Pitt holds first online Admitted Students Day
By Maggie Young, Contributing Editor
April 1, 2020
With the shift to a world online, OAFA has shifted as well. The office continues to connect with incoming students through programs like online advising and a virtual Admitted Students Day while employees work from home.
European staycation: Choral groups grappling after cancelled performance tours
By Charlie Taylor, Senior Staff Writer
April 1, 2020
Women’s Choral Ensemble is one of three Pitt choral groups that have cancelled plans to perform in Europe this spring and summer due to COVID-19
Redemption and Rosie O’Grady’s: Pitt’s 2008 Big East Title from the stands
By Stephen Thompson, Assistant Sports Editor
April 1, 2020
New York has a distinctive basketball culture. It is blue-collar, born from pick-up games on blacktops and manifested through moxie. So when the Big East basketball tournament moved to New York City in 1983, member teams embraced the natural fit — and no one embodied the host city’s gritty personality more than the 2008 Pitt Panthers.
April Fools Edition | Local mother takes walks to escape children
By Mary Rose O'Donnell, Contributing Editor
March 31, 2020
A local mother went on three neighborhood walks yesterday after her children got on her last nerves.
SGB announces Student Emergency Assistance Fund
By Benjamin Nigrosh, Assistant News Editor
March 31, 2020
Student Government Board President Zechariah Brown announced the launch of the Student Emergency Assistance Fund at the board’s Tuesday night online meeting.
Editorial: Top 10 positive things going on right now
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
March 31, 2020
With all the depressing news of the last month or two, we’re almost certain you’ve been missing out on some of the good things that have happened.
The Quarantine Cookbook: The perfect black bean and its uses
By Leah Mensch, Contributing Editor
March 31, 2020
The secrets of beans. (You really do have to soak them overnight.)
Cleaning house: Pitt tosses, stores student belongings to prepare facilities for COVID-19 fight
By Jon Moss, News Editor
March 31, 2020
Pitt is cleaning and sanitizing several facilities around campus in an effort to make them available for the Pittsburgh medical community in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, though the process has not gone off without a hitch.
Former Pitt DE Hendrix signs with Steelers
By Alex Lehmbeck, Senior Staff Writer
March 30, 2020
Former Pitt defensive end Dewayne Hendrix has signed with the hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced Monday afternoon.
The Outbreak | Getting off in the time of coronavirus
By Genna Edwards, Staff Writer
March 30, 2020
Several weeks into quarantine, Genna Edwards has turned away from Netflix and towards another modern — or, well, classical — sin.