Future drop may hurt programs
By TOM DeMEO • Friedman said. At other universities graduate students
Daily Collegian Staff Writer • comprise 25 to 30 percent of the total student population; at
The expected decline in undergraduate enrollment at the Penn State the figure is 11.5 percent, she said. . .
University during the 1980 s may also have a serious effect "There are serious problems (involved). The University
on graduate *grams. budget has already taken a beating for several years," she
Susan Friedman (graduate-higher education), speaking said.
at a meeting of the Graduate Student Association last night, In other business, GSA Vice President Bob Tripepi an
said the declifie would persist throughout the decade but nounced a teaching assistant assessment package is
would be more serious in its latter half. This projection is available from GSA. The purpose of the package is to allow
based on a declining birth rate, she said. student assessment of a teaching assistant who is not
Rising costs due to inflation, the level of appropriations evaluated by standard course evaluations.
received from the legislature and tuition monies must be
"Ifpeople are teaching a lab section, the instructor is
considered, she said. "You're trying to balance these things
evaluated, not the teaching assistant: even though the
so you can survive," she said.
The Final Reports of the Task Force for the Plan for the teaching assistant may be an important part of the course,"
'Bos, released last month, recommended 'the level of he said.
financial support for graduate students at the University be The Assocation also approved a charter for the Turkish
at least equal to that of comparable universities, she said. Student Organization. Bill Berti (graduate-environmental
There are relatively few graduate students in proportion pollution control) said there "appears to be no overlap" of
to the number of undergraduates at the University, the organization with the International Student Association.
Begin outlines position on Palestinians
JERUSALEM (UPI) Israeli Prime autonomy talks with Egypt. Bank and Gaza after the five-year
Minister Menachem Begin has outlined The talks are to begin May 25 in Palestinian autonomy period, required
.a hard-line negotiating position on Beersheba and last for a year, alter- by the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty
Palestinian self-rule, vowing to keep the nating between Beersheba in southern signed Match 26.
West Bank and Gaza strip and never Israel and the Egyptian city of El Arish Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir told
permit the birth of a Palestinian state, - in the Sinai. the meeting certain parts of Begin's
government sources said yesterday. Government sources said Begin proposals might prove to be illegal and
Details of the secret negotiating plan presented a 30-point, five-page Begin could make changes in the plan,
On Palestinian autonomy, the next step. document, with two policy statements the Armed Forces radio said.
in the Camp David accords, emerged emphasized. The report gave no details of the points
from a meeting yesterday between In the first statement, Begin said Tamir questioned, but Interior Minister
Begin and 11 of his Cabinet ministers Israel plans to claim its "inalienable Yosef Burg refused comment after the
working on the. opening position in the right" to sovereignty over the West meeting.
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'Turning Point' changes planned
The monthly newspaper Turning Point
will continue to provide readers an
alternative to other local papers, new
editor Hal Saville (9th-English) said last
night some changes in the paper's
content are being planned.
While past issues have featured ex
tensive coverage of environmental
concerns, for instance, "In the future we
hope to get into other areas which
perhaps would be of more interest to the
general community and the students as
a whole," Saville said.
Turning Point's articles are "not as
much newsworthy as they are in-depth,"
he said.
"Because of the way they are written,
the articles don't lose their immediacy;
the paper is something many people
keep around instead of getting it in the
morning. and then throwing it out in the
afternoon," he said.
"We are really interested in making
the articles more educational than
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persuasive which has been one Although Turning Point is now sup
criticism in the past," Saville said. ported entirely by advertising revenues,
The paper, which was started two Saville said he hopes to get funding from
years ago as a project for a graduate Associated Student Activities beginning
journalism class, now has a circulation next fall.
of about 10,000. It is distributed free, In addition to material written by staff
mostly on campus, Saville said, "but we members, Saville said, poetry and
are working to get more issues to fiction submissions from readers also
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