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Pitt to reconsider Cosby’s honorary degree

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October 12, 2015 | Issue 40 | Volume 106

Defense, fans fuel homecoming win Mike Caprara celebrates a fourth quarter safety. Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR

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Late Saturday afternoon, the Panthers had the University of Virginia football team backed up against their own end zone. The fans were there to see it.

Fans bellowed “Sweet Caroline” through Heinz Field following the third quarter, with Pitt running back Qadree Ollison re-opening play with a fumble one yard away from a touchdown. Coming off the impactful miscue, the Cavaliers took the ball over at their own one-yard line,

trailing 24-13 with 15 minutes left to play — potentially enough time to assemble a comeback.

After Virginia quarterback Matt Johns rushed for one yard and threw an incomplete pass, the Cavaliers faced a third and nine on their own two-yard line with Pitt’s

student section, the Panther Pitt, roaring in their ears.

The students got loud and waved their gold towels. They did their part.

Then, linebacker Mike Caprara did his.

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Pitt royalty announced at saturday’s football game Cristina McCormack For The Pitt News

Seniors Michael Hizny and Paige Lumley were crowned Homecoming King and Queen. Emily Klenk STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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At first, Michael Hizny didn’t realize he had won.

“I was shocked. For a moment, I didn’t even believe they called my name,” Hizny recalled of his crowning moment as Pitt’s latest Homecoming King — the shock still apparent on his face in the final quarter of the game.

With the Pitt Panthers up 17-10 against the University of Virginia, the crowd cheered again at halftime as Pitt’s Blue and Gold Society named seniors Hizny and Paige Lumley Homecoming King and Queen, respectively.

Crowns and sashes in place, Hizny, a communications major, and Lumley, a civil engineering major, embraced one another and beamed up at the student- and alumni-filled stadium.

The race for Pitt’s homecoming court officially began one week prior to Saturday’s football game, after court applications closed and candidates were allowed to start campaigning.

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Student voting began on Oct. 8, and ended at noon on Oct. 9.

The homecoming contest is an annual Pitt tradition run by Pitt’s Blue and Gold Society — the campus organization that connects the student community with Pitt’s Alumni Association. According to the Society, the Homecoming King and Queen represent the student community and its diversity of organizations and pride for Pitt.

Fifteen candidates — seven men and eight women — ran for Homecoming King and Queen this year.

Megan Schlegelmilch, the president of the Blue and Gold Society, said the Blue and Gold Society would not comment on the total number of student votes this year to protect the integrity of the campaign, but said participation was about the same as last year.

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Pittsburgh high school Pitt to discuss Cosby’s students rally for Rice honorary degree Lauren Rosenblatt and Dale Shoemaker Pitt News Staff

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Following suit with other universities that awarded Bill Cosby an honorary degree, Pitt said on Friday that it will consider rescinding the degree it awarded him 13 years ago.

Pitt gave Cosby an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree for his “lifetime of high achievement” after he spoke at Pitt Johnstown’s 2002 commencement ceremony. Now, though, after 55 accusers have come forward with allegations that Cosby sexually assaulted them over the course of his career, the Pitt committee charged with awarding honorary degrees will meet before the end of the fall semester to consider

taking Cosby’s away.

“As far as we can determine, Pitt has never rescinded an honorary degree,” Pitt spokesperson Ken Service said in an email Friday.

Service said the committee, which is made up of faculty members, had not yet set an exact meeting date. The committee’s meeting will be private, Service said.

Nearly 60 colleges and universities in the United States have awarded Cosby an honorary degree. In the last two weeks, Fordham University, Marquette University, Brown University and the University of San Francisco have all rescinded the honorary degrees they awarded Cosby.

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Area high school students and community members gathered in Oakland Sunday evening to protest two professional investigations that said police officers in Cleveland acted reasonably in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Timothy J. McGinty, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, prosecutor, released the reviews late Saturday, which a Colorado prosecutor and a former FBI agent conducted separately.

At 6:30 p.m. Sunday about 50 students and community members marched through Oakland, starting and ending in Schenley Plaza. Walking down Forbes Avenue, the protesters turned right up Meyran Avenue and right again up Fifth Avenue, before stopping

traffic on the corner of Forbes and Bigelow.

Singing and chanting, “No justice, no peace, no racist police,” the protestors carried signs and megaphones as they made their way around Oakland. Several police officers drove past the march in their cars, but none stopped or interfered.

Several different youth groups that organized the march had attended a youth conference earlier Sunday, which the Youth Undoing Institutional Racism, a multi-racial, intergenerational community organizing group, had hosted at the Bethel AME Church in the Hill District as part of a weekend training program to teach students about community organization.

Joan Mukogosi, 17, from Squirrel Hill, said the conference was a big inspiration for

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Crowning, pg. 2 telling them why they love Pitt,” Schlegelmilch said. “I’m really proud of everyone who ran.”

Lumley is on the track and field team and holds the fundraising chair of Pitt’s chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World, a national non-profit that works to design and implement sustainable projects for communities. Lumley said campus involvement was a key part of her campaign.

“For me, winning Homecoming Queen is about representing both athletics and academics,” Lumley said. “I individually talked to different sports teams and organizations on campus to get the word out.”

The rest of the campaign process for the king and queen included making banners, Tshirts and posters, as well as getting the word out on social media.

“My campaign slogan was ‘Hiz Majesty,’ spelled H-I-Z,” Hizny said, laughing. “My friends definitely got creative with that one.”

Hizny is also a Pitt cheerleader and a member of Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed community service fraternity.

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the march Sunday night, which the groups organized in about six hours using social media to spread the word.

Although there were only about 50 protesters, Mukogosi said the passion was still strong.

The group stopped traffic at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard for about five minutes, which Mukogosi took as a sign of their success.

“The evidence of us making our statement is in the cars honking at us in anger. We’re already angry,” Mukogosi said. “The more they honked, the longer I wanted to stay there.”

Carlin Cohen, 20, from Homewood, said he thought it was important to protest because he thought “justice was not served.”

“He was 12 years old. The kid’s future was taken away,” Cohen said. “That could be any of us. That could be my little cousin.”

For Ada Griffin, 16, from Squirrel Hill, the dedication from today’s rally was more important than the crowd it drew.

“As a black woman, it’s important to protect yourself because no one else is looking out for us,” said Griffin, who attended the protest

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As their first official act as Homecoming King and Queen, Hinzy and Lumley will both take part in Pitt’s annual Pitt Make A Difference Day, something the Blue and Gold Society requires them to do.

“I love Pitt because it’s a big school, but it’s comforting and welcoming and never feels that big,” Lumley said. “My advice to younger students is to have goals. If there is something you want to get involved in, go for it.”

For Hizny and Lumley, winning Homecoming King and Queen is the pinnacle moment of being Pitt students.

“If you told me three years ago that I would end up Homecoming King, I would not have believed you,” Hizny said.

With two winners, though, 13 other candidates went home Saturday without a crown or sash. Kilian Liptrot, a senior politics and philosophy major, was among them.

Liptrot, whom Pitt’s Model U.N. club sponsored, was Lumley’s running mate in the election.

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with her aunt. “If not us, then who?”

One marcher who was a community member, 70-year-old Mel Packer of Point Breeze, had worked with Mukogosi last year when organizers were protesting the death of Michael Brown. Packer, who has participated with social justice movements since the early 1960s, said he still comes out and demonstrates because he is “outraged.”

“I was just outraged,” Packer said. “Outraged but not surprised. People felt like they had to do something.”

The march ended with the protesters gathering in a circle in Schenley Plaza, chanting and dancing while brandishing signs reading “Justice for Tamir,” “No racist police” and “We will not be silent.”

Mukogosi told the marchers to “get their Snapchats out” as they raised their fists and drew the circle in, cheering and chanting “Hell you talkin’ ’bout?”

“When we do rallies, we try to end it on a hopeful note because activism is hard. We have to end it on a note of ‘We can do this,’” Mukogosi said. “I always leave ready to do another one.”

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Pitt, rescind Cosby’s honorary degree At the class of 2002’s commencement ceremony at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, then-Chancellor Mark Nordenberg welcomed America’s dad — at the time— into the Pitt family.

“Today it is my privilege to formally recognize your distinguished 2002 speaker for his lifetime of high achievement and unparalleled contributions adding richness to the human condition,” Nordenberg said.

In a traditional graduation gown instead of a trademark sweater, Bill Cosby came up to deliver the commencement address.

At the time, few people had anything negative to say about Cosby — and those who did were unfortunately not taken very seriously. Fifty-five allegations of rape and sexual assault later, the public doesn’t hold Cosby’s reputation in as high esteem.

As we are forced to reconcile with the sheer magnitude and the disturbing details of the accounts that the 55 accusers have brought forth against Cosby, colleges across the country are trying to determine what to do about their once-cozy relationships with the star.

Pitt, of course, was not the only university to trade Cosby a degree for a commencement speech. In fact, Cosby was invited by nearly 60 other schools to do the same, according to The New York Times.

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Typically, these schools offered Cosby honorary degrees in return for delivering these speeches — a prestigious honor that follows recipients outside the commencement ceremony, becoming a part of their legacy.

In light of what we know now, the University committee that recommends people for honorary degrees will meet before the end of the semester to decide whether or not to rescind Cosby’s honorary degree, according to Ken Service, Pitt’s vice chancellor for communications..

“As far as we can determine, Pitt has never rescinded an honorary degree,” Service said.

If the University wants to maintain and further facilitate its efforts against the culture surrounding sexual assault, this is a time for firsts.

The very idea behind an honorary degree is that the recipient actively embodies the institution’s core values and commitments. Like a statue, an honorary degree solidifies an institution’s everlasting respect and admiration for the figure.

Cosby no longer embodies our values. Pitt simply cannot ignore the dozens of alleged victims by holding on to this association — to do so would be to undermine the University’s ongoing efforts in combating sexual assault, such as its involvement with the “It’s On Us” campaign.

In fact, as court documents from

a 2005 civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand — one of the many women who accuse Cosby of sexual abuse — reveal, Cosby admitted to giving women he wanted to have sex with prescription Quaaludes.

Although Cosby said he received consent, the known side effects of the drug are dizziness, mental confusion and sedation — effects that would make the consent of Cosby’s accusers extremely difficult.

Pitt cannot facilitate a culture of respect for sexual freedoms while simultaneously endorsing a man whom more than 50 women say embodies the opposite.

Other schools who had, at one point, awarded Cosby with honorary degrees have recognized this paradox and are beginning to rescind the honor. Fordham, Marquette, Brown and the University of San Francisco have all done so within the last two weeks, according to The New York Times.

“It has become clear, by his own admission in legal depositions that became public this summer, that Mr. Cosby has engaged in conduct with women that is contrary to the values of Brown,” Christina Paxson, the president of Brown, said in a statement.

For the sake of our own values, let’s hope that this realization will also “become clear” to the committee determining Cosby’s future with Pitt.

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Britain’s got it in the bag:

Plastic levy nothing to tut about Courtney Linder Senior Staff

“The Hot Tea” is a weekly column dedicated to these discoveries — unearthing the intricacies of London’s social, political and millennial issues in context of Pittsburgh’s own complex culture.

LONDON - Armored in mahogany and orange uniforms, workers at English supermarket Sainsbury’s recently became the government’s foot soldiers charged with implementing its new policy on plastic bags.

Meanwhile, a clearly disgruntled mother glares at a self-checkout machine and tells it to “piss off ” when a dialogue box pops up, querying whether she’d like a plastic bag for five pence to hold her milk and assorted groceries.

Her kid, an employee and I exchanged mutually helpless glances.

With last Monday’s introduction of a five-pence charge for each plastic bag retailers hand out, Britons are tutting under their breath with a new ferocity. Meanwhile, the Russian nesting dolls of plastic bags under their sinks — the ones overstuffed with other plastic bags — have finally found their lives’ purpose.

Much like last month’s updat-

ed Bring Your Own Bag initiative on Pitt’s campus, England has instituted a levy against plastic carrier bags in an attempt to reduce the country’s carbon footprint — and rightfully so. The new law is a prime example of the type of sustainability actions America needs to adopt as a whole in order to better our environment.

Last year alone, the United Kingdom passed out over 8.5 billion single-use plastic bags to consumers, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This figure has steadily increased over the past four years. Much of this alarming statistic can be traced back to England — the last country in the United Kingdom to institute a plastic bag charge.

Scotland, Wales and Ireland have each seen a significant decrease in the number of plastic bags citizens consume daily.

Wales, in particular, passed out 78.2 percent less plastic since 2010 when their government instituted a charge on carrier bags at large retailers, according to The Guardian.

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letter to the editor I have been proud to call myself a member of the University of Pittsburgh community since I accepted my admission in November of 2011. Ever since, I have been hailing to Pitt every chance I get. Thursday, however, I was extremely disappointed and embarrassed by my fellow classmates. During the educational display held by Choose Life at Pitt, of which I am the president, my members and colleagues were harassed, verbally abused and our display was vandalized. We were hosting the Planned Parenthood Project with Students for Life of America, which is an educational display about the business model of Planned Parenthood.

Abortion can be a heated topic, but when did grown adults at a high-ranking academic institution decide that shouting obscenities and being disrespectful was a better option than an intelligent, peaceful conversation? When did

running up to a display you disagreed with and rubbing your private parts on them in a lewd fashion become socially acceptable?

It was assumed that my group and I were “privileged” and “entitled” as well as “racists,” “anti-gay” and all “white.” I personally was offended by the number of people who attacked me by calling me “anti-woman” and a “woman hater.” It is appalling to me that my fellow scholars at a diverse, prestigious university would presume to know someone’s background and spew hateful speech at them. I was expecting a lot more tolerance than that. I would never treat my fellow classmates with such disrespect, no matter how much I disagreed with them. In the future, we would like to receive the same respect that we showed to everyone we interacted with.

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the charge is not officially a tax collected by the government, is likely at fault. While retailers must report to government ministers what they do with the funds raised through the levy, there’s no repercussions for simply pinching cash off the top. Of course, the British government recommends giving the money to charities or organizations that aim to protect the environment — but again, this is not a necessity.

According to the BBC, these retailers will generate an estimated £730 million over the next ten years. It’s helpful that the government will remain transparent and publish where the funds go, but it doesn’t mean companies care.

Why not shift the burden onto the stores themselves rather than the consumer? After all, these retail giants are the ones who bred us into the mass consumers we are today. Supermarkets wanted to turn a profit — but how can you make 2-for-1 deals a success if your customers don’t want to lug it all home in their arms?

It’s not our fault that corporations created a generation of plastic bag dependents out of sheer greed. The British government should make grocers and retailers alike pay the levy on the bags. In that scenario, retailers would likely not even offer plastic bags but reusable bags instead.

by 80 percent, according to the BBC. But it’s not just in grocery stores — this initiative applies to clothing stores, tourist attractions and even restaurants. I had to pay five pence to hold my Subway sandwich (even though it wasn’t a fullsize bag) and another five pence to support my H&M binge.

Next time I go shopping in London, I’m bringing a backpack like I used to at Pitt — and like I assume students at home continue to do.

Not only will this small sacrifice save the turtles from dying in plastic bag debris — which actually breaks my heart more than sad pet commercials accompanied by Celine Dion — but it will also significantly cut carbon costs and taxpayer pounds used to clean up the litter by £13 million and £60 million, respectively.

So what’s this mother fussing about when she has to fork over a whopping five pence for a plastic bag? Surely she’s not breaking the bank, and I assume she’d never admit to loathing turtles.

After all, a survey of over 2,000 Britons, commissioned by Break the Bag Habit coalition, found that 62 percent of people agreed a five pence charge was “reasonable.” So, put simply, it’s not the bags’ cost that is so irritating — it’s something else beneath the surface.

The idea that retailers keep the money, as

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Greg Miller is superstitious.

With sophomore midfielder Hanna Hannesdottir lining up to take a gamewinning penalty kick in overtime, Miller, Pitt women’s soccer head coach, focused his eyes off the field.

“I don’t ever watch [penalty kicks], so I’ll have to see it on video. But it went in and I guess that’s all that matters,” Miller said. “I didn’t even say Hanna’s name, I let them sort it out, and she wanted it.”

Pitt left the field with a 1-0 win, after Hannesdottir delivered the first and

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final strike in overtime over Syracuse Sunday afternoon at Ambrose Urbanic Field.

When Syracuse (5-10-1, 0-6-0 ACC) took down freshman forward Juliana Vazquez in the box on a cross from the right flank, the referee called for the decisive penalty kick.

Hannesdottir stepped up to take the shot and scored, sending the ball into the lower right corner of the net, sneaking past the outstretched arms of Syracuse sophomore goalkeeper Courtney

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Football, pg. 1 He rushed around the edge and brought Johns down from behind in the end zone, resulting in a safety — which gave the Panthers breathing room after a buzzkill of a turnover.

“As a defender, [the fans’ energy] is everything,” Caprara said. “Especially being at home. Especially down on that safety, I mean, the Panther Pitt was all over Virginia on that one. And you can just feel the energy. All 11 guys are feeding on it.”

Following efforts from the Panther Pitt and the Pitt Athletic Department to improve fourth quarter attendance this season, including added shuttle stops, free ref reshments for students following the game and a new fourth q u a r ter hype video, Pitt players and coaches noticed a heightened buzz reverberating through the stadium . It was a crucial factor in Saturday’s 26-19 win over the Cavaliers.

“The Panther Pitt did a heck of a job,” head coach Pat Narduzzi said after the win. “They stayed through the fourth quarter, in my opinion. I’m sure a couple of them left, but I’m sure there’s a couple of reporters that left too. They did a tremendous job, and I think they had a huge part in [the safety].”

The game against Virginia was Pitt’s first home game in more than a month.

Following the team’s season-opening win at Heinz Field against Youngstown State, the Panthers played on the road against Akron, Iowa and Virginia Tech, with a bye week in between.

Running back Chris James noted a difference in the environments be-

tween the two home contests this year.

“The fourth quarter a few weeks ago [against Youngstown State], not too many people were there, but fourth quarter today, they were still there,” James said. “Maybe it’s just because of the whole new energy with the new coaching staff and players, or you just never know. I’m just glad to see everyone there, because we play harder when they’re there.”

Linebacker Matt Galambos said with strong play this season, Pitt has given its fanbase reason to attend games and to get loud.

“I think the better we play, more people are going to show up, so it’s kind of really all on us,” Galambos said.

“You can promote all you want, but if the product is not that good ... which I think this year we’re pretty good, so they’re going to want to see the product as a team.”

The Panthers are 4-1, and 2-0 in the ACC — good for a first place tie in the Coastal Divison. They’re two wins away from bowl eligibility — a feat they did not accomplish until their 12th game last year — and are off to the program’s best start since 2009, when the team finished 10-3. They’ll have the opportunity to build momentum at home as well — after heading out on the road for another two weeks against Georgia Tech and Syracuse, Pitt plays four of its final five games in Pittsburgh.

This team and this season feel different, and players are beginning to acknowledge it.

Junior tight end Scott Orndoff expanded on James’ comments about the new coaching staff amplifying the fanbase’s energy.

“Even just the fans, you can tell there’s a difference there, they’re more into it this year, they’re excited about the game, they’re behind us,” Orndoff said. “They always were behind us, but it’s just at another level. I think Coach Narduzzi just kind of, you see him pumping up the crowd.”

Once again, though, Galambos emphasized the players have to be a catalyst for that excitement. “[Narduzzi] said, for us, if the fans see all of us energized, having fun, it kind of trickles over to them.” Galambos said. “It kind of all works together.”

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With senior forward and the team’s primary penalty kick taker Roosa Arvas on the bench, the team decided Hannesdottir would be the one to give the Panthers (10-3-1, 4-2-0 ACC) their 10th victory of the season.

It was a familiar script for Syracuse, which lost its sixth straight conference game. The last time the two teams met, on Sept. 28, 2014, Pittsburgh downed

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Syracuse on the road with a penalty kick as well, registering the program’s first ACC win.

The Panthers entered Sunday’s matinee hoping to amend a losing streak that saw them lose two consecutive contests for the first time this season. Hannesdottir’s goal gave them their third straight victory when play extended past 90 minutes this season.

Their most recent one, which Miller called “the biggest win since I’ve been here,” was at home against Wake Forest,

when they came out on top 2-1. They have been sent into extra time five times on the year, amassing a 3-1-1 record in the process.

“I thought we had a lot of good moments, it was a little bit of a typical Sunday game when we had some tired legs,” Miller said. “We allowed Syracuse to face up and run at us one too many times, and that was a bit nerve-racking ... I think we created a lot of good chances, and leave it to a [penalty kick], you just never know.”

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the first half wore on, finishing the half leading in shots 5-1. Sophomore forward Taylor Pryce came close to scoring after a feed from freshman forward Jarena Harmon, but Brosnan, who finished with seven saves, denied the attempt.

While Pitt seemingly controlled play, the score still sat at 0-0.

The Panthers tilted the playing field in the second half. There was a surplus of scoring chances, but the finishing wasn’t present. Harmon couldn’t complete a good attempt in the box after freshman midfielder Sarah Krause sent in a pass .

Syracuse midfielder Jackie Firenzie took Krause down after releasing the ball, and she was shaken up on the play, earning Firenzie a yellow card.

The Panthers finished with eight corner kicks on the day, but Brosnan was successful in subduing the pressure. Miller said Pitt will try to correct its inability to convert on some of those chances in the upcoming week of training.

“We talked about it on Thursday that we’re going to create chances, we just have to finish them. We’re a team that’s fairly dynamic and can put pressure on back lines, but at the end of the day, we have to do a better job of converting our chances.” Miller said.

Syracuse failed to find many opportunities throughout the game, but the Orange did release a shot with 45 seconds left in the second half that Pitt goalkeeper Taylor Francis deflected off the crossbar and out of play. Francis finished with two saves in her seventh clean sheet of the season.

The Orange couldn’t produce any shots in overtime, finishing with five total to Pitt’s 13.

“As the schedule gets more difficult, the creation of chances may come less and less, and we have to really capitalize on those moments.” Miller said.

Pitt has only one home game remaining on the slate, a Halloween date with No. 3 Virginia. Before that contest, it will travel to Clemson, Duke and Virginia Tech.

The first obstacle comes in No. 7 Clemson on Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.

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TRAUMA VICTIMS The University of Pittsburgh Radiology Department is seeking women ages 1825 who experienced sexual violence during or after high school for research studies. The study involves questionnaires, interviews, brain scanning. Subjects will be compensated up to $700 upon completion. For details, call 412-5869888 or visit www.addictionstudies.pitt.edu.

The University of Pittsburgh’s support resources for sexual assault and/or sexual harassment including instructions and contact information for reporting can be located at www.SHARE.pitt.edu and www.safety.pitt.edu

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SMOKERS

HELP WANTED-

Researchers at

Law Firm. Set your

enroll healthy adult

esting work. Good for

NEEDED!

TYPIST: Downtown

UPMC are looking to

own schedule! Inter-

cigarette smokers

your resume.

ages 18-65. This research is examining

the influence of brief uses of FDA-ap-

proved nicotine patch or nicotine nasal

spray on mood and

behavior. The study

involves a brief physical exam and five sessions lasting two

hours each. Eligible

participants who complete all sessions will

receive up to $250, or $20 per hour. This is

15-20 hours/week.

Typing speed at least

50 wpm. Knowledge of WordPerfect for

Windows, Word and basic office equip-

ment helpful. Freshman/sophomore preferred. Fax 412-2816302, e-mail to

assist@gislaw.com or mail to Gismondi &

Assoc., Ste 700, The Grant Bldg., 310

Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

NOT a treatment

study. For more information, call 412-2465396 or visit www.-

SmokingStudies.pitt.edu

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