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GRAC Comes to Pitt

By Nate Smith / Staff Photographer • March 25, 2015

It’s complicated: Pitt discusses teacher-student relationships

By Emma Solak / Staff Writer • March 25, 2015

A Pitt student walks into a bar. A Pitt professor walks into the same bar. The two have never met, and after a few drinks, he invites her out for dinner. It sounds like the start to a bad joke, but under...

Genocide awareness club comes to Pitt

By Marjorie Tolsdorf and Dale Shoemaker / The Pitt News Staff • March 25, 2015

Shamanta Mostofa said other students ask her “if political leaders can’t control [genocide], what are a bunch of college kids going to do?”With the her newly-established group, the Genocide Relief...

Chancellor Gallagher at SGB

By Jeff Ahearn / Assistant Visual Editor • March 25, 2015

Nutrition Event

By Alyson Derrick / Staff Photographer • March 25, 2015

PublicSource Heroin Panel

By Emily Klenk / For The Pitt News • March 25, 2015

Students snack, learn at nutrition event

By Jessica Iacullo / Staff Writer • March 25, 2015

Learning about nutrition has its perks: free food. More than 600 people attended the Pitt Student Dietetic Association’s annual Spring into Nutrition event on Tuesday, March 24, from noon to 4 p.m.,...

Panel discusses rise in heroin-related deaths

By Gabriel Naccarato / For The Pitt News • March 25, 2015

Pennsylvania is facing a “public health and criminal justice crisis,” David Hickton, the U.S. attorney for Western Pennsylvania, said, stemming from a rise in heroin use.On Tuesday night, PublicSource,...

SGB, Chancellor push for real food

By Abbey Reighard / Assistant News Editor • March 25, 2015

The Student Government Board traded in its usual free fare of popcorn and slushies for some “real food” at its Tuesday night meeting.Before the Board started its weekly public meeting, members of the...

Board’s Travel Grant Program picks up speed

By Abbey Reighard / Assistant News Editor • March 23, 2015

Student Government Board’s chief of staff will this week review applications for the Undergraduate Conference Travel Grant Program.SGB’s chief of staff, who Student Government Board President Graeme...