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Vol. 27 , No. 2
Eastgate Center joins PSH family
Lee Ashton
Capital Times Staff
A ribbon-cutting ceremony involving
Penn State Harrisburg and community
officials, followed by an Economic
Development Fair, are highlights planned
for the formal opening of the Eastgate
Center at 8:30 a.m. Feb. 12.
"This site will open the door for many,
many opportunities between the college
and the city of Harrisburg," predicted
James D. South, associate provost for
administrative operations at Penn State
Harrisburg.
"Eastgate Center will complement
programs available from the Downtown
Center on Third Street," South said. "The
two facilities will operate in concert with
one another."
Purchased in September 1990, Eastgate
Center is a three-story, 56,000 square-foot
building at 1010 N. Seventh St. Located
just north of the state capitol complex,
"It's an area that has undergone major
changes within the last 10 years," South
said.
"We're located in a strategic area to
attract people from the minority
' Stoned 9 virus infects campus computer lab
Harry Long
Capital Times Staff
A computer virus has been bugging
students in the computer labs since
October.
Computer viruses are programs that
lurk in computer memory and are
transferred from disk to disk, said John
Bongard, a computer operator/assistant in
the computer center. The virus can delete
files or damage hardware.
They are designed by people as pranks
or sabotage, but can be innocently
introduced by computer users who don't
know their disk carries a virus.
The virus affecting the PSH lab, called
"Stoned B," does not cause as much
damage as some, Bongard said.
When it strikes, the message, 'This
computer is stoned' pops up on the
monitor, said Mark Malloy, a senior in
structural engineering and a technical
assistant in the computer lab.
The virus has not destroyed any files in
the labs on the third floor, Malloy said.
To screen out the virus, the computer
center labs are checking all the computers
weekly, using a program called Scan. Scan
finds and removes the virus, Malloy said.
In the engineering lab, a special
program has been loaded that
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The Eastgate Center, located at 1010 N. Seventh St. in Harrisburg, will
officially open Feb. 12.
community," said Pat White, program aide offer courses and programs to meet those
at the center. needs, she said.
Because the center is in a position to White wears the dual hat of promoting
be responsive to desires of the continuing education programs and
community, attempts will be made to administering day-to-day functions of the
automatically checks for and eliminates
any virus, said Chris Gibson, a senior in
electrical engineering technology and lab
technical assistant.
If the virus deletes files, a variety of
software programs in the labs can restore
them, said Mike Kalbaugh, instructional
services officer. Students should consult
lab assistants.
Kalbaugh said no one is sure how the
virus entered the campus computers. It
does seem to have first appeared in the
Students hone leadership
skills during conference
The day before the Super Bowl, 73 Penn State Harrisburg
players" started preparing for the big game. They weren't training
for the Super Bowl, but for the "big game" of life.
The Student Leader Conference was held from 8:30 a.m. to 4
p.m. on Sat., Jan. 25 in the Capital Union Building. Participating
in the conference were Student Government Association
representatives and club and organization members.
Frank "Josh" Stroup, of The Training Store in Harrisburg, used
Terry Heffelfinger
Capital Times Staff
See Leaders, page 14
engineering lab, he said.
Bongard said no public computer lab
can ever completely screen out viruses.
However the virus got here, it has
people worried now-maybe too worried,
said Terry Majzlik, operations supervisor
of the computer lab.
"Two years ago if a person put a disk
in a computer and got a 'bad disk’
messsage, they would shrug it off and
reformat the disk," Majzlik said. "But now
they think everything must be caused by a
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leadership qualities at the Student Leader Conference
February 10 , 1992
building. She said GED testing,
engineering programs and a business law
course arc now offered.
She said the Economic Development
Fair will take place following opening
ceremonies, in order to showcase Penn
State Harrisburg programs available to the
community.
The Pennsylvania Local Roads
Program, Economic Development
Research and Training Center, Ben
Franklin Technology Center and the
Center For Survey Research arc among the
featured organizations.
A program aimed at assisting
Harrisburg-arca businesses is located at the
site. The Central Pennsylvania Chapter of
the American Society of Training and
Development, along with Penn State
Harrisburg, will sponsor the Central
Alliance for Training and Educational
Resources.
Another agency, the Lower Dauphin
Council of Governments, COG, entered
into a contract with the college last
month, and has located its administrative
and video production services at Easlgatc.
See Eastgate, page 13
virus."
She cited an article in PC Computing
magazine that said viruses cause relatively
few computer problems.
"Software bugs, hardware failures,
power surges, and inadvertently deleted
files have destroyed more data than viruses
havc-or arc ever likely to," the article
said.
Majzlik’s advice: "always save your
files and make backups of what you want
to keep."