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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Dining Guide: Disease pandemic at Pitt: The Freshman 15

Dining Guide: Disease pandemic at Pitt: The Freshman 15

By Bethel Habte / Columnist September 18, 2014

Why everyone keeps talking about Ebola is beyond me. The Freshman 15 is a far more infectious disease, making its rounds with an uncanny tendency to target the bright-eyed college novices that make up...

Dining Guide: The East End Co-op: The value in working for food

Dining Guide: The East End Co-op: The value in working for food

By Jessica Craig / Columnist September 18, 2014

The East End Food Co-op, 7516 Meade St. An industrial-looking yellow and sage painted building that tries to be a grocery store — wide sliding glass doors, posters of fruits and vegetables hanging in...

Casual Fridays, 9/19/2014

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 18, 2014

Cops: “Sesame Street”A street performer dressed as Elmo from “Sesame Street” was arrested Tuesday night in Times Square in New York City. Elmo, or the human in the costume, Rosa Sanchez, was arrested...

Use college to begin adulthood, not finish adolescence

By Simon Brown / Columnist September 17, 2014

In the opening of “Moby Dick,” the narrator, Ishmael, recounts how he spent the years from adolescence to adulthood: “A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.” The reader knows, generally,...

Editorial: School safety should be left to districts, not state

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 17, 2014

The debate over whether everyday people should have more or fewer guns continues to ignite concerns on both sides of the argument. But, regardless of stance, when it comes to schools, it’s not the role...

A pair of Beats headphones

A pair of Beats headphones

By MCT Campus September 17, 2014

Not quite music to my ears: The problem with intellectual property laws

Not quite music to my ears: The problem with intellectual property laws

By Thomas Helgerman / Columnist September 17, 2014

Students and the technology sector alike have been abuzz with the announcement of the Apple Watch, which is already creating quite a buzz in the marketplace.Such excitement is certainly warranted. Not...

Editorial: Public emails warrant the ‘Right-to-know’

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 17, 2014

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sued the state Monday over the executive branch’s current email retention policy.In Commonwealth Court, the newspaper asked a judge to end the current policy, in which public...

Editorial: Academic freedom: What is it really?

By The Pitt News Editorial Board September 15, 2014

The power of the purse is a persuasive thing. Last week, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Pitt is requiring all faculty and non-clerical staff to “irrevocably assign and transfer to the university...

Let them eat cake: The challenges of living on welfare

By Eli Talbert / Columnist September 15, 2014

It is well-known that liberals love big government because it hands them free stuff. Free stuff, like T-shirts during  O-week, the T Downtown or lunch at Pittsburgh Public Schools is always great, but...

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