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U N I V E R S I T Y People at the University are being more mindful than ever...... 3

A new study will have people stand- ing up to back pain...... 4

Christmas Day at Pitt just keeps get- ting bigger. See pages 6 & 7. TIMES THE FACULTY & STAFF SINCE 1968

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Agency (PHEAA) grants. July 1, the University would have Although experience has received some $65 million in Despite lack of appropriation, prompted the University to plan appropriation dollars by Decem- for state budget delays — in some ber, Ramicone said. cases Pitt hasn’t received its fund- Pitt credited students for $10 trustees approve Pitt budget ing until February, said senior million in expected PHEAA vice chancellor and CFO Arthur grants for the fall term, and is niversity trustees on Dec. Budgeted expenses include background documents. G. Ramicone — the impasse is fronting another $10 million on 18 moved forward with $1.81 billion in total compensa- The state budget impasse not eating into Pitt’s cash reserves. students’ spring term bills. Ua budget plan for fiscal tion, up 4.4 percent over FY15’s only has kept Pitt from receiving “It’s putting at risk our ability to “If we don’t apply it to stu- year 2016, basing a $2.01 billion $1.13 billion compensation line. its expected appropriation, which control tuition in the future, the dents’ accounts they have a big operating budget on last year’s Although a salary pool increase arrives in monthly increments, but longer this goes on, because we’re hole, and where are they going appropriation of approximately has yet to be announced, the has held up students’ Pennsylva- spending our reserves,” he said. to get it?” he said. $147.39 million. University is budgeting $905.54 nia Higher Education Assistance For the fiscal year that started —Kimberly K. Barlow n The state budget impasse, million for salaries and wages, which has stalled a decision on an increase of 3.2 percent over Pitt’s state appropriation for the the $877.17 million in the FY15 The state’s 2016 budget remains unresolved. Six months fiscal year that began July 1, had budget. Fringe benefits, the other of emergency funds for cash-strapped K-12 schools, counties delayed the University budget. component in the total compen- State budget and human services is being released after Gov. However, on recommendation of sation line item, are budgeted at Tom Wolf on Dec. 29 approved $23.4 billion of a $30.3 billion the chief financial officer (CFO), $276.45 million, up 8.16 percent impasse Republican budget. the board’s budget and executive from $255.6 million in FY15. Appropriation bills for Pitt and other non-preferred institu- committees met Dec. 18 to set If Pitt’s funding is increased continues into tions still await action, which could come next week. Pitt’s FY16 budget. when a state budget is settled, the The fiscal year 2016 state budget impasse has stretched The budget’s $2.07 billion in committees will take action on an new year into its seventh month. A month from now, on Feb. 9, Wolf is total revenues includes net tuition amended budget “reflective of scheduled to present his proposed budget for fiscal year 2017, and fees totaling $601.4 million, the final appropriation amount which begins July 1. n an increase of 3.8 percent over and the University’s strategic FY15’s budgeted $579.18 million. priorities,” according to trustees’ ’ hidden treasures soon to be revealed he Nationality Rooms’ said — certainly no corroboration iron andirons and an iron fireback. hidden side — about 1,000 of the icon’s provenance. Nor has Sometimes an item is both Tobjects, or three times the his research yet turned up how the valuable and portable, making its number of items the rooms actu- icon came to have a frame made theft too likely to allow for display. ally display — soon will become from fiberboard, which dates to Such is the case with a small lectern accessible to the public. the 20th century, but not neces- in the shape of an eagle, carved These items — gathered by sarily from the World’s Fair. from light-colored wood, which room organizing committees or Also from 1939, but no longer was donated to the Irish Room. donated through the years, and displayed in the Czechoslovak Walter pointed to a ceramic stored in a small, crowded space Room, is a small medallion depict- vessel, several feet tall, that once in the base- ing a man held between columns stood in the Chinese Room. There ment — are being inventoried and topped with swastikas. Walter were four such pieces on display photographed for a new Pitt web- has unsigned paperwork from at one time. “This is the only one site by Michael Walter, Nationality 2003 directing the medallion be that remains,” he said; the others Rooms tour coordinator. removed from display because of have gone missing. Some items are in storage its political content. Even Maxine q simply because there is no display Bruhns, long-time director of the The experience of one pro- case large enough to hold them Nationality Rooms, was uncertain fessor demonstrates how the in the appropriate Nationality exactly how such a decision was inventoried mass of objects in Room. The Yugoslav Room, for made. storage might be used as teaching instance, has no spot for a 19th- Many of the stored items tools for Pitt classes. Katheryn M. century copy of the evangelary, possess great value as teaching Linduff, faculty member in the or gospels, of Prince Miroslav, an tools, Walter said, especially for Department of the History of illuminated manuscript produced elementary classrooms. Art and Architecture in the Diet- in the late 1100s in Serbia. The “People have donated many rich School of Arts and Sciences, thick tome is 18.5 by 13.5 inches, dolls over the years, and they’re teaches a senior capstone course with 40 full-color pages repro- great for teaching of ethnic dress,” for department majors called duced at full size, the rest at half he said. Preschoolers naturally Visualizing Heritage in Pittsburgh: Marty Levine/University Times size in black and white. In 1897, are attracted to them and want to The Nationality Rooms. It uses Nationality Rooms tour coordinator Michael Walter shows off a Roma- nian icon, one of about 1,000 items being inventoried and catalogued the original was given to the king know more, Bruhns added. the rooms’ paper archives of for a new website of items acquired for, but not currently displayed in, of Serbia, and only 350 facsimiles Sometimes an item is put organizing committee materials the rooms. were produced. away because it doesn’t fit with in . Other items have an uncertain the historical period of a room’s “They discover all kinds of fun sity in the same way.” And they on the piece’s underside, labeling origin or likely have been modified décor. In a closet in the English stuff,” she says of her students. learned the processes of research, it from the 18th century. from their original condition. A room, behind a portrait of Wil- More importantly, “the students too. “It came alive to them in “This shape was first made Romanian icon may have come liam Pitt, Walter’s crew recently uniformly tell me that it changed ways that it had never been alive about 900 B.C.,” Linduff said. from the 1939 World’s Fair, where discovered a Victorian Gothic their sense of being a University before.” “They were displayed and at that the Romanian pavilion was giving Minton tile fireplace surround. of Pittsburgh student, that they Linduff visited Walter’s office time [used] in ceremonies of them to attendees. “In this case Part of the original room, it was felt connected to the University to examine the Chinese vessel in ancestor reverence.” there isn’t a lot of background put away in 1954 and replaced by of Pittsburgh … They said they storage. However, she also noted the information” on the item, Walter a more period-appropriate set of would never think of this Univer- Walter pointed out a seller’s tag CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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L E T T E R S U N I V E R S I T Y S E N A T E Law is still black & white, not More on toleration M A T T E R S / Beverly Ann Gaddy To the editor: ment of members of a religious dom has been set for months The role of BPC I am writing to concur with minority in a country with an for our spring plenary, and so a Robert Miewald was a beloved professor of mine when I was a multiracial, Fordham prof says graduate student. His lectures were exceptionally informative and Michael Goodhart’s critique of established church which con- tie-in with recent controversies espite the fact that more parents, brought a discrimina- “Many more cases implicate the limitations of a “toleration” sidered them heretics or infidels. about the treatment of ideas and engaging, delivered with wit and a dry sense of humor. Nonetheless, I hesitated when registering for his course in Public Budgeting and people are identifying tion suit against Champs Sports anti-black bias than any other framework, quoted in the Dec. Well-meaning institutions such speech is an obvious connection themselves as multiracial in 1997. She had been hired in form of discrimination,” Her- 10 University Times article about as the Museum of Tolerance to make. But we should give atten- Finance in spring 1994. My trepidation was not due to any reser- D on the U.S. census, decisions in 1996 as a management trainee at nandez pointed out: 87 percent, the Dec. 1 Faculty Assembly. and the Southern Poverty Law tion to the many places where vations about Professor Miewald but rather because my previous courses in finance and accounting had been, well, uninspiring. But discrimination cases involving a Champs in Beaumont, Texas, versus 13 percent that allege other Many people find “toleration” Center have tried to redefine other frameworks are offered multiracial defendants still are but claimed her store manager’s prejudices. inadequate because of the sugges- tolerance, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, to address intergroup relations. with Miewald’s first lecture that semester I knew his course would be different. He presented the budget process as fraught with political primarily based on the presence of behavior changed for the worse In another discrimination case tion that difference is something as late as 2009, has written of it There may be some in connection anti-black prejudice, and there is when he discovered she was including a multiracial plaintiff, unpleasant we should endure. as an important first step. But by with this year’s plenary. Others are conflict but also capable of conciliating differences. A public budget helps to put flesh on ideas, brings them into the realm of possibility. no need to change civil rights laws. partly black. She eventually was Marlon Hattimore joined several George Washington, in his 1790 now we should be beyond first the Provost’s Diversity Institute That was the message of demoted, replaced by a white man other GNC employees in claiming letter to the Jews of Newport, steps in including women and and the University Human Rights He said a budget is, above all, a policy statement. As a member of the University Senate budget policies committee (BPC) for several Tanya Hernandez, professor of and terminated. a hostile work environment and expressed the idea that recogni- African Americans in a great Network. And perhaps next year law at Fordham University, who In federal court, she convinced disparate treatment on the basis of tion of rights is better. Washington university. The word “toleration” there will be a Senate plenary or years and now chair, I have seen the truth of his statement. The role of BPC in helping to establish policy for the University delivered the final fall Buchanan, the court system to provide her race in the mid-2000s. After refus- wrote about religious freedom in carries a lot of baggage of conde- another event with equivalent vis- Ingersoll & Rooney lecture in the with a lawyer, which is a rarity ing to dismiss the case, the judge the new U.S.: “It is now no more scension or worse. Using “justice” ibility on what more Pitt can do to is defined in the University’s planning and budgeting system (PBS) Tanya Hernandez Mike Drazdzinski/CIDDE (www.academic.pitt.edu/pb/). The intent of this document is to School of Social Work’s Center in a civil case, and not a require- included Hattimore among those that toleration is spoken of as if it won’t solve all problems; it’s not promote justice and respect for all. on Race and Social Problems ment for litigants unable to afford protected from discrimination for were the indulgence of one class necessarily obvious what is just in Marianne Novy ensure broad participation by faculty, staff and students in the tion cases brought by multiracial multiracial cases requires a new planning and budgeting processes of the various units and at the last month. counsel, unlike in criminal cases. being black. Multiracial identity individuals end in defeat, the loss set of multiracial laws?” she asked. of people that another enjoyed any particular situation, and the Professor Hernandez, author of “Racial She then obtained a confidential scholars, Hernandez contended, the exercise of their inherent same may be true of “respect.” Department of English University level. According to PBS, the Senate and its committees, is “not because they are multira- “The multiracial community including BPC, are recognized as providing advice to the chancellor Subordination in Latin America,” settlement from Champs. fail to make clear how Hattimore cial,” Hernandez contended. In lobby” points to increasing natural rights.” The complaint Listening is needed. Dietrich School of spoke on the topic “Multiracial in “This all sounds great for would have benefited if the case that “toleration” has the wrong The topic of academic free- Arts and Sciences and administrative officers “on all aspects of University planning and one case, a Boca Raton, Florida, numbers of people checking budgeting, including long-range planning and budgeting, program the Workplace: A New Kind of her,” Hernandez said, and must had acknowledged his multiracial physical education teacher of the “multiracial” box on the U.S. connotations, especially when Discrimination?” She is studying be a victory against multiracial status instead. dealing with intergroup relations, plans, operational plans and budgets, gift and endowment spend- black and white descent claimed census but “haven’t shown a ing policies, compensation policies, and design and modification mixed-race identity and discrimi- discrimination, multiracial identity In a case alleging African his school district was discriminat- history of multiracial discrimina- is frequent today as well. African- nation law in the United States in scholars have said. But the court Americans discriminating against Americans and transgender Some strategic plan of the PBS” and “may initiate recommendations with respect to ing against him by reassigning him, tion,” she concluded. Focusing preparation for her next book. referred to her as black through- a lighter-skinned man of mixed people are protesting not that they broad University policies (such as gift and endowment spending causing him to leave the district. on the multiracial status of the policies, and compensation policies) and with respect to informa- Hernandez noted that biracial out its proceedings. While this race in the Washington, D.C., The court did not rule on the plaintiff “dis-serves the needs of are not tolerated, but, for example, or mixed-race identity has been oversimplified Mitchell’s identity fire department, Hernandez said that they do not have human initiatives outlined tion collection and dissemination, such as the Revenue and Cost basis of the plaintiff ’s mixed race multiracial people experiencing Attribution Study.” receiving more attention in recent in the view of such scholars, Her- that the plaintiff ’s victory “wasn’t but because there was too little discrimination,” she added. rights such as freedom of move- years in America. nandez added, the court’s view did about being mixed. It was about ment, driving or walking without pecifics are taking shape in specific learning, assessment and In addition, the PBS tasks BPC with “reviewing whether the PBS evidence of prejudice altogether, “Fighting for multiracial rec- accord with the University’s next-generation technologies. processes are followed and whether all constituencies involved are “There is a public perception reflect the events alleged in her how the mix manifested” — how Hernandez said. ognition in cases may be the right being confronted and beaten by that multiracial racial experiences case — that she was the victim of he was perceived as too white by a policeman. Women are not Songoing strategic planning The six initiatives are to: provided adequate opportunities to participate in the process and “Why then are multiracial fight, but it’s in the wrong place, were distinctive” from the lives of anti-black prejudice, not prejudice black colleagues. asking men to tolerate them but process. • Enrich the campus environ- to be informed of its outcomes.” identity scholars so convinced the courts,” Hernandez said. More is to come, said David ment by becoming a laboratory Accordingly, the document says, BPC may communicate or those with only a single race — against those who are multiracial. Even when alleged discrimina- that the emerging number of —Marty Levine n to respect them and in particular and a belief by some “that racial not to insult or physically violate DeJong, executive vice provost, for the development, testing and meet with planning and budgeting committees as necessary. BPC but a half-dozen initiatives for implementation of innovative, is directed to regularly inform all unit heads and all members of mixture itself will destroy racism ... them. “Respect” and “justice” are the equating of racial mixture with better words to use because they advancing the strategic plan — discipline-based approaches to planning and budgeting committees of its role in reviewing the and what will be done this year teaching and learning. integrity of the planning and budgeting process. racial harmony,” and the notion do not presume inequality. of “shade confusion, which will Center consolidates mindfulness activities The use of words such as to move those initiatives toward • Enrich the on-campus learn- Thus the PBS, adopted in 1992 and last revised in 2003, has been long-term goals — have been ing environment through a more instrumental in helping to ensure shared governance, especially eventually destroy the black-white he ancient practice of mind- and try different mindfulness The center was conceived after “tolerance” and “toleration” first dichotomy.” fulness, which emphasizes practices, said center associate faculty with common interests developed with regard to treat- laid out. personalized approach to the regarding budgetary matters. The PBS currently is under periodic Highlights of this year’s goals student experience. review by BPC with the expectation that we will be recommending Along with a literal mixing of Tobserving and focusing on director David Givens. in mindfulness “began noticing include plans to: • Partner for impact. the Senate undertake a full review. racial differences, there has been the present moment, increasingly CMCS hosts 30-minute long each other,” said Silvestre, who University Times • Develop a series of MOOCs • Create a diverse, inclusive an increase in the number of is being recognized for its value midday meditation sessions in its teaches mindfulness meditation. letters policy The role of BPC in operational and long-range budgeting and to train faculty and staff on diver- environment. policy and the welfare of the University’s employees and students multiracial people who file dis- in promoting physical and mental Keystone Building suite on Mon- “For every person I knew, that Letters should be submitted at sity and inclusion; • Create an environment with is reflected in our mission statement to provide oversight on such crimination lawsuits. In response, health and as an aid to attention days and Thursdays and is seeking person knew three others and least one week prior to publication. • Establish a faculty fellows support structures aligned to our matters as “the fiscal health of the University, the economic welfare multiracial identity scholars, as and learning. to expand to other locations on those three knew four others ... Persons criticized in a letter will program that will support imple- mission and free of unnecessary Hernandez labeled them, have It’s been present in many forms campus. Silvestre provides a one- We kept running into each other,” receive a copy of the letter so that of its faculty and staff, and the appropriateness and sufficiency of mentation of best practices in barriers to success. funds provided for the academic programs of the University.” The posited that the U.S. needs to on campus, but only recently on-one introductory session for he said. They began emailing and they may prepare a response. If no their disciplines; • Create a data- and computa- revise older laws that recognize became the basis for a University- those wishing to join the group. soon started meeting. “We began response is received, the letter will be committee also is tasked with making “recommendations on such q published alone. • Streamline the process for tion-rich environment. matters as tuition levels, compensation policies, and issues like the only blacks, whites and a few wide center. to discuss how we might institu- Letters can be sent by email to visits from international scholars; The full list is detailed in a link other racial categories. Such schol- After a year of planning, with Mindfulness can include quiet tionalize what was developing.” [email protected] or by campus mail creation, merger and termination of academic programs.” Thus we • Buy an enterprise customer in the “working groups” section complete annual reviews of salary reports for faculty, librarians, staff ars contend that “courts [have] funding from the Office of the sitting, breathing meditation, CMCS founding members to 308 . relationship management system; at www.pitt.edu/impact. misunderstood the nature of Provost and broad-based support, mindful eating, body scan medita- include faculty from English, The University Times reserves and administration. We also review the University’s attribution study the right to edit letters for clarity or • Review advising practices DeJong said forums will be (which breaks down and attributes costs among the various units). discrimination against multiracial the Center for Mindfulness and tion (in which attention is focused religious studies, psychology, length. Individuals are limited to two with a renewed focus on individual scheduled this term to provide Reflecting our concern for the University’s educational mission and persons” when multiracial status Consciousness Studies (CMCS) part by part from head to toe, or psychiatry, social work, sociology, published letters per academic term. student outcomes, and the University community an is not acknowledged during cases. has opened with a mission to vice versa) or other practices, but health and rehabilitation sciences Unsigned letters will not be accepted student affordability, we also analyze enrollment and tuition data. • Expand Center for Instruc- opportunity to react; feedback While our reviews of faculty salary initially included only full- On the contrary, Hernan- “promote scholarship, creativity The now the underlying principle is simple: and medicine, among others. for publication tional Development and Distance also can be provided via the stra- dez argued, “the overwhelming and well-being through mindful- features a Stress-Free Zone for “It’s a way of deliberately bring- Their work takes a number of time ranked faculty, we recently added full-time instructors and students. Education staff in the areas of tegic planning site. lecturers and part-time faculty to our reports. The analysis includes number” of multiracial cases ness research, education, col- ing one’s attention to the present forms. For instance: U N I V E R S I T Y personalized learning, discipline- —Kimberly K. Barlow n comparisons to previous years. We also examine salaries of full-time include discriminatory comments lective practice, and clinical and increasing immune response. In experience,” Silvestre said. • CMCS member Carol Greco, continuing faculty over a 15-year period to ensure that long-serving about blackness or at least non- community service.” addition, the School of Educa- “Our brains are running tapes a faculty member in psychiatry Registration open for faculty members are making sufficient salary gains. We analyze the whiteness, not multiracial status. CMCS aims to foster research tion here has a number of people of things that we have to do, what’s and a licensed psychologist, has effect of cost of living in different regions of the U.S. on faculty Bias “is not novel or particular collaborations, support the use who are doing their own research going on and what happened yes- been offering mindfulness-based TIMES MLK Day of Service projects salaries so that when we compare salaries with our AAU peer group to multiracial persons,” she said, of mindfulness in educational or dissertations on topics related terday. Mindfulness gives us that stress reduction (MBSR) courses we can take into account Pittsburgh’s low cost of living. Further- noting that such individuals most curriculums and promote mind- to the use of mindfulness in opportunity to stop the tape. Mind at the UPMC Center for Integra- Registration is open till Jan. 12 for Pitt’s MLK Day of more, every five years we analyze salaries by gender to ensure the often are experiencing anti-black fulness practice as a tool for well- schools,” he said. and body come together ... and it tive Medicine for more than a EDITOR N. J. Brown Service on Jan. 18. discrimination. Their “sociopo- ness through “cores” in research, q actually allows us to concentrate decade. She also is collaborating 412/624-1373 University is progressing toward greater gender equity in salary and [email protected] Staff and faculty are invited to join the Student Affairs hiring. And with the prominent focus on diversity and inclusion litical race” is still black or white, education and service. Planning is underway for a better and focus attention and with Carnegie Mellon University initiative of making the Martin Luther King holiday “A day in the strategic plan, we intend to discuss the inclusion of data on no matter how multiracial people Housed in the Graduate trio of lectures this term — on listen,” Silvestre said. researcher J. David Creswell on a WRITERS Kimberly K. Barlow perceive themselves. School of Public Health, where medicine and health, on education “Mindfulness presents a lot pair of studies that aim to discover 412/624-1379 on, not a day off ” by participating in various on-campus and racial and ethnic salary and hiring differentials as well. [email protected] off-campus community projects, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.. The inclusion of part-time faculty salary in our annual reports “I’m not trying to rob people center director Anthony Sil- and on religious studies — to of tools that are very useful for how meditation can reduce stress To register online, go to www.studentaffairs.pitt.edu/ of their personal identity,” she vestre is a faculty member, the reflect the broad nature of the everybody, and certainly for aca- and improve quality of life. Marty Levine has been a goal the committee has worked toward for years. In April 412/624-1374 pittserves/mlkservice. n 2012 I made my initial request to the committee that we explore added. But her forthcoming book University-wide center is funded center’s focus. demics — and everyone in the • Another center member, [email protected] the feasibility of including data for part-time faculty salaries in our will show that anti-black prejudice by the Office of the Provost Details are yet to be finalized, educational system.” Natalia Morone of the Depart- remains the central feature of with additional support from the but speakers will include James More broadly, other introspec- ment of Medicine, has been BUSINESS MANAGER Barbara DelRaso annual reporting. Accomplishing this has proven to be a greater 412/624-4644 Kiplinger’s ranks Pitt as best challenge than I had envisioned, complicated by the variability in racial discrimination in America, School of Medicine, the School Robson, a professor of East tive practices such as Christian studying the use of a meditation [email protected] contracts across the University and the difficulty in defining part- and thus must remain the focus of Health and Rehabilitation Sci- Asian languages and civilizations centering prayer, yoga, tai chi, taizé program for reducing chronic low of legal protections. ences, the School of Education, at Harvard and president of the worship, labyrinth and walking back pain in elderly persons, with EVENTS CALENDAR [email protected] public school value in state time labor. BPC finally received and examined a very preliminary report earlier this fall. Readying a report for public disclosure remains “The exotification of racial Falk School and the departments Society for the Study of Chinese meditations are useful as well for results to be published soon. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance faculty ratio and four-year gradu- a primary goal. To aid in this effort, I became a member of the mixture can be a distraction” from of English and religious studies Religions, and Christa Turksma, “coming back to yourself,” he said. • Leah Northrop, who teaches The University Times is published bi-weekly has ranked Pitt among the 100 ate rate. supporting current law, she said. in the Dietrich School of Arts co-developer, author and facilita- “There are many different defini- yoga and mindfulness at Falk on Thursdays by the . Senate’s ad hoc committee on non-tenure-stream part-time faculty best-value public colleges nation- Cost criteria include sticker q and Sciences. tor of CARE (Cultivating Aware- tions and experiences.” School, is among 10 Falk faculty Send correspondence to University Times, issues, chaired by Irene Frieze. In tandem with Irene’s committee 308 Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, wide for the 11th consecutive price, financial aid and average and with Senate President Frank Wilson (the Senate appointee to Hernandez pointed to a Scientific literature on mind- ness and Resilience in Education) Practically speaking, mindful- and staff who meet regularly for Pittsburgh, PA 15260; fax to 412/624-4579 year and as the top value among debt at graduation. number of employment discrimi- fulness is growing, said Silvestre. for Teachers. ness has a lot of advantages, he morning sitting meditation. or email: [email protected]. BPC and to Irene’s committee), we will work with other elements four-year public colleges and uni- The rankings are available of the University to make Pitt a more inclusive, equitable and nation cases that demonstrate how “People have done studies on The center also is planning said. “It doesn’t cost you anything. “Our faculty and staff have Subscriptions are available at a cost of $25 versities in Pennsylvania. online at Kiplinger.com/links/ courts still make decisions based using mindfulness in drug and a mindfulness fair to showcase It doesn’t have to be related to been incorporating mindful prac- for the publishing year, which runs from rewarding place of employment for all its members. n late August through July. Make checks Kiplinger’s assesses value college, as well as in the Febru- on a plaintiff ’s status as black or alcohol recovery, in severe mental information on existing mindful- religion or spirituality, although tice into the curriculum since as payable to the University of Pittsburgh. according to admission rate, per- ary issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Beverly Gaddy, a political science faculty member at Pitt-Greensburg, is chair white, not a mixture. For instance, illness, mindfulness as a technique ness projects at and near the Uni- it can be. And you can take it long as anyone can remember,” The newspaper is available online at utimes. centage of students who return Finance, which is available on Jill Mitchell, a light-skinned multi- to reduce pain and as a means versity and to offer participants anywhere.” she said, noting that the mindful- pitt.edu. of the University Senate’s budget policies committee. for sophomore year, student- newsstands this week. n racial person with black and white of reducing stress and therefore the opportunity to learn about q CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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