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Genocide awareness club comes to Pitt

Genocide awareness club comes to Pitt

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...

Panel discusses rise in heroin-related deaths

Panel discusses rise in heroin-related deaths

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,...

Lee Daniels to lecture at Pitt

Lee Daniels to lecture at Pitt

By Harrison Kaminsky / News Editor March 22, 2015

Academy Award-winning director and producer Lee Daniels will visit Pitt this spring to speak to students in the William Pitt Union.Pitt Program Council will host Daniels’ lecture about his life and career...

Best of the Best: WPTS Radio wins national award

Best of the Best: WPTS Radio wins national award

WPTS Radio beat nine other college radio station finalists to win a national award over the weekend. MTV’s sister station catering to college audiences, mtvU, awarded WPTS 92.1 — Pitt’s student...

Hot yoga

Hot yoga

By TNS March 17, 2015

Food pantry for students to open in Oakland

Food pantry for students to open in Oakland

By Lauren Wilson / Staff Writer March 17, 2015

Pitt students may soon be going to church — to pick up groceries. Some time this month, PittServes — a division of Student Affairs that connects students with service opportunities — will, along...

Yoga studios consider name change amid controversy

Yoga studios consider name change amid controversy

By Lauren Rosenblatt / Staff Writer March 17, 2015

Several Pittsburgh yoga studios are standing by their staple — Bikram Yoga, or “hot” yoga — even as lawsuits have brought heat on its namesake.Bikram Choudhury — founder of the popular branch...

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