Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Fall computer security updates recommended

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

University Park, Pa. -- As students, faculty and staff are doing the normal activities to get ready for fall semester, they should keep in mind one activity that absolutely needs to be added to everyone's to-do list: preparing computers to connect to the Penn State network.

It is very important that members of the University community check their antivirus software to ensure that it is current. Students who will be moving into residence halls should have virus-free computers before they connect to the network. Computers found to be infected with viruses will be disconnected from the network and allowed to reconnect only when they have been determined to be virus-free.

Information Technology Services (ITS) offers Symantec Antivirus products free of charge to all students, faculty and staff. The Symantec Antivirus software is available on the latest PAC-ITS CD (version 8.0) distributed at ITS Help Desks in Willard and Computer Buildings, and at http://downloads.its.psu.edu online.

The Internet is not always a safe and friendly place. Although ITS has worked hard to help provide a safe environment for computing, ITS can do only so much. Students, faculty and staff are responsible for securing their computers against viruses, worms and intrusion attempts, and should install and update virus protection software and security patches. Information on how to protect computers is available at http://its.psu.edu/takecontrol/ online.

Questions may be directed to the Willard Help Desk at (814) 863-1035 or the Computer Building Help Desk at (814) 863-2494, or to helpdesk@psu.edu. Help Desk hours of operations are available at http://css.its.psu.edu/consulting/consult.html#hd online.

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