The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Free & For Sale pages allow students to locally buy and sell used items. (Image via Free & For Sale Facebook)

Students find furniture and more free and for sale

By Sarah Shearer | Contributing Editor March 19, 2018

Picking up the couch wasn’t supposed to be an all-day affair. Kathryn Kennedy and her boyfriend Andrew Rabeneck planned to quickly move it into Kennedy’s newly rented — and bare — apartment,...

Pitt’s First Class Bhangra dance group performs at Saturday evening’s Dhirana dance competition. (Photo by Janine Faust | Contributing Editor)

Dhirana dancers employ visual storytelling in competition

By Madeline Gavatorta | Staff Writer March 19, 2018

Anand Mahalingam and Vineet Raghu hosted a dance competition Saturday night for two reasons — nostalgia and hunger. Literal, physical hunger. Strutting around the stage of the Soldiers and Sailors...

The University of Pittsburgh Manufacturing Assistance Center’s Makerspace held a grand opening to the public Friday morning. (Photo by Anas Dighriri | Staff Photographer)

Pitt engineering unveils Makerspace

On the outside, 7800 Susquehanna Street looks like an old brick factory, with hazy entrance windows, a cracked walkway and faded paint. But recently, more than 100 people gathered at the Homewood location...

Marie Young lectures in her Irish Culture and Traditions class Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)

Get your Gaeilge on: Professor preserves Irish language

By Cassidy Power | Staff Writer March 16, 2018

Marie Young left her home in Galway, Ireland, in 2001, intending to visit her brother in Pittsburgh for only three months. But what was meant to be a chance to see a little more of the world turned into...

Signs supporting the grad and faculty unions hang on a window in the Cathedral of Leaning. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Pitt to challenge grad student union election petition

Pitt administrators have told the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board they plan challenge the graduate student petition to hold a union election, organizers said Wednesday. Pitt will look to convince...

Deepa Iyer, a South Asian American activist, writer and lawyer, spoke to Pitt students about her recent book, “We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future” in the William Pitt Union Wednesday evening. (Photo by Issi Glatts | Assistant Visual Editor)

Activist, students discuss U.S. race relations

By Zane Crowell | Staff Writer March 15, 2018

Deepa Iyer was working in the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center September 11, 2001. She immediately thought about two different...

The Cathedral of Learning contains more than 2,000 rooms and windows and houses a multitude of departments, including the Slavic Language Department, one of the four departments to submit proposals for the Course Incubator Grant. (Photo by Issi Glatts | Assistant Visual Editor)

Pitt professors compete for course grants

By Noah Manalo | Staff Writer March 15, 2018

Pitt is giving professors the chance to change their courses — but they’ll have to compete and collaborate for the limited funding. The University will accept the final proposals for the 2018 Course...

The Qdoba on Forbes Avenue has permanently closed. (Photo by Janine Faust / Contributing Editor)

Forbes Qdoba permanently closing

By Janine Faust / Assistant News Editor March 14, 2018

The Qdoba restaurant on Forbes Avenue has drizzled its last queso and handed out its final free student drink. “This Qdoba location has closed permanently,” a sign posted Wednesday at the restaurant...

Marion Hastings, a French international student at Pitt, finds jet lag to be an issue when traveling home to France during winter break. (Photo courtesy of Marion Hastings)

International students stay stateside for spring break

By Hannah Schneider, Staff Writer March 14, 2018

Pitt’s Student Government Board announced last summer that the University’s winter break would be extended by a full week. The extension was applauded by most students — but for Pitt’s international...

Marc Tobias, investigative attorney and physical security specialist, will team up with Tobias Bluzmanis to instruct a new Pitt course on security engineering. (Photo courtesy of Marc Tobias)

Students ‘break in’ to security engineering at Pitt

By Thompson Wymard | For The Pitt News March 13, 2018

Marc Tobias has been picking locks since he was 15. One of his first experiences in the trade came when he went into a local locksmith in Denver and asked to pick the store’s toughest lock as a challenge....

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