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Point Park University's Student-Run Newspaper

Point Park Globe

Point Park University's Student-Run Newspaper

Point Park Globe

Point Park University's Student-Run Newspaper

Point Park Globe

FEATURES

Pioneer Public – Jason McCune

Written By Matt Petras, Co-Features Editor November 7, 2017

Jason McCune decided he was no longer going to act full-time after he started a family in Los Angeles. He applied to Point Park University’s MFA program and the Culinary and Hospitality Institute of...

Kylie Koch and Chase Barron give out tickets in the West Penn lobby Thursday for an upcoming show at the Pittsburgh Playhouse featuring Super American, Young Lungs, and Chase and the Barons.

Pioneer Records, CAB presents Super American

Written By Carley Bonk, Co-Features Editor October 31, 2017

Pioneer Records and the Campus Activities Board (CAB) invite music fans to the Pittsburgh Playhouse this Wednesday for national pop-punk touring band, Super American. Young Lungs, a Pittsburgh based hip-hop...

Pioneer Public – Emily Madden

Written By Matt Petras, Co-Features Editor October 31, 2017

The two most prominent components of Emily Madden’s life, golf and engineering, are intertwined in more ways than one. The fact that she studies engineering because of a golf scholarship is the easiest...

Melissa Catanese has joined the photography department here at the university to cover for April Friges's classes while she is away on maternity leave.

New photography professor shares experience

Written By Briana Walton October 31, 2017

Melissa Catanese has an extensive list of different photography projects such as working on photography books and working at different colleges like the Pittsburgh Art Institute. She will be adding Point...

Students were given the opportunity to paint miniature pumpkins at Pumpkin Palooza in Village Park last Tuesday.

Pumpkin Palooza takes over Village Park

Written By Megan Bixler October 24, 2017

Jordan Cook-Henry started covering the tables that lined Village Park with Halloween-themed tablecloths. Gillian Stinson helped Mindy Vivio and the rest of the club members make popcorn and other snacks....

A string of small skeletons hangs from a door on the 16th floor of Lawrence Hall.

Halloween decorations haunt the university

Written By Briana Walton October 24, 2017

Student Production Services (SPS) has a skeleton, wall clings and a dancing mummy along with hand-made drawings throughout the office. A resident hallway in Lawrence Hall even has decorations on the doors...

Pioneer Public – The Shuffler

Written By Matt Petras, Co-Features Editor October 24, 2017

The Lawrence Hall Shuffler is a spooky ghost that exists. “I do exist, that’s true,” he said in a phone interview. The polarizing figure is said to shuffle through halls, turn lights on and off...

Clare Villanueva

International forensics student interns at hospital

Written By Kayla Snyder, Co-Copy Desk Chief October 24, 2017

From a young age, Clare Rachel Villanueva always knew her future job had something to do with dead bodies. When she was deciding what to study, a teacher suggested forensics because of her love for science...

Students swipe right on worthwhile partners

Students swipe right on worthwhile partners

Written By Nikole Kost, Online Photo Editor October 17, 2017

When Leah Lake learned that her Tinder match was engaged, she messaged her match’s fiancee on Facebook. Kayla Damazo signed up for Tinder to mock her ex; however, she ended up finding an unexpected...