Carter to lift oil price controls June.l,
calls for additional energy efforts
From our wire services
" WASHINGTON President Carter
ijpinounced last night he will lift oil price
controls starting June 1 and demand
'.other energy-saving sacrifices “in a
.great national effort... to give us energy
security.”
r “I’ll give it to you straight: Each one
of us will have to use less oil and pay
Vpbre for it,” he said in a nationally
broadcast, 24-minute energy policy
address from the Oval Office.
/ Trying to sweeten the program for
consumers faced with more inflation and
higher gasoline pump prices, Carter
promised to fight for congressional
toactment of taxes on the “huge and
undeserved windfall profits” the oil
companies will reap from decontrol.
„ He said such a tax always rejected
by Congress in the past would he used
to help compensate lower-income
Americans for the higher fuel prices and
to develop “exciting new energy
'f&ograms."
. Emphasizing that revenues, from the
tax would go to poor families, mass
transit projects and efforts to develop
new energy sources, Carter sought to put
lawmakers on the spot by declaring:
“Every vote against it will be a vote
excessive oil company profits and for
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Oswald:
ByPAULAFROKE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
HARRISBURG University
President John W. Oswald said
yesterday the state legislature must
tgrant the University its entire funding
request if the University is to avoid a
tuition increase.
T Explaining .his -budget request to the
House .Appropriations Committee,
Oswald said between 1972 and 1979 the
inflation rate rose 53 percent and
University tuition charges rose 60
percent. At the same time ap
propriations to state-related universities
increased 35.4 percent, he said.
Because of this discrepancy, Oswald
said, more of the costs for an education
are being shifted to the student. This, he
said, contradicts one of the University’s
hasic missions.
W“We’re trying to keep with the
tradition of the land grant institution by
attempting to keep as low a tuition rate
as-possible,” he said. “But we have not
been successful.
“One of our biggest goals in this
btfdget document is the avoidance, if at
0 possible, of further increases in
tuition. Basically and fundamentally we
are asking for an increase in the budget
to match the inflation costs,” he said.
Oswald has requested a $l3O million
appropriation about $lB million more
than last year’s amount for the
diversity’s $220 million General Funds
budget. Gov. Dick Thornburgh’s
proposed budget, however, grants the
University only $ll7 million.
But the University does not rely just on
increased state appropriations to meet
its budget needs, Oswald said.
;. “We have three ways of dealing with
<sr costs,” he said. “One is through
appropriations from the state, another is
through tuition from the student and the
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reliance on the whims of the foreign oil
cartel.”
Carter he urged the public to clamor
for a windfall profits tax, saying, “As
surely as the sun will rise, the oil com
panies can be expected to fight to keep
the profits which they have not earned.”
"As surely as the sun will
rise ; the oil companies can
be expected to fight to
keep the profits which
they have not earned."
Carter said he will demand that the oil
industry use the extra income for energy
development “and not to buy depart
ment stores and hotels as some have
done in the past.”
But Carter made it clear that, with or
without such a tax, he will start lifting
federal price controls from U.S.-
produced oil as of June 1 and will
complete that process by October 1981.
Administration officials estimate this
move alone will add four or five cents to
Budget request needed to
third is through economies which we
must make and are making.
“We have been working to reallocate
funds from less important areas to more
important areas,” he said.
During the past eight years, Oswald
said, the University has shifted about 10
percent of the General Funds budget
from certain areas to other, areas which
are more important or more badly in
need of funding. This step, according to
his budget presentation report,
“demonstrates that Penn' State has
worked to gain the' fullest possible
measure from available resources.”
But the reductions also mean some
program quality is lost, he said, and
cited as examples increases in class size
University's budget cuts called insufficient
ByLYNNEJOHNSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
HARRISBURG Many higher education
programs are overextended and waste taxpayers’
money, Rep. Ivan Itkin, D-Allegheny, told
University President John W. Oswald at the House
Appropriation Committee hearing yesterday.
In response to Oswald’s $l3O million budget
request, a 15 percent increase over last year’s
appropriation, Itkin said higher education in
stitutions must make critical choices about cutting
programs which do not directly benefit state
residents.
Itkin referred specifically to the College of
Education at the University. He said the state
spends $46 million annually to help train students
for careers in education when they outnumber the
available jobs 2 to 1.
“Every year, over $5O million is spent to educate
people to become teachers when jobs do not exist,”
he said.
Itkin said money is wasted by training people for
Chi Phi Pole-A-Thon
charity hits new high
If you’ve ever said to yourself, “I’ll
never give money to charity unless
someone sits on top of a 20-foot pole for
84 consecutive hours, then here’s your
chance to make good your offer.
Chi Phi fraternity is sponsoring their
first and potentially annual “Pole-A-
Thon” for the benefit of muscular
dystrophy next week. Steve Jones (9th
pre-medicine), the project chairman,
said all 45 brothers and pledges of the
fraternity will take turns sitting on top
of a 20-foot telephone pole from 8 a.m.
April 11 until 8 p.m. April 14. They will
be accepting pledges and donations in
hopes of reaching their goal of $2,000
during that time.
Jones said the pole will be placed on
the corner of Garner Street and
Hamilton Avenue next Monday,
complete with a seating platform and
telephone hook-up. He said they got the
idea from a Chi Phi chapter in Indiana
which had success with Pole-A-Thons in
the past. '
Now, if you’ve ever said to yourself,
“I’ll never give money to charity unless
someone sings Italian operas while
standing on their head under water for
4 S COPIES
the price of a gallon of gasoline, while
critics like Sen. Henry Jackson, D-
Wash'., say it might add as much as 20
cents a gallon.
Early congressional reaction was
predictably mixed along regional lines,
with oil state legislators and industry
spokesmen praising Carter while those
from oil-importing states and consumer
advocates condemned the decontrol
decision.
Carter’s program also included a
sweeping series of other conservation
programs ranging from mandatory
thermostat controls in offices and stores
to threats of closing gasoline stations on
weekends.
In his address, the president aban
doned his recent references to the
energy situation as “serious but not
critical” and warned Americans: “The
energy crisis is real. Time is running
short.”
He urged people to listen carefully as
he outlined the mixture of mandatory
conservation steps, voluntary measures
and proposed new laws included in this
follow-up to his 1977 “moral’equivalent
of war” energy address.
Carter’s program was designed to do
what his earlier energy plan did not
stimulate greatly increased domestic
with accompanying decreases in the
number of available sections.
Productivity is another “terribly
important” concern, Oswald said.
University faculty members have been
forced to assume heavier workloads
over recent years, he said. Since 1972, he
said, enrollment has .increased 11.5.
percent while the number of full-time
faculty decreased 3.1 percent.
In considering the question of equity of
funding for the state-owned and state
related institutions, Oswald said the
legislature should remember the
University’s wide-ranging respon
sibilities.
Because of its “unique responsibilities
as a land grant institution,” he said, the
jobs which may not exist, and asked why funds in
these areas could not be cut.
University Provost Edward D. Eddy said the
administration has cut one program in the college of
education and has planned a detailed analysis of the
certification and graduate programs to determine
adjustments.
Oswald also said the University has been cutting
programs since he became president in 1970. He
said he refused to make more commonwealth
campuses four-year institutions because of the
expense involved.
But Itkin said the effort was insufficient because
the University still requested a 5 percent budget
increase to operate.
Eddy said the University has cut program fun
ding and service costs recently, but rapidly
spiraling inflation has offset the affect of the
decreases.
“As long as state appropriation is not keeping up
with the rate of inflation, we have to eat into the
quality of existing programs,” he said.
84 consecutive hours,” then I suppose
you’ll just have to wait another year.’
‘Fall-out suits’ fall
short of protection
The “nuclear fall-out suits” reported
on sale at a local store in yesterday’s
paper will not protect you from nuclear
fall-out, according to John Gingerich,
an employee of the store.
According to Gingerich, the suits are
actually uniforms designed for the
crews which fuel jet aircraft, and not
for nuclear fall-out protection.
Nonetheless, Gingerich said the store
did sell one suit, and he said they got a
few calls from people asking how far
away from the Three Mile Island the
suits are effective. “We told them 300
miles,” Gingerich said.
He said they decided to bill the
rubberized suits as “fall-out suits” in
order to make people less tense about
the reactor incident.
Maybe that’s why the suits had no
protection for the head.
What do you think
is in the roach dip?
Unless state House Bill 456 is
amended for spelling, no one will be
production of oil, gas and other energy
sources and to clamp down even
harder on energy waste.
Administration officials said the new
plan would reduce energy consumption
by 784,000 to 1.3 million barrels a day,
with about one-fourth of the savings
prompted by higher prices under
decontrol.
They said it should increase domestic
oil production by 740,000 barrels a day by
the end of 1985.
"The energy crisis is for
real. Time is running
short. "
The president conceded decontrol 1
“will add a small amount to our rate of
inflation” in the short run, but claimed it
would ease inflationary pressures down
the road by reducing reliance on foreign
oil at foreign prices.
Officials said the president’s
measures would add 0.1 percent to the
rate of inflation this year and 0.2-0.3
percent to annual inflation in future
years.
University has established numerous
programs beyond those normally con
nected with a university to serve the
people of the state.
For example, he said, the University
sponsored Milton S. Hershey Medical
Center sends many of its graduates to
the state’s rural areas, needing better
health service, and the Cooperative
Extension program reaches all areas of
the state.
“I doubt that there is any county which
is not touched by cooperative ex
tension,” Oswald said. “Yet recently we
have lost service and are looking to
significant subsequent losses. ”
The importance of these special
programs should not be forgotten when
allowed to sell or possess “roach dip”
any more.
The bill is being proposed to prohibit
the possession and sale or other
distribution of controlled drug
paraphenalia, such as bongs, coke
spoons and, presumably, “roach clips.”
But the bill now reads, “ ... ‘roach
dips’ and any other device commonly
used in administering controlled
substances.. .will be prohibited.”
Then again, some people raised an
eyebrow the first time they heard of
hash brownies...
Fahringer feeds fish
tobacco taste treat
When you think about it, fish have a
pretty boring time of it just swimming
around in an aquarium eating fish food
and smaller fish. It is hardly a wonder,
then, that one goldfish in particular has
been amusing itself latgly by chewing
tobacco.
Scott Fahringer (3rd-engineering),
who owns the goldfish, said he just puts
a little Copenhagen in his aquarium and
the fish swims to it, puts it in its mouth
for 30 seconds to a minute and then spits
it out.
“The angel fish tried it once, but
didn’t like it," Fahringer said. He also
But Itkin said the University still maintains
“missions no longer of any use.” He said the
Allentown commonwealth campus could be
eliminated because several adequate colleges exist
in the area already. He said the University is
looking for alternative uses for the campus instead,
which it could probably “sell to the committee” in
the future.
Despite rising inflation, the University will have
to make critical choices to reduce the budget a little
more quickly, Itkin said.
Itkin has expressed the concern of many in the
legislature, Rep. Walter F. DeVerter, R-Mifflin and
Centre Counties, said.
During the hearing DeVerter told Oswald that his
constituents no longer want to fund education by
paying increasing taxes which never are rescinded
once adopted.
“My constituents seem to be saying, ‘We are tired
of paying the increased costs of education,’ ”
DeVerter said.
In a later interview, DeVerter said the taxpaying
said he has four other goldfish which
don’t chew tobacco. “One fish drank
some beer once, but it died,” Fahringer
said.
Fahringer said he first discovered his
goldfish liked chewing tobacco when a
friend of his put some tobacco in his
aquarium to see if any of the fish would
eat it. When they saw that one of the
goldfish seemed to keep going back for
more, they decided to continue the
feedings.
When asked if he thought this might
be a little unusual for fish to do,
Fahringer said: “Yeah, I guess so. But
President Carter prepares to speak from the White House on national TV and
announce his intention to lift price controls from domestic crude oil prices.
stop tuition hike
discussing equity with other colleges, he
said.
“When I speak of equity, I’m not
talking about the idea that just because
one group gets X percent then we should
get X percent too,” he said. “I’m talking
of the mission Penn State has as a major
institution in the state. We are expected
to take on a high level of programs, and
we do have costs that result from this
kind of mission.
“Yet Penn State, from the standpoint
of appropriations for full-time students,
is among the lowest-funded in the state.”
In summing up his presentation,
Oswald asked that when the ap
propriation committee considers his
funding requests, it remember:
INustraUon by Frank Bauman
the number of people served by the
University.
the needs of the state which are met
by the University’s programs.
the -University’s geographic
coverage.
that the University’s tuition is
among the highest in the country for
state universities.
that faculty members’ salaries are
among the lowest in the state.
“I indicate that we are asking nothing
new,” Oswald said. “You should realize
that every cent we can get will be put to
the best possible use.
“We are faced with these mandated
costs, and we are trying to be as broadly
responsive. . .as we can.”
public wants some justification for increased
education spending.
With recent public opinion, DeVerter said he
doubted whether the University would get the
requested 16 percent increase. He said the
legislature would probably maintain the governor’s
proposed 5.2 percent increase unless a political
struggle develops among the leaders, which could
reduce the appropriation further.
With decreasing enrollments and conservative
state appropriations, universities must seriously
consider reorganizing their spending procedures.
“All of our institutions are going to have to go
back to the drawing board,” he said.
Oswald said if the proposed increase is not ap
proved, next year’s tuition will probably increase.
The University will continue to cutback more
heavily in non-academic programs as well, Oswald
said. In the past, two-thirds of the budget cuts were
made from non-academic programs, such as
student services, while one-third came from
academic programs.
then, you can’t really expect them to
smoke, can you?”
Wire Story
Of The Week
FITCHBURG, Mass. (AP) —Oops!
“This is the first time this has hap
pened to us in 23 years,” said forlorn
insulation contractor Gerald Lavoie
after he learned his workers were
busily tearing exterior shingles off the
wrong house.
The proper house was two doors away
on Forest Street. Mrs. Marion Haude,
52, couldn’t help but seem bewildered
when she woke up Tuesday to see a
spread of her shingles missing.
Snowy surprise
Today and tonight will be mostly
cloudy with flurries and snow squalls
giving us a dusting of snow. Tem
peratures will fall to 27 and hold there
all day and fall to 20 tonight. But very
windy conditions will drop the wind
chill factor well below zero. Morning
flurries will give way to increasing
sunshine tomorrow with a breezy high
of 37. Sunday will be partly sunny with
some high clouds and a high of 46.
—compiled and written
by Bob “Suds” Carville