Editorial: Pitt’s new dining contract shows the importance of listening to students
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 17, 2020
Pitt deserves praise for this choice, having listened to student input and taking what was said seriously. The University should continue to do so.
Opinion | Fostering mental health amid the COVID-19 crisis
By Julia Kreutzer, Senior Staff Columnist
March 16, 2020
Humans love certainty. For individuals who suffer from chronic anxiety, this sentiment proves especially true.
Opinion | Civil discourse is essential for the continuation of democracy
By Hayden Timmins, Senior Staff Columnist
March 16, 2020
Americans must make a conscious effort to engage with the opposing side and attempt to come to some resolution on a given topic.
Editorial: Students, it’s time to take social distancing seriously
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 15, 2020
It is imperative that people, including college students now free from the constraints of the classroom, are serious about adopting the practice of social distancing.
Opinion | Trump’s coronavirus response sucks
By Devi Ruia, Senior Staff Columnist
March 15, 2020
At every stage of the coronavirus outbreak, Trump has done the wrong thing, presumably based on a combination of incompetence, narcissism and a desire to protect himself politically.
Editorial: Top 10 things to do in Oakland over Spring Break
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 5, 2020
Well actually, there are a few half-decent things to do while Oakland is deserted. Here are the Editorial Board’s top 10.
Opinion | How to declutter your crap
By Allison Dantinne, Senior Staff Columnist
March 5, 2020
You have too much crap. Read more to learn how to have less crap.
Op-ed: If Pitt wants to be carbon-neutral by 2037, it must invest in land
By Austin Jepsky, graduate student in sustainable engineering
March 5, 2020
At the winter Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 28, Pitt made a historic commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2037. Now comes the hard part of actually figuring out how to implement this goal.
Opinion | Literacy programs were no silver lining in Castro’s horrible regime
By Michael Clifford, Staff Columnist
March 5, 2020
Castro and the Communist Party of Cuba ran, and have continued to run, a repressive, undemocratic regime that has presided over widespread poverty and suffering. This should not be discounted or excused for any reason — much less something as small as a literacy program.
Opinion | Marriage and love are not one and the same
By Genna Edwards, Staff Columnist
March 5, 2020
To equate marriage with love is to be complicit in the domestic violence and unfair division of labor that marriage as an institution tends to include.