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Editorial | You don’t need to understand NFTs to know they’re meaningless

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • January 24, 2022

If you’re stressed because you still don’t understand NFTs, don’t be. NFTs aren’t made, or even accessible, for working class people — especially financially struggling college students. The reality is that NFTs are merely another thing for rich people to waste their money on.

Local nonprofit partners with Pitt to ‘bridge digital divide’

By Kiera Ledermann, Staff Writer • October 4, 2021

Allentown-based nonprofit Meta Mesh partnered with Pitt last year to create an initiative called Every1online, which aims to “bridge the digital divide” by providing residential internet access to people in under-served areas.

Pitt Pathfinders use virtual tours to connect students to Pitt in new ways

By Thea Barrett, For The Pitt News • September 4, 2020

Students won’t have to worry about getting run over by backward-walking, striped-shirt-clad Pitt Pathfinders around campus this semester. But that doesn’t mean Pathfinders aren’t showing off the campus to potential Pitt students.

When fans turn toxic: the Szechuan sauce riots

By Thomas Wick | Columnist • October 19, 2017

Hundreds of people stood last weekend outside a big business to protest. They raised their fists, chanted at the representatives and demanded they provide for them. What were these people so furious about?...