THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Cake, songs
help celebrate
HUB's 50th
By Kate Rumor St. Georges
and Elaine Hughes
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I kkfsooo@psu.edu
A six-foot-long birthday cake, deco
rated with blue and white icing and a
giant cake replica of the HUB-
Robeson Center, waited to be cut into
1,000 slices.
Students and faculty gathered on
the ground floor of the HUB at noon
yesterday to celebrate the building's
50th birthday with performances by
the Penn State Singing Lions and
members of the Penn State Indoor
Drumline.
Penn State President Graham
Spanier, sporting a themed pin for the
occasion, said 4 million people walk
through the building's doors every
year. "The HUB has been through
three renovations and kept up with the
university's space and programming
needs," Spanier said. "Join me in say
ing happy birthday to the HUB, and
then we're going to cut the cake."
Throngs of students passing
through the HUB on their way to class
es or for lunch stopped to admire the
cake and listen to the speakers.
Stan Latta, director of unions and
student activities, challenged the
Nittany Lion mascot to do 50 push ups
one for each year the HUB has been
open which he successfully com
pleted. Latta said when the HUB
opened in 1955, there were listening
rooms where students could listen to
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Penn State President Graham Spanler speaks in honor of the HUB-Robeson
Center's 50th birthday at noon yesterday on the ground floor.'
records and use rotary phones. "Now
students can text message, instant
message and communicate with oth
ers using Thefacebook," Latta said.
Vice President for Student Affairs
Vicky Triponey said people from other
universities visit the HUB throughout
the year to decide how to make their
student unions better.
"Many people call the HUB the 'liv
ing room' of the campus because peo
ple can come together and connect,"
Triponey said. "It's a place where peo
ple can come together, communicate
and learn from each other outside the
classroom."
She said the birthday celebration is
about paying tribute to the students of
past, present and future generations.
The Penn State Singing Lions sang
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"Happy Birthday" and "Fight On,
State!," followed by a performance by
the Penn State Indoor Drumline.
The Penn State Indoor Drumline
had completed their first number
when a man on the stairs of the HUB
yelled at the drumline, telling them to
move their performance outside
because the noise had carried to the
first floor of the HUB as well.
However, the crowd responded by
booing the man, and the drumline con
tinued to perform two more energetic
numbers.
Tara Burnham (junior-public rela
tions) said her favorite part of the cele
bration was the drumlin.
"The birthday celebration was a
great way to celebrate the history
behind the HUB," Burnham said.
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show fewer students
A report cited the rising cost
of attendance, demographics
and competition as reasons
for the decline.
By Christiana Varda
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I cxvlBl@psu.edu
The admissions process may seem
like a remotely distant one for stu
dents currently enrolled at Penn
State, but it is a serious issue for the
university.
Yesterday's University Faculty
mate meeting underlined the impor
nce of admission recruitment and
enrollment in an informational report.
"The key here is that the whole uni
versity community needs to be
engaged in the recruitment process,"
said John Romano, vice provost and
dean for enrollment management.
According to the report, fall's enroll
ment decreased in comparison to past
years. The report cited three forces
affecting the admissions process:
demographics, the increasing cost of
attendance and competition.
Even though there is a stable, mod
estly increasing enrollment in higher
education, some students are opting
for community colleges instead,
Romano said. With Penn State being
the public university with the highest
in-state tuition in the Big Ten, some
students may even decide they are
unable to afford college, he added.
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In his address to the Senate, Penn
State President Graham Spanier said
the administration is working hard to
keep tuition increases moderate.
Even though minority enrollment
has increased by 42 percent since
1995, graduate, associate degree,
adult learner and provisional enroll
ment has decreased.
"Higher education, especially in
Pennsylvania, has entered a buyers'
market," Romano said.
Students are looking for a "tuition
discount," waiting for the best offer a
university can make in terms of uni
versity-sponsored scholarships or
grants, he said.
But there are things the university
can do to increase enrollment recruit
ment and admissions such as recog
nizing the importance of grants and
scholarships, campus visits, personal
izing the admissions and requirement
process and involving all campus con
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About 50,000 students apply every
year "that's half the number we can
fit into Beaver Stadium and we have
to acquaint them to the university,"
Romano said.
Faculty Senate Chair Rim Steiner
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"It's good information for all faculty
members to have and [information
about] where we're likely going," he
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