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

Aaron Kutchner, a server at Red Oak Cafe, serves vegetarian dishes to Kelly Williams (left), a Ph.D student in Public Health, and Adelina Malito (right), a Social Work Masters student.  Nikki Moriello  | Visual Editor

Meatless Monday coming to Oakland

By Shumeng Yang / Staff Writer January 13, 2016

A neighborhood group in Oakland is going green this Monday to draw vegetarian diners. Though Oakland Business Improvement District’s Restaurant Week is semiannual, the community group in Oakland is...

Global nonprofit builds bridges over changing tides

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer January 11, 2016

Pitt grads Laura Amster and Nathan Darity park their car across the street from the gray, squat Global Switchboard building in Lawrenceville — a place they’ve come to call home. They spent the ride...

Aby Sobotka-Briner | Staff Illustrator

Marijuana decriminalization won’t affect Pitt policy

Rather than arresting people on minor marijuana offenses, Pittsburgh police now have the option to fine offenders up to $100 for having 30 grams or less of marijuana or eight grams or less of hashish,...

Millennial homebuyers.  (Bing/ blog.homes.com)

Millennials buying more homes

By Emily Migdal / Staff Writer January 7, 2016

When Matt Stephens graduated from Pitt last year, he knew he wanted to stay. Now, almost a year later, he’s looking to buy a house. “I decided to stay because a lot of my friends are still out here,...

Civilians gather to fight for an increase in the minimum wage at a rally downtown on Tuesday.  Dale Shoemaker | News Editor

The Pitt News’ 2015 Year in Review

By The Pitt News Staff December 31, 2015

A crackdown on overcrowding, the Student Government Board president's resignation, and pushes for bike lanes and a professors union — it's been a busy year for Pitt, and The Pitt News has been there...

Dr. Bennet Omalu (left), Giannina Scott (center), President and CEO of the Bennet Omalu Foundation, and University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher pose for a photo after Scott and Gallagher signed a memorandum of understanding between the two organizations where the University will provide support with research around Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) during a screening of Sony Pictures Concussion in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, December 15, 2015. (University of Pittsburgh/Joe Appel Photography)

Pitt first partner in ‘Concussion’ foundation

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor December 16, 2015

Thirteen years after Bennet Omalu first pioneered research on brain damage, he’s got a book, a movie and a nonprofit in honor of his work. At a panel Tuesday evening at the Southside Works Theater,...

Elizabeth Lepro | Assistant News Editor

Spinning wheels: Though the city has answered calls for safer streets, Pittsburgh remains stalled on bike lanes in Oakland

First, a black Jeep crashed into cyclist Dan Yablonsky in Lawrenceville in 2012, shattering his hip, arm and leg and sending him into a five-month-long coma. Then, a mini-van hit and abandoned biker Sage...

A Pittsburgh Filmmakers staff members mans an equipment sign-out desk.  Emily Klenk | Staff Photographer

Despite resignation, classes at Pittsburgh Filmmakers will roll on

By Rio Maropis / Staff Writer December 11, 2015

Though the executive director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts has resigned from his post, classes for Pitt film students at the nonprofit will roll on. Charlie Humphrey, who...

Pat Corelli introduced the rental registry bill to SGB in early November. Abigail Self | Staff Photographer

City offers hope for rental registry

By Annemarie Carr / Staff Writer December 10, 2015

After delaying voting on its rental registry for months, Pittsburgh City Council gave a preliminary OK to the bill Wednesday, with plans to vote again next week. The City Council, which has been debating...

The Pitt News looks back on Student Government Board throughout the semester.  Wenhao Wu | Staff Photographer

SGB reflects on fall term

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer December 9, 2015

With one new board member and a handful of new committee members joining Student Government Board, the Board took on projects as small as sandwiches and as big as mental illness. From food, laundry and...

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