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Opinion | Let’s Talk About CTE

By Jameson Keebler, Senior Staff Columnist • December 1, 2023

America loves their contact sports — and I get it. There’s nothing better than getting together with a group of friends and watching whatever game is on. There is a reason why sports are so popular...

Opinion | Academic institutions must address their complicity and complacency in the face of racism, Islamophobia and exclusion on campuses

By Sofia Uriagereka-Herburger, Senior Staff Columnist • December 1, 2023

To all those unwilling to publicly oppose apartheid, understand that your silence puts so many of your students at risk, and it plays into the imperialist prejudice you are paid to discuss.

Satire | The Terrible Twenties: Alcoholism and Academia

By Alaina McCall, Staff Columnist • November 30, 2023

Alaina McCall once again deals with their own issues and quandaries through the thin veil of a satire.

Poetry | When the world opens its ears

By Abigail Dobry, Staff Columnist • November 30, 2023

Abby Dobry shares a poem about the potential of goodness

Editorial | You can lead a horse to Forbes Avenue but you can’t make him use the crosswalk

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • November 29, 2023

Upon exiting the library, students face an incredibly difficult decision — do they make the Odyssean 10-yard journey to the crosswalk in front of Lawrence Hall, or do they simply cross right there in front of Hillman with no protection against oncoming traffic?

Opinion | Thoughts on the 66th Grammy nominations

By Danae Poteat, Staff Columnist • November 28, 2023

Grammy season is finally upon us, and I am beyond excited. As an avid music listener, I always find it fun to see which of my favorite artists gets nominated for such prestigious awards.

Op-Ed | Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism

By Samuel Weiner, Channah Weiner, and Alexandra Weiner • November 17, 2023

We outright reject the conflation of Jewishness and Israel and the corollary equation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Our freedom and safety as Jews are more tied up in ending oppressive and inhumane systems than it is an ethnostate predicated on the dispossession of the Palestinian people.

Editorial | Get creative during your Thanksgiving dinner

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • November 16, 2023

Somewhere between our conversation on the dryness of turkey meat and Thanksgiving-related food-borne illness, the conversation turned to the random and nontraditional foods we eat during the holiday.

Satire | Legions of lousy leases — a cautionary tale

By Alaina McCall, Staff Columnist • November 15, 2023

As the old saying goes, “Heaven doesn’t last forever; one day you have to move to South O, where the streets are stained in glass and the noise goes on forever.”

Opinion | Semi-automatic weapons are instruments of mass killing

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • November 14, 2023

I could write a whole column about how the United States’ overconsumption and overuse of guns is leading to a terrifyingly violent and deadly society. But today, I want to attack one lone bad guy that stands out among the rest — military-grade, assault, semi-automatic weapons.