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The Behrend Beacon
Marketing club brings Schmitt to
by Justin Curry
news editor
The Behrend Marketing Club hosted
Brad Schmitt, pre-sales representative
for Pepsi, Co. Wednesday evening as part
of its speaker series. Schmitt, a 2002
graduate of Behrend spoke on his life
experiences and marketing principles for
an hour in the Smith Chapel.
Schmitt, a native of Latrobe began his
college career at Allegheny College in
Meadville.
"1 began as a communications major,
and was just taking classes to get through
them, with no real goals in life," Schmitt
told students.
The summer after his sophomore year,
Schmitt was approached by his father,
who asked him what he wanted to do
with his life.
"I had no clue." said Schmitt. "and that
scared me."
After sitting with his father for a few
hours. Schmitt decided to combine his
two loves, talking and sports. His father
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had a friend on the City of Johnstown's
Council who helped him get an
internship with the Johnnies, a minor
league team in Johnstown. Following
that internship, Schmitt began pursuing
a career with sports marketing.
"I was going to winter baseball
management meetings all over the
country," siad Schmitt. "Out of the 15
interviews I had, I received seven offers,
in various places around the country.
The final offer came from the Erie
Sea Wolves. Schmitt chose this
internship over the rest due to the fact
he was still attending Allegheny.
"That semester was so hard," Schmitt
said, "I would wake up at 5:30, go to
practice, then to class, then drive to Erie.
Normally, I wouldn't get home until
midnight or one in the morning, and have
to study still. I got about two hours of
sleep a night."
His hectic schedule finally caught up
with him, and at the end of the semester,
Schmitt received a letter from Allegheny
stating that he hadn't met the GPA
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"Not many people know that about
me," said Schmitt, "it's not a part of my
life I'm proud of."
His father, a Penn State graduate
pushed him once more to return to
school. That following fall, Schmitt
began classes at Behrend, this time as a
marketing major. He graduated two
years later, and took a job with the Erie
Otters, as director of marketing and
special events.
Last month, his tenure at the Otters
came to an end when he accepted a job
with Pepsi Co. as a pre-sales
representative. He now travels to various
stores in the Erie and Corry areas and
handles their Pepsi sales and advertising.
"I loved the majority of my jobs," said
Schmitt, "but in this case, there is so
much room for advancement. I plan on
being with this company for a while."
He concluded his session with three
major points. He stressed to the group
the importance of setting goals, gaining
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experience, and having networking
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"The only reason I've gotten the jobs
I have is because my dad knew a guy,
that knew a guy, that sometimes knew a
guy, and so on," Schmitt commented
while laughing.
He also sat and chatted with the
students following his speech. Questions
ranged from the importance of GPAs and
extra curriculars to what he does when
he and the Coca-Cola rep are in the store
at the same time.
"I'm a nice guy:" Schmitt joked, "I say
hello to him and think in my head, Pepsi
has 85 percent of the market in Erie, so
he's no competition."
Following the session, the Marketing
Club has cookies and cocoa in the Smith
Chapel Living Room for those in
attendance.
"We pursued Mr. Schmitt because we
heard he was a really nice guy," said
Marketing Club President Lindsay
Walchack, MKTG 06, "plus the fact that
he was a Behrend Marketing graduate
including what appears to be an error
message, such as: The message cannot
be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding
and has been sent as a binary
attachment." There are several things
you can do to help protect your computer
from virus e-mails such as these ones.
Symantec Anti Virus is one of the best
virus detection programs on the market
today, and Penn State Behrend provides
each student with a free copy at the
beginning of the school year. The PAC
ITS CD, which is included in each
student's Welcome package at the
beginning of the year, contains this
program. However, if you lost that CD.
there are several other ways to acquire
the Symantec program, for free, without
paying the suggested retail price of
$49.99.
One way is to get a replacement CD
with the software on it. There are two
help desks on campus, one located in the
Hammermill Computer Lab, and the
other located in the Lilley Library
Computer Lab. Both of these labs have
the PAC-ITS CD available to students,
and all that is required for a copy is your
student ID card.
If you don't have time to go to either
one of the help desks, there is a third
option available to get your computer
out of the sick bay. The PAC-ITS CD is
available online by going to www.pac
its.psu.edu. Scroll down to your
operating system, usually Windows or
Macintosh, and click on the "Virus
Detection" link. Follow the easy
directions, download the Symantec
program, and your computer will soon
be virus-free.
And if you don't yet have the
Symantec computer program, and a
virus has already taken over your
computer, there are people who can help.
"Students should contact the
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met a lot to us.-
"The speaker was very informative
and speakers are great ways to recruit
members and generate publicity for our
club," said Marketing Club Vice
President Jaime Pysola, COMBA 06.
"We just want everyone to know what
we're about. You don't even need to be
a marketing major to join, we also want
to stress that."
The club's next event will be flower
sales on Feb. 12 and 13 outside of
Bruno's. Club members will be selling
silk roses from 11 a.m. - sp.m. on the
days, and the proceeds are going to help
with the costs associated with
international conference being held in
New Orleans.
"We are really excited to get an
invitation to the conference," said
Walchack. "this is only our second year
in existence and we weren't expecting it
at all."
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Residence Hall Network Help Desk,
located in the bottom floor of the Reed
Building," said Todd Say, lab oordinator.
"Our staff is available Monday through
Thursday, from 4 to 10 p.m. if you want
to stop by in person, or call x 6550 to
make an appointment." A technician
will come up to your room and guide
you through the virus removal process,
if you run into a problem or just don't
want to make things worse than they
already are.
If the virus on your computer has
spread to the point where the hard drive
needs erased, don't worry about taking
your computer to the shop and paying
hundreds of dollars to get it fixed.
Thanks to a new cooperative program,
sponsored by both Housing and Food
Services and the Computer Center, Penn
State Behrend now offers what amounts
to a "computer rebuilding service,"
according to Say. "If the virus is bad
enough, students can bring their
computer down to the Hammermill
Computer Center. Our senior computer
technician will wipe the hard drive clean,
and re-install your operating system for
you." They can even save certain files
on your computer for you, and transfer
them back once your hard drive has been
cleaned. And once again, this service,
along with all the other options listed in
this article are free to all Penn State
students and faculty members.
The best thing to do after initially
cleaning your computers hard drive of
viruses is to stay on your toes. Don't
open any e-mail from unknown
addresses. If you get an e-mail from a
psu.edu address that doesn't belong to a
friend or professor, the best thing to do
is either let your virus detection software
do the work, or call the Network Help
Desk for more information.