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By JOYCE WASHNIK
Collegian Staff Writer
Although students expected to wait
in dorm contract lines Saturday night,
University officials surprised them by
announcing early Saturday evening
that there would not be another roll
call until 1 Sunday afternoon.
Chris Calkins, president of the
Association of Residence Hall
Students, said the decision to release
the students was based on predictions
that temperatures would drop through
the night.
Representatives of ARHS, the Office
of Housing and Food Service
Operations and the Office of
Residential Life Programs made the
joint decision to release the students
from the lines.
Students were also given a reprieve
from waiting in line Saturday morning
when University officials announced at
8:30 a.m. that there would not be
another roll call until 11 a.m.
Stan Latta, assistant director of the
Office of Residential Life Programs;
said the decision to aunctunce when the
next roll call would be was based on
predictions of rain from the weather
station. Latta said announcing the
time of the next roll call gave students
the opportunity to leave the line and
take shelter from the rain:
"They could do whatever they
wanted," Latta said.
Trevor Kelley (3rd-biology) chose to
leave the line when the next roll call
was announced Saturday morning. •
"I went over to the dining hall and
had breakfast," Kelley said.
However, Latta said, some students
did not even bother to leave the line.
Kirk Creazzi (6th-business) was one
of several students who chose to stay in
line.
Creazzi said he did not hear the
announcement about the next roll call
and by the time he found out he did not
have enough time to go back to his
dorm area.
Kathy. Williams (3rd-nursing) also
chose to wait in line instead of going
Renaissance
Annie Hasiam entertains a full house at the Renaissance concert in Eisenhower Auditorium last
night.
the
daily
gives line
back to her dorm
"I stayed because my sister was
supposed to come up but she never
did," Williams said
Several students questioned the tent
policy enforced by University Police
Services. The students were upset
after being told they were not allowed
to have tents in line.
Joanne Kuzma (9th-marketing) was
second in line in South Halls. When she
and her friends started to put up their
tent, 'a line monitor told them that tents
were not allowed.
"If we had a tent it could keep us
warmer and it doesn't take up any
more room than two sleeping bags,"
Kuzma said..
Tents also would have given the
students some protection from the wet
ground, she said.
Chris Strager (9th-meteorology),
fourth in his line in Pollock Halls, also
was upset about the rule concerning
tents.
Strager said a police officer told him
that he had.to take his tent down. He
was told that if he refused, his tent
would be impounded and University
conduct policy would be enforced.
"They threatened me with one to two
terms probation," he said.
Other students were confused
because they thought that at least
some type of tent was allowed.
Jeff Reeves (9th-community
recreation), waiting in line in South
Halls, was also told to take his tent
down. However, he had thought it was
permissible to have a tent as long as it
was self-supporting.
Elizabeth Bonino (3rd
biochemistry), waiting in line in. West
Halls, was also upset about the rule.
l3onino contacted University police
to ask about the tent policy.
"The bottom line is that we can't
have. (a store-bought tent), but we can
have a homemade tent," Bonino said.
Robert Bennett, a University police
officer and assistant supervisor of
police services, said that according to
a Department of Environmental
Resources rule, to allow camping, the
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dwellers reprieve
Dorm contract line dwellers take advantage of the Saturday sunshine in West Halls.
Students soaked up the sun and attempted to dry out soggy sleeping bags and
clothing.
University must obtain a permit.
Because the University does not
have a permit, Bennett said, students
are not allowed to pitch tents.
"It has been a consistent policy of
the University," he said.
Other than the controversy over the
tent policy and the occasional
uncooperative weather, the rest of the
weekend seemed to go smoothly, Latta
said.
"I wasn't getting as many problem
calls," Latta said.
Connie Pappas (9th-accounting), a
line monitor in West Halls, said there
was a problem.with where the students
were going to stand.
"The biggest problem was the
Stop calendar switch, report says
By ROSA EBERLY
Collegian Staff Writer
A group of University faculty members today
released a report calling for "immediate
cessation" of the calendar conversion process.
Among the issues in the report, drafted by the
Faculty Committee for Semester Review, is the
statement that under the University's
Perspective on the 'Bos, University President
John W. Oswald had no authority to decide that
the University would convert to a semester
system in the manner that he did.
"While authority appears to reside in the
president to make adjustments in the calendar, it
is clear that no authority exists for the president
to make a change of the nature currently
proposed," said the'faculty report, which was
released to every faculty member.
The Perspective, approved by the University
Schedule proposal
prompted criticism
By ROSA EBERLY
Collegian Staff Writer
The Faculty Committee for Semester Review
grew out of a concern over the Calendar
Conversion Council's Fall Term proposal to use a
"sawtooth" schedule under the semester system,
a committee member said.
Warren Morrill, professor of anthropology, said
that when he saw the Calendar Conversion
Council's proposed Block 45 schedule during Fall
Term, he drafted a memo to several faculty
members who were recipients of various teaching
awards.
Morrill said those faculty members sent letters
to the conversion council and urged that the
council not approve Block 45 because it was a
sawtooth schedule a sequence that varies in
class meeting times or intervals between class
meetings, rather than a "flat" schedule similar to
the University's present schedule of classes.
Barry Myers, associate professor in the College
of Business Administration, said that after Block
logistics of it all, because of the
puddles and the wetness," she said.
Paula Bernat (3rd-environmental
engineering) spent part of Saturday
drying out her belongings.
"We had plastic under everything
but the water still seeped through and
got a lot of things wet," she said.
Kyna Hemskey (9th-animal
bioscience) was first in her line in .
Pollock Halls. She began standing in
line with her boyfriend at 6:30 p.m
Thursday.
"A lot of kids thought we were
crazy," she said
She said they had to put up with a lot
of v4rbal abuse from passers-by and
even an occasional snowball.
Please see related story, Page 6.
Med
may
By FRANK A. DOOLEY
Collegian Staff Writer
University's College of Medicine at
Hershey received its first
appropriation increase in 10 years,
tuition may still increase for medical
students there, University President.
John W. Oswald said last week.
Oswald told the Appropriations
Committee of the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives that the proposed 5
percent tuition rate increase for
students at University Park and
Commonwealth campuses does not
include students at the College of
Medicine, but a tuition increase at
Hershey has not been ruled out yet
"The decision to hold the tuition
increase is not final, but while the rest
of the University increases its tuition
this year, (so far in the budget
presentation) the medical school
tuition will stay down," Oswald said.
Oswald was addressing the
appropriations committee in response
to a $3.2 million allocation in Gov.
Dick Thornburgh's budget proposal
for the operation of the Elizabethtown
Hospital. The allocation, included in
the $143 million proposed for the
University, was granted after the
suite tranVerred - the operation of the
hospital to the University's Hershey
Medical Center.
State Rep. John Stauffer, R-Chester
County, said the tuition for the
medical school should increase if
other University students must face a
tuition increase.
"I don't see how the tuition for one
part of the school can increase while
the tuition for another part can stay
the same," Stauffer said.
Stauffer also said the state might
not be able to support the tuition load
of a medical student if there is no
increase.
"Although the tuition is high now,
the state support for the medical
Board of Trustees in 1980, is "a set of directions
and guidelines for the University to follow in the
next decade," Oswald said in his introduction to
the Perspective.
Richard E. Grubb, senior vice president for
administration;said Oswald has the authority to
decide to change the academic calendar under a
set of general policies drafted by the trustees in
1970.
Several University administrators, including.
Oswald, James B. Barton, chairman of the
Calendar Conversion Council, and James R.
Dungan, secretary of the council, were called by
The Daily Collegian and asked to respond to
specific questions about the faculty committee
report; which was not released to them until this
morning.
Oswald said that any serious questions about
the calendar conversion should be referred to the
Calendar Conversion Council.
45 was proposed, many faculty members became
concerned about the conversion process.
"What probably sparked (the committee) was
serious concerns that existed in the fall over
Block 45 and other sawtooth schedules. I think it
was at that point that a lot of the faculty started to
feel that there was a lot more to this than they had
really given consideration to, or that someone had
given consideration to," Myers said.
After the recommendations against Block 45,
different faculty members who had concerns
noticed each other's concerns, he said.
"I guess it's just that the right people happened
to be in the right place at the right time so that all
these different events came to be known to a core
group of faculty.
"(The group) decided that maybe they ought to
get together and talk about this and what
implications it had for the future of the
University," he said.
In November, Myers said, a lot of information
was exchanged between faculty members
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school
face tuition hike
HARRISBURG Although the
students
student without a tuition increase
would be staggering," Stauffer said.
Dr. Harry Prystowsky, dean and
provost of the College of Medicine,
told the appropriation committee that
the state resident tuition of the
Hershey Medical student $5,289
was the second highest for a public
institution in the country. Tuition for
out-of-state students, who make up 9
percent of the student body was the
fifth highest at $9,105, Prystovvsky
said.
"The spread between the tuition at
Hershey and that of other schools is
many thousands of dollars,"
Prystowsky said.
Prystowsky told the committee that
tuition for Pennsylvania residents has
increased 483 percent since 1972, so
consequently, no tuition increase has
been proposed this year for medical
students.
Prystowsky said the medical school
has anticipated the expansion of
hospital duties this year.
Although the hospital has
reportedly failed to spend $BOO,OOO of
their annual allocation for the past
two years, he said this year's
expansion will need more funds to
succeed.
"We want to improve and expand
the work of the hospital so services
will be available to adults and the,
handicapped. We also hope to use
funds for centers of research in
genetics, stroke victims and multiple
sclerosis," he said.
Prystowsky said the University
staff at the hospital has already
improved the operation, safety,
teaching and research output of the'
hospital
He said, for example, the staff has
rearranged 15 units of hospital
organization since the transfer of
operation.
The University has a long-term
commitment in the financial
operation of the hospital.
"At this stage I don't have any comment other
than I have full confidence in the group that is
advising me on this," Oswald said in reference to
the council.
Bartoo said he had not seen the report and did
not think he should comment solely on the basis of
questions about the report.
"I really cannot respond because I haven't seen
the document," Bartoo said. "I don't know what
the gist of it is, and it's difficult for me to giv6 an
accurate impression by simply responding to
your questions, no matter how good the questions
Dungan also said he was not prepared to
comment because he had not seen the report
Barry L. Myers, associate professor in the
College of Business Administration and a
member of the faculty committee, said that under
Please see FACULTY, Page 12,
and report, Page 4.
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weather
Increasing cloudiness with rain showeri
developing towards late' afternoon. High
near 53. Rain showers continuing tonight
with low near 36. Partial clearing and warm-
er tomorrow with a chance -of shower's
towards evening. High near 60.
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