Housing , Pitt's largest and tallest residence hall Undergraduate student housing comprises both traditional residence halls and apartment style housing. On the lower campus, the three cylindrical towers of the
Litchfield Towers complex houses the most students on campus and contains the primary dining facility for the university. The
Schenley Quadrangle, originally serving as one of city's most desirably luxury apartment complexes, comprises five separate residence halls: Amos, Brackenridge, Bruce, Holland, and McCormick. Bruce Hall houses many Honors College and Living and Learning Community (LLC) students, Holland Hall formerly served as an all female residence, and Amos Hall serves as the primary home of the university's sororities with each floor being occupied by a different Greek organization.
Ruskin Hall is located near
Clapp Hall and the
biological complex. Completed in 2013,
Nordenberg Hall is the newest residence hall houses freshmen.
Forbes Hall, located on Forbes Avenue, houses mainly freshmen involved in LLCs (Living Learning Communities).
Lothrop Hall, originally built as a nursing student residence, houses students on the
medical center complex.
Bouquet Gardens offers garden style apartments mostly to upperclassmen. The Forbes Craig Apartments serve as the primary residence for Honors College students. . The upper campus houses
Sutherland Hall, home of several Living Learning Communities, as well as
Panther Hall and
Irvis Hall, which mainly house upperclassmen. Various fraternity housing is also found on the upper campus, as well as the Darragh Street Apartments which house medical students within a short walk to medical school's
Scaife Hall. Many students, especially upperclassmen, also choose to live off campus in the nearby
South Oakland neighborhood in both university and non-university owned apartments.
Traditions performs at Fall Fest 2015 Several traditions have become part of student life at Pitt over the years. One of the oldest traditions is "Lantern Night", an annual ceremony that serves as a formal induction for freshman women to university life. A romantic tradition involves the legend stating that if lovers kiss on the steps of
Heinz Memorial Chapel, they are then destined to be married there. The Redeye Theatre Project is a festival of one-act plays cast, written, and rehearsed in 24 hours. is open to all women of the university including undergraduates, graduate students, and staff. The ensemble leads the traditional lamplighter processional each fall and performs repertory ranging from traditional sacred and secular classics to international folk songs, popular music, and show tunes. Carpathian Ensemble, founded within the Department of Music in 1786, performs
Gypsy,
Klezmer,
Armenian,
Moldavian,
Ukrainian, and
Macedonian music. The University Gamelan, established in 1995, is the largest Sundanese gamelan program in the U.S. and has sponsored an artist-in-residency program each year since 1998. The University of Pittsburgh Orchestra performs several concerts and consists of music students, students from the university at large, faculty, staff, and members of the metropolitan community. The orchestra performs not only works of the standard art music literature, but also new works of student composers.
Student media •
WPTS-FM is a non-commercial radio station owned by the University of Pittsburgh, and offers a mix of student-run programming. The station operates at 92.1
MHz with an
ERP of 16 watts, and is licensed to Pittsburgh. •
Jurist is the world's only law-school-based, comprehensive, legal news and research service staffed by a mostly volunteer team. It is led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Law. •
The Pitt News is an independent, student-written, and student-managed newspaper for the university's Oakland (main) campus. It was founded in 1908. , seen here with the
Millennium Panther. •
The Pittiful News is an independent, student-founded, student-written, student-managed, and student-produced satirical and humor newspaper. It comes out on during the school year in print and throughout the entire calendar year online. • UPTV (University of Pittsburgh Television) is a student-managed, student-produced, closed-circuit television station. Students living in campus residence halls or university operated-housing can view programming on Channel 21. •
Three Rivers Review and
Collision are undergraduate, bi-annual, literary journals publishing both poetry and prose. •
The Pittsburgh Undergraduate Review is a multidisciplinary journal showcasing undergraduate research., •
Pitt Political Review is a student-created, student-written publication of the David C. Frederick Honors College. PPR, as it is called, provides a venue for serious discussion of politics and policy issues in a nonpartisan way. •
The Original Magazine is a nonprofit, semiannual arts and culture publication based at, and partially funded by, the University of Pittsburgh, that aims to both bring and publicize accessible art and creative writing to Pittsburgh. •
Pitt Tonight is an American college
late-night talk show on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The show premiered on December 14, 2015, and is produced entirely by students. It is the first large-scale late night production on the school's campus – consisting of more than 70 staff members – with its creator Jesse Irwin serving as the first
host. The program is taped once per month in front of a live
studio audience. The show has been nominated for two
Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards, and won one College Broadcasters Inc. award for Best General Entertainment Program.
Student organizations There are over 350 student clubs and organizations at the University of Pittsburgh.
Spike Lee, and
Carol Moseley Braun. • Blue and Gold Society, founded in 1991, is a group of undergraduate student leaders chosen as liaisons between the student community and the Pitt Alumni Association. The club works in conjunction with the
Pittsburgh Oratory of Saint Philip Neri and the
Fellowship of Catholic University Students. • Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) is the student government that represents the interests of all graduate and professional students and serves as the umbrella organization for all of the graduate/professional school student governments. GPSG's mission is to ensure that the concerns of these students are heard and also provides services and programs such travel grants, legal and financial consulting, and social functions. The protestors called for an end to the
genocide in Gaza, for the university to
divest financially from the "
Israeli apartheid regime" and cut ties with all Israeli universities.
CAIR-Pittsburgh called on the University of Pittsburgh to drop charges against students who protested against Israel's genocide in
Gaza. The protests continued into the next academic year, with faculty accusing the administration of racism because of the difference in response to the
wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Greek life There are presently over 40 general, or social, fraternities and sororities on campus. The oldest men's fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta first held events in 1863, while the oldest women's group, Kappa Alpha Theta, was established in 1915. Additionally, a similar number of professional, service, and honor societies are present on campus. The oldest are the medical fraternity
Phi Beta Pi, entering in 1891, and the dental fraternity
Psi Omega, entering in 1897. The historically black fraternities
Alpha Phi Alpha (1913) and
Alpha Kappa Alpha (1918) came later. ==Athletics==