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Editorial | Let your car get totaled

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 18, 2024

It’s normal to get a feeling of worry when we see a car on the side of the road whose front is destroyed beyond repair, but it’s really one of the best things to see after a collision.

Opinion | Making art when you’re depressed feels impossible — do it anyway

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor • January 17, 2024

When you build your identity, even a comparatively low-stakes one like your undergraduate major, around your ability to generate a creative product, it’s terrifying to feel like you’ve lost that ability.

Satire | Scheduling squalor: Working as a full time student

By Alaina McCall, Staff Columnist • January 16, 2024

Friends, hobbies, self and joy. All important aspects of life, maybe more so when you’re a broke college student trying to figure out what kind of person you’re going to be.

Opinion | SCOTUS’ history and traditions test is decimating our civil rights

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • January 12, 2024

Why have cases like Dobbs v. Jackson, 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard taken the country by storm, stripping people of their rights and threatening others in the process?

Editorial | Jo Koy did not watch the Barbie movie

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 12, 2024

There is much we can discuss, such as Pedro Pascal’s loss to Kiernan Culkin for Best Actor in a TV Drama or dissecting what exactly Selena Gomez was gossiping about with Taylor Swift and Keleigh Teller. But there was one common belief of the night we’d like to touch on here, and that is the fact that Jo Koy did not do a great job as host

Opinion | Leave the lights on this semester and avoid an all-consuming seasonal depression

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • January 11, 2024

Leaving the lights on is an easy way to ward off the winter blues because it requires very little effort. It’s just a simple three steps from your desk, and hey, there’s some exercise for the day.

Opinion | In and Out lists are out for 2024

By Gabriela Herring, Staff Columnist • January 11, 2024

The most recent iteration of the New Year’s resolution is less formal, less traditional and less confining. The In and Out list is the casual, much cooler, younger sister of the New Year’s resolution.

Satire | How to recover from the stress of the holidays

By Alaina McCall, Staff Columnist • January 9, 2024

Whether it was the stress of constantly being surrounded by our loving families, day after day of beratement from people we thought had finally matured but seem to instead be worse than ever, or learning family lore we could never have prepared ourselves for, many of us are considering not venturing beyond Oakland ever again.

Opinion | Social media and shopping should stay separate entities

By Kelly Xiong, Senior Staff Columnist • December 8, 2023

In a society where we already overconsume so much content, we do not need social media to make it worse than it already is. Social media should be a platform for content creation, sharing pictures and videos and just an overall peaceful place where you can mindlessly scroll for hours. What it should not be is a shopping platform.

Editorial | The charade of George Santos: thoughts on where it all went wrong

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • December 8, 2023

Congress began the month of December with quite a stir by expelling George Santos, former Republican congressman from New York’s 3rd District.