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Newspaper of Record: The Pittsburgh Courier, 1907-1965 See page 2 2 • Pitt Chronicle • January 19, 2010 Pitt Black History Month Features World Premiere Screen- ing Of Newspaper of Record: The Pittsburgh Courier, 1907- 1965By Sharon S. Blake During critical periods in our nation’s history, The Pittsburgh Courier weekly newspaper, published between 1907 and 1965, served as an instrument of change in the fight against racial discrimination in housing, jobs, health, education, sports, and other areas. Printed locally but distributed throughout the United States in 14 national editions, The Pittsburgh Courier became the most influential Black newspaper in the nation, with a peak circulation of 400,000. It provided a lens through which Americans could see and read about the gross injustices targeting Blacks, from the Jim Crow era at the beginning of the 20th century through the turbulent years of the civil rights movement. Following the crusading newspaper’s financial collapse in 1965, it soon re-emerged as today’s New Pittsburgh Courier, which continues to serve the community. PHOTOS COURTESY OF KEN LOVE A new documentary, The Pittsburgh Courier press room Newspaper of Record: The Pittsburgh Courier, 1907- can institution,” as a Pitt alumnus, to see the he was the newspaper’s counsel 1965, by filmmaker and s a y s L o v e , University take the lead in “cel- and soon became its owner, University of Pitts- who began work- ebrating and preserving The publisher, and editor. Under burgh alumnus Ken- ing on the film in Courier’s story.” Vann, the paper’s circulation neth Love (A&S ’71) 2001, acting upon a Central to the story of The rose steadily, reaching 174,000 by 1936. tells the story of the suggestion from late Courier is Robert L. Vann (1879- By then, it was the largest Black newspaper newspaper—how it Pitt alumnus Frank 1940), who received his bach- in circulation in the nation. Vann also was empowered Blacks Bolden, a legend- elor’s and law degrees from Pitt in a longtime assistant city solicitor in Pitts- across America and ary Courier reporter 1906 and 1909, respectively, was burgh and a former special U. S. assistant helped to reshape and editor. “The film elected editor of The Pitt Courant attorney general under President Franklin national policy. The chronicles a national student newspaper (now The Pitt D. Roosevelt. executive producer treasure,” adds Love, News), and played a major role in of the film, which who says he is proud, The Courier’s success. In 1910, Continued on page 10 wa s awa rde d a Robert L. Vann CINE Golden Eagle for excellence in the visual arts, is Pitt alumnus Barbara McNulty- Love (A&S ’71, MED ’75), who is married to Love. The world premiere screening of the Pitt Announces Provost Search Committee Members film will be cohosted by Pitt Chancellor By John Fedele Mark A. Nordenberg and Vice Chancel- lor for Public Affairs Robert Hill at 6 p.m. The University of Pittsburgh has Regional Campuses Feb. 1 at the Twentieth Century Club, 4201 announced the 21-member committee that Jerry Samples, professor of mechanical guished Service Professor of Pharmacy; Bigelow Blvd., Oakland. The by-invitation- will conduct the search for the successor to engineering technology, University of Pitts- vice chancellor for research conduct and only event is the University’s K. Leroy Irvis Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor James V. burgh at Johnstown compliance Black History Month Program for 2010. Maher, who announced in November that he John Lazo, Allegheny Foundation Some parts of the Twentieth Century was stepping down from that post to return Appointed by Staff and Student Professor of Pharmacology, School of Club will take on the look of a newspaper to the faculty. Organizations Medicine operation from a bygone era, complete with a The committee, chaired by Randy Juhl, Staff Association Council Evelyn Rawski, Distinguished Univer- vintage newspaper-delivery bicycle courtesy Distinguished Service Professor of Phar- Gwendolyn Watkins, president, Staff sity Professor of History of photographer Carmon Rinehart, bundled macy and the University’s vice chancellor Association Council newspapers and crates, and a life-size for research conduct and compliance, was photographic replica of a Courier delivery assembled through faculty elections and Student Government Board truck. To add to the ambience, “newsboys,” appointments by staff and student organiza- Charles Shull, president, Student Gov- reporters, and Rinehart in the guise of tions and by Chancellor Mark A. Norden- ernment Board legendary Courier photographer Charles berg. Assistant chancellor and secretary of “Teenie” Harris (1908-98) will be on hand, the Board of Trustees B. Jean Ferketish will College of General Studies Cabinet all dressed in vintage attire. Enlargements Rosemary Natale, president, College of PittChronicle provide senior staff support as the commit- Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh of “Teenie” Harris photos, courtesy of the tee secretary. General Studies Cabinet Carnegie Museum of Art, will be placed Juhl says the committee will begin around the ballroom. meeting soon, and that the position has been Graduate and Professional Students PUBLISHER Robert Hill Newspaper of Record: The Pittsburgh announced in national publications, includ- Association ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER John Harvith Courier, 1907-1965 tells its story not only ing The Chronicle of Higher Education. He Daniel Jimenez, president, Graduate and EXECUTIVE EDITOR Linda K. Schmitmeyer through vintage images and narration, but said he hopes that the committee will be Professional Students Association EDITOR Jane-Ellen Robinet through interviews with a number of the able to present its recommendations to the ART DIRECTOR Gary Cravener newspapers’ former editors and reporters. chancellor to make the selection in time to Appointed by Chancellor Nordenberg STAFF WRITERS Sharon S. Blake The documentary focuses on the story of begin the Fall 2010 semester. Livingston Alexander, professor of psy- John Fedele how The Courier launched major national chology; president, University of Pittsburgh Morgan Kelly campaigns to combat racism, lynching, and Elected by the Faculty at Bradford Amanda Leff race discrimination in education, employ- Arts and Sciences Dennis Curran, Distinguished Service Anthony M. Moore ment, health, housing, the military, and Kathleen Dewalt, professor of anthro- Professor and Bayer Professor of Chem- Patricia Lomando White sports. One of its most famous causes, pology istry CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Franklin Toker the “Double V Campaign” of 1942-43, Dennis Looney, professor and chair, Larry Davis, Donald M. Henderson Pro- demanded that Blacks fighting for victory in Department of French and Italian Languages fessor and dean, School of Social Work HAPPENINGS EDITOR Baindu Saidu the war abroad win a victory against racism and Literatures Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob, professor and at home as well—through full citizenship dean, School of Nursing rights. The film also includes segments on Schools of the Health Sciences B. Jean Ferketish, secretary to the com- The Pitt Chronicle is published throughout the year by celebrated Black entertainers, sports figures, Anna Roman, assistant professor, pathol- mittee; assistant chancellor and secretary of University News and Magazines, University of Pittsburgh, and musicians, who were seldom, if ever, the Board of Trustees 400 Craig Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, ogy; senior vice president, Administrative Phone: 412-624-1033, Fax: 412-624-4895, covered by the White media; advertising Services and Physician Relations, UPMC Jere Gallagher, professor/associate dean, E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.chronicle.pitt.edu geared specifically to a Black audience; Physician Services Division School of Education society, style, and fashion columns, which Roger Hendrix, Distinguished Professor The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal influenced the paper’s women readers; and Provost’s Area Professional Schools of Biological Sciences opportunity institution that does not discriminate upon any a range of cartoons, from educational and Kevin Ashley, professor of law Gerald Holder, professor and U. S. Steel basis prohibited by law. political to humorous. Carrie Leana, George H. Love Professor Dean, Swanson School of Engineering “The Courier was an important Ameri- of Organizations and Management Randy Juhl, committee chair, Distin- January 19, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 3

Franklin Toker On the Science Of Art History HEATHER MULL

Periodically, Chancellor Mark A. themselves “Fine Arts.” It’s significant that seller? It is the first of four volumes on the example, when a scholar looks at a work Nordenberg asks a Pitt faculty member to all three subsequently dropped that name in archaeological excavations I ran under the of art and says, “I have a gut feeling this speak during a University Board of Trustees favor of “History of Art.” Cathedral of Florence. The cost of the book painting is by Rembrandt,” he or she may meeting about his or her work. The follow- “Fine Arts” comes from the French is high—150 Euros [$219]—and it carries appear to be utterly nonscientific. But not ing is an abridged version of Prof. Franklin Beaux-Arts, which alludes to the princely 122 pages of Latin, mostly untranslated, plus so fast. The science of artificial intelligence Toker’s talk, “The Science of Art History,” tradition of art collecting. But today even about 400 dense footnotes. But to say that tells us that the brain gets its answers by at the Board meeting of Oct. 30, 2009. the French have dropped “Fine Arts” in favor these attributes make the book scientific is to sifting through a computer-like comparison Toker is a professor of the history of art and of “Art History,” which is a literal transla- fall into exactly the trap we need to avoid: the of images. Connoisseurship (the system that architecture. tion of the German term Kunstgeschichte. false idea that if a study is difficult to follow, allows a scholar to declare an undocumented There was an even earlier name for what then it’s scientific. It is neither difficulty nor painting to be a Rembrandt) is consequently he years of Chancellor Nor- my colleagues and I do: This was Kunstwis- obscurity that makes something scientific: It an important methodology when no reli- denberg’s stewardship have senschaft, an 18th-century German term that is the rigor of the method that it follows. Nor, able records are available. My stress here is produced a happy conjunction translates as the science of art. That earlier incidentally, does entertainment disqualify a on reliable, since even the valid signature of three phenomena: Under- term is still amply used in Germany today. work as science. James Watson’s memoir The “Rembrandt” does not make a painting a graduate instruction is now It’s the name of the art history department Double Helix, about his Rembrandt, because that regarded as important at the at the University of Bremen, for example, discovery of the struc- painter had many assis- University of Pittsburgh; art history is now and it forms part of the journal title for ture of DNA, is highly tants, and he occasion- accordedT an important place in our under- the distinguished Marburger Jahrbuch für entertaining, superbly ally signed his name to graduate and graduate programs; and the Kunstwissenschaft (The Marburg Yearbook well written, and edu- their paintings—a sort University now values its interaction with for the Science of Art). cational. of Andy Warhol before the city of Pittsburgh. These are all positive The idea of the “science of art” has not So I would advance the times. developments for someone who teaches and entirely disappeared in English, either. But, the heretical idea that Connoisseurship is lives here and who uses the city for part of we think of it in the limited sense of detect- even my recent Pitts- not my specialty, but his research. ing forgeries—a sort of CSI: Art History, burgh: A New Portrait it paid off in my first There is a related phenomenon, too. On as when a Leonardo da Vinci drawing was is a kind of science. The book, for which I had to this campus we used to have what you can recently confirmed as authentic because long review in the Sept. immerse myself in the still find on many campuses in the United his fingerprint on the back, in watercolor, 22, 2009, Wall Street work of James O’Donnell, States—a sense of us versus them, with matched a fingerprint in paint on the back Journal called Pittsburgh an Irish immigrant archi- faculty on one side and the Board of Trust- of a documented Leonardo painting. an architectural guide of tect working in New York ees on the other. But what I sense at Pitt I regard this kind of investigation as a quality that few other around 1820. Research- today is a remarkable unity of purpose that low-grade science, if it is science at all, and American cities possess. ing in New York, I exam- binds together students, faculty, staff, and it’s certainly not new. For the last 200 years, That was kind of the ined a house at number 2 administration. That is one climate change the first thing art historians do when they Journal to say, but I do Oliver Street. “That looks we can all believe in, and one for which the investigate paintings on wood panels is to not see the book as an so much like O’Donnell’s faculty is grateful. analyze the wood itself: If the image is on architectural guide at all. work,” I said to myself, Art historians generally work with cedar, it was painted in one part of Europe; If it were, why would I Franklin Toker’s Pittsburgh: A New Portrait even though I knew those images, but I am speaking without any if on poplar, it comes from a second region; have devoted so many long-destroyed buildings today because it’s just not possible to show if on oak, from a third. pages to distressed neigh- only from prints and pho- you any significant part of my work and that These CSI: Art History-type investiga- borhoods like Larimer, Lincoln-Lemington, tographs. With due diligence I studied deeds of my colleagues. Our teaching covers the tions almost always involve the art market, and Homewood? and tenant records for that modest house 5,000 years from Stonehenge to skyscrap- which involves only a very few art histori- No: I see the book instead as an analy- in the stiflingly hot Municipal Records ers, and my particular research involves a ans. What I mean by the science of art his- sis of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods as urban Building in Brooklyn, and I discovered scope that is similarly extensive, from the tory is that we art historians follow a rigor- organisms, as though they were each put that 2 Oliver Street was indeed a house founding of Roman Florence 21 centuries ous intellectual matrix that parallels the way under a microscope. I specify in the intro- O’Donnell had designed, some 190 years ago to the completion of Pittsburgh’s new scientists work. Actually, what are art and duction what I regard as the marks of a ago. The chances of such an identification Children’s Hospital a few months back. But science but parallel modes of thought? The flourishing neighborhood, and I state why were minuscule: 2 Oliver Street is one of just the most powerful projector of images ever Latin expression scientia means knowledge, various Pittsburgh neighborhoods are not two Manhattan buildings of the era that can invented is the human brain, so you’ll have and the Latin term ars means technique, so flourishing. The book avoids nonscientific be definitively linked to a known architect. no problem keeping up with the images I the two demand to be understood as comple- judgments like “Isn’t Shadyside wonder- So was it a “gut” feeling, or was it a will talk about. mentary halves. ful?” or “I find the Hill so depressing.” (My simulation of a pixel lineup that allowed me My talk title proposes that art history I regard everything I write as having personal sentiments—not in the book—run to nail O’Donnell’s house? I’d say the latter: I is a science, even though when I studied the a scientific basis, even though some of my to the reverse.) was simulating what the computer does, but discipline at McGill and Harvard universi- books carry the dreaded adjective of best My method is visual or visual-spatial better, because I ignored the top floor of the ties and began teaching it here, the three seller. Would it do any good to assure you analysis, which I regard as scientifically departments in which I worked all called that my newest book will never be a best valid even when it may not seem so. For Continued on page 9 4 • Pitt Chronicle • January 19, 2010 Pitt’s New Humanities Center to Foster Collaborative Work “Making Languages of Songs Come Alive” By Patricia Lomando White It is fitting that the University of Pitts- Carpathian Music Ensemble brings sounds of Eastern Europe to Pitt burgh’s new Humanities Center is housed in the Darlington Memorial Library, the former home of a treasured collection comprising 11,000 books; 3,000 photographs; and hun- dreds of maps, letters, and other materials pertaining to the history of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Colonial America. The treasures—which shed light on America’s history, culture, and art, among other topics—are now part of the University Library System’s (ULS) massive digitiza- tion project at its Archives Service Center in Point Breeze. And in their place within the Darlington, located in Room 602 of the Cathedral of Learning, is the new Humani- ties Center, which opened in November. On Jan, 20, there will be a by-invitation- only event to celebrate the center’s creation. Rush Miller, ULS director, will discuss the history of the Darlington Library, and Jeff Slack and Greg George, of the Downtown architectural firm Pfaffmann + Associ- ates, will address the Darlington historical renovation project. The newly renovated space, designed by architect Rob Pfaffmann, maintains much of the former library’s ambience. For Jonathan Arac, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at Pitt, the Humanities Center fulfills a long-held dream. He is the inaugural director of the center; Todd Reeser, a Pitt professor of French, is the center’s associate director. According to Arac, since the 1980s, humanities centers have become an important part of how American universities foster learning. “The idea for a humanities center is to invigorate research and teaching by developing an active dialogue,” said Arac. “Few humanists are accustomed to collaborative work.” While those in the humanities generally don’t write collaborative papers, the benefit to having a center is that there is discussion—a give-and-take—which pro- JIM BURKE/CIDDE vides additional perspective for the articles and books that result from the academic By Amanda Leff Ritchie interplay. The Pitt center’s mission is to promote Listening to the sounds of the University Before joining Pitt’s faculty in 2008, in music and economics, has played in the research in the humanities through interac- of Pittsburgh’s Carpathian Music Ensemble, Helbig was an instructor of ethnomusicol- ensemble for two semesters and plans to tion across departments and to help faculty one can imagine being on the streets of East- ogy at the University of Illinois at Urbana- continue for many more. Cook, who plays do research. ern Europe, watching a village band play its Champaign, as well as at Columbia and cello, said she enjoys it when the group adds “Humanities centers do two things,” lively complex rhythms. Fordham universities. When she arrived at its own “twists” to the music. “There’s never said Reeser, who came to Pitt after spending The ensemble, established and directed Pitt, the Department of Music asked her to a dull moment when working with so many a year working at the National Humanities by Adriana Helbig, an assistant professor put together a student music ensemble. Her good musicians,” she says. Center in North Carolina. “They help faculty of ethnomusicology in Pitt’s Department own interest in Slavic music, combined with At Cook’s suggestion, the ensemble has do research better, promoting humanities- of Music, brings the sounds of Slovakia, the Pittsburgh region’s significant Eastern begun singing a verse or two of the songs it based research. One way of doing this is by Ukraine, Poland, Mace- European heritage, led performs. “I love that our ensemble is a bit offering fellowships, grants, and bringing in donia, and Bulgaria to her to assemble the Car- of an Eastern European mongrel,” she says. outside speakers. Secondly, they provide a the University. Students The ensemble, established pathian Music Ensemble. “But when we sing all together, we take on, collaborative element. Faculty work together play their interpretations and directed by Adriana Me mbe r s of t he for a moment, the more specific persona of on research that is humanities based.” of Romani (Gypsy), ensemble receive one the people [who created the music we are Pitt’s center offers humanities seminars Jewish, Carpathian, Helbig, an assistant credit for participating playing]—letting the languages of the songs and lectures as well as a colloquium series, and Balkan music with in the ensemble, a course speak for themselves.” which involves reading groups. The collo- such instruments as the professor of ethno- that is open to all Pitt Cook said the ensemble is an important quium discussions are usually led by a Pitt sopilkas (f lutes), tapan students. Helbig says that musical offering at Pitt. “It contributes so or visiting faculty member who has authored and dombek (drums), musicology in Pitt’s students make consid- much to our already culturally diverse music a piece of writing, either already published bouzouki (similar to a erable progress in their department,” she says. or en route to publication. The writing is mandolin), and tsymbaly Department of Music, musical abilities through- While the Carpathian Music Ensemble circulated in advance and then is discussed, (hammered dulcimer). brings the sounds of out the semester. plays at local festivals and community with the author, by a roomful of colleagues Members wear colorful “As they get more events, it will play its full repertoire this from various departments. vests embroidered for Slovakia, Ukraine, familiar with the music spring at 8 p.m. March 26 in the Frick Fine Fellowships also are available through them in a Ukrainian and different genres, they Arts Building. Tickets are available at www. the center, including an early-career fellow- village. Poland, Macedonia, and are now really forming proartstickets.org. ship, offered to a recent PhD of extraordinary Helbig b e ca me their own sounds,” she Helbig also teaches a course in world promise; visiting short-term fellowships, interested in Romani Bulgaria to the says. “They are fusing music, where students learn about tradi- lasting for a few days to a few weeks; and a music while she was different sounds together, tional and popular music from countries one-semester, advanced-career fellowship, studying classical piano University. or interpreting music around the world. Helbig says her students hosting a distinguished faculty member from at the Vienna Conserva- in different ways—for contextualize musical information in terms another institution. tory in Austria. It was there, at concerts and instance, interpreting a Slovak song in an of geography and history and learn how cer- Sabine MacCormack, the Rev. Theo- in small cafés, that she first heard Balkan Irish way. They’ve become very original in tain music genres are influenced by politics, dore Hesburgh Professor of Classics and His- and Gypsy music. Upon returning to the what they are doing with the music. The joy cultural policy, economics, and globalized tory in the University of Notre Dame, visited United States, she received her doctorate in and confidence that they have in their music media and technology. The one-semester Pitt’s center on a recent short-term fellow- ethnomusicology from Columbia University, really translates to the audience.” course is so popular that it is always full, writing her dissertation on Romani music. Elizabeth Cook, a sophomore majoring says Helbig. Continued on page 11 January 19, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 5 C A L E N D A R

21Raisin JANUARY

29Mahler’s Chamber Symphony 19 Studio Arts Field Study in Wyoming, exhibition from University Honors Col- lege’s Summer 2009 program, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Jan. 29, University Art Gallery, Frick Fine Arts Building, Univer- sity Honors College, Pitt Department of Studio Arts, www.studioarts.pitt.edu.

“Sellarsian Metaphilosophy and Its Intricacies,” Tadeusz Szubka, professor and director of Institute of Philosophy, Szczecin University, 12:05 p.m., 817R Cathedral of Learning, Lunchtime Talk Series, Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, pit- Orchid Fever: The Exquisite Expedition of [email protected]. the Orchid, flower exhibition, through Feb. Life in the Gardens: Fräbel Glass at Phipps, 28, Phipps Conservatory, 1 Schenley Park Dr., flower and plant exhibition featuring glass Oakland, 412-622-6914, www.phipps.conser- creations by Hans Godo Fräbel, through Jan. 30Orchid Fever: The Exquisite vatory.org. 20, Phipps Conservatory, 1 Schenley Park Dr., Expedition of the Orchid Oakland, 412-622-6914, www.phipps.conser- 1934: A New Deal for Artists, art exhibition vatory.org. celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Public Works of Art Program, through April 25, The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975), film Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds screening, through Jan. 21, Harris Theater, St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.frickart. 21 24 org. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Film- Raisin, musical based on Lorraine Hansberry’s Fun With PICT!, reading of new play, The makers, 412-682-4111, www.pghfilmmakers. A Raisin in the Sun, through Feb. 6, Pitt’s Small of Her Back, by Dana Lynn Formby, The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, art org. Kuntu Repertory Theater, Seventh-floor Audi- 7 p.m., Charity Randall Theatre inside the exhibition, ongoing, Carnegie Musuem of Art, torium, Alumni Hall, 412-624-7298, www. Stephen Foster Memorial, New Classics Series, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand; Super- kuntu.org. Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, 412-561- www.cmoa.org. trash; and Unnatural Rubber, art exhibitions, 6000, www.picttheatre.org. through Jan. 31, Andy Warhol Museum, 117 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, theatrical per- Lord of the Crane Flies, exhibition, ongoing, Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www. formance, through Feb. 21, O’Reilly Theater, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 warhol.org. 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www. Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org. 26 Tribute Concert: A Symphonic Celebration of carnegiemnh.org. Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by African American Culture, featuring local jazz Julius Shulman; Digital to Daguerreotype: trumpeter Sean Jones, 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, Photographs of People, exhibitions, through 22 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Sym- Jan. 31; Forum 64: Cecil Balmond, exhibi- Jim Brickman, musical performance, 8 p.m., phony Orchestra, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, tion, through May 30; Gods, Love, and War: Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Down- 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Tapestries at Carnegie Museum of Art, exhi- town, Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series, bition, through June 13; Past Meets Present: 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. Decorative Arts and Design, exhibition, ongoing, Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Emperor Concerto, Manfred Honeck, conduc- Rent,28 musical theater, through Feb. 7, Byham 22Jim Brickman Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org. tor; Emanuel Ax, piano; works by Beethoven Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh and Bruckner, 8 p.m., also Jan. 23, Heinz Musical Theater, 412-539-0999, www.pitts- The City Within, exhibition, through Feb. 28, Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY Mellon burghmusicals.com. Pittsburgh Filmmakers gallery, 477 Melwood Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pitts- Ave., Oakland, 412-682-4111, www.pghfilm- burghsymphony.org. makers.org. Room Service, theatrical performance, 29 Likeness, art exhibition, through March 21, through Jan. 31, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Mahler’s Chamber Symphony, Manfred Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, North Craft Ave., Oakland, Point Park University, Honeck, conductor; Gil Shaham, violin; works Side, 412-231-3169, www.mattress.org. 412-621-4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com. by Mozart, Haydn, and Mahler, 8 p.m., also Jan. 31, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Whales|Tohor, exhibition, through May 2, Ave., Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www. Arcadia23 Revisited: A Garden of Earthly carnegiemnh.org. Delights, musical performance by Newberry Consort, 8 p.m., Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Tropical Forest: Headwaters of the Amazon, Oakland, Renaissance and Baroque Society of exhibition featuring Amazonian flowers and 30 Pittsburgh, 412-361-2048, www.rbsp.org. The Rape of Lucretia, by Benjamin plant life, ongoing, Phipps Conservatory, Britten, opera performance, Jan. 30, 1 Schenley Park Dr., Oakland, 412-622-6914, The Clockmaker, Feb. 2, 5, 7, CAPA Theater, 111 Ninth www.phipps.conservatory.org. theatrical performance, through Feb. 14, City Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Opera, 412- St., South Side, 412-431-2489, www.citythe- 281-0912, www.pittsburghopera.org. atrecompany.org.

Population Impact, exhibition, ongoing, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www. carnegiemnh.org. 6 • Pitt Chronicle • January 19, 2010 C A L E N D A R FEBRUARY 8 Barry Lopez, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866, www.pitts- 10“The Future of the Book” burghlectures.org. 9 The St. Olaf Choir in Concert, 21 Anton Armstrong, conductor, Nickelodeon Presents STORYTIME LIVE!, 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., musical show featuring characters from top- Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Clas- rated Nickelodeon preschool shows, 5 p.m., sics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburgh- also Feb. 21, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty symphony.org. Ave., Downtown, Cohen & Grigsby Trust Pres- ents Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. 10 Mia Farrow, actress and humanitarian, 22 8 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Elizabeth Alexander, poet and Yale Univer- Downtown, Robert Morris University’s sity professor of African Studies, 7:30 p.m., 2009-10 Pittsburgh Speakers Series, Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oak- 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghspeakers- land, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866, series.org. www.pittsburghlectures.org.

“The Future of the Book,” a panel discussion featuring Sven Birkets, 2009-10 William

3Scapin Block Sr. Writer, and Maud Newton, literary 23 Xanadu, musical theater, 7:30 p.m., through reviewer and blogger, moderated by Pitt assis- The Fugue in Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, tant professor of English Cathy Day, 8:30 p.m., Feb. 28, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., 2 musical performance by The Axelrod Quartet, Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America, In the Heights, musical theater, through Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pitt Contemporary 8 p.m., Synod Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, Feb. 7, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Writers Series, 412-624-6506, www.english. 412-456-2697, www.broadwayacrossamerica. Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pitts- com. Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America, pitt.edu. burgh, 412-361-2048, www.rbsp.org. 412-456-2697, www.broadwayacrossamerica. com. Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners: 11 Works on Paper From the 18th Through 20th 25 Video Games Live: Bonus Round With the Centuries, art exhibition, ongoing, Carnegie Broadway Rocks With Marvin! Marvin 3 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Jack Wall, Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Hamlisch, conductor, 7:30 p.m., through Feb. Scapin, adapted from Moliere by Bill Irwin conductor, and The Mendelssohn Choir of 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org. 28, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, and Mark O’Donnell, through Feb. 14, Studio Pittsburgh, 8 p.m., also Feb. 12, Heinz Hall, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, Theatre, Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Repetory 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY Mellon www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Theater, www.play.pitt.edu. Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. 19 Attack Theatre: Some Assembly Required, Point Park University’s Conservatory part of Attack Theatre’s process/performance 26 series, Assemble This, which combines dance, Sue’s Leg, dance performance by Aspen/ 5 Dance Company at the Byham, dance per- La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (Frederick original music, and visual art, 7:30 p.m., Frick Santa Fe Ballet, 8 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 formance, through Feb. 13, Byham Theater, Wiseman, 2009), documentary screening, Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Dance Coun- 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Play- Feb. 5, Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Ave., Point Breeze, www.attacktheatre.com. cil, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. house, Point Park University, 412-621-4445, Downtown, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 412-682- www.pittsburghplayhouse.com. 4111, www.pghfilmmakers.org. An American Voyage, musical performance, Time After Time, musical theater, through Feb. Leonard Slatkin, conductor, 8 p.m., also 28 and March 11-14, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Honeck & Mutter, Manfred Honeck, conduc- Feb. 21, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Down- 222 Craft Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Playhouse, tor, Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, featuring 12 town, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392- Point Park University, 412-621-4445, www. works by Brahms and Beethoven, also Feb. 6, The Love Spell, by Italo Montemezzi, opera 4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. pittsburghplayhouse.com. Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY performance, 8 p.m., through Feb. 14, Hall Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, www. of Architecture, Carnegie Museum of Art, Discover the Real George Washington: pittsburghsymphony.org. 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Opera Theater of New Views from Mount Vernon, exhibition, Pittsburgh, 412-621-1499, www.operatheater- through July 18, Senator John Heinz History Imagining27 Home: Selections From the Heinz Buried Child, theatrical performance, through pittsburgh.org. Center, 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412- Architectural Center, art exhibition, ongoing, Feb. 21, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., 454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org. Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Point Park University, 412-621-4445, Company B & In the Upper Room, dance Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org. www.pittsburghplayhouse.com. performance, through Feb. 15, Benedum Center, 719 Behind the Lens, photographs of Pittsburgh Liberty Ave., Downtown, Glass Center by Nathan J. Shaulis, through Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, 28 Feb. 28, Pittsburgh Glass Center, 5472 Penn 412-281-0360, www.pbt.org. Ladysmith Black Mambazo, musical perfor- Ave., Garfield, 412-365-2145, www.pitts- mance, 7 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., burghglasscenter.org. Downtown, Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents 13 Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. Ben Folds With the 7 Pittsburgh Symphony Wind Quintet Program, musical perfor- Orchestra, featuring solo mance by the Renaissance City Winds, 3 p.m., artist and pianist, 8 p.m., Kresge Theater, Grace Library, Carlow Uni- Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., versity, 3333 Fifth Ave., Oakland, Renaissance Downtown, BNY Mellon City Wind Music Society, Carlow University, Grand Classics, 412-392- 5Behind the Lens 412-681-7111, www.renaissancecitywinds.org. 4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. January 19, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 7 C A L E N D A R C A L E N D A R MARCH

11Appalachian Spring 1 Artemis Quartet, performing works by Beethoven, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 24 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Cham- Alice, adapted from Lewis Carroll by Emilia ber Music Society, 412-624-4129, Anderson and Tamara Goldbogen, through www.pittsburghchambermusic.org. April 3, Studio Theatre, Cathedral of Learn- ing, Pitt Repetory Theater, www.play.pitt.edu. 2 Joshua Bell, violinist, and Jeremy Denk, 25 pianist, 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., “The Future of Poetry II: Interview With Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412- Ben Lerner,” 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org Nathaniel Mackey, professor of literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 8:30 p.m., Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pitt Con- temporary Writers Series, 412-624-6506, www. 4 english.pitt.edu. Once on This Island, by Lynn Ahrens and Ste- phen Flaherty, musical theater, through Mar. 7, New Hazlett Theatre, 6 Allegheny Square East, North Side, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, 412- The26 Light in the Piazza, 539-0999, www.pittsburghmusicals.com. musical theater, 7 through April 3, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 The Price King David, by Arthur Honegger, musical From the Earth to the Fire and Back, art Craft Ave., Oakland, Point Park University, , by Arthur Miller, theatrical perfor- 412-621-4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com. mance, through April 4, O’Reilly Theater, performance, 4 p.m., Fox Chapel Presbyterian exhibition, through June 13, Pittsburgh Glass 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Church, 384 Fox Chapel Rd., Fox Chapel, Pitts- Center, 5472 Penn Ave., Garfield, 412-365- Theater, 412-316-1600, www.ppt.org. burgh Concert Chorale, 412-635-7654, www. 2145, www.pittsburghglasscenter.org. pghconcertchorale.org. 27 The 30th Latin American & Caribbean 18 Festival, featuring Mexican artist Armando 5 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream- Jimenez Aragon, noon to midnight, William Pitt Tour de Force, Gianandrea Noseda, conductor, 9 Union, sponsored by The Pitt Center for Latin Jonathan Biss, piano, 8 p.m., also Grease, musical theater, 7:30 p.m., through coat, musical theater, 7:30 p.m., through American Studies, Latin American Cultural March 7, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Down- March 14, Benedum Center, 719 Liberty Ave., March 28, Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Union, 412-648-7392, [email protected]. town, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412- Downtown, PNC Broadway Across America: Downtown, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, 412- 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Pittsburgh, 412-456-2697, www.broadway- 539-0999, www.pittsburghmusicals.com. acrossamerica.com. Cherish the Ladies, Irish musical perfor- 30 mance, 8 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., 19 The Wizard of Oz, musical, music by Harold Downtown, Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents 11 The Planets, Yan Pascal Tortelier, conduc- Arlen, in celebration of the 1939 MGM film, Series, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. Appalachian Spring, musical performance by tor; Randolph Kelly, viola; and Women of 7:30 p.m., through April 4, Heinz Hall, 600 the River City Brass Band, 8 p.m., Carnegie the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, 8 p.m., Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Symphony Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412- through March 21, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Orchestra’s PNC Broadway Across America, 6 322-7222, www.rcbb.com. Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412- 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. King David, by Arthur Honegger, 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. musical performance, 8 p.m. Ingo- Classic Tales, Gianandrea Noseda, conduc- mar United Methodist Church, tor, Benjamin Hochman, piano, 8 p.m., 1501 W. Ingomar Rd., Franklin through March 13, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand 20 Park, Pittsburgh Concert Chorale, Dancing in the Isles, musical performance by 412-635-7654, www.pghconcer- Classics, 412-392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Musica Pacifica, 8 p.m., Synod Hall, 125 N. tchorale.org. Craig St., Oakland, Renaissance and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, 412-361-2048, www. 12 rbsp.org. 30Wizard of Oz My Deviant Muse: Photo- Carmen, by Bizet, opera performance, 8 p.m., graphic Imagery in Glass, also March 23, 26, 28, Benedum Center, exhibition, through April 18, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Filmmakers gallery, Opera, 412-281-0912, www. 477 Melwood Ave., Oakland, pittsburghopera.org. 27The 30th Latin 412-682-4111, www.pghfilmmakers.org. When January Feels Like American & Summer, theatrical performance, Caribbean 5:30 p.m., through April 11, City Festival Theatre, 1300 Bingham St., South 13 Side, City Theatre Company, 412- Golden Dragon Acrobats, 431-2489, www.citytheatrecom- acrobatic performance, 2 and pany.org. 8 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Cohen & Grigsby Trust Presents Series, 412-456-6666, 22 www.pgharts.org. Audrey Niffenegger, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866, www.pittsburghlectures.org. 8 • Pitt Chronicle • January 19, 2010 C A L E N D A R 8 16 22 APRIL Nunsense, musical theater, through June 27, Swan Lake, music by Tchaikovsky, classical Cirque de la Symphonie with Jack Everly, CLO Cabaret Theater, 655 Penn Ave., Down- ballet, 8 p.m., through April 18, Benedum acrobats, contortionists, and jugglers perform to town, Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret, 412-281-3973, Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh music of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, www.pittsburghclo.org. Ballet Theatre, 412-281-0360, www.pbt.org. 7:30 p.m., through April 25, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, PNC Pops! 2009-10 Bronfman Plays Beethoven, Juraj Valčuha, Season, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 412- 1 conductor, Yefim Bronfman, piano, 8 p.m.,also 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. “Japanese Woodblock Prints and the Pop- 9 April 17, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Down- ularization of the Noh Theatre in Japan Ahmad Jamal and The MCG Jazz Orches- town, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392- and Abroad, 1869-1927,” Dick Smethurst, tra, musical performance, 8 p.m., Byham 4900, www.pittsburghsym- Pitt professor of Japanese History, Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Cohen & phony.org. 24 4 p.m., Room 202, Frick Fine Arts Building, Pitt Grigsby Trust Presents Series, 412-456-6666, The Marriage of Figaro, music by Department of the History of Art and Architec- www.pgharts.org. Mozart, opera performance, 8 p.m., also ture, www.haa.pitt.edu. April 27, 30, and May 2, Benedum The Human Spirit, Yan Pascal Tortelier, 17 Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, The Electronic Negro, by Edward Bullins, and conductor, Stephen Hough, piano, works by Jack in a Box, dance per- Pittsburgh Opera, 412-281-0912, www. Sister Son/ji by Sonia Sanchez, theatrical Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, 8 p.m., also April formance by BJM Danse, pittsburghopera.org. performance, through April 17, Pitt’s Kuntu 11, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, 8 p.m., Byham Theater, Repertory Theater, Seventh-floor Auditorium, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412-392-4900, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, Alumni Hall, 412-624-7298, www.kuntu.org. www.pittsburghsymphony.org. Pittsburgh Dance Coun- 26 cil, 412-456-6666, www. Hagen Quartet, works by Beethoven, America’s Best Weekly: 100 Years of the Dance With Me, dance performance, 8 p.m., pgharts.org. Webern, Grieg, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Pittsburgh Courier, exhibition, ongoing, through April 11, Rockwell Theatre, Pittsburgh Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Senator John Heinz History Center, 1212 Small- Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland, Pittsburgh Roland Dyens, musical Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Playhouse, Point Park University, 412-621- 8Nunsense man St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www. performance, 8 p.m., PNC 412-624-4129, www.pittsburghchamber- heinzhistorycenter.org. 4445, www.pittsburghplayhouse.com. Recital Hall, Duquesne music.org. University, 600 Forbes Ave., Uptown, Guitar Society of Fine Art, 412- 10 396-5486, www.gsfapittsburgh.org. 3 Shooting Star, theatrical performance, 5:30 28 Complexions, dance performance, 8 p.m., Greg Mortenson, author and humanitarian, p.m., through May 16, City Theatre, 1300 A Musical Fencing School, musical perfor- Byham Theater, 101 Sixth St., Downtown, 8 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, Bingham St., South Side, City Theatre Com- mance by Ensemble Masques, 8 p.m., Synod Pittsburgh Dance Council, 412-456-6666, www. Robert Morris University’s 2009-10 Pittsburgh pany, 412-431-2489, www.citytheatrecompany. Hall, 125 N. Craig St., Oakland, Renaissance pgharts.org. Speakers Series, 412-392-4900, www.pitts- org. and Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, 412-361- 2048, www.rbsp.org. burghspeakersseries.org.

Beautiful Dreamers, music by Stephen Foster, 5 opera performance, 8 p.m., also April 18, 23, Gregory Maguire, author, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie 11 29 Baroque and Beyond, musical performance 25, 30, and May 1, Charity Randall Theatre Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, Drue Rite of Spring, Manfred Honeck, conductor; featuring harpsichordist Beth Etter, 3 p.m., within Stephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh Horacio Gutierrez, piano; works by Stravin- Heinz Lecture Series, 412-622-8866, www. Kresge Theater, Grace Library, Carlow Uni- Irish & Classical Theatre and Opera Theater of pittsburghlectures.org. sky, Rachmaninoff, and Danielpour,1:30 p.m., versity, 3333 Fifth Ave., Oakland, Renaissance Pittsburgh, 412-621-1499, www.operatheater- through May 1, Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., City Wind Music Society, 412-681-7111, www. pittsburgh.org. Downtown, BNY Mellon Grand Classics, 412- 6 renaissancecitywinds.org. 392-4900, www.pittsburghsymphony.org. August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts, theatri- 18 cal performance, through April 11, Benedum The Temptations and The Four Tops, Center, 719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, PNC 12 Alex Klein, Richard Young, and Ricardo legendary bands, 7:30 p.m., Heinz Hall, 600 Broadway Across America: Pittsburgh, 412-456- Castro, oboe, viola, and piano, 7:30 p.m., Car- Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-392-4900, www. 2697, www.broadwayacrossamerica.com. negie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, pittsburghsymphony.org. MAY Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, 412-624- 7 4129, www.pittsburghchambermusic.org. David Brooks, political commentator, 1 14 Jazz It Up!, musical performance, 8 p.m., Fox author, New York Ben Franklin: In Search of a Better World, Chapel Presbyterian Church, 384 Fox Chapel Times columnist, exhibition, ongoing, Senator John Heinz Rd., Fox Chapel, Pittsburgh Concert Chorale, 8 p.m., Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St., Strip 412-635-7654, www.pghconcertchorale.org. Hall, 600 Penn District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhis- Ave., Down- torycenter.org. town, Robert Broken Chords, dance performance by Vincent Morris Univer- Dance Theatre, 8 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 sity’s 2009-10 Sixth St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Dance Coun- Pittsburgh 15 cil, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org. Speakers Series, Close Enough for Jazz, musical 412-392-4900, performance by River City Brass www.pitts- Band, 8 p.m., Carnegie Music Hall, burghspeakers- 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412- 2 series.org. 322-7222, www.rcbb.com. Jazz it Up!, musical performance, 4 p.m., Ingomar United Methodist Church, 1501 W. Fame, musical theater, through Ingomar Rd., Franklin Park, Pittsburgh Concert April 18, Massey Hall, Robert Chorale, 412-635-7654, www.pghconcertcho- Morris University, 6001 University rale.org. Blvd., Moon Township, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, 412-539-0999, www. pittsburghmusicals.com.

Time of My Life, by Alan Ayckbourn, theatri- 16Bronfman Plays cal performance, 8 p.m., through May 16, Beethoven O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Downtown, 1Jazz It Up! Pittsburgh Public Theater, 412-316-1600, www. ppt.org. January 19, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 9 Franklin Toker on the Science of Art His- Continued from page 3 house, which I could see had been changed, living in an enlightened century evaporated visually demonstrate that there were indeed image, since no such gathering ever took while a computer would have gone crazy in September 2005, when the Muslim world tight links between the two countries in place. My task here is to prove my theory C A L E N D A R trying to reconcile a roof of the 1860s with erupted in fury after a Danish newspaper those dozen years, and later. What England of why the queen of Spain—not the king, a house from the 1820s. published 12 cartoons depicting Moham- notably exported to Bohemia was heresy, contrary to usual custom—got Velázquez If it is a science, why did art history not med. A minimum of 100 people died in but what Bohemia notably exported to to paint it. (My theory involves incest and become one of the “ologies,” like psychology various Muslim countries in protests, and the England was what we call the International a bastard half-brother who sought to marry or sociology? One reason is Danish embassies in Syria, Gothic style of painting. In fact, I regard the the princess and grab the Spanish crown; it’s that “artology” is so clunky Lebanon, and Iran were set masterpiece of International Gothic to be not for the faint-hearted.) sounding, but another is that ablaze. This controversy the Wilton Diptych, most likely a portrait All the images I have discussed above— we existed so much earlier also involved the United of Anne of Bohemia’s husband, Richard Pittsburgh, the house in New York, Florence than those other disciplines. States, since Yale Univer- II, and quite possibly by a Bohemian artist Cathedral, the Wilton Diptych, the St. Peter The first prominent art his- sity Press deleted those that Anne brought with her to England. So statue, and Las Meninas—all these subjects torian was Pliny the Elder, cartoons from a recent images can bear witness when other wit- of past or future research involve the biggest who composed his vast book it published, in fear nesses remain silent. change to come over art history in recent Natural History in the first of Muslim backlash. Art historians also make themselves years, which is technology. In interviews, I century CE (CE being the Visual-spatial analy- useful in judging images that have been am always asked what is the biggest differ- neutral-based term for what sis is no less important in manipulated for propagandistic objectives. ence I see in Pittsburgh between the book we used to call AD). Pliny’s our daily lives. A famous David King’s 1997 book The Commisar I published in 1986 and today, but the real discussion of Greek sculp- photograph that was pub- Vanishes documents how difference between 1986 and ture and painting acknowl- lished around the world Joseph Stalin had his early 2009 is not in what I see but edges as one of his sources a in February 1968 showed collaborators cropped out in how I work, with com- study written four centuries South Vietnam’s police of official photographs after puter applications. Around earlier by Xenokrates of chief shooting a Vietcong he purged them. (Stalin’s 1995, I urged the Digital Sicyon, so Xenokrates was insurgent at point-blank underlings probably labored Research Library at Hillman the first real art historian, at House at 2 Oliver Street, New York, 1821. range on a Saigon street. weeks to excise those non- Library to digitize all the least in the West. Connoisseurship methodology allowed Toker That one photograph by persons from the negatives; street atlases of Pittsburgh, I do not normally use to attribute this modest house to the obscure Eddie Adams did more today we can do it in five from the 1870s until the the term “science of art architect James O’Donnell. to make Americans ques- minutes with Photoshop.) 1940s. Digitally speaking, history” because it is too tion their involvement in Elsewhere in the 1930s, Pittsburgh is now the best- late for it to be adopted now, and I try to Vietnam than did any single battle, won or Robert Capa fed American recorded city in the United keep my claims for the discipline modest. lost. Or conversely, think of what more than and European outrage at the States, so that (as I say in Medicine, after all, saves lives, while Rem- anything else healed the rage lasting from suppression of the Loyal- my book) my students and I brandt drawings do not. I do not even argue that war: Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial on ists by the Fascists in the can get answers in minutes that art history is central to the humanities, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. We Spanish Civil War with a to questions that took me as other disciplines claim for themselves. now have millions of walkabout photogra- photograph of the death of a a whole day to resolve in Nevertheless, in the four volumes I am cur- phers in the United States, since cell-phone Republican soldier. But this 1986. My research has been rently publishing on Florence Cathedral, photographs are now routinely taken in photograph, too, has been profoundly changed through who but an art historian could work in all situations like the 1991 videotaped beating shown to have been faked. computer applications: tex- the disciplines I bring to bear, from liturgy, of Rodney King that inflamed Los Angeles. Every political power Arnolfo di Cambio, St. Peter, around tual, visual, and graphics economics (13th-century economics, but The whole question of the propriety of taking has manipulated visual 1290, St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Toker elements; computer-aided- economics all the same), and disseminating images imagery, from Hitler back believes that di Cambio deliberately cast drawings for my illustra- and church politics, to is now a flourishing subset to Napoleon and Emperor the famous bronze statue to look nine tions; dictating directly to archaeology and social of the legal profession. Augustus. I personally have centuries earlier than it was. my computer (since 1995); and cultural history? Art history is a science an investment in two manip- and digitizing thousands The geopolitics were not only because it is the ulated images that form the core of two of photographs. In terms not just of speed very different but my discipline that analyzes books I am working on as future projects. or work capacity, but also in the quality method was the same everything visual, but also One is the bronze statue of St. Peter in St. and depth of the answers I can now get, the in my first book, The because visual production is Peter’s Basilica in Rome: There Peter sits cybernetics revolution has far exceeded any Church of Notre-Dame a uniquely valuable way of enthroned and stiff, with one extended foot science fiction I might once have dreamed in Montreal, set in the advancing information. It is worn smooth by pilgrims who have kissed of. context of French Canada commonplace to call Leon- it for half a millennium. Scholars always This means I have great responsibilities, in the 1820s, and in my ardo da Vinci a scientist as regarded the St. Peter as a rare survivor of too. I am obliged to keep exploiting technol- Fallingwater Rising, set well as an artist, but we now Early Christian art from the fourth century, ogy, and, in everything I do, I am obliged in the context of the Great realize that his anatomical until the restorer Bruno Bearzi analyzed the to move to a deeper, more essential level Depression of the 1930s. drawings not only recorded bronze and found it contained alloys only of work, going from mere facts to insight, Still, you are free to the body, but also actually used in the 13th which I think is challenge me: Is art his- assisted in the advancement century. Now I and the true distinction tory truly important? I’d of medicine by captur- other specialists are between my 1986 answer, “Yes,” because ing in line and wash what convinced that St. and 2009 books we now see the world Franklin Toker’s On Holy Ground: Liturgy, textual descriptions could Peter was cast by on Pittsburgh. Not of visual images as ever Architecture, and Urbanism in the Cathedral and not. Andreas Vesalius was a certain Arnolfo only can you not more complex. Howard the Streets of Medieval Florence (2009) is the indebted to Leonardo when di Cambio, about go home again (as Gardner’s 1983 book first of four volumes in his Florence Duomo he published On the Fabric whom I recently Tom Wolfe tells us Frames of Mind: The Project, to be published through 2012. of the Human Body, his published a long in his novel), you Theory of Multiple Intel- pathbreaking 1543 volume paper in Italy. Now cannot stand still, ligences listed not just on anatomy. Tellingly, the my task is to figure either. traditional intelligence illustrations were entrusted out how Arnolfo so The New York (which Gardner simply calls “logical- to a student of the Venetian painter Titian. cunningly fashioned Times recently car- mathematical ability”), but seven additional And a related point: When research- his statue so that ried an absorbing variations that also qualify as “intelligence.” ing the past, the visual arts have a huge a work of around interview with Sir One of these is the visual-spatial analysis documentary value when no other kinds of the year 1290 came Tim Berners-Lee, that my colleagues and I practice. Years documents have survived. In the fourth of out in the style of the MIT professor before Howard Gardner recognized visual- my volumes on the Florence Cathedral, I around 390—and who assembled the spatial ability as a valid measurement of am revising or even rewriting centuries of why. The answer core software that intelligence, Rudolf Arnheim had already Florentine history through visual evidence, presumably lies in drives the World made the case for it in his 1969 book, Visual since the textual record is so poor. Or take what propaganda Wide Web. Bern- Thinking. a parallel case in the history of medieval value the Pope of ers-Lee believes Howard Gardner may be right in Bohemia, today the Czech Republic. In 1382, the time was trying Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, around 1656. Prado Museum, that making infor- individuating eight different kinds of intel- Princess Anne of Bohemia married Richard to achieve with this Madrid. Scholars have never determined what patron commissioned mation and online ligence, or he may be in error, but there is II, King of England. The childless marriage exceptional com- Velázquez to paint Las Meninas. Toker promises to reveal both who tools freely avail- no question how powerful images are. I refer lasted just a dozen years, so it did not change mission. and why in an upcoming book. able has to free occasionally in my classes to the iconoclastic English history. But it profoundly affected Another image innovation. “If you controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries, Czech history, since the religious reform I am working on is Las Meninas, the mas- liberate the data,” Berners-Lee says, “who when suddenly, in Constantinople, certain ideas being propagated in England by John terpiece of the 17th-century Spanish master knows what applications people will create” Byzantine emperors attempted to ban and Wycliffe percolated back to Bohemia and Diego Velázquez and one of the half-dozen That is exactly how I, working in Allegheny destroy all the venerated images of Christ were picked up by the Czech priest Jan Hus, great paintings on earth. In this huge paint- County, can make research progress on Las and the saints, and thousands of monks were who was put to death for heresy in 1415. ing, the princess Margarita, about 6 years Meninas ahead of my colleagues in Spain. put to death defending the holy icons. For Being a secret transfer of heretical ideas, old, stands at the center, with courtiers left Research and teaching have never years we could say, “How barbaric those it is a matter of some conjecture exactly and right. Velázquez himself paints at an been more exciting or challenging, and the people were back in the eighth and ninth cen- how Wycliffe in England influenced Hus enormous easel in the corner, recording science of art history plays an important turies, to cause bloodshed merely over some in Bohemia. But while we learn little from the scene. This is not a manipulated image, part in it—not least at the University of images.” But our self-congratulations of the paper trail, we still have paintings that exactly, but it is certainly a manufactured Pittsburgh. 10 • Pitt Chronicle • January 19, 2010 Newspaper of Record: The Awards&More Pittsburgh Courier, 1907-1965 PHOTOS COURTESY OF KEN LOVE The Pittsburgh Courier plant and offices were on Centre Avenue in the Hill District. Continued from page 2 A number of other people interviewed who is the founder and artistic director of or discussed in the film have ties to Pitt, Pitt’s Kuntu Repertory Theatre and associ- including: ate professor emeritus of Africana Studies • Frank Bolden, whose assignments at Pitt. for The Courier ranged from covering Kenneth Love has worked as a docu- Wylie Avenue jazz clubs to becoming mentary filmmaker since 1972. His films one of the first accredited Black war cor- include Saving Fallingwater; Leon Katz: respondents during World War II. Bolden My Life With and Without Gertrude Stein; received an education degree from Pitt One Shot: The Life and Work of Teenie in 1934 but was turned Harris; and Fallingwa- down for a teaching job ter: A Conversation with in Pittsburgh because of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. A his race. He died in 2003 recipient of two Emmy at the age of 90; Awards in sound record- Jeanne Stoner • Edna Chappell ing for Serengeti Diary (LAW ’86), assistant of Occupational Therapy and the UPMC- , a vice chancellor for federal relations in based Centers for Rehab Services (CRS). McKenzie Courier and Realm of the Alliga- reporter in the 1940s who tor, Love has contributed the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of CRS provides occupational therapy ser- won praise and made his- to more than 30 Governmental Relations, National vices to 30 different venues tory for exposing racial Geographic television was awarded the Carolyn in the Pittsburgh area, and discrimination in restau- specials. After he earned Cross Distinguished Ser- Baird coordinates the place- rants, employment, and his Pitt Bachelor of Arts vice Award from the Coun- ment of occupational therapy housing throughout West- Staffer Patricia Prattis degree in 1971, he went cil on Government Affairs students in those venues. ern Pennsylvania. The on to receive the MFA (CGA) of the Association first Black woman to earn degree in film from Car- of Public and Land-grant Conrad Dan Volz, a pro- a PhD degree in history negie Mellon University. at Pitt, in 1973, she went Pitt began its annual Universities. Stoner has fessor in the Department of on to teach Black history served as CGA’s secretary, Environmental and Occupa- Black History Month and serve as a Pitt trustee. Program in 2004 with cochair, and a member of tional Health, was named an She died in 2005 at the the world premiere of the its executive committee. Environmental Hero by the age of 81; documentary K. Leroy The award, which was Group Against Smog and • , a Pitt Jeanne Stoner Earl F. Hord Irvis: The Lion of Penn- given during the organiza- Pollution. Volz was recog- trustee who received a sylvania and renamed it tion’s annual meeting in nized for his research related master’s degree from Pitt’s in 2008 the K. Leroy Irvis Washington, D.C., recog- to improving the environ- Joseph M. Katz Graduate Black History Month nizes outstanding service ment in Southwestern Penn- School of Business in 1977 Program to honor the and contributions to CGA sylvania. and had worked as a press- memory of the legendary man apprentice at The Pennsylvania legislative through continued service just after gradu- to the higher education Merrill Egorin, a professor Courier leader and Pitt alumnus ating from high school. and former trustee. Irvis, community. of medicine and pharmacol- Hord’s father worked as who in 1977 became the ogy in the University of Pitts- a linotype operator, even- first African American Elizabeth Skidmore, burgh Cancer Institute, has tually became advertis- speaker of the House an assistant professor in received the 2009 American ing manager and general of Representatives in Pitt’s Department of Occu- Society of Clinical Oncol- manager for The Courier, Pennsylvania and the pational Therapy, received ogy Translational Research and successfully worked Switchboard operator Ida Grant first Black speaker of any the 2009 Pennsylvania Conrad Dan Volz Professorship for his work to provide the business with its own print- state house since Reconstruction, sponsored Occupational Therapy in improving cancer treat- ing plant; in 1966 the bill that made Pitt a state-related • George E. Barbour, whose award- institution of higher education. Association Academic ments and supporting the winning 1962 series for on the Educator Award. The next generation of research- The Courier Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950)—who lack of diversity among workers on the City earned a Harvard University PhD and was a honor recognized her skills ers. The award provides of Pittsburgh payroll eventually changed celebrated African American author, educa- in teaching and mentoring $100,000 annually for five policy and made it easier for Blacks to tor, and historian—initiated what he called occupational therapy stu- years to further the training seek employment at City Hall. Barbour “Negro History Week” in 1926. At the heart dents and practitioners in and career development of received the Bachelor of Arts degree from of the annual February observance, which in neurobehavioral science clinical oncologists whose Pitt in 1951; 1976 became Black History Month, is honor- and the treatment of neu- primary professional focus is • Robert Lavelle, Pittsburgh realtor ing African Americans who have struggled rological disorders. translational research. and banker who had a 21-year career at The and achieved in their efforts to advance the Courier, working in the mailroom, office, mission of social equity. Joanne Baird, Yuting Zhang, and, eventually, the accounting depart- Newspaper of Record was made pos- an assis- an assistant ment. Lavelle earned his bachelor’s and tant professor in Pitt’s professor of health economics sible through funding from the University Yuting Zhang master’s degrees at Pitt’s Katz School in of Pittsburgh, The Buhl Foundation, the Department of Occupa- in Pitt’s Graduate School of 1951 and 1954, respectively. The school’s Multicultural Arts Initiative, The Heinz tional Therapy, received Public Health, was awarded Robert Lavelle Scholarship is named in Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council for the 2009 Pennsylvania Occupational a $1 million challenge grant from the his honor; the Humanities, the Falk Foundation, the Therapy Association Fieldwork Edu- National Institutes of Health to evaluate • Eric Springer, retired Pittsburgh Heinz Company Foundation, the Pittsburgh cator Award. Baird, who has been a the most cost-effective methods to pay for attorney and founding partner of Horty, Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council fieldwork educator for 18 years, holds psychotropic medications among Medicare Springer & Mattern, P.C., who wrote col- for the Arts. a joint position with the Department beneficiaries. umns for The Courier. He is a former Pitt School of Law and Graduate School of Public Health faculty member; and • Vernell Lillie, narrator for the film, January 19, 2010 • University of Pittsburgh • 11 Happenings Pitt to Host Jan. 19 Lecture by Mae Jemison, First African American Woman Astronaut to Travel in Space By Anthony M. Moore

American astronaut and phy- age of 16 and earned a BS degree in sician Mae Jemison, most notably chemical engineering and fulfilled known as the first African Ameri- the requirements for a BA degree can woman to travel in space, will in African and Afro-American be the featured speaker during Studies; she went on to earn her a University of Pittsburgh Black MD at Cornell University Medical Action Society (BAS) event titled College. Among her awards and “Dr. King’s Legacy: A Call to honors are election to the National Action.” The presentation—at 8:45 Academy of Sciences’ Institute of p.m. Jan. 19 in Room 120 of David Medicine and induction into the Lawrence Hall—will be part of a National Medical Association Hall series of free public events through of Fame. She has been awarded a Jan. 21 honoring the life and legacy number of honorary doctorates, of Martin Luther King Jr. A meet- including Doctor of Humanities and-greet and question-and-answer from Princeton University. Her session will be part of the evening’s book Find Where the Wind Goes: activities. Moments From My Life (Scholastic Becoming the first Black Press, 2001), written for teenagers, woman in space, aboard the shuttle features autobiographical anec- Endeavor in 1992, was just one of dotes about growing up. Jemison’s many accomplishments. Mae Jemison Among the other events in Prior to joining NASA in 1987, BAS’ weeklong series are a Jan. she worked in Los Angeles as a After leaving NASA in 1993, 20 evening, “Honoring Women general practitioner with the INA/ Jemison founded The Jemison Heroes of the Civil Rights Move- Ross Loos Medical Group. She Group, Inc., a technology design ment,” and a Jan. 21 oratory con- then spent more than two years and consulting firm, and the Bio- test. For more information, visit as an Area Peace Corps medical Sentient Corporation, a medical www.news.pitt.edu/m/FMPro?- officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia. technology firm. She also estab- db=ma&-lay=a&-format=d. On her return to Los Angeles, she lished and currently chairs The html&id=3939&-Find. worked as a general practitioner Dorothy Jemison Foundation for In addition to BAS, other with CIGNA Health Plans of Excellence and has directed the Pitt sponsors are the Pitt Chapter “Emotions as Multimodal Constructs,” California. Jemison Institute for Advanc- of the National Society of Black Cathedral of Learning, September 29 Jemison was a NASA astro- ing Technology in Developing Engineers, the Cross Cultural and naut for six years. As the science Countries. She is an A.D. White Leadership Development Office mission specialist on the Endeavor Professor-at-Large at Cornell Uni- (CCLD), Dean of Students Kathy flight, she conducted experiments versity and was a professor of envi- Humphrey and the Division of in life and material sciences and ronmental studies at Dartmouth Student Affairs, and the University was a coinvestigator on the bone College. of Pittsburgh Chaplaincies. cell research experiment flown on A Chicago native, Jemison For more information, contact

ALEXANDER DENMARSH the mission. entered Stanford University at the Jacquett C. Wade, CCLD coordina- Honoring Women Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, William Pitt Union, Room 630, Philosophy of Science, 412-624-1052, January 20 [email protected]. “Performing National Virtues and [email protected]. Regional Rivalries in a Theatre of Pitt’s New Humanities Center Lectures/Seminars/ Sport in Japanese,” William Kelly, “Conscience, Constituents, and professor of anthropology, Yale Univer- Readings Culture Wars: The Partisan Face of sity, 1 p.m. Jan. 22, 3106 Posvar Hall, Political Representation,” David C. To Foster Collaborative Work Pitt Asian Studies Center, 412-648- “Sellarsian Metaphilosophy and Its Barker, professor in Pitt’s Department 7426, [email protected]. Intricacies,” Tadeusz Szubka, visiting of Political Science, noon Jan. 20, 2628 fellow in Pitt’s Center for Philosophy Cathedral of Learning, Pitt Department of Science, and a professor and head of of Religious Studies, 412-624-5990, the Institute of Philosophy at Szczecin [email protected]. Miscellaneous University, Poland, 12:05 p.m. Jan.19, 817R Cathedral of Learning, Lunchtime “Diversity and Its Discontents: Les- “Honoring Women Heroes of the Talk Series, Pitt Center for Philosophy of sons From Higher Education,” Marta Civil Rights Movement,” part of Science, 412-624-1052, [email protected]. Tienda, professor of sociology and public Pitt’s week-long celebration of the life affairs, Princeton University, noon and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., “Dr. King’s Legacy: A Call to Jan. 21, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, 8:45 p.m. Jan. 20, 630 William Pitt Action,” Mae Jemison, physician and Reed Smith LLC Speakers Series, Pitt Union, Campus Women’s Organization, first African American astronaut to fly Center on Race and Social Problems, Pitt’s Black Action Society, National into space, 8:45 p.m. Jan. www.crsp.pitt.edu. Society of Black Engineers at Pitt, 19, 120 David Lawrence Cross Cultural and Leadership Devel- Hall, Pitt Black “Screening the Stage, Staging opment Office, 412-648-9523. Action Society, the Screen,” colloquium featuring Pitt Chapter of the presentations by Neepa Majumdar, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Oratory National Society of professor of film stud- Contest, students will showcase their Black Engineers, ies in Pitt’s English oratory skills through personal, original 412 648-9523. department, and writings, 8:45 p.m. Jan. 21, Nordy’s Usha Iyer, gradu- Place, William Pitt Union, Pitt’s Black “EU Military ate student in Action Society, National Society of Interven- Pitt’s English Black Engineers at Pitt, Pitt Cross MARY JANE BENT/CIDDE tion in department, Cultural and Leadership Development Jonathan Arac, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and director of Africa,” Bjoern 5:30 p.m. Office, 412-648-9523. the new Humanities Center Seibert, author, 10:30 Jan. 21, 1228 a.m. Jan. 20, 3610 Cathedral of Continued from page 4 Posvar Hall, Pitt Euro- Learning, Pitt Film pean Studies Center, Studies Program, Pitt PhD ship. Her book, On The Wings of Another of the center’s European Union [email protected]. Dissertation Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and programs will occur annu- Center of Excellence, Peru (Princeton University Press, ally during the week following Ford Institute Roscoe Robinson Jr. Memorial for Human Security, Lecture Series on Diversity Defenses 2006), was discussed during a Pitt’s commencement. A visit- colloquium. MacCormack also ing scholar participating in a 412-648-7405, and Public Service, Jake Patrick Rodgers, School of Arts and Wheatley Jr., Pennsylva- Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, presented a lecture, “The Poetics short-term fellowship will lead nia State Representative “Electrochemical Recognition and of Representation in Viceregal a cross-disciplinary seminar “Screening the (D-Allegheny), 11 a.m. Jan. Stage, Staging Transport of Ions at Liquid/Liquid Peru: A Walk Round the Cloister for Pitt faculty. Graduate stu- 22, 2501 Posvar Hall, Pitt Interfaces as a Principle for Biomedi- the Screen,” Graduate School for Public and of San Agustín in Lima.” dents and faculty members from Cathedral of cal and Environmental Analysis and International Affairs, 412-648- Beyond,” 10 a.m. Jan. 22, 307 Eberly In addition to collaboration other local institutions may also Learning, 7608, [email protected]. January 21 Hall. between faculty and graduate stu- participate, depending on space “Explaining Dynamically dents, the center also fosters inter- availability. Nora Watson, Graduate School of action between programs, depart- Bruce Robbins, the Old Complex Behavior,” Meinard Public Health’s Department of Epide- Kuhlmann, visiting fellow in miology, “Arterial Stiffness, Functional ments, and schools. Research can Dominion Foundation Professor Pitt’s Center for Philosophy of Decline, and Mortality Risk in Older be shared, and undergrad and in the Humanities at Columbia Science and a professor at the Uni- Adults,” 2 p.m. Jan. 22, 5th-floor versity of Bremen, Germany, 12:05 p.m. graduate students have opportu- University, will lead the first conference room, Bellefield Profes- nities to work with distinguished seminar, titled “Rethinking Cos- Jan. 22, 817R Cathedral of Learning, sional Building, 130 N. Bellefield Ave., Lunchtime Talk Series, Pitt Center for scholars. mopolitanism,” May 3-7. Pitt Chronicle University News and Magazines University of Pittsburgh 400 Craig Hall 200 South Craig Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260

12 • Pitt Chronicle • January 19, 2010 paignUniversity Sets Pitt Bucket Brigade for Haiti Cam- By Amanda Leff Ritchie

In an effort to help bring some long- term relief to the victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, the University of Pittsburgh is organizing Pitt’s Bucket Brigade for Haiti campaign. During the course of the next few weeks, 500 five-gallon buckets will be distributed throughout the University’s Oak- land campus in offices and residence halls to collect hygiene products for the victims. Pitt is working with the North Side- headquartered Brother’s Brother Founda- tion, which promotes international health and education through the distribution of donated medical, educational, agricultural, and other supplies. “News of the devastating earthquake in Haiti has caused much concern throughout our University community,” said G. Reynolds Clark, Pitt’s vice chancellor for community initiatives and chief of staff to Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. “With our wide range of international programs and many students from around the world, it is only natural that we have chosen to respond in a practical and immediate way. We are proud to work with the trusted and experienced Pittsburgh-based international aid organization, Brother’s Brother Founda- tion, as our University community unites in delivering Pitt’s Bucket Brigade for Haiti. Items needed include baby or wet wipes, nonliquid soap, wash cloths, hand towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes, combs, and brushes. No donations of shampoos or any PUBLICATION NOTICE The next edition of materials that may leak will be accepted. The Pitt Chronicle will be published Jan. 25. filled buckets should be ready for pickup by Items for publication in the newspaper’s Feb. 8 and will be sent to Haiti via Brother’s Happenings calendar (see page 11) should be received at least two weeks before the Brother Foundation. event date. Happenings items should include Monetary donations to the Brother’s Republic, which shares the the following information: title of the event, Brother Foundation may be made at www. island of Hispaniola with name and title of speaker(s), date, time, loca- brothersbrother.org/donateform.htm. Haiti, and in eastern Cuba, but tion, sponsor(s), and a phone number and The epicenter of the 7.0 magnitude no major damage was reported Web site for additional information. Items quake was 10 miles west of Haiti’s capital, of Port-au-Prince. International relief agen- in either place. may be e-mailed to [email protected], faxed Port-au-Prince, and its depth was just 5 miles cies are struggling to get aid supplies into For more information about Pitt’s to 412-624-4895, or sent by campus mail to beneath the Earth’s surface, the U.S. Geo- the Caribbean nation—the airport and the Bucket Brigade for Haiti campaign, contact 422 Craig Hall. For more information, call logical Survey (USGS) reported. The quake country’s main port were heavily damaged Steve Zupcic, assistant director of Pitt’s 412-624-1033 or e-mail [email protected]. has caused massive destruction of buildings by the earthquake. Office of Community Relations, at 412-624- as well as death and injury to many residents The quake was felt in the Dominican 7709 or [email protected].