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SILENCE ISN’T GOLDEN

PITT WAIVES SHAPIRO FEE FOR COLLEGE REPUBLICANS Brian Gentry and Emily Wolfe The Pitt News Staff

The student band Quiet Hours performs original music during Monday night’s “Pitt’s Got Talent” show.

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FBI EXPLORES THE ROOTS OF HATE CRIMES Neena Hagen

Senior Staff Writer Only hours after gunman Robert Bowers killed 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, an unknown perpetrator defaced a Jewish-owned storefront in Lawrenceville with swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs.

“We’ve seen a really disturbing trend in Pittsburgh in the last six months with haterelated incidents,” Dave Breingan, the executive director of Lawrenceville United, said.

Lawrenceville United is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting inclusivity throughout Lawrenceville, one of the largest neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. The organization invited FBI representatives to the Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania building Monday night to teach around 100 residents how to

spot signs of people preparing committing hate crimes, which have been on the rise in Lawrenceville and across Pittsburgh since the Tree of Life shooting.

“We’re not gonna solve hate here tonight,” Breingan said. “But we are gonna give you the tools to identify hateful incidents and report them properly.”

Local law enforcement identified 12 haterelated incidents in Lawrenceville in the past six months, including three acts of vandalism on minority-owned businesses, dissemination of at least seven different white supremacist fliers and the appearance of swastikas and KKK symbols throughout the neighborhood.

According to FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Matthew Trosan, some of these incidents were illegal hate crimes, but some, in-

cluding the fliers, were legal expressions of free speech. While perpetrators of hate crimes knowingly commit an illegal act of violence for hateful reasons, Trosan explained, “hateful incidents” can be anything an individual or community member deems hateful or threatening.

“There’s a lot of gray area with laws,” Trosan said. “It’s not always easy for people to differentiate hate crimes and what we call ‘hate incidents.’”

Still, “hateful incidents” can often signal an impending threat, Trosan said.

Trosan led the audience through a series of images to highlight “hateful incidents.” One depicted a white man wearing a T-shirt that read “F-ck Islam,” while another showed swastikas spray-painted on a garage door.

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Ben Shapiro’s packed speaking engagement at Pitt in the fall drew only a few protesters. But before he arrived, Pitt charged the College Republicans, which hosted Shapiro, a $5,546.42 security fee — one that was paid under “protest” by the tour’s sponsor, Young America’s Foundation.

Now, Pitt has waived the fee.

University spokesman Joe Miksch said the College Republicans were responsible for the fee, as “consistent with University guidelines,” but the University would waive it due to the high cost to the club.

“The College Republicans, however, were apparently expecting Young America’s Foundation to address the fee,” Miksch said in an email. “To our knowledge, YAF never provided the College Republicans with the funds to pay the fee.

In light of the confusion over this issue and the difficult position the College Republicans would be in without additional funds, the University has waived the fee for this event.”

When the fee was initially imposed, YAF threatened a lawsuit against the University, alleging it was unconstitutional.

“We believe that the University of Pittsburgh’s security fee policy is deeply flawed — containing serious constitutional defects — and that because of these defects, the resulting $5,546.52 security fee is viewpoint discriminatory,” YAF said in an email sent to University administrators from its legal counsel.

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The FBI collects evidence of these hateful incidents because they often lead to hate crimes, Trosan said. Since 9/11, the FBI has become far more concerned with predicting and intercepting violent threats rather than simply reacting to them once they’ve happened.

“Identifying threats is no good once people have already been killed,” Trosan said.

But the problem, according to fellow FBI intelligence analyst John Pulcastro, is that the FBI is not legally allowed to surf the internet or comb the streets for anything that qualifies as free speech.

“That’s where you come in,” Pulcastro said, pointing to the audience. “You have to report to the FBI, or to your local police department or to an organization like Lawrenceville United, that you saw something that felt threatening to you or another community member.

Only then can we investigate it.”

Pulcastro said the FBI predicts hate crimes based on behavioral indicators, such as aggression in everyday life, social ostracization and increased consumption or sharing of propaganda. That propaganda can come from organizations ranging from ISIS to Identity Evropa, a white supremecist organization that plasters images of the Statue of Liberty on all its merchandise.

Many of those who committed hate crimes, including Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, exhibit such worrisome behavior from an early age.

Pulcastro pulled out Mateen’s third-grade report card, which said he had a penchant for

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“People who commit these attacks idolize past attacks,” Pulcastro said. “These were obvious signs, but no one reported them. And unfortunately, that’s what happens in most of these cases.”

Even though more than half of hate crime perpetrators leak evidence of an impending attack to friends or relatives, according to the FBI, 54 percent of those loved ones never breathe a word about it to anyone — and 83 percent of those who do speak up only talk to the perpetrator.

“Dialogue can be a good prevention technique. It delays action on the part of the perpetrator,” Pulcastro said. “But only if it’s the correct dialogue.”

When faced with a dangerous individual who expresses extreme views, Pulcastro said a person’s natural instinct is to angrily retaliate.

“Actually, what you should [do] is calmly reason through those thoughts with them,” Pulcastro said. “A lot of these people, sadly, are victims of propaganda pushing online. They live in an echo chamber.”

Still, while talking to a would-be hate crime perpetrator can be helpful, Pulcastro said it’s imperative that people take that first step and report the incident to the FBI. “We can sit here and despair, wring our hands and wait for the FBI to solve the problem, but ultimately it comes down to all of us to report these incidents,” Pulcastro said, gesturing to the audience. “Only you have the power to say ‘hate is not welcome here.’”

Brad Orsini, director of Jewish Community Security at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and ex-FBI employee of 28 years, shows a bag of birdseed with a packet of KKK propaganda inside. The birdseed is used so they can throw them from vehicles onto the street without them blowing away.

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AS STD RATES RISE, Email from Duke professor is MORE COMPREHENSIVE SEX xenophobic, discriminatory ED IS NEEDED from the editorial board

First- and second-year biostatistics students at Duke University received an email about a concerning issue last Friday.

Professor Megan Neely, director of graduate studies for Duke’s master’s of biostatistics program, and two of her unnamed colleagues had noticed international students were speaking Chinese in study areas and were highly concerned about it.

Neely apparently found students speaking their native language disturbing enough to communicate her concern via email with the subject line “Something to think about …”

Institutions of higher learning tend to tout their status as places that welcome diversity, but the incident at Duke demonstrates how far off this idealized image still is from reality. Neely’s email, which implied that students speaking in a language other than English would be penalized, was uncalled for and xenophobic in nature. This isn’t the kind of thinking that should be welcomed or allowed at universities.

About two-thirds of the 54 students enrolled in Duke’s graduate biostatistics program are from China. Not surprisingly, this means many students carry out conversations in their native Chinese. But according to Neely’s email, these conversations prompted two faculty members to ask for headshots of students so they could identify the ones they’d heard speaking Chinese.

“Both faculty members replied that they wanted to write down the names so they could remember them if the students ever interviewed for an internship or asked to work with them for a master’s project,” Neely wrote. “They were disappointed that these students were not taking the opportunity to improve their Eng-

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lish and were being so impolite as to have a conversation that not everyone on the floor could understand.”

The behavior exhibited by these faculty members is disturbing and discriminatory.

They effectively threatened to rob students of a certain ethnicity future academic and career opportunities on the sole basis of what language they heard them speaking in a study lounge on their own time.

Equally concerning is the notion present in the email that speaking a language other than English indicates an inability to speak English. It can be difficult as an international student to feel comfortable in a culture different from your own. It’s natural to want to speak your native language to other native speakers when you can find them in a new environment. To argue that such a simple act of comfort and convenience is “impolite” to the surrounding English speakers is both ridiculously insulting and incredibly Anglocentric.

Friday’s email wasn’t the first one of its kind that Neely sent out to students.

She sent out another email in February to “provide another viewpoint on why this [speaking Chinese] might not be the best choice while you are in the department.”

The alternative viewpoint was a thinly veiled threat that students who continued to speak Chinese might find fewer research opportunities available to them in the future.

Such a large concentration of international students in one program should and could have encouraged cultural exchange and a greater appreciation for other cultures. Instead, a non-American community became the outlier and the enemy. Languages other than English became rude.

And that’s something to think about.

Delilah Borque

Senior Staff Columnist The status of sexual health care in the United States is in limbo. Some states require students be taught about HIV and consent, or allow individual districts to decide their own curricula when it comes to sex ed. But 26 states do not require a sex ed curriculum in public schools at all.

Of the 24 states that do mandate sex ed, only 13 have clear stipulations stating the information taught must be factually accurate. In the other 11, school districts can teach whatever they want in sex ed curriculums. The federal government currently provides financial incentive to schools that teach an abstinence-only approach, which correlates with high rates of STDs in communities. With STD cases reaching a new high of 110 million in 2017, federal law needs to stop funding ineffectual education practices in public

schools for the sake of the population’s health.

Statistics gathered in 2017 by the Center for Disease Control indicate a sharp increase in cases of STDs among Americans in the past few years. 30,644 cases of syphilis — which, if left untreated, can cause severe damage to the nervous system and brain — were diagnosed in the United States in 2017. When comparing that number with 2013 data, the rate of syphilis infections increased by 76 percent.

Syphilis isn’t the only STD measured by the CDC that saw a rise in cases between 2013 and 2017. Cases of gonorrhea increased 67 percent and cases of chlamydia increased 22 percent. Certain groups, like young people aged 15 to 24, are particularly at risk. People in this age range contract half of all new STD infections.

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cated and sexually healthy.

“Schools are really good at making sure that, as a community, kids have access to facts that they can then use to help them protect their sexual health,” Thornhill said in an interview with Canadian magazine Today’s Parent.

Of high school students surveyed in 2017, 30 percent had sex in the past three months. Of that 30 percent, nearly half didn’t use a condom the last time they had sex, which is the surest way to prevent an STD for a sexually active person.

There is proven correlation between the rates of STDs in certain areas and how comprehensive sex education is.

States that mandate abstinence-only sex ed had the highest rates of STDs, compared to states with no mandate. States that stressed abstinence but did not provide it as the only form of sex ed fell between abstinence-only and no-mandate states.

Even though studies show that STD rates increase when students are taught that abstinence is the only form of prevention for STD and pregnancy rates, the government still funds abstinence-

only sex ed on a federal level. Under the State Abstinence Education Grant Program, the federal government gives a financial incentive to teach abstinenceonly sex education — $38.9 million was granted to states and territories to do so in 2012.

Sex education isn’t just proven to reduce rates of STDs like syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia — it reduces the rates of HIV infections as well. In a review of studies on HIV rates and sex ed, students who received comprehensive sex ed about HIV were more knowledgeable about HIV as a disease and how to prevent contracting it. These students were less likely to engage in high-risk sexual behavior.

It’s time for the government to step up. Instead of financially incentivizing programs that are ineffectual, federal law needs to mandate providing monetary support for comprehensive sex ed. A record number of Americans have an STD, and the only way to stop rates from increasing further is to give the coming generations the education they need to make informed, healthy choices.

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But it’s not just young people who are seeing a rise in peers diagnosed with STDs, as people over the age of 60 are also contracting them at increasing rates. In an analysis by insurance company Athenahealth, 25 percent more Athenahealth customers age 60 and above were seen for STD treatment in 2017 compared to 2014.

This increase, too, may be a result of lack of education surrounding the use of contraception. According to Indiana University’s National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, adults over 40 have the lowest rate of condom use. IU suggests that this is due to lowered risk of pregnancy and that older individuals lack knowledge concerning STD contraction and prevention.

Interestingly, while the number of people with STDs is increasing, sexual activity among Americans is actually decreasing. According to statistics gathered by the General Social Survey, a sociological survey run by the University of Chicago that started in 1972, Americans are having less sex than they were 20 years

ago. In fact, 22 percent of those surveyed in 2016 said they had not had sex at all in the past year — an increase from 18 percent in the mid-’90s. Data collected by one study showed that American adults in the early 2010s had nine times less sex than American adults in the early 1990s.

While rising STD rates are sometimes attributed to an increasingly promiscuous society, the data shows the opposite.

Despite having less sex, rates of STDs among Americans are increasing dramatically. CDC data suggests that this is due to an increase of high-risk sexual activity, despite a decrease in sexual activity overall.

But even if people were having more sex, not teaching them how to prevent contracting STDs and promoting abstinence-only education, which does little to prevent people from initiating sex anyway, would not be the way to stop the spread of disease.

Nadine Thornhill, a Toronto-based educator and former program coordinator for Insight Theatre, an educational program for teens at Planned Parenthood, said schools play an important role in making sure the people remains edu-

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CulturePITT ANNOUNCES NEW DIRECTOR OF Tamara Alchoufete

JAZZ STUDIES

For The Pitt News

After the unexpected death of Professor Geri Allen in June 2017, the University has been searching for a new director of the prestigious jazz studies program. Her successor was chosen at the beginning of this year — renowned flutist Nicole M. Mitchell will assume the position in July.

Mitchell is an award-winning composer, educator and founder of music ensemble Black Earth Ensemble, which celebrates African-American music. Mitchell has more than 25 years of musical experience, and her future colleagues are looking forward to the chance to work with her.

Dr. Mathew Rosenblum, the chair of the muRenowned flutist Nicole M. Mitchell sic department, spoke on the future of the jazz will fill the role of the vacant jazz stud- studies program. ies program director beginning in July. “[We] are extremely excited to have professor Image via University of Pittsburgh

Mitchell as the next director of the University of Pittsburgh jazz studies program,” Rosenblum said.

“She is the perfect choice to lead the jazz studies program into the future. In particular, professor Mitchell’s long-standing work and deep commitment to the role of music in relation to social and environmental justice provides important models for our students.”

Though Mitchell’s official arrival is more than six months away, it’s heavily anticipated. Her future administrative assistant and jazz program assistant, Dr. Frank Hammond, spoke about the future of the program.

“She has the unique skill of bringing everyone together and will have the jazz program collaborate with different departments and programs around Pittsburgh,” Hammond said. “I look forward to working with her to help prepare and

educate the next generation of jazz musicians and scholars.”

She will come from the University of California at San Diego, where she previously held an educator position. In a press release, Mitchell shared her anticipation about coming to Pitt, including her hopes to collaborate with community-based organizations for the sake of engagement and innovation.

“Coming to Pitt is a special moment, a sort of calling for me to bring my full self, where I feel a refreshing openness and enthusiasm from the Pitt community to share my vision,” Mitchell said.

“I have big shoes to fill, following the incredible work Geri Allen accomplished, making connections between tradition and innovation. I’m excited to explore the full spectrum of creative possibilities for jazz at Pitt.”

‘THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING’ A FAMILIAR, HEARTWARMING STORY Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot Senior Staff Writer

January is not exactly the best time for films.

It’s what’s historically known in the film industry as a dump month, when studios release the movies they don’t think will succeed in the box office. Everyone’s still coming down off the holiday blockbuster rush and getting ready for awards season, so there’s not too much interest in movies coming out at the turn of the year, especially when the weather is miserable.

On the surface, “The Kid Who Would Be King” seems to fit the bill of kitschy family film shunted into the January dump to be forgotten by kids and their parents the day after they see it.

However, while this modern spin on the legend of King Arthur isn’t destined to break the box office, it succeeds in crafting an enjoyable and mildly poignant tale from a straightforward old

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narrative with dozens of other remakes.

This film is the second project by U.K. director Joe Cornish, whose directorial debut happened in 2011 with the sci-fi cult film “Attack the Block,” which was notable for pioneering the career of John Boyega, an actor now known for his leading role in the latest “Star Wars” movies.

“The Kid Who Would Be King” opens with an impressive storybook animation retelling of the general legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It establishes the main antagonist, Morgana Le Fay (Rebecca Ferguson), King Arthur’s half-sister who desires to rule the world. She’s banished into the underworld and vows to return when “hearts are hollow and the world is leaderless.”

After a significant time-skip, the audience is introduced to the main protagonist — 12-yearold Alexander Elliot (Louis Ashbourne Serkis)

— who, with his friend Bedders (Dean Chaumoo), gets frequently picked on at school. After a particular incident standing up to bullies Lance (Tom Taylor) and Kaye (Rhianna Doris), he gets them put in detention, along with himself.

In an attempt to avoid the bullies after school, Alex comes across an abandoned construction site, where an old medieval-style sword is stuck in a slab of concrete. He pulls it out and quickly discovers that it’s the legendary blade Excalibur.

Alex later learns from a surprisingly youthfullooking Merlin (Angus Imrie) that he is destined to form a new round table of trusted knights for an impending battle with Morgana, who will reemerge with an army of undead soldiers to conquer the Earth — in only four days.

Serkis, son of famous actor and director Andy Serkis, is convincing and entertaining in his portrayal of Alex. He and energetic costar

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Chaumoo capture childhood joys, struggles and hopes in a believable way. Bedders is bright-eyed and eager to star in his own fantasy adventure, but Alex — while receptive to his friend’s enthusiasm — has started to grow out of his youthful idealism and sense of wonder.

Imrie steals every scene he’s in as the quirky and enigmatic, yet lovable Merlin. Surprisingly, Imrie’s performance does not feel upstaged by Patrick Stewart — the only A-list actor in the movie — who plays Merlin whenever the character transforms into his older form. He is both goofy and charming, and he brings heart to the role. Instead of waving a wand or a staff or reciting spells in Latin, Imrie deftly performs magic via complicated secret-handshake gestures.

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Q&A: MIKE BELL LOOKS TO BRING IMPROVEMENT TO PITT BASEBALL Tyler Moran Staff Writer

Mike Bell is not the type of coach to worry about where his team finishes at the end of the season. He’s more focused on his players improving every day — and not just on the field. He seeks constant development from his players in the classroom, with their attitudes and in their contributions to the community.

According to Bell, he doesn’t just want his players to be better ball players, he wants them to be better men.

Bell was named Pitt baseball head coach July 10, 2018, replacing former head coach Joe Jordano, who retired after a 21year stint in the position. Jordano left the team after finishing the 2017-18 season with a career-best 29-26 record, allowing Bell to become the fifth head coach in Pitt baseball history.

Bell is no foreigner to the ACC. Before coming to Pitt, he served as the pitching coach for the Florida State Seminoles for seven years. Prior to joining the Seminoles, Bell was the pitching coach for other collegiate programs such as Tennessee and Oklahoma.

Bell also has a few success stories from his time as a pitching coach. He coached former Kansas City Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar, the No. 1 pick in the 2006 MLB draft.

The 2018-19 season will be Bell’s first time ever holding a head coaching position at the collegiate level. The Pitt News sat down with Bell a few weeks before the Panthers’ opening game to learn more about who he is and find out where he sees this program going in the near future.

TPN: How prepared are you for your first game as the head coach of Pitt baseball?

Bell: We prepared all fall and we’ve had

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a great preseason. The good thing about it is that we’ve got three weeks here before our first pitch. We’re excited to get out here on our first day of actual team practice, but the work has been done. The fall preparation, integrating our system of what we want to put in here as new coaches, but more importantly the time and effort these guys have put in.

The offseason training, what they did over the Christmas break and what they’ve done in our first two and a half weeks of preseason has been phenomenal. Now it’s about tying things together with what we can do within the great facilities that we have here. It’s about getting better each and every day as we prepare for opening day.

TPN: What is the culture that you are creating for the team?

Bell: I think from day one, we’ve been about how it’s a player-first program. We’re going to do things first-class — on the field, off the field, in the classroom as well as the community. There is going to be toughness, we’re going to have a blue-collar, chip-onour-shoulder mentality. But also, there is a lot of team concept involved. It’s not about one individual, it’s about 33 guys going in the same direction with the same goals, and that’s to compete for championships and dog-pile at the end of the year.

TPN: What is a typical day for Pitt baseball?

Bell: Well, there’s not a lot of sleep the night before because you’re always preparing — not only for the next day, but the next week and the next month. It’s a daily grind of internal operations with the support staff that we have and we’re very fortunate to have. David Stark, our director of baseball operations, Drew Linder, our director of player development, but then you have your Taylor Gossman, your strength and conditioning coordinators.

Head coach Mike Bell (right) with Athletic Director Heather Lyke.

Alan Saunders | pittsburgh sports now These guys are going through not only classwork with our academic advisor but weight training stuff, with skill stuff with our coaching staff with coach [Ty] MeGahee, coach [Jerry] Oakes, coach [Dan] Ninemire. It’s a day-in, day-out process and time management becomes a big issue.

We make sure to make the time for them and put them in the right places so they’re ready to be successful.

TPN: Do you have any superstitions?

Bell: Don’t like to step on a lot of lines, I’ll say that. And it’s probably more about when things are going good to make sure you continue to do the same things. When things aren’t going as well, you’re probably more of a “fix-it”-type problem. So you’re constantly looking for solutions and things to change. But nothing to do with any black caps or anything like that, just your typical baseball superstitions.

TPN: Where do you see this Panther

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team, come the end of the season?

Bell: You know, I look at it as we are going to be better each and every day. Where we start and where we finish, the season is going to detail that. We’re not here to make bold predictions or anything like that. We know where we’re starting from. We feel like we’re already better than where we were back in August and September. That’s all we’re going to ask these guys, is each and every day, can we get 1 percent better?

TPN: Is there anything that you want the fans to know?

Bell: I think when they see the effort and the attitude these guys put out on the field … they’re going to come to really enjoy watching play the game of baseball.

They’re going to do things the right way, they’re going to represent the program, the athletic department, the University — the right way. We really, really are excited for the direction of the program.

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Rental Other Fall Rentals ‑ 1 and 2 bedroom apartments very close to campus, well maintained, 24 hour laundry, secured buildings. Rates start­ing at $675 with some utilities in­cluded.

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Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2019 & 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

Roommates Roommate needed be­ginning in August 2019 to share a large house with 6 male Pitt students and 2 twin cats. The avail­able

big bedroom with locking door on first floor. AC in­cluded; full bathroom on each of three main floors.

Very conve­nient loca‑ tion on At­wood St. Two large kitchens, each have dishwasher, fridge, and stove. Big porch/deck at rear of building accessible from kitchen. Also front porch; laundry basement. $557/ mon­th+gas+electric.

Owner pays for wa­ter, sewer, and garbage collection. Please phone 412‑372‑9185

Employment Employment Other 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 sophomores & ju­niors, seniors plan­ning to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first‑year law stu­dents!

Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com The Pitt News is cur­ rently seeking stu­dents to work as In­side Sales Representa­tives for the newspa­per. They will pro­vide adver‑ tising ser­vice to all Student, University, and Clas­sified Accounts, while also complet­ing assigned office duties.

Submit re­sumes/appli‑ cations to advertising@ pittnews.­com, or stop by our office at 434 William Pitt Union!

Services Services Other The Phlebotomy Training Center www. justphlebotomy.org 2 evening classes weekly, 5 weeks + excellent Clinicals.

Call 412‑521‑7334.

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