Page 2 November 29, 1984 The Capitol Times
Capitol is "Bulgaria" at model
By Mark Edquid
How do today's college
students go about solving world
conflicts and crisis? Six Capitol
Campus students were given the
opportunity to discuss and try
Eighteen high schools sent delegates to Capitol Campus' Model U.N. in February. The IA A uses the University of
Pennsylvania model U.N. as a model for Capitol's annual event.
CC registration goes on line
By Ken Stiggers
Practical, precise and effi
cient describe the preprocess in
the Records Office here at
Capitol Campus.
This new system, called "on
line" registration, eliminates all
of the card shuffling and long
lines which students have ex
perienced during previous
preregistration periods.
According to Dorothy Guy,
the records and institutional
research officer, the "on-line"
system became a reality when
the staff at the records office
identified the areas in which the
staff has fallen short in terms of
meeting the needs of the
registration routine. These
needs are met through the use
of systems reporting, Guy said,
which is a report about enroll
ment information such as a
specific number of students,
majors, and courses that
to resolve international pro
blems of war, hunger, nuclear
armaments and human rights
when they joined represen
tatives from 50 other schools
earlier this month.
"We experienced first hand
students of specific majors are
taking. Included with all this
are enrollment statistics by ma
jor, class, sex, status, and
needs.
Because the records office
here at Capitol cannot obtain
most of this information on its
own, a request has to be made
to University Park, through
one of the four computer ter
minals on campus. For exam
ple, if a student needs some in
formation on the availability of
a course, the records office can
send that request to University
Park. Then, a staff member at
main campus can search for the
information, and send it back
to Capitol within seconds of
locating it.
"It's a quick and precise pro
cess," Guy said.
The new system, which was
started in the summer of 1984,
enables the student to either
what members of the real
United Nations go through.
They really have an interesting
and a tough job," Ghan Desai,
president of the International
Affairs Association (lAA),
said. Desai was the head
add, drop or change a course
along with choosing to take one
pass/fail. And all of this can be
taken care of by the staff at the
records office with increased
efficiency.
Also, with the four computer
terminals and one printer cur
rently on line, the student can
receive a copy of his or her
schedule instantaneously. There
will be no more filling out cards
and waiting for two weeks to
recieve your schedule.
"On line registration reduces
any stress or anxiety involved
when registering for a class.,"
Guy said. "It makes for a more
wholesome interaction between
the students and records of
fice."
The registration period slated
for Jan. 10 from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m. will be only for degree
students or those who missed
the preregistration period.
delegate of the Capitol CaMpus
delegation to the eighteenth an
nual University of Pennsylvania
Model United Nations Con
ference (UPMUNC) held Nov.
7-11.
Each school that attends the
conference represents a coun
try, and its delegates attend the
various U.N. committees to
provide resolutions to differing
world problems for the General
Assembly to approve.
Capitol Campus students
participated through funds pro
vided by lAA and were the-on
ly students from the Penn
sylvania State University in
volved in the conference. They
represented the People's
Republic of Bulgaria, and
eastern bloc nation and a
member of the Warsaw Pact
Treaty.
"Bulgaria was assigned to us
by the chairman of the UP
MUNC," said Desai, a senior
math major. "We submitted
five nations which we would
like to represent and they chose
this one for us."
The students from Capitol
Campus who represented
Bulgaria were: Desai; Mark Ed
quido senior public policy ma
jor; Kathy Foltz, a senior
education major; Yuka Kom
inami, a graduate student in
American Studies; Pete
Mekosh, a senior public policy
major; and Panos Xynarios, a
senior economics major and
last year's head delegate.
The United Nations func
tions through committeess,
with resolutions being brought
back to the General Assembly
for approval, Desai explained.
Some of the committees attend
ed by the Penn State Capitol
Campus/Bulgarian delegation
included: the Social, Cultural
and Humanitarian Committee
that discussed the refugee situa
tion, torture, and other human
rights issues; the Special
Political Committee, whose
agenda included debate on the
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Lebanon, and the rights of in
ternational passage of the seas.
The students also attended the
Warsaw Pact, Disarmament
and Plenary Committees.
The students who attended
enjoyed their experiences and
were pleased with their
performance.
"Most schools played their
roles very well," Pete Mekosh
said. "You could really tell
which schools cane prepared -7
they were the aggressive and the
progressive delegates."
An award is given at the end
of each conference to the most
outstanding delegation who
play their roles well, are well
researched and prepared, and
contribute to the overall
conference.
"The award recipients are
chosen by the conference
staff," Bradley Arnold, the
Secretary-General of UP
MUNC and University of Penn
student, explained.
This year's outstanding
delegation award went to the
students from Georgetown
University who represented the
nation of Iran.
Besides learning the workings
of the United Nations, the
Capitol Campus students
benefited in-other ways.
"This conference was ; Wso a
unique intercollegiate ex
perience allowing you, to meet
students from schools all
around the nation," according
to Xynarios.
"It's a learning experience
which the lAA uses as a tool to
help operate their Model U.N.
for area high school students in
the Spring," Mekosh added.
Capitol Campus students
have represented Penn State at
college model United Nations
for 15 years. They have attend
ed conferences at Cleveland
State University, the Yale
Model Security Council, and
the National Model United Na
tions in New York.
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