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City to begin Greenfield Bridge demolition

Jonathan Milligan: Pitt basketball’s late find Page 8 October 14, 2015 | Issue 42 | Volume 106

Lauren Rosenblatt Assistant News Editor

Pittsburgh’s Department of Public Works announced Tuesday it will begin its demolition and reconstruction of the Greenfield Bridge starting Friday. Beginning 10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, the city will close the bridge connecting Alger Street in Greenfield to Overlook Drive in Schenley Park, a heavily trafficked route connecting Oakland to Greenfield and Squirrel Hill. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, City of Pittsburgh and the Federal Highway Administration organized the $17.5 million reconstruction, which will not be complete until 2017. The city will rebuild the bridge, originally built in 1921, in the same location, but with new abutments — structures to support the end of a bridge — piers and structural steel. The new bridge will include three travel lanes, for motor vehicles and sidewalks, just like the current one has, and will add a bike lane. While the bridge will close to drivers starting Friday, pedestrians and cyclists can still use the bridge until Sunday, Oct. 18. Mosites Heavy Construction Company will complete the construction. According to Katie O’Malley, assistant communications manager for Mayor Peduto’s office, the city decided to replace the structure of the bridge because it is 94 years old. “The bridge is structurally deficient,” See Bridge on page 5

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Pitt researchers propose new stem cell method Annemarie Carr Staff Writer

After six years of collaboration, Pitt researchers Ipsita Banerjee and Prashant Kumta, said they can now launch a “very easy and cheap” way to grow stem cells to help cure Type 2 diabetes. With current methods, researchers face high costs and waits of several days to several weeks to make enough stem

cells, which function as “blank slate” cells that scientists and doctors can grow into nearly any human body cell. Banerjee and Kumta have developed a new method that allows them to grow multiple stem cells from a single cell. Banerjee, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering and bioengineering, and Kumta, professor of bioengineering, received a $300,000 grant from the National Sci-

ence Foundation on Sept. 15, to mass produce human pluripotent stem cells by placing single cells in a special liquid and allowing the cells to multiply. “I thought someone must have done it, at least with other kinds of cells, but no one has,” Banerjee said. According to Banerjee, the number of available stem cells constrains most clinical studies that hope to use stem See Stem Cell on page 2

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stem cells into the mixture to allow them to start dividing. Each stock cell has the potential to divide into billions of cells. cells to make and reconstruct human orAccording to Kumta, they will emgans and cure diseases. bed the stem cells in a capsule made If Banerjee and Kumta’s method is of alginate, a type of acid derived from successful, researchers around the world seaweed that provides the right cues for will be able to use their method to procell interactions. Before cells divide and duce large cultures of stem cells for clinpropagate, they send chemical messages ical research. The pluripotent stem cells to other cells indicating they are ready to Banerjee and Kumta plan to work with divide. The two researchers will provide can differentiate into almost any type of the stem cells with engineered proteins cell, so they can replace damaged or disthat mimic these chemical messages. eased cells in the body. “They don’t like to grow on their Banerjee and Kumta submitted a preown when singly isolated,” Kumta said. proposal for the study in April and their “They need to be nurtured.” full proposal to the National Science This will cause the stem cells to act as Foundation this past summer. though they are interacting with other The two plan to cells when they are provide the interacactually isolated tions and the right — thus allowing environment, inthem to multiply cluding growth mein a new environdium and platform ment. Accordtechnologies, for ing to Banerjee, their stem cells to about 70 percent undergo differentiaIpsita Banerjee of stem cells die tion. Pitt researcher when propagating “We want to prebecause they lack vent cell death as cell-to-cell interactions. much as possible,” Banerjee said. Banerjee said the method requires According to Pitt spokesperson Joe materials that are FDA-approved and Miksch, the National Science Foundacommon to any lab working with plution ranked Pitt 14th in research and deripotent stem cells. velopment funds in 2013, when the NSF “We hope [our method] will be readgranted more than $850,000 in funds. ily adopted by any lab working with pluIn their natural environment, cells ripotent stem cells,” Banerjee said. usually exist in some kind of liquid. The Banerjee said researchers don’t yet liquid surrounds the cells and allows have a good way to scale up stem cell cells to communicate with one another. propagation. Current methods involve Banerjee and Kumta’s method will use two-day tissue cultures, which grow a synthetic gel s uspended in water that cells in a medium outside of the organwill allow the cells to mimic their natuism, and 3-D suspension cultures, where ral chemical communications. cells grow evenly distributed in a liquid With current methods, stem cells growth medium. must be near other stem cells in order After the researchers grow the stem to divide properly. Banerjee and Kumta cells, they must differentiate the cells — will then place a stock of adult human making them into a more specific type

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It’s mind boggling how many uses stem cells have.

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TNS of cell, like a skin cell or a blood cell. Banerjee said other researchers have had success with differentiating pluripotent stem cells into liver, heart, pancreatic and brain cells. Kumta said their main focus is on Type 2 diabetes mellitus. They hope to differentiate stem cells into pancreatic

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cells that will be able to produce insulin. Patients with Type 2 diabetes are unable to produce enough insulin — a type of hormone that allows body cells to absorb glucose after a person eats food. “It’s mind boggling how many uses stem cell have,” Banerjee said. “The impact will be pretty huge.”

SGB committee to Propose extended drop deadline Lauren Wilson Staff Writer

If Pitt Student Government Board’s latest proposal succeeds, students could get more time to finalize their class schedules each semester. Naomi Stoll, SGB Academic Affairs Committee chair, announced at SGB’s public meeting Tuesday that her committee was finalizing a proposal to extend the time students can drop a class without penalty from two weeks to four weeks. Stoll, a senior economics and psychology major, said she and her committee have been working on the proposal for several months but haven’t submitted the proposal to Student Affairs yet. The committee does not know when it will submit the proposal, Stoll said, as the committee continues to make changes to the document. Stoll said she has met with Kenyon Bonner, interim vice provost and dean

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of students, and John Twyning, associate dean for undergraduate studies, several times since the start of last semester to discuss the proposal . Though still in its early stages, Stoll s a i d T u e s day both deans expressed interest in the committee’s idea. Because her committee has not submitted a final proposal, Stoll said committee members are not sure of the level of overall support from the administration. Other universities, such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill, already have lengthy drop periods. According to UNC’s registrar’s website, students can drop a class eight weeks into a semester without a “withdrawn” mark on their transcripts. S t o l l said the proposal would not affect discussionbased classes because it does not seek to amend any att e n d an c e policies. “If you are enrolled in the class, then you are expected to abide by the attendance requirements,” Stoll said. “This proposal only aims to extend the drop period, not amend any course attendance requirements.”

We want to do it because it will make it easier on both students and professors.

-Naomi Stoll, committee chair

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With SGB’s proposal, the drop deadline could come roughly a month after the semester begins. Stoll said she and her committee originally wanted to extend both the add and drop period, but felt extending the add period would not be feasible because students could potentially miss nearly a full month of a class. “We want to do it because it will make it easier on both students and professors,” Stoll said. ”We looked into extending the add period, but it’s not as feasible because [students] might not have opportunity to catch up.” Currently, when students drop classes after the drop deadline, they receive a “withdrawn” mark on their transcripts. According to Stoll, the Academic Affairs Committee has taken on the initiative to advocate for students who need more time to withdraw from classes. “We’re looking into extending the See SGB on page 5

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Bridge, pg. 1 O’Malley said. “It’s been a long-standing issue. We’ve known for a long time that the bridge needed replaced.” The city will complete the first phase of the project — demolishing the bridge — by Jan. 3, 2016. The city will close part of I-376 between Dec. 26, 2015, and Jan. 3, 2016, to implode the bridge. Pittsburgh Port Authority has already rerouted several routes that use the bridge, including route 52L Homeville Limited, 53L

Homestead Park Limited, 58 Greenfield and 93 Lawrenceville-Oakland-Hazelwood. To manage the travel restrictions and limit the disturbance to Pittsburghers, the Department of Public Works and Public Safety will hold regular meetings open to the public. The City of Pittsburgh and the Oakland Transportation Management Association has also set up a community outreach website where the public can ask questions and learn the progress of the project. At 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, the Greenfield Community Association, an organiza-

tion dedicated to improving the Greenfield community, will host Rock Away the Blues Bridgefest to commemorate the bridge’s history and showcase the area’s local businesses, according to the GCA website. The new bridge will maintain the decorative urns and pylons, Patrick Hassett, assistant director of the Bureau of Transportation and Engineering, said in a release. In the past, the city has made small improvements to the bridge to improve its infrastructure, such as adding netting and more structure underneath the bridge in

1990. Councilman Corey O’Connor said this move is a sign of Pittsburgh’s positive improvement. “When [Pittsburgh is]on ‘60 Minutes’ and people are talking about our crumbling infrastructure, and now you can look at us taking the lead and investing $17 million into revamping our infrastructure,” O’Connor said in a release. “Being able to get through this process is going to be pretty amazing. It actually shows how our city is moving forward.”

SGB, pg. 3 drop period because we see students that withdraw from classes often after two weeks,” Stoll said. “Often during the first few weeks of classes you don’t get the whole story.” Stoll said she is unsure when the administration will review the proposal. “Once we send in the proposal, we will have better idea of who is on board,” Stoll said. “We still need to talk to more administration, but we have some great administration that are super helpful.” In other news, SGB President Nasreen Harun said she has spent the week helping newly elected Board member Robert Tessier learn the nuances of the position at SGB. SGB elected Tessier to fill its ninth board seat at its public meeting last week. Harun said she worked with Tessier in one-on-one training and discussed current SGB policies and potential initiatives. Allocations The Pitt Student Slovak Club requested $1,950 for its annual Slovak festival. The Board approved the request in full. The Pittsburgh Club Baseball team requested $1,579.84. The Board approved the request in full. Some of God’s Children Gospel Choir requested $2,250 for a concert. The Board approved the request in full. Hindu Students Council requested $1,839. The Board approved $1,675 and denied $164.

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Pulling their weight: Democratic candidates will keep Clinton honest Call last night’s Democratic debate “The Hillary and Bernie Show.” While the pair are a clear one and two — especially given Sen. Bernie Sanders’ energized campaign — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains the favored candidate in the primaries. Currently, Clinton leads Democratic polls with 43.3 percent of votes, according to RealClear Politics, a curator of political coverage. A second wind to Sanders’ efforts could push his 25.1 percent past Clinton. But FiveThirtyEight, a data-based news organization, doesn’t foresee any potential second wind meaning much — according to the site, polling numbers aren’t the strongest indicator of success in primaries. “In presidential primaries,

endorsements have been among the best predictors of which candidates will succeed and which will fail. So we’re keeping track,” the site says. According to FiveThirtyEight’s system of weighted points, Clinton leads Democratic candidates with 356 points. Despite high polling numbers, Sanders only chimes in with two points. So if Sanders’ chances of actually winning the primaries are so low, what role do Sanders and the other candidates serve? While Clinton is the likely candidate to come out of the Democratic party, we can’t disregard Sanders, Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Sen. Jim Webb and Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s roles here — the pressure they mount on Clinton keeps her honest and improves her policies.

The media has made Clinton’s knack for altering her stances based on public perception or political climate well known — especially on issues such as marriage equality, the for-profit prison system, President Barack Obama’s immigration policy, the Iraq War, the Keystone XL Pipeline and, most recently, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. CNN debate host Anderson Cooper pointed out this tendency in his first question to Clinton last night. “Will you say anything to get elected?” he asked. Clinton replied, “I do absorb new information. I do look at what’s happening in the world.” Cooper pushed, “Secretary Clinton, with all due respect, the question is about political expediency.”

“I have a range of views,” Clinton admitted. “But they are rooted in my values and my experience.” Given the stances of her opposition, Clinton has flipflopped her views numerous times to fit the political climate — effectively pushing her from center to left on the spectrum. Last week, Rachel Eckhardt, a writer for The Hill, a political news site, wrote on what she calls the “Sanders effect,” following Clinton’s denunciation of the TPP. During her time as Secretary of State, Clinton supported the pact. Recently, she opposed the pact after facing pressure from Democratic candidates, like Sanders. “I am glad that she has reached that conclusion,” Sanders said in a CNN article last week. “This is a conclusion that

I reached from day one.” An analysis for NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” determined that Sanders serves as a voice for the Democratic left, pushing Clinton to adopt his liberal policies. “Party activists have largely conceded that Clinton will be the Democratic presidential nominee, but they want to use the next year to force her to take progressive stands including a minimum wage of $12 or higher and guaranteed debtfree, four-year college for all American students,” the NBC article said. These are issues college students can get behind. Clinton may have won the debate, but Bernie and the others pulled their weight and will push her to the left, making us all winners.

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Don’t let the airstrike fly under the radar

Matthew Moret Columnist

“Mistake” and “airstrike” should never share a headline. But earlier this month, the biggest military error of the Obama administration brought them together. On Oct. 3, an American AC-130 gunship bombed a

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Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The attack killed 12 staff members and 10 patients and left 37 people wounded. Most of those killed were hospital workers, and three of the killed patients were children. This was a tragic accident, but even accidents should

have consequences. Unfortunately, the people behind this incident will likely face none. Military negligence like this has become systemic, and the only solution is recognition of our own flaws. Aside from military officials expressing regret for the bombing, the U.S. government

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has remained largely silent. President Obama did not start the next day with a press conference committing to make things right. He waited a few days to make a private phone call to the head of Doctors Without Borders. “If necessary,” Press Secretary Josh Earnest read last

Wednesday at the White House, “the President [said he] would implement changes that would make tragedies like this one less likely to occur.” This need to question the necessity for change speaks to the problem. After the bombing, Doctors See Moret on page 7

Moret, pg. 6 Without Borders pulled all remaining personnel from Kunduz. Now, people in one of the most turbulent, dangerous cities in Afghanistan will have nowhere to turn for help. According to Doctors Without Borders, the hospital stationed in Kunduz was the only free trauma care hospital in northern Afghanistan. While the Obama administration has agreed to compensate the organization, we have abandoned the people we are supposedly fighting for. We have thrown phrases like “deeply regret” around , but at the end of the day, they add up to nothing. And without the administration’s support , there is nobody capable of legitimately pushing for more accountability. We saw the same series of events play out after the mistaken bombings of numerous Afghan weddings throughout the war and the destruction of entire villages. Since 2008, anti-government forces, government/international forces and undetermined forces have killed 22,849 civilians, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. Attackers often blame these errors on enemy fighters when they take shelter near civilian populations. Part of the United States assuming the role of global protector entails making difficult moral choices, including placing preserving innocent lives above killing opposed forces. This means not killing civilians and chalking it up as a simple casualty of war. We assume that position of global protector because we believe that we are better equipped to enforce justice than any other nation. In some cases, like when the U.S. supported the Contra rebels in Nicaragua and set up a protected state in Cuba, we have decided that we know better than them, influencing their policies with our own forced ideals. When you declare yourself to be above the jurisdiction of anybody willing to hold you to an identifiable standard, the police officer can become the bully.

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We have helped remove dictators like Muammar Gaddafi and supported humanitarian relief in Somalia. But we have also helped destabilize the entire Middle East and supported dictators like Hosni Mubarak — when convenient. Nobody has ever made us answer for any of it. To qualify as a war crime under International Criminal Court policy — as Doctors Without Borders has accused the attack on the hospital of being — an attack on civilians must be intentional. For me, this incident is not a question of intent. I truly believe that this was an accident. But I also believe that nothing will change. While both the United Nations and the Department of Defense have launched investigations, neither of these entities has much power to do anything.

Although we act as the world’s moral compass, the United States has consistently rejected joining the ICC , the only multinational institution dedicated to prosecuting international crimes of aggression. According to Article 3 of the Geneva Convention, wounded combatants and the medical officials treating them are off limits of attack in the event of armed conflict. Despite the Afghan claims that Taliban members were firing on the Afghans from the hospital, Doctors Without Borders has insisted that the hospital was operating normally and was never involved in an exchange of fire. The organization has admitted to treating wounded Taliban fighters, but it shouldn’t matter. Doctors treat the injured. That’s that. As Vickie Hawkins, executive direc-

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tor for Doctors Without Borders, told the BBC World Service, the hospital had been in Kunduz for more than four years. Both NATO and Afghan forces have the precise coordinates of all Doctors Without Borders facilities, and the building was clearly marked on GPS images. We knew it was there. We had the ability to look at a map of the area and notice that the intended target was a medical building. Somehow, though, the strike occurred before the Special Operations Force could “positively identify” the exact location, according to its commander, Gen. John F. Campbell. To avoid repeating these errors, our political elites need to loudly announce that these actions are unacceptable. No Republican leader has said a word about the hospital bombing because criticizing President Obama’s use of our military comes a bit too close to criticizing the military itself. It was under Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush that policing the world became our primary foreign policy. Presidential candidates like Jeb Bush and Donald Trump continue to say we never should have left Iraq. Expecting Republicans to speak out against careless intervention is probably unrealistic. They have preferred to focus on less consequential issues like the president’s birthplace and the short, useless warning periods instituted in the Iran nuclear deal. Democrats have also played a passive role in holding the Obama administration accountable. While they have blocked several spending bills that do not cut defense spending, they generally favor the president’s drone program. They are comfortable criticizing the size of our military but stop short of attacking their own management of it. If the opposition and the base are so publicly apathetic, who is going to hold the country accountable for its detrimental actions? Matt Moret primarily writes on politics and rhetoric for The Pitt News. Write to Matt at mdm123@pitt.edu

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KILGORE KID: MIlligan a late find for dixon, pitt Jeremy Tepper

Senior Staff Writer When junior point guard Josh Newkirk decided to transfer from Pitt in early August, Pitt basketball head coach Jamie Dixon didn’t panic. Instead, he looked to a small junior college in Texas. Though options are scarce that late in the process, Dixon stuck to an old adage of recruiting. “There’s always a guy out there,” Dixon said. At the end of August, that “guy” turned out to be Jonathan Milligan, a junior college point guard who will have two years of eligibility at Pitt after transferring from Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. “We needed another guard,” Dixon said. “Given the situation, he was a pretty good pickup at that time of the year.” Milligan’s availability was fortuitous. Milligan, who received interest from Tennessee, Creighton, Marquette and NC State out of high school, played two years at Kilgore, thriving there for two seasons. He signed a letter of intent with Florida Gulf Coast in April only to find out in August that he didn’t qualify academically. Some of his classes didn’t transfer at Florida Gulf Coast, Milligan said, making him ineligible. Left with little time, he and his coaches, who were familiar with Pitt, started evaluating alternate options. “The coaches at Florida Gulf Coast and my coaches at Kilgore wanted to see me in a nice place where I would be taken care of,” Milligan said. This left Milligan in the same position as Pitt in August — both looking for options at an inopportune time. When

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Jonathan Milligan transferred from Kilgore College to Pitt in August. Jeff Ahearn SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Pitt came knocking, Milligan jumped at the chance to play in a major conference. “Pitt was my first option, and there was other options, but in my head Pitt was my only option because it’s the biggest stage, it’s the ACC,” Milligan said. “This is the kind of place people dream to come and play.” This time around, Milligan qualified to transfer after taking the requisite summer courses at Kilgore. Though he’s a late addition to Pitt’s roster, Milligan doesn’t think this will limit his playing

time. With senior James Robinson firmly entrenched as the starter at point guard, Milligan will fight for backup minutes with freshman Damon Wilson. “Everybody sees that I’m putting in the work, I’m working hard. I’m very diligent in all the things that I do, so I think I’ll have that opportunity to contribute,” Milligan said. That work, mainly, is in adding weight to his 6-foot-2, 170-pound frame, as well as acclimating himself on the defensive end.

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The latter, Dixon said, will be a crucial adjustment for Milligan. “We’ll see what he can do defensively. I think that’s going to be the biggest challenge for him,” Dixon said. To Milligan’s credit, Robinson said the transfer is a capable defender to go along with his offensive prowess. Milligan averaged 14.3 points per game his sophomore year at Kilgore, while shooting 40.3 percent from three-point range. “He’s a really quick player. He can really attack off the dribble,” Robinson said. “On defense he’s a pest. He uses his quickness and he’s smart. He knows when he can gamble for a steal or play the passing lane.” Robinson, a four-year starter at Pitt, has assisted Milligan along the adjustment process, as he’s extremely in-synch with Dixon and his offensive and defensive principles. “James has really been a big help, just getting me accustomed to how Dixon likes things, just being a leader,” Milligan said. That acclimation to Pitt, mainly, will come on the basketball side, as Milligan got used to life away from his family at Kilgore. He doesn’t expect homesickness to be an issue. “I got to get away from my mom, get away from my parents,” Milligan, an Orlando, Florida, native, said of attending Kilgore. “Looking after yourself and doing what you need to do when nobody’s around and nobody’s there to tell you to do it.” As that transition to Pitt continues, Milligan said he can ingratiate himself to coaches and fans with his style of play. “I’m a player,” Milligan said. “I’m going to play defense, play both ends, be aggressive. I’m going to be passionate.”

Pitt scoreless drought extended in loss to Cleveland Joe Rokicki Staff Writer

To match its 24-game winless streak, the Pitt men’s soccer team has another extended drought in tow. After a 1-0 loss to the Cleveland State Vikings (5-6-1, 1-3-1 Horizon), the Panthers (5-5-3, 0-4-1 ACC) have not scored a goal in their last 264 minutes of play. Lack of conversions by his team on the offensive front frustrated Pitt head coach Joe Luxbacher, who called the game a “very tough loss.” “First half, we should’ve had three goals. We were in there the whole time and got nothing out of it,” Luxbacher said. “You have chances, and you don’t seal them in. We told the guys that comes back to haunt you.” Sophomore midfielder Raj Kahlon dribbled across the pitch just outside of the box and launched a rocket in the 24th minute — but it flew just above the Cleveland State cage. At the half, the Panthers See Men’s Soccer on page 10

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Men’s Soccer, pg. 9 outshot the Vikings 5-1 and had earned six corner kicks as well. Junior midfielder Romeo Charron launched corner after corner — eight total on the evening — but they too, were fruitless. “We outshot them, and two or three [chances] in the first half right on the doorstep, and we don’t put it in. We go into the half 0-0, and you’re one play away from losing, and that’s what happened,” Luxbacher said. That one play happened 40 seconds into the 70th minute when Vikings midfielder Dan Koniarczyk slipped a slow roller past senior goalkeeper and team captain Dan Lynd. The Vikings scored their lone goal on just the second shot on goal. “I didn’t even see the shot,” Lynd said. The goalie expressed some exasperation with giving up a lightly kicked score.

“We had six guys around the ball initially, and I didn’t see it until it was next to me. It’s frustrating giving up a soft goal, but I mean we’re never going to win if we can’t score, so I don’t know what to do about that,” he continued. The Panthers haven’t scored since junior K e v i n Murray headed corner f r o m senior midfielder Pat Dixon in the 46th minute against Niagara last Tuesday — the only goal the Panthers have scored all month. That’s one goal in the Panthers last four games, which translates to 400 minutes of soccer — 40 minutes of overtime included.

“We just need to find a little quality in the final third. We’ve had plenty of chances. We’re just not scoring, and against ACC teams, we need a win to get into the postseason. We gotta find a way to score some goals,” Lynd said. Senior defender Stephane Pierre started his first game since suffering an ankle injury against Saint Peter’s on Sept. 6. Pierre logged a full 90 minutes despite his questionable health. “He’s hurting. We were thinking of pulling him out. He’s not nearly 100 percent, but he wanted to stay in, and he did a decent job,” Luxbacher said. Pierre declined to talk after the game.

“We gotta find a way to score goals.”

Luxbacher also added that Pierre is not participating in team practices, but training with the athletic staff to further rehabilitate his ankle. The Panthers finished their five game homestand with a record of 1-22, 0-1-1 in conference play. The team will head to Charlottesville, Virginia, to take on the Virginia Cavaliers (7-3-2, 2-2-1 ACC) on Friday. Scheduled kickoff is 8 p.m.

-Dan Lynd, goalkeeper

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