It’s Saturday night in Oakland, and, as always, my friends and I go out with hopes of forgetting that the following five days exist. Waiting to order the special of the night, I see a group of girls next to me huddled around what appears, from my perspective, to be a shot of fire. Between the squeals and the “oh my gods,” I hear the one phrase that everyone undoubtedly hears over the course of the night: “I am so Instagramming this.”

President Lincoln aptly noted “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Jake Wheatley, a mayoral candidate, has embodied these words throughout his tenure as an elected official of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh is undoubtedly a city making a comeback. Fueled by innovation in the natural gas, bioengineering and medical industries, the city is attracting a younger, more educated workforce.

Chancellor Holden Thorp’s tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will come to an end next month after five years, but this resignation is far from ordinary.