Many Hands Will Make Our Campus Shine!

this issue

Daffodil Day P.1 Career Awareness Day P.2

Collegiate Challenge P.3 Learning Center Highlights P.4

Guitar Club P.5 Things to do P.6

Book Center Happenings P.7 Haskell Memorial Library P.8

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT TITUSVILLE

Volume 29, Issue 5

Panther Print

We need your help for one hour Saturday morning. We’re planting daffodils on

campus, Saturday October 24th beginning at 11am. We will provide all the

shovels, but we need many hands for planting. The bulbs we plant this fall will

bloom next spring.

Meet us under the clock to divide into teams and see who plants the most and

who finishes first. Last year, "Team Awesome" led by Mr. Ledebur took top

honors.

Daffodil Planting is open to everyone but it’s also a Passport Event for

Freshmen.

We also need faculty and staff to lead student teams.

Contact any of the three of us for more information.

Mary Ann Caton - Marc Ross - Saeed Dubas

Career Awareness Day

A career awareness program open to all students.

When: Wednesday, October 28th Time: Presentations – 9:00 a.m. to Noon Lunch – Noon to 1:00 p.m. Where: Henne Auditorium Speakers: Dr. Andrea Kessler, Gannon University Laura King, BSI Financial Services Attorney, to be announced Cindy Quick, Golden Living Steve Coleman, Northwest Savings Bank Terry Wig, United Way Criminal Justice, to be announced Lindsey Williams, Erie Homes Presentations: How to be Professional Dress for Success Interview Skills

We like What We Do: A Passport to your career!

Next Wednesday, October 28th is Career Awareness Day.

Sue Patton has developed a great program to help our students in making decisions about careers and preparing for interviews. Sue will have a sign up sheet for students to help facilitate faculty members who will be providing extra credit to students for attending.

This day stems from an idea that resulted from discussions that the Stu-dent Persistence Committee had last spring.

See you there!

Susan Patton Assistant Professor of Business

What first-time IT managers really need to know.

Talent:

6-7 a.m. Dr. David Fitz Campus Dean

7-8 a.m. Tammy Carr

Public Relations 8-9 a.m.

Cricket Wencil-Tracey Admissions 9-10 a.m.

Mike Grinder Women’s Basketball

10-11 a.m. Parris Carter

Student Affairs 11 a.m.-Noon Jeff Ledebur

Learning Center Marc Ross

Haskell Library Noon-1 p.m.

Dr. Livingston Alexander

If you're new to the game, the Collegiate Challenge is WQLN Radio's largest fundraiser of the year and unites local colleges and universities in a friendly competition to raise money for WQLN Radio--your local public radio station and NPR affiliate heard on the dial at 91.3 F M (or by translator at 91.5 in Titusville). Pitt-Titusville partners with WQLN Radio during this fundraiser with one commonality in mind: to ignite within our communities the thirst for knowledge, culture, discovery, and well being. This year WQLN Radio will broadcast from the Pitt-Titusville campus Monday, October 26th as part of the Collegiate Challenge. The campus will have special guests each hour during the 6 a,m. to 1 p.m. broadcast from the campus broadcast location in Boomer’s. You can help Pitt-Titusville win a Collegiate Challenge trophy by making a donation to WQLN Radio in the name of Pitt-Titusville during the Collegiate Challenge. Donations can be made by calling 814-866-5454 or online under the WQLN Radio Collegiate Challenge link at wqln.org. Your donation helps pay for the programs on WQLN Radio including Morning Edition, Classics with Wally Faas, All Things Consid-ered, Car Talk, Sunday Night Swing with Titusville’s own Dr. Phil Atteberry and other public radio programs on the air. You can get in the game and show your pride in the Pitt Panthers and WQLN Radio by pledging your support to the local public radio station during the Collegiate Challenge.

PITT TITUSVILLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 2015 WQLN

RADIO COLLEGIATE CHALLENGE

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Upcoming Events

Learning Center Highlights Event on Advising

On Friday, October 16th at noon, 22 students attended the Learning Center’s

Spotlight event on academic advising. Mr. Shoup, Dr. Tress, Ms. Kenyon, and

Mr. Ross assisted in helping students understand and learn the usefulness and

role of advisors.

Also assisting students at the event was Mrs. Elaine Osborn, Assistant to the

Academic Dean and Mrs. Nicole Neely, Registrar, who were on hand to help

answer students questions about how advising assists in course selection, impact

on financial aid, and processes surrounding transferring & relocation.

Mr. Ledebur shared his thoughts on the successful event, “I was very pleased by

the turnout and the level of commitment of our students to engage in

conversations with faculty and staff about advising and take the time to learn the

process and how it can be so beneficial to their success in the long run”. The next

event upcoming is, the Learning Center Spotlight on “Finals Preparation”,

Friday, November 6th at noon in the Learning Center. This is also a Passport

Event.

Upcoming Alpha

Omega Events Weekly Meetings

Every Thursday @ 7p.m. in the

Learning Center

October 25th @ 2 p.m.

Jubilee Launch Party at Clarion

University (leave campus at

12:30pm)

November 1st @ 6 p.m.

AO Sunday Night Worship in

Haskell Auditorium

November 6th from 5-7 p.m.

AO Spaghetti Dinner at the

Titusville United Methodist

Church

November 12th @ 7 p.m.

AO Wrapping Party for Opera-

tion Christmas Child (in the

Learning Center)

Contact:

Casey Davis, President,

cad145@pitt.edu

or

Mr. Ledebur

ledebur@pitt.edu

if you have any questions.

Ronald Shoup Visiting Instructor of Mathematics

The UPT Guitar Club has met every other week during the Fall Term and currently has 15 members. This year’s officers are Monica Makia, Director; Shannon Sanden; Assistant Director; Geneva Bolger, Secretary; and, Corey Payne, Treasurer.

The club business meetings, open to members and guests, are held at 6:00 p.m. in Room 202AB of the Student Union. Members may arrive an hour in advance of the meetings to learn guitar playing techniques or to have jam sessions. Light refreshments are available at each meeting.

On Monday evening, November 9th, the club will host the Bill Huber, Jr. Guitar Trio for a concert to

be held in Boomers from 6:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Members of the trio include Mr. Bill Huber, Mr. Glenn Cochran and Guitar Club Advisor, Mr. Shoup. One of Mr. Huber’s sons may join the group to play drums. The musicians will be playing a variety of traditional instrumental jazz, easy listening, soft rock and Beatles songs. There is no admission for the concert. Club members as well as interested students, faculty members and community members are welcome to attend.

The Guitar Club also plans to attend a musical concert at the National Transit Building in Oil City on Friday evening, November 13

th after dining at a nearby Hoss’s Steak and Sea House. The concert

will feature stellar musicians who play guitars, bass guitars and harmonicas to perform rockabilly, blues and other types of music. If fewer than 11 club members elect to attend, UPT students who are not club members may express their interest to attend by e-mailing Monica Makia, Director, at mlm221@pitt.edu.

In addition to these activities, the club is planning a fundraiser, a community service project and possibly a field trip to a Guitar Center prior to the conclusion of the term.

Cancer

Awareness

Balloon

Release

Monday, October

26th

at 5 p.m. in

McKinney Student

Union

Hosted by: Alpha Omega & Other Student Organizations

Textbook Buyback Is Coming….. SAVE THE DATE December 14th - 17th 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Wondering what to do with your textbooks at the end of the semester? Bring them to the Book Center during Textbook Buyback and get cash back for your books!

New Items in the Book Center! Stop in and check out our new PITT fleece zip-ups, golf umbrellas, clocks, wristlet lanyards and more. SHOP dollars can be used for everything while FLEX dol-lars are for all food. See our selection of drinks and food items including chips, candy, Coke, Pepsi, Snapple Tea, Frappuccino’s and hot coffee.

Mail Send your letters and packages from the Book Center. UPS picks up daily. Stamps and UPS can be purchased or prepaid packages dropped off. Fax service is also available.

Haskell Memorial Library

LOCATING FULL TEXT ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ARTICLES via PITT’S DIGITAL LIBRARY The University Library System’s Digital Library offers numerous databases that can be searched to locate full text electronic journal articles for research assignments. The most commonly searched databases at UPT are Academic Search Premier, ERIC, Health Source, and JSTOR. Come into the library for any help with these databases. We know papers are becoming due, and we’re here to help! Database Title: Academic OneFile Description: This is a database for research in all the academic disciplines. It offers balanced coverage of every aca-demic concentration from advertising to microbiology to history and women’s studies. It combines discipline specific titles with area and issue specific journals and publication with cross-disciplinary perspectives with all-inclusive na-tional news magazines and late-breaking news from national newspapers. Coverage: 1980-Present Updated: Weekly Database Title: Academic Search Premier Description: This scholarly collection provides journal coverage of most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communication, computer sciences, Engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and women’s studies. Coverage: Full Text – (varies by titles) – 1975-Present Updated: Daily Database Title: ERIC (Education Abstracts), then ERIC via EBSCOHost Description: This database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is the premier national bibliograph-ic database of education literature. It consists of two files. One covers the document literature consisting of research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books. The second file covers published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. The database also includes the full text of ERIC Digest Records. Coverage: 1966-Present Updated: Quarterly Database Title: Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Description: This resource provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Its coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. Coverage: 1990-Present Updated: Daily Database Title: JSTOR Archive Collection A-Z Listing Description: This resource is not a current issues database. Rather, it is a trusted archive of important scholarly jour-nals that span many disciplines. It offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printer, and illustrated. It holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. To access any of these databases:

1. Type in the Digital Library’s URL www.library.pitt.edu. 2. Click on the Find Articles tab. 3. In the Other ways to find articles: area of the screen under Databases, click on the By TITLE link. 4. An alphabetical list of all the databases available will appear. 5. Click on the first letter in the alphabet string of the title of the database you want to search. 6. Locate the title of the database you are looking for and click on the link.

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