Bigelow Boulevard between the Cathedral of Learning and the William Pitt Union will reopen to vehicular traffic sometime prior to midnight on Oct. 15. Bob Harkins, director of Pitt's Office of Parking and Transportation, could not say exactly when the concrete barriers blocking the street would be removed, but urged students, faculty and staff to […]
Bigelow block to re-open next week after test closing >
October 10th, 1996Two University Press books nominated for major awards >
October 10th, 1996Two works of poetry published by the University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the Pitt Poetry Series have been named finalists for major literary prizes. "The Crack in Everything" by Alicia Suskin Ostriker has been named a National Book Award finalist. "The Art of Drowning" by Billy Collins is a finalist for the Lenore […]
University Press offices moving >
October 10th, 1996By the end of October, the University of Pittsburgh Press will vacate its cramped quarters in Ruskin Hall and move into leased office space at 3347 Forbes Ave. "It's not luxurious by any means but it's clean and it's new and it's a big improvement over our current space," said University Press Director Cynthia Miller. […]
Brit scribe accuses U.S. press of vindictiveness, political incest >
October 10th, 1996Martin Walker, the urbane and ubiquitous British journalist, spoke to a Frick Fine Arts auditorium audience Oct. 7 about adultery, conspiracy, illegal drug use and incest. Walker writes about politics, so those subjects were bound to come up. But he apologized for raising a really offensive topic — journalistic ethics, which Walker regretfully called an […]
NUREMBERG >
October 10th, 1996Henry King was a small-town mayor in Connecticut who enjoyed discussing political issues at the dinner table. One night in May 1935 he posed this question to his wife and two children: How do you stop war? His family was stumped. After a silence, King proclaimed: "The people don't want wars. It's their leaders who […]
Hamlisch to be honored at UPMC-sponsored event >
October 10th, 1996Marvin Hamlisch, principal pops conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will be honored at the 10th anniversary celebration of Competitive Employment Opportunities (CEO) on Oct. 26. Freddie Fu, director of Pitt's Center for Sports Medicine and honorary chair of the event, will present Hamlisch with CEO's first humanitarian award. CEO is a non-profit organization that […]
Painstakingly reproducing Stephen Foster's sketchbook >
October 10th, 1996Songwriter Stephen Foster's sketchbook is considered one of the most important 19th-century American music manuscripts in existence, according to Deane Root, director of the Stephen Foster Memorial, where the sketchbook is housed. To make it more readily available to those interested in historical material, Root and photographer Jim Burke from the Center for Instructional Development […]
Assembly wants some emphasis on the arts in capital improvement plan >
October 10th, 1996Faculty Assembly is urging the University Capital Planning Committee to find a place for the arts in the committee's 10-year plan for Pittsburgh campus construction and renovation. As part of the University Senate response to the proposed plan, the Assembly on Oct. 1 unanimously approved the following motion: "Whereas the University has a responsibility to […]
UPMC shifts more patient care from Oakland, greatly expanding number of facilities in other areas >
October 10th, 1996Of all the changes that have occurred in the health care industry over the past decade, none is more evident from the patient's point of view than the shifting of many services from hospital stays to out-patient care. Driven by the refusal of insurance companies to pay for hospital stays, diagnostic testing and other procedures […]