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Pitt Magazine
November, 1994 |
WHEN THE 50s MET THE 60s Life at Pitt was a unique mix of camaraderie and conflict, papier-mache floats and civil rights protests, as the rituals of the past gave way to modern oppertunities and problems....by Laura Shefler |
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The Long and the Short of It How the Universe is made |
GAINING THE HIGH POST PittÍs new menÍs basketball coach, Ralph Willard, shows his team how to be good players and good people....by Dennis Loy Johnson |
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THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT Pitt physicists move out toward the universeÍs farthest reaches and in toward the smallest particles of matter....by Tommy Ehrbar |
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NOVEL TERRITORY In her second novel,Brothers and Sisters, Pitt grad Bebe Moore Campbell offers insight into the human story of Los Angeles, the city she has made her home....by Christine Conklin |
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The Commons Room Looking for living history |
4200 FIFTH AVENUE Building Bridges
TUCK SHOP
THE COMMONS ROOM
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IDEAS
Loud and Clear...by Elizabeth Starr Miller
FINDINGS
Sands Through the Hourglass...by Max Jamison
HOMECOMING
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| Christine Conklin--("Novel Territory") Christine Conklin, of Palo Alto, California, has published short stories in the Mississippi Review, the Chatahoochee Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Journal. Current ly at work on a novel, Conklin got her MFA from Pitt in 1989. For Pitt Magazine in the past, she has received biofeedback (September 1991) and stuck herself to a wall of velcro (June 1990). | ||
| Dennis Loy Johnson--("Gaining the High Post") Dennis Loy Johnson's articles have appeared in Adirondak Life, Berkshire Life, USA Today, and Seventeen magazine. He recently received a National Endowment for the Arts gr ant for fiction writing. In 1993, his short story "Forrest in the Trees" appeared in the prestigious annual collection Pushcart Award Winners | ||
| ON THE COVER: Author Bebe Moore Campbell balances opposing points of view in her sweeping novel of today's Los Angeles. Photo by Mark Bolster. | ||