The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 2, 1983
PENNARAMA offers credits
to 1.5 million Pa cable users
By AMY McCARTY
Collegian Staff Writer
It is now possible to turn on your
television set, relax in the comforts
of your own home, and earn college
credits at the same time.
The world's largest interactive
cable television network, PENNA
RAMA, went into service yester
day, and Executive Deputy
Secretary of Education Michael
Warman, University President
Bryce Jordan and other officials
were present at inauguration cere
monies to mark the completion of
the system.
The ceremony opened with a tele
vision documentary on the devel
opment of PENNARAMA, an
educational programming service
operated by the University, that
now provides educational pro
grams to 1.5 million cable tele
vision subscribers throughout the
state. The system will allow sub
scribers in urban and rural areas to
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ward degrees through television
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"Today our destiny is ( at hand
while we celebrate the completion
of the project," said Yolanda G.
Barco, vice president of the Penn
sylvania Continuing Education Ca
ble Television Service (PECS).
Barco told approximately 150 peo
ple that without the Univeristy's
commitment to the program, PEN
NARAMA would not have been
possible.
The service, which is a joint
effort between the University and
the PECS, is offered in State Col
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A total of 27 cable systems, serv
ing more than 200 communities
throughout the state, are involved
with the network.
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Pre-program is established
By MARK KIRBY
Collegian Staff Writer
A pre-engineering program, designed to help fresh
men whose predicted grade point averages are inade
quate for the College of Engineering, has been
implemented at the University's Commonwealth cam
puses.
This program was developed to help those students
who meet the 2.0 University minimum, but fall short of
the 2.5 required in engineering, said Glenn Carter,
associate dean of undergraduate admissions.
In the pre-program, students enroll in the same
courses for their first two years of study as the students
in the regular program do. During these first two
years, each student's progress is carefully monitored
by the Division of Undergraduate Studies, as well as
the engineering department, said Harvey W. Wall,
director of DUS.
"DUS will be available to provide professional con
sultation to students," Wall said: The advising will be
"professional rather than administrative," he said.
Donald G. Dickason, dean of admissions, said that
after the first two years, students who do not meet the
criteria of the program will have to change to another
field of study. Dickason said he stressed that each
student's progress will be followed very closely so that
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to have to work to achieve the higher grade point
average.
Another positive aspect of the program is, that only
one-half of the students accepted into the pre-engi
neering program decided to take advantage of it,
Carter said. He said this was positive because it
reduced the number of students in the already crowded
engineering program and also eliminated the students
who might have wasted a year before realizing they
were in the wrong field.
The advantages of a student enrolling in the pre
engineering program, as opposed to someone who
switches from DUS into engineering, Carter said, is
that students are directly managed and advised by the
college of engineering.
Rob Campbell, DUS adviser at the York campus,
said advisers explained the program carefully to
interested freshmen and will meet with the students for
further counseling during the year.
As for the future of the pre-engineering program,
Carter said the department is still evaluating the needs
for next year.
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SEDA-COG assists small businesses
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By HARRY R. WEISS
Collegian Staff Writer
No one said it was easy, but with
the help of a Southeastern Devel
opment Association of the Centre
Region Council of Governments rep
resentative, small businesses in the
area are increasing their chances of
securing federal government con
tracts.
Larry Barletta, SEDA-COG senior
program analyst, said Tuesday that
small businesses, long discouraged
by endless application forms and
slow government payments, had pre
ferred to leave the federal market to
big corporations.
But since Jan. 1, SEDA-COG has
offered a program to help businesses
cut their way through the complex
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Barletta said.
"The government buys every
thing," he said, "so there are always
companies eligible." He said that
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through the whole process."
According to SEDA-COG, approxi
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gion are using the program, but none
in Centre County have applied.
Joan Chernega, secretary-treasur
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Park Road, State College, said in an
interview Wednesday that her firm is
aware of the program, but has been
directly contracting with the govern
ment for 16 years.
She said her company, which man
ufactures solid state microwave os
cillators, is already familiar with the
procurement process, but if needed in
the future it would welcome any help
from SEDA-COG.
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State College, said Tuesday that al
though he would be interested in
government business, his company
would probably be excluded from the
market because it does sub-con
tracted work.
Barletta pointed out, however, that
firms such as Power's, which special
izes in custom-injected moldings, can
deal with the government by selling
to prime contractors. These major
government contractors are usually
required to sub-contract part of their
work to smaller firms, he said.
One firm taking advantage of this
sub-contracting requirement in State
College is State of the Art, 2470 Fox
Hill Road, which credits government
sub-contracting for more than one
third of its sales.
Donald W. Hamer, president of the
firm that makes electronic compo
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