University Times

If you want to ensure the privacy of your electronic communications at Pitt, youíre probably safer using telephone voice-mail rather than computer e-mail – although that depends on the system you use, and whether youíre sending or receiving messages. Just pressing a "delete" button rarely makes an e-mail message disappear. Most get stored somewhere, for […]

Faculty Assembly on Nov. 5 unanimously approved a resolution "strongly urging" the administration to maintain at least two employee health insurance plans after Pitt's current contract with Blue Cross expires at the end of June 1998. The resolution specifies that one of the two plans should be an indemnity-type option like the current Blue Cross […]

The latest edition of "Engineering Quarterly" predicts that computer engineering will become the "second largest of the engineering disciplines" by the year 2005. To meet this need, Pitt's electrical engineering and computer science departments have implemented an interdisciplinary computer engineering program. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts an annual employment growth of over 6 percent […]

While Pitt administrators and attorneys continue to work out details of a proposed new early retirement plan for full-time, tenured faculty, University Senate leaders complain that they've been left in the dark about the plan's progress. "I don't know what interpretation to put on this," Senate benefits and welfare committee chairperson James Holland said at […]

Associate Provost for Research George Klinzing and Michael Becich, chairperson of the University Senate computer usage committee, are forming a committee that will begin meeting later this fall to: * Review Pitt's existing computing policies. * Judge whether those policies should be updated. * Make recommendations to the senior administration on privacy issues related to […]

Pitt freshman enrollment, applications and SAT scores all increased this fall. But for the third consecutive year the University failed to meet its overall enrollment goals. The shortfall was small, just 70 full-time-equivalent students, or 0.2 percent of Pitt's total enrollment. According to final figures for fall 1996, Pitt freshman enrollment increased by 10 percent […]

Of all the famous 19th- century industrialists, aka "robber barons," none remains more reviled in the public eye than Henry Clay Frick. Over three-quarters of a century after his death, guides at Clayton, the Frick home in Point Breeze, continue to hear nasty remarks about the former resident. Tour group members actually have refused to […]

James H. Moon, a faculty librarian and the principal cataloger with the University Library System, died Sept. 21, 1996, after a long illness. He was 63. Moon began his career with the University in 1967 as a cataloger. During his tenure he also served as coordinator of original cataloging, social sciences/special projects cataloger, head cataloger, […]

Campus police are warning members of the University community to beware of a letter seeking investors for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. Pitt Police Chief Rick Boyd said the letter is a fraud and that the company is being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. According to Boyd, several letters already have been received by […]

The law of the United States sets aside today, Yom Hashoah, as a Day of Remembrance–of the Holocaust. On Yom Hashoah 1996, we recall that 50 years ago another member of the Court on which I sit, Justice Robert Jackson, joined representatives of other nations, as a prosecutor, at Nuremberg…. Justice Jackson described the Nuremberg […]