2—The Daily Collegian Friday, March 26, 1982
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Editor's note: This is the fourth in a
series of interviews with the candidates
for president of the Undergraduate Stu
dent Government. The interviews are
running in alphabetical order with each
candidate being allocated about 35 col
umn inches of space.
Daily Collegian Staff Writer Marcy
Mermel recently interviewed candidate
Emil Parvensky, and the following has
been edited for length and clarity.
COLLEGIAN: University President
John W. Oswald has made it clear the
University will be changing to a semes
ter calendar in 1983. What do you plan to
do to help the students adjust to that
changeover and make the transition
smoother? What problems do you see
with the semester calendar?
PARVENSKY: The basic problem in
dealing with the calendar conversion is
realizing the scope of the change. Every
course is going to be affected. Some will
be a mere transition from 10 weeks to a
14 or 15 week course, yet others will be
combined from two courses into one.
Inevitably the question arises, what
information should be retained from the
prior course and which new information
should be included. If you think about the
process taking place how many differ
ent courses we offer on campus you
see no possible way that we can warn the
undergraduate student and offer the
credible input that's needed.
What we propose to do through (USG's.
Academic Assembly) is enlist the aid of
the various college student councils to
examine the conversion as it affects
them and thus breaking an insurmounta
ble task into more manageable parts.
How the conversion will affect them,
what the grading policy will be in the
newly structured courses, or how many
students will be requiring 13 terms as a
direct result of the change these are all
valid concerns that we have just begun to
evaluate.
But when we really don't have enough
time, we have to systematically attack
these concerns as if our education de
pended on it because it actually does.
What we're working on is what we're
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calling a Super Summer. What this en
tails is any course that more than 30
students would like to take; we can offer
that course during the summer directly
before the switch, thus enabling them to
still graduate without being affect by the
new system.
COLLEGIAN: If Reagan's proposed
financial aid cuts are approved, 80 per
cent of Penn State students would be
affected. Again, what would you do to
help students? What do you think the
University should do to help them?
PARVENSKY: Student funded: you
really have to look at the total - scope.
What we're doing with the issue of fi
nancing an education has basically two
areas of concern.
First of all, financial aid. We've done a
lot in lobbying against financial aid re
ductions, but we can't stop here.
There's still a lot that is needed to be
done. Writing letters has been proven
effective in the past and we plan on
continuing that now. No program can be
ruled out, however, different strategies
are appropriate at different times. We
hope with (President John W. Oswald's
Task Force on Federal Cuts in Higher
Education and Student Aid) and with the
various student associations across the
country, we'll have formed with them the
effective student strategies on Capitol
Hill.
Tuition: We have a built-in five percent
increase every year. So the question isn't
will tuition increase, it's by how much.
Being considered as the non-preferred
section of the Pennsylvania state budget,
we tend to be hit harder in the funding
cuts.
We have no mechanism which with we
can effectively influence the budget proc
ess. We feel it's imperative to set up
some sortof mechanism and hopefully,
the Pennsylvania. State Association of
State-Related Universities may hold the
key.
By banding together with the state
related schools the University of Pitts
burgh, Temple University and Lincoln
University we can work together to
form an effective student lobby and,
if divided up, USG
equally important, discuss funding possi
bilities. We are not in this boat alone.
Each University is dealing with the
cuts in its own ways. It will give us some
insight on how to soften the blows of these
cuts by discussing these issues with the
other state-related schools.
COLLEGIAN: USG President Bill
Cluck has made improving communica
tions between the administration and the
students one of his priorities. What do we have now is dealing with the conver
you think could be done to enhance corn- sion itself.
munication? What do you plan to do to What we would like to do is strengthen
make the administration take student the ties with the University administra
input more seriously? tion by showing that we do have credibili-
PARVENSKY: In the past, the prob
lem with communicating with the admin
istration has been the lack of credibility
of USG. This is a direct result from the
communication with the students, which
I think we have to enhance if we are
going to get credible communication
with the administration.
We're stuck in a time when we have a
transition into a new president. A tran
sition between presidents where Oswald
is dealing a lot with the calendar conver
sion and pretty much the communication
Emil Parvensky
ty. Bringing up the voting turnout and
offering effective services to the students
to show that that •credibility exists. This
candidate says
in itself will raise our relations with the sive body that appropriates funds for
University. projects?
I also think that the work that we have PARVENSKY: The senate has a lot of
done with the financial aid, in working potential. There's basically three types
with the task force, has shown that we do of people in the senate:
have the capability of getting to the You have the doers, the ones who can
students, and that in itself has increased perceive the needs and concerns of the
our communication with the administra- students, who get up and fulfill those
tion. commitments without pretty much any
COLLEGIAN: What qualities do you direction from anybody.
think the new University president You have the would-be doers. These
should have and why? are people who have the initiative but
PARVENSKY: Basically, I think there need the direction in order to get out and
are three qualities that are vital for our serve the students.
next president. And thirdly, you have the resume hunt- '
First, he or she must recognize the en, which really provide no absolutely
progressive nature of culture and educa- no service to the senate or to the stu
tion. Society today is not like it was 20 dents.
'ln the past, the problem with communicating
with the administration has been the lack of
credibility of USG.'
years ago. We need somebody who can By offering clear direction from the'
realize this and work with the students president of the senate and the presiding
towards changing appropriately as socie- officer of the senate, I think the senate
ty has changed. can pull together and start working to
Secondly, we feel that he or she must serve the needs of the students rather
have the ability to relate to student . than simply allocating money.
concerns and by showing this, in the past. A lot of the problem is inefficiencies in r
And thirdly, he or she must pledge to time. We waste a lot of time. Time
bridge the gap in communication be- management is an important skill that
tween the students and the administra- has to be made. What we plan on doing is
tion. This gap tends to, at first, not exist. utilizing the University and the profes-
When President Oswald started in 1970, sors who have the knowledge that we
he was in the HUB almost everyday need. They're more than willing to help.
talking to student leaders, talking to What we'd like to do is to set up a
students in general. workshop to aid the senators in time
Yet now, you have to have one good management, goal realization and par
reason in order to get him to speak at a liamentary procedure. By doing this,
meeting. So this is a long term problem we're going to be eliminating a lot of the
and one that has to be considered wasted time and we can either get out of
throughout the different student adminis- the meetings earlier or accomplish a lot
trations to make sure that that gap is more in the time that we do spend. •
bridged. This combined with directing the sen- i;
COLLEGIAN: What is the USG Sen- ate to realize their goals will prove that
ate's role? Do you think it should become the senate can be effective in actually
more service-oriented or remain a pas- serving the students.
—USG candidate Emil Parvensky
State installs toll-free 'Waste Line' to cut spending
By FRANK A. DOOLEY
Collegian Staff Writer
State spending has been under attack in the past,
but citizens in Pennsylvania can now participate
directly in the state's crackdown on wasteful, im
proper and illegal spending of Commonwealth funds.
By using the "Waste Line," a toll-free phone
number installed by state Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer
on Feb. 12, any citizen can cooperate with the state
Treasury Department's Bureau of Pre-Audits to
eliminate misspending within the government.
In a promotional message to Pennsylvania citizens,
Dwyer said the Waste Line will also enable citizens to
help the Treasury Department.
"The Pennsylvania Treasurer is regarded as the
watchdog of the state Treasury," Dwyer said. "By
Day promises fun for elderly, mentally retarde•
The "Saturday Special," an annual The program, sponsored by Alpha Phi
program for area senior citizens and Omega, involves students who volunteer
mentally retarded people, will be held to escort a senior citizen or mentally
from 12:30 to 3:30 tomorrow afternoon in retarded person to activities of his pref
the HUB. erence, said Barb Gawronski, publica
This year, 130 people volunteered to Lions chairwoman.
help, while about 70 senior citizens and Activities scheduled include presenta
mentally retarded people are expected to tions by: the Nittany Knights, a 16-mem
'attend, said Marti Pennay, membership ber singing group; the Penn State
chairman for Alpha Phi Omega service International Dancers; clowns from the
fraternity. Newman Student Association; jugglers
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Pennsylvania to be the watchdogs for the State
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The toll-free number for the Waste Line is (800) 932-
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Dwyer is confident the Waste Line will be able to
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"If we get the cooperation of Pennsylvania citizens
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from the Juggling Club; and the Centre Bellefonte nursing home) and Laurelton
County Historical Society, Pennay said. Center, a facility for the mentally re-
Also scheduled are: an aerobic dance Larded. Representatives from the State
class taught by Deb Kerstetter, formerlY College Senior Citizens Center and possi
with the Centre County Area Agency on bly Pennsylvania Area Retarded Citi-
Aging; silent movies starring Charlie
Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and zens will also attend, Pennay said.
Hardy; and a variety of table games, she The Saturday Special has been spon
said. sored in the past by the Volunteer Serv-
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including people from Centre Crest (a —by Jeffery Bosserman
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lent than most people realize, Dwyer said.
"I believe very sincerely that there is a sufficient
amount of waste going on out there and we want to
assist the efforts already underway in other branches
of state government to reduce it substantially," he
said.
Greg Penny, assistant press secretary for the state
Treasury, said this prevalence in wasteful spending
is evident in the number of calls received.
"We've received quite an influx of calls," Penny
said. "We average a dozen or so a day, but the first
few days netted about 30 calls. So far, we've have
referred about 380 complaints to other departments."
Most of the calls deal with individual welfare
offenders and Departmet of Transportation mainte
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Registration listed
for Push-up-a-thon
By the end of a long weekend the uals and team and women's indepen
last thing on some people's minds dent individuals and team.
may be to do push-ups but when The event has become more orga
doing them benefits the Cystic Fibro- nized than it was in the past, Dore
sis Foundation, many,people can find said.
the strength. The push-up-a-thon was started
The third annual Push-up-a-thon, to three years ago by Norm Constantine,
be held at 1 p.m. Sunday in the Pollock former Nittany Lion mascot, she said.
recreation room, is being sponsored However, when Constantine grad- .
by Alpha Chi Omega sorority and the uated the people running the push-up-
Nittany Lion mascot. a-thon had nothing to go on, she said.
Last year the event raised $1,700 for This year's lion mascot, Roy Scott,
the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the event's chairwoman were
Chairwoman Susan Dore said. both new to the push-up-a-thon last
Registration will be held until 4 p.m. year, Dore said, "but this year the
today on the HUB ground floor, and on event will go a lot more smoothly."
Sunday prior to the event, Dore said. Judges will monitor the partici-
The registration fee is $5 for individ- pants by counting the push-ups and
uals and $l5 for a five-person team, rests. Four rests are allowed in the
she said. Each participant in the con- locked arm position for 10 seconds
test will receive a T-shirt and, a5O each, Dore said.
cents donation from each. spectator The judges also make sure the feet
will be collected at the event, she said. and hands of the participants do not
Eight divisions will be competing move and that the chest of the individ
for trophies, medals and ribbons in ual touches the judge's fist on the
categories including: fraternity indi- downward motion of the push-up, she
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