Timeline of Summer News

May

Thursday, May 13 — Carnegie Museum of Natural History unveils Samson, the… May

Thursday, May 13 — Carnegie Museum of Natural History unveils Samson, the most intact Tyrannosaurus rex skull known to modern science.

Thursday, May 20 — A morning fire destroys a student-rented house on Bouquet Street, leaving four people homeless and filling the block with the smell of burning material.

Friday, May 28 — A man, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, fires a single shot and injures three people in Uncle Jimmy’s Bar on Semple Street, in Central Oakland.

June

Tuesday, June 8 — Astronomy junkies, experts and casual bystanders gather to view a celestial rarity when Venus transits the Sun for the first time in 122 years.

Tuesday, June 8 and 15 — Pittsburgh survives, when the popular reality TV show “Survivor” brings tryouts to Wholey’s Fish Market, in the Strip District.

Thursday, June 10 — Shots fired outside the Original Hot Dog Shop, on Forbes Avenue, leave several bullet holes in the windows, shortly after the breakout of a fight involving about a dozen people.

Friday, June 25 — Pitt’s board of trustees convenes for the annual summer meeting, approving the Student Government Board’s recommended increase in the student activities fee. Effective the fall term 2004, the fee will increase from $60 to $80 for full-time, non-College of General Studies students, and from $18 to $24 in each fall and spring term for part-time, non-College of General Studies students.

Wednesday, June 30 — Pitt’s University Honors College’s American Experience program brings Pennsylvania Auditor General Robert Casey Jr. and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., to argue on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and President George W. Bush, respectively.

July

Friday, July 2 to Monday, July 5 — Pittsburgh’s gotta regatta when the Three Rivers Regatta comes to town, and it comes for a full weekend of $1 concerts, festival food and the “Anything That Floats Race.”

Tuesday, July 6 — At a morning rally Downtown, presidential candidate Kerry announces his choice of Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., as his vice-presidential running mate.

Saturday, July 10 — Pitt football players Lance Asbee, Christopher McKillop, Daniel Pickens and Clint Session turn themselves in after warrants are issued for each in connection with an April 16 fight at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house on Pitt’s Fraternity Hill.

Wednesday, July 14 — Pitt’s board of trustees announces tuition increases ranging from $516 for in-state, returning students to $1,574 for out-of-state, first-time students. The increases create a two-tiered system, charging higher annual rates for first-time students than for returning students.

Saturday, July 18 — Pitt student Janet Rothenberg, a 19-year-old anthropology student on Semester at Sea, dies in Beijing when a tumor in her brain stem hemorrhages. Read the first week of The Pitt News’ fall production for a tribute to Rothenberg.

Wednesday, July 28 — Xu Zhen, a Chinese exchange student at Pitt, was found dead in his residence hall room. Pittsburgh officials believe the doctoral student committed suicide. Read the first week of The Pitt News’ fall production for a tribute to Xu.

Saturday, July 31 to Friday, August 6 — The United States Student Association, a national student organization and the subject of much SGB controversy, held its annual national conference in the William Pitt Union. Read The Pitt News in the fall for an overview of the conference.

August

Monday, August 2 — Matthew Barr, a 20-year-old Pitt student, is killed in Franklin Township, Pa., when a car turns in front of his motorcycle, according to InsideButlerCounty.com. Read the first week of The Pitt News’ fall production for a tribute to Barr.

Wednesday, August 4 — Part-time Pitt student Frank Ogiri-Little is shot and killed early in the morning in Squirrel Hill, at the intersection of South Negley Avenue and Fair Oaks Street. Four men, all of Garfield and ranging in age from 16 to 19, have been arrested in connection with the 27-year-old’s murder, according to an Aug. 12 report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read the first week of The Pitt News’ fall production for a tribute to Ogiri-Little.