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First Place | The summer apartment

First Place | The summer apartment

By Rowen Slepian April 30, 2025

See two girls: one 19, the other 20. They’re both engineering students far from home, and they both need to take summer classes to graduate on time. However, neither has a place to stay. See two guys...

Second Place | Moist and buttery gluten-free coffee cake

Second Place | Moist and buttery gluten-free coffee cake

By Sabra Hirsch April 30, 2025

This gluten-free coffee cake is so indulgent you would never even know it was free of anything! It bakes with a golden crust and streaks of cinnamon sugar throughout. Honestly, it tastes soooo much like...

Third Place | Dinner rush

Third Place | Dinner rush

By Jim Karas April 30, 2025

Runner, please. Hands. Behind. 86 zucchini. Heard. There’s a slight ringing in my ears, and it is not coming from the bell in the kitchen. Fervently, I tap buttons on the kiosk screen:...

Therese Pitman poses for a portrait.

Therese Pitman: Giving back to Pitt’s student-athletes with equality  

By Madeline Ward, Staff Writer April 25, 2025
Pitman is Pitt’s Director of Student Athlete Development where she helps student-athletes navigate their career paths while also advocating for inclusivity, gender equality and LGBTQIA+ representation in sports.
The Pitt Debate Team (from left) members Natalie Rose, Zoë Smith, Rosalind Dong, Henry Anastasi, Breanne Francis, Mia Stack and Aahna Sinha pose for a portrait.

Pitt speech and debate team heads to nationals

By Kyra McCague, Senior Staff Writer April 22, 2025
The William Pitt Debating Union, Pitt’s speech and debate team, sends students to both in-person and online competitions participating in the NFA circuit, where they have the chance to qualify for the national tournament. Seven members of the team are headed to nationals at Wayne State University in Detroit this week. 
YouTuber and author John Green in 2020

Review | ‘Everything Is Tuberculosis’ is an engaging and accessible exploration of tuberculosis, people and the world as we know it

By Maxine Van Nortwick, Staff Writer April 22, 2025

Most novelists don’t stop their award-winning young adult novel writing to take a deep dive into tuberculosis and write a brief history/explorative case study on it. Then again, most writers aren’t...

A poem sits in Heinz Chappel.

Heinz Memorial Chapel’s ‘Poetry in Vision & Voice’ exhibition honors life, legacy of janet jai

By Mollie Young, Staff Writer April 21, 2025

Throughout the month of April, the visual and written works of late artist, writer, activist and community member janet jai have adorned the main hall of Heinz Memorial Chapel. These “PoemArts”, as...

A demonstrator speaks during the Free Speech in Higher Ed protest in Schenley Plaza.

Local first-time protesters talk motivation for rallying, right to assemble

By Amanda Yu, Senior Staff Writer April 21, 2025
Local first-time protesters said they are choosing to show out in response to a nationwide surge in protests, threats to free speech and other issues.
Ladies and ‘they-dies’ break norms with Pitt Women’s Rugby Football Club

Ladies and ‘they-dies’ break norms with Pitt Women’s Rugby Football Club

By Alex Porter, Senior Staff Writer April 21, 2025

Women are stereotypically painted into corners — told where they can go, and what they can do. As gender roles erode, breaking those molds becomes more common in the world of sports. Pitt Women’s...

A student's guide to Trump’s tariffs   

A student’s guide to Trump’s tariffs   

By Katie Hovan and Bridget Pohl April 21, 2025
As President Donald Trump’s tariffs take effect across the United States, Pitt economists say they could have negative impacts on the prices of local goods.
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