| The Behrend Beacon
Advising
students,
By Lisa Lamendola
staff writer
For the second consecutive year, the
Advising Center is hosting an Advising
Chat room. The Residence Life sup
ported chat room is for getting answers
to last minute advising questions and for
general answers to general questions.
“The chat room can’t take the place
of a face-to-face meeting with your ad
viser,” says Patrick Smith an Under
graduate Adviser.
The purpose of the chat room is for
students to ask quick questions before
they register for classes.
“We’ll direct them to a faculty adviser
if complicated questions arise,” says
Smith.
Confidentiality is stressed in the chat
room and everyone is anonymous. The
moderators, Patrick Smith and Biddy
Brooks, will never ask for your student
ID in the chat room.
The chat room is just another way the
faculty is trying to cater to the current
students and meet them half way. When
the chat was first introduced, advisors
noticed that most of the students who
asked questions, were sophomores and
juniors. This year, however, the turn out
seems to be largely freshmen.
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chat
advisers
The students sparked the idea for tech
nology to be a greater part of the inter
action between faculty and students.
Three years ago, the Advising Center and
Residence Life began using AOL Instant
Messenger as a way to keep in contact
with students. Now, AIM is used for first
year chats, quick, one-on-one conversa
tions, tutoring chats and the advising chat
“About 20 percent of my weekly ap
pointments could be handled electroni
cally,” says Smith.
Although the chat room is seeing good
participation, the numbers are still low.
“Participation could be more," says
Smith.
Students seem to be appreciative of the
chat room option though.
“It’s good to have. I just hopped online
for a few minutes and got answers to a
lot of my questions,” says Kim Barsness,
first semester freshman.
The chats are from Nov. 9, - Nov.
23, for an hour everyday but Fridays.
The hours are as follows:
Mondays 11 a.m. to noon
Tuesdays noon to 1 p.m.
Wednesdays 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Thursdays 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
More information can be found at:
http://www.pennstatebehrend.psu.edu/
academic/dus/chatroom.htm
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Computer science speaker double-header
On Nov. 17, Albert Whale, a certified
information systems auditor and certified
information systems security profes
sional gave a lecture as part of the Com
puter Science Speaker Series. The lec
ture entitled, “Internet Security and the
Butterfly Effect,” was held in the Otto
Behrend Science Building in room 101
at 7:30 p.m.
Whale’s speech was on the effects of
different types of security around the
globe. His presentation dealt with the
internet, security, and what could hap
pen in a disaster on a global scale.
Whale has had over 20 years of pro
fessional experience being a computer
consultant in various fields like computer
systems, network and security. Whale is
even the first consultant to achieve roy
alty status among his peers. He received
his Bachelor of Science from Penn State
in the field of electrical engineering in
1985. Whale manages a spam filtering
business know as www.Spam-
Zapper.com, and is the co-founded and
current president of the Pittsburgh FBI
Infra Gard Member Alliance.
Thursday, Dr. Lukas Sekanina, a
Fulbright Scholar from the Czech Re
public, presented his lecture titled,
"Hvolvable Hardware and Evolvable
Computering.” The lecture, which was
a part of the school of engineering
speaker series, was presented in Reed
114. at noon.
Dr. Sekanina’s presentation was about
how hardware is always evolving.
Evolvable hardware is coming a part of
computers more and more in this mod
ern age, so advanced that it is now pos
sible for computer systems to automati
cally reconfigure themselves. Dr.
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outstanding MSc thesis which he re
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When asked about the speaker series,
Dr. Ford, who helped put the engineer
ing speaker series together, he said, “This
is our third speaker series this year, and
the first two have been pretty successful
with around seventy to eighty faculty and
students attending, even people in the
community attending.”
The next computer science speaker
will be on Dec.r l in room 10l of the
Otto Science Building at 7:30 p.m. with
Sreela Sasi with Gannon University. His
presentation is entitled “Potential of Bio
metric Techniques for Security.” The
school of engineering will be having
their next speaker series on January 20
at noon, with Dr. Gray of Behrend. Dr
Gray’s presentation is entitled “Synthetic
Vision in Transportation Systems.”