Tom Mauser took off his shoe, one that once belonged to his son, and held it up in front of the hundreds of people hanging on his every word Wednesday in the Power Center Ballroom. "No parent should have to walk in the shoes of a murdered child," he said.
The University's team of Colleges Against Cancer is bringing The Relay for Life, an energizing fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, to Duquesne University this weekend. The Relay for Life will be held on McCloskey Field from 6 p.m., April 11 until 6 a.
While recent Gumberg Library statistics reveal record-breaking numbers of visitors in Jan. 2008, students continue to express dissatisfaction with outdated conditions. Gumberg announced plans to renovate the bridge to the main entrance and the first floor starting May 5, 2008, with a projected completion date of Aug.
This week, Duquesne University opened its arms to new cultures and tastes for the 27th Annual International Week. International Week 2008 was a collaborative effort between the Office of International Programming and the International Student Organization.
Last Thursday, a throng of locals surrounded the building of District Justice Suzanne Blaschak in Gibsonia, about 15 miles north of Pittsburgh. Television stations parked their vans, and police surveyed the area, knowing the anticipation of the preliminary hearing.
In the age where self-broadcasting Web sites have come to define a generation, two well-known media outlets are joining forces to find out what's on Pennsylvania voters' minds. The YouTube Voter Video on C-SPAN initiative, an Internet/cable broadcast collaboration centered around the upcoming April 22 Pennsylvania primaries allows voters the opportunity to voice their views on the issues most important to them in the upcoming election.
In working to ensure the success of students throughout the city of Pittsburgh, the Dean of Duquesne University's School of Education accepted a position as a board member for the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program on Friday, March 28. As stated on the Web site for the Pittsburgh Foundation, The Pittsburgh Promise is a program designed to help students and families of the Pittsburgh Public Schools plan, prepare and pay for education beyond high school at an accredited post-secondary institution within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
While Duquesne University's administration is yet to release specific details, the search for a permanent dean for the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts will reopen immediately, be advertised nationally again and continue into the fall semester.
Fans of CBS's CSI and similar TV series were able to meet the minds behind some of these popular works last weekend at the symposium "Where Fact Meets Fiction: A National Symposium on the Intersection of Forensic Science and Pop Culture."
Rent at $300 might not seem that expensive, but in the winter time a South Side resident can end up paying another $200 for heating. On Wednesday night, Net Impact, Duquesne University's graduate environmental advocacy organization, showed Kilowatt Ours, directed by Jeff Barrie.
Duquesne University students and members of Amnesty International, a worldwide group concerned with humanitarian rights, held a concert April 3 and raised about $1,100 to benefit political refugees in Darfur. DarfuRock, as the fundraiser was called, featured student rock bands and speakers on the genocide in Darfur, a region of Sudan where more than 400,000 have died since the Janjaweed, genocidal militias, began destroying villages in 2003.
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