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INSIDE THE PITT DINING CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS Jon Moss

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Copies of “Sophie: The Incomparable Mayor Masloff,” are displayed at Barbara Burstin’s book launch Wednesday in the Cathedral. Joy Cao staff photographer

PITT CHOOSES TO REDUCE, REUSE, REWEAR Amanda Zelnis

with PittServes and The University of Thriftsburgh to implement a textile recycling program Blue bins, green bins and black bins — oh my. on Pitt’s campus. Textiles are a category of maWith so many ways to dispose of waste on cam- terials including clothes and linens of all types pus, it can be hard to believe that Pitt didn’t start and are characterized by their network of naturecycling until 1990. Now, 30 years later, there are ral or artificial fibers. As it stands, textiles currently make up 6.3% of the United States waste even more bins popping up on campus.

The Office of Sustainability has partnered stream. The recycling program aims to reduce the amount that end up in landfills.

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As of this past Friday, 19 barrels marked with a wide, pink band around the top can be found everywhere from Cathy to the Pete. These barrels are being used to collect unusable textiles, including unwearable clothing and accessories.

There are specific guidelines that ensure only recyclable textiles are placed in the barrel. The list See Textile on page 2

Pitt Dining will have to make a decision in the next few months — not on a menu, but on who gets to make the menus.

The University’s current dining contract with Sodexo — the food management company that Pitt has partnered with for nearly 29 years — will expire this summer, with a new dining contract starting July 1. But Pitt Dining may not elect to renew its contract with Sodexo, or may choose to bring in other providers.

Pitt’s contract, which ensures that several thousand students are fed daily, consistently ranks as the largest single payment made by the University each fiscal year — it approached nearly $34 million between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019.

University spokesperson Kevin Zwick said a committee of students, staff members and administrators from across the University are helping to vet the companies who replied to the University’s request for proposals for the dining contract.

Zwick declined to name which companies are being considered. The committee includes three students, as well as representatives from the Division of Student Affairs, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, Office of Sustainability and several other units.

Zwick added that the vendor review process See Dining on page 2

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Sophie Masloff’s journey from rags to the mayoralty Lucy Li

For The Pitt News Growing up as a poor Jewish girl in 1920s Pittsburgh, Sophie Masloff seemed to have a hard future ahead of her — but her determination to improve her life as well as others’ would take her all the way to the mayoral seat.

Pitt history professor Barbara Burstin hosted a talk Wednesday in a Cathedral of Learning classroom about her new biography of the first Jewish and female mayor of Pittsburgh. Titled “Sophie: The Incomparable Mayor Masloff ” and initially released in October 2019, the book explores Masloff ’s childhood, her political career and her accomplishments as mayor.

Burstin said she wanted to find out how Masloff, a working-class woman who couldn’t afford to go to college, eventually made her way to the Pittsburgh mayoralty.

“It was a very improbable, unlikely journey, and yet there she was, she had become mayor,” Burstin said.

Although well-respected and praised, Burstin said she did not find much information about Masloff ’s term as mayor in published historical materials. Even in books written by Pitt historians, Burstin said Masloff was barely mentioned at all.

“I was angry that men had written histories,” she said, “and women had generally been left out of those histories.”

According to Burstin, Masloff lost her father when she was five years old, and was raised by her mother alongside three other siblings. Masloff ’s childhood was impacted by a City reeling from the financial difficulties of the Great Depression.

“Sophie’s mother would bring back two bananas and divide them between four children,” Burstin said. “Hunger was a reality.”

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Growing up under these harsh circumstances, Masloff became passionate about politics. Shortly after graduating high school, she began working in 1938 as a clerk at the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, and remained there for 38 years.

“Politics was her way out of the ghetto, to meet people, to get involved and hopefully get a job,” Burstin said.

With the 1968 assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the ongoing Vietnam War, Burstin said it wasn’t the best of times, but Masloff thought she had something to offer and decided to run for City Council.

Masloff did not succeed in her first election — another woman, Amy Ballinger, was elected to the Council seat. But six years later, in 1976, when Ballinger left office, Masloff ran again and was elected to City Council.

After Masloff won re-election three times, she decided to try and run for the Council’s presidency in 1988, and won. But five months after she was elected president, thenMayor Richard Caliguiri passed away from amyloidosis, a rare disease. Masloff became the City’s mayor due to Caliguiri’s passing.

As the City’s mayor from 1988 to 1994, winning the office in her own right in 1989, Masloff accomplished much during her mayoralty, including helping to stabilize the City’s finances.

She privatized numerous assets owned by the City, including the Pittsburgh Zoo, National Aviary, Phipps Conservatory and Schenley Park Golf Course. Masloff also played a leading role in creating the Allegheny County Regional Asset District, which divvies up half of the revenue collected by a 1% county-wide sales tax to libraries, parks and cultural centers.

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Textiles, pg. 1 of items that cannot be placed in these barrels includes mattress toppers, hazardous waste and single-stream recyclables.

Aurora Sharrard, Pitt’s director of sustainability, said the barrels are not for clothing donations.

Wearable clothing and other lightly used textiles should still be brought to local consignment stores such as the Thriftsburgh.

“Reuse is one of the highest and best uses for an item of any type,” Sharrard said.

The unusable textiles dropped in the recycling barrels are collected and taken to one of Pitt’s surplus property sites. From there, Simple Recycling, a textile recycling partner, picks up and transports the textiles to a regional facility.

From there, all materials are sorted and graded based on quality and condition. The lower quality textiles are processed for raw materials and medium quality textiles are exported to partner organizations.

Sharrard said this process of both reusing and recycling keeps textiles in a circular economy.

“A circular economy is one that creates closed loops in which materials are used and reused, thus eliminating waste and responsibly [re]using resources,” Sharrard said.

Kevin Pealer, a senior environmental studies and communication major, as well as the executive board director at Thriftsburgh, said not many people understand the extensive impact textiles have when they are not kept in the circular economy.

“Textiles use a shocking amount of water and produce a very significant amount of pollution

Dining, pg. 1 includes a variety of important criteria for the University community, such as menu diversity, sustainability, quality, innovation, value and service. Food safety — a topic of concern after a rash of numerous high-risk violations at Market Central last academic year — will also be part of the process, Zwick said.

Abdou Cole, Sodexo’s resident district manager for Pitt Dining, said it is an honor to serve the Pitt community and hopes to continue doing so.

“Sodexo is currently actively engaged in the

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worldwide,” Pealer said.

Pealer added that the textile industry also has a negative impact on social equity, which can be attributed to factors like the exploitation of workers, fast fashion and overconsumption of clothing.

Tamara Racic, a senior neuroscience and psychology major, said reducing waste is a big part of being an active member of the Pitt community.

“We only have one world and we should take care of it,” Racic said.

Racic also said she wants Pitt to actually enforce the plans they put into place and make them more publicly known, including the textile recycling program.

Though Pitt will not be a zero-waste campus in the near future, Erika Ninos, the sustainability coordinator at PittServes, said the University’s recent initiatives have put that within reach.

“Pitt is making strides in this area on multiple fronts, from expanding building-wide composting to offering this new textile recycling service,” Ninos said. “Zero-waste is about being thoughtful in every sense, thinking about the inputs and outputs.”

With the implementation of the textile recycling program as part of campus sustainability initiatives, Pitt is planning to reduce 25% of landfill waste by 2030.

“While the University does not have a zerowaste goal in place,” Sharrard said, “many individuals and entities are adopting a zero-waste mindset. There’s a long way to go to reach that aspiration — and we need every member of the Pitt community to help get us there.”

RFP process and we hope to continue our long standing partnership,” Cole said.

The student representatives are Resident Student Association President Daniel Rudy, RSA Vice President of Finance Peter Bosco and student athlete Ryan Schonbachler. Rudy said he is using his position as RSA president to help solicit student input about campus dining services, including taking emails and comments from hall councils.

“We’ve already got a bit of a system set up to be listening to students around campus, getting feedback from the different residence halls,” See Dining on page 3

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Dining, pg. 2 Rudy, a junior math, computer science and economics triple major, said. “We’ve taken a lot of feedback just that we’ve heard anecdotally over the past couple years.”

Rudy added that since becoming involved with the committee last September, he and the other students have advocated for students’ interests in meetings, including one-on-ones with potential contractors held last October.

“I had quite a few sessions where it was just myself and the other student representatives just in a room with the different bidders, and we spent a couple of hours with each one,” Rudy said. “They would ask questions to try and get a feel for what we were looking for out of our next dining provider, so we got a lot of really great opportunities there to give the student point of view and give the students’ perspective.”

Students outside of the three on the committee have also had a chance to contribute feedback on bidders’ ideas through focus groups that were held a few weeks before the end of the fall semester.

“We got feedback on them directly — ideas of what they liked, what they didn’t … some of the background stuff as well, in addition to menu

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upgrades or structural changes,” Rudy said.

Julie Bannister, the assistant vice chancellor for auxiliary services, said at a University Senate committee meeting last November that Pitt planned to evaluate bid proposals last month and complete selection and contract negotiations by March. Planning for the contract transition, or renewal, would then take place between March and July, she added at the Senate Plant Utilization and Plant Committee meeting.

Zwick declined to elaborate on Bannister’s remarks.

Bannister also said at the meeting that the University was considering breaking up the multi-million dollar dining contract into smaller pieces based on specific dining services, such as sports and leisure activities, convenience and grocery stores, dining halls and premiere catering. If Pitt chooses to continue its relationship with Sodexo, it could also elect to bring in other contractors as well.

Zwick said the University is looking for the “best partnership solution” based on the University’s needs, and declined to comment further on the possibility of creating multiple smaller dining contracts.

Rudy said breaking up the contract could help provide the University with a valuable opportunity to possibly replace a contractor if they

end up weaker than expected.

“I wouldn’t say we’re married to the idea of taking one provider for everything, or definitely splitting it up,” Rudy said. “It’s kind of all being considered in context.”

Rudy said the student input on the committee is emphasized, and is taken seriously by the bidders.

“That was, I know, my concern going into this, was we would be there as placeholders and a facade to have to have students there,” Rudy said. “But we definitely are being heard. We are definitely pushing for what we know students are looking for, out of these new providers.”

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Drugs and depression: a hip-hop epidemic Ethan Tessler

For The Pitt News “What’s the 27 Club? We ain’t making it past 21,” proclaims Juice WRLD in one of his major hits, “Legends.” This line gives light to the nihilistic view that many rappers today hold to be true.

It has been about six weeks since the death of Jarad Anthony Higgins, better known as Juice WRLD. Higgins was 21 years old for just six days before he swallowed percocet pills in an attempt to hide them from the police, which he eerily foreshadowed in the aforementioned quote. Once law officials reached Higgins’ plane, he began to seize and convulse uncontrollably. In an attempt to save the rapper’s life, medics gave him the opioid antidote Narcan — unfortunately the efforts were futile, and Higgins overdosed.

In each of the past three years, a notable young rapper has suffered an overdose, then died shortly after. In November 2017, Gustav Elijah Ahr, known professionally as Lil Peep, accidentally overdosed on alprazolam — known on the streets as “benzos.” He too was just 21 years old. The pills he took just before his death were laced with fentanyl — a drug that is 80 times more potent than morphine. Nearly a year later, in September 2018, Pittsburgh native Mac Miller passed away at the age of 26. He also overdosed on fentanyl, though alcohol and cocaine were also in his system. And most recently, in December 2019, Juice WRLD passed on. Three years, three overdoses.

Although this information is tough to swallow, it should not come as a surprise. When listening to the lyrics of Lil Peep, Mac Miller and Juice WRLD, a common theme is that using drugs eases emotional pain. While that is definitely true in the short term, it is not a healthy or sustainable way to deal with emotional trauma over an extended period of time.

Many people, especially men, choose to bear the burden of this emotional pain, out of fear of being called weak or feminine. And that burden is much easier to bear when drugs and alcohol shut off the mind.

This issue is not exactly new. Famous people of all industries and regular folk alike have gotten

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David Akintola staff illustrator addicted to drugs. One would even argue that it is nearly impossible not to fall into that trap. People want to be cool, they want to fit in, they want to show off their crazy lifestyle. If you add feelings of depression to that pressure to be cool, it creates a strong desire to escape reality and silence the thoughts in your head. In the hip-hop industry, especially, this is an existential threat.

A year prior to his death, Juice WRLD sat down with Vulture to talk in detail about his life.

In the interview, he opened up about his relationship with drugs. He noted he was almost always under the influence when he recorded music, which was quite frequently. With that being said, he claimed that he was making an attempt to limit his drug use.

“More recently, I’ve just kind of realized certain things about myself and my coming up, the way that substances played a part in my life, whether it was me doing them or other people,” he said in the article. “It’s something that I’m trying to separate myself from.”

Even though his intentions were pure, it is extremely difficult to kick a drug habit.

In one of the more notable parts of the interview, Juice WRLD spoke about one of his biggest influences, Future. Known for popularizing the

hip-hop subgenre of “mumble-rap,” Future mainly raps about depression and drug use, a style that Juice WRLD had also adopted.

In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Future admitted that he had been thinking about his influence on younger generations. Future revealed that he was actually the person who first influenced Juice WRLD to experiment with drugs.

“When he told me that, I was like ‘Oh shit.

What the fuck have I done?’” Future said. He went on to say that while he was aware that his actions alone cannot make him responsible for the lives of others, the whole situation made him question his lifestyle for the past several years. “‘What have I done?” he said. “What have I done to other people? What I did to myself?’”

This self-realizing quote from Future shows that the stigma surrounding the drug-infused lifestyle is beginning to change. Many in the industry are ceasing to romanticize this way of life and are beginning to realize the damage being done on younger generations who fall into the trap of drug abuse and dependency.

Other rappers are also beginning to acknowledge that staying silent about depression can severely deteriorate a person’s mental health and

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lead them down a dark path. In a “Hot Ones” interview, the rapper Offset, of the rap group Migos, spoke to the need for men to be openly vulnerable.

“There’s no such thing as soft, we grown men,” Offset said. “A lot of people try to cover it [mental health issues] up and I can see why … but it’s okay to show a vulnerable side as a man … It’s really a great thing to do as a man because most men run from it … I feel like you’re a stronger man when you do that.”

Since the birth of the genre itself, hip-hop has bred a culture of apathy, emotional repression, violence and hypermasculinity. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, these themes were the most common among the genre. This culture appears to be a product of the type of environments in which these rappers grew up.

Some rappers grow up in unstable living situations. Crime-ridden streets and neighborhoods gave root to a “kill or be killed” mentality — some even witnessed friends or family die right before their eyes. This can lead to many individuals acting tough on the outside to hide their own insecurities on the inside. All of these factors and many more often lead to individuals having low emotional intelligence — meaning they struggle to feel vulnerable or express their emotions. Individuals feel they have to bear the burden of their emotional baggage.

In the song “Tearz” by Wu-Tang Clan, rappers RZA and Ghostface Killah cut deep when they mention painful losses of friends and family.

RZA raps about the death of his little brother, who was shot on his way to the grocery store. Ghostface Killah shares the story of his friend who contracted HIV and died shortly thereafter. These touching verses from some of hip-hop’s greatest depict only a snapshot of what life is like for many individuals.

These artists need to understand that confiding in friends, family or a professional is much safer and healthier than encumbering themselves with existential dread and sorrow. Hopefully these individuals and society at large will soon realize this before it is too late.

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Pitt students combine art and social media businesses

Emma Maurice Senior Staff Writer

A simple, black honeybee is embroidered delicately at the top left corner of a bright yellow, thrifted T-shirt. The shirt is modeled by a girl in high-waisted shorts, and within minutes of it being posted on Instagram, it’s sold to a happy customer.

For some Pitt students, a love of crafting, art and storytelling has manifested itself into a small business that generates them more than some extra cash — it’s helping them connect with their families and build lasting friendships.

The summer before her first year at Pitt, Sarah McLaughlin, a first-year nursing major, was searching for a way to tell her story through her love of art and drawing. McLaughlin wanted to translate her art into something more functional while also finding a way to share her work with others, so she decided to combine her love of embroidering with repurposing thrifted goods, giving a new spin to these second-hand clothes.

New to entrepreneurship, McLaughlin started her Instagram page @Thredheadd in June 2019. She had embroidered her first shirt and posted it on her personal Instagram page for sale — a follower purchased it in just 12 minutes.

Frustrated by her inability to share her art with the world, McLaughlin said she knew that starting her Instagram page would fulfill not only her artistic desires, but would also provide extra income she would need as she was about to enter her first year of college.

“My main goal was to have some way to make art and share it with others while putting a new spin on thrifted clothes, but I was also a broke kid about to go into college so the monetary aspect was definitely a benefit,” McLaughlin said.

Pitt senior Cecilia Kahle also sells her art on Instagram, though in a different form — crossstitching. In 2017, she created her now lively page @cecandastitch — the account now has 562 followers. As a nursing major, Kahle said she is used to being occupied with something to do. She wanted to find a way to occupy her time during her winter break sophomore year and

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found cross-stitching as a nice way for her to be stimulated, but also very calm.

Around this time, Kahle began to venture out into doing more custom work, and ultimately started her transition to the business side of cross-stitching — as opposed to only creating them as gifts, like she did in the past. As she started to develop her Instagram page and people began reaching out to her to purchase her creations, Kahle said she increasingly took to her page to both showcase her latest cross-stitch and to advertise that she would be selling it as well.

“I never had the end goal of making money or [using it] as something I depend on for my living — which makes me really respect artists who do depend on it for their living,” Kahle said.

“Fun is my number one priority. If I make a little bit of money that’s like, a really great perk and really nice and flattering but it’s also — I try to remember where it started, and it just started as gifts.”

Kahle, a nursing major, picked up her first needle and thread during her senior year of high school to create her first ever cross-stitch. Coming from a very creative family, Kahle learned to cross-stitch from her mother, who always carries a craft with her — whether she’s quilting, crossstitching, or embroidering.

“I think it runs in the family a little bit,” Kahle said. “It’s also the best hobby — very biasedly I think that. I pick it up as easily as I pick up my phone — and I try to pick it up more than my phone as much as I can.”

McLaughlin’s craft also keeps her busy — she typically creates one to two custom pieces each week. While most of her customers, who are mainly Pitt students, tend to request original designs, McLaughlin sometimes gets requests for duplicates of pieces she’s already made. But she said she strives to maintain her originality — often marked by natural designs like flowers, bees, mountains and the sun — even within her duplicates by changing up the colors of the designs and adding different small details.

“I try to change up the colors or I’ll add little touches,” McLaughlin said. “Either way all of my See Creations on page 6

Cecilia Kahle, left, and Sarah McLaughlin, right, sell embroidered works and cross-stitches on Instagram. The Pitt News Staff

Cecilia Kahle custom-makes cross-stitches, like this one ordered by Marlo Postufka Courtesy of Cecilia Kahle

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Creations, pg. 5 designs are original unless a customer asks for a replica of a photo design.”

While McLaughlin strives for originality in her art, Kahle sees her cross-stitches as a means to tell a story. Whether she’s telling the stories of others through custom work that is requested from buyers, or using her stitches to display feminist messages, like “Empowered Women Empower Women,” Kahle takes full advantage of her skill and passion to create something more meaningful than how it may appear.

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“For centuries it’s [cross-stitching] been ‘women’s work’, so it’s cool when I add feminist messages in the cross-stitch, because it’s kind of a lot of symbollism of like — women have been told for centuries that the only type of art or work that they can do is sewing and knitting and that type of thing,” said Kahle. “But now I’m kind of like ‘ha, but look what I can say’ when I’m doing it.”

When it came to having her story told through an artistic medium, it was a no-brainer for Marlo Postufka, a first-year German major, who felt immediately drawn to Kahle’s crossstitches. After suffering a tragic loss of a close

family friend in 2018, Postufka said she was able to find some sort of light from the situation, as it united her and her now-boyfriend. Since suffering the loss, Postufka always felt hesitant to talk about her story with others — until she met Kahle.

“Cece was the sweetest person ever about it, and she wanted to make sure it was perfect for me — which was really important to me because she didn’t know it at the time but it is a really difficult story and something I didn’t want to be messed up with,” Postufka said.

Postufka always felt drawn to personalized gifts because of the meaning they hold. As her

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relationship’s one-year anniversary approached, Postufka felt instantly attracted to the idea of purchasing a cross-stitch of Chinese lanterns with their anniversary date to represent when they truly formed a connection, not only because of how unusual and durable the gift is, but because of the artistic medium’s way of representing stories.

“Cece really wants to just know her customers and know their stories. She doesn’t do it just because it’s a business for her, she does it because she wants to make people happy,” said Postfuka. “She really brings stories and feelings and emotions to life.”

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Murphy saves squandered lead, Pitt beats BC 74-72

Stephen Thompson Assistant Sports Editor

Pitt basketball hadn’t won consecutive regular season ACC contests since February 2017, and the team appeared well on its way to extend that streak further this season. But on Wednesday night, Pitt did something it usually fails to do more often than not during conference play — finish.

And in the most dramatic way possible.

After turning the ball over twice in a span of six seconds and squandering a four-point lead, junior guard Ryan Murphy’s long jumper with only four seconds remaining lifted the Panthers (13-6 overall, 4-4 ACC) to their fourth conference win of the season over Boston College (910 overall, 3-5 ACC), surpassing last season’s conference win total with 12 games yet to play.

Fresh off two of their strongest offensive performances, Pitt was inexplicably lethargic through the first 17 minutes of play, exemplified by slow defensive rotations. It shot 8-21 from the field and trailed by as many as 14, unable to stop the Eagles’ 55% shooting from 3-point distance.

The Panthers had no answer for the barrage of triples and neither did Boston College head coach Jim Christian, who was sarcastically short on analysis when comparing Wednesday to BC’s last two contests.

“We made shots,” Christian said. “We played against against Georgia Tech, Syracuse and we shot, I don’t know, six for 1000 … When guys make shots you look better. It’s not always rocket science.”

But a Murphy 3-pointer countered BC’s hot shooting and sparked a 9-0 run that breathed life back into an arena — and team — desperate for air.

Sophomore guard Trey McGowens gathered kindling created by the opening period’s final minutes and turned it into a fire. After posting an 0-6 shooting line

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Au’Diese Toney jumps for a layup against Boston College Wednesday night. Kaycee Orwig senior staff photographer in the first half, McGowens used a breakaway dunk to fuel a 12-point, three-assist second period. His teammates noticed the trademark McGowens mettle in between fits of elation following big plays. “[McGowens] is aggressive, crazy athletic and tough to guard when he’s getting downhill,” Murphy said. “So when he gets that little dunk or something, it fuels us.”

McGowens and his teammates took

turns taking over in the second half. McGowens scored six of Pitt’s first 10 points in the last half. First-year forward Justin Champagnie tallied nine points and six rebounds of his 17-point, 10-rebound double-double in the second half as well.

Sophomore guard Xavier Johnson — after turning the ball over four times in the first half — committed only a single turnover over

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the final 20 minutes. He added five assists en route to the third career game with double-digit assists.

But that one turnover proved costly.

Pitt’s starting backcourt turned the ball over twice inside of 30 seconds left in the second half, which helped BC erase the two-possession deficit.

For most, those turnovers and defensive lapses will be lost in the rush of Murphy’s game winner, but Pitt head coach Jeff Capel will have those final plays seared in his mind as his team prepares for their next matchup.

“We need to continue to do the things that got us a lead, namely defend at a high level,” Capel said. “When you have a lead you can’t lose guys, you can’t fall asleep staring at the ball. You can’t rest. Especially on defense. You have to come up with the rebound. And we have to work on that in practice. That’s something I have to spend a little more time on.”

He acknowledged that is a tricky line to walk in practice, balancing aggression and game physicality during the slog of conference play, but believes it’s necessary for cultivating what he calls “winning habits.”

Capel admitted it’s a work in progress, but wins like Wednesday’s help. “Finding a way” — as he put it — is hard, even in a conference that isn’t as strong as its preseason reputation would have suggested.

Half of Pitt’s conference contests have been decided by two possessions or less and the Panthers are gradually showing the necessary poise to win those games.

Now comes an opportunity to showcase a different kind of winning habit.

Pitt has proven adept at overcoming adversity. But Sunday, on a rival’s court, the Panthers get a chance to prove that not only can they overcome adversity, but sustain success.

The Panthers next travel to face Syracuse for a noon tip-off from the Carrier Dome.

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Huge 2 BR apart­ ments. Available May 1, 2020 or Au­gust 1, 2020. 412‑361‑2695 3444 Ward St. We have studios, 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apart­ ments. Bright and spacious. Free heat­ ing and free parking.

Move May 1, 2020 or August 1, 2020. Call 412‑361‑2695 Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unre­lated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Per­mits, Licensing & In­spections.

412‑255‑2175.

Dawson Village Apts. near CMU and Pitt.

One bedroom apts. $935 + electric. Avail‑ able for immedi­ate move in. On bus line, close to restau­rants and shops. Contact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546 Fall 2020 Rentals ‑ 1 and 2 bedroom apart­ments very close to campus, well main­ tained, 24 hour laun­ dry, secured build­ings.

Rates starting at $700 with some utili­ties in‑ cluded. Call us today at 412‑682‑7622 JPA Properties, apart­ ments and houses

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available August: 1‑6 bedrooms, from $600+utilities. Great locations near cam­ pus! Call Patrick at 412‑559‑3079 to schedule a viewing.

Now renting for Fall 2020. Apartments and houses of all sizes.

Conveniently located throughout South Oakland. Rents start‑ ing as low as $620.

John C.R. Kelly Realty. Call to­day at 412‑683‑7300 www.jcrkelly.com Pet Friendly!!

Studios ‑ $695‑$705 1Beds ‑ $795‑$815 2beds ‑ $975‑$995 3beds ‑ $1,245 412‑455‑5600 or www.pghnexus.com South Oakland Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry/ Central Air. Call or Text 412‑38‑Lease. AMO Man­agement.

South Oakland off‑campus hous‑ ing. 2,3, and 4 BR apartments/­houses for rent. Up­dated Kitch‑ ens and Bathrooms.

A/C and laundry.

Available August of 2020. 412‑445‑6117

Studio, 1, 2, 3, and 4 BD apartments avail­ able in South Oak­land from $800‑$2500 M.J. Kelly Real Estate mjkellyrealty@gmail.­ com. 412‑271‑5550.

Shadyside Brett/Thames Manor

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Apts. (Ellsworth & S. Negley Ave.) near CMU and Pitt.

Stu­dio, One, Two bed­ room apts. Thames Ef‑ fecency: $790 Thames 1BD: $990 Brett 2BD: $1600 Available for immedi­ate move in.

On bus line, close to restau­rants & shops.

Con­tact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546 Luxury 1 and 2 bed­ room apartments in Shadyside for sum­mer 2020! Beautiful and modern updates, call today! 412‑441‑1400

Squirrel Hill 3 BD, 1‑1/2 BA town­house on Beacon St. Updated kitchen.

Washer/dryer on premises. Nice back­ yard. On bus line.

Per­fect for Seniors and Grad students.

Call 412‑281‑2700.

Avail­able Now! Gorgeous and unique duplexes in the beau­ tiful neighborhood of Squirrel Hill! 2‑5 bedroom options for summer 2020! Call now! 412‑441‑1400

Rental Other Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2020 & sooner. Oak­land, Shadyside, Friend‑ ship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availabil‑ ity online, check out www.forbesmanage­ ment.net, or call 412.441.1211

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Employment

FOR RELEASE JANUARY 23, 2020

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Internships OFFICE INTERN 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 job for current sopho­mores & juniors, graduating seniors set to enter grad school, returning grad stu­dents, and first year law students!

Mozart Management 412.682.7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com

Employment Other Medical and Heart Care, Students Welcome, 155 N. Craig Street, Dean Kross, MD, 412‑687‑7666

For Sale Pets FREE TO GOOD HOME,2 YORKIE PUPPIES RE‑HOM­ ING, AKC REG, CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL FOR MORE DETAILS ON:lwrnc­ marc01@gmail.com .

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