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REPORT SHOWS RISING INMATE POPULATION

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Nearly a thousand protestors marched to support love and tolerance in light of Donald Trump’s presidency. Stephen Caruso SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

PITT JOINS SANCTUARY CAMPUS MOVEMENT Janine Faust and Connor Norton The Pitt News Staff

Around the country Wednesday, including at Pitt, students on college campuses “walked out” of classes in favor of equality and safety from deportation in a country largely divided over immigration issues.

In front of the Cathedral of Learning Wednesday afternoon, between 50 and 60 students gathered to advocate making the University a safe space for undocumented students, as well as to appeal for greater protection of the rights of minorities in the wake of the recent presidential

election.

The rally was part of a nationally organized campaign, called National Walk-Outs for #SanctuaryCampus by Movimiento Cosecha, an organization launched in 2015 in Milwaukee, that pushes for the protection of immigrants in the United States.

There are about 300 “sanctuary” jurisdictions across the United States, including Pittsburgh and other cities in California, Connecticut, New Mexico and Colorado, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Although each has a different set of practices, cities often refuse to enforce

Rates of incarceration in Allegheny County Jail are rising, partially because large numbers of people are being jailed before conviction, a trend that has caused the region to outpace national averages and that highlights the inequities in the local criminal justice system.

Although the Allegheny County Jail houses 70 percent more inmates now than it did 20 years ago, 81 percent of those in jail have not been convicted of the offense they had been arrested for, according to a new Pitt report.

Instead, the more than 80 percent of inmates who haven’t been convicted are awaiting trial and/or haven’t met bail — a problem that’s expensive and possibly unethical, according to researchers from Pitt’s Institute of Politics.

This data was included in a report the Institute released Wednesday that was conducted in the fall of 2015.

The study can be found online at Pitt’s Institute of Politics website. Here are some recommendations from the report:

Develop alternatives to arrest and booking, such as forming programs to send individuals who could be charged with nonviolent offenses to support services and community-based treatment Encourage district judges to use the county’s risk-assessment tool to determine pretrial release instead of monetary bail Reduce the process time between when a person is admitted to jail and their first court appearance Expand crisis intervention training for police See Sanctuary on page 2 See Incarceration on page 3

national immigration laws and do not prosecute people solely for being an illegal immigrant in the city they are currently living.

Over the past week, protests around the country related to immigration have come in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s 10-point immigration plan which seeks to build a wall on the southern border, deport undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes and end sanctuary cities.

Jordan Hayes, a graduate student studying

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SOCIAL WORK DEAN ASKS TOUGH QUESTIONS ON RACE

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Assistant News Editor Larry Davis first asked himself the question when he was 6 or 7 years old, while he was walking down the street.

“If we were slaves, why are they angry with us?”

“They,” of course, meaning white people, who continued exploiting people of color long after slavery.

The question stayed with Davis, now the dean of Pitt’s School of Social Work and the founder of the school’s Center on Race and Social Problems, eventually becoming the title of his latest book, “Why Are They Angry With Us?: Essays on Race.”

During a lecture about the book on Wednesday at the O’Hara Student Center, Davis said he started off as a psychologist with the wrong assumption: If we could change people’s attitudes, we would be OK. Davis mentioned a disillusioning truth he learned: Racism and racial bias is fundamentally about advantage — whether monetary, social or otherwise. At the talk, which was the first installment of Pitt’s Year of Diversity Book Club meeting, Davis mentioned how a sense of a higher social status can also be an

Sanctuary, pg. 1 English, heard of the #SanctuaryCampus protest through Facebook and liked the idea of making campus a safe haven for immigrants.

“I like the ‘city asylum’ feeling, being from the San Francisco Bay Area,” Hayes said. “I want to see what people here will say.”

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advantage.

“That was really an insight,” Davis said. “It was about advantage. It’s that people first come to desire to exploit, and then comes the justification for the exploitation. I never really thought of it that way.”

The “unpleasant” truth of advantage and the ways in which people maintain their own changed his views.

“It changed my whole notion of why things worked as they did,” Davis said. “It wasn’t just a matter of us having some contact and becoming closer and friendlier. There’s a reason why — I can make money if I can keep you in a lower spot.”

Davis also touched on psychological theory relating to cognitive dissonance, which is the idea that behaviors and attitudes need to coincide, saying that the attitudes relating to injustice sustains the behavior of acting unjustly.

“The long and short of it is that if we do injustice to people, we have to hate them for it,” Davis said. “We have to give them both barrels ... Basically, it has to do with, ‘How can I treat you this way and still have some self-respect?’ ...

Well, I devalue you.”

Before the event, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion asked Pitt students, “Why do you think

it is important to talk about how race impacts American society today?” on MyPitt. According to Lisa Garland, the diversity and multi-cultural program manager of Pitt’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, 27 students submitted responses.

Two Pitt students read their responses before Davis spoke: Syed Kaleem, a senior natural sciences major, and Sean Champagne, a third-year student at Pitt’s School of Law. Kaleem said he found the question compelling when he saw it on his MyPitt page.

“Race is that issue which has primarily shaped American society and its politics since the nation’s founding,” Kaleem said in his response. “To disregard race is to abandon the fundamental pushback which has led to significant presidencies, constitutional amendments, today’s polarized politics and even the bipolar development of urban centers.”

Before reading his response, Champagne joked that while law students usually pride themselves on their memory skills, he needed to read his off a paper.

“Of the many unsolved problems in American society, the problem of racial injustice is the most pervasive and the least understood,” Champagne said in his response.

Nancy Kriek, the deaf services specialist for

Disability Resources and Services for Pitt’s Student Affairs, said it’s great that Pitt students have access to resources like Davis and his book.

“I think it’s important to have events like this because if you’re not in a particular group, you don’t have perspective,” Kriek said.

Davis said the nation “is just starting to talk” about slavery — with films such as “12 Years a Slave,” “Django Unchained” and “The Birth of a Nation” –– though slavery itself existed for 246 years, a longer length of time than since slavery ended in the United States in 1865.

Despite cultural representation of racial issues, Jaime Booth, an assistant professor at Pitt’s School of Social Work, said talking more about race and racial issues is better than possibly talking too little.

“I think the more we can talk about race in America, the better,” Booth said. “The better we’ll be moving forward.”

Davis said he didn’t write his book for Cornel West –– an American philosopher and social activist –– but for people who don’t study race and racism.

“More than anything in my life, I wanted my work to be useful,” Davis said. “And I thought this kind of book might be the best shot I had at doing that.”

At Pitt, student groups Pittsburgh Student Solidarity Coalition, Pitt Against Debt and Students for a Democratic Society posted the event on Facebook, and about 300 people responded.

The turnout was small compared to other antiTrump-related events — including a march from the Cathedral to the South Side later that night.

Students chanted “No borders, no nations, stop the deportations,” as they marched up the

Cathedral’s front steps, heading to the chancellor’s office.

Joseph Zubrow, a sophomore chemistry and English writing major, kicked off the rally by reading a letter addressed to the University community, imploring administrators to adopt and enforce policies protecting freedom and inclusion.

The letters’ writers asked the University to

adopt policies such as prohibiting housing discrimination based on immigration status and refusing to comply with federal or state laws that target members of the LGBTQ+ community.

“The University’s pledge to uphold the values of inclusion and freedom must also not just be words. We must make concrete changes to protect all members of our community in the face See Sanctuary on page 4

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INCARCERATION RATES NATIONALLY 38%

PEOPLE IN JAIL ARE CONVICTED

62%

ARE UNCONVICTED

ALLEGHENY COUNTY 19% PEOPLE IN JAIL ARE CONVICTED

81%

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ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAILS AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN THAN THE NATIONAL RATE

2X

NATIONALLY 15.4 per 1,000

BOOKING RATE FOR BLACK MEN

ALLEGHENY COUNTY 8.4 per 1,000

BOOKING RATE FOR BLACK MEN

Incarceration, pg. 1 and other law enforcement Create a criminal justice coordinator position to report, monitor and manage the criminal justice system Create a panel to monitor the recommendations outlined in the report While many of the statistics presented in the report align with the demographics of prisons nationally, there are some cases where Allegheny County’s are more skewed. Nationally, AfricanAmerican men are jailed at six times the rate that white men are jailed. But the report found that Allegheny County jails African-American men at almost twice the national rate.

Additionally, while African-Americans make up 13 percent of Allegheny County’s total population, they make up 49 percent of the Allegheny County Jail population.

The report was conducted by a 40-member task force made up of community leaders, including Mark Nordenberg, former Pitt chancellor and current chair of Pitt’s Institute of Politics, professionals in the criminal justice field and elected officials in the county.

Frederick W. Thieman, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Buhl Foundation’s Henry Buhl Jr. chair for civic leadership, also co-chaired the task force.

“The task force’s work is a demonstration of the Pittsburgh region’s collaborative mindset in addressing pressing issues, like criminal-justice reform,” Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said in a press release.

According to the report, 75 percent of inmates in Allegheny County Jail have histories of drug and/or alcohol abuse or mental health issues and 48 percent have both. Nationally, 68 percent of inmates have a history of abusing drugs and/or alcohol and 60 percent have a history of symptoms of a mental health disorder.

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald requested the study, titled “Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Improving Incarceration Policies and Practices in Allegheny County,” in 2015.

The final report includes several recommendations to improve the county’s justice system, both economically and ethically. The recommendations include a panel to make sure the recommendations are implemented, the creation of a criminal justice system coordinator position and the expansion of crisis intervention training so that people with mental illnesses or substance use disorders get into effective treatment programs.

“This region has always worked best when we pull together and work collaboratively and cooperatively to address the issues that face us, and reform of our criminal justice system is no exception,” Fitzgerald said in the release.

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Sanctuary, pg. 2 of very real attacks on freedom and safety,” the letter read.

After reading it aloud, Zubrow and the protesters marched through the Cathedral and crowded into the chancellor’s office, where they gave the letter to the senior vice chancellor Kathy Humphrey. Humphrey thanked them and said she would pass the letter on to the chancellor.

Pitt administration could not be reached afterwards to comment on the letter.

Anna Josephson, a senior communication and sociology major, said she came to take part in the protest to support making Pitt a safe space for undocumented students — school-age immigrants who either entered the country without documentation or entered as a non-immigrant and stayed without authorization.

Josephson said that she’s refusing to let the outcome of this election allow xenophobia to grow on campus.

“People are really scared and unhappy, and now, more than ever, I believe we need to send out a message that hate crime will not be tolerated here,” Josephson said. “We need to go beyond making posts on Facebook and start appealing more to people with power.”

According to Zubrow, more needs to be done in the Pitt community to raise awareness about groups they consider to be at risk after Trump’s

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election, such as undocumented immigrants.

“I’m not a leader, I’m not an immigrant, I just want to do what I can to show solidarity,” Zubrow said. “Nobody should have the right to upend a person’s life and forcibly move them from their home.”

Other campuses across the nation participated in the walk out, including Rutgers University, Amherst College, Swarthmore College and Syracuse University.

According to Justin Mattingly, the editorin-chief of Syracuse’s student paper, the Daily Orange, the campus also held a walkout, where about 1,000 students left class to gather in the central quad and march around campus for an hour and a half. Students spoke before and after the march on topics such as climate change, LGBTQ+ rights and undocumented students.

“It was more of a march for awareness than a protest,” Mattingly said. “It dealt with a lot of Trump’s policies, but it wasn’t all about him — mostly [it was] about what needs to be changed in the community.”

According to Mattingly, the chancellor of Syracuse issued a statement saying Syracuse is for everyone, although the school has not made a statement regarding how the university will react to new policies that could be introduced this January.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students and professors advocated for the protection of undocumented students through an

online letter. The letter asks the chancellor and other administrators to officially declare the university a sanctuary for undocumented students and those who benefit from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals –– a program that allows certain immigrants to receive renewable twoyear work permits.

More than 4,500 students, faculty and community members had signed the letter by Wednesday night, according to Laura Minero, a doctoral student at Wisconsin-Madison who was involved in writing the letter. The letter is still circulating, but administrators agreed to speak with the authors of the letter about their concerns.

“We decided to voice our concerns after the election through a letter, instead of a protest, since we thought it’d get more people beyond campus involved and let the university know that a lot of people care about this,” Minero said.

For Sarah Conboy, a junior developmental psychology and education major at Pitt, the protest Wednesday was important to support gender and racial equality, as well as the rights of undocumented students.

“Trump is racist, misogynistic and has made fun of people with disabilities. A lot of people are afraid now because of him,” Conboy said. “We need to get the administration to openly voice support for equality and make it clear that disStudents delivered a letter to the criminatory hate of any kind will not be tolerated Chancellor’s office as part of the on campus because of the political state the coun- campaign. Stephen Caruso SENIOR try’s in right now.”

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Local county jail system in dire need of reform Allegheny County’s prison system reflects the problems the American criminal justice system has faced for years.

Pitt’s Institute of Politics released a report Wednesday titled “Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Improving Incarceration Policies and Practices in Allegheny County,” that includes a list of suggestions to improve the county’s criminal justice system, which is currently overpopulated and costly.

Many of the reforms, like avoiding monetary bail when possible, sound useful. But reform has to translate far beyond words on paper to even come close to overcoming years of overpopulation and racial and socioeconomic discrimination entrenched in this country’s criminal justice system and highlighted in the report.

The newly released data shows that the Allegheny County Jail population has increased by 70 percent over the past two decades, despite crime rates falling simultaneously. The main reason for the increase is due to pretrial detention — people being detained because they cannot afford to post bail and/or are awaiting trial — keeping low-income people disproportionately behind bars. As a result, 81 percent of inmates in Allegheny County haven’t yet been charged with the offense for which they were convicted. A statistic far worse than its national counterpart, which is just over 60 percent.

Because pretrial detentions have become so common, the inmate population has risen and the amount of people languishing in jail — paid for by taxpayer dollars in a public prison — becomes insurmountable. This is an economics issue as well as a human rights and a moral issue.

The report suggested the county could save $12 million a year without threatening public safety by instituting some of the reforms. When nearly 42 percent of the county’s general-fund budget is allocated to the criminal justice system, it is wrong to incarcerate the poor while having the public pay for it.

Instead of spending a large portion of the county’s budget on jails, it would be

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more beneficial to invest that money into social programs, education and affordable housing. If our lawmakers truly wanted to rehabilitate convicts, they would push for a more treatment-focused approach.

Furthermore, former U.S. Attorney Fred Thieman said 75 percent of the people in the Allegheny County Jail suffer from either mental illness, substance abuse or both. People with mental illnesses and substance abuse are vastly overrepresented in in our jail system. With one of the leading health care services and industries in the country in our own city, we have the resources to treat mental illness for what it really is: an illness. Instead, as is the case nationally, inmates with mental illnesses get funneled into the prison system where they remain untreated for years.

The most vulnerable people in Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods — and in cities nationwide — are being denied the treatment they deserve.

The report also called attention to the racial disparities of imprisonment, stating that people of color make up 49 percent of our jail population, even though only 13 percent of Allegheny County residents are African American.

Through community policing and reforming our police tactics, we can reduce some of the inequities people of color face.

Former Police Chief Cameron McLay emphasized these reforms, and we’re hoping the next chief will continue to implement them.

As of now, people of color, low-income people, the mentally ill and people with substance abuse problems are being punished and forced to wait in prisons. It’s been a well-recognized problem at the national level for some time, but recognizing an issue and suggesting tentative solutions is no good without actual reform.

If we want to save money and preserve the humanity of people who have been pushed unjustly into the prison system — typically for nonviolent offenses — action should follow education.

Allegheny County should be a model for prison reform, not a microcosm of the current prison system.

ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTS PROVIDE UNITY AND COMFORT

A protester stomps on a “Make America Great Again” hat during a Nov. 8 protest against the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. John Hamilton SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Julia Aldrich Columnist

Before all final votes could be counted in last week’s election, thousands of people in cities across the country — including Pittsburgh — painted their signs, slipped on their shoes and gathered in the streets to protest.

But as soon as people began protesting Trump’s presidency — and his months of racist, sexist and anti-Islamic language — many of his supporters criticized the protesters for doing so. Now, eight days since election night, the protests continue to dominate the streets of Pittsburgh.

Wednesday night, a group of students and Pittsburghers marched from Oakland to South Side in a peaceful protest, marking the third major event in Pittsburgh since the election last week.

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Social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook blew up in light of the protests, as people denounced the largely young dissenters by calling them “crybabies” — alluding to Rudy Giuliani’s talk on “Fox and Friends” in which he said, “The reality is they’re a bunch of spoiled crybabies.” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews also questioned the protesters motives asking, “What kind of a statement is it really there to make? They lost.”

The outrage echoed by young people who are shocked by the outcome is being dismissed as college students whining and overreacting to Trump’s win, furthering the idea that we are oversensitive millennials who can’t take a loss.

What many pundits and the public fail to realize about the Trump protesters, however, is the exact importance of both the anti-Trump See Aldrich on page 6

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ple that are showing support for the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters aren’t directly affected by the construction, yet they have a shared understanding of why the Standing Rock Sioux Tribespeople are protesting. The shared and overwhelming support validates the purpose of the protest, which can lead to legislative action. Although there hasn’t been a formal stopping order on the construction, President Barack Obama allowed for a pause on its construction in order for the U.S. Army Corps to examine possible ways to reroute it.

Unlike the Dakota Access Pipeline protest, the Trump protests don’t seem to have a specific goal, but the unrest makes it known that Trump’s policies will harm millions of people, including laws such as repealing Obamacare, deporting immigrants, banning Muslims from entering the country and overlooking the need for environmental action. The protests are about pressure and vocalization, in an election that where many people felt unheard.

Additionally, the marches instill a sense of unity amongst attendees. When marching with hundreds or thousands of people with a shared sense of outrage, it’s hard to feel vulnerable.

The protests show support for the groups that could be most affected by a Trump presidency and that fear for their own safety.

There have already been numerous reported threats and acts of violence against groups including Muslims, African-Americans and the LGBTQ+ community. Instances such as hijabs being torn off, racial slurs and physical altercations are among the many of the hate crimes marginalized groups face. Trump supporters reportedly assaulted a man in Santa Monica, California, after homophobic words were directed at him.

With thousands of people across the nation with a like-minded attitude, protesting against the president-elect who campaigned on a hate-inducing platform can show that not everybody accepts his attitude.

Though it may be nonsensical to believe that these nationwide protests are going to prevent Trump from being inaugurated in January, perhaps Trump himself will also take notice of what so many Americans find important.

Last week, the president-elect tweeted, “Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!”

Granted, it’s a slightly condescending acknowledgement, but the Tweet makes it clear that Trump is aware of the protests.

Whether or not the president-elect will take into consideration why these protests exist is up to the soon-to-be president himself.

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protests, as messages of their own, and as part of a history of protests that have defined and changed this country. Protests have long been the voice of organized movements fighting against institutions of oppression and inequality.

Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, the civil rights movement was characterized by countless protests and boycotts that challenged discriminatory laws toward people of color.

The Suffragette movement sparked a protest of well over 5,000 people in the early 1900s, calling for women’s rights to vote. The subsequent days after the Stonewall riots in New York were filled with protests that catapulted the movement for LGBTQ+ rights.

Legislative action is slow — Supreme Court decisions, though they’re meaningful in setting precedent for the future, often follow on the heels of persistent vocalization from social movements.

The publicity of massive protests and movements, and their ability to attract the spotlight, evoke emotional responses and highlight the struggles of marginalized groups capitulates political action.

People understand Trump will be our next president. The protests aren’t refuting that fact or even complaining about the electoral pro-

cess. The protests are about making it known that the people who have been victimized by Trump’s rhetoric — mimicked by his supporters — are not going to back down easily.

Immigrants face the very real fear of deportations, Muslims feel threatened by a proposed ban from this country and members of the LGBTQ+ community are worried that their rights will be stripped away. Furthermore, due to a Republican House, Senate and presidency elected, many groups fear the loss of certain rights and protections they have fought to obtain for years. Trump’s policies have detrimental consequences to our country and people are expressing their fears in unison.

Over the past few months, demonstrations in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, against the Dakota Access Pipeline gained momentum and popularity through social media.

In August 2016, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe banded together to prevent construction of a 1,172-mile oil pipeline that would run through sacred land which could potentially damage the reservation’s water source.

People across the world learned about the cause when it gained media attention, and many responded by expressing support and solidarity through social media, petitions and donations.

Interestingly enough, most of these peo-

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ftentimes when Sarah Washburn Thornton sits down to make art, there’s no motive, no intention, no plan. It’s automatic. “[Automatic art is] when you don’t start with a plan to paint and instead you start with a blank piece of paper,” Thornton said. “It’s more about your body than the drawing you’ve produced. You’re not thinking about the final product, but you’re thinking about the process of making it. Some of it can be self-referential.”

Thornton is a senior studio arts major at Pitt who has made abstract paintings since high school, and her art is on display at the Frick Fine Arts Building. When she started at Pitt, Thornton was set on majoring in physics or astronomy — nothing close to the abstract acrylics work she does now. Science is an important part of Thornton’s art though,

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and sometimes it mixes with her automatic drawings.

She most recently hooked herself up to a heart rate monitor and as her heart rate slowed, she made a certain type of line and as her heart rate increased, she drew a different type of line. Automatic drawings are abstract and engage your body in making the work, and whatever happens is a record of what you did during that time, she said.

Thornton’s favorite work of her own is a series of journals that acts as her creative routine. It contains her responses to the 2016 election, collages, business cards that she’s collected, color samples, parking tickets, cutouts from magazines and kind text messages she printed out. “[The journal is] not the biggest or the fanciest or even the best executed, but it is so long and so ongoing that it requires a lot of dedication,” Thornton said. “I’m really proud of that.”

“There Was No Before”

Thornton is interested in natural patterns of growth, cell division, galaxies and the dissemination of information.

For this piece, she started with a picture of a sample, depicting cell growth in a dish, and later put down marks and played a video of cells multiplying. She mimicked this movement and turned the video off, finishing the rest of the growth on her own.

”No One Taught Me, I read It In a Book”

This is in acrylic. Thornton used her hands to paint instead of using a paintbrush because she thinks that the brush creates a barrier between the artist and the piece. With the rise of technology and communication, Thornton said certain degrees of removal have grown between people, and she wanted to mitigate that by not using a paintbrush.

”Your Existence Isn’t Impossible, Just Vastly Improbable” Each little mark in this painting is a fingerprint. Thornton’s inspiration for this artwork came from thinking about walking up the stairs in the dark and missing the top step. The world at first feels a bit unreal for a second, when reality becomes fuzzy. There is so much going on in this work even though viewers can’t see all of it.

When you get up close to the painting, which hangs suspended from a wall in Frick, it waves a bit. If you get close enough, it fills your whole field of vision, and all the dots start to move in an otherworldly vibe. Thornton said the painting looks like a gateway, but viewers can interpret it however they want.

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t was happenstance that first-year Pitt students Julia Lam, from East Brunswick, New Jersey, and Anjna Nair, from Fairfax, Virginia, got paired to share a practice target at the 2016 U.S. Archery National Indoor Championships in Virginia last winter.

They took a few deep breaths, kept their bodies perfectly straight and discharged their arrows, piercing a hole into a target 18 meters in front of them. In between shots, Lam and Nair’s small talk resulted in their realization that they’d be sharing more targets in the future.

Until they were next to each other at the championships, “neither of us knew we were going to Pitt,” Lam said.

But when Lam arrived on campus in August, the Student Organization Resource Center at Pitt told her the archery club — once a well-established organization at Pitt — had not been re-registered since the president graduated a few years ago.

So, Lam signed up to fill the position.

Within a month, first-year student Kira Zack emailed Lam and Nair asking if there was anything she could do to get the club started again. The trio is now taking the necessary steps to hold its first practice in the spring.

As archers, all three women have achieved individual success.

Lam, for example, has a bronze medal from the 2014 U.S. Archery National Indoor Championship and a silver medal from the 2014 World Archery Champion-

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ship of the Americas.

But reviving the archery club would give them a new and different opportunity of teaching and leading other archers who may not be as experienced. Taking the lead on this revival will also allow the three first-year students to meet other archers who are around their skill levels and share the same passion they do for the sport.

Lam originally got into the sport about five years ago when her sister suggested they experience something new, exciting and not as common as other sports may be. There was a range about 15 minutes from her house that offered classes for children and teens, so they decided to join.

In less than a year, Lam was competing against other individuals in small local competitions, mostly just for fun.

Eventually, she began going to states and nationals.

“I really enjoyed them and meeting people from different parts of the country,” Lam said.

From there, she tried out for the USA Junior Dream Team, which she became a member of during high school.

“Archery is important to me because I have met some of my best friends and mentors while doing the sport,” Lam says.

“Because it is a relatively small sport, the community is so supportive and has provided me with unique opportunities.”

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Archery, pg. 10 sioned by the Archery Trade Association, 21.6 million American adults — including 4.75 million women — participated in some form of archery in 2014, accounting for 9.2 percent of all Americans 18 or older.

Still, the sport is far from mainstream — especially in the middle of a city campus like Pitt.

While Lam said she’s grateful for the supportive group helping to get the team off the ground, there are a few obstacles that come with launching a group for a fairly obscure sport with little to no funding.

The re-registration process isn’t as difficult as starting from scratch, because most of it just entails filling out paperwork and making sure the club has at least 10 members and a faculty advisor.

Deciding how the club will run once it is officially registered and writing a new constitution to make significant structural changes will be the more difficult part, Lam said.

To help with costs, Lam, Zack and Nair plan to apply for a grant through

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USA Archery that will provide them with equipment — including bows, arrows, targets and arrow curtains — for no cost.

But before getting the funding, the trio must figure out where the club can hold practices.

In the past, Pitt Archery traveled off-

“[The Carnegie Mellon University archery club] carpools to a range about 45 minutes away from their campus,” Lam said. “If we are unable to find an oncampus location this year, we may begin practicing at the same range they go to.”

Nearby, CMU is also trying to revive

We are just trying to bring it back and make it better than it was before.

-Julia Lam

campus to an archery shop called Archer’s Edge about 20 to 30 minutes away to hold a few hours of practice.

Considering that archery is not a largely popular sport, traveling off-campus makes it more challenging to attract interest in the club, which is why they hope to find some on-campus options.

a club that’s been decimated by graduation.

“Losing all the seniors is something we’re still recovering from, but I noticed a lot of promise in some of the freshman members, so I’m hopeful about next semester,” said James Eby, the club’s president, who added that the group only has

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the funding to drive four people in rental cars to the range twice a week.

Right now, the women have pinpointed about 13 interested students who may want to participate in Pitt’s club, and they are also willing to take beginners who have never picked up a bow and arrow before. Lam says that resources will be limited, so keeping the club bounded to a small amount of members would be ideal.

The vision for the club is that the team can casually compete against other local universities, such as CMU, when it becomes more established and its archers gain more experience.

There are also regional and national collegiate archery competitions, such as the U.S. National Outdoor Collegiate Championships and a collegiate category of the multi-site U.S. National Indoor Championships.

“We already have a few competitive archers helping to organize the club that have competed in national events before, so traveling to compete in these events is likely in our future,” Lam said. “We are just trying to bring it back and make it better than it was before.”

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