Pitt Chronicle

The number of freshman applicants to the University’s Pittsburgh campus continues to climb, and the academic credentials of incoming freshmen remain on an upward trajectory, the University announced today.

Freshman applications for the Class of 2011 reached a total of 19,056—861 more than the 18,195 applications received for the freshman class that entered in fall 2006, and nearly 2.5 times the size of the applicant pool in 1995, when 7,825 students applied.

The University Library System (ULS) has launched a new online service that allows researchers, students, genealogists, and the general public to search digital collections created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, colleges and universities, and historical societies.

The goal of the Pennsylvania Digital Library (PADL) is to serve as a gateway to documents, photos, e-journals, electronic dissertations, conference proceedings—anything available online in a digital format—created by Pennsylvania libraries and cultural heritage institutions.

As the film Last Best Chance ended on Tuesday, the audience in William Pitt Union’s Assembly Room sat in complete silence.

It wasn’t because the short (45 minutes) film was poorly received. In fact, it’s well done; Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker called it “entertaining.”

Instead, the audience seemed a little dazed by the film’s brisk (but thankfully fictional) depiction of a successful terrorist plot to obtain nuclear weapons.