opinions Credits make student aid check earned All the University had to do was make sure the federal government got what amounts to the proverbial “honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.” •At one time here at Penn State, financial aid recipients only had to register for anoth er term to show sufficient academic pro gress toward their degrees. By doing this, they continued to be eligible to receive financial aid. But federal law now that students receiving financial aid under Title.lV pro grams Pell Grants, Supplemental Educa tional Opportunity Grants, National Direct Student Loans, College Work Study and Guaranteed Student Loans must meet more definite requirements set up by their universities to prove they are making sufti cient academic progress. Penn State’s Office of Student Aid has determined that students receiving finan cial aid must have a minimum of 26 earned credits per year to continue receiving the aid. The University is not asking a whole lot from the financial aid recipients. That’s a mere 13 credits per term, barely full-time by semester standards. But lest aid recipients feel they might be left out in the cold after a bad year with the books, the University has built in a safety net known as a one-year probationary peri od. Students who earn less than the minimum of 26 credits per year but can still get back to the minimum through normal regis tration have one year in which to bring their total credits up to the acceptable minimum for that year in college. During that year, students can still receive finan cial aid. But if students fail to meet the daily Collegian Thursday, June 30, 1983 Suzanne M. Cassidy Editor The Daily Collegian’s editorial opinion is determined by its Board, of Opinion, with the editor holding final responsibility. Opinions expressed on the editorial pages are not necessarily those of The Daily Collegian, Colle gian Inc. or The Pennsylvania State University. Collegian Inc., publishers of The Daily Collegian and related We'd miss you. Dr. Oswald "Since he took over on July 1, Oswald has been much more accessible to students than (former President Eric A. Walker) had been. How much of this can be attributed to his newness cannot be known, but it is known that he considers this an important part of his job. Oswald has also let it be known throughout Old Main that any admin istrator who does not have the time, or cannot find the time, to talk with students is not acceptable." A Sept. 21, I!>70, analysis of John Wielantl Oswald's first three months as University president by Daily Collegian Editor Robert .1. McHugh. ■> "The sad fact is that Oswald has only hurt himself by his refusal to be interviewed. In this many-sided story perhaps the most important side is Oswald’s ... A university president or any public official must be open and accountable to the public if he expects the public and the slate legislature to con sider him anything more than 'the little man behind the curtain' in the ‘Wizard ofOz.’ " A May 5, III7K, Collegian editorial opinion written during David Skidmore’s editorship when Oswald refused, despite repeated re quests, to be interviewed for a story on the perquisites of the University presidency. "Like the emperor with no clothes, Os wald refused to listen to those around him even when what they had to say deserved to be heard. In this happy little valley, Oswald built an empire of secrecy and fear . . . And when The Daily Collegian among other orgaruzations criticized Oswald for run ning his administration subversively, he cut offlines of communication to it altogether. The May 17, !!)«:! Collegian editorial opinion, reviewing Oswald's entire presidency. This week ends John W. Oswald’s 13-year tenure as president of The Pennsylvania State University. Throughout his years at Penn State, Oswald has been alternately praised, scorned, commended and criticized on the pages of The Daily Collegian. He was, in the beginning, a source of great satisfaction to Collegian editors and student leaders who appreciated his openness alter University President Eric A.. Walker’s se cretiveness and abrasiveness. But after a few years into his tenure, Oswald cut off all but absolutely necessary communication with students. And it has been several years since Oswald has spoken directly to the Collegian. Despite his early policy preaching openness and contact with students all students he has chosen in the past few years to retreat into the hal- 1983 Collegian Inc. Judith Smith Business Manager lowed halls of Old Main, only to appear at freshman convocations and at commence ments. Who Oswald really is has been left up to pure speculation. But like most journalists, the editors and reporters who worked for the Collegian during Oswald's 13 years here would have much preferred substantive information from the source himself to speculation. _ s(/( - “«t - ••■;■;# «• .♦vlf®.;-'/ , Jv •*" k ju>4~*-<u.-' a - H Js\, " ' ',"l^ • ‘ . V v^v> Unfortunately, except for the first few years, that's not the way it was to be. Rob McHugh, now a free-lance writer in .advertising and a journalism graduate stu dent at Berkeley, was the Collegian editor during Oswald’s first two years at the Uni versity. McHugh said Oswald encouraged a spirit of communication at the University during those two years that was lacking in the Walker years. ’’(Oswald) created an atmosphere in which students felt they were being listened to," McHugh said. "There was more than ever before a sense that he was interested in communicating with students." McHugh was the first and one of the few Collegian staff members to interview Oswald. McHugh estimated that he dealt with Oswald personally about a dozen times in his two years as Collegian editor. While Oswald’s administration was occa sionally criticized during McHugh’s edi torship, and while Oswald occasionally criticized the Collegian for its editorial stands, no breakdown in communication resulted. McHugh said Oswald seemed to “genuine ly enjoy" his contact with Collegian staff members. And like most students at the University, the students at the Collegian respected Oswald s eiforts to open up com munication at the University. Oswald led the effort then to open up meetings of the University's Board of Trustees and also established the University's Student 'Advi sory Board. minimum credit requirement for that year, they are declared ineligible. for financial aid. And what of those students who automat ically become ineligible for aid because they earned less than-16 credits in a year, thereby being unable to attain the minimum for a year through normal registration? They can appeal their ineligibility. Students in five-year programs, simultaneous degree or multiple majors, or students who change their majors, all have acceptable reasons to appeal their ineligiblity. What this all boils down to is this: The University was told by the federal govern ment to come up with a definite plan to determine whether students receiving fi nancial aid are making sufficient academic progress. The University tried to make this as painless as possible for the students while still ensuring that the aid recipients are truly earning it. The University is not saying students receiving aid must be dean’s list scholars. It is trying its best to keep as many people as possible on the federal government’s finan cial aid “payroll” by keeping the require ments as fair as possible. All the University is really asking for is an honest attempt at academic progress. By making the minimum credit require ments so fair, the University has success fully played both the role of overseer and of union representative for the students. It will continue to do be overseer of financial aid whether aid recipients want or don’t want to respect its rules Aid recipients must now put- in their “honest .day’s work” if they expect to get a check publications, is a separate corporate institution from Penn State.- About the Collegian: The Daily Collegian and The Weekly Collegian are published by Collegian Inc., an indepen dent, non-profit corporation with a board of directors composed of students, faculty and professionals. Stu dents of The Pennsylvania State University write and edit both papers and solicit advertising material for them. The Daily Collegian is published Monday, Thursday and Friday during the summer, and distributed at the Univer sity Park campus. The Weekly Collegian is mailed to Commonwealth campus students, parents of students, alumni and other subscribers who want to keep abreast of University news. i. a Diane Nottle, now aneditor at The Boston trator, to a man who did much of his work Globe, was .be Collegian editor from .97, i. “^f£ n d “3 trey Hawkes , lenure as Like McHugh, Nottle enjoyed a fairly editor, from 1977 to 1978 that Oswald open relationship with the University presi- seemed to forfeit all contact with the Colie y , gian. One news conference was the lone “I recall him as being very open,” Nottle instance in which a Collegian reporter was said. “Like any administrator if he didn’t able to interview Oswald directly that year, want to say something, he could get out of it Nothing occurred during Hawkes edi gracefully. But he wasn’t at all closed. torship that could have explained Oswald s “He certainly never avoided us when I complete fracture in communication with was the editor - I can’t remember that he the Collegian. And nothing would happen m ever shut us off ” lhe next five y ears to mend the break - Jerry Schwartz, now an editor and writer “Basically, while I was editor, (Oswald) for the Associated Press in New York City, was inaccessible, Hawkes, now a reporter succeeded Nottle as Collegian editor. It was for the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, during his year as editor that the tides of explained. “I really think it was unfortunate communication between students and Os- because he’s obviously an intelligent man, wald - and between the Collegian and s apparently with a chip on his shoulder Oswald - began shifting. because he was not interested in courting Schwartz was a member of the Student the press. . Advisory Board, many of whose members During these years, the Collegian was not signed a letter that was sent to the Universi- the only student organization clamoring for tv’s Board of Trustees in May of 1975, asking some access to Oswald. But perhaps be for Oswald’s resignation. _ cause the Collegian could have served as ' Although Schwartz declined to .sign the Oswald s best link to the rest of the student letter, the Collegian published an editorial body, the Collegian s relationship with Os bidding the trustees to at least consider the wald -or lack of a relationship with Oswald lGtter which was sifincd by 30 University was the most glaring, student leaders. But the Collegian’s editori- ’ Stories about the University’s administra al was much more temperate than the letter tion ran without comment from the Umver to the trustees it asked only that the sity president, except for an occasional trustees think about what was best for the comment released through the University University not necessarily that Oswald Office of Public Information and Relations, resign. Perhaps because the Collegian and Editorial opinions and cartoons criticizing Schwartz chose not to jump on the resigna- Oswald went unanswered. The less he tion bandwagon, some semblance of an open talked the more he was The relationship remained for the next Collegian more he was criticized, the further he re editor, Sheila McCauley.' treated from the press, particularly the Sheila McCauley Dresser, now the assis- Collegian, tant national editor for The Baltimore Sun, Paula Froke Collegian editor from 1981 to said relations with Oswald while she was 1982, said that by he time she became Collegian editor from 1976 to 1977 were editor, not being able to speak to Oswa d “cordial, but professional.” f emed al ™ st a tradition. She likened it to Under her editorship, the Collegian was being a child and growmg up not knowing able to speak to Oswald on a “fairly regd- any other way of life; by 1981, not being able lar” basis Dresser said to get first-hand information from the Um “He may not have liked what we were versity president was almost never chal doing, but he never applied any type of lenged. _ pressure to me,” she said. “I would frankly Somewhere along the line, Froke said, be very susoicious if there were good rela- Oswald just gave up trying to communicate tions between the University president and with the students - and with the Collegian, the Collegian ” And whlle that made Froke s J ob a little But while the Collegian at this point still more difficult, she believes it hurt Oswald had some direct contact with Oswald, rela- more than anyone,' . tions between Carnegie and Old Main were “We suffered a bit, but us. suffering definitely growing a little cooler. Oswald doesn t count Froke said. “I think he hnd hv thit time coirmleted his metamor- suffered in the end. / an open and forthright adminis-- Oswald did meet with the Collegian’s reader opinion A poet scorned As a graduate in English literature, I can sympathize with poet Gary Evans, whose letter of Thursday, June 23, told of the unjust treatment his work received at Kalliope. Poor judgment lurks everywhere and it seems that artists like Evans are too often shafted by literary busy bodies. I have not read Evans’ work, but realize that anyone who can cre ate the sentence “The poems I sub mitted are each cast in a form which I found to be singularly suited to ex press the totality of the poetic event,” has a talent that must be shared. He should take comfort in the knowledge that even some of our greatest poets Homer, Chaucer, Donne have ye't to make the best-seller lists. But as a graduate also in journa lism, I must investigate situations that smack of foul play. I have spent the past few days digging into the |\|q SGfVICG murky past of Kalliope and have , unearthed some startling facts. Police Services officers have some Penn State’s “literary” magazine nerve to wonder why students neither is an arm of one man’s plot to infect' xespect nor like them, the literary conciousness of America. 1:15 a.m. June 23: I returned to my Harold Ross, the founding editor of car only to discover that I had left my The New Yorker from 1925 to his lights on and run down my battery, “death" in 1951, is actually alive and 1:20 a.m.: I went to the lobby of living in a summer cottage. From his McKee Hall and called Police Serv headquarters deep in the coast of ices to ask 1 for assistance. The man Massachusetts, he is organizing who answered the telephone advised if only we'd known you squadrons of vapid'dilettantes, life less housewives and hobby store own ers who will proliferate “the New Yorker style.” The infiltration of publications such as Kalliope is one of the first steps; the scheme will have flowered completely when Phil Dona hue becomes by the hands of Ross the nation’s literary guru, turning housewives from coast to coast into modern poets. Sign me John Allison, though I will be using another name, Bwana, as I combat the evil man who seeks to manipulate the future of i poetry. Stand up Gary Evans, born Gary Fulcomer stand up and help wipe out this literary vermin. You have nothing to lose. John Allison, Class of 1983 State College resident June 28 The Daily Collegian Thursday, June 30, 1983 me (a woman alone) that “police cruisers could not be used for this” and that I should “flag down a pass erby.” I’m sure that most of The Daily Collegian’s readers will agree with me that I acted much more intelli gently than the officer who answered the phone when I ignored his incred ibly stupid advice and instead located a friend who lives in McKee (let’s keep in mind that by this time it’s 1: 30 a.m.). We/walked across campus to her car in'Parking Lot 80 and used her car to jump start mine. On the way to the parking lot we saw a police car pull up to a rear door of Pattee (a whole 200 yards from my car), an officer get out to check that the door was locked, get back into the car and leave going at least 30 mph (isn’t the speed limit on campus 15 mph?). Couldn’t this officer have taken five minutes to help me start my car? * If Police Services is really as con cerned about rapes on campus as they claim to be, don’t you think they ought to change this asinine policy and actually respond intelligently to calls for help before someone gets hurt? Marceline Therrien, graduate-non degree June 28 Board of Opinion toward the end of Froke’s editorship, but it was off-the-record and few substantive matters were discussed. It was a hopeful step toward rebuilding a rapport between the University president and the Collegian; however, the step was never repeated. Last year, when Phil Gutis was editor, a breakfast meeting with the Collegian’s Board of Opinion and Oswald was planned but later canceled after Gutis refused to cancel an Op-ed page regarding the Faculty Committee for Semester Review's opposi tion to the semester conversion. The reason given for the cancellation of the meeting was a “lack of time,” Gutis said. ■ This year, Oswald refused to be inter viewed for a five-part series reviewing- Oswald’s 13-year presidency that was pub lished in May. Again, the reason given for Oswald not being able to speak to the Colle gian was a “lack of time.” Oswald did, however, find several hours in June to speak to the Centre Daily Times. Unfortunately, the CDT doesn’t have nearly the student readership the Collegian does and so, few students to this day know what the outgoing University president had to say about his years at Penn State. 0 0 0 This Collegian editor regrets that ,we haven’t been able to add much to the pub lic’s knowledge of John W. Oswald. For more than one reason, Oswald has chosen to alienate himself from the mainstream Uni versity community. I suppose it is to our credit that Oswald respected us enough to be afraid to talk to us.' But it is sad nonetheless. In refusing to speak to the Collegian, Oswald severed a very important link to the students of this University. We may never know how Oswald really felt about being Penn State’s president for 13 years. We may never know what his real thoughts were as he guided this University through more than a decade of social and financial turmoil. We may never understand why he did the things he did, and why he didn’t do the things many thought he should have done. For us, and for our readers, the past several years have been frustrating ones. So long, Dr. Oswald. It would have been nice knowing you. SuzanneM. Cassidy is a lOth-term journa lism major and Editor of The Daily Colle gian. reader opinion Kalliope comment The staff of Kalliope, Penn State’s literary magazine, wishes to thank Gary Fulcomer for his comments and critique in last Thursday’s Daily Collegian. Like anyone else, he is entitled to his opinion. Although staff members are not discouraged from turning in material, all submissions are judged anonymously. The editorial board mem bers, through the strict censorship of a copying staff, is not provided with the names of authors whose work they judge. ; Kalliope’s editing policy is perhaps best stated on page four of this year’s magazine: “Differ ences in judgment among the editors are un avoidable; the superiority of an accepted item over an unaccepted cine is not necessarily clear. For this reason, while acceptance by Kalliope should be a distinctioh, rejection should not be considered an afftont.” , The staff would also like to thank Mr. Fulcom er for the publicity he has given the magazine. Kalliope will begin its fourth year this fall. As interest in the magazine increases, we hope the quality of it will ameliorate also. If you think you might wish to join the staff as an editorial board, copying staff, or business staff member look for our Collegian advertisements this Sep tember. Remember, it is always easier to criticize than it is to correct. Scott Smith, co-cditor Kalliope 1984 Leave us out of it Mr. Fulcomer, your claim to have acquired or been gifted with the ability to utilize language to create works that are “singularly suited to express the totality of the poetic event” is not upheld by your reliance on trite vocabulary. You state that the works printed in Kalliope Levine Bros. Men’s Shop Semi-Annual Clearance Sale 1 Nt f- ■) levine bros. MEN’S SHOP ° ,,h * Pem sMCoZet. begins today Thursday June 30th at 9 a.m. merchandise from our regular stock of fine men’s clothing, furnishings and shoes reduced from 30%- 50% for this special sales event. Choose from the lame brands you know at great savings. Open first nite of sale to 8:30 p.m. “are vapid, lifeless works by mediocre dilet tantes and housewives.” As an artist who uses language as your major medium, your use of vague, prejudiced meanings serves to point out yoyr own mediocrity. I could express the same concept with the same amount of force and accuracy by stating that those who have been trained in the science of mathematics are unable to utilize language in any manner but the dry, precise form employed by that field; to wit, your “more potent poetry” is quite likely as potent in form as are the formulas in my calculus text. I suggest the next time you find cause to lament the infiltration of your craft by the mediocre, you stick to the noun “dilettante” and leave housewives who range from those who can be ranked among the below mediocre to those who can be ranked among the exceptional ly brilliant out of it. Mrs. Tammy Peavler-Kustaborder, lOth-politi cal science full-time housewife June 24 Punch needed Re: Gary Fulcomer’s (a.k.a. Gary Evans) “Critique” of June 23. To some extent I agree with you, Mr. Fulcomer. Much of the writing in Kalliope does seem to represent the work of young writers still a little pleased with the sound of their own voices; and, it also seems true that Kalliope is rather self-promoting; however, you, Mr. Fulcomer/Evans are not only guilty of the same crimes, but one larger still stupidity. Ernest Hemingway said that, for him, writing was like stepping into the boxing ring with all the great writers of the past. 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Burrowes St., State College, Pa. 238-2413 was Tolstoy. Yet you, Mr. Evans/Fulcomer, appear perfectly calm at such a prospect. In this case, though, you’ve already lost the match. Tolstoy would have said infinitely better and in far fewer words that which you .so half-assedly said in far far too many words. Next time, Mr. Fulcomer/Evans, try a pair of eight ounce gloves. They pack a harder punch and they’re easier to swing. Raymond E. Young, State College resident June 23 Big brothers Hats off to Alpha Chi Sigma and Sigma Phi Epsilon for their big brother fund-raising effort for Nittany House, a boy’s group home in State College. On Friday, July 1, the hot new reggae band “Riddim Rebels” will donate their talents in a fund-raising concert at AXE, 406 S. Pugh Street. Advance tickets are available for $1 donation from AXE, 237-9929; Sig Ep, 238-2360; the band; or myself, 238-8642. 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