E. Maxine Bruhns doesn’t like how Iran is portrayed in the U.S., so she’s taking its perception into her own hands. Bruhns is the director of the Nationality Rooms at Pitt and after two unsuccessful...
For Josh Orange, making $7.25 per hour, the Pennsylvania minimum wage, is not enough. He wants $15 an hour.At rallies last semester, Orange, a Pitt senior, told the story of growing up in Detroit with...
No one — especially Kate St. John — thought it would happen, but on Mother’s Day, Dorothy the falcon’s 43rd egg hatched.Dorothy is a peregrine falcon that nests on top of the Cathedral of Learning....
For many young disabled people in Pittsburgh, life comes to a halt after high school. “We call it graduating to the couch,” Mary Hartley, who works with local charity 21 and Able, said. “[These...
When it comes to memories at Pitt, a web-based photo platform has beaten out the hard copy of the yearbook.Last November, Student Affairs and Student Government Board made the decision to reallocate approximately...
On the first day of fraternity rush, Gregory Walters wore a dressy L.L. Bean vest over his button-down shirt. It was also one of Greg’s first days at Pitt, and the other fraternity brothers thought he...
At the starting line Sunday morning, Pitt students Kimberly Goehring and Shea McMurtry were worried their feet and ankles might not hold up.Goehring and McMurtry lined up in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh...