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Volume 31 Issue 18

Priority seating fee policy angers faculty >

May 13th, 1999

Priority seating fee policy angers faculty Like a beleaguered um- pire, Chancellor Mark Nordenberg has promised to step in to resolve a scuffle between University Senate leaders and the athletics department over priority seating fees for home foot ball games. Since the 1980s, the athletics department has charged extra fees for seats in priority sections […]

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Pitt scores add up in math competition >

May 13th, 1999

Pitt scores add up in math competition Pitt sophomore Dragos Ghioca outscored 2,569 mathematics undergraduates from nearly 420 colleges and universities to rank 10th in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition. Pitt ranked first among all public colleges and universities in the United States and 13th overall in the Putnam team competition. Ghioca is […]

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Outstanding >

May 13th, 1999

Outstanding Richard Pratt, a longtime member and current chairperson of the University Senate budget policies committee, was honored f or outstanding service as a Senate member by Senate President Nathan Hershey. In announcing the award at the May 10 Senate Council meeting, Hershey called Pratt conscientious, tenacious, polite, constructive, sincere and possessed of a good […]

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Pitt, UPMC, area businesses join to improve Oakland >

May 13th, 1999

Pitt, UPMC, area businesses join to improve Oakland Pitt, UPMC Health System and some 90 business and property owners have joined forces to improve Oakland. By forming the Oakland Business Improvement District (OBID), the groups become part of a legally sanctioned authority in which property owners in a commercial area agree to assess themselves additional […]

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Book endowment established by alums >

May 13th, 1999

Book endowment established by alums Pitt graduates Jennifer and Eric Spiegel have pledged $12,500 to support undergraduate students in the fields of information science and communication. The Jennifer and Eric Spiegel Book Endowment Fund establishes two annual awards of $250 each. One will be given to a full-time undergraduate student in the information science program […]

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