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SGB ANNOUNCES COOKIETHEDRAL RESIGNATION OF JUDICIAL CHAIR GRACE NELSON Benjamin Nigrosh Assistant News Editor

Student Government Board kicked off its first meeting of the semester Tuesday night with an announcement from President Zechariah Brown that SGB’s judicial chair Grace Nelson is resigning.

“In her time as SGB’s judicial chair, Grace has energized, inspired and led her committee with the same enthusiasm that she brings to each and every meeting,” Brown said. “Under her leadership, Grace’s committee has increased judicial presence both internally as well as externally, taking on really important issues for SGB.” Nelson said she is leaving SGB to pursue a full-time position working for City government. Before her resignation becomes effective this Sunday, Nelson said, she and Brown will interview candidates to take the position, which they hope will be filled by the next SGB meeting.

“It’s been a pleasure considering myself a member of your team,” Nelson said at the meeting.

Following Brown’s introductory remarks, board and committee chair members introduced themselves, promoted open positions on their committees and stated their initiatives for the year.

Nick Bibby, the elections committee chair, announced that SGB election petition packets became available to students Monday and can be found at the SGB office in William Pitt Union room 848. Applications are due on Jan. 28, Bibby said.

Students use rice crispies, graham crackers, frosting and other sweets to construct replicas of the Cathedral of Learning at Tuesday evening’s “Cathy Cookie Bake-Off” in the William Pitt Union. Caela Go | staff photographer

KEVIN KRAMER: PITT PITCHER TURNED PROFESSIONAL PLAYER LOOK-ALIKE Trent Leonard Sports Editor

The Washington Nationals won their first MLB World Series in franchise history on Oct. 30, knocking off the Houston Astros in Game 7. They celebrated the accomplishment among thousands of fans on Nov. 2 in a parade ceremony that cruised through the main streets of our nation’s capital.

To the surprise and excitement of many fans, star pitcher Max Scherzer left his teammates and joined the crowd, where he was promptly mobbed for pictures, autographs See SGB on page 2 and high fives. Entrenched by admirers,

Scherzer required a police escort to make way for his escape. All the while, people snapped photographs and cheered him on.

Or so they thought.

The real Scherzer spent most of the parade dancing around with a commemorative WWE Championship belt atop the team bus.

So who, then, was this indistinguishable imposter?

It was actually Kevin Kramer, a 45-yearold Arlington, Virginia, resident who happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to the three-time Cy Young Award winner. But before he rose to minor fame as Scherzer’s dop-

pelganger, Kramer was an exceptional pitcher in his own right for the Pitt baseball team.

Like Scherzer, Kramer is a righty. But the similarities end there — Scherzer has made his name as a hard-throwing starter while Kramer was more of a junk-throwing middle reliever.

“When we were playing, we played at Trees Field. And the left field fence was really short,” Kramer said. “Unless you threw 90 [miles per hour] or above, it was tough to get guys out.”

Kramer relied instead on a steady diet of See Kramer on page 6

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Later this month, inquiring candidates will have the opportunity to meet one another and the current members of SGB at a mixer, the date of which will be announced in the coming weeks.

Tyler Viljaste, the chair of the community and governmental relations committee, said his committee will host a “Coffee with Cops” event on Jan. 16 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Kurtzman Room of the WPU. Officers will be present to answer student questions about campus safety concerns.

His committee will also host an information session on student rights to privacy in regards to room searches on campus in WPU’s Dining Room B on Jan. 22 and 23, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Nina Duong, the chair of the wellness committee, said her committee will continue working on their initiatives from last semester, including expanding handicap accessibility on campus, adding

more vegan, vegetarian and “healthy” options to dining halls, creating free workout classes for students and establishing a peer counseling center.

Clara Weibel, the SGB outreach coordinator and the co-director for the Student Office of Sustainability, announced that SOOS is planning events for the spring semester including educational programing in the Global Hub, meetings of their own first-year council and “RecycleMania,” an eight-week competition between universities to see who can recycle the most trash during that time.

Following board and committee remarks, Brown opened the floor to student organization leaders to introduce themselves and speak about upcoming events on campus.

Daniel Rudy, the president of the Resident Student Association, said every residence hall will be holding talent shows in the coming weeks in order to source students for the “Pitt’s Got Talent” event on Jan. 27.

Sagar Rawal, the president of the Asian Student Association, announced that his organization will be holding a kickoff event for Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month next week. Their spring welcome social will be held on Wednesday, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in WPU room 548, Rawal said. He also said the Vietnamese Student Association will host Susan Lu, who will be performing her one-woman show at the Charity Randall Theater from 7 to 9 p.m.

SGB also provided an update on the naming guidelines SORC said it would be reinforcing for student organizations last semester. SORC had announced in late August that beginning in fall 2020, its registration guidelines would prohibit the names of independent student organizations from including University trademarks or wordmarks like “Pitt” and “Panther,” instead encouraging clubs to use phrases such as “at Pitt” or “at the University of Pittsburgh.” The changes could affect as many as 393 of the 639

student organizations on campus.

The board released three possible solutions to the problem at its Nov. 6 meeting. Its preferred solution is to utilize SORC to approve names and marketing materials for clubs that want to “co-brand” with the University — allowing the use of University trademarks or wordmarks as long as sponsorship is not implied or stated. This model is currently in use at Boston College, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Miami, according to the board. Brown said after the meeting that Director of Student Life Linda Williams-Moore and SORC Coordinator Lynne Miller have looked at the proposals, and he anticipates they may suggest some changes.

Brown said after the meeting that he was supposed to meet with WilliamsMoore and Miller before winter break, but the meeting was canceled due to scheduling conflicts. Brown said the meeting should be rescheduled before the end of the month.

ANANTHA SHEKHAR TO BE NEW SVC FOR HEALTH SCIENCES Benjamin Nigrosh Assistant News Editor

Pitt announced in a Tuesday press release that Anantha Shekhar, dean of research affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine, will be Pitt’s new senior vice chancellor for the School of Health Sciences.

The current senior vice chancellor for Pitt’s school of health sciences, Arthur Levine, announced last January he would resign from his role after a successor was found. Now, once Shekhar takes over the position in June, Levine will go on to work in a new research role at Pitt’s Brain Institute.

“I am honored and inspired to be joining one of the most respected medical and research communities in the world,” Shekhar said in the release. “I look forward to advancing this goal in partnership with UPMC — for the greater good of society — in the months to come.”

At Indiana University School of Medi-

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cine, Shekhar created a common core curriculum across all of the university’s health science schools. He also led the Precision Health Initiative, which created four new biotech companies in Indiana with an estimated economic impact of $200 million in four years.

Along with his work at IU, Shekhar won the 2018 August M. Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year Award for his work with Anagin, a biotech company focusing on treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder. Shekhar founded Anagin in 2013.

As the senior vice chancellor for health and sciences, Shekhar will be responsible for Pitt’s six schools of health science: the Graduate School of Public Health as well as the Schools of Dental Medicine, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. Shekhar will also be responsible for the integration of these schools with Anatha Shekhar, dean of research affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine, will serve as Pitt’s new senior vice chancellor for the School of UPMC, the University’s clinical partner.

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Opinions ‘YOU’ AND THE VIOLENCE OF ATTRACTION Genna Edwards Staff Columnist

This column contains spoilers for seasons one and two of “You.” Here we are, having the same exact conversation we had last year when heartthrob Zac Efron played Ted Bundy in Netflix’s “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile.” If you haven’t been following entertainment news lately or watching endless hours of Netflix — come on, don’t lie to me — you maybe haven’t heard that Penn Badgley of “Gossip Girl” plays a serial killer named Joe in Netflix’s show “You,” which recently launched its second season. And, well, he is quite attractive.

“You,” a romance-turned-crimethriller, has garnered a mass of fans who have taken to social media to proclaim their love for Joe. Joe as a character, taking hints from real-life murderers like Ted Bundy and Chris Watts, hides his predatory perversion behind thick layers of charm, wit and a great jawline. He’s undeniably a dime, and one who reads classic literature to boot. Online news outlets and magazines, however, are not having this celebration of Joe, and after reading article after article about the “glamorization” of predators, it became apparent that the discourse here rarely dives deeper than urging women to stop finding Joe attractive because he’s a serial killer.

The discourse around this show has largely been deriding women for say-

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ing Joe is attractive and not expanding upon this. The worry seems to be that finding Joe hot reflects us putting on our rose-colored glasses — if we find him attractive, we will let our guard down and romanticize his actions. The situation is not that black and white, and the current discourse trivializes the complexities of why women fawn over characters like Joe. The talk around this show has painted our attraction as sick and is a sign of ignoring the blatantly obvious — duh, he’s fictional a serial killer. He is not a viable option.

Those who agree with the “don’t feel attraction to Joe” discourse are unaware of the entire point of the show.

Right off the bat, it must be said that this situation is not exactly the same as the “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile” controversy because in this case Joe is an entirely fictional character. Ted Bundy was a real person who tortured and killed real women, leaving broken families in his wake to this day. Joe has not and cannot have that effect on anyone who exists outside a screen. “You” as a show doesn’t function with any hint of documentary-like material behind it — instead, it plays out as a biting satire of romcom leading men, pointing out how nonchalant we’ve become about creepy masculine behaviors due to media grooming.

Joe, on the surface level, is the perfect romantic lead. He says the right See Edwards on page 5

from the editorial board

Online classes could help make college more affordable College is expensive, and if there’s anything we’ve written about incessantly, it’s that someone should do something to lower the cost of higher education.

An online education startup based in New York City, Outlier, might have a solution to this problem. The startup plans to provide high-quality introductory courses for low prices. It teamed up with the University of Pittsburgh starting in August with a pilot program that will now be extended into the spring and fall semesters.

The program is part of the wave of massive open online courses (or MOOCs) becoming popular globally and could present new, cheaper options for student education.

The program Pitt is piloting with Outlier offers Pitt students credits for online courses designed by the startup, with the cost of three credits resting at the very low price of $400. The price is closer to that of a community college, which is undoubtedly appealing to many students. The current courses offered through Outlier are Calculus I and Introductory Psychology, but both Pitt and Outlier have expressed an interest in expanding the number of courses offered. The Mathematics Association of America reports that a quarter of Calculus I students fail, with the failure rate being significantly higher at certain universities.

The company boasts a wide range of features available for the small fee, including lectures from professors at top universities such as Yale, MIT, Cornell and Columbia. Unlike other remote learning programs, this one offers transferable credits. The courses also offer an interactive textbook, free tutoring, study groups and most intriguingly, refunds in the event that a student doesn’t pass the course.

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Aaron Rasmussen, the CEO and founder of Outlier, recognizes the impact that the high cost of higher education has on students throughout their lives. He eventually wants to offer online courses in the 25 general education subjects that have the highest number of students enrolled nationally.

“At a time when millions of people are weighted down by trillions of dollars in student loan debt, it’s imperative that creative solutions — even technological ones — are developed to provide young people with viable options for gaining a world class education,” Rasmussen said.

The Outlier plan for low-cost education, if viable, would be a good way to offer students a chance to take basic courses at reduced prices and with much lower stakes, thanks to the possible refund. Currently, part-time per-credit rates at Pitt are $754-$900 per credit for in state students and $1,354-$1,729 for out of state students, according to Provost Ann Cudd. Outlier’s courses could make a major difference for low income students who have to take certain gen eds that may not pertain to their specific area of study. It would be fair to reduce the cost of taking those non-pertinent classes.

This new MOOC could be a good way to adapt to the financial needs of today’s students. In the future, if Outlier could create a program that would cover all basic gen ed requirements for students at a lower price than the cost of in-person classes, that program could make a difference in students’ financial situations. It could also lead to a change in the way we charge students for gen eds and other classes offered in person, making Pitt more affordable and therefore more attractive to a more economically diverse group of students.

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Edwards, pg. 4 sweet nothings at the right time, he has gorgeous eyes, he plans picnics. We’re supposed to be attracted to him, that’s the point. “You” pushes us as viewers just as much as it pushes Joe — to see how far he can go before we finally realize he’s a monster, before we finally grasp that we’ve been groomed by film and television to find a good chunk of his actions tolerable.

Because those commenting on the show have missed this point entirely, their discourse brings to light some vast misunderstandings of gendered social politics. A double standard exists regarding who can find whom attractive, and what the attractor is allowed to do to the other party. This is the weaponization of physical attraction. It exists primarily to the detriment of women.

For female-presenting people, our whole lives are dictated by notions of “hotness,” notions in which we are rarely the subject but the object. “Hotness” is used to explain away crimes that men commit — “she was wearing a short dress,” “her makeup made her look like a hooker,” etc. “Hotness” is used to slut-shame, to measure intelligence and worth. Many toxic masculine definitions of “hot” diminish women, turn us into body parts. And this male attraction leads to real-life violence.

“In the United States, more women are killed by their intimate partners than by any other group of people,” according to a study by the Huffington Post that cross-referenced the Gun Violence Archive.

In contrast, women’s ideas of “hotness” and what to do with these ideas rarely hurt anyone. When we find Joe, or a Joe-type in the real world, hot, he is not in harm’s way in the same way women can be. Statistically, women do not hurt men the way men hurt women. Just thinking Joe is attractive isn’t the same as stalking the man, which is what he does to women on the show.

A woman finding Joe hot doesn’t have the same potential consequences that a Bundy-type man finding a woman hot does.

Women are taught from an early

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age to be constantly on guard for danger around us. We are catcalled and followed and harassed and sexually assaulted far too often to somehow forget the danger men pose simply because of a TV show. When we find Joe attractive, we’re not finding him attractive in a naive way. We can see what’s right in front of us — that he would be a danger here in the real world. But “You” isn’t the real world.

It’s fiction.

This is perhaps one of the reasons why women are so drawn to serial killer mythos. Listening to a true crime podcast or watching a movie doesn’t put us in physical danger. Here, with shows like “You,” we can explore what harms us in a fashion that doesn’t get us locked in a heat-controlled bookcase in a storage locker. Watching a man like Joe in the comfort of our own homes, safe behind a screen, is a way for us to explore our reactions to violent, attractive men without putting ourselves in danger.

That’s only one of many reasons we’re so into this, though. Discourse around shows like “You” doesn’t tend to dive into the multifaceted layers of female serial killer obsession. With real-life cases like Bundy, it can be a case of wanting to fix a problematic man, that nurturing we’re taught to do as children. Or it can be that we’ve been victims of abuse, and finding a man who’s sure to abuse us is a way to stay in the only cycle of love we’ve ever known. On the flip side of that, victims of abuse may also be drawn to locked-up killers because they have complete control over the relationship.

Some women are attracted to the fame these killers garner and want a slice of it for themselves. Some want a fantasy relationship, some want to explore the dark corners of their psyche. Whatever the reason, it’s not because women are dumb or crazy, as discourse surrounding “You” tends to imply.

We are all fascinated by what can kill us. Men are allowed to lust over machine guns and pocket knives and tanks but women aren’t allowed to want a fictional serial killer because apparently that muddies the water.

When men lust for an object of their demise, they don’t want the objects to kill them — neither do we.

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Sports Kramer, pg. 1 curveballs and changeups to keep batters at bay, using his fastball late in counts as an element of surprise. He pitched sparingly as a first-year player in 1993 but did enough to earn head coach Mark Jackson’s trust moving forward.

In Kramer’s junior season, Pitt squeaked into the Big East Tournament as the fourth and last seed. The Panthers faced long odds at success considering they were a combined 1-8 on the season against the other three teams — Seton Hall, Providence and Villanova.

After upsetting first-seed Providence in the first round, Pitt pulled off a remarkable comeback against Seton Hall in the second round, storming back from seven runs down in the ninth inning to win 11-10. The Panthers then met Providence again in the championship, losing the first game to set up a winner-take-all duel.

With Pitt’s top starters unavailable due to the quick succession of games, Jackson called on Kramer to pitch perhaps the most meaningful game in Pitt baseball history. It was a lot to ask from the junior reliever who had never pitched more than six innings and only started one game that season.

But Kramer came up clutch, pitching a complete seven innings and scattering eight opposing hits in a 10-4 win over the Friars — Pitt baseball’s only conference tournament championship ever.

After graduating from Pitt in 1996 with a degree in English writing, Kramer relocated to the Washington D.C. area in 1997, where he has remained ever since.

His long-lost twin made his MLB debut in 2008, but it took awhile before people started making the connection. Scherzer’s profile increased as time passed, including a Cy Young Award in 2013, and the Nationals signed him in 2015. That was the year Kramer’s unique phenomena began, starting with a stranger in a grocery store approaching him as “Max.” “He said he was in a wooden bat league and he wanted me to throw out the first pitch. And that’s when I was like, ‘Oh, this

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Kevin Kramer, the Max Scherzer look-alike, was a pitcher on the Pitt baseball team during the 1990s. courtesy of kevin kramer dude thinks I’m Max Scherzer,’” he said. “I said, ‘I’m not him,’ and he said ‘Oh, man, you look just like him. Maybe you could throw out the first pitch anyway.’”

Kramer was clean-shaven during that time and encountered sporadic confrontations through the years, but the effect really took off during the Nationals most recent postseason run when he let his facial hair grow out to match Scherzer’s scruff. He attended Games 3 and 4 of the NLCS at Nationals Park, where his presence in the stands drew attention from fans.

“We got to our section and it was like, everyone was wondering why Max Scherzer was sitting in the stands,” Kramer said. “And

I would go get a beer or hot dog and people were swarming me for pictures and selfies.”

A sports reporter in attendance interviewed Kramer and published the story the next day, creating a snowball effect among D.C. media outlets. The local Fox station contacted Kramer for a bit to see just how much they could trick fans, telling him to meet them in public wearing Nationals gear, a baseball glove and one blue contact lens to mimic Scherzer’s heterochromia iridum.

Like the pied piper, Kramer drew a massive crowd that didn’t think twice about his true identity.

“There must have been a line of probably 50 to 100 people deep just waiting to take

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pictures and get autographs,” Kramer said.

“But then we would tell them I’m not really Max Scherzer. We were not trying to really deceive people.”

He took the bit and ran with it, even creating an Instagram account with the handle @notmaxscherzer where he posts pictures with fellow Nationals fans.

Anticipating the reaction he would get at the Nationals’ victory parade, Kramer hired a videographer to follow him around. Sure enough, people thought that Scherzer had ditched his teammates to interact with his fans. The crowd around Kramer became so condensed that the security guards on duty had to step in.

“They saw that I was getting mobbed and that they needed to do crowd control,” Kramer said. “So they asked me, ‘Where do you want to go?’ and I just pointed. That was fun.”

Not everyone was fooled by Scherzer’s appearance — 17-year-old Nationals fan Eli Thomkins said he recognized Kramer as the look-alike from the news.

“I knew the real Max was still in the parade,” he said. “I can’t believe that many people didn’t realize it wasn’t him.”

38-year-old D.C. local Kris Bostwick was one of the many attendees who fell for the gag, though she said it was all in good fun.

“I completely thought it was Max,” she said. “Only after we got a picture together did I hear people saying it wasn’t the real guy.

Oh well — he was super nice and it still made my day.”

The fanfare and misidentifications have settled down since the baseball season ended, Kramer says. Looking back on the whole experience, what he enjoyed the most — aside from the flattery of being constantly mistaken for someone 10 years his junior and two inches taller — is how it brought him a connection to hundreds of people whom he’d have otherwise never met.

“I probably have hundreds of pictures on my phone,” Kramer said, “of all these different people. Little kids, adults, old people, young people — so many different types of people. Everyone loves Max Scherzer. He’s like ‘the guy.’”

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PREDICTION: SHORTHANDED UNC TO BEAT PITT

Tyler Moran Staff Writer

Pitt men’s basketball (10-4, 1-2 ACC) will travel to Chapel Hill Wednesday night to face off against the North Carolina Tar Heels (8-6, 1-2 ACC). Both teams are eager to avenge their respective ACC losses from last Saturday, with Pitt looking to defeat the Tar Heels at one of their lowest points in years.

The Panthers’ season so far has been marked by inconsistency. They opened with an eye-opening victory over Florida State, currently ranked No. 10 in the AP Top 25 poll, but followed up by losing to little-known Nicholls State in their next game.

Pitt convincingly defeated a Rutgers squad, making noise in the Big Ten, only to lose to a Wake Forest team slated to finish near the bottom of the ACC. The Panthers are losing games that they must win in order to be competitive this season.

The decision-making of Pitt sophomore guards Xavier Johnson and Trey McGowens has much to do with the team’s erratic nature. At their best, the duo can take games over through sheer willpower. At their worst, however, they are plagued by turnovers and mental mistakes.

This was on full display at the end of the Wake Forest game. Trailing by one with the ball for the final possession, Johnson decided to take a jumper with three Demon Deacon defenders draped all over him instead of passing the ball outside to a wide open junior guard Ryan Murphy. He did so with seven seconds left on the clock, giving Wake Forest the opportunity to shoot two free throws. It made only one, giving the Panthers a chance to tie the game.

McGowens got the ball and took a heavily contested layup instead of passing to an open man. Head coach Jeff Capel must iron out these mental flaws if the Panthers want to make

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The Pitt men’s basketball team opened the season with a victory over No. 10 Florida State only to fall to the littleknown Nicholls State during the following game. Kaycee Orwig | senior staff photographer some noise in the ACC this year.

North Carolina has stumbled out of the gate in this year’s campaign for two reasons — injuries and lack of depth.

These factors have resulted in one of head coach Roy Williams’ weakest squads to date.

The Tar Heels have been most affected by the loss of star first-year point guard Cole Anthony. He is out indefinitely with a knee injury and his absence has loomed large for the team.

Prior to his injury, Anthony led the team in scoring with 19.1 PPG. North Carolina hasn’t been able to replace his production due to fellow guards Anthony Harris and Andrew Platek also being injured.

While injuries have ravaged the Tar Heels’ backcourt, the frontcourt has

remained healthy and been one of the bright spots in an underwhelming season thus far. Junior forward Garrison Brooks has played especially well, averaging 13.9 points and 8.7 rebounds per game.

Though an 8-6 overall record is not what we’ve come to expect from North Carolina, the Tar Heels played a rigorous non-conference schedule that explains their subpar record. They fell to dominant teams such as Michigan, Ohio State, Virginia and Gonzaga.

Perhaps the lowest point and most inexcusable loss of North Carolina’s season came last Saturday when it lost at home against Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels trailed 32-8 early in the contest to a Yellow Jackets team that was projected to finish dead last in the ACC.

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While North Carolina’s guards are on the mend, someone needs to step up alongside Brooks if the Tar Heels want to turn this season around and stop the ship from sinking.

PREDICTION: The Tar Heels will be the ones to avenge last Saturday’s horrendous loss. In this matchup between two unpredictable teams, North Carolina’s homecourt advantage will provide the edge it needs to win.

In addition to playing in a tough road atmosphere, the Panthers are also at a disadvantage in the rebounding department. North Carolina averages eight more rebounds per game and should have its way on the boards, leading to a victory in the first of two meetings between these teams.

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Employment Internships OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage­ ment Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcom­ ing spring semester, to interview & pro­cess rental appli­ cants, do internet postings & help staff our action‑central of­f ice. Part time or full time OK starting in January; full time over the summer. $13/hour.

Perfect job for cur­ rent sopho­m ores & juniors, graduating seniors set to enter grad school, return­ ing grad stu­d ents, and first year law students!

Mozart Management 412.682.7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com

January 8, 2020

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