4—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Dee. 10, 1986
Human services get help
By VALERIE BAILEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Human service agencies including
the Women's Resource Center and
Family Health Services will receive
more funding this year as a result of
the State College Municipal Council’s
decision Monday to redistribute $161,-
000 in Community Development
Block Grant budget funds.
Of the total money to be reallo
cated, $59,000 came from unused por
tion of last year’s CDBG funds.
Payment of the remaining $102,000
came from additional funding recent
ly made available by the govern
ment, said John Dombroski,
muncipal council president.
Dombroski said that when State
College received the original funding,
federal officials said that an additio
nal $102,000 would be directed to the
borough if government funds were
available.
The 1986 payment of the CDBG,
which is federal urban aid, was origi
nally set for $599,000, said Henry
Lawlor, State College’s community
State College council vetos
funds for COG building fund
By VALERIE BAILEY
Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Municipal Coun
cil will no longer contribute to a
building fund to provide new facilities
for the Centre Region Council of
Governments.
But, council did agree in their Mon
day night, meeting to continue sup
porting the remainder of the COG
budget. Without the building fund
contribution, the State College contri
bution to the budget will be $550,000,
said Ron Davis, financial director of
the State College Borough.
Council member James Bartoo
said at Monday’s meeting that State
College agreed last year to pay the
borough’s share of the building fund.
Budget time seems to be an inappr
priate time to change the decision,
Bartoo added.
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development director.
The borough is still receiving $lOO,-
000 less from the grant than last year,
even with the additional allocations,
State College Mayor Aronold Addison
said.
Addison said he suspects that this is
the last year the borough will receive
the grant money.
Because of the probability of losing
the grant, the borough will have to
find new sources of revenue, Addison
said, possibly in the form of increased
taxes. He did not know how much
taxes could increase.
State College has benefited from
the grant since 1981, when the 1980
census declared State College a met
ropolitan area due to its population
size, Lawlor said.
Because State College was also
declared the central city in this area,
the borough received six grant alloca
tions. The first payment came in July
1982, when $705,000 was made avail
able, he said.
Lawlor said the highest amount
given was $729,000 in 1983 and the
payments have decreased over the
Bartoo said even though he also
questions the need for a COG build
ing, COG members viewed that the
borough “twisted COG’s arm” so that
it would move into the Fraser Plaza
on the ground floor of the Fraser
Street Parking Garage.
“That’s no way to treat a cooper
ative venture like COG,” he said.
Council member Mary Ann Haas
said there was no connection between
State College’s refusal to contribute
to the building fund and COG’s occu
pation of the Fraser Street Garage
facilities.
Haas said she was angry COG
members didn’t thank the borough
for the use of the facilities.
The State College Borough Council
annouced at the Nov. 24 COG meeting
that they no longer saw a need for a
new COG facility, because the bo
rough had already invested in a cur
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past few years because of federal
budget cuts.
The national objective of the grant
is to provide services to benefit mod
erate- to low-income families in State
College, he said.
Lawlor said some of these services
are storm drainage repair, housing
improvement, park improvement
and general street repair.
More than $96,000 of the grant has
already gone to human services such
as:
• Family Health Services Inc., 477
E. Beaver Ave., which provides fami
ly planning and health services.
• The Women’s Resource Center,
111 Sowers St., which aids abused and
battered spouses and provides coun
seling to the children.
• The Shelter for the Homeless,
which provides temporary, housing
and now receives $20,000 from the
grant.
• Various senior citzen centers
The CBDG money will also be used
toward public facility repairs and
other administrative costs, Lawlor
said.
rent Fraser Plaza facility, John
Dombroski, State College Municipal
Council president said at the previous
meeting.
In 1985, State College paid $350,000
to convert the Fraser Street garage
into facilities COG could rent, Dom
broski said.
COG has already set aside $40,000
for the building fund, Planning Direc
tor Dennis Elpern said at a meeting
of the State College Planning Com
mission last week.
The orignal plan was for the munic
ipalities to collectively raise $40,000 a
year for the next three years for the
building fund, he said.
State College has already given $9,-
618 to the building fund.
By 1988, the $120,000 raised would
have gone towards 10 percent of the
purchasing and developing costs of
the proposed building, Elpern said.
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Women
By USA NURNBERGER
Collegian Staff Writer
Women getting their masters of busi
ness administration are in greater
demand in the job market, and the
increasing number of women in the
MBA program at the University re
flects this nationwide change, said
the program’s admissions coordina
tor for the program.
Within the past decade, women’s
MBA enrollment has risen at the
University from 19 percent to 32 per
cent, a 13-point increase, Merlin Ritz
said. Women tend to get higher scores
on entrance exams and that more
women are accepted as a result, he
added.
Other University officials cited af
firmative action policies as helping to
increase the number of jobs for wom
en and said women are competing
equally with men for jobs and sala
ries.
According to a 1985 study by Ross
Stolzenberg, vice president for re
search of the University’s Graduate
Management Admission Council,
“There is evidence to justify a hy
pothesis that men’s MBA degree pro
duction has begun to level off, but
that women’s MBA production will
continue to rise vigorously, increas
ing the total MBA output for some
time to come.”
Statistics marking an 11.7 percent
nationwide increase of women MBAs
in the past decade support Stolzen
berg’s hypothesis, said Vance Grant,
specialist in education and statistics
for the National Center for Statistics
of the U.S. Department of Education.
“Women are going into fields of
study that they never did before in
order to fulfill job opportunities,”
Grant said, adding that “it’s one of
the fastest-growing fields today.”
“Women used to attend school for
education and the languages,” said
education Professor Kathryn M.
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MBAs increase
Moore, director for the Strategic Stu
dy Group on the Status of Women.
However, she added, “other fields
have been building up, such as the
MBA.”
Affirmative action forces corpora
tions to gather a diverse application
pool, she said. When two equally
qualified persons apply for the job,
affirmative action policy requires
that a woman or minority be hired,
she added.
"In some cases companies have a
responsibility to hire women,” said
Lura Stoedefalke, placement coordi
nator for the MBA program, “so
women may find they have more job
offers than men.”
According to placement forms sub
mitted to the University by MBA
graduates when they accept a posi
tion, female MBA graduates are com
peting equally with men and are as
strongly sought after as male MBA
graduates, Stoedefalke said.
In May 1986, the average MBA
graduate’s starting salary for both
men and women was $33,500, Stoede
falke said, adding that salaries vary
according to geographical location,
work experience, the industry, and
the graduate’s level of technical un
dergraduate study.
Moore said that, according to infor
mation she has studied, women are
given the same status in terms of
salary and job offers after gradua
tion.
Other universities, such as Har
vard are also showing a tremendous
increase in female MBA students. In
1976, 105 women attended Harvard’s
business school, making up 14.7 per
cent of the student population. Today,
Harvard’s MBA program has 24 per
cent women, Harvard officials said.
The enrollment of women in
Temple University’s graduate busi
ness school has increased by 30 per
cent in the last decade, from 24
women to 527, Temple officials re
ported.
Two Penn State MBA students
agreed that this rise is due to chang
ing times and the opportunities that
the new times bring forth.
“There have been a lot of positive
changes since my mother’s genera
tion,” said Cynthia Batson, a second
year MBA student.
“Women were expected to get mar
ried and take care of the home,”
Batson said, adding that the pursuit
of higher education is now not only
accepted but necessary because
there is a good chance that women
will have to support themselves. The
degree is now used as a guarantee for
financial independence, she said.
Moore said that in addition to wom
en working for financial indepen
dence, many are married and
attending graduate school while their
husbands work. “It used to be the
male that was attending school and
the wife was a secretary,” she said.
“All that has changed.”
In the past decade, “women made
up 80 percent of education growth,”
said Moore. “They’ve been the foun
dation for a lot of colleges’ enroll
ment.”
University MBA student Adrienne
Brady agreed with Batson, saying,
“It’s now in vogue to be more aggres
sive and active.
“I had an engineering undergrad
uate degree, but 1 picked MBA be
cause it would lead to management
and leadership positions,” Brady
added.
Possible positions for graduating
MBA students:
• Financial analysis
• Consultants
• Assistant brand managers
• Transportation analysis
• Management information sys
tems
• Manufacturing production and
operations
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Days will be a little brighter for
local families with the help of the
third annual Jaycees Porchlight
Food Drive to be held tonight
between 6 and 9 p.m.
The statewide program collects
non-perishable food items for lo
cal food banks and families in
need of food.
State College residents wishing
to make donations may leave a
light on in front of their home and
chapter members will make the
collections, said State College
Jaycees member Chris Igo.
The State College, Penns Val
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ters will participate in the food
drive, along with a chapter at the
State Correctional Institution at
Rockview.
Bob Igo, also a Jaycee mem
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families as well as the Women’s
Resource Center, 111 Sowers St.,
and the local food bank.
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pick-up.
Contributors should call:
• Centre Hall 364-1825.
• Spring Mills 422-8284.
• Milheim 349-8173.
• Bellefonte 355-7577.
• State College 238-8934.
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