Trustees to reconsider budget, tuition decisions
By PHIL GUTIS
Collegian Staff Writer
With Gov. Dick Thornburgh's approval of
a 4 percent increase in the University's state
appropriation, what was largely a
philosophical question may now become one
of the liveliest policy debates the University
Board of Trustees has seen in several years.
Thornburgh's approval of the non
preferred state budget— which includes the
University's appropriation ensured that
the University would receive $149.3 million
from the state, $2.9 million more than the
governor originally proposed. His approval,
announced Monday, also made the question
of what might be done with a larger state
appropriation a very necessary one, rather
than the philosophical exercise it had been.
Since the budget controversy has ended,
the University has begun rescinding several
actions taken by University President
Bryce Jordan about two weeks ago.
At that time, Jordan announced that all
increases in salaries for 1983-84 would be
held until the state budget was finalized. He
also froze the increases in departmental
allocations that were included in the 1983-84
budget.
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The University has freed funds for all
salary increases, which will be retroactive
to July 1, said Loren M. Furtado, director of
the Office of Planning and Budget. Also, the
University is now beginning to free funding
for departmental allocations at the levels
approved by the trustees, Furtado said
Tuesday.
Faculty members and non-unionized
employees will receive, their salary
increases which do not include any
across-the-board hikes in their AuguM
checks, Furtado said. The only freeze
remaining in effect is the one of technical
service employees who received an 8
percent salary increase because of a
contract negotiated with the Teamsters
Union three years ago.
The trustees approved salary increases of
1.25 percent for non-union employees who
are performing their jobs satisfactorily, 1.75
percent for "merit" and 0.5 percent made
available for "market" considerations.
When the trustees met near Scranton
earlier this month, their approval of a
general funds University operating budget
of $3lO million was based on a $146.3 million
state appropriation the most University
officials thought they could hope for in light
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Asbury appointed
executive assistant
By PHIL GUTIS
Collegian Staff Writer
University President Bryce Jordan has promoted
William W. Asbury, the University's affirmative action
officer and assistant to the provost, to the position of
executive assistant to the president for administration.
The move, announced yesterday and effective
Monday, moves Asbury into the policy-making level of
the University administration making him directly
responsible to Jordan.
Yesterday's announcement was the second major
personnel shift Jordan has made since becoming
University president this month.
On July 1, the day he took office, Jordan announced
the appointment of James B. Bartoo, dean of the
University's Graduate School, as the new acting
executive vice president.
In making yesterday's announcement, Jordan said
Asbury will be "responsible to the president for
providing primary administrative support and advice
on a broad range of matters."
"He will, for example, serve as liaison between my
office and other University offices for implementation
of Penn State's Title VI plan for equal opportunity, and
on other affirmative action matters," Jordan said in a
news release.
"I am pleased to promote Mr. Asbury, who has
excellent administrative skills, into a position with
expanded responsibilities," Jordan said. "In his seven
years with the University, he has earned the respect
and confidence of faculty and administrators on all
campuses."
Asbury's new duties will include investigating and
evaluating issues, drafting reports and position papers,
representing the president on certain occasions and
serving as a communication link between the Office of
the President and other University offices, according
to the news release from the University's Department
of Public Information and Relations.
Contacted by telephone yesterday, Asbury said one
of the most interesting aspects of his new job will be
working with the new president, whom Asbury
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of a very uncertain state budget situation.
Therefore, the University's budget
officers are now attempting to resolve the
potentially politically divisive question of
what to do with the extra $3 million. Two
branches of thought have developed on the
issue.
One group, which first emerged at the
July trustees meeting, wants to see a
reduction in the 9.2 percent tuition increase
also approved by the trustees earlier this
month. A second group, following the
guidance of Steven A. Garban, University
senior vice president for finance and
operations, sees much more pressing needs
for the extra money.
Lining up behind these two groups are
various members of the board, who,
contacted by phone in the last two days,
expressed significant disagreement on what
the additional money should be used for.
Students, represented by Emil Parvensky,
president of the Undergraduate Student
Government, are also adding their support
to the reduce-tuition group.
Remaining quiet on the issue is President
Jordan, who must approve whatever option
is ultimately presented to the trustees in
September.
described as a "forward-looking person who has the
best interests of Penn State in mind."
With some details about the job still sketchy, Asbury
said he thinks he will serve as a link between the Office
of the President and the Office of the Executive Vice
President and Chief Academic Officer the"
University's new second in command.
When the appointment of Bartoo as acting executive
vice president was announced, Jordan said he was not
sure if the position of provost would remain at Penn
State. Asbury's comments yesterday indicate that the
executive vice president will now permanently assume
the duties of the chief academic officer, formerly held
by the provost.
Jordan envisions a close relationship between his
office and the executive vice president, Asbury said.
Therefore, Asbury thinks he will become more
involved with academic matters, in addition to
handling some external relations and liaison work with
other University offices, he said.
William W. Asbury
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Beyond repeating his statement that
tuition is too high, Jordan said it is too early
to say what he will recommend to the
trustees. The first meeting of the
University's Budget Task Force to consider
a proposal will be held tomorrow or
Monday, Jordan said.
Walter J. Conti, president of the board,
said the answer to the problem will be
debated by the trustees after they receive
the administration's recommendation.
Personally, as a member of the board, Conti
said he thinks the University has many
needs not adequately taken care of in the
budget approved this month.
But comments from trustee Mimi U.
Coppersmith, president of Barash
Advertising of State College, are
representative of the pro-tuition-reduction
trustees.
"The mood of the board is that at least
part of that (increase) be passed on to the
students in the form of a decrease in
tuition," she said. "We were going to get
along with 2 percent so my feeling is that
we should pass on some part of that
(increase) to the students."
But Coppersmith also acknowledges the
needs Garban outlined at the trustees
Latin American policy
to be tested in House
By MIKE SHANAHAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON House Republican supporters of President Reagan's
Central American policies moved yesterday to weaken a proposed cutoff of
U.S. secret operations in Nicaragua
An amendment sponsored by Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., was expected to
provide a test vote today on legislation to drastically reshape the adminis
tration's efforts to limit the success of leftists in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Edward P. Boland, D-Mass., chairman
of the House Intelligence Committee, would bar support "directly or
indirectly, to military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua by any
nation, group, organization, movement, or individual."
Boland said Congress should cut off covert aid to rebels in Nicaragua
because "it doesn't work, because it doesn't serve the interests of the United
States and because it is illegal."
Young's amendment would require that before any cutoff could go into
effect, the Nicaraguan government would have to agree to cease any support
it had been giving to guerrillas in other Central American nations.
The leftist Sandinista regime in Managua would also have to permit
verification that it was no longer helping ship military supplies to rebels in
El Salvador or other countries in Central America.
Some members of the Senate, meanwhile, said Secretary of State George
P. Shultz and National Security Adviser William Clark had failed in a special
briefing for lawmakers to answer key questions over the administration's
latest moves in Central America including whether a naval blockade or
quarantine is in the works.
The House suspension of covert aid in Nicaragua would end th ClA's not
so-secret backing of "contras" seeking to overthrow the Sandinista govern
ment, for which the spy agency already is overspending a $l9 million budget.
Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said a day earlier he expects the ban to be
approved in the House. But it likely will face tough sledding in the
Republican-controlled Senate.
Shortly before the House began its debate, Shultz and Clark conferred with
several members of the Senate in an effort to win support for Reagan's latest
actions in Central'America, including naval and troop exercises.
But some senators clearly weren't satisfied. •
"I feel neither better nor worse," Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio said. "All of the
questions certainly were not answered. Are we carrying live ammo? Is there
going to be a quarantine in the area, or a blockade or whatev ir? Those
things were not answered this morning."
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meeting, saying that "some attention will be
given to the students and some attention will
also be given to the list that Garban
presented."
Garban's list of priorities included
funding payments of the employer's share
for the State Employees Retirement Fund,
and equipment purchases or repairs,
departmental allocations and deferred
maintenance.
Trustee Jay B. Claster, president of M.L.
Claster and Sons of Bellefonte, said he
"tends toward Steve Garban's
recommendations," as do other members of
the board.
"I'm aware of the importance of the
symbolism of a tuition cut, but I'm not sure
that a token cut would have more than a
symbolic effect and there are some
programs that need attention," he said.
"The entire board is becoming interested in
improving the quality of education that
Penn State offers and some of the moves (to
increase quality) might take some money."
And at the meeting, trustee H. Thomas
Hallowell Jr., chairman of
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