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SGB allocations change for club sports

By Meghan Sunners / Staff Photographer - facebook.com/MeghanSunnersPhotography • November 19, 2014

SGB President Mike Nites said he met with 20-30 members of club sports yesterday to discuss the new bill.

Board looks to change club sports’ allocations funding

By Abbey Reighard and Emily Ahlin / The Pitt News Staff • November 19, 2014

Pitt students gave feedback last night on an upcoming Student Government bill that would change the Board allocations funding to club sports..The Board introduced a bill in its next-to-last public meeting...

Pitt doctors team up for innovation

By Danielle Fox / Assistant News Editor • November 17, 2014

In the PInCh —Pitt Innovation Challenge — students and professors scored $400,000 prizes this weekend to advance health care. Pitt’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Office of the...

Get it to go: Primanti Bros to ship nationwide

By Jesseca Muslin / Staff Writer • November 17, 2014

If you’re a Pittsburgh grad or soon to be one, and you are moving out of the Pittsburgh area, there’s a good chance you’ll miss some of the things that make the city unique, such as Polish pierogies...

Lazy days: Southern hospitality rules at Dixie schools

By Emma Solak / Staff Writer • November 16, 2014

Colleges across the country are diving into new recreational facilities — literally. While Pitt offers four on-campus fitness centers — Trees Hall, Baierl Student Recreation Center, Bellefield Hall...

David Hartman’s house

By Nicole Guy / Staff Photographer • November 14, 2014

Flip houses, get money: Freshman turns to fellow students

By Meagan Hart / Staff Writer • November 14, 2014

Dave Hartman spent spring break during his freshman year in the basement of an Oakland house wading through sewage.“I resolved some fairly substantial plumbing problems. It wasn’t exactly Punta Cana,”...

Far and away: some students prefer life well outside of Oakland

By Danah Bialoruski / For The Pitt News • November 14, 2014

The grimy, dingy houses of Oakland aren’t for everyone.Some students trade the convenient location to move further off campus for a variety of reasons. In some cases, they got in the house-hunting game...

Don’t be that guy: How to be a good roommate

By Lauren Rosenblatt / Staff Writer • November 14, 2014

Just months into the semester, charged arguments, passive-aggressive comments and snarky sticky-note messages make way for the opening shots of the roommate wars. “We definitely are at the end of the...

National Society of Black Engineers

By Courtesy of Robert Timmons • November 14, 2014

NSBE is the largest student-governed organization in the US.