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T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | January 15, 2019 | Volume 109 | Issue 84
PITTSBURGH NOTABLES MAKE FORBES 30 UNDER 30
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Fans in the student section cheer during Pitt’s 75-62 victory over Florida State Monday evening Knox Coulter | staff photographer
HADAR GALRON SPINS COMEDY FROM ORTHODOX ROOTS Maggie Young Staff Writer
After the age of 12, Orthodox Jewish women are told they can’t sing because the sound of their voice is “indecent.” Jewish comedian and playwright Hadar Galron is familiar with Orthodox traditions like this. She was raised with them. More than 50 people gathered in the Frick Fine Arts auditorium Monday night to listen to Galron discuss her Orthodox Jewish upbringing and how she defied the restraints she felt the community imposed on her. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in London, Galron was raised under the traditions of Jewish law and felt restricted because of her gender. After hearing a rabbi on the radio turn those strict customs into jokes, Galron realized she could share her experiences through stand-up comedy.
“I felt I was growing up in a space where everything I wanted was considered impossible,” Galron said. “Everything I wanted to do is, ‘No, you can’t do that because you’re a girl.’” Monday’s event was organized by the Jewish studies and religious studies programs, along with the gender, sexuality and women’s studies program. Haya Feig, a lecturer for the Jewish studies program and a personal friend of Galron, invited the comedian to speak at Pitt. Feig hoped learning about Galron’s theater and film career in person would complement a new course Feig is teaching this semester on Israeli film and TV. “I think it’s good to see someone who comes from the outside and explains something we all probably ask ourselves [about],” Feig said. “It’s very important to talk about the diversity within the Jewish community.”
Specifically, Feig said, Galron offers a personal look into the controversy surrounding Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox communities as someone who lived the experience. Galron saw firsthand the effects marriage had on the Orthodox Jewish women around her. The rules of marriage in Orthodox law permit only the husband to request separation, Galron said, and if a woman wanted to leave the marriage, her husband would often blackmail her into staying married. “Women’s status in Jewish law is the status of a belonging of your owner. Your owner is your husband,” Galron said. “The whole ceremony of getting married is a ceremony of being bought.” After explaining the steps she took to distance herself from the Orthodox community — See Galron on page 2
From manufacturing to health care, from computer science to cuisine, Pittsburgh holds its own when it comes to sending new products and ideas into the world. This year, three young innovative Pittsburghers have made it onto the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for contributions to their respective fields, including two Pitt researchers. Inmaculada Hernandez - Age 28, Healthcare List Inmaculada Hernandez was raised in a STEM household — her mother is a pharmacist who owns her own independent pharmacy and her father is an economist. Both had a hand in curating her passions. “I have always loved science and math with all of my heart,” Hernandez says. “I knew I was going to do something, probably medical-related, but my final decision on pharmacy was because it was a family tradition.” Hailing from Soria, Spain, Hernandez has recently made great strides in pharmaceutical research, in addition to fostering and educating the next generation of pharmacists. She has been working as an assistant professor at the School of Pharmacy for two and a half years after receiving her doctorate in Health Services and Research from Pitt in 2016. After graduating from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, she chose to pursue her doctorate at Pitt for its emphasis on research and its commitment to training its students and supporting their work. She is currently pursuing three topics of See 30 Under 30 on page 2
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research. The first involves the use of blood thinners in preventing strokes — finding which blood thinners work the best with the least side effects. The second topic involves looking at the effectiveness and safety of drugs used in anti-dementia therapy for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The last topic involves trends in drug prices in the last few years in the United States, specifically what is driving increasing costs, which is why she thinks she is being recognized by Forbes. “Pharmaceutical pricing is something very hot in the United States, specifically now,” Hernandez said. For Hernandez, coming to the United States was one of the pivotal moments of her life and career and she felt welcomed in Pittsburgh since her arrival more than two years ago. “I have a strong accent and I think it’s lovely when I talk in Ubers or in other places, people ask me where I’m from. People will say, ‘I’m so happy that you are here in the USA.’ It makes me feel very welcome. I think that attitude is very positive and is necessary to keep attractive talent, students and researchers in the City,” Hernandez said.
Galron, pg. 1 becoming a teacher in the army and leaving home to study theater in Tel Aviv — Galron showed the audience a clip of her standup show, “Passion Killer.” She explained how she channeled her experience and exaggerated it in her performance, aiming to bring attention to the issues Jewish women face. “‘And why, why is it natural for a man to court a woman, and not natural for a woman to court a man?’” Galron said, mocking the rabbi she heard on the radio. “Kind of a primitive question, his answer was a killer. ‘This is like a man who has lost his wallet, can a wallet go look for his owner?’ It took me a moment to realize I was the wallet here in this story.” Galron said exploring these issues through her comedy helped her realize that change has to come from the women in these Orthodox communities themselves. Even though these women are still seen as “secondary” to their husbands in the house, ultra-Orthodox women have established a growing presence in the workforce. After having trouble with one specific Jewish tradition, Galron began writing a play about it. “Mikveh” is about the tradition of the same name, in which a woman undergoes a ritual bath in order to purify themselves after menstruation or childbirth. The most recent time she went to the mikveh, Galron said she was made to feel unclean because she had only participated in the ritual three times. Each of the eight female characters in “Mikveh” has her own issue, Galron said, but they all come to the mikveh “to purify themselves for their husbands before marriage.” By having the play take
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Hernandez said her doctorate faculty mentor Yuting Zhang, an associate professor of health economics, had a large impact on the way she approaches her research today. “I really appreciated her time and her mentoring. She taught me that it was important to do high-quality work and that the point of research is to welcome solutions to the world, not just to get published,” Hernandez said. “At the end of the day, as a researcher, that’s what we are here for — to contribute to society and knowledge.” Tyler Benson - Age 29, Food & Drink For Tyler Benson, being recognized by Forbes was a surprise — but having his business recognized was not. “The Forbes recognition was definitely a surprise, but where we are in our business is not a surprise. To build something from scratch is just a daily exercise. It’s getting up every day and putting forth that 1 percent that is going to compound over time. Then you wake up and you think, ‘Wow, we have four locations,’” Benson said. Born in Seattle, Benson has been the co-CEO of Galley Group, a food hall development company, since 2015. He received a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Michigan in 2011 and a master’s of business administration from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2015.
Benson said he and his fellow co-CEO Ben Mantica’s — a native of Sewickley, who did not make the Forbes list due to being more than 30 years old — interest in the restaurant business came from their experiences in the Navy a few years earlier. Upon traveling to East Asia, they were intrigued by the open-air food markets and casual dining halls they went to. Both agreed the Rust Belt cities of America would be a good place to start their own business modeled after these. “We looked at [the Rust Belt] and thought, ‘This is a way-undervalued market that we can start our business [in] for much lower cost [than] in coastal big cities,’” Benson said. The two launched Smallman Galley in the Strip District in 2015, featuring several different rotating restaurant concepts under one roof. Galley Group now owns and manages three other food halls and licenses its kitchens out to culinary teams on a weekly revenue share structure, meaning they collect 30 percent of weekly food sales and the tenant keeps the rest. Benson said this gives chefs the opportunity to start their own businesses.
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place in the mikveh, Galron intended to have the women actors be completely naked, though her director convinced her to cover them following an argument. “What enticed me about writing in a location of the mikveh is that you can see everything … the question is what you do with everything that is seen,” she said. Galron presented part of the script of “Mikveh” on a projector and asked for three participants to read lines. Amalia Baker, a
sophomore studying theater at Carnegie Mellon, was one of the participants. “I was not aware of the situation because I didn’t grow up Orthodox, I’m a reformed Jew. It was really enlightening, and I’m really interested in the theater she’s making because that’s the world I come from,” Baker said. After the play was read by the participants, Galron showed a preview of the play in Hebrew — as it was written — which Baker said was much more “invigorating” to watch. “I got much more of a sense of what the character was experiencing in the original language,” Baker said. Galron said she considers herself an outsider of the Orthodox community because she strayed from it. But because she never officially left, she said she is still connected to the issues of the community. “I say I traded my religion for belief. My criticism is not for the community,” Galron said. “It is the law that is above that needs to change. I feel like I can make a stronger change from within than from standing outside throwing Jewish comedian and playwright Hadar Galron discusses the formation stones, because I don’t have all the anof her stand-up comedy show “Passion Killer” Monday evening in the swers but I do want to ask the questions.” Frick Fine Arts building. Maria Heines | staff photographer
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SCHUMER AND PELOSI ARE HYPOCRITICAL IN FIGHT FOR BORDER WALL Hayden Timmins Staff Columnist
Amid the longest government shutdown in American history, President Donald Trump spoke to the nation about border security during his first Oval Office address Jan. 8. Appealing to the hearts of Americans, he called the situation at the southern border “a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul.” “In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes and 4,000 violent killings,” Trump said. “Some have suggested that a barrier is immoral. Then why do wealthy politicians build walls, fences and gates around their homes? They don’t build walls because they hate the people on the outside, but because they love the people on the inside.” But immediately after the president finished his address, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attempted to rebut his argument for a wall, first arguing the shutdown was immoral and then arguing against the wall itself. Schumer and Pelosi’s arguments against funding the wall are both hypocritical and unfounded. “And the fact is, President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage, must stop manufacturing a crisis and must reopen the government,” Pelosi said. Trump is, in fact, not holding federal workers hostage, and this language is the exact “fear-mongering” Pelosi has accused Trump of using. Not only can these government workers apply for an emergency loan, but they will be likely be compensated with back pay once a spending bill is passed. “The president is rejecting these bipartisan bills, which would reopen government over his obsession with forcing American taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an
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expensive and ineffective wall,” Pelosi said. Trump said in a tweet. Schumer has since But Schumer and Pelosi seem more confirmed this in an interview. comfortable with spending taxpayers’ dolAfter Pelosi spoke, Schumer made his lars on useless projects rather than giving case against a border wall. But Schumer Trump 0.14 percent of the yearly budget to seems to forget that in 2009, he praised help prevent the illegal entry and re-entry the building of 630 miles of fencing across of criminals and suspected terrorists. the border, saying it made the border “far For example, the federal government, more secure” and “created a significant which will spend upwards of $4 trillion barrier to illegal immigration.” Yet during this year, has spent more than $3 billion on his speech Tuesday, he claimed the border rebuilding sandy beaches that wash away wall would be useless, calling it “expenwithin years and spends $1.7 billion annusive” and “ineffective.” ally on maintaining empty buildings. Around 1,500 people cross the border Schumer and Pelosi’s argument that unvetted every single day. While attempts the wall costs too much is extremely hypoto secure the border without a barrier have critical because they have done next to helped the situation, they have not come nothing to curb some of the needless and close to preventing illegal immigration exorbitant spending done by the governentirely. ment every year. Their attempt now to preEven Mark Morgan, the former chief of vent excess spending heavily suggests this border patrol under the Obama adminisis only a partisan issue and not a moral or tration, spoke out against Schumer’s claim, monetary issue as they claim. saying walls “absolutely work.” The biggest difference between the two “I cannot think of a legitimate arguopposing sides is the fact that Trump said ment why anyone would not support the he was willing to compromise on the wall, wall as part of a multi-layered border sewhile Pelosi and Schumer insist on not alcurity issue,” Morgan said. locating any money for a wall. “I’m begging the president to stay the After coming back from her trip in Hacourse,” he said in a later interview. waii, Pelosi jokingly said she would only Trump finished his pitch with an apgive a single dollar to the wall. Previously, peal to morality by promising to protect a bill was proposed that allocated $1.3 bilthe American citizens. lion for border security, with the caveat U.S. President Donald Trump talks to the “This is a choice between right and that none of it could be used to build a press on the South Lawn as he returns to wrong, justice and injustice,” Trump said. wall. Not allowing any money for addition- the White House on Monday in Washing- “This is about whether we fulfill our sacred al barriers continues to leave 1,350 miles of ton, D.C. Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/ duty to the American citizens we serve. land open to illegal immigrants with crimi- TNS When I took the oath of office, I swore to nal records. she would not allow money to be spent on protect our country. And that is what I will During her speech Tuesday, Pelosi said a wall. always do, so help me God.” she would work with Trump to allocate Our government has a responsibility to “I asked what is going to happen in 30 money for a wall if he approved a bill to days if I quickly open things up, are you protect its people and right now, it is failtemporarily fund the government. But on going to approve Border Security which in- ing to uphold that responsibility by allowing Wednesday, Pelosi said during a meeting cludes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, vast swaths of the southern border to remain that even if the government was refunded, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!” completely open.
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from the editorial board
Trump administration threatens women’s health care Before he was president, Donald Trump set his sights on eliminating an Obama-era requirement making it compulsory for companies to provide health insurance for employees to obtain free birth control. The requirement seems to be temporarily safe from the Trump administration, but as always under this president, the fate of women’s health care still hangs in the balance. U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone, a federal judge in Philadelphia, blocked regulations on birth control Monday that would have gone into effect that same day. Beetlestone’s nationwide injunction prevented millions of women from losing access to birth control that they gained under the Affordable Care Act. Those who push reduced access to birth control in the name of religious freedom are either severely underinformed about the noncontraceptive health benefits of these pills or they are willfully ignorant of the facts in order to push their own religious beliefs on others. This line of thinking threatens the state of women’s health care in the United States. The ACA contains a provision called the Women’s Health Amendment, which requires employers to provide access to free or low-cost birth control to all female employees. It included women’s health care services in the ACA’s goal of expanding access to health insurance and reducing costs. There is a caveat to this, however, in the form of the religious beliefs of employers. The Supreme Court found during the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. case that the ACA couldn’t force privately held companies to provide health insurance to cover contraceptives as a form of an expression of religious beliefs. The latest Trump regulation would allow not only privately held companies but also
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publicly held companies to deny their employees coverage for birth control on moral or religious grounds. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. from California issued a similar injunction on Sunday against the regulation for only 13 states and the District of Columbia, as opposed to Beetlestone’s injunction for the whole country. Challengers of the Women’s Health Amendment “have raised serious questions going to the merits, on their claim that the Religious Exemption and the Moral Exemption are inconsistent with the Women’s Health Amendment,” Gilliam wrote in his decision. The purpose of the amendment, Gilliam pointed out, is “to promote access to women’s health care, not limit it.” Limiting access to birth control does the exact opposite of promoting women’s health care. According to a 2011 study on the benefits of contraceptive pills, only 42 percent of women who use these pills use them only for contraceptive reasons. The majority of women rely on them for reasons other than pregnancy prevention — 31 percent depend on the pills to reduce pain and cramps associated with menstruation, 28 percent use them to regulate their periods or to prevent migraines and other painful symptoms, 14 percent use them to treat acne and 4 percent to treat endometriosis. One-third of teens who use contraceptive pills do so for only noncontraceptive purposes. Allowing employers to deny their employees access to treatment for not only pregnancy prevention but also menstrual pain, migraines or acne on the basis of “religious beliefs” is absurd. Challenges to this access is the result of purposeful ignorance and poses a real threat to American women.
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STUDENTS CELEBRATE JAPANESE COMING OF AGE
Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot Staff Writer
The University Club Ballroom A shook with excitement as Pittsburgh Taiko — a local Japanese percussion ensemble — opened up Friday evening’s Japanese Coming of Age ceremony with a thundering drum performance. Thirty-four students from both Yasuda Women’s University in Hiroshima, Japan, and the University of Pittsburgh proceeded down the aisle and took their seats in anticipation of the coming ceremony. The students from Yasuda Women’s University are international guests to the University, studying English at Pitt. Most of the female participants were clad in floor-length kimonos patterned with stripes, pastels and bright florals. The kimonos were provided by the various groups that supported the event. The Coming of Age ceremony — or Seijin Shiki — celebrates Japanese youth growing into mature adults at the age of 20. Also called “Adult’s Day,” it is a holiday that was established following World War II to create a symbolic cultural rebirth. Because such an effort is put into hairstyles, elaborate clothing and makeup, many photographers and news crews come to cover the event. As part of the welcome speeches, Dr. Belkys Torres, the executive director for global engagement for the University Center for International Studies, addressed the value of the ceremony and thanked the students for sharing their cultures during Pitt’s Year of Global. “Thank you all for making our campus and our City a more a creative and interesting place just because you are in it. And thank you for sharing your stories, your history and your expertise with our students, our faculty and staff and community members,” Torres said.
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Students from Yasuda Women’s University and University of Pittsburgh take their seats before Friday afternoon’s Coming of Age Day ceremony. Wenhao Wu | senior staff photographer This year marks the second time Pitt has family. All of these things were a part of hosted the Coming of Age ceremony, with my growing up, becoming more indepenthe first being in 2018. The ceremony was dent and becoming more outgoing,” Takasponsored by UCIS, the English Language moto said. “In my time in Pittsburgh, I have Institute, and the Asian Studies Center. grown up and coincidentally I am now celPitt, through the Sakura Project, planted a ebrating the Japanese Coming of Age Day cherry tree in North Park like it did the pre- ceremony here at Pitt, with my friends, with vious year as a gift to the students. Along my classmates and all of you.” Takamoto continued, explaining the with that, the participants received Pitt-enComing of Age Day ceremony. It is celgraved chopsticks and photo ops with Roc. ebrated every year on the second Monday Mai Takamoto from Yasuda University of January and is usually held at local govgave an address following the presentation ernment offices. Every child who turned of gifts. She talked about her experience at 20 years old in the previous year is invited Pitt. to the ceremony. The day is an important “When I first arrived, it was hard for me rite of passage for young Japanese people to make friends. I realized that if I wanted in a spiritual sense as well, as they and to make friends, I had to jump in conversatheir families will go to their local shrines tions,” she said. and pray for health and success. It is also Takamoto didn’t want to waste any time, an expensive day, especially for the young so she participated in many different activiwomen, due to the ornate traditional clothties offered through the University. ing they are expected to wear. “I also took my time while in Pittsburgh “At the Coming of Age Day ceremony, to visit many museums. I shared my culture nearly all the young women wear a fuwith friends, students and my homestay
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risode, a long-sleeved kimono,” Takamoto said, gesturing to her own furisode, which had a bright pink base with blues and yellows in floral and butterfly patterns. “Men, on the other hand, usually wear Westernstyle formal wear, but some decide to wear traditional kimono.” Though the event was packed with young women wearing colorful garments, there were some men in attendance wearing their formal clothing and kimonos. Oliver Jia, a senior Japanese major at Pitt, was one of the few boys in attendance who wore a traditional dark-colored kimono. Jia followed Takamoto and made his speech almost entirely in Japanese, save for an opening sentence thanking both Japanese speakers and non-Japanese speakers for patiently waiting through it. Jia, along with his five years of studying the language, spent 15 months studying abroad in Japan. He plans on attending graduate school for international relations and is in the middle of applying to schools in Japan. “Basically [my speech] was saying how my experience studying abroad parallels theirs studying here as students in America,” he said. “The theme is bravery, courage to try new things and making new connections. It also ties into adulthood, which connects with the Coming of Age ceremony.” The ceremony finished with Brandon Yee, a senior Chinese major and member of the Pitt Calligraphy Club, demonstrating traditional Japanese calligraphy. As he knelt on the stage before a long white sheet of paper, Pittsburgh Taiko provided another rousing drum piece. Yee’s finished piece echoed the sentiments shared through the entire evening. He read the words he wrote in bold black ink aloud to conclude the event. “Congratulations to the new adults,” Yee said.
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PITT UPSETS NO. 11 FSU 75-62
Stephen Thompson and Andrew Kelly after a very emotional loss on Saturday with only Gowens described the game as “fearless.” Capel room with a 36-34 lead. The Pitt News Staff
also used the term to describe his players. “We weren’t afraid in any of those situations. Doesn’t mean we always played great,” Capel said. “I don’t think these guys have been afraid from day one.” Johnson, who finished with 18 points, was fouled on his attempt to score inside and made both shots, making the score 6-2. Meanwhile, Florida State’s defense continued to stifle the Pitt offense, taking away passing lanes and preventing penetration in the first half of the game. The Seminoles were able to keep Pitt from scoring a field goal for more than five minutes to start the game until Johnson found his way inside with 14:50 to play. Florida State answered quickly, as Seminole senior center Christ Koumadje rebounded a block from Pitt’s sophomore forward Terrell Brown and put it back in the hoop. Pitt finally found its groove 11:28 into the first half when McGowens made a 3-pointer to give the Panthers a 13-12 lead, their first of the game. McGowens led both teams with 30 points, making this his second 30-point game in five days. Free throws were key to the Panthers’ win. Pitt was 38-46 from the line, shooting 82.6 percent. The Panthers made their first eight free throws during the game, continuing their hot streak from the NC State game, where they were 24-28. Despite being far outmatched in terms of height, the Panthers were all over the Seminoles on the defensive end of the floor. Florida State only outrebounded the Panthers by one, as the Seminoles grabbed 39 compared to Pitt’s 38. Both teams turned the ball over 12 times, but Pitt managed to get the Seminoles off pace in the first half of the game, forcing five turnovers in the first eight minutes of the game. The Panthers also took better advantage of Florida State’s miscues, scoring 11 points off turnovers compared to the Seminole’s seven. First-year guard Trey McGowens attempts a dunk during Pitt’s 75-62 victory Despite shooting just 34.78 percent from the over Florida State Monday evening. Knox Coulter | staff photographer field in the first half, Pitt went into the locker Pitt won its second ACC game this season when it upset No. 11 Florida State 75-62 at the Petersen Events Center Monday night. The Seminoles (13-4, 1-3) were the second of backto-back ranked opponents for Pitt (12-5, 2-2), which entered the contest coming off a tough six-point loss at the hands of North Carolina State. “We fought, we were together, we showed toughness and it was a big time win for us,” Pitt coach Jeff Capel said. “For our guys to respond
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one day of preparation and come back like this is big-time.” Pitt initially struggled from the outside to start the game, missing its first four shots, three of which came from behind the 3-point line. Florida State’s aggressive defense did it no favors, preventing Pitt from penetrating the interior. First-year guard Xavier Johnson finally found his way inside after Pitt was down 6-0 with 17 minutes and 16 seconds left in the first half. After getting down early, Pitt managed to keep its head in the game. First-year Trey Mc-
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A key to the first half was the turnover battle, Pitt turned the ball over just four times while forcing eight turnovers. In a game where Pitt was outmatched in terms of length and therefore outrebounded, it was crucial for it to create extra possessions and turn defense into offense. After a combined 22 fouls in the first half, the physical nature of the game continued right into the second half. Koumadje, who finished the game with seven points, picked up his third foul three minutes into the second half. Florida State ended a two-minute scoring drought to start the second half when redshirt senior forward Phil Cofer made a jump shot to tie the game 36-36. Florida State took its first lead of the half with 12:06 left to play when junior guard Trent Forrest, who led the Seminoles with 19 points, made a pair of free throws. McGowens responded by taking the ball to the basket, getting another foul call and making both free throws to get Pitt’s lead back, making the score 46-45. McGowens, a 75-percent freethrow shooter, went 18-19 from the line Monday night. “McGowens was amazing, again,” Capel said. Johnson also put together an impressive performance from the free-throw line, converting on all 10 of his opportunities. Brown helped the Panthers put the game away with 7:10 left to play when he dunked to give a 10-point lead and make the score 60-50. Florida State went on a 5-0 run and got within five points with 4:25 left to play. But that’s as close as it would get, as Pitt outscored the Seminoles 15-7 in the final minutes. “I think the people in Pittsburgh should be very happy that they have a guy in Jeff [Capel] who has come in and brought their swagger back that Pitt has been accustomed to for a number of years,” FSU coach Leonard Hamilton said. “He deserves to be congratulated.” The Panthers will be looking to get their first ACC road win of the season on Saturday when they tip off against Syracuse at 2 p.m.
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Shadyside Shadyside ‑ 2BR, great location, hard wood floors. Free heat. Immediate oc cupancy. Short‑term. Call 412‑361‑2695
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Local middle‑eastern restaurant looking for positive, energetic and experienced people to join our team! Excel‑ lent customer service, good character, and strong work ethic. Hiring immediately! Call (412)‑680‑9094
Now renting fall 2019 various two bedrooms units in South Oak‑ land, Bates, Coltart, Edith, Halket Place, Ward Street; rent start‑ ing from $975‑$1410 Contact: John C.R. Kelly 412‑683‑7300 www.jcrkelly.com info@kellyrealtyinc. com
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Shadyside Manage ment Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester, to interview & process rental applicants, do internet post‑ ings & help staff our action‑central office. Part time or full time OK starting in January; full time over the summer. $13/hour. Perfect
Oakland near Magee Hosptial. 1,2,3 BR available immedi ately. Long or short term lease, furnished or unfurnished. By the week, month or semester. Call 814‑403‑2798 or 412‑881‑1881.
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4 bedroom/1 1/2 bath townhouse on Murray Avenue across from Starbucks. $1395+utilities. Washer/dryer, granite countertops, off‑street parking, dishwasher, backyard, and covered front porch. Available August 1st. Call 724‑309‑4193.
Rental Other 3BR, 2BA spacious house available in
Brentwood. Fully furnished, recently updated, A/C, hard‑ wood floors, washer/ dryer in basement. 2 covered porches. $1095+utilities. 8 miles from Pitt! Call 412‑884‑5792 or 412‑608‑3039. Fall Rentals ‑ 1 and 2 very close to campus, well maintained, 24
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job for sophomores & juniors, seniors planning to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first‑year law students! Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003 thane@mozartrents. com Part‑Time Job: Earn up to $200 a day driv ing and hanging out with senior citizens. Apply here: https:// www.fountain.com/ papa‑technologies/ apply/pittsburgh‑pa‑ pa‑pal The Pitt News is currently seeking students to work as In side Sales Representa tives for the newspa per. They will provide advertising service to all Student, Univer‑ sity, and Classified Accounts, while also completing assigned office duties. Submit resumes/applica‑ tions to advertising@ pittnews.com, or stop by our office at 434 William Pitt Union!
Outstanding One Bedrooms located throughout South Oakland; Fifth Ave, Meyran, Pier, Semple, Blvd of Allies, Ward; Rents Starting at: $740‑$825 Contact: John C.R. Kelly Office: 412‑683‑7300
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