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Three years after resurrection, Panther Pitt aiming to make a difference

By Steve Rotstein / for The Pitt News • October 9, 2015

Pitt football’s student section has regained its identity. The Panther Pitt disappeared during the mid-to-late 2000s when the students who started the group graduated and no one else stepped in...

Pitt Band brings new flair to old tradition

By Jessie Wallace / Staff Writer • October 9, 2015

A minor throwback is making a major comeback this year at Pitt’s homecoming football game. Every year, Pitt’s homecoming halftime show features Pitt band alumni and their current counterparts performing...

Hail to Script: The life, death and rebirth of a font

By Stephen Caruso / Staff Writer • October 8, 2015

Tony Dorsett smashes through the Notre Dame defensive line. Courtesy of ULS ArchivesThe University of Pittsburgh’s second most recognizable symbol — after the Cathedral of Learning — is a font.But describe Pitt script’s curves to any alum, and you realize a font can mean a whole lot.The famous script represented Pitt football in every battle, every bowl, every brawl from 1973 until 1996. And starting next year for all Pitt sports teams, it will follow Pitt into the future.The story of Pitt scrip

Kissing for keeps at Heinz Chapel

October 8, 2015

When Bill Young overheard a Pitt Pathfinder telling a student about the legend of Heinz Chapel, he thought the legend was a myth.The young director of Communication Services at Pitt listened as a tour guide told a prospective student and his grandparents that couples who kiss on the steps of Heinz Chapel are destined to wed there and enjoy a long marriage.The elderly couple turned to each other with knowing smiles. “It’s absolutely true,” the grandparents, who wed in the Chapel, said.Even though

Marijuana punishments inconsistent across professional sports

By Alex Wise / Staff Writer • April 19, 2015

Professional athletes smoke pot. We know this. It’s not a big secret, nor should it be.But even as state after state legalizes marijuana, major league sports officials continue to classify the drug in...

Birds and bees

By Emily Hower / Staff Illustrator • February 13, 2015

Sex education should be an organic process; parents should consider skipping "the talk".

Koi fish tattoo

February 5, 2015

Koi fish motifs are associated with multiple meanings, but in this scenario it represents success. The background for this meaning stems from an old tale that koi fish swam upstream--against the current--and...

Work study: Professional jobs that pay your way

By Cecile Truong / For The Pitt News • February 5, 2015

I’m from Virginia. Exactly a year ago, I would’ve never thought I’d be going to Pitt. “Virginia has tons of public colleges for so much cheaper,” everyone told me. It wasn’t until my financial...

Lessons learned from burgers

By Anna Tomani / For The Pitt News • February 5, 2015

Life gets expensive, so we find employment, we find jobs, to pay for life. And we find jobs to put us through school, which will allow us to find better jobs that give us more money to pay for life. Part-time...

Tolerance is key to ending body modification stigma

By Courtney Linder / Assistant Opinions Editor • February 5, 2015

I have a two-and-a-half-foot-long tattoo running down my side, from my shoulder to below my hip. My skin is shaded in various pigments, but an earthy orange and striking cerulean dominate the scene —...