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Taylor Colbert and RJ Lane, senior cinema production majors, scoop ice cream as part of their bake sale to raise funds for their Production 4 film in the West Penn Lobby on Monday. P4 films are not funded by Point Park University and it is completely up to the students to raise their own funds for their films, according to Colbert. Lane and Colbert are co-directors for their P4 film titled “Still 
Holding On.”

Scooping ice cream for cash

Written By Gracey Evans, For The Globe December 4, 2018

New semester carries new courses

Written By Mitchell Drake, Staff Writer December 4, 2018

The incoming spring of 2019 brings another semester for Point Park students, but also brings new courses available that allow for even more enrollment opportunities. The majority of the following classes...

Security concerns return following mass shooting

Written By Andrew Brinker, For The Globe December 4, 2018

325 is the number of mass shootings in the United States in 2018 alone as of Dec. 3, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Since Columbine, more the 219,000 students have experienced gun violence at school,...

Rifts return in USG with one week left

Written By Amanda Andrews, USG Beat Writer December 4, 2018

United Student Government (USG) passed four new resolutions at this week’s legislative body meeting to reform its constitution as part of the effort the organization is taking to revise the document....

Stacks of Hemingway novels, collections and criticism sit in the basement of the University Center. Hemingway was one of the most celebrated writers in American literature, winning a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize before his 1961 suicide in Ketchum, Idaho.

“Old Man and the Sea” tests Playhouse as innovative space

Written By Carley Bonk, Editor-Elect December 4, 2018

The Pittsburgh Playhouse will be the location of the worldwide stage adaptation premiere of Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece, “The Old Man and the Sea” this February. The show, adapted...

Competition photos taken of Anna Shields from 2016, 2017 and now 2018. Anna Shields surpassed even her own expectations when she won the NAIA National championship in Iowa.

Shields makes history as nation’s top runner

Written By Robert Berger, Sports Photo Editor November 27, 2018

At this time in 2015, Anna Shields had given up on being a successful collegiate athlete and was working at a bank in her hometown of Torrington, Connecticut. Now in her senior year, Shields is a cross...

Faculty diversity committee moves forward after first active semester

Written By Mick Stinelli, Co-News Editor November 27, 2018

The committee for diversity and inclusion began as a fledgling ad-hoc committee in the spring. Now, it’s a standing committee hoping to make teaching styles, course language and faculty more inclusive....

President Paul Hennigan addresses the USG body at their meeting Monday.

Rounding out year, USG looks to 2019

Written By Amanda Andrews, USG Beat Writer November 27, 2018

United Student Government (USG) held its first Legislative Body Meeting since the end of Thanksgiving Break and has already started planning new objectives for the spring semester. Senator Sophie Burkholder...

Seniors finishing early taking different paths

Written By Sarah Gibson, Co-News Editor November 27, 2018

While the ending of the semester signifies a simple holiday break for most students, for others it’s something much more significant: graduation. For a select amount of students, graduating early is...

Skaters make circles around the tree at PPG Place during Light-Up Night on November 16.

A Tree All Aglow

November 27, 2018

Miss Coco Peru visited Point Park’s GRW theater last Thursday to tell stories and give words of wisdom. Miss Peru recalled significant moments of her life, like meeting her husband for the first time on a nude beach in Spain, and coming out to her parents as transgender. Read the full story in the Features section, page 4.

Miss Coco Peru meets PPU

Written By Katie Williams, For The Globe November 13, 2018

COPA students allege lack of representation

Written By Mitchell Drake, Staff Writer November 13, 2018

On Oct. 13, the Playhouse hosted a Grand Opening Gala event. The gala featured performances by students in the Conservatory of Performing Arts (COPA) and a dinner to an audience of hundreds consisting...

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