4 I WEDNESDAY, Oct. 9, 2002 Expo advises commun By Meredith Setzman COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I mrs3l7@psu.edu Students who sometimes find them selves using a fire extinguisher while attempting to cook dinner in their apart ments might be interested in attending the third annual Student Fire Safety Expo. The expo will take place from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Alpha Fire Co., 400 W. Beaver Ave. "It's a great opportunity to get hands on experience of fire safety" said Shawn Kauffman, assistant fire chief and fire jobs with Internet program Students attract By Louise Durante COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I ltdll22psu edu Penn State launched e-portfolios (www.porffolio.psu.edu) this fall to help students document their experiences. Students can attract potential employers by posting academic infor mation, skills and activities using the personal Web space provided by Penn State. "It's been going really well, consider ing it's something brand new," Glenn Johnson, project manager, said. The goal of the project is to have stu dents create portrayals of their student careers. "We want students to display what they've gained as a result of their Penn State education," David Dißiase, (Erec tor of e-Education Institute, the group that initiated the project. The portfolio should show more than just college courses, but the college experience as a whole, Johnson said. The project's Web site encourages the use of Web space to display course work, clips from extra-curricular activ ities and reflective pieces regarding those experiences. However, surveys taken last Decem ber indicated that only 37 percent of students activate their Penn State Web space, and of that figure only 8 percent use it to display academic content, Dißiase said. This low average might be due in part to only 7 percent of faculty expect ing students to use the space. "Faculty is a little slower to embrace this new technology," Dißiase said. John Harwood, senior director of the Center for Education Technology Ser vices, said that faculty and students THE DIGITAL COLLEGIAN inspector and life safety education coor dinator for Centre Region Code Admin istration, the agency sponsoring the event. He is helping to organize the expo for off-campus students and other mem bers of the community The expo will feature a fire demon stration trailer, where people can walk through and experience a burned-out bedroom. They will see the actual effect of fire and ;c, aftermath, Kauffman said. To show the benefits of sprinklers there will be a demonstration of them. "This year we also have our new Cen- EMS ,°( N , In-EMS :ActivlLl I need to be made aware of the technol ogy. "There is tremendous enthusiasm among people who work with student affairs," he said. The project might be included in some first-year seminar classes "In an ideal world, I'd like all under graduates to be aware of the project and a significant amount to make use of it," Harwood said. The e-Education Institute conducted several seminars last fall to begin organizing the project. The institute is a group of faculty. staff and students from the ('ollegc Earth and Mineral Sciences EMS who work to improve education through network computing. Last spring, the group published "Using e-Portfolios at Penn State to Enhance Student Learning" which dis cusses potential benefits of the c-Port folio to students. faculty and institu tions. It also notes the associated costs, obstacles and risks. 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Through selection into the Air Force Institute of Technology program, you could earn your advanced degree in as little as two years and get paid to do it. You'll be part of an elite team of medical professionals who have chosen to serve their country in this proud institution To learn more about Air Force Nursing, please visit airforce.com or call 1.800.423.U5AF to request more information The program was originally designed fire protection engineer in the Depart for fraternity safety and was an Interfra- ment of Environmental Health and ternity Council requirement for new Safety for Penn State. Fire protection members, Kauffman said. Because of has to be practiced year round, he said. the large number of people in a single The expo is intended to highlight it dur location, fraternity houses are at a ing Fire Prevention Week. greater risk than houses and apart- Fry said he hopes the expo is attend ments, he said. Also, the construction ed widely by the university community. differences, more wood instead of con- The importance of fire safety can't be crete, add to the risk, he explained. stressed enough, he said. Firefighter Scott Fry said there is a Kauffman is also hoping for a good high risk in apartment buildings, too. turnout. "Our vast majority of fires are people "The more people we can get to come learning how to cook," he said. out, the more we can reduce the risk of Steve Triebold, truck captain, is the fire in the community," he said. U.S. AIR FORCE CROSS INTO THE BLUE aspects C Davis Herter/Conepan t j %/ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN NEWS IN BRIEF Former Einhom lover gives trial testimony PHILADELPHIA (AP) One of Ira Einhorn's former girlfriends tes tified that he smashed her over the head with a bottle and nearly stran gled her after she told him they were through. The testimony came yesterday in the final day of the prosecution's case against Einhorn, who is charged with bludgeoning his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, in September 1977 because she wanted to break up with him. Her mummified corpse was found in a steamer trunk in his closet 18 months after he said she went to the store and never returned. Judith Sabot was a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania when she met the former hippie guru in 1965. They fell in love and had an intense four-month relationship, which she then sought to end. "My feelings had started to change. I was feeling very silenced; I found Ira to be more domineering and manipulative," she testified, cit ing his efforts to have her sever ties with her family because he said "families were outmoded" and she was "doomed to a boring and ordi nary life" if she did not. He tried for months to win her back, and she met him for coffee at a friend's apartment in March 1966 to tell him she would never change her mind about a reunion, she testified. As she returned from a corner store with some cream for their coffee, Einhorn attacked her, Sabot said. Einhorn, 62, likely will take the stand tomorrow and testify that the CIA killed Maddux and framed him for the murder because of his research into "psychic warfare."
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