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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

Police investigate students after robbery

What started out as a report of a home invasion Wednesday night in South Oakland has turned into a drug investigation involving several Pitt students. Pittsburgh police responded to a 911 call from the...

Police, locals prompt communication

By Taylor Mulcahey / For the Pitt News January 22, 2016

The Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety is looking to connect students with public safety officials through a new campus program. About 15 community members, police officers and members of the Department...

Staff Association Council Administrator Marcie Johnson and the other SAC members discussed ideas for the upcoming meeting in May in the William Pitt Union Thursday afternoon.  Will Miller | Staff Photographer

University Staff Association Council plans Spring Assembly

By Danni Zhou / For the Pitt News January 22, 2016

This May, Pitt staff and community members will get a crash course on balancing health and work. The Staff Association Council, an organization of 75 elected representatives from University staff,  has...

UPMC, Wyndham commit to healthy options

By Alexa Bakalarski / Staff Writer January 22, 2016

Four UPMC hospitals and one hotel are pledging to slim portion sizes and eliminate tobacco from their establishments. On Thursday morning, Dr. Karen Hacker, the Allegheny County Health Department director,...

Wenhao Wu | Senior Staff Photographer

Photo essay: Pittsburgh’s First Class Bhangra performs at Pitt

First Class Bhangra members took off their shoes and helped tie each other’s colorful costumes firmly in place as they prepared for their critique night in Posvar Hall. Wednesday, dance team First...

Pitt Police Officer Guy Johnson discussed police community efforts in Oakland.  Will Miller | Staff Photographer

Police, students focus of Oakwatch

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer January 21, 2016

At this month’s Oakwatch meeting, Oakland residents reviewed the neighborhood’s improvements in community policing and frustrations with transparency over the fall semester. Oakwatch members, who...

Pitt powers through state budget impasse

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer January 21, 2016

While the state scrambles to pass the 2015-2016 budget, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher refuses to let the financial crisis thwart the University’s excellence. On Wednesday afternoon, Gallagher and the...

SGB passes new travel grant rules

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer January 20, 2016

Looking to get away and get scholarly in April? Student Government Board voted Tuesday to revise its travel grant program to allow for undergraduate researchers to receive grants regardless of their conference...

From storage to snapshots

By Alexa Bakalarski / For The Pitt News January 20, 2016

Deep underground, in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning, a Lithuanian string instrument has been silent in storage for more than 80 years. Larger than a violin but slightly smaller than a guitar,...

Opal Tometi, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, spoke in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room in front of about 200 students Tuesday night.  The program was hosted by the Black Action Society.  Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Movement leader speaks at Pitt

Opal Tometi remembers exactly where she was and how she felt the day George Zimmerman’s “not guilty” verdict came in. “I had just watched [the movie] ‘Fruitvale Station,’ and when I walked...

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