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Mar 8, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Livia LaMarca |Jermaine Sykes |Shamelessly Compiled |Belle O'Hara
12:34 am When was the last time you were online and didn’t get some sort of ad right away? Whether you’re watching your favorite show or doomscrolling on social media, you are bound to come across some sort of ad or marketing tactic. There is no escaping companies and brands profiting and capitalizing off you every second they can. Streaming services used to be a better alternative to cable because we didn’t need to deal with endless ads to watch our favorite movies and shows.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Livia LaMarca |Jermaine Sykes |Shamelessly Compiled |Belle O'Hara
Fanfiction is a topic The Pitt News Opinions Desk has covered a multitude of times. We’ve discussed how fanfiction works as an “extension” of preexisting stories as well as the ins and outs of erotic fanfiction — an incredibly popular form of the genre. We’ve even touched on the aptitude of such work and how it needs to be viewed as just as deserving of validation and quality as any other art form.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Jermaine Sykes |Shamelessly Compiled |Belle O'Hara |Sara Meyer
March 7, 2024 Thursday, February 29 A campus security authority reported a rape at the law school. Pitt police took a report regarding a criminal mischief at the Petersen Events Center. Friday, March 1A student reported their wallet missing at Trees Hall. Pitt police arrested one individual for false alarms to public safety and disorderly conduct at Allen Hall. Pitt police assisted Pittsburgh police with an individual who had their wallet stolen.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Jermaine Sykes |Shamelessly Compiled |Belle O'Hara |Sara Meyer
In a college basketball landscape filled with NET rankings, NIL, the transfer portal and constant coaching movements, what’s lost is a program’s ability to build and rebuild. And rebuilding is exactly what head coach Jeff Capel and Athletic Director Heather Lyke have done for Pitt men’s basketball. Tuesday night marked Pitt’s second consecutive 20-win season. That is a feat the Panthers haven’t achieved in over a decade, dating back to when Jamie Dixon was their head coach.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Shamelessly Compiled |Belle O'Hara |Sara Meyer |Dylan Grace
On this episode of “The Pitt News Sports Podcast,” assistant sports editor Jermaine Sykes and senior staff writer Matthew Scabilloni are back with their first guest of the season. The two are joined by Liz Scabilloni, the back’s captain for Pitt women’s club rugby. Liz Scabilloni talks about her experiences getting involved with the sport, along with some of her favorite memories from this season. The three then quickly dive into March Madness and their hot takes on the world of sports.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Shamelessly Compiled |Belle O'Hara |Sara Meyer |Dylan Grace
Hello Compilers, I have this thing that at the beginning of each new school year: I get a new piercing and haircut. I never planned to do this — it just sort of happened. At the start of my senior year, I decided to cut my hair from my sternum to my jawline and get a new cartilage piercing. The piercing ended up falling out a month after I got it, but the short hair was here to stay.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Abby Lipold |Ryleigh Lord |Emma Hannan |Belle O'Hara
These numbers were updated Wednesday morning at 1 a.m. Pitt’s eighth annual Day of Giving took place on Tuesday, Feb. 27. The event, which is a mass-fundraising effort, lasts for 24 hours and aims to help different Pitt departments, organizations and clubs raise the most money possible in one day. 11,472 donors participated in the Day of Giving compared to 9,450 donors last year. In total, $2,466,611 was raised — almost a 0.2% increase from last year’s $2,405,864.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Abby Lipold |Ryleigh Lord |Emma Hannan |Belle O'Hara
The debate around harm reduction is characterized by staunch opposition advocating for the continued incarceration of individuals who use drugs. Rachel Thomas, president of the club End Overdose, is driven to enhance awareness and education surrounding harm reduction principles. “The fact that harm reduction has such promising results for helping people get through that is definitely one of my main drives,” Thomas, a senior anthropology and psychology major, said.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Belle O'Hara |Sarah Pine |Donata Massimiani |Emma Hannan
Video Remoting Interpreting allows deaf individuals to communicate verbally using translating technology and is commonly used in health care settings. Although Jenna Barkey said she’s preferred an in-person interpreter at appointments ever since a doctor gave her son a vaccine that she and her husband, who’s also deaf, didn’t want him to get. “My son was about six months old.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Belle O'Hara |Sarah Pine |Donata Massimiani |Emma Hannan
Hello Compilers, I have two main personality traits. The first one is that I love making progress. I love seeing things go through different phases and watching something be made from nothing. I love visualizing that progress — whether it is checking off my to-do list or watching a progress bar slowly inch toward 100%. The second one is that I love to read. I have had a bookshelf for as long as I can remember. What was first filled with “Junie B.
