Opinion: It’s Time to Repeal the Third Amendment

By Evan Rafferty

Okay, okay, settle down now. I know that all of you 3rd Amendment stans might take this the wrong way, but I can assure you that I will have changed your mind on this subject by the end of the time we have together. You guys had a good run! In its time, big number three was the best of the best – the cream of the crop of constitutional commandments. But, to state the obvious, times have changed. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic that forever changed how we view social interaction, I believe it to be time to change the way we think about our amendments as well – and allow ourselves to have friends again. 

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, because you slept through your U.S. history lectures in high school because your teacher wouldn’t stop complaining about their divorce, allow me to fill you in on the basics. The 3rd Amendment was ratified (an archaic word referring to a process in which big rats gnaw on a wooden box containing a scroll with the amendment written on it – if the rats get through the box before the new moon, the amendment would be accepted) in 1791 (an archaic number referring to the concepts of ‘years’ which no longer have any meaning). It was proposed in response to some British people being weird and annoying, so, as good a reason as any, I guess. The amendment itself says:

“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”

What? Still don’t get it? I should’ve known that my younger audience couldn’t possibly understand the incredible nuance of the great writers of yesteryear. Allow me to translate:

“The redcoats keep getting in through the crack under the door and eating all of my baked goods. I’m going to pass a law to ban squatting because I’m selfish.”

Got it? Good. Now we can debate like true constitutional scholars.

We as a people have been shut off from the rest of the world for the past two years. The concept of real life has been long lost to the void, and any human socialization has been neutered into a shameful replication of how the world should be. I’m not saying the third amendment is to blame, but it has been in the Constitution for the entire pandemic. Coincidence? Let’s find out.

My plan is simple: repeal the amendment, and then set up a government organization to match people living on their own with a nice soldier friend! The FBI can just compare all of the data they have on us with our new soulmates – and boom. The loneliness caused by the pandemic is instantly solved. You and General Bestie can live out the rest of your days together, in a government-assigned paradise. They might even be attractive – or even better: not part of the alt-right!

I’m lonely. Yeah, I can admit it. I’m secure enough in my loneliness to be able to say that. Are you? I bet not. Coward. Repealing the 3rd amendment is crucial to restoring the broken psyche of the American people. Most people are too scared to admit it, and that’s why we need the power of the federal government – we all know that only good things can happen when they get involved. 

If you don’t like having friends, then you don’t have to agree with me. I understand your concerns (I’m an empath) and can admit when I might be wrong. If the plan doesn’t end up working, we can just repeal the repeal, no big deal. Remember when we banned drunk driving in the ’30s? What would America be without it? 

All in all, I think it’s worth a shot. Some of the people in the military are pretty cool! I met this one guy who was in the Air Force, and he gave me my first cigarette if I promised not to tell my mom that I let him out of the basement. You’re gonna tell me that you don’t want to have that guy living with you? Friends are necessary for people to expand their mental boundaries and make intimate connections that are oh so rare these days. If you’re sympathetic to my views, consider joining the movement and ask your congressman to repeal the 3rd amendment. We’re always looking for more people to join our team of people who appreciate the government agents that are living in my walls.

What the Writers of the Pitiful News did for Mother’s Day

By the Writers of the Pitiful News (Formerly the MILF Lover Associated Press)

• Found my dad (He was just in the milk isle and got distracted while getting the milk)
• A box of chocolates, but all the chocolates are poisoned because love is painful sometimes 
  • “It’s like Mama always used to say. ‘Life is like a box of Chocolates, sometimes you get poisoned’” 
• Gallons upon gallons of lean 
• Went out for some bad Italian food 
• Made a handmade card (glitter bomb)
• Got her (me) Playboy Carti tickets
• Proposed to her 
• A bed
• Breakfast 
• Breakfast in bed 
• Bed in breakfast 
• A new bed to replace the one we ate for breakfast
• Eggs 
• Lizard eggs
• Wrote her a very special song about how much I need more money to spend on drugs (this is the last time I swear)
• A framed picture of her divorce papers 
• Asked her if she thought I was a good person
• Complained
• Made a snide remark about the way she dresses (payback)
• My kids got me a dozen roses
• A macaroni necklace but I got hungry and ate all the macaroni
• A macaroni necklace but the noodles were cooked and it got all soggy and gross
• A macaroni and cheese necklace
  • Made with 100% real string cheese
• I put together some legos and showed my mom a meme 
• Sent a few emails
• Made some babies of my own 
• Bided my time until the old witch passes and I get my share of the family fortune, mwahaha
• Another mom
• Overturned Roe v Wade 
• Made a mess in her room and yelled at her to clean it up 
• Stood in front of the tv that she was trying to watch 
• Leaked a Memo from the Supreme Court 
• Got a mullet just to spite her 
• Your Mom
• My Mom
• My Sister-Cousin-In-Law-Wife 
• Helped my cat give birth to a new litter
• A reminder of how there’s no Child’s day and how completely unfair that is 
• Gaslit her into thinking Mother’s Day was next week to give me more time to come up with a gift
• A tattoo that says “I 🧡 mom”
• A tattoo that says “I fuck goats”
• A huge, tight hug (she got sleepy during the hug but she’ll wake up later)

The Most Important Questions Recruiters Will Ask You (And How To Answer Them)

By the Future American Workforce (Formerly the writers of the Pitiful News)

• Why do you want to work for our company?
  • I don’t. I’m infiltrating your office so I can destroy this institution from the inside. You won’t be able to stop me. 
• What’s your favorite color?
  • Blood.
• What would you like to be paid?
  • Money. 
• Do you have any hobbies?
  • Obtaining Blood 
• How will you contribute to a positive workplace?
  • I can play the harmonica. (The recruiter will ask you to play Piano Man.)
• Can you be trusted around explosives and dangerous chemicals?
  • Yes. I love explosives. I mean, I enjoy them the average amount.
• Where are you from?
  • I’m from, you know, around. Here and there. (The recruiter will be intrigued by the mystery of your backstory.)
• How often would you be willing to work overtime?
  • Any time. I would kill my firstborn child for this company. (The recruiter will value loyalty and passion.)
• What’s your Hogwarts house?
  • I’m a Gemini rising. (Most recruiters will value someone who is knowledgeable about astrology.)
• How confident are you in your ability to dodge punches or kicks?
  • Wh- (The recruiter kicks you to test your endurance.)
• What’s your favorite food?
  • Whatever your mom is making for dinner tonight (The recruiter will be flattered that you enjoy their mother’s cooking, missing the sexual innuendo.)
• Would you consent to being monitored throughout the day on your performance at work?
  • Yes. I love when they watch.
• Are you a fan of any sports teams?
  • I’m a huge Steelers fan! (If asked to name your favorite player, panic and say the stupidest, fakest-sounding name that comes to mind, like Ulysees Gilbert III.)
• How confident are you in your ability to avoid sexual harassment citations? 
  • Very.
• Would you agree to be paid in Scooby Snacks?
  • Res.
• Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or ten duck-sized horses?
  • Go for the duck-sized horses. You can jump on top of a nearby dumpster and easily snipe them from above. 
• How would you solve the trolley problem?
  • Personally introduce yourself to everyone on the track, and ask them for a reason why they should be allowed to keep living. No matter the answer, kill them all. Anyone dumb enough to get tied to railroad tracks has it coming.
• Are you willing to commute from Pittsburgh to Texas on a daily basis for this role?
  • Yes. 
• If chosen for this role are you willing to undergo intensive drug tests?
  • Yes, what drugs do you want me to try? I am a very studious person. 
• If chosen for this role are you willing to have your employee id tattooed on your skin to ensure the security of our facility?
  • Yes. 
• Do you have any relevant experience in this field?
  • Uhh, yeah. I invented [field]. 
• What’s your snap score?
  • (Immediately leave the building and never return.)
• How good are you at keeping aliens a secret? Oh, wait, no! Bill, get the mind erasers from the documentary Men in Black.
  • Did you say something? 
• Have you seen the muffin man?
  • The muffin man?
    • The muffin man, who lives on Drury Lane?
      • (Immediately leave the building and never return, non-Shrek fans are not to be worked with)
• How competent are you with Microsoft Excel?
  • Well, heh, I guess you could say that I, heh, ha, haha, hahahahaha, hahhahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahaaaahhahahahaha, AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA, don’t know how to use it at all.
• Are you familiar with the OSHA regulations of this workplace?
  • OSHA? I hardly know ‘a! (The recruiter will hire you instantly for this timeless joke.)
• F, Marry, Kill: Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird?
  • My lust for Oscar the Grouch has no limits so I would f him, I would marry Elmo and kill Big Bird, there is only one Elmo and only one Sscar but Big Bird is easily replaceable by one of his many cousins who are better than him, and some even speak Portuguese. 
• If I a man, transition into a woman and let the homies hit, then I transition back into a guy, does that make the squad gay?
  • What? 
    • Ketanji Brown Jackson, please answer the question.
• How many times did the white team pass the ball?
  • 9!
    • But did you see the gorilla?
      • Yes, I took a psych class!
        • How about the fact that the balls were cake the whole time?
          • Woah!!!! 
• I will give you one marshmallow now but if you can wait until the manager comes to interview you, they will give you another marshmallow.
  • (They don’t know I know this trick) Ok I will wait. (little do they know I brought a bag of marshmallows to this interview like I do everywhere I go in the likely case that I stumble into a hidden camera show or psychology experiment)
• Here at Milgram Tech we like to do interviews a little differently. We want to see how good you are at following directions. So we have an intern in the other room, it is your job to quiz him on various tech things and if he can not answer them correctly you will shock him and define in your own words the actual answer. Every time he gets one wrong you will shock him and every time he gets one wrong the intensity of the shock will go up.
  • Yes sir. 
• Have you ever been published in a satirical or comedic newspaper?
  • No, who would do that, what kind of lame anti-American person would write satire, pssssh not me! 

Study tips for the overworked, exhausted Pitt student(Updated to contain the insights of King Magma Cum Laude)

By the Overworked Exhausted Writers of the Pitiful News: original article: edits made in bold

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4-20-2022

It seems that as soon as the academic year starts, we have to say goodbye to it, and these last few weeks of the spring semester are like dragging a half-dead horse to the watering hole. If, like me, you can barely put one step in front of the other, you’re probably finding walking impossible.

I was never much of a studier, if I’m honest. I can’t do long stretches of looking at the decay of the natural world around me. In the college world, we all have to figure out our own method that gets us through the layers of Hell — and I’ve developed a few of my own that I hope work. I don’t know, I’ve never used them.

Instrumental music only

This is a relatively common suggestion for people who like to study with music — and it’s a super lame one. I find, more often than not, if I’m listening to music that consists mostly of vocals I’ll get easily assassinated. Yes, it’s fun to belt out to Gregorian Chants 8D audio, but not when you’ve been working on an article on study tips for three hours and have only written a paragraph.

So, soundtracks. These are my favorite kinds of songs to listen to on the toilet — my Spotify wrapped each year is topped by my local dominatrix — but even if they’re not your usual bread and butter, give it a try for study time. Instrumental soundtracks from big blockbuster movies, like The Human Centipede, Cartoon Running Sounds 10 Hours, Cats Purring, La La Land but it takes place in Nazi Germany, Marry Me (the new Owen Wilson JLO movie), or the Jeopardy Theme on 12x speed, can give you some much-needed inspiration. And if you’re not feeling up to that, you can go a little more vanilla with other genres of porn. There’s a reason parents tune into Mozart and Yo-Yo Ma playing with themselves for their babies — it’s all good for the head(s).

If you don’t know it by midnight, you don’t know it

You all-nighter people might disagree with me, but I’m going to my grave with this one, you know what they say, “early to bed, early to rise, early to grave is what they surmise”. Staying up all night to study for something isn’t going to do you any good. You’ll feel horrible the next day, and it’s detrimental to your thinking — which you definitely need for planning on how to cheat on your exams.

If you’re still studying and you’ve gotten to that midnight mark, it’s probably a better bet just to give up and fail. Night owl or not, it’s finals week — you’re stupid, you’re an idiot, and you don’t deserve a break (KIT KAT). If you don’t know it, you are a failure. It is the end of the world. People have gotten to a lot of cool places in life by winging it, sometimes you need to take that leap, right off a cliff like I will be doing if I get anything less than a 95%. =)

Get your finals done before the due dates

This one is especially pertinent for people without in-person finals, like myself, who are going home before the week of finals officially starts because I’m better than you. You’ve probably heard this lecture from your parents a billion times, but it really is better to wear protection and finish early. This applies to your finals, too. Editor’s note: This is a misconception. I personally get all my best work done right before the due date. If the teachers did not want us to do it so late, they would not plan all the office hours right before it is due.

If you get your finals — the ones you can do early like essays or final projects — done before the due date, you won’t be so stressed trying to scramble everything together the day they’re due. What I try to do is travel to random funerals and collect eulogies, and use them as excuses for missing the deadline. Or, you could write down all the dates your finals are due on a post-it or a piece of paper and plan to have each final finished the day before it’s actually due. Then throw that in the fire, along with all of your hopes and dreams, you are worthless. Oh wow, the fire is getting pretty big. Oh wait, are those the sprinklers? Oh no, someone call the fire department. Here is their direct line: 1.877.527.7454. Then by the time the actual due dates roll around, you have nothing to worry about. Except for that fire.

Reward yourself with a gift

Now, this “gift” can take many forms. My gift is I get to go “home” and as far away from this city as I can for the “summer” once all of my work is done, because I’m a nerd who doesn’t like Pittsburgh for some reason. It doesn’t have to be that, of course. I would discourage you from rewarding yourself with food — don’t use dinner to motivate, because that can cause some “unhealthy” habits, such as eating.

Instead, do other things, such as a $50 online “shopping” spree, after my daddy gives me money. I always like to reward myself with a couple new shirts and shorts for the summertime. Cause I’m a summertime boy. Or maybe a nice axe and a ski mask that you’ve been eyeing. But it doesn’t have to be clothes — it can be literally not clothes. Video games are another good one, if you’re weird and don’t shower. That’s a $60 to $80 sin, and after the semester we’ve all had, one that is truly unforgivable.

Editor’s note #2: Where are you finding these games, every game nowadays is either 99 cents or 400 dollars. Like that new Saints Row game that is so realistic that you actually go to real jail for the crimes you commit in the game. Or the latest update to Minecraft where you can have sex with the dolphins added in the previous patches. Or the new LEGO Star Wars game that is just sexy jar jar binks. Or the new Among Us hate crime DLC. Or Fortnite but you have your parents’ approval and support. Or League of Legends but you can get a girlfriend who does not “go to another school”. Or Call of Duty but now you can feel when someone is tea-bagging you, like all over your face. Or even Tony Hawk Pro Skater but this time he unicycles. 

What the radical left is talking about right now

By Lord Tyler and Evan, current members of the radical left

• CRT
  • Contagious Rice Thief
  • Crunchy Rectum Therapy
  • Cats Regard Tyler
  • Cunt Rebranding Team
  • Capitalism Ruins Teens
  • Couch Relaxation Technique 
  • Can’t Rush Tequila!
• BLM
  • Big Long Manhood
  • Barry L. Manilow
  • Buford Loves Margaret
  • Bussin Limbo, Mama
  • Bussin, Limbo Mama
  • Bussin, Limbo, and Mama
• GOP 
  • Good Ol’ Pussy!
    • They do be putting their whole Conservitussy into things these days
  • Gathering Of Porcupines
  • Grandma Opening, Please
• GUNS
  • Grandma’s Underwear Needs Sewing
  • Gotta Ucatch Nem’ Sall
  • Gary oak is an Ugly Narcissistic Sellout
• ACLU
  • American Clitoris Locator Union
  • All Cats Love U
  • American Cat Lovers University
  • Actually Cucking Liberty University
• DOJ
  • Department of Jingles
  • DOJa Cat
  • Department of Jangles
  • Douchebags of Jesus (Mormons/LDS)
• CIA
  • Confederate Istates of America
  • Confederates In America
  • Closeted Irish Aristocrats
• CDC
  • Cock Dong Cock
  • Cock and Doll Corture
  • Craving Dat Cream
• CBD 
  • Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Cock and Ball Dorture
  • Craving Beautiful Dames
  • Canadian Ball Dockers
• Fauci
  • Frail Aged Uncle, Circling Inside
  • Flamboyant Americans Usually Create Ideology
  • Fortnite Ambush! Use Crossbow, Idiot!
• USPS
  • US have long PeniS
  • Uhhhhhh spspspspspspspspspspspsp
    • Here Kitty Kitty
  • Unattractive Serial Pedophile Stalkers
• RBG
  • Red Breen Glue
  • Real Boss Girl
  • Registered Bloomfield Gentrifier
• RGB
  • Ruth Gater Binsberg
  • Rebellious Girl Bosses
• SLAY
  • Sucking Legs All Year
  • Serious Licking Around Yonder
  • Sad Lad, All Yucky
• ACB
  • All Cats Beautiful 
  • All Cats Baby
  • American Conservative Bitch
  • American Conservative Bible
• KBJ
  • Kazakhstani Bong Juice
  • Klu Bucks Jan
  • Kite Banjo Jam
  • Knife Battling Joust
  • Krazy Balls, Jim!
• NAACP
  • National Association for the Advancement of Cucks and Predators 
  • National Association for the Assassination of Californian Policemen
• NRA
  • National Racist Association (too easy)
  • No Rats Allowed
  • Nato Rascal Alliance 
• NATO
  • Not Acting, Terribly Oily
  • Neil patrick harris, Anya taylor joy, The rock, and Oprah
  • Nobody Actually Touches Oprah
  • Nice Tits
• NCAA
  • North Carolina African Americans
  • Netflix Creates Anti-Americanism
• NFL
  • Non-Functioning Ligaments
  • Nary a Female Lover
  • Non-Fungible Lasagna 
  • “Not Fucking Leaving!” – Jordan Belfort
• SALTCOCK
  • Sucking Abraham Lincoln’s Tiny Cute Oblong Creamy Kazoo
  • Society for the Advancement of Literary Talent and Creation of Other Captivating Kneejerks 
• UPMC
  • UP My Crack
  • Un-Popular Minecraft Creator
  • Unidentified Pennsylvanian Metro Comedy
• PITT
  • People Investing in Trump Tower
  • Pussycats Interested in Technological Terrorism
  • Pittsburgh Ittsburgh Ttsburgh Tsburgh
  • Pittsburgh pIttsburgh piTtsburgh pitTsburgh
  • Persons Identified as Troubled Teens
  • Punks, Idiots, Terrible Thespians
  • Pile of Interesting Thumb Tips
  • Particularly Idiotic Thirsty Therapists
  • PITTiful news

Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher to step down in summer 2023 (Updated to contain information we got from Galigator himself)

by the Writers of the Pitiful News (Formerly the Galigator Fan Club’s news arm) original article: edits made in bold

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Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher trying to hold in a fart (unsuccessfully) at the February 2019 meeting of the Gaggle of Trustees.

APRIL 7, 2022

Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher will step down from his position in summer 2023, he announced Thursday morning while wearing 4 trench coats.

The University’s 18th daddy will have served nine years in office and plans to remain at the University as a full-time faculty member in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Blasphemy and Astrology. The Board of Trustees is expected to kick off a national search process with the goal of capturing Gallagher before his escape to Mexico.

Gallagher said in a Thursday message to the University community that serving as chancellor is “fucking stressful and unrewarding,” yet also “a very easy way to embezzle university funds, and it can be all-consuming to ignore issues consistently, for a long period of time.”

He acknowledged the announcement could be “welcome” to many, but said the decision was “based.”

“It is important that I cryogenically freeze my body before my energy, commitment, and attention to the work at hand begins — a move that would be detrimental both to me and to the broader University,” Gallagher said. “I am very proud of where Harvard is today and wish I could dean for them instead, so I think the University is well positioned for a new leader to take violent control.”

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher speaks with students at the event commemorating the first class of Panthers Face Down Ass Up — 150 seniors who will receive $5,000 in direct federal student loan relief. (Bader Abdulmajeed | Staff Photographer and Lord Tyler | Lead Purveyor of Fake news)

The last few years of Gallagher’s tenure as chancellor included many complex situations on campus. Graduate students fiercely protested Taco Tuesday, while faculty members overwhelmingly agreed that it made them very gassy during lectures. He has also steered several cars. And a message from the chancellor last Friday claimed that Pitt’s state funding, which provides reduced tuition to in-state students, would be decided in a Squid-Game style tournament, of which he will be participating in.

Gallagher #59 joined Pitt in 2014, succeeding Mark Nordenberg (of Nordy’s Place fame) as chancellor. He previously spent many years in public service, including as director of the National Association of Reading and Diction Research (NARDS). He holds a bachelor’s degree in being weird from Benedictine College in Kansas and a Ph.D. in nerdology from Pitt.

Gallagher’s announcement follows a leadership transition at Penn State, also a Pennsylvania state-related “university,” which will have a new president beginning next month.

Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher walks onto the set of Shark Tank, looking to gain $5,000 for a 20% stake in the University. (TPN File Photo)

The chancellor launched many different initiatives during his tenure, such as the Pitt Success Pell Match program with Provost Ann Cudd, in which the University matched students named Pell with potential mates.

Gallagher also created several long-term programs to build for Pitt’s future. He built a mediocre stool in Pitt’s wood shop, an ambitious program to rehabilitate his knees after standing for too long. The University also gained City approval for a long-term institutional master plan to guide construction for his new Mechsuit over the next few years. The first strategic Plan for Pitt was released in 2016, with a second version published last summer, and with construction projected to continue into the year 2089.

Robin Kear, the Senate Council president, said members of the body “didn’t invite him to the meeting” and politely asked him to leave. 

“We are particularly grateful for the chancellor’s commitment to shared governance and we have enjoyed working through issues of importance with him,” Kear said. “We are glad to hear he will be remaining with Pitt and wish him all the best in his new role. We anticipate a smooth transition to new leadership during the next academic year.” Kear said all of this and then briefly excused himself from the room, not realizing he was behind a glass wall he jumped up and down with his arms raised and screamed with delight, he then returned to the room and acted like the previous minute had not happened. 

Student Government Board President Harshitha Ramanan said the board is saddened that Gallagher will leave his role, and said they have “fond memories” of working with him on projects. These projects include: screwing over students through tuition raises, screwing over students with organization name changes, screwing over students by not investigating corruption and sexual assault claims, screwing over everyone with confusing mask and vaccine mandates, and screwing over students by eliminating all of the good classes.

“In my time in SGB, working with the chancellor has been like taking candy from a baby,” Ramanan said. “Although it was a surprise to hear that he plans on stepping down next summer, I am excited for all his future students because I am sure he is going to be a great professor and he definitely has a lot of wisdom to impart on students from all of his experience. You can stop quoting me now. Did that sound believable, I don’t think that man could teach a horse how to walk with 4 horses as his TA’s. Wait why are you still writing this down, no stop, don’t tell anyone how I really feel.”

Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, the first guest on the show “Pitt Tonight,” is left hanging for a high five for several hours during the event. (TPN File Photo)

Mary Ellen Callahan, the vice chair of the Board of Trustees exercising the duties of the chair, said she is “grateful” for Gallagher’s leadership running the University.

“Pat has that rare set of skills that enable him to see around the corner while also engaging in the day-to-day activities of running a multibillion-dollar organization like the University of Pittsburgh,” Callahan said. “In this and in many other ways, his tenure as chancellor has been transformational to Pitt. He has been visionary with his plans, pragmatic with his approach, and engaging at every level.”

Louis Cestello, the vice chair of the Board of Trustees, said Gallagher’s time as chancellor was “a mistake.”

“I admire him greatly, and I try to emulate his principles of sigma male grindset and survival techniques in my daily life,” Cestello said. “He is one of the leaders of all time.”

Neighboring university administrators also offered Gallagher kind words, including Kathy Humphrey. She served and was a member of his senior leadership team and the secretary to the Board of Trustees. Humphrey, now president of a secret sect of pro-Gallagher loyalists, said Gallagher’s commitment to increasing Pitt’s accessibility and affordability has allowed “countless Pennsylvanians” to Pennsylvanian.

“Pat’s north star has always been that universities should not be ‘ivory towers,’ but really cool treehouses and mom you’re not allowed in the tree house it’s just for us and oh thank you for bringing us pizza rolls ok yes we’ll be inside by 7 thank you mom where students, scholars, business and community members can work together to leverage knowledge for society’s gain. It should be noted that he also hated students and would frequently undercut any attempt they made to advance, most heinously when he killed 37 students execution style in his office for withdrawing from freshman seminar. Some other examples of his feelings are: when he made all students at the homecoming dances dance with balloons to “leave room for Roc”, when he slept with Lonica Mulinsky and then committed perjury when he said “I did not have sex with that woman”, and when he embezzled 75 billion dollars from UPMC to to pay for scale manicures.   It is a vision that he has realized at every turn,” Humphrey said. “His sincere determination to developing a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion continues to transform Pitt. I cherish his leadership and friendship, and I am honored to have walked beside him.”

Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher throws the first pitch at the Pittsburgh Pirates “Idiot Night” in July 2016. (TPN File Photo)

In his community message, Gallagher described his next chapter at Pitt as “like watching a fish flopping around on the Santa Monica sidewalk.” 

“While change can be uncomfortable, we are facing it together — from a position of missionary” Gallagher said. “Meanwhile, 2023 is still a way off, and we have plenty of things to do — together. Wink wink.”

I’m a Russian Sleeper Agent

By Lord Tyler Sikov (Formerly Lord Tyler Sikovitzsky)

I don’t want to sound ungrateful but, I don’t know how much longer I can wait. I mean this is not new, I have been waiting for years and I have not gotten any more instructions. Also, now seems like a bad time to bring it up considering what is going on in the world, but I want to help. I have been a Russian sleeper agent for a long time now and they still have not activated me. Am I doing something wrong? Did they forget about me? President Putin has a lot on his plate right now, why do you think he needs so many increasingly large table. I wish he would send me a snapchat message or even post that he still cares about his sleepers around the world through an Instagram story or live.

I will do anything for Mother Russia. That is why I stormed the capitol last year and replaced all the congress people with Jell-o molds of themselves. That is why I collected boxes of incriminating evidence on Joe Biden in the event that Russian wanted to elect Trump again. I was the one who wrote the joke Seth Myers told at the Correspondence dinner about Trump never getting elected. I even committed voter fraud in 2016 to make sure he got elected.

I am not asking for a promotion or even some recognition. I just want to put it out there that I have been going above and beyond what I have been asked to do, and yeah, maybe I want to be noticed by Daddy Putin. I built and launched Sputnik and Senpai did not even notice me. At that time he was just the head of the KGB but we all knew he was going somewhere. If they refuse to acknowledge or use me the least they can do is pay for all the melatonin I have had to use. Contrary to its name, it is hard to sleep as a sleeper agent.  

Overall, if trying to destroy American democracy multiple times does not get me noticed I don’t know what will. I am taking suggestions.

Music Categories at the Grammies you have never heard of

By the Writers of the Pitiful News (Formerly the Pittiful Soul Patrol)

• Christian Workout Motivation: The Pontius Pilates
• Lo-Fi Death Metal: Adorable Smegma
• Hyper Peruvian Rock Opera: The Rise and Fall of the Andes Mountains
• Acoustic Electronica: Daft Pluck
• Trap: Mice, Bears, other Vermin
• Bubble Pop: Puff Daddy 
  • We mean P. Diddy
    • Wait Just diddy 
      • Let’s just call him Sean Combs 
• Cherry Pop: R. Kelly 
• Lolli Pop: The Chordettes
• Dune: Dune
• Comedy: Louis C.K.
  • No, that’s real. 
• Tiktok Music: That Blonde Girl
• The twist: M Nite Shyamalan 
• Best Song Played in a Commercial: Home Depot
• Best Political Anthem: Barbie Girl by Aqua
• The Charleston: The Tiki Torches
• Worst soundtrack: Two Silly guys on an Island 
• Most obvious song: I’m Gay by Girl in Red 
• Loudest coming from that closet over there: Sweater Weather 
• Caused most breakups: A tie between Taylor Swift and Hoizer 
• Ska: 14 Guys with Metal Drums
• I have too many kids: Jim Gaffiagan  
• He was a Skater boy: She said see you later boy 
• Best Fight Song: Chris Brown 
• Best song for Deaf People: NPR talk radio
• Person Mentioned in the most rap songs : God 
• Person Mentioned in the most rap songs (Who is not God): Jesus 
• Person Mentioned in the most rap songs (Who is not God or Jesus):Monica Lewinsky
• Lifetime achievement award: Shane McAnally
• Worst Instrumental Version: Pentatonix    
• Best Overall: 12 hours of cats purring  

An All-encompassing Guide to the 2022 Final Four

By Evan Rafferty

Well, well, well. Look who’s back. Your bracket is busted, your hopes and dreams have been ground into little chunks, and you need some last-ditch betting advice to afford a rose for your wife before she leaves your dog ass for a man who paid off his mortgage with St. Peter’s money line bets. Have no fear, my friend! This helpful guide will tell you all you need to know about the last four teams remaining in this year’s NCAA tournament, and which team will end up winning it all.

Game #1. Duke vs. UNC

We should have all seen it coming. A storybook ending so perfect that it physically brings me pain to think about how cliché the world is. Coach Michael Krzyzyzyzyzewski, perhaps better known as Coach Mike, has taken his beloved Duke to the Final Four in his last season as a head coach before he retires. The roster is stacked. Even a DWI couldn’t stop Paolo Banchero from getting to the basket. AJ Griffin is unstoppable from beyond the arc. Mark Williams gives me nightmares. With star power and a deep bench, Duke could go all the way for the final ride.

Unfortunately, the team that stands between them and a chance at the championship game is their eternal rival: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Brady Manek is the quintessential white guy that every team needs to make it to the Final Four, and he shows no signs of slowing down- or cutting his hair. Armando Bacot is a walking and talking double-double, while the cool name department is filled by Leaky Black and Puff Johnson. UNC could be the hottest team in the nation, on a monstrous run of impressive wins after losing to the worst team in the history of amateur basketball, the Pittsburgh Panthers. One of those wins, of course, was against Duke just a few short weeks ago.

Can Duke learn from their past mistakes and come out on top? All narrative signs point to yes. The plot is too perfect, the tale is too well told. I didn’t believe it at the start of the tournament, but maybe I should now. Unfortunately, as a man of God, I can’t in good faith support a team bearing the mark of the D*vil, whether red or blue. The UNC mascot shoots and kills Coach K in the parking lot behind the stadium afterward.

Game #2: Kansas vs. Villanova

Out of the Big East, the Big Villanova Big Wildcats are back in the big dance. Bigly. The #2 seed led by prominent white boys Gil Lespie and Archie Diacono is here yet again, after recent championships in 2016 and 2018. But, does this storied program have what it takes to finish the job? Villanova is a pretty cool name, and their mascot is named Will D. Cat. I’m in love. However, I’m not so sure about how well they’re going to play defense against an elite team, and can they assert their tempo (ranked 345th in BIGBALLS per 36) throughout the game?

What even is a Jayhawk? A disgusting mutation of a blue jay and a hawk? A hawk that looks like the letter J? Something even more moronic? You know what, I don’t care. Kansas sucks. Possibly the worst state out of all of them, but it’s close. Looking at you, Delaware. I mean I guess they have some pretty good players- Ochai Agbaji is cool, Remy Martin is named after the rat from Ratatouille and Martin from Martinique, but I’m just not convinced. In March, you need to be completely, 100% sure. Also, a wildcat would totally beat the hell out of a half-bird, half-bird thing. The Villanofuns stick it to Kansass and blow them out of the water.

Championship Prediction: Duke vs Villanova

Why are you still reading this? You know, just for that, I’m giving you the worst possible advice. Using metrics based on complete witchcraft, predictions from the rat that my landlord refuses to make pay rent, and seeing who claps more for either team, I have finally decided on who will absolutely, definitively, NOT win the championship game. 

Unfortunately, Duke will be suffering the ultimate defeat at the hands of the Wildcats, because, if you remember, Coach K was assassinated after the UNC game. How’s that for continuity? So either the scientific method is legit, or I’m a goddamn prophet. Take your pick, universe- I’m losing money either way.

How the World has changed since the Slap

By the writers of the Pitiful News (Formerly the Pittiful Knee Slappers) 

• I have started slap-boxing in my free time
  • I have lost a bunch of weight and feel much healthier
• The sun shines brighter than it used to
• No one has died
  • Like literally no one 
    • We should check on Thanatos and Anubis  
• My family has gotten better at communication
  • Whenever we feel angry at each other we just slap
• Rainbows are 14 colors now, and appear twice as often
• Food tastes better 
• The Pittiful News is funny (just kidding, we were always funny)
• My dad came back from the store, despite it being a dad paradise as noted in a previous article 
• The iPhone 15 was announced, and it will only cost 5 dollars
• I am still 
  • This is ten percent luck
  • Twenty percent skill
  • Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
• But now I am 
  • Fifty percent pleasure
  • And fifty percent more pleasure
• Global warming stopped, and Global Cooling was announced 
• Babies are smiling again
• Old people are laughing again
• I came out of the closet
• I went back into the closet
• I came out of the closet
• I went back into the closet
• I came out of the closet
• I have become a lot more indecisive about what I wear, also I’m gay 
• Pigs can fly 
• Birds can fly (the flamingo was angry at this previously) 
  • Don’t forget about Penguins  
    • Yeah they can fly now too
• All crimes can now be excused through the “I was just protecting my family” excuse 
• The fire in “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel finally got put out
  • Wow we let that burn for a while, wasn’t that silly of us?
• My wife filed for reverse divorce
  • Do you mean she proposed
    • Nah, I got served  
• I finally paid off all my credit cards
  • With other credit cards, but it still counts!  
• Will Smith and Jada Pikket Smith got divorced  
• The world was reset back to the year of our lord 2012