Minimum wage bill vetoed by President WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon yesterday vetoed a bill . to raise the federal minimum wage to $2 an hour and called on Congress to pass a new, less extensive, minimum wage bill this year. In a veto message, Nixon said the measure approved by Congress "would unfortunately do far more harm than good. It would cause unemployment. It is inflationary and it hurts those who can least afford it." The House scheduled a vote Sept. 19 on a motion to override the-veto. Nixon said that fairness and decency require the minimum wage rate, now at 81.60: an hour, be in creased this year. employment opportunities for those effected. He again called for a provision that would set the minimum wage for teen-agers at a lower level, saying this would help increase job opportunities for the The bill approved by Congress young. He said the bill supported by the administration would increase the minimum wage for most nonfarm workers to $1.90 immediately and then to $2,30 over the next three years. Teacher strike ends, new walkouts begin HARRISBURG" (AP) Teachers A tentative agreement on a new ,trikes in several Pennsylvania school contract was reached at Allentown districts ended yesterday but in two during a nine-hour bargaining new districts teachers walked out. Agreements to end disputes were session which ended at 5 a.m. yester . ay. announced in the Tuscarora, Allen- d town, Parkland, and Lehigh districts No details of the contract were while teachers at Bradford and In- released. Teachers in the dist6ct had terhoro district in Delaware county reported on Wednesday,: first day of joined the'picket lines, the fall term, without a contract. At Tuscarora, the school hoard ac Although they still don't have a cepted a proposal by the teachers for contract, teachers in the Parkland a two-year contract which- provides for first-year increases of $350 at top -rale. Classes will begin Friday .10 • don't mouse around, Collegian Classifieds get results ( found ads run free ) Sunday, September 9 Tickets: $3.00 would have boosted the minimum wage to $2.20 next July 1 and also bring seven million new workers un der the program. About 49.5 million' workers are covered now. • The veto is expected to be upheld by the House. The measure. passed there by a vote of 253 to 152, 16s than the required two-thirds margin needed to reject a veto. The margin was 62 to 28 in the Senate. When Nixon announced , his in- tention to veto, it resulted: in im mediate sharp criticism from labor leaders. Nixon said his economic advisers tell him that signing the bill would have -caused a significant decline in school district returned unexpectedly to work THE UNIVERSITY CONCERT COMMITTE (OF THE PURPLE SAGE) Home sweet home MARGARET HUDYMA (7th-human development) and Jolene Grubb (7th individual and family studies), both resident assistants in Thompson. demonstrate the advantages of occupying temporary housing. indian madras beds PRESENTS IN CONCERT THE NEW RIDERS reads Photo by Carol McCloskey The Result 109 S. Allen Recreation Hall Now on sale at HUB desk Program review okayed by University Council By KENNETH D. JOYCE Collegian Staff Writer The University Council yesterday endorsed a plan for reviewing undergraduate programs for quality, relevance and reallocation of academic resources. The University Council is a 12-member panel designed to provide" greater com munication between studenis, faculty and ad ministration. Four members each are from the student body, the faculty and the ad ministration. The plan would serve as a review of all un dergraduate programs. ""or each degree program, a committee would he set up to review it," according to Charles L,Hosler, dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and a Council member. ' "These committees will report to a coor dinating committee for undergraduate affairs program review. 7 he said. This coordinating committee will be chaired by Robert E. Dunham, vice president of undergraduate studies. He in turn would report to University Provost Rus.:ell E. Larson, Hosier said. To determine a program's quality and relevance the committee • would consider student course evaluations, alumni evaluations, data from the office of budget and planning on the number of degrees granted and the number of teaching hours required, Hosler said. Super Bargain! Classifieds Ads The Daily Collegian Friday, September 7, 1973 A program's relevance would he judged on a supply and demand basis. "If the University. gave a degree in gas-light engineering, for example," Hosler said, "and the need for this skill is on the decline, then we conk-1./deem phasize these degrees or phase them out." The plan would permit reallocation of resources by allowing essential or relevant programs short on funds or personnel to recei‘e a greater emphasis, Hosier noted. "We want to find out what our strong programs are and what our weak programs are," he said. This undergraduate student evaluation plan is based on proposals initially presented by Larson last spring. The plan will parallel one going into effect this winter for graduate programs. Before the undergraduate plan goes into ef fect., it must be reviewed by the Senate Council and the Council of Academic Dean's. The Council also discussed a plan for evaluating instruction. There has been dif: - ficulty in arriving at a standard forth for cour se evaluation because of the diverse nature of many courses with conflicting requirements, Hosier said. "Right now every department has some kind of in-class evaluation and there is a'high level of - student participation," Hosier said. A stan dardized form still is under development, he added. •:•:•:•x-x.:•;;;.5::::: 8:00 P.M. ~i%rt.:~r.•. ••
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