US 6 health
insurance
to be delayed
By BILL HUMPHREYS
Collegian Staff Writer
Despite a decision by Clearfield
County Judge John Cherry, the im
plementation of a student health in
surance plan sponsored by the Un
dergraduate Student Government has
been delayed further by the continuation
of a two-month-old court battle.
A suit was filed in June by the
Philadelphia insurance brokerage of
Frank B Hall and Co., Inc., against
L'SG. USG President George Cemusca
and the Wayne, Pa., brokerage firm of
Higham, Neilson, Whitridge and Reid,
Inc , (HNW&R).
The University and former USG
president Mark Jinks were dropped as
defendants in the initial hearing.
The suit claims that Cemusca signed a
contract on May 1 with Hall and Co. to
give the firm the right to implement the
insurance plan, then_ broke the
agreement and awarded rights to
HNW—Ron May 23.
Cernusca claims he was told by Arthur
Williams, head of the Department of
Insurance and Real Estate, that the
document was not binding and testified
to that effect in the second hearing July
a
Williams testified in the first hearing
July 3 that he had told Cemusca that the
document was a contract.
However, Cherry rejected that
argument in deciding in favqr-of the
plaintiff firm in a written opinion. He
wrote that the document was a contract
and that Cernusca knew what he was
signing.
Cherry admitted that a great deal of
importance was attached to the
credibility of the witnesses and said that
"the whole weight of credible evidence
lies with the plaintiff's witnesses.”
Cherry replaced Centre County Judge
H Paul Campbell, who presided over the
first two hearings. John F. Gough, at
torney for HNW&R, filed to have
Campbell removed because the latter
had said that he was more inclined to
Armed with maps and orientation booklets, 7,000 new
students invaded the Penn State campus yesterday to
tackle the academic and social activities of this year’s
Orientation Week.
4,500 transfers and 2,500 freshmen were scheduled to
arrive on campus yesterday.
“This year Orientation is offering 96 programs the
most ever offered, plus each dorm area will have its own
programs giving new students an opportunity to par
ticipate in over 100 activities,” said Orientation co
ordinator Don Mains.
Mains added that this year th« actual Orientation
period will last two weeks instead of just the one offered in
previous years.
Explaining that this week would emphasize mainly
social activities and testing, Mains said that after classes
start nest week, the Orientation programs would em
phasize the academics with more workshops and
discussions. t
- Mains said that because Orientation is conducted every
term', it is often taken for granted and the budget of the
Orientation committee is completely stretched. He
pointed out that Penn State has so much to offer a student
that it is up to the individual to decide what type of life
style he will choose.
Mains warned students against getting themselves in a
rut by just "hanging around.” He said there are so many
things to get involved in that a student should take ad
vantage of them. c
This year’s Orientation program is slightly different '
frortr those of previous years in that there will be three fk
basic groups of student programs: freshmen, commuters
and off-campus transfers.
According to Mains, commuter students have been
ignored in previous Orientation programs. Therefore, this
year a group of past commuters will run the workshops.
Veteran commuters will explain what it is like to Me at
home as a student, especially in getting one’s family to
realize he has school work to do. They also will tell
the
daily
believe Williams than Cemusca
Cherry heard testimony from Cer
nusca and Williams in a hearing Aug. 23.
Because the decision had been favored
of Hall and Co., the firm- started to
arrange; to put the plan into effect, ac
cording to Bryan C. Hondru, who i
negotiated with Cemusca on behalf of
his company.
Hondru called Cemusca and arranged i
to meet with the USG president this
morning he said, but cancelled when he j
received word that the attorney for !
HNW&R planned to appeal the decision. !
He said Cemusca planned to im
plement the plan while the decision was
being appealed, but Hondru said this is
impossible under the conditions under
which the University was dropped as a
defendant in the case.
These state that the University will
provide the use of its mailing facilities
only to the winner of the court case,
according to Hondru.
An insurance program would be im
practical without this, Hqndru said.
Mervin Sneath, who negotiated on
behalf of HNW&R and also testified,
could not implement the plan yet
because Cherry’s decision was only a
preliminary one.
He said that his attorney has the right
to file exception to the judge’s ruling
within 20 days, after which Cherry’s
decision would be considered final and
an appeal could be made to the State
Supreme Court.
Sneath said he would be meeting with
his attorney this morning to discuss
these options, stating that he was not
sure what his company will do.
John Miller, attorney for Hall and Co.,
said that Gough had called him and said
that it was his (Gough's) opinion that no
action could be taken on the plan until
the exception process was completed.
University’s attorney Delbert
McQuaide said he was not sure whether
the University was unable to take action
until the exception process was com
pleted. He said he planned to study the
matter today.
By PAULA RUTH
Collegian Layout Editor
See the Collegian's Orientation section, pages 25-34.
Collegian
students how to. get involved in campus activities even
though they live at home.
Freshmen on campus for the first time, will receive
information about testing, registration, workshops,
meetings and programs at Orientation meetings.
Transfer off-campus student programs, however, are
being geared towards academics and the possibilities in a
student’s major because transfers already know what
college adjustment is like. Past transfer students, the
Undergraduate Student Government, Department of
Branch Campus Affairs and the Organization of Town
IndependentgtujSents will sponsor continuing workshops
for this groupo? students.
Today most freshmen will be engaged in a battery of
examinations.
Beginning at 8 a.m. in 262 Willard will be the deferred
preregistration tests in English, math and chemistry. At
the same time the chemistry advanced placement tests
will be given in 105 Forum. From 10 to 11:15 a.m. Math 20
and 61 advanced placement tests will be given in 105
Forum. The advanced placement tests for Math 21 and 62 r
will be given in 105 Forum 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Transfer and advanced standing students will meet
with the deans of their respective colleges between 10:30
a.m. and 12:30 p.m. today at locations designated in the
Orientation schedule. Freshmen will be able to meet with
the deans between 1:30 and 3 this afternoon:
Foreign language placement tests will begin at 3:30
p.m. and should last until 5 this afternoon. The French
exam will be in 102 Forum, German in 105 Forum and
Spanish in 108 Forum.
Students not taking tests at these times may meet with
their advisers between 1 and 5 p.m.
Following the alphabetical schedule, new students will
be introduced to the physical education program and its
requirements and r will register for proficiency tests in
archery, basketball, bowling, field hockey, folk and
square dance, gymnastics, swimming, tennis and volley
ball. The exemption tests for these sports require both a
written and a performance test. Freshmen and transfers
will be required to take a swimming proficiency test if
they have not completed the swimming requirement.
Trustees open meetings, up costs
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Managing Editor
Higher tuition and housing rates and
open meetings were the two major items
approved by the University Board of
Trustees during the summer.
At their July; meeting the trustees
opened their meetings, beginning wi®
this month’s meeting. *
The board took its action just days
after the state legislature gave final
approval to the “Sunshine Bill,” which
would have forced the trustees to open
their meetings anyway.
Left unresolved, however, was the
question of just how “open” open
meetings would be.
A committee of various trustee and
University officials was formed to
recommend regulations “governing the
conduct of such public meetings to be
Orientation
Expanded programs
new students to life
considered by the Board including, but
not necessarily limited to, the following:
“The conduct of the meetings of the
standing committees and the.manner of
presentation of matters to the full Board
by the standing committees and the
president.
“The means of giving public notice
of meetings.
“The nature and extent of the use of
tape recorders, cameras, television or
other electronic devices.
“The nature and extent of public
participation in the public meetings.
“The location of the meetings.”
The committee will present its
recommendation “for the first action for
the Board to consider and adopt in
September.”
The meetings of the Board’s four
standing committees —.physical plant,
All new students will be required to submit complete
physical examination reports and to have a tuberculin
test at Ritenour Health Center.
Beginning tomorrow will be class registration in Rec
Hall. For new students terrified of registration, mini
registration sessions will be held in each dorm area to
acquaint the students with the registration procedures.
There also will be a few of these sessions at the meetings
for off-campus students.
All new and old students should remember to take a
matric card, authorization to enroll or acceptance card,
bursar’s receipt, and pink slip or No. 2 card to Rec Hall.
For those who have gone through the mini-registration
session and are still afraid of being trampled by the Rec
Hall crowd, there is a how-to-register tape available at
Pattee. This tape has a stepiy-step description of
registration to the music of King Crimson. The tape is
available in 106 West Pattee.
Special programs started with University President
John Oswald’s speech to the parents yesterday. Oswald,
whose own son will be a freshmen at Cornell University
this fall, wanted to comfort parents that they were not
leaving their offspring With student resident assistants
andjlrientation leaders who have no responsibility at all,
but tether with students and faculty who have been
trainfea to orient the students to campus activities.
Oswald spoke to the new students last night in Rec Hall.
Today’s activities will be kicked off at 1 p.m. with a
craft workshop on McKean patio or Findley Lounge if it
rains. Crafts included will be macrame, terrarium
planting, flower arranging-and crocheting.
Latef at 3 p.m. there will be a pie-eating contest for all
interested students, new and old, on Johnston patio. If it
rains, the contest will be in the Johnston Rec Room.
The College of Liberal Arts is staritng a new Orien
tation program. Between 7 and 9 tonight, new students
may meet with the deans, faculty, advisers and other
students in the college in the HUB Ballroom. This meeting
is to be an informal discussion session in which students
can meet faculty and ask questions.
“There is a problem in getting students just out of high
•school interested in the academics of college,” Mains
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executive will be open to the public.
As everyone who has paid his Fall
Term bill probably realizes, tuition costs
have jumped $2O a term, while room and
board fees were increased $lB per term
for University Park students.
Tuition at the University for Penn
sylvania students is now $960 a year,
compared to $1,060 a year at Temple
University and $1,012 a year at the
University of Pittsburgh.
The increases came as no surprise.
The tuition increase was included in the
University’s budget request for this year
and had been seen as a foregone con
clusion.
According to Otto Mueller, assistant
vice president for housing and food
services, the room and board increase
was necessitated by the increased costs
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in Happy
said. He added that the liberal arts meeting is an ex
periment and will only be continued if students show
enough interest.
Assorted workshops will be held tonight on almost
every topic from legal rights to exercise to sororities and
fraternities to women’s programs to jammies and dances.
Tomorrow's programs will include bike registration at
1 p.m., campus tours from Pollock and self-improvement
at night. Tomorrow night’s workshops will
cover student employment, room decoration and self
defense, plus introductions to sororities and the
Organization of Town Independent Students.
Friday night’s entertainment will be topped off by the
Tamburitzans, a professional folk dance group which will
perform in the University Auditorium Friday and
Saturday evening. This is one of the few Orientation
programs for which there is a.charge, $1 and $2 according
to seat location —except for first-term freshmen who will
be admitted free.
Other'weekend programs will include a concert on the
HUB lawn sponsored by the Intrafratemity Council and a
Splash Party at the Natatorium sponsored by the Black
Caucus.
Religious services have been scheduled for all faiths at
different times in the Eisenhower .Chapel and at the Hillel
Foundation on Locust Lane in State College.
The Orientation program will continue next week with
Gov. Shapp speaking at the University Auditorium
Monday night at 8. Shapp is expected to discuss present
university-and college problems.
“The whole orientation program is designed to make a
new student feel at home at Penn State,” Mains said.
“Many students are afraid of admitting that they are
new.”
Mains suggested that students ask for help when they
need it.
“An orientation leader or resident assistant can
eliminate problems if listened to,” he said. He added that
this year the “OLs” will be wearing T-shirts to better
identify them for the students
3 COPSES
Turning left?
THAT’S WHAT THIS DRIVER was
trying to do—'turn left to Bigler Rocd
from Pollock Road driving toward
East Halls. But yesterday’s massive
traffic jam. caused by heavy rains
and lost parents, delayed his turn.
of various items including food
gasoline, labor and electricity.
Mueller said the choice was either to
raise the rates or to reduce some of the
services such as housekeeping .
Because of the increased charges, no
reduction in services is planned.
The University also submitted its 1975-
76 budget request to the state. It calls for
no tuition increase.
No budget figure was released, but it
will be higher than $94 million the
University will receive in state funds
this year. A request for more than $1(50
million seems likely because of inflation
and planned salary increases.
Weather
Today cloudy and cool, chance of
showers. High in the mid to upper 60’s.
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