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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Pittsburgh Police stand over a civilian on the sidewalk | Pitt News File Photo

GALLERY: Throwback Acitivism on Campus

By Pitt News October 6, 2016

Students hold protests across the University campus every year, whether they're performing sit-ins on Black Lives Matter or voicing their dislike of certain politicians. We dug into our archives to find...

Prospective employers visited the University Oct. 4 and 5 for the Humanities Career Fair. Meghan Sunners | Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt splits Career Fair between STEM, Humanities

By Wesley Hood / Staff Writer October 6, 2016

Under blue and gold balloon arches flanking the main floor of the William Pitt Union, students and employers swapped handshakes and resumes for the third time this semester. Typically, Pitt’s Office...

University officials met in Posvar Hall to discuss the upcoming vice chancellor of research position. Lauren Rosenblatt | News Editor

Pitt starts search for first senior vice chancellor for research

The Office of the Chancellor is gaining one extra body this spring, and the administration is looking for faculty and student input to decide who will fill a newly created position. Pitt has held four...

Thirty-four out of the 416 students living in Ruskin Hall marked the gender neutral preferred option on their housing forms. Meghan Sunners | Senior Staff Photographer

Students discuss first month living in Pitt’s premier gender-neutral hall

Ruskin Hall is Pitt’s first on-campus, gender-neutral housing option. But if you walk down the gray carpets of the apartment-style living facility and knock on a few doors, you’re likely to find...

Students have less than one week to register to vote

Even though election day is still five weeks out, the voter registration deadline –– Oct. 11 ––  is less than one week away. For many Pitt students, this is the first presidential election...

Christian Ragosta from the NRA talked to Pitt students about gun rights and safety.| Katie Krater, Staff Photographer

NRA pushes gun rights on campus

By Wesley Hood / Staff Writer October 5, 2016

Editor's note: In a previous version of this story, a sentence indicated that 50 people at the event were wearing pro-Trump and pro-NRA attire. This is incorrect, as many people were wearing plainclothes....

Kenyon Bonner, Dean of Students, wrote an email Monday reminding students to adhere to the Pitt Promise. | John Hamilton, Senior Staff Photographer

Dean Bonner talks diversity, inclusion at Pitt

By Rachel Glasser / Staff Writer October 5, 2016

When Kenyon Bonner took the stage in front of a crowd of students Tuesday night, he invited them to talk over him. As students took turns passing around a microphone and sharing their opinions, Bonner,...

SGB members will walk through South Oakland Wednesday.| William Miller, Senior staff Photographer

SGB starts planning to improve South Oakland

By Leo Dornan / Staff Writer October 5, 2016

Looking to clean up their neighborhood — affectionately described by some as “trashy, not classy” — Pitt’s Student Government Board is planning to look first-hand at the issues that earned South...

Pitts School of Medicine has successfully tested a Zika vaccine on mice. TNS

Pitt comes closer to Zika vaccine

By Lauren Rosenblatt / News Editor October 4, 2016

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have had success testing an experimental Zika vaccine for mothers on female mice and their pups.   In a study posted on the online version...

“Trump does not represent American or conservative values and he does not have my vote, said Rosemary Geraghty, a junior political science and communications major. Courtesy of Rosemary Geraghty

Republicans at Pitt divided about Trump

By Andrew O'Brien / Staff Writer October 4, 2016

Though he’s received endorsement from party officials, Donald Trump’s presidential bid has divided traditional conservatives. The businessman turned candidate has also invited in a broader demographic...

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