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Students turn out to protest Trump speech at Shale Insight Conference

By Ian Brady and Nicole Matthews For The Globe

A group of protesters that included Point Park students gathered outside of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center during Donald Trump’s speech at the Shale Insight Conference in demonstration last Thursday. They then attempted to interrupt a Trump fundraiser at the Duquesne Club in Downtown Pittsburgh after the conference.

Trump promised deregulation for energy companies at the conference, telling attendees, “You are going to like Donald Trump,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Trump also promised to return the steel industry back to western Pennsylvania.

The demonstration covered a litany of topics, ranging from climate change to social justice movements like Black Lives Matter. The event was partially organized

by One Pittsburgh, a worker’s rights organization, and NextGen Climate PA, an environmental advocacy group.

Though the protest was initially planned as a statement against the environ-

mental policies of Donald Trump and the Shale Insight Conference, the Black Lives Matter movement became of prominent aspect of the demonstrations.

As the protesters made their way down Sixth Avenue after Trump’s speech, their path was momentarily

blocked by police officers trying to clear the street, though the crowd pressed forward and made their way to the Duquesne Club.

Once there, marchers sat down on Sixth Avenue and started chanting at the men and women entering the club. One man was arrested

Two-person show explores complex relationships Jane McAnallen stresses fact-checking during presidential debates Women’s soccer prepares for conference play

for blocking the revolving door entering the Duquesne Club, the Pittsburgh Public Safety Department said. Michael Badges-Canning, who is running for a seat in the state House of Representatives on the Green Party tick-

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Fast food worker Laquania Coleman protests against Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon. Coleman was in support of Black Lives Matter and the movement to stop police brutality against African American males.

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National ‘Not On My Campus’ group now on campus

By Kayla Snyder Copy Editor

The student-led movement Not On My Campus, which raises awareness for sexual violence and promotes a safe campus for college students on a national level, officially has a chapter at Point Park University.

The Point Park chapter was established this year, when the United Student Government (USG) officially recognized it as a campus club. Students interested in volunteering for Not On My Campus can sign a pledge on the chapter’s Facebook page and Instagram, which is @NotOnMyCampusPPU. Not On My Campus started in 2013 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX and has since gained attention nationwide on other college campuses.

Syrah Sherwood, president of the club, said she

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PointSync issues linger Veterans in the workforce, leadership for USG during budget focus of School of Business conference

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By Alex Grubbs

USG Beat Reporter

Point Park’s student government started its meeting with persisting club and organization budget problems, despite the deadline for proposals ending two weeks ago.

United Student Government (USG) Treasurer Amedea Baldoni closed budget proposal forms for clubs and organizations after PointSync issues that left some

submitted budget proposals not being approved by USG. “I gave them a grace period,” Baldoni said, citing the budget proposal form submission issues via PointSync as the cause of it.

Two student organizations’ budgets were amended as they requested for more money saying that for the events to be successful, the money must be allocated to them.

Forensics Club requested

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Lack of diversity in media circles discussed at panel

By Neil Strebig For The Globe

When Keith Alexander and Wesley Lowery took on the challenge of covering fatal police shootings in 2015 they never imaged the greatness of the task that laid before them, let alone a Pulitzer.

Instead, the two simply approached the situation with their journalistic integrity in hand. For them, it was a story that needed to be told, and they were going to tell it in the best way possible.

“We know we were doing something that was never done before,” Alexander

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said in a phone interview. “It fueled us, to peel back [on a national level] layer after layer on police shootings.

Let’s get this story out and shake the trees – what more can we tell – that was the motivating part.”

Alexander and Lowery visited Point Park last Wednesday to take part in “Press Forward: A Discussion of Race, Diversity and Inclusion in the Pittsburgh News Industry,” presented by the Pittsburgh Black Media Foundation (PBMF).

As part of the media panel,

The School of Business hosted the second annual Veterans Joint leadership Initiative Sept. 23. The program gives veterans from various organizations a chance to network and discuss how their workplaces handle veteran integration into the workforce.

The initiative kicked off in Village Park with military-style field exercises.

Veterans separated into two groups of four and began a city-wide scavenger hunt.

Each group received three

landmarks. The veterans worked together to decipher each clue.

“I thought the exercises were very good,” said Jason Brown, Western Regional Manager of the State Civil Service Commission and Point Park alumnus. “It gives you a different perspective.

You can just state an idea, but you gain respect through actually doing something, which is more lasting.”

Veterans were led to landmarks through a scavenger hunt from Fort Pitt

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and Clark began their journey. The final exercise led the groups back to the Lawrence Hall multipurpose room for lunch and a conference. A luncheon catered by Primanti Brother’s and Eat N’ Park allowed attendees to spend time networking with one another.

The conference featured Chris Phillips, military recruiter for PNC Bank, who led a discussion covering a variety of topics. Phillips be-

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Veterans Edwin Hernandez, Ron Wyley and Jason Brown, along with Eric Kizina, current army member, explore Pittsburgh during a scavenger hunt to find landmarks as part of the Veterans Joint Leadership Initiative.

Thursday: Thunderstorms, H 66, L 57 Friday: Thunderstorms, H 67, L 54 Saturday: Showers, H 68, L 55 Sunday: Partly cloudy, H 70, L 52 Monday: Partly cloudy, H 71, L 53 Tuesday: Mostly cloudy, H 72, L 54

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Trump fund raiser at Duquesne Club interrupted by protesters their views on the injustices they were opposing.

The protest turned violent when police on horses came, according to Point Park freshman political science major Dannys Marrero.

“What I did find unnecessary was when they brought in the cavalry,” Marrero said.

Extra police supervision was put in place to prevent another riot like the one that broke when Trump visited the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in April.

Four officers were injured and three individuals were arrested on various charges, ranging from aggravated assault to rioting, that day.

Marrero noted that his

mother was a police officer in Puerto Rico, that he has the utmost respect for them and found much of the behavior by the protesters unnecessary as well.

While no major injuries were reported, Point Park student Harleigh Foster, a freshman sports, arts and entertainment management (SAEM) major, said she sustained an ankle injury after being forcibly pushed off the sidewalk and onto the street by a police officer.

“The police with riot gear on wanted us off the sidewalk, so they started pushing back. And we were all moving, but weren’t moving fast enough,” Foster said. “This police officer shoved me and I fell off the sidewalk into the street.”

At the demonstration, Foster said she did not plan to file a police report.

Point Park freshman broadcast production major Donethe Cyprien described the scene as “straight chaos”.

“Police officers were pushing us,” Cyprien said. “I felt like a criminal or something. I don’t hate police. I know they’re good guys, but this was scary.”

Primary concerns of the Point Park student body in the upcoming election tended to vary by area of study.

“I want to give a message with acting that it’s okay to be who you are. It’s okay to be diverse. Trump won’t do anything for that,” said freshman acting major Nadia Abdelaal.

Nate Grossi, a freshman SAEM major, expressed his concern for his future under a Donald Trump presidency.

“I want to use my future in entertainment to communicate an accepting view.”

Grossi said. “He has ideas that go against everything like that and everything the entertainment industry stands for.”

photo by Gracey Evans

Ian Brady imbrady@pointpark.edu.

Nicole Matthews nlmatth@pointpark.edu.

FiveThirtyEight tilts towards McGinty win in Pennsylvania

Toomey endorsed by Sen. John McCain for Senate campaign

Josh Shapiro picks up key endorsement in state’s AG race

Pennsylvania Democratic candidate Katie McGinty is favored to win the state’s US Senate election in November, according to new predictions by Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight.

Silver currently gives McGinty a 53.7 percent chance to win the election.

Republican incumbant Pat Toomey however leads in the most recent FiveThirtyeight poll, but he trailed in seven of the nine polls prior.

Source: Fivethirtyeight

As he continues his reelection campaign for the U.S. Senate, Toomey picked up a key endorsement Friday from established conservative Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

McCain, the Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election, appeared alongside Toomey at the Folsom Veterans of Foreign Wars post during a campaign stop in support of the oneterm Pennsylvania senator.

Source: NewsWorks.org

Former GOP candidate for the Pennsylvania Attorney General race Joe Peters has endorsed Democrat Josh Shapiro for the upcoming election over fellow Republican John Rafferty.

Peters, who won 36 percent of the GOP primary votes, praised Shapiro as an independent focused on the goals of the commonwealth, not the party. Peters was the spokesperson for former Attorney General Kathleen Kane.

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Point Park students participated in the events on Thursday as both spectators and artists.

Alex Cromer, a senior advertising major at Point Park, was in the middle of the protest, utilizing his artistic skill to build an interactive sculpture of his own design that he said was about environmental activism.

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Five freshman sworn in as new USG senators from USG page 1 an additional $275 for a projector to use for a club-sponsored movie night. However, the club underestimated their budget, thinking they didn’t need to request money for it.

“From my knowledge, they didn’t realize they needed to get this. They thought they could get this from somewhere else,” Baldoni said in reference to requesting to use Point Park facilities for events.

USG already partially funded Forensics Club $250 for a movie night. Sen. Daniel Murphy called for amending the club’s additional budget request, changing its budget for that event from $250 to $525.

Table Top Tirade also requested an additional $67 for prizes for their “Game Day” event to the $404 it previously requested. USG amended the event budget from $404 to $471.

Murphy asked Baldoni if USG will make it clear from this point on that money allocations for prize budgets will stay partially-funded despite approving the additional money request from the club.

Baldoni reiterated that USG was partially-funding prizes for this event already, and future money allocations for prizes at events will stay partially-funded.

She also pointed out that all appeals request forms for additional funding were closed after Monday.

President Pro Tempore Shaniece Lawrence announced USG will be changing how it runs its yearly forum. This year, the forum will not be a themed party similar to the Disney-themed forum during the 2014-15 school year.

“We’re actually going to make it a little more formal,” Lawrence said.

USG will partner with the

Office of Student Life to create a formal USG forum for students with help from Dean of Students Michael Gieske.

Lawrence hopes Point Park President Paul Hennigan and Student Employment Coordinator Joan Dristas will also be involved.

The estimated day for this event is in mid-November.

She also said USG will change their student concern tables to later times to reach more students.

Another subject brought up at the meeting was the absence of Sens. Mario Avila and Shayna Mendez.

According to Sen. Gracey Evans, Avila was attending rugby practice. Mendez was absent due to personal reasons, according to Parliamentarian Charles Murria.

“Is that for sure, and will that be every week?” Sen. Kayla Damazo later asked. Vice President Bobby Bertha responded saying he did not know.

Both absences were excused after Sen. Murphy’s motion was approved.

“Executive Cabinet members shall be permitted two (2) absences from regular meetings,” according to USG’s Title II 200.33 in its constitution.

President Blaine King also officiated freshmen Riley Frank, Hayley Hoffman, Kaylee Kearns, Alexa Newbrough and Hannah Steiner as senators into USG. Sen. KacieJo Brown “applauded” Sen. Shannon Sager after quote tweeting The Globe’s PointALERT Tweet regarding the Thursday night stabbing at the 7-Eleven on Wood St. on the USG Twitter account, telling students to “be safe.”

This was part of Sager’s new USG communication revamp to reach out to students.

King said due to bad calculations, he will push the unveiling of USG’s internal budget until next week’s meeting.

Alex Grubbs aagrubb@pointpark.edu.

Princess Winder, freshman stage management major, holds a sign in support of the Muslim community at a Trump protest outside of the Duquesne Club on Thursday afternoon.

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New club joins Resident Educators to create anti-sexual assault photo campaign on every campus resident floor from CLUB page 1 found out about Not On My Campus last year from a friend’s Facebook post regarding the University of Alabama’s chapter. She thought it was a good idea and started the process of starting a Point Park chapter last year.

“Everybody has been affected by [sexual assault] in some way, whether it be directly or someone they know, everybody knows somebody or is that somebody,” Sherwood said. “I just feel like it isn’t talked about enough.

It’s usually glazed over pretty quickly. I just wanted everyone here to feel like they were safe and supported at all times.”

Caleb Rodgers, resident director at Point Park, said that it is important for the students to know that sexual assault does occur on their campus.

“I think that until you’re able to bring it home and say this is an issue on every college campus, and Point Park is no exception to that,” Rodgers said. “That’s when we start to see a shift in the culture and students really standing up and rallying around each other and rallying for themselves and saying

‘this is an issue we’re experiencing and we’re not going to stand for it.’”

To increase visibility and reach more residential students, Point Park has involved Resident Educators (RE) into the program.

Daniel Strickland, sophomore secondary special education major and freshman RE, said that REs supporting the Not On My Campus campaign is important because students need to know that their REs are going to support them.

“Our job [as REs] is to educate them and initially we want them to see the Not On My Campus posters and signs and feel safe and welcomed,” Strickland said.

There is also a photo campaign that involves participants writing the words ‘Not On My Campus’ on the palm of their hand and facing it towards the camera.

Every RE has a campaign photo posted on their resident floor as a reminder that they will not allow sexual assault to happen on this campus.

Elizabeth Rosemeyer, the University’s Title IX coordinator, said that Not On My Campus and the Title

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Syrah Sherwood, left, and Wesley Ehle started the Point Park chapter of ‘Not On My Campus’ in the hopes of curbing sexual violence on the university’s campus.

IX office have similar goals such as preventing any type of sexual harassment or sexual violence happening on our campus and supporting any students who experience sexual violence or harassment anywhere.

“We want to make sure that those students are aware of what support and resources are available to them,”

Pulitzer winners stress importance of restraint on social media after violence from DIVERSITY page 1 the two Washington Post reporters discussed not only their trials and tribulations in covering their historic case study, but also the role of African-American and minority reporters in today’s newsrooms.

Despite making up more than a third of Pittsburgh’s population, people of color only occupy nine percent of the workforce in Pittsburgh newsrooms. The PBMF surveyed ten local papers including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Tribune-Review, and found that out of 425 positions, African-Americans only held 29 positions – barely seven percent.

Only the Pittsburgh City Paper had any minority reporters covering criminal justice and urban neighborhood stories.

“Over the next two years, we will be conducting an in-depth study of diversity and inclusion issues in Pittsburgh,” PBMF parliamentarian Letrell Crittenden said. “[We are journalists] to be a voice for the voiceless and hold the powerful accountable,” Alexander said during the panel discussion.

With the civic unrest and negative public opinion

surrounding police-related shootings at an all-time high, the panel stressed the importance of having people of color on staff to cover these stories.

“The more you value diversity in the newsroom, the more you value diversity in coverage,” Crittenden added.

Alexander and Lowery pointed out that as journalists, it is a sensitive issue anytime you are dealing with homicides.

“Being a crime writer, you’re dealing with life or death. You’re dealing with stories with an immediate impact,” Alexander said during a phone interview Tuesday.

The inception of social media and video in recent years has magnified violent crimes against minorities. Before video and before the Washington Post’s team broke their Pulitzer Prize-winning story following the travesties in Ferguson, there were no public records of police-related shootings unless they were filed by the police precinct themselves, an issue that caused the reporting team a large number of headaches during their research process.

Without easily accessible data, Lowery explained how the team relied on Google, local media coverage and so-

photo by Neil Strebig

The Pittsburgh Black Media Federation and the Center for Media Innovation discussed diversity and inclusion in the Pittsburgh news industry on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

cial media to help accurately collect data and tell the story.

“We’re having this discussion because of video,” Lowery said, “[Video] changed and forced this conversation.”

Since their story broke last year, the idea of holding police and precincts accountable for unlawful actions has been one of the largest public outcries.

Alexander stressed the importance of understanding these highly stressful and volatile situations with empathy. Both officers and victims are put into “anxiety-filled situations” where adrenaline can take over, often resulting in negative consequences for multiple parties involved. While that does not mean errors in judgment are justified, it does mean that seeing the video is not the final word. “[You] can’t represent both sides in just 140 characters,” Alexander said in regards to social media outrage. “People want to grab people’s attention without using the same journalistic skills that are used in a story, and that’s a concern.”

Alexander acknowledged that while citizen journalism is a useful tool, both reporters and non-journalists need to take precaution when using social media. He urged for more accountability towards social media postings, saying that “credibility needs to be challenged.”

“My reputation is what sells newspapers. We’re all [journalists]. We all make mistakes and we correct them,” Alexander said.

Knee-jerk reactions or posts without factual evidence can be even more damaging to potentially breaking news situations than some activists realize, according to Alexander.

Neil Strebig nmstreb@pointpark.edu.

Rosemeyer said.

The nationwide Not On My Campus movement strives to end the silence regarding sexual violence on campuses across America.

Wesley Ehle, vice president of the club, said that compared to other college campus chapters of Not On My Campus, Point Park is different.

“Our campus is not just a campus… our campus is a city,” Ehle said. “When we say, ‘Not on my campus,’ we mean our whole campus, which includes the city. This is our home, this is our campus.”

Kayla Snyder klsnyde2@pointpark.edu.

Veterans network at university conference from VETERANS page 1 gan by providing her background, explaining that the day after she graduated high school, she began active duty.

After working at Chrysler and UPMC, she now works at PNC as a veteran’s recruiter.

“Transitioning is a struggle, and it continues to be a challenge in corporate America, but you’re not alone,” Phillips said.

Phillips went on to explain that in each of the organizations represented, initiative is the key to success.

“Initiative is a very important word to be using in each of your organizations, because you want it to go from being an initiative to a program,” Phillips said.

Each veteran in the room had a chance to speak about how their organization works with veteran affairs programs and integrates them in the workforce.

Eventually, the group came to an agreement that a major reason veterans are struggling with transitioning is because they don’t know resources like these exist. “’How do they know how to find us?’ Do you know that’s the number one thing that we hear from veterans?

‘I don’t know how to find the job,’” Phillips said.

It was mentioned that many veterans avoid attending veteran-related events because many times it’s just a photo op for publicity.

After a 20 minute recess, the conference continued as Annie Hamburg of the Pittsburgh Cultural trust shared details via Skype on the upcoming show “Basetrack” that will be playing at the Byham Theater.

“Basetrack” is a live documentary that features a cast and crew of veterans that centers around war and its impact. Hamburg

stressed that the main objective of “Basetrack” is to have veterans talk and help them to feel comfortable when discussing experiences and what is on their mind.

Shortly into the Skype call, Hamburg asked, “how many veterans are in attendance?”

Nearly everyone raised his or her hand.

She then asked, “how many of you talk to your family members about your experience?”

Every hand fell to their lap.

Dr. Patrick Mulvihill, visiting assistant professor of business, expressed his satisfaction with the events.

“We doubled our attendance from last year,” Mulvihill said. “This is an event that is growing, and we hope it keeps on growing so we can have something like this every year.”

Steve Tanzilli, chair of the Department of Management, played a key role in the event coming together.

“Veteran affairs is something that is important to me, so I wanted to do more to get them accustomed to higher education, and we have been able to do that,” Tanzilli said.

Robert Berger raberge@pointpark.edu.

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Honors Program volunteers for The Great Race

By Nicole Pampena Copy Editor

When runners of the 39th annual Richard S. Caliguiri Great Race entered Point Park’s campus with only half of a mile to go, the sun was on their backs and Honors Program students were ready to greet and encourage them.

The students stood ready with a water cup in one hand and a cowbell in the other. Their presence was hard to miss, and especially beneficial to participants like Krystopher Baklarz, a freshman sports, arts and entertainment management (SAEM) major and member of the Honors Program who ran in the 10K event.

“I was looking for [them] the entire race,” Baklarz said, referring to the familiar faces supporting him.

The Great Race is a major volunteering event for the Honors Program every year, dominating Boulevard of the Allies with seven tables at the water station.

Students arrived at 7 a.m. and worked in shifts to hand out water cups and collect those thrown to the side, said Crissy Garcia, a

freshman intelligence and national security major and honors volunteer.

About a dozen students volunteered to show their support for more than 16,000 participating runners.

Water stop coordinator and Point Park alum Clint Burton paid a visit to the water station minutes before the front-runners for the 5K would pass by. Burton, a graduate of the class of ‘83 with a B.S. in computer science, has held this position for the past eight Great Races.

Farther down the street outside of Village Park, more honors volunteers and members of the Pink Feet committee sold bagels to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. All proceeds will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Tyler Dague, graduate assistant for the Honors Program, commented on their overall presence at the race.

“We just want to get out and support everyone early in the morning,” Dague said. “Pink Feet thought this would be a great way to raise money.”

Baklarz recalled the struggles of the Great Race

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Nick Edinger, a Mars High School and Geneva College graduate, won Pittsburgh’s 39th annual Great Race Sunday morning. Runners began the race in Oakland and finished in downtown Pittsburgh.

Edinger, now a resident of Kent, Ohio, was one of the more than 16,000 runners participating. that take place mid-race, which spectators typically do not see.

“The highway was the hardest part,” Baklarz said, describing how the heat of the pavement could be felt through his shoes. “It dragged on the longest. Everyone clustered there and at the beginning.”

He decided to focus on

the runners, offering encouragement during that stretch of the race to overcome challenges he experienced in a past 10K run.

“It’s awkward because you could consider me a runner, but I do smaller distances,” Baklarz said.

His first walk/run race of this distance, Panerathon, took place on Aug.

21 in Youngstown, Ohio, right outside of his hometown of Boardman. Initially, he planned on walking the race, until a friend encouraged him to run the remainder, allowing him to finish with a time of one hour and 11 minutes.

The goal of Sunday was to beat that time, which Baklarz accomplished by crossing the finish line in an hour and three minutes.

He said it took a few minutes at the start of the race for him to actually begin running due to such a high number of participants.

The event concluded with the thousands of participants gathering in Point State Park to celebrate their accomplishment and enjoy the day. An awards ceremony took place shortly after to acknowledge the winners and conduct the raffle drawing.

Back on the quiet streets of campus, honors students cleaned up and left no trace, with the exception of an impact on the city of Pittsburgh and one of its annual traditions.

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Jennifer Huffman, a 2014 graduate of the Freshman cinema production major and honors student volunteer Sarah Campbell SAEM program, runs through the finish line hands out cups of water to Great Race runners as they near the end of the race. during the Great Race Sunday.

Nicole Pampena nmpampe@pointpark.edu

Two-person show explores multi-faceted relationships

By Kelsey Wolfe For The Globe

The REP Professional Theatre Company is continuing its season with the opening of another play this week, with director Robert Turano tackling the complicated relationship between a father and daughter in Halley Feiffer’s play “I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard.”

“Halley’s writing is a brilliant and brutally honest exploration of the relationship between a father and daughter,” Turano said in a press release. “I haven’t been this excited about the language of a new play since I read and then produced David Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ here [in Pittsburgh] many years ago.”

This two-person performance explores the complex relationship between Ella, a young aspiring actress, and her father, David, a once famous playwright. The pair, in a vulnerable, tell-all night, sit in their kitchen and discuss whether or not to read the reviews from Ella’s stage debut. Throughout the night, their relationship unravels, and they begin to understand

the flaws within it and why it seems so hard to make each other proud.

Marketing and public relations coordinator for the Conservatory of Performing Arts, Cassia Sakmar said “I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard” is a show that is very relatable to the audience, especially Point Park students, as the university is largely a performing arts college. “[I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard] has to do with the performing arts. From the writing end of it, to the performance end of it, what the reviews are like,” Sakmar said in a phone interview on Thursday. “Even on the end of the media and seeing how the reviews affect the actor and the importance it has in their careers.”

Show-goers, like freshmen musical theatre major Jordan McMillan, said a performance like “I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard” is important because of the themes and relationships it discusses.

“It’s impressive because it’s really difficult to capture father-daughter relationships the way that this show does,” McMillan said. “There are so many variables in real rela-

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Cathryn Dylan as Ella and Martin Giles as David in the upcoming performance of “I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard” at The Pittsburgh Playhouse. The show will run from September 30th through October 16th. tionships like there is in the one portrayed in the show.”

Chloe Bendis, a senior broadcast reporting major, said the idea of a show where the audience gets to see the reaction of how performers take in review information can make media professionals think about the people they are critiquing in their reviews.

“You have to be careful as to what you say in the media,” Bendis said. “You don’t want to hurt others, and you have to know your limits.”

The show opens at the Pittsburgh Playhouse’s Studio Theatre on Sept. 30 and will run until Oct. 16. Tickets range from $10-$29 and can be purchased at the Playhouse’s box office or by call-

ing at (412)-392-8000.

Following the Thursday, Oct. 13 performance, there will be a talk back with the cast. The talk back is a way for the audience to ask questions about the show and dig deeper into the writing of Feiffer.

Kelsey Wolfe kjwolfe@pointpark.edu

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Pittsburgh Public Theater opens season with ‘The Fantasticks’

By Karly Rivera

Co-Features Editor

During Tony Bingham’s career at Point Park University, he landed a role in the production of “The Fantasticks.”

Almost 25 years later, Bingham will take the stage again in “The Fantasticks,” joined by another alumnus of Point Park, Jason Shaver.

“I’m still compelled by the story. I’m still intrigued by the characters,” Bingham said in a phone interview. “I’m still blown away by the music.

It’s so melodic, and it’s also strange at times.”

Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT) is opening its 42nd season with the show “The Fantasticks” at the O’Reilly Theater.

Margie Romero, communication manager at PPT, said the show has a big story, but is told in a simple, imaginative way.

“Some of it is wildly funny and other parts are very heartfelt,” Romero said. “There is something for every generation and the songs are both catchy and moving.”

The musical started as an off-Broadway production at the Sullivan Theater in New York City. Due to its popularity, the show ran from the 1960s to 2002.

“The music is wonderful.

It’s interesting and unusual and I think those are two of the reasons it ran so long on

Broadway,” Bingham said. “It was an unconventional approach to a pretty standard convention to how to present a show on Broadway. They mixed it up.”

Shaver, a 2004 Point Park graduate, has worked in the local area and this his first time working with PPT. He’s portraying the character “The Mute.” “[‘The Mute’] is an interesting little character,” Shaver said. “‘The Mute’ is there to basically facilitate the story, he’s there with props, he’s moving scenery. But he also gets to show his opinion of what’s going on in the show.”

Bingham has been in other production around the area and most recently in PPT’s performance of “Guys and Dolls.” In this production, he is portraying the character “Mortimer, known as The Actor Who Dies.”

“I play the sidekick to a couple of hired actors that are apart of the play, within the play… He has been dying as a part of his career for his whole life, since he was a little boy,” Bingham said. “It’s fun to be able to give him some sort of back story of my own that I filled in. It’s my little secret that I take on stage with me.”

Shaver said he finds motivation in the story and how universal it is for the audience.

“You sometimes think when you are living your

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Point Park Alumni Jason Shavers (left) and Toby Bingham (right) will be performing in the Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Production of “The Fantasticks.” The show will run from September 29th through October 30th.

life that things you’re going through are only happening to you. But when you see the story and realize somebody had to write it and someone had to get inspiration for it and sort of touches just about everyone,” Shaver said. “It makes you realize that everybody goes through the same thing.”

One of Bingham’s favorite aspects about the show and something he said he questions is, “what compels these characters to come together?”

“I think trying to solve that mystery as an actor is what makes doing this show so enjoyable,” Bingham said. “The ultimate challenge is to just to sort of figure out what bring this group together to do these wonderful, and strange songs.”

While Bingham said he wonders what brings these characters together, he said he also finds inspiration in the character’s mysteriousness and as an actor wants to get to the bottom of who he is portraying.

“You don’t really find out much backstory about the characters, maybe a senFantasticks opens Sept. 29 at the O’Reilly Theater and runs through Oct. tence or two, or three 30. Student tickets are available for $15.75.

or four. Some characters you get absolutely zero backstory,” he said. “Not getting very much information has been a very fun challenge for me.”

Romero said she thinks students would enjoy this show because it is centered around character’s their age.

“The story is about two people their own age and how they deal with love, parents and growing up,” Romero said. “But the musical also has a magical quality that really draws you in.”

After finishing the university’s musical theater program, Shaver said he learned a lot about theater and by the time he graduated he was a different performer.

“Everything from just basic singing, to dance, to learning how to interpret a character and learning about the business,” Shaver said. “So Point Park trained me greatly for my career as a whole.”

Bingham said Point Park was instrumental in making sure its students were ready across the board, and the program taught him a variety of different acting approaches.

“They were always pushing us to be ready professionally, to understand the process of creating a work of art and that was really important,” Bingham said. “We always had

a lot of different ‘tools’ in our bag to approach each project.

As an actor that’s a really important to have those different tools because no project is ever going to be the same.”

PPT is always welcoming Point Park alumni and students to be a part of previous and current productions.

Romero said the students that PPT has worked with have been prepared for the professional world.

“Actors leave school with a respect for the process,” she said. “They know how to approach a play or musical and how to work well with directors and other actors.”

Shaver offered advice for students in the theater program at Point Park.

“Take it all in, learn as much as you can and if you’re going into the arts you [have] to build up, be resilient,” he said. “This career isn’t easy, but Point Park trains you greatly.”

“The Fantasticks” will run from Sept. 29 to Oct. 30 at the O’Reilly Theater located in the Cultural District. Student can receive discounted tickets at a rate of $15.75. For further information, visit ppt.org.

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OPINIONS

Spoopy vs. Spooky: The most important debate of our time

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Voter registration vital Over the past couple weeks, Point Park students have been asked a single question with almost maddening regularity: Are you registered to vote?

The question’s frequency might feel maddening, but there’s no reason to get angry at the people asking it. They’re doing important work, and they’re insistent because it’s important that you register.

According to RealClear Politics’ polling data, Hillary Clinton was leading Donald Trump by 3.3 points on Monday. That’s a tight race in a state with 20 crucial electoral votes, a state in which we’re currently attending school.

Whether you want Clinton to strengthen her lead, Trump to catch up or a third-party candidate to get enough momentum to affect policy, your most direct way to shape the country’s politics is to vote.

It’s an avenue that not enough people are taking advantage of. According to U.S. Census data from the 2014 election, 59.3 percent of people eligible to vote are registered. Only 38.5 percent voted in 2014.

The numbers get worse when they’re broken up by age. A mere 39.1 percent of eligible voters age 18-24 were registered to vote in 2014, and 15.6 percent voted in the 2014 election.

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We are being targeted on campus for a reason. We’re being asked if we’re registered to vote because there’s a statistically decent chance, as a group on a college campus, that we’re not.

Don’t get angry at people who only want to help you make your voice heard.

Get angry at your friends who aren’t registered to vote. Get angry at the apathetic, those who choose to critique a system without making any meaningful effort to change it.

There’s no way to exist outside of politics and policy. They affect everyone.

Not voting or registering to vote only takes away your own voice.

The deadline in Pennsylvania to register to vote or change the address of your registration is Oct. 11.

Registering with the address you use at Point Park ensures that you’ll be able to vote in the most convenient way possible. You can do it online, even via text, and the process takes only a few minutes.

It only takes a few minutes to exercise one of your most important and sacred rights as a participant in democracy. Doesn’t sound like such a bad deal, does it?

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There are times in this world when we must choose a side. Some issues are too important to remain silent on. Too much is at stake.

Such is the case of the word “spoopy,” which, with October impending, will soon create a storm of controversy on campus. Some people hate the word, but some people love it. We at the Globe have been locked in debate about the subject and therefore decided to give both sides an opportunity to present their respective arguments.

PRO-SPOOPY: Beth Turnbull

I remember exactly where I was when I first saw the word spoopy: Tumblr.

We’ve all seen the image of the cheaply made Halloween sign with the misspelling that started it all. But spoopy is more than just an unfortunate misspelling of spooky, more than a meme: It’s an attitude, a way of life.

With Halloween just around the corner, there is no better time for this debate. The word spooky is limited. Spoopy covers it all. Spooky is too specifically scary. Spoopy is more of an umbrella term for things that might not even be frightening at all.

For example, a children’s Halloween cartoon is probably not spooky, but it is probably spoopy. The movie “Hocus Pocus” is

not actually scary, but it is spoopy. Spoopiness can be a blend of humor and horror.

It covers a spectrum.

Another reason I like the word spoopy is it brings people together. Whenever I find another person who knows what it means, I am delighted. I feel like we are part of a secret club – a club of people who appreciate the fluidity of language and realize that words are more about what they mean than what they sound like.

The word spoopy just flows off the tongue; it feels so right. It makes me want to wear a cape and chase people around.

Nothing else evokes the spirit of Halloween within me quite like this word.

Spoopy is a feeling. It’s the wind beneath my wings come October.

And it’s fun. Just let us have fun. Let us be spoopy.

ANTI-SPOOPY: Laura Byko

I’m pretty sure the first time I heard the word “spoopy,” I cringed so hard my spine lost a couple vertebrae. That’s my instinctive reaction, and it’s not just because it sounds like “spooky” but with poop.

No, it’s because spoopy belongs on the internet, not spoken aloud.

A friend of mine once reacted to seeing mac and cheese using the doge meme, but verbally. “Wow,” she said. “Much mac. Such cheese.” It a horrifying sight to witness, in the same way that spoopy is a horrifying

sound to hear.

I believe spoopy to be a meme of a word, and memes belong on the internet. There are two surefire ways to know that a meme has reached its expiration date: First, if brands coopt a meme, it is no longer fun. Second, if the meme is spoken aloud, it is probably oversaturated in popular culture. Spoopy has fallen victim to both.

If people used spoopy separately from spooky, I think I’d have less of a problem with it. The two aren’t synonyms; spoopy is inherently more adorable (and therefore more cloying) than spooky.

But rather than the two existing harmoniously within our language, it seems that spoopy is entirely replacing spooky.

Halloween should be spooky, not spoopy. It should be frightening, ideally full of goblins or ghouls that leave you a little unsettled. It should not be cute.

It’s my favorite holiday precisely because there’s no sentimentality attached to it.

Spoopy threatens the spooky core of Halloween, turning the holiday instead into something cute, sweet and sappy.

We have every single other holiday for cuteness.

Preserve what makes Halloween great. Make Halloween spooky again.

Laura Byko lobyko@pointpark.edu.

Beth Turnbull erturnb@pointpark.edu.

Fact checking essential during debates

By Jane McAnallen Copy Editor

The first presidential debate was on Monday and boy howdy. If you wanted to see the candidates expand on their platforms, well, one of them delivered.

Clinton was prepared, knowledgeable and utterly at ease behind the podium.

Trump was catty, sniveling and ineloquent, failing to control his temper or assure his supporters that he could present himself as a president.

Trump, trying to stick to his what he’s been shouting, circled backed to trade again and again while never actually expanding on what he would do differently as president.

Meanwhile, Clinton crammed in as much of her policy as possible from the top, touching on renewable energy, investing in small business, equal pay for women, closing the income gap, paid family leave

and having the wealthy pay their fair share all while answering the first question.

Perhaps she foresaw how quickly it would devolve into character attacks.

When moderator Lester Holt attempted to get Donald Trump to explain how he would get businesses to come back to United States, as he claimed he would do, Trump abandoned the calmer persona he started the debate with and instead chose to interrupt, not answer the question and insist he would not let them leave in the first place.

Clinton continued to draw attention to the gaps in Trump’s campaign – his refusal to release his tax returns (his reasoning is that he’s being audited, although that didn’t stop Richard Nixon) and his “secret” plan to defeat ISIS. Many of the claims Trump tried to refute during the debate turned out to be true according to

independent fact checkers, such as his denial that he said climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, or when he insisted stop and frisk wasn’t unconstitutional, or when he again said that he didn’t push the Birther movement after Obama produced his birth certificate.

Donald also told lies that weren’t purely out of reaction to Clinton’s accusations. He said the decline in crime in New York City can be attributed to stop and frisk (it can’t) and that it was not racial profiling (it was). He said ISIS was making money on Libyan oil (they aren’t). He said he personally got NATO to create their terrorism intelligence division (he didn’t, they didn’t and that’s not what the change was).

So while Hillary shined as a presidential candidate, with polished policy and prepared quips, Donald bumbled, lied and sniffed his way through the debate.

He even had the audacity the suggest a woman who stood for 11 hours in a congressional hearing didn’t have the stamina to be president.

By the end of the debate, Clinton didn’t have a hair out of place. She was never caught off guard or unable to answer a question. Trump was reduced to defending his statements on women by saying “Rosie O’Donnell… deserves it and nobody feels sorry for her” while patting himself on the back for not similarly assaulting Hillary and her family.

If this debate was any indication of how each candidate would handle the pressures of the presidency, then it’s very clear who’s ready to lead this country and who’s still behaving like he can lie and bully his way to the top.

There are some people who will support Trump no matter what. They don’t care what the fact checkers say is true, or what the ex-

perts say is the right move for the country. They’ll say Donald Trump won the debate because he was “passionate,” or “angry on behalf of Americans.”

It’s not enough that Hillary got the facts right and kept her cool, they’ll say she was too happy while talking about America’s struggles. Or that she smiled wrong. Or that she was too mean. Or that she’s just plain unlikeable.

When you’re watching the rest of these debates, and for the rest of this election, don’t let your belief in or distaste for one candidate sway you. Listen to the fact checkers, seek out the experts and look to the future.

What matters in this election is finding the strength and leadership to guide this country, not petulance and ignorance that will hold us back.

Jane McAnallen jhmcana@pointpark.edu.

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Just in time: Women’s soccer team gears up for conference play Cohen tossed a shutout in her Point Park debut in net.

The Pioneers offense completed seamless passes and got off solid shots against the Golden Tornadoes, things it struggled with against Walsh University just five days prior.

Point Park out-shot Geneva 26-6 with 12 different players taking shots. Izzy Hunter scored the first and fourth goals of the night for the Pioneers with Chloe Hampy and Lauren Bower adding goals in between.

Point Park now has 6 players with goals on the season after beginning the week with just three.

This Point Park team was a squad that looked complete and, more importantly, had fun.

If you can’t go to a soccer game, or any Point Park sporting event for that matter, at least go to the Point Café afterwards. It’s almost a guarantee that you’ll see at least one of the players from whatever game just ended either standing in line for food or sitting in a booth.

I’ve been in the café postgame for many wins and losses from many different teams. You can usually tell what the outcome was that night if you pay close enough attention to the athletes.

Several members of the women’s soccer team gathered at the Point Café after last Wednesday’s win. Yes, you could tell what the outcome was.

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I don’t know what women’s soccer team I watched defeat Geneva College 4-0 last Wednesday at Highmark Stadium, but it couldn’t have been the Point Park Pioneers that went winless through its first six games.

It couldn’t have been the Point Park Pioneers team that lost its first three games at home where they were outscored 10-2.

It couldn’t have been the Point Park Pioneers that scored all of three goals in six games.

Well it sure didn’t look like that Point Park Pioneers team, but it sure was the same team.

This is a team that needed a flat-out dominating performance. Point Park struggled offensively through its first six contests against tough non-conference opponents, tallying those three goals from three separate players en route to a 0-5-1 start.

Three players struck for a total of four goals against Geneva last Wednesday, a team that was strong on paper and entered the game with a 3-2 record.

I said on the Point Park Sports Network broadcast early in the first half that I thought it was the best the Pioneers looked all season. They continued to back up my statement throughout the game and simply shut Geneva down.

It was about time.

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team, either. Everything just clicked for Point Park in the 4-0 win. That’s the team we want to see this week and into October.

The team that connected its passes, played a solid defensive game, won the 50/50 balls and had fun in the process is the team we want to see this week and into October.

The scoring drought is over. It was a much-needed performance that came just in time.

Now, it’s time for conference play.

Point Park begins River States Conference (RSC) play Thursday when it hosts Asbury (Ky.) at 6 p.m. at Highmark Stadium. The Pioneers then host Cincinnati Christian Saturday at 11 a.m. The men’s soccer team will play the same teams following the conclusion of both games this weekend.

After a 1-1 tie with St. Vincent in double overtime Saturday, Point Park enters the week with a 1-5-2 record.

That’s irrelevant.

Their record is 0-0 in games that matter. Their tough conference schedule has prepared them for play against RSC teams. They know where they stand and they know what they have to work on to repeat as conference champions.

They know what they can do.

Now they just have to do it.

Josh Croup jdcroup@pointpark.edu.

The CMI hosted 1974 alum, Fred McLeod Thursday afternoon as an open panel discussion on his career as a playby-play television announcer for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

His wife, Beth McLeod, was also on the panel. She discussed how she came to build her career as a weather broadcaster for Cleveland 19 News.

Tom McMillan, a 1978 graduate of Point Park, moderated the discussion. He is the vice president of communications for the Pittsburgh Penguins and co-director of the Pittsburgh Center for Sports Media and Marketing, who co-hosted the event with the SAEM Club.

Fred McLeod reared up as he reflected on the opening video compilation of the Cavaliers’ triumph this year during the NBA Finals.

“When you put your heart and soul into something and it finally happens, there’s a flood of emotions,” Fred McLeod said.

He told the crowd that students have to really devote themselves in the journalism industry.

“You have to live and breathe it. It’s a labor of love,” Fred McLeod said.

McMillan agreed with McLeod, “It’s the thing we are blessed with, we live our jobs.”

Beth McLeod reflected on the benefits of working a job that fuels itself on passion, but admitted it is a difficult industry to break into.

“You have to do it yourself. Keep trying to make yourself better. Do something to make yourself stand out from all of the others,” Beth McLeod said.

She also mentioned the significance of getting involved.

“Internships are so important. Do something beyond your education to set yourself apart. Make sure they can’t say no to you. Ask what you can do to help,” Beth McLeod said.

Freshman Angela Altieri found this advice essential.

“I thought the most valu-

able thing they talked about was how to stand out to get a job you need to get the good internships. Work hard at them so your eventual resume will stand out in the crowd,” Altieri said.

Fred McLeod built on this idea of working your way up.

“A career killer is being a know-it-all,” Fred McLeod said. “Get a taste of as much as you can. Stay humble, hungry and appreciative. Connections you build now can give you a job later.”

In fact, this is how he managed to take the job as the Cavalier’s play-by-play announcer.

“I was on the golf course when I received a call from Dan Gilbert. He was an intern for me years before. He was calling me to be the announcer for the team he now owned as a successful businessman,” Fred McLeod said.

Beth McLeod added that contacts are critical in this business.

“Never burn any bridges and seize every opportunity to make a connection,” Beth McLeod said.

Altieri found this message to be inspiring as she looks forward to a career in the communications field as well.

“I think it was really helpful that they talked about how your references will help you in the long run,” Altieri said.

“Always be kind to people because it will probably help you along the way. It was nice to see that professionals even in competitive fields still value kindness and humbleness.”

Students were encouraged to actively build those connections now. The social aspect of college makes it easier to begin networking yourself.

McMillan closed the panel alluding to both his and Fred McLeod’s alma mater for the opportunities Point Park provided for them both.

“Once a Pioneer, always a Pioneer,” McMillan said.

Carley Bonk cmbonk@pointpark.edu.

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Left: Junior midfielder Noel Hartle slows the ball down from an air kick during the Pioneers’ game against Geneva College on Sept. 21. Point Park defeated the Golden Tornadoes 4-0 at Highmark Stadium.

Below: Senior midfielder Erin Gilmartin looks to pass the ball on Sept. 21 during Point Park’s game against Geneva College at Highmark Stadium.The victory over Geneva came after a sixgame winless streak.

Point Park begins River States Conference play Thursday when it hosts Asbury (Ky.) at 6 p.m. at Highmark Stadium. The Pioneers then host Cincinnati Christian Saturday at 11 p.m.

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Volleyball team secures victory over Carlow to record six aces.

Simonson’s runs allowed the Pioneers The Pioneers volleyball to hold a significant squad maintained its molead before the Celtmentum from its previous ics earned the ball wins to bag a victory against back. the Carlow University Celtics As the third set last week. began, a new face Point Park swept their stepped on the court cross-town rival on Tuesday, bearing a white jerSept. 20, 3-0. The Pioneers are sey instead of sophnow 7-12 and proudly hold an omore libero Morgan undefeated 3-0 River States Dangelo.

Dangelo Conference record. racked up three as“We took care of the sists, one ace and two ball when we had to,” head digs in her two sets coach Mike Bruno said. “We of play, but Bruno were fortunate to come out allowed Dangelo to rest for the third set, subbing in freshman Julia Menosky.

“She hit her head a little bit ago, so we just decided to pull her out on the side of caution,” Bruno said.

Menosky did not disvolleyball photos by Liz Hunter appoint as Senior right side hitter Kristen Burkes blocks a shot from Carlow on Sept. she helped 20. Point Park won their match 3-0. The Pioneers travel to Asbury (Ky.) her team to this weekend for matches against Asbury and Cincinnati Christian. victory.

“I liked “I think, overall, we kills, one ace and eight digs, it,” Menosky said. “I played pretty good as a team,” middle hitter Nikki Inquartano never played a libe- Menosky said. “I think Ash- with two kills, one ace, four digs ro position before, so ley [Taylor] had some killer and four block assists, Madegetting out there and swings.” line Poirier with four kills and getting my opportuniIn fact, Taylor dominated five digs, Kirsten Burkes with ty to play was great. I the right side. one kill and three block assists thought my serve re“I think I played [well],” and Juliana Ross with two asceive was really good Taylor said. “There were a cou- sists, three aces and two digs. today. My defense ple plays I definitely could have Working together, the Picould have been a lit- done better, but I had all the fo- oneers sent the Celtics back tle better picking up cus there today.” home without a single set some balls, but overall Taylor recorded the high- victory.

I thought I did pretty est total kills of the night at ten, The Pioneers travel to Asgood.” as well as four digs and two bury (Ky.) this weekend for As a defensive spe- block assists. Simonson was the River States Conference cialist, Menosky is no next in line with eight kills, one Tri-Match against Asbury and stranger to the back assist, six aces and a team-high Cincinnati Christian. row. Statistics confirm 12 digs.

Senior setter Emily Meng serves to Carlow on Sept. 20. The Pioneers de- seven digs and two asOther contributors includDara Collins feated the Celtics 3-0, improving their conference record to 3-0. sists for Menosky. ed Meng with 21 assists, four dmcolli2@pointpark.edu.

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with a 3-0 win.”

Set one ended in a victory for the Pioneers at 25-19 after a well-placed tip by setter Emily Meng. As a team with big hitters, it is beneficial to throw off opponents with different attacks. A back row attack by sophomore right-side hitter Ashley Taylor ended set two at 25-12. The Pioneers ended the game in three sets with a final 25-17 win after Taylor took one final swing from the right side.

Outsider hitter Shiloh Simonson’s jump serve proved to be powerful, as the Celtics had difficulty receiving the serve and allowed Simonson

Cross country captain shows leadership presence Teammates view Hunt as ‘good role model,’ ‘encouraging leader’ By: Meghan Macioce For The Globe

Cross country coach Kelly Parsley used three words to describe team captain Chris Hunt.

“Hard-worker. Positive.

Leader,” Parsley said.

A Kane, Pa. native, Hunt first started running cross country in seventh grade because his school didn’t have enough boys to field a soccer team.

Prior to joining cross country, he competed on his school’s wrestling team.

Hunt started wrestling because his dad was a huge fan of the sport, but Hunt was surprised to find that he was really good at it. He competed in wrestling for five years, but felt bad when he beat his opponents, so he quit the team and started playing soccer instead.

Hunt played soccer for five years as a midfielder, which is how Parsley discovered Hunt was a talented runner.

In soccer, the midfielder has to be the most conditioned on the field because they are constantly running after the ball. After he was offered a position on the cross country team, he left soccer to compete on the

course instead.

During Hunt’s senior year, Parsley contacted him and sparked his interest in Point Park. Hunt is a junior acting major with two minors in English and history.

The more Hunt looked into the school, the more he fell in love with it. “[Parsley] knew I was looking for a school with a good acting program, so I looked it up, and I found out that Point Park was really one of the top acting schools in the nation. So it was a perfect fit for me,” Hunt said.

This is Hunt’s third year with the team, but only his second year competing.

Freshman year, he battled plantar fasciitis in his foot and was sidelined for the season. However, when he is healthy and on the course, Hunt is a positive spirit.

“With his level of enthusiasm, he really embraces his role of captain,” Parsley said.

“He takes it very seriously. I chose him as the captain for many reasons…one, because he is a leader by example… he loves the sport and is very enthusiastic about it, and that has become very infectious for some of the younger athletes.”

Freshman runner Dannys Marrero described Hunt

as a “good role model” and an “encouraging leader.”

“I came from Florida, so I didn’t know anybody,” Marrero said. “He’s really friendly and approachable. He’s made the transition easier for me.”

Along with his positivity, Hunt considers himself very “free-spirited,” and views shoes as confining, choosing to go barefoot most of the time.

“I’ve always found shoes uncomfortable, and I just love the feeling of the ground underneath my feet,” Hunt said. “I never wear shoes when I’m at home.”

In addition to his love for going barefoot, Hunt also loves to climb trees.

In fact, he regularly climbs them at practice when the team travels to Schenley Park on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

“It is very adventurous, exhilarating and fun,” Hunt said. “So far, I’ve never fallen.”

Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams compete this Saturday at the Louisville Classic.

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Second-year cross country runner Chris Hunt competes at the Lock Meghan Macioce Haven Invitational on Sept. 24. Point Park placed 11th of 15 teams mkmacio@pointpark.edu. and Hunt finished the men’s 8K in 30 minutes, 8.80 seconds.