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Wheels in Demise: Keeping your bike safe

By Alexis Mazzeo / Staff Writer • August 30, 2015

With a new bike share system and more bike lanes planned, Pittsburgh is quickly becoming one of the nation’s bike-friendly cities. Though Pitt doesn’t keep data on how many of its students commute...

Pitt reopens David Lawrence Hall after renovations

By Elizabeth Lepro / Assistant News Editor • August 30, 2015

Students who have classes in David Lawrence Hall this semester will get to breathe in that new-classroom smell. The building, which has been under construction since May 2014 and cost more than $7 million,...

Big man on campus: Settled in, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher sets his sights higher than the Cathedral

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • August 30, 2015

After one year of leading from the Cathedral of Learning’s corner office, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher is a man who still speaks with the same measured optimism as he did on his first day last August. Now,...

Student Government Board update: Fall 2015

By Emily Brindley / For The Pitt News • August 30, 2015

Pitt Student Government Board members have seen a lot of change this year, including welcoming a new President. Now members are talking about instituting changes of their own. Elected president Graeme...

Las Palmas hit with another round of health code violations

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • August 30, 2015

For the second time this summer, the Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for Las Palmas in Oakland after the restaurant violated health codes Thursday. Las Palmas, the Mexican...

Pitt to close several streets in preparation for move-in

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • August 30, 2015

Roads will close and dorms will open as students arrive on campus next week for the fall semester. In a release Thursday, Aug. 20, Pitt’s Department of Parking and Transportation Services announced...

Stack’d Burgers and Beer to open new location in Oakland

By Dale Shoemaker and Lauren Rosenblatt / The Pitt News Staff • August 30, 2015

After two other restaurants closed for good last school year at the corner of Forbes and Oakland Avenues, Stack’d Burgers and Beer hopes the third time’s the charm. Stack’d operations manager Colleen...

UPDATE: Police arrest man for indecent assault in Oakland

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • August 30, 2015

Pittsburgh police have arrested an Apollo man on charges of indecent assault. Police now have Rosendo Homelio Perez-Scott, 33, in custody on charges that he inappropriately touched a female Pitt student...

Police seek assailant in Oakland after Tuesday assault

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • August 30, 2015

Pitt police are seeking a man who allegedly assaulted a Pitt student in Oakland Tuesday afternoon. The student, who lives on the 300 block of McKee Place, told police she was sexually assaulted in her...

Pittsburgh political activist, philanthropist Elsie Hillman dies at 89

By Dale Shoemaker / News Editor • August 30, 2015

Elsie Hillman knew the secret to playing politics — food. “She had a saying, ‘It’s smart politics, you have to feed them,’” Chelsa Wagner, Allegheny County Controller, said. Frequently, Hillman...