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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

Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Petition for bike lanes seeks change, faces challenges

By Zoë Hannah / For The Pitt News October 29, 2015

Pittsburgh bike advocates are calling for more bike lanes in Oakland following a death on Forbes Avenue last Friday. On Oct. 24, the day after Pitt adviser Susan Hicks died in an accident on Forbes Avenue,...

Acid attack survivor speaks to students

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer October 29, 2015

Hanifa Nakiryowa stood in front of a crowd in the William Pitt Ballroom proudly wearing a gray blazer, oval glasses and her scars. In 2011, at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, an unknown man threw...

Nikki Moriello | Visual Editor

Nationality Rooms: Tours of Terror

By Emily Brindley / Staff Writer October 29, 2015

The Cathedral’s Gothic architecture can make it a spooky place, but its resident ghost makes it even spookier. Quo Vadis, which is Latin for “Where are you going?” is the name of the tour guide...

David Thorpe talking about his documentary, "Do I Sound Gay?" Wednesday night. Christine Lim | Staff Photographer

Thorpe Documentary: Voicing the truth

By Casey Schmauder / Staff Writer October 29, 2015

In 2010, David Thorpe was anxious about his “gay voice,” so he began seeing a vocal coach to make his voice sound more masculine. By 2014, he realized his voice was fine the way it was — Thorpe...

Courtesy of Nicolas Savine.

Pitt professor to head Latin American research journal

By Elizabeth Lepro / Assistant News Editor October 29, 2015

Pitt professor Aníbal Pérez-Liñán’s new position will make Pitt a focal point of Latin American studies in 2016. The Latin American Research Review announced on Wednesday that Pérez-Liñán, a...

Roy Ferguson, 63, who has lived with HIV for 18 years, is pictured at his Brookfield, Ill., home on Thursday, June 11, 2015. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Living, aging with HIV

By Dylan Shaffer / For The Pitt News October 29, 2015

Following the results of a new study, a Pitt researcher will begin to look at ways people with HIV can live healthy lives well into old age — a prognosis that was unthinkable when the epidemic began...

Campus Women's Organization hosted the annual Take Back the Night march around Oakland to demonstrate against sexual assault.  Wenhao Wu | Staff Photographer

CWO marches to take back the night

By Annemarie Carr / Staff Writer October 28, 2015

With raised fists, marching feet and rhyming chants, students stopped traffic and caught the attention of camera phones in a demonstration seeking to fight back against sexual violence. “Whatever you...

Lia Petrose updates the student body on her work with the Public Health Certificate program at this week's Student Government Board meeting.  Abigail Self | Staff Photographer

Public health program closer

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer October 28, 2015

After 10 months of work, Student Government Board member Lia Petrose now has a potential starting date for a public health certificate for undergraduate students. At SGB’s weekly public meeting Tuesday,...

Medical examiner releases names of accident victims

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor October 28, 2015

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office has released the names of the two people who were killed in an accident involving an SUV and a Port Authority bus Monday in the Oakland/Hill District area....

Able to lead: Disability activist visits Pitt

By Mark Pesto / Senior Staff Writer October 28, 2015

Mark Johnson once chained himself to a bus to draw attention to disability-inaccessible public transportation. “Rosa [Parks] wanted to sit in the front [of the bus],” Johnson said. “I just want...

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