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New Student Guide | Roc your world crossword: answer key

New Student Guide | Roc your world crossword: answer key

By Brian Gentry and Emily Wolfe, The Pitt News Staff July 15, 2019

Across: TMED Slapped a copyright on SAL Ride in space, familiarly ARENA The Pittsburgh Penguins’ PPG Paints, for one ACLEF Roman ___ (thinly veiled nonfiction) ...

Crossword | It's finally here

Crossword | It’s finally here

By Brian Gentry and Emily Wolfe April 21, 2019

This locally-sourced, organic finals week crossword comes to you straight from your friendly neighborhood campus newspaper office. Because if you’re anything like us at The Pitt News, sometimes you just...

Bar trivia has become increasingly popular in bars in Oakland such as Hemingway's Cafe, Gene's Place, and Stack'd. Stephen Caruso | Assistant Visual Editor

Tracking trivia: the history of quiz night in Oakland

Standing beside a booth sticky from nights of shot pitchers and beer specials, Steve McCalley asked a room full of diners and drinkers if they could differentiate between the names of characters from “Game...

Tall order: Pitt adds another Starbucks on top of Cathedral

By Matt Maielli | Staff Writer April 1, 2016

The University announced plans Thursday morning to construct a new Starbucks franchise on the top floor of the Cathedral of Learning. This will be the 20th Starbucks within a square mile of the University...

courtesy of Jeopardy Productions

Dubnik falls in Jeopardy final

By Amanda Reed / Staff Writer February 14, 2016

Although she didn’t win the $100,000 grand prize in the “Jeopardy!” College Championship finals Friday night, Sarah Dubnik walked away with bragging rights and enough money to travel wherever she...

Kate Koenig | Visual Editor

Debunking Hillman’s dirtiest secret

By Matt Maielli / Staff Writer February 12, 2016

Playboy Magazine once ranked Hillman Library’s first floor as one of the best places in the country to meet women. Fact or fiction? Urban legends already hold a special place in our culture — Bigfoot,...

John Hamilton | Staff Photographer

Who is, ‘Sarah Dubnik’? Pitt student reaches final in ‘Jeopardy’ competition

By Amanda Reed / Staff Writer February 10, 2016

Sarah Dubnik is frustrated at what transpires before her. “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek queries contestants of the show’s annual College Championship semifinal round: “The [Nobel] Peace prize...

Sarah Dubnick appears on Jeopardy.  (Credit NBC)

Daily Dubnik: Pitt senior to compete in college ‘Jeopardy!’ semifinal Wednesday

By Jack Trainor / Culture Editor February 8, 2016

Who: Pitt senior Sarah Dubnik What: Competing in the Jeopardy! College Championship semifinals Where: NBC When: Wednesday Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. Why: Dubnik was one of the semifinal round’s two highest...

TPN staff contemplates 2016

TPN staff contemplates 2016

By Culture Staff January 6, 2016

Every year, college-themed New Year’s resolutions take the same predictable form — get in shape, find a job, join a club — but these easy goals leave us distressed when they don’t easily materialize...

President Kennedy visited the University of Pittsbrugh in October of 1962 in the midst of the space race. Photo courtesy of Historic Pittsburgh

Space age brought JFK, Space Research Center to Pitt

By Brady Langmann / Staff Writer December 14, 2015

When Murray “Buzz” Susser enrolled in Pitt’s School of Medicine in 1962, he hoped to someday be the first doctor on the moon. An Air Force Reserve captain and former National Guard pilot, Susser...

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