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Professor team effort pays off against clemson sues South Side cinema Janine Faust Staff Writer

Kenneth DeHaan wants to be able to enjoy a night out at the movies in Pittsburgh — so much so that he’s willing to go to court for it.

A self-proclaimed “cinemaddict,” DeHaan, who is an American Sign Language professor at Pitt and is deaf, recently filed a lawsuit against Cleveland Cinemas and the Soffer Organization, the owners of SouthSide Works cinema, for not providing the proper equipment needed to display captioning on movies for deaf moviegoers.

DeHaan said SouthSide Works is the closest theater to his home.

“Since [SouthSide Works] does not provide captioning technology as required by ADA law, I often have to travel to other movie theaters that do provide captioning technology,” DeHaan said in an email.

DeHaan said he did not wish to disclose which movie theaters he often visits because of the pending lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, the theater’s refusal to provide captioning violates Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA is a civil rights law signed in 1990 that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation and all public and private places that are open to the general public. Title III of

Avonte Maddox (14) celebrates 43-42 win over Clemson Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Courtesy of Pitt Athletics

Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

After back-to-back losses, the unranked Pitt football team was an unlikely match for the No. 2 Clemson Tigers this weekend. But in a shocking upset thanks in large part to kicker Chris Blewitt in the final six seconds of the game, the Panthers handed the Tigers their first loss and shook up the College Football Playoff picture.

Clemson is still in position to win the ACC Championship and will likely make See Lawsuit on page 3

it into the big game if it wins the rest of its games. But that doesn’t make the Panthers’ 43-42 win in front of 81,048 raucous orangeand-purple-clad fans in South Carolina’s Death Valley any less miraculous.

“Hey, I’m sorry to do that, but we wanted this one bad,” Pitt running back James Conner said about clouding the playoff picture.

“We’ll remember this one forever.”

You could try to pinpoint a single player most responsible for the Panthers’ stunning victory over the previously undefeated Ti-

gers, but that would be doing the rest of the team a disservice.

There were so many key moments Saturday — by various players on numerous plays — and they all deserve to be remembered as catalysts for Pitt’s monumental upset against the Tigers.

Even Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi, whose temper has gotten he and the University in heat in recent weeks, was beaming after securing his first win over a legitimate national See Football on page 8

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Pitt police increase patrols after 17 burglaries Wesley Hood Staff Writer

Jordan Mondell ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR

There have been more burglaries in Oakland since the start of the fall semester — 17 total — than in all of the 2015 calendar year combined.

Yet no one has been arrested after the string of crimes that began in October, even as Pitt police have increased patrols in Oakland and University spokespeople have advised students to lock their doors at night and be vigilant of suspicious activity.

“University police are working with the city of Pittsburgh police to thoroughly investigate each incident and are devoting a considerable amount of effort to apprehend the person or people responsible,” said Pitt spokesperson Joe Miksch.

Most recently, according to Pitt police, a burglary occurred in the 3400 block of Ward Street Thursday evening at about 11:30 p.m.

Another burglary occurred in the 3200 block of Ward a couple hours later, between 12:30 a.m. and 1:00 a.m.

For the first time since the burglaries began, police released a description of a possible suspect for the Nov. 10 burglary on the 3400 block of Ward Street. The suspect is described as a black male, about 6-foot, 20 to 25 years of age with a slender build and short, curly, dread-like hair.

In both incidents, the intruder gained entry into the homes through unlocked doors, according to Pitt police. The department would not comment on whether it believed the incidents were related in any way.

Police have made similar statements about the other 15 burglaries. In the more than two months since the string of crimes began, police have refused to say whether or not they believe separate people committed each crime or if the crimes are connected in some way. At this point, police have said they are investigating each incident separately, but they have not ruled out the possibility that the burglaries are connected.

Pitt police have developed some leads into See Burglaries on page 4

Man shatters Sorrento’s front door glass window Emily Brindley and Lauren Rosenblatt The Pitt News Staff

Police were easily able to track down a man who shattered the front door window of Sorrento’s Pizza early Sunday morning was using the drink order from the bar he was just kicked out of.

The man, who police have not named, was asked to leave the Garage Door Saloon at about 2 a.m. Sunday morning because he was too intoxicated. Minutes later, Aaron Price, the owner of Sorrento’s, said the man either kicked or punched the window as he was walking by after being thrown out of the next-door bar.

The bouncers at the Garage Door were able to see the incident occur from their posts outside the bar and police used his still-open tab to identify the man.

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The door to Sorrento’s Pizza was boarded up Sunday, but Price said he expects to have it replaced by Monday night.

Emily Schaffer, spokesperson for city police, said Pitt police handled the incident. Pitt police were not available to comment in time for publication Monday.

Price said no one was injured but that he and another employee had some minor cuts from cleaning up the glass.

Pitt senior Dayton Walker, who was working at Sorrento’s at the time, said that glass flew from the door all the way to the front counter of the restaurant. He said he was in the back making pizza and heard a loud smash and a lot of screaming from the restaurant.

“A lot of people immediately just left.

It was very shocking,” Walker, a business major, said. “My manager said [that] if someone told him there was a bomb in

the trashcan, he would’ve believed it –– that’s how big the explosion of glass was.”

Walker said he saw the man, who he described as having an afro, run down Atwood Street. Walker ran after him but said he was already out of sight by the time they reached the intersection of Bates and Atwood streets.

The pizza restaurant, which is normally closed Sundays, did not close early after the incident and will reopen Monday.

Price said he does not know how much the damage will cost but that it will be more expensive than replacing most windows because it has to be custom cut to fit the door. Price reported the incident to Pitt and city police, and was told that the departments were talking with the individual and would let Price know more about the situation by the middle of this week.

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“I don’t want to see anyone get into any trouble and have a snare on their record,” Price said. “But if the guy just wanted to come apologize and pay for it, I’d be more than happy to just move on.”

Price has owned the store since 2006 but said the business has been in his family since 1971. In the past 10 years, he said he has had four or five windows broken, partly due to big sporting events like the Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup. Price said that after Pitt won the football game against Clemson Saturday night, he received several text messages reminding him to guard his windows that night.

“It’s part of the price of doing business in Oakland,” Price said. “It’s not going to set us back, but it’s unfortunate.”

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owns the cinema, after calling three times over a period of five days. A secretary answered each call and did not follow-up with The Pitt News.

In Pittsburgh, both the NAD and Stein & Vargas, a civil rights firm based in Frederick, Maryland, are representing DeHaan in the lawsuit. Mary Vargas, a partner at Stein & Vargas, said the case has little to do with money and is instead about access. “[DeHaan] is just seeking the ability to enjoy going to the movies like anyone else,” Vargas said. “Going to the movies is a favorite pastime, it’s what’s talked about at the watercooler. Deaf individuals should have the same access to American culture as hearing individuals do.”

The lawsuit points out that Cleveland Cinemas’ six other movie theaters provide closed-captioning equipment.

The six other theaters are all located in Ohio, with Tower City Cinemas in Cleveland providing closed-captioning equipment as well as assisted listening and descriptive video equipment, according to the company’s website.

Other movie theaters in the Pittsburgh area do provide captioning or other forms of accessibility for deaf moviegoers, including

Carmike 10, the Row House Cinema and Rangos Cinemax Theater at the Carnegie Science Center. According to Andy Hennon, operations manager at Carmike 10, the theater has had captioning equipment at least since he arrived three years ago.

“It’s a device called Captiview. The person watching the movie gets a small screen that has the captions show up on it. It’s propped on a wire attachment that they can clip to their cupholder,” Hennon said. “We get at least one or two people a week who use it.”

Steve Kovac, director of operations and visitor services at the Carnegie Science Center, said their current theater does not have the proper technology to provide captioning. Instead, they have typed scripts that follow the movies and a space for sign language interpreters in the theater.

The center’s theater is set to be redone starting in August of 2017, with the new theater opening next fall, according to Kovac.

Besides replacing the film-based model with digital technology, the center is also seeking to address concerns about access.

“We’re getting the newest technology for the new theater, and that includes captionSee Lawsuit on page 4

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the ADA deals specifically with public accommodations — such as movie theaters — and services operated by private entities in ensuring they provide equal access for all consumers.

Currently, Title III requires that a public facility provide accommodations for people with disabilities, which means that the SouthSide Works theater should provide an option for deaf or hearing-impaired individuals, such as on-screen captioning.

But the Department of Justice has proposed an amendment to the act, that has not yet been finalized, specifies that all capable theaters must be capable of providing closed-captioning. While on-screen captioning appears on the main screen for all moviegoers to view, closed-captioning is displayed on a personal screen only for the person who needs it.

A notice on the DOJ website states the proposal is meant to allow people with hearing or vision disabilities to “attend movies with closed captioning or audio description in theaters across the country on a consistent basis.”

In the proposal, the DOJ estimates that the average first-year capital cost for a digital single screen theater to comply with the ADA was about $3,200.

Marc Charmatz, an attorney with the National Association of the Deaf, said the ADA already requires theaters to display captioning in some form, even without the proposed amendment.

“While [the] DOJ hasn’t finalized their regulations yet, we don’t think that ought to stop theaters from adhering to federal law and providing captions,” Charmatz said.

According to DeHaan’s lawsuit, filed in October 2016, he has requested in person several times that the defendants provide captioning at SouthSide Works, but the theater has refused to provide any aid for deaf individuals, including closed- or on-screen captioning.

A SouthSide Works manager said she was unable to comment on the lawsuit or the reasons for not having captioning. Ten calls made over a period of three days to both President Jonathan Forman and Director of Marketing David Huffman of Cleveland Cinemas were not returned. The Pitt News was unable to reach an employee from the Soffer Organization, the company that

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Burglaries, pg. 2 the burglaries, according to Miksch, although he wouldn’t specify what kind of leads. Those leads are actively being pursued with the help of city police, but there has been no indication that the investigations will conclude anytime soon.

Pitt police media logs –– summaries of all criminal and fire reports generated during a 24-hour period –– have indicated that there have been 16 burglaries since Aug. 29. An additional burglary has been reported by city police in that time span as well. In the media log, Pitt police also reported a robbery occurred at 5:51 a.m. on Nov. 9 on Robinson Street –– although it is not included in the semester’s burglary counts because burglaries indicate entrance into a home or other building while robberies indicate the use of force or intimidation to take property from a person.

The 17 reported burglaries –– three of which have taken place since Oct. 25, did not have corresponding Pitt crime alerts –– since the beginning of the fall semester top the number of burglaries in the entire year of 2015, which saw 11 reported burglaries in the Oakland area.

Crime alerts are issued at the discretion of

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the chief of Pitt police — currently Chief James Loftus — and under the terms of the Clery Act, according to Miksch.

The chief of police issues crime alerts when serious, unresolved crime is committed on or near the University campus and when the crime creates a threat of harm to faculty, staff or students. If the crime has a likelihood of repetition, an alert — like those warning students to lock up — is issued to prevent similar incidents.

The crime alert system is currently the only notification system the University has for crimes on campus, but students and faculty members must sign up to receive the alerts.

“The University is considering changing the system so that it notifies everyone in the University with an email when an alert is issued, but we have no timeline for if and when this will occur,” Miksch said.

In the meantime, both Pitt police and city police are increasing patrols in the area in an effort to prevent further crime according to spokespeople for both agencies. But Emily Schaffer, a spokesperson for city police, would not give further details on those patrols, citing officer safety.

Miksch also would not further comment on the current state of the investigations or of

any possible leads.

“It is not possible to elaborate without possibly compromising the ongoing investigations,” Miksch said.

All the robberies since Aug. 29, have taken place in West or Central Oakland and most of them have resulted in crime alerts. Four burglaries took place on Semple Street and four on Ward Street. Additionally, burglaries have been reported on Meyran Avenue, McKee Place, South Bouquet Street, Dawson Street, Bates Street and Dimling Way. One burglary on McKee Place, which took place Oct. 31, did not result in a Pitt crime alert because only city police responded.

The tenants at McKee Place –– Pitt seniors Kerry Regan and Tess Gavin –– were home, sleeping, at the time of that incident. The roommates realized someone had broken in after waking up the next morning and discovering Regan’s car and purse were missing and a window in the house was open.

“At first I thought maybe [my car] had been towed, but after the realization of what had happened set in — and we also noticed that my purse was missing — I knew someone had broken in,” Regan said.

The roommates called the police and filed

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Lawsuit, pg. 3 ing equipment,” Kovac said. “We want to make the experience better for our visitors who are hearing-impaired or deaf.”

Michael Stein, Vargas’ partner and a deaf individual, said the firm has dealt with other cases involving theaters as well as general lack of accommodations for people who could benefit from closed or on-screen captioning.

“We have done cases involving the lack of captioning, refusal to provide interpreter services, employment discrimination and courthouse access,” Stein said. “We have done several movie theater captioning cases with the result that the theaters installed captioning.”

According to Charmatz, providing deaf individuals with equal access to films is the theater’s responsibility since all films come with captions when released. The theater itself needs to provide the equipment to go with it.

“What’s popular with hearing folks is popular with deaf folks, and they’ve got a right to enjoy popular entertainment,” Charmatz said. “We need to make sure that movie theaters are understanding that, too.”

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Schedule Your Classes Wisely, and Don’t Pay More than You Have to Mark Mulkeen

There are a wide variety of ways students can control the amount of money they have to pay for college education, but the gross price of tuition is likely not often thought of as a controllable area. However, the reality is that part of it is indeed up to you, the student. The way you schedule your classes can have an effect on the total amount you actually pay, so class schedules deserve attention from a financial perspective.

One of the most important things to remember when scheduling classes on a full-time basis is that fall and spring classes are billed on a flat rate basis. What does that mean? This means that fall and spring semesters are fixed costs, rather than variable when you enroll in classes between 12-18 credits. Again, you will pay the same price when you take 12 -18 credits. There may not seem to be much to this, but it’s an essential thing to remember when scheduling.

For starters, if you can handle taking more classes per semester, this may allow you to complete your degree on time and give yourself more room to take less classes during the back half of your college career than your front half. If you’re taking a four-year degree, that’s 120 credits, so if you take 15 credits per semester every semes-

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ter, you will graduate on time. If you should take 12 credits per term, you will need to attend college for more than 4 years.

An 18-credit semester can be your friend, and I never thought I’d utter that statement. Who likes the idea of 18 credits? Maybe an engineer who’s taking 21 credit semesters likes the idea (but God help that poor kid).

For the rest of us, six classes can seem daunting, but it is if taken early in your academic career it can act as a safety net that hedges against inconvenient scheduling issues in your later years of college.

If you end up retaking a class during the summer, either because you have to or because you were not satisfied with your grade the first time around, the sticker price might very well be higher. Summer classes are priced on a per credit basis, rather than per semester, which generally leads to the per class price being higher during the summer than during the traditional school year. That being said, taking summer classes doesn’t need to have a negative connotation. Maybe you are a great student who has other reasons for taking summer classes. Nevertheless, the financial reality of summer classes is less than ideal.

In addition to facing higher tuition during the summer, you may have less

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financial support during that time period. If you’re a student who is normally enrolled on a full-time basis during the fall and spring, financial aid might not be available to you during the summer, so it’s important to check whether that’s the case for you before scheduling summer classes. Many students will use their full eligibility during the fall and spring terms and may not have remaining eligibility for the summer term.

Many students may wish to use Private Education Loans and Federal Direct Parent PLUS loans, a type of federal

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loan borrowed by their parents to help pay for expenses not covered by their financial aid.

The path to 120 credits is different for each and every student. It’s great if you take exactly 15 credits each semester and graduate on time, but that’s rarely the case. With this in mind, it’s important to look at scheduling not just from an academic perspective, but from a financial one as well. Doing so can actually cut down the cost of college, or at least keep it from rising above the necessary level.

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It’s not Zuckerberg’s job to look out for fake news on Facebook Although the election has passed, social media is still a haven for articles, think pieces and commentary on the presidential candidates — now focused more squarely on President-elect Donald Trump.

In the oversaturated, under-moderated mess that is social media, it’s become increasingly difficult to tell which stories are trustworthy and which aren’t.

Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to reports that Facebook was spreading fake news about President-elect Donald Trump and candidate Hillary Clinton with stories saying that the Pope endorsed Trump or an FBI agent suspected for Clinton’s email leaks was murdered. Critics have suggested that the false information spread by fringe websites could have influenced the election that lead to Trump’s win.

Zuckerberg denied any responsibility by saying that 99 percent of what people see is authentic and that the company is working to reduce the distribution of false news stories on the site. The website has also surveyed users about whether they feel put off by the abundance of fake information that circulates the site.

There have long been concerns that Facebook has become an echo chamber for users who turn to the site as their sole source of news and only follow outlets that confirm their political views.

While we’ll likely never know what effect, if any, fake news spread on Facebook had on the election, it is still vital for the site’s users to be aware that untrue stories exist en masse and that they can be dangerous to political discourse.

According to the Pew Research Center, 62 percent of Americans get all of their news from social media accounts, with Facebook being the most popular site.

That means Facebook is the main news source for most Americans, making it harder to filter fact from fiction as users pick and choose what they want to read.

First of all, Facebook is not a news site. The dangers of reading misleading, partisan news reports that only confirm our biases triple when we log on to networks that we’ve designed solely to fit our own likes and dislikes. In the Internet age, media literacy has taken a

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nose dive and often perpetuated the idea that the news media is complete propaganda.

It’s not Zuckerberg’s job to give us the facts, we have to take it upon ourselves to be informed and medialiterate. Readers should research the sites they are visiting and look for facts, credibility and reliable reporting.

Here are some tips on scrolling through your Facebook feed while avoiding the traps of unreliable news: -If the headline of the article uses exclamation points, it’s probably not credible. If the headline has more than one exclamation point, it’s definitely not credible.

-If the headline starts with “You won’t believe … ” it’s probably not accurate — and probably not that unbelievable.

-If the website has the words “liberal,” “conservative,” “Republican” or Democrat in its name — such as LiberalAmerica or Conservative-daily — it’s not an objective source of news.

-If the website has the word “occupy” in its name, it’s probably not objective.

-If you can only find one article about the story online, the information in that one article probably isn’t true.

-If the article is a slideshow that requires you to click through, it’s probably not worth reading.

-If the article is an open letter to somebody, it’s probably not news.

-If there is no reporting in the story and it’s all aggregated from other sources, it’s probably not trustworthy.

-If the article uses tweets as the main sources of its content, the “news” is probably not verified.

As readers and social media consumers, we understand how difficult it is to wade through the swamp that is social media. But as journalists, and citizens who want to be part of an informed generation, we beg you to look beyond Facebook for your news.

And the next time a distant family member shares a story from Infowars.com, we hope you’ll fight the good fight and share these tips.

Trump’s presidency a threat to Lgbtq+ rights — my rights

Maggie Koontz

Raka Sarkar STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

For The Pitt News

About six years ago, I began to identify privately as bisexual.

I kept the revelation to myself because I’m from Kentucky, a state known for being quite conservative. And, as a Catholic, I constantly heard that I was going to hell for being attracted to the same gender.

Since Donald Trump was announced as the president-elect, reports about hate crimes against marginalized groups — including members of the LGBTQ+ community — have increased.

I feel lucky that I appear straight because I am dating a boy. It is safer to be straight. But if my significant other was a girl, I would want to feel pride in dating her instead of hiding it from the community in fear.

When the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was a right last year, I was thrilled at the progress that our nation was making.

When Trump was officially announced president-elect, all of that optimism faded away as I realized that the rights we fought for could all be single-handedly reversed under his policies. Although Trump has switched his positions on LGBTQ+ rights throughout his campaign, his support for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and the extreme views of Vice President-elect Mike Pence could jeopardize the safety and well-being of my community.

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Koontz, pg. 6 stated that he would protect the LGBTQ+ community despite making contradictory comments earlier on in the election.

“As president, I will do everything in my power to protect LGBTQ+ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology,” Trump said during his speech.

In the past, Trump has suggested he would appoint conservative Supreme Court judges that would overturn the decision that eliminated state bans on same-sex marriage. Even if he doesn’t necessarily follow through with these plans, he has immense pressure to do so by Republicans and evangelical voters. He’s stated numerous times that there should not be a nationwide ruling and that the decision to allow same-sex marriage should be left to the states.

Additionally, Trump has said he does not support the Equality Act of 2015, a bill proposed that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and prohibit discrimination of a person based on their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.

In fact, Trump supports the First Amendment Defense Act which would allow citizens to discriminate against people of the LGBTQ+

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community by refusing service on the grounds of religious beliefs. This would replace President Barack Obama’s executive order from 2014 that prevents federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

“If I am elected president and Congress passes the First Amendment Defense Act, I will sign it,” Trump said in September 2016.

Now that Congress is controlled by the Republicans, there is a strong possibility that this could be signed into law. Signing this act would not protect the LGBTQ+ community and would deny services to them on the basis of religion. Trump’s words are a paradox to his potential actions which are frightening to those in the LGBTQ+ category such as myself.

Trump has also shifted back and forth on his views regarding the issue of transgender people being able to use the bathroom of their choice. In April 2016, he said that transgender people should use whichever bathroom they feel is appropriate and also remarked that Caitlyn Jenner would be allowed to use whichever bathroom she wanted at Trump Tower.

However, Trump has defended North Carolina’s HB2 by saying that the states should be allowed to decide on this issue themselves.

HB2 would require people to use the bath-

room that matches with their sex at birth.

This would prohibit the freedom of choosing a bathroom that a transgender person feels would be appropriate for them.

Recently, Pence has taken control of Trump’s transition team. He has confirmed that Obama’s transgender bathroom policy will be eliminated as well as the birth control mandate which dictates that health insurance must cover some contraceptive costs.

Pence is extremely conservative and is antiLGBTQ+ mostly because of his faith, stating that he believes marriage is between a man and woman. Pence has said that he is “Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.” He has repeatedly used his religion to try to create new laws and abolish others which completely disregards the separation of church and state.

In 2013, he signed a law in Indiana that would jail same-sex couples for applying for a marriage license as well as clerks that approved their request or clergy members that wed the couple.

Pence believes that being gay is a choice and that sexuality can be changed through so-called conversion therapy. He has supported institutions that help people who want to change their sexuality as a means for “curing”

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those with the “incorrect” sexuality.

Pence’s propositions for the discrimination and suppression of the LGBTQ+ community should not be based on religion, yet they are.

Trump has contradicted himself many times regarding his stance on LGBTQ+ issues, leaving much uncertainty for the future of LGBTQ+ rights. As part of the LGBTQ+ community, I do not know what to take as the truth and I do not know if I can proudly be bisexual in the future without repercussion.

I know if Kentucky had the option, there would be a ban on same-sex marriage as well as opportunity for citizens to discriminate against those in the LGBTQ+ community, based on religious beliefs.

I came out to the world in October on National Coming Out Day. I thought that the nation was going to be led by someone more open-minded, but it does not look like that is going to happen. Instead, I am worried that I am going to have to stifle my sexuality and put my pride flag in a drawer.

I do not want to hide for fear of discrimination based on my sexual orientation. I want to live openly, but I am afraid of what the future holds for me and the rest of the LGBTQ+ community.

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SCHriever to race in NCAA cross-country championships Ashwini Sivaganesh Assistant Sports Editor

Sophomore runner Gillian Schriever told The Pitt News two weeks ago that she’s had to push herself to achieve the unlikely.

After placing 41 out of 131 in last year’s ACC Championships, Schriever pushed herself to make a considerably jump up to fifth this year. And this weekend, she became Pitt’s second ever cross-country runner to race in the NCAA National Championships.

At the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals over the weekend, she placed fifth again with a time of 20:30 in the 6k race.

Schriever finished fifth and qualified for the championships — a feat only accomplished once before by Pitt’s Maureen McCandless in 2004.

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“I couldn’t be happier for our kids. They are the ones that made the plays,” Narduzzi said. “I love those guys. It’s an unbelievable football team.”

After the Panthers marched down the field for an opening-drive touchdown, Clemson’s AllAmerican quarterback Deshaun Watson quickly led the Tigers inside Pitt’s 20-yard line. A gametying touchdown seemed imminent, but redshirt senior cornerback Ryan Lewis had other plans.

Lewis made a leaping interception in the end zone –– his second of the season –– and both have been critical. His first sealed the Panthers’ 42-39 win over Penn State on Sept. 10.

While the Panthers were mostly incapable of keeping Clemson from scoring, Lewis’ interception provided a huge boost to Pitt’s chances early in the game.

The Tigers would tie the game on their next possession, but quarterback Nathan Peterman came right back with a 46-yard touchdown pass to Conner to give the Panthers a 14-7 lead.

Then, what appeared to be a 14-point Pitt lead

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of our cross-country women make the meet,” Pitt head coach Alonzo Webb said in a press release Friday. “Gillian Schriever has been outstanding all season and [will reward] herself with a trip to the NCAA Cross Country National Championship next week.”

Besides Schriever, both cross-country teams found successes of their own at the Blue and White golf course in University Park, Pennsylvania, on Friday to end their regular seasons. Overall, the men’s team improved three places, finishing eleventh at the meet, and the women’s team maintained seventh from last year.

Vlasic and Schriever earned All-Region honors, with Vlasic finishing 23rd with a time of 21:16.

“I think our team has improved a lot this season, and I honestly feel that next year we can qualify as a team to the

NCAA Championships,” Pitt women’s coach Adam Bray said in the release. “I’m really proud of the young women in our program. They are great athletes and even better people. I’m really lucky to have the opportunity to coach them.”

Leading the men’s team in the 10k, redshirt senior Michael Runco finished 31st with a time of 31:28, and junior Aaron Lauer finished 51st with a time of 31:48.

“I am proud of the progress that the men have shown throughout the 2016 cross-country season,” Pitt men’s coach Bryan Jackson said in the release. “I look forward to what the future holds for them.”

Schriever will compete as an individual runner at her first NCAA National Gillian Schriever is the Championship meet Saturday, Nov. 19, in second runner in history to go to Terre Haute, Indiana. the NCAA Championships for Pitt.

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turned into a tie game when Clemson running back Wayne Gallman fumbled the ball just as he crossed the goal line on fourth down. Panthers safety Jordan Whitehead picked up the ball and returned it 100 yards for a touchdown, but referees overturned the fumble and ruled it a touchdown for Gallman.

So instead of Pitt holding a 21-7 lead, the Tigers scored again on their next drive, leaving the Panthers trailing 21-14 and desperately needing a score to keep the game within reach.

Pitt’s coaches decided to let Peterman sling the ball down the field, and sling it he did. After a pair of incompletions, Peterman found tight end Scott Orndoff wide open for a 55-yard touchdown pass.

Blewitt, the team’s senior kicker, missed the ensuing extra point, but the Panthers were back within one.

Then, with Pitt trailing by eight late in the game and Clemson threatening to put the game away, the team’s oft-criticized defense decided to rewrite its narrative.

Watson faked a handoff, stepped to his right and fired a pass toward the end zone, but Pan-

thers linebacker Saleem Brightwell undercut the Clemson receiver’s route and snatched the ball out of the air. The redshirt freshman then raced 70 yards down the sideline before being tripped up on a shoestring tackle by Tigers wide receiver Mike Williams.

“I didn’t know [Brightwell] was that fast,” Narduzzi said.

Three plays later, Conner used a vicious stiff arm to power his way into the end zone on a 20yard touchdown run.

“That was probably the best run I’ve ever seen in my life,” Peterman said.

Pitt failed to convert the two-point conversion, but had cut the deficit to 42-40 with just over five minutes left.

Finally, after picking up a pair of first downs in its next drive, Clemson faced third-and-1 at the Panthers’ 35-yard line with 1:03 left in the game.

The Tigers had two chances to clinch the game and keep their perfect season alive by just picking up one more yard.

Pitt’s defense just needed one stop to give Blewitt a chance.

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Gallman on a run up the middle on third down.

Then, on the all-or-nothing fourth-and-1, Watson tossed the ball to Gallman, who tried to bounce it outside to the left. The Panthers’ defense swarmed him at the line of scrimmage and senior linebacker Matt Galambos stopped him for no gain.

The Panthers took over with 58 seconds left, down by two, and Peterman led them into field goal range with a perfectly executed six-play, 34yard drive in less than a minute.

Blewitt took the field with six seconds left in the game and a chance to atone for his earlier missed extra point, but not before Conner pulled him aside and offered some words of encouragement.

The senior then drilled a 48-yard field goal to give the Panthers a 43-42 win they so desperately craved after a season filled with devastating losses.

“We’ve had some tight, tight games, whether it was at Oklahoma State or North Carolina, where we felt we could win it,” Narduzzi said. “We went into the week [saying] we were going to shock the world … our kids believed.”

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Volleyball splits weekend games at home David Leftwich Staff Writer

After losing to both the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and the Duke Blue Devils on the road in October, the Panthers managed to vanquish only one of the two hellish opponents over the weekend.

On Friday at the Fitzgerald Field House, Pitt (overall 20-7, 11-4 ACC) crippled Wake Forest (overall 9-17, 5-10 ACC) in a three-set match, but fell to Duke (18-6, 12-2 ACC) on Sunday.

To start off their match against Wake Forest, the Panthers came out to an immediate 4-0 deficit. They picked up their play and gradually took the lead, widening it to 18-11.

Pitt maintained this gap and edged the score to 21-14. With the set seemingly over, the Demon Deacons made a push and reduced the deficit to three points at 24-21. Pitt finished off Wake Forest on redshirt freshman Stephanie Williams’ kill to take the first set 25-21.

Staying on the offensive, Pitt opened up the second set with an immediate 4-0 lead.

Wake Forest responded and worked its way back into the set to tie the match at 9.

From this point, the set remained tight with the pair of teams trading leads until Pitt held a slight advantage at 18-17. Pitt won five of the next six points to separate itself from Wake Forest and hold a 23-18 lead. Eventually, Pitt capped off the set with a service ace from Angela Seman to clinch the second set 25-20 and take a 2-0 lead in the match.

Rebounding in hopes of staying in the match, Wake Forest took an early 6-3 advantage. Pitt responded by winning the next five points, highlighted by Jenna Potts’ two kills during the stretch to take an 8-6 lead.

This momentum remained for the set with the Panthers taking a 24-21 lead, and the match on the cusp of ending. But the Demon Deacons went on a straight threepoint run to tie the match at 24. Quickly regrouping, the Panthers won three out of the next four points to take the set, 27-25, and the match, 3-0, to earn their 20th win of the season.

Williams and Mariah Bell led the offen-

sive assault for the Panthers, putting down 16 and 12 kills respectively. Williams had an especially impressive match, hitting an efficient .696 attack percentage, while leading the team in kills.

“I think we served and passed a lot better than we did the first time and it definitely helped having Nika [Markovic] back,” head coach Dan Fisher said about the difference between this match and the first meeting between the two teams in October.

Looking to make up for another early season loss, Pitt continued fueling its fire from Friday to take on Duke.

Both teams started off the match with consistent offensive and defensive tactics, tying the game at 8. Surging to win six of the next eight points, and forcing a Duke timeout, Pitt separated itself from the Blue Devils and took a 14-10 lead.

Despite three service errors through the early part of the set, Pitt extended the lead to 18-12 and forced another Duke timeout.

Storming its way back into the set, Duke won 13 of the next 17 points to take the first set

25-22.

The Panthers’ poor defensive efforts in the middle of the court contributed to the team’s eventual loss.

“I don’t think we executed our scouting report very well against number 11 [senior Jordan Tucker],” Bell said. “We were trying to get over the net on her but we just weren’t getting into the angles she was hitting.”

The second set began in a similar fashion to the first, with both teams drawing to a 5-5 tie. Faced with the difficulty of producing offense against the stellar blocking of the Blue Devils, Pitt began to play sloppy and disjointed, causing it to fall behind 11-7.

Playing in deficit throughout most of the set, Pitt started to work its way back into the match and cut the Blue Devil lead to one at 20-19 and eventually pulling even with Duke after a kill by Bell to 24-24.

After coming back from multiple match points in Duke’s favor, Pitt lost the set, 2826, to fall behind two sets to zero. Besides getting burned through the middle, the See Volleyball on page 10

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Wrestlers edge out Edinboro in final matches, 20-16 Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

The No. 22 Pitt wrestling team faced its toughest test of the season against the Edinboro Fighting Scots, but came away unscathed to return home undefeated.

The Panthers (3-0) used back-to-back victories by redshirt sophomore Zach Bruce and redshirt junior Ryan Solomon to cap off a 20-16 comeback victory over the Fighting Scots (0-2) in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

“It was a great team win today,” Pitt head coach Jason Peters said in a press release.

“I thought Zach did a good job giving us a chance to win in the end. We still have some areas we need to work on, but to get a higherlevel dual meet win in the second week of the season is definitely good for us.”

Edinboro may be winless, but the Fighting Scots are stronger than their record indicates. They started the season with a respectable 24-13 defeat against No. 6 Virginia Tech

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and boast four wrestlers ranked in the top 20 out of 10 weight classes according to wrestling ranking website InterMat’s individual rankings.

One of those four, No. 18 Sean Russell, gave Edinboro the early lead with a 4-1 decision over Pitt sophomore LJ Bentley at 125 pounds. Bentley –– one of only two Panthers to win a match at last year’s NCAA tournament –– fell to 0-3 on the season after onepoint losses in each of the team’s first two meets.

Despite falling behind early for the third time in a row, Pitt’s highest-ranked wrestler gave them the lead right back. No. 8 Dom Forys rolled to a 10-2 major decision over Korbin Myers at 133 pounds to move to 3-0 on the season, giving the Panthers a 4-3 lead.

Pitt redshirt junior Nick Zanetta dropped a 4-3 decision in the tiebreaker overtime period at 141 pounds, and No. 12 Patricio Lugo dominated Panthers senior Mikey Racciato

for a 14-2 major decision at 149 pounds. Just like that, the Fighting Scots were back in control, 10-4.

True freshman Jake Wentzel brought Pitt back within two with a 10-0 major decision at 157 pounds. Wentzel remains undefeated after picking up his second bonus-points win in his first three college matches.

Panthers sophomore TeShan Campbell, ranked No. 19 in the country at 165 pounds, then took the mat against No. 11 Austin Matthews. He battled his way to a 9-6 decision to advance to 3-0 on the season and give Pitt an 11-10 lead.

Panthers freshman Christian Dietrich and sophomore Mat Carr dropped decisions at 174 and 184 pounds, respectively, forcing Pitt to trail, 16-11. They would need to win the final two matches to win the meet.

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Volleyball, pg. 9 Panthers struggled to get their own shots through Duke’s commanding defense.

“They’re a really good blocking team and they get high up on the net and their middles especially were all over us,” first-year Layne Van Buskirk said. “We just had to try our best to get around them.”

Jumping out to an early 6-3 lead in the third set, Pitt poised itself for a comeback.

But the Blue Devils came back to take an advantageous 15-14 lead.

Pitt won the next seven points to erase Duke’s lead and tie the game at 18. The Blue Devils started to swing the momentum back in their favor to grab a 23-22 lead, and on a controversial touch call, notched up a 24-22 lead. The Panthers took the next point, but made a serving error on the following play to lose the set 25-23 and the match 3-0.

“It was a tough loss, but of course we can always come back from it, so if we just win the next four games I think we are going to do well,” said Bell.

Coming down the stretch, the Panthers will look to conquer Syracuse next Friday in Syracuse, New York Nov. 18, at 7 p.m.

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