Union supporters discuss intellectual property
By Samuel Ruppert | For The Pitt News
March 21, 2018
Filed under 2. Featured, Campus, News
The current campaign to create a faculty union at Pitt focuses on a host of issues, including job security, benefits and wages. Union supporters also want to figure out who owns the PowerPoints they make. A group of about 15 gathered in David Lawrence Hall Tuesday afternoon to have a panel discussion on int...
Japanese students come of age
By Prachi Patel | Staff Writer
January 11, 2018
Filed under 2. Featured, Campus, News
Wrapped in a floral kimono, sophomore Nika Tanimoto hurried up to the podium in the ballroom of the University Club, bowed and accepted a delicate black umbrella. It was a token of celebrating her coming of age. “Today I am celebrating becoming an adult,” Tanimoto, an English major at Yasuda University in Japa...
Films Challenge Existing Perspectives
By Janine Faust | Assistant News Editor
September 14, 2017
Filed under Campus, News, Top Stories
The theater screen faded to black. Afterward there was no scuffling of feet, no whispers or laughter. Instead, the audience remained relatively quiet as several panelists took their seat at a table on the stage. Elizabeth Miller waited until after Gwen's Girls Executive Director and panel moderator...