.Tuition increase of 5 percent proposed
By AMY ENDLICH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer •
• An automatic 5 percent tuition increase will be included, in
the 1980-81 budget plan scheduled for presentation to \ the
Univer.sity Board of Trustees today.
!• The plan marks the first time. the University has ever
''proposed - a state ,:.appropriations request based on a
predetermined tuition increase. In the past, funding requests
were formulated without a tuition hike included as a source of
'revenue. Tuition was raised only when the state Legislature
'failed to proyide the University with the money requested.
Under the proposed 1980-81 plan, expense increased from
;inflation, maintenance and operations costs totaling
n- $22,053,000 would be reduced by the $3,656,000 that would come
from the 5 percent increase, bringing the total appropriations .
• •
increase requested to $18,397,000.
The increase requested and the 1979-80 appropriations base
of $117,222,000 would bring the 1980-81 budget for general
.University operations to $135,619,000.
"The plan is a realistic approach to requesting state ap
-41 4 ,propriations rather than following the practiced a good many
`years • of asking for full appropriations without any increase,"
',University Provost Edward D. Eddy said. •
In the past, the legislature knew part of the money needed
'would come from students, and they took that into account
:when they made the final appropriations decision, Eddy said.
"Now - we're'saying everything is going up,nd education is
iogoing to cost students more," he said. "I think the legislature
mill`appreciate that honesty."
•,•1 Student Trustee Dave Hickton said he is "very much op-
Vosed" to the automatic tuition increase. •
"In previous years the University has always ,_taken the
iposition that there would be no increase," he said "That
allows us to bargain from ground zero. With this position we
: ; :are already starting at 5 percent."
Undergraduate Student Government President Hal Shaffer
said the University's commitment to keeping the cost of tuition
',down seems to be weakening.
"In the past, the University has asked the state for the
.money we need without including the possibility of a tuition
increase," he said. "In this way, the University's policy has
been to raise tuition only after appropriations are denied."
Thoei - _:.stud. - etit.: - ',Win
000*it.i : , : ,--.'„,:....0..:.000::0it. ,- ;00:jt:
By SUEFERRELL
' Daily Collegian Staff Writr .
Three University stn,dents were
awarded a settlement Of more than
$5O Yesterday in a suit , against the
owners of University Terrace
.. Apartments.
District Magistrate Clifford H.
Yorks awarded $53.25 to former
University Terrace tenants Michael
Petruska ( graduate-public ad
ministration), William Tomayko
(graduate -agronomy) and Edwin
McNicholas (10th-environmental
resource management). The students
charged University Terrace with
unjustly deducting money from their
security deposit when they moved out
of their apartment,in May.
Deductions from the security
deposit included $5B for cleaning the
living room carpet, Which the tenants
said was "stained and dirty" when
they moved into the apartment. The
stain had been reported to University
Terrace manager Mary Frantz, but
had not been cleaned while the
students lived there, Tomayko said.
A previous hearing on the suit was
held in Yorks' office on Aug. 6. Robert
Montgomery (9th-journalism), a
former • ,University Terrace em
ployee, testified then that he had been
paid $3.25 per hour to clean
Petruska's apartment.
Montgomery said he spent less than
six hours cleaning the apartment.
-IA 4DITIOII
aPiia*-41 , 41)if1e
A narcissist is just a narcissist
Making it to graduate school is
something to be proud of, but carrying
it to the point of narcissism may be
going a bit too far.
The cafeteria at Kern Graduate
Center has signs on every table en
couraging customers to practice "self-
EIXRDERT
V gO2 FATTEZ
• .
•;, r •
This amount of time did' not justify
the "$5B ' caipet cleaning charge,
Petruska said.
At the earlier hearing, Frantz
presented time cards which 'con
flicted with Montgomery's testimony.
The hearing was postponed so that
Yorks could further examine the
evidence.
The time cards show that Mon
tgomery spent less than three hours
in the apartment, Petruska said
yesterday. However, ; , the security
deposit deduction was for six hours of
work at $8 per hour, plus a $lO
materials charge, he said.
Petruska asked Frantz why the
itemized deduction sheet included the
charge for six hours.
"I guess I was in error," Frantz
said. '
Petruska also asked for an ex
planation of the $8 per hour rate,
since Montgomery was paid $3.25 per
hour.
Frantz said the $8 amount included
overhead costs such as unem
ployment and cleaning materials.
The $lO materials charge, she said,
was for a carpet shampooing
machine owned by University
Terrace that was used to clean the
living room carpet after the tenants
left the apartment. •
"That's what you'd have to pay to
rent one downtown," Frantz said,
bussing."
Bussing, as it is spelled on the signs,
means to kiss loudly. Therefore, self
bussing must mean to kiss oneself
loudly,
Maybe we should call those who obey
the signs monosexuals.
\a' COPISS
He called the new policy, which assumes a tuition increase
before appropriations are requested, a gamble.
"Apparently the University feels that the legislature will
automatically give Penn State more money if the students
share the burden of inflation," Shaffer said. "However, thei.e
is no - guarantee that this - Will happen."
Both Shaffer and Hickton said the potential danger of the
automatic tuition increase lies in the possibility that the
UQiversity plan will backfire and the legislature will continue
a 12-year trend of approvlng appropriations below the
requested amount. If this happens, further tuition increases
would be added to the built-in 5 percent.
However, Eddy said he doubts the built in increase will
result in a tuition hike higher than those passed in the last
several years. An 8.55 percent tuition increase was necessary
to balance the University's $218.3 million budget for 1979-80.
The University faced a $lO million deficit when the state
General Assembly approved.sl2o.l million of the University's
$130.2 million budget request.
Board member Helen Wise said the more realistic approach
afforded in the automatic tuition increase plan may
_help to
avoid a repeat of last year's budget shortage.
"What we're saying is , "OK, let's be realistic,"' Wise said.
"This may be an up-front way for parents to put pressure on
the legislature by saying they will accept part of the in
flationary cost of education."
"I have alwaya been bothered by the way the University
went into appropriations hearings saying 'we will not raise
tuition,' knowing full well we wouldn't get what we asked for
and would have to come back and raise tuition," she said.
Wise said the 5 percent starting point will not be a
detrimental factor in the final tuition increase figuie. "I don't
think it matters where we go in," she said.'
But she said the pressure will be on the legislature because
they will have to give the University the amount requested or
they will, in effect, be responsible foi• more increases.
"Psychologically this may be a good way to bargain," she
said.
University President John W. Oswald refused to comment
on the increase prior to his presentation of the proposed plan
today when the Finance Committee of the board meets.
See related stories, Page 3.
•
d a i ly
ttle 0 I e • lan
1
BUT THAT'S
ME.TAt~tt4SICALLY
iMPOsSII3i-eii
Theatre studio c alled fire haz a rd
By AMY SMITH
Daily. Collegian Staff Writer
The studio tiOdliY the. University theatre department
for•proßM - er:agei'bosttime design and set construction is
a - fire hazitcl,',according to Tom Hand, University fire
prevention Specialist.
"That . building has been a habitual fire hazard for
manY; nOnyYears," Hand said.
Unsafe 'conditions at the Theatre Arts ProduCtion
Studio (TAPS) in the Nittany dorm area include bad
wiring, improper lighting, improper exit design, poor
housekeeping and other safety hazards, he said.
"The building undergoes a full inspection annually,"
he said. "It is definitely one of the buildings on campus
most susceptible to fire."
'-."Unfortunately, TAPS is probably the most derelict
facility on campus, but it is most crucial to the theatre
department," said "Doug Cook, theatre department
head.
Theatre Arts Production Studio are some of the reasons it has been called a fire
hazard. Some persons have said the building should be demolished.
Voters offered
`free choice'
Louisiana voters may have an
unusual choice in their Oct. 27 guber
natorial primary.
Luther Devine Knox, considered one
of three minor candidates in the state's
'nine-candidate open primary, has
changed his name to "None of the
Above," according to a United Press
International story.
However, Knox changed his name
after it was placed on the ballot, and the
state attorney general hasn't decided if
it can be changed on the ballot.
Knox said voters had never had a
completely free choice of candidates„
"because they have not had the op
portunity to reject all ofithem."
Student adventurers
eat in Waring
A group of what appeared to be
student archaeologists invaded Waring
'Dining Hall last Sunday while dinner
was being §erved.
They were led by Danny Harris (4th
'geological sciences), were clad in pith
helmets and were armed with a
hammer and chisel.
Photo by Chip Connolly
University Provost Edward D. Eddy addresses the Board of Trustees, including Trustee President Quentin E. Wood and
University President John W. Oswald. Eddy said the University must be prepared to expect the unanticipated.
"The replacement of. TAPS is the moSt•serious need
the department has," Cook said. "We were told TAPS
would he repla,:ed , this 'year,. so far; no statistics
have been deteralined:"
The University has some long range plans for that'
area but, at this point, it has not made a decision about
the building, said Rosemary Schraer, assistant provost.
"This building is not up to the standards of the
University," said Cosmo Catalano, technical super
visor at TAPS.
"This building is, probably responsible for the most
student hours spent in the theatre department," he
said. "It is a shame these students have to work in such
a depressing and unsafe building."
The building, used by. TAPS since 1961, has had few
renovations, Catalano said. Made totally of wood, it has
a leaky roof, no insulation, large 'gaps under door
jambs, peeling paint and broken and' raised floor tiles,
he said.
The group tried breaking a dinner roll
by pounding the chisel into it. After four
tries, and some work done by hand, the
task was completed.
"We tried reporting this to food
service, but they said, 'tough buns,' "
Harris said.
"You know how they're banning
Frisbees, in West Halls? I think they
should ban the food instead.— it's much
more dangerous," he said.
Housing favors
"No-Door" policy
According to the University ad
ministration, it's usually the students
who are stealing doors, crashbars and
other parts of dormitories.
But two residents of Hartranft Hall
say that Housing removed the door to
their room on Sept. 13.
John Cooper (4th-computer science)
and his roommate, Neil Parker (7th
pre-dentistry) said they woke up one
morning to hear maintenance men
working on the•door.
Cooper and Parker had complained
about a crack in the door near the latch,
so, Cooper said, they thought the
repairmen were fixing it.
Cooper said he and his roommate
went back to sleep. When they awoke
..a
Theatre production studio
has extensive history
By CHERYL BRUNO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Theatre Arts Production Studio
(TAPS) is a 20th century phenomenon: a
permanent-temporary building.
Before housing TAPS, the building had
an extensive history, of use by the
University and the military.
The building, which was obtained by
the University under the provision of the
Servicemen's Readjustment Act, was
moved to the campus from Fort
Washington, Md., in 1947, where it had
been used as a World War II emergency
building. ,
At its new location at the University, it
about two hours later, the door and the
repairmen were gone.
Because Cooper and Parker both had
classes that day and couldn't stay
around to guard their possessions, they
took a door from a workroom across the
hall and hung it in their doorway.
After several calls to their area
housing office, the repaired door was
replaced later that day.
Lion, Lion,
who's got the Lion?
Some people just can't get things
straight. -
For instance, at least one television
sportscaster identified the University
of Pennsylvania as Penn State during
its bid last year for the National
Collegiate Athletic Association's
basketball championship. *
The Washington Post this summer
reported that the broken ear of the
Nittany "horse" was, being repaired at
Penn State. r
And now, adding insult to injury,
Vincenzo Palumbo, the man who fixed
the Lion's ear was quoted in a
Bridgepprt,. Conn.,newspaper as
"repairing the brokn ear of a stone
lion for the University of Penn
sylvania,"
Friday, Sept. 21, 1979
Vol. 80, No. 44 48 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
"In thesummer, the flies in here are so thick, you can
barely keefilffem from lighting on yoti.They breed in
the old greasykitchen dtlets.l? hes'aider
"The winter is going to be:an,experieOei When pipes
broke last year, they were capped off. i don't know if we
will have much heat in here," Catalano said.
When repairs are needed, the office of physical plant
is usually responsive to patch a roof or cap off broken
heating pipes, Catalano said.
"But I have also seen repairmen come in here, find a
part of something they need for other repairs, and take
it off of this building to another building.
"The University is doing what they can to keep the
building functioning. I don't think they would let us
work in a building that would fall in on us," Catalano
said.
"I'm sure it is a drain on University funds to keep this
building going,"•he added.
was used as the dining hall serving the
just-completed Nittany dormitories and
the temporary Pollock Circle dor
mitories, built in 1946.
After serving the residents of Nittany
and Pollack for 12 years, the building
was condemned as a dining hall and the
theatre production department was
given the opportunity to move in.
Beginning in February 1961, all the
productiori material and equipment used
by the studio was moved from Schwab
Auditorium to the new site. The building
became a studio for the technicians of
the theatre department.
Continued on Page 16
To err is human
to forgive, divine
I guess I fall into the category of those
who can't get things straight.
Last week's In Edition incorrectly
reported that bandleader Fred Waring
hailed from Pennsylvania's anthracite
coal regions.
Waring, a University alumnus, is
froin central Pennsylvania.
But coal-crackers should not be
discouraged Tommy and Jimmy
Dorsey are both from northeastern
Pennsylvania.
Find your umbrella
Rain starting early this morning and
continuing through most of tonight: The
heaviest rain will be late this afternoon
and this evening. Today's high will be
63 and tonight's low will be 54.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy but
dry with a little sunshine from time to
time. 'Mild with a high of 66. Clearing
and cool tomorrow night, and mostly
sunny Sunday. Tomorrow night's low
will be 43, and Sunday's high will be 67.
—Written and compiled
by Mike Sillup