MAY 2. 1985
Summer Orientation Staff
Prepares for “Flood”
by Kurt E. Freeman
Collegian Staff Writer
The Division of
Undergraduate Studies (DUS) is
preparing for the flood of 600 to
700 prospective freshmen and
their parents who will attend sum
mer orientation this year.
The program’s formal title is
Freshman Testing, Counseling
and Advising Program, “FTCAP
(Fit-CAP) for short,” according
to Ernest Fryer, the Behrend DUS
consultant. “The program takes
place from June 11 until Aug. 2,
Monday thru Friday,” says Fryer.
“After taking the placement
tests, they’re notified by mail
about the date they are to be here
and 23 people a day go through
the program during the eight
week period,” he adds.
A pamphlet that Fryer
distributes notes that the tests give
information about “students’
academic preparation and
abilities, educational plans, and
occupational interests. The DUS
uses this information as the basis
for individual counseling and ad
vising on orientation day,” Fryer
explains.
“When the students and their
parents arrive on the designated
day, they are introduced to the
Biomechanics Research Applied
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blood towards the outer walls of
the vessel, and a marked decrease
in pressure, all at the vicinity of
the constriction.
With all these factors, there is a
great division among
biomechanists, engineers, as well
as physicians, with regard to the
actual cause of the bulging. No
model has actually been produced
that takes in all the factors men
tioned above.
Khaliloliahi said that his experi
ment took into account actual
arteries where other experiments
have used rubber tubing. The dif
ference is in the characteristic of
elasticity of the type of vessel.
Rubber tubing is linear-elastic,
that is the graph of its elasticity
vs. stress is a direct, linear rela
tion. Blood vessels, however, are
non-linear elastic and Khaliloliahi
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program,” says Fryer. Then
parents and students are split up
so they may attend separate pro
grams. The parents attend a con
ference and see video tapes which
show them various aspects of the
university.
“I ‘preach’ to the students
about the problems likely to be
encountered in college and then
they attend their individual
counseling interviews,” Fryer ex
plains. “These interviews allow
the student to get acquainted with
their adviser and give the personal
touch to the session,” he
continues.
“After lunch, students have
their ID pictures taken. Both resi
- dent and commuter students then
attend orientation programs con
ducted by students from Student
Activities,” explains Fryer. “If
after going through the program,
they still have questions, I want to
see them in an individual family
conference,” he adds.
The program, which started in
1957, “is an attempt to intercept
problems before they, have a
chance to fester,” Fryer explains.
“20 percent of the students
change their college after going
through the program. It is a
preventive measure so that people
was able to better simulate the ac
tual flow in an artery by using an
actual steer aorta which he ac
quired from the meat lab at
University Park. The only
drawback to his analysis of the
flow was that in his experiment,
he couldn’t afford a pulsar pump,
and pulsatile flow is the only type
in which the actual distension
occurs.
Still his experiement has at
tracted considerable attention,
and he has been called upon to
present an abstract of his thesis at
The Forum on Unsteady Flows in
Biological Systems held during the
1985 Biomechanical Symposium
A.S.M.E. (American Society of
Mechanical Engineers) to be held
this June 24-27 in Alberquerque,
NM.
Khaliloliahi plans to continue
his experiment this summer, vary-
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know their strengths and abilities
before entering school,” he
continues.
Fryer says this program has
-been very successful, in fact, he
adds, “large major institutions
have observed Penn State’s pro
gram and adopted it as their own,
so we do have a national
reputation.”
Jamie Grimm, assistant dean of
Student Affairs, says that the
freshman orientation program,
which takes place the week before
school begins, is the “next step in
the process which helps make the
student’s transition easier.”
“During this week, we have a
picnic, trips to Presque Isle and
the Millcreek Mall, study skills
workshops and other activities
which introduce students to
Behrend,” Grimm says.
“If any present student is in
terested in becoming a freshman
advisor, please contact me before
going home for the summer,” she
asks. Grimm’s office is located in
the Office of Student Affairs,
upstairs in the Reed Union
Building.
ing the size of the occlusive rings
which he uses to constrict the test
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why the distension of the artery
occurs by examining exactly what
happens inside the artery from a
fluid-mechanical standpoint.
Eventually, he hopes his
research will enable physicians to
discover the way to prevent vessel
bulging and thus help to prevent
strokes, atherosclerosis, coronary
artery disease and other illnesses
which leave us victims of arterial
hemorrhages.
Behrend to Host Summer
Leadership Conference
by Kimberly Ford Some goals and objectives of
- Collegian Staff Writer the Residential Assistant portion
The annual Penn State Sum- of the conference are, “to refocus
mer Leadership Conference will the Residential Assistant’s mind
have an innovation in that this on the task ahead, and to allow
summer’s conference will be them to share ideas through in
hosted by Behrend College. teraction,” comments McCart-
In past years, the conference ney. The itinerary for this portion
has been hosted on a rotating of the conference builds and ex
basis by the Altoona, Hazleton pands upon the foundations
and Capitol campuses. The ra- received while in the R.A. training
tionale behind holding the con- class.
ference at these campuses was the The main goals of the student
fact they are located m a central leader portion are to in the
location making them easily ac- development of more effective
cessi e y the other campuses. student leaders and to give student
Dohn Harshbarger, dean of leaders insight for worki with
Student Affairs comments, student volunteers , which in
Because this will be the first time fact a dub > s mem bership,” com
the Leadership Conference will be ments Harshbarger.
held at Behrend, students as well Student leaders win most likd
as staff professionals from other be housed in p HalL £he
campuses will be exposed to the residential life staff in Ni
vanous academic programs here Hall and the p rofess ional staff
at Behrend wUI be housed in the aew
The Leadership Conference en- apartments _
compasses student leadership and v
resident assistant programs.
Commonwealth campuses may
bring up to eight student leaders
in addition to their residential life
staff.
“I think the leadership con
ference we’ve been doing for
almost 10 years has been very
highly evaluated, particularly
because often the students finish
Dr. Kenneth Varcoe, advisor to the program feeling much more
the Council of Branch Student conscious of leadership,” com-
Govemments and assistant vice- ments Harshbarger.
president along with Joe Me- Due to a formal lobbying effort
Callus, chairman of the Leader- on the part of Harshbarger and
ship Conference Committee, are McCartney, “We convinced the
an integral part of the develop- committee that we would like to
ment of this year’s conference, a* l *! were quite capable hosting the
Here at Behrend, Harshbargr and leadership conference,” says
William McCartney, assistant McCartney,
dean of Student Affairs, will be Harshbarger adds, “One of the
working very closely with the major reasons for the general
program. reluctance to hold the leadership
Each campus’ Student Govern- conference at Behrend was that
ment Association generally sub- Erie is quite a drive for most of
sidizes the student leaders while the campuses—it isn’t centrally
Student Affairs subsidizes the located.”
Residential Life staff. Last year’s Although this summer’s pro
conference was approzimately $55 gram has not yet taken place, the
per student. At this writing the evaluation results may show that
cost for this year’s conference is the Behrend College is more than
not available. worth the drive.
WBCR Elects New Officers
by Anne Waskowitz
Collegian Staff Writer
On Wednesday, April 24,
Penn State Behrend’s radio sta
tion WBCR conducted elections
for the club’s office positions for
the 1985-86 academic year.
James Regalia was elected
treasurer for his third consecutive
semester, Nancy Owsley will fill
the position of secretatry, John
Moscato will serve as vice
president and Anne Waskowitz
will assume the presidency.
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Allegheny
Women’s
Center
The new school year will bring
many changes for WBCR. WBCR
will follow a new constitution,
written by all of the incumbent
officers.
Inner work will also be done to
help the station. Some new equip
ment may be purchased, including
a new microphone, new car
tridges, a weather radio and a
time clock.
The club will begin to gather in
formation to obtain their FM
license.
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