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Feeling the crunch: Pitt addresses classroom spacing

Traveling through the halls of the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning, a student can… Traveling through the halls of the third floor of the Cathedral of Learning, a student can move from the elaborately painted Austrian Nationality Room, complete with velvet seats and chandeliers to rooms packed with students using limited technology and old, scarred desks.

This floor in particular illustrates some of the wider problems that the University faces in renovating old rooms and eliminating overcrowding.

According to University Registrar Samuel Conte, the biggest problem the registrar

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