May 2004 Archives

There's a blog for the class of 2008, and I was hoping to contact a few of the OAs through the NMJ blog so that there could be some decent blogging...

The incoming students have been sent a letter about the blog, and should be checking it out soon. Since the first orientation is on June 18th (about 2 weeks away, with the OA training session on the 17th), I think it'd be great if OAs could check out the blog and try to comment back to students.

If you've got the drive to post something for the students, email Amanda, Karissa, or Tiffany at bloginators@hotmail.com and we can post it. We'd be happy to post something if you email it to us--that way it's more people, and more interaction!

Get involved--this is a great way to answer questions, ease fears, and get to know future SHU students.

For those of you who don't already know, I am a Tamburitzan. A Tamburitzan (or tammie for short) is an ethnic dancer from the Eastern European area. Specifically Croatia. Well, Pittsburgh annually holds a Folk Festival to celebrate the different ethnicities that make up PA. It is being held at Station Square at the Chevrolet Amphitheater. I'll be down there all weekend either sitting in the display booth for the Croatians or performing on stage for the Croatians (Friday night and Sunday afternoon). The festival lasts all this weekend and ends Sunday with a concert by the Poverty Neck Hillbillies. Tickets are $8 and children 12 and under get in free...

So if you are looking for something to do, come on down and have a good time. There will be food, drinks, and fun for all ages!!! Hope to see you there!

Tiffany

Seton Hill's football venture offers stiff challenge - PittsburghLIVE.com

Seton Hill's decision to launch a football program and join the NAIA Mid-States Football Association, beginning with the 2005 season, represents a bold move and will require a ton of cash.
While NAIA football programs generally don't hand heavy scholarship money like NCAA Division II programs, they do nonetheless, represent a sizeable leap over funding from non-scholarship NCAA Division I-AA Mid-Major and NCAA Division III programs.
Forget the idea of competing with the MSFA's established programs, it will be interesting to see if Seton Hill belongs on the same field with the likes of St. Francis (Ind.), Walsh, McKendree and Geneva.

Does anyone have any idea where I can get a countdown thing for my blog. I wanted to have a running count of the days until I leave for Croatia, and then after that I wanted to have a running countdown of the days until school starts...

If anyone has any ideas, please leave me a comment in my blog under my most recent entry....

Thanks!
Tiffany

Looks like the blog outage is over and the server is back in business.

Last night I got word from our ISP that blogs.setonhill.edu will be down sometime this weekend.

The reason is that the physical machine on which our blogs reside is being transferred from one owner to the other.

The new owner plans to continue service as usual, so if all goes well, your blogging pleasures will be briefly interrupted, but should continue as usual.

I'm backing up the site in another window as I type this, and the ISP is burning a copy of the whole thing onto a CD which will go along with the machine, but it wouldn't hurt if you backed up your own site, too.

Seton Hill continuing Greensburg's renaissance

Continuing a renaissance for the downtown, Seton Hill University outlined plans for an $11.5 million University Center for the Arts. The 50,000-square-foot complex on Harrison Avenue will house the school's music and theater programs, studios, offices and classrooms.

The center will be within a five-minute walk of the campus of the private liberal arts school. Several buildings along the west side of Harrison will be razed for the project and ground could be broken this fall.

"This is another great day for the whole City of Greensburg," said city planner Barbara Ciampini, one of 70 administrators and merchants who attended a breakfast meeting yesterday where they viewed detailed drawings.

The center will be financed by the college, aided with a $5 million state grant. Plans call for a block-long complex with a 28,800-square-foot theater arts building with a 300-seat flexible theater. That would be linked to a 21,500-square-foot music hall with a 600-seat auditorium. The center will later include space for start-up businesses and a school for students of tourism.

I hope everybody has a great summer! I hope everybody gets all the rest they could garner because we will need it for next year. I hope the football team would be responsible. I hope, we as aLiberal Arts University will stand together as one community to preserve and keep alive the values and traditions that made SHU so great. After all, that's why we are here now, that's why we chose Seton Hill University: This Way Up!

So now comes my sentimental end-of-the-year blog. I know most of my student pals are tired of doing reflection papers, so try reading one. Sit back, relax, and turn your text size to xx-large so you can let your retinas rest. Enjoy.

If you've just received a new personal weblog at blogs.setonhill.edu, this entry will help you get started. Newbies are welcome to post questions here... veteran bloggers, please feel free to offer your input.

If you're looking at this as part of a class assignment, then your instructor has already set up a blog for you, and you are about to finish the setup process.

If you've found this page on your own, you'll need to ask the site administrator for a blog. Follow the instructions at blogs.setonhill.edu.

Hello out there! I thought I'd speak up on behalf of all the "lurkers" and shout out to the SHU blogosphere: keep on blogging in the summer or after you graduate! We like reading your stuff!

-- Dr. A.