Opinions Archives - Page 7 of 352

Opinion | Hold your elected officials morally responsible

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • June 18, 2024

Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of fraud on May 30, including 11 counts of fraudulent invoices for legal services, 11 fraudulent checks paid for legal services and 12 fraudulent ledger entries for legal expenses.

Opinion | Stop asking women if they want children

By Grace Harris, Staff Columnist • June 12, 2024

Asking a woman you are not close to if they want to have kids or when they want to have kids is a deeply personal question. I'm sure many women, including myself, have gotten used to being asked uncomfortable and personal questions.

Opinion | What does it mean for a state entity to defend itself?

By Thomas Riley, Opinions Editor • June 12, 2024

Their billy clubs that beat back student protestors, their tear gas that dispersed countless Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020 and their guns that ended 1,195 lives last year are all protected by the greatest power in the police’s repertoire — the legal right to exercise physical violence against the population.

Opinion | Pitt taught me to stand up against injustice, then sent police to beat my classmates

By Livia Daggett, Contributing Editor • June 6, 2024

I urge Pitt administrators to have the courage to join the ranks of universities turning toward Palestinian liberation. Pitt, your education has taught me again and again that the world shouldn’t be this way.

Opinion | Long-distance friendships are possible

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • June 6, 2024

With all the advice swimming around the internet geared towards long-distance relationships, what do you do when phone sex and dirty talk aren’t a fulfilling way to keep your bestie around?

Opinion | Wildwood, New Jersey — the beach city that will always be nostalgic to me

By Irene Moran, Staff Columnist • June 5, 2024

Wildwood, the small beach city along the New Jersey coast that I have gone to since I was a kid, will always have a special place in my heart.

Editorial | The Pitt News Editorial Board condemns all violence at the University of Pittsburgh protests this week.

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • June 4, 2024

But more jarring than the police confiscating and removing a main source of sustenance, one needed to keep protesters from getting sick in the summer heat, is the violence that has been displayed at these protests the last few days.

Opinion | The job I can’t escape

By Danae Poteat, Staff Columnist • May 31, 2024

This summer, I had the opportunity to work at a rehabilitation center. As a nursing student and a future nurse, you would think that I would have immediately taken the job offer handed to me on a silver platter, but I chose to pass up this opportunity to work at my old restaurant job.

Opinion | Return of the summer bucket list

By Delaney Rauscher Adams, Staff Columnist • May 28, 2024

Not taking advantage of your time off and the sunny weather is no way to spend your unoccupied moments this summer, and we should absolutely bring back the summer bucket list to fend off any lingering post-semester depression.

Opinion | Unpaid internships will never be fair

By Jameson Keebler, Senior Staff Columnist • May 24, 2024

My internship ended up taking over my semester at some point. I expected that would happen and could manage it, but without the financial support I receive from my family, I don’t see how that would have been possible.