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Members of Delta Gamma sorority carry •on a tradition, as they dance down E. College Avenue dressed as clowns in Friday night's
Homecoming Parade. Related story, page 18. .
Shrinking dollar hurts international students
By MARYANNE MULLIGAN - "
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The current unfavorable position of the dollar on the
world market is having a minimal but negative effect
op students who leave and enter the U.S. for their
education.
"Wildly changing rates of exchange have forced
some to cancel entirely their plans for overseas study,"
the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Oct. 2.
"Others have shortened the length of thei: intended
stay; overseas. Still others have scrambled to sup
plement grants and fellowships that no longer cover the
cost of living abroad."
. University students who participate in foreign studies
programs, though, have not been negatively affected by
the inflation rate because of a University policy that
sets foreign studies fees at the same level as regular
tuition.
"We've been able to keep the fee the same, and travel
costs have actually gone down," Foreign Studies
Director LaMarr 'Kopp said. Students pay regular
tuition through Shields and a $35 program fee, Kopp
said.
But because travel and personal expenses are not
included in the University's program, students are not
shielded from the problems of the shrinking dollar if
they travel on their own after the ten-week program has
ended.
New Pope begins reign
with mass and a prayer
VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope John Paul 11, the first Polish
pope, began his . reign over the world's 700 million Roman i
Catholics yesterday with a humble prayer for the success of
his mission of service to the church and mankind.
The outdoor inaugural mass in St. Peter's Square was seen
and heard by the greatest congregation in Christian history, an
estimated 1 billion persons watching television in 40 countries,
including one Iron Curtain country, Poland.
The former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, 58, the first non-Italian
pontiff in 455 years, became the 264th spiritual leader of the
church at , 10: 18 a.m. (5:18 a.m. EDT) when Senior Cardinal
Deacon Pericle Felici placed a white wool pallium stole
adorned with six black crosses on his shoulders.
Pope John Paul 11, preaching his "mission of service to the
church and mankind" spoke in 11 languages to demonstrate
the universal character of his papacy Italian, Polish,
French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian,
Czech, Lithuanian and Ukrainian.
Significantly, three of those languages are used by believers
in the officially atheistic Soviet Union Russian, Lithuanian
and Ukrainian. .
An estimated 300,000 people attended the three-hour and 10-
minute mass on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, the largest
church in Christendom. The stocky, round-faced pontiff
beamed at his congregation and he was cheered repeatedly.
A single police helicopter hovered in the sky at the edge of
Vatican City, a reminder of the 5,000 police and security men
mobilized to protect the gathering from possible efforts at
disruption. During the night there had been several minor fire
bombings in Rome.
Can't last forever
Morning sunshine will fade behind thickening clouds today
with a few showers likely late in the day and a high of 68. The
showers will end by midnight with partial clearing towards
morning and it will be noticeably colder with a low of 39.
Tomorrow should be mostly sunny, breezy and colder with a
high of only 56.
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"The most critical situation is in - West Germany and
France, where local currency has not dropped with the
dollar," KcipP said. "In England; the pound has dropped
too, so the situation is not as bad."
"A bank, transfer of 100 German marks from New
York to Germany last October cost $43.71 in Germany.
This October, that figure is in excess of $54.00," This
Week magazine reported in its Oct. 13 edition.
Universities across the country are accustomed to
dealing with the day-to-day problems of dollar ad
justment, the Chronicle said.
"We have become so accustomed to decline of the
dollar that we watch in a kind of bemused silence,"
Mark Mancall, director of Stanford's study-abroad
program, told the Chronicle. "There's no point in
panicking about it."
Roger M. Peel, director of the foreign language
schools at Middlebury College, told the Chronicle, "We
have a few more students overseas this year than last,
so we can't say that the exchange rate has cut down on
the number of students. But it has had a major effect on
the way they live abroad."
Peel said many graduate students in Germany have
to supplement their income by privately tutoring
Germans in English, the Chronicle said.
International students studying in the United States
also have become accustomed to working for their
education. Carmen Kwan (graduate-geography), a
native of Hong Kong, said most graduate students have
More than 3,000 Poles were in the crowd. Many of them wore
red and white embroidered native costumes, waved Polish
flags or held aloft banners identifying their home towns.
Another 700 Polish-Americans were present including the
pope's cousin, John Wojtylo, 60, an automobile assembly line
worker from Detroit.
The streets of Warsaw and of Krakow, where the pontiff
served as archbishop, were almost deserted as thousands of
Poles crowded around television sets to watch the son of
Poland succeed to the throne of St. Peter. Catholic sources in
Warsaw estimated 90 per cent of the capital's 1.4 million
people watched the mass. Cloistered Carmelite monks in
Krakow broke their own rule barring worldly pleasures to
watch TV.
Wojtyla was elected pontiff last Monday as successor to
'John Paul I, who reigned over the church only 34 days before
dying of a heart attack Sept. 28, 80 days ago. Pope Paul VI had
died Aug. 6. The Polish pope is the first non-Italian pontiff
since Pope Hadrian VI of Holland, who died in 1523.
The new Pope John Paul, as did his precedessor, endeared
himself to' many Catholics by choosing a simple investiture
mass instead of being crowned with the elaborate gold and
silver triple tiara popes have used since the year 795.
One hundred and twelve cardinals concelebrated the mass,
which began under threatening skies with dark clouds scud
ding low over the city. The service wound up bathed in brilliant
autumn sunshine, however. The temperature was 67 degrees.
In his 40-minute homily delivered in 11 languages, the new
pope called on God to make him a servant of divine power.
"T.he new successor of Peter in the See of Rome today makes
a fervent, humble and trusting prayer," the pope said in only
slightly, accented Italian. "Christ, make me become and
remain the servant of your unique power, the servant of your
sweet power, the servant of your power that knows no even
tide. Make me a servant. Indeed, the servant of your ser
vants."
In a passage that was not translated into Polish for live
broadcast back to his native country, the new pontiff called on
Christians not to be afraid.
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live here.
"But if they come for an undergraduate education,
though, they have to work as hard as they can" because
they do not have this form of support, she said.
"Basically, the U.S. dollar is more expensive than
Hong Kong money," she said: "Most students are from
the middle class; the lower class can't afford it."
"I can't help feeling that the value of the dollar is
going to have a tremendous effect on the number of
students coming here for an education," said A. Craig
Millar, assistant vice president for student affairs.
"They may go elsewhere when they find the dollar is
worth less to Canada or England,,for example."
. Millar said that although it is too early to tell what
this year's international enrollment will be, he expects
it to be much the same as it has been in the recent past.
In 1976, there were 961 international students, most of
whom were degree-seeking graduate students. The
statistics reported in the May 1977 edition of Penn State
International reflebt a "consistently high enrollment of
Far East students, sharp increases of students from
Middle and Near East and Africa . . . moderate in
creases from Latin America and Europe, and small
increases from Canada and Oceania."
Enrollment of international students has consistently
been highest in the Colleges of Engineering and Earth
and Mineral Sciences, with significant increases in the
Colleges of Agriculture, Science and Liberal Arts.
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man (24) in the first quarter helped carry the Nittany records. See stories, page 12, and Homecoming photos,
Lions to 45-15 win over Syracuse in Saturday's game. This pages 8 and 9. They will face West Virginia this coining
is the seventh straight win fiir the Lions, who are fighting weekend.
for the national championship. Lion quarterback Chuck
Treaty reached
between Israelis
and Egyptians
WASHINGTON (UPI) Israeli and
Egyptian negotiators announced
agreement yesterday on the text of a
historic treaty establishing peace bet
ween the two Mideast nations after three
decades of war, hostility and suspicion.
A spokesman for the U.S. mediated
Egyptian-Israeli peace conference in
Washington said the negotiators still
have to work our some relatively minor
details of three accompanying
documents but all key issues have been
settled.
"The principal issues in the
negotiations have been resolved as far
as the delegations are concerned and a
text of a treaty of peace has been
referred to both governments for ap
proval," spokesman George Sherman
said.
Conference sources said the Israeli
and Egyptian governments could still
suggest some changes in the text before
the expected initialing of the treaty later
in the week.
But the sources s a id any alterations
would likely be minor since the
negotiators were in close touch with
officials in Cairo and Jerusalem
throughout the talks.
Sherman said the treaty, which spells
out the terms of future relations between
Egypt and Israel, includes a preamble
that deals with the sensitive issue of an
overall Middle East peace settlement.
University accepts
copyright contracts
The University has signed three
contracts with copyright licensing
companies to allow performances of
copyrighted music due to a revision
of a 1909 law.
A new law took effect this January
and requires the previously-exempt
colleges, univeristies and other non
profit organizations to pay royalties.
The contracts with the American
Society of Composers and Publishers,
Broadcast Music Incorporated and
the Society of European Stage
Authors and Composers run for two
years. The trio charges a flat fee
based on full-time student enrollment
with two companies requiting an
additional fee for performances
costing over $l,OOO.
ASCAP charges 6 cents per full
time student based on an enrollment
of 53,286, for a total of $319,716 a year.
The company also requires an ad-
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The talks had been deadlocked for
nearly a week over Egypt's insistence on
and Israel's opposition to linking
the treaty to the Palestinian issue.
Sherman said agreement on the basic
treaty came late on Saturday after both
Mideast delegations held lengthy
meetings with President Carter and the
delegations' American mediator Alfred
Atherton.
Sherman said Israeli Foreign Minister
Moshe Dayan has taken the text of the
agreed treaty to Jerusalem for con
sideration by the.lsraeli cabinet.
The exact pace of the Israeli with
drawal from the occupied territories is
contained in one of the three annexes to
the basic 10-article treaty.
Sherman, a State Department official
chosen as spokesman by the Egyptian
and Israeli negotiators, said the pact
provides for the establishment of normal
relations between Cairo and Jerusalem.
He said some of the details of the three
annexes have been agreed on and
submitted to both governments for
approval while the rest will he settled in
future negotiations.
Sherman emphasized the treaty
agreement is subject to approval by both
governments. But he said approval is
expected because both negotiating
teams were in close contact with their
governments during the talks.
ditional fee for each event costing
over $l,OOO.
The ASCAP report form for these
events includes a section for tallying
events costing under $l,OOO according
to dollar amounts. Richard 11. Baker,
University assistant treasurer and
director of finance management, said
the contract does not require the
University to report on any events
under the $l,OOO figure. 1
University Procedures Specialist
Dean T. Murray said the total cost of
the event includes the fees paid to the
main attraction, the supporting at
traction, the back-up musicians and
their room, hoard and transportation
expenses. Murray said the fee
charged the sponsor groups would be
based on the admission charge,
capacity of the event and the number
of performances.
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