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Apr 16, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Emma Hannan |Jermaine Sykes |Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger
The morning of Feb. 16 was the kind of frigid cold that makes most people stay curled up and cozy in bed. Despite the chill, a merry frenzy of volunteers was busy packing, carrying and delivering boxes of food and supplies to local families at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh’s monthly food pantry. Around 30 volunteers participated in February’s food distribution, which served approximately 130 families in the greater Pittsburgh area.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Emma Hannan |Jermaine Sykes |Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Abigail Dobry
A group of Pitt students on the Panther Racing Team built an electric car from scratch to compete in a Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Competition, unveiling it at an event in Benedum Hall on April 13. The Panther Racing team competes against 120 schools every year in an SAE competition, where students are in charge of building a small formula-style race car. Pitt’s team is headed by Executive Director Luc Chadam.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Emma Hannan |Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Abigail Dobry |Aidan Kasner
For low-income renters, Tenant Organizer at Northside Coalition for Fair Housing Jala Rucker said paying rent is sometimes a difficult situation, which is why she encourages students to petition for the right to counsel in case of eviction. “That’s the main focus of today for me, is the right to counsel, so tenants can have a legal aid to represent them right at the magistral level before it goes even further,” Rucker said.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Abigail Dobry |Aidan Kasner |Grace McNally
Pitt’s Student Health Services are currently experiencing a psychiatrist shortage, with no clinicians available to talk to students.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Abigail Dobry |Aidan Kasner |Grace McNally
As those of us graduating at the end of the month consider our post-college futures, . It feels impossible not to think about that while walking through these academic buildings and streets filled with students, wondering what those same environments sound like there — if they are entirely silent now, if they bear any trace of the generations of students and faculty that passed through their halls. What happened to their work? What happened to those libraries?
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Nada H. Abdulaziz |James Carter |Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Ryleigh Lord
The chaos of the pandemic has faded into a blur, leaving behind one vivid memory — my own self-disdain. August of 2020 was meant to mark the beginning of a thrilling chapter as I stepped into college life — a time brimming with new friendships and exciting classes, or so I had imagined. Instead of bustling campus life, I found myself confined to a solitary dorm room, grappling with loneliness and struggling to grasp even the simplest of concepts.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | James Carter |Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Ryleigh Lord |Ari Meyer
1:24 am Max’s docuseries “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” aired one week ago, exposing the sexist, abusive and predatory conditions of the people working for Dan Schneider on ‘90s and early 2000s Nickelodeon TV shows. It covered almost everything from Schneider’s sexually suggestive physical comedy to the alleged sexual abuse of Drake Bell by dialogue coach Brian Peck. But it left some key questions unanswered, driving many online to search for the answers themselves.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | James Carter |Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Ryleigh Lord |Ari Meyer
A struggling Pitt baseball program entered a weekend series against No. 14 Virginia, looking for a series win over a team with national championship aspirations. Last season, the Panthers picked up a surprise 2-1 series win over the then No. 7 Cavaliers — who ultimately qualified for the College World Series — in Charlottesville. The win provided a blueprint for another upset this past weekend. But the Cavaliers would put those hopes to bed with an 18-2 mercy rule victory on Friday.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger |Ryleigh Lord |Ari Meyer |Adrienne Cahillane
As of two weeks ago, 20 people, most of them children, have already starved to death in Gaza. The IPC’s Famine Review Committee has urged attention to the “imminent” crisis Israel is inflicting. By now, it is impossible to ignore that the state is enabled to do this by the United State’s funding.
