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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 | october 3, 2019 | Volume 110| Issue 35
‘LEST WE FORGET’ EXHIBIT COMES TO CAMPUS
CHAOS THEORY
Delilah Bourque Culture Editor
Photographs from the GermanItalian artist Luigi Toscano’s traveling exhibit “Lest We Forget” will line the pathway from the Cathedral of Learning to Heinz Chapel from Oct. 18 to Nov. 15. Held in partnership with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, the exhibit consists of 50 life-size portraits of holocaust survivors — including 15 from the Pittsburgh area. The exhibit is deliberately timed to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting in Squirrel Hill, which is the largest anti-Semitic at- Pitt’s hip hop dance team Controlled Chaos practices Wednesday night in the William Pitt Union. Controlled Chaos has beginner classes Thursday nights. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor tack in American history. The exhibit has already been on display in places such as the headquarters of the United Nations and around the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, as well as internationally in Austria, Bel- Benjamin Nigrosh number of activities that it is sponsoring this with, and you are not alone,” Duong said. gium and Ukraine. Staff Writer year for Mental Health Awareness Month. According to board member Eric MacadanAs relayed by University SpokesperNina Duong, chair of SGB’s wellness com- gdang, who is on the team organizing the events, Depression and anxiety rates are on the son Kevin Zwick, Toscano intends the rise for college students in America, with sui- mittee, is leading the effort to generate aware- SGB has celebrated Mental Health Awareness large portraits to raise awareness of hate cidal thoughts and severe depression doubling ness for resources for students struggling with Month in past years with a few tabling events. and bigotry, and they are intentionally over the past decade, according to one study. mental illness. But this year, it wanted to give students more placed in open settings like parks or To combat rising mental health issues, Pitt’s “Through these events, we want to open opportunities to receive information. SGB has public squares so that they are acces- Student Government Board has expanded the eyes to this issue, and let them know that this See Mental Health on page 2 sible to everyone. is something that a lot of people are struggling
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