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.
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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.-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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“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. Among this group, the
only “opponent” he did not feel up to challenging
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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
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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.
It is refreshing to find the men at these frater
nities, not to mention the band, take an interest in
the boys who reside at Nittany House. The
proceeds from the concert will be handed to
William Evans, a Nittany House counselor, the
night of the concert.
Watch for ticket sales downtown and join us
while we keep making Nittany House a possibili
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Thanks guys, isn’t this what brotherhood is all
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