Point Park Globe

Point Park is advertised as an extremely diverse college, home to students from 35 different countries. We even have an entire page on our school’s website just for scholarships for international students. Which bears the question: If Point Park can welcome international students with open arms, why won’t anyone speak out when all around the city members of the community are too scared to leave their homes due to ICE patrols.

Housing is a basic human right. This is a statement that remains a heated political debate. In a previous piece, I’ve written about the importance of stable, affordable housing, and also about my own situation being an impoverished disabled person who can’t afford housing. I had to move back in with an abusive family member. But after two whole years of waiting on public housing lists, I am finally being placed in a unit soon. My situation is just one of thousands, though.

Starting at the beginning of the fall semester, Point Park students are required to get an in-person evaluation from the Student Health Center if they need a medical excuse for class, the result of a change to Point Park University’s medical policy. Dean of Student Life, Michael Gieseke, said medical excuses are largely for everyday and common illness. More serious, immediate, or ongoing medical issues operate outside of the policy, he said.

Before I dig into the submitted questions for this week I want to introduce myself. I am a junior creative writing and psychology double major. I like to be very involved on campus, so you will most likely see me speeding by after classes to an event. I honestly never know what to say when it comes to why anyone should listen to my advice; I just hope some people do, and that it makes their lives a little better. My dad always says he could be my therapist, but he really could not.

There’s a good chance most current Point Park students were not alive when the first plane struck the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Most traditional seniors were born a handful of years after, and even many non-traditional students might have been very young when 2,976 people were killed in New York, D.C., and Pennsylvania that day. But we are all painfully aware of the consequences.

Point Park’s Student Government Association (SGA) is holding its fall Senate election this week. Voting opened on Monday and will close on Saturday. Unlike the presidential election, which is usually held at the end of the spring semester, there is no upper limit on the number of senators who can be elected. Without a cap on the number of seats in the legislature, candidates won’t be competing for a limited number of positions.

Freshmen rally for Pirates at annual Pioneer Experience game

Point Park University has never had the best brand to represent what the student body actually is: a melting pot of the creative. In my experience here I would argue that many would agree with my feelings on this as our university, in its official representations, can feel pretty sanitized and not actually creative. I understand others may feel differently about our school’s style and image, however I have always thought the university’s brand came across as unstylish.

Arrest warrant executed Point Park police arrested an individual on an outstanding warrant on Third Avenue on August 25. A report shared by Chief Jeff Besong said the individual was taken to the Allegheny County Jail; no further details were provided. Drug violation Police gave a person a verbal warning for drug use on Wood Street the night of August 30. Littering Chief Besong said an individual was issued a citation for littering outside of Academic Hall on the night of August 31.

Sitting firmly at the crossroads of rock and jazz, Norside has been hard at work creating music rooted in Pittsburgh’s musical history and blue collar identity. With Glen Strother on guitar, Skip Sanders on organ, and Steve Ippolito on drums, the band describes their sound as “Rust Belt music.” “The city kind of has that edge to it, you know. So you can kind of combine the jazz with that edge that you get with a rock tradition,” Sanders said.