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Thirty-nine per cent of the non-minority students and 60 per cent of minority students polled agreed that minority students feel isolated at Penn and sometimes "experience direct resentment of their presence...
...that policy has put the Faculty in what Rosovsky this week called "a very bad economic squeeze" and has, in part, forced the Faculty to raise professors' and staff members' salaries at rates considerably slower than inflation. Since 1970, professors' salaries have lost 15 per cent in real terms...
...increase, of between 12 and 15 per cent, will make next year the third straight in which total student costs rose at double-digit rates, and administrators say no end to that trend is likely unless the nation's inflation rate declines dramatically...
...Corporation decides to raise total costs at a rate higher than last year's 14.9-per-cent clip, the rate of increase would be the highest in decades and probably the highest in college history...
Energy, too, will remain a problem, particularly with recently announced price hikes by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The Faculty's conservation programs have helped keep the rate of increase of energy costs to a manageable 20 to 25 per cent annually over the last several years, but officials say the potential for new conservation may not be great enough to keep rates of increase at those levels over the long term. Nevertheless, the Faculty's 1981-82 budget assumes no increases in energy expenses over...