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Chancellor Joan Gabel sat down with The Pitt News to reflect on the successes and challenges that came with her first semester as chancellor and discuss the role of universities during global conflicts and upholding free speech.
Students for Justice in Palestine released a letter to Chancellor Joan Gabel on Wednesday demanding that the University “unequivocally recognize and name the suffering of the Palestinian people.”
Fifteen candidates are vying for the Spirit of Pitt award as part of this year’s Homecoming week festivities. Two students who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievement and service to the Pitt community will win, each earning $1,500 in student resource funds from the Pitt Alumni Association. Online voting, open to all Pitt students, runs from.
August Wilson has been referred to (by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) as “the most celebrated American playwright now writing, and . . . certainly the most accomplished black playwright in this nation’s history.” Earlier this fall the beneficiary of Mr. Gates’s praise was in.