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Charlotte Goldbach

By Zoe Hannah • March 29, 2016

Before Charlotte Goldbach knew which college she’d attend or what city she’d live in someday, she knew she wanted to be a senator.She hasn’t reached that level of political success quite yet — but, at age 20, she’s already established herself as a Democratic politician, at least in Chatham Township, New Jersey.At 19, in summer 2015, Goldbach ran a write-in campaign for Chatham’s Township Committee. She walked her dog around her neighborhood all day, she said, asking everyone she met to write her

Cynthia Bradley-King

By Jack Shelly, Staff Writer • March 29, 2016

An episode of a TV tabloid talk show changed Cynthia Bradley-King’s life forever. King, a professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, runs Pitt’s Child Welfare Education for Baccalaureates program, which places social work students in fieldwork throughout the state. Nearly 20 years ago, when King was working as a nurse, she was sitting at home watching an episode of “The Phil Donahue Show” before a night shift. She was 45, divorced and, with a son away at college, looking fo

Anish Kumar

By Alexa Bakalarski • March 29, 2016

Here’s what Anish Kumar does for fun:He walks up to strangers hanging around campus and asks them to divulge their fears, their dreams, their setbacks and anything else they are willing to tell someone they just met.Then, he publishes it online for all the world to see.This time, Kumar’s subject is a man in his 20s sitting outside the William Pitt Union. He agrees to Kumar’s interview even though he’s fairly shy and won’t be a good candidate, or so he says. But Kumar doesn’t listen to him — at l

Andrew Ng

By Emily Migdal • March 29, 2016

Before he even moved in for his first year at Pitt, Andrew Ng knew college was the right time to rekindle his relationship with God.And when he took a leadership position in the Asian InterVarsity Fellowship — a subdivision of InterVarsity, a religious organization present on many campuses internationally — Ng reassessed the way he looked at his faith.Now, instead of just discovering his own beliefs about God, he needed to learn how to help others discover their own.His first year at Pitt, Ng jo

Myra Carbonell

By Elizabeth Lepro • March 29, 2016

Some small facts slip from Myra Carbonell’s memory: her grandson’s age, the name of the second person in her favorite folk duo, her ex-husband’s birthday. But memories come easily. There’s the lingering image of coming home from school in the Bronx to find her father asleep in the Barcalounger, the putrid sweet taste of Manischewitz doled out in Hebrew school or the first time she saw performers dance down the aisles in “The Sound of Music.”Most of her nostalgia comes with a soundtrack. When she

Killian Liptrot

By Jeremy Tepper • March 29, 2016

For Kilian Liptrot, joining ROTC was pretty much a no-brainer: He was born in Werl, Germany, to a military family and followed his father’s assignments all over the world.But joining the cheer squad his sophomore year, after a suggestion from a cheerleader friend, was something he had never considered.“I laughed. I walked away. I laughed again, and I said, ‘Well, why not try it out,” Liptrot said.Following his father’s 22 years of active duty and his brother’s work as a foreign area office, Lipt

Mike Lecak

By Dan Sostek • March 29, 2016

There was someone that wanted to meet Mike Lecak.The Arizona native had just competed in a game in the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am, a now-defunct summer league. He had been playing so well, he claims he “could have closed his eyes, shot left-handed or kicked [the ball] in.”So after the successful contest from the Wheeling Jesuit University guard, Lecak’s coach, Sammy “Sammy D” D’Agostino brought over an admirer from the crowd.“I don’t know if you know who this is,” his coach said. “This is

Holly Stavarski

By Emily Brindley • March 29, 2016

Photos by Nikki MorielloFrom wiping down “viewing booths” in a porn shop, to interning a morgue, to practicing stand-up comedy, Holly Stavarski has had some odd jobs. No joke. It started out as a joke.Holly Stavarski and a friend drove by the AdultMart on McKnight Road and saw they were hiring. They laughed about how funny it would be to work there — and then Stavarski applied, got hired and began slinging sex toys.From January to September 2015, Stavarski often worked more than 40 hours a week

Grant Jacoby

By Eva Fine, Multimedia Editor • March 29, 2016

The Pitt News interviews Grant Jacoby, a junior marketing major and social entrepreneur at the University of Pittsburgh.

Francisco Laguna-Correa

By Eva Fine • March 29, 2016

The Pitt News interviews Francisco Laguna-Cornea, a MFA student in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.