Duquesne University

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Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
File:Duquesnecrest.jpg
Motto"Spiritus est qui vivificat."
(It is the Spirit that gives life)
TypePrivate
Established1878
AffiliationRoman Catholic
Endowment$123.3 million [1]
PresidentCharles J. Dougherty, Ph.D.
Undergraduates5,751
Postgraduates4,433
Location
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
,
USA
CampusUrban, 47 acres [2]
Tuition (2006)$21,480 [3] Dukes
ColorsBlue and Red
MascotThe Duke
Websitehttp://www.duq.edu

40°26′10″N 79°59′35″W / 40.43611°N 79.99306°W / 40.43611; -79.99306

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne (pronounced "doo-kayne") first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and a faculty of seven. The university has since expanded to over 10,000 students, and is located on a self-contained 47-acre hilltop campus on the "bluff" of downtown Pittsburgh.

Today

Today Duquesne University is a progressive, educational community that has more than tripled from its early 12.5 acres (51,000 m²) to its present, self-enclosed 47-acre (190,000 m²) campus in uptown Pittsburgh. Several recent renovations have added to Duquesne's campus, including a state-of-the-art health sciences facility, two parking garages, a multi-purposed recreation center, a Victorian campus throughway, and a theatre classroom complex.

Recently named one of the top ten Catholic universities in the US, Duquesne's academics are recognized both nationally and internationally. In May 2001, Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D., was elected president of Duquesne University by the Board of Directors. He succeeded John Murray, Jr., who served as president from 1988 to 2001.

Academics

Duquesne currently has a student enrollment of over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university is comprised of several undergraduate and graduate schools, and offers degree programs on the baccalaureate, professional, masters and doctoral levels. The following institutions combined to form Duquesne University.

  • McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts (1878)
  • Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
  • Duquesne School of Law (1911)
  • A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration (1913)
  • Mylan School of Pharmacy (1925)
  • Mary Pappert School of Music (1926)
  • School of Education (1929)
  • School of Nursing (1937)
  • Rangos School of Health Sciences (1990)
  • Leadership and Professional Advancement (2001)

As a result of its academic excellence, the University has signed agreements with institutions around the globe including schools in Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, England, China, Japan and Italy as well as the new Commonwealth of Independent States.

Performance Art

  • Duquesne is the home of the Tamburitzans, the longest-running multicultural song and dance company in the United States. Their shows are a unique ensemble of talented young folk artists dedicated to the performance and preservation of the music, songs, and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures. The performers are full-time students who receive substantial scholarship awards from the university, with additional financial aid provided by Tamburitzans Scholarship Endowment Funds.
  • Duquesne also boasts three theatre groups, the Red Masquers, the Renaissance and Medieval Players, and Spotlight. Spotlight is a musical theatre company that puts on around two musicals per academic year, while the Red Masquers put on a variety of plays throughout the year. The Masquers annually perform three mainstage plays, generally consisting of one classical, one modern, and one contemporary. Additionally, they perform two sets of one act plays. Winter sees their Premieres, which are student-written, while Spring's One Acts for Charity are selected from professional playwrights. In recent years, they have also been participants in the Pittsburgh Monologue Project. The Renaissance and Medieval Players effort to give audiences a truly Medieval experience, performing religious plays, morality plays, farces, etc. from the English Medieval and Early Renaissance periods, sometimes working in conjunction with the Red Masquers.

Athletics

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For season-by-season men's basketball and football results, see Duquesne Dukes.

The Duquesne Dukes of Duquesne University play most National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I sports in the Atlantic 10 Conference. In 2008, they will play football in the Northeast Conference, though they still currently play the sport in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Basketball

The Dukes men's basketball team has had great success in the past, winning the 1977 Eastern Athletic Association championship (the forerunner to the current Atlantic 10 Conference) and playing twice in national championship games in the 1950s, winning the National Invitation Tournament in 1955. (At the time, the NIT was the premier collegiate basketball tournament in the country.)

Duquesne is the only school to have back-to-back first overall picks in the National Basketball Association Draft (Dick Ricketts by Milwaukee in 1955 and Sihugo Green by Rochester in 1956). The Dukes men's basketball program can also claim the first African-American player selected by an NBA draft in Chuck Cooper (by the Boston Celtics in 1950). The 1939-40 Dukes basketball team finished with a 20-3 record and appeared in the Final Four of both the NIT and NCAA Tournaments. No team has had as many Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball scoring champions as Duquesne.

The men's basketball Dukes annually play their cross-town rival University of Pittsburgh Panthers in Pittsburgh's much anticipated and highly attended City Game. The Dukes women's basketball team also plays the University of Pittsburgh every year in the women's version of the City Game.

Football

Duquesne plays football in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, winning or sharing, to date, ten conference titles, including eight in a row and 10 out of the last 12. (The only shared conference title came in 2006 with Marist College, whom the Dukes defeated earlier in the season.) Duquesne was the ECAC Bowl champions and NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major National Champions in 2003. (The team was the 1995 ECAC Bowl Champions as well.) The Dukes also had NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) success in the past, winning the 1934 Festival of Palms Bowl (played on January 1, 1934, but part of the 1933 season) and 1937 Orange Bowl (played on January 1, 1937, but part of the 1936 season). (There was only one level of major college football at the time.) From 1933-45, Duquesne was among the elite college football teams in the United States, garnering the sixth-highest winning percentage (71-22-2, .762) in the nation behind Alabama, Tennessee, Duke, Fordham, and Notre Dame. In 1941, Duquesne finished the season undefeated and untied, earning a No. 8 Associated Press ranking and leading the nation in scoring defense, rushing defense, and total defense. In retrospect of this season, the Massey Computer Rankings later deem the Dukes 1941 national champions.

Duquesne is noted for establishing numerous "firsts" in collegiate football. Former head coach Elmer Layden is credited with devising the system of hand signals that officials use today. The signal system was put to use for the first time on November 11, 1928, when Duquesne hosted Thiel College at Pitt Stadium. Layden was also the first coach to use two sets of uniform jerseys for home and away contests. In 1929, graduate student manager John Holohan conceived the idea of Pittsburgh's first night game at Forbes Field. On the evening of November 1 that year, the Dukes made history by defeating Geneva College, 27-7, in front of more than 27,000 spectators.

At the club level, Duquesne won the 1973 National Club Football Association National Championship and was runner-up in 1977.

The National Football League's Pittsburgh franchise has drafted more players out of Duquesne University than any other institution.

The Dukes football team also boasts the greatest all-time conference winning streak in NCAA Division I FCS history with 39 straight wins in the MAAC. The 39-game streak also ties for the second-longest conference winning streak in NCAA Division I history, five games shy of the all-time record.

Beginning in 2008, the Dukes will offer football scholarships as it moves to the Northeast Conference as an associate member in football. The Dukes will still, however, be in consideration for the NCAA Division I FCS Mid-Major National Championship as awarded by the Sports Network.

Other Sports

The Dukes wrestling squad has also been immensely successful, though it competes as an Independent in NCAA Division I. The Dukes wrestlers have won two NCAA Division I East Regional Championships (2000 and 2005) and have sent at least one wrestler to the NCAA Championships every year during John Hartupee's nine seasons as head coach, the position he still currently holds.

Duquesne also fielded an NCAA varsity rifle team for many years (a coed sport). This team competed in the Middle Atlantic Rifle Conference, claiming a share of the conference title for the 2001-2002 season. The team officially disbanded after the 2003-2004 season.

Atlantic 10 Championships

For a complete list of the university's Atlantic 10 champions, both team and individual, see Duquesne University Atlantic 10 Champions.

Duquesne's first full/"postseason" Atlantic 10 team championship came in the fall of 2005 in men's cross country, but the Dukes have also won numerous regular season Atlantic 10 team championships. Men's basketball was co-champion of the league's regular seasons in both 1980 and 1981. Men's soccer was co-champion of the league's regular season in 2003, sole champion in 2004, and again co-champion in 2005. Women's lacrosse was co-champion of the league's regular seasons in both 2004 and 2005.

The Dukes have also crowned numerous full Atlantic 10 individual champions in women's rowing (3), men's and women's swimming & diving [10 (men) - 4 (women)], women's indoor track & field (8), and men's and women's outdoor track & field [10 (men) - 8 (women)].

Shooting Incident

At 2:15 AM EDT on September 17, 2006, a shooting incident took place at the university campus near Vickroy Hall, after a dance party sponsored by the Black Student Union which several non-students were attending. Five members of the Duquesne Dukes basketball team were injured during the shooting including one who sustained critical injuries after an argument between 1 individual and 2 students. Among the injuries was a Canadian-born player, Sam Ashaolu from Toronto who is also the cousin of former NBA and Houston Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon . This incident occurred only days after two school incidents such as the Dawson College shooting in Montreal which killed 2 people and injured 19 and a pellet gun shooting incident at the University of Ottawa which caused no injuries as well as a foiled shooting attempt at a school in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

According to the University president Charles Dougherty, there were reports by witnesses of two guns being seen at the dance site but he haven't confirmed yet if both of them were used during the shooting. The shooter sought by several witnesses fled the scene after the shots were fired.[1][2][3][4] Later on, it was confirmed that a second shooter was involved in the incident. Police confirmed that the suspects were identified as Brandon Baynes and William Holmes both 18 years old. Both students were not from Duquesne and no motives were found, but reports from ESPN revealed that one of the victims said that one of the gunmen was jealous that his girlfriend admired a Duquesne player.[5]

On September 18, police arrested Brittany Jones, a Duquesne student, and charged her with weapons-related offenses. She helped six men, including the shooters, reach the school dance party despite the fact that some of them were armed. According to Jones, the doorman would not search bags of any partygoers, which permitted the suspects to enter with their weapons without notice.[6] Brittany Jones has since been expelled by the university for violations of the student code of conduct. During the early morning hours of September 19, police informed that they arrested Baynes, who was subsquentely charged with five counts of criminal attempt homicide (attempted murder) aggravated assault, weapons count, reckless endangerment, carrying an unlicensed firearm and criminal conspiracy. Police issued similar a warrant for Holmes with the same charges.[7][8] On September 20, Holmes turned himself to police and will be arraigned on the same charges.[9]

NBA player Vince Carter visited with Duquesne students in September 2006 as a show of support after the shootings. [4]

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.wpxi.com/news/9868762/detail.html
  2. ^ http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=177843&hubname=
  3. ^ http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/9868866/detail.html
  4. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2006/09/17/sam-ashaolu.html
  5. ^ http://www.wpxi.com/news/9873725/detail.html
  6. ^ http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=178024&hubname=
  7. ^ http://www.wpxi.com/news/9882929/detail.html
  8. ^ http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=178024&hubname=
  9. ^ http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=178165&hubname=

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