Maddy Franklin

Gagging Academia The right to teach, debate and protest faces a high-stakes challenge in Pittsburgh’s universities and beyond. Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump disrupted the country’s research landscape with a series of executive ord... See more

Gagging Academia The right to teach, debate and protest faces a high-stakes challenge in Pittsburgh’s universities and beyond. Before negotiations began for a collective bargaining agreement between the University of Pittsburgh and its graduate workers un... See more

Editor’s note: This story was first published in a Pittsburgh’s Public Source neighborhood zine. Look for our printed zines now in Brookline, Carrick, Overbrook and Oakland. At every corner in Oakland, Roxane Stewart’s past whispers out at her. In these m... See more

Gagging Academia The right to teach, debate and protest faces a high-stakes challenge in Pittsburgh’s universities and beyond. On a chilly early October afternoon, a group of students gathered in Schenley Plaza laid out their cases against the University ... See more

Gagging Academia The right to teach, debate and protest faces a high-stakes challenge in Pittsburgh’s universities and beyond. On a chilly early October afternoon, a group of students gathered in Schenley Plaza laid out their cases against the University ... See more