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

Hillary Clinton campaigns at CMU

Hillary Clinton campaigns at CMU

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor April 7, 2016

After touring a robotics lab and meeting a grieving family, Hillary Clinton took the stage at Carnegie Mellon University to tell Pittsburgh voters that the future belonged to them. And as for herself,...

Bernie Sanders held a rally in Pittsburgh Thursday morning at the David Lawrence Convention Center downtown. Kate Koenig | Visual Editor

Pittsburgh feels the bern

Though thousands in Pittsburgh have long felt the Bern, the presidential candidate made his first official stop in the city Thursday morning. At a press conference and rally at the David L. Lawrence Convention...

A protester spoke out against UPMCs pay for employees during the February 20th March to Take Back Our University and Fight for $15. Kate Koenig | Visual Editor

UPMC to pay workers $15 per hour by 2021

By Danni Zhou / Staff Writer March 30, 2016

After several years of workers calling for higher wages, UPMC announced on Tuesday that by 2021, its minimum starting wage for employees would reach $15 per hour, and average service worker pay would surpass...

Terry Tan | Senior Staff Illustrator

Universities aim to clean up city environment with new majors

By Alexa Bakalarski / Staff Writer March 24, 2016

Though the city is now mostly free of smog and blackened bricks, the environmental impacts of the steel industry still cloud Pittsburgh’s air. So what better a place for environmental studies students? On...

(Photo Courtesy of Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh)

Kesha to headline Pittsburgh Pride in the Streets

By Zoë Hannah / Assistant News Editor March 23, 2016

This year’s Pittsburgh Pride in the Street will have even more glitter than usual. Kesha will headline this year’s event, an annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, according to a Delta Foundation...

PA primaries: A student’s guide

By Zoë Hannah / Assistant News Editor March 23, 2016

Pennsylvania’s finally joining in on the 2016 presidential election — 281 delegates will be up for grabs in the primaries April 26. Pennsylvania voters will be able to cast their ballots for president,...

Governor Tom Wolf closed the SCI Pittsburgh prison to decrease Pennsylvanias budget deficit. (Nabil K. Mark/Centre Daily Times/MCT)

Wolf relents on budget, Pitt to receive $143 million

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor March 23, 2016

If Gov. Tom Wolf keeps his promise to do nothing, Pitt is set to receive the $143 million in state funding legislators promised in just four days. After a press conference Wednesday, Wolf issued a statement...

Hope, the Peregrine Falco, covers her eggs. (http://www.aviary.org)

Another falcon fallen: Goodbye, E2

By Leo Dornan / Staff Writer March 23, 2016

A little more than three months after his first partner fell from the sky — and three days after his current partner laid her first egg — the paternal half of Pitt’s peregrine falcon couple has passed...

Matchmaker, matchmaker find me a grant

By Casey Schmauder / Staff Writer March 18, 2016

If Joyce Raught got to keep all of the money she earned, she would be a multimillionaire. But since Raught is one of Pitt’s grant writers, the more than $100 million she helps wrangle for Pitt every...

Hanson Kappelman, co-chair of Oakwatch, listens to an Oakland resident speak at Wednesdays meeting. Dale Shoemaker | News Editor

Oakwatch pushes city to monitor ‘disruptive’ properties

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor March 17, 2016

When students throw loud parties in Oakland, they rob their neighbors of precious sleep, according to North Oakland resident Hanson Kappelman. “When there’s a disturbance at 1 or 2 a.m., it wakes...

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