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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

Pitt head coach Kevin Stallings complains about a call during Pitts loss to Duquesne in the City Game. John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Stallings is out of time, his sacking should come soon

By Matthew Sable | For The Pitt News February 6, 2017

When Kevin Stallings was first considered for the position of Pitt’s new men’s basketball head coach, many Pitt fans responded with concern and disapproval. Still, the fan base gave him a chance....

Pitt News File Photo

Top 10: Pieces of Career Advice

Dress for the job you want, not the one you have. You’re an accountant right now, but that’s not the dream. If you really want to be Batman, you better start acting — and looking — the...

Raka Sarkar | Senior Staff Illustrator

Trump’s freeze: Hold him accountable for campaign promises

By Christian Snyder | For The Pitt News February 3, 2017

I remember waiting for the phone call last November, looking out of the window of the old Alcoa building in Downtown Pittsburgh. I was told that it would come around 2 p.m. and that I should be prepared...

Ashley Brown, a junior neuroscience major, reaches into a cooler to buy water for her and her sorority sisters after a water alert was issued by the city of Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening. Stephen Caruso | Online Visual Editor

Editorial: PWSA needs to clean water, clean up its act

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 2, 2017

By now, everyone in Oakland knows we’re in hot water. But that doesn’t mean the city’s water problems are anything new. An advisory put out by the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority Tuesday...

Participants in the Womens March on Washington react to a speaker before the march which attracted hundreds of thousands of men and women from across the country. John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Let pro-life feminists have their place in the movement

By Kirsten Wong | Senior Columnist February 2, 2017

In the current political climate, women’s health issues need all the defense they can get — and feuding between pro-choice and pro-life feminists can only hurt the cause. The Women’s March on...

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) talks with the media after voting in Zionsville, Pa., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (Steven M. Falk/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

Editorial: Toomey supporting Trump’s ban ignores voters

By The Pitt News Editorial Board February 1, 2017

As Pennsylvania residents across the state stood together to protest President Trump’s recent ban on immigrants and refugees this past weekend, Sen. Pat Toomey was busy schmoozing donors in Palm Springs....

Raka Sarkar | Senior Staff Illustrator

Reduce environmental impact by limiting meat intake

By Elise Lavallee, Contributing Editor February 1, 2017

When most people wonder why anyone would give up eating meat, they turn first to a love for animals combined with an opposition to animal cruelty. And they’re right, these are common reasons. But there’s...

Terry Tan | Senior Staff Illustrator

Arctic apples: Give GMOs a chance

By Jaime Viens | Columnist January 31, 2017

When you’re perusing the produce aisle, your obvious choice is to reach for the shiny, red apple over the browning, shriveling one. But what if you discover the red one’s actually been on the shelf...

Editorial: Pitt must commit to actions, not just words on sanctuary campus

Editorial: Pitt must commit to actions, not just words on sanctuary campus

By The Pitt News Editorial Board January 31, 2017

As President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to the United States sunk in over the weekend, some groups responded with more defiance than others. Riots and rallies across the country...

Jeremy Wang

Point-Counterpoint: Focus on root causes, not guns, to eliminate suicide

By Jeremy Wang | For The Pitt News January 30, 2017

Guns don’t cause suicide. Just as we can’t blame all 15,000 murders per year on firearms, we can’t attribute the United States’ suicides, over 44,000 per year, entirely to its high rate of...

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