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

Junior mechanical engineering major Andrei Mihailescu and his teammates entered the shopping network app, “Tag Along,” in Pitt’s Innovation Institute’s 24-hour Startup Blitz. (Photo courtesy of Andrei Mihailescu)

Pitt Students Pitch Against the Clock

In the corner of the O’Hara student lobby Saturday morning, Jacob Saletsky practiced his pitch for an app, stopping to listen to the critiques and suggestions of his teammates. “You speak too much...

Milanos Pizzeria on Fifth Avenue received a consumer alert Friday for numerous violations. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Original Milano’s Pizza receives consumer alert for code violations

By Janine Faust / Assistant News Editor October 7, 2017

Original Milano’s Pizza was issued a consumer alert from the Allegheny Health Department Friday for numerous code violations. Malfunctioning refrigeration, evidence of mice and a lack of soap at the...

Susan Rice (Left), Former National Security Advisor and US Ambassador to the United Nations, participated in a moderated discussion in WPU Assembly Room on Thursday evening(Photo by Li Yi | Staff Photographer)

Susan Rice discusses U.N., Iran Deal

By Madeline Gavatorta | Staff Writer October 6, 2017

The crowd burst out laughing when Susan Rice pointed out that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden talked at another Pitt Program Council event held last year. “That guy pissed— ruined a lot of my...

(Photo by Li Yi | Staff Photographer)

Christensen concentrates on couples conflict

By Sarah Frumkin | For The Pitt News October 6, 2017

Couples looking to get to the root of their problems may have found just the man to help them. Andrew Christensen — a professor from the University of California Los Angeles and a licensed clinical...

The event was hosted by the Center for African American Poetry and Politics. (Photo by Issi Glatts l Staff Photographer)

Poets and performers explore black futures

By Anna Bongardino | Contributing Editor October 5, 2017

Projected onto a screen behind the stage of the Frick Fine Arts building, images of demolition were overlaid with the slow motion image of a woman twirling in a bright blue skirt. Colors shifted from negatives...

Protesters from Westboro Baptist Church picket a same-sex marriage ceremony in 2014 on the steps of the County Courthouse in Wichita, Kansas. (Mike Hutmacher/Wichita Eagle/TNS)

Pitt, Rainbow prep for Westboro protest

By Janine Faust | Assistant News Editor October 4, 2017

With the Westboro Baptist Church planning to protest on Pitt’s campus Thursday, the University and campus organizations are preparing. The WBC is known for its hateful speech against the LGBTQ+ community,...

(Illustration by Abby Katz | Staff Illustrator)

Pitt students minds at work, hearts at home

By Ellie Yoon | For The Pitt News October 4, 2017

Audrey Chen can’t help but feel a twinge of nostalgia every time she walks into the Subway on Forbes Avenue and sees how thin the sandwiches are. “Whenever I go to Subway — we also have the same...

(Illustration by Garrett Aguilar | Staff Illustrator)

Students talk cultural beauty perceptions

By Bailey Frisco | For The Pitt News October 2, 2017

Maria Beniaminova said many Americans have an interest in big butts that people in her home country of Russia would find peculiar. “There is a small population [in Russia] that is into curvier women,...

Elizabeth Matway, 59-year-old English professor at Pitt, began teaching in 1982 at the elementary level. (Photo by Bethany Krupicka | Staff Photographer)

Degrees of age: Professors young and old talk teaching

By Nina Kneuer | For The Pitt News October 2, 2017

Some professors look like they should be sitting with their students rather than standing in front of them. Others fit the teen movie stereotype of the gray-haired intellectual with wire-rimmed glasses. Professors...

Students watch a fingerprinting demonstration at the Spring Safety Fair in February. (Photo courtesy of DaVaughn Vincent-Bryan)

SGB hosts fair for student safety and wellness

By Xinyu Lu | For The Pitt News October 2, 2017

Nicole Gormley was strolling out of the Cathedral when she saw people putting out fires on the Union lawn. With her interest piqued, the first-year English writing and communications major walked over...

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