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Summer Guide: Pirates navigate unexpected issues in season’s first half

By Nate Barnes / Senior Staff Writer July 15, 2014

One of Clint Hurdle’s often-repeated mantras is to do “the best you can with what you’ve got at the time.” He’s had to follow it himself this year — he will likely need a hip replacement at...

Summer Guide: Boom clap: Fireworks and Bay provide similarly dumb thrills

Summer Guide: Boom clap: Fireworks and Bay provide similarly dumb thrills

By Shawn Cooke / A&E Editor July 15, 2014

As I left a recent Pirates game, there were loud bangs, explosions of flames and a new Charli XCX song playing in the background. My personal hell wasn’t fuelled by chaotic riots responding to a 7-1...

Summer Guide: New UPMC procedure doesn’t meet ethical standards

By Jessica Craig / Columnist July 15, 2014

In late March, doctors at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital began searching for a trauma patient to be the first human subject to be placed in what science fiction has, for years, called “suspended animation.”The...

Summer Guide: A Modern Day Horror Story

By Bethel Habte / Columnist July 15, 2014

Elliot Rodger’s autobiographical manifesto, “My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger,” is the modern-day “Frankenstein”. In a dramatic 137 pages, Rodger depicts a sad, confused “monster”...

Summer Guide: The Talkbox dissects Nickelodeon pop star Ariana Grande

Summer Guide: The Talkbox dissects Nickelodeon pop star Ariana Grande

By The A&E Staff July 15, 2014

Mostly so The Talkbox doesn’t come across as a club of jaded and uptight “hipster youth,” we’ll be discussing one of our favorite Top 40 artists of the summer who wouldn’t make it anywhere near...

Summer Guide: Soto, Mildren adjust to life in the minor leagues

Summer Guide: Soto, Mildren adjust to life in the minor leagues

By Jasper Wilson / Sports Editor July 15, 2014

Minor league baseball players can begin their careers in a number of places across the country — just ask Elvin Soto or Ethan Mildren.  Soto’s’s destination, after getting drafted last June, was...

Summer Guide: Kitestring: Let your friends know you got home safe

“Text me when you get home.” We say this to the friend leaving the bar at 2 a.m. who lives on the other side of town, to the colleague who walks home alone after a late work night or to the significant...

Summer Guide: 20 years at Hillman, librarian’s long career to end

By Aileen Ryan / Staff Writer July 15, 2014

Though “Club Hillman” is sometimes known as the finals week hot spot for students, one staff member has had his fill of the place.After 20 years as Pitt’s library director, Rush Miller, 67, has decided...

Working retail isn't the only thing to do this summer

Working retail isn’t the only thing to do this summer

By Macie Ellis / Staff Writer July 15, 2014

Erin Ludlow couldn’t imagine spending her summer working in an office. Instead, Ludlow, a sophomore marketing major, prefers to spend it working at a summer camp where she can spend her days helping...

Summer Guide: Bye bye bake sale: Raising money for the arts online

By Ilya Yashin / Staff Writer July 15, 2014

Crowdfunding has been in the news for allowing a Columbus resident Zack Brown to collect thousands of dollars to make … a potato salad. For others the goal is art, not a side dish. With the help of...

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