In a statement to Duquesne University's Board of Directors last week, the Faculty Senate accused President Charles J. Dougherty of contributing to a "campus atmosphere of distrust and fear," citing the controversy surrounding his removal of former law school Dean Don Guter.
The Mylan School of Pharmacy will be expanding into the second floor of the Bayer Learning Center, replacing the area designated for the physics department of the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences. The physics program will be moving to the second floor of Fisher Hall.
Duquesne University is operating as usual despite the economic crisis and resulting preventative procedures the administration has already implemented. Academic departments across the University are tightening their belts, but most have not experienced major setbacks from the recession.
Not everyone is thrilled with John Grisham's latest novel The Associate. The legal thriller features a fictional scene in which four drunken fraternity members at Duquesne University are involved in sexual assault off campus. For a University with strong emphasis on its Catholic mission, this kind of publicity is not warmly welcomed.
Usually, class lectures start in Fisher Hall at 3 p.m. But Monday, Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi architect turned Washington activist, held a different kind of lecture in room 609. "There are ways to reconcile Iraqi-U.S. relations," Jarrar said in an interview Monday.
Last Friday, more than 500 people filed into Duquesne University's Union Ballroom, but not to waltz in three quarter time. The fifth annual Saudi Open House brought Saudi Arabian culture to American students, including food, art exhibitions and folk dances.
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