Capturing campus, the old-fashioned way
Matko directs AV equipment from his "submarine" for quarter century
Joy Pavelski
Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Features
"It bemuses him when we have our high-minded Hillsdale conversations," Boyington said. "He's very earthy and will bring in a dash of reality."
Matko's practical nature fits his job - most recently, he helped design and install media components in the Grewcock Student Union, including the video game consoles and placement and music piped through the house speakers. He said he is currently considering how to move his department into the digital age.
The Federal Communications Commission mandated in 2006 that all television transmissions switch from analog to digital in 2009. This means that most campus media equipment will no longer be outdated in 2009, but obsolete.
Until the necessary switch, however, Matko and students working with him agreed that their equipment's antiquity interferes with their work only occasionally.
"We bought good equipment," Matko said. "It has lasted all these years because we took care of it. It's getting hard because it's started to break down, but it has held up pretty well. How many people can say they still use a 15-year-old computer?"
Though he works on-call and often travels to run media for the college's National Leadership Seminars or events featuring Arnn, Rentschler said Matko always goes home for dinner with his wife.
"He's always easygoing," she said, "but if he had free time, I don't think he would know what to do with it."
Matko's practical nature fits his job - most recently, he helped design and install media components in the Grewcock Student Union, including the video game consoles and placement and music piped through the house speakers. He said he is currently considering how to move his department into the digital age.
The Federal Communications Commission mandated in 2006 that all television transmissions switch from analog to digital in 2009. This means that most campus media equipment will no longer be outdated in 2009, but obsolete.
Until the necessary switch, however, Matko and students working with him agreed that their equipment's antiquity interferes with their work only occasionally.
"We bought good equipment," Matko said. "It has lasted all these years because we took care of it. It's getting hard because it's started to break down, but it has held up pretty well. How many people can say they still use a 15-year-old computer?"
Though he works on-call and often travels to run media for the college's National Leadership Seminars or events featuring Arnn, Rentschler said Matko always goes home for dinner with his wife.
"He's always easygoing," she said, "but if he had free time, I don't think he would know what to do with it."
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