Editorial | Pitt’s required “shelter-in-place” is delusional
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
July 21, 2020
This quarantine plan is full of gaping holes — the most obvious being that the honors system has never been a reliable method for control of any university student body.
Editorial | Fall instruction must be entirely remote
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
July 14, 2020
Reopening campuses means that some students and faculty will die. There’s simply no way to justify this fiscally — or educationally.
Editorial | International student guidelines show why ICE must go
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.
Editorial | Pitt administration’s lack of communication fails faculty, students
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.
Editorial | Universities need public guidelines in addressing hate speech
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.
Editorial | Racism as reason: Black journalists aren’t biased
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
June 10, 2020
We’re appalled — though unfortunately, not shocked — by the racist behavior of Post-Gazette management.
Editorial | Black Lives Matter: Now is the time to lift up black voices
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.
Editorial | Unemployment is not flawed, wages are
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.
Editorial | It’s simple — hazard workers deserve hazard pay
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.
Editorial | Pitt reopening task forces in need of better student representation
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
May 12, 2020
The task force’s executive committee is missing any representation from the group most impacted by its decisions — students at Pitt.