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...shift speeds Pennsylvania's trend toward state help for private universities rather than construction of new ones. Even such basically private universities as the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh receive substantial amounts of state aid. Financially floundering Pitt is studying whether it should go the route of Temple. The outcome may hinge on a master plan for the state's system of higher education (which also includes 14 state colleges), scheduled to be drawn up by the Pennsylvania Council on Higher Education next year...
There have been lots of lower-scoring basketball games. West Virginia's quarterback Allen McCune performed in a few of them as an all-state high school basketball player. But now he gets a boot out of running the score up by firing bullets instead of baskets. Against Pitt, McCune completed 18 out of 25 passes for 320 yds., threw scoring tosses of 14, 15, 17, 59 and 72 yds. Sophomore Halfback Garrett Ford chipped in with TD runs of 5 yds. and 58 yds., while Pitt Coach John Michelosen moaned, "I've never seen so many perfect...
...resignation, although Litchfield, 51, is still recuperating from a heart attack and is under doctors' orders to reduce his work load (among his other jobs: chairmanship of the S.C.M. Corp., formerly Smith Corona Marchant). Litchfield leaves with the legislature still debating whether to put privately endowed Pitt under state control and with trustees divided as to what he has actually accomplished. Banker Frank Denton brusquely dismissed his plans as "pipe dreams." But Trustee Chairman Gwilym Price, accepting the resignation, wrote Litchfield: "You have done more for the University of Pittsburgh in a decade than most men could have accomplished...
...More Respected School. Litchfield's defenders argue that he is being made a scapegoat for lax fiscal supervision by Pitt trustees. A dynamic chancellor is too busy churning out ideas, they say, to audit the cash flow. They also argue that in upgrading Pitt, Litchfield chose a costly course: increased emphasis on graduate teaching and research, which require expensive facilities and slight the revenue-producing undergraduate enrollment...
...judgment, Litchfield made Pitt a more respected school-to the point that many Pittsburgh-area residents criticize it as too choosy about whom it will admit, and too costly: tuition has nearly tripled, from $537 in 1954 to $1,400 now. When Litchfield arrived, Pitt had 561 full-time faculty members, 56% with Ph.D.s, for its 16,141 students. Today its faculty numbers 1,091, and 84% have Ph.D.s, for a student body that is only about a thousand bigger. Faculty salaries have nearly doubled, averaging $12,126, and the percentage of out-of-state students has grown from about...