The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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

Casual Fridays, 10/31/2014

By The Pitt News Editorial Board October 30, 2014

General Po’s ChickenPolice in Bethlehem, Pa., arrested a home invader this past weekend, but this wasn’t your average home invader. Instead of donning a ski-mask to hide his identity, this burglar...

Editorial: Preparing for college too costly

By The Pitt News Editorial Board October 29, 2014

Tuition, housing, meals, books — we all know the steep expenses of college. But what about the costs of getting accepted?Preparation for the SAT and ACT, the country’s two primary college admissions...

Women and minority inclusion: What the sciences can learn from the humanities

By Simon Brown / Columnist October 29, 2014

In a decade of declining enrollments in humanities classes with a limited attention to public discourse, the question of how the humanities can learn from the sciences has taken on a particular pertinence. It...

Editorial: Get creative this Halloween, avoid tired stigmas

Editorial: Get creative this Halloween, avoid tired stigmas

By The Pitt News Editorial Board October 28, 2014

Halloween can be a stressful time of year —­ almost as stressful as Christmas, some would argue. Most of us will be rushing anxiously to Goodwill and rummaging through closets in the coming days to...

American media coverage of the Ebola crisis is alarmist, one-sided

By Thomas Helgerman / Columnist October 28, 2014

Since the Ebola outbreak began a couple of months ago, the mainstream media has made some facts about the virus abundantly clear.First, the virus poses a serious threat to several countries in West Africa,...

Why the double standard? Violence and sex in pop culture

By Andrew Boschert / Columnist October 27, 2014

If you’ve watched TV recently, you’ve probably seen a man’s skull being smashed with a hammer, people’s throats slit into a trough, a meat locker with people’s torsos and limbs hung by hooks...

Editorial: Universities must be held accountable for dishonesty

By The Pitt News Editorial Board October 27, 2014

How would you like to sign up for a fake class? If you were an athlete at the University of North Carolina in recent years, this might have been a possibility.On Wednesday, Oct. 22, a university report...

Against satire: Just get to the point already, dude

Against satire: Just get to the point already, dude

By Eli Talbert / Columnist October 26, 2014

The recent controversy over my last column titled “Why Condemning ISIS is Offensive,” which you can read on The Pitt News website, has caused a massive paradigm shift for me. The article, which was...

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