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BREAKING: A group of students are organizing a “liberated zone” inside the Cathedral of Learning in support of Palestinians and demanding Pitt disclose its investments in Israeli organizations.
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BREAKING: Pitt’s $151 million state appropriation bill passed in the House tonight, with a 145-55 vote. This will allow the University to continue to provide in-state tuition discounts fo Pennsylvanian students.
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BREAKING: Hundreds of students are on Forbes Avenue celebrating Pitt’s victory.
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BREAKING: About 100 students are gathering outside the Cathedral of Learning to demand Pitt take action following a reported sexual assault inside the Cathedral earlier this week.
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BREAKING: Hundreds gather on Bigelow Boulevard near the Cathedral of Learning to protest the violence in Gaza, call for University divestment from Israeli institutions.
📸: Courtesy of Ethan Shulman
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About 70 protesters block the intersection of Forbes and Bigelow on Pitt’s campus staging a “die-in” in support of Palestinians amidst escalating violence in Gaza.
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BREAKING: Researchers and professors from across all Pitt campuses voted resoundingly to form a faculty union, according to a copy of an election returns document obtained by The Pitt News.
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Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protestors raise their fists in solidarity at the corner of Forbes Avenue and South Bouquet Street, in Central Oakland
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Head
@Pitt_FB
coach Pat Narduzzi greeted students camping out Monday evening in front of the WPU to buy tickets to Saturday's ACC Championship Game. Photos by Jon Moss, Editor-in-Chief
Students are camping out in front of the William Pitt Union to buy tickets to Saturday's ACC Championship Game from
@wedopittevents
, with the line stretching out to Fifth Avenue and wrapping around to the quad. Photos by Pamela Smith, Visual Editor.
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Miley Cyrus’ new album, “Plastic Hearts,” is what this generation and the rock genre have been missing for a while. More from senior staff columnist Dalia Maeroff here:
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BREAKING: Over 100 students and community members are gathered on the corner of Forbes and Bigelow to show their support for Palestinians. The rally started with participants chanting, "We want justice. You say how. End the siege on Gaza, now."
📸: Amaya Lobato
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BREAKING: Chancellor Patrick Gallagher announces starting this fall, the University will match any federal Pell Grants awarded to students.
"This is one of the largest restructurings of financial aid in the University's history," Gallagher said.
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Update: Students camped overnight in Schenley Plaza and continue to occupy the space in protest.
BREAKING: A group of students are organizing a “liberated zone” inside the Cathedral of Learning in support of Palestinians and demanding Pitt disclose its investments in Israeli organizations.
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About 200 people are protesting at the corner of Forbes Ave. and Bigelow Blvd. ahead of tonight’s event with Riley Gaines. Protestors are chanting “trans lives matter.”
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An ever-present face in Pitt’s athletic department, Borghetti leads media operations for the University’s 19 intercollegiate sports, publicizing the same programs he cheered for growing up.
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BREAKING: Over 150
@PittFacUnion
members attend a demonstration outside of Posvar Hall to confront administration for delaying union contract negotiations.
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Black Lives Matters protesters are marching through Oakland on Forbes Avenue, after starting out in Squirrel Hill earlier this morning. The crowd is chanting "Black Lives Matter!" and "Black lives they matter where? Black lives they matter here!"
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Students are camping out in front of the William Pitt Union to buy tickets to Saturday's ACC Championship Game from
@wedopittevents
, with the line stretching out to Fifth Avenue and wrapping around to the quad. Photos by Pamela Smith, Visual Editor.
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BREAKING: Students and community organizers are protesting in front of the William Pitt union by Bigelow Boulevard. Protesters have formed a human chain.
Two protesters were arrested on the Cathedral Lawn. It is unclear what led to the arrest.
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Breaking: The Oakland location of Uncle Sam's Subs is closing after 35 years of business, according to an announcement posted on the restaurant's window this afternoon.
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Health care students and workers from
@PittTweet
gathered outside of UPMC Presbyterian Hospital at noon, as part of nationwide protests
#WhiteCoatsForBlackLives
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Hundreds of Pitt students are in line at a vaccination clinic in Oak Hill. Word spread through group chats that the clinic had vaccines available and was accepting walk ins. About 400-500 students are waiting in line to receive a vaccine before the clinic closes at 7pm.
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James Conner taking photos from the sideline of today's game. Pitt leads Youngstown State 21-0 at half.
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Sudeep Yedulla — the first student on campus to contract COVID-19 — said “everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong” after he tested positive. Yedulla said Pitt provided little food, delivered broken items and ignored his texts and emails.
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About 300 people are outside the Cathedral of Learning chanting “transphobes have got to go” ahead of an event with right-wing commentator Cabot Phillips set to start at 7 p.m.
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Raising Cane’s has proposed a new restaurant in Central Oakland at the existing Thirsty Scholar location.
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Breaking Bad's
@BryanCranston
outside the O, talking voting and
@HillaryClinton
: "most importantly it's that people engage in the process."
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BREAKING: Pitt filed an amicus brief on Monday supporting a lawsuit against the Trump administration, fighting for a reversal of new guidelines that would force international students to leave the country if classes are online only in the fall.
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.
@justinbaldoni
— best known for his role on “Jane the Virgin” — said he knows he is a straight, white, privileged man with a platform, but is using that advantage to rewrite history into a new “herstory."
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Pitt joined Yung Gravy’s “gravy train” as hundreds of students watched him kiss the Cathedral of Learning on an onstage screen during Fall Fest on Sunday, calling it a “MILF.”
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31 Pitt professors signed an open statement to Joan Gabel regarding the student protestors on Schenley Plaza.
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The Pitt News Editorial Board argues that the owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette need to support its employees by giving them fair pay and health care.
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About 100 students are participating in a die-in at the Cathedral of Learning, protesting Pitt’s delay in sending out emergency alerts during a hoax active shooter threat on Monday.
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@BarackObama
encourages people to vote for
@SummerForPA
,
@JoshShapiroPA
&
@JohnFetterman
at a Saturday rally at Schenley Plaza.
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After walking out of their classes and workplaces, hundreds of students and community members gathered on CMU's campus Thursday afternoon calling for an "immediate end to the siege on Gaza and an end to all US aid" to the Israeli government.
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BREAKING: The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board ruled today that Pitt graduate students have the right to join a union, according to a press release from the United Steelworkers.
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Thousands gathered at Liberty Avenue and 11th Street for the 2023 Pittsburgh Pride March on Saturday. Hosted by Pittsburgh Pride Revolution, this year marked Pittsburgh’s 50th year of celebrating Pride month.
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A scene from inside the Cathedral of Learning as students evacuate. Courtesy of Kevin Weldon, a Pitt junior mechanical engineering major.
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Students are expected to abide by the “honors system,” according to a Pitt spokesperson. This plan is full of gaping holes — the most obvious being that the honors system has never been a reliable method for control of any university student body.
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Update: The students were asked to move outside of the Cathedral.
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Hundreds of students ran down Forbes Avenue and are now outside the Cathedral of Learning.
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Did you hear? We're Champ-yinz, baby!
Commemorate Pitt football's ACC Championship win by grabbing a copy of our print edition, available Wednesday. You won't have to walk to Heinz Field to get it — just look on newsstands across campus.
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Morgan Ottley, the president of
@PittBAS
, said Pitt should be “ashamed” that low Black student enrollment is still an issue on campus. The percentage of undergraduate students who identify as Black is near a 40-year low.
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.
@PeteButtigieg
, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary, will meet with Pitt students tomorrow at 10:45 a.m. in Oakland’s Schenley Plaza to campaign for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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Pitt students and community members protest inside of the Cathedral of Learning in support of Palestinians chanting "ceasefire now."
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.
@PeteButtigieg
, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and a candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary, is speaking to roughly 50 people this morning in Oakland’s Schenley Plaza about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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About 100 Pitt faculty union members rallied inside of the William Pitt Union this morning to push for progress on compensation negotiations.
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About 150 students and community members gathered on the corner of Forbes and Bigelow for a rally in solidarity with Palestine. The rally was organized by Pitt’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
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About 250 people are protesting outside O'Hara Ballroom ahead of a debate with Michael Knowles scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.
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THREAD: Pitt’s new COVID-19 dashboard appears to have incorrect case totals for students and employees, and this has been emailed to the
@PittTweet
community. The University said it is looking into this for us tonight, and we’d like to walk you through our math. 1/6
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The Pitt News is one of 11 college papers nationwide to win an
@CSPA
Crown award for the 2019-20 academic year, one of the biggest awards given to student publications. Congrats to all members of last year's staff!
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BREAKING: After setting numerous records, winning 10 regular season games and the ACC Championship, quarterback Kenny Pickett is a Heisman Trophy finalist. The award recognizes ��the most outstanding player in college football” from the current season.
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BREAKING: Hundreds are currently gathered at the City County Building in downtown Pittsburgh to protest today’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Considering that coronavirus cases are skyrocketing nationally and locally, there is no way to return to in-person instruction this fall without risking lives. Reopening campuses means that some students and faculty will die.
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Student Government Board released a statement on Sunday “regarding the Pitt Gaza solidarity encampment,” in which the board offered its support for student advocacy on campus and expressed solidarity with the protest taking place.
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Sponsored by
@PETA
-An exposé of Pitt's labs found monkeys driven insane & mice drowned & suffocated. Animal abuse doesn't belong on campus!
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Pitt officials said they are considering
@sydney_mass
’s petition, which has more than 5,300 signatures, requiring all undergraduates to take a black studies course as a graduation requirement.
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BREAKING: For the first time in its history, Pitt football is the ACC football champion. The Panthers took down the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 45-21 at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday night.
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City Council passed a bill that declared Pittsburgh a sanctuary city for gender-affirming care on Sept. 12. The bill protects healthcare providers, recipients of care and their legal guardians, from out-of-state investigation.
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Police arrest Matthew Darby in South Carolina. Darby is suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend Alina Sheykhet, a Pitt junior.
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BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement said Tuesday that it will rescind guidance issued last Monday which would have forced international students to leave the country if classes are online only in the fall.
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NEW: Pitt announced Monday afternoon that all students must complete a 14-day shelter-in-place period before attending in-person classes this fall.
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BREAKING: About 200 people are outside the Cathedral of Learning for a climate rally demanding fossil fuel divestment and community reinvestment. One of demonstrators signs reads "CLEAN-UP INVESTING NOW! Higher Standard, Higher Ed."
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The Steelers drafted James Conner as the 105th overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft. He is the first Panther to get drafted this year.
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BREAKING: Pitt's board of trustees will form an ad-hoc committee to study fossil fuel divestment, after years of student pressure
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Steelers star
@TeamJuJu
stops by Ambrose Urbanic Field on upper campus tonight to watch the Pitt Women’s Soccer team play against VCU. Photo by Assistant Visual Editor Thomas Yang.
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BREAKING: Pitt announced in a Monday campuswide email that all students and employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19, or receive an approved exemption, beginning Dec. 6. It will join several other vaccines already mandated by the University.
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After Pitt football’s ACC championship win against Wake Forest University in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday night, students celebrated in the streets of Oakland.
View the full gallery here:
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About 200 people are marching down East Carson Street in the South Side chanting “our votes matter” at a Count Every Votes demonstration following Joe Biden’s victory.
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Since its founding 18 years ago, the members of the Oakland Zoo have only stormed the court twice, both times at the Fitzgerald Field House. And it’s not because the athletic department won’t let them.
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Are you ready for Saturday's ACC championship game? Read predictions for the game, profiles of star players and more in our print edition, available today on newsstands across campus. 🏈💙💛
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Protestors chant "build bridges, not walls" as they return to Oakland.
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BREAKING: Pitt said Monday that fall classes will begin on Aug. 19 and end Nov. 20, with students not returning to campus after Thanksgiving break.
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Congressional candidate
@SummerForPA
talks about the importance of voting for democratic candidates in Tuesday’s midterm elections at a rally in Schenley Plaza.
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Any theories what the spotlight, in addition to the victory lights, mean?
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About 30 students lay on the grass holding signs that demand for a ceasefire in Gaza. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, the “Die in” rally took place in front of the Cathedral of Learning on Wednesday afternoon.
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Eric cashes you out at Quick Zone every day. You know his name, but do you know his story?
http://t.co/xV6cet5WGo
http://t.co/ixzgJbsFLU
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BREAKING:
@PittBAS
and 17 other Black Pitt student organizations joined together Monday to demand change from the University administration.
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.
@PeteButtigieg
told a crowd of mostly Pitt students on Saturday morning that their votes could determine the fate of the presidential election, and that “all eyes are on Pennsylvania.”
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders speaks to about 200 people in Schenley Plaza, encouraging young people to vote in the election to fight right wing extremism and protect abortion rights.
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BREAKING: Hearing Examiner Stephen Helmerich said that Pitt committed “coercive acts” leading up to the April 2019 vote determining whether graduate students should unionize and has ordered that a new election take place.
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There’s no evidence of an active shooter on Pitt’s campus after police evacuated Hillman Library around 11:15 pm.
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A group of 30 students hold a Passover Seder within the pro-Palestine encampment on Tuesday evening.
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Pitt student Ryan Walter describes her experience interacting with Pitt police after she was sexually assaulted last year. “No one deserves to feel unsafe on this campus.”
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About 150 people gather in Schenley Plaza at 5 p.m. on Tuesday to protest the latest escalation of violence in Rafah and demand an end to U.S. support of the Israeli military.
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Over 150 students gather outside of the Hillel Jewish University Center on Forbes to protest a Student Coalition for Israel speaker event with Yadin Gellman, an Israeli Defense Force commando veteran and Israeli actor on Wednesday.
📸: Ethan Shulman
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NEW: Allegheny County is suspending its mail-in ballot count for the night until 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.
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BREAKING: Former Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett is staying in the Steel City. The Pittsburgh Steelers selected Pickett with the No. 20 overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.
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Grab your Lactaid pills! The Milk Shake Factory on Forbes Avenue is open for business.
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We’re appalled — though unfortunately, not shocked — by the racist behavior of Post-Gazette management. We stand with
@alexisjreports
,
@msantiagophotos
and
@PGNewsGuild
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BREAKING: A Stop Asian Hate protest has begun in the heart of Oakland at the corner of Forbes and Oakland avenues, with about 250 people present. Stay tuned for updates from the protest.
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More than 150 people are gathered in front of the Cathedral of Learning in support of Palestine. This is the second rally on Pitt’s campus this week.
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Market Central, the main hub for student dining at Pitt, was cited for 14 health violations by the Allegheny County Health Department on Wednesday, Oct. 10.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden made an unannounced campaign stop at Schenley Plaza about 20 minutes ago. The stop is part of a series of events in the Pittsburgh area today, on the eve of Election Day tomorrow.
Joe Biden and Lady Gaga greeting students at University of Pittsburgh
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Women’s bathrooms in the Cathedral of Learning, the William Pitt Union, Posvar Hall and several other buildings on campus now contain dispensers stocked with free menstrual products.
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People sing "One Day" by
@matisyahu
, a Jewish American rapper and singer, at the vigil at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill.
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