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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

Raka Sarkar | Staff Illustrator

Growing pains: mom and pop shops move out of Oakland

By Stephen Caruso / Contributing Editor October 6, 2016

This is part one of a series by staff writer Stephen Caruso about how Oakland’s businesses and the community have changed since the 1990s — for better or worse. Stay tuned for the next installment,...

Dr. Julius Youngner, part of the polio vaccine research team, works in one of Pitt’s labs. Courtesy of University Library Systems

Q&A with Julius Youngner: member of original polio vaccine research team

By Jace Bridges / Staff Writer October 6, 2016

In the 1940s and ’50s, polio — a viral disease which attacks the central nervous system — affected nearly half a million people worldwide each year, with the disease often paralyzing or killing them....

Habitat for Humanity members build in front of the Cathedral of Learning. Pitt News File Photo

Alumni return to sororities, clubs

By Janine Faust / Staff Writer October 6, 2016

Pitt alumni have a chance to relive their college days during Homecoming weekend, whether that means tailgating, brunching — or building houses. While others celebrate Homecoming on campus, the Panthers...

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,...

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