By Mackenzie Oster, Staff Columnist
July 7, 2020
Columnist Mackenzie Oster shares poetry about the “new normal” she is navigating.
By Nate Kohler, Contributing Staff Member
June 23, 2020
Exchanging the health of students and the community at large for being able to operate normally as a university is simply not worth the risk.
By Ana Altchek, Staff Columnist
June 23, 2020
By keeping social distance guidelines, increasing tests and remaining vigilant and weary of spikes, universities can at least attempt to re-open — and they should.
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
July 7, 2020
These guidelines for international students are nothing more than a way to advance the administration’s current anti-immigrant agenda and kickstart the economy by forcing students back to work.
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 23, 2020
We’re thrilled that we’ve been of service to faculty and students wondering what Pitt’s plan is for the fall, but really, students and faculty should be getting this information directly from the administration.
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 16, 2020
Students are demanding universities take action and either expel the students — in the case of Temple and Penn State — or deny the student admission to the University — in the case of Pitt.
By Genna Edwards, Senior Staff Columnist
June 23, 2020
Genna Edwards shares some gay poetry for Pride Month.
Opinion | Labels, like most things, are fluid
June 23, 2020
The tough thing about labels is that they’re not just the way that other people perceive you.
Opinion | Don’t leave the riots out of the Stonewall narrative
June 23, 2020
While there’s a case to be made for celebrating Pride with rainbow flags and twerking drag queens, it’s imperative to also honor the whole truth of the Stonewall Riots and accurately contextualize this movement.
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 10, 2020
We’re appalled — though unfortunately, not shocked — by the racist behavior of Post-Gazette management.
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 2, 2020
It’s our job to elevate voices who understand and are affected by a given issue the most. Right now, that means using our platform to elevate black voices.
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
May 26, 2020
But the fact that people are earning more on unemployment than they do on the job shows us not that unemployment benefits are too high, but that wages for American workers are far too low.
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
May 19, 2020
A person going to work in a store during a pandemic is working in hazardous conditions. And that’s what hazard pay is for.