Letter from the Editor | Back to the future with TPN
By Jon Moss, Editor-in-Chief
August 18, 2020
Welcome back to campus! Or, depending on where you’re reading this, welcome back to the same desk chair you’ve been sitting in since March.
Letter From the Editor | Welcome to Pitt — just keep swimming
By Jon Moss, Editor-in-Chief
July 24, 2020
If I can offer you one piece of advice during this tumultuous time, it would be to, as Dory put it best, just keep swimming.
Op-Ed | What’s missing from Pitt’s pandemic planning? A Faculty Union
By Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee
July 23, 2020
In an Op-Ed, the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee argues that during pandemic planning, a certified faculty union is vital and would benefit not just faculty, but the entire Pitt community.
Op-Ed | Making [email protected] more flexible
By Ben Rottman, Chris Schunn, Celia Brownell, Natasha Tokowicz, Peter Gianaros, Jana Iverson, and Timothy Nokes-Malach
July 16, 2020
[email protected] is actually inflexible, and in its current form will result in a suboptimal learning experience.
Op-Ed | Grappling with systemic racism
By Jack Daniel, Retired Pitt administrator
July 7, 2020
Jack Daniel, the first chair of Pitt’s Africana Studies department, says in an op-ed that we in America, and at Pitt, must confront an elephant in the room.
Letter to the Editor | Hold racist white women accountable
By Taylor Robinson, Rising Pitt Senior
July 7, 2020
Taylor Robinson argues in a letter to the editor that white women labeled as “Karens” are neither victims of cancel culture nor unprecedented times.
Op-Ed | Working to tell the story right
By Don Marbury, former Editor-in-Chief of The Pitt News
June 23, 2020
Rev. Don Marbury, the first Black editor-in-chief of The Pitt News, reflects on his experience during the Black Action Society’s 1969 Cathedral of Learning sit-in.
Op-Ed | Pitt Anthropology grad students, alumni stand with Black Lives Matter
By Courtney Besaw, Anika Jugovic Spajic, Alexa Kellogg and Ognjen Kojanic
June 23, 2020
The settler-colonial history of this country that continues to shape racial hierarchies must be confronted critically in order to create a truly equitable society. We cannot and will not stay silent.
Letter to the editor | Africana Studies as a resource for Black studies courses on campus
By Yolanda Covington-Ward, chair of the Department of Africana Studies
June 16, 2020
Yolanda Covington-Ward, the chair of the Department of Africana Studies, asks students in a letter to the editor why they have or have not taken Africana Studies classes.
Op-ed | A word of caution to students about Outlier courses
By Melinda Ciccocioppo, Psychology Lecturer
June 16, 2020
As an instructor of Introduction to Psychology at Pitt, I’d like to make you aware of some very big differences between the Intro to Psychology course that Outlier is offering and the Introduction to Psychology courses that Pitt offers outside of this contract with Outlier.