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Morton "Moe" Coleman, a social worker, policy maker, professor at Pitt's Graduate Schools of Social Work and of Public and International Affairs, and founding director of Pitt's Institute of Politics, has died, according to a statement from the university. Mr. Coleman, who was born in 1932, attended Wightman School, Taylor Allderdice High School and the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a master's degree in social work in 1961 and went to work in the Hill District, where he witnessed firsthand the problems of urban renewal, according to a 1999 Post-Gazette profile of Mr. Coleman. Mr. Coleman joined the administration of Pittsburgh Mayor Joseph Barr in 1963, where he was involved in implementing a number of the era's War on Poverty programs. His career also took him to Detroit, in 1968, where he worked as personal adviser to Henry Ford II on urban issues, and Hartford, Connecticut, before he returned to Pittsburgh. Mr. Coleman was known as someone who could bring people together from different spheres, from politics, to academia, to community groups, which was part of why he developed Pitt's Institute of Politics. See Tuesday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a full obituary.

Alexander, a 25-year-old law student at the University of Pittsburgh, identifies as a Democrat but said he began watching Thursday's proceedings as neither a supporter nor a detractor of the nominee. That changed with Kavanaugh's testimony. Alexander found Ford's account of Kavanaugh and a friend laughing after the alleged attack the hearing's most moving moment, and he wondered if that detail might sway Republicans. Both seemed believable, Jacobs said, but she felt convinced toward the end that Kavanaugh was not guilty. "When you're a true victim, you remember where it happened, you know who was in the room, you also remember every single detail," she said. Almeida said she doesn't doubt Ford was victimized, but believes Democrats convinced her to wrongly blame Kavanaugh for what happened. "I remember one of the questions asked of Anita Hill was something like 'Are you a woman scorned?'" "You aren't going to hear that in this hearing. Jacobson, a first-year law student at Mitchell Hamline School of Law who identifies as a Democrat, watched the hearing with colleagues in a classroom. One of Jacobson's close friends was sexually assaulted in high school, an experience the friend said would scar her for life.