I alluded Pitt, threatening its image as an academic institution. He systematically sought out the culprits and secured a financial base from which to grow. Dr. Kurtzman, a political scientist specializing in public finance, took the role of the diplomat in addition to re-aligning the school’s finances. He dealt effectively with faculty, students and community leaders in all required situations. His heir now need not worry perpetually about being on the brink of financial disaster. I)r. Wesley Posvar can use the brinksmanship of a polished diplomat to develop a vital Pitt under statc-rclatcd-ncss. He also is a political scientist with an arm-length list of military and academic honors. His primary concerns as Dean of the Social Sciences at the Air Force Academy were strategy and decision-making. In physical stature Posvar resembles more the stern, disciplinary parent with heavy curling eyebrows and grim macing face. Yet Dr. Posvar faces a different, but equal challenge to that of Dr. Kurtzman. He must now learn to walk the streets of Oakland. n
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Across each student invoice there now appears in bold lettering, “Less Pennsylvania State Residence Allowance”. That one line symbolizes Pitt's existence as a University. The state-related deduction has allowed a freshman class of nearly 2.000 to enroll for September 1967. Most of these students will be from Pennsylvania. Each one has been produced by a different interaction of heredity and environment. Each one walks, talks, eats, sleeps, and studies differently. Each one has his peculiar goals, aims, and aspirations. When each receives a window-faced envelope in August 1967 the each no longer exists. All become numbers. They arc different numbers, but all arc programmed by the computer on to an invoice. That invoice becomes the common denominator. All are comrades with the same problems and woes. All must pay the activities fee recently affixed to the drab-blue invoice. All must acquaint themselves with the drop-add procedure, time schedules, and unavailable advisors. All must learn to cope with the gum-chewing, hip-swinging employees of the Office of Student Records. All that comes from a small sheet of paper called an invoice. 13
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