—Editorial Opinion
This morning, the University Board of
Trustees will act on the 1980-81 University
budget and proposed state appropriation
request.
Contained in that budget is a proposal
that would provide an automatic 5 per
cent increase in tuition next year. This is
a sharp departure from past University
policy of waiting for the state ap
propriation before instituting tuition
hikes.
We ask the trustees to wait.
Don't vote on that Proposal yet - table it
until the October meeting of the board.
The rational behind the proposal goes
something like this: •
In the past, when the University has
gone to the state Legislature for funding,
it has gone with the premise that there
will be no tuition increase. But in light of
continuing inflation, it is unrealistic for
the University to assume that there will
not be tuition increases in the future.
. In a major change in approach, the
University will now go to the Legislature
Rounding up night rowdies a near impossible task for police, but students beware
When Custer took on the Indians, the
odds were overwhelming.
In attempting to crackdown on State
College street revelry, the State College
police have a valiant cause, but the odds
they face are at least as overwhelming as
the ones General Custer had to contend
with.
It seems the recent trouble flare ups
the State College police have been faced
with come in unmanageable sizes. While
a rapist or rapists may be too in
conspicuous to track down, rowdy
sometimes destructive students may
be too overwhelming to round up.
Police cite 200 phone calls they
received last weekend, in regards mostly
to the abundance of night noise. And they
say that vandalisni, underaged drinking
and? F,44y Pajlifds.:
noticeably this
Surprisingly, it seems many of those
complaints about student disturbances
Student counselors at the
Student Assistance Center,
who man the telephone lines
for the Student Escort Service
from 4. p.m. to midnight
weekdays and froth noon to 8
p.m. on Saturdays.
The Association of
Residence Hall Students and
the Undergraduate Student
Government's Department of
Policy, for trying to get the
escort service back on its feet.
To the Class of '7B, for
resurrecting the tradition of a
More tickets
After receiving a $5 ticket for parking my car
overnight, two rows from the small Parking Lot
83 on Bigler Road, near East Halls, I began to
Wonder about the efficiency of the campus
police. Every car I passed, including those on the
row directly adjoining the legal overnight area,
had a ticket on its windshield. Technically and
legally, the tickets issued were valid. However,
better overnight parking facilities should be
considered.
Space is available for only about 250 cars in
small Lot 83. When considering there are
thousands of vehicles registered on campus,
there is not a lot of convenient overnight parking
space. The only alternative when no space is
available (which most often is the case) is to
park in Lot 83 beyond the Rose Gardens.
Due to the fears reinforced by the attempted
rapes on campus these past few weeks, it is not
safe walking from the rose garden lot to the
dorms, especially' when it is dark. The parking
lot is not very well lit the path back to the
dorms along Bigler Road and Park Avenue has
even poorer lighting.
Instead of wasting the campus police's time
and energy issuing tickets to those students with
registered automobiles, who were most likely
afraid to risk the walk through the parking lot
and back to the dorms from the Rose Gardens, a
campus policeman should be assigned to patrol
Parking Lot 83 during evening hours for our
protection. Also, better lighting should be in-
Wait until October
Delay the decision until students have the facts on tuition hike
A last stand situation?
class gift. At the Penn State-
Rutgers football game, the
class presented University.
President John Oswald with a
victory bell.
Curt Warner, who
provided the Nittany Lion
ground game with some
unexpected thunder and
lightning in his college
football debut. The s'll' ', 183-
pound freshman tailback
exploded for three touch
downs in the second quarter
against Rutgers, earning him
the Associated Press' Of-
stalled from the parking lot to the dormitory
areas.
Granted, certain people who park in the
"Restricted Parking Areas fiom 2:30 to 6:00
a.m." are just too lazy to park any further from
their residences than necessary. But for those of
us who park illegally because of fear, our
greatest fear right now is that 'we might receive
more parking tickets.
Happy little feet
There it was, halftime of the Penn State-
Rutgers football game, with the score 27 to 3 in
Penn State's favor. The Blue Band marched out
onto the field for their first halftime per
formance of the year. Then,• what did we hear
floating through the air? Was it strains of Donna
Summer's "Last Dance" and "Stayin' Alive" by
' the Bee Gees? We turned to an also amazed
firend who assured us that, yes, it was disco
music.
The Penn State Blue Band was marching its
happy little feet to disco music.
• Is it not enough that we hear disco music on the
radio, in stores, on the streets, coming out of
dormitory windows and being hummed by disco
crazed people? Now the Blue Band, too, has
succumbed to the disco fever. Is there no end to
this madness?!! Whatever happened to John
Philip Sousa and his marches, a good 2-4 beat
with the 5 percent tuition hike built in as a
gesture of fairness and honesty - fairness
in the sense the legislature would see
thatit is not being asked to bear the brunt
of the burden of Universty funding;
honest in sense that the University is now
,facing facts. •
By doing this, the administration hopes
the Legislature will be more sympathetic
to the University's financial straits.
We are not debating now whether the
automatic increase is right or wrong.
The extent of information on this
proposal to the University community
and probably most of the trustees is one
paragraph buried in the second to last
section of the Trustee docket.
But behind the formulation of that
paragraph are hours of research and
administration discussion.
For students, .tuition increases are an
emotional issue. Student government
leaders have already said they believe
the automatic increase is, risky. What
aren't solely from elderly townspeople, Thus, on the morn before another
but from other students. The complaints party-filled football weekend, students
that police describe discharged fire who are under 21 should beware that this
extinguishers in hallways, a shopping may not be like all other weekends.
cart launched from a Penn Towers On the other side of the street, police
highrise balcony and the like -- indicate should know that they aren't going to
that many students who live in the mid- clean up the problem in a single weekend.
town highrises are equally disturbed by Their commendable efforts should not
Beaver Avenue barbarism. turn into a power stuggle with students,
This isn't to say, though, that town- If it does, the streets could become as
student relations aren't on. the line. ugly as they did last May, when a rowdy
Surely, those townspeople who would -crowd at the Phi Psi 500, an annual
attempt a venture downtown . on a drinking and running race for charity,
Saturday night have trouble enjoying a broke the mirrors off a police cruiser,
relaxing meal or stroll in the midst of knocked an officer down and shattered an
near-anarchy. automobile windshield.
Police-student relations, which have And at night, the potential for a serious
been favorable for the most part, will also accident in a police-student scuffle is
hinge on the avowed crackdown policy. even greater.
Althpugh , police admit that / police pluo. keep in mind
.that there,are
fraternities is ,out of their diimain,. thy 'lot of Ipdiaas in this town." - While their
iiiterid . keep 'a Cria m e9e on liqtre shops 'edii - Victiobs may be as Cener'al: "
and bars for underage alcoholic pur- Custer's, their task is Practically as
chasing and drinking violations. impossible.
Winners. .
Letters to the Editor
fensive Player of the Week Beaver Stadium
award.
The Student Advisory
Board and student , govern
ment in general for focusing
their latest efforts on im
portant issues of student
concern like the campus loop
fare increase and- the drop
add fee increase.
Sinners
Athletic Department
ticket office, for overselling
tickets to senior section in
and a pleasant rendition of the Penn State Alma
Mater ( this year's abbreviated version was very
disappointing)?
To hell with minor issues like OPEC and the
gas shortage, the president's lagging popularity,
inflation and Russians in Cuba! What about
discomaniacs in the. United States? !!
We, for two, would like to see disco stamped
out in our lifetimes and would hope the Blue
Band would take the first bold step forward in
this campaign by eliminating disco music from
their repertoire. Elise Eckhard
11th-psychology
Paul M. Eberts
13th-English/pre-med
Sept. 17
Linda S. Fox
sth-advertising
Sept. 13
Debunk the myths
In response to the young men questioned on the
escort service and those of like mind, let pie say
that research, including a project done at the
University has shown that students are reluctant
to interfere (become involved) in a situation
where they feel there is a male-female friendship
or marrital type relationship. Such relationships
often are assumed more than actual. And what of
those of the students who for various reasons
have few or no friends to call on?
Any young woman, for instance, who might be
screaming in a dorm might be interperted to be
involved in an intimate sexual relationship
rather than needing protection of her wishes and
best judgment. In such a situation, furthermore,
his fellow dormmates out of fear of em-
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kind of bind could the automatic increase
put students in if it doesn't do what it is
intended to do? Is the University playing
reverse psychology with the legislature
at the expense of student money? Did
students have any input in the decision?
The issue is complex, but as it stands
now, students have only a one paragraph
explanation of why they may
automatically pay $6O more a year to go
to Penn State.
That is not enough.
This is an important issue to students,
and they should be heard on it, be allowed
to comment on it, and be given the full
story behind it. Student government
leaders are committed to looking into
issue and giving the trustees their views.
Holding back on the issue until October
should have no ill-effect on the status of
the appropriation request. •
The students are only asking for one
month. Table the proposal until the next.
trustees meeting.
Dunks Department
Store, which has recently
advertised anti-gas crisis
mugs and t-shirts which are
insulting to the UniverSity's
Arab community and the
intelligence of the American
people. to deal with a
dilemma. The mugs and t
shirts, which proclaim "I'm
mad'er than hell and I'm not
gonna take it anymore!,"
depict a man kicking an
Arabian sheik and a gasoline
pump.
In one breath, the Collegian says that
USG should watch its expenditures and
that a concert is not what a student
"government" should spend money on.
In a second breath, the Collegian
criticizes a money-free student discount
card which may not give students free
pizzas and text books, but certainly
gives the students the opportunity they
may need to gain discounts on pur
chases.
All this brings me to the point in fact
why does the Collegian persist in
downgrading every effort made by the
student government? It seems that in
the past couple of weeks •the Collegian
has succeeded not only in shadowing
USG programs with very negative
viewpoints, but also in contradicting
themselves in their own editorials
concerning USG. •
I find it hard to believe that the
Collegian overlooks the fantastic job
that the political affairs department is
doing on voter registration this year.
Although voter registration may only be
the initial step, it,is an important step
towards acknowledgement from state
and federal governments, as well as the
barrassment and possible heckling, would be
quite reluctant to even inquire about the
woman's safety.
All too often, women are raped by "boy
friends" or others of some acquaintance which is
even more prevalent than rape by strange
males. Very often the rape is, in essence,
planned. Let us become educated and debunk the
rape myths. . Myra A. Ladue
Sept. 13
Troglodyte indeed
I had the opportunity to enjoy the English
classic, "Tom Jones," the first Artist Series film
to be held at Eisenhower Auditorium. The film
was superb! If you wonder why my praise of the
film is belated, it is due to a self-imposed
restraint. I needed time to temper my feelings
about an'incident that occurred.
My evening of total enjoyment was depredated
by one of three young ladies, if I may use the
term so loosely. The one "lady" propped her feet
on the back of the seat in front of her.
I ignored her complete lack of respect for
herself and the others that comprise the
university community. I was able to tolerate her
vulgarity by concentrating on the fine art in
"Tom Jones", such as the verisimilitude of the
bawdy film. It soon became apparent that I did
not have to get so engrossed in the film, because
the "lady" was putting on her own display of
revelry. The only problem is that she was doing
it at the expense of all who Nyould like to continue
enjoying the comfort of Eisenhower Auditorium.
Conflicting criticisms
hamper USG efforts
By VICKI SANDOE
Vice president,
Undergraduate Student Government
Is the Collegian confused?
In an editorial concerning/ the Un
dergraduate Student Government
consumer card, the Collegian stated that
USG should spend money on projects
that would appeal to a wide range of
students. Yet lust two weeks ago, the
Collegian published an article criticizing
USG for sponsoring a concert on the
HUB lawn which attracted over 3,000
students throughout the day.
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The senate is also very concerned with
communications with their constituents;!
a problem they . intend to remedy;
through publishing weekly senate
agendas and Senate office hours in the:
paper.
I think that until we solve the energy:
crisis, drop tuition to a mere $lOO.OO, and;
perhaps lend a hand in the formulation;
of federal policy, the Collegian will ,
criticize USG for "not meeting the needs:
of the students."
This may not be realistic, but neithes;
are the demands the Collegian is maki4
on student government. All I ask is that:•
the students, as well as the Collegian,:
take an objective look at what thig.
student government is doing for the'
students at the University.
Give this administration a chance
prove, as I.believe they have alreadr,
that they are concerned with the student
interest, and will not quit, until they
provide the representation, services and
attention the students at the University
deserve!
A scrapping sound had drawn my attention;
The "lady" was dragging her foot across tii t ‘
back of the seat in rhythm to an , ale-drinking
song. I could not abide her action any longer, if i
had wanted to see or hear such ignorance,
would have went to a local cinema when a Wz4
Disney movie was showing. Even at that, I do not
think I would have been exposed to such infantile
actions. At least if I would have asked a child tO
remove their feet from a. seat, I do not think i
would have received such an insolent reply.
I had asked her to remove her feet. The im'•
pertinent reply of, "Oh sure. Humph, excul.
me," convinced me that this ignoramous was no
a college lady, but a troglodyte that was excited
by colors and pictures. If I am not so kind, it i s
because I am concerned that the actions of a few,
may mar the chance of more student activities
being held in Eisenhower Auditorium. .
Because the film portrayed a few boors, it
gave her no license to act in such manner.
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David W. Anderson.
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local government right here in State
College, which affects the students
perhaps more than they realize. •
I fail to see the Collegian backing the
Department of Policy and their efforts to
produce a sound and productive 'escort
system, one that when implementea
provide more safety for the students iii
campus. Nor does the Collegian'report
the jnformation compiled on the
Ritenour Ambulance service, a project
this department, executive council and
the Student Advisory Board have been
working on for weeks.
The Collegian seems blind to the fa
'that •the, USG .Senate is.. mombissue i
l oriented than it has ever been in the
Oast: -This , -elected -body—has- beguir-to
investigate such issues as stadium
seating, the unexpected curtailment : of,
weight room hours, the Ritenour.Health;
Services, and the raise in campus low
costs. ITI
More freshmen than
ever before: 4,581
By, DAVID PERLIS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Fall Term enrollment at the
University reached a record high of
53,680 'students, according to
preliminary . figures presented
yesterday to the Board of Trustees.
Although total enrollment at
University Park'dropped from 31,827
last 'yezir to 31,792 Fall Term,
freshman': enrollment exceeded the
target of 4,400 students by 581.
`!,That is the highest freshman class
I t that University,Park has ever had,"
Rubert Dunham, vice preseident for
;.: undergraduate studies, said.
"overall we
• are bulging at the
seams..
"The bottom • line shows we are up
p: over 3,000 in total enrollment,"
thinhain told the Education Com
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mittee.
% The. Education Committee also
passed a revision of the policies and
procedures governing WDFM, the
caniptis:radio station. The revision,
1 1: which includes the establishment of
two
. advisory boards to the radio
' station, makes it clear that the board
II is v. the licensed holder of. WDFM.
1 Although the board has control of the
station, students will continue to
4 operate it.
k An advisory board to the campus
-‘...radio station has been established to
t!! help it meet its responsibilities in the
community and to review -its
programming.
' The policy advisory board, con
sisting of three faculty members, an
administrator and four students, will
provide direction to the station in
their local service responsibilities.
) The community advisory board,
consisting of, nine members selected
frqm the, community, will review the
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station's programming and keep the
vice president for student affairs
informed on the effectiveness of the
station in serving community needs.
The board is designed only to ad
vise the station and not to exercise
any control over the daily
management or operation of the
station.
The board's committee on the
physical plant authorized an
agreement with the state Department
of Environmental Resources and the
University to install the needed air
pollution control equipment at the
west campus power plant.
Four of the five coal-burning
boilers at the power plant are
emitting a quantity of pollutants in
violation of the department's air
quality regulations.
The University hopes , to fund
renovations to the plant with money
requested in the budget proposal
submitted to the state legislature. If
the budget is not passed, funding
options open to the University include
bank financing,
"We've asked the General
Assembly to include it in the budget,"
Ralph. Zilly, vice president for
business; said. "If they do we're off
the hook. If they don't, we have to do
it ourselves."
The general budget has not been
passed in five years, Zilly said.
Dr. Evan G. Pattishall Jr.,
associate provost for health
education and chairman of the
department of behavioral science at
the College of Medicine, has been
named interim dean of the Univer
sity's College of Human Develop
ment.
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University Provost Edward D. Eddy told the Board of
Trustees yesterday that the University must become
"superhuman" to adjust to changing conditions during
the next decade.
Eddy reported to trustee members on the status of the
Plan for the 'Bos, a policy guideline which will affect the
direction of the University in the future.
The plan was started to deal with projected
enrollment drops, budget constraints and changing
priorities the University will encounter. The steering
committee of the plan, headed by Eddy, will present a
final draft to the trustees next month, subject to their'
approval.
Enrollment .at the University will be affected by a
projected 32 percent decline in the number of high
Student leaders to ask for defeat of 80-81 budget
By 808 WARE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A resolution asking for the defeat of
the University's 1980-81 budget, because
of the inclusion of an automatic five
percent tuition increase, will be
presented by student organization
leaders at the University Board of
Trustees' meeting today.
The Undergraduate Student Govern
ment Executive Council, which consists
of student organization leaders, ap
proved the resolution last night and
urged students to attend the trustees
eport says Spenkelink was taunted before death
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) Condemned mur
derer John Spenkelink was the target of verbal taunts
but not physical abuse as he went to his death in
Florida's electric chair, investigators report.
But the findings of the two-man panel appointed by
Gov. Bob Graham to study the charges of abuse
surrounding Spenkelink's May 25 execution failed to
satisfy either a capital punishment opponent or the
state's attorney.
At issue was the testimony of a death row inmate who
swore former prison technician Gerald F. Greene told
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Final draft of Plan.fdr 'Bos due next month
By KATHY HOKE
school seniors between 1978 and 1990; Eddy said. In
order to cope with this problem, he said, the University
must stress quality, selectivity and flexibility in for
mulating policy.
"There will be no room for those who wish a com
fortable and secure position;" Eddy said. "At Penn
State, the 'Bos are bound to be uncomfortable and in
secure."
Eddy said the University needs courageous ad
ministrative leadership to respond to unexpected
conditions such as changing government attitudes
toward education, an economic recession, energy
problems or a sharp decline in the college participation
rate of high school seniors.
Because the University is the state's only land-grant
college, it must maintain its position as "the true
capstone of Pennsylvania higher education," Eddy
meeting in protest of the automatic
tuition increase. The meeting will begin
at 9 a.m. in 402 Keller Building.
To include a tuition hike in the general
funds budget request "is a major change
in policy," Hal Shaffer, USG president,
said.
"They always sent the budget request
into Harrisburg, got what they could,
and then raised tuition," he said. "Now
they're including a tuition increase right
in the budget.'
"My initial reaction was that the
University was trying to use reverse
him Spenkelink was held down by guards while a
hospital aide stuffed cotton up his rectum to keep his
bowels from vacating when the electricity was shot
through his body.
Greene denied telling the story—or even being at the
prison at the time Spenkelink was prepared for
execution—and said he can prove it. But his supervisor
and a co-worker told investigators that he was on duty.
"Activities surrounding the execution were not as
sterile and placid as the prison officials would want us
to believe, even though there is no evidence of direct
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psychology with the legislature,"
Shaffer said. In doing so, the legislature
might pass the entire budget under the
pressure from students' parents, he
said.
"But that's a risk," he added. "How
can you work with psychology when it is
not fact?"
"I think they're giving up before they
even try," he said. "The problem is that
if the budget is defeated by the
legislature, the the University will have
to raise tuition even more."
"This means the structural configuration of the
University may be altered maybe even sub
stantially," he said. "Nothing is sacred."
Eddy told the trustees that the plan is a guideline for
policy, but "not a detailed road map." It must be
realistic, not visionary, he said. 1
The University will need to keep its functions of
research, teaching and public service in balance in
order to "fulfill the mission of the total University," he
said.
The plan is the result of a two-year effort by ad-
ministrators, faculty and students. The steering
committee for the plan will submit a preliminao final
.draft to the trustees next month, subject to discussion
and rewriting. The final draft of the plan will be
adopted at the January meeting of the trustees.
"When you go in asking for a budget,
you shoot for the moon," said Mindy
Morrison, student trustee liaison. "If
you go in already behind, you're in
trouble. You shoot and then you com
promise.
"You don't start at the back and work
you're way forward," she said.
Mark Berg, USG Senate president
said there is a feeling among
congressmen that, when they get a
budget request, they have to cut
something from it. Otherwise, they think
they are not doing their job, he said.
physical abuse," said the 20-page report signed by
Miami lawyer Irwin Block and Graham's inspector
general, Dick Williams.
"The condemned • man was apparently taunted
verbally," the report said. "There were loud exchanges
between John Spenkelink and his guards. So many
people crowded in that the people present cannot even
remember everyone who was present at the time.
"Several of those present have each individually
taken credit for saying, 'John, it's time to go."'