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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw that Pitt is only guaranteeing two years of housing for incoming freshmen. It was 3 until now but it seems like they are accepting bigger classes. They had to rent a Hampton Inn and scramble to fit all this year's first-years.[/quote]

Where are getting this information about the housing guarantee?  The Pitt website still says three years. https://www.pc.pitt.edu/housing-services/faq [/quote]

In the acceptance letter.[/quote]

Interesting.  I wonder if existing students are [b]grandfathered.[/b]  My daughter is a freshman at Pitt and we haven't been notified of this change.[/quote]

Don't use this terminology. It is from slavery.[/quote]

NP. Did not know that. [/quote]

The PP is correct that we shouldn't use this term, but it's not exactly "from slavery." It's related to poll tests (literacy tests, etc.) aimed at disenfranchising Black men in the post Civil War era. Because those tests would also potentially disenfranchise White men, the law said that if your grandfather was allowed to vote, you were automatically eligible. Because most Black men had grandfathers who had been enslaved and, thus, not allowed to vote, only White men were "grandfathered" into their voting rights. [/quote]

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