2—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, April 27, 1983
Education Secretary Wilburn:
Curriculum must reflect society's needs today and emphasize basics
By KAREN KANE
Collegian Staff Writer
HARRISBURG Secretary of Ed
ucation Robert C. Wilburn said Fri
day he hopes the controversy
surrounding a Board of Education
proposal to decentralize the state’s
school districts will not paralyze the
board’s intent to improve school stan
dards.
Both school administrators and the
public are concerned about the ef
fects the proposal will have on the
state’s 501 school districts.
The purpose of the new Chapter 5
regulations, as originally drafted,
was to increase quality by decentra-
Despite cutback threats students financial aids needs should be satisfied
By ALECIA SWASY
Collegian Staff Writer
HARRISBURG Despite the con
stant threat of federal aid cutbacks
and the lack of increases in state
financial aid, Secretary of Education
Robert C. Wilburn said the needs of
students in Pennsylvania will be met.
“I don’t think that we really face a
very serious problem in financial
assistance today or projected in the
near future,” Wilburn said.
In a recent interview, Wilburn said
although financial aid is a very con
troversial area, most are able to get
the amount they need.
“I know of few students who can’t
get the assistance that they need
either with grants or loans and actu
ally aren’t going to college,” he said.
Referring to President Reagan’s
proposals for the consolidation and
possible elimination of several feder
al aid programs, Wilburn said the
significant cutbacks are similar to
those made last year, but the cut
backs actually did not occur.
“I think there’s been a myth per-
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lizing the 501 school districts through
out the state and allowing each
district to establish “goal-oriented
curriculum.”
“I see a lot of merit in the propo
nents of Chapter 5, about what they
were attempting to do, but I also
understand the concerns that were
raised by individuals that do not want
to see any decrease in quality,” Wil
burn said.
“I think we have a real need to look
at our curriculum to make sure that
the curriculum reflects the needs of
society today, and that is a greater
emphasis on the basics,*’ he said.
On one hand, the curriculum spe
cialists want course outlines to be
petuated as far as the extent of cut
backs that have occured,” he said.
Some restrictions such as a ceil
ing on loans to families with adjusted
incomes of $30,000 or more have
been implemented, but “this sharp
reduction that everyone was planning
on and worried about” has not hap
pened, he said.
However, in anticipation of the
proposed cuts last year, the state
budget had increased PHEAA’s bud
get by nine percent the largest
increase ever in PHEAA grant mon
ey, Wilburn said.
The state also enacted a multi-mil
lion dollar loan program through the
sale of bonds, he said.
Wilburn said the bond program and
the increase last year would offset
any planned reductions for next year.
“We really didn’t think, given this
very difficult year, that this was an
area that needed to be increased,” he
said.
The loan program was authorized
when Gov. Dick Thornburgh signed
legislation Dec. 29 authorizing
PHEAA to sell up to $3OO million in
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based on goals, objectives and learn
ing, Wilburn said.
On the other hand, he said, some
citizens are concerned that if the
schools are not required to provide
“some of the old disciplines that they
are comfortable with,” a school dis
trict might not offer the courses in the
future.
“I think the solution is there as long
as we look at this issue, from a
detached, objective point of view that
you can a§ the two sides are propos
ing things that are not mutually ex
clusive,” he said. “Both can be done,
both should be done.”
Once the' regulations were pub
lished, people began to fear that
state bonds each year.
The current ceiling for the program
is $3OO milllion, but the program
could expand from year to year,
depending on the demand for the
loans, said John Ebersole, public
information officer for PHEAA.
PHEAA is currently looking into
different methods of implementing
the loan program, he said.
The agency has never made direct
loans to students because it does not
have the facilities or the staff, Eber
sole said.
Part of the idea behind the bond
issue was to help students when the
future of federal financial aid ap
pears to be uncertain, Ebersole said.
Initially PHEAA thought the loans
would be available for the 1983-84
academic year, Ebersole said. But
the bond committee of PHEAA’s
Board of Directors have not reached
any definite decisions about the bond
sale.
Wilburn said this “holding the line”
funding does not reflect a negative
attitude towards PHEAA and the
state government has acted favor-
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certain disciplines would be removed
from the curriculums to save money,
Wilburn said.
“Everyone has heard the concerns
and it’s going to be rewritten to make
sure that those concerns don’t be
come a reality,” Wilburn said. “It
seems to me the solution is to bring
those people together."
The course requirements that are
in Chapter 5 now are “truly mini
mum” and “inadequate,” Wilburn
said.
The department must provide
guarantees that the intent of Chapter
5 is not lost, he said.
ably towards PHEAA more often
than against it, he said.
The money that has gone into
PHEAA in the last five years has
shown a significant financial commit
tment from the state relative to the
previous five years.
“The administration certainly rec
ognizes the value of the agency,” he
said.
Wilburn said the Department of
Education and PHEAA have been
involved in some “administrative
hassles” and philisophical differ
ences of opinions.
For example, when the increases in
funding occurred, discussion ensued
as to whether the money should be
used to guarantee grants to low-in
come students or dispersed evenly to
all students.
Although this is a positive, con
structive debate, one has to look at it
from the student’s perspective, Wil
burn said.
“Student financial assistance is to
guarantee that students have an op
portunity to go somewhere to col
lege,”
CATA considers bus lease
to ease fleet overcrowding
By TONY PHYRILLAS
Collegian Staff Writer
The arrival of the 12 new Neo
plan buses has prompted Centre
Area Transportation Authority of
ficials to consider leasing some of
the older buses in CATA’s fleet.
“It’s great to be in the position of
.having the spare buses and help
ing someone else out,” CATA ma
naging director Paul Oversier
said. “Usually, we were the one
who needed to find buses.”
The 12 new buses, which were
added to CATA’s existing 19-bus
fleet, leave the authority with too
many buses to store in its garage.
CATA expects to ease the over
crowding by leasing some of its
older buses to other transit sys
tems.
And CATA has found its first
customer in the Indiana County
Transit Authority, a rural transit
system in western Pennsylvania
that now uses five buses and 10
vans. - '•
The Indiana system leases
school buses and has been looking
for regular buses to lease, Over
sier said.
The Indiana County system is
managed by Lewis T. Poorman, a
University graduate and former
CATA bus driver. Poorman chose
to lease the CATA buses instead of
buses from the Allentown, Harris
burg and Johnstown transit au
thorities.
Monday the CATA board ap
proved a plan to lease four older
Centre Line buses to the Indiana
County system for $250 a month
each. ,
The State College Municipal
Council has already approved the
leasing plan with the borough re-
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ering leasing a fifth CATA bus as a
spare for $lOO a month, Oversier
said.
If CATA can lease five of its
older buses, the authority would
be left with 26 buses one more
than the system needs, Oversier
said.
Last year, the Pennsylvania De
partment of Transportation pur
chased 1,000 new buses from
Neoplan USA Corporation for 15 of
the state’s transit systems in the
nation’s first bus pool purchase
program. Many of the state’s tran
sit systems are now trying to lease
some of their older buses.
Under the leasing arrangement,
State College will serve as-the
middle man in the agreement be
tween the two transit systems.
CATA now leases five buses
from the borough for $2OO dollars a
month. CATA could save $7,800 in
leasing payments to the borough
for the rest of the year when
Indiana County enters the leasing
plan. The leasing agreement ends
December 31, 1983 and CATA has
the option to buy the buses from
the borough for $1 each.
Instead of CATA buying the
buses back, State College will
lease them to the Indiana County
transit system. The borough will
then pass the money onto CATA,
which could use it for local match
ing funds in future capital projects
or as working capital.
The lease, which could run from
one to three years, might yield
CATA as much as $36,000. Indiana
County would have the option to
buy the buses for $5OO each after
three years.
Commissioner candidates discuss issues
By TONY PHYRILLAS
Collegian Staff .Writer
Two Democratic candidates for
Centre County Commissioner, John
T. Saylor and Sue Smith, spoke to a
small group of students last night on
why each is qualified to serve as
commissioner.
The Candidate’s Night, sponsored
by the College Democrats,'gave the
two candidates a chance to address a
range of issues, with the two candi
dates spending much of the meeting
backing each other’s positions.
The two candidates agreed on al
most every issue discussed, ranging
from increased cooperation with lo
cal governments, bridging the gap
between the county’s rural areas and
State College, to continued funding
for human service programs.
Saylor, a Bellefonte resident and a
two-term incumbent, said he is proud
of his record as a commissioner and
would like to continue, serving the
county.
Smith, a Lemont resident and polit
ical.newcomer, is attempting to be
come the first woman elected to a
commissioner’s seat.
A 1 Brelo, the third Democratic can
didate seeking one of three commis
sioner seats, did not attend the
meeting.
Smith, although a first-time candi
date, stressed her involvement with
the League of Women Voters in the
past 10 years and her knowledge of
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Board of Commissioners have been
marked by sound fiscal management,
accessibility to the public and cooper
ation with other local government
officials.
“You have to stay on top of the
government operation and my knowl
edge of county government will help
John T. Saylor and Sue Smith
me continue doing the job.”
Smith said her extensive involve
ment with many area human service
agencies will give her the backround
to help her decide how to fund these
agencies.
Three-fourths of the county’s- $l7
million budget goes toward human
service programs in some way, Smith
said.
“I know the agencies, their serv-
ices and the people who operate
them,” Smith said,
Smith is spearheading the drive by
the Task Force for Emergency Tem
porary Housing to bring an emergen
cy shelter to State College. Last
month, she asked the State College
Municipal Council to consider fund
ing the shelter from the borough’s
Community Development Block
Grant allocation.
ARHS approves new officers, :
announces Movin' On bands
By LAURIE JONES
Collegian Staff Writer
The Association of Residence
Hall Students last night approved
the students chosen by the presi
dent and vice president to fulfill
appointed positions for the 1983-84
council.
The new officers chosen by
ARHS President Dave Labuskes
and vice president Jennifer Gould
are: Judi Smith, executive vice
president; Jane Morris, secre
tary; Trisha McGuinn, treasurer;
Leslie Horn, executive council
working representative; Joyce
Darkey, Residence Hall Advisory
Board director; Leslie Jacobs,
publicity director; and Lynn Wil
helm, national communications
coordinator.
Labuskes also informed the
council of a meeting with the Pan
helenic Council to discuss sorority
expansion. He said ARHS and
Panhel have not formed a recom
mendation on how the need for
more sororities will be deter
mined, but have decided how ex
pansion should occur. He said this
proposition from ARHS and Pan
hel will be sent to the Office of
Residential Life Programs.
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He said that once the 15 percent
allowed for reserved space in the
dorms is reached, a new system
would be needed. Under this new.
system the sororities would be
divided between East and Pollock
halls, with 10 sororities in each
area.
Under the present system, 11
sororities are located in Pollock
(including Alpha Omicrom Pi,
which will not have reserved
space until next fall) and 8 are
located in South Halls.
Labuskes said the new system
would not be implemented for at
least three years.
In other business, Movin’ On
chairman Ed Doherty announced
the bands that will play at the
weekend-long concert on the HUB
lawn. The concert will be on Satur
day, May 7 from noon to 11 p.m.
and Sunday, May 8 from 1 p.m. to 9
p.m.
Saturday’s bands will be Bor
derline, The Freddy Wright Band,
Johnny Deadline, Archie Blue,
W.C. Billhick, Tahoka Freeway,
Nightcap, and Robert Ellis Orrall.
The bands on Sunday will be
Bookends, John Jackson, The
Markley Band, Cartoon and the
Roches.
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