THE BEHREND BEACON Friday, November 17, 2006 “We definitely feel the void without him here. He was a likeable stu dent and a good worker.” -MISC member Mario Loretti on the arrest of Jonathan Demerecz Senior volleyball player Karla Murray Athlete of the Week •Karla Murray, who had 35 digs in three matches in the EC AC Tournament, is this week's Housing and Food Services Athlete of the week. Is the globe acutally getting warmer ? •Chris Brown writes about global warming and its affects on the environment and the inconvenient truth Mike Sharkey/ THE BEHREND BEACON SAAC makes a whale of a cardboard display. Ever heard The Sound of Settling! • Janet Niedenberger writes about Death Cab for Cutie and a recent concert that she attended. Contents News. Editorial.. Calendar.. Humor Student Life Sports , s ; I Ii S. Newsroom: 898-6488 Fax: 898-6019 E-mail: jahloos@psu.edu Our offices are located down stairs in the Reed Union Building. Improvements lead to higher tech fees Behrend Information Technologies Manager, Ron Hoffman. Behrend Information Technology Support Services Manager, Todd Say, and Student Government Association President, Meredith Straub, held a meeting on Monday, November 13, 2006 to discuss the usage of the infor mation technology fee that Behrend students pay each year. According to the College Board, private and public universities raised their tuition an average of six percent for the current academic year. Behrend has also just announced a tuition increase for next year as well. In addition to the tuition that students pay, they are also responsible for cer tain fees. contributed photo At Penn State, all students are required to pay an information tech nology fee and a student activities fee. Research shows that in 1998, students paid SIBO per year. All the money is first handled by University Park and then distributed to each of the differ- Page X ent campuses as seen appropriate. "During the 1998-1999 school year, Behrend received 55.5'/( of the funds its students paid, or about SIOO per student, while the other 44.5 U stayed at University Park for what they call Central Services," Hoffman stud. Central Services are the technologies available to all Penn State students. These services include WebMail2. Library Information Access System (LIAS), eLion. and Angel. The money that gets allocated to Behrend is used for numerous things that include computer upgrades, the purchase of the students' pen drives, help desk employee salaries, printing services, and much more. Since the 1998 school year, the technology fee has increased approxi mately $3O per year for all students. At the same time, the percentage that Behrend receives back each year has declined dramatically. Page J Each year, Behrend still only receives Behrend professor publishes anthology Page 7 Dr. Baldwin is releasing an anthology entitled “An Anthology of Colonial and Post Colonial Short Fiction’’ A Penn State Behrend Student Publication \ A Jl i 9 would almost certainly require a W if greater effort than v\lßHh3(ytj!£ title the first time ” INSIDE By Lenny Smith staff writer The computer kiosk in Reed Union Building is one of die mans dungs dial kurus lundmg liom die iechnulogy Ice about SIOO per student from the tech nology fee they paid. In comparison to the 55.5% Behrend received during the 1998-1999 school year, the 1999- 2000 school year brought only 49.8% of the funds back to Behrend. During the 2005-2006 school year, students paid S3BO in technology fees and Behrend received only 29.5% of the funds back. Again, this is about $lOO per student brought back to Behrend; this leaves S2BO per student at University Park for Central Services. With the addition of the REDC and all its new technologies, and as more and more computers need replace ment in other areas of campus, many students and staff have begun to won der why the amount of money per stu dent Behrend receives from the tech contribuled photo nology fee lias remained slagnanl for the past eight years. At the meeting that was held on November 14. attendees were pre sented with information about de allocation and usage of the technolo gy fee monies and watched a presen tation on possible uses of that money if the campus was to receive more funds. Attendees then asked ipics tions and made suggestions as to how the new funds should be speni. Suggestions included laptop supports for the furniture in Winterereen. areas for groups to work on presentations without blocking other computers, and more wireless opportunities. Hoffman said he loved the input and would like to sec changes to the Behrend campus. However, in the By Scott Muska staff writer One of Behrend’s professors has added a new book to the collection of releases by Penn State professors. Dr. Dean Baldwin has been teaching at Penn State Behrend since 1975 and has published seven books as either the editor or author. Most recently, he has released an anthology of British Colonial literature titled An Anthology of Colonial and Post Colonial Short Fiction which will be used as a tool by profes sors for English literature classes. Baldwin’s teaching interests involve both the short story and British literature, so the publica tion of this collection was obvi ously a labor of love. When asked specifically why he decid ed to compile and publish this book, Baldwin exclaimed joking ly, “I was hoping to get rich! Well not really but anytime you release a publication you hope to sell a few copies ' He then went deeper into his motivations and said that, “the book is aimed at the fact that there are a lot of classes being taught in colonial literature and not a definitive test an instructor could use for a course like that." As a matter of fact, one of these classes is taught by Baldwin, and it is called Literature and Empire, or English 182. “It’s a general education class, so anyone can take it," said Baldwin, hoping to get students enrolled and “Becoming a repeat champion ULLEY U&RARY -Ed Miseta, Lecturer in' Economics on the woes of the Pittsburgh Steelers “The book is aimed at the . fact that there are a lot of classes being taught in colo- nial literature and not a definitive test an instructor could use for a course like Vol. LI 11 No. XI i ? ;no6 Mikr Sli.uU-y I 111 UI'IIKI.NI) HI ACON foreseeable future. Belli end will not iecei\e an mnease in ihe amount of funds. Hoffman plans on taking the to the Information sueecstions Technoloin Sen ices I'niveisiiv I ’ark and hopes to see a ehanee in Behrend's share of the tech - noloas fee If you ha\e sueeestions on how to improve teclmoloeies on campus, you can c-mail Ron HoH'man at ronh<" psu.edu Read more about what lieltrend students think of the 'iechtiology Fee. interested in the exceptional viewpoints that came from the colonies of England in previ- ous times The anthology features short stories from British colonies such as India, Africa. Ireland, Canada. Australia. New Zealand, and the Caribbean. Baldwin says that the book “has stories that were written by people that had first hand experience in the British Colonial Enterprise." The fact that the hook was even completed and published is almost hard to believe, since it took Baldwin and his co editor Patrick Quinn a very lone time to com plete the hook. "We con sulted British publishers and they turned us down, except for Oxford, but they wanted us to do all of the permission work for the book by ourselves. Dr. Dean Baldwin and they offered us a terrible contract. Baldwin. They ended up signing a contract with United States publisher Houghton Mifflin and then finally produced the book after five or six years of hard work. Baldwin's class could be a surefire way to gain some credits for any student in need of general education classes. A student can go into the class know ing that their teacher will be drawing from an anthology that he himself edited and has a vast knowledge of. * ‘ijsii ‘;f/1 5 t '■ Li' ‘X .'>ls- a •:' mcetme at Page 6
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