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PITT LAW HOLDS ANNUAL CONSTITUTION DAY PANEL Noah Manalo Staff Writer
The bitterly contested 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1868 to address citizenship rights for former slaves — and 150 years later, some Pitt law professors think it’s still not totally effective. In honor of Constitution Day on Monday, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law hosted a panel discussion about the promise, limits and ongoing challenges in realizing the rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. Around 50 students, staff, faculty and community members attended the event, which feaAttendees at The Social — a networking event held on the first day of Pittsburgh Fashion Week — converse over tured topic discussions by associate law professor drinks on the Sienna Mercato rooftop Monday night. Kaycee Orwig | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jasmine Gonzales Rose, law professor David Harris and Associate Dean for research and faculty development and law professor Deborah Brake. Brake organized the event to discuss the promise, limits and ongoing challenges for realfriends is always fun, too, though,” Vojtash Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ+ community spoke izing the rights guaranteed by the 14th AmendShahum Ajmal Contributing Editor about their sadness on social media about ment. She began her discussion by examining said. But the pair didn’t even make it in. The the club’s closing — but also expressed the first section of the amendment, which states Emily Vith and Grey Vojtash were devastated when they heard Cruze Bar was line stretched far past the entrance of the their joy when Cruze’s extended stay was that “no State shall make or enforce any law” that should deprive people of their rights as citizens closing. The two lifelong friends have been club at 1600 Smallman St. — past 15th announced. The co-owner and general manager of — meaning all citizens born in the United States spending many of their Thursday evenings Street, nearly to the entrance of Lidia’s, at the Strip District’s popular LGBTQ+ which is one block down Smallman. Fortu- Cruze, Greg Campo, could not reveal too are automatically citizens of the country and their nately for them, the two regulars will have much information about the decision. He state. club since they were 18. “The 14th Amendment has been such a trewas able to explain that Cruze’s closure Vith, now 19 and an undecided soph- a few more chances for “one last hoorah.” mendous source of individual rights. There are a After seven years of service to the Pitts- is being delayed because the building the omore at Pitt, and Vojtash, now 20 and a lot of other places in the Constitution that grant resident of Moon Township, both decided burgh community, the LGBTQ+ club is still bar is located in is being transferred to a individual rights … the Bill of Rights only runs to go to what was supposed to be the bar’s closing — but not for another few months. new landlord, a process that is taking lonagainst the federal government,” Brake said. “So, last college night on Thursday. They want- The owners and management of the club ger than expected. When that transition is without the 14th Amendment, it just would be a ed to pay tribute to the venue that had be- received the unlikely news on Thursday af- complete, the building will be torn down. very diff erent country in terms of an individual’s According to the North Hills resident, come an important part of their friendship ternoon that their stay in the Strip would ability to assert rights against government power.” be extended, though they couldn’t say for the decision was not something the ownand their overall social life. Rose, the fi rst speaker, began the lecture by ers of Cruze wanted, but rather something “We wanted to go for one last hoorah. how long. Regulars to the club and members of See Cruze on page 5 See Constitution on page 2 Waiting in line for an hour and making
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discussing the amendment’s effectiveness in ensuring equality. She examined it in the context of jury selection, talking about a case in Connecticut where a non-native English speaker was not selected because of worries he would not be understood by other jurors. “It is well-settled that he can’t be excluded based on appearance, but it was based on sound. Our understanding of what race is is narrowly defined. Accent is an external marker of race,” Rose said. Brake took her spot at the podium next, examining the amendment in relation to gender. While the introduction of the talk began with a reading of the first clause of the amendment, Brake focused on the second section — which marks the first and only time that rights in the Constitution were exclusively set aside for men, guaranteeing only that men would have the right to vote. Brake said that the future success of the 14th Amendment would not be measured by any
Associate Dean for research and faculty development Deborah Brake discusses gender and its relation to the 14th Amendment at a Constitution Day panel held in Barco Law Building on Monday. Thomas Yang | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR Harris was critical of some of the limitations court, but instead by how society addresses the of the amendment that still exist for certain citirights of all people regardless of gender. “Where we go from here with a newly com- zens, not based upon gender or race, but depenprised Supreme Court remains to be seen, but dent on which state they live in. He was particuin the long arc of history, the fate of this amend- larly critical of Pennsylvania’s inability to provide ment’s promise will not be determined by any quality attorneys for all defendants in court. “You are sitting right now in the only state one court, not even the Supreme Court,” Brake said. “The constitutional promise of equality as it in the Union that gives no money from the relates to gender will continue to be the source state level to indigent defense,” Harris said. of rights claimed by women and other gender- “We are in a club of one. So [in] Allegheny County and Philadelphia, you might have a oppressed groups.”
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decent indigent defense allocation, but you go a couple of counties over, and you might not have much.” Rob Wible, director of academic success and bar exam services at Pitt Law, said he loves any chance to hear speakers at these sorts of events because it relates so closely to his work. “It’s an incredible experience to get to hear them and the level of understanding that they have about the 14th Amendment and generally the Constitution, but specifically with the topics here today,” Wible said. Peter Campbell, an English professor at Pitt who studies legal rhetoric with a focus on the 14th Amendment, also came to the event because it relates to research he’s currently conducting. “I really appreciated the emphasis on advocacy, so the need for people entering the legal profession to focus on organizing and striving for the realization of rights promised in the Constitution, and also for the need to take the Constitution as an inspiration to seek justice — not only inside, but outside of the legal system,” Campbell said.
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Another tech mogul recently entered what is becoming an elite club of billionaires buying newspapers and news publications. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and wife Lynne Benioff purchased the Time magazine from Meredith Corp. for $190 million with personal funds, according to a Meredith Corp. announcement Sunday. This growing trend of the rich buying publications in financial difficulty seems necessary for the continuation of print media, but it should still spark some concern for the newspaper industry. It raises the ethical questions of how to prevent billionaires from influencing the content published by their papers, and what kind of relationship the editorial section and the new owner should set up to ensure there is no such influence. A decrease in advertising revenue has posed a financial problem for many small newspapers, and billionaires can be a godsend in keeping these papers alive. Warren Buffett, for example, has purchased more than 30 struggling local papers and has kept them afloat. However, it’s not just smaller papers that the wealthy are snapping up — larger papers are also being bought by tech giants as well. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million after accepting the first offer former owner Don Graham made. He made it clear from the start that he was interested in increasing the Post’s ad revenue by expanding its online presence, which would not involve him in the editorial process at all. In fact, when the Post published articles that criticized Amazon Key — a plan to allow Amazon to unlock customers’ doors — and called Amazon a dangerous monopoly, Bezos kept quiet. At a 2017 dinner for Columbia University’s Knight-Bagehot journalism fellowship, Executive editor Martin
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Baron said of Bezos’s response to articles that criticized him, “I haven’t heard one word from him about any of that, not one word.” This is the model that all billionaires looking to buy a newspaper should follow, but it’s not one that everyone has followed in the past. Doug Manchester — a developer and President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to the Bahamas — bought The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2011 for $100 million and faced criticism for influencing the contents of the opinions section to lean more heavily conservative than in the past. Newspapers bought by the wealthy should operate separate from the whims of their owners, be that a liberal or conservative lean. This kind of hands-off relationship between an owner and the editorial staff needs to come from efforts by both parties to draw strong boundaries. Ideally, buyers would come to the table with the expectation that they will have nothing to do with the editorial process. Rather than attempt to influence output, they should content themselves with the knowledge that they’re helping maintain an important part of our democracy. However, the editorial staff also has an obligation to protect its own interests. One way of doing this could be for those involved in the selling process to set up clear, contractual restrictions prior to the sale that define the necessary boundaries between owner and editorial staff, and request an internal review be conducted every few years to ensure the key values of the paper remain unaffected. If tech billionaires are the future of American newspapers, there needs to be clear restrictions on what they can and can’t do within their publication. And the less influence they have on papers’ content, the better our democracy can function.
PASSING LAWS Brian Gentry Contributing Editor Upward of 30 inches of rain pummeled coastal North Carolina as Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday, disintegrating roads, uprooting towering trees, knocking out power systems and completely isolating cities with hundreds of thousands of residents. Homeowners who had been unwilling to evacuate could only wait and watch as the storm flooded their houses — something exacerbated by relaxations in North Carolina building codes. Most notably, the state government rolled back regulations in 2014 that had required homebuilders to build above the FEMA base flood elevation — the predicted water height in the event of flooding. North Carolina’s government neglected residents’ safety in favor of cheaper construction by rolling back those regulations. And it can’t claim naivety either — Hurricane Floyd devastated the region in 1999 and another big storm was bound to hit the region again. North Carolina’s mistakes with building codes serve as a lesson for future rules and regulations. As temperatures rise and extreme weather events become increasingly common, we need to anticipate the expected changes in climate and modify our plans for public and private infrastructure accordingly. North Carolina is an example of bad foresight for extreme weather events. Nine hurricanes have made landfall in the state in the past 30 years, many of which caused significant damage. Still, new residents continue to settle along the coast. Wilmington, in the state’s south, experienced an extreme population boom be-
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tween 1990 and 2010. Despite this, the state refuses to pass sensible regulations on development. After an in-state commission emphasized the threat of climate change in 2012, the state imposed a moratorium on considering sea-level rise when passing regulations on coastal development. The state has rolled back other building codes as well. In the past six years, it’s scrapped regulations on securing storm shutters, a dangerous move that risks the structural integrity of homes during hurricanes. It also has moved to update its building codes only once every six years instead of every three years, making the codes consistently behind the international standard set by the International Code Council. North Carolina’s inadequacy of handling resilience to climate change should prompt federal action. On the federal level, regulations can keep residents across the country safe and more money exists to make sweeping changes when compared to state and local governments. Already, the EPA predicts that modifying our system of roads and rails to accommodate the effects of climate change will cost up to $280 billion by 2100. While this only represents a tenth of a percent of the annual budget, this doesn’t account for modifications to other pieces of infrastructure either. Yet the current administration appears hell-bent on its mission to completely neglect climate change. When President Donald Trump released his infrastructure plan in February, urban planners, engineers and lawmakers alike criticized it for its blatant disregard of climate change. See Gentry on page 4
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Among the most salient of criticisms are directed at the proposal for the construction of roads, bridges and other public infrastructure in regions already impacted by rising waters. While these pieces of infrastructure may be beneficial in the short term, they’re simply a waste of money if they’ll be covered under feet of water in the long term. “The impact of not considering climate change when planning infrastructure means you end up building the wrong thing, in the wrong place, to the wrong standards,” Michael Kuby, a professor at Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability, told The New York Times in response to the release of the plan. Other national governments have established a precedent for consider-
causes sewage to overflow into the rivers. As local authorities adjust the system to prevent this sewage overflow, they need to account for the increased likelihood of high rainfall events due to climate change and modify plans accordingly. This is not a partisan issue. Oregon, a decidedly blue state, continues to allow construction along its coast despite the looming threat of a 9.0 earthquake that could hit at any moment. When it hits, it’ll damage most buildings and inundate the region under a tidal wave hundreds of miles wide and tens of feet tall. Fundamentally, this is an issue with public perception. Despite the fact that nearly 40 percent of Americans live near the oceans, where rising sea levels threaten future daily life, many do not view climate change as a personal issue. Americans generally agree that climate change is a problem, but fewer than 50 percent believe that it will personally
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Eli Savage | STAFF ILLUSTRATOR ing climate change when planning public infrastructure. Municipalities across Canada received federal funding for various initiatives in infrastructure planning and climate-change resilience, including wastewater treatment and stormwater collection. Belize has a plan to update its roads to account for increased flood risk and other impacts of climate change. But this isn’t limited to governments at the state and federal level. On a more local scope, cities need to maintain their infrastructure at a level that can accommodate the changing climate. This is especially true in areas susceptible to extreme weather events, like the hurricaneprone Southeast, but it’s just as important in more protected regions. For example, Pittsburgh’s sewage pipes and stormwater pipes are connected and any significant amount of precipitation
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impact them — and a comparable number rarely talk about the changing climate. This ignorance poses a risk to discussions of mitigating the impacts of climate change and the public needs to better understand the situation so that we can hold all levels of government accountable. At this point, there is very little that the world can do to halt climate change. The most conservative estimates of global warming predict a three-degree Celsius increase in temperature — this will submerge coastal cities. Anticipation of disasters is the only way to protect citizens from the havoc these weather events can wreak upon them. Governments at every level must step up and plan for the worst, because the worst is more likely to happen than we want to believe.
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that was made for them. The ability to stay open for a while longer is a gift. “We found out on Thursday afternoon that we would be able to stay open longer,” Campo said. “After we announced it, the line to get into our weekly college night was backed up to Lidia’s.” The bar is known — especially on Pitt’s campus — for their 18+ college nights that bring in crowds from colleges in addition to Pitt, such as Point Park, Duquesne and Carnegie Mellon. Although the college nights will continue for a little bit longer, even Campo is unsure when the expiration date will be. “We’re hoping for two to three months,” he said. “We’re trying to plan a New Year’s Eve party, so let’s hope we can make it to the end of the year.” In light of the unknown but very definite closure of Cruze, Campo and his fellow owners are taking every opportunity
LGBTQ+ Strip District club Cruze Bar postponed its closing due to a delay in the process of the building ownership change. Sareen Ali | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER they can to plan fun events for their many for the LGBT community, but also for the loyal patrons. College students can look college community. We have high security forward to 18+ events coming up like here, we don’t take that lightly,” he said. the College Underwear Party on Satur- “We offer Pittsburgh’s premier parties day night and The Last Splash! The Final for college students with only a $5 cover charge — that’s tough to beat.” Foam Party on Sept. 29. Vith and Vojtash agreed with this idea, Campo advises students to get to Cruze early to avoid the inevitable long lines and sharing their gratitude for Cruze and memories the two have had there. also to be ready for a fun and safe night. “There really isn’t another place in “We are a safe space at Cruze, not just
Pittsburgh like that for me and my friends to go, so we really wanted to try and get in the last night we would be able to,” Vith said as the two waited in the long line Thursday night. The club is one of the only 18+ clubs in Pittsburgh that Vith is familiar with. She stressed that Cruze has a welcoming environment and she sees it as a nice contrast to simply hanging out at someone’s house. “It’ll be disappointing once they close and there isn’t a place to just dance and have a good time,” Vith said. Vojtash praised Cruze for its accepting atmosphere — one where she and friends of all backgrounds and sexualities can simply have a good time in a safe place. “Cruze is the perfect fun-loving, carefree environment a lot of college-age students love,” Vojtash said. “It’s technically a gay bar, but I just feel like the majority of the people there want to have a good night, whether they’re gay or not. Because nobody there cares about [those labels].”
PITTSBURGH PREPS FOR FESTIVALS, FRIGHTS, FOOD AND MORE THIS FALL Sarah Connor Culture Editor As the excitement of O-Week wears off, the grind of day-to-day class schedules kicks in and midterm and flu seasons approach, it can be hard for students to get out and enjoy the entertaining events taking place in the City this fall. However, from campus to Kennywood to Shadyside, there is something for students to enjoy — even if they can only make it out of bed or the library once over the next couple months. Literary guest speakers and lectures Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures presented the popular storytelling event “The Moth” at the Byham Theater Monday night. The hall sold out quickly, but Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures is hosting plenty of other high-profile speakers and lecturers throughout the fall. One of the most notable upcoming events is a lecture by Joyce Carol Oates, writer of famous works such as the short
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story “Where Are You Going, Where have You Been?” and the novel “Black Water,” at the Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Other notable speakers include journalist Katherine Boo — who is known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning work for The Washington Post — will also be at the Carnegie Music Hall on Oct. 22. National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds will speak at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall on Oct. 28. A full list of guests for both the fall and spring can be found on the Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Facebook page. Frights and festivals at Kennywood Park West Mifflin’s Kennywood Park may be known for the thrills of old-school wooden roller coasters and delectable Potato Patch fries, but this Sunday from 1 p.m. through 6 p.m., the park will host a festival honoring a food Pittsburgh holds very close to its heart — pierogies. The schedule for the 2018 Pittsburgh Pierogi
Festival does not currently include the pierogi races made famous at Pittsburgh Pirates games, but it does boast food from more than two dozen of Pittsburgh’s best restaurants and chefs. Guests can even paint a pierogi at the Paint Monkey booth after hopping off the Jack Rabbit and inhaling some delicious potato delights. If pierogies aren’t your thing but you still want to experience the Pittsburgh classic that is Kennywood, fear not — or maybe, fear a lot because the 17th annual Phantom Fright Nights start up at Kennywood on Sept. 28. Fright Nights feature a completely Halloween-themed Kennywood with spider webs, haunted houses and caramel apples in abundance for guests. Summertime’s water rides are replaced with actors posing as zombies and ghouls with chainsaws, fog machines and strobe lights to add to the eerie atmosphere. There’s plenty of time to experience this good spook — Fright Nights will take place at Kennywood every Friday and Saturday through Oct. 31.
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Jam on Walnut It’s likely that no jump scares or freaky makeup will be present at the last two installments of Shadyside’s 2018 season of Jam on Walnut. The event takes place in the hopping center of Shadyside — Walnut Street — and features live music and plenty of beer for sale. The proceeds for the beer sales go to the event’s host — the Humane Animal Rescue. The series of events began back in June and has been lighting up Shadyside once a month since. Guests can enjoy the September performance featuring Good Guys Acoustic Duo & Band and NO BAD JUJU Saturday at 7 p.m. If you can’t get to Walnut this weekend, there’s one more chance to experience the Jam on Oct. 20, when the event closes with The Brighton Boys and The Delaneys.
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ATHLETIC TRAINERS FIND BALANCE BETWEEN SPORTS AND MEDICINE
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While considering a career path, Jennifer Csonka knew for sure that she wanted to go into medicine. But she couldn’t shake the idea of working in sports, so she decided on a position that combined her two favorite topics — athletic trainer. “I wanted to do something within the medical field, but I wanted to be within athletics on a more day-to-day basis … there’s an appealing aspect of being able to be at practice, be at games, be involved with teams’ highs and lows and see the maturation of the team,” Csonka said. Csonka, a 2000 Pitt alum who has worked as the head athletic trainer for women’s soccer since 2003, is one of several Pitt athletic trainers who combines her expertise on the body with her knowledge of sports in order to keep Pitt’s athletes in top shape. What results is a fulfilling, fun and crucial job that is important to the well-beings of Pitt’s athletes and the programs they participate in. College athletic trainers perform all the tasks needed by athletes before, during and after their games and practices. Their tasks range from taping athletes before games to creating rehab plans for injured players. Athletic trainers perform their duties in settings and in ways that differ from normal 9-to5 jobs. Instead of working in one place, athletic trainers constantly travel with teams. During her time at Pitt, Csonka has also worked with men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s track and field, wrestling, women’s basketball and gymnastics. “It’s a great career. It’s definitely one that, when you’re younger, you want to move around a lot, I feel … which is great because you’ll be in different cities, you’ll be able to work with different teams,” Csonka said. Being such a crucial part of the process means that trainers must be completely in sync with the teams they take care of, whether it be celebrating
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(From left) Pitt athletic trainer Jennifer Csonka, Pitt’s senior associate athletic director for sports medicine Jennifer Brown and Pitt wrestling trainer Brian Bonnar. PHOTOS VIA PITT ATHLETICS after victories or responding to emergency situa- can bring. Bonnar has been to multiple NCAA that wasn’t the same thing every day — and athtions. With the on-call aspects of the job, athletic championships for wrestling and seen a lot of letic training is constantly different, no two days trainers have to be ready to deal with an unex- intense and worrying injuries — he considers his are ever alike,” Brown said. Brown went on to get a master’s in fitness and pected injury or schedule change at any moment. responses to some of the incidents that happened “It is a field, which is still growing and chang- there among the best achievements of his career. wellness management from the University of Ne“Some of my best stories are from NCAA braska at Omaha in 2003. She then held numering, but it’s one in which you need to be very adaptable because coaches change their minds wrestling championships. That tournament is a ous jobs as an athletic trainer at several universiwith practice times and lift times … there are grueling three-day event and guys are beat up by ties and worked as the NCAA athletic health care administrator before arriving at Pitt in 2018. some long hours, there’s weekends, there’s lots of the end,” Bonnar said. While Brown has worked primarily in athletAbove all else, Bonnar said there’s one reholidays,” Csonka said. “But it’s worth it because you can be a part of a team that makes it to the quirement that all seeking to become an athletic ics, she noted there are also opportunities elseNCAA tournament in the Final Four, which is an trainer need to possess that can’t be acquired with where for trainers to work. They don’t have to limit themselves to working strictly with athletes, a degree, recommendation or experience. experience like none other.” “I think everyone in this business has a pas- but can instead branch out and work with anyone Pitt wrestling trainer Brian Bonnar discussed the education an athletic trainer needs to attain sion for helping people … that’s what athletic who performs physical actions in their workplace. “Athletic trainers aren’t just in the collegiate in order to achieve their position — he himself trainers are … we’re very giving and we want to went through six years of schooling. He earned a help,” Bonnar said. “You have to love to help peo- setting, there’s other areas like working with phybachelor’s degree in athletic training at Pitt and his ple … you’re trying to help these athletes achieve sicians in offices or in industrial work, working with companies and performing arts — there’s so master’s in the same subject from Ohio University the most they can achieve.” A career as an athletic trainer can also suit many different areas,” Brown said. before returning to the Panthers’ athletic departBrown said the benefits of life as an athletic anyone willing to be adaptable and looking for ment in 2003 to work. This level of education was once only seen as a variation. Jennifer Brown, senior associate ath- trainer far outweigh the troubles that can come bonus, according to Bonnar, but it’s now becom- letic director for sports medicine, wasn’t plan- about with dealing with the injuries of the athing an obligation in order to start a profession ning to become an athletic director when she was letes they become extremely close with. She deas an athletic trainer. According to the National studying human development and psychological scribed it as one of the most fulfilling aspects of Athletic Trainers’ Association, those training to services at Northwestern University in the late a rewarding profession. “To see an athlete at their worst when pursue careers as athletic trainers will soon be re- ‘90s. Then she did a work-study with some of the they’re injured and when they get the ability to quired to attain a master’s degree in athletic train- trainers at her college. “I really saw how the athletic trainers I worked get back on the field or the court … that’s really ing at the minimum. But no schooling can prepare an athletic with loved their job and I knew that was some- one of the highlights for me to be able to do trainer for the the highs and lows that the job thing I was interested in — wanting to have a job that,” she said.
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For Sale Employment Other Employment Other 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 BR apartments available May & August 2019. South Oakland, North Oakland, and Southside on Bouqet St., Meyran Ave., Atwood St., North Neville St., and Sarah St. Call 412-287-5712 NEED CASH?? Bakn is hiring LINE COOKS $12-$14 per hour. Free Parking, Flexible Schedules Evening and Weekend shifts available. Call 724- 719-2440 or send qualifications to mmckiernan70@ gmail.com Office Help Wanted Mon-Sat 8am-5pm. $12/hour Craig Distributing Co. 313 N. Craig St. Pittsburgh 15213 WHO DOESN’T LOVE BAKN??
OWN THE STOCK OF REAL ESTATE SERVICES CORP. OF AMERICA AKA RESCA, Specializing in commerical sales and leasing, $4,950. Call B.C. Artman 412-498-8291
Services Services Other WOMEN – EMPOWERMENT SELF-DEFENSE on campus! October 7-28 (four Sundays), 10 am – noon at Falk School. $120. Financial assistance is available! Questions and registration: LionessMartialArts.com or 412-241-6519
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