News in Brief
Penn State Intercom......October 24, 2002

Blood drive

The Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank, the community blood bank for Penn State Milton. S. Hershey Medical Center, will hold a blood drive Monday, Oct. 28, at University Park. The blood drive will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Alumni Hall at the HUB-Robeson Center.

The Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank (CPBB) has served the University's medical center since the hospital opened its doors. The CPBB needs to collect more than 62,000 pints of blood, of which 20,208 are supplied to Hershey Medical Center.

The Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank is affiliated with America's Blood Centers. As a network, America's Blood Centers is the nation's largest group of blood providers and collectors. For more information call the CPBB at (800) 771-0059.

White-collar crime is topic
of Spanier radio/TV call-in

Securities and investment fraud will be the topic of the next edition of "To the Best of My Knowledge," President Graham B. Spanier's monthly call-in show airing at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, on WPSU-FM and WPSX-TV.

Joining Spanier by phone from Washington will be William McLucas, former director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission. McLucas, a partner in the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, was recently retained by both Enron and WorldCom to conduct internal investigations of their financial irregularities. He is a 1972 graduate of Penn State.

Joining Spanier in the studio will be Lance Cole, former deputy Democratic special counsel to the Senate Special Committee on Whitewater. Currently a member of the faculty of Penn State's Dickinson School of Law, Cole specializes in securities regulation and white-collar crime.

Listeners and viewers with questions or comments are encouraged to call (800) 543-8242 during the one-hour broadcast. Internet users worldwide will be able to link to sound and pictures from the program at http://www.wpsu.psu.edu/ttbomk/; and they will be able to contact the president during the program via e-mail to response@psu.edu.

"To the Best of My Knowledge" is a series designed to explore topics of national and local interest and to allow listeners and viewers a chance to communicate directly with Penn State's president.

Occupational Medicine moving

Occupational Medicine, currently in the Ritenour Building on the University Park campus, is moving to Suite 310 at the Centre Medical Sciences Building effective Tuesday, Oct. 29. The building faces Park Avenue, is adjacent to Centre Community Hospital and is accessed from the same driveway leading to the hospital. Bus service is available. The telephone number, (814) 863-8492, remains the same.

During the move, Occupational Medicine still will offer same-day care to newly work-related injured or ill employees. No routine, pre-scheduled appointments will be made, however, for Oct. 28 or 29.

Directed by Dr. Charles Howsare, Occupational Medicine is a comprehensive occupational and environmental medicine practice specializing in prevention-based non-emergent accident and injury care including minor burns and laceration repair, toxicology, exposure assessments, health surveillance exams and non-surgical orthopedic care.

Meat sale

The Penn State Block and Bridle Club, an undergraduate club affiliated with the College of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Dairy and Animal Science, is holding its fall meat sale now through Nov. 7. The club is taking orders for Hatfield holiday classic hams; fresh pork breakfast-flavored sausage; fresh pork maple-flavored sausage; fresh smoky-flavored sausage; beef summer sausage; smoke and honey stick; and ground beef. Except for the Hatfield hams, all meat comes from University livestock.

For more information or to order, visit 312 Henning Building on the University Park campus between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., talk to a club member, e-mail sbw127@psu.edu or check the Web at http://www.das.psu.edu/meatsale.cfm.

Orders will be available for pickup until 6 p.m. on Nov. 26 and 27 at the Penn State Meats Lab, across from Beaver Stadium on Porter Road.

This is the club's primary fund-raising event. Proceeds go toward the Little International Livestock Show that the club holds in mid-April at the Agricultural Arena on the University Park campus and also to partially defray costs for the students that go to the National Block and Bridle Convention, which is being held in Washington, D.C., in January.

New partnership

Auxiliary and Business Services has formed a new partnership with InfoTronics Inc., a leading manufacturer of time and attendance systems. InfoTronics' Attendance Enterprise will be used to calculate payroll, schedule employees, manage employee attendance and control labor costs for the department's more than 4,000 employees located at 10 campuses statewide. Attendance Enterprise is a Web-enabled labor management system from InfoTronics. Designed specifically to address complex time and attendance processing and reporting needs, the integrated labor management system automates, manages and analyzes employee data.

The new tracking system is being installed University-wide this month and will operate parallel to the current system during November before going live in December.

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