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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | december 5, 2016 | Volume 107 | Issue 89
BURGLARS HIT OAKLAND AGAIN Amanda Reed
Contributing Editor After a burglar broke into their house in the 3400 block of Ward Street on Halloween, Jacky Chen and his five roommates made a house rule to lock their door at all times, even if another roommate was home. But several of the roommates forgot to lock the door on their way to a track workout with the Ultimate Frisbee team Dec. 1. Chen, the only roommate home at the time, didn’t check the lock when they left, and the house was broken into a second time. Chen, a senior exercise science major, went from the living room to his third floor bedroom to get some work done when he heard rustling downstairs at about 11 p.m. He assumed it was one of his roommates, but later, when his roommates came home from track practice, he realized it was an intruder. While Chen was in his bedroom, the burglar entered the home and took multiple items, including an iPad, Wii and Xbox. “I was in disbelief, because I was home at the time and thought [my roommates] were kidding,” Chen said. Their Ward Street home was one of three burglarized in the past week, bringing the total number of Oakland burglaries to 23 this semester.
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PITTSBURGHERS STAND WITH STANDING ROCK A crowd gathered in Schenley Plaza to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, the same weekend construction was postponed. | by James Evan Bowen-Gaddy | Staff Writer Rather than staying in the comfort of her Braddock Hills home, Beth McAhren spent her Thanksgiving in Standing Rock, North Dakota. For five days at Standing Rock, McAhren cooked meals for the demonstrators there protesting the construction of an energy pipeline through land near a Sioux tribe reservation. McAhren’s said she was “protecting” the land and water that the Dakota Access Pipeline would damage. On Sunday, McAhren’s and other’s efforts paid off. After months of protests and demonstrations across the country, the federal govern-
ment denied the pipeline’s permits for its current route. The denial is a delay for the construction, but may not stop the construction entirely, pending a review of the project and further consideration by president-elect Donald Trump. But it was a long journey to Sunday’s announcement. During the protests throughout the week of Thanksgiving, the “water protectors” — the term used to describe protestors and demonstrators opposing construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline — gathered in camps of tents and tepees, trying to get rest. McAhren said the
nights were long and cold, and the police flew helicopters low at night, shining bright lights on the camps to interrupt protectors’ sleep. “They’re using Guantanamo Bay techniques,” McAhren said. Energy Transfer Partners, a Texas-based Fortune 500 company, planned to build the DAPL as part of the Bakken Pipeline Project to transfer crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The initiative is supposed to reduce the amount of crude oil shipped by truck and rail and increase the amount shipped by underground pipeline. See Standing Rock on page 2