WASHINGTON (AP) Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew held on to his
financial records yesterday despite! a
request from federal prosecutors
probing political corruption in Maryland
that they be permitted to.- study the
documents.
It was reported that the prosecutors
had given Agnew an indefinite extension
on complying with the request while the
vice president’s lawyers studied the
possibility of claiming immunity.
Meanwhile, a federal grand jury
which since January has been in
vestigating! political kickbacks in
Maryland went back into session in
Baltimore. Several persons appeared
before the jury but federal officials
refused to say if the testimony involved
Agnew.
U.S. Atty. George Beall, who has been
directing the politically explosive
inquiry, had requested that Agnew
voluntarily turn in by 2 p.m. yesterday
all financial and tax records from
January 1967 to the present. The date
coincides with the beginning of Agriew’s
two-year term as Maryland's governor.
One of Agnew’s lawyers, Jay H.
Topkis, said he would be in touch with
prosecutors next week. He indicated tjie
delay was due to questions of executive
privilege and not on Fifth Amendment
protection against self-incrimination.
cultural center
addition to the economic influences.
The report states, “The University
supplies far more than jobs and income
to the Centre Region and Centre County.
Residents ... attend conferences, take
short dourses, go to concerts and football
games and other special events on
campus to a much greater extent than do
residents of other counties in Penn
sylvania.”
The : report cites concerts of the
University’s symphony orchestra,
concert bands and marching band;
recitals by University staff members
and students; programs broadcast by
the Penn State educational television
station and Artists Series programs as
events enjoyed. by Centre Region
residents.
Non-students bought 455 tickets to the
Artist Series during its 1971-72 season at
$12.50 per season ticket.
The report states that shows costing $5
to $lO in a city are available on campus
for $2.50 per ticket.
The University also has a marked
effect on the educational level of local
residents. The University recorded
25,575 enrollments in informal night
courees in 1972, most of which were
Centre Region residents.
Continuing education courses for
credit showed an enrollment of 2,739,
again, mostly Centre Region residents.
Centre Region residents who are
University employes have the added
benefit, the report points out, of
enrolling themselves or their dependents
in the University at a reduced tuition
rate.
The report states, “Many a degree has
been earned admittedly slowly by a
full-time University employe who was
permitted to take course work on the
job.”
The report also points out some
'to Centre Region
Residents having a University in the
community. It cites as examples traffic
jams on days of major University events
and the “bad manners” of some
University people. } j
It explains that low ipcome families
have a hard time when merchants who
have a captive market with high in
comes are tempted to raise their prices.
It also cites problems of shoplifting and
drug abuse.
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He said widespread oppositon to this suggestion
among faculty and administrators would have
prohibited its passage but added, “In most cases I
don’t think there is anything wrong with it.”
One student senator said officials in his college are
strongly opposed to a self-advising program and favor
improving the present system.
Daubert said, “Legally, the University is responsible
to the parents” to see that students are provided with
advisers but could not clarify why it is more legally
responsible to engineering students without a self
advising option than to liberal arts students with the
option.
Asked about steps that could be taken toward im
plimenting self-advising programs, Daubert said, “It
is up fb the , student councils to get that through the
individual colleges.”
This apprdach has been effective in the past since the
liberal arts advising program was proposed by the
Liberal Arts Student Council.
But the student senator said he is unaware of any
such attempts among the college councils at the
present. j
One benefit for students-form the Senate recom
mendations is that they require advisers to have some
form of trailing in advising. —RN
Never before had any president or vice
president been involved in a federal
criminal investigation while in office'.
Aaron Burr was tried and \ acquitted of
treason in 1807, but this was after
leaving the vice presidency.
At a news conference Wednesday,
Agnew- unequivocally denied any
charges that, he accepted political
payoffs, calling them“damn lies,” and
saying he has “absolutely nothing to
hide.”
Council claims by-pass
needs federal approval
, By JEFFREY DEBRAY
Collegian Senior Reporter
The Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation’s intentions to complete
the middle section of the State College
By-Pass at the planned location are
illegal unless approved by the federal
government, Centre Citizens Council
charged Wednesday.
But, the report points out, these
problems would not vanish if the
University became some other industry.
The report also compares State
College and the Centre Region with the
rest of Centre County and Pennsylvania.
The University’s effect on the relative
income of people in the area is shown in
the report in that, as of 1970, one fourth
of the families with an income of more
than $lO,OOO and half of the families with
an income of more than $50,000 in Centre
County resided in State College.
There is a' corresponding effect on
housing. The median value of one family
houses in College in 1970 was
$28,900, as compared to a median value
of $16,300 for Centre County as a whole.
The report calls State College a
“community of renters” and states that
68 per cent of all housing units are oc
cupied by renters.
- It states “rents are high here” and
points out that 37 per cent of the units
under contract in State College rent for
more than $l5O per month, compared to
29 per cent in the rest of the county.
In addition to employing many Centre
Region residents directly, the report
states, “Without question, the Univer
sity has been a factor in the development
of local industries here.”
It cites the technical expertise of
University staff members, the
availability to the company of expensive
University equipment, the opportunity
for employes to take University courses
and the possibility of selling products to
the University as incentives for com
panies to locate in the Centre Region.
As a result, the report states, State
College alone has 47 per cent of the
county’s volume of retail trade, 25 per
cent of the county’s wholesale trade and
21 per cent of its receipts for services.
Comparing Centre County’to the rest
of the state, the report shows a 50.6 per
cent increase in Centre County’s
population as compared to an average
3.2 per cent decrease in population in 16
counties surrounding Centre County.
The report sumarizes that, with the
exception of the Johnstown works of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, “No other
single business or companyj in the 17-
county block even approaches the
employment level maintained by the
University.” \
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He said he would “make available at
the appropriate time and in the ap
propriate way to the appropriate
authorities, as determined after con
sultation with my counsel, whatever
records, my own body, for interrogation
what-ever is needed.” But, he added,
“there are certainly high unprecedented
constitutional questions that must be
considered.”
Agnew was notified Aug.'2 that he was
In a letter to PennDOT secretary
Jacob Kassab, the council has asked for
a review of the contending that
PennDOT has not received the
necessary state and federal approval for
use of park land in College Township.
The property in question.is Project 70,
which includes Slab Cabin Creek Park
and Limerock Park.
Council President Sue Smith told The
Daily Collegian the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development put up
the money for the parks and it can not be
transferred without HUD approval.
“There are strict regulations about
what can be done with it,” Smith said.
“Without this land, which we think
HUD will not allow tojbe transferred, the
project cannot go ahead,” Smith said.
No. action will be i taken on the suit
which Centre Citizens, a group opposed
to the' by-pass on environmental
grounds, had intended to file until it
receives a response form PennDOT.
Council’s Philadelphia attorney
Robert Sugarman informed Smith the
state legislature had not properly
authorized the land deed transfer from
College Township to PennDOT.
“Some mistake was made in the
legislation,” Smith said. She added that
an amendment correcting the mistake
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THIS SCULPTURE BY George Sam Gardner is now on display m front o
under investigation for bribery, ex
tortion, conspiracy and tax violations in
a letter from Beall requesting-not
subpoenaing-his financial records.
Deputy White House Press Secretary
Gerald L. Warren declined any further
discussion yesterday of Agnew’s legal
problems. He repeated that “the
President has confidence in the vice
president and the fact of the in
vestigation does not change that."
was in a Senate committee, still pending
The council also has asked that all
PennDOT activity be halted “pending
full environmental review, which is
required before HUD can pass on the
proposed transfer.”
In addition. Smith said, the council
pointed out to Kassab that it would be a
mistake and a waste of highway funds to
buy other land because HUD may not
approve use of the parklands.
“If they (PennDOT) can correct the
mistake and get HUD approval, then
they can go ahead," she said.
Despite the suit’s postponement Smith
said the group still is soliciting funds to
help defray attorneys’ fees.
“All we can do now is wait." Smith
said.
Increasing cloudiness, warm and humid
today with showers and thunderstorms
developing this afternoon and continuing
into tonight. High today of 86; low
tonight of 66. Cloudy with showers
tomorrow; high of 81. Becoming fair and
cooler tomorrow night; low of 39. Sunny
and mild Sunday; high of 71.
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