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Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne (locally [duːˈkeɪn]) first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and a faculty of six. In 1911, the college became a university, the first Catholic institution of higher learning in Pennsylvania to achieve such a distinction. It is the only Spiritan institution of higher education in the world.
Duquesne has since expanded to over 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students within a self-contained 48-acre (19.4 ha) hilltop campus in Pittsburgh's Bluff neighborhood. The school maintains associate campuses in Harrisburg and Rome and encompasses ten schools of study. The university hosts international students from more than eighty different countries, although enrollment is mostly regional, with 81 percent of Duquesne students residing in the state of Pennsylvania.
Duquesne University can count more than 77,000 living alumni, When the college was founded, it had six faculty members and 40 students. The college obtained its state charter in 1882. Duquesne University continues to expand with its completion of a mixed-use development project on Forbes Avenue.

Insignia and tradition

Seal and coat of arms

The Duquesne University coat of arms was adapted from that of the family of the Marquis du Quesne. However, a red book was added to adapt the arms of a French governor to that of a university. The coat of arms was designed by a Spiritan father and alumnus, Rev. John F. Malloy, C.S.Sp. They were then examined and partly revised by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, a prominent ecclesiastical heraldic artist at the time. The design was adopted early in 1923 and used for the first time carved in high relief above Canevin Hall, then under construction. The first time the arms were incorporated into the seal of the university was for the commencement program of 1926.
The formal heraldic blazon of the arms is as follows: Argent, a lion Sable armed and langued Gules holding a book of the same edged Or; on a chief party per pale Azure and of the third, a dove displayed of the first, areoled of the fourth; motto, "Spiritus est qui vivificat."

Alma mater

Alumnus Joseph Carl Breil, class of 1888, notable as being the first person to compose a score specifically for a motion picture, also composed the music for Duquesne University’s alma mater. Father John F. Malloy, who also designed the university coat of arms, wrote the lyrics. The first performance of the song was in October 1920. ť Alma Mater, old Duquesne, guide and friend of our youthful days.

   We, thy sons and daughters all, our loyal voices raise. ť The hours we spent at thy Mother knee and drank of wisdom's store

   Shall e'er in mem'ry treasured be, tho' we roam the whole world o'er. ť Then forward ever, dear Alma Mater, o'er our hearts unrivaled reign.

   Onward ever, old Alma Mater! All hail to thee, Duquesne!

Class ring

The Duquesne University class ring was first adopted in the 1920s, the same decade as the seal and alma mater. The first incarnation was approved by a 1925 student committee, and was an "octagonal deep blue stone held in place by four corner prongs." Two years later, another student committee replaced the blue stone with a synthetic ruby. The ring's design continued to evolve until 1936, as the prongs were replaced with a continuous metal . The words "Duquesne," "University," and "Pittsburgh," accompanied the graduation year around the four sides of the bezel, and the shank on both sides was decorated with a motif adapted from the university’s coat of arms. Originally an option, the embossed gold Gothic initial "D" became standard in the late 1930s. The Duquesne alumni website notes, "The golden initial, oversized stone and octagonal shape make the Duquesne ring stand out from those of other colleges and universities." Of the 29 buildings that make up the Bluff campus, Located on the northern side of campus is the Gumberg Library, a five-story structure opened in 1978 and holding extensive print and electronic collections.

Forbes Avenue expansion

Construction was recently completed on the Power Center, named in honor of Father William Patrick Power, the University's first president. The new multipurpose recreation facility on Forbes Avenue between Chatham Square and Magee Street, across from the University's Forbes Avenue entrance, adds to the student fitness facilities on campus. Other spaces include a Barnes and Noble bookstore, Jamba Juice, coffeehouse, offices for the athletics department, and a conference center and ballroom, as well as new classrooms and other academic uses. The 125,000-square-foot building was completed in early January 2008, and is the first stage of a development that aims to serve both the campus community and the surrounding neighborhood.

Capital region campus

Duquesne University has a campus for adult students, an extension of the School of Leadership and Professional Advancement. The Capital Region campus is across the river from Harrisburg in Wormleysburg. The programs at this campus are designed with flexibility and convenience in mind. Classes are also available at Fort Indiantown Gap.

Italian campus

Since 2001, Duquesne has offered an Italian campus program. The facility, part of extensive grounds owned and managed by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, is west of downtown Rome and just beyond Vatican City. University materials describe the campus as "a walled property enclosing beautiful gardens and walkways, [with] classrooms, computer facilities (including Internet), a small library, dining hall, recreational areas, and modernized living quarters complete with bathrooms in each double room."
The curriculum at the Italian campus includes history, art history, Italian language, philosophy, theology, sociology and economics, appropriate to the historical and cultural setting of Rome. The faculty of the program, largely constituted by visiting professors and resident scholars, is supplemented by a few distinguished professors from the home campus.

Academics

Duquesne has a total student enrollment of 10,184 undergraduate and graduate students.

Student groups

Duquesne University hosts more than 150 student organizations, including 19 fraternities and sororities. Media organizations include a student radio station, WDSR (Duquesne Student Radio). Founded in 1984, it broadcasts solely within the dormitories and through the Internet streaming audio. Other student media organizations include The Duquesne Duke campus newspaper and L'Esprit Du Duc, the University's yearbook. Duquesne also hosts a Student Government Association, a student-run Program Council, a Commuter Council, a representative Residence Hall Association, an Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, and numerous departmental Honor Societies. Most Duquesne chapters have suites or wings on campus, in the Duquesne Towers building, although there are some chapters on campus which are not housed.

Performance art

Duquesne is the home of the Tamburitzans, the longest-running multicultural song and dance company in the United States. Their shows feature an ensemble of talented young folk artists dedicated to the performance and preservation of the music, songs, and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures. The performers are full-time students who receive substantial scholarship awards from the university, with additional financial aid provided by Tamburitzans Scholarship Endowment Funds. Spotlight is a musical theatre company that produces cabaret performances and full-scale musicals. The Renaissance and Medieval Players offer audiences a historical Medieval experience, performing religious plays, morality plays, and farces from the English Medieval and Early Renaissance periods, sometimes working in conjunction with the Red Masquers.

Athletics

The Duquesne Dukes play varsity men's and women's basketball, baseball, men's and women's cross country, men's golf, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's outdoor track and field, women's indoor track and field, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, and women's volleyball at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I level and in the Atlantic 10 Conference. In 2008, the Dukes began playing varsity football in the NCAA Division I Northeast Conference. In recent years, Duquesne football was a member of the NCAA Division I Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Wrestling is offered at Duquesne as an Independent NCAA Division I sport.

Fight Song

The fight song for Duquesne is Victory Song (Red and Blue). The lyrics are:
We’ll sing hooray for the Red and Blue,
A big hooray for the Red and Blue;
For the flag we love on to victory,
And when the foe is down,
We will raise a mighty shout
And sing hooray for the Red and Blue;
We’re all your sons and daughters true.
Now with all your might,
Give them fight, fight, fight
For the grand old Red and Blue.

Notable alumni

Duquesne University's Institutional Research and Planning records list over 77,000 living alumni,
Notable figures in the fields of media include John Clayton, a writer and reporter for ESPN, Terry McGovern, television actor, radio personality, voice-over specialist, and acting instructor, Jesse Joyce, a comedian and writer, World Championship Wrestling commentator and writer Mark Madden, and German filmmaker Werner Herzog, who attended Duquesne, but didn't graduate. Sports personalities Leigh Bodden, Chip Ganassi, Mike James, baseball hall-of-famer Cumberland Posey, and Chuck Cooper, possibly the first African-American basketball player in the NBA, are all alumni of Duquesne, as are both the founder and current owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art and Dan Rooney. Singer Bobby Vinton and big-band composer Sammy Nestico are also alumni.
In addition, Duquesne has graduated at least two bishops and two cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church, including Bishops Vincent Leonard, the current ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, David A. Zubik, and Cardinals Daniel DiNardo and Adam Maida. Figures in politics include Donald A. Bailey, Father James Cox, Director of the CIA Michael Hayden, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Catherine Baker Knoll, Pennsylvania Representative Bud Shuster, and United States ambassador Thomas Patrick Melady.

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