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2 months ago | 
pittnews.com | Emma Wu |Naomi Weiss |Neel Kamal
As President Donald Trump gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers the ability to detain students on university grounds, Pitt has remained silent on how the administration will respond to potential ICE presence on campus one month into Trump’s second term. To assist Pitt community members impacted by recently issued guidelines, professors and local organizations have started opening conversations with the increase of ICE agents and anti-immigration policy.
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2 months ago | 
pittnews.com | Aidan Kasner |Naomi Weiss
Over 730 potential new members attempted to join sororities this spring, and only 490 were guaranteed bids, a new record for sorority enrollment at Pitt. As Pitt sororities see a 36% increase in enrollments compared to spring 2023, sorority leaders attribute the rise to everything from the “Bama Rush” trend to COVID-19 isolation.
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2 months ago | 
pittnews.com | Marissa Kelley |Naomi Weiss
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has signed countless executive orders rolling back climate legislation, causing concern and confusion for some. Since Jan. 20, 2025, Trump has, among many other things, signed an executive order titled “Unleashing American Energy,” declared a national energy emergency, revoked executive orders addressing environmental justice for low-income populations and once again pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
pittnews.com | Kyra McCague |Naomi Weiss
A recent study from Pitt researchers found that asthma subtypes in children will soon be diagnosable by a quick swab of the nose. A team of Pitt researchers found that instead of diagnosing asthma subtypes using a relatively invasive procedure called bronchoscopy, clinicians can use a nasal swab test capable of returning the same results.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
pittnews.com | James Carter |Naomi Weiss
Winter has officially arrived in Pittsburgh. With snow blanketing campus and , health experts are considering the causes, effectsand treatments of Seasonal Affective Disorder, especially among college students in Pittsburgh. The National Institute of Mental Health includes in its definition of SAD “significant changes in mood and behavior when the seasons change,” with most symptoms beginning in late fall and early winter and ceasing in the spring and summer.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Naomi Weiss |Livia LaMarca
In this biweekly blog, contributing editor Livia LaMarca walks students through the steps of applying to law school as she does so herself, giving tips and advice and sharing her experience along the way. 1:37 pm I know there is nothing else I want to do with my life except being a lawyer. I have been nearly certain since I was 16 years old, and throughout the last six years, I have been affirmed time and time again that this is the right path for me.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Naomi Weiss |Sierra O'Neil
Everyone debates when your Christmas tree should go up in your living room, if Black Friday is even producing great deals anymore and if “Die Hard” is really a Christmas film, but nobody confronts how we should be spending the abnormally long winter break here at Pitt.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Naomi Weiss |Emma Hannan
In “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath, the novel’s protagonist, Esther Greenwood, describes a fig tree, where each fig showcases another life. Through each fig, she sees a different future for herself — one with a husband and a good home, one with a famous poet, one with an Olympic lady crew champion and countless other ones she just couldn’t see. By choosing one life, it would mean losing a future with the rest. Spending too much time deciding, all the figs wrinkled, and she was left with none.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Naomi Weiss |Maya Douge
Right before Thanksgiving break, Kendrick Lamar dropped his most recent album “GNX” with minimal to no roll-out following the consecutive diss tracks against Drake, and I spent the entire five hours of my drive back home listening to the album on loop. Though there was a decent amount of time between the diss tracks and “GNX”, I was worried the album would be like the quickly produced tracks he had put out beginning this past spring. Don’t get me wrong — I am a huge fan of Kendrick Lamar.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Naomi Weiss |Morgan Arlia
Note to Self is a biweekly blog written by Morgan Arlia, curated as if it were her journal. 1:30 pm Note to Self — After rewatching the Thanksgiving episode of “Gossip Girl,” I started getting really excited for Thanksgiving. I am normally not excited for the holiday, considering I hate turkey and stuffing, but this year was different. I think because I actually got to go home for break, the holiday had more meaning.
