Op-Ed/Letters Archives - 西瓜视频

Op-Ed | A staff union will safeguard Pitt鈥檚 vital work

By Leah McKown, Research Project Manager • August 26, 2024

We are fighting for fairness in promotion and advancement, and we seek a level of transparency and consistency around work rules that will match the scrupulous precision that scientists, researchers and lab technicians bring to Pitt鈥檚 groundbreaking research projects.

Op-Ed | An open letter to my signatory colleagues and to the silent ones

By Diego Holstein, Professor of History • May 4, 2024

In an open letter to the Chancellor published on Apr. 25, a group of 49 educators claimed that Pitt students鈥� dedication to human rights and justice displayed in the Palestine Solidarity Encampment should...

Op-Ed | An open letter to Chancellor Joan Gabel

By Contributors • April 25, 2024

We, a group of University of Pittsburgh educators, are standing in solidarity with the students who established the "liberation zone" in support of Palestine on Schenley Plaza.

Op-Ed | We will not wait for the next school shooting

By Andrew Sun and Alexander Denza, UNC Chapel Hill March for Our Lives • January 24, 2024

Students at March for Our Lives UNC wrote an op-ed signed by 144 student leaders, which over 50 student newspapers including 西瓜视频 published on Jan. 24. The op-ed demonstrates the shared concern about gun violence on college campuses across the country.

Op-Ed | Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism

By Samuel Weiner, Channah Weiner, and Alexandra Weiner • November 17, 2023

We outright reject the conflation of Jewishness and Israel and the corollary equation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Our freedom and safety as Jews are more tied up in ending oppressive and inhumane systems than it is an ethnostate predicated on the dispossession of the Palestinian people.

Five Years Later: A Squirrel Hill Jew looks back at Tree of Life shooting, and forward to collective liberation

By Bella Markovitz, Senior Staff Writer • October 27, 2023

In the fall of 2018, after graduating high school that spring, I began my first semester at Pitt. I can鈥檛 remember if I started considering dropping out before or after the Tree of Life attack happened.聽

Op-Ed | Many Pitt students are disenfranchised, upcoming bills can change that

By Joshua Summers, Mechanical Engineering Major • September 18, 2023

There are 1.2 million independent voters financing primaries, watching their friends go out to vote and being barred from the democratic process by the state. I鈥檓 one of them.

Op-Ed | On transphobia, racism and homophobia: An open letter to leadership at the University of Pittsburgh

By Luke Morales, Pitt Alumnus • September 14, 2023

On Friday, March 10, I sent an email to various University leadership, including Ann Cudd, Carla Panzella, Patrick Gallagher, Clyde Pickett and the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.

Op-Ed | Bowers鈥� verdict continues the endless cycle of violence

By Sydney Mahmood, Psychology Major • September 8, 2023

Last month, Robert Bowers was sentenced to death for committing the worst antisemitic attack in US history. As a senior studying psychology and criminal justice at Pitt, I feel burdened with the knowledge that a death sentence is only the beginning.

Letter to the Editor | Congregation Dor Hadash disappointed that anti-trans speaker will appear at Pitt next week

By Bruce Hershlag, president of Congregation Dor Hadash • April 13, 2023

We are horrified that trans individuals are now being targeted in the United States, both through opportunistic, politically pandering legislation and hateful speech.