The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | April 19, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 152
REMEMBERING SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
PITT NOW ACCEPTING THE COMMON APPLICATION Elise Lavallee Contributing Editor
Students submitting an application to Pitt in the 2018-19 school year will be the first class that can use the Common Application, according to a statement Pitt released Tuesday. The Common App allows prospective students to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously using one application, rather than completing individual applications for each school. The decision comes 17 years after the application program first opened to public institutions. Members of Pitt’s a cappella groups sing “Til It Happens to You” by Lady Gaga at the Candlelight Vigil, hosted by the SECCS organization, in support of sexual assault survivors in the William Pitt Union Wednesday night. Thirty-six new schools will accept the application Isabelle Glatts | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR this year, including Penn State. Currently, the application is accepted by more than 750 institutions, including local schools like Chatham University and Carnegie Mellon University. Pitt’s current application requires an academic record, a $45 application fee and either SAT or it. While Hillman’s website did not specify if the was banned from Hillman Library. Sam Weber ACT scores. Filling out the short-answer ques“I was there a few day ago, and there was a se- food brought in could be hot or cold, it did say Staff Writer tions is not required but “highly recommended.” curity guard there from about 3-5 p.m. stopping that students could only eat at Cup and Chaucer. After spending numerous hours on the Th e University expects the inclusion of the This “new” policy has actually been in place students if they had any food bags,” Richards said. ground floor of Hillman Library preparing for Common App to increase admissions but is In the past, most students have brought in for 10 years, according to web services and comexams last week, Pitt junior psychology and currently unsure by how much, according to whatever food they had wanted to the library. munications librarian Jeff Wisniewski. He said chemistry major Geena Richards saw students Kellie Kane, Pitt’s executive director of admisHillman Library’s policy on bringing in hot food more strictly enforcing the policy regarding food getting turned away at the door by a new secusions. She said the Common App will make the from outside has been in place for years, but it will improve the library community since hot rity guard. That’s when she remembered what her was not until recently that Pitt began enforcing See Hillman on page 7 See Applications on page 7 friends had told her the day before — all hot food
Hillman says no to hot food for thought