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Shortly after escaping, the teen ran to a nearby house and tried to break into a St. Johns man's truck.
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It happened at a home in a trailer park called "Alta Acres" in Alta, just off Route 12.
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I'm not sure about this recipe. Too many lentils for the amount of liquid and I wish I'd used broth instead of water for more flavor. Thought it had an interesting taste at the end, but only after I added twice as much curry and some bouillon. I will make it again, but will do it quite differently next time.
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Made this today- with a lot of changes- and it's fantastic. I guess it's almost a different recipe, but I felt I should leave my changes here in case anyone wants to try what I did. I omitted the celery and added a chopped carrot and a chopped yukon gold potato. Then I added a half of a cup of vegetable broth, 1/3 cup brown rice, and quadrupled the curry powder (no one ever uses enough! a full tsp is perfect). It is excellent over homemade wheat bread!
This is the only main dish I've gotten from this site that has actually worked out to be worth the effort. Maybe next time I'll try it with fresh tomatoes. The similarity to my mom's potroast stew (before I became a vegetarian) makes me think that potatoes and/or carrots would make a tasty addition. My dad put his stew over brown rice, but I didn't like the idea-- I think it is better over a piece of whole wheat bread or toast.
This is a retaurant-quality soup. I have made this in very large quantities three or for times in the past two months.
This was yum yum yummy! I tripled this recipe and then put in a little less garlic. (more like 6-7 cloves). Also, I added 1/2 cup coconut milk, a dollop or two of sour cream, and 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper for extra zing. My man loved it and we had enough for lunches the next day.
Great foundations for a lentil stew. I made a few changes/additions based on other reviews and my personal taste and this turned out great. My flatmates all loved it too and asked me for the recipe. But I agree that lentil lovers will like this best, like myself. I cooked the lentils in chicken stock, along with chickpeas and sweet potato. I then also used red curry paste with coconut milk and 2 tablespoons of sour cream to get a really creamy stew.
We loved this recipe. I did make a few changes: added carrots, potatoes and cayenne pepper. Also, instead of water, I used chicken broth and upped the amount. I didn't have stewed tomoatoes so I used 1 can crushed and 1 can diced because I had them on hand. I upped the curry and the garlic and onion. We served it with red wine and crusty french bread. I will definitely make this again and might add escarole at the end next time. Thank you very much for posting this healthy and delicious recipe!
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Why write two memoirs?
I didn't think I could do justice to either in just one book; to the book about policy that comes next year or to this story of my family. And I really wanted to make sure the story about how I grew up and how I became who I am, in particular my parents, didn't get the short end of it. Because that's a bigger story than being a foreign policy specialist. The first one's the story of growing up in America during extraordinary times and parents who had incredible values about life and education and I didn't want that story to be shortchanged.
What's the name of the second book?
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But it's not Ordinary, Extraordinary People?
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What was the most difficult or emotional chapter to write for you?
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"It's what I've always wanted to do with my life," Whisman said of comedy. "It may not be the most fiscally sound profession, but making people laugh is what I love to do."
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Winston-Salem, NC-The Salem College soccer team lost their first home game in twelve tries today to Meredith. The first 60 minutes of the match were scoreless, before Meredith found the net four times in the final 30 minutes. The Spirits fall to 7-5, while Meredith improves to 8-3.
The game went into the break without a goal. In the second half, Meredith had goals from Kristy Knight (60:02), Alex Calvert (64:12), Carter Watson (77:48), and Emmy Errante (80:31). Andrea Baldwin had 14 saves for Salem.
"We played hard throughout the rainy first half," said Head Coach Jay Callahan. "Once we gave up the first goal, we put our heads down, and a team with the caliber players of Meredith will capitalize on that mistake. We have three tough matches coming up, and we need to have a better team effort to do well in those games."
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That understood, this was not an easy decision, by any means. "It was a long process and it was hard. There were a lot of schools that showed interest," he explained. "All of the Ohio Athletic Conference schools were in the running, as well as Saginaw Valley State; they were the only Division II school that showed interest. It came down to Capital was in Columbus, which excites me because it's not too far away and yet it is, as well as they had the academic program — biology pre-med — I want to get into.
"They also won the league this year, which tells me they have a solid program that I want to be part of. However, they lose a number of guards and that opens up the chance to play right away."
It also came down to finding a comfort level with the NCAA Division III Crusaders under head coach Damon Goodwin.
"I had a chance to meet all the guys and it was good," he acknowledged. "I'm excited about my future. I'm also glad that this decision is finally over; I feel relieved. It was on my mind for a while."
Geise feels coming from St. John's as a 4-year varsity player has left him prepared to play at the Division III level, though there will be an adjustment period.
"I know I have to step it up, especially as far as the speed of the game and the physicality, That will take some time but I'm confident I will make the adjustment in a decent amount of time. Right now, I'm not sure where I will be, whether the point guard or the 2. I will finish the baseball season and then turn my attention to basketball; I'll be playing in their open gyms and probably then will get a better feel for where I will be. I sat down with Coach Elwer after the basketball season and we talked about what I needed to do to get better and they will send me their off-season workout program."
Elwer also shares Geise's confidence.
"I don't think I've had a harder worker in my coaching years, whether in the film room, at practice or wherever we were. He showed that from day one as a freshman," Elwer added. "He was in the gym constantly trying to get better in some way. He was not afraid to ask questions.
"What I will miss most is his leadership; he led by example. I was proud of being able to coach him and I have no doubts he will be successful at the next level."


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Lloyd Ruff, who has been almost automatic in years past at SHC broke through again this summer by winning Thursday's weekly Class A tourney in perfect fashion, 7-0. Patty Doty continued to ride a high in Class B, going a perfect 5-0.
Ruff finished 2nd last week at 5-2, but didn't miss a beat this week. He was only seriously challenged in one of his seven matches. Ruff and Dorothy Hack teamed up against Lloyd Allen in game 2 and Allen got hot. Eventually Ruff and Hack won, but just by five points, 30-25. Ruff won his other matches, 30-13, 30-19, 30-10, 30-6, 30-14, 30-21.
In the final match of the night, Ruff and Allen took on Rich Galvin and Jon Galvin. Ruff was at 6-0 and Rich Galvin at 5-1. If Rich Galvin could get the win, he would have a shot at beating Ruff on points. It didn't happen. Ruff and Allen won and Galvin fell to 5-2, settling for 2nd place.
Last week's winner Carroll Rhodes finished in 3rd place. Rhodes fell to 3rd when he and Jon Galvin were beaten by Rich Galvin and George Mose in the closest match of the night, 30-27. Had Rhodes won, both would have been 4-3 and it would have come down to points for 2nd place. That didn't happen either.
In Class B action, Doty and Phegley were neck and neck until the final match. They both smoked their competition all night. Doty won with Phegley in game 1, 21-5. Doty then won, 21-2, 21-13, and 21-3. Phegley won with Doty, 21-5, then won 21-3, 21-0, and 21-3. They faced each other in the final match.
Doty dominated again. Doty teamed with Shelli Weber. They beat Phegley and Debbie Spellman in the head-to-head to decide the Class B winner of the night, 21-8. Doty won for the second straight week, undefeated. She now has won 10 straight matches.
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Convocation Address
State of the University, 2012-2013
Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D.
President, Duquesne University
September 12, 2013
Futhering our reputation for academic exellence.
Our Strategic Plan has three priorities. They are a renewed emphasis on our Spiritan identity and mission, enhancement of the quality of the student experience, and development of our national reputation for academic excellence. In recent convocations, I have addressed the first two of these priorities. Today, I want to speak to you about our third priority, academic excellence.
Before I do, however, I want to reflect a moment on why our Strategic Plan has only three parts. We might have added sections on financial management, fundraising, campus planning, community relations, legal issues, etcetera. Certainly our University has important priorities in these areas. Moreover, it is clear that success in the three areas addressed in the Plan is not possible without successes in these other areas as well. But the Plan is organized to draw attention to the fact that the heart of what we are is a trinity involving students, faculty and a mission that binds them together. To put it in more dramatic terms, who we are at our core is best illustrated when one faculty member assists one student to grow in knowledge and maturity within a Catholic, Spiritan context.
The academic commitment at the core of this trinity has been part of the Spiritan tradition since the very beginning. The founder of the Congregation, Claude Poullard des Places, studied with the Jesuits in Paris at the very beginning of the 18th century and he brought their tradition of rigor into his own schools. Over 100 years later, when the second founder, Francis Libermann, sent missionaries to Africa, he instructed them to put education and the building of schools ahead of conversions and the building of churches. Both leaders believed that education had a direct link to escaping poverty and all the human degradations associated with it.
This same insight came to Pittsburgh in 1878 when six Spiritans from Germany and Ireland opened the institutional ancestor of Duquesne, the Pittsburgh Catholic College. At that time, Pittsburgh was home to large numbers of German and Irish Catholic immigrants, working hard but living in poverty. We were conceived as their way up and out. This has been a part of our heritage ever since. Waves of immigrants came to Duquesne later-particularly from Italy and Eastern Europe. To serve them, our tuition was kept minimal, subsidized by the labor of the Spiritan faculty. Today we have fewer immigrants and Spiritan faculty, but our commitment to affordability for our students remains strong.
And we keep this historical obligation along with another important commitment of fairness to one another. Our compensation for faculty, relative to the region's cost of living, is near the very top for all faculty ranks among American Catholic doctoral universities. While so many other university personnel are losing ground, our general compensation is staying with or ahead of area inflation. We care for the lowest paid full-time employees with one of the highest minimum wages in the region-$14 per hour. Despite the recent Great Recession and some uneven years for enrollment, there has not been a single lay off at Duquesne during this Administration. Even in the contentious area of pay for adjunct faculty we have made significant advances, raising the minimum pay per course about 40 percent over the last two years. This gives us one of the highest pay per course rates for adjuncts in the region.
Of course, our tuition has risen to account for this-and for the improvements needed for excellence. But among private first-tier national universities, we have the lowest tuition that is not subsidized by a third party. Thus, we are recognized nationally as a "best buy." One reason for this is that we are among the nation's top 20 most efficient universities. On that list are only four private universities and just one Catholic university. I thank all of you for your contributions in helping to make Duquesne that one university.
Despite our efficiency, our tuition as a private university is high and many students take on significant debt to pay for it. All of us wish tuition could be lower. (Although I must add that much of the media attention to student debt is overblown. A good deal of the data they report is driven by debts that non-traditional students are encouraged to assume by for-profit institutions.) In our own undergraduate setting, the average debt from college loans is modest, on the order of buying a new car. Given the lifelong and intrinsic value of a Duquesne education, that is a very good deal.
Most importantly, we retain our commitment to affordability through scholarships. Many of these funds are directed at minorities in need. Overall, about one-fourth of our entire annual operating budget is returned to students in terms of scholarships. So, even as we have grown in excellence and complexity, we have maintained our core value of affordability that stretches back to our founding.
But there is one part of who we have been that we are most deliberately moving beyond. Despite the fact that our name changed from the Pittsburgh Catholic College to Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost in 1911 (after a very brief time as the University of the Holy Ghost), much of the thinking and self-image of our University remained Pittsburgh-bound well into the 20th century. We were the affordable college option for Pittsburgh Catholics, most of whom commuted and worked part time to pay for their education.
Pittsburgh remains our home and we are proud of it. The city and our campus within the city have become a major part of our recruiting as students and families want the excitement and opportunities of Pittsburgh but the friendliness and safety of our separate campus. Many of our students come from Pittsburgh and the region. Large numbers of our alums live and work here. Virtually all of our employees are from Pittsburgh and the region. Our fates are tied together to our mutual benefit.
But our academic aspirations for excellence are now national and international. It is no longer sufficient for us to look at regional success. Our peers for comparison are Catholic universities and other quality private universities across the nation. Our faculty come from the best national programs. They succeed here and are retained at exceptionally high rates.
Faculty are drawn here in part, I believe, because of our commitment to the teacher-scholar model of faculty success. When our self-image was local, emphasis was nearly exclusively on teaching. There were some noteworthy exceptions to this-the faculty in the phenomenological movement come to mind-but most of our alums remember their encounters with faculty through classroom excellence alone.
Now our faculty are committed to both excellence in teaching as well as excellence in scholarship. Even as they are leading students into the fundamentals and intricacies of their disciplines, they are themselves contributing to advancing knowledge and technique in those fields. There are alternatives, of course. Some small liberal art colleges have never fully embraced the need for scholarship. Some large research institutions devalue teaching, leaving it largely to junior faculty and graduate students. But at Duquesne we seek a balance of achievement in both. Moreover, it is the University's view that excellence in teaching and excellence in research reinforce each other, creating a more well-rounded faculty member. When there is achievement in both areas at the highest levels, as we document in promotion to full professor, the whole impact of a faculty member's career is greater than the sum of these two parts.
For the last several years, we have published an annual listing of all faculty publications. It is clear from this, as well as from the many impressive annual promotion and tenure applications, that research at Duquesne is on the rise. This is so, not only in number, but also in quality. Many of our faculty have books with leading publishers, articles in leading journals, presentations at important national meetings, and performances in key venues. The increasing numbers of recognitions for academic quality for the University and from our Schools and programs are a direct result of this important activity. It accounts, for example, for our listing as a very high research doctoral university in the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education-among only a handful of other Catholic universities.
At the same time, we are emphasizing quality teaching as never before. Today this means more than solid presentation in the classroom and availability for advising. It also means the use of more technological support in and out of the classroom. Blackboard applications are nearly universal among us. Full use of smart classrooms is on the rise. Distance learning is increasing. The Center for Teaching Excellence and the Online Campus are the main administrative supports for these efforts.
An area that we are encouraging in our Strategic Plan is the development of interdisciplinary scholarship and programs. There are several reasons for this. First, the real world and its problems are not as neatly sorted as our disciplines are. Taking on those issues often requires coming at them from multiple perspectives at once. Indeed, many of the most important intellectual breakthroughs now come through the work of interdisciplinary teams.
Second, this is an area in which Duquesne can excel. We are large enough to contain a diversity of disciplines but small enough for faculty to encounter one another across their disciplines. Again, by contrast, a smaller college may not have enough disciplines represented to make a truly interdisciplinary program. In a mega-university faculty rarely come to know one another outside their departments. Here we have the best of each without the associated shortcomings.
There are several areas in which such interdisciplinary work is to be encouraged. The sciences and the health sciences-along with our new commitment to biomedical engineering-are naturals for such cooperation. Applied ethics is a common concern in many of our schools and programs. Sustainability and protection of our environment are obvious themes. Many of our disciplines could offer more to our students by adding business or legal elements. Issues of peace and justice, including community service and service-learning, are attractive areas. Anything related to the Spiritan and Catholic intellectual traditions cuts across all our disciplines and should be a focus for us.
One of the explicit emphases in this area in our Strategic Plan is the focus on Africa. For generations European and American Spiritans have been missionaries in East, West and Central Africa. Now, as the numbers of European and American Spiritans are in decline, there is a large increase in the Congregation in these areas of Africa. Local Spiritans there are struggling to establish a university system. There is a School of Theology in Nigeria through which we grant master's degrees and a university in that country in the early stages of construction. There is a small but promising Spiritan university up and running in Ghana. We can and should help these and other Spiritan efforts in Africa. We are also working to develop partnerships with other African universities and scholars.
At the same time, we are already benefitting from the presence in our Spiritan community and on our faculty of African confreres. No doubt, we will have the support of more African Spiritans here in the future. Efforts like our Center for Spiritan Studies are designed, in part, to attract Spiritans here from around the world in the hope that some of them will see a future for themselves with us.
We are also embarked on an effort to establish a major interdisciplinary African Studies Program. It is available as a minor at present. I hope as this effort evolves, it will become a distinctive element in our curriculum, exposing our students to the challenges of a continent they may know little of, and leading to creative, first-rate publications.
It is also useful to remind ourselves that the Spiritans followed Africans throughout their diaspora, notably into the Indian Ocean, Caribbean Sea and inner-city America. With this in mind, our commitment to Africa is matched by a similar commitment to the Hill District, our African-American neighbors. We have multiple community service projects there, of course. But the Hill, presuming community agreement and the requisite sensitivities on our part, can be an important arena for teaching and research as well.
In order to keep our academic progress on track, it is very important that faculty members actively pursue external funding. We are all aware that these are difficult times for government funding, but applications in these areas must continue with support from our Office of Government Relations. Foundation and corporate funding remain important options, with assistance from our Office of Corporate Relations. The Office of Sponsored Research is the main administrative office for support for all external grant efforts.
The University cannot carry the financial burden of our entire research enterprise but we do make dollars available for start-up and bridge funding. There are also several competitive grant opportunities within the University, including the Presidential Scholarship Award, Faculty Development Award, and the Paluse grants. We want to create more such opportunities. The Schools also have their own support programs for research and for initiating grants applications.
One of the great advances in our academic life has been the increase in endowed chairs, some funded with external money, some from within. These honors highlight the achievements of our faculty and reflect credit on the University. They also create more opportunities for creative research. A dozen years ago, the University had one endowed chair. Today, with these installations, we have 21. Establishing more such chairs remains a priority.
One mark of a great university is outstanding graduate programs. We do not have many graduate programs and I, for one, have less interest in beginning new ones than in strengthening the ones we have-particularly our Ph.D. programs. The graduates of our Ph.D. programs are hired at other universities and spread the reputation and influence of Duquesne. When I was just beginning my work in philosophy, for example, I was advised that there were only two intellectual centers for the study of phenomenology in the United States. Duquesne was named as one. That was my first academic encounter with the University and it shaped my desire to join this community years later.
Over the last several years, we have worked to raise the stipends of graduate students in our doctoral programs to attract and retain better candidates. We have also most recently added health insurance coverage in some of our leading Ph.D. programs for the same purpose. For a number of reasons, it is hard to estimate the cost of insurance coverage-who will take it when offered, the nature of their health and illness experience, the costs of the care itself. When these total costs become clearer, we hope to add health insurance coverage to more of our Ph.D. programs. We are also coordinating the recruiting of graduate students as never before.
I have a request of deans and faculty regarding their doctoral programs. Despite the importance of the prestige and the numbers of our graduates to us, we cannot ignore the glutted job market in some disciplines. When it is clear that our graduates are not getting jobs-not full-time jobs-in the fields in which we have trained them, we should limit the number of new students entering our programs. Throughout, our emphasis in graduate education should be on quality and the success of our graduates, not on quantity.
We have worked hard and cooperatively with deans and Facilities Management to expand and renovate our academic areas. Our general rule-following the core of our Strategic Plan-is that administrative functions should go to our expanding periphery and that the cornerstones of academic life and student life should stay in our campus center.
We have and will continue to add property at our edges, when it is prudent and the price is right. This is part of responsible campus planning for future generations-just as generations in the past assembled the properties that compose the heart of today's campus. Those who are critical of such expenditures should contemplate the contemporary fate of a Duquesne University without Academic Walk but filled instead with decrepit row houses and city traffic flowing through the center of campus.
Among our more important additions over the last decade are the Libermann Building (whose space allowed us to commit to an engineering program), the Muldoon and Cooper Buildings, which give us control of the south side of Fifth Avenue and Chatham Square, and all the property on Forbes Avenue that allowed for the building of the Power Center and the beautification of our front door to the City. Most recently, we have continued that beautification by removing the dilapidated Bagamoyo Building at Forbes and Magee.
Virtually every School has seen major renovations in the recent past. The two exceptions are Law, which has just received a new Legal Clinic on Fifth Avenue next to the Cooper Building, and Business, whose turn for major renovation is next. Most of the spending for this work has come from internal sources, but grants from government and foundations have helped. From 2002 to 2012, over $29 million was spent renovating academic units. Another $22 million is planned for 2013 to 2017, including construction of a theatre on campus.
These renovations, of course, included upgrades to our technology infrastructure in classrooms and WiFi connections. The former is ongoing, though most of our classrooms are now smart with computers and projectors. The latter-WiFi-is now universal on campus both indoors and out. We also have several locations on campus for distance education links and more are on the way as this method of learning is becoming more a part of student and faculty expectations.
On that topic, let me offer this view. Distance education as the main component of a program is best suited for the adult, self-motivated learner. These are students who already know how to learn and can do so with little direction. Undergraduates, especially at Duquesne, are best served in real, unmediated educational relations with faculty-the standard classroom experience. They are in the process of learning how to learn at the collegiate level and need more direct faculty support.
Of course, there are exceptions to this general view on both sides. Some of our largely distance-learning graduate experiences are enhanced considerably by periodic visits to campus and face-to-face encounters with faculty. Our undergraduates are now coming to us with high school experience that includes widespread use of digital support in the classroom and in some cases with distance-learning experience. These are areas in which we must continue to experiment, staying mindful of our both our mission and the niche we have in a competitive educational environment.
Among our major academic resources is the Gumberg Library. We have not identified the funding for the major renovation that the building needs, so we are doing pieces at a time. We have concentrated on making the entering floor more inviting and user-friendly. As libraries have evolved in the digital age, they have become less significant as sources of general information, much of which is now readily available on hand-held devices. They have themselves become major centers for electronic resources. In addition, they are more than ever areas for study, including group study. Gumberg is packed with students at the end of each semester. So, what we have done is to add more accommodating furniture on that floor and more outlets for charging electronic devices.
The second clear function of the new library is greater stress on special collections and scholarly work on them. Because of this, we have created the Center for Spiritan Studies in which a major effort to digitize key works in Spiritan history is ongoing. We have also renovated the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, making it more accessible to our own and visiting scholars. We are aware that more needs to be done in our library and we are actively seeking support for it.
I want to add now a special appeal to deans, faculty and all those playing a role in the academic hiring process. It involves diversity. We have much to be proud about in Pittsburgh. We are a remarkable success story in the recovery from a dying rust belt city to a contemporary green economy. Duquesne is pleased to be a key player in the "eds and meds" miracle that has led and sustained this recovery.
But on measures involving diversity, Pittsburgh has a long way to go. In fact, we have the least diverse population of any major metropolitan region in the nation. According to data reported by Harold Miller of FutureStrategies, only 12 percent of our metropolitan area's residents are non-white, the smallest percentage among the top 40 urban regions in the country. We are at the wrong end of other key markers as well. Black unemployment is 2.6 times white unemployment, the seventh worst of all national regions. The average working African-American earns the second lowest wage of all 40 metropolitan areas. Less than a fourth of all working blacks are in management, business, science or arts, the second lowest of the top urban regions. Among the top 40 metropolitan areas in the U.S., working-age African-Americans in Pittsburgh have the third highest rate of poverty. Black children here have the sixth highest rate of poverty of all American urban regions.
Because of our mission and tradition and particularly because this data expresses such suffering among our own neighbors, Duquesne has an obligation to be part of the solution to these problems. As one of the region's major employers, one obvious way for us to help is to hire more minorities, especially African-Americans. To that end we have had two strategies in place for several years.
The first is an administrative Minority Hiring Program, a small but successful effort. At any given time we have three to five minorities who we have hired because they have promising backgrounds and skills, despite the fact that we have no open positions for them. We rotate them through various administrative units as extra, temporary employees, giving them on-the-job training and experience in our working culture. When an administrative position does open up, they are often the best qualified applicants at that point and we hire them.
This effort is matched by a Faculty Minority Hiring Program that has had more mixed success, working well in some schools but not at all in others. The idea here is that when a department is conducting a national search for an approved new hire, it is not unusual to encounter minority applicants who are close but just not right for the position. Perhaps we are looking for a European historian, for example, and a minority specialist in American history applies. Or, all of our top candidates have completed their Ph.D.s and some even have publications, but a minority candidate has not yet finished the dissertation. Our program, with review by the Provost, allows for hiring two new faculty members for the one open position-the top candidate as well as the minority. The Provost and the Dean then develop a strategy for returning the affected department to its previous size over time, but leaving it with a more diverse makeup.
About 10 percent of Duquesne's faculty have left us over the last two years, accepting the terms of our voluntary buy-out program. We have been deliberately slow to replace them as we watch our enrollment carefully. But last year we had a record freshman enrollment, thanks to our Enrollment Management Team. That record has been exceeded by this fall's number. This means that there will be more hiring of faculty than usual over the next several years as we sort out the implications of faculty retirement losses against increased student demand. I ask you to bear our Faculty Minority Hiring Program in mind if you are part of a hiring team. This can be a moment for us to take a great step forward in diversity and to make a positive difference in the life and vitality of the Pittsburgh community.
Finally, as always, I want to express my gratitude to all of you, but particularly this year to all those in Academic Affairs-Provosts Pearson and Austin, deans, faculty, academic support area professionals, executive assistants and secretaries. The academic excellence that undergirds our growing national reputation is your creation. You are a critical part of the trinity at the heart of who we are as you bring our students an education for a lifetime in our Catholic, Spiritan tradition. You serve God by serving our students. For all those students and for all those who represent our mission and identity, I thank you. Thank you for all you do for Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit.


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---- — LAWRENCE — An observer sent by the state to monitor last month's preliminary election reported finding "confusion and overall chaos" at several polling places, where he said election workers gave ballots to people not on the voter rolls, examined completed ballots and allowed candidates to walk around freely inside.
The alleged irregularities may have been most widespread at the Valebrook Apartments on Union Street, where observer Ramon Trinidad said he found "chaos, electioneering and overall disruption of the election process."
"It was hard to see where the lines went and it was easy for people to enter the voting area to 'help' voters with their ballot," Trinidad said about the polling place, which serves precinct B4 and gave Mayor William Lantigua 64 percent of the vote against five other candidates in the Sept. 17 election. "This included a candidate who was on the ballot being in the voting area and freely walking around the polling place greeting and meeting people."
Trinidad did not identify the candidate in his report and would not comment when reached yesterday. His report said he saw the candidate "interfering with the election process," but provided no details.
Trinidad also reported seeing poll workers who seemed to be telling voters how to vote and observers working for candidates intermingling with poll workers in ways that made them indistinguishable. He said cramped and poorly laid out polling places invited the irregularities and added to the confusion.
Trinidad also said City Clerk William Maloney, the city's top election official, told him he found a warden who was "writing in voters' names on the voters list who were not on there to begin with and allowing them to vote."
Pam Wilmot, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, responded to the report yesterday by saying her organization would consider sending a team of lawyers and other observers to Lawrence for the general election on Nov. 5, when voters will choose between Lantigua and City Councilor Daniel Rivera and also will elect a City Council and two school committees. She said the irregularities Trinidad identified are "very concerning."
"They go from something fairly mundane but important, like not posting (Voter Bill of Rights) signs to very serious problems, such as writing in names on the voter list and looking at voters' ballots," Wilmot said. "These are both extreme violations of your basic elections procedures and voters' rights to secret ballots."
"Observers (for candidates) can be helpful, but they also can be a glitch in the process," Wilmot said about the volunteers that candidates post at the polls. "They can bully election officials to doing things their way."
Rivera last week called on Michelle Tassinari, director of the Secretary of the Commonwealth's Election Division, to take over management of the election from Maloney, the city clerk, and place observers at all 24 polling places in the city to ensure a fair election. Tassinari said she does not have the power to take over local elections or the manpower to staff all Lawrence's polling places, although she said observers will return to the city on Nov. 5. She also said Rivera's complaint lacked specifics.
Yesterday, Rivera said Trinidad's report provided the specifics.
"If this isn't proof enough, what else does he need?" Rivera said, referring to Tassinari's superior, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin. "This is not a third party, not an anonymous source. This is somebody sent from his office to observe and they observed what we've observed: chaos. Voters losing their expectation of a secret ballot. People penciling in people's names on the voter list."
Tassinari and Brian McNiff, a spokesman for Galvin, were not in the office yesterday and could not be reached, said a clerk in their office who did not identify himself. He referred questions about the report to Nancy Driscoll, another spokeswoman for Galvin, who did not return a phone call.
The Eagle-Tribune filed a Public Records Law request for Trinidad's report on Oct. 3, after McNiff declined to say whether Trinidad noted any irregularities during the preliminary election. Tassinari released the report late Monday.
Trinidad's report adds to the list of alleged voting irregularities in a city with a history of them dating at least to 1998, when the federal government alleged that its at-large system of elections diluted the voting power of Hispanics. The city settled the suit by creating election districts for City Council and School Committee candidates, and later was ordered to redraw the district lines.
More recently, a handwriting expert hired by The Eagle-Tribune last year concluded that city Election Division employee Rafael Tejeda faked the signatures of four of his neighbors — including a Dominican citizen — on nominating petitions for Frank Moran, the City Council president who was elected to the Statehouse. Tejeda denied the allegation.
Also last year, the city appeared overwhelmed by the turnout for the presidential election, when polling places ran out of pens, voting booths collapsed under the weight of voters and the lines at some polling places were as deep as 400 people, and the wait to cast a ballot was as long as three hours as untrained poll workers worked through voter rolls that were sprinkled with errors.
A City Council committee chaired by Rivera held hearings on the shortcomings after the 2012 election. When it ended, Rivera said Maloney should be fired.
Maloney could not be reached yesterday.
But in a cover letter that accompanied his report, Trinidad said Maloney "is a very willing candidate for the job of continuing to make the election process in Lawrence better."
"Overall," Trinidad said, "I think the election process in Lawrence has come a very long way from where it was."


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Each time I walk into my apartment—even if I've been gone for less than a minute—my three dogs leap on me, kiss me, lick me, wag and bark, and show me their chew toys.
I find it inspiring: Life throws a lot of junk in your direction, so you might as well get your kicks when you can. Now I try to acknowledge every small-but-happy event (my kid's half-birthdays, good doctor's visits, even when a mosquito bite stops itching) with at least a cheerful word or gesture. I believe that if dogs could speak, they'd say, "You should have a cupcake for that." That's a worldview I can get behind.
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Hi all,
Since there are SOO many posts, I thought I would start a new one. I will get my armor on just in case, lol.
Ok. I like the trailer. I am excited that there will be a new movie. When I first heard about the new movie, I wasn't so sure what to think. I read a new feature on New Voyages (now Phase II) about how James Cawley was invited to the set, and how impressed he was, and he said he was pleased by what he hear and saw.
Now...since everyone had a theory on alot of items...I wil start with what I think of some parts of the Trailer.
I will start with the opening. We see a sports car being driven and chased. When the kid jjumps out, the cop asked his name. James Tyberius Kirk.
Ok..so why is trying to crash an antique car? Just for the thrill? Maybe not. I think, and this is just conjecture, that he is about 10-12 years old. IF background is followed, the I am thinking that he just found out that his family was leaving Earth for Tarsus IV.
According to TOS (and Memory Alpha) he was there in 2246. I am guessing he had no choice, and was P'O'd that he had to leave. also, his Father was stil in Startfleet, and his Older Brother being "Better" than him. So, to show his anger, he takes his Father's antique car...
Like I said, just a thought.
When he comes back, after wtinessing the death/execution of 4,000 colonist, he is VERY upset/angry, etc. with very few choices, hence, what people are talking about a scene in a bar, where he meets Captain Pike...drowning his sorrows?
Ok...and, the New Enterprise. As others have said, it looks mean, and like it can kick butt...lol. A very locigal step up from the NX-01.
I am done, for now...let the comments begin!
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SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new poll shows U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell in a re-election tie with one of his potential Democratic challengers, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.
The survey was done by a Democratic polling firm, but it may reveal some potential weakness as McConnell cranks up his 2014 campaign.
It's a campaign in which McConnell does not yet have a serious challenger. Grimes says she is still deciding whether to run.
In the meantime, McConnell is busy emphasizing his main theme - opposing President Obama.
"With regard to the U.S. Senate, you didn't ask me about it, but as you all know, I've had a good deal of experience as the Defensive Coordinator. I'd like to have the opportunity to be the offensive coordinator."
McConnell was on the offense at the Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce, as he went after what he called the "arrogance of power" in the White House, highlighted by the IRS scandal.
"What's going on here is the power of the federal government is being used to come down on those who disagree with Administration policy," he said.
McConnell supplied plenty of red meat for this friendly audience; blasting the Affordable Care Act.
"The single worst piece of legislation that has been passed in modern times."
And criticizing Gov. Beshear for expanding Medicaid.
"I think it was highly irresponsible decision."
Any perceived vulnerability by McConnell was not apparent here. The top elected official says he'll likely win this conservative county, even if there is a Tea Party challenge from the right.
"He's just got the foundation, the strength, to carry it on and win," said Bullitt Co. Judge Executive Melanie Roberts.
McConnell did a Q & A with the audience but not with reporters. He quickly exited without taking questions, his state director finally blocking the hallway.
"We're good. Thanks guys," said Terry Carmack as McConnell was whisked away.
WDRB News asked Carmack about taking questions from supporters in the audience but not from reporters.
"They were good questions from those guys, and you saw what he said from the podium. That's a sense of what Kentuckians here in Bullitt County have on their minds." said Carmack.
Carmack would not respond when asked whether McConnell should face questions from local reporters.
Former Miss America Heather French Henry is also considering the race. And state Tea Party activists say McConnell will get a challenger from the right.
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'Gordon Gekko' Is The New Face of Wall Street-Fighting Obama Justice Department
By Tim Graham | February 28, 2012 | 09:58
CNN's Terry Frieden reported that liberal Hollywood, in the person of Michael Douglas, is coming to the aid of the Obama administration: "The FBI on Monday unveiled a videotaped message from the actor who played the infamous fictional insider trader Gordon Gekko to help bolster a wide-ranging attack on financial crimes."
Coincidentally, "Attorney General Eric Holder traveled to New York on Thursday to deliver the message that the Justice Department is committed to rooting out corporate crime." That might shore up the liberal base: looking tough on Wall Street with the liberal actor who caricatured the "greed is good" Reagan Eighties.
Frieden's little publicity piece only used government sources.
At an FBI headquarters briefing on the stepped-up fight against financial misdealings, the bureau proudly showed a 30-second public service announcement featuring actor Michael Douglas. His character in the 1987 film "Wall Street," Gordon Gekko, proclaimed that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good." But in a new message to help the FBI, Douglas says, "The movie is fiction, but the problem is real."
Douglas asks viewers who suspect financial crime to contact the FBI.
Douglas hasn't just done a voice-over favor for Obama and Eric Holder. He announces the opening every night on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. But Williams is more fond of comparing Obama to Douglas in The American President.
NBC recently reported with glee that a liberal Gordon Gekko impersonator met Mitt Romney in South Carolina.
#1 Fiction
Submitted by chuckshick on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:08am.
And in other news, I heard the Justice Department is hiring Deputy Dawg to go after the Fast & Furious culprits.
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#2 Michael Douglas
Submitted by Gothampc on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:09am.
Has anyone seen Michael Douglas lately? He looks like he's 110 years old. Only that mummy McCain looks more decrepit than Douglas.
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#3 I think he is
Submitted by shawn. on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:21am.
Recovering from throat cancer
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#4 didn't know that
Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 6:23am.
I pray he fully recovers.
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#5 This "financial crimes"
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:19am.
This "financial crimes" scares the Hell out of me.
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#6 Dont blame him-hes only fulfilling his ,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 11:16am.
required community service, for starring in that stinko sequel! Aww, poor Gordie Gekko, you got caught, and NOW youre going to lecture US, in the name of Holder and O'Bozo? Yeah, we know you got like $10 million stashed away that no one can find-cry me a river, all the way to the bank!
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#7 I'm sure it's just a coincidence...
Submitted by OxyCon on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 1:48pm.
...and not a political stunt by the Obama administration setting the table for Romney.
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#8 They are creating a caricature.
Submitted by David Kramer on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 6:17pm.
They are not attacking an actual person or entity, they are actually creating a straw man in real life. Tell me, if what Wall Street has done was illegal, why are we not hearing about numerous charges being filed? Why are there only payoffs like the banking settlement?
Every tyrannical government creates these caricatures to make people not pay attention to where the real crime and corruption originate, government. Guess where 78% of that bank settlement is going? California. It is an under the table bailout for California.
George Washington was a student of history- "The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury."
Obama and the other statists have brought in the new way of looting though, they are stealing from the future treasuries also as well as enslaving our posterity.
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RB James Starks: The second-year back's playing time has been extremely steady. Starks has carried the ball 13 times in three of the team's last four games. But after gaining 89 yards on 25 carries in the previous two games (3.6 yards per carry), Starks rushed for 13-75 (5.8 ypc) against the Vikings and turned it up a notch when it counted most, grinding out 55 yards on six carries on the game's final drive — including nifty runs of 15, 20 and 13 yards — to keep the Vikings at bay.
PK Mason Crosby: While most close observers believe the Packers have been far from perfect despite their spotless record, they certainly can't say that about Crosby, who has been automatic this season from all distances. After four field goals on four attempts Sunday, including a team-record 58-yarder late in the third quarter that would have been good from 70 yards out, Crosby has connected on 20 consecutive three-pointers dating back to last season. His kickoffs also have been mostly of the booming variety (four touchbacks on seven kickoffs vs. Minnesota), and at this rate, it would be an absolute travesty if he didn't earn a Pro Bowl berth.
P Tim Masthay: Greatly overshadowed by Crosby, Masthay had been ordinary at best until Sunday's game against Minnesota, when he connected on three punts for a 59.3-yard average (55.3 net), all of which landed inside the Vikes' 20-yard line. His late 65-yarder was particularly clutch.
Run defense: The Packers' run "D" is still ranked a very respectable ninth, but it has allowed at least 118 yards in three of the last four games after relinquishing a combined 165 yards on the ground in the first three games. Of course, Vikings RB Adrian Peterson, who is as good at his craft as it gets when he's on his game, had a lot to do with the unit's latest shortcomings thanks to his vintage 175-yard, one-TD effort last Sunday. But the Packers have had problems stopping opposing featured backs for the past month, and that's a pattern that needs to cease and desist quickly.
Pass rush: In the Packers' first four games, they registered a respectable 10 sacks. In the last four games, they have a rather unrespectable seven sacks. Clay Matthews registered a sack for a second week in a row — a sign he might be coming on — but at least one or two more consistent pass-rushing threats need to emerge after the bye week. Green Bay is ranked a mediocre 17th in QB sack percentage.
Left side of the offensive line: OT Marshall Newhouse and OG T.J. Lang had a long afternoon last Sunday trying to stop Vikings high-motor sack specialist Jared Allen, who had two sacks for 17 yards in losses, two tackles for loss and three QB hits.


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