Finals week has come. Evaluations are in the air. Perhaps some want their grades to be as objective as possible, to reflect the precise proportion of the course material that they acquired from their semester....

Have you ever had those moments when, as they’re happening, you realize you will look back on them? That moment for me occurred during my PittStart while I waited for my first advising appointment....

It’s not a story about love. It’s a story about loneliness. An inability to distinguish between the two implies a lack of acquaintance with either one.The film “Her” is a modern day “Pygmalion”...

Leave room for the Colonel A Louisville, Ky., florist has designed a special type of corsage for this prom season. For $20, customers can buy a kit to make a corsage featuring the Kentucky Fried Chicken...

Advertising is changing. Spelling out “bologna” and using a cuddly polar bear to sell soda doesn’t cut it anymore. Nowadays, if you really want to sell your product and attract a large audience,...

Students and faculty members gathered Wednesday at the William Pitt Union to discuss the importance of environmental sustainability. Mark Dixon, producer of the documentary “YERT (Your Environmental...

In recent years, the role of the federal government in Americans’ lives has expanded. This expansion has prompted a national dialogue on the role and size of the government in American society. And still,...

Forget the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, “Obamacare is the most dangerous piece of legislation passed in congress,” according to Republican Congressman John Fleming. This is the kind of rhetoric from...

Pittsburgh is ceaselessly touted as a vibrant, livable city. But for those who live and work in proximity to the city’s thousands of blighted properties, the question has long been: When will all this...

As a 20-year-old working college student, it’s frustrating to know that I automatically belong to a category of Americans described as self-centered, shiftless freeloaders who physically cannot stop...