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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

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Interactive crime map Sept. 23 – Sept. 29

By The Pitt News Staff October 3, 2017

Date Time Building Address Summary September 23 12:11 a.m. Litchfield Towers Lobby 3990 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Pitt police cited a student for underage drinking. September...

Jesabel Rivera-Guerra, the Community Health Director at the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association in Pittsburgh, speaks about how to subvert norms to resolve complex problems in and out of the workplace. (Photo by Elise Lavallee | Contributing Editor)

Pharmacy students told to the break rules

By Amanda Finney | For The Pitt News October 3, 2017

Students gathered in a lecture hall Monday night to hear a health care professional tell them to defy authority. Looking out at about 30 students assembled before her, Jesabel Rivera-Guerra summarized...

(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...

Donut Dash participants stop to eat six donuts after running the one-mile course for the first of two times. (Photo courtesy of Bailey Frisco)

Sweet success: Donut Dash exceeds $500,000 goal

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

Fried dough and philanthropy were on people’s minds this weekend in Schenley Plaza. Crowds of people dressed in donut costumes and donut headbands — even a man wearing a sparkly silver dress adorned...

(Illustration by Garrett Aguilar | Staff Illustrator)

Pitt students on wheels deliver meals

On the first night of her new job, Harley McCain witnessed a high-speed car chase. “This big black SUV comes flying by at like 75 mph, and of course it’s a 25 mph street, and I’m like what the...

Food waste at Market is shoveled into a trough and then moves to a machine where it is processed into gray water. (Photo by Wenhao Wu | Assistant Visual Editor)

Reduce, reuse, recycle: Pitt community mitigates food waste

By Anna Bongardino | Contributing Editor September 29, 2017

Joe’s decision to dumpster dive for the first time was based on pure impulse. It helped that he wasn’t completely sober. “I wasn’t really looking for anything, I was a little bit drunk and...

(Photo by Elise Lavallee | Contributing Editor)

Pitt invites input for master plan

By Madeline Gavatorta / Staff Writer September 28, 2017

Jim Wehner started his first architectural internship focused on improving Pitt’s campus 25 years ago. Wehner, an architect specializing in institutional facilities and campus design at J-Way Architectural...

Former President of the Woodville Plantation Preservation, Rob Windhorst, educates the History of Black Pittsburgh class about the Neville House and its residents. (Photo by Issi Glatts | Staff Photographer)

Revisiting history: students travel to slave plantation

By Sid Lingala | For The Pitt News September 28, 2017

According to Rob Windhorst, the colonial kitchen at the Woodville Plantation was “one of the most disgusting” locations in the house. Windhorst, a tour guide at the restored plantation, said the...

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