University Times

Stan Heckathorn, vice president for Business Affairs at Pitt's Bradford campus (UPB), has resigned his post effective Dec. 31. Heckathorn is leaving UPB for a management position with a new software company with offices in New Hampshire and California. "Stan has shepherded the college through tremendous growth and development," said UPB President Richard McDowell. "His […]

By the fall 1999 term, students here will be able to register for classes by telephone or via their computers, Pitt officials say. Students also will be able to electronically view their grades, apply for financial aid and monitor their progress toward graduation — all without leaving their dorms or homes (although flesh-and-blood advisers still […]

Many computer applications will fail in the year 2000 because since the early stages of automation the date format used by software and computer manufacturers has been MM/DD/YY, which ascribes two digits for month/day/year. Under the system currently in use, for example, 1996 is stored as the two digits "96." As a result, the year […]

The Johnstown campus Faculty Senate has condemned Chancellor Mark Nordenberg's possible performance-based salary bonus. At its Nov. 20 meeting, the UPJ Senate voted 21-8 to approve the following motion: "It is the sense of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown that the Board of Trustees showed poor judgment and a lack of […]

A Dec. 3 Faculty Assembly discussion of summer unemployment compensation for Pitt part-time faculty turned into a forum on the status of part-timers here and the University's commitment to undergraduate education. The main antagonists in the discussion were Pitt General Counsel Lewis M. Popper and Pat Harrington Wysor, a part-time instructor in the English department. […]

The Instructional Technology Work- ing Group of the Executive Committee on Academic Computing (ECAC) has grant money available for five demonstration projects to increase the use of computers for instructional purposes at Pitt. Funds for the projects have been allocated by the Office of the Provost. Details on all of the projects and how to […]

Pitt Athletics Director Steve Pederson is expected to name a successor to head football coach John Majors as early as next week. Majors, who had one of the longest tenures among active college football coaches in the nation, announced his resignation on Nov. 25. As a coach, Majors amassed 184 wins, tying him with former […]

Before there was the Pitt Panther, there was the Pitt urchin. At least the boy wearing a bowler hat and holding a sign with "mascot" on it in a photograph of the University's 1890 football team brings to mind an urchin. Most likely he was a team member's younger brother or another student. The panther […]