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Budget takes
a bite out of
education
Casey trims almost $llB
million from state-owned,
related universities
by Vicky Sn
The Collegian
Budget cuts versus a tax
hike. Tax hike versus budget
cuts. Decisions, decisions.
After last year's political
fallout over tax and spending
increases, along with fervent
Be hr end's portion of the payback will be
over $lOO,OOO. This amount is roughly
five percent of what the campus has
available to spend, after allocating
salary money for the year.
promises not to do the same this
year, the Casey administration
has decided to make cuts in
different areas, most notably
education.
The Casey administration
has repudiated on last year's
commitment to pour 125 million
dollars into education. Instead,
the new budget proposal includes
a plan to trim funding to state
owned or state-related universities
by 3.5 percent, which works out
to roughly 118 million dollars.
Penn State has been asked to
hand over their share, $9 million,
to the Commonwealth on or
before June 30. This could force
the University to enact another
tuition hike, which, if it took
place, would be the twenty-fifth
consecutive tuition hike in Penn
State history.
Each campus within the
Penn State system will be
responsible for returning 1
percent of their working budgets.
"That doesn't sound like a lot
of money, but the way the
system works, it turns out to be
a fairly substantial amount in
terms of the dollars we can
actually spend," said Associate
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'sday, February 20, 1992 Vol. XL No. 18
Dance with me: Calandra Matthews, fifth semester communication,
and Chris Cook, fourth semester accounting, share a dance at last
weekend’s Snowball after being crowned its Queen and King. See Pages
8 and 9 for more photographs. Mark Owens/77u? Collegian
The King and I
ODK's
Pennies'
by Jeremy Race
e Collegian
Omicron Delta Kappa will once again hold its
"Mile of Pennies" fundraiser, which starts next
Monday and runs through March 2.
In "Mile of Pennies," ODK members will be
collecting penny donations to reach their mile goal -
amassing enough donations to form a mile-long line of
pennies if they were laid end-to-end. A mile's worth of
pennies is equal to $845.
"This year proceeds will go to Emerson
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