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Editorial | We stand with trans students

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 16, 2023

Pitt students need to show our transgender students that the community cares despite transphobic speakers and weak university responses.

Opinion | Please make original movies and TV shows again

By Rachel Soloff, Opinions Editor • March 16, 2023

The influx of biopics and reboots damper creativity and makes viewers bored of seeing the same stories over and over again.

Opinion | Environmental science should become a required high school course

By Sarah Liez, Senior Staff Columnist • March 16, 2023

Due to its real-life importance and fundamental nature, environmental science should become a required high school course in line with the other core natural sciences of physics, chemistry and biology.

Opinion | Stop making me watch women get hurt

By Anna Ehlers, Contributing Editor • March 15, 2023

Even when depicted as a condemnation, explicit violence on screen just allows the audience to enjoy watching that violence.

Opinion | International Women’s Day annoys me

By Grace DeLallo, Assistant Opinions Editor • March 14, 2023

In theory, International Women’s Day is a great idea. But when you are actively aware of the performativity inherent to the “holiday,” it loses all its luster.

Editorial | The real winners and losers at this year’s Oscars

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 14, 2023

The best and worst winners and losers at this year’s Academy Awards.

Editorial | Congress voting down D.C. crime law shows the district needs statehood

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • March 13, 2023

While the District of Columbia has 712,816 residents — higher than the populations of Vermont and Wyoming and comparable with states such as Delaware and Alaska — it doesn’t have statehood.

Opinion | Scientifically speaking, go read a book

By Lynnette Tibbott, Senior Staff Columnist • March 12, 2023

It may sound traditional, but you should put down your phone and pick up a book. Even if you don’t want to or if it’s hard to fit into your schedule, reading is perhaps the most simple way you can prioritize your health.

Opinion | A reflection on what it means to be home

By Thomas Riley, Staff Columnist • March 12, 2023

Home is difficult and shocking, but it’s where we grow. My life in my old home is finished. None remains but old memories, preserved for me to walk through like a museum. Labels hang on each and every door — one reads, “Mall Food Court (2017-2021) / Remember that one time?”

Opinion | Trust your anesthesia team

By Harsh Hiwase, Senior Staff Columnist • March 3, 2023

Medicine and healthcare is an enterprise built on trust. Anesthesia is the pinnacle of this trust.