One dope treatBen and Jerry might be high-jacking the ice cream business in the near future with their next greatest high-dea, according to a TIME Magazine article this week. Jerry Greenfield told The...

The word “lobbyist” can carry a foul connotation. But how about when it’s applied to your own University?On Wednesday, Pitt students, staff and faculty visited Harrisburg, Pa., to lobby state legislators...

As of last November, gay marriage is legal in South Carolina. However, the buzz surrounding two proud and openly gay NCAA volleyball players from Eskrine College has mobilized the school’s Board of...

With the price of education rising, more students should acknowledge the benefits of open-source textbooks, especially for introductory courses. Open-source textbooks are written through a collaboration...

Casket caseBack in December, Johnny Morgan Lowe III’s family was on the receiving end of a wrongly committed six-foot plunder. After a grave error by a crime lab, Lowe’s family mistakenly buried Louie...

What do you do with a violent or tumultuous student who is clearly disrupting his or her peers’ learning environment? All too many schools have the wrong solution — out-of-school suspension.A report...

Yes, white privilege exists, and racial injustice continues. We, as a society, can combat this injustice by teaching young students to productively learn about each other’s own racial and class differences...

While you may watch them as you curl up with popcorn and friends, documentaries can play a major role in shaping public opinion. Films such as “Super Size Me,” “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Miss...