Senator Bernie Sanders suspends presidential campaign; students react
Written By Jake Dabkowski, Co-News Editor
April 24, 2020
Senator Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign to be the Democratic nominee for the 2020 election. This decision makes former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive nominee. “If I believed we had a feasible path to the nomination, I would certainly continue the campaign, but it’s just not there,...
SGA election results released
Written By Sarah Gibson, SGA Beat Writer
April 24, 2020
On Monday, April 13, 2020, Dean of Student Life Michael Gieseke sent out the election results for the Student Government Association (SGA) presidential election. Dennis McDermott won the popular vote for president with 150 votes, with Grace Tyler Frank-Rempel behind him with 114 votes. In a state...
Obituary – Tyler Robert White
Written By Dara Collins, Editor-in-Chief
April 17, 2020
Tyler Robert White, 24, of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., passed suddenly on April 3, 2020, according to the Slater Funeral Service website. White was attending Point Park University studying photography. He graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 2013. “He was an amazing artist and photographer who sa...
Weighing the risks: ridesharing during a pandemic
Written By Andrew Otts
April 17, 2020
When Brighton Heights native Ben Marmarosa got up for work on March 16, he learned that Governor Tom Wolf ordered the closing of all non-essential businesses in response to the coronavirus pandemic the night prior, so he immediately began to plan for the worst. “I can’t be out of work, I have...
How voting in Pennsylvania is affected by the pandemic
Written By Hayley Farrell
April 17, 2020
Every four years the residents of Pennsylvania gear up for the next Presidential election. Citizens gather at voting centers eager to cast their votes and experience the excitement that comes with sharing their opinion. The Secretary of Pennsylvania, Kathy Boockvar released a statement in late March...
Several students remain on campus following university shutdown
Written By Emma Christley
April 17, 2020
As previously reported by The Globe, on March 17, students received an updated announcement that students would be required to evacuate campus by March 27 rather than April 3 as previously announced. An exemption form was made available to students who felt they needed to remain on campus and only 11...
Professor stuck in Spain due to COVID-19
Written By Cordell Conrad
April 17, 2020
In the dark evening of Mar. 9, 2020, Dr. Helena Knorr, Ph.D., was supposed to finally arrive back to her Wilkinsburg home after two-and-a-half weeks away in Spain. Knorr, a professor of organizational leadership at both the Rowland School of Business and the Department of Literary Arts and Social...
University decides to utilize pass/no credit option for students
Written By Amanda Andrews
April 17, 2020
As campuses across the country shuttered their doors and forced students to relocate, the Point Park administration instructed professors to begin preemptively telling their students during the second week of March that this would likely be the last time they would meet face-to-face during the semester....
Library utilizes online resources
Written By Jessica Dillon
April 17, 2020
Textbooks, editing software, and tutoring are just a few of the resources students lost when they were forced off campus late last month due to the coronavirus outbreak. The university library has been working to provide all of those resources for students at home. Elizabeth Evans, Director of the...
University decides upon in-person commencement later in the year
Written By Nicole Ufheil
April 17, 2020
College students spend years working very hard each semester and dream of graduation day. Recent events concerning the coronavirus outbreak uprooted ordinary life for the class of 2020. Every university moved to online classes and graduations have either been postponed or canceled altogether. According...
How COVID-19 is impacting small Downtown businesses
Written By Winnie Bobbitt
April 17, 2020
While our planet combats the COVID-19 pandemic, society desperately tries to continue on with their day-to-day lives. Millions have been laid off, but some still work despite the government’s stay at home orders. There are small businesses still open, selling life-sustaining products to the public,...
CMI launches collaborative media partnership
Written By Dara Collins, Editor-in-Chief
April 8, 2020
Point Park University’s Center for Media Innovation (CMI) is launching the Pittsburgh Media Partnership, according to a press release last Tuesday. The partnership is supporting 20 news organizations of the Greater Pittsburgh region and their journalists as they report on the COVID-19 crisis to ...
