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The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Editorial | What your spring break destination says about you

Editorial | What your spring break destination says about you

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 26, 2023
Students, we know you’re tired of the semester, but thankfully spring break kicks off on March 5. All you need to do is power through this week and you’re free… well, at least for seven days.  You absolutely deserve a break, but where you spend that time definitely says something about you — but what? Let’s take a look. 
The Bernard B Jacobs Theatre on Broadway; 242 West 45th Street.

Editorial | The neo-Nazi protest at ‘Parade’ has far-reaching consequences

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 23, 2023
The neo-Nazis who protested outside of the Broadway show ‘Parade’ are using the antisemitic tropes discussed in the show as fuel to their fire, which is extremely dangerous.
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro arrives for a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Shapiro says he wont allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and calls for the states lawmakers to repeal the death penalty.

Editorial | Pennsylvania governor made the right decision to oppose death penalty

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 20, 2023
But after hundreds of years and more than a thousand people killed, Pennsylvania’s governor is paving the way to change history. 
The 2021 Pittsburgh Pride Parade in Downtown.

Editorial | The New York Times’ coverage of transgender people is biased

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 17, 2023
The letter to the New York Times' editor criticizing their coverage of transgender people is justified.
A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6.

Editorial | The train derailment sets a dangerous precedent for our environment

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 14, 2023
The train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the lack of government response sets a negative precedent for the future of our environment.
People walk past the Fox School of Business on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia, Friday, April 16, 2021.

Editorial | We stand with Temple’s striking graduate students

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 13, 2023
At the end of January, graduate students at Temple University — a school with about 10,000 graduate students — took to the street to peacefully demand better benefits. Their efforts were met with increasing resistance from the university, which withheld tuition and health care benefits for about 100 graduate students on strike.
Democratic State Sen. Angela Turner Ford of West Point, right, listesn as Sen. John Horhn, D-Jackson, foreground, expresses the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus disappointment at the passing of House Bill 1020, legislation that would create a separate court system in the Capitol Complex Improvement District, at the Mississippi Capitol, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Jackson.

Editorial | Mississippi’s new bill is problematic

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 9, 2023
Mississippi’s House Bill 1020 upholds the systemically racist legal system and should not become law.
Members on the Republican side of the House Judiciary Committee, from left, Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, and Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., listen to amendment proposals as the panel meets to pass its operating rules under the GOP majority, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.

Editorial | House GOP is endangering civil rights, liberties by disbanding subcommittee

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 6, 2023
At the end of January, the GOP-controlled House Oversight and Accountability Committee leaders disbanded the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee. Following this decision, some House Democrats expressed concern, saying “GOP Oversight⁩ tried to toss out the Civil Rights Subcommittee without anybody noticing.”
Groundhog Club handler A.J. Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 137th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.

Editorial | Which Pitt News desks saw their shadow on Groundhog Day

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 3, 2023
Who saw their shadow this Groundhog Day and who is ready for spring to begin?
Editorial | The Oscar Nominations could be better

Editorial | The Oscar Nominations could be better

By The Pitt News Editorial Board January 30, 2023
As we move into the 2023 Oscar season, we see many of the same movies up for awards, some for good reason and others… not so much.
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