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[ Thursday, March 15, 1990 ]
 
Jordan to switch places for a day with University marketing major

Collegian Staff Writer

University President Bryce Jordan will become a marketing student Monday while Michelle Hearn will sit in 201 Old Main making the University's biggest decisions.

"I wouldn't mind lowering tuition," Hearn (junior-marketing) said. "I'd like to look into the tuition issue, analyze it, and see if it is what it should be.

"I'd like to get to make decisions and see how he gets to make decisions," she added. "I'm sure they won't let me do too much."

Leaders And Friends For Students, a temporary group formed in January, held a raffle in which one student would trade places with Jordan. The drawing was held yesterday in the alumni lounge in Old Main. Jordan's wife, Jonelle Jordan, drew the ticket.

Proceeds from the raffle will go to the Mount Nittany Conservancy Inc. The conservancy, a non-profit corporation, was initiated in 1981 by a 700-member alumni branch of Lion's Paw -- one of three traditionally secret societies on campus -- to protect Mount Nittany from construction.

Members of LAFFS include Undergraduate Student Government President Janyne Althaus, Association of Residence Hall Students President Melissa Pressler, Office of Town and Independent Students President Judy Falce, former Interfraternity Council President Tom Lynch and former Panhellenic Council President Kelly Ayotte.

The raffle raised about $230, Althaus said.

"It is small compared with the 30,000 students on campus, but it is a great start."

Althaus said more than 160 people bought raffle tickets and many people made donations.

"They just wanted to give a donation and not put their name on a ticket," she said.

Hearn said she has an economics class and two marketing classes on Monday.

"I'm looking forward to missing my econ class," she said. "It's my hardest one.

"I think it is a big honor," she said. "I'd like to know how the president coordinates his day and it will be interesting for him to see how a student's day goes."

Althaus said Hearn will be attending mostly staff meetings on Monday and said she hoped the raffle would become a precedent.

"I hope the old president will approach the new president and make it an annual tradition," she said.

 

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