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Ed Bahan, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s head women’s and men’s swimming coach, is offering an advanced swimming class through June 25. The class, which began April 19, but is still enrolling students, is open to swimmers age 9 and older with at least two years of competitive swimming experience. Swimmers can choose which weekday sessions are the most convenient to attend. Through June 5, the sessions run from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. weekdays at the Duke Aquatic Center in the Sport and Fitness Center. Between June 7 and June 25, swimmers can choose between a 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. session and a 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. session each weekday. This class is designed to allow athletes to experience different types of training techniques for the sport of competitive swimming and to expose them to training for longer, more difficult collegiate events such as the 1000 freestyle, 1650 free, 400 individual medley, 200 butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke. The cost is $175 for t...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has inducted seven students into the Upsilon Phi Beta chapter of Alpha Sigma Lambda, the premier national honor society for nontraditional students. Students were inducted in a ceremony in the Mukaiyama University Room. In order to qualify for membership in Alpha Sigma Lambda, a student must have earned at least 30 credits at Pitt-Bradford and have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.50. Those inducted were Benjamin F. Babcox (AKA Intern Ben), a broadcast communications major from Smethport; Eric Hund, a public relations major from Great Valley, N.Y.; Diane M. Marold, a human relations major from Kane; Luke E. Morley, a social studies 7-12 major from Coudersport; Brenda Porter, a nursing major from Ridgway; Mary Jo Stuckey, a sociology major from Coudersport; and Harold Allen Yale, a psychology major from Kane. Dr. K. James Evans, vice president and dean of student affairs, is advisor for the group.