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 […]
Johnstown Faculty Senate condemns performance-based bonus for chancellor >
December 5th, 1996The 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 […]
Faculty Assembly becomes forum on part-time University faculty >
December 5th, 1996A 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. […]
Grant money available for computer demo projects >
December 5th, 1996The 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 […]
Coach Majors steps down >
December 5th, 1996Pitt 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 […]
University Archives >
December 5th, 1996Before 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 […]
Toy drive here ends Dec. 6 >
December 5th, 1996The U.S. Marine Corps Reserve's annual Toys for Tots Drive to provide toys for underprivileged children will end on campus tomorrow, Dec. 6. Toy bins for contributions are located in Forbes Quad near the main elevators; 615 William Pitt Union and the information desk; Roy Rogers in the Cathedral of Learning, and the main entrances […]