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i PITTSBURGH (AP) Lt. Gov.
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- The National Weather Service has is
sued a Winter Storm Warning with near
blizzard conditions at times later today.
Howling winds are expected, with snow
accumulating four inches or more by
late tonight and considerable blowing
and drifting snow. Surfaces will refreeze
and be extremely hazardous. Wind chill
factors by evening will be well below
zero as temperatures skid to the single
numbers by late tonight.
Blackouts 'unrealistic'
The Association of Residence Hall
Students’ recommendation that
dorms be blacked out is
“unrealistic,” M. Lee Upcraft, the
director of residential life, said
yesterday.
The plan would not work, he said,
because it would cause too many
problems. Also, the energy saving
would be small because the power
would be shut off when it wasn’t used
very much, he added.
West Penn Power, which supplies
most of the electricty to the
University, has asked for a 10 percent
load reduction because of the coal
shortage.
'Good old days' of high student quality ma
By COLLEEN GALLAGHER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Admission to University Park will be tougher for some
students in an attempt to get back to the “good old days’’ of
higher student quality, according to Robert E. Dunham, vice
president of undergraduate studies
•Beginning Summer Term, students wanting to enter the
main campus as freshmen will have to show higher Scholastic
Aptitude Test scores or better high school grade point
averages to be enrolled in the Colleges of Arts and
Architecture, Earth and Mineral Sciences, Liberal Arts, and
'Science.
' 1 On the other hand, students will find it easier to begin at
University Park if they enroll in most other colleges.
To maintain their enrollments, less qualified students have
been admitted to some colleges because fewer students have
been applying, Dunham said.
To correct this, admission standards have been made
uniform except in Business Administration, where standards
are slightly higher, Dunham said.
,“The crunch right now is to get into business,” and stan
dards must be kept higher to offset the influx of applicants,
Dunham said.
Nevertheless, the new policy will probably mean that more
business, agriculture, education and physical education
students will attend University Park next year at the expense
of'some students in the colleges of Arts and Architecture,
Earth and Mineral Sciences, Engineering, Liberal Arts, and
Science.
" Main campus enrollment in Human Development and the
'Division of Undergraduate Studies will probably remain the
same, according to figures supplied by Dunham.
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portrait of the candidate, propped on an
easel by the phone.
“I am formally announcing my
candidacy for governor with a solemn
committment to lead this com
monwealth forward,” Kline began,
reading from the same six-page
statement he gave earlier in
Philadelphia. That news conference was
delayed 35 minutes to accomodate
reporters who were held up in traffic
jams caused by heavy rains.
After reading the statement, Kline
accepted questions from reporters and a
few spectators, including a woman who
noted that sidewalks here were still
clogged with snow and slush following
last week’s massive snowstorm.
“Can you clean up the curbs so we
don’t get killed getting on our buses?”
asked the woman, drawing loud gallery
applause.
“I can’t do it from here,” said Kline,
speaking from the office of a motel in
Valley Forge, where he stopped while
driving back to Harrisburg from
Philadelphia.
“We had an unusual snowfall... but
by and large I think the municipalities
Upcraft said the 10 percent energy
reduction could realistically come
from voluntary student conservation,
shutting of elevators in three or four
story buildings in off-peak hours and
turning off street lights and lights in
unoccupied classrooms.
Director of University Safety David
Stormer said security lost from
shutting off lights would probably be
recovered with increased personnel
and more public transportation.
Upcraft said he thinks the
University can reduce energy con
sumption by 10 percent.
With the same standards across colleges, Dunham said
students will stop trying to “beat the system” by applying for
Liberal Arts at University Park only to declare themselves
business majors once they are accepted.
“It’s silly co turn away very good students in business and
it’s silly to accept lower quality students in other colleges,”
Dunham said.
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and state government have responded
reasonably well,” Kline added. “I’m
hopeful that the moderation of weather
will help clean things up a little bit.”
Reporters focused on another kind of
cleanup. They asked Kline whether he
would be hampered in his campaign by
corruption linked to the administration
of Gov. Shapp, who has endorsed Kline.
“I have no control over who endorses
me and who doesn’t endorse me,” said
the 48-year-old Kline, his voice
resonating like the radio announcer he
once was in Beaver County.
“I intend in the next four months of
this campaign to make it very clear to
the people of Pennsylvania what I intend
to do so they can make a judgement, not
upon Milton Shapp, not upon what
somebody else says, but upon the way
Ernie Kline outlines things and his op
ponents outline things. ”
In his prepared statement, Kline
supported a constitutional amendment
to provide an elected attorney general.
He also called for reformed campaign
fianace laws and promised to establish
an office of inspector general to
scrutinize misconduct in government.
Human development places half of majors
By BETSY LONG
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The College of Human Development has a 53.8 per
cent rate for graduate placement in major-related
fields according to a report done by James M. Slick,
assistant director of career information systems. The
report, issued in June, 1977, listed the rates, ranging
from 36 percent placement for community development
majors to 96 percent for nursing students.
There is no other program at any other school in. the
country like the College of Human Development. The
College is a. unique combination of seven majors: ■
biological health, nursing, community development,
law enforcement and corrections, individual and family
studies, man-environment relations, and food service
and housing administration.
Robert E. Stover, Director of man-enviromnemt
relations said, “Other universities have parts of our
college. Other institutions have programs in man
“Renewed confidence in the ability of
government to function, and in its
honesty and integrity, is a basic
responsibility of the next governor,”
Kline said.
Kline, veteran of six years in the state
Senate and seven as lieutenant gover
nor, will compete for'the Democratic
nomination against former state Auditor
Genreal Robert P. Casey and former
Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty.
Casey teamed with Kline in the 1970
primary. Casey lost to, Shapp, but Kline
won the nomination for lieutenant
governor and he and Shapp went on to a
pair of landslide victories.
Casey recently commented that,
“Milton Shapp and Ernest Kline are like
Siamese twins. You cannot separate the
two.
“That’s Bob Casey’s analogy, not my
analogy, and I reject that,” said Kline.
“Every president of the Uinted States
has had a vice president. Every
governor of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania has had a lieutenant
governor. I think the people of Penn
sylvania are wise enough to see through
that analogy.”
enviromnemt relations, (which is sometimes called
ecological psychology), but they’re not exactly like
ours, because what we ventured to do is put en
' vironmental psychology with architects together with
planners and the like to evolve a different organism. ’.’
The Division of Community Development mailed a
quesionnaire to graduates with law enforcement and
corrections majors and community development
majors in the summer of 1977. Of the 40 percent that
responded, 82 percent of community development
majors reported finding employment in their field or
they were doing graduate work in community
development-related areas. Fourteen percent were
employed or doing graduate work in unrelated areas,
- and 4 percent were neither employed nor in graduate
school.
Twenty percent of graduates with a law enforcement
and corrections major were employed as police of
ficers, 19 percent were employed in probation and
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The new admission policy also will probably mean budget
cuts for colleges where standards have been upgraded,
because a college’s enrollment level largely determines the
share of the University budget it receives.
“A decision could be made to give business more money,” to
handle the enrollment increase they expect, Dunham said.
A recent University study said that the difference in ad
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Vets counselor says
funding may be cut
By ANDY GROSSMAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Next year, because of the budget
cutbacks, there may not be any funds
for veterans’ services, according to
John J. Swords, veterans counselor.
The federal government discon
tinued its funding of the services last
year, but the University budgeting
committee allocated funds to support
them for another year.
“I am confident that he (University
President John W. Oswald) is going to
come up with something,” Swords
said. If not, the veterans office and
other services to benefit veterans
could be discontinued.
There are about 1,400 veterans
enrolled at University Park who
benefit from what Swords calls the
best veterans program on the east
coast. The Commonwealth Campuses
have an additional 1,800 veterans.
Despite the large veteran
enrollment, the federal government
discontinued funding because there
was not a 10 percent increase of
mission standards among the was hurting the
University’s image and contributing to enrollment drops.
Students often believed the system was arbitrary because it
turned away higher quality students in favor of less qualified
ones, the study said.
When applying for admission, students are categorized
according to the grade point averages they are predicted to
achieve at the end of their freshman year.
Predictions are based on the students’ high school grade
point averages and SAT scores according to the past per
formance of students with similar qualifications.
Before the policy change, the number of students accepted
at. University Park for each college was controlled by
assigning the colleges different predicted grade point
averages.
Applicants with predicted grade point averages below the
average assigned to their college would be turned down at the
main campus.
Now, students who are expected to earn a grade point
average of less than 2.75 will be refused admission to
University Park regardless of their college of enrollment.
Dunham said all students in educational opportunity and
disabled veterans programs will continue to be admitted to the
main campus.
Dunham said he does not expect Liberal Arts enrollment at
University Park to suffer significantly because of the change.
Dunham said the new policy may also increase student
quality at the Commonwealth Campuses since higher quality
students will be turned down at Univeristy Park.
However, about 60 percent of the students turned down at
University Park refuse an offer of admission to a branch
campus, according to budget and planning figures.
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Thursday, Jan. 26,1978
Vol. 78, No. 109 12 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by .Students of The Pennsylvania State University
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A Loop bus demonstrates one of the
problems encountered after a heavy
snow water drainage. In the far left
photo, a bus splashes water, which
was nearly a foot deep, onto a side
walk in front of McAllister Building.
On the immediate left, two University
maintenance people, Dick Price and
Harrd Frantz, attempt to unclog the
snow-choked drain
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veterans enrolled at the University in
1975-76 over 1974-75. Under the
Veterans Cost of Instructions
Program the yearly 10 percent in
crease is mandatory for funding.
James F. Lynch, Jr., coordinator of
veterans affairs, said the decrease in
enrollment was inevitable since the
number of veterans in general has
decreased considerably after the
Vietnam war.
Many people at the University are
naive in their attitudes toward veter
ans, Swords said. The veterans pro
gram seems brand new to some ad
ministrators because until last year
it had not been funded by the Univer
sity, said. If services are discon
tinued or even decreased. Lynch
said the old problems veterans
had before the program began will
crop up again. The worst of these
problems was the need for money.
Before 1972, veterans received
about $9O a month under the GI bill to
pay tuition, buy books, and live on,
Lynch said.
parole, six percent in correctional work, and 18 percent
in other major-related areas.
Thirty-one percent were employed in non-related
areas, 2 percent were in graduate school, and 4 percent
were unemployed.
The college is interested in promoting professional
training and knowledge of its application. Acting Dean
of Human Development Joseph H. Britton said about
the nursing program, “Our nurses get pretty broad
behavioral science orientation to a nursing behavioral
science educative approach so that a nurse who goes
through this training program, as best I know it, is
going to know more than bedside care.”
The Department of Nursing has been notified by the
National League for Nursing that both the un
dergraduate and graduate programs have been granted
continuing accreditation. The nursing program was
initially accredited in 1969.
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