Their stories suggest that in spite of protections and efforts by colleges to learn about preventing sexual misconduct, victim blaming, guilt and secrecy remain powerful forces.
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A Pitt student’s initiative wants to help survivors of intimate partner violence ‘be the leader in their own healing’
Project Healing Sideways is at the table with Pitt’s Title IX office, bringing the perspectives of survivors to policy discussions.
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CMU’s answer to prof’s tweet, wishing ‘excruciating’ pain for queen, stirs campus backlash
In a flurry of petitions, Carnegie Mellon University students and faculty are blasting the school’s reaction to a professor’s anti-colonialist tweet issued as Queen Elizabeth II was dying.
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Medical emergencies, mac-and-cheese mishaps, and elevator rescues: Pitt dorms draw city services, but should the university help fund them?
Pittsburgh public safety crews serve addresses regardless of tax status, but some high-call-volume locations — including dorms — don’t generate taxes to support them.
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Another Pittsburgh promise?
Payments from “eds and meds” would bring millions to Pittsburgh Public Schools, allowing district to slash deficit and consider “wonderful things.”
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Who decides the future of Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood?
Should the Oakland of tomorrow be a place where children play in sunny yards or where towers cater to students and “eds and meds” workers? Seven perspectives illustrate the stresses facing the booming center of Pittsburgh’s tax-exempt growth.
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Update: Carnegie Mellon no longer considering draft policy to use facial recognition technology
The draft policy came two years after Pittsburgh City Council took steps to regulate the use of facial recognition technology by city entities.
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Carnegie Mellon grad student growth driving plans for even denser campus
Carnegie Mellon University presented its 10-year development plan to the City Planning Commission, in a process that will continue into September.
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The complicated reality of a healthcare career in Pittsburgh
Health and medicine have become pillars of the Pittsburgh economy, but training programs are struggling to attract students in fields with poor job satisfaction.
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How student leaders of Pittsburgh campus groups are responding after Roe reversal
The reversal of Roe represents not only an issue of healthcare equity but also educational equity, one student said.