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Panel talks challenges, hopes for AAPI students

Rio Scarcelli | staff writer Nov. 11, 2021 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students can face tensions stemming from race relations in almost any environment they walk into. On Nov. 10 via Zoom, student panelists Cassie DiBenedetti, Emmala Le, Angel Alday and Jessica Cetorelli hosted an AAPI forum to have a more honest conversation about creating comfortable spaces for this community. The event was … Continue reading Panel talks challenges, hopes for AAPI students

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Duquesne chimes in on medical marijuana debate

By Casey Chafin | The Duquesne Duke As lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives consider a bill that would make Pennsylvania the 24th state to legalize marijuana for medical use, a group of legal and scientific experts met at Duquesne for their own debate on the topic. Last Friday, the Africa Room was filled with representatives of the medical field, law enforcement and forensic … Continue reading Duquesne chimes in on medical marijuana debate

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Esteemed author talks social justice at DU

By Jen Cardone | The Duquesne Duke John Edgar Wideman, a Pittsburgh native and 10-time award-winning novelist, offered insight on think tanks as tools for social justice at a symposium Oct. 10. Wideman read an excerpt from his memoir Brothers and Keepers, which is about his incarcerated brother Robert, who holds a mandatory life sentence at the Pittsburgh State Correctional Institution for a crime he … Continue reading Esteemed author talks social justice at DU

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City officials field questions from residents

By Kaye Burnet | The Duquesne Duke Mayor Bill Peduto addressed the concerns of Pittsburgh residents at his first “Mayor’s Night Out” in Beltzhoover Monday night. Peduto and a panel of city and community officials gathered in the Warrington Community Center to listen to the comments, criticisms and compliments of Beltzhoover inhabitants. The mayor and his panel spoke with the gathering of nearly 70 citizens … Continue reading City officials field questions from residents

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