University Times

If "The Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger's 1951 tale of teenage angst, had appeared a half-century later, it might well have been marketed as a young-adult novel, says Pitt professor emeritus William E. Coles Jr. By today's standards, "Catcher" bears the genre's earmarks, Coles points out: Unadorned style. Mild profanity and sex. A plot […]

In 1947, Ed Willock wrote for a leading lay Catholic magazine: "You cannot say that woman is the equal of man anymore than you can say an apple is the equal of man…. The difference between the sexes is not only physical but psychological, and it is because of these differences and not because of […]

With all due disrespect to former Pirates right fielder Derek Bell, this spring's real Operation Shutdown begins for South Hills commuters at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, when the outbound Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel will be closed for five months of repairs. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is setting up 16 detours around the bridge and […]

Joan Leach earned her Ph.D. through Pitt's rhetoric of science program, went to England for seven years as assistant professor at the University of London – Imperial College, and came back to Pitt as a faculty member this January with a controversial journal in tow. Leach is executive editor of Social Epistemology: A Journal of […]

When faculty and administrators in Pitt's School of Law recently found a way to maintain the Environmental Law Clinic as part of the school — despite state legislators' efforts to punish the clinic for representing certain environmentalist groups — University Senate leaders were among those who cheered the decision as a victory for academic freedom. […]

What if passengers on United Flight 93 had tried to overpower terrorist hijackers minutes earlier last Sept. 11, when the plane was flying over Pittsburgh? What if the hijackers — outnumbered and losing control of the situation — had then aborted their plan to attack Washington, D.C., and settled for crashing into the tallest building […]

Among the 350 full professors in Pitt's School of Medicine, the average nine-month contract salary last year was $128,381. That's not counting consulting fees, clinical income from the UPMC Health System and other non-University compensation that those professors may have received. Meanwhile, the 13 secretarial and clerical staff at the Titusville campus earned average salaries […]

Average full-time faculty salaries in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) ranged last year from $27,303 for instructors in the humanities division to $91,093 for full professors in the social sciences division. Average and median salaries for full-time employees in FAS and other Pitt units as of Oct. 31, 2001, appeared in a recent […]