Page 2, April 6, 1988, Capital Times Some Clubs Lend Hands to Phon-a-Thon by Andrea E. Abolins Despite a boycott by many student organizations, the 1988 Alumni Phonathon raised $5,000 tor Penn State Harrisburg. Student club members had been asked by Patsye Robinson, coordinator of the 1988 Phonathon, to man the phone lines for this year's event. Clubs would receive money for volunteering their members' time. Protesting the possible loss of the Student Activities Room, many declined the invitation. Twenty students did participate, calling approximately 1,000 alumni during the March 13-16 event. The IW‘IKE, CREDIT HISR)R\I $4OO plus a 90-day deferment of start of payments. Finance charges accrue from the date of purchase. GMAC is proud to support America's college graduates, and we're proud to be an Equal Credit CHEVROLET • PONTIAC • OLDSMOBILE • BUICK • CADILLAC • GMC TRUCK Seniors and Grad Students: Get a new GM vehicle and . A • and defer your first payment for 90 days* Congratulations, graduates! At • C we believe you deserve redit for all that hard work. That's why we developed the GMAC College Graduate Finance Program. It helps get you into the Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac or GMC Truck of your choice. It gets you going on a credit history. And it gets you phonathon, sponsored by the Office of Development and University Relations, solicited donations from 250 people, with the average gift $25. This year's phonathon was targeted at recent grads of the Capital College. Alumni from 1983 to 1987 were asked to donate between $25 and $lOO. This entitled them to become members of Penn State Harrisburg's "The Penn State Pride Club." Membership in the club includes having their names listed in the college's annual report and invitations to special campus events. According to Karen McHenry Gluntz, Director of Development and Opportunity Company. See your participating General Motors Dealer for more information. And start picking out the car, van or light truck of your choice. Or we'd be happy to send you a brochure that gives you all the details of the GMAC College Graduate Finance Program. Just give us a call at 1-800-2-DREAM-4. *This deferral of payment option is not available in connection with other GMAC programs or in Michigan or Pennsylvania, or on vehicles with a cash selling price of $lO,OOO or less in New jersey. OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF GMAC University Relations, the money raised buys new equipment, provides scholarships, and obtains books for the library. "Students who came [and worked at the phonathon] thought of the college as a whole," said Gluntz. Organizations participating were Beta Chi, Marketing Club, Pi Sigma Chi, PSPEC, and RSC. The clubs received $lO for each of their members who participated each night. Kimberly Anastas of the Capital Times solicited the most donations during the phonathon. lAA boycotted the phonathon, according to Maria Rusynyk, Secretary- Treasurer. "The whole purpose of the phonathon was for current students to solicit donations from former students and at the same time, administration was trying to move Room 216 out of Olmsted and therefore destroy communication between student organizations and students." Library Gets New Machine by Dina Walker Spring Break is just a memory; it's time to get down to business and write research papers. Penn State Capital Campus has just what you need to enhance your bibliography. The Heindel Library is the home of a new 35 mm microfilm copier. The new equipment, a Fugi microfilm reader printer, replaces "a cantankerous old jalopy," says Henry Koretzky, the periodical librarian. The new copier is of a higher quality than the two year old microfische equipment located in the reference section of the library, according to Koretzky. He added that the Fugi is equipped with two adjustable lenses which can magnify on a ratio of 15:1 and 24:1. According to Koretzky, "It can convert positive to negative, and also gives a choice of paper sizes which comes in handy when copying from the New York Times and Wall StrLe.l. Journal." The new equipment is similar to that which is found at the State Library in Harrisburg and could come in quite handy for future research papers.
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