Pittsburg, PA
Pro-Palestinian protesters defy university order, stage march across University of Pittsburgh campus
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters defied an order from their university to stop holding events when they held a march across the University of Pittsburgh campus on Saturday.
Pitt placed Students for Justice in Palestine on interim suspension this past week, saying members of their group improperly communicated with members of the university conduct hearing board. As part of the suspension, they would not be allowed to hold events.
“The administration, under a bunch of bureaucratic claims that make no sense, suspended SJP following a series of protests,” said Karim Safieddine, a Pitt PhD student who participated in Saturday’s protest. “There is nothing in particular that justifies the suspension.”
Organizers told KDKA-TV that they could not comment directly for legal reasons. During their march, they only briefly discussed the suspensions, saying the focus should be on Gaza.
“Students for Justice in Palestine are paying the price for raising their voices against impeding war, particularly as Trump is questioning, investigating, interrogating University administrations for tolerating affairs as such,” Safieddine said.
The American Civil Liberties Union supported the protesters, writing in a letter to the university chancellor that the university singled out the protest group for actions protected by the First Amendment. The letter said that if the group is not reinstated, it will take legal action.
“There’s definitely a singling out of SJP, given the affairs of the country today, the controversy of what’s happening in the region, more generally, and the role of the U.S. in it,” Safieddine said.
Protesters made a loop around Oakland, stopping only to let an ambulance pass and to form a circle at the corner of Forbes and Bouquet.
“We need a reminder that we’re not marching for us, we’re marching for the people of Gaza and the people of Palestine,” one of the protesters said.
KDKA-TV contacted school officials to find out if they planned to take further action due to the protest, but have not heard back. They said earlier in the week that their conduct proceedings are designed to uphold community standards and their code of conduct.
With the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defense in a slump, one of their young cornerbacks who is currently on the reserve/injured list could soon be activated and potentially help the team upon his return.
Ahead of their Week 9 game against the Indianapolis Colts, the Steelers have announced that they’ve opened Cory Trice Jr.’s 21-day practice window while he remains on IR.
Should he not be added to the 53-man roster before that window closes, Trice Jr. will be forced to miss the rest of the season.
Last week, head coach Mike Tomlin responded with a simple, “He is,” when asked if the third-year corner was nearing a return to the practice field.
Trice has dealt with a littany of injuries going all the way back to his days in college at Purdue. He suffered a season-ending ACL injury with the Boilermakers in 2021, and he then slid in the 2023 NFL Draft as a result.
Pittsburgh landed him in the seventh round that year with the No. 241 overall pick, but his rookie campaign was wiped out before it could even truly begin after he tore his ACL during training camp.
Trice Jr. recovered in time to participate in both OTAs and training camp last summer while also appearing in all three preseason contests, earning a 53-man roster spot in the process.
He suited up in each of the Steelers’ first three games of the 2024 season, but he suffered a hamstring injury that kept him on IR until Week 17.
Pittsburgh added a slew of cornerbacks this past offseason, including Jalen Ramsey, Darius Slay Jr., Brandin Echols and Donte Kent, but Trice was still in position to earn a roster spot heading into training camp.
His hamstring affliction, which he suffered on August 1, kept him sidelined during the entire preseason before he was placed on IR at final roster cuts.
The Steelers’ secondary has struggled for essentially the entire season up to this point, but they’ve begun switching things up. They first benched Slay in favor of Echols during their Week 8 matchup with the Green Bay Packers before acquiring Kyle Dugger in a trade from the New England Patriots after DeShon Elliott suffered a knee injury that resulted in him being placed on IR.
Ramsey, Slay, Echols and Joey Porter Jr. are still entrenched as Pittsburgh’s quartet at the cornerback position at the moment, but Trice Jr. has the potential to develop into a useful player for Pittsburgh.
It remains to be seen if he’ll see the field much on defense when, and if, he returns, but he’d be a nice depth piece to have down the stretch.
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Pittsburg, PA
Pittsburgh-area native riding out Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica says it’s “the scariest thing”
As Hurricane Melissa rips through Jamaica, thousands of locals and visitors are riding it out, including a woman from southwestern Pennsylvania.
As the winds blew and the rain came pouring down in Montego Bay, Antoinette Margita hunkered down in her hotel, filled with anxiety.
“I just don’t know what to expect. I’ve never been through anything like this,” Margita said. “It’s probably the scariest thing.”
From Duquesne, she flew out of Pittsburgh and got to Jamaica on Friday for what was supposed to be a trip celebrating her friend’s birthday. But when there were early signs of a potential storm, her friend decided to stay back.
“I should have listened to her,” Margita said.
She could not get an early flight out, so she enjoyed the sunshine until Monday night, when the front started to come in and pick up Tuesday morning.
“I kind of feel like I’m in a movie. It’s not real, but it is real,” Margita said. “You can hear like the wind. It’s like whistling. The door sounds like the door is going to come open.”
The hotel gave the guests care packages with lots of water, along with notes on how to ride out the hurricane, instructing them to put a mattress against the window.
So far, so good, as her hotel is running on a generator, but shortly after Melissa made landfall nearly 40 miles away, a little water started flooding under her door.
“Just thinking positive and just trying to talk to my friends on the phone to get me through it,” Margita said.
As the hours go on, Margita hopes things don’t get worse, waiting for the moment she can fly back to Pittsburgh.
“I just want to come home, honestly, that’s what I want,” Margita said.
Margita was originally supposed to fly out on Tuesday. The flight was, of course, cancelled, as was her new flight for Wednesday. It’s unclear when the airport will reopen.
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