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• Final organization budgets postponed

  The finalized Joint Funding Committee (JFC) student organization budget allocations were not released on Thursday, as expected, because the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) failed to maintain quorum at a joint meeting with Undergraduate Student Senate to approve them.

  News | April 30, 2012
• Crime and Incident

  Underage Drinking

  April 20, 2012

  University Police were summoned to Mudge House for an intoxicated female. The female had become ill and needed to be transported to the hospital for additional care. Because the call was initiated by a staff member, alcohol amnesty did not apply. The female, who was under 21 years of age, will be cited by mail for underage drinking.

  Unconscious Student

  News | April 30, 2012
• Actor Patrick Wilson to speak at commencement

  The speakers for the 2012 commencement were officially announced on Friday. The 2012 keynote speaker is Patrick Wilson. The student speaker is recently-graduated creative writing major Caroline Kessler. Wilson, who graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a degree in acting in 1995, has played roles in movies such as The Phantom of the Opera, Watchmen, and Young Adult. He currently stars in CBS’s...

  News | April 30, 2012
• 28X spared amid heavy PAT cuts

  The Port Authority approved the elimination of nearly half of Pittsburgh’s bus routes on Friday. The service cut, which will go into effect on Sept. 2, will eliminate 46 routes, end service at 10 p.m. on all but 13 routes, and lay off up to 500 Port Authority employees. Bus fares would also be increased, starting July 1.

  News | April 30, 2012
• Bomb threats target campus libraries

  Hunt Library, the Mellon Institute Library, and the Sorrells Engineering & Science Library in Wean Hall were the targets of bomb threats Tuesday morning. A campus alert message posted at 9:35 a.m. said that police were searching the buildings, but a mandatory evacuation had not been ordered. A follow-up announcement at 10:30 a.m. stated that the libraries had returned to normal operations.

  News | April 30, 2012