Zachary Gelman Pillbox Editor

Class of 2025

Articles

  • Gainey's Strange Housing Ideas

    A suite of proposals from the Mayor’s office are aimed at targeting complaints raised by renters in Pittsburgh, including our own Edboard on A4. But some of Mayor Gainey’s ideas have left housing activists flummoxed, to say the least. To resolve the frequently brought up issue of rocketing rent prices, Mayor Gainey suggested that college students “Grandpa Joe it.” When asked to explain this propos...

    Pillbox | January 30, 2023
  • Staff Picks 2022

    “Oddinary,” Stray Kids from Emma Rogers, Assistant News Editor

    Pillbox | December 5, 2022
  • What to do while waiting for your card to scan at ABP

    Twiddle your thumbs
    Wait and wait
    Take a test, or two
    Read one whole book, front to back
    Go and get a snack, hmm…
    Finish that novel you’ve been working on
    Wait a little longer
    Complain to your friends
    Thank the cashier one more time
    Why did I get that dining plan?
    Solve an unsolved problem
    Get a Fields medal
    Why won’t your card scan?
    Should you have just paid with credit?
    No, that ta...

    Pillbox | November 21, 2022
  • Now that it's no longer in theaters, I can finally review 'Barbarian'

    “Barbarian” has been independently successful, even without any complimentary articles from PILLBOX or our mother newspaper The Tartan. In general, I try to keep my thumb off the scale, only reviewing things that civilians no longer need to pay to experience. This is because I try to make sure that nothing I do can contribute positively to the world. If I wrote this review one month ago, then ther...

    Pillbox | November 21, 2022
  • 5 Under 5: Meet the Block Stacking Innovators, Naptime Disruptors, And Dirtiest-Diaper-Wearers of Tomorrow

    PILLBOX editors and reporters worked tirelessly to find these five young upstarts that will revolutionize their fields. They are impatient to change the world and get a 9 p.m. bedtime. Those you babysit today will be your boss tomorrow, so we tracked these five specimen down, each laboring in a wildly different field. We were saddened by all the brilliant young minds we were unable to include, but...

    Pillbox | November 14, 2022

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