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

Cadets assess a simulated casualty during army training on Saturday. Eli Talbert | Army ROTC Three Rivers Battalion

ROTC trains cadets in effective communication, first aid

By Alexis Carter | Staff Writer October 23, 2016

Michael Green trudged through thick mud Saturday afternoon, planned his cadets’ attack against the enemy and watched as they provided first aid to a soldier casualty. On a rainy, brisk autumn day,...

Two Pitt students paint a fence outside Phillips Elementary School in the South Side on Pitt Make a Difference Day, Oct 22, 2016. Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt Make a Difference Day inspires sense of community

By Elias Rappaport | Staff Writer October 23, 2016

While Pitt’s annual Make a Difference Day usually sends Pitt students out of Oakland and into the community, the service day attracted more than just Pitt students this year. For the group sent to...

Bikers and pedestrians decorated Susan Hicks’s ghost bike at the intersection of Bellefield and Forbes avenues commemorating the professor, who was killed there last year. Kyleen Considine | Staff Photographer

Friends, family, strangers gather to remember Susan Hicks

By Janine Faust | Staff Writer October 22, 2016
The white bicycle, adorned with vibrant flowers, has been tied to a utility pole on the sidewalk across from Carnegie Hall for exactly a year, honoring Susan Hicks’ life. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the day 34-year-old Hicks was fatally hit by a car at the intersection of South Bellefield and Forbes avenues. The same gloomy, rainy weather that backdropped her friends’ and family’s mourning that day reappeared on Friday as about 40 people gathered to leave notes to the late Pitt pr

Fifth home in Oakland burglarized

By Emily Brindley / Assistant News Editor October 21, 2016

For the fifth time this month, an unknown person robbed a central Oakland home, the latest in a string of robberies that police say are not connected. This time, an unknown person broke into a home...

John Hamilton, Senior Staff Photographer

Educators learn how to create inclusive classrooms

By Jace Bridges / Staff Writer October 21, 2016

On the set of the 1993 film “Poetic Justice,” when the cameras weren’t rolling, Maya Angelou saw two young men cursing at each other and grabbing for each other’s throats. She pulled one of...

Pi Lambda Phi fraternity is back on campus after being suspended in 2014. Courtesy of Pi Lambda Phi, University of Pittsburgh

University reinstates fraternity Pi Lambda Phi

By Emily Baranik / Staff Writer October 21, 2016

After a two-year absence, Pi Lambda Phi is back on campus as an officially recognized fraternity. The fraternity has spent much of the past 20 years under University suspension — Pitt suspended the...

Members of LArche USA spoke about strengthening community at an event Wednesday afternoon. Meghan Sunners | Senior Staff Photographer

Disability advocates speak at Pitt about inclusion

By Rebecca Peters / For The Pitt News October 20, 2016

The whole room went silent after Sister Anita Maroun asked a crowd of Pitt students and community members how many people with disabilities are needed to change a lightbulb. “One person to change...

Pitt News wins journalism awards

By Lauren Rosenblatt / News Editor October 20, 2016

In a national journalism competition, seven employees of The Pitt News won a total of nine awards for work from the 2015-2016 academic year. The competition, Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s...

On Tuesday night, Pitt students marched a mile loop through campus to take a stand against sexual assault.  Edward Major | Staff Photographer

Students march to raise sexual assault awareness

By Janine Faust / Staff Writer October 19, 2016

Kara Kloss vividly recalls the most recent incident of sexual assault she’s faced on Pitt’s campus. She was waiting alone for a bus outside of Towers on Fifth Avenue last spring semester when it occurred. “This...

As part of the Its On Us campaign, students gathered Tuesday night to decorate t-shirts and talk about their experiences with sexual assault. Julia Zhu | Staff Photographer

Pitt students decorate t-shirts for It’s On Us campaign

By Emily Baranik / Staff Writer October 19, 2016

Pitt first-year Chloe Yoder used black and red Sharpie to color the word “no” onto her white T-shirt. Filling in the large, block-lettered word, Yoder penned the lyrics to the song “Face Your...

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