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The Pitt News

Tyler Boyd will be a tough matchup for Duke on Saturday.
Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer

Duke Chronicle provides context for Pitt’s saturday matchup against Blue Devils

By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor November 11, 2015

The Pitt football team is heading down to Durham, where they will face a Duke team fresh off of a 66-31 drubbing to their rival North Carolina Tar Heels. With the Panthers taking the Blue Devils on Saturday...

Bobby Grier was the first African American football player to ever participate in the Sugar Bowl in 1956.  Photo courtesy of Pitt Media Relations

Heed history in response to Missouri protests

By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor November 11, 2015

In the face of racial adversity, a football team stood up for justice. The players stood as one, risking missing a game in order to ensure a safe environment for all people. This scenario casts the 2015...

Terrence Hayes' book "How to Be Drawn" has been nominated for a National Book Award.  Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

Pitt poets finalists for National Book Award

By Jack Trainor / Culture Editor October 14, 2015

Pitt is well represented in this year’s 20 National Book Award finalists. Pitt English professor Terrance Hayes was nominated Wednesday for his assortment of linguistic and investigative poems, “How...

Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Roc-Star: the life of a college mascot

By Amanda Reed / for The Pitt News October 9, 2015

We see him everywhere. At football games, in ads, on social media and in front of the Cathedral. His image is synonymous with Pitt Athletics and school pride — we call him Roc the Panther — yet his...

Pitt News file photo.

False advertising: foreign students’ perceptions of Homecoming not always reality

Homecoming week is meant to generate school pride, but for international students familiar with American stereotypes, it can end in disillusion. American universities’ homecomings continue many of...

Cameron Johnson gained 30 pounds in the offseason. Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Gaining ground: Cameron Johnson bulks up in offseason

By Jeremy Tepper / Senior Staff Writer October 6, 2015

Most students fear the “freshman 15.” Pitt shooting guard Cameron Johnson embraced all that and more with open, growing arms this offseason. Johnson, an unheralded 2014 recruit from Moon Township,...

Editorial: Attend Pitt forum, help initiate positive change

By The Pitt News Editorial Board October 5, 2015

Chancellor Gallagher and his administration are inviting the student body to have a say in policy making. Today, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., in the William Pitt Ballroom, the University will host a “Student...

Editorial: Transparency needed to curb sexual assault

Editorial: Transparency needed to curb sexual assault

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 21, 2015

The White House is right. It’s on us — all of us — to solve the issue of sexual assault. Pitt voluntarily joined the national movement against rape culture last spring, when it and 27 other universities...

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