Cuny queens Colleg

Individually, the four religious cen-
ters serve the needs of their con-
stituents on campus. 
The Hillel Center for Jewish Life
(Student Union 206; 793-2222; e-mail:
[e-mail]; fax [phone])
provides religious, cultural, and social
programming, counseling, and outreach
for Jewish students, faculty, and staff. 
The Protestant Center (Student
Union 203; 261-1550) welcomes stu-
dents, faculty, and staff from the vari-
ous Protestant denominations for
worship and Bible study, counseling,
and a variety of programs. 
The Catholic Newman Center (Stu-
dent Union 207, 208; 793-3130, 520-
7823) provides a ministry of worship
and pastoral outreach to the Catholic
community on campus. 
The Greek Orthodox Center (Student
Union 209) provides religious, cultural,
and social programming, counseling,
and outreach for Greek Orthodox stu-
dents, faculty, and staff. It also pro-
vides information on worship and Bible
study. All are welcome to participate in
the activities of the various centers. For
information on religious matters, call
Fr. Demetrios Antokas, 458-5251. For
other matters, call the Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies Office, Jefferson
Hall 301, 997-4520.
FACILITIES
Colden Center for 
the Performing Arts
Colden Center contains the 476-seat
Queens College Theatre and the 2,143-
seat Colden Auditorium, a TV center,
an academic wing – Karol Rathaus Hall
(Drama, Theatre, and Dance) – and
many other facilities for instruction,
practice, production, and performance
in the arts. A Concert Series, Dance
Series, Contemporary Events, and Chil-
dren’s Theatre Events, featuring inter-
nationally renowned artists, are offered
annually, as well as many special
events.
The Music Building
The Music Building houses the Aaron
Copland School of Music. This struc-
ture includes orchestral, ensemble, and
choral rehearsal rooms and a profes-
sional-quality recording facility. Its
491-seat Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak
Concert Hall is designed for almost any
musical performance.
Library
The Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library,
which opened in the Spring of 1988, is
the centerpiece of the campus. The
Library maintains a carefully selected
collection of print and non-print materi-
als. There are approximately 683,277
books; over 10,000 periodicals, of which
approximately 2,600 are current; and
an extensive collection of microform
material. In addition, the Library is a
depository for many U. S. government
publications. The reference area con-
tains materials for research on a wide
range of social science, humanities,
education, and science topics. There is
an Art Library on the sixth floor. The
College’s Music Library is located in
the east wing of the Music Building.
The Library offers many services:
reference, including electronic access to
local and remote databases and the
worldwide web (www); a web home
page (at http://www.qc.edu); a reserve
library; interlibrary loan; instructional
services; disabled students services;
and photocopying machines.
The Rosenthal Library also main-
tains an Archival Center that houses a
selected group of the late legislative
leader Benjamin Rosenthal’s Congres-
sional papers and NYS Assemblyman
Saul Weprin’s papers, as well as other
special collections. The library also
holds 700 cubic feet of unprocessed Col-
lege records, 1935–date.
The Louis Armstrong Archives are
also housed in the Archival Center. The
Armstrong Archives are open for schol-
arly consultation. Contact Michael
Cogswell at 997-3670.
Office of Information Technology 
The Office of Information Technology
provides a full range of multimedia,
academic, and administrative comput-
ing support and service to the College
community. OIT support areas include
delivery and presentation of media
materials for classroom instruction
(videotapes, motion pictures, etc.);
design and production of original pro-
gramming; operation of the College’s
computer laboratories and classrooms;
design and maintenance of the Col-
lege’s campuswide computing infra-
structure; maintenance of the College’s
presence on the Internet; and coordina-
tion and presentation of major satellite
teleconferences throughout the year. Its
offices are located in Kiely Hall and in
the I Building, with user facilities in
Kiely Hall, the I Building, the Dining
Hall Building, the Science Building,
and Rosenthal Library.
Computing Resources
Centralized time-shared computing
facilities operated by OIT include a
Digital Equipment Corporation VAX
6000-420 running the VMS operating
system; and an AlphaServer 2100 4/275
running UNIX and providing Web
Server functions. A wide range of acad-
emic programming languages, statisti-
cal packages, graphics software, and
application software is available.
Administrative computing services are
provided by a Hitachi Data Systems
EX-50 IBM-compatible mainframe run-
ning the VM/ESA and VSE/ESA operat-
ing systems and providing both
administrative and academic support.
Major administrative subsystems
include QUASAR, a CUNY-provided
student information system with more
than eight hundred QC users; POS, a
Point-of-Sale system used by the Bur-
sar’s Office; the Telephone Information
Access System that facilitates tele-
phone registration; and the Alumni/
Development information system. OIT
also provides communications to the
City University Computer Center’s
IBM systems on West 57th Street in
Manhattan.
The University Computer Center
(UCC) facility includes an IBM 3090
Model 600J with two vector processors
running the VM/ESA operating system
with CMS; and an IBM 3081KX run-
ning MVS/XA with WYLBUR and
JES3. A comprehensive library of pro-
gramming languages and applications
packages is available.
Communications
OIT operates several data communica-
tions networks. The major on-campus
Local Area Network (LAN) consists of
over 25 interconnected 10 Megabit/sec
ethernet subnets. More than 5,000
users access the LAN using a mix of
microcomputers and terminals. OIT
provides users connected to the LAN
with high-speed communications to all
the facilities mentioned above, plus the
ability to access the Internet in full
graphics/multimedia mode. The College
utilizes a high-speed 100 Megabit/sec
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Inter-
face) backbone interconnecting the
10MB ethernet subnets.
OIT currently supports more than
fifteen LAN server machines. The
LANs permit wide-band exchange of
information between student labs, aca-
demic departments, administrative
offices, and the Internet. The College,
as a member of BITNET, provides com-
munications with systems at academic
institutions worldwide. NYSERNET,
the New York State Educational &
Research Network, links universities,
supercomputing facilities, and industri-
al research centers in the state, and
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