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Information Technology Services has arranged a special purchasing arrangement that allows Penn College employees and students to save up to 12 percent on Dell desktop and notebook computers. Discounts also are available on other Dell products and accessories. To take advantage of this arrangement, visit Dell and click the Start Shopping button.

All Penn College students are encouraged to use the swimming facilities at the Williamsport YWCA on Fourth Street for FREE! Just bring your Penn College ID, sign in at the Information Desk and enjoy your swim. Penn College students also may participate in all swimming classes, including water aerobics, aqua kickboxing and deepwater boot camp, free of charge.

"Welcome Weekend," a two-day get-acquainted program for new Penn College students, began Saturday morning. Blue-shirted students, faculty and staff were on hand across campus to make it easier for students to say "hello" to their new surroundings (and less-traumatic for parents to say "goodbye for now").

Although classes won't begin until Monday and athletes have yet to report, seven fall sports coaches at Pennsylvania College of Technology are gearing up for the start of their seasons. The baseball team, under coach Chris Howard who is beginning his second full season, will be the first to get under way when the Wildcats host Westmoreland Community College on Aug.

Penn College students and administration were among the community leaders taking part in Thursday evening's festive Grand Slam Parade to officially begin the Little League World Series. At far left, students Jacqueline L. Daniels and Andrew S. Wisner (the college's 2007-08 Student Government Association president) carry the College Town banner.

When 16 competing baseball teams and thousands of fans congregate for the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, nearly 60 Pennsylvania College of Technology students will take shifts at the 10-day event to help safeguard their health.

William J. Astore, associate professor of history in the School of Integrated Studies at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently published an article in MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History (Autumn 2007). Astore's article, "The Tragic Pursuit of Total Victory," examines the efforts of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and Gen.

(The following is drawn from remarks by Davie Jane Gilmour, Pennsylvania College of Technology president, during an Aug. 16 all-college meeting to begin the Fall 2007 semester.) Good morning, and welcome to the start of a new academic year.

Two Pennsylvania College of Technology students reported being robbed at gunpoint at 12:30 a.m. Thursday at an off-campus apartment in the 1000 block of West Fourth Street, according to a Crime Alert from Penn College Police. The incident was reported to the Williamsport Bureau of Police,which is investigating. The students were not injured.

Penn College forest technologymajor Anthony J. Tettis, profiled on PCToday in February , continues his quest for a spot on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Boxing Team.According to a recent article in his hometown Ridgway Record newspaper and an e-mail to his faculty adviser, in which he related his "awesome" summer of training and felling trees Tettis will be in Houston from Aug.