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£ By 808 FRICK
2 Collegian Staff Writer
" Gov. Shapp’s proposed state budget
;jfor the 1977-78 fiscal year released
>alast, month has left Penn State $l5
short of its budget request.
>wi Of the $125,407 million requested by.
Sihe University, only $109,761 million
alloted by Shapp, an increase of
two per cent over this year’s
of about $lO7 million.
The current rate of. inflation is
~ȣbout 7.2 per cent per year.
University President John W.
*JPswald said, "The Governor’s
Budget recommendations
*for the 1977-78 appropriation for Penn
Pitt and Temple fall far short
*pf meeting the basic needs of the
*»three Commonwealth universities.”
The three universities are not being
* treated comparably with other needs
« of the state, Oswald said. .
" -Pitt and Temple, are to receive
% about $6l million and $6B million
“ respectively, ah increase of about $1.5
w million for both.
Penn State’s final appropriation
:;nvill, be determined' by the State.
University to teach educational basics
The University Faculty Senate approved the
controversial remedial education program
March 1 sending Penn State into the basic
reading, writing and arithmetic business at a
cost of $1.5 million over the next three years.
The program provides .testing for students
entering baccalaureate or associate degree
programs and to remove reading, writing'and
math problems within three terms of a student’s
admission. - -
Students not correcting - deficiencies by
passing English 2 or an equivalent test in
English or by passing a basic arithmatic skills
lest will be dropped as a degree candidate after
three terms.
1 articipation in reading improvement
programs will be voluntary, according to Senate
legislation.
Hershey faculty excluded in voting unit
By GINA CARROLL (AAUP), or no unionization. t was no community of interest
Collegian Staff Writer The. University ad-- between the medical faculty
■° The faculty of the College of , ministration wanted , the and thenon-medical faculty.
- Medicine at Hershey Medical Hershey medical faculty “Someof their (the medical
Center will be excluded from included in the voting unit, faculty) salaries were almost
the voting unit which decides. which is made up of more double or triple of ours,” said
-if the Penn State faculty will than 3,100 faculty members Robert • Olson, PSUPA
. be unionized. who are considered full-time co-chairman. “The faculty at
The inclusion or exclusion employees. PSUPA and Hershey has different
of the medical faculty was the AAUP advocated the ex- problems and a different
! final issue to, be resolved by elusion of the medical faculty, setting from the faculty here
the Pennsylvania Labor • The University’s basis for and at the branches. They
» Relations Board (PLRB) wanting the medical faculty need a separate bargaining
! before the March 30-31 included in the voting unit unit,”hesaid.
; elections. was the principle "one Olson said the precedent of
In the election, faculty university, one faculty” excluding medical faculties
members will choose between 'according to G. .Gregory from bargaining units was set
! under the Penn Lozier, a University planning at Temple University and the
State University Professional specialist. , University of Pittsburgh, both
(PSUPA), or the PSUPA and AAUP wanted of which excluded their
Association of the faculty excluded because medical faculties.
Professors they-said they believed there Lozier said precedents were
Carter proposes compromise Mid East peace plan
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter
yesterday suggested a compromise Middle East
peace arrangement in which Israel leaves most
occupied Arab territory but keeps defense forces
~ stationed beyond, its borders on land conceded to the
••-Arabs.
In a sweeping, detailed discussion of possibilities
for Arab-Israeli peace, Carter drew “a distinction”
"'between Israel’s demand for “defensible borders”
< Hand the “legal borders” to be set by agreement. •
He said the security Israel craves could be
••'provided by stationing either Israeli or in
•'ternational forces in som’e sort of buffer sone “at
."line, say, 20 kilometers or more” between the two
<^ides.
Dominant subject at his third news conference
’ ‘\vas the Middle East situation, in which Carter
"a major effort in our own government in
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General Assembly and probably will
not be finished until late spring.
“A very high priority in Penn
State’s budget request was to avoid
further increases in student tuition,”
Osivald said, “Clearly, this goal
cannot be achieved with an ap
propriation at or 'near the level
recommended in the Governor's
budget yet we must try to minimize
any increase in tuition cost to our
students.”
Oswald optimistically cited
previous instances in 1973 and 1975
when , the ' Governor’s recom
mendations were eventually modified
to the benefit of the University.
’ Oswald said there is also concern
over the absence'of any increase for
medical students.
“This amount has not changed for
six years, and the College of Medicine
at Hershey faces increasingly severe
financial problems,” Oswald said.
Oswald said he testified before the
House and Senate Appropriations
committees to stress the need for an
“adequate appropriation.”
At the end of three years, the senate will
review the progress of the program and decide if
it has been effective and if it is still necessary.
The program could then be continued or drop
ped.
The final vote for the program was close,,
coming after hours of debate at the March and
previous meetings of the senate.
Several motions to alter the program were
made at the meeting, but only one, to change the
time for the review of the program from five
years to three, passed.
Senator Victor Dupuis, professor of education,
made a motion to discontinue the program after
five years and to tell high schools after that time
Penn State would not admit any deficient
students.
Other defeated motions were to table action on
the program until more information was ob
tained and to not inform high schools that they
1977 to bring the parties to Geneva” for a resum
ption of peace talks. '
Pressed for clarification of the peace
arrangement he sketched out as one long-range
possibility, Carter stressed he is not trying to dic
tate any particular plan and predicted the path to a
negotiated peace would be “a long tedious process.”
He said it could take eight years or more to work out
a final peace.
“This would involve ‘ a substantial withdrawal of
Israel’s present control over territories,” he said.
“Now where that withdrawal might end, I don’t
know. I would guess there would be some minor
adjustments in the 1967 prewar borders, but that
still remains to be negotiated.”
Then, developing his compromise suggestion, he
suggested the key to a settlement lies in resolving
the conflict between Israel’s insistence upon
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made to be broken. He said
the possibility of the medical
faculty voting non-union was
a minor factor in the
University’s consideration
but that the basis of the
University’s stand was the
, desire for University-wide
participation in the elections.
Olson also said the faculty
at Hershey was not consulted
prior to the beginning of the
hearings. * A petition sup
porting faculty inclusion in
the unit was circulated among
the staff members in May
1976, after the hearings had
begun. Of the 260 full-time
faculty members eligible to
vote, 197 signed the petition.
Information centers on
collective bargaining have
SPRING
TERM
G)j e fs)
STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR
STUDENTS (IN CONSTANT DOLLARS:
ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION)
sent deficient students to Penn State to avoid
damaging public relations.
Part of the program provides that the
University Provost inform high schools of the
expectations of the Penn State faculty con
cerning acceptable competence in basic skills
for' students entering the University.
Credit for remedial courses will be given to
satisfy certain scholarship requirements, but the
credits cannot be.used to satisfy basic minimum
requirements for graduation. Grades for
remedial courses will not be used in calculating
grade point averages.
University President John W.. Oswald said at
the meeting that all the funding for the program
would be outside the regular budget and would
not take monejy from any of the University’s
regular programs.
The money will be used for testing incoming
freshmen and instructors.
maintaining “defensible borders” and the Arab
demand for return of all territory occupied since the
1967 war.
Calling the “defensible borders” phrase “just
semantics,” he said the Arabs and the Israelis
“have to agree on permanent and recognized
borders where sovereignty is legal, as mutually
agreed.”
However, he said, “defense lines may or may not
•conform in the forseeable future to those legal
borders.
Asked whether the security zone might be
manned instead by international troop forces,
Carter said, “there might well be international
forces. There might well be a line, say 20 kilometers
or more, where demilitarization is guaranteed on
both sides.”
NEED IS AT
been opened in the libraries of
each of the participating
campuses to ajd in the
dissemination of information
to the voters during the up
coming campaign.
Special procedures for the
use of the University mail
services during the campaign
and election were also ap
proved in light of the long
range implications of this
election.
Election sites were also
approved. There will be three
polling places on the
University Park campus
101 Kern, Schwab lobby and
the University Auditorium
lobby. There also will be
polling sites at the branch
campuses.
ESTIMATED
Book named as trustee
Edward R. Book, president
and chairman of. the HERCO
corporation and 1954 graduate
of Penn State with a degree in
hotel administration, will fill
the unexpired Board of
Trustee’s term of the late
Michael Baker Jr., who died
last month.
Book was appointed to the
term, which will end in 1979,
by William K. Ulerich, board
president.
Elected to Penn State’s
Alumni Council in 1974 ahd
the Alumni Council’s
executive board since 1975,
Book currently is serving as
vice president of the Penn
State Alumni Association and'
as a member of the Penn'
State Fund Council.
HERCO Inc., formally
known as Hershey Estates, is
comprised of 23 divisions
operating in the general areas
of resort operations, hor
ticulture, ' sports and en-
Gave gifts to University
Michael Baker Jr. dies
Michael Baker
Michael Baker Jr., ba, a
member of the University
Board of Trustees and former
president, and founder of one
of the biggest engineering
firms in the world, died Feb.
22 in the Hershey Medical
The Student Bookstore
330 E. College Avenue
State College, PA.
Ph. 237-7616
PSU funds shrink
Aid request not met
With a $l5 million projected budget
gap and barring any unforseen
financial aid, tuition could rise be
tween $6O and $BO a term starting next
fall.
The University could rely heavily
on its first two lines of defenses
against budget gaps reallocation of
money and cutbacks to keep down
tuition.
Analysis
Stretching Penn State’s financial
resources in such a manner “cannot
continue without serious damage to
University programs,” President
John W. Oswald said in the Univer
sity’s 1977-78 fiscal year budget.
Cutbacks in programs to keep
tuition down have reached their limit,
Oswald said.
Thirteen million of the $lB million
requested over last year’s ap
propriation is for inflationary cost
increases including salaries, staff
benefits, fuel, utilities and supplies.
This provides less than one-fourth of
the money needed to make up ifor
tertainment,
engineering,
After graduating from the
university, Book served two
years in the army in Ger
many, then held positions
with the - former Hotel
Harrisburger and the Hotel
Bethlehem.
Book. joined Hershey
Estates in 1969 as general
manager of the Hotel Her
shey, where, coincidentally,
the board will stay for the
next meeting, on March 18.
Book has served as
president of the chamber of
commerce in the greater
Harrisburg area, chairman of
the Pennsylvania Travel
Industry Advisory Council,
and president of the*
Harrisburg Hershey travel
promotion agency.
Book lives in Hershey, is Ed\/Vdrd BOOk
married, and has three
Center after having heart
'surgery.
Baker was a 1936 graduate
of the University in civil
engineering, was named a
distinguished alumnus in 1958,
and served on the Board of
Trustees since 1964.
Baker had given more than
a quarter of a million dollars
in gifts to the University, and
under his leadership as the
Board of Trustee’s president,
the board’s meetings were
opened to the public.
University President John
W. Oswald, said Penn State
“is deeply saddened by the
loss of Michael Baker, who
had served the University for
more than 40 years as a loyal
alumnus, friend, trustee and
benefactor.”
Baker, the founder,
chairman of the Board and'
chief executive officer of the
Michael Baker Corp., located
in Beaver, Pa., began his
engineering 'career as the
borough engineer for State
College from 1936-38.
A past president of the
The Daily Collegian Thursday, March 10,1977—:t
inflation,
The remaining $5 million provides
for essential budget provisions.
Clearly aware he has left Penn
State without enough money to
operate, Shapp has in effect told the
University to raise tuition, or cut
back programs and lower Penn
State’s status as a major university. ,
In his explanation of the budget,
Shapp stressed the economic dif
ficulties the entire state is having and
that any. final relief of the generally
bleak situation will have to come
from the federal government.
Wealth is flowing out of the state to
Washington faster than it’s coming
in, Shapp said.
Pleading with the state legislature
about the importance of a college
education has little effect on the
.amount of money received. Rather,
the state appropriation is in
proportion with the state’s economic
well being. ■
Indeed, in times of financial
prosperity for the state, as in the late
60s, tuition has actually decreased.
More than anything, the tuition
increase starting next fall will be the
result of things being tough all over.
utilities and
children: Sandra, Frederick
and Edward Jr. who is a Penn
State sophomore.
University Alumni
Engineering Association,
Baker also was a; vice
chairman of the College of
Engineering Industrial and
Professional Advisory
Council and served as a
chairman of the Councils Civil
Engineering Section. '
Baker was a member of the
Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees since 1970,"
served as chairman of the
Committee on Finance and
had been chairman of the
Committee on Physical Plant.
A registered professional
engineer in 48 states, the
District of Columbia, and the
Panama Canal Zone, Baker
was a member or honorary
member of three en
gineering honor societies,
and has been president of the
Pennsylvania Registration
Board for Professional
Engineers much of the 18
years he had been a member.
Baker is survived by his
wife, the former Myrtle E.
Pitzer, and two sons, Michael
and Carl Gene.