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dancers, models choose Point Park on global scale Editor-in-Chief Alexander Popichak reflects on tenure as term draws to close Two track and field athletes qualify for nationals in first meet ppuglobe.com
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Public Safety to implement updated security technology for fall of 2018 By Nikole Kost
January 2017
Photo Editor
As Angela Altieri waited in Lawrence Hall for her parents to pick her up, she said a man later identified as Dalbert Banks approached her and asked if she was a dance major. After Altieri said no, Banks brushed her off and continued to prowl outside of the dance studio until the registered sex offender was arrested the next day on numerous charges. “When I was reading [the article] that’s when I saw the picture and was like ‘that’s the guy I was talking to the day before it happened,’” Altieri said. Following a review of safety proceedures, Point Park officials have opted purchasing a new visitor management system (VMS) aimed at increasing security
Sept. 22, 2017
Dalbert Banks arrested VMS purchased and on campus. implemented across campus Point Park begins review Lawrence Hall becomes of security protocol locked 24/7 Sept. 7, 2017
Fall 2018 Isabelle Opsitos | The Globe
A timeline of events surrounding Public Safety’s reevaluation of security policies. and vigilance campus-wide about who is allowed on campus by fall 2018. A VMS is a digital logbook which keeps track of where and when individuals check in to a particular building. The VMS is developed by Software House and uses an online portal that allows authorized operators to create and manage scheduled visits and process visitors from the time they sign
in and sign out. Point Park Chief of Police Jeffrey Besong declined an interview regarding the purchase of the VMS. Besong commented in an emailed statement: “After reviewing the safety and security needs of Point Park University, the Public Safety Department is moving forward with the purchase of a Visitor Management System,” the state-
ment read in part. Instead of taking a guest’s ID when signing in, the guest will be added to the online guest log. Guest IDs will no longer need to be held at the security desk. If a person trying to sign in is banned from campus, the system will notify security. “The plan is to roll out this system in fall 2018,” Be-
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Destination confusion: students unsure of waitlist status By Lauren Ortego Co-Copy Desk Chief
For the spring course International Media, Point Park’s registration program, Jenzabar, is unable to create wait lists for dual-listed courses going into the spring semester. Helen Fallon, the professor who teaches the course, has to keep her own personal waitlist for the class and the subsequent trip to Italy that comes at the end of it. Jenzabar, the company Point Park uses for registering, does not allow a waitlist for dual-listed courses, meaning that the class is both for graduate and undergraduate students.
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Point Park students part of team USG discusses future knocking The Pitch out of the park approaches to funding By Alexander Popichak Editor-in-Chief
Two Point Park students were members of the winning firm of this year’s “The Pitch” advertising competition. The annual competition, sponsored by the Pittsburgh regional chapter of the Advertising Federation (AdFed), challenges six groups of advertising students to craft a marketing plan for a specific client. Teams are assigned a local professional advertising firm to assist in the creation of a plan but all of the work is developed by advertising and marketing students from the Greater Pittsburgh Area. Kayla Belovich, a junior advertising and public relations
major, said a class with public relations and advertising professor Bob O’Gara inspired her to join the competition. “I was in Bob O’Gara’s class and he said, ‘if you’re in advertising you should look into doing this, it’s ‘The Pitch,” Belovich said Sunday. “I was, like, ‘that’s what I want to do with my life so I should be a part of it and hopefully this will help me see if I am capable of doing that in my future.” Belovich and senior advertising and public relations major Kristina Pacifico were the two Point Park students on the 12-person team. The task at hand for each advertising team was to provide a marketing strategy for Outreach Teen and Family Services based in Mt. Lebanon, Pa.
“This wasn’t a re-branding project,” Pacifico said Sunday. “They wanted to reach out to more teens, which is their main target audience, and they just wanted to know what our thoughts were.” Belovich and Pacifico said their team’s strategy was to make use of social media and other low-cost advertising methods to target teenagers who may be hesitant to seek counseling on their own. The teams have eight hours to create a marketing strategy with the assistance of their host advertising firm. Based on an eight page proposal and a ten minute video, two finalists are chosen to present a full pitch directly to their client.
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USG By Hannah Walden USG Beat Writer
Student government ended the semester by discussing future funding periods and internal procedures. During the Treasurer’s Report, United Student Government (USG) Treasurer Josh Croup started a discussion within the legislative body about allocated club funds during the past two semesters. “In talking with the SAIL office recently, each of the past two semesters we’ve had at least one club overspend their allocated budget,” Croup said. “Some by more amounts than others, but we haven’t had a
situation where that has hurt USG’s budget or individual organizations, but we also never took steps to address the situation before or after they arise.” As the senators discussed how to approach clubs overspending their allocated funds, the question arose as to potential consequences placed on organizations that extensively exceed their allocations. “Something to think about is what that process is,” Dean of Student Life Michael Gieseke said. “Right now a club goes over [budget], what is USG’s process for dealing with that?” Once the funding leaves USG’s hands, it is up the Office of Student Activities, Involvement and Leadership (SAIL) to authorize purchases.
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Bubble soccer returns to warm welcome
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By Dannys Marrero For the Globe
Carley Bonk | The Globe
Sports, arts and entertainmnet major Shayla Gebhardt and broadcast production major Yvette Hines paint cityscapes on canvas during a Campus Activities Board Event Monday night.
Point Park’s Campus Activities Board (CAB) brought back its annual Bubble Soccer event to provide students with the opportunity to make new friends, relieve some stress and have fun wearing inflatable bubbles. Students who took part on Nov. 29 formed two separate teams while constraining their movement through human-size inflatable bubbles. The winning team had to be the first to score two out of three goals. Carmella Cuomo, a senior dance major and member of CAB’s Special Events committee oversaw the event this year. When asked
about her expectations on the student turnout, she expressed optimism towards a large crowd. “This is Bubble Soccer’s third year and each year it’s been getting more and more popular,” Cuomo said. Once the doors opened and students were allowed into the gym, the crowd grew as the night continued with over 50 participants. “I went to this event last year and it was really fun,” Christian Barker, a sophomore performances and practices major said. “I came in today and loved it. They should have it twice a year.” As the matches wore on, the players clashed,
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