The Debugger           Spring 1993

Gary Buterbaugh

Although I have mentioned money briefly before, I would like to spend my entire article on that subject. In the last Debugger, I indicated that in my time here at IUP I have not seen more difficult times. That statement is still true, although our department has not been as effected as much as others and the administration has done a reasonable job of "moving" money around to help the crunch.

As students, alumni and friends of our department you can play an important role. IUP now receives less than one half of its money from state appropriations from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If our financial condition is to change, we must get more money from the state. But the state is having financial difficulty itself and even when it was not, support for higher education is far below that of other states. Besides this, Pennsylvania favors private higher education in the way it administers its student grants, but even worse, for IUP, it supports its state related institutions (Pitt, Penn State, Temple, etc.) much better than it does its state owned schools, like IUP. This is due in large part to the strong lobby of the state related institutions in Harrisburg. And this is where you can help. A call or letter to anyone in Harrisburg (a state senator, state representative, the governor, or any of the hundreds of bureaucrats that you might know) on our behalf would be of great help.

In addition, those who are alumni or friends of the department might be able to help out financially. Currently we receive between $20,000 and $25,000 from the Foundation for IUP. Although a large portion of this is from gifts from companies (DuPont has been giving us $10,000 - $15,000 and PPG has been giving us $3,000 - $5,000), we do receive some much appreciated gifts from our alumni and friends. We use this money primarily for equipment and special projects around the department and try not to use it for things, except for the equipment, that we believe are the responsibility of the state. One of the things that we currently take out of our university appropriated money (as opposed to our gift money) is the cost of the Debugger. It's duplication and distribution cost is in the range of $3,000 per year for the three issues that are published.

If you would like to help us by giving to the department there are a couple of ways that you can do so:

The IUP Phonathon - If and when you are called as part of the phonathon, and you decide to give to the university, you should be told that you can designate. If you decide you want to give, you can either give to the "Computer Science Department" or the Howard E. Tompkins Scholarship" funds. When you then send your gifts in to The Foundation for IUP, they will then be credited to us.

Our Century Club - We are pleased to announce the first members of our Century Club - They are Mark and Beverly (Green) Landry, both IUP Computer Science grads. The Century Club is for alumni who pledge to give $100 or more per year to the department. In return for this commitment, we honor them by including them in our Century Club and providing a small IUP gift. If you would like to join Mark and Bev, please fill out the form at the end of the Debugger. Your gifts are then given through The Foundation for IUP and credited to our department.

Just plain "giving" - You may give to The Foundation for IUP at anytime and designate your gift for the Computer Science Department or the Howard E. Tompkins' Scholarship Fund.

Matching Gifts - Many corporations offer a matching gifts program and will match your gifts either one for one, sometimes two for one and sometimes even three for one. The company usually gives some sort of internal recognition. This is not only a way of multiplying your gifts, but also lets your company have a more formal connection with your alma mater.

Well this has not been very exciting, but hopefully it has given you some information that you did not previously know. If you've managed to get this far, I reward you by sharing the personal news that I became Dr. Buterbaugh by successfully completing my dissertation defense on Monday, March 29. The degree will be conferred officially at Pitt's commencement on May 1.

Carol Miller, Secretary

Hi Everybody -

IUP is on Spring Break right now (March 14-20). It's quiet around here for a change. Good time to start on my next Debugger letter.

Does anyone believe that Spring is coming? I am becoming a non-believer real fast. We aren't supposed to be getting winter storms in March, but it will give us a topic of conversation for some time to come. Where did you get snowed in?

Most of you have been snowed in all winter - I know because I've heard from very few of you this winter and the only reason for this is because you've been unable to get to a phone, purchase pencil and paper, or get access to email. Right?

Bob Lackey (8/92) gave me a call one day. Bob is working at PRC as a product application analyst. PRC is in McLean, VA. For those of you interested, Bob says jobs in McLean are plentiful if you can go there and spend a few days passing out resumes and waiting for a phone call.

J. C. Caler (5/90) is now working for Hercules, Inc. in West Elizabeth, PA as a contract programmer. She likes her job and likes the area. Stop in sometime J.C. when you're in the area.

I had a letter from Roy and Julie (Paserba) Lampe (12/87). They had a baby daughter, Kayla Marie, on December 21 (almost a Christmas baby). She weighed 7 lbs, 1 oz. and is absolutely perfect. Julie is now working for Alco Standard Corporation developing software and taking care of all their networking needs. Roy is still with Shared Medical. Julie is working on her masters at West Chester and is getting her Certified Netware Engineer status. Wow, you guys are really busy!! By the way Julie, the reason you're getting two copies of the Debugger is because the labels come from the Alumni office and you are both registered there. I'll see if I can do something about it. Thanks for letting me know.

Phil Woodring (5/92) got a job with Hospital Systems, Inc. in Farmingdale, NJ. Let us know how you're doing, Phil.

Mike Gutzat (5/87) is out of the Army now and, he and his new wife, Mary, are living in Newark, DE, and Mike has been job hunting. Let me know of any openings that Mike may fit into. I'll pass them along to him.

Julie Roxby (5/92) has left Meridian BanCorp and is working at Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. Julie, didn't you hear that we were in Reading to see you and discovered you hadn't waited for us??

Kevin Hunter (5/89) who (as I told you in another issue) is working at USGS in Reston, VA is also pursuing a MS in Information Management at Marrymount University as of Fall 92. He really is enjoying his classes and instructors. Good luck, Kevin.

Dave Murphy (12/92) called one day to let me know he got a job with RPS in Pittsburgh and, so far, is liking it. Keep us posted!!

Marty Speranza (12/92) has also been in touch. Marty is working at Union Switch and Signal. He enjoys his job and is looking forward to the new building that's coming in the future.

I had email from Reed Streifthau (5/89) and Reed is still at dupont in Charlotte and so is Mike McNabb.

Got a FAX from Mike Hautz (12/90). Mike, I sure do remember you and was interested in all you've been doing. For those of you who haven't been in touch with Mike recently, he got his PA Emergency Medical Technician certificate in June and is working part time as an E.M.T. for a local ambulance in the Johnstown area. In addition, his full time job is a Cambria County 911 Computer Operator, programming and maintaining the Computer Aided Dispatch system, as well as other related computer operations. Sounds like a fast-paced life you're leading Mike. Keep in touch.

Shawn Clugston (5/92) is with Kinney Service Corporation, Camp Hill, PA working as a programmer, and Scott Hollingsworth (8/92) accepted a position with Intellex in Mechanicsburg, PA. His position is Systems Support Specialist.

Rich Murphy (5/87) called one day, and we may be seeing Rich this summer. He is considering a summer course here at IUP. Rich isn't too far away - in New Alexandria. It will be great to have him back this summer.

Mark Lacy (5/89) stopped in while he was attending a workshop here at IUP. It was really great to see you Mark. Please do it again. Mark is working for the Fish and Game Commission here in Pennsylvania. Mark always lets us know where he is. Thanks, Mark.

The department had a letter from Beth (Blum) Potter (5/88). Beth is still living in MD but is no longer working for HRB Systems. She has switched to ARC Professional Services Group where she'll be working at NSA writing software.

On a more recent note, Chad Dionis (5/93) was recently hired by E Systems in Virginia. Chad is making plans to move to the DC area in May. All you alums be sure to welcome him.

Drew Senko (5/89) (I told you about his position with TV Answer, Inc. last time) has been in touch. TV Answer has several job openings - Software Engineers, Senior Telecommunications Analyst, System Test Engineers. I have job descriptions from Drew if anyone wants to give me a call, or call Drew at (703) 715-8058.

That's all the news for now, gang. Keep in touch and keep me updated on new things in your life. I'll let the world know. Take care everyone and I hope you survive the rest of the winter.

Don Rosenberger

The Tompkins Lab has undergone some significant upgrades recently. Postscript printing has been refined for Wordperfect, and is now available for Lotus as well. Print service includes an option for the network supervisor to activate the department secretary's laser printer as a second/backup printer for the faculty. Directions have been distributed to the faculty for the use of the mainframe's laser printer from faculty offices. The same directions can be used by students in the lab. I have just attended the Novell Service and Support Course, where I have been given a great deal of information regarding optimizing the installation of Novell servers. Much of the information is being used to configure a new Novell file server. The existing server will be used as a spare/backup server when the new server fails or needs repair.

Regarding Novell software, our network anti-viral has had a high success rate. Only one virus attack has succeeded in damaging a computer system during the past year. This virus was not detectable by the best scanners from F-PROT or McAfee, so the virus was either very new, or hid itself very well. (Only the symptoms of infection in executables gave its presence away.)

A student version of Harvard Graphics has been installed on the network for test. Plans are to install several copies of the full version of Harvard Graphics. There is a high demand for Windows on the Novell network, which will be a priority for installation in the near future. The number of Windows applications which will be installed is unclear, but continues to grow. To prepare for the use of Windows, all faculty PCs will be upgraded to at least four MB of RAM. For PCs, we have tried to standardize on DOS version 5.0. DOS Version 6.0 has just been released, but it still has two significant weaknesses. (1) The 640 KB memory limitation has not been dealt with. (2) DOS is still non-reentrant, so true multitasking cannot be performed by DOS, yet.

The five SWAN 386 SX/20s are still perfoming well in the lab. We had a slight problem with a student setting the password on one machine's BIOS. We have since installed new BIOS chips which do not have a password capability. The IBM PS/2 model 50 has had a network card installed, and has become an active part of the network.

The cabling to the CHIEF has been expanded to allow seventeen lab PCs to access the mainframe. In addition, lines have been run to two of the Macintoshes. This permits students to login to the mainframe (or other major campus computer system) from the lab PCs/MACs, and transfer files from one system to another. Many of our courses now have students writing an application on the mainframe, and then writing it again (for comparison) on our PCs. The addition of this capability saves students typing time, and also allows them to download freeware and/or shareware from other universities/sites. The additional CHIEF lines have also opened access to the mainframe's laser printer. Currently, all lab systems can allow students to laser-print their work, by transferring the files to the mainframe, and subsequently printing them on the VAX laser.

The NeXT network has not made much progress. Due to hardware constraints and schedule conflicts for my NeXT-trained student assistants, I was forced to discontinue demonstrations of the workstations last semester. I am currently training four new students on the NeXT system, in hopes of re-activating demonstrations in the future. Courses in Graphics, Unix & C, and special topics have used the workstations for classwork recently, which is an increase from previous years. (The new advanced microcomputer course has also requested accounts, but has not put them to use as yet.) Unfortunately, NeXT Inc. has indicated that it may soon cease work on its hardware line. This has eliminated plans to upgrade the NeXT network, and other equipment options are being examined by the faculty.

The MicroVax II computer was put into use briefly last year to support a course for Jim Wolfe. However, it was easily seen that our system could not compare to the power of the mainframe. No further attempt has been made to use it for course support. The only valuable task that the MicroVax currently performs is to bring mainframe print jobs up to the lab for printing (VMS print service). For this reason, I have recommended two alternatives to the faculty for print service which are more cost effective. I have recommended designating the MicroVax as surplus.

In addition of CHIEF lines, the Macintoshes have undergone several significant upgrades. There is a great deal of freeware and/or shareware software for the MACs, which is accessable now that we have the cabling and software which allows such tie-ins. White Knight is the software used to connect the MAC to the CHIEF. We have upgraded Aldus Pagemaker (desktop publisher) to version 4.2a, and installed it on both Macintosh IIs. This application is being used in the Advanced Microcomputer course and in the seminars. Since the Macintosh is a multi-media platform, various sound effects have been programmed to play for the users on one machine. (The sound effects will be based upon the actions of the users, not upon a random selection.) The desktop color scanner is attached to one Macintosh. Recently, we distributed a handout to the faculty for the use of the scanner, which is currently in use by Advanced Microcomputer course. As a result of our upgrades, the MACs exceed the desktop publishing and sound effect capabilities of the faculty PCs. We have also just received After Dark and Fileguard. Fileguard will help us to protect the MAC hard disks from accidental or intentional system reconfiguration by our student users.

As always, the lab staff and I are striving to provide the best support possible to our curriculum. If you find yourself in the neighborhood, please drop in.

Barbara, Eisen, ISCC

In December, 1991, Administrative Computing migrated all administrative systems from the Honeywell computer to the current DEC configuration. We have spent the last year wrapping up loose ends and finishing the conversion of infrequently run programs. All programs have now run at least once in a production mode.

In making the conversion a decision was made to rewrite all in-house applications in a database system. After studying the market, we chose ADABAS from Software AG. It is a relational-like inverted list database which runs faster than more standard relational databases in a production environment.

The fourth generation language NATURAL was used in writing the new applications. The administrative staff members participated in an intensive training program, including an eight-week period in which Software AG personnel were on site helping us to design the student part of the database. In order to get the conversion done in the limited time we had available, a program generator, NATURAL Construct, was heavily used to create screen programs. A program that would have taken several months on the Honeywell could be done in a day using the new tools.

Our student database on the Honeywell had been called SOLAR, Student On-Line Access and Retrieval. Since our database on the DEC now includes other applications such as faculty/staff, inventory, and label processing, we renamed the system COSMOS, Consists Of SOLAR and Many Other Systems.

Now that conversion is completed, we have started Phase 2 in the development of COSMOS. In conjunction with the new IUP Registrar, Joe DeCristoforo, a great deal of our emphasis is on improving registration and record-keeping. A terminal registration system has been developed as a companion to telephone registration. A pilot test is underway now and the terminal alternative will be in place for all students in Fall, 1993, when they register for Spring classes. Some advantages of the new system include the ability to see what sections are available and how many seats are left and an option to enter generic course names and let the computer build a schedule of available classes. The new system also checks for prerequisites so that students will not be able to register for classes for which they are not ready. The prerequisite checking is also being built into the telephone registration system.

Another of the Registrar's projects is the automation of transcript production to print from database data on script-safe laser paper. The development includes a transcript ordering system to keep track of requests. The grade information in the database is being audited against the paper transcripts as each new batch of transcripts is run. Audited records are flagged to indicate that they are accurate. A new laser printer has been ordered for the Registrar's Office. Hopefully, the next time you request a transcript, you will receive one of the new transcript forms.

In addition to the in-house applications, we are installing two packages to help in scheduling and in advising. First, Univeral Algorithms' SCHEDULE25 was purchased to schedule rooms for classes. This will be in operation by August. Second, DARS, a degree audit system, was bought from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. DARS is in use at almost one hundred universities to provide students and advisors with statements evaluating student courses against university requirements for their degrees. We are in the process of interfacing the package with our database and creating screens to input IUP requirements for each major program. When the system is in place, it will be of enormous help to students in selecting their courses and to advisors in verifying that the students are meeting all their requirements.

As alumni, you may also be interested in knowing that the University has installed BSR's Advance, an alumni and fund-raising package. It should now be easier to keep information on alumni up-to-date.

As you can see, Administrative Computing is trying to keep pace with both the needs of the University and the tools that are available in the computer world to provide computing services for the day-to-day operations at IUP.

W. W. Oblitey

It is interesting to write to you once again, this time not as the editor but as a contributor. For those of you who took the Data Communications course, I thought you may want to know how far it has evolved and the degree to which it is keeping current within the continually growing field.

In order to keep CO 345 current, I have proposed an introductory course -- CO 245 Introduction to Computer Networks. This introductory course is meant to introduce students to electronic data transmission, the design and implementation of local area networks, and the administration aspects of local area networks. The only prerequisite is computer literacy.

The modified CO 345 course starts with an introduction to Data Communications Networks and the Design Principles of such networks. We go into the evolution of networks, network goals, and network services and architectures. We then single out the OSI reference model and study each layer in terms of its constituent protocols and the underlying logic for programming purposes. We also examine the existing implemented examples at each layer.

Those of you working in the field would have figured out by now that after taking two weeks for the introductory aspects of the course, the semester would be almost over by the time we get done with the Application layer. For that reason, I choose to examine the implemented examples at each layer after studying the layer, rather than waiting to study all of the layers and then study the implementations together under one topic.

Time limitations keep me from going into the details of Service Integration, Performance Evaluation and Monitoring, etc. These are reserved for a follow-up course -- CO 445. I have taught CO 445 once and I'll get to teach it again this Fall. In CO 445, we design and validate a protocol in class and then we try to program it using Dr. Micco's NeXT machines. The prerequisite for CO 445 is CO 345. Last time (Fall, 1991), I had eight students who did a lot of work. They saw their selected protocols as simple ones and they did not complain much when the implementations became involved. They were dedicated students!!! They had to be - they were working with me.

To those of you who took my CO 345 in the Fall of 1990, I want to know if you have as yet solved the two army problem or whether you just gave up. If you are still interested in solving the problem but have forgotten it, let me remind you of it:

A green army is encamped in a valley and on both sides of the surrounding hillsides are blue armies. The green army is larger than either of the blue armies alone, but together the blue armies are larger than the green army. If either blue army attacks by itself, it will be defeated, but if the two blue armies attack together, they will be victorious. The blue armies want to synchronize their attacks but their only mode of communication is to send messengers on foot down the valley, where they might be captured and the message will be lost. The question is, is there a protocol that will allow the blue armies to win? If, there is one, what is it?

For those of you who plan to come by in the summer, I hope you come with your tennis gear. If you have a partner also, so much the better. Jim Wolfe and I will play you and your partner. I'm not trying to scare you off but we are good! I will not tell you how good, you have to find that out for yourself!

Hello everyone!! When we were first faced with the fact that we had to write a letter for The Debugger, we weren't sure what to write about, but we knew we should write something considering we were elected as the student co-editors of The Debugger. We decided our topic for this article was going to be something original, something we knew a lot about, and something that you will find very interesting. You got it - us! O.K., "interesting" will be left up to your own judgement!

For the most part, in the past (almost) 3 years, we've been through it all. We've made a lot of good friends, had more than our share of good laughs, and have debugged many stubborn programs (yes, even in the early morning, should be asleep, hours!!). At any rate, we've learned a lot, as well as experienced a lot. Some we'd like to forget, and others will be good lifetime memories we will never forget. The one thing that is unarguably the thing that people would say they remember most about us, is that we are inseparable. Well, we didn't notice this so much, until we had names such as "the inseparable sisters," the "Bobsey twins," "Frick and Frack ..." and the list goes on, thrown at us. We have also accumulated a few nicknames that we would like to discontinue! Those will remain a secret! (Sorry Dr. Oblitey!)

We haven't any idea how we got our nicknames, but we would like to clarify the misconception that we are inseparable!!! Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but we are capable of being apart!!! Well, at least we thought we would be apart (and so did everyone else) when we decided to apply for a summer/fall internship. Yes, the "inseparable sisters" are still a "package deal," despite the efforts of Dr. Buterbaugh, we will both being doing our internships at PHICO. We guess we'll have to live with these names forever, but we guess it could be worse. Well that's enough about us....

...Moving on, we hope you find this issue of The Debugger interesting. Our main goal for this issue was to get students in the department to write articles. We had pretty good interest, but nothing overwhelming. We expect that to be the case because of the time factor, but we did manage to get a few articles - these are the people who couldn't resist our nagging! Anyway, we hope you enjoy these articles. We thank those of you who took the time to submit articles, and we welcome any articles that anyone would like to write for the next issue. Also, there has been an interest for cartoons, so don't forget to submit original comics for the next issue!!!

Your 1993 Student Co-editors,

Pamm Gindlesperger & Vickie Pearce...
...Inseparable Sisters
...Bobsey Twins
...Frick and Frack
...Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
...Evil Twins
...(And now PHICO Twins)

Valerie Bonito, President

Hello, All!

As the spring '93 president of the Computer Science Club, I find it a challenge to get the club back on its feet from the recent lack of interest. The officers have put much effort into their positions and succeeded in arranging a trip to Westinghouse and Mellon Bank, speakers for the Computer Science Banquet and for the club.

Plans are being made for a retreat at the IUP lodge for the end of the semester. I have plans to start a Computer Science career day with the help of alumni for next semester hosted by the club. Any Alumni wishing to be a part, please let me or the Computer Science Department know. That is all I can think of for right now. I encourage everyone to stay in contact with the Computer Science Department and the club, especially past members, we want to hear from you.

Bob Gohn

When I was asked to write an article I asked myself what should, or could, I write about? What angle had not been taken in past articles to give the reader a new insight into the life of IUP's Computer Science Department. I think I have come up with something, however, you'll have to be the judge of that.

Last semester I had the pleasure of meeting a student whose father was in the Somalian government. I found out just by talking with him that he was a lot like me. This is what my article is about, international computing. I think a lot of times we as Americans become too narrow minded to see what's out there in the world. Computers are all over the world. Computers in one nation can be linked to other computers in other parts of the world. When you have this type of connectivity you also need to deal with diverse cultures. This promotes a challenge for people to accept other people's culture and deal with people in a professional manner.

When I came to college I was very ignorant of different races and cultures due to growing up in a very rural town, and 99% of the population being white. After being here for 3 years, I have been exposed to numerous races and cultures. I have found that if I took a couple of minutes and actually talked to people from other cultures, they were not any different from me. I see it in the halls of the buildings, you can always see certain groups usually the foreign students are one group and the Americans are in the other. Why? Is it fear of the unknown, or is it that we feel as though we would not have anything to talk about?

Our major has a diverse enrollment. We need to exploit that and get to know one another. In time, nations will be closer together via computers, and people that deal with those computers will also need to deal with people of different ideals associated with those races and cultures.

My advice to fellow computer science majors is don't be afraid to extend yourself to other cultures and races, because you might be surprised that they are not all that different. Furthermore,

they have good and different angles to problems that you might encounter.

Wendy Lisky, Spring '93 intern

Learning is one of my great pleasures in life. I do not like to have just technical knowledge; I also yearn for experience. This was my reason for pursuing an internship. I have certainly found what I was looking for at PHICO.

In the technical area, I have made leaps and bounds of progress. Since I am in Production Support (this is basically program maintenance and the design of supplementary reports for systems already in place), I get an opportunity to see the work of may other programmers. I can evaluate these for positive and negative aspects and use my evaluations to improve my own skills. It is a conscious learning process since I could easily just do what is required and not take the time to understand the big picture.

I have also gotten the opportunity to learn about a system and some utilities which I would never have been exposed to in college. I now have experience with the AS/400 system and utilities such as Report Layout Utility and Screen Design Aid. These will allow me to enter the work force with more practical training; but they offer personal rewards also: no COBOL coding of all those fillers for report headings!

On the personal side, I have gained a lot also. However, the growth here is slower just by nature. I have learned to develop more patience and more appreciation for other programmer's work. But my biggest areas of growth are in confidence and attitude. I used to be an eternal pessimist. I always worried about doing something wrong. I knew this about myself long before entering PHILCO's doors. After several mistakes (both small and large) and several successful attempts to fix those mistakes under the guidance offered here, my confidence has grown. Along with my new found confidence has come the realization that everything will turn out fine in the end. I am now very proud of myself and my work and I wish I could convince everyone to take an internship and experience the same feelings.

My internship has provided me with the technical and personal experience for which I had hoped. I was lucky enough to intern for a wonderful company with people who allow for mistakes and growth. If an internship is still a valid possibility for your academic future, do yourself a favor and jump at the chance.

Robert J. Cameron

Bitnet...the final frontier. These are the communications of the discussion list STREK-L. Its continuing mission: to discuss Star Trek in all its formats, to waste bandwidth space, to boldly flame where no one has flamed before...

What am I talking about in the above cheesy intro? Only STREK-L, one of the most prolific discussion lists in the history of Bitnet. Its server is LISTSERV@PCCVM, and one can subscribe to the list with the following command:

SEND LISTSERV@PCCVM SUB STREK-L

If you do, however, you better absolutely LOVE e-mail, because sometimes there are literally hundreds of posts per day. You must have time to check your mail at least every two days.

Discussion ranges from the original Star Trek series (TOS to listers) to Deep Space Nine (DS9), and everything in-between, including books, films, magazines, parodies, et cetera. List subscribers are all over the world, and are knowledgeable on a wide variety of subjects. Some discuss technical and scientific aspects of Trek, others discuss its literary aspects and character relationships, others discuss moral dilemmas and present-day issues brought up by Star Trek. Then, there are the get-a-lifers, who want to know where they can get an original pair of plastic Spock ears and such.

Although Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future was primarily a peaceful one, fans of his vision are not necessarily as benign. It has been my experience that there is a major flame war about every six weeks. There was a major flame war on homosexuality in mid-December, and the future of the list was for a while in jeopardy. The list has recently skirted wars on male rape and animal rights.

STREK-L offers a chance to discuss a unique form of entertainment with people from around the world with widely-ranging bases of knowledge. If Star Trek in any form strikes your fancy, and you have time to keep up with the extra mail, I highly recommend STREK-L. "Commander, type in the text to subscribe us to STREK-L. Engage..."

You can become a charter member of the IUP Computer Science Department's Century Club. Membership in the Century Club is obtained by pledging at least $100 to be given through the Foundation for IUP for the Computer Science Department. Century Club members will receive a gift (tee shirt, mug, glass, etc.) for their membership each year.

If the department could get just 100 of our over 1200 graduates to participate in this way, this would give us at least $10,000 each year (probably substantially more since most companies give matching gifts and some match 2, 3 or 4 to 1). A pledge of $100 is less than $10 per month and if you gave for twenty years your total giving would be $2,000, considerable less than what you would have paid a employment agency to find your initial job!

Please consider this opportunity. To join cut off the form in the next column, complete it and commit yourself to giving $100 for the 1993 calendar year.