COLLEGIAN 100 YEARS
April 1887-April 1987
T uition
plan
formed
By LAURA MAHONEY
Collegian Staff Writer
A prepayment tuition plan that
would guarantee no tuition increase
during a student’s four undergrad
uate years is part of a list of recom
mendations University President
Bryce Jordan received yesterday
from the President’s Advisory Com
mittee on Alternatives to Tuition In
creases.
“We can’t even begin to deal with
the University’s budget situation un
til we begin to deal with Penn State’s
underfunding from the Common
wealth,” committee Chairman Ken
neth P. Mortimer said.
Mortimer, University vice presi
dent and vice provost, said the com
mittee a body made up of students
and faculty strongly urges the
University community to be much
more aggressive in its efforts to per
suade state legislators and the gover
nor to increase state funding.
“We will review these recommen
dations carefully and determine what
course of action may be best to take
on behalf of the University commu
nity,” Jordan said in a prepared
press release.
Other recommendations outlined in
the report to Jordan include:
• Increasing the effectiveness of
student participation in tuition-re
lated decisions by implementing a
thorough screening for potential stu
dent members of the advisory com
mittee, as needed. The University
Student Executive Council should re
ceive regular reports on the effective
ness of student participation.
• Setting aside at least 1 percent of
any tuition increase for especially
needy students.
• Putting greater priority on pri
vate fund raising for needy students
after the Campaign for Penn State
exceeds its $2OO million goal.
• Continuing emphasis on cost
control and developing incentives for
all members of the University com
munity to cut costs.
• Having the Undergraduate Stu
dent Government or the Graduate
Student Association explore the possi
bility of a student job service.
The committee recommended the
following topics for further study:
• The role of finances in students’
decisions to attend the University.
• The cause of a trend toward
taking more than four years to com
plete a baccalaureate degree.
• The relationship between in
creased cost and enrollment growth.
USG President Matt Baker said the
committee should look into why stu
dents need more than four years to
complete a degree.
“The change from trimesters to
semesters caused an incredible drop
in productivity,” he said. “Students
can’t take as many credits in one
year under the semester system.
Baker said the University’s Com
mittee on Public Support is already
looking into the specific aspects of
state funding that Mortimer stressed.
Mortimer explained that increases
in state funding are a major alterna
tive to tuition increases.
“We want to make sure that no
student chooses to leave Penn State,
especially because of s tuition.”
Beth Glazier-McDonald, an assistant professor of religious studies who
was quoted in yesterday’s Collegian, said she is aware of the University’s
policy that exams cannot be given during the last week of classes. She said
she was unaware of a proposal that tests administered during that week
could count for no more than 10 percent of a final grade. This percentage is
not written in the policy.
Due to a source error in yesterday’s Collegian, it was incorrectly stated
that the maximum charge for serving alcohol to minors is a $2,500 fine or
up to a year in jail. The fraternities have been charged under the liquor
laws, and the maximum penalty could be from $lOO to $5OO or between one
and three months imprisonment.
weather
This afternoon, cold and rainy with a high of 44. Tonight the rain will be
continuing, but it should taper off by morning with a low of 38. Tomorrow,
mostly cloudy skies will prevail and it will be windy with falling tempera
tures. High near 40 Heidi Sonen
What a night
Pedestrians bear Mother Nature’s merciless onslaught last night as rain and sleet make trudging by Ye Olde College
Diner, 126 W. College Ave/, a slippery and damp ordeal.
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Collegian
Industry
and PSU:
firm ties
Editor's Note: This is the second in a
five-part series focusing on Universi
ty research and its applications. To
day’s article focuses on the
University's relationship with cor
porations that fund research.
By CHRISTINE KILGORE
Collegian Science Writer
International Business Machines
Corp., General Electric Co., Exxon
Corp., Westinghouse ... and Penn
State. As the industry-university tie
grows stronger and corporate money
flows into college campuses through
out the country, University research
ers are among those leading the list of
top industrial contract recipients.
In a National Science Foundation
report released early last month and
presented to the University Board of
Trustees, the University was ranked
among the top four universities and
Please see RESEARCH, Page 16.
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around the combustion chamber.
Tuesday, Dec. 9,1986
Vol. 87, No. 103 16 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
©1986 Collegian Inc.
IFC and OTIS
blast borough
Frats pass dry rush
By THOMPSON HOLLAND
and MARTY IRVIN
Collegian Stalf Writers
The Interfraternity Council and the
Organization for Town Independent
Students jointly warned State College
Municipal Council members last
night that police action taken Thurs
day against 16 fraternities for serving
underage drinkers has severely
strained relations between students
and the borough.
Meanwhile, IFC President Pat Con
way and leaders from most of the
University’s, 53 fraternities closed the
final portion of their biweekly meet
ing last night for a candid discussion
about the issue. IFC met at Phi Kap
pa Tau fraternity, 408 E. Fairmount
Ave., at the same time as the munici
pal council.
In a prepared statement, IFC Com
munity Relations Chairman Eric
Graves said the two-month investiga
tion of fraternity parties by plain
clothes officers severely damaged
relations between IFC and the State
College Bureau of Police Services,
which had undergone steady im
provement over the last 18 months.
Police said undercover officers en
tered or were invited into houses,
where they observed bar areas.
“At this time, the (IFC) is totally
re-evaluating its relationship with the
borough,” Graves said.
“In the midst of IFC’s direct and
proactive response to curtail alcohol
abuse in our systems, the borough
has shaken a long-standing trust and
cooperation that has long existed
between the fraternities and the bo
rough.”
OTIS President Marjorie Utt said
the issue affected not only the greek
community but the entire student
community.
About 60 students, some identifying
themselves as part of the greek com
munity, packed the council room as
the two student representatives
spoke.
“What we really wanted to do was
express our annoyance about the
manner in which the investigation
was taken,” Utt said. “Why choose a
time when so many positive things
are being done by IFC to take action
on a problem that has existed for
years and years?”
“We too want to work together,”
State College police Chief Elwood G.
Williams said. “However, serving
alcohol to minors is a problem and
that problem has to be resolved. I can
recognize the situation and sympa
thize with the problem, and that it
means social conflict ... but again,
21 is the legal drinking age, there are
no exceptions to that legal drinking
age, and we have to work together.”
Council member Mary Ann Haas
said after she had worked on the
Alcohol Task Force appointed by
University President Bryce' Jordan,
the news of the alcohol violations in
the fraternities was a disappoint
ment.
Haas said the IFC should have
expected such police action when the
University terminated its formal af
filiation with the fraternity system.
At the IFC meeting, Conway em
phasized that IFC was the first com
munity organization to start
Eric Graves
discussing alcohol when former IFC
President Maury Billig recommend
ed the Jordan task force in 1985.
“We would like to maintain the
open dialogue of the alcohol task
force,” he said. "Instead of moving
towards a 21-policy within the frater
nities in cooperation with the bo
rough, our time is being occupied
responding to the media extravagan
za created by the manner in which
the police handled the situation.”
Conway said IFC last night passed
a proposal without opposition to move
ahead with dry rush. The proposal
included amendments to prohibit al
cohol at rush functions and require
fraternities to keep lists of the guests
permitted to attend a social event.
A series of recommendations to
move toward a policy against under
age drinking within the fraternity
system was a result of an IFC Alcohol
Policy Research Committee, com
posed of 10 IFC presidents and ap
pointed by Conway, and is not the
result'of last Thursday’s police ac
tion, Conway said.
Meanwhile, outgoing municipal
council member Daniel Chaffee told
Graves and Utt:
“I hope you brought the presidents
of those houses into a room some
where and told them that ‘We had a
good relationship here’ and ask them
why those regulations weren’t being
enforced.
“So we’ve heard that (IFC) has
passed these regulations,” Chaffee
added, “but, we’ve heard nothing
about being responsible for enforcing
them.... No talk about being respon
sible at all.”
Chaffee warned that if IFC did not
find the parties responsible for serv
ing alcohol to minors, the law en
forcement and authorities are going
to find the accountable party anyway.
Graves said IFC is willing to again
work with the borough in establishing
a sound working relationship.
Conway said an explanation behind
the motive and the timing of the
police action, in light of IFC’s ongoing
relationship with the police, re
mained unclear.
“At one point I was told by a
community official that there were
complaints by high school authorities
of high school students entering par
ties,” Conway said. “In two months
of investigations, (the State College
police) didn’t find any and that is the
result of the IFC implementing and
enforcing a regulation.”
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