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Point Park University's Student-Run Newspaper

Point Park Globe

Point Park University's Student-Run Newspaper

Point Park Globe

Crime Report: Week 8

Written By Carson Folio, Editor-in-Chief October 15, 2025
Your weekly crime report for Week 8!
One of the posted shut-off notices. 

Courtesy of Autumn Barszcowski

Gas shut-off notices posted

Written By Gavin Petrone, Editor-elect October 15, 2025
After they were unable to access campus for a routine inspection, Peoples Gas posted three-day shut-off notices on the doors of Boulevard Apartments and the Student Center.

SGA pass second round of club funds

Written By Gavin Petrone, Editor-elect October 15, 2025
The Student Government Association (SGA) unanimously approved a little over $6,500 in club funding for the second round of fall funding during their weekly legislative body meeting.

Microsoft Authenticator is supposed to fight against spam. Has it worked?

Written By Carson Folio, Editor-in-Chief October 15, 2025
Unsolicited job offers promising large payouts for minimal work, supposed faculty members giving away PlayStation 5 consoles and threats to disable a student or faculty member’s Microsoft Office account if they don’t give up their password. These are all routinely seen flooding people’s inboxes and one program hopes to put an end to it.
Protestors march down Penn Avenue to Howmet Aerospace's North Shore headquarters.

Amid ceasefire in Gaza Strip, activists carry on with BDS

Written By Gavin Petrone, Editor-elect October 15, 2025
About a hundred protestors with BDS Pittsburgh and other pro-Palestinian collectives marched from the William S. Moorhead Federal Building to the steps of the headquarters of Howmet Aerospace to protest the company’s defense manufacturing contract with Lockheed Martin.

Crime Report: Week Six

Written By Gavin Petrone, Editor-elect October 8, 2025
The Downtown Pittsburgh Crime Report for Week Six
Steve Sosebee, the former head of PCRF and current president of HEAL Palestine, speaks to a crowd during a fundraiser at First United Methodist Church on Thursday, Oct. 2.

Steve Sosebee speaks after being barred from campus

Written By Michelangelo Pellis, For The Globe October 8, 2025
On Thursday, Oct. 2, Steve Sosebee, co-founder and executive director of HEAL Palestine, spoke at First United Methodist Church of Pittsburgh in East Liberty. 

Senator absences leave SGA out to dry

Written By Gavin Petrone, Editor-elect October 8, 2025
The Student Government Association (SGA) were unable to vote on any bills during their legislative body meeting on Monday, Oct. 6 after first-year Sen. Jayden Cochran was absent.
A Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) turns onto Fifth Avenue from Smithfield Street.

Resources for commuters: Students discuss public transport, car troubles

Written By Emalee Baker, For The Globe October 8, 2025
Commuting to Point Park University, or any school for that matter, can bring a lot of extra challenges and difficulties for students, whether it is working out a travel plan, planning ahead to make it to class on time or even finding the time to meet other students or join school activities.  
Signage of the former YWCA building, which has been vacant since Sept. 2023.

Point Park may renovate former YWCA building, old Mellon Bank

Written By Carson Folio, Editor-in-Chief October 8, 2025
According to 2025 Residential Assistance Capital Program (RACP) funding proposal documents, Point Park is planning on taking over two large buildings Downtown to increase the size of the campus.

CENT moved to new spot

Written By Julia Schiffhauer, For The Globe October 8, 2025
Point Park University is making changes across campus, including the relocation of the Center for Entrepreneurship and New Technologies (CENT) and renovations in Thayer Hall and the John V. Hand (JVH) theater. 
An air-conditioning unit sits along an aisle of Ritik's Bank Tower Market.

Bank Tower tenants frustrated with lack of air conditioning

Written By Makenna Cable and Gavin Petrone October 1, 2025
It’s mid-July, and Ritik’s Bank Tower Market is not unlike a blast furnace.