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The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor

Assistant news editor Erica Guthrie is a sophomore linguistics and Russian language student hailing from Montgomery County, Maryland. When not working at the Pitt News, Eri is most likely to be found studying, working, or eating pasta.

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The Las Palmas restaurant received 13 health violations from the Allegheny County Health Department Thursday.

Las Palmas receives 13 health code violations

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
November 14, 2019
The University announced Tuesday that it is looking for student input regarding an upcoming redesign of the student portal, My Pitt, and will be hosting in-person sessions as well as webinars.

Listening tour to be held for My Pitt redesign

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
November 14, 2019
Incumbent Bruce Kraus beat independent Jacob Nixon in Tuesday’s election for the District 3 City Council seat.

Democratic incumbent Bruce Kraus retains District 3 City Council seat

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
November 6, 2019
Starship Technologies announced Tuesday that its food robots have begun completing deliveries to students on lower campus.

Food robot pilot testing begins on lower campus

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
October 29, 2019
Police arrest Pitt student for aggravated assault

Police arrest Pitt student for aggravated assault

By Erica Guthrie and Emily Wolfe
September 30, 2019
Oakland resident Jacob Nixon announced his independent District 3 City Council campaign Wednesday.

Oakland resident announces independent City Council campaign

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
September 26, 2019
Provost Ann Cudd at a forum at the 74th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

Cudd speaks at U.N.’s “Spotlight on Pittsburgh”

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
September 23, 2019
Pennsylvania voters can now apply for an absentee ballot online.

Pa. to allow voters to apply for absentee ballots online

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
September 9, 2019
The University is aiming to instate its new student organization name policy in fall 2020.

SORC to block clubs from re-registering next year over updated guidelines

By Erica Guthrie and Jon Moss
September 5, 2019
The Pennsylvania Labor Review Board has determined that the University engaged in unfair labor practices during the grad student union election last spring.

Student organizers confident as unionization decision nears

By Erica Guthrie, Assistant News Editor
August 26, 2019

Meet the editors: News

By Erica Guthrie, Jon Moss, and Emily Wolfe
August 25, 2019
two high-risk violations and two low-risk violations in a Monday report.

Bruegger’s reopens after health department re-inspection

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
August 15, 2019
Pitt professors offer advice to first-year students

Pitt professors offer advice to first-year students

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
July 2, 2019
U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works plant.

U.S. Steel fires spark community backlash

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
June 25, 2019
Pitt student found guilty in fatal fall 2018 car collision

Pitt student found guilty in fatal fall 2018 car collision

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
June 20, 2019
Former Pitt professor wins appeal in federal ethnic discrimination lawsuit

Former Pitt professor wins appeal in federal ethnic discrimination lawsuit

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
June 19, 2019
John Starr, a junior studying linguistics, English and Persian, was selected as one of 18 recipients across the United States of the Beinecke Scholarship.

A Starr is born: John Starr, beatboxer and Beinecke winner

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
April 17, 2019
Counseling Center Director Jay Darr at the “Mental Health Mixer and Town Hall” in March.

Q&A: Jay Darr on the future of Pitt’s Counseling Center

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
April 15, 2019
The fermentation process of alcohol

The fermentation process of alcohol

By Sid Lingala and Erica Guthrie
April 10, 2019
Pitt student Chris Kumanchik will appear on the democratic primary ballot for the District 3 seat on Pittsburgh City Council after being cleared from challenges on the validity of his petition for candidacy.

Kumanchik keeps spot on primary ballot after court challenge

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
April 2, 2019
Actor Brad Pitt has decided to focus on his children amid his ongoing divorce proceedings with actress Angelina Jolie.

What’s the sizzling hot gossip on Brad Pitt?

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
April 1, 2019
Pitt undergraduates Ashley Priore (left) and Chris Kumanchik (right) are both currently facing difficulties with their respective political campaigns.

Undergraduate candidates face setbacks in elections court

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
March 28, 2019
College students say “screw you” to sex

College students say “screw you” to sex

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
February 14, 2019
2019 has been declared the Year of Indigenous Languages by the United Nations.

Wikipedia edit-a-thon illuminates indigenous languages

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
February 7, 2019
University professor and world-renowned mathematical biologist G. Bard Ermentrout currently teaches a single class per semester, but incorporates students from all different levels into his research work.

Bard Ermentrout: From rhymes to research

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
January 29, 2019
Stevie Kisty was inspired to become an RA by his own first-year RA, Lejla Suljevic.

Stevie Kisty: Serving smiles one resident at a time

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
January 23, 2019
Jay Darr was named Counselor of the Year in 2018 by the American College Counseling Association.

Pitt appoints counseling center director

By Erica Guthrie, Senior Staff Writer
January 13, 2019
Mourners gather at a small memorial behind police lines near the Tree of Life Synagogue Oct. 30, 2018. On the other side of the barricades, President Donald Trump addressed the nation three days after the deadly Tree of Life shooting.

New class addresses anti-Semitism

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
January 10, 2019
A mourner rests her hand on a Star of David that read the name of a victim in the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in October.

Jewish students remember Tree of Life on Hanukkah

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
December 3, 2018
A broadcast journalist is filmed on the scene of a protest in opposition to President Donald Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh in the wake of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting.

How FBI, journalists prepared responses to violence

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
November 27, 2018
Abigael Medina, 19, of Chicago, registers for voter information with NextGen Climate Illinois at the Logan Square Centennial Monument in Chicago on July 16, 2016.

NextGen voters turned away at polls

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
November 19, 2018
Industrial activity is a major contributor to Pittsburgh air pollution.

Clean air policies go up in smoke

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
November 12, 2018
The Early American Nationality Room is supposedly haunted by the ghost of Martha Jane Poe McDaniel.

City of steel is a city of scares

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
October 30, 2018
The Tree of Life shooting suspect used Gab, an extremist-friendly social media platform, to voice his anti-Semitic views. By Sunday night, Gab was no longer accessible as its host, GoDaddy, took the site offline.

Gab: Its history and influence in the Tree of Life shooting

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
October 28, 2018
A modified Greyhound bus will soon join the Blue Sparrow food truck lineup. (Photo by Sareen Ali | Staff Photographer)

Blue Sparrow food truck flocks to a new home

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
October 9, 2018
Concept rendering of the planned Esplanade development on the North Shore. (Image courtesy of Crystal Lagoons)

Shore thing: Lagoon and ice rink coming to Pittsburgh

By Erica Guthrie, For The Pitt News
September 30, 2018
The East End Food Co-op serves as one of two full-service grocers in the Wilkinsburg borough. (TPN File Photo)

East End Co-op: a fresh food fountain in the desert

By Erica Guthrie, Staff Writer
September 27, 2018
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