Hotel Hopes Porter suggested that the Hoyt Conference Center develop a Hotel Management major, along with the Department of Home Economics. The Universi- ty now has a Hotel and Restau- rant Management (HARM) pro- gram, but home economics no longer exists. Hoyt Hall never hosted a center for home eco- nomics or the HARM program. Today, it serves as a residence hall and conference center.


Business Matters Porter wanted to see a $5 mil- lion remodeling of Boone Hall as a facility to house the College of Business. Though the hall was remodeled in 1999, it never contained a business school. Instead, the College of Business opened off-campus in 1990. It has since been named one of the Best Business Schools by the Princeton Review eight consecutive times.


Does Not Compute Anticipating a great need for computers, Porter suggested a $1 million remodeling of Briggs Hall to house a University Com- puting Center. While Briggs, a gymnasium at the time, was eventually redeveloped as classroom space for the De- partment of Mathematics and the Art Department, it never housed a computer center. Today, students can find com- puter labs all over campus, in- cluding spots like Halle Library


and the Student Center.3 —Leah Shutes, with


Jeff Samoray and Jeff Mortimer Eastern | WINTER 2012 7


Effects


yourself dazzled by the larger- than-life video graphics, consider the work it takes to put all that electronic wizardry together. EMU seniors Garry Tatrow


T


and Zachary Williamson shared some of the secrets behind


Wizards SAG students show off their skills at the 2011 Undergraduate Symposium


he next time you’re at a sporting event and find


the scoreboard in their 2011 Undergraduate Symposium project, titled “Producing Sports Graphics—The Process.” The students are majoring in Simulation, Animation & Gaming (SAG), a multidisciplinary area within the College of Technology. Using design and animation


programs such as 3ds Max, Blender and Photoshop, Tatrow and Williamson created an animated Eagle claw, a three- dimensional fence, and other audio and graphic effects. The students created foreground images for the project using a special-effects green screen in Ford Hall. SAG Lecturer Jeremy Catarino posed in front of the screen, tossing a basketball


while the students used sophisticated video equipment to record the entire graphics package. “We were trying to emulate


the graphics you see at other colleges and big league sports events, or those broadcast on ESPN and other major sports channels,” Williamson says. The students also hope to


catch the eye of the EMU athletic department. “If we can show that we’re capable of creating quality sports-oriented graphics [with this project], the athletic department will be more likely to ask SAG program students to create graphics for our major sports teams,” Williamson says. —Leah Shutes


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