Page 4 Computer Center By Bob Buckingham Three computer seminars Entry Systems. for students, faculty and staff The primary role of the are scheduled for this month, center is support of instruction according to John Redington, and research with a lesser role director of the Computer in administration. Redington Center. The seminar topics will said that use of the center is be: open to all enrolled students, February 9, Using the faculty and staff. Any questions Computer in Instruction. concerning the seminar can be February 16, Research directed to Redington at the Using the Computer. Computer Center. Historic Exhibit Now On Display The exhibit, now on display in the Gallery Lounge, "The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770 - 1800," will run through Feb. 19. The exhibit is circulated nationally by the Smithsonian Institute's Traveling Exhibition Service. The aim of this exhibition is to restore to the national Sculptures Sculptures by Oliver LaGrone, sculptor, poet and educator, are on exhibit at the Black Cultural Art Center. The exhibit will continue until Mon., Feb. 14. LaGrone, once a student of Carl Milles, is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, and for several years has served as a teacher and a special assistant to the vice-president of under graduate studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He regards himself as an eclectic, who works in bronze, marble, alabaster, wood and cast stone. LaGrone is also a poet. His poems have appeared in national publications and have been included in several anthologies. He is interested in Afro-American history and culture and frequently lectures on these subjects. Thank You I wish to thank all those friends who voiced their concern over my recent problem. I appreciate your kind words. I also wish to express a special thanks to a great group of engineering technology students who gave up their time to aid in the cleaning-up of a very large mess. Their help and cooperation was a great comfort at a very difficult moment. The MDET class of 1977 will always be remem bered by my family as something special. W. K. Aungust If I was Punxsutawney Phil , I would've stayed out to see this February 23, Remote Job memory an historic fact long suppressed or forgotten--the living presence of black men and women during the thirty years from the martyrdom of Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre of 1770 to the conspiracy of Gabriel Prosser in Virginia at the turn of the century. Forty handsome exhibit panels tell the story of blacks during this period by present ing their portraits and deeds in pictures and words--as soldier and sailor, founder of the black church, fighter for equality, organizer of school, lodge, and society; as scientist, writer, poet, artist, captain, physician, frontiersman, and rebel. 20 G's Dr. Joesph Pedulla, assist ant professor of physics, has been awarded a $20,000 research grant from the Hershey Foods Corporation. The grant will be used to support an investigation con cerning the molecular proper ties relating to the deformation and flow of a water-chocolate mass. A -member of the Capitol Campus faculty since 1971, Dr. Pedulla received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from the Univ. of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. in physics from Penn State. While working towards his degrees he served as a graduate assistant at both Pitt and Penn State and has served as an optical physicist for IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Dr. Pedulla is a member of the American Physical Society and has conducted research in the fields of superconductivity, surface physics in the areas of thermionic and photoelectric emission and in the; electrical properties col-complex solids. Dr. Pedttlla lives in Elizabethtown with his wife Luanne and their three children. C.C. Reader Electric neons as they fizzle throu Term/Semester Cont. From Page 1 Specifically, the following propositions have been put forth for examination by students and faculty: 1. That credits replace units so that courses may vary in weight. 2. That graduation re quirements be allowed to vary. 3. A proposed switch to a semester calendar instead of the present term system. Variance in course weight by credits is included in the report because the current unit system makes it impossible to offer 1 / 4 unit, 3 / 4 unit courses - courses that could be used to broaden the sphere of interest of a student while still enabling him/her to fulfill requirements for a specific program, as well as to let a student get a "taste" of a field before committing him/herself to a specific major. As for graduation require ments, this raises the question of the necessity of standardiz- ing the amount of knowledge A.S.M.E.HoldsFirstlVleeting On Tuesday February Ist the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (A.S.M.E.) held its first official meeting, at 4:30 P.M. in the Gallery Lounge. A discussion and slide presentation on the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Steelton the atmosphere for, specific fields. For example, does a Humanities Multi-Media major need the same "amount" of formal education as say, an Electrical Engineering major? And if not, why shouldn't practical experience in the field be initiated sooner (by shorten ing graduation requirements) rather than requiring all students to attend the same number of class hours, regard less of interest or career goals? Or is there some "greater good" in equality of graduation requirements? To illustrate why the idea of moving to a semester system is included in the paper, think ahead to (ugh) final's for this Winter Term. Immediately after winter, what happens? Spring, right? (Although it's been a long strange winter). So as spring follows winter so does Spring Term immediately follow Winter Term. Not even enough time to get some sun (o glorious plant's production process was Treasurer. Several committees given by Mr. R. Williams, a have also been' formed. Bearing Engineer and Produc- Additional committee member tion Supervisor. positions are available. The following persons have The next meeting will be been selected as A.S.M.E. held February 15 at 4:30 when officers for the year: Darryl the official charter will be Whiteman, Chairman; Barry presented by Mr. George Vitousky, Vice-Chairman; Paul Kotnick of . the Philadelphia Dakay, Secretary; Tim Kocher, Electric Co. Intensive Four Week Workshop This summer New York University will conduct an intensive four-week workshop from July 5 through July 29, 1977 with a faculty of leading New York Publishers. General topics include editorial, design, manufacturing, marketing and economic processes of book publishing. Specific sessions include proofreading, manu script writing, author/editor/ publisher relations, contracts and copyright, subsidiary rights, art direction, printing processes, sales promotion, reviewing, childrens books, picture books, book clubs and mre. To make this experience as "real" as possible students will work with actual manu scripts, designs and production problems. Field trips to a paper manufacturer, typographer, printing plant, bindery and February 10, 1977 day!) before it's hit,the books, etc., etc. Also, full and half semester course options could be available to help restore some flexibility into the curriculum. As Dean Smith observed in a recent interview, "Looking at the question from one point of view involves a paradox. The unit, designed for flexibility, has come to negate that characteristic, and a credit system, while inherently more rigid, would seem to restore that academic freedom upon which Capitol was established." So, anyway, these ideas are around for everyone to comment on, pro or con. It's an opportune time to help mold an institution into a better serving of its employees and consum ers. An opportunity such as this does not occur often, and since a decision ultimately will be made this spring, express thyself. distribution center reinforce and clarify the classroom experience. A Certificate in Publishing is awarded upon completion of the course. Students from all curricu lums will meet with personnel representatives of major pub fishers for career guidance. Tuition assistance and special dormitory rates are available. Enrollment is limited. For further information contact R. Zelazny, Director, Book Pub lishing in New York, New York University, School of Continu ing Education, 2 University Place, Room 21, New York, N.Y., 10003, or call (212) 598-2371 or pick up a postage-paid postcard request ing information from the display on the Counseling Center bulletin board, outside room Wll7.
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