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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Editorial: Facebook: ‘Dislike’ button divisive

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 16, 2015

What’s on your mind?” Facebook asks as you open its mobile app. More likely than not, what’s in the back of your mind while you use Facebook is your image — how your peers will perceive your...

Letter to the Editor: 9/17/2015

September 16, 2015

Dear Pitt News: In reply to the September 16 editorial “We Have The Right to Know”, Ms. Lieberman very misleadingly states that the Right-to-Know Law “allows state-related institutions, like Pitt,...

Terry Tan / Staff Illustrator

We deserve the Right to Know

By Alyssa Lieberman / Columnist September 16, 2015

Pitt students pay the highest in-state tuition for a four-year public university in the nation, yet we cannot hold our school accountable for how it spends our money. The Pennsylvania state legislature...

Editorial: Private innovations can be legislative gains

September 16, 2015

We need to transform our public education system — but that change isn’t going to come from legislators. Laurene Powell Jobs — the founder of Emerson Collective and widow of the late Steve Jobs...

From left, Joe Davis, Mat Staver, Kim Davis and Mike Huckabee at a rally outside the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Ky., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (Pablo Alcala/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS)

Kim Davis is not worth the fight

By Henry Glitz / For The Pitt News September 15, 2015

Mike Huckabee calls it “the most important issue in the [2016] presidential election.” Ted Cruz thinks it’s an issue so important that it merits a radical reorganization of the judicial branch of...

Editorial: Fund public defenders more, or pay for unnecessary prison sentences

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 15, 2015

According to the Social Science Research Center, more than 80 percent of people charged with felonies are indigent — or poor. These people cannot afford attorneys, and therefore, must rely on public...

Map showing the number of Syrian refugee children in neighboring countries(TNS)

Investments in education can save Syrian futures

By Mariam Shalaby / For The Pitt News September 14, 2015

How does a Syrian child turn into a terrorist? When conflict ravages a region, children bear the consequences. Their families can no longer live in the country they love. They become refugees, and their...

Editorial: There’s more to college than numbers

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 14, 2015

On Saturday, the Department of Education unveiled a website that allows prospective students and their parents to select a university and then determine the yearly average costs, graduation rates and salaries...

Overtime reform will transform the workforce

Overtime reform will transform the workforce

By Matthew Moret / For The Pitt News September 11, 2015

Hourly pay is a simple concept — you work for an hour and your boss pays you a certain amount for that work. But sometimes, the number of hours worked have a detrimental impact on our health and happiness....

Casual Fridays

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 11, 2015

Language barriers A teller at a San Antonio Wells Fargo just discovered the benefits of sleeping through a Spanish class. Last week, the teller’s limited Spanish ended up preventing a bank robbery....

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