Lock Haven State College Eve Friday, August 29,1975 ^ ^ Vol. XVIII, No. 1 No lay offs indue ed in retrenchment p ans *•"! STADIUM NEARS COMPLETION--The new Hubert Jack Stadium, located on the upper athletic field beside Zimmerii, is slated to go under final inspection September 3. Formal dedication will take place September 20. [Photo by JOHN VUKOVIC] I'By LARRY SCHMIDT News Editor An order from Secretary of Education John Pittenger to "live within limits" casts its shadow across the opening of Pennsylvania's 14 state colleges and university this week. Recentiidirectives from Harrisburg have ordered that, in additio|. to the tuition fee increases, the state colleges are to proceed with submitting plans for retrenchment in 1976. According to local administrators, Lock Haven's plan for a retrenchment procedure has Ulready received Secretary Pittenger's personal approval and awaits confirmation from his office. The plan, a combination of cuttmg expenses and not filling vacancies, calls for no retrenchment of any personnel hired on a perm- Football comes back to campus By MIKE CROSBY Staff Reporter September 15 marks the opening of Lock Haven State's Hubert Jack Stadium, where the Bald Eagles will open their 1975 season against Lycoming. After 32 years of playing home games on the local high school field. Lock Haven's team will finally perform before fans in a stadium of their own. The last varsity football game played on campus was in October of 1942 when Lock Haven defeated Shippensburg 36 to 0. At that time head coach W. Max Bossert led Lock Haven to a Pa. conference championship with a 6-0-1 record. Home games were then beijig played at McCollum Field, which is now used by the soccer and women's lacrosse teams. The first completed phase of the new stadium was the running track and utilities. Bids were then received for construction of the stands in March of 1973. The original bids exceeded state allocations by $150,000 due to sudden drastic escalations in construction costs, so a meeting was called in Harrisburg to decide what to do with the partially completed stadium, college officials decided to cut the stadium's size from 5,000 seats to 2,600. Hubert Jack stadium will go under final inspection on September 3, when it will hopefully be completed. In addition to the 2,600 seats, the cont. on page 4 anent basis. Instead of laying-off permanently employed personnel. Lock Haven hopes to meet its $670,000 ordered budget cut by following three alternative steps. These include eliminating $100,000 worth of operating expenses, voluntarily scheduling sabbaticals over summer, and not fulfilling $460,000 worth of vacancies. College administrators explained on Wednesday that most of the operating expenses cut would be drawn from the college's contingency and retirement funds. They also stated that the money saved through summer sabbaticals is a result of not needing to hire replacements for professors absent during summer sessions. They cited the $460,000 worth of vacancies to be the expected number of positions lost through resignations and retirement. Vice-President of Administration Russell Milliken explained the state ordered budget cuts as "the difference between what we have to spend and what we ought to spend." Adding "We're not doing everything we ought to be doing," Dr. Milliken mentioned items such as new furniture, additional books, and professional meetings as extras which will have to be eliminated. While the immediate effects of the budget cuts aren't critical, concern is growing over the long range effects of limited spending when our present supplies wear out. Because retrenchment plans are still tentative, further details will be announced later. Dr. Milliken noted that the college is beginning the year with no expectation of a deficit. The state colleges are awaiting action from Harrisburg on a proposed $5,000,000 cont. on page 4 CAS slams tuition increase At an August 2 meeting held in Harrisburg, the Commonwealth Association of Students denounced the recently announced tuition increases for the state-owned colleges this fall. Ted Hendrie, summer executive director of the association, stated that the students of the state-owned colleges cannot continue to bear the increasing burden of the already high tuition rates that state college students are facing. "We have one of the highest tuitions for a state college system in the nation, and further increases are going to close the doors for many middle-class Americans, said Hendrie. "Not only are we facing further increases in January, Uut reduction in our faftilty, programs, and services. We are now paying more and receiving less." CAS has announced a campaign to make the public aware of further increases before irrepairable damage is done to the state college system. 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