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FACULTY FILES FOR UNION ELECTION
SATURDAY IS FOR THE GIRLS
Emily Wolfe
Assistant News Editor University of Pittsburgh faculty filed for a union election with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board on Friday, with the aim of forming a union that would cover more than 3,000 faculty members across Pitt’s five campuses. According to a Friday press release from United Steelworkers, which is aiding the unionization effort, the organizing faculty wants more academic freedom and transparency from Pitt’s administration and hopes to address “concerns about pay and job security for adjunct and part-time faculty.” Since last January, the Pitt Faculty Organizing Committee has collected confidential, signed union cards from approximately 3,500 full- and part-time faculty. If the University agrees to the terms of the filing, it will provide the PLRB with a list of the card filers, which the Board will use to verify at least 30 percent of eligible faculty and staff have signed cards. The PLRB will then work with both parties to determine a date for a union election. If an election is held, a majority of Pitt faculty must vote in favor of unionization in order to form a Union of Pitt Faculty. The union would be affiliated with the Academic Workers Association, a division of United Steelworkers. Joe Miksch, a University spokesman, said in an email the University was aware of the filing. “While we review the petition, we strongly encourage faculty members to thoroughly discuss the unionization process and share accurate information about the pros and cons involved,” Miksch said. “The University, for its part, will remain dedicated to supporting our faculty members and their diverse interests regardless of how this issue evolves.” The move comes more than a year after Pitt’s grad students filed their own petition with the state labor board in December 2017. Pitt disputed the petition, and negotiations are ongoing. Pitt faculty have attempted to unionize before, most recently in 1996, when organizers were unable to gather cards from a majority of faculty members.
Participants at this year’s Pittsburgh Women’s March rallied under the theme of “Building Bridges: Stronger Than Hate. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor
PITTSBURGH HOSTS THIRD WOMEN’S MARCH Neena Hagen and Stefan Bordeianu The Pitt News Staff
On a freezing January morning in downtown Pittsburgh, 10-year-old Sofia Rinaldo from Shadyside stood amid a dense, enthusiastic crowd of marchers underneath the arches of the City Council Building. She was there for the same reason as many others. “I hope I make a difference,” Rinaldo said. The third annual Pittsburgh Women’s March on Saturday didn’t command a crowd like last year’s, which drew an estimated 30,000 marchers, but an estimated 1,000 still showed
up with the same goal as Rinaldo. The marchers wore pink hats, carried baby Donald Trump balloons and held colorful signs with a variety of political slogans. Many politicians, including several candidates for local office this year, attended the march. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa., said he chose to attend the march to support the women who helped him in his campaigns. “I’m here to honor the people who helped me get elected. When you look out there, you see the foot soldiers of my two campaigns last year,” Lamb said. “They were the women in suburbs
organizing on their own and knocking on doors on cold days like today.” Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said those efforts paid off when Democrats flipped the U.S. House of Representatives in November. “Last year, [Democrats] flipped more than 40 seats in the United States Congress — Connor Lamb flipped two seats,” Fitzgerald said to applause from the crowd. “We elected more women, including the first two African-American women in suburban districts in Allegheny county.” One marcher took a jab at President Donald Trump with a sign that read See March on page 2
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Head organizer Tracy Baton said anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination have never been issues with the Pittsburgh march. “We have had people, coincidentally, who have worshipped in Tree of Life on every organizing committee,” she said. “As far as any concerns about us not being representative of the LGBTQ+ community, I identify publicly as queer. And we have always had members of the LGBTQ+ community who have been part of our action.” For many protestors at the march, the cause was personal. Baton herself draws inspiration from her mother and grandmother, who both worked in activism. “I can remember going with my grandmother to a white woman’s house to discuss political things and having to go in the back door,” Baton
said. “The world has substantially changed. I don’t live in that world, and it was because of her work that I don’t.” First-year Pitt student Maya Albanowski called her brand of feminism “intersectional,” and said she tries to stand up for all marginalized communities — not just women. “I think it’s important to stand up to injustice when you hear it. Whether it’s someone making a rape joke or racist joke in one of your classes or in your residence hall,” Albanowski said. “Regular people can stand up to that, and it helps.” Julian Taylor, a 29-year-old military veteran running for Beaver County Commissioner, found inspiration in his daughter. “I want my daughter to understand that I’ll always have her back by marching,” Taylor said.
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“IKEA has a better cabinet.” Others carried posters pushing progressive causes, like equal pay, reproductive rights and more diversity in government. Steve Angus, a 66-year-old from West End, said marches like this remind people of what really matters. “‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,’” Angus said, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. “I’ve always been a feminist. I think it’s good for those of us with like minds to get together to encourage one another and to remember what we’re here for.” According to organizers, creating solidarity between different identities was the main goal of this year’s march. Its theme, “Building Bridges: Stronger Than Hate,” echoed the slogan that
appeared in Pittsburgh after the Tree of Life shooting, and was intended to encourage Pittsburghers to bridge the divide between all identities. The national Women’s March, which took place Saturday in Washington, D.C., faced accusations of anti-Semitism and prioritizing straight, cisgender white women’s issues over those plaguing the LGBTQ+ community and people of color. Fitzgerald acknowledged the allegations in a speech, saying such discrimination has “no place in this march or in this community.” “It’s unfortunate that in Washington, D.C., there are people taking part in that march who aren’t exactly strong against anti-Semitism,” Fitzgerald said. “I will tell you that here in Pittsburgh, we reject anti-Semitism, and we stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters.”
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TIKTOK: TIME TO USE PARENTAL CONTROLS
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Gallagher needs to pay it forward Former Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg had a history of donating large portions of his retention bonuses to Pitt, donating $50,000 of his $75,000 bonus in 2003 and further donations in 2009 in response to the nationwide economic recession. In light of his $500,000 retention bonus, it’s time Chancellor Patrick Gallagher followed suit. Along with a 2.25-percent salary increase to his base $550,000 salary, Gallagher received an additional $500,000 this year as a part of a fiveyear retention incentive from his hiring in 2014. While the chancellor’s salary ranks among the upper third of the salaries of other public university presidents and chancellors, Pitt professors and instructors are far from enjoying the same privileges. Out of 34 institutions analyzed by the Association of American Universities, the salaries of Pitt’s main campus professors and associate professors ranked 18th and 19th, respectively. Assistant professors ranked 19th, instructors ranked 19th of 21 schools and lecturers ranked 28th of 29. Gallagher has an opportunity to re-invest his retention bonus back into this learning institution in ways that will have greater beneficial impacts for students and faculty at Pitt than him holding onto the entire retention bonus for himself. In fact, there is no shortage of worthwhile Pitt programs Gallagher can donate to. Redirecting the retention bonus back to Pitt faculty could help alleviate some of the pressures causing faculty members to file for a
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union election with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board last Friday. Textbook costs have soared 812 percent in the last 35 years and Gallagher can follow in the footsteps of Nordenberg in donating toward student textbooks. Or he could help ease the biggest drain on students’ wallets — tuition. The average need-based loan has remained almost stagnant for two decades while Pitt tuition has skyrocketed 185 percent in the same period of time. Pitt announced a new debt easement program in October called Panthers Forward to help fund students’ educations, offering eligible students up to $5,000 toward federal student loans. But despite the serious discrepancies between rising tuition and static need-based loans, the Panthers Forward program is currently backed by a budget of $750,000, making it open to just 150 full-time students in an institution that enrolls 19,330 students. Gallagher’s retention bonus alone is two-thirds the entire budget of the Panthers Forward program. “We think we’re innovating something that’s quite new,” Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said about Panthers Forward in an interview with The Pitt News. “This idea of paying it forward and kind of replacing the commercial loan space with an evergreening fund that we all support ourselves is [new].” If Gallagher believes Panthers Forward is a worthy way to pay it forward, he can put his retention bonus where his mouth is and set the standard himself.
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social media platform and can pose a legitimate danger for minors, so parTikTok, an app that was practically ents should be more vigilant with the unheard of until fairly recently, is now sort of social media their children use. The massively popular app is only one of the most popular apps among minors. Downloads in the United a couple years old and was created by Staff Columnist
Eli Savage | contributing editor States have numbered around 80 million since August, making it the most downloaded app of last September, surpassing both YouTube and Facebook. Despite this mass success, the app has faced numerous problems. Many parents are not aware their children use TikTok or that the app has a reputation of predators using the app to target children. TikTok is a very new
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the Chinese company ByteDance. ByteDance purchased teen karaoke app Musical.ly in 2017 and absorbed it into TikTok, which is modeled after Douyin, a popular app ByteDance created for the Chinese market. All accounts on Musical.ly were brought over to TikTok and many new users began flooding the See Tik Tok on page 4
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TikTok, pg. 3 app as well, thanks to an aggressive ad campaign on YouTube. The app functions by letting its users create short videos, which usually involve kids lip-synching to popular songs. Many users dance to the songs, while some make short comedy skits on the app as well. TikTok also allows its users to make a duet, where a user films a video alongside another video and the two videos appear on the same screen, often without the first video-maker’s permission. Another feature similar to this is the react feature, where users film their reactions to a video and then are able to place their filmed reaction in a small video that is movable around the screen. Many compilations of TikTok videos exist on YouTube and many popular YouTubers like PewDiePie post videos reacting to these compilations, as many feature absurd, unintentionally funny or satirical content making fun of popular trends on the app. Despite the success, the app has faced an alarmingly large amount of allegations of pedophilia. A video on YouTube by j aubrey with 3.5 million views shows a popular older user, TheBudday, contacting numerous underage girls on the app — sending suggestive videos, graphic photos and messages, clearly trying to initiate some sort of sexual relationship. He was featured in many advertisements by the app, which shows that even the most popular users aren’t immune to these kind of actions. While his account was finally banned on the app, it is unknown if he faced legal consequences. This is just one example of this sort of issue on the app, as there are many other allegations of individuals on TikTok committing similar inappropriate acts. TikTok is an app designed for underaged kids and many older users seem to take advantage of this fact to prey on kids with accounts. TikTok is used almost exclusively by young teenagers and kids, which should prompt an especially vigorous response from parents. To combat this awful activity on the app, parents should be more proactive about protecting their kids from le-
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gitimate dangers on social media. And while parents have been saying for years to not talk to strangers online, many minors are simply too young or naive to realize when a stranger online is normal or has legitimate bad intentions. According to PureSight, a software company specializing in online parental control, “One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet says they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation via the Web.” Parents should treat social media as a part of their child’s social life, and just like in real life, warn their children to stay away from certain friends who could be a bad influence to them online. There are many measures a parent can take to protect their children if they are TikTok users, besides outright preventing them from using the app. TikTok has recently increased a lot of its safety features for its users who are under 18, so a parent should first make sure their child is registered as a minor. The minimum age to use the app is 13, but if children are of age to use the app, there are many safety features available. The app allows users to set their videos to private so that only approved followers can view their videos. There is also private messaging, which only allows friends on the app to directly message other users. TikTok also offers many other parental controls that allow children to use the app in a safer way, such as setting a two-hour time limit for the app, which can be controlled through a password. Inappropriate videos have banners on them as warnings for minors, as well. Parents are also able to share accounts with their children to monitor the content their kids are watching, though there’s no way to block certain content on the app besides blocking certain search terms. TikTok has done a lot recently to make the app safer for minors, though parents should definitely do the research first to decide if the app is safe for their child and set the appropriate parental controls. While limiting a child’s access to social media will certainly provoke protest and complaining, in the long run, it is worth it and protects children from being taken advantage of.
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Culture Rachel Saula
For The Pitt News
RUCKUS GOES WILD
In G24 of the Cathedral of Learning, a room typically used for classes, 25 students gathered in Hawaiian shirts and safari hats for an evening of games like “Sex with Me is Like …” and “The Cube of Comedy.” The crowd gaped, laughed and gasped at the unpredictable stylings of Ruckus, an oncampus improv comedy troupe. Ruckus welcomes an audience every Saturday night in G24 and delivers on-thefly comedy. This Saturday’s jungle-themed show, “Ruckus Gone Wild,” was no exception, from short skits to longer bits of improv. Starting out strong with “The Cube of Comedy,” a skit where four of the troupe’s members rotate between different characters assigned by the audience, Ruckus members flaunted an impressively quick turnover rate with jokes. Two members were assigned the roles of PTA moms and quickly utilized recent public health issues. “I can’t believe the health teacher is telling our kids that vaccinations might be good for them,” one member said. Many people would freeze if given such little time to react to these ridiculous scenarios, but sophomore mechanical engineering major and Ruckus member Clare Donaher welcomes the challenge. “There’s more energy when you have to think on your feet. You get the hang of the audience and you know what’s going to get a laugh. It has to be fast,” Donaher said. While they’re witty as individuals, the real draw of Ruckus is watching the actors work together to form a cohesive show on the spot. They are often at the mercy of the audience when it comes to who they’re playing or where they are, left with mere seconds to craft a plotline together from a rowdy audience’s disjointed shouts. Despite the time constraint, throughout a 40-minute show, viewers rarely saw any of that pressure hinder their comedic abili-
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ties. The actors of Ruckus worked together seamlessly, jumping in to save scenes in danger of drying up with little to no hesitation. Trust, it seems, is a huge factor in pulling off an improv comedy show. Undeclared first-year John McFarland stressed that feeling comfortable with castmates is pivotal to a strong show.
Marshmallows inspired a campground fight between a father and daughter, but the fast-paced nature of this game didn’t let it live for long. It quickly transitioned into the woes of a struggling author who made the artistic choice to write his entire novel on his body. He very quickly had to “sweat off chapter 17” after learning the dangers of working out while writing. Blinking felt
Ruckus’ routine revolves around rotating troupe members in and out in the middle of skits. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor “In order to improvise, you have to know your partners really well. One of the joys of good comedy is when everybody on stage knows exactly where they’re going,” McFarland said. “We’re in sync and we know what’s going to happen and that makes the jokes better.” McFarland’s theory proved true when the actors moved to a new game, one where they asked audience members for one word to build an entire scene around. Dozens of unintelligible shouts filled the space before an actor was able to settle on “marshmallows.” Two actors immediately moved into a campground scene, and from there it devolved into a myriad of different scenarios.
dangerous with how quickly the scenes moved along, as each uninvolved actor jumped in to save the show each time they saw it drying up. In order to take a break from such involved form of improv performance, Ruckus members moved on to an advice segment from more experienced characters, such as 15-year-old SoundCloud rapper Young Adult Fiction, played by sophomore Patrick Meyer. When an audience member asked what to do about a roommate who kept making fun of them, Meyer chimed in with how he would handle the situation. “When you’re in the SoundCloud rap game, haters will be coming up on you all
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the time,” he said. “We get six pool noodles of assorted colors. My boys and I run up on him in my backyard and we just wail on him. It’s a pool party, but it’s violent. I’m 15.” Fictional Apple store worker Steve Blowjobs, played by junior sociology major Andrew Dow, offered his take on the situation as well. “We at Apple would never use any technology of ours to know what you text each other, so I don’t know what they’ve said to you. But on another note, my good friend Bim Book, no relation to Tim Cook, thinks you should stop being such a little bitch.” This comment in particular roused a great roar of laughter from the audience, something the members of Ruckus were proud of and work hard to achieve. Senior Jessica Israel stressed that their ease on the stage is born out of their hard work off of it. “We have practices every weekend and on the same day of our shows for four hours,” Israel said, adding that they add some additional practices as need be. Saturday’s show was audience member Shelby Smith’s second consecutive time seeing Ruckus, drawn back by the fast-paced humor and audience participation. “I went to Ruckus for the first time last weekend. I like how they interact with the audience,” she said. The troupe finished off their performance with their signature skit, a game of “Sex With Me is Like …” delivering the witty one-liners regular audience members are so accustomed to. An audience member made their voice heard above the rest when they shouted “Oklahoma,” resulting in one of the quickest jokes of the night, “Sex with me is like Oklahoma. Hot, but dry.” This skit is a favorite for the performers and the audience alike. McFarland adores not just this part of the performance, but every minute of his Saturdays with the group. “I love it. I live for it every weekend, it’s so much fun,” McFarland said.
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OAKLAND ZOO REMAINS CAGED IN
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Assistant Sports Editor As the clock expired at the Pitt men’s basketball game on Jan. 14, members of Pitt’s student cheering section, the Oakland Zoo, threw their hands in the air along with the rest of the crowd, screaming in celebration. Yet despite seeing Pitt notch its first win over a ranked team in more than two years, every single fan stayed in his or her seat. Not one student ran onto the court to celebrate with the team. “We honestly didn’t think about it until people started tweeting at us and they were like, ‘The announcers are saying the students should storm the court,’” Oakland Zoo President Derek Sellers said. “It’s not something that goes through our mind when we were about to win that game.” Storming the court has become common in college athletics as a way for fans to celebrate their team’s big win, usually over a rival or a team ranked above them. The first time the Oakland Zoo ever made a court appearance at a men’s basketball game was on Jan. 13, 2001, when the Panthers upset No. 15 Seton Hall. To celebrate, Oakland Zoo founder Matt Cohn and eight of his friends rushed onto the paint at the Fitzgerald Field House. “We beat them, so we stormed the court,” Cohn said. “It was the saddest court-storming of all time, like there were maybe 20 people and the players on the court.” It was the first time the Oakland Zoo ever stormed the court, something that has only happened twice in the history of the Zoo. The second and last time was when Pitt upset Syracuse later that same year. It’s been 18 years since Pitt’s students have stepped foot on the court after a basketball game — and it’s something that has never happened at the Petersen Events Center. But it’s not because the athletic department doesn’t let them. The reason the Oakland Zoo doesn’t storm the court is because the founders knew the basketball team was expected to and should win at home. Pitt was ranked in the top 10 for the first years of the Zoo with no upsets at home, giving
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the Zoo no reason to storm the court. While that is no longer the case, the tradition has still stuck. “We don’t have to storm the court,” Cohn said. “We still have a 75-percent winning percentage [at home], we aren’t going to storm the court.” In its first season at the Pete, the men’s basketball team went 15-2 at home and advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament. “We were ranked top 10,” Cohn said. “We had a 40- or 39-game winning streak, so you kind of expect to win.” The only time storming the court was talked about during Cohn’s time at Pitt was when he was a fifth-year senior, when Pitt was unranked and playing No. 1 UConn at home. If the Panthers won, Cohn said he would have stormed the court. But Pitt lost and with it went the opportunity to storm the court at the Pete for the first time. Not everyone agrees with the Zoo’s unwritten tradition. If former player Ashton Gibbs could change anything about his time at Pitt, it would be that. After he hit a game-winning 3-pointer, he was expecting to get swarmed, but it never happened. “I definitely wish they were able to storm the court because it brings even more of a connection between the students and players,” Gibbs said. “I shot a buzzer-beater against Providence in the 2010 season that I wish could’ve been redone, mainly because the students didn’t storm the court. A buzzer-beater is one of the best feelings you can have as a player. Enjoying the feeling with the fans makes it even better.” Managing editor for The Athletic and CBS broadcaster Seth Davis, however, appreciates the Zoo’s mindset. Davis has been outspoken against storming the court for three main reasons. The first reason is safety. There is a great possibility for people to get hurt when large numbers of fans rush onto a space. The second reason is fights, which have occurred between opposing teams and fans. The last reason Davis despises court-storming is respect. “The players and the referees, they’ve earned the right to be on the court,” Davis said. “That’s a
Fans celebrate in the student section during the 2017 Backyard Brawl. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor sacred space … and I understand that fans are excited and they want to celebrate, but I think if you can’t have fun and can’t celebrate in the stands, then you probably shouldn’t be at the game in the first place.” Davis also believes storming the court is the highest compliment you can give to the opposing team because it shows you didn’t expect your team to beat them. And while he sees no reason for fans to ever storm the court, if there was a fan base that should want to storm the court, it should be that of the team who hasn’t won a conference game in a while — say, 690 days. “The fact that the Pitt Students have taken the stand, I’m extremely impressed by that. That’s very impressive to me, they’re my new favorite student section,” Davis said. “It’s very cool, like, ‘Yo, we expected to beat you. We lost 20 in a row and won 10 games last year, but we expected to beat you.’ I like it. I’m impressed, it gives me hope for the future of America.” Current player sophomore Khameron Davis also respects the Zoo’s decision not to storm the court, since he knows regardless they still support
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the team. “I personally love the Oakland Zoo,” Khameron Davis said. “They are already amazing, if they want to storm the court, they can storm the court. If they don’t, then it’s cool, I know they love us and we love them back and that’s all that really matters to me.” The Oakland Zoo doesn’t have any plans to storm the court Tuesday, when Pitt plays against No. 2 Duke. But that could change if the Panthers upset the Blue Devils, as Vice President Hope Gast said it’s unlikely they can stop 1,000 excited student fans. But Sellers doesn’t expect any courtstorming to happen. “I wouldn’t plan on it,” Sellers said. “If people decide they want to, they can try, certainly, but we aren’t going to plan anything. We expect to win.” If Pitt wins and the Oakland Zoo does storm the court for the first time at the Pete, they have Cohen’s blessing. “If we beat Duke on Tuesday night — to announce we are back — then I absolutely would condone storming the court, because that happens when it’s total euphoria,” Cohen said.
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