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Opinion | Death made me realize that happy memories triumph sadness

By Ashanti McLaurin, Staff Columnist • February 19, 2024

Forcing myself to look at my grandfather's body on the hospital bed and knowing he passed was something I never thought I could do. I wanted him to open his eyes and speak again, but knowing that can’t happen again makes me tear up.

Poetry | Within four walls of gold

By Anna Fischer, Senior Staff Columnist • October 30, 2022

Anna Fischer memorializes her grandmother in a freeform poem that explores the process of grief that follows unexpected loss.

Passing the memory of 9/11 to a new generation

By Martha Layne, Staff Writer • September 10, 2019

Pitt's class of 2023 is likely the last class to have most students born before the 9/11 terror attacks.

Alina Sheykhet remembered by friends as kind and loving

By Rachel Glasser | News Editor • October 15, 2017

In a seventh grade stage production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” Isabel Scrabis’ grandfather mistook Alina Sheykhet — who starred as Millie — for his granddaughter. “The whole entire time...