4 I Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 The Biobehavioral Health Building, pictured above in an artist’s ren dition as viewed from the Henderson mall, will be located south of Henderson Building between Old Main Lawn and HUB lawn. Construction to close lawn By Julia Kern FOR THE COLLEGIAN The lower portion of the HUB lawn will close Oct. 29 until Oct. 31, 2012, as Penn State officials begin construction on the new Biobehavioral Health Building a move that leaves a void in a space students often frequent. That portion of the HUB lawn will be fenced off from the new building which will be con structed south of the Henderson Building over to the sidewalk on the east side of the lawn. The space will be used as a staging area for construction. Maria Malizia (junior-Italian and dance) said she's inconve nienced by the building construc tion but also ideologically opposed. 'Tm disgusted, to be honest,” Malizia said. "The urbanization on this campus is despicable. There is so little green space left on campus." But Office of Physical Plant spokesman Paul Ruskin said the area is needed for trucks to deliv er materials vital for construc tion. The construction of the five story, 93,500 square foot. $43.1 million-building was announced in July at a Penn State Board of TVustees meeting. The building will take about two years to com plete, and is scheduled to be fin ished by Oct. 31, 2012, Ruskin said. “A building is like an invest ment. We want to do it right, since the building will be in existence for a long time,” he said. During construction, parking spaces in area adjacent to the building site will also be re-struc tured. Beginning on Oct. 29, normal parking spaces will be eliminated and changed to construction parking. People with parking spaces in that area have been notified, Ruskin said. The section of the lawn to be closed off has traditionally been a popular place for students to attend concerts, mingle and play casual pick-up sports games, stu dents said. Anurag Kumar (freshman business and economics) said he enjoys going to the HUB lawn to hang out, play Frisbee and soccer and meet up with friends. “I’m not happy that it’s closing. It’s one of the only fields we have in South where we can hang out,” Kumar said. “A lot of people go there. It’s nice to go, hang out, and see a bunch of people.” During the two years the HUB lawn will be closed for construc tion purposes, students will relo cate to satisfy their sports and relaxation needs. But Kumar said the central location of the HUB lawn may not be able to be replicated. “I guess Pollock Commons are kind of nice, but they don’t have a big field you can play on,” he said. “I guess now I’m going to have to organize games and go to East or to one of the fields near the IM building.” LOCAL Alum’s job blog helps students By Megan Rogers COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Nailing interviews and net working at career fairs came eas ily to alumna Hannah Hershey. So she decided to start a blog as a way to give advice to others look ing for jobs. Psustudentjobs.com was cre ated in January 2009 after Hershey, Class of 2009, realized she was the go-td girl for job advice among her friends. “It’s something I seem to be naturally good at working with these resources and taking a nat ural interest in these companies,” she said. “And I wanted to help people with that.” Hershey blogs about how to laiid a job or internship both before and after graduation, links to other resources for job seekers, offers tips for resume writing and writes blog posts on current stu dents going through the job appli cation process. As she was looking for a job to utilize her information, sciences and technology degree, Hershey went to many of the resume and networking seminars offered at the university. The blog also includes a “job board” where employers can post Races banned on football weekends By Anna Orso FOR THE COLLEGIAN Penn State student Vinnie Amendolare wanted the charity walk/run he was planning to coin cide with a football weekend. But due to a new university wide policy, Amendolare (junior finance) had to re schedule Penn State Lion Ambassadors’ Moxie- THON from this Sunday to Nov. 14. Charity groups and other organizations are no longer allowed to hold fundraising walks or runs on football weekends because of safety hazards associ ated with the increased number of people and vehicles on campus, Penn State spokeswoman Lisa Powers wrote in an e-mail. “It would definitely bring more popularity and proceeds for our cause,” Amendolare said. “But I understand why the university has these policies because of traf fic and safety issues.” A walk or run on a football weekend would only add to the issues Penn State encounters with pedestrian traffic and vehic ular traffic, Powers wrote. “Traversing campus on a foot ball weekend would be difficult Psustudentjobs.com’s tips ■ Go to the Spring Career Days. Skip your classes that day if you have to. Plan to spend at least 4 hours there networking and passing out resumes. ■ Check out the postings on the Nittany Lion Career Network. There are jobs posted on this website that only current PSU students can log into. ■ Look at external job posting websites. There are plenty of jobs to be found out there from companies who don’t necessarily have the resources available to come recruit at PSU. Find them on SnagAJob.com, Yahoo! Hot Jobs, Monster.com and aftercollege.com. listings on available part-time and full-time jobs. The job board is student Nicole Harshbarger’s favorite part about the blog. Looking through the list ings allows her to find jobs she wouldn’t have been able to else where, Harshbarger (junior-infor mation sciences and technology) said. She said she routinely recom mends the blog to her friends. While Hershey didn’t get any job offers because she was work ing on the blog, she said the expe rience of blogging on jobs helped her land her position as a soft ware analyst in Pittsburgh. To students looking for a job after graduation, Hershey offers some advice: Go to career fairs specifically designed for your col lege or major. Runners jog to show their support at last year’s THON SK. if not impossible in some sec tions," she wrote. Personnel are needed to super vise and control an event like a walk or a run, and police, EMl’s and safety officials must man every intersection crossed by the participants, Powers wrote. “For football weekends, when our resources are already being used to manage that large event, it is just not possible,” Powers wrote. But this policy makes it difficult to schedule charity events like Moxie-THON, Amendolare said. Moxie-THON raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in honor of Melissa for 2011-2012 The Daily Collegian And though she has secured her post-graduation job, Hershey said she will continue blogging because she enjoys both the topic and giving students advice. “A lot of times, they’re too busy to go to sessions I had time to go to,” she said. “It’s a lot easier to log on and read my experiences than to go to one of those ses sion.” Though Hershey has graduat ed, Harshbarger said it’s good to know she can still count on her former colleague at the IST help desk to point her in the right direction. “I’ve always gone to her for advice in that regards,” she said. “I know she has good advice to share in that area.” To e-mail reporter: mers2oo@psu.edu Heydenreich, Class of 1988 a Penn State alumna who died from acute lymphocytic leukemia in January of 1997. Mary Dowd, Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon Special Events Committee chairwoman, is the organizer of this year’s FTSK Race and said a less crowded campus makes the event run smoother. “I think whatever the universi ty feels is best is really what we go by,” Dowd (senior journalism)said. “We actually prefer to have our £vent on a non football weekend due to parking problems and overall logistics.”
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