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Keep your face to the sunshine and ‘you cannot see the shadows. CAMPUS UPDATE Volume 7 Issue 5 Alpena Community College Wednesday, December 5, 1984 The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it, - IBM PC Coming To Microcomputer Center By Moniea Jahnke ACC is in the process‘of-con- verting the present Apple Microcomputer lab ‘in Besser Technical Center, to an updat- ed ‘Microcomputer © center, where students will learn in an environment similar to those they may find at their work- site. This will create a real first for ACC in the computer area. Not only will students be pre- pared and qualified for the ex- isting work cated at Wurtsmun Air Force Base campus. Four Macintosh »are also included in the pack- ge. Dean Alan Reed is planning and hoping that the IBM PC AT will be installed and ready for student and teacher use by Spring 1985 semester. When the IBM PC AT ar- rives, the following course will be offered: Introduction to Data Processing, Business ie jicati Software, community, family - owned businesses will also directly benefit form the new IBM PC of microcomputers | and State of the Art technology. One AT will be located at ACC campus. One will be lo- Computer Operating Systems, Business _ Data Management, Accounting Software, and | ally the same program ACC offered in the past, but in- stead of dealing with main- frame-computers, students will be dealing with microcompu- ters’. A new teaching concept for ACC is the viewing room. It is actually a classroom with four 25” screens which - display computer programs for stu- dents to view. This will allow students to participate more directly with the teacher. The present system forces students to crowd around one comput- er terminal while the instruc- tor attempts to explain things, or the instructor can .run around the lab, assisting one person at a time at individual viewing screens will be install- ed at Wurtsmith Air Force Base campus too. The Microcomputer Curricu-. lum Committee Board mem- bers began searching for State of the Art microcomputer hardware and software, in the early part of Spring 1984 sem- ester. With a deadline of July 1984. to meet, committee members decided on the 1BM PC AT microcomputer system. According to Instructor Robert Fournier, Gary Sparks, a committee member, was in many cases the inspiration for some other reasons ACC chose the IBM PC AT are: 2% times faster than the IBM PC, its dual functioning capability (it can stand alone, or it can be plugged into a mainframe), and its multiuser, multi-task- ~ ing abilities. hen the new IBM 'S arrive, ACC will have two computer labs; one for the Apple micro- computers and one for the IBM PC AT microcomputers. the concepts ACC ii porat: ed in microcomputer package. Committee members chose the IBM PC AT for ACC, since jority of lor as well as cess of purchasing an |BM mi- crocomputer system. According to Gloria Brand- enburg, Systems 1 student,- Seven puters will be held in a checkout mode, for instructor use. The microcomputer package was financed throu: i Microcomputers for Secretar- ial Science program ata total ‘cost of $161,762.04. Try To Reinstate Fine Arts Program By J. Webber Fine arts may be returning to: ACC after a three year absence. According to Dr. Lawrence Aufderheide, head of ACC’s English department, the col- lege is offering two music classes and a basic drawing class next semester. The two music classes offered are Music In The Elementary Classroom, which is primarily for elemen- tary education majors, and Collegiate Singers. The colleg- jate singing class that will hopefully help the campus and community tie together. The instructor for both classes will be Patricia Bunce. Another fine arts class offer- ed next semester is Basic Drawing 1. Aufderheide says that the instructor for this class has not been selected yet but will be one that has pro- duced work that has been dis- played at exhibits and show- ings. eee Former Editor Returns To A.C.C. By Tracy Urban A graduate of ACC and former editor of the Campus Update Greg Hurd, is back as a college staff member. Hurd who graduated with an Associate in Arts majored in journalism and also obtained a Certificate in Graphic Arts. He was the Assistant Editor of the Campus Update during the 1981-82 school year and the Editor during the 1982-83 school year. Hurd joined the staff in the Graphic Arts Dept. on November 5, Along with the return of art — and music, the English depart- ment is in the planning phase of developing a foreign -lang- uage class for ACC’s campus. Wurtsmith Air Force Base al- ready offers a one credit hour conversational. French class. Another future class being considered for next fall is Art For The Classroom Teacher. “We are keeping our fingers crossed.” says Dr. Aufder- heide. Update Editor, has returned to Graphic Arts Dept. staff. growing fields available,” HK IKARIA KIAIAIA IIA ISAIAIAI ADA I A I A I I II IK IIIA IAAI IAAI IAAI KI KK III 1984. He spends 34 hours a week as production personel where he does the printing for the college and the K-12 schools, this includes such things as the class schedules. He also works 6 hours a week as a para-professional where he works with the students in class. Hurd says his new job is exciting, stimulating, and it’s ““interest- ing to_be involved in the learning process.” His wife who is attending Saginaw Valley State College will be Greg Hurd, former Campus joining him here in Alpena in mid-December. Graphic Arts is the study of all types of print. Here at ACC they ACCeeean<additiontnee the: have equipment ranging from Letter Press where the print is set by hand, to Photo Offset. According to Hurd, Graphic Arts is one of the most “stable and in the program. and the number of students attending the classes at ACC has more than doubled since he was a student One of the major problems the program is facing at this time is a lack of space. There is a possibility the program will be moved to the Forestry Building; the move would solve jul space problem but depends on funding.