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When students discuss the responsibilities of the Student Government Board, its role in the allocation of the Student Activities Fund is always at the top of the list. The Board, responsible for allocating the $2.3 million that makes up the Student Activities Fund, has faced significant scrutiny over the past week because of its reported association with the Druids, a secret society on campus. But in addition to the six members of the Board who are part of the exclusive group, the Druids have also been well-represented in another significant body on campus — SGB’s Allocations Committee. Arguably the most consistently active of the eight committees that report to the Board, the Allocations Committee is responsible for evaluating requests for allocations of the Student Activities Fund from student organizations looking to use the money for group activities. The 13-person committee documents and discusses requests at a private meeting each week and then presents its funding recommendations to the Board, along with the allocations requests at SGB’s weekly public meeting. According to current Allocation Committee Chair Alex Majchrzak, the committee has no conflict of interest policy, and members are

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In the aftermath of Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s decision to withdraw his election bid for the mayorship, several potential candidates expressed interest in entering the race. Yesterday, City Council President Darlene Harris said she will enter the race and started passing around her petition to run. To run for mayor in Pittsburgh’s democratic primaries, an individual must collect 250 signatures from registered and enrolled members of the Democratic party who are also residents of the city by March 12. Harris expressed confidence that she could procure the necessary signatures in time. “I’ve worked with five mayors. I feel confident that I would be able to lead this city,” Harris said. Former Pennsylvania State Auditor General Jack Wagner also expressed interest in running for mayor in a statement he released on Saturday. He, too, began collecting signatures on a petition. Last Tuesday, Wagner told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he was considering running as an independent in the general election, rather than entering the primary, but his plans might have changed. “I am now looking at running in the primary,” he stated on Saturday. Several other individuals are rumored to have interest in running, but no other petitions are yet circulating. City Councilman Bill Peduto and City Controller Michael Lamb both filed their petitions and launched their campaigns for mayor prior to Ravenstahl’s announcement.

Shadyside resident Daniel Kilkenny (center) and Bloomfield native Mark Steger (right) look on as Mark Choi of Greenfield reaches out to make a catch during a Wednesday evening ultimate frisbee match on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park. Nathan McIntire | Staff Photographer

Climate change expert advocates more sustainability Parthena Moisiadis Staff Writer Climate change expert Joseph Romm delivered an apology to the Pitt community yesterday afternoon. “From your generation to mine, it’s not pretty what is going to happen in the coming decades,” he said. Pitt’s Honors College holds lectures each year to educate the Pitt community about global warming and climate change. This year, the Honors College hosted Romm, an expert, author and blogger in the ﬁeld. He delivered the lecture to about 300 people at 3 p.m. yesterday in the J.W. Connolly Ballroom in Alumni Hall. Articles in national publications

such as the New York Times and National Geographic have cited Romm, and Rolling Stone mentioned him among the “100 People Who Are Changing America” in 2009. Romm, a principal deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy from 1995 to 1998 and assistant secretary in the same office during 1997, came to better prepare the Pitt community in regard to the challenge of global warming. He said that since many audience members have already heard the basics of global warming, he would speak about “what you can’t easily find on the Internet.” “The current generation of peo-

ple running this country have set up a system that is not sustainable so that your generation will not be able to consume as we consumed,” he said. Edward Stricker, dean of the Honors College, said that educating the community about climate change is important because global warming is not a subject of universal attention such as other challenges in the past. He explained that every generation has faced a distinct challenge. For his generation, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of uncertainty about the future. Before that, Americans dealt with the Great Depression and the Cold War. Stricker said that although we

can now look back on those events with insight and understanding, it was not clear during the time what was actually happening, what was going to happen and what individuals were supposed to do. Romm said that the DOE used the term “sustainable development” to describe a method of economic growth that would take future generations into consideration during his tenure there. “I remember going to UC Berkeley and telling students that sustainable development is like teenage sex. Those who say they’re doing it aren’t, and those who are doing it aren’t doing it very well,” he said.

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Peduto sees opening in race after Ravenstahl’s exit ic mayor has occupied oﬃce for the past 80 years, the primaries on May 21 are the major contentious battle for the mayoral seat. With the competition slightly eased by Ravenstahl’s withdrawal, Peduto currently faces only City Controller Michael Lamb for the coveted Democratic candidate position in general elections this fall, though several other potential candidates, including City Council President Darlene Harris and former Pennsylvania State Auditor General Jack Wagner, have expressed interest in joining the race in recent days. The road toward the mayorship for Peduto rests on a combination of hard work contributed by a team of supporters and an elaborate campaign platform associated with his

goal of modernization. Support system Earlier on the morning of Ravenstahl’s announcement, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and State Representative Ed Gainey, D-Allegheny, spoke to the media on a blustery Penn Avenue, just down the street from Peduto’s oﬃce. Flurries stuck to the knee-length pea coats and pin-striped pants of media members as they pushed for the scoop on Ravenstahl’s recent absences. “I think he’s in a good position,” Fitzgerald said, regarding Peduto’s campaign, prior even to Ravenstahl’s announcement that he was dropping

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Torie Wytiaz Staff Writer As the Pitt volleyball team prepares for next season, it will do so under a new head coach with championship experience. Just one month after leading the volleyball team at Concordia University in Irvine, Calif., to an undefeated season and its first NAIA championship, Dan Fisher joins the Panthers ahead of their first season as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He replaces Toby Rens, who spent five years leading the Pitt volleyball team before leaving the program last month and taking a job at Chicago State University. “[Rens’] contract was not renewed. It was a personnel decision. We’re going to decline further comment beyond that,” Pitt athletics spokesman Ted Feeley said. For Fisher, the opportunity to coach in the ACC is an honor. “The ACC is and will always be one of the top conferences in the nation,” Fisher said in a press release. “To be a good team in the ACC means you are one of the best teams in the nation. Playing in that league will prepare our team for the NCAA tournament.” Fisher was the head coach at Concordia for two years, and his Eagles compiled a record of 75-2 under his watch. Before this year’s

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attract attention to Peduto’s quest for the mayor’s seat. Peduto launched his campaign for mayor on Dec. 13, a move that conﬁrmed he would step down from his current position representing Pittsburgh’s eighth district on city council, a position he has held for 11 years. The eighth district includes the Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze, Bloomﬁeld and Friendship neighborhoods. A few days after his declaration to run for mayor, Peduto said that he was ready to tackle the tasks of the mayorship after serving for more than a decade on city council. To reach this precipice of city politics, Peduto has put together a campaign platform based on modernizing the city. In Pittsburgh, where a Democrat-

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Pitt hires new volleyball coach

Sue Mayer, from Greenfield, wrangles some greyhounds for the Going Home Greyhounds Inc. booth at the Home and Garden Show at the David Lawrence Convention Center. Kenny Ong | Visual Editor

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When Mayor Luke Ravenstahl declared he was dropping his bid for re-election on March 1, grins, fist pumps and spirited exclamations warmly welcomed his announcement in the blue-and-gold campaign office of City Councilman Bill Peduto as the mayoral candidate’s field organizers huddled before a projection of the press conference. Each glass window of Peduto’s campaign office — a converted appliance store situated on the corner of Penn and Highland avenues in East Liberty — is plastered with “People for Peduto” signs and banners, visible to passersby. The signs are meant to

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President Kayla Chee and Vice President Peter Dimitrion of Panther Hula Club practice choreography in Posvar Hall before other members arrive. Ragini Grace Gupta | Staff Photographer

Terry Milani a Pitt stalwart Former pro athlete honored for 40 years of dedication to University Aaron Stier-Cohen Staff Writer Once upon a time, Big T — or as he is better known, Terry Milani — was a 40th-round draft pick for the St. Louis Cardinals. Now, Milani, the associate director of Student Life and director of Student Volunteer Outreach, spends his time running from office to office — not base to base. Though he works in the Student Volunteer Outreach offices, Milani’s presence is felt throughout the William Pitt Union. As overseer of the Student Activities Fund, Milani works closely with the Student Organization Resource Center and the Student Government Board to

distribute and allocate funds. “I’m not there to dictate what’s going on in an autocratic way,” Milani said. “I need to be knowledgeable in what [people] do so I can help and facilitate where I can.” The man is generally credited with the creation of the current SGB allocations system, the University Student Organization Certification program, the Graduate and Professional Student Association, the Emerging Leaders and Student Development Transcript programs, the Commuter Resource Center, the Student Organization Resource Center and the Pitt Program Council. On December 13, 2012, Chancellor Nordenberg recognized Milani for 40 years of service to Pitt.

Despite his impressive list of accomplishments that coincide with a busy schedule, Milani says he likes to visit oﬃces throughout the WPU just to see how things are going. “He does his rounds all throughout the Union,” said Michael Nites, former Allocations Committee Chair and current SGB member. “He’ll walk in and just be like, ‘Where’s Mike at?’ Then walk to the back, and we’ll have a chat.” Nites says these chats generally start as business, but often diverge into casually catching up. “Usually, we end in chatting about his daughter or how I’m doing in school,” Nites said.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s office announced on Friday that the UK-based Camelot Global Services has won a contract to manage the Pennsylvania State Lottery. The corporation has promised more than $34 billion in profits during the 20-year period of the contract. The plan, however, has drawn criticism from state legislators, who say they were not involved in the process. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the union that represents most Pennsylvania lottery workers, has also protested the deal, expressing concerns about transparency and their job security. Jay Pagni, a spokesman for the Governor’s Budget Office, said the office made the decision to look for outside management last April in response to a report issued by the Pennsylvania Senate Budget and Finance Committee. According to the report, the state’s population aged 60 and over — which was then around 17 percent — was projected to grow to 25 percent over the next 15 years. With a growing demand for senior programs, for which Pagni said the lottery profits provide 75 percent of the funding, the current lottery would be unable to provide the needed revenue. The

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It’s not typical for a parade to feature two grooms, one clad in a white wedding dress spraying rainbow confetti onto a crowd from atop a red float. But Pittsburgh’s Pride Awareness March isn’t your average parade. The Pride Awareness March, which began Downtown on the Boulevard of the Allies at noon and ended at Liberty Avenue, was associated with the city’s annual PrideFest, a day-long free unity event to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and its supporters. The parade, which took place on Sunday, June 10, featured 175 different groups equipped with everything from a simple banner to large, decorative floats. In addition to drag queens jamming to Neil Young songs and scantily dressed people dancing on floats, the parade also had a more serious side. Pairs of mothers marched with children, straight couples and gay couples marched side by side and almost everybody was wearing something rainbow-colored. This year’s PrideFest, which included vendors, carnival games and other entertainment, was the largest Pittsburgh has ever seen, with 75,000 people attending, according to early city estimates. Chris Bryan, director of marketing at the Delta Foundation, a nonprofit group that has orga-

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Lamar Patterson (21) and the Panthers blew by Howard 70-46 Tuesday night at the Petersen Events Center to bring their total wins this season to six. Huailei Wang | Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt weathered a hot start from the field by the Howard men’s basketball team Tuesday night, and pulled away in the second half to register a 24-point victory, 70-46. Hot three-point shooting kept the Panthers in the game in the first half, and suffocating defensive pressure helped them pull away in the second at the Petersen Events Center. Lamar Patterson knocked down a career-high five three-pointers on eight attempts — making four of those in the first half — and finished the contest with 15 points after averaging equally as many in last week’s N.I.T. Season Tip-Off games at Madison Square Garden. Patterson’s teammates — especially freshman point guard James Robinson — found him open primarily in the corner, where Patterson made all four of his three-point tries in the first half. The key to his three-point success tonight and the last few contests? “Just shooting it,” he said. “A lot of credit goes to [Robinson] and Tray [Woodall]. I just gotta be ready to shoot it,” Patterson said. Scoring that same amount for the Panthers (6-1) was Woodall, the redshirt senior point guard. While he scored, Robinson shouldered

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RJ Sepich Sports Editor In the storied 122-year history of the Pitt football program, he is the first head coach to not have a vowel in his last name. But that’s where the fun facts end when it comes to Paul Chryst, the latest leader of Pitt football after the program’s second consecutive offseason of coaching turmoil. It didn’t take long for the new head football coach to impress Pitt fans. Chryst’s comments at his introductory press conference made it clear that, unlike his predecessor Todd Graham, Chryst is a man who firmly believes in the cliché, “actions speak louder than words.” “You don’t announce anything today,” said Chryst, who plans on re-

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Graham a game-time decision for Saturday’s opener On a chilly Wednesday night last October, the entire Pitt football community anxiously looked on as starting running back Ray Graham suffered a knee injury and was carried off the field in the opening drive of a game against Connecticut. To the dismay of all Graham’s coaches, teammates and supporters, the diagnosis of a torn ACL meant it could be up to a year

before the star rusher, who was leading the nation in yards at the time, could return to the field. Now, nine months later, the Pitt football team has finished its training camp in preparation for the new season, and Graham, who is listed as a game-time decision to play in Saturday’s opener against Youngstown State, has joined his team back on the field, despite still being on the long road to recovery. “The knee is good,” Graham said. “Physically, I am getting

there. I don’t feel quite myself yet, but I’m feeling better each day in practice and gaining confidence every time I go out there.” Graham’s slow but continual improvement characterizes much of the rehabilitation process he has undergone since having surgery last November. He has demonstrated a relatively speedy recovery, but taking his time and not rushing things were always his main focus. “The rehab process was good,” the senior tailback said. “The

main thing with trying to come back was just that coach [Paul Chryst] wanted to be smart about it. We wanted to take things slow, so we didn’t make any mistakes and risk me getting hurt again. Coach Chryst has helped me a lot with things.” Patience has naturally been an important theme in Graham’s recovery process, and Chryst, Pitt’s newest head coach, has served as a constant reminder of that. “I think it is about gaining confidence in what you can do

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and knowing what you can do. So if he can just keep moving forward, it will be very good,” Chryst said. Chryst also added that while the coaching staff is excited for Graham to return, they won’t rush him back. “The one thing we talked about is I would rather play him a day later than a day too soon,” the first-year head coach said. “We are a better team with him,

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Airbrush artist Harry Colbert gives fifth-year pharmacy student Paul Bowers a lesson in graffiti at the Student Alumni Association’s Welcome Back Picnic. Sheldon Satenstein | Senior Staff Photographer

Kimbo Art Gallery displays portraits of lupus patients to raise awareness of the disease Parthena Moisiadis Staff Writer Portraitist Virginia Thomas did not know that she would find her next subject when a couple of young men knocked on her door to make a furniture delivery. The men entered her home with the intention of delivering a media cabinet. However, entranced by the murals and paintings scattered about, they stopped to ask if she would be willing to paint their pictures. Thomas agreed, and by pure coincidence, she had found the final subject to add to her collection of portraits of individuals who, like her, suffer from lupus disease. Thomas, a current Harrisburg, Pa., resident originally from Roch-

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The state’s contribution to Pitt’s coffers is set for the upcoming year, but how much the University’s students will pay in tuition is still undecided. On Friday, July 13, at 8:15 a.m. in 2700 Posvar Hall, the Board of Trustees will meet to set Pitt’s tuition and budget for the upcoming school year. The announcement of a new tuition rate comes after Gov. Tom Corbett passed a $27.66 billion state budget for the 2012-2013 fiscal year on June 30 that keeps the level of appropriation for the State System of Higher Education consistent with the year prior. The appropriation was not adjusted for the rate of inflation. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on June 29 that Chancellor Mark Nordenberg said any increase to tuition would remain beneath the consumer price index. But Pitt spokesman John Fedele clarified that statement on July 10, stating that the “blended rate” would be below the CPI. The blended rate is an aggregation of the tuition across Pitt’s main and satellite campuses, meaning that some campuses could have different increases. This differentiated rate of tuition based on the campus is something also familiar to another state-related institution — Pennsylvania State University. Penn State spokeswoman

ester, N.Y., uses her art to spread lupus awareness. Her traveling exhibit — which will be on display in the Conney M. Kimbo Art Gallery in the William Pitt Union from Monday, Sept. 3, through Thursday, Sept. 20 — includes a self-portrait as well as 19 portraits of other subjects, all of whom suffer from the disease. The exhibit, sponsored by sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma and fraternity Delta Tau Delta, depicts individuals from all walks of life living with lupus. The youngest subject is only 5 years old and the oldest is 72. Lupus is a widespread chronic autoimmune disease that can cause inﬂammation in many parts of the body. The immune system of a person living with the disease

produces antibodies that cause subsequent damage to organs and tissues. “If left undiagnosed, you’re allowing the body to attack itself,” Thomas said. Thomas said that it is particularly vital for college-aged students to become aware of the disease because it primarily aﬀects people from the ages of 15 through 45. She also said that although men are at risk for lupus, the majority of patients are women. Despite the fact that women of color are three to four times more likely to contract the disease, Thomas continued, lupus is still a concern for people of all ethnicities. This diversity is well-represented in the portrait artist’s work.

While her subjects have a variety of ethnic backgrounds, they also come from all around the Northeast, including Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Thomas said that she met her subjects in many different ways. “I met them through neighbors, my hairdresser, old friends and at health fairs. I even met one during a layover in Germany,” she said. And the project was still acquiring subjects through February of this year. “That was the most difficult part for me,” Thomas said. “From a physical standpoint, it was difficult to organize everything, including travel and finding sponsors. It was a lot of busy work.”

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With the Democratic National Convention taking place this week in Charlotte, N.C., the Pitt College Democrats are working alongside the Obama for America campaign to get students registered to vote. The registration drive began last spring and is at its peak now as student volunteers stand in front of class buildings and on street corners to make sure that everyone who is eligible to vote is registered. “You have to be registered by the second week in October, so we’re really working hard to make sure that every student is registered,” said Lara Sullivan, president of Pitt College Democrats. And this active method seems to be effective. The volunteers help students through the entire registration process to make it as convenient as possible, especially since a lot of students are too busy with other work to fill out the form, Sullivan said. “We collect the forms and physically take it to the election office for them,” she said. “That way they don’t have to worry about postage.” One student took the opportunity to register when she was standing in line at the campus book center. “They just had a clipboard, and I registered on the spot,” freshman Emily Simmons said. Simmons thought the method of targeting students in large groups was effective because it is students who are behind the drive to get voters registered. “They’re relatable because they are students, so it’s not like

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President Obama spoke Friday at Carnegie Mellon as part of a two-day bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania. Luv Purohit | Visual Editor

Obama speech focuses on middle-class struggles Gwenn Barney Assistant News Editor President Barack Obama said he wakes up every morning to go to work for millions of Americans. And he wants four more years to continue that. Over the course of his 30-minute speech, Obama addressed a smorgasbord of major election issues including education, energy and the war in Afghanistan. But the thrust of his speech centered on the economy and the importance of the middle class. “That dream of a strong middle class — that’s what America’s always been about,” Obama said. “That’s what led me to get into public service. That’s what led me to ask for re-election.” About 6,500 people braved temperatures in the high 90s to hear the

president speak on the College of Fine Arts Lawn at Carnegie Mellon University Friday. The speech was part of Obama’s two-day “Betting on America” bus tour that started in Ohio Thursday and ended with his appearance in Pittsburgh. “We’re doing everything we can for the campaign, and if that means standing in the heat, then that’s what we’ll do,” said Alexandra Brosovich, a Pitt junior and a fellow for Organizing for America, a community organizing project of the Democratic National Convention. But despite campaign volunteers’ eﬀorts to cool down the crowd by passing out water bottles and spritzing attendees with water, 13 people were transported from the venue to hospitals by ambulances according to Pittsburgh Emergency Medical Services. Paramedics treated many others

at the event for heat-related issues. Yet the heat didn’t deter the president from delivering his message. Beginning with a greeting from his family members back home, he progressed into his speech with a discussion of his original motivations for seeking the presidency. Obama said that part of his reason for running in 2008 was that he saw a strong middle class “battered” during the Bush administration. “We had seen a decade when the middle class dreams were under assault,” he said. He described how during that era, gas and grocery prices increased while Americans’ salaries declined. “All of it culminated in the worst ﬁnancial crisis seen in our lifetime,” he said. Obama described the process he and his administration implemented to strengthen the economy

vantage of the early retirement program, and he did not have an estimate for how much money the staff reductions would save the University. Hill said that employees taking advantage of the program would receive “health and financial benefits,” but he did not return a request for details on the specific benefits. Chancellor Mark Nordenberg explained in the press release that this retirement plan was made in light of drastic funding

cuts from the state. The National Science Board’s “Science and Engineering Indicators 2012” ranked Pennsylvania to be among the five states with the lowest appropriation of state tax funds for supporting higher education in the 2010 fiscal year, but things have only gotten worse since then. During the 2012 fiscal year, Pitt lost more than $67 million in state support, due to a 22 percent reduction, an additional 5 per-

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Star rusher Graham hopes to return from severe knee injury soon Eric Burrage Staff Writer

for at least 10 years and are at least 59 years old. More than 500 employees could potentially leave by the end of the month if another 270 employees accept the offer before the June 15 deadline. Because those employees are classified, there is no way to distinguish which University departments they work in. Pitt spokesman Robert Hill said in an email that the University did not set a specific goal or expectation for how many eligible employees would take ad-

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storing a balanced oﬀensive system geared toward his player’s strengths. “It’s really shallow if you announce what you’re going to do — your actions have to prove it.” With no declarations of “highoctane football” and with a straightforward demeanor, Chryst’s personality seems to be the polar opposite of Graham’s — the man who hopped on a plane after texting the Pitt players to say that he was leaving for Arizona State last December. The former Pitt football coach cited family reasons and claimed that coaching at ASU was his dream job. Just eight days after Graham’s shocking departure, Pitt announced Chryst’s newly acquired position at the University with a press conference at

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Chryst latest to lead Pitt football program

Pitt reduces staff by more than 300 retirees More than 300 Pitt employees have accepted an early retirement offer that the University put into effect April 24 in an effort to cut costs at the University as a result of the decline in state funding. According to a press release on Monday, the University’s Voluntary Early Retirement Plan was extended to 672 employees who have worked at the University

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PrideFest revelers parade down Boulevard of the Allies in the Pride Awareness March, on June 10. Sarah Kontos | Senior Staff Photographer

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With an echo of quacks reminiscent of the ’90s film “The Mighty Ducks,” the Student Government Board members confirmed their presence during roll call at Tuesday’s public meeting. The members assumed the camaraderie and jovial tone as they entered the final two weeks of their tenure on the Board. Board President James Landreneau opened the meeting by congratulating the newly elected 2013 Board and announced the Jan. 10 inauguration date before about five people gathered in Nordy’s Place of the William Pitt Union. Following suit, the Board members proceeded to offer their congratulations to the incoming Board before providing project updates after their week-long hiatus due to the holiday break. “I am firmly against three weeks of inactivity and not hearing what the Board has been working on,” Landreneau said. “Although you may hear a lot of quacks for reports.” Board member Gordon Louderback said he had received “exciting” news that the University will install wireless Internet in residences halls that don’t currently have the services for the fall 2013 semester and look to expand wireless Internet to other portions of

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as “painstaking” and “laborious.” “We knew we wouldn’t be able to do it overnight because these problems weren’t created overnight,” he said. Despite a June job report released this morning that showed no change in the 8.2 percent unemployment rate and the creation of only 80,000 more jobs, Obama remained upbeat when addressing the current economic situation in his speech. He noted the creation of 4.8 million jobs in the past 28 months and that America has more manufacturing jobs today than in the 1990s. But he admitted that more work needed to be done for the economy. “What we all understand is we’ve got so much more today to do,” he said. “Too many of our friends, family members and neighbors are still

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The P2013itt N ews - 2014 The Market

he University of Pittsburgh’s independent daily student newspaper, The Pitt News, is proud to be located in a thriving urban market. The university is situated in the Oakland section of the city, which puts:

completely false. Students at Pitt have an annual effective buying income of $58 million. The university is the largest employer within the city limits and distributes an annual payroll of more than $700 million. This lucrative market offers an abundance of areas • 28,000 Students to shop, dine and be entertained. Downtown • 12,000 Faculty and Staff Pittsburgh is approximately three miles from • Tens of Thousands of Parents and Alumni Oakland. In addition, the Shadyside, Squirrel in the heart of Pittsburgh’s educational and Hill, Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, South Side, medical district. The popular notion that all North Side, Waterfront and Strip District college students have no spending power is sections of the city are all just minutes away.

Publication The Pitt News is published Monday through Wednesday with a weekly circulation of Friday during the fall and spring terms 10,000. The newspaper is free to anyone at with a daily circulation of 13,000. During 100 locations on and off campus. the summer, the paper is published every

Pitt students have an annual effective buying income of

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The Pitt News Readership

Which newspaper do you read on a weekly basis? 28,000 Students

The Pitt News

91%

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 35% City Paper

13%

12,000 Faculty & Staff

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2011 College Newspaper Readership Study College newspaper readership remains high among students. 93% of college students read the print or online edition of their school paper.

Students prefer the print version of their college newspaper. 97% of readers read the print edition. 47% read the online edition. 60% of college newspaper readers prefer print editions.

College newspaper ads and articles drive action. 70% of print readers have taken action from their newspaper. 69% of online readers have taken action from their newspaper.

Conclusion Students rely on their college paper to inform and influence their purchase decisions, and it is a key place for finding employment. Readers look to their school newspaper for local information and campus news. Coupons and promo codes are widely used for food and book purchases.

2011 College Newspaper Readership Study

Print Versus Online 53%

93%

read print only

of students read the college newspaper

read online only

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read print & online

Do you prefer print or online?

I can access it without an electronic device or internet connection

24%

like both equally

16% prefer online

I prefer the print edition of the school paper because...

60% prefer print

89%

I prefer to spend my time on other sites

86%

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more portable than the device I normally use to access the internet

86%

Picking up the print edition is faster I like to do the puzzles in the print edition

72% 63%

Student Spending Pitt Students Spend... Grocery Stores, Bakeries and Convenience Stores

$39.3 million per year

Full-service Restaurants

$10.0 million per year $ 4.1 million per year $ 2.0 million per year $ 7.0 million per year

Drugstores Hair Care Service Wine, Liquor and Beer Shoes, Clothing and Accessories

$ 9.3 million per year

Computer Hardware, Software and Supplies

$ 2.2 million per year

Eyeglasses, Contacts and Eye Care Products

$ 2.3 million per year

Bicycles and Supplies Entertainment (movies,

theatres, concerts, plays)

Automobiles

Approximately 3,786 readers plan a purchase this year

$ 4.6 million per year About 4,125 students plan to purchase a new or used car within the year 7,290 students have acess to an automobile

Multimedia Campaigns 2013 - 2014

Local & University Ad Rates Effective August 1, 2013

each the entire Pitt market, students, faculty, staff, alumni and families by bundling our print, online and social media.

4X - 4 print ads, 4 tweets and 8 months of online 8X - 8 print ads, 8 tweets and 8 months of online 15X - 15 print ads, 15 tweets and 8 months of online 30X - 30 print ads, 30 tweets and 8 months of online All Multimedia Campaigns include full color for the print advertisements.

Total Multimedia Campaign Investment:

4X 8X 15X 30X

Full Page

$4565

$7530

$12594

$23212

Half Page $3055 $4540 $7269 $13012 1/4 Page

$2270 $3040 $4419 $7500

Front Page* $2040 $2568 $3575 $5880 1/8 Page $1850 $2190 $2881 $4500 1/16 Page $1615 $1730 $2056 $2887

Per Ad Multimedia Campaign Investment:

4X 8X 15X 30X

Full Page

$1141.25 $941.25

$839.60

$773.73

Half Page $763.75 $567.50 $484.60 $433.73 1/4 Page $567.50 $380

$294.60 $250

Front Page* $510 $321 $238.33 $196

1/8 Page $462.50 $273.75 $192.07 $150 1/16 Page $403.75 $216.25 $137.07 $96.23

*Not available in special issues

Local/University Display Rates 2013 - 2014

Ad Rates Effective August 1, 2013.

Daily Insertion Rates (Color): OPEN Full Page

$1,191.00 $996.00 $972.00

15X

30X

60X

90X

120X

149X

$940.50 $907.50

$883.50

$864.00 $853.50 $841.50

Half Page

$622.50

$529.50 $510.00

$502.50 $486.00

$466.50

$444.00 $435.00 $424.50

1/4 Page

$336.00

$288.00 $277.50

$267.00 $259.50

$249.00

$235.50 $219.00 $217.50

Front Page

$211.00

$180.00 $171.00

$165.00 $161.00

$155.00

$147.00 $139.00 $137.00

1/8 Page

$190.50

$157.50 $147.00

$141.00 $136.50

$127.50

$120.00 $111.00 $108.00

1/16 Page

$97.50

$87.00

$72.00

$66.00

$61.50

$58.50

$57.00

90X

120X

149X

$75.00

$69.00

Daily Insertion Rates (Spot Color): OPEN

15X

30X

60X

Full Page

$992.50

$830.00 $810.00

$783.75 $756.25

$736.25

$720.00 $711.25 $701.25

Half Page

$518.75

$441.25 $425.00

$418.75 $405.00

$388.75

$370.00 $362.50 $353.75

1/4 Page

$280.00

$240.00 $231.25

$222.50 $216.25

$207.50

$196.25 $182.50 $181.25

1/8 Page

$158.75

$131.25 $122.50

$117.50 $113.75

$106.25

$100.00

$92.50

$90.00

1/16 Page

$81.25

$72.50

$60.00

$55.00

$51.25

$48.75

$47.50

120X

149X

$62.50

$57.50

Daily Insertion Rates (Black and White): OPEN

15X

30X

60X

90X

Full Page

$794.00

$664.00 $648.00

$627.00 $605.00

$589.00

$576.00 $569.00 $561.00

Half Page

$415.00

$353.00 $340.00

$335.00 $324.00

$311.00

$296.00 $290.00 $283.00

1/4 Page

$224.00

$192.00 $185.00

$178.00 $173.00

$166.00

$157.00 $146.00 $145.00

1/8 Page

$127.00

$105.00

$98.00

$94.00

$91.00

$85.00

$80.00

$74.00

$72.00

1/16 Page

$65.00

$58.00

$50.00

$48.00

$46.00

$44.00

$41.00

$39.00

$38.00

Print Ad Dimensions Effective August 26th, 2013 FULL PAGE AD 9.25” x 9.75”

AD SIZES KEY

HALF PAGE ISLAND 6.88” x 7.31”

V = VERTICAL H = HORIZONTAL SV = STRIP VERTICAL

QUARTER V 4.56” x 4.81”

FRONT PAGE AD 9.25” x 1.5”

1/16 V

2.21” x 2.34”

1/16 V

1/2 V

4.56” x 9.75”

1/4 SV

1/16 H

1/8 H

4.56” x 1.05”

4.56” x 2.34”

1/16 H

4.56” x 1.05”

1/4 H

2.21” x 2.34”

9.25” x 2.34”

1/8 V

1/2 H

2.21” x 9.75”

2.21” x 4.81”

9.25” x 4.81”

TPN Mobile App What is the TPN Mobile App? The Pitt News mobile app is a whole new vehicle to reach students, faculty and staff at the University of Pittsburgh. They will have access to breaking news, photos, videos, campus directions, offers, games, and so much more. With a growing number of people using smartphones everyday, the TPN mobile app is a response to the demand for new technology. Reach a whole new digital market by advertising your business within the app. With multiple mobile advertising options available, there are options for any budget.

Available for iPhone, iPad, and Android

TPN Mobile App Tile Ads

Banner Ads

Offers Page

Tile Ads are the most prominent ads in The Pitt News Mobile App. They appear on the homescreen everytime a user opens the app. These ads are also exclusive; there are only three spots that can be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.

Banner ads appear in multiple places around the app and are integrated into media sources. Have users see your business' advertisement while reading news stories, browsing pictures, searching events and more. Target your audience in specific sections of the app.

An Offers Page gives your business a personal page in The Pitt News App offers directory. As part of the directory, users can find directions to your business, coupons, specials, hours, menus, employment opportunities, and even call your business directly from the app.

Tile Ad Rates: $1,875 / year

Banner Ad Rates: $125 / month with print or multimedia contract

Offers Page Rates: $50 / month with print or multimedia contract

$250 / month without print or multimedia contract

$100 / month without print or multimedia contract

(November 2013 - July 2014)

$750 for fall 2013 semester (November - December 2013)

$1,500 for spring 2013 semester (January - April 2014)

Online www.pittnews.com

www.pittnews.com is often frequented by alumni, parents and families who are not on campus and cannot pick up a print copy of the paper. More students are accessing our website every year. The Pitt Newsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; website averages 119,000 page views per month. www.pittnews.com has a brand new website as of August 2013 to provide users with a comprehensive multimedia experience that allows advertisers to target a specific audience effectively.

Online www.pittnews.com

Leaderboard Banner

728 x 90 pixels

Per Impression Rates Leaderboard Banner: $6 per 1,000 impressions

Large Button 300 x 250 pixels

Large Button: $5 per 1,000 impressions

Monthly Rates (unlimited impressions)

Open 4x 8x 15x 30x Leaderboard Banner $260 $235 $210 $180 $155 Large Button $180 $155 $130 $105 $80

Online Housing Guide www.universitystudenthousing.com/pitt

21,000 students are looking for apartments for summer and next year. Let them know about your properties in the Online Housing Guide. The link to the housing guide universitystudenthousing.com/pitt is located on Pittnews.comâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homepage, which receives 56,000 visitors per month. The Online Housing Guide makes looking for apartments easy. Students, faculty, and staff can search for properties by distance, bedrooms, baths, amenities and more. Advertisers can even include photos, URLs, and their email. The Online Housing Guide is promoted by The Pitt News in the print edition, online, and social media/twitter.

FOR ADVERTISERS ON A CONTRACT 1 Month

4 Months

$50

$160

$300

$440

($1.66/day)

($1.33/day)

($1.25/day)

($1.20/day)

8 Months

12 Months

FOR ADVERTISERS WITHOUT CONTRACT 1 Month 4 Months 8 Months 12 Months $100 $320 $600 $880 ($3.33/day)

($2.66/day)

($2.50/day)

($2.41/day)

Social Media @ThePittNews

witter has become a powerful medium for people to gather information. News can be delivered as soon as it occurs. @ThePittNews, provides students, faculty and staff members, parents and alumni of Pitt with breaking and recent news about the university. With more than 11,000 followers, @ThePittNews is another great vehicle for advertising to the entire Pitt market. Have special deal or sale? Tweet about it to the Pitt market*.

*Limit of 140 characters per tweet. Must include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sponsored by [your business]â&#x20AC;?.