Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican who criticized former president Donald Trump after the 2020 election, delivered a speech at Heinz Hall on Wednesday. Kinzinger’s lecture ranged from his congressional tenure to Trump, foreign policy, the military and Thanksgiving.
Caleb Buzard said voting is the most important and efficient way for students to make a difference in their community. “As young people, we can be boxed out from places of power, and that can create a feeling of hopelessness,” Buzard, a junior politics and philosophy major and vice president of the Pitt College Democrats,.
Mark Nordenberg, chancellor emeritus of Pitt, began a conversation with Katelyn Polantz, a Pitt alumnus, asking her to describe her “journey” from Pitt to CNN. Polantz said a combination of “hard work, persistence, [and] red glasses,” got her to where she is today. “I had very few connections within the justice team at CNN directly.