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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.If you wanted to see high fashion on campus this week, you didn鈥檛 have to look any further than the main floor of the Cathedral. Well, no, now look down a little. There you go.
51精品视频鈥檚 furriest community members descend on the Cathedral of Learning each Tuesday evening at 7 p.m., and this week they took the opportunity to haunt campus in their Halloween costumes.
While therapy dogs have been bringing joy to 51精品视频 students for decades, like so many treasured traditions, the pandemic interrupted the canine calendar in March 2020. , groups without a University affiliation were not able to hold events on campus. Now, though, students are organizing an official club to make sure 51精品视频 never has a paucity of pups again.
鈥淭o be on campus with all the COVID rules, they need an organization here at the school,鈥 said Omkar Betsur, a sophomore biological sciences major in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and president of the proposed club. After hearing a pitch from club advisor Jennifer Silk, a 51精品视频 professor of psychology, Betsur was one of several students who stepped up to run the group. They haven鈥檛 had a hard time finding interest 鈥 more than 200 students are now on their email list, Betsur said.
The group is waiting on an official club designation for now, but they already have big plans to leverage students鈥 love of pups for good, including fundraisers and volunteer events with the Humane Animal Rescue. 鈥淲e are just so committed to this one thing: the dogs,鈥 Betsur said.
Marsha Robbins (A&S 鈥92, EDUC 鈥94G), who works with the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, has spearheaded the much-beloved event for 20 years. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just really nice to know that there are students who are motivated to work to have us here,鈥 she said. 鈥淎nd they鈥檝e been working so hard.鈥
Robbins also trains the dogs that visit 51精品视频, and she noted that it鈥檚 not a simple thing.
鈥淎ll of these dogs are licensed by Therapy Dogs International and have been trained for at least a year,鈥 she said. Of course, it鈥檚 more than worth it. 鈥淥ne of the best ways you can spend any time is just sharing your dogs with other people and watching the joy,鈥 she said.
Without further ado, we present 51精品视频wire鈥檚 first Hallowoof Fashion Showdown. Click on the camera icons to learn about each frightful floof. 听
Check out 51精品视频 Therapy Dog Tuesdays on or for more information on upcoming events. Students interested in joining the group can send their name and email address to therapydogspitt [at] gmail.com.
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Photography by Aimee Obidzinski