The Pitt News
T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | february 18, 2019 | Volume 109 | Issue 107
BUY ME A DRANK : T-PAIN TO HEADLINE BIGELOW BASH
HILLMAN HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Brian Gentry
Assistant News Editor T-Pain will headline this year’s Bigelow Bash on April 7. Pitt Program Council announced the headline performer on Saturday night at their annual Black and White Ball and posted about it shortly after via Instagram. According to Farrell Healy, the special events director of Pitt Program Council, the organization decided on T-Pain after much deliberation on who to book. “We like to have at least one more mainstream hip-hop artist, so since we had an alternative artist in the fall, we were trying to find a hip-hop artist in the spring,” Healy said. “From there, it was just suggestions from the committee, and going back and forth there. That’s where we decided on T-Pain.” Healy declined to comment on the cost of booking T-Pain for the concert, citing contract privacy. Last spring’s Bigelow Bash was headlined by MisterWives, an indie pop band based in New York. This year’s Fall Fest featured Young the Giant, an American rock band with hits including “My Body” and “Cough Syrup.”
“Ferguson Voices” will be on display in the lobby of Hillman Library through the end of February in support of Black History Month. Hannah Heisler | staff photographer
HILLMAN EXHIBIT SHOWCASES STORIES OF FERGUSON
Nithil Harris Manimaran
“Activism is believing that people can be persuaded to act in a collective way that also For The Pitt News benefits their humanity,” the quote reads. Pitt students walking through the front This quote is part of Ferguson Voices: doors of Hillman Library during the month Disrupting the Frame, a collaborative initiaof February are greeted by a quote on one tive between PROOF: Media for Social Jusof the exhibits featuring Elizabeth Vega, a tice and the University of Dayton Human Chicana artist and educator from Ferguson, Rights Center commemorating the life and Missouri. death of Michael Brown Jr. The exhibit at
Pitt is being featured in the lobby of Hillman Library throughout February in support of Black History Month. PROOF is a nonprofit organization based in New York City that uses visual storytelling to inspire attitude and policy changes across the globe. “Ferguson Voices” was launched in January 2017, then under the name of “The See Ferguson on page 2