Point Park Campus News 11/7 – 11/13
Members of The Body Christian Fellowship are inviting students to participate and give thanks for our many blessings at a Thanksgiving Prayer Breakfast. The event will take place at 7a.m. on Thursday, November 10th in 701 Student Center. Space is limited, so reserve as spot by RSVPing to Katherine Sikma at ksikma@pointpark.edu
Do you wish you knew about your creative career? On Friday, November 11th you could find out. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Carnegie Mellon University, students of majors such as Performing Arts to Advertising and Marketing can learn about their future through Keynote Speakers, Panel Presentations and a Networking Reception with all panelists. Students even have the ability to win a 1 on 1 informational interview with a professional of their choice! Admission price to the event is $10 and free shuttles will be provided to Carnegie Mellon. For more information on the panelists or to register for the event, go to http://sites.google.com/site/creativecareersseminar. Or you can email Career Counselor Amy Bittner at abittner@pointpark.edu.
With Spring scheduling right around the corner, Communication Students have a brand new opportunity available for them. Six classes are coming together to create a new multiplatform media initiative, as a part of the Point Park News Service. These classes will work together all semester to produce stories in a multimedia way. Classes will work both inside the classroom with the teacher and outside of the classroom with a team of students. Completed projects will be published to the Point Park News Service website, making them available for local and national publication opportunities. Participating classes include JOUR 260 DA – Reporting, JOUR 280 DA – Multimedia, JOUR 306 DA – Social Media, JOUR 314 DA – News Service, JOUR 315 DA – Photojournalism, and JOUR 329 DA – Video Production II. All courses meet on Tuesday and Thursdays.
Point Park IT Services sent an email out this past week in response to false emails being sent. Another fake email message stating it is from the Point Park IT Services has been circulating on campus. These messages usually state something about expiring accounts or upgrading systems and then request your password or other personal information. Emails like these are not messages from the IT Services or Point Park University. The IT Service staff will never ask you to send your passwords or other confidential personal information. If you receive one of these messages, the IT Services recommend you do not respond and that you delete it immediately. Questions and concerns can be sent to the Computer Help Desk at 412-392-3494 or by email at helpdesk@pointpark.edu.
On Wednesday, November 9th, United Student Government will be holding their semesterly forum. This semester’s theme is Nostalgia night, focusing on what it was like to be a kid growing up in the nineties. The event will feature classic games from the 90’s, television shows we all grew up with, and a taco bar that will be completely free. The intentions of the event are for students to meet and greet with members of USG and to voice their concerns about what could be changed here at Point Park. USG stated in their bi-weekly newsletter, “This is the only way that we can start to make real change. It all starts with the student voice. Without you, we have nothing. The administration listens to us when they believe we have your support. We need you behind us to make anything happen.”
The Second floor of the Student Center has four new additions to the exciting floor. With the help of USG, four touch screen computers have been installed. The hope is to draw even more students to the center by enticing them with recreational computers and to give students a chance to get away from reserved computers for academic work to a place that will be there at their leisure. USG stated in their bi-weekly newsletter, “Student government has been working to find ways to try and get more students to use the lounge on the second floor of the student center.” Even though the computers are installed and working, the formal unveiling will be at the Fall Forum on November 9th.
The senators of USG have big decisions to make when it comes to the bus subsidy cuts. At the beginning of this semester $18,000 out of the USG budget – which consists of 11 percent of the total student activity fee monies – was recommended for the bus pass subsidies. Business At-Large Senator Jon Morgan along with several other senators proposed that the allocation be cut by $5,000 due to statistics revealing that many students were not buying the passes in recent semesters and the program only benefits a limited number of students. On Monday, Jon Bucci asked the senators to provide three different proposals that the Finance Committee will discuss during their Friday meeting concerning changes to the bus pass subsidy program. The first proposal is to put the bus pass subsidy back to the $18,000 that was originally allocated due to the fact that clubs don’t use as money in the spring semester. And the third proposal was to create a compromise between the first two proposals, or to push the funds to the Office of Commuter Affairs. USG is working with Port Authority to determine how Point Park can have a transit agreement like local schools such as Pitt and Carnegie Mellon. The current agreement with the Port Authority is actually a gift. To get access to free buses like Pitt, Point Park students would have to start paying a transportation fee. Each Pitt student pays 90 dollars each semester, equaling 6 million dollars a year. USG’s Legislative Body will put these proposals to a vote this Monday at 3 p.m. in room 701 of the Student Center.
The lawsuit filed against Point Park University, and set to go to trial, was settled late Monday on confidential terms, as reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Betty L. Davis, a former senior director of Student Financial Services, accused Point Park of inaccurately distributing federal student aid and was fired because of her knowledge. The university denied these claims. The Globe previously reported that Davis filed the claim 14 months ago, and it was given the go-ahead for trial by U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab on Oct. 17 since Davis provided evidence supporting her allegations. As of Tuesday morning, both Davis and the university have yet to approve a stipulation of dismissal.
On Tuesday November 8, The Global Cultural Studies Lecture Series will continue with the lecture of the month. Dr. Robert Ross, the assistant professor of global cultural studies will be speaking about “Waiting for War (and other Strategies to Stop Gentrification): The Case of Ras Beirut.” Each of the presentations of the series will take place in JVH Auditorium in Thayer Hall at 6 p.m. The event is open and free to all.
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