Open Options,
PSUPA differ
in salary figures
By ROBYN MOSES
Collegian Staff Writer
In the arena of faculty
unionization, two Penn State
faculty organizations have
been quietly slugging it out.
The issue is faculty salaries,
both at Penn State and at
other state colleges.
The Pennsylvania State
University Professional
Association (PSUPA) started
it all by printing as an ad
vertisement in the Centre
Daily Times a chart com
paring Penn State faculty
salaries and state college
faculty salaries. PSUPA ran
the advertisement to show
how inflation and faculty
salary increases have caused
a drop in Penn State faculty
purchasing power.
PSUPA is a pro-unionization
faculty group.
This data was challenged by
Open Options, which ac
cording to spokesman David
Anderson, associate professor
of French, is “a group of
faculty who do not believe that
a traditional labor-manage
ment adversary collective
bargaining organization is
appropriate for, or in the best
interests .of a diverse,
intellectual university com
munity.”
Open Options spokesman
Dennis Thompson, professor
of meteorology, said PSUPA’s
data was “misleading and
fraudu'ent.”
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XENIA, Ohio (AP)
President Nixon yesterday in
spected the scene of what he
called “the most devastating
disaster I’ve ever seen” and
ordered expedited help for its
victims.
The President’s plane flew
over the area first. Then
Nixon walked and drove
slowly through this south
western Ohio town of 25,000
population where some 32 per
sons were killed and a
thousand left homeless by a
tornado six days ago.
The Xenia tornado was one
of more than 100 twisters
which ravaged a region from
Georgia to the Canadian bor
der last week, killing more
than 300 and prompting
massive federal assistance ef
forts.
After his helicopter landed
in a muddy, debris-strewn
schoolyard; the President
greeted service station owner
Te Crutchfield in the backyard
of his storm-damaged home.
“The people here need all
the help they can get,” Crutch
field told Nixon.
“You’ll get it,” the
President responded.
In one conversation after
another with storm victims,
local and state officials and
volunteer workers, Nixon
vowed red tape would be cut to
accelerate federal aid for
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lie said the time periods
used to compute the data were
different, therefore causing
the Penn State faculty salaries
to appear lower than they ac
tually are.
PSUPA counter-attacked
Open Options and printed in a
news release a simplified ver
sion of the chart which clearly
showed that the time periods
were the same.
Now Open Options, in an
economic report, is charging
that the PSUPA data is still in
correct because they used a
selected salary grade and not
an average one.
The Senate Report on
Collective Bargaining uses
Penn State salary averages
for (acuity rank. This is the
report which served as the
basis for PSUPA’s data.
Open Options charges that
this could bias the results for
Penn State downward if new
faculty were added at lower
than average salaries during
the period.
Open Options also pointed
out in their report that
PSUPA’s calculation was
based on a 10-month contract,
and failed to show com
pensation faculty receive
during a 12-month period.
“State college faculty
probably do not receive ad
ditional compensation during
a 12-month year comparable
to that received by Penn State
faculty,” Open Option’s report
stated.
inspects
scene
housing, schools and jobs.
En route back to Wash
ington, he told federal
disaster officials aboard the
presidential aircraft that he
wanted top priority given to
getting people out of
evacuation centers in Xenia
and other storm-hit cities by
Sunday.
Housing Secretary James T.
Lynn said Nixon gave these
orders:
“Get on with it. Expedite it.
Cut red tape to the bare bone.
Be as flexible as the law
allows in helping these
people.”
“The destruction, the total
devastation is the worst I’ve
ever seen...lt is the most
devastating disaster I’ve ever
seen,” Nixon told city officials
and newsmen.
Students
and
Teachers
Established brother-sister camp in Pocono
Mountains will be interviewing for general
and specialty counselors on April 11 and
12. Sign up for interviews in the Student
Employment Office, 105 Boucke or write
to Camp Akiba, Box 400, Bala Cynwyd,
Pa. 19004.
M. Lee Upcraft
Collegian notes
Virge Neilly will present a
slide show entitled “There’s
No Hospitality Like Ham
Hospitality” at a Penn State
Amateur Radio Club meeting
7 tfO tonight in 208 Engineering
E.
The pre-vet club will meet
7:30 tonight in 111 Animal In
dustries.
The Undergraduate Po
litical Science Association
will sponsor a seminar by
Parris Chang and Vernon
Aspaturian entitled “Recent
Developments in China: A
Traveler's View" 7:30 tonight
in 124 Sparks.
The Reference Department
of the University Libraries
will offer special individual
sessions for students in the
social sciences and
humanities having problems
locating information to write a
paper or prepare a speech.
Sessions will begin 1 to 3
p.m. today and are offered 10
a.m. to 12 a.m. Tuesday morn
ings and 1 to 3 p.m. Wednes
days.
It is necessary to register
topics in advance by calling
865-6368. «
Biology Society will meet
7:30 tonight in 8 Life Sciences.
L. E. Casida, professor of
microbiology, will speak on
“Bacteria of Earth and
Mars.” Elections for new of
ficers will also be held.
Michael Johnson, professor
of sociology, will speak on “A
Demonstration of Sex and the
Self-Concept ” 8 tonight in the
HUB Reading Room.
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Catholic Holy Week
Services On Campus
Holy Thursday: Mass of the Eucharist. 4:30 p.m
Schwab
Good Friday: Celebration of the Lord's Passion,
4:30p.m., Schwab
Holy Saturday: The Easter Vigil, 8:00 p.m.,
Eisenhower Chapel
Easter Sunday: 7:00 a.m., Eisenhower: 9:15, 10:15,
11:15, Schwab: 4:15p.m., Forum 105
Confessions: Thursday and Friday, 3:15-4:15;
Saturday, 4:00-5:00, Eisenhower Chapel
No anticipated Sunday Mass on Saturday, April 13
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Upcraft talks on campaign promise
Cernusca dorm changes 'costly'
M. Lee Upcraft, director of residential life programs, yester
day charged that George Cernusca's campaign promise of
one-term dorm contracts would mean a “traumatic increase”
in room and board costs.
Cernusca, new Undergraduate Student Government
president, promised throughout the campaign to provide dorm
contracts negotiated on a term-to-term basis, claiming that
many students were waiting to get into the dorms.
“It can be done, but there is no question that it would cost
more,” M. Lee Upcraft said, adding that dorms are over
crowded in the fall, filled to capacity in winter, but un
derhoused in spring. Upcraft said students are on dorm room
waiting lists Fall Term only.
Upcraft said that although a “frequent critic of USG...I ex
tended an invitation to George to come up and talk to us. ”
He said he disagreed with a USG Supreme Court decision
which put Association of Residence Hall Students’ voting
procedures up for referendum. Students overwhelmingly
voted to have ARHS officials elected at large after the Student
Rights Party pressed a suit against the organization charging
it was “unrepresentative.”
Cernusca was a founder of the Student Rights Party.
“I don’t think they (Supreme Court) should have interfered
with ARHS organization. If that is the case take a look at other
organizations that don’t elect presidents popularly,” Upcraft
said.
But, “expertise doesn’t really matter. With people elected at
large, the expertise is probably the same,” he added.
Asked if low voter turnout affects the USG President’s
credibility with the administration, Upcraft said, “It doesn’t
hurt USG, but it’s no help to them. They could make a stronger
case with greater voter turnout.
“Sometimes internal politics get in the way of USG,” he
said, adding that USG campaigns were “better ones than
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campaign tactics.”
Cernusca and defeated USG presidential candidate Frank
Muraca have pledged to work together on similar issues. One
USG source said yesterday, however, that Cernusca plans to
implement many of Muraca’s programs which he criticized
throughout the campaign.
Asked what he thought of Muraca’s plan to incorporate USG
to provide low-cost federally funded housing, Upcraft said, “It
sounds like a good idea and is certainly worth looking into.”
Upcraft said he was not familiar with all of Cernusca's
promises and could not comment on them.
“We will try to show good faith,” he said
Oil tax reform vote delayed
WASHINGTON (AP) The
House Ways and Means Com
mittee yesterday finished its
basic work on a petroleum tax
reform bill after voting to
keep a depletion allowance of
22 per cent for most natural
gas.
The bill is expected to add
$l6 billion to the Federal
treasury through 1969, if
passed by Congress.
A final vote on the measure
was delayed until after the
Easter recess.
This will give the committee
staff time to complete a last
draft including the panel’s
newest changes.
Chief features of the
legislation include an eventual
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The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 10,1974 —
end to the oil depletion
allowance, which permits 22
per cent of gross income from
oil and natural gas property to
be deducted from taxable in
come up to a top of 50 per cent
of taxable net income.
The committee voted 14 to 5
to keep a 22 per cent allowance
for most natural gas.
However, for most oil, the
allowance would be cut to 15
per cent on Jan. 1, 1975, to 8
per cent a year later and then
to zero on Jan. l, 1977.
But the special tax write-off
for oil would be kept at a
reduced level of 15 per cent un
til Jan. l, 1979 for at least one
third of U.S. petroleum
production.
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