Editorial | Pitt can’t ethically justify playing football
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 8, 2020
We want to go to our classes and club meetings. But that doesn’t mean we should, and it doesn’t mean that we will. The same should go for football.
VIDEO: How Are Students Reacting to COVID-19 Precautions?
September 4, 2020
We asked students around campus how they felt about COVID-19 precautions and whether or not they thought students were following them.
Editorial | Top 10 mask patterns Pitt should distribute
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 27, 2020
Not that we’re planning on entering any face mask beauty pageants, but if we hypothetically were to enter, we wouldn’t make it past the first round. The Pitt News Editorial Board has taken the liberty of coming up with 10 alternative face mask patterns that Pitt should distribute instead.
The Pitt News to switch to weekly print editions
By Martha Layne, Assistant News Editor
August 23, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Pitt News has reduced print editions this academic year from four days a week to only Wednesdays.
Editorial | Students need guidance, not just consequences
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 20, 2020
While students certainly have a responsibility to keep each other safe, Pitt administration seems radically unprepared to handle students who are violating health guidelines, and administrators had to know the violations were all but inevitable.
Editorial | The Pitt community deserves to be kept in the loop
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
August 10, 2020
In the time of COVID-19, no choice feels like a good choice — and no choice will please everyone. We understand that. But members of the Pitt community deserve to be kept in the loop about fall plans, even if the administration isn’t fully sure about what’s happening.
Op-Ed | What’s missing from Pitt’s pandemic planning? A Faculty Union
By Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee
July 23, 2020
In an Op-Ed, the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee argues that during pandemic planning, a certified faculty union is vital and would benefit not just faculty, but the entire Pitt community.
Editorial | Pitt’s required “shelter-in-place” is delusional
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
July 21, 2020
This quarantine plan is full of gaping holes — the most obvious being that the honors system has never been a reliable method for control of any university student body.
Editorial | Fall instruction must be entirely remote
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
July 14, 2020
Reopening campuses means that some students and faculty will die. There’s simply no way to justify this fiscally — or educationally.
Opinion | Point: Universities should not bring students back to campus in the fall
By Nate Kohler, Contributing Staff Member
June 23, 2020
Exchanging the health of students and the community at large for being able to operate normally as a university is simply not worth the risk.