Pittsburgh may not win any sports championships this year, but it does have a new title to add to its collection. Pittsburgh took 54.32 percent of the votes in the final round of Gawker’s “America’s Ugliest Accent” poll, which ended this week, against Scranton, Pa. Roughly 19,000 people voted in the finals.
Sponsored by Giant Eagle and in celebration of its newly released name-brand cookies, the company invited Pittsburghers to help break the Guinness World Record for cookies simultaneously dunked in milk on Oct. 14. A record 2,152 people came out to the event, breaking the previous record of 1,796 people in India in 2013.
Pittsburgh’s Rivers Casino set a new Guinness World Record for cooking the largest pierogi on Oct. 8. The pierogi, which had to weigh more than 110 pounds and three ounces to qualify, weighed 123 pounds.
In an open letter to the Chancellor published on Apr. 25, a group of 49…
A woman died after she was hit by a large cylindrical steel drum that rolled…
Hundreds of student protesters and community activists gathered in front of the Cathedral of Learning…
SGB released a statement on Sunday “regarding the Pitt Gaza solidarity encampment,” in which the…
Around 80 protestors from the Pitt faculty union and United Steelworkers gathered outside of the…
Editor-in-chief Betul Tuncer reflects on the role of student journalists in society and says thank…