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Students support bus
By NANCY LOWRY
Collegian Staff Writer
Four student leaders have pledged the
support of their organizations to the
Centre Regional Council of
Governments transportation committee,
hoping campus and regional bus service
will be continued and improved this
winter.
Presidents of the Association of
Residence Hall Students, the
Undergraduate Student Government,
the Interfraternity Council and the
Organization of Town Independent
Students are urging both COG and the
University to "enter into a cooperative
effort" and begin campus bus service
Winter Term.
After circulating petitions which
obtained 2,400 endorsing signatures
through residence halls, the student
leaders communicated their support to
COG.
Although this letter did not advocate
any long-term continuation of services
with the Fullington Auto Bus Co., the
letter stressed that something must be
done, and students contended that
continuation of last year's bus system,
even with its inadequacies and
inefficiencies, is better than no bus
service.
letter also said students would tie
• . .7e a pre-paid system like
1;•. • • ••• ')eing considered by COG.
Th:t- s .4em. the third alternativ r e
offered in COG's Transit Development
Plan is based on the student-run and -
operated transit system of Kent, Ohio. It
wouldbffer buses every 12 to 25 minutes
in town and every four to six minutes on
campus, plus dial-a-bus routes, morning
and evening, work-trip routes and more
reliable schedules.
Council to
bicycle commission
By JEFF DeBRAV
Collegian Senior Reporter
Bike riders could find the bicycling
situation a lot less frustrating and more
pleasureable come April, as a result of
Monday's State College Borough Council
action.
Council agreed to fund the Student
Environmental Consulting Organization
$9OO to study the bike situation and come
up with recommendations for solution,
contingent on the University supplying
an additional $9OO.
In recent months bicyclists criticized a
lack of adequate bike parking facilities
in town and complained of the increased
ticketing on campus and in town. •
SECO President Chuck Cohen said the
study would provide "short term
immediate action for solutions this
spring." The suggestions for change
SECO recommends could be
implemented after Easter, Cohen said.
Richard Kummer was the only
councilman who voted against the
funding, saying he thought the study
could be done for less money by the State
College Planning Commission.
But Councilman James McClure said
Council should "put itself in the position
of responding to bikes no later than
spring. Hopefully some changes will
make bike riding more sale in the
borough."
Centre Regional Planning Director
Ron Short said the SECO study would not
be in conflict with the Centre Regional
It also is planned that 81 per cent of the
system's costs would be financed
through a compulsory student fee of $7 to
$8 per term. A voluntary faculty
assessment of $4 per term and possible
home-owners property tax would make
up the remaining 19 per cent of the costs.
Mark J inks, USG president and
member of the COG committee, said the
mandatory fees are illegal in
Pennsylvania. He suggested that a
system of term or weekly passes,
individual fares, revenue sharing funds,
federal grants and a University
allotment should be considered to
subsidize the system until it becomes
relatively self-sufficient.
ARHS president Jeff Wall said many
students miss_ the buses, notably the
5,600 living in East Halls and those in
South Halls.
According to Wall, these 10-cent bus
rides are well worth the price to
Residence hall students.
Wall said organtzation leaders
realized they must take some action to
promote a bus system when they
"realized the University wasn't going to
do anything."
According to Wall the University
keeps making plans, but does not follow
up on any. Since bus routes were
discontinued this fall, the University had
planned to buy buses, run and operate
their own routes through campus, and
buy operating rights from the Fullington
Auto Bus Co. since planned University
buses would have to cross and follow
existing routes.
There also was a plan to study
University transportation needs.
Nothing was done on these plans, Wall
said, the University just waited.
At the last Student Advisory Board
support
Area Transit Study since it will take
from one year to one and one-half years
to complete.
The CRATS study also will cover the
entire Centre Region, which includes
Harris, Halfmoon, Patton, Ferguson and
College townships, in addition to State
College, Short said.
In a related, matter, Council took
under advisement a proposal from
representative of a University Speech
200 course to buy seven bike racks to
help ease the parking situation in town.
Group representative Mike Doyle said
the racks would be 20 feet long,
accomModate 20 bikes and would cost
about $l2O each.
Council also received the borough's
proposed 1974 budget from Borough
Manager Carl Fairbanks, which calls for
a one mill hike over last year's budget to
13.5 mills.
A public hearing and special Council
meeting will be held on the budget Dec.
20. The budget must be adopted before
the end of the fiscal year.
The new Council, composed of five
Democrats and two Republicans, takes
office ht January and can make any
changes on the 1974 budget before
January 31.
The proposed budget is available for
public inspection at the Municipal
Building and Schlow Library Saturday
through Dec. 20.
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Pittinger to make selection
Trustee caneidate.s chosen
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Staff Writer
The student trustee hunt is in its final
stages since the student trustee
committee has submitted three names to
Pennsylvania Education Secretary John
C. Pittenger.
The students nominated are James
Maza (7th-pre-law), Helen Baer
(graduate-psychology) and Donald
McClincy (6th-community
development).
meeting several students decided they
could not wait with the University.
"We can't wait any more once winter
is here," Wall said. "We need buses and
there is definitely a public to support
them."
This was pointed out by last year's
successful USG bus service which ran
evenings from campus to major
apartment complexes. The bus, which
will start again tonight, will run from 7
p.m. to midnight every class day
through Winter and into Spring Term.
The free bus will run the Ft route from
Waupelani Drive to Laurel Glen and
Park Forest apartments.
Oswald wants final say in tenure
Tenure proposal
By STEVE WiTROSKI
Collegian Staff Writer
Review continues of University
President John W. Oswald's proposal to
center all tenni e and promotion
decisions in his office. .
A - mong the groups examining
Oswald's proposal are the Senate
Council, the Faculty Affairs Committee
of the Faculty Senate and the Council of
Academic Deans.
Oswald's proposal would have him
make all tenure and promotion decisions
on recommendation of the college deans
and the University provost.
The proposal differs from the present
tenure systemsince under the proposal,
tenure could not be awarded to assistant
professors and would link tenure to
promotion or appointment to associate
professor or professor.
Under the present system, when a
faculty member completes a seven-year
provisional period with at least part of it
at the assistant professor level, research
5.4 per cent increase for Penn State
Universities gain
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Staff Writer
Christmas came early for three state
related universities when their state
appropriations were approved last
month.
Four and a half months into the fiscal
year, after much political maneuvering
by the governor and the legislature,
appropriation bills for Penn State,
Temple University and the University of
Pittsburgh were approved Nov. 14.
Gov. Shapp signed the appropriations ;
bills for the three universities the day
after the legislature quickly passed the
bills, which were reported from
conference committee. The Penn State
bill was passed by the House 187 to 3 and
by the Senate 49 to 0.
Penn State will receive $874459,000, a
5.4 per cent increase over last year's
funding. Temple will receive $52.5
million, a 5.6 per cent increase, and Pitt
will get $47.9 million, a 4.8 per ; cent
increase.
The univeities will receive their
funds in monthly payments instead of
Col egian
Pittenger will make a selection from
these students and recommend to Gov.
Shapp his selection be named student
trustee. The nomination then must be
approved by the state Senate.
In telephone interviews yesterday
with The Daily Collegian, each student
expressed his goals as student trustee.
"The important thing is whoever is
selected as student trustee should sound
out students and be an effective
spokesman for student interests," Maza
said.
"I am particularly interested in
academic reform," he added, "it is the
most important aspect of the
University."
Maza said he would consider
suggesting that teaching grants be given
to help improve the quality of
instruction. "The grants would be like
research grants, but they would be given
for emphasis on classroom teaching and
attempts to improve it," he said.
Maza also said he would like to see
more diversity in education. "The
students should have s the maximum
individual freedom and we should try to
build all majors to suit individual
interests."
"The University has to accept the
student as a mature adult," Maza said.
"I think it has to begin at Board level and
branch out. The student should have a
say in what he is getting from the
University, such as in dorm living and
associate or senior assistant librarian
level, he automatically is awarded
tenure.
Faculty members contacted did not
wish to commend or condemn the
T.•-t:posai but said it contains both good
and bad points.
Faculty Senate Chairman Eznest L.
Bergman said, "We are reviewing the
proposal in the Senate, and as Senate
chairman I don't want to comment."
Bergman said he hopes the Senate
Council and the Faculty Affairs
Committee will make reports on the
proposal next month.
Faculty Affairs Committee Chairman
Marjorie East did not want to give a
personal viewpoint but said, "The
committee and I agree we need a look at
the tenure system. We think some of
Oswald's proposals are not good, but
some are.
"One problem with the present plan is
in a few years we will have 90 per cent
(,enured faculty, East said. She said
faculty are not likely to move from one
the previous quarterly system.
According to legislators, the monthly
payments will give the universities: an
extra one per cent of funds because the
money will be available for short-term
investment. Uncials at the universities
have agreed with the legislators.
agreed with the legislators.
The universities may transfer money
between line items as long as the amount
is not more' than five pig cen)„,of the
money appropriated to the line 'ltem.
Last year a 10 per cent variance.'was
allowed.
Also included in ther : l;•ills Air*
"Snyder Amendment" ;,.. - requiring e
universities to make two reports on
various statistical items, including how
many students and faculty membe4
there are and how many hours a we
each faculty member spends . in
university-related activites.
By line item, the appropriations for
Penn State are:
—558,372,000 for net cost of instruction,
excluding the doctor of medicine
program.
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academic affairs."
Maza works with the Volunteer
Service Center and is secretary of the
Young Democrats, a member of the
American Civil Liberties Union and a
former resident assistant.
Baer said her goal is to try to voice
student views at that level of the
institution.
"I think there are institutional
changes that could be made to make it
easier for men, women and children 'at
the University," she said.
Baer said she thinks day care centers
are needed at the University a
difficult problem and I tit' is is
something this institution s. look
at.'
Baer said there should - be equal
opportunities at the University for
women and minorities. She also said she
is interested in developing a better
continuing education program.
"I, view the four-year period as just
one step along the way. There should be
more thought in the programs for the
people's needs."
Baer said she encourages facilitating
interdisciplinary programs for students
and faculty at the University.
Baer, a graduate student member of
the Faculty Senate and a Graduate
affiliate for the University Hearing
Board, is studying for her doctorate in
social psychology.
McClincy said he feels one goal of the
decisions
review continues
school to another because of the present
no-growth period. Thus, most faculty
members would stay long enough to
qualify for tenure.
"Some people are worried that having
most faculty members tenured would
not leave room for young people. But we
must allow tenure for qualified people
though, not work on a quota system,"
she added.
East said the committee is requesting
a study of present faculty age, tenure,
status and a projection on the ; future
status for faculty. She added the
committee would like this information
before making a report on the prolsosal.
East said nothing will happen
immediately on the proposal and it will
"be some time before action."
Faculty members say Oswald's
proposal may affect the faculty's
attitude toward collective bargaining.
East said there is possibility of
increased interest in faculty
unionization, if a plan _similar to
Oswald's is adopted.
appropriations
—51,760,000 for net cost of student aid.
—58,913,000 for net cost of extension
and public services.
—$15;800,000 for net cost of research.
and
—52,314,000 for instruction-doctor of
medicine only.
University President John W. Oswald
originally requested almost $9O million
for the University, a nine per cent
increase, but Shapp's budget provided
for only $82,694,000, the same as last
year.
In July, the Republican-controlled
House gave Penn State a 5.14 per cent
increase in funding and the Senate, in
October, gave the University a 6.12 pe!
cent increase.
The House rejected the Senate's
increase and sent the bill to a conference
committee, where for almost a month,
the conferees argued and exchanged
cries of politics before finally reaching a
compromise.
House Appropriations Committee
Chairman H. Jack Seltzer, R-Lebanon, a
member of the conference committee
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University is to provide education for
Pennsylvania citizens. "The research
facilities should be used to help people
throughout the state and the world." he
said.
The University should provide mgre
continuing education services, McClincy
said. "The University is not just limited
to University Park—it's a living thing
throughout the state. It would be my goal
as a trustee to continue this." •
McClincy previously attended the
Dußois campus and was active in
politics and the University Concert
Committee. He has been attending
school at University Park for almost two
years. including a year of night school
All three students said they favored
open trustee meetings.
"I'm really, really for open
meetings," McClincy said. "Not in the
sense they would be open to everyde.
but they can be opened t 6 a
representation of the students. I think
this is why Shapp wanted a student
trustee."
"It's very difficult for ma to
understand why the board has closed
meetings," Baer said.
"I especially would like to see . the
board meetings open," Maza said
"They should come out in the sunlight
and get away from the star chamber
atmosphere. I'm not making any
accusations, but it would help the board
in making decisions."
"I don't think the faculty will look at
collective bargaining any harder
because of this proposal," Bergman
said. "I hope final legislation win t.
such that every - faculty
happy.'
Robert Scholten president of the local
chapter- of the American Association of
University Professors, said it would be
"hard to know what the effect of the
proposal on collective bargaining would
be."
Scholten said there have been two
opposing reactions.
He said some faculty members fell it
would be better "not to rock the boat" at
this stage because of the economic
situation.
"Others think faculty must get
together and present a united front,"
Scholten said. "I know both feelings are
prevalent."
Oswald said he is now consulting the
appropriate faculty groups about his
proposal and would not continent.
who earlier had refused to budge from
the five per cent increase, said, "This is
a government of compromise. There are
times when expediency is worth more
than principle."
Senate Majority Leader Thomas
Lamb, D-Allegheny. and Senate
Appropriations Committee Chairman
Henry Cianfrani, D-Philadelphia, said in
a joint statement, "We agreed to this
proposal at the urging of representatives
of the three universities.
"Temple and Pittsburgh, particularly,
advised us they would be confronted
with a serious, if not desperate, financial
situation unless this stalemate was
terminated promptly."
Lamb and Cianfrani said under those
circumsances they decided not to
prolong the deadlock any longer.
Temple had used up all - of its
borrowing credit and would not have
been able to borrow any more to meet
expenses.
Pitt also had been borrowing at a
heavy rate since mid-summer.
Penn ,State had been paying about
$5,000 a day since Oct. 1 in interest on
money it had borrowed to meet
expenses. The payments exceeded
$200,000, more thin the extra funds
provided by the compromise over the
House figure.
"Although the bill falls somewhat
below the University request, extensive
pruning at the beginning of the fiscal
year, together with adjustments we are
making now based on the amount of the
funding, will allow most of our programs
to proceed, even though we face sharply
increased costs in many areas," Oswald
said.
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