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PITT QUEER PROFESSIONALS KICKS OFF COMING OUT WEEK
GRADUATE STUDENTS MAKE THEIR CASE FOR UNIONIZATION Janine Faust
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Co-chair of Pitt Queer Professionals Briar Somerville paints overlapping hearts on a chalkboard wall at a kickoff event for Coming Out Week and LGBTQIA+ History Month hosted at the Center for Creativity. Bader Abdulmajeed | staff photographer
NEW POLICY REWRITES RULES ON DONATED BOOKS FOR INMATES
Emily Wolfe
donates books to Pennsylvania prisoners. “Your program really helped me,” she wrote in a letter to Book ‘Em. “When I’m feeling down and Amanda, an inmate at the Pennsylvania State depressed, I read. It takes my mind off things.” Correctional Institute at Cambridge Springs, alNow, government policies preventing inways had one thing to look forward to — a packmates from receiving books have halted Book age from Book ‘Em, a Pittsburgh-based program ‘Em in its tracks. that operates through the Thomas Merton CenAfter several staff members became sick, ter, a nonprofit social justice organization, and concerns about synthetic cannabinoids arose and Staff Writer
the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections initiated a 12-day lockdown from Aug. 29 to Sept. 10. Midway through the lockdown, Gov. Tom Wolf and Corrections Secretary John Wetzel announced the arrival of new security protocols for the DOC, which include a ban on donated books from organizations like Book ‘Em. Inmates who See Book ‘Em on page 2
After a week of testimony in front of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee and Pitt have come to one conclusion — hearings will have to continue at a later date. According to Beth Shaaban, a union organizer who earned her doctorate in epidemiology from Pitt in 2018, the hearings will continue at a later date yet to be determined because the administration could not present all its witnesses in the original time frame allotted to them by the board. “We really hope it will not cause further delay of our election, which we petitioned the labor board for nearly a year ago,” she said. University spokesperson Joe Miksch said proceedings of this sort can take longer than expected. “This hearing is part of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board’s standard process, and we are simply following their process,” he said. The hearing, which took place Tuesday, Oct. 2 through Friday, Oct. 9 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Oakland, will ultimately determine if Pitt’s graduate students have the right to file a petition for a union election with the PLRB. Graduate students cannot participate in a union election if they are not seen as employees by the See Union on page 2
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want books must now pay to download an ebook onto a $147 tablet. “In a state where we pay people $0.19 an hour when they’re incarcerated, it’s ridiculous,” Jodi Lincoln, Book ‘Em’s co-chair, said in an interview. The new security protocols will be phased in over the 90 to 100 days following the lockdown. The DOC’s Sept. 5 press release heralded the department’s “transition to e-books.” Concerns about synthetic cannabinoids influenced both the lockdown and the new measures, the DOC said. “Pennsylvania’s corrections officers put themselves in harm’s way to make our commonwealth safer,” Wolf said in the press release. “It is up to us to provide them protection from harm.” Book ‘Em plans to take legal action against the policy in the next few months, Lincoln said. She said that the DOC has not provided evidence that packages from book donation organizations have been linked to drugs, and that she was optimistic about the success of a lawsuit. In the short term, Book ‘Em and its sister organizations like Books Through Bars in Philadelphia are advocating for opponents of the ban to call the offices of Wolf and Wetzel and pressure them to end the ban. In the past, Book ‘Em has held packing sessions twice a month, where volunteers put together packages of one to three books for inmates who had written to request them. Those have been replaced with events spent writing letters to prisoners they’ve served in the past. “Our rule is that we can serve people every three months,” Lincoln said. “We have people who have been in prison for years, and every three months, we’re sending them a package.” As of mid-September, the DOC offers a library of more than 8,500 e-books for inmates to buy. In order to access that library, the prisoners must purchase a $147 Global Tel Link tablet through the DOC. The selection itself is limited, according to Lincoln. The list of available books includes pages of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters, but no dictionary — the most common item prisoners request from Book ‘Em. “It’s missing a lot of what people actually want,” Lincoln said. “There’s no legal books, there’s no graphic novels.”
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Many consider the available e-books overpriced as well. One inmate incarcerated at SCI Coal Township called the e-books a “rip-off” in a letter to Book ‘Em. “I’ve been incarcerated for over 36 years now. I’ve never been married and I have no children. As such, I don’t have outside financial help on any kind of regular basis,” he wrote. “I have a ‘block job’ where I sweep and mop the floor … no money to be made there. There’s no way I can afford the GTL rip-off e-books.” The inmate, who signed his letter as “Chuck,” added that another inmate he knew owned a physical book that had cost $9.95 at Barnes & Noble. The other inmate had checked and found the same book in GTL’s store for $15.95. “They’re price-gouging a captive audience,” Chuck wrote. Lincoln said she finds the policy at odds with the governor’s other efforts to fight addiction. On Sept. 27, Wolf called for “a continued focus on increasing access to medication-assisted treatment” to fight the opioid crisis. Lincoln sees the opposite of that happening under the new prison policy. “Gov. Wolf and [DOC Secretary] Wortzel have very publicly talked about addressing the opioid crisis and addiction policies by trying to be less punitive. And then [they’re] taking this and turning it into an excessive punitive response,” she said. “Those don’t match up. If there is an issue with drugs being smuggled into prisons, the answer isn’t to ban books.” The Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week that the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union plans to serve the DOC with at least one First Amendment lawsuit in the coming month. If the ban on donating books to individual prisoners is here to stay, Lincoln said, Book ‘Em will adapt to serve prisoners as well as it can. That might mean helping prisoners pay for tablets and e-books, or donating to the general prison library — the DOC says it’s developing a process that would allow prisons to accept book donations for their general population. But she’s hopeful that Book ‘Em will be able to return to its original model of providing personal packages to inmates who request them. “You create a connection with an incarcerated person,” she said. “There’s something a lot more meaningful about getting a shipment sent directly to you.”
Union, pg. 1 PLRB, which Pitt, represented by Philadelphiabased law firm Ballard Spahr, seeks to prove in these hearings. Members of GSOC, represented by attorneys with United Steelworkers, are arguing that graduate students are employees and therefore have a right to unionize. GSOC announced a plan to push for graduate student unionization in January 2016, following in the footsteps of graduate students at Temple University, Harvard University and other schools across the nation. Since then, organizers have worked with United Steelworkers to gather support for a vote through authorization cards. Graduate students filed a petition with the labor board for union election in October 2017, indicating that organizers collected union cards from 30 percent of students. Shaaban believes the hearing will likely be in GSOC’s favor since the PLRB ruled in the favor of graduate students in similar cases, including at Penn State earlier this year. The labor board ruled in February that graduate students at Penn State were considered employees and could unionize. Penn State was represented by the same law firm Pitt employed for the past week’s hearing — Ballard Spahr. “The state’s legal precedence has already determined that grad students have the right to unionize,” Shaaban said. “We see this [hearing] having implications for grad students across the state, which is why we’re taking this seriously.” Pitt administrators told the PLRB midMarch that they planned to challenge the graduate student petition to hold a union election. This past week’s hearing featured testimonies from dozens of members of the Pitt community, including faculty members, graduate students and Vice Provost Nate Urban. Shaaban testified Tuesday about her work as a researcher while she was studying in Pitt’s department of epidemiology, arguing why the University should consider her as an employee. She cited her 20-hours-per-week work requirement and the federal tax forms she received from Pitt for her stipend. “When you’re not an employee, you don’t have those things down,” she said. Ben Case, a doctoral student in sociology, testified Monday and was present on other
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days to observe the proceedings. He’s taught classes and acted as a teaching assistant for nine semesters, and was quizzed about that by USW and Ballard Spahr. Case said Pitt’s argument that any work graduate students do is for their education as students is flawed because him learning from an experience does not disqualify the work. “It’s not to say we don’t also learn when we teach, I would hope faculty also learn when they teach,” he said in an interview. “I’ve taught hundreds of students over the course of nine semesters, and sure, I’ve learned a lot from them — but I’m also doing work that if I didn’t do, they’d have to hire an adjunct professor to do.” Miksch said Pitt is committed to the success of all its students “who come to Pitt to pursue an education.” “At the graduate level, classroom learning is supplemented by doing, which includes teaching and research,” Miksch said via email. “We have and will continue to partner with graduate students to address their needs quickly and fairly, and we believe this approach is key to our shared success.” Golnar Touski, a third-year in the history of arts and architecture department, testified Tuesday morning. She said she fielded questions both from the USW attorneys and Ballard Spahr about her appointments with the University as a research assistant and the work she’s done apart from her own research. “It’s very unfortunate for us as grad students that instead of the University acknowledging that we are workers and that they benefit from our work, that instead they choose to spend tuition money they get from grad students to hire a law firm to argue against us,” she said in an interview. Miksch did not respond to a question about where the funds to pay for the University’s legal representatives came from. Touski thinks the graduate students have a solid argument since they receive W2 forms, and feels confident that the hearing will be in GSOC’s favor. “The work we do is very crucial … the University depends on grad student labor … universities across the country depend on it,” she said.
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‘ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW’ CANCELLED Christian Snyder and Sarah Connor
The Pitt News Staff The annual production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” — put on every October by Pitt’s Engineering Student Council — was abruptly cancelled for its 2018 run. The cast list had been revealed to the cast and crew less than two weeks ago on Sept. 26. Students involved in this year’s “Rocky Horror” received an email Monday evening that the show was cancelled due to funding issues within the Engineering Student Council, according to the show’s director Drew Maks. “Dearest cast,” he wrote. “Today’s was supposed to be a happy email with a show poster, notes, and congratulations on yesterday’s rehearsal but instead I’m tasked with the horrible job of letting you know about the the cancellation of RHPS this year.” Maks said the Engineering Student Council encountered budget problems this year that led to the cancellation of the show, which he wrote were “mostly due to the inability of the Student Government Board to govern with the best interests of students in mind.” The email did not elaborate, and The Pitt News has contacted Maks for further
Then-senior Delena Obermaier played the role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter at Pitt’s production of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” last October.. Sarah Cutshall | staff photographer he wrote. comment. In a phone call Monday evening, SGB Maks also criticized SGB for its perceived lack of support for the LGBTQ+ production. President Maggie Kennedy said the board “In a time when the rights of LGBTQ didn’t have as large of a role in the cancellamembers of the community are being as- tion as the email made it seem. “The rhetoric of it is saying we have done saulted, Student Government Board has taken away another safe space that wel- something to actively shut them down right comed all kinds of people with open arms,” now, mid-production, and that is not the
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AMAZON WAGE INCREASE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Jason Henriquez For The Pitt News
After years of forcing its employees to labor under horrible working conditions, paying them such low wages that they have to rely on food stamps and avoiding federal taxes, Amazon has finally made one good decision for its workers. But it’s not much beyond good PR. Amazon recently announced an increase in the minimum wage for its hourly workers in the United States and United Kingdom to $15 an hour. In conjunction with this action, however, the company plans to terminate monthly bonuses for warehouse and customer service workers. This wage increase — precipitated by strikes in July, #FightFor15 protests and Bernie Sanders’ Stop BEZOS Act — may seem like an act of generosity, but it’s merely a capitulation to pressure. Until Amazon enables unionization efforts, increases benefits to independent contractors and veteran workers and stops avoiding taxes, it shouldn’t receive any kudos. Amazon will remove Restricted Stock Unit awards, which give full-time warehouse employees two or three company shares annually, as well as monthly bonuses known as Variable Compensation Pay. RSUs give workers shares worth almost $2,000 each. VCP gives the average worker $1,800 to $3,000 more a year. ”The significant increase in hourly cash wages more than compensates for the phase out of incentive pay and RSUs,” Amazon’s spokesperson said in a press statement. But its workers disagree. Those earning close to $15 an hour before the raise said they could lose thousands of dollars because of the changes. On top of this, although Amazon claims to increase the wages of hourly workers earning more than $15 an hour, Bloomberg states the hourly raise will only be $1 for them. These workers who have given years of their time and effort to Amazon will obtain minimal gains from a company that supposedly cares about them.
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An Amazon worker scans items with a handheld device before putting them in storage pods maneuvered by robots. Amazon announced its plan to roll out a $15-an-hour minimum wage for all of its U.S. employees. alan berner/seattle times/tns Veteran workers in particular will be affected conditions at an Amazon warehouse and found by the changes. They should receive a greater raise that workers incurred points for disciplinary inthan the one Amazon is offering — especially fractions — and incurring six points was grounds considering that their stock option awards and for job termination. Management monitored monthly bonuses will be removed. A $1 increase workers’ time and movements with handheld does not give their service the compensation that devices that sent messages if productivity went below a certain point. they deserve. Workers can incur points for “time off-task,” Additionally, independent contractors employed by Amazon will not earn any increase which includes anything from getting a drink, whatsoever. Drivers, who sometimes earn less talking to coworkers or taking too long to get a than the minimum wage in the city where they package. In certain warehouses, they must wait in live, do not receive overtime pay, covered vehicle line to go through a metal detector. If they acciexpenses, workers’ compensation or unemploy- dentally bring something with them, they have to ment insurance because they are not classified as return the items to their lockers and are made to wait again behind tens of people. employees. If Amazon had an honest desire to improve Currently, the workplace is ruled with an iron the safety, conditions and hours of its workers, fist. An undercover journalist investigated the it would allow them to unionize freely. In real-
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ity, Amazon actively fights against unionization efforts. It hires experts specialized in “union avoidance” and posts job advertisements for managerial positions that require experience with the supposed skill. It successfully pressured what might have been members of the first American union for the company to vote against such a proposal. Recently, an anonymous source leaked an Amazon anti-union training video. It suggested that workers should come to their bosses for any grievances rather than looking for a union to represent them. However, numerous warehouse workers have confessed that they faced further difficulties and even termination due to voicing their concerns to their employers. The video also advises managers to watch for warning signs of “associate disengagement, vulnerability to organizing, or early organizing activity,” such as the use of the word “living wage,” distribution of petitions and flyers, workers “who normally aren’t connected to each other suddenly hanging out together” and increased negativity in the workplace. It seems to suggest that bosses should maintain dictatorial control over their employees to prevent unionization from even arising as a topic of conversation. The video continues to tell managers that the law protects their right to say almost anything that they can to their subordinates about unions. This includes statements that are “mild, like, ‘I’d rather work with associates directly,’ or strong — ‘unions are lying, cheating rats.’” Bezos is now the richest person in the world with a net worth of $156 billion. He can afford to pay his workers more without cutting their bonuses and awards. His company will still earn massive profits regardless of incremental benefits that they give to their workers. Amazon succumbed to pressure, and real change happened. Let’s keep pushing.
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D&D BROUGHT TO THE STAGE WITH ‘SHE KILLS MONSTERS’
Wanyan Ma and Sarah Gross For The Pitt News
“Dungeons & Dragons” is a game most fantasy-lovers are familiar with. The game — popular in both video- and board-game formats — offers a role-playing fantasy synonymous with nerddom. But even the most experienced “Dungeons & Dragons” player probably hasn’t seen it portrayed on the stage. In the dramatic comedy stage production “She Kills Monsters,” the world of “Dungeons & Dragons” is taken on through a seamless interspersing of the main character Agnes Evans’ real life with events of fantasy. The play is the newest production by University of Pittsburgh Stages. The drama begins when Agnes finds her sister Tilly Evans’ “Dungeons & Dragons” notebook and begrudgingly plays along, killing monsters and exploring the detailed world her sister dreamed up in an attempt to learn more about her. The role-playing, however, soon seems increasingly real, with her actions leading to reallife consequences. What begins as curiosity turns into a poignant quest to understand parts of her sister she had previously ignored. Agnes discovers more about her sibling than she could’ve imagined, eventually feeling like she might not have really known her at all. Pitt’s production of “She Kills Monsters” runs from Oct. 4 through Oct. 14 at the Charity Randall Theatre with performances on Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
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Auditions for the show took place last semester and rehearsals started on the second day of school while the rest of the student body was still finding their bearings in the new semester. The actors rehearsed from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Peri Walker, a senior majoring in English literature and theater arts who plays Agnes, said that preparing for the show was a tough process due to the amount of stage-fighting scenes. The “Dungeons & Dragons” setting provides for a large amount of fantasy fights that go along with
fight captain, a role that involved her managing the stage fighting. “My background, besides being an actor, is stage combat. That was a huge part of my background, which then I could bring into the rehearsal room, helping our choreographer choreograph and think up fights,” Starkman said. This aspect of stage combat hasn’t been seen in many of the shows Pitt Stages has done recently, like “Our Town” and “Little Shop of Horrors.” “There’s so many shows out there that have only a few elements of stage combat, whether it be a push or a slap, but we don’t ever get to have
“She Kills Monsters,” a dramatic comedy show that combines elements of fantasy and the world of “Dungeons and Dragons,” is Pitt Stages’ newest production. photo courtesy of pitt theatre department the adventure. “[This show] was a little bit different than other rehearsal processes I’ve been a part of in the past, just because the fights are such a big part of the show,” she said. “It’s definitely a very physical show.” Walker, a self-proclaimed nerd, stated what drew her to “She Kills Monsters” was she saw a lot of herself in Agnes. “I really enjoyed the opportunity to celebrate sisterhood throughout the process because [my character thinks] those relationships are really important,” she said. Ariana Starkman, a junior studying theater and social change through Pitt’s interdisciplinary studies program, plays Tilly. She experienced the preparations a little differently as she was also the
a full-fledged fight,” she said. “And the fact that there are women doing all of the fights is just an amazing opportunity for us. It’s definitely a huge play in the Pitt community because of it.” Written in 2011 by Qui Nguyen, “She Kills Monsters” takes place in 1995, making some of the language and themes somewhat dated. However, the characters and problems are incredibly real and work together with the mystical setting of “Dungeons & Dragons.” The fantasy may not be real, but the setbacks and trials the characters encounter are. The costumes and weapons in Pitt Stages’ production are elaborate, with careful attention to detail in design and the materials used. Designs for costumes are reminiscent of traditional fantasy and gaming tropes. Spotlighting on characters
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creates the illusion that they’re pieces on a board game. The most impressive prop is likely the large five-headed dragon with glowing eyes in the final boss fight during the climax of the play. Bonnie Klopfer, a senior majoring in industrial engineering and theater arts, plays the character Kaliope in the production. While she is excited about the success of production so far, she also spoke about what the show really means to people. To her, the most important message this play sends is one of inclusiveness. “Inclusivity and understanding are essentially what fuels connection, and connection is what fuels, I think, inner peace — that there’s always more beneath the surface, and everybody’s journey is equal in value,” Klopfer said. The stage manager of the production, Sarah Sokolowski — a senior majoring in theater arts — expressed a similar view to Klopfer’s. Sokolowski cited female empowerment as the most important message of the show. “In a lot of the nerdy, geeky, gamer worlds, it’s always the men that are highlighted, and we don’t see that side as much with women,” she said. While it is a funny and entertaining production, “She Kills Monsters” seems to resonate with its audience, cast and crew through its exciting narrative, social commentary and women’s representation — something Sokolowski was excited about. “I think it’s really important to see that girls can be geeks too and be badass, and fight and kill monsters,” she said.
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MEN’S SOCCER FALLS TO CLEVELAND STATE, 4-3
Dominic Campbell Staff Writer
In a back-and-forth game that saw three ties and four lead changes, the Pitt men’s soccer team was beaten by Cleveland State 4-3. The Panthers (6-6) had many chances to win the game and tie at the end, even when they went down to 10 men in the 34th minute, but couldn’t find the goal to save the game against the Vikings (4-5-1). “Once again we have an opportunity to win the match and we just didn’t manage our moments,” head coach Jay Vidovich said. “We gave up three restart goals, with balls into the box, missing our matches, losing our man-to-man matches in the box. So that’s a major disappointment, a lack of discipline and had a chance to kill the game and didn’t.” The first half started off quickly for both teams as the pressure was on from five minutes in. Junior forward Gabriel Pewu of Cleveland State almost had a brilliant chance to score in the sixth minute after senior defender Peter Prescott for Pitt lost the ball, but Prescott hustled back to shut an easy path to the goal for him and ended up blocking his shot. Senior midfielder Noah Pio got the rebound and drove left, but his shot was a simple catch for first-year goalkeeper Johan Penaranda. The first scoring chance for the Panthers in the game led to a great goal. Sophomore defender Jose Luis Sena Arbona cut out the Vikings pass and delivered a great overhead through ball to sophomore forward Edward Kizza, who chipped the goalkeeper, redshirt freshman Alex Gyerman, from outside the box to put the Panthers in the lead in the ninth minute. A close chance in the 14th minute almost resulted in Pitt taking a two-goal lead after a bad back pass from Cleveland State sophomore defender Thomas M’Barek. But Gyerman came out this time and was successful, sending the ball across the field before Kizza could get to it. The Panthers missed several chances at goals while the Vikings were able to run down the
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Sophomore forward Edward Kizza takes a shot on goal during Pitt’s 3-4 loss to Cleveland State Monday night. Bader Abdulmajeed | staff photographer field and equalize. Pio sent a ball to Pewu, who tion. The last chance in the half for either team was was able to run down with it to the edge of the goal. He then attempted to pass to midfielder from the Panthers. Perez and Sena Arbona conZack Kleuver, but the pass was blocked and the nected in the 39th minute on a cross, but Sena ball bounced around the box for a few seconds. Arbona sent it way high over the goal. The second half started quickly as only five Kluever managed to get up from the ground, go around Penaranda and put it in the right corner minutes in, a penalty kick was given to the Vikings after Moxham handballed a shot from to make it 1-1. The Panthers finally responded in the 27th junior midfielder/defender Vlad Jandric. Pio minute with a second goal to retake the lead. stepped up to take the penalty, but he sent it way Senior defender Tom Moxham delivered a great over the goal, not testing Penaranda whatsoever. Kizza had a chance for the hat trick in the 50th cross that led to an even better header by Kizza, which gave Gyerman no chance to save it. A free minute, but he couldn’t slide it past the goalkeeper kick by senior midfielder Javi Perez in the 30th with his left foot, so his shot ended up going wide minute almost gave Pitt a third goal, but it ended left. First-year midfielder Jackson Walti sent a up going wide right. While the Panthers were up 2-1 and starting power-driving shot in the 54th minute from outto get on a roll, a red card to Prescott sent them side the box off bad clearance that was impresdown to 10 men in just the 34th minute. Prescott sively saved by Gyerman, who stretched out and was shown a red after clipping the legs of Pewu stopped it with his right hand. The Vikings finally leveled in the 67th minute and bringing him down, and because Prescott was the last defender before the goalkeeper, the after Jandric sent a cross in from outside the box to senior midfielder/defender Antonio Burgoa, card was solidified. Less than a minute after a free kick from who headed it in over Penaranda. Despite being level, the Panthers kept attackCleveland State that ended in Penaranda’s hands, there looked to be a handling incident in the ing for the rest of the night. Perez delivered a great Vikings’ penalty box after a backward pass hit ground through pass to sophomore midfielder M’Barek’s hand, but the referee gave it no atten- Marcony Pimentel, who had his shot deflected
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wide for a corner in the 71st minute. In the 73rd minute, redshirt senior defender Robby Dambrot took a long shot from outside that Gyerman had to punch over for a corner. Perez and Dambrot both continued to attempt shots, but were unsuccessful in their attempts. Although Pitt fought hard to take the lead, Cleveland State ended up in the lead in the 77th minute after defender Ryan Kolonick sent in a good cross to Pewu. Pewu then headed it in the back of the net before Penaranda could punch it out, making the score 3-2. But the Panthers’ hard work on offense soon paid off as they scored quickly after conceding. Dambrot put in a great cross to Kizza, who once again headed it in for his third goal and a hat trick to make it 3-3 in the 80th minute. While Pitt thought they could go for the win or at least take it to overtime, Cleveland State had other plans and once again took the lead. After redshirt senior defender Shane Wiedt did a brilliant job to stop first year midfielder Tommy Paltani from scoring, the Vikings were given a corner. In the 85th minute, the corner taken by Pio found sophomore defender Ben Hryszko, who headed it in the back of the net to make it 4-3. Pitt had one last chance in the game to tie it and that came from a great cross by first-year defender Nyk Sessock. He put it perfectly for Dambrot, but it deflected off of Kizza for a goal kick. While Kizza had a successful game scoring a hat trick and also a great game last time out scoring two in the 2-1 win over conference opponent Clemson, he couldn’t be happier with the way the game ended and was more focused on how to correct the mistakes that were made in the loss. “We are going to go back to the drawing board and work on our set-to-set pieces and the small details because the small details are ones that define a win or a loss,” Kizza said. “So we are going to go back in training and work on set pieces.” The Panthers have finished their five game home stand and will travel to face ACC opponent, Virginia Tech, Friday at 5 p.m. in Blacksburg.
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