2—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1984
Student aid:
By PHIL GALEWITZ
Collegian Staff Writer
The House of Representatives recently voted to in
crease total funds to federal student aid and to maintain
all current grant and loan programs.
This action came in response to President Reagan’s
proposal in February to consolidate student aid programs
for the 1985 fiscal year.
The reasoning behind the House’s decision on the
organization of federal student aid remains in question,
said Barbara Davidson, special assistant to the assistant
secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
The mood of Congress is to keep the loan and grant
programs stable through 1985. The Higher Education Act
of 1965, which introduced the various loan and grant
programs to college students, must be reauthorized by
Congress next year. A change in funding will be proposed
when the regulations are updated at that time, she added.
However, Bud Blakey, counsel to the House subcommit
tee on post secondary education, said the House voted
against the president’s proposal because it did not want to
eliminate many old and popular loans programs.
Part of Reagan’s proposal was to increase funding to
the College Work Study Program by 53 percent to $B5O
million, Blakely said. In addition, the president would be
eliminating the Supplemental Education Opportunity
Grant (SEOG) and reducing the National Direct Student
Loan from $lBO million to $4 million.
“A major difference with the proposal is that the
president wants more self-help programs, but Congress
will not provide it at the expense of the Pell Grant,” said
Bruce Post, staff member for Sen. Robert Stafford (R
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Nittany Apartments offer
alternative to dorm life
By ROBERT P. KING
Collegian Staff Writer
The first phase of the Nittany
Apartments project was completed
this summer and some students
have already moved into these on
campus alternatives to the resi
dence halls, the director of housing
services said.
Donald T. Arndt said all 128
spaces in 32 new apartments adja
cent to Nittany Halls are ready for
occupancy and have been assigned
to graduate students. International
students began moving in Aug. 17
and other residents started arriv
ing Aug. 19, Arndt said.
William McKinnon, assistant
vice president for housing and food
services, said the apartments rep
resent the first part of a project
that will provide space for about
500 students when completed.
This corresponds to the number
of students that will be displaced
when the demolition of Nittany
Halls is completed by Fall 1987, he
said.
McKinnon said the apartments
are air-conditioned and completely
furnished and each unit can house
four students. The apartments
come in three styles: four-bedroom
townhouses and two- and four-bed
room garden apartments. Garden
apartments have only one story
while townhouses have two stories.
A community center containing
an information desk, a manager’s
office and storage and laundry
facilities is also in the works and
will be built by the end of this fall,
McKinnon said.
He added that the apartments,
currently designated for graduate
students, will be made available to
undergraduates next fall to com
pensate for the loss of the old
residence halls.
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They’re everything we could ask for. It’s the
least the University could have done 1 to make it
comfortable for the grad students.’
—Frank Marco, Nittany Apartment resident
Three of the new units, composed
of 24 two-bedroom apartments with
space for 96 students, will be desig
nated for undergraduate housing.
The other 400 displaced residents
will be accommodated by convert
ing Atherton Hall from graduate to
undergraduate housing, McKinnon
said. This conversion is already
under way.
McKinnon said the undergrad
uates, mostly upperclassmen, will
be placed in the two-bedroom
apartments because those apart
ments are in low demand by the
graduate students.
“These apartments were the last
to be rented and the students who
rented them often asked to be put
on a waiting list for the four-bed
room units,” he said.
McKinnon said he did not believe
the graduate students would have
any objection to the inclusion of
undergraduates.
“(The undergraduates) are
going to be in separate buildings,”
McKinnon said. “It’s not like they
will be sharing the same hallway.”
Meanwhile, the graduate stu
dents now living in the apartments
seem pleased with their new sur
roundings.
“They’re everything we could
ask for. It’s the least the University
could have done to make it com
fortable for the grad students,”
Frank Marco, a resident of Nittany
Apartments, said. “I lived in a
fraternity as an undergrad but I’ve
found as a grad student I need a
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The Pell Grant is popular on Capitol Hill, Post said.
This popularity is reflected in the $3.75 budget
passed by the House on Aug. 10, he said. Although the
Congress also supports work study, Congress is pushing
toward increasing the number of grants available to
students, Post said.
“With the rising tuition at many major universities, a
grant rather than a loan is more important in helping a
college student pay for his education,” Post said.
The 1984-85 budget has an increase of $4 million and $2O
million for the Pell Grant and SEOG respectively. It also
has a $lB million and $2 million reduction in the National
Direct Student Loan and Guaranteed Student Loan pro
grams respectively.
“President Reagan wanted to expand the purposes for
the College Work Study Program,” Davidson said.
“Reagan’s proposal would require all students to pro
duce a percentage of the college’s tuition,” Blakely said.
He added that this idea is not popular in Congress and
played an important role in the House’s rejection l of the
president’s proposal.
The bill will be in the Senate when members return
from recess after Labor Day weekend, Post said.
The House has increased the amount of totally funded
student aid by $295 million in contrast to the president’s
proposal to simplify federal aid programs without in
creasing funds, Davidson said.
Paula Pufka, a University financial aid coordinator,
said that over the past three years all student aid funding
has been'basically stable. Because of rising school costs
and family contributions staying the same or falling,
student aid in the form of grants or loans has become
increasingly important.
more quiet place to study.”
Another resident, Andrew Raine,
said he used to live in the residence
halls and in the apartments
“there’s just a world of differ
ence.”
“The places are really nice and
all the furniture is new. It’s set up
really well,” Raine said. “The best
part about them is they’re so much
more inexpensive than living in an
apartment downtown.”
Raine said he would have no
objection to sharing the complex
with undergraduates.
“Personally I don’t mind, but
others who have a lot of studying or
teaching to do probably would,” he
said.
John Miller, assistant to the vice
president for business, said grass
seeding for the new apartments
will begin next week and landscap
ing will start in late September or
early October.
McKinnon said the issue of pay
ing rent for the apartments has not
yet been resolved. Residents of the
apartments are currently paying
the entire amount at the beginning
of the semester, although the hous
ing office is looking at the feasabili
ty of a monthly payment plan.
The rent per semester is $650 per
student for a two-bedroom garden
apartment, $750 per student for a
four-bedroom garden apartment
and $825 per student for a four
bedroom townhouse, he said. The
rent-does not include all utilities.
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includes plans to rescue lost satellite
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as it was when deployed, an astronaut could not match the
Perry said negotiations are still in progress with rotation without benning very disoriented.
Western Union to rescue the Westar 6, but no plans have Melton also said astronauts must nearly stop the
been finalized. - , satellite from spinning before it can be grappled by the
Perry said he does not see any potential engineering shuttle’s remote manipulator arm. If the satellite is still
problems with the Palapa B-2 mission. spinning when it is grappled by another object that is not
“We know we can (rescue the Palapa B-2). That’s why' spinning, an astronaut or the shuttle, stresses caused by
we signed the contract with the insurance underwriters,” the sudden loss of spin will rip the satellite apart, he
he said. added. >
Melton said some problems could be experienced by Also, the space shuttle’s remote manipulator arm
astronauts attempting to rescue the satellite. would be damaged by a rapidly rotating object, he said.
“The problems you (could) have are the problems you “The remote manipulator arm on the shuttle can only
have retrieving any satellite they are very mechani- handle very low spin rates. It couldn’t stand the stress,”
cally delicate,” Melton said. . Melton said.
The Palapa B-2 was rotating at 60 revolutions per Another potential problem could be the lack of a
minute when it was deployed and although it was not grappling device on the satellite. Since the satellite was
designed to spin for its entire lifetime, the satellite may not designed for retrieval, structures onto which the
not have stopped spinning, he said. grappling ring will be attached may not be suitable for
“If it is still spinning, it is much harder to retrieve,” use as a towing device, Melton,said.
Melton said. A third potential problem is that the satellite may still
An astronaut or robot retrieval device from the shuttle contain unused fuel, Melton said,
would have to match the rotation of the satellite before it This fuel is highly corrosive and potentially volatile,
could be grappled, he said. There may be some concern about bringing it back into
Melton added that if the satellite is still spinning as fast the shuttle’s cargo bay, he added.
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Communication:
By KIM AJECK
Collegian Staff Writer
Lack of communication betweeen students and faculty
will be the focus of a workshop that begins today, the head
of the Instructional Development Program said.
Maryellen Gleason said the workshop will provide
instructors with a variety of information about student
needs.
“One place faculty could use some information is with
students and their concerns,” she said.
Gleason added that IDP does not recruit instructors to
participate in workshops. However, on occasion a faculty
member is referred to the program by his or her depart
ment.
The workshop begins today with a session at 3:45 p.m.
dealing with the introduction of new students to higher
education, Gleason said. A student panel will talk about
experiences as new students and faculty members will
have an opportunity to ask the students questions.
Kim Janis (junior-physical education), a student on the
panel, said she would like to express the idea that
instructors could be more flexible during the discussion.
“Things are changing and needs are changing,” Janis
said. “Some professors are not receptive enough to see
the needs of students today.”
The second session, to be held Sept. 20, deals with
learning styles, Gleason said. The session is the result of a
study that indicates that there are between four and six
styles of learning among students.
For example, she explained that many students learn
from experience, while others study theory first. The
session is aimed at introducing the idea of multiple
learning styles to instructors and suggesting instruction
strategies in the event that more than one style of learner
is present in a class.
The third session, scheduled for Oct. 24, deals with
minority students, Gleason said. An advising board of
minority students and faculty members will speak with
the participants about handling minority students’ needs.
“Most faculty members are aware of minority student
needs but do not know what to do about it,” she explained.
The final session on Nov. 20 will pair the instructors
with students one on one so they can learn about each
other’s roles, Gleason explained.
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Students often do not realize the responsibilities in
structors have outside of class that prevent them from
keeping long office hours. Likewise, faculty members
often assume that students automatically understand the
significance of a topic that in reality seems out of context,
she added.
“I think that the size of the campus makes it (commu
nication) difficult,” she said, adding that there is often
little or no one-on-one contact. She said that it is impor
tant for students and teachers to understand each other.
Interest in the workshop is strong, Gleason said. About
30 faculty members have signed up for the first of four
sessions that are open to all instructors, including teach
ing assistants.
IDP is sponsored by the University and is under the
auspices of the Robert E. Dunham, vice president for
academic services, Gleason said. The program provides
a variety of workshops for faculty members and last year
held 36 programs.
The goal of the program is to improve the structure and
understanding of the faculty members, she said.
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Bank merger expected to result
in added services for customers
By TIM EYSTER
Collegian Staff Writer
Customers will gain additional
banking services resulting from a
merger by shareholders of two
financial institutions, a spokeswo
man for the Mid-State Bank and
Trust Company said Monday.
Diane Zink, administrative assis
tant in the marketing department,
said the opportunity for the consol
idation of Mid-State Bancorp Inc.
and Northern Central Bank Finan
cial Corp. to work together and to
offer these services \vas why the
shareholders of the two institutions
approved the merger in separate
meetings last Aug. 15.
Although she said the public
would gain additional services be
cause the merger will create a
larger organization, Zink said she
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could not yet elaborate on those
services.
The consummation of the merger
will begin sometime after it is
approved by regulatory agencies
such as the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Banking and the Securities
and Exchange Commission, Zink
said.
In the State College area, Zink
said banking services such as regu
lar checking, checking with inter
est, statement savings and
Automated Teller Machines would
still be available from the Mid-
State Bank, the principal subsid
iary of Mid-State Bancorp Inc.
The name of the new bank hold
ing company will be Keystone Fi
nancial Inc., she added.
But Zink said that people will
continue to see the name Mid-State
Bank in existence at the four com-
RENO, Nev. (AP) Charges were
dismissed yesterday against a Michi
gan judge accused of defrauding a
taxi driver after a dispute over a fare
that grew to $62 while the cabbie
waited hours outside a brothel for his
rider.
East Lansing District Judge Daniel
Tschirhart had been charged with a
misdemeanor stemming from his al
leged refusal to pay the cab fare to
the Mustang Ranch, the largest of
Nevada’s legal brothels.
Municipal Judge Michael Roth said
there was no evidence of Tschirhart’s
intent to defraud cabbie Fred Spur
geon.
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Toftrees, and the Penn State
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The consolidation of Mid-State
Bancorp Inc. and NCB Financial
Corp. is expected to improve effi
ciency of existing operations and
result in more efficient use of fi
nancial, managerial and techno
logical resources, Zink said.
In addition, the holding compa
ny’s subsidiary banks will be able
to increase their lending limits
because there will be a larger
amount of funding available than
the banks could provide individual
ly, Zink said.
Mid-State Bancorp Inc. is head
quartered in Altoona and NCB Fi
nancial Corp. is in Williamsport.
The publicity surrounding his
brothel trip seemed to bother the
unmarried, 42-year-old Tschirhart
little.
“It’s perfectly legal, isn’t it? I
wasn’t going to advertise it,” he said.
“I don’t know why the cabbie did.”
Spurgeon had called a Michigan
newspaper after his citizen’s arrest of
Tschirhart early April 17. Tschirhart
claimed he owed the $36 fare Spur
geon had quoted him, but the cabbie
said that only covered one hour of
waiting, not the approximately three
hours the judge spent inside the
ranch.
Spurgeon filed a misdemeanor
complaint.
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