News Letter Second Page

Editors in Chief: Ms Ambrina Kanwal, Ms Kiran Rizvi Editor: Ahsan Irshad

ZAB-EXECUTIVES: A society of Management School. They are currently planning to hold some seminars and a few entertaining events. New Students of Management School are welcome to join and take part in the activities.

Both of the societies work in collaboration with each other. Help from the SZABCOM members were acquired when the ZABEXECUTIVES took their oaths. In the coming year more activities are planned by both the societies. We are hopeful that by working together of both the societies will make SZABIST more reputable in Islamabad. We wish these societies best of luck and hope that new intake would participate to the fullest, which will groom the society more.

COMPUTER LABORATORIES:
New Dell lab is fully functional now.
UPGRADED INTERNET FACILITY:
We have recently upgraded our bandwidth from 256k to 1MB.


GLOBAL DOMAIN:
Students have been provided with a global domain access, this facility helps them to view their disk quota from virtually anywhere.
NEW SCANNER:
A new scanner has been brought to facilitate students with State of the Art Technology. Details of the scanner can be acquired from Mr. Zahid or Mr. Asif, Lab Administrators.

LIBRARY:
The library collection now exceeds the mark of 1500, and another 500 books are likely to be added in the collection in this fiscal year. The library has subscription of 20 magazines in all and also receives 16 complementary magazines and newsletters.

Recently a scanner facility is also provided in the lib. And OPAC [on-line public access] would be implemented within a short time. This facility will allow the users to

view the library collection, returning dates of the books, the dates on which the books were borrowed etc.

STUDY ROOMS:
Two new study rooms, on the ground floor, have also made functional for group study.

SCHOOL PRESENTATION: A team comprising of Dr. Afaq, Miss Ambrina, Mr. Fahad MBA and Ms. Nazish BCS paid a visit to Chinar Army Public School, Murree on, July 16, 2003.

The focus of presentation was "Career Planning" and to give prospective students a broader view of SZABIST. This was followed by a Question/Answer session.

TRIP TO BHURBAN:
On February 5 2003 a trip was arranged to Bhurban for all the students of SZABIST by Ms. Ambrina Permanent Faculty member, Computer Science Department. Students from all the classes took part and a few faculty members also went on the trip.

The snow and sliding roads made the journey more interesting. Lunch was served in Bhurban and the students spent the day. On the way back the evening tea was served in Rawal Dam. It was a nice experience and we hope that such activities would continue in the future.

HALLA GULLA NIGHT: The University arranged a "Halla Gulla Night" on July 12, 2003. The events included, Gaming Competition [Need for Speed 6 and Medal of Honor in the networking lab]. A movie was shown on Multimedia, and Bar B Q dinner was served. Mainly MCS Day and MCS Evening and BCS 6 took part in the event and it was a great success.

 

 

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