October 5, 1990, CAPITAL TIMES 3
Karen Koltiska, ASM Outstanding Student Award Winner, assists Tim Bollinger, a
senior computer science major.
Senior Wins Award
Lorraine Wallets
Capital Times Staff
Karen Koltiska, seniorlnfortations
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Systems major, recently won the Central
PA Chapter Association of Systems
Management (ASM) Outstanding
Student Award of $2OO towards her
schooling. , .
' "I was 'shocked."' KOltiska said abOut
the award. "It's great to be recognized
for my college efforts."
Koltiska is President of the campus
chapter of ASM and invites all students
to join. ASM clubs exist at student,
local, and national levels. Dr. Mehdi
Khosrowpour, Associate Professor of
Informations Systems at PSH and a
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people to the firing squad and has
tolerated no opposition in his quest to
control oil and create "breathing space"
for Iraq. Since Hussein took over the
Iraqi government in 1979, he has been
responsible for about one million deaths
and countless casualties, Aswad said.
He added that Hussein's claim that
Kuwait is depressing oil prices is untrue.
He cited that Kuwait is responsible for
only three percent of all the Middle East
oil exported by the OPEC nations and
that Kuwait has began investing oil
profits anticipating an oil drought
between the years 2010 and 2020.
Professor Kaynak, a native of Turkey
which borders Iraq, sees the economic
side of the crisis as the main reason
behind Hussein's "stranglehold" on
Kuwait. He said that the United Nation's
economic sanctions against Iraq will
eventually "fold Hussein's tent."
Turkey, which has had problems with
Hussein for over a decade, is a major
supplier to Iraq, and the Turks are
currently damming up the Euphrates
River to cutoff Iraq's water supply,
Kaynak said.
Turkey even manages to make $7OO
million from a 400-mile oil pipeline Iraq
detoured through Turkey to avoid Syria,
a country Iraq detests, Kaynak said.
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member of the Central PA Chapter of
ASM, nominated Koltiska for the award.
"Recognizing students who are high
achievers in the field is one• of our
organization's goals," said Khosrowpour
about the award.
In addition to studying, Koltiska
finds time to work in the computer lab
and the Student Assistance Center. On
most weekends, she commutes home so
she can participate in the Hazelton
Philharmonic.
Koltiska's goal is to obtain a Masters
Degree and to use her skills in the
workplace. "I enjoy computers and
people. When things go wrong between
them, it's like a puzzle. I like making
the pieces fit."
Another economic consideration is that
of past debts. Aswad said Hussein is
holding Kuwait hostage to finance the
debt from the war with Iran.
He also said that Iraq owes Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia close to $BO million for
helping finance the war with Iran, and he
made a lot of financial promises to his
people he could not keep.
"Hussein is taking advantage of a less
educated, tamed population," Aswad said.
Besides curing their economic woes,
another Iraqi goal is Arab unity, Kaynak
said. He said Hussein is using Jordan's
King Hussein as a "political puppet"
towards that goal, and this puts the king
in a tough spot between loyalty to the
Middle East and to his own people.
This division of loyalty has been seen
in the uprisings within Jordan, he said,
where banners of both King Hussein and
Saddam Hussein wave side-by-side in the
streets everyday.
Whether Saddam Hussein is truly a
madman, or as Aswad said, "another
Hitler practicing similar tactics of
invasion, nibbling at other countries,
and using death to make excuses," or
whether his ultimate goal is power,
money, or political monopoly, these
three scholars agree that he must be
stopped soon.
Chalkboards Get Facelift
Paula Slyer
Capital Times Staff
Penn State Harrisburg's maintenance
staff was awarded $l,OOO as part of a
cost-reduction incentive program for the
renovation of the slate- chalkboards in
Olmsted Building.
The sth place award, the largest
maintenance has received, was given to
the maintenance staff for the removal of
the glossy wax build-up on the 23 year
old slate boards.
"We had the choice of buying new
boards or hiring a diamond grinding
vendor," said Kenneth Witmer, Manager
of Facilities and Maintenance
Operations.
New slate boards cost $24,000 and
difficulty in scheduling with a vendor
left the option of removing the wax
themselves and saving money, Witmer
said. .
"The vendor demonstrated how to
take the board down," Witmer said.
"From there on it was up to our staff."
Using floor stripper chemicals and a
floor stripping machine, the maintenance
staff removed 80 percent of the wax of
the diamond grinding process. The
result was a dull-surfaced piece of slate.
"We had to remove the glaze to make
a dull surface," Witmer said.
The wax build-up, caused by a wax-
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binder in chalk that remains in the pores
in slate, produced a glare and would no
longer allow chalk to adhere to the
board.
"The instructor was writing and at the
same time he wasn't writing," Witmer
said.
The slate-cleaning is part of a
classroom renovation project begun four
years ago to all general purpose
classrooms. Seventeen are finished,
with new boards, paint, and electrical
facilities.
Witmer said that along with the
chalkboards, the partitions between
classrooms are being removed and
replaced with a double-wall partition
with a sound barrier. The old partitions
are not sound proof and noise from
neighboring classes can be heard.
"It was an ideal situation," said
Witmer. "We wanted to remove the
slate to make it a sound-proof partition."
Funding for classroom renovations
came from University Park's Classroom
Improvement Committee and Penn
State Harrisburg's maintenance fund.
"The award money is going back
into the maintenance fund and with the
money saved by doing the job ourselves,
we'd like to refinish the rest of the
chalkboards," said Witmer.
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