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Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit
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Motto "Spiritus est qui vivificat." Translation: "It is the Spirit that gives life."
Established 1878, as Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost
Type Private
Endowment $123.3 million [1]
Debt $144.5 million [2]
President Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D.
Undergraduates 5,606
Postgraduates 4,011
Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Campus Urban, 40 acres [3]
Comprehensive fee (2006) $29,534 (Tuition and fees: $21,480 / Room and Board: $8,054) [4]
Colors Blue and Red
Mascot The Duke
Website http://www.duq.edu

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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[edit] Founding

Duquesne University (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. Moved from an original location on Wylie Avenue in the city's Uptown section to its present self-contained campus, Duquesne provides a hilltop vista overlooking the city. The university was founded by and is run by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.

[edit] 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 40-acre (162,000 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.

Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D., was elected president of Duquesne University by its Board of Directors in May 2001. He succeeded John Murray, Jr., who served as president from 1988 to 2001.

[edit] Faculties

Duquesne's recent growth has been tremendous with more than 10,000 students in ten schools of study, including the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts (1878), Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, and the Schools of Law (1911), A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration (1913), Mylan School of Pharmacy (1925), Mary Pappert School of Music (1926), Education (1929), Nursing (1937), Rangos School of Health Sciences (1990) and the School of Leadership and Professional Advancement (2001). Duquesne's ten schools offer degree programs on the baccalaureate, professional, masters and doctoral levels.

[edit] Performance Art

Duquesne is the home of the Tamburitzans, the longest-running multicultural song and dance company in the United States.

[edit] Athletics

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

The Duquesne Dukes of Duquesne University play most NCAA Division I sports in the Atlantic 10 Conference. The Dukes men's basketball team has struggled lately but has had great success in the past, playing twice in national championship games in the 1950s, winning the NIT 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 NBA 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, who finished with a 20-3 record, 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 its rival the University of Pittsburgh every year in the women's version of the City Game.

Duquesne plays football in the NCAA Division I-AA 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-AA Consensus Mid-Major National Champions in 2003. (The team was the 1995 ECAC Bowl Champions as well.) The Dukes also had regular NCAA Division I success in the past, winning the 1934 Festival of Palms Bowl 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.) At the club level, Duquesne won the 1973 National Club Football Association National Championship. The NFL'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-AA Football history with 39 straight wins in the MAAC. The 39-game streak is also tied for the second-longest conference winning streak in NCAA Division I history, just five games shy of the all-time record.

Duquesne's first full Atlantic 10 team championship came in the fall of 2005 in men's cross country, but the Dukes were also men's basketball champions of the Eastern Athletic Association in 1977. (This association was the forerunner to the current Atlantic 10 Conference.) The Dukes have also won numerous regular season Atlantic 10 team championships. 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 season in both 2004 and 2005.

The Dukes have also crowned numerous full Atlantic 10 individual champions in women's rowing (1), men's and women's swimming & diving [6 (men) - 2 (women)], women's indoor track & field (5), and men's and women's outdoor track & field [8 (men) - 8 (women)].

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

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Arts, Entertainment, Literature and Humanities

[edit] Religion

[edit] Government and Military

[edit] Other

[edit] Sports

[edit] Football

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Baseball

[edit] Soccer

  • Aldo Donelli - Member, United States National Soccer Hall of Fame
  • numerous other professionals in the field

[edit] Auto Racing

  • Chip Ganassi - former professional racecar driver and current professional race team owner
  • at least one other professional in the field

[edit] Media

[edit] 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 sponsered 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. <ref>http://www.wpxi.com/news/9868762/detail.html</ref> <ref>http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=177843&hubname=</ref> <ref>http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/9868866/detail.html</ref> <ref>http://www.cbc.ca/story/sports/national/2006/09/17/sam-ashaolu.html</ref> 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. <ref>http://www.wpxi.com/news/9873725/detail.html</ref>

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 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. <ref>http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=178024&hubname=</ref> Brittany Jones has since been suspended 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. <ref>http://www.wpxi.com/news/9882929/detail.html </ref> <ref>http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=178024&hubname=</ref> On September 20, Holmes turned himself to police and will be arranged with the same charges. <ref>http://www.tsn.ca/ncaa/news_story/?ID=178165&hubname= </ref>

NBA player Vince Carter visited with Duquesne students in September, 2006 as a show of support after the shootings. [5]

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Universities and Colleges in the Pittsburgh Metro Area
Universities Carnegie Mellon | Duquesne | University of Pittsburgh | Penn State Beaver | Penn State McKeesport | Penn State New Kensington | Slippery Rock | Pittsburgh-Bradford | Pittsburgh-Greensburg
Colleges Art Institute of Pittsburgh | Carlow | Chatham | Community College of Allegheny County | Geneva | La Roche | Saint Vincent College | Seton Hill | Pittsburgh Theological | Point Park | Robert Morris | Trinity Episcopal | Westminster College
The Atlantic 10
Charlotte • Dayton • Duquesne • Fordham • George Washington • La Salle • UMass • Rhode Island • Richmond • Saint Bonaventure • Saint Joseph's • Saint Louis • Temple • Xavier
MAAC Football Conference
La Salle • Duquesne • Iona • Marist • St. Peter's
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