September 10, 2010
ITS amps up the school’s network
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Linfield College
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McMinnville, Ore.
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116th Year
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Issue No. 2
Northup renovations underway
ITS spent the summer solving frequent hiccups with the Internet and upgrading existing equipment. Joshua Ensler News editor
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The plans to renovate the long-abandoned Northup hall are finally coming to fruition with construction that started in early July and plans for completion in mid-June of 2011. Work on the renovations has been progressing smoothly, Director of Capital Planning & Development John Hall, said. “We are implementing the plans that are the most current
that we have to date, and the project’s moving along fine,” Hall Said. “We plan on being completed, I would say, sometime around mid June. The building will be open then for next Fall.” Northup Hall used to house Linfield’s library but has been used for storage since 2003 when the library was moved to the newly constructed Nicholson building near the Miller Fine Arts Building. Starting next fall, Northup will be home to the
business, economics, English and philosophy departments along with the Writing Center and Linfield Center for Northwest Studies. It was initially decided that the business department would be moved to Northup Hall to vacate Taylor Hall in preparation for its own renovation, but the additional space in Northup was still open to other departments or uses. The additional departments were chosen after discussions
with various faculty members and other school officials. “President Hellie wanted to make sure that the business department had other academic departments that were with them, that they were not an island just to themselves, for good academic reasons,” Hall said. “The departments that were determined that might be a good fit were the economics >> Please see Northup page 5
New dean brings spirit and talent Kelley Hungerford Editor-in-chief To say that Susan Hopp is excited about being Linfield’s new vice president of student affairs and athletics/dean of students is an understatement: She’s only been a Wildcat since July, but she already describes her new role as the “best
student affairs job in Oregon.” The former dean of students at Pennsylvania’s Bucknell University got a call from an Oregonian colleague, who alerted her of the opening at Linfield. Hopp knew of the school’s reputation; she’d heard great things about the campus during careers at Western Oregon, Oregon State and Portland State
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universities. She even knew former dean Dave Hansen, professor of economics, and Jeff Mackay, associate dean of students and director of Residence Life. But it wasn’t just rumors and professional associations that drew her to the campus. She said she liked the idea of managing both athletics and student affairs and
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the prospect of nurturing Linfield’s student experience as the college develops its vision within its new brand. “I like to be a builder. I’m not a maintainer,” Hopp said. “I just think you take the best of what has >> Please see Dean page 6
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An unidentified worker uses an arc welder on Northup Hall Sept. 9. The building is being gutted and redesigned to hold four academic departments, the Writing Center and Linfield Center for Northwest Studies.
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Slowdowns in the network and the renovation of Northup Hall have forced Linfield’s Integrated Technology Services to improve Linfield’s network. Irv Wiswall, chief technology officer, and Integrated Technology Services, said that the two routers that sorted data in Linfield’s network were chokepoints and were causing network slowdowns. The upgrade was also inspired by the gutting of Northup Hall for its renovation. Part of the fiber optic line ran through the building and needed to be rerouted. Fortunately, a tunnel built in a previous renovation project was available for such an event, Wiswall said, Integrated Technology Services increased the number of routers on Linfield’s network from two to eight, and restructured the fiber optic network backbone that carries the information. “It involved recreating the local virtual local area networks and the configuration of a lot of equipment,” Wiswall said. The virtual networks are how the computers are organized to organize information on Linfield’s networks. He also said that the two routers had been overloaded, prompting the quadrupling of their numbers. There are now eight routers on the Linfield network, and a number of programs have been implemented by Information Technology Services to better organize the interaction between the machines. Because there are eight of them,
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