The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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
Student groups supply free menstrual, sex supplies

Student groups supply free menstrual, sex supplies

By Sarah George, Staff Writer • February 12, 2025
Student groups shine a light on their efforts to provide free menstrual, sex and educational resources to Pitt’s campus.
Opinion | More needs to be done for access to menstruation products, period

Opinion | More needs to be done for access to menstruation products, period

By Anne Marie Yurik, Staff Columnist • March 4, 2020
New legislation is necessary, but until government support of free menstrual products becomes more uniform, institutions such as schools, park centers and even businesses should step in to provide. Doing so might hopefully bring more exposure to the issue and encourage large-scale change.
Lauren Risser, Kathleen Koesarie and Samantha Totoni (left to right) speak at Harrisburg on Tuesday to lobby for a bill that would require free menstrual products in Pennsylvania higher education facilities.

Public health students lobby in Harrisburg for menstrual products

By Charlotte Pearse, Staff Writer • October 25, 2019
Three public health graduate students went to Harrisburg Tuesday with State Rep. Sara Innamorato to lobby for a free menstrual products bill.
Women’s bathrooms in the Cathedral of Learning, the William Pitt Union, Posvar Hall and several other buildings on campus now contain dispensers stocked with free menstrual products.

Pitt institutes menstrual products in bathrooms around campus

By Emily Wolfe, News Editor • October 11, 2019
Pitt facilities management installed new menstrual product dispensers in 23 women’s bathrooms in nine different buildings on campus in September.
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