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• From the Archives: Andy Warhol was a guy who drew some stuff here

  Author's Note: A PDF of the short story I mention is linked in the online version of this article

  Pillbox | January 30, 2023
• Letters from Andy: 1 (freshman year)

  Dear Ceci,

  How did you do it?

  I was always so envious of the snaps you sent me your freshman year; it made me so excited for us to go to college together. We were gonna be absolute menaces in Pittsburgh, like high school all over again. But I guess college isn't supposed to be like high school. Maybe it was better that you didn't stay.

  Pillbox | January 30, 2023
• PRT Proposes major changes to 61 and 71 lines

  Construction is set to begin in June on the long-awaited Pittsburgh Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. Early versions of this project have been in the works since 2017. [In 2020,](https://nextpittsburgh.com/city-design/port-authority-gets-99-95m-for-bus-rapid-transit-linking-downtown-an...

  News | January 30, 2023
• Boy Scouts is a dying institution, but maybe that's okay

  While it was nice to visit my old Boy Scout troop this break, it was hard to ignore how much the troop had diminished since I aged out. I soon learned that I'm not alone in this observation; this is a trend nationwide. Since 2019, BSA membership has plummeted by 62 percent. The pandemic, plus the [financial tro...

  Forum | January 30, 2023
• From the Archives 5: The labor riot that (maybe) gave us CMU

  Note: This week, I didn't use any resources from the University Archives since this event predates the opening of our school by over a decade. For this article, I used two biographies — "Andrew Carnegie" by David Nasaw (2006) and "Andrew Carnegie" by Joseph Frazier Wall (1970). For clarity, I will refer to each book by the name of the author, not the title.

  Pillbox | December 5, 2022