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Vol. 94, No. 106 32 Pages ©1993 Collegian Inc.
Benefits rare for
part-time faculty
Some call professors 'exploited'
By KATHY SWINGLER
Collegian Staff Writer
It’s 8:45 a.m. and Eileen Christman’s
hectic day is just beginning. In her
crammed cubicle, she arranges lectures
for her two 400-level classes and orga
nizes computerized-engineering seminars.
Her phone constantly screams at her
while students and colleagues beg for
answers to their imperative questions
all before 10 a.m.
After teaching, she hurries back to her
office to continue working until 6 p.m.
Scattered papers, lecture notes and elec
trical engineering books cover her desk to
remind her of the many tasks that need to
be completed.
Despite her full schedule, Christman is
only considered part time a status that
some say causes her to get the short end
of the stick.
“There’s no question these faculty are
being exploited,” said Iris Molotsky, a
spokeswoman for the American Associa
tion of University Professors. “The pay is
very low, and they don’t receive benefits.
There are all sorts of problems with it.”
At colleges and universities nationwide,
38 percent of the faculty is part time,
according to the AAUP. Penn State has
been hiring part-time professors for
years. In 1991, half of all student credit
hours were delivered by part-time per
sonnel, according to the 1991 Task Force
Report on Undergraduate Education.
John Cahir, vice provost and dean of
Clinton urges tough crime crackdown
By NANCY BENAC
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Pressed by crime
weary mayors and police to embrace
tougher gun controls, a somber President
Clinton declared yesterday that violence is
“tearing the heart out of our country.” The
attorney general said it ought to be at least
as hard to get a gun as a driver’s license.
“The American people are tired of hurting
and tired of feeling insecure and tired of the
violence,” Clinton told officials from 35
cities gathered at the White House. “It’s
changing everyone’s life in ways that are
quite destructive. We have to move, and I
Visa: Baby's
By JEAN CAUSE
Collegian Staff Writer
When Visa needed a unique, interesting
restaurant to feature in its winter radio
campaign, it found one right here in the
heart of Happy Valley.
Baby’s Burgers and Shakes, 131 S. Garner
St., was chosen to represent the Visa image
of “everywhere you want to be” by Batten,
Barton, Durstine and Osborn New York, the
ad agency handling the Visa U.S.A. account.
An agency spokeswoman said the agency
chose Baby’s because “it is such a unique
place in a fun college town.”
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the
daily
undergraduate education, said students
would not be able to get the classes they
need without part-time professors.
“Problems can arise when part-time
professors are hired, but just as many
problems can occur when no part-time
professors are hired,” Cahir added.
Christman is just one of 1,171 part-time
professors currently on staff at the Uni
versity. These professors have the oppor
tunity to apply for retirement and medical
benefits. But Christman, like many other
part-time professors, does not qualify.
“I get the opportunity to buy a part-time
parking pass, which allows me to park in
a parking lot, that when there’s snow on
the ground, is closed,” Christman said
sarcastically. “The parking pass and the
exercise I get from walking are the only
benefits I receive.”
Only 25 part-time professors qualify for
benefits and only 50 percent apply, said
Phil Carlin, benefit specialist at the
employee benefit office.
But part-time professors usually do not
remain at the University long enough to
fulfill the benefit requirements, said Alan
J. Grill, assistant to the dean for human
resources and administrative services in
the College of Education. They have to
work 750 hours or teach 14 credits in a
calendar year to receive retirement ben
efits and work 750 hours or teach 15
credits during two consecutive calendar
years to receive medical benefits.
Christman has worked at the University
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"It ought to be at least as hard to get a gun as a driver's
license."
think we are prepared to move.”
Clinton called for passage of a tough
crime bill, including provisions to put more
police officers on the street and ban gun
ownership by children. He also has directed
the Justice Department to study whether
gun owners should be licensed and illegal
weapons collected.
diner is everywhere you want to be
The Visa radio advertisement has been
broadcast on CBS-affiliated radio stations
across the country since the end of
November. Locally, the advertisement is
being broadcast on WFBG-AM in Altoona
and WMAJ-AM in State College.
Scott Krammes, manager of Baby’s, said
several of his customers reported hearing
the advertisement. “You can’t beat that
national recognition for doing nothing,” he
said.
The agency spokeswoman said Baby’s is
one of nine businesses featured in the radio
campaign. The agency searched the country
to find various businesses that do not take
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Clinton said yesterday, “We ought to talk
about what else we do and where we go,”
without referring directly to the gun
licensing idea he had ordered the Justice
Department to begin studying on Wednes
day.
Attorney General Janet Reno said the
department also was considering a limit on
American Express but accept Visa.
The businesses also had to portray the
image of Visa. So the agency “romanced”
the sites they decided to use in the com
mercials in order to impress the public with
the opportunities available to a Visa card
holder.
In the advertisement, a booming voice
with 19505-style background music
describes Baby’s as “A place where time
has stood still since the summer of ’57
where the malts still come with two straws,
the fries are always just right, and poodle
skirts have never gone out of style.”
The advertising executives were
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Attorney General
Loaners question
government plan
The new direct
federal loan program
may change the future
of independent loan
groups.
By COURTNEY CAIRNS
Collegian Staff Writer
Independent student loan orga
nizations are peering into their
crystal balls and wondering what
effect the federal government’s
direct loan program could have on
their futures.
The government’s experimental
program revamps, and possibly
replaces, the current guaranteed
student loan system by allowing
the number of guns an individual may own
and a broader version of a proposed ban on
assault weapons.
Registering guns is not enough, Reno said,
because people should be required “to know
how to safely and lawfully use a gun”
before they can buy one
it'
It ought to be at least as hard to get a
gun as a driver’s license,” Reno said.
A task force from the U.S. Conference of
Mayors presented Clinton with a report
yesterday recommending gun registration,
banning semiautomatic assault weapons,
imposing waiting periods on purchases of
all firearms, and significantly taxing
ammunition and firearm sales.
students to pay their loans straight
to the government.
The success of the direct loan
program could mean the end of the
Pennsylvania Higher Education
Assistance Agency and might have
swayed some state schools,
including Penn State, not to par
ticipate. The University has cho
sen not to join the 105 schools
participating the first year and
may hold off until all the pro
gram's kinks are ironed out.
Penn State is one of the largest
players in the “highly successful”
PHEAA system, said Christy
Rambeau, the University’s assis
tant news bureau manager. She
added that she couldn’t imagine
not having ties to it in the future.
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impressed with the flavor of Baby’s and the
attitude of the waiters and waitresses. The
restaurant personified the “retro diner
craze,” the spokeswoman said.
Baby’s was also in the running for a Visa
television commercial. Krammes said he
even sent menus, restaurant information
and pictures of the restaurant to the agency,
but Baby’s was not chosen from the select
pool of applicants.
Due to the popularity of the seasonal radio
and television campaigns, Visa plans to
continue the campaign into the summer, but
the advertisement featuring Baby’s will
only run through March.
Published independently by students at Penn State
Subway
romance
made to
order
By JON FEINBERG
Collegian Staff Writer
Two 6-inch subs and a lone
ly corner of a Subway restau
rant is not the vision most
young couples have of a per
fect first Valentine's Day
together.
But for two Penn State
graduates, the Subway at 100
S.BurrowesSt. provided the,
magical spark that led to
marital bliss in hoagie heaven.
Drew and Gretchen Svitko
who met while working in
that very same fast food res
taurant were married fa
July.
Even more remarkably, the
Svitkos have gone into a
prosperous family business —•
they own and operate then*
very own Subway in Ship
pensburg.
The romance got off to an
inconspicuous start in Octo
ber 1989 when Drew and
Gretchen were hired within a
few weeks of each other.
Gradually they became
friends, and soon discovered
they had a few classes
together.
The two spent a kit of time
together visiting State College
bars, and the friendship grew,
increasing the probability of a
relationship they said their
friends saw coming. Then
came the fateful day during
their senior year the first
: date a dinner at Tim Deli
Restaurant, 113 Hiester St.
- Neither Drew nor Gretchen
could recall what was so spe
cial about the evening, but
- afterward the two were offi
cially dating. The couple
; remained together through
1 work and dgsses and
tbeir first Valen
tine's Day together after a
long day of work.
Subwayhada special buy
one 6-inch sub, get one free,
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