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The Pitt News

John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Around the bases: defining hookup euphemisms

By The Pitt News Staff February 14, 2017

First base, second base, third base, home. We've heard these euphemisms to describe varying levels of intimacy since grade school, but it seems no one can agree on exactly what they mean. Some of us...

Jeremy Wang

Point-Counterpoint: Focus on root causes, not guns, to eliminate suicide

By Jeremy Wang | For The Pitt News January 30, 2017

Guns don’t cause suicide. Just as we can’t blame all 15,000 murders per year on firearms, we can’t attribute the United States’ suicides, over 44,000 per year, entirely to its high rate of...

Interactive crime map Jan. 13 – 20

By The Pitt News Staff January 23, 2017

Jan. 13 1:20 p.m. 100 to 300 block of Oakland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police assisted with a theft from Peter's Pub. 11:34 p.m. Centre Plaza apartments. 5032 Centre Ave., Pittsburgh,...

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks in the media briefing room on Jan. 21. Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS

Editorial: Trump’s first days foreshadow bleak future for the press

By The Pitt News Editorial Board January 23, 2017

The election is over, the delegates have voted and the oath has been taken — Donald Trump is the president of the United States. His very first day in office set an early precedent for the future...

Charity Randall Theatre, Pittsburgh — 1:02 p.m.

By Amanda Reed / Assistant News Editor January 20, 2017

The cast of "Hair" took to the stage during their Cabaret for Peace inauguration event at the Charity Randall Theatre. The cast sang song like "Aquarius," "Hair" and "Let the sun shine in." According...

Washington D.C. — 10:33 a.m.

By Stephen Caruso / Online Visual Editor January 20, 2017

Paula Sims, 59, is at her fourth inauguration today — her first being Reagan in 1980. A Newark, Delaware resident, she's here with her daughter, Catie Campbell, 18, and her friend Shirl Schanzenbach,...

Dan Gilman speaks at a rally for Katie McGinty in September. John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Editorial: Pittsburgh says it’s committed to immigrants, it’s time to show it

By The Pitt News Editorial Board January 18, 2017

In an effort to extend Pittsburgh’s commitment as a welcoming city for all, City Council member Dan Gilman proposed new legislation on Tuesday that will make the city a safer and more livable one for...

Josh Lapalme presents at the oSTEM National Conference in 2015, held at Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy of oSTEM.

oSTEM making a space LGBTQ+ students in STEM fields

By Janine Faust / Staff Writer January 13, 2017

Before he came out as gay to his lab group, Alexander Rowden had to figure out what to say when his classmates asked his opinion on certain female celebrities. “They’d be like, ‘Scarlett Johansson's...

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