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Duquesne University: Duquesne Campus
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Campus View Duquesne University is a moderate sized, private university located on an attractive 50 acre campus on a bluff within blocks of Downtown Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is the country's eighth largest corporate headquarters and offers a variety of cultural, recreational, educational, and professional opportunities.
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The Duquesne Student Union is home to student life offices, a ballroom, dining facilities, a bookstore, and a Starbucks. Duquesne University hosts more than 150 student organizations,[21] 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.[22] Other student media organizations include The Duquesne Duke campus newspaper and L'Esprit Du Duc, the University's yearbook.[23] Duquesne ... 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.[23] In addition, public radio station WDUQ was founded in 1949 on campus, and broadcasts from the university.
The Duquesne University community is invited to participate in the 2008 Libermann Lenten Series, "Together through Lent: Journeying with Scripture." The series, a collaboration of Spiritan Campus Ministry and the Office of Mission and Identity, will feature a different speaker for five weeks during Lent. A light lunch of soup and salad will be provided.
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The Duquesne Towers building houses 1,200 students. More than 3,600 students live at Duquesne University in five residence halls and one apartment complex. Assumption Hall, built in the 1950s, was the first residential hall on Duquesne's campus, and can accommodate 300 residents. Freshman dormitories include St. Ann's Hall, and St. Martin's Hall, which were opened in the 1960s. However, the largest dormitory facility is Duquesne Towers, which houses 1,200 students, including Greek organizations. Other facilities include Vickroy Hall, built in 1997, and Brottier Hall, which was formerly an apartment complex before its purchase by the university in 2004.[20]
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