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REDISTRICTING EVENT UNPACKS GERRYMANDERING

SOUNDS LIKE HOMECOMING

Remy Samuels Staff Writer

Erik Thiessen isn’t happy that the Pennsylvania 7th Congressional District “looks like a picture of Goofy kicking Donald Duck.”

Thiessen is a representative for Fair Districts PA — a nonpartisan organization that aims to create a fair process for redistricting. He said his cartoonish comparison of the 7th district, which includes parts of the Philadelphia suburbs and Delaware County, actually represents a major issue that limits voters.

“People in government aren’t listening to their voters,” Thiessen said. “They don’t represent their voters anymore. Gerrymandering allows elected officials to pick their voters.”

Thiessen spoke about this at an event called “Let’s Talk Gerrymandering,” held in the William Pitt Union Kurtzman Room Tuesday and hosted by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute — a membership-based community where adults 50 and older can take classes at Pitt. The event was a way to create a dialogue about the issue of gerrymandering and how it impacts voters, according to the event description.

Thiessen and the second speaker at the event — Chris Satullo — each represented organizations that focus on educating people about and pushing for legislation against gerrymandering.

Satullo is the project director of Draw the Lines, a “statewide civic education and engagement initiative,” according to its website.

The concept of gerrymandering, as Thiessen explained, is essentially a technique that state legislators use to manipulate district boundaries. District lines are redrawn every 10 years after each U.S. census — gerrymandering is the

The University of Pittsburgh Women’s Choral Ensemble performs at the Sounds of Pitt Homecoming Concert in Heinz Memorial Chapel Tuesday night. Levko Karmazyn | staff photographer

PITT ANNOUNCES NEW STUDENT LOAN AID PROGRAM

Christian Snyder Editor-in-Chief

The 2018-19 academic year is the first time in 43 years that tuition didn’t rise for all Pitt students — and while there’s little Pitt can do to procure more funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the University wants to help students deal with their debt.

In partnership with education finance startup Altian Education, Pitt announced a new debt easement program yesterday, called Panthers Forward. The program aims to utilize the University’s network of successful alumni to help fund current students’ education. Eligible college seniors with federal loans can apply starting Monday, Oct. 8.

“We think we’re innovating something that’s quite new,” Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said in See Gerrymandering on page 2 an interview with The Pitt News Monday after-

noon. “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].”

Panthers Forward offers eligible students a grant of up to $5,000 toward their federal student loans, which Pitt will disburse directly to the federal government. It also connects participants with a network of alumni ambassadors. Grant recipients become lifetime members of the program and sign the Panthers Forward pledge, a noncontractual agreement to contribute money and time to the program to help fund future grants and mentor future participants.

In its first year, the program is open to 150 full-time students graduating in the spring of 2019 who have a federal subsidized or unsubsidized student loans, are in good academic stand-

ing and are “active and engaged members of the Pitt community.”

“You don’t have to be a straight-A student,” Bethany Miga, executive communications manager for the chancellor, said. “[We] want you to be engaged in your community.”

For Panthers Forward, Gallagher hopes engagement will pay off in two ways — engaged students are more likely to honor their noncontractual agreement to make recurring donations to the program after graduation and they are more likely to become active alumni ambassadors for future participants. Engagement, Miga said, is broadly defined, including everything from student leadership roles to athletics to part- or fulltime work during school.

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The Panthers Forward program aims to utilize donations from the University’s alumni network to finance current students’ tuition.

Anna Bongardino | visual editor education finance program called Back a Boiler — however, its program is based off an income share agreement. Income share agreements are contractual obligations requiring payment to the university based off a percentage of future income in return for loans from the university — programs which in the past have failed.

Yale University instituted an income share agreement in the 1970s called the Tuition Postponement Option, in which participants agreed to pay four percent of their annual income for every $1,000 borrowed until all of their fellow participants’ debts were repaid. But after a 1999 bailout and numerous threats of lawsuit, participants eventually paid their full debts by 2001 — 23 years after Yale officially discontinued the program.

Panthers Forward differs from income sharing agreements in that participants are not contractually bound to financially contribute to the program after graduation.

“The program works by not just [sic] providing the funding,” Gallagher said. “You’re replacing a legal obligation … with almost a moral commitment.”

In the future, Gallagher said he hopes the fund will evergreen, meaning its alumni contributions will equal or outgrow its total grants distributed. But in its first year, the program is funded from the University budget at a total cost of roughly $750,000 — an amount which dictated the program’s size and scope.

“The amount is set by how much money I was able to free up from the University right now,” he said, noting that Panthers Forward

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doesn’t take money from other University programs. “I’ve actually been noodling with this [idea] for about three years.”

Gallagher said the process was difficult and stumped every committee the University made to try to implement his vision. Pitt needed a new approach, so it contracted three recent graduates who founded Altian Education — Pat O’Donnell (’14), Joseph Kannarkat (’18) and Rohit Anand (’17).

“Altian started as a partnership with the University to innovate in the education finance space,” O’Donnell said. “What this looks like will be influenced by what people think about the program.”

Altian conducted multiple focus groups with current students, alumni and faculty to determine how to shape the program in its first year.

“When we did focus groups, [students] saw the professional and networking aspect of this to be just as valuable, or more valuable, than the financial component,” O’Donnell said.

The program’s limitations are clear in its first year — students are only eligible for one grant and the program is only open to 150 full-time students. But Gallagher sees Panthers Forward as a model for the future of higher education financing, and hopes it will grow.

“The intent, ultimately, is that it covers everybody. Part of this was how much funding we had available and we had to set some limits,” he said. “[But] the big unknown is … can we generate a very high participation rate? That’s the only thing that makes this work.”

process by which legislators use this opportunity to draw districts that house more of their voters in an area in an attempt to win more districts.

The term was coined in March 1812 as a reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under Gov. Elbridge Gerry. The cut-up districts in the Boston area resembled a salamander, so Gerry’s last name was merged with the word salamander to create the term.

Because legislators will draw district lines to favor their party, Thiessen said this creates a system that is not representative of the actual population of states like Pennsylvania. Thiessen said Berks County is not being represented fairly due to a bizarre configuration of redistricting.

“Berks County has more Democratic representatives than Republican representatives, but they’re surrounded by Amish territory, which is more Republican, so it gets plopped in this district that’s now mainly Republicans,” Thiessen said.

There are also different variations of gerrymandering, as Thiessen showed on a graph. He explained that a “competitive” variation, where an equal number of Republicans and Democrats are represented in each district, is more fair than one like “packing,” when a party concentrates the opposing party’s voting power in one district to reduce its voting power in other districts. Thiessen said Abraham Lincoln’s famous saying that “government is of the people, by the people, for the people” is “under threat.”

“The will of the people is not the priority of our elected officials,” Thiessen said. “Legislators are more concerned with toeing their party line than caring about what their voters want.”

Satullo said part of the reason why the government is taking advantage of the will of the people is because they now have access to complex mapping technologies, which allow them to deepen this issue of gerrymandering.

He described how smart technology has found a way to tap into voters’ interests through Facebook and other social media in order to evaluate party lines geographically.

“We are now in Pennsylvania standing at an inflection point,” Satullo said. “Gerryman-

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dering got so much worse because of the sophistication of technology. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have a large hand in this mess.”

Satullo said he believes citizens have the right to know the kinds of data used to make these maps and that citizens should actually draw the lines, not state officials.

“An election is like a job interview and we’re the boss,” Satullo said. “As the bosses of democracy, we [are] letting these other people draw the lines … Anyone in this room has as much of the right as state legislators to draw the lines.”

Satullo explained that anyone can make an account on Draw the Lines’ website and use an online mapping tool called District Builder to draw their own electoral lines to see how effective the practice can be. Fair Districts PA, Thiessen said, has a petition people can sign to end gerrymandering in Pennsylvania.

In addition, Draw the Lines is hosting a statewide competition on its website where Pennsylvania citizens will compete to draw 18 valid districts in Pennsylvania which they will defend with a personal statement. Thiessen emphasized that the true “fix” for gerrymandering is getting citizens involved.

“We can make this [competition] be the will of the people,” Thiessen said. “We can educate ourselves about this and tell everyone we know about it and let legislators know that this issue matters to [us].”

Ed Smith, a member of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute who attended the discussion, said he is considering entering the competition because he is upset by the unfair representation of districts in Pennsylvania.

“I already signed the petition,” Smith said.

“And [I] have done so in the past. I’m not very good at maps, but I might try entering the contest and seeing what suggestions I can make.”

Smith said this is a topic he has always been interested in and feels that it needs to be talked about more.

“I don’t think [this issue] has gotten the coverage that it needs,” Smith said. “People like [Republican State Rep. Mike] Turzai [are getting] away by people letting [gerrymandering] slide. I think that’s terrible and they’re representing themselves, not us, which obviously we know goes on.”

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Opinions

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from the editorial board

Amazon sets great example, raises minimum wage When Bernie Sanders singled out Amazon for its poor working conditions in August, the company reacted angrily — but Monday, it seemingly took a page right out of the Democratic candidate’s political playbook.

The online retail giant announced it will raise its company-wide minimum wage to $15 an hour for U.S.based employees and also raise wages for workers who already make $15 an hour.

The decision comes as a surprise since, like Sanders said, Amazon is known for treating its employees poorly — but the new policy is certainly welcome. Amazon is the second-largest employer in the country behind Walmart, so its decision to pay workers a living wage not only helps a quarter million people financially, but also sets a positive precedent for other companies to follow.

“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, said in a public statement. “We’re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us.”

And among America’s other massive retailers, Amazon is leading the fight for higher pay. When the policy becomes active, Amazon will eclipse its competitors — Walmart, Kroger and Target — for average employee salary where employees make on average no more than $14 an hour.

Since almost half of Amazon’s nearly 600,000 employees make a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, which is the federally mandated minimum wage,

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this new policy will double wages for hundreds of thousands of people.

It could directly benefit Pittsburgh, too — the City is currently among the 20 finalist locations for Amazon’s new headquarters and if selected as the new headquarters, Amazon’s higher wages could be a huge help to the struggling blue collar city that Pittsburgh is.

“Two sectors that are going to be important for Pittsburgh … would be manufacturing and construction,” Mark Price, a labor economist with The Keystone Research Center, told WESA. The average wage in Pittsburgh for someone who works in these manufacturing and construction jobs — which most Amazon jobs fall under — stands at only $13.40, below the new minimum wage for Amazon.

So implementing a higher minimum wage could alleviate the struggles blue collar workers face, reduce employee turnover and attract better applicants for Amazon’s growing network.

Amazon is a $1 trillion company and Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, commanding a net worth of $156 billion — but up until this policy was announced, the company’s average employee made less than two-thirds of their fellow Americans.

Ultimately, Amazon doubling its minimum wage is a good PR decision. It’s smart business and it benefits lower middle class workers across the country. Other companies should follow suit — no longer should major corporations be villains who exploit low-wage workers.

PATIENCE, NOT PARTISANSHIP, REQUIRED IN KAVANAUGH HEARINGS

Hayden Timmins Staff Columnist

Supreme Court confirmation hearings normally delve into the nominee’s legal opinions — but Thursday’s focused solely on an alleged sexual assault. The Senate Judiciary Committee subjected Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, to a grueling series of questions regarding an assault that allegedly took place at a high school party in 1982.

But the questions Ford faced were far less probing than Kavanaugh’s. From the start, Democratic senators lauded Ford’s bravery in coming forward to face the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Kamala Harris and Richard Durbin said they believed Ford before Kavanaugh even began his testimony, even though it was clear before the hearing began that much of the evidence was poorly substantiated.

And while Kavanaugh faced intense questioning from Democrats, many Republicans, including the highly vocal Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., expressed empathy for Kavanaugh and his family before hearing either side’s testimony — all of which points to a hyper-partisan battle that hasn’t yet allowed room for a patient inquiry of the facts.

Ford has three pieces of evidence in her favor — none of which are strong enough to prove her testimony. The first is four statements from Ford’s friends and family saying she told them about the assault. Although these statements

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prove Ford didn’t throw the accusation together on a whim, they’re not corroborations, since they only detail Ford speaking about the assault 30 years after it allegedly happened.

The second is her polygraph test — but polygraphs are notoriously unreliable. In fact, polygraph test results are inadmissible in court because they only measure a person’s physiological changes during the exam, not the accuracy of the claims. Many outside factors can affect the results of the test — even just simple, physical movements.

Ford adamantly states she is “100 percent” certain that it was Kavanaugh who sexually assaulted her at the party — but several studies suggest that victim and eyewitness testimony alone is not enough evidence to support a claim.

The third piece of evidence in Ford’s favor is Kavanaugh’s July 1 calendar entry saying he met with Mark Judge, Tom Caine, Patrick Smyth, Bernie McCarthy and Chris Garrett at Timothy Gaudette’s house for “skis” — which Democrats believe refers to the alleged party Ford and Kavanaugh attended. But in Ford’s testimony, she claimed there were four boys and two girls at the party, not six boys — it’s entirely possible that Kavanaugh was at a party that night, but a completely different one.

And the three witnesses Ford named — Judge, Smyth and Leland Keyser — stated under penalty of perjury that they have no memory of the party or the alleged assault.

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Timmins, pg. 3 But instead of digging into Ford’s inconsistencies, Whitehouse reprimanded Kavanaugh over using the word “boofed” in his high school yearbook, a word that refers to flatulence. Other senators insisted Kavanaugh’s alleged patterns of binge drinking as a teenager are evidence in Ford’s favor — but to make the leap from immaturity or binge drinking to verifiable sexual assault before more evidence is available is risky.

“I liked beer,” Kavanaugh said during the testimony. “But I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out, and I never sexually assaulted anyone.”

The topic of binge drinking is one of Kavanaugh’s inconsistencies. On multiple occasions he has denied drinking to the point of blacking out — but a former classmate at Yale publicly declared he believed Kavanaugh to be lying, based on years of friendship and observation of Kavanaugh’s drinking habits, although he provides no proof of his statements.

None of the evidence before the floor has yet been conclusive — and that’s not just in public opinion. Rachel Mitchell, the highly experienced sex crimes prosecutor who interviewed Ford during the hearing, said there simply wasn’t enough evidence yet.

“A ‘he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that,” Mitchell said in a memo after the hearing. “I do not think a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the committee.”

In hindsight, the hearings were

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a waste of time. Ford had very little evidence for her claims before the hearing, and almost no additional evidence was found during the hearing — Kavanaugh still claims his innocence, and no evidence he presented proved his innocence. Senators just used it as an opportunity to argue their respective party’s opinion about the two.

“Those who make allegations always deserve to be heard. At the same time, the person who is subject to the allegations also deserves to be heard,” Kavanaugh said. “Due process means listening to both sides.”

Our country’s law is very clear — all people are innocent until proven guilty, a standard that should hold in both the court of law and the court of public opinion. If we immediately give credence to unsubstantiated claims, there will be no civility left to uphold our politics or our society.

Hayden writes primarily about politics. Write to Hayden at HWT3@pitt.edu

Eli Savage | STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

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Sports

TAKE 5:

PRESEASON, PLAYOFFS, PATRICK MAHOMES

The Pitt News Staff We’re at a crucial crossroads of America’s three major sports, with the NFL entering midseason form while the MLB playoffs and NBA preseason get underway. The Pitt News staff leaves none of these stones unturned as we take a look at storylines from the past week.

Basketball’s back, alright The last official NBA action saw the Golden State Warriors beating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Finals to win their third title in four years. That was four months ago. But this week, basketball is finally back.

Even though it’s just preseason, the return of televised competitive basketball still provided fans with excitement. The young Philadelphia 76ers kicked off the preseason in style with an international matchup against Melbourne United. They showed why they earned the No. 3 seed last year by dominating the entire game, eventually winning 104-84. Ben Simmons showed out with an eye-popping 14 assists and Markelle Fultz got the Philly fans excited by knocking down a couple jumpshots.

Elsewhere in the league, the Boston Celtics took on the Charlotte Hornets as Gordon Hayward made his long-awaited return from a gruesome season-ending knee injury in last year’s opener, and LeBron James made his Lakers debut versus the Nuggets. Both James and Hayward played limited minutes, but they gave their respective fanbases a glimpse of better things to come.

There are a lot of familiar faces in different uniforms this year and despite many thinking the Warriors have already won after signing DeMarcus Cousins this offseason, I think this NBA season will be one to remember.

— Jack Clay In defense of the wild card Ever since the MLB Wild Card Game was introduced in 2012, its presence has been slightly controversial. Before the single elim-

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ination game existed, the only teams to make it into the playoffs were the division leaders and a single wild card team. Currently, the two next best records after the division winners will face off in an elimination game to move on to the division series. As it stands, the wild card game system is the best option for the MLB playoffs.

One of the biggest disadvantages that wild card teams face is having to use their best pitcher to try and win the wild card game, weakening the pitching staff for the following series. However, since 2012, there have been 12 wild card winners and six of those teams advanced through at least one series.

Another complaint is that it’s unfair for two teams to play one winner-take-all game after an arduous 162-game season. However, this just provides more incentive to win one’s division. There have been four years where one division in baseball sends three teams to the playoffs. The two wild card teams might have been good enough to garner a wild card spot, but weren’t good enough to win their division.

Yes, the wild card game causes controversy every year, but its existence helps create great excitement to start the playoff season.

Although it may seem like a poor system, it amplifies the importance of winning the division while also giving good baseball teams the opportunity to steal the playoffs.

— Sami Abu-Obaid Kansas City ain’t it, Chief The Kansas City Chiefs (4-0) have been highly touted as one of the best teams in the NFL through the first quarter of the season.

This praise is deserved, as the Chiefs have emerging star Patrick Mahomes, a top-three tight end in Travis Kelce, arguably the fastest player in the NFL Tyreek Hill and reigning rushing champion Kareem Hunt.

Despite all this, those dead set on a Chiefs’ Super Bowl need to pump the brakes. Kansas City doesn’t have the defense to compete at

the highest level of football. This is not the Chiefs’ defense of old that had a dominant Justin Houston, a healthy and thriving Eric Berry or a shutdown cornerback in Marcus Peters.

Kansas City’s defense has been lackluster so far, frequently allowing opponents to post more points than they average on the season.

The Steelers, for example, scored 37 points on Kansas City in Week 2 — almost 12 more points than their typical points per game.

The Chiefs currently rank dead last in total defense, allowing a league-high 451.8 yards per game.

So yes, the Chiefs are good and their offense is really, really good. However, as they say, offense sells tickets — defense wins championships. If this old adage is true, then don’t expect Kansas City to hoist the Lombardi Trophy anytime soon.

— Andrew Kelly He went to Jared The Los Angeles Rams have gotten off to a dream start this NFL season. They currently sit atop the NFC West division with a 4-0 record, averaging a monstrous 35 points per game. Several factors have contributed to this amazing start — Sean McVay’s genius as a head coach, star running back Todd Gurley living up to his lucrative contract and the solid performance of the defense. The most important factor of this operation, however, revolves around the MVP-caliber play from quarterback Jared Goff.

In his third season, Goff is showing the NFL universe why he was selected first overall in the 2016 NFL draft. He’s already thrown for 1,406 yards and 11 touchdowns with a 72.4 completion percentage. The numbers that Goff is putting up are helping the Rams become the early favorites to win Super Bowl 53.

Goff really put the league on notice Thursday night against Minnesota, throwing four touchdowns in the first half and five touchdowns total against a stout Vikings de-

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fense. This game was the first true test of the year for the Rams and they showed up, making a seismic statement. If Goff continues to shred through NFL defenses with ease like he is currently doing, the Lombardi trophy will be coming to LA in February.

— Tyler Moran Osuna and the Astros When the Houston Astros acquired pitcher Roberto Osuna from the Toronto Blue Jays in August, Osuna had just finished a 75-game suspension without pay for violating the MLB’s domestic violence agreement.

Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow released a statement saying “We will use this decision to significantly increase our support, raise awareness, and influence change regarding the issues of domestic violence and abuse of any kind.”

Last Tuesday, Sept. 25, Osuna had the domestic assault charge against him withdrawn.

The charge wasn’t dropped because he was found innocent, but because he agreed to a “peace bond” — an agreement saying he will not contact the accuser and will continue his counseling.

This whole debacle brings up the question of how the Houston Astros are joining the discussion and increasing support for domestic violence victims by protecting someone who is accused of it. The Astros made the decision to get involved with this case and the public backlash when they signed Osuna in August. They can’t run and hide from it now.

If the Astros want to open discussion about domestic abuse, they should not protect Osuna, as they did when kicking out a fan who protested Osuna by holding up a sign for the domestic violence hotline number. He deserves any backlash he gets. He does not deserve to look only to the future when there are so many women who can only look over their shoulders in fear because of men like him.

— Tessa Sayers

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MEN’S SOCCER SHUTS OUT COLUMBIA, 1-0

Dominic Campbell Staff Writer

Despite dominating offensively, the Pitt men’s soccer team found itself engaged in a scoreless stalemate through most of Tuesday night’s drizzly game at Ambrose Urbanic Field. Sophomore defender Jose Luis Sena Arbona finally provided the Panthers with the deciding goal in the 78th minute, sealing a 1-0 victory over Columbia.

The win was a rebound after last Friday night’s 2-0 loss to No. 11 Virginia and marked the second consecutive year Pitt beat Columbia 1-0. Pitt head coach Jay Vidovich knew this game was going to be tough coming in because of how successful the Lions have been in the past and also because the weather made the game start 20 minutes earlier than scheduled at 6:40 p.m.

“It was a hard match,” Vidovich said.

“We had to work very hard to get our goal that came in at the last part of the game. I’m proud of the effort and proud of getting the result.”

In the 21st minute, sophomore forward Edward Kizza fired the team’s first clean look on goal — a hard dribbler from the top of the box — but Columbia senior goalkeeper Dylan Castanheira dove down low for the stop.

Castanheira’s heroics became a common theme, as the goalie would use all 6 feet 3 inches of his frame to make six saves by the end of the contest, singlehandedly keeping the Lions in the game.

Castanheira came to the rescue again three minutes later, clearing a potential rebound chance out of the box after a corner kick.

Pitt continued its nonstop assault on the goal, but Columbia responded with an effective “bend but don’t break” strategy. The Panthers peppered the net throughout the remainder of the first half, recording three more corner kicks and three more shots. The Lions just kept getting stops, either in the form of deflections by defenders or saves from Castanheira.

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Sophomore Jose Luis Sena Arbona (14) scored the only goal during Pitt’s 1-0 victory over Columbia. Bader Abdulmajeed | staff photographer Pitt’s last corner kick presented a quality scoring chance four minutes before halftime, but Columbia stifled the attempt to take a 0-0 draw into the break.

The Panthers were far and away the better team offensively in the first half as they had five shots — two on goal — and four corner kicks compared to the Lions’ one shot and one corner.

Lightning soared across the sky and rain began to pour down as the second half got started, but the refs initially turned a blind eye. Senior midfielder Joshua Gaspari had the first chance for Pitt, but it was blocked into Castanheira’s hands in the 49th minute.

Columbia started to gain some momentum when first-year midfielder Sebastian Gunbeyi had his shot blocked in the 52nd minute. Sophomore Beto Carrillo then ventured a shot in the 53rd minute, but it was an easy save for firstyear goalkeeper Johan Penaranda.

Heavy rain started around the 53rd

minute and with lightning strikes nearby, the game was originally delayed for 30 minutes. With the incessant storm conditions, however, it ended up being closer to an hour before the game finally resumed.

Coming out of the delay, the Panthers seemed to regain their momentum and dictated the pace for the rest of the game.

A cross by senior defender Tom Moxham forced Castanheira to punch it away in the 54th minute. Gaspari had another great chance to take a lead one minute later but his attempt sailed right of the goal.

Columbia saw a rare scoring opportunity in the 58th minute when junior John Denis took a shot on goal, but it was an easy catch for Penaranda. That marked the last save Penaranda had to make all game as the Pitt defense held solid throughout the night.

Castanheira continued to be a problem for Pitt and served as the main

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reason Columbia didn’t lose by three or four goals. In the 72nd minute, he made two great saves to keep the Lions in the game. First, he had to punch away another cross by Moxham and then he made a diving save to stop a fantastic bouncing header from Kizza.

In the 78th minute, the Panthers finally made the breakthrough that they’d been so close to all game. From a corner taken by Javi Perez, the ball bounced in the box, then found sophomore defender Sena Arbona, who launched a header that zipped past Castanheira and into the back of the net to make it 1-0 Panthers.

Perez said it was great to connect with Sena Arbona, who also hails from Spain and who he has known since they were 13, to get the winning goal.

“We’ve known each other from a long time ago and we’re very good friends,” Perez said. “We hang out in Spain together … We’re very lucky to have him join us this year and it’s great. I told him to go to second post and that I’d put the ball there. And he did, and we scored, so it’s fun!

The Lions only managed two more shots the rest of the game — a header from first-year midfielder Andrew Stevens that went high in the 80th minute and another shot from Carrillo that went high and hit the scoreboard.

Pitt had one more chance to pad its lead when Alexander Dexter took a shot on in the 90th minute, but Castanheira saved it. Within 30 seconds, the game was over.

Afterward, Sena Arbona spoke about using the victory to spark some momentum for the season.

“We have to try to do our best and focus on hard work,” Sena Arbona said.

“We have to continue in the same length and improve some things.”

Pitt will look to get consecutive wins as they take on Clemson this Friday at 7 p.m. at Ambrose Urbanic Field. The team will wrap up its ongoing five-game home stand when they take on Cleveland State next Monday.

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You will be paid $10/ hour for ev­ery hour of your time. For more infor­mation, please con­tact Nadait at 412‑624‑7083 or nig48@pitt.edu.

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.

Great Deal in South Oakland ‑ 2 + BR on Semple starting at $1000. Includes re­cent cosmetic up­dates and new in‑unit laundry.

Call John CR Kelly Realty for details

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Employment Other 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 BR apartments available May & August 2019.

South Oakland, North Oakland, and South­ side on Bouqet St., Meyran Ave., At­wood St., North Neville St., and Sarah St. Call 412‑287‑5712 Hiring After‑School, Evening, and Week­ end Sitters. Great pay.

Flexible sched­ules and fulfilling work

notices

• ADOPTION • EVENTS • LOST AND FOUND • STUDENT GROUPS • WANTED • OTHER

with a wide va­riety of families. Must have a car and insur­ ance. Contact Fran, College Nan­nies and Tutors, 440‑520‑4430, arlington­varecruiter@ college­nannies.com.

MAD MEX SHADY­ SIDE IS HIRING

BUSSERS! The BUSSER per­ forms an important role in ensuring the best experience for our guests. Responsi­ bilities include: · removing used tableware between courses · clearing and re­setting tables · delivering food to guests The BUSSER posi­tion requires NO PRIOR EXPERI­ENCE and is a great way to learn the ropes with poten­ tial for growth. We offer a FLEXIBLE SCHED­ULE to work around class times and BEN­EFITS and PAID TIME OFF for full time employees.

Apply in person (220 S. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh 15206), by email (shadyside@­ madmex.com) or on­ line (www.bigburrito.­ com/jobs). We are an equal opportunity em­ployer.

MAD MEX SHADY­ SIDE IS HIRING BUSSERS! The BUSSER per­

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forms an important role in ensuring the best experience for our guests. Responsi­ bilities include: · removing used tableware between courses · clearing and re­setting tables · delivering food to guests The BUSSER posi­tion requires NO PRIOR EXPERI­ENCE and is a great way to learn the ropes with poten­ tial for growth. We offer a FLEXIBLE SCHED­ULE to work around class times and BEN­EFITS and PAID TIME OFF for full time employees.

Apply in person (220 S. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh 15206), by email (shadyside@­ madmex.com) or on­ line (www.bigburrito.­ com/jobs). We are an equal opportunity em­ployer.

$120. Financial assis­ tance is available!

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Office Help Wanted Mon‑Sat 8am‑5pm. $12/hour Craig Distributing Co. 313 N. Craig St. Pittsburgh 15213

Services Services Other WOMEN – EMPOW­ ERMENT SELF‑DE­ FENSE on campus!

October 7‑28 (four Sundays), 10 am – noon at Falk School.

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