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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

Nikki Moriello | Senior Staff Photographer/ Illustrator

Simpler labels make for healthier choices

By Casey Schmauder / Staff Writer February 16, 2016

After four years of clinical nutrition and dietetics classes, Pitt student Julia Cohen doesn’t take grocery shopping lightly. “I pay attention to serving size, to if there’s anything hidden —...

Mo Deken performed the ASL part of the Hair skit. Will Miller | Staff Photographer

“Vagina Monolouges” spotlight ASL

By Lianna Rana / For The Pitt News February 14, 2016

In its 12th year, Pitt’s version of “The Vagina Monologues” went silent for the deaf and partially deaf. About 200 people gathered in the William Pitt Union at 7 p.m. Saturday to watch Pitt’s...

Kate Koenig | Visual Editor

Pitt tour highlights black history

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer February 14, 2016

On Martin Luther King Jr.’s first birthday after his assassination, the students who would later form Pitt’s Black Action Society locked themselves in a computer lab. On Jan. 15, 1969, the group...

Kate Koenig | Visual Editor

Students dance to protest violence against women

By Saskia Berrios-Thomas / Staff Writer February 14, 2016

When Pitt students want to fight an injustice, they usually make signs, march and protest. But Saturday, they danced. To raise awareness of the worldwide violence against women, Pitt’s chapter of Amnesty...

Interactive crime map for Feb. 5-12

By The Pitt News Staff February 14, 2016

Here is the Pitt police activity for Feb. 5 to 9. Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 12:32 p.m. No location specified. Pitt police assisted city police with a traffic stop. 3:12 p.m. Trees Hall. Pitt police responded...

No love for women fishing for women

No love for women fishing for women

By Alexa Bakalarski / Staff Writer February 12, 2016

When Estizer Smith logged into her dating accounts, she expected coffee date invites from other women. But instead, her inbox was filled with men — more specifically, men asking her for threesomes. Smith,...

Will Miller | Staff Photographer

Trans students outsourcing for healthcare

By Josh Ye / Staff Writer February 12, 2016

Rather than get trans health care on campus, Pitt students travel to Edgewood Every morning and night, Summer Wright takes two pills. The first is her daily dose of estrogen. The second blocks the testosterone...

John Hamilton | Staff Photographer

Pitt to merge SIS, CS department

By Taylor Mulcahey / Staff Writer February 11, 2016

Within the next year and a half, Pitt’s computer science department and school of information science will become one. The new undergraduate school, the School of Computing Informatics, is slated to...

Pitt partners with Beijing university

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor February 11, 2016

Pitt’s Innovation Institute announced a new partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing Tuesday that will kick-start collaborative projects in technology, commercialization and research. According...

Pat Corelli gives an update at the SGB meeting.  Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

SGB officially launches call for state budget

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer February 10, 2016

Using pen, paper and Twitter, Pitt’s Student Government Board is appealing to Pennsylvania legislators to please — after seven months — pass a state budget. At SGB’s weekly meeting, Board members...

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