Board votes
for 9.9% rise
in fall tuition
By 808 FRICK
Collegian Staff Writer
Penn State’s Board of Trustees ap
proved a 9.9 percent increase in tuition
for University Park students in their
regular meeting held late last month.
The tuition hike, which will result in a
$ll4 increase making a total tuition bill
of $1,263 per academic year at
University Park, is'based on estimates
of the state budget which has not yet
been passed.
If the state appropriation falls short of
the estimates, there could be another
tuition hike starting either winter or
spring term next year, according to
University President John W. Oswald.
Tuition for medical students at Her
shey will increase by $l,OOO, raising total
tuition there to $4,000 per year.
The trustees also voted to raise yearly
room and board grates for University
Park dormitories by 2.4 percent; $36 for
undergraduates living in a double room.
The increase in room and board rates
plus the tuition increase are similar to
last year’s overall increase, Oswald
said.
Undergraduate Student Government
President Grant Ackerman said that the
increase will force some students to
leave Penn State and the total room and
board and tuition increase will not
amount to any saving for the majority of
Penn State students who live off campus.
The only dissenting vote for the tuition
hike came from student Trustee, Dion
Stewart who said he could not vote for an
increase greater than the rate of in-
ASA offices robbed over break
Police Services report finance
records were stolen from the offices
of' Associated Student Activities
(ASA) sometime between May 28th
and May 30th.
According to Tom Harmon,
manager of Police Services, $175 in
cash was taken along with finance
records of The Daily Collegian and
USG accounts'.
Harmon said receipts and income
and dispersement sheets for all
student organizations were also
taken.
Harmon said it was evident the
burglars had keys for both the
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hunches over registration
booklets on the floor of the
Intramural Building seeming
ly puzzled about a particularly
complex class schedule. Hard
as it may have seemed, it was 1
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flation.
Pennsylvania residents will pay $1,134
per academic year c.ommonwealth
campuses and Behrend College, and
$l,lBB at Capitol Campus.
Out-of-state undergraduates will pay
$2,643 at all campuses, and graduate
students at University Park and the
Hershey Medical center will pay an
additional $123 yearly.
In other business, Oswald reported at
the meeting that the lowest bid for the
alterations on Beaver Stadium is about
$1.4 million over the approved project
cost of $4.9 million.
Non-seating related alterations will be
reconsidered to get bids that are under
the amount approved for the project.
The trustees also approved $600,000 for
alterations and improvements to bring
Schwab Auditorium up to state labor and
Industry codes. The building will be
closed for approximately one year
starting in August while improvements
in doorways and the sprinkler system
will be made. • .
The alterations will cost twice as much
the building cost when it was built in
1903.
Final plans for a $5 million nursing
education building to be located east of
the south wing of Henderson Human
Development Building were approved
by the board.
Approximately $3.5 million will be
provided by the Division of Nursing in
the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare, and the remaining balance
will come from University funds.
building and the offices and that the
safe in the office had.been opened by
combination.
Papers were thrown about the
office and obscenities were written on
ledger sheets and other papers in the
office.
He said the burglary was almost
identical to a break-in that occured
last June to the same offices. The
same ledger sheets and financial
sheets were taken both times. Har
mon said obscenities were written in
last year’s break-in.
An audit was conducted last year
after the break-in which showed all
This artist’s rendering shows the Nursing Education Building to be constructed enue. Final plans for the $5 million building were approved by Penn State’s Board
east of the south wing of Henderson Human Development Building on College Av- of Trustees last month.
the i^
daily
records in the office to be in order. He
said an audit is now being conducted.
Pat Burns, office manager
bookkeeper for The Daily Collegian,
said the loss of the records “is going
to be a problem, but the records can
be reconstructed from other sour
ces.” Burns said the loss will mean “a
lot of work” for the’Collegian.
Grant Ackerman; USG president,
said, “I’m as much confused as
anyone else about the break-in. I’m
looking forward to the investigation.”
Harmon would give no comment on
suspects but said the burglars “had a
vendetta against the ASA.”
PSU, Teamsters' union
open labor negotiations
Wage negotiations between the University and Teamsters
Local 8 re-open today with a session conducted by a state
mediator.
After the third session, May 16, union officials said a strike
seemed unavoidable.
“The situation looks grim and worse than it ever has in the
past,” they said in a press release.
C. Rodney Knepp, secretary-treasurer of Local 8, said
yesterday the statement still stands.
However, one Teamster, a University technician, said a
strike was unlikely because most maintenance and Food
Service workers were satisfied with their pay while most
skilled workers were not. He said the skilled workers probably
do not have enough clout to carry a strike vote.
Local 8 represents nearly 2,000 maintenance, food service
and technical workers.
The University and Local 8 signed a two-year contract last
fall, but the contract had a re-opening clause for wages and
surgical benefits for this year. The contract will expire June 30
unless an agreement is reached.
Knepp said an agreement on surgical benefits has been
reached but a wage increase has not been settled.
Coverage for each surgical operation was raised from $450
to $750, a 67 percent increase. Maternity benefits will increase
133 percent.
The union was also asking for elimination of the health in-
U.N. spokesman raps racism
Carter backs outspoken Young
WASHINGTON (UPI) U.N.
Ambassador Andrew Young, saying
even Abraham Lincoln was “racist” in
some ways, talked with President Carter
yesterday and said Carter “understood
what I was trying to say” in his com
ments on allegedly racist presidents.
The black diplomat said he doubts
Carter agrees with the interpretation of
“racism” he expressed in a Playboy
magazine interview, “but he didn’t tell
me to shut up either.”
He said he has no intention of
resigning as some Republican leaders
say he should over this latest con
troversy, and Carter had not suggested
he do so.
Young conferred for half an hour with
Carter shortly after angry Republican
and Democratic House members
questioned him on his assertion that
Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were
racists and got him to agree that, in the
Schools may get more money
HARRISBURG (AP) The House
Appropriations Committee yesterday
narrowly approved two bills that would
put more state money into local school
districts to meet rising costs.
One bill, to increase state subsidies to
local districts by $260 million, would help
relieve pressure to raise property taxes.
It’ll mean an increase in one or more
of the state taxes, but House leaders
have remained mum on which are to be
increased.
The second bill, sought by hard
pressed Philadelphia schools, would set
up a state authority to sell bonds to raise
money for schools.
The bill is aimed at the Philadelphia
school district, which needs $173 million
Photo by Patrick Little
By DAVE SKIDMORE
Collegian Staff Writer
sense he uses the term, Lincoln, John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were
racists too.
He said he and Carter devoted most of
their time to discussing his recent trip to
Africa and U.N. business, but also
touched briefly on his controversial
interview in the July issue of Playboy.
In that interview, he said Nixon and
Ford “were racists, not in the
aggressive sense but in that they had no
understanding of the problems of
colored peoples anywhere.”
Young said Carter who had his own
problems during the presidential
campaign with remarks he made about
lust in a Playboy interview “men
tioned that he had read part of it.
“And he said in context he understood
what I was trying to say.”
Asked whether the President en
couraged him “to keep speaking out,”
Young replied, “No . . . but he didn’t tell
to run such programs as kindergarten,
libraries, food services and trans
portation next year.
The district had to cut the programs to
come up with a balanced budget,
something Philadelphia banks insisted
on before they would loan the schools
any more money.
The schools needed $67 million in loans
to carry them through until classes close
for the summer this month.
Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo and
other top city and school officials met
Tuesday with Gov. Shapp and legislative
leaders to argue their case for more
money.
In addition, an estimated 7,000 parents
from Philadelphia, carrying
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surance premium union employees now pay for dependents.
However, with the hike in surgical benefits, Knepp said the
charge for dependents was no longer an issue.
' Even though the benefit increase was substantial, Knepp
said with rising costs, union members will soon be behind
again.
The new surgical benefits will not go into effect for union
employees until the wage package is voted on, but University
President John Oswald announced the extension of the new
benefits to non-union employees at the last Board of Trustees
meeting.
Knepp said Local 8 will meet for a strike vote on the
University’s latest wage offer before June 30.
A two-thirds majority vote is required for a strike.
A 59 percent majority 84 votes short of two-thirds voted
for a strike last fall.
Under that agreement Teamster members make between
$6.06 per hour for the highest job grade and $3.72 for the
lowest.
Both union and University officials refused to reveal the
union’s latest demand or the University’s offer.
“Nobody really wants to go on strike, but it’s the only way
we’ll get a fair wage,” one union member said.
The University and the union began negotiating in March.
Knepp said the union requested a mediator from the Penn
sylvania Labor Relations Board after the second session
because it anticipated difficult negotiations.
multicolored signs with such slogans as
“Save Our Schools” and “Our Future
Depends on Our Schools,” demonstrated
on the Capitol steps.
Suburban and rural lawmakers have
balked at giving more money to a
district they consider poorly run and
under-financed by city taxpayers.
Rizzo and Shapp emerged from the
meeting confident that the legislature
would take action on the school bills.
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me to shut up either. ”
Young also tried to clarify what he had
meant when he said that even Lincoln
was “racist” in his understanding of the
term.
“The way I use racism,” he said, “the
American public generally, black and
white, and generally the world in this
day and time, are victims of problems
that pertain to racial attitudes. . .
“I myself am constantly subject to
racial attitudes. I said everybody is, you
know.
“They said, by that token, do you think
Abraham Lincoln was a racist?
“I forgot he wasn’t in the 20th century.
He had a few racial problems in his
lifetime. I just think you have to think
about things like that.”
Young, however, dismissed the
barrage of criticism from Republicans
angered especially over his original
characterization of Ford as a racist.
Weather
Generally milder than yesterday, with a
high of about 68 and partly cloudy. Cool
tonight, so don’t put away those blankets
and sweaters yet.
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