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Pitt players to race for James Conner Page 8 February 26, 2016 | Issue 114 | Volume 106
City launches redevelopment for West Oakland, Uptown
Lauren Wilson Staff Writer
If the ideas they wrote on sticky notes are any indication, residents of Uptown and West Oakland know exactly what they want in their neighborhoods. On chalkboards, large maps and interactive cardboard charts, Uptown and Oakland residents told City planners Thursday they want less parking spaces and more community spaces, like gardens and parks. More than 200 Oakland and Uptown
residents and business owners attended an eco-innovation district launch party at 300 Gist St. from 6 to 9 p.m., an event that kicked off the city government’s redevelopment efforts in the Uptown and West Oakland neighborhoods. Though the city is in the planning stages right now, Oakland Planning Development Corporation, City Planning and Uptown Partners hosted the event, where residents expressed excitement over the possibility of new businesses and restored See Redevelopment on page 2
Sociologist explores gender at high school Lianna Rana
For The Pitt News `In a Pittsburgh public high school, girls and boys spent a school year segregated. Sara Goodkind, a sociology professor in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies department at Pitt, learned through student interviews that the gender-segregated classes led to internalized sexism and inappropriate behavior, such as girls acting out against one another and being overly affectionate toward male students. Delta Phi Epsilon brought Andrew Wade, a licensed dietitian nutritionist, to The school Goodkind studied, Westspeak to students about nutrition and answer questions in Nordy’s Thursday inghouse Academy, a public school in night. Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Pittsburgh for grades 6-12, voted to try single-sex classes in 2011. Westinghouse Academy returned to integrated classes the following year after the Women’s Law Project and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Greater Pittsburgh Chapter threatened to file a federal civil rights complaint against the school board for sex discrimination. On Thursday, Feb. 25, Goodkind presented her findings about Westinghouse to about 100 Pitt students, discussing the
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