Peter’s Pub announces upcoming closing
By Grant Burgman | News Editor
May 16, 2018
Filed under Campus, News, Top Stories
Peter’s Pub, a staple of the Oakland bar scene, will close its doors at the end of the month after 44 years of business. The popular bar on Oakland Avenue announced its upcoming closing on its Facebook page in a post Wednesday afternoon. “It is with heavy hearts, and tears in our eyes, that...
Students find furniture and more free and for sale
By Sarah Shearer | Contributing Editor
March 19, 2018
Filed under Campus, News, Tech Science, Top Stories
Picking up the couch wasn’t supposed to be an all-day affair. Kathryn Kennedy and her boyfriend Andrew Rabeneck planned to quickly move it into Kennedy’s newly rented — and bare — apartment, order pizza and watch Star Wars from the comfort of her new couch. But they didn’t know wha...
Editorial: ACLU threatens Harris with strong First Amendment lawsuit
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 16, 2017
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris somehow manages to regularly get herself into the petty types of quarrels that make Buzzfeed headlines — in April last year, she made local headlines when she got into a verbal altercation with a bicyclist. She took up bike lanes as a major aspect of ...
Face-to-face with fake Facebook events
By Amanda Reed / Senior Staff Writer
November 16, 2017
Filed under 2. Featured, Culture
I showed up to the Facebook event, “Offer a Slurpee Up to the Old 7-Eleven Site,” Nov. 11 in the hope of finding the 360 people who said they were interested in attending — but I was the only one there. No one offered Slurpees in an attempt to magically bring back the storefront. What once was...
Dear social media: it’s not you, it’s my mental health
By Audreela Deb | For The Pitt News
August 21, 2017
Ah, summer. The season of vacation getaways and seasonal internships. Afternoon barbecues and late night bonfires; Fourth of July pool parties and sunbathing trips to the beach. And there’s proof of it all on social media — at least, if this year was anything like last. Instead of devouring th...
Facebook’s news suppression misleads users
By Marlo Safi | Senior Columnist
May 17, 2016
Filed under Columns
Facebook is synonymous with nagging family, bragging friends and viral memes, but we rarely associate the social networking site with news. On an everyday basis, I log into Facebook and am immediately inundated: friends’ shameless selfies posted to fish Facebook’s superficial depths for validation, a...
Editorial: Facebook: ‘Dislike’ button divisive
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 16, 2015
Filed under Editorials, Opinions
What’s on your mind?” Facebook asks as you open its mobile app. More likely than not, what’s in the back of your mind while you use Facebook is your image — how your peers will perceive your pictures and posts. Our education level, our relationships, our careers, our personal tastes — we make a...