The Advance

Issue date: 8/31/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Justin Dean The new computer lab in the Fine Arts building. The lab contains 20 new computers.

Renovation took place in the Sams Hall of Fine Arts during the summer. Throughout the next two weeks, improvements will be made to the building's lab facili¬ties as well as the video produc¬tion room.

Throughout the next two weeks, students will see im¬provements to the university's Fine Arts building. The down¬stairs lab, room 122, has been expanded to allow more students to be able to use of the lab. To go along with the expanded room, twenty high-quality Dell com¬puters will be available upon completion of the renovation.

These computers come equipped with more hard disk and RAM space. There will also be Photoshop, In-design, and movie-maker upgrades. In addition to this, the computers have built-in high quality audio and video cards, as well as firewire, which is capable of a high speed video con¬nection.

This project will not only be beneficial to students, but to fac¬ulty as well. "It will be a teaching classroom," said Dr. Jack Morris, Associate Professor of Communi¬cations. "The additions of a video projector and a teacher's PC will be very helpful for the advance¬ment of the class."
To go along with the new computers downstairs, the upstairs video production room is now equipped with three new I-Mac computers. Video Production in¬structor Paul Green had this to say of the new I-Macs.

"The new I-Macs will be capable of importing high qual¬ity videos into the computer," said Video Producation instructor Paul Green. "The idea behind the upgrade is to make it simpler and more user friendly to the stu¬dents."

Upgrades were also made to the campus library and science hall facilities. "I highly encourage students to take advantage of what the University has to offer them," Green said.

Some of the old comput¬ers were given to staff and faculty who turned in requests for them. The library's new computers are equipped with front panel USB ports. Last year, not all of the computers had this advantage.

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