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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com |October 3, 2017 | Volume 108 | Issue 36

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PHARM STUDENTS TOLD TO ‘BREAK THE RULES’

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Students talk cultural beauty perceptions Bailey Frisco

For The Pitt News Maria Beniaminova said many Americans have an interest in big butts that people in her home country of Russia would find peculiar. “There is a small population [in Russia] that is into curvier women, but I think that has to do with the fact that Russia used to be the USSR, so there are people from different cultures that live there,” Beniaminova said. Beniaminova, a senior communications major, moved to the United States with her parents at the age of 6, leaving Moscow — and the very strict standards of beauty prevalent in the city — behind. Traditionally, Russian beauty standards favor women who are tall — about 5 feet 8 inches — with long

blonde hair and a thin figure. Women are expected to have dresses and skirts in their wardrobes. Men should also be tall, with a triangle-shaped figure — broad, muscular shoulders and arms and a lean waist — and have dark hair. “Being from Moscow specifically, just what you wear also depends on who you are. That’s not really what it is like here,” she said. Pitt’s population includes several thousand international students and foreignborn citizens pursuing degrees and participating in the community. They each bring with them to Oakland different ideas of what makes good food, good music and good entertainment — and of what makes a person good-looking. Beniaminova said she does not match

the traditional standard of how a Russian woman should look, and she doesn’t really want to. She has darker features — some people even tell her she looks Italian — and considers herself more of a tomboy. She also said as people in Russia — specifically women — age, their involvement in upholding beauty standards seems to change. “Most older women in Russia are overweight and don’t care about their look anymore,” Beniaminova said. “It’s almost like they attributed their whole lives to looking good, that when they start aging it doesn’t really matter anymore.” Yeree Lee — a junior Korean and political science major — said the pressure to See Beauty on page 3

Students gathered in a lecture hall Monday night to hear a health care professional tell them to defy authority. Looking out at about 30 students assembled before her, Jesabel Rivera-Guerra summarized her entire talk in six words. “Life is short. Break the rules,” Rivera-Guerra said. Phi Lambda Sigma, Pitt’s pharmacy leadership society, and Pitt’s chapter of Rho Chi — a pharmacy honor society — held their second annual Young Professionals Lecture event at Scaife Hall Monday night. The lecture series aims to highlight young professionals that have made a significant impact in the health care field around Pittsburgh. Rivera-Guerra, the community health director at the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association in Pittsburgh, was the guest speaker Monday. Rivera-Guerra — a Pitt graduate from the School of Public Health — said most rules are purposeful and necessary. But she said some rules, or the status quo, need to be broken, specifically those that are obstacles between equality and equity — whether those rules challenge civic rights, equity, better protocols or better policies. “There’re so many rules, you tend to lose your focus on the people,” Rivera-Guerra said. Shannon Ye, a graduate student in Pitt’s school of pharmacy and member of Phi Lambda Sigma, said she enjoyed the talk because it promoted challenging social norms as a way of bringing innovation into the health care field. “It’s really refreshing to see a leader — she herself is a sign of authority — to tell us, people younger than her, less experienced than her, that her advice is to break the rules,” Ye said. Ye said America’s health care system is unbalanced, and people need to put a lot of See Breaking Rules on page 3

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Professors young and old reflect on teaching Nina Kneuer

For The Pitt News Some professors look like they should be sitting with their students rather than standing in front of them. Others fit the teen movie stereotype of the gray-haired intellectual with wirerimmed glasses. Professors on both sides of the spectrum have different ways of using technology and interacting with their students, with their age playing into their ideas about teaching. Bryan Nelson is a 29-year-old professor in the statistics department. A Pitt alumnus who graduated in 2014, Nelson teaches full-time while taking classes toward a doctorate in instructional technology. While Nelson said that while older professors tend to stick with lectures in the classroom, he prefers to incorporate technology. “[Older professors] rely on the board a lot,” Nelson said. “As a Ph.D. student ... in instructional technology, that’s something I’m really interested in — bringing technology into the classroom.” Thomas Ricketts, a 68-year-old philosophy professor, has been teaching in the lecture format for 41 years. “I think my students sort of view me as a Martian, in terms of someone who has very different interests and concerns and tastes than they do,” Ricketts said. In return, he said he views his students as Martians and is interested in learning what kind of experiences and intellectual interests they have. Ricketts sometimes wishes he could get to know his students better on more of an individual basis, but since he usually teaches lectures, he doesn’t often get that one-on-one time. He said students today learn differently than he did as a student — specifically, they don’t read and reread books as frequently anymore. “I can show you some of my old books, and the way they’re dog eared and marked up.” Ricketts said. Although older professors have decades of experience in their field, Nelson said he wishes they wouldn’t rely as much on the lecture format — which he believes isn’t as effective as other

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Elizabeth Matway, 59-year-old English professor at Pitt, began teaching in 1982 at the elementary level. Bethany Krupicka STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

methods of teaching. In the next decade or so, he said we might see more students taking online courses. The instructor can communicate with students more easily and effectively in online courses, Nelson said, through posting videos, holding online office hours and talking about the material in discussion boards. “Right now, I think there’s the perception that online courses don’t offer the same quality as a face-to-face course,” Nelson said. “But unless you’ve taken one, that’s kind of a prejudice that I think a lot of students have.” David de Bruijn — a 32-year-old philosophy professor — is entering his first year as a visiting lecturer at Pitt after being a teacher’s assistant. Like Nelson, he said technology allows classrooms to become more interactive. But he said the most important aspect of teaching — even with technological changes in the classroom — is communicating with students, which is easier if you can relate to their experiences. “It’s much easier to introduce [students] to

more difficult things when you have a good rapport,” he said. Elizabeth Matway — a 59-year-old professor in the English department — teaches first-year and faculty writing seminars, gender studies courses and language literacy courses, among others. Matway began teaching in 1982 as an elementary teacher. She taught at Pitt during her graduate years from 1991 to 1999, taught at Seton Hill for four years, then later returned to the Pitt faculty in 2003. Matway believes younger professors can think of things that professors who have been teaching for a long time don’t think of because older professors, herself included, can get in the habit of doing things a certain way. “It’s important to hire new faculty — young faculty — because of their new ideas, because they know what the current trends of thought are,” Matway said. Being only 10 years older than his students, Nelson said he can relate to his students’ social lives. Older professors, he said, need to keep in

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mind what today’s college student is like. “I would just say, remember who your audience is,” Nelson said. Younger instructors need to make sure they pay attention to students and take them seriously, Ricketts said. But as he’s gotten older and more experienced in the classroom, he said he’s become more relaxed and finds himself becoming a better philosopher. “What I want to say about teaching is that it gets better as you get older,” Ricketts said. After some reflection, Matway said she would have done things differently as a younger professor based on what she knows now. “Probably would have slept more, having learned that you actually are more efficient if you sleep than if you stay up all night grading papers,” Matway said. Regardless of age, Matway said having professors that are excited about their job and excited about teaching is what colleges need for their faculty. “For me, it’s teaching that energizes me,” Matway said.

Beauty, pg. 1 adhere to beauty standards in her home country of South Korea continues as people age, although the standards shift. Specifically, younger people desire the style and looks of pop stars and actors. According to Lee, K-pop — which she describes as a style of music, fashion and overall looks — is idolized in South Korea. She said people try to emulate this look up until the age of 30. The men appear more on the feminine side, she said, and the women tend to be very thin. “Every girl in South Korea is on a diet,” she said. It is common for people in Korea to wear colored contact lenses and get plastic surgery to try to recreate European features on their own faces, according to Lee. These procedures include blepharoplasty, which creates the crease in an eyelid, and another procedure where doctors inject a filler into the nose to create a more distinct bridge. “I think it’s a shame of Korea,” she said. “We have different genes, so our faces were not meant to look like that.” Lee said in America people find a greater variety of looks to be attractive than people do in South Korea, where people are all trying to emulate a specific set of beauty standards. “Korea is very trendy,” Lee said. “But I don’t have much interest in those things, so I’m not a trendy person.” Lee is not interested in makeup and clothes, so she does not concern herself with the beauty standards in South Korea. Lee’s own taste does not fit the norm of her home. “I like when guys look more masculine, and that isn’t

how they look in Korea,” Lee said. Emmanuel Epitropoulos — a senior film studies and communications major — said his grandparents’ native country of Greece is similar to America when it comes to beauty perceptions. An attractive girl can be pretty much anything — whether that is slim or curvy, having light or tan skin — but there are some that stand out. “Generally people in Greece are tan skin, brown eyes, brown hair so they are super attracted to blue eyed blonde American girls, and also dark African girls,” Epitropoulos said. “Because they’re foreign, they’re exotic.” Epitropoulos is a second-generation American, but both sets of his grandparents were born and raised in Karpathos — an island off the coast of Greece — before immigrating to America where his parents were born. He lived in Athens for three years and spends two months out of every summer break in Karpathos. Epitropoulos said Greek beauty perceptions are somewhat similar to those of America because Greece is Americanized. “We listen to the same music, same TV shows ... they’re into the same media as us,” he said. Even though Greece and the United States both have diverse views on what constitutes beauty, Epitropoulos said Greeks still view the beauty of their people as unlike any other. “A beautiful Greek girl is different than any other kind of girl,” Epitropoulos said. “Like bushy eyebrows can be attractive because it’s a Greek girl.”

Breaking Rules, pg. 1 energy toward fixing it — and must break rules to achieve this. “We can’t do what we’ve been doing before, we need to find a better way to change the world and make it a better place for everyone,” Ye said. Rivera-Guerra said looking for a different angle as a fresh viewpoint and transitioning from old standards to new ideas are valuable tactics in effecting change. She told the audience to develop a new perspective by traveling and meeting new people. “Start interacting with people who are completely different from you,” Rivera-Guerra said. Sophia Cothrel, a student in Pitt’s School of Pharmacy and president of Phi Lambda Sigma, said medical and pharmacy students too often become ingrained in rigid studies. She said they can lose creativity and stop considering what they could change or improve. “It’s easy to get stuck in the grind of learning clinical information,” she said. “We are very focused on the rules, which can be helpful in some aspects, but we can get stuck in cycles and ruts.” Cothrel said Rivera-Guerra’s speech motivated her to avoid becoming this sort of student and work toward any goals she develops in the future.

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Don’t ignore the politics behind gun violence tragedy

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For President Donald Trump’s administration, sensitivity in the face of tragedy hasn’t been the norm — just last week, Trump took to Twitter to insult the mayor of an American city ravaged by multiple hurricanes. So when voices everywhere — from the conservative blogosphere to Washington, D.C., — condemned some responses to Sunday’s tragedy in Las Vegas as tactlessly politicized, their argument came across a bit flat. It’s one thing to urge politicians to have respect for the victims of senseless tragedies. It’s a completely different argument to say that public officials shouldn’t be allowed to offer policy proposals — or even suggestions for how to avoid the next shooting. In an address to the Senate yesterday, majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told his colleagues that the aftermath of the shooting — in which a gunman killed 59 people at a concert on the Las Vegas Strip and injured more than 500 others — was more “a moment for national mourning and prayer” than anything else. Going even further, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that calls to action from Democrats on gun control were inappropriate. “This isn’t a time for us to go after individuals or organizations,” Sanders told reporters at a press briefing yesterday. “I think that there will be certainly time for that policy discussion to take place, but that’s not the place that we’re in at this moment.” Gun violence in the form of mass public murders, like what happened Sunday in Las Vegas, is obviously an extremely emotional issue — and one

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that’s becoming an increasingly regular feature of American life. But that doesn’t mean it’s ever wrong to talk about how to solve the problem. Just because some politicians are unwilling to extend their response to gun massacres to anything beyond “thoughts and prayers” doesn’t mean that others in the public eye shouldn’t be allowed to propose real solutions. The difference between these two approaches is easy to spot. President Trump delivered a prepared statement Monday morning calling the incident “an act of pure evil,” but didn’t propose any policies to prevent a similar incident from happening again. In contrast, Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa., tweeted that “thoughts and prayers” were “not sufficient” to solve the gun control problem. Casey suggested that Congress “take up and vote on legislation to ban militarystyle weapons” — a call echoed by others, including Senator Chris Murphy, DConn., and Hillary Clinton, who tweeted that Congress should “stand up to the NRA.” Whether or not changes to the specifics of gun control policy based on critiques from Casey, Murphy or Clinton would have helped avert Sunday’s horrifying tragedy is mostly beside the point. Our country should debate these proposals and others today — not after “thoughts and prayers” tweets are weeks old and lawmakers forget about the tragedy until the next one. To suggest that responding to a social ill with policy proposals is “politicizing” the issue is the same as saying that the status quo is acceptable. On the question of gun violence, it’s clearly not.

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For The Pitt News You’re in line at Chipotle, going over your order in your mind. Imagining your perfect burrito bowl, you consider several qualifications: how spicy you want your salsa, skipping the guac unless you really want to pay extra and — until recently — being forced to forgo queso altogether. For years, Chipotle rebuffed customers’ requests for the creamy cheese dip — forcing queso fans to turn to competitors such as Qdoba and Moe’s for their fix. But at long last, Chipotle announced with much fanfare early last month that they’d finally cracked the recipe for delicious queso made from natural, unprocessed ingredients. “Although queso was the number one requested menu item, we never added it to our menu before now because we wouldn’t use the industrial additives used in most quesos,” Chipotle chief executive Steve Ells bragged in a statement. “Our queso may vary slightly depending on the characteristics of the aged cheddar cheese used in each batch, but using only real ingredients is what makes our food so delicious.” But despite Ells touting the cheese’s supposed authenticity, the company’s new condiment is disappointingly sub-

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par. The dip’s grainy lumpiness is noticeable even on a texturally diverse burrito next to countless other delicious food consistencies. Its acidity also clashes unpleasantly with the restaurant’s intensely lime-flavored chips. Food critic Rick Munarriz memorably called the dip a “pungent, veggie-speckled cheese soup” in a review for USA Today. It’s easiest to explain Chipotle’s queso failure as an unfortunate consequence of cheese chemistry. Cheese is an emulsion of milk fat droplets suspended in water. Alone, the fat and water won’t stay mixed for long, so the emulsion is stabilized by a network of milk proteins. As it melts, the protein network relaxes and the fluid components can flow more freely. This also increases the risk of the cheese breaking or curdling, as fat can escape the emulsion, forming pools of grease. The familiar super-smooth texture that defines good queso depends on the inclusion of artificial stabilizers and emulsifiers. These elements in the mixture — usually citrates and phosphates — force the fat and water to play nicely for optimum mouthfeel. Thoug h t his mixture do esn’t cont ain many elements wit h names t hat r ing out a s org an i c , t re n dy or e ve n See De on page 5

De, pg. 4 particularly healthy, it’s authentic to queso’s historical origins. In fact, queso’s culinary roots can be traced back to highly processed, government-subsidized cheese in the American Southwest. Government-subsidized food typically isn’t as healthy or high quality as pricier food products, but one of its strengths is its mass production possibilities. Low-income Texans looking for ways to use up extra cheese product invented the dip to take advantage of its excellent melting ability, an unintended side effect of the preservative process. To improve its shelf life, the cheese was heated, whipped and mixed with plenty of stabilizers. Queso recipes first appeared in regional cookbooks as early as 1949. By 1976, the substance had gained enough prominence that former first lady Lady Bird Johnson included it in a recipe for the prestigious San Antonio Symphony League cookbook. To this day, Velveeta, a company known for producing processed cheese, still includes a super-reliable queso recipe on its label — and plays a central role in making good queso. The recipe page on Chipotle’s website brags of its queso’s lack of artificial ingredients — and also provides some insight on why it’s so terrible. Instead of some old-fashioned, industrially produced citrates

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and phosphates, Chipotle uses cornstarch and tapioca starch to keep the cheese sauce emulsified. Starches are fine for keeping the cheese smooth in saucy dishes like mac and cheese, but they fall short in stand-alone cheese dips. Unlike artificial stabilizers, they don’t dissolve completely — leaving a grittiness that’s impossible to miss in Chipotle’s rendition of the condiment. For most of its history, Chipotle recognized that good queso’s reliance on artificial stabilizers was fundamentally at odds with its mission to provide unprocessed food. But eventually, the company caved to incessant consumer pressure. The commercial introduction of this sad excuse for queso should serve as a reminder that the customer is not always right. When the queso craving hits, you’re still better off going across the street to Qdoba, or even swinging by Rite-Aid for a jar of cheesy dip. If you really want to pay extra on your

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Chipotle order, just stick to getting the guac. Write to Bianca bid6@pitt.edu.

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Th rival Revival: FALL MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO PGH

Kiiara, an electric pop artist, performed Saturday night at Thrival. Issi Glatts | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Wiz Khalifa — a marijuana legalization advocate — smokes onstage Saturday. Issi Glatts | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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“Here’s to my city!” Wiz Khalifa said to thousands of elated festivalgoers as the melody of his Pittsburgh Steelers-inspired anthem “Black and Yellow” began to play. The Pittsburgh native and award-winning rapper performed as headliner of the 2017 Thrival Innovation + Music Festival this weekend. The event was held in Swissvale at the Carrie Furnaces from Sept. 29 to 30, and featured various artists including Logic, Carnage, GRiZ, Echos, Circa Waves, Kiiara and Two Door Cinema Club. Casper Cheng, a sophomore computer science major, went to Thrival around 5 p.m. Friday to watch the performance of Circa Waves and enjoyed the music festival vibe. “I’m tired of clubs where the only music style I can get is EDM. Same beats and similar rhythms all over and over again,” Cheng said. “I’m glad I came. It rained in the afternoon, but Circa Waves was awesome and Logic’s show at night definitely made up for it.” Each year, Thrival hosts some headliner artists to attract larger audiences. Last year it was the Grammy Award-winning duo The Chainsmok-

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ers, and this year the majority of people went for popular Maryland rapper Logic and the Pittsburgh native Khalifa. While both are prominent in the hip-hop industry, the two rappers brought very different vibes to the event. Khalifa’s Saturday performance lent a more carefree and party-driven atmosphere to the festival, while Logic’s performance the night before brought a more serious tone with emotional pleas to the audience and tearful confessions. Shortly after Logic took the stage, something went wrong. His voice became quieter and less present as people began finding his music videos — playing on the huge LED screen by the stage — more intriguing than the live performance itself. In the middle of his set, Logic walked off stage for several minutes but returned to explain why he had been acting so abnormally. “I’ve worked too much. I’ve been pushing myself too hard. For the first time in my career, I almost couldn’t make it through this set,” Logic said. “I feel like I’m going to faint — it’s quite emotional. All I want to do is be with my wife now.” After revealing his anxiety and poor physical

condition to the audience, Logic said he would try his best to finish his songs and said he appreciated all his fans and friends who supported him through everything. Despite suffering with pain and pressure, Logic continued to engage audience members throughout rest of his set and blew up the atmosphere with his signature song, “1-800-2738255.” Khalifa’s show, on the other hand, was focused mostly on marijuana usage. As an active advocate of legalizing marijuana, Khalifa made his love of the drug no secret to the public. He held what looked like a joint between his fingers when he showed up on the main stage, giggling and swinging in his polka dot shirt and iconic sunglasses. The rapper said marijuana could be used to treat addictions and possessed other important medical values. Two gigantic balloons of rolling paper floated above the audience’s heads toward the latter half of his set, celebrating his message. Before Khalifa came out with his joint, the staff from Ascender — the founding organization of the two-day music festival — appeared on stage and gave a five-minute closing address for Thrival.

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By launching the Thrival Music Festival, Ascender aimed to “break the stereotype” of Pittsburgh as “the old steel town” and to raise money for local entrepreneurs and young professionals through the event’s revenue. Cyrus Basseri, the founding president of the first entrepreneurship fraternity at Pitt — Sigma Eta Pi — worked as a photographer for Ascender during the Thrival Music Festival this year. Basseri said he felt excited about witnessing the festival’s rapid growth in the past few years. “It’s really cool how this festival was pretty much a new thing [a] couple of years ago, and soon grew into a well-known festival in Pittsburgh now,” Basseri said. “It’s not just music — it’s a really great concept that has now come to life.” Basseri said Bobby Zappala, one of the key founders of Thrival, aimed to tie the festival to Ascender’s goal of promoting entrepreneurship in the Pittsburgh area. Representing rising stars in the music industry that developed in Pittsburgh, Khalifa talked about how much he appreciated the city where he grew up and met friends he would treasure for life. For the finale, Khalifa played his big hit from “Furious 7,” “See You Again.” “Pittsburgh, I will be back!” Khalifa said.

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Senior Caleb Porto and other UPTV members create an alternative history of Lewis and Clark’s expedition in their short film “Lewis.” Courtesy of Cassidy Fischer

And after a grueling day of writing, he screen fades to black after the character of Meriwether shooting and editing entire short films, Lewis gets impaled — by his the five teams gathered again on Saturday to bond over pizza and the eclectic varifuture self. Lewis uses a power strip as a makeshift ety of cinematography, chatting away as time machine and travels back to when he they looked back on the process and the launched a knife into the woods. When screening began. Caleb Porto, a senior mechanical enhe arrives in the past, he appears in the woods and inadvertently becomes the tar- gineering major, along with a few other UPTV members, created “Lewis,” a short get of the knife his past self threw. Following the scene, the Cathedral of film attempting to tell an alternative hisLearning’s G8 classroom filled with ap- tory of Lewis and Clark. “I’d say the nicest parts were diving plause from the about 30 people who attended UPTV’s annual 24-hour film fes- into history, into the future and the present all in one sitting. That’s really what tival Saturday. The teams were split up Friday and giv- the film tries to do,” Porto said. “It tries en only 24 hours to take a simple house- to spread out across all of time itself, and I hold item and craft a short film. Each think that’s what really matters.” The process of filming was challengteam received a unique prompt to set their film in a particular month and incorpo- ing yet rewarding, Porto said, but 24 rate a specific prop into the storyline. The hours isn’t enough time to create an Osplots ranged from a comedic infomercial car award-winning masterpiece. But it for cutlery to a science fictional period was definitely enough time to bond with piece starring American historical figures friends over the stress and exhilaration of creating a story from nothing, he said. and a power strip.

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“We kind of buried ourselves with a lot of shots,” Porto said. “It was tough, but it was fun.” UPTV’s president, Cassidy Fischer — a senior majoring in film studies and communications — said the greatest product of this experience was the friendships forged under the creative pressure. “I think it’s a time for people who aren’t involved in UPTV to come and see what we can do in 24 hours and see what we’re capable of in a small crunch period,” Fischer said. “Throughout UPTV’s past — before we reformed this past spring — our best content came out of these film festivals.” Fischer said UPTV’s rebranding in the spring semester created a brand new atmosphere within its community — bringing in hoards of new members who were eager to participate. Still, Fischer and her fellow club members wanted to keep the film festival’s tradition alive throughout the process of relaunching. With such a rush of new and excited

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filmmaking talent, many members also wanted to branch out and include individuals from all disciplines under UPTV. Member and participant Helen Richard, a junior film studies major, said film is often lost among the other disciplines at Pitt. “I used to be a STEM major, but I just feel like a lot of times the humanities and arts are overwritten in the process of that,” Richard said. “But having all of this great production really opens people’s eyes to the things that are happening at Pitt that are not medicine or engineering,” The event brought together people from a variety of disciplines, like the team that worked on “Lewis,” mechanical engineering major Potro and Richard, a film major. With such a wide variety of eager members, many participants only see UPTV continuing to grow. “We have such a wide variety of shows, and I think having a space on campus where everyone can come together to collaborate is where it will go in the future here at Pitt,” Fischer said.

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STUDENTS SPORT GAME DAY GARB

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For The Pitt News As music blasted through speakers in the trunk of a crossover SUV, scores of students tossed footballs and played cornhole in parking lots outside of Heinz Field Saturday before the football team’s game against Rice University. Students wearing blue-andgold hoodies and knit Pitt beanies danced to the music and took part in the fun outdoor games, enjoying the fall weather that had finally arrived after weeks of heat. Other students used this tailgate as an opportunity to show off their fashion sense while also hailing to Pitt. Alexander Keller, sophomore politics and philosophy student, took full advantage of the cool weather. He dressed for the occasion in a thick navy blue sweater with a knitted gold “P” on the front — a bit reminiscent of the sweaters worn by the Weasley family in the “Harry Potter” films. “I love the traditional Ivy league, pretentious fashion, and I wish more people would wear sweaters like this,” Keller said. Keller’s sweater can run for $85 on Hillflint’s website. It would make a great gift for a Panther who has a strong sense of style, but the price tag might turn away the average college student. In an effort to save money, plenty of students at the tailgate took to some more inexpensive options for their football fashion. Senior emergency medicine major Sam Antoon displayed his vintage-style Pitt varsity jacket while tossing a football and dancing around the tailgate. It was a vibrant shade of navy blue with deep gold details and a patch on the right side of the chest with a fierce-looking golden panther. Antoon purchased his jacket from

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eBay for an afRaka Sarkar | STAFF ILLUSTRATOR fordable $36. “This jacket is used, but I love it,” Antoon said. “It was cheap, but it took this trend to a new level. Hendrickhad a slightly strange smell to it when I son bleach-dyed some Pitt shirts he and his roommate already owned to show off got it.” While there are four stores on campus their Pitt pride with a fun, cheap twist. “I love this idea because a lot of the for buying Pitt gear — the University Store on Fifth, the Pitt Shop on Forbes under shirts are free from different events on McCormick Hall, the Pittsburgh Panthers campus,” Sjodahl said. “We get to wear Team Store in the Petersen Events Cen- something we like that can show our style ter and the street vendor on the corner of while still supporting Pitt and saving Forbes and Bigelow, known as the Pitts- money.” Sjodahl wore a cropped and dyed shirt burgh Stop Inc. — some students search advertising Pitt’s Outside the Classroom for better deals. One cost-effective approach to game Curriculum program. She found YouTube day fashion some students take is to sim- has plenty of ideas for DIY T-shirt fashion. Hendrickson went for a similar style ply make the clothes. DIY clothing is prominent in the Panther Pitt on an aver- with a classic navy blue Pitt T-shirt, age game day — students can be spotted bleach-dyed for a blue and gold tie-dye efwearing a T-shirt trimmed into a tank top fect. He paired his look with an ensemble of blue jeans and a denim jacket. or hemmed to a crop top. “I love the denim on denim trend right Roommates sophomore anthropology major Julia Sjodahl and sophomore pre- now,” he said. “I saw some students at the medicine student Dominic Hendrickson last tailgate with dyed shirts, and I thought

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it was a great idea! It’s so much fun to cut and dye the shirts, and it‘s a great way to express yourself. This one goes great with my denim style, too.” Gabrielle Goodman, an undecided sophomore, took a different direction with her T-shirt. Her gold shirt was cut into a halter top, tied in the back like the top of a bikini. Pairing her chopped tee with a long black cardigan, Goodman was prepared to cheer on the Panthers in the cool fall weather. “There’s so many different ways to cut a T-shirt! This one was cool because I cut the sleeves and the entire back off and took some off the bottom,” she said. Some students decided against wearing school colors and instead opted for outfits of sentimental value. Clad not in blue or gold script, sophomore Spanish major Jaya Mills wore a pair of overalls. While Mills’ fashion choice may have seemed out of place to other fans, it made sense for her. “These were my mom’s when she went to Pitt,” Mills said. “I think it’s really cool for me to wear them to events like this and think about her wearing them when she was my age.” Whether students choose to wear an expensive, fashionable sweater, a stylishly chopped up T-shirt, a family heirloom or a vintage jacket, Saturdays at Heinz Field often turn into a Pitt pride fashion show. Showing of individual fashion also give students something else to look forward to on Saturdays. “I’ve been waiting for a cold day like this,” Keller said. “I haven’t been to a tailgate yet because I thought it wasn’t worth it until I could wear this sweater.”

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fast-paced offense when they ran out of the spread formation. Narduzzi is expecting the same creative offense this year. “They did some stuff that we had never seen before a year ago ... now they’re doing it all the time,” Narduzzi said. “But I’m sure they will have some new creative stuff for us.” As Pitt looks to win two games in a row for the first time this season, Narduzzi is focused on building on last week’s performance. “There was better execution. I think our kids stuck with the plan. Overall, even in the run game when it didn’t go, the guys are hitting the right holes,” Narduzzi said. “There was more execution in the passing game as far as doing the right thing.” Narduzzi emphasized the learning process Pitt is going through, pointing out how young the team is as a whole. “I think we’re going to be a heck of a much better football team in a year from now if we don’t lose much, and we’re going to have guys that have been through the fire,” Narduzzi said. “It takes time for things to gel and for them to really figure it out.”

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Pitt football is coming off a victory for the first time since its season-opener, and head coach Pat Narduzzi made it known at Monday’s press conference. “Obviously it was a much more pleasant Sunday here with our kids,” Narduzzi said. “I couldn’t be happier for our kids. I mean, that’s kind of why you coach this game to be around our guys and to enjoy wins together.” One of the biggest takeaways from Saturday’s 42-10 victory over Rice was the breakout performance from redshirt senior quarterback Max Browne. Narduzzi took the chance to highlight Browne. “We hadn’t seen it thrown like that before,” Narduzzi said. “Max is back.” However, Narduzzi still isn’t committed to naming a long-term starter beyond this week. Max Browne will start at quarterback The question of who will be the starting quarteragainst Syracuse after a standout back has popped up often at press conferences game against Rice Saturday. this year after both Browne and sophomore Ben Thomas Yang | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Dinucci have struggled to play consistently.

“Max has got to continue to play well or Ben [DiNucci] will jump back in there,” said Narduzzi. “I trust Max to do that.” On the defensive side of the ball, Narduzzi noted the play of redshirt junior defensive linemen Dewayne Hendrix and Shane Roy. “Dewayne Hendrix, I tell you what, he can run and burst. Hae does some special things out on the field at times,” Narduzzi said. “And Shane Roy has been really, really steady. He was the defensive unsung hero this week just because he does everything right inside and did a nice job.” Though Narduzzi discussed Saturday’s performance, most of the questions veered toward the upcoming matchup against Syracuse. Narduzzi insisted the team would be more ready for Syracuse’s offense, which confused Pitt last year and led to a 76-61 shootout, though Pitt won. “We’ve looked at [last year’s game tape] probably 15 times in the last year,” Narduzzi said. “They are going to come out and do some of the same things. They are going to do a lot of things different and you try to prepare for what they possibly could do.” Pitt’s defense struggled to fend off Syracuse’s

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