Reagan budget meets Congress skeptics By TOM RAUM AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Reagan Ad ministration officials say it's too early to talk compromise, especially on taxes, even though the president's new budget is playing to poor notices among both politicial parties on Capitol Hill. Budget Director James C. Miller 111 was told by Republicans and Democrats alike yesterday that new taxes might be required to meet terms of the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing act. "Taxes can be the glue that binds the pack age together," said Sen. Pete V. Domenici, the influential New Mexico Republican who chairs the Senate Budget Comrriittee, at the first congressional hearing on the president's $994 billion fiscal 1987 budget. "The time for playing games is past." Domenici and other congressional leaders have suggested a "summit" with the president to work out a compromise budget and avoid a year-long confrontation over spending. However, Miller and other top Reagan lieu tenants said that it is premature to consider IFC to combat crime By JOHN L. SPENCE Collegian Staff Writer In an effort to curb vandalism and related crimes in the State College fraternity district, the Interfraternity Council is forming a "Fraternity Crime Watch Program" to be acti vated next week. Vinnie Delie, IFC community rela tions chairman, said the program is designed to combat an increase in area vandalism. "Both the fraternities and homes in the area had experienced a lot of vandalism recently," Delie said. "The IFC felt that it should take the initiative and decided to take some direct action against it." The basic idea behind the program is to protect various neighborhoods in State College, particularly the frater nity district, Delie said. The fraternity district encom passes the area south from East Beaver Avenue to East Hamilton Avenue and west from Hetzel Street to South Fraser Street. The idea for the program stemmed from the borough's Residential Im provement Study conducted last year by an independent contractor, Delie said. Part of the study was a resi dent's survey that listed vandalism as one of the top six community concerns. The IFC considered starting a crime watch program in the past, Delie explained, but after the survey came out the group decided to focus on the issue again. Each fraternity will have a number of brothers enrolled in the program who will gt, out on certain nights to patrol the, immediate area. "For example, we'll have people out there on Wednesday and Thurs day nights and on the weekends, especially during fraternity parties," Delie said. "Whenever the area is most active, we'll be out there." Each of the 51 fraternities are in volved in the program and will regis ter with the IFC the' names of those brothers who will be patrolling the various areas. Delie said IFC sign-up forms have been mailed to fraternity presidents and are expected back next week. Those names will be kept Please see 'Crime,' Page 6. inside • A controversy has formed be tween out-going student Trustee Patricia Walsh and several stu dent leaders who say Walsh failed to consult them in select ing the committee that will choose her replacement.. Page 6. index opinions weather This afternoon: Again it will be cloudy and temperatures will be falling. High of 35. Tonight, snow flurries developing and it will be a bit colder as the low drops to 28. Tomorrow: cloudy with peri ods of snow showers. High of 32. Heidi Sonen. Prof won't press charges against student By JANE KOPACKI Collegian Staff Writer A University professor whose complaint against a student led to the student's arrest outside of class earlier this week said yesterday he will not press charges. Assistant Anthropology Professor Stephen Beckerman said he will prepare a written statement for his students for Friday's class, explain ing his confrontation with Richard Norris (senior-political science) last Friday and Norris' arrest Mon day. Beckerman, who teaches Anthro- Changes in curriculum trouble faculty advisers This is the second in a three-part series on University advising. Today's article discusses the problems that faculty advisers experience trying to keep up with curriculum changes. By CAROLYN SORISIO Collegian Staff Writer For many University students, four may be a magic number. If all goes well, that's the number of years it will take them to complete a college degree. But for faculty advisers at the University, four years means an average of 4,000 changes in the student catalogue, and the only magic involved is faculty advisers trying to keep up According to a 1982 report conducted by the Division of Undergraduate Studies, faculty advisers said they were not informed enough to help students. Joyce Buck, a faculty adviser for the College of Liberal Arts said, "The average full-time teacher and researcher really does have a valid claim about having their attention drawn in too many directions." Because of a lack of time, James Kelly, academic information program coordinator, Page 8 the daily such a move, and that in any event the presi dent remains firmly opposed to any form of tax increase. If Congress and the president deadlock on spending this year as they did last year, auto matic across-the-board cuts of around $4O bil lion will be triggered automatically next October under the new law. Reagan hasn't ruled out a "fee" on imported oil, or even a gasoline tax, but only as part of a tax-overhaul bill that neither raises nor lowers overall taxes, not for deficit-reduction pur poses, Reagan aides said. "We ought not to be talking about grand compromises," said Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 111. "The president has . . . just submitted his budget. Some are suggesting that it's dead on arrival. I would suggest that it simply is not." The president's budget would cut, freeze in place or 'eliminate scores of federal domestic programs to meet the Gramm-Rudman re quirement that the deficit, now above $2OO billion for 1986, be reduced to $144 billion in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. At the same time, the budget submitted ollegian yesterday calls for an increase in Pentagon spending authority of nearly 12 percent. "I see nothing in this budget or in the State of the Union that calls for anything other than unremitting gloom," said Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La. "I just don't see where the dialogue starts, where the common ground is. It's a train wreck waiting to happen." Senate Democrats released their own assess ment of the president's budget on Wednesday. It contended that the president's deficit-reduc tion claims were based on "unrealitic econom ic assumptions." "Over the five-year period, the president's budget comes up $91.3 billion short" of achiev ing a balanced budget, said the Democratic study. By contrast, the administration claims the president's policies would lead to a $1.3 billion surplus by 1991. Miller agreed the president's budget was strong medicine, but repeated the president's own claim that it would start the nation on the path toward a balanced budget. If cuts recommended by the president this year are adopted, their savings will multiply through the years to come, requiring fewer new pology 45 section 1, said the statement will give his "perception of what happened, what will hap pen, and what should and should not have happened." Norris was handcuffed and ar rested for refusing to leave the hallway outside 64 Willard and iden tify himself to police who were investigating a complaint Becker man filed, arresting University po lice officer Ed Waltz said. The case began in class Friday when Beckerman asked Norris to leave class after he apparently dis turbed the instructor by leaning over to a student next to him and said the Division of Undergraduate Studies encourages advisers to use the DUS consultant in each college to keep up to date with current information. "To expect that any adviser, faculty or staff could keep up with (all the changes) is just not sensible," Kelly said. Training faculty advisers varies among the University's 13 colleges. Jane Seliga, college adviser for the the Col lege of Engineering and DUS, said the college restructured its advising program by creating a center for freshmen advising instead of assigning these new students to faculty advis ers. Seliga explained that the center was formed because of limited enrollment and because of the results of the DUS study on advising. At the center, freshmen can meet with full time advisers and become better informed about their chances of being accepted into their intended majors, she said. Although no formal study of the center has been done, Seliga said informal feedback has been positive. Barbara Brugel, DUS consultant to the Col lege of Health, Physical Education and Recre- drawing on a neighbor's notebook, Norris said. Norris said that when he refused to leave, Beckerman stopped class and walked out. Beckerman was expected to review a test to be given on Monday. Beckerman said he then filed the complaint with University Police Services stating that he expected a disruption from a student in class Monday. Two police officers waited outside the class Monday to investigate the complaint. NOrris said that during the test, Beckerman asked Norris ation, said the college has a similar center for freshmen and sophomores enrolled. Full-time advisers are available to help stu dents find a major that is tailored for them, she said. "The main thrust of our advising program is to help them make a decision on a major either in the college or in the University," Brugel said. "At one point we did have faculty advisers who were advising general students, but we found that they just couldn't keep up," she added. While a recently distributed questionnaire designed to evaluate the center's effectiveness has not yet been interpreted, Brugel said, "I think informally we've sensed or felt that we have been good advisers to them." Virgina Elliott, DUS consultant to the College of Education, reported that although no workshops or seminars were offered for the college's faculty advisers, they do distribute an information packet to all new advisers. Also, each new adviser is assigned a "mentor" in the department who has already advised for some time. Eugene Love, associate dean in the College of cuts in the future. The nation should "take our medicine now," the budget chief said. The president's budget calls for dramatic cuts in funding for Medicare and Medicaid health programs for the elderly and the poor, would knock a million college student off feder al aid rolls, would sharply cut federal funds for the Interstate highway system and would chop funds for an array of agriculture and housing programs. slo p The . budget also recycled many proposed program eliminations Reagan had tried nsuc cessfully last year, including ending , upport for Amtrak, abolishing the Small Business Admistration, the Economic Development Ad ministration, the Appalachian Regional Com mission and terminating mass transit and urban development grants. This year, Reagan added another major agency the Interstate Commerce Commis sion to his "hit list." portfolio of outstanding loans. Rep. William H. Gray 111, D-Pa., compared this program to "paying your mortgage by selling your garage." He scheduled road hear ings for next weeek on the budget. to go out to the hallway and identify himself to the officers. Although Beckerman filed the original complaint, he will file no charges and will not pursue action outside the University's discipline system. "We are making sure there is no off-campus record, if there is a record," said Anthropology Depart ment Chairman Ken Weiss, adding that class yesterday was held in an orderly manner. Beckerman said he had never asked a student to leave his class before. Please see 'Prof,' Page 6 • Thursday, Feb. 6, 1986 Vol. 86, No. 125 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University ©1986 Collegian Inc. . Agriculture, said the college has already spon sored two seminars this year for faculty advis ers. The majority of faculty advisers do attend these meetings, Love said. Hamid Madjid, DUS consultant to the College of Science, said that it is more important for faculty members to know their professions than the theories of advising. "What is important is that an adviser has sympathy, is willing to spend time and knows his profession," Madjid said. Peter Hagen, assistant to the associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts, said faculty and student advisers are used to counsel under graduate students in the college. The student advisers work on a volunteer basis and are required to take the Liberal Arts course "Academic Adviser Training," Hagen said. But while informing advisers is important, Buck stressed that advising is a "give and take" process between the student and the adviser. She said that a stack of grades which have yet to be picked up by students shows that some students do not take responsibility for their own education. Forum backs BSCAR efforts By NANCY FUNK Collegian Staff Writer The University Forum on Black Affairs, composed of Black faculty and staff members, unan imously agreed last night to back the efforts of a black student coalition opposing University mi nority recruitment. Despite arguments from Victo ria Staples, the director of mi nority admissions, the Forum passed a resolution giving "un equivocable" support to the Black Student Coalition Against Racism, which is reacting to the University's recent decision not to divest stocks from South Afri can related companies. Staples argued against block ing minority recruitment efforts, saying "if we can use the Univer sity's money to help some black kids then by God, we should do it." But Forum President Harold Cheatham disagreed with Sta ples, saying the Forum has an obligation to voice its moral in dignation with the .University's decision not to divest. The- University, Cheatham said, will not be penalized if it fails to reach the court mandated 5 percent black population by 1987. The latest figures show mi nority enrollment has reached 3.7 percent. "No penalty is attached to this mandate. If the administration fails, it will suffer no conse quence," he said. Staples also objected to BSCAR's intentions to boycott the orientation of black freshman and transfer students, which in the past has included programs welcoming black students to the University. "You can't just turn your back on those students who are al ready here," Staples said. BSCAR member Katrina Scott assured Staples the organization has no intention of "turning their backs" on these students, adding that the actions of BSCAR will unite University blacks. But BSCAR will voice its dis satisfaction with the University's actions toward Blacks to students considering attending the Univer sity, she said. Now, with the backing of the Undergraduate Student Govern ment Senate and the Forum, BSCAR is gaining strength with the support of black and white students and faculty. Also in response to the decision not to divest, Cheatham request ed that Forum members refuse to contribute to the Capital Cam paign, the University's effort to raise $2OO million'in the next five years. If Forum members want to contribute financially to the Uni versity, they should give to an alternative source such as a fund to purchase a bust of Paul Robeson, he said. "Until the University alters its position on divestment, we should refrain from supporting it mone tarily," he said.
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