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Stacey Simmers
Capital Times Staff
Modem technology has arrived at Penn
State Harrisburg.
T-l video interviewing lets students
interview with recruiters at University
Park without leaving this campus.
"When I try to explain how it works to
the students, I ask them if they remember
the Jetsons from TV," said Karl Martz,
coordinator of career services.
The T-l system consists of a video
monitor, a camera with a built-in speaker
and a microphone.
When a student arranges an interview at
University Park, he has the option to do it
via T-l. It only takes a call to career
services to put the plan in action.
On the day of the interview, the student
goes to W-117 15 minutes before the
scheduled time of the interview. During
this time, Martz puts the student's image
on the screen.
"You can see how you'll look on the
screen," Martz said, "the way you'll look
to the recruiter. I try to offer suggestions
to help ease the tension."
When it is time for the interview to
begin, Theresa Morrison, the secretary in
the interview center at University Park
enters the room and introduces the recruiter
to the-student before leaving.
According to Martz, the process is still
a one-to-one process. The student is on
his own once Martz sets up the screen.
The first interview at Penn State
Faculty moves toward
diversity requirement
Karen M. Putt
Capital Times Staff
After many months of heated debate,
only 58 of appoximately 145 eligible [to
vote] faculty members of Penn State
Harrisburg voted 40 to 18 in favor of
implementing a diversity requirement for
undergraduates.
Some ballots received were considered
invalid votes by the Faculty Council
because they were not returned in an
envelope and some were not signed.
The vote on whether or not to
implement a diversity requirement came
following an Oct. 1 meeting of the faculty
organization. Though several faculty
disagreed on the issue of how to
implement the requirement, Tom Bowers,
chair of the Academic Affairs Committee,
said the faculty "as a whole seem
committed to providing students with a
diversified education."
According to James Hudson, chair of
faculty organization, the Academic Affairs
Committee is now responsible for
"operationalizing the several pieces of the
proposal."
Bowers said there are plans to form a
subcommittee to address implementing the
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Jim Marshall, a senior finance and accounting major from Oberlin, interviews
with a recruiter from General Electric on the T-1 system. The system became
available to students for interviews on Oct. 1.
Harrisburg was on Oct. 1, between Jim
Marshall, a senior finance and accounting
major, and the General Electric
Corporation.
"I was really nervous," Marshall said.
"I didn’t know what to expect. I didn't
know what they’d think."
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subcommittSfe' will be to review proposals
from faculty for new courses and for
courses that would be "culturally focused"
or "culturally enhanced."
By the diversity proposal's definitions,
culturally focused courses are those which
"devote all class time to cultural diversity
material, and culturally enhanced courses
arc those which "devote at least 25 percent
of class time to cultural diversity
material."
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Photo by Darrell Peterson
According to Martz, recruiters are
excited to use the new technology.
"One recruiter at the Park wanted to
know why some interviewers were getting
to use the video system but she wasn't,"
Martz said.
Students seem to have more
International Affairs Association members surround one of two newly-planted
trees by the bookstore. The club planted the trees on Oct. 12 to
commemorate the 25th anniversary of Penn State Harrisburg and the 20th
anniversary of the association's spring semester Model I inited Nations. The
lAA promotes the understanding of international relations at Penn State
Harrisburg.
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apprehensions than the interviewers. After
the interviewers used it once, they were
hooked, Martz said.
"The first time students use it they're
nervous, but they're fine after the second,"
he said.
PSH is not the only campus to use the
T-l. Penn State Behrend, in Erie, has
been using the system since 1988.
"The students at Behrend have to travel
about eight hours to go to the Park and
back for a 30-minute interview," Martz
said. "It saves students a lot of time and
prevents them from missing so many
classes."
That is part of the reason that Marshall
tried the T-l.
"I had five interviews at University
Park before the one with GE," Marshall
said. "I was burned out from going bhck
and forth. I remembered Karl talking
about the video, so I checked it out.”
Marshall recommends the process to
other students.
"It saves a lot of time and it lets the
company know that you're not afraid to
use modem technology," Marshall said.
There are some problems with the
system. It is compressed video, so if the
person moves quickly there is a motion
trail.
According to Martz, "If you sit still,
the image on the screen is very clear. But
if you talk with your hands, there is some
distortion on the screen."
November 4, 1991
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