EDITORIAL: "Help Wanted. Good Pay."

The pay is a plus too. You may earn $40,000,000. The job is lobbying to restore the University's state funding for next year. One way to help out is to join the group of students the Undergraduate Assembly plans to assemble later this month for a trip to the state capital, Harrisburg. Of course, if you can't join in the UA caravan, you're perfectly free to go yourself -- you can even set up your own appointments with legislators. Harrisburg is a two-hour drive from here, or a $27 round trip train ride that will take you from 30th Street to the Harrisburg station, within walking distance of the Capitol Complex. Or, let your fingers do the walking. Add your voice in support of University funding by calling or writing the University's state senators and representatives. In fact, contact any state senator or representative and let him or her know that what's good for the state's Ivy League institution is good for both the city and Commonwealth. It you are registered to vote in Pennsylvania, that will serve as great political leverage. But if you're not a state voter, that's still fine. You pay six percent state sales tax and will inject upwards of $100,000 into the state's economy over your four years here. Who knows -- you may decide to stay. Oh, one more thing. Be nice to the lawmakers. The state legislators haven't taken away our money yet -- the governor only recommended that they should. Last year, they rejected his proposal to cut the funding in half. Right now, diplomacy is called for. Don't protest -- play politics. Remember, you're playing for real money. And you're playing for keeps. · Local senators: Vincent Fumo, Francis Lynch, Roxanne Jones, Allyson Schwartz, Frank Salvatore, Chaka Fattah, Hardy Williams, Richard Tilghman. Local representatives: Vincent Hughes, Harold James. For office numbers, call the Commonwealth Information Line, 1-800-932-0784.