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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WebMail users to be migrated to WebMail2 during August

Thursday, July 27, 2006

University Park, Pa. -- Current Penn State WebMail users will be migrated to a new, improved version, WebMail2, beginning on Aug. 3.

Originally, WebMail was designed by Information Technology Services (ITS) as an e-mail reader for users on-the-go. Since its creation in 2000, it has grown in popularity and now is used as a primary e-mail client throughout the entire University community, serving more than 55,000 users per day. WebMail2 is designed to meet this growing demand.

For the Penn State community to fully enjoy WebMail2's new and improved features, groups of users of the current WebMail service will be migrated to the new system throughout the entire month of August. The conversion is expected to be completed by the first day of classes on Sept. 5. Daily migrations will occur only between the hours of 1 and 6 a.m. Those who are being migrated will not be able to access e-mail via WebMail during the migration. Should users attempt to access WebMail during the migration time frame, they will see detailed error messages within the WebMail client to inform them that migration is taking place for their respective accounts.

With the culmination of this effort, WebMail users will be able to enjoy a number of new features, including 500MB of fast and dedicated e-mail storage space (in addition to an original gigabyte of PASS space); a tabbed interface; filters for organizing mail and filtering spam; an enhanced message composition screen with an HTML editor and improved spell-checker; and customizable interface themes. For additional information and migration details, visit http://aset.its.psu.edu and https://webmail.psu.edu/ online.

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