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Student finds insect in Market food Dale Shoemaker News Editor

Sodexo and Pitt are investigating how a maggot-like insect infected a plate of pasta Friday at Market Central. Pitt student John Buchner, under the handle @Johnny_JBe, tweeted out a video at 10:58 a.m. Friday, Nov. 6, that shows a close-up of a dish of pasta with meat sauce, with an insect that looks like a maggot crawling between the noodles “@PittDining my buddy found a maggot in his meal at market today. S*** quality food, disgusting. Want my money back,” The Pitt Dance Ensemble performed at their annual Dance or Die event Friday night. See online for full story. Buchner said in his tweet accompanying the Wenhao Wu STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER video. In the video, a man’s voice can be heard saying, “Oh my [expletive] god. This is [expletive] Market for you. Holy [expletive].” The video, which appeared to be a Snapchat the 1983 NFL Draft while Ditka coached Ironically, Covert, who allowed only video, included a caption that read, “Never Chris Puzia the Chicago Bears. Covert played eight three quarterback sacks in his fi nal three Assistant Sports Editor eating Market ever again.” professional seasons and was a part of Ditseasons at Pitt from 1980 to 1983, came on After Pitt’s running backs totaled 34 Abdou Cole, resident district manager ka’s Super Bowl XX championship team. the fi eld aft er Pitt surrendered two fi rstof dining services for Sodexo at Pitt, said he rushing yards in the first half Saturday, fans “In coaching, I don’t mess around. half sacks to the Irish. met with Buchner Friday afternoon after he may have wished Jimbo Covert was still on When I saw something I liked, I got it,” “It’s just a tremendous honor. It was truthe team instead of in the crowd. tweeted the video. Ditka said. “I had an opportunity to pick a ly unexpected but very much appreciated,” While Pitt’s present prospects looked According to Cole, Buchner said the inyoung tackle out of the University of PittsCovert said in a pre-game press conference fected plate wasn’t his but his friend’s plate, bleak in a 42-30 letdown loss to No. 5 burgh, and when I saw him from day one, with all the special guests. “Pitt football Martin Hutto, who also tweeted out the vid- Notre Dame, the school took a moment at we broke it down and knew he’s a guy we is a bond that we have with the guys we eo at 11:02 a.m. Cole said he had reached the half to look back on past successes. The wanted.” played with. We’re lifelong friends since we out to Hutto, who is also a Pitt student, to program honored Covert by retiring the Covert became the 10th player in Pitt were all 18. Pitt football is what keeps us meet with him as well, but had not heard former offensive lineman’s No. 75 jersey, history with a retired number, but rather together. ” with former Pitt greats Tony Dorsett, Dan back as of Sunday afternoon. than bask in that accomplishment, he notDitka, who played tight end at Pitt from Cole said Sodexo managers met with the Marino, Mike Ditka, Bill Fralic and Jackie 1958 to 1960, took Covert sixth overall in See Football on page 9 See Market on page 5 Sherrill on the field to support Covert.

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Professors, inmates talk prison education Leo Dornan

For The Pitt News A crowd of professors and social justice advocates cheered on inmates who shared their personal stories on higher education in prisons during a conference at Pitt this weekend. People from all over the country gathered in the William Pitt Union Ballroom Saturday morning for the fifth annual National Conference on Higher Education in Prison. From Friday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Nov. 8, educators and inmates gathered at various Oakland locations, including the Cathedral of Learning and the William Pitt Union, to discuss how to bring more education to prisons. Held in recent years at Saint Louis University and the University of Illinois, the committee decided to host this year’s conference in Pittsburgh due to the efforts of Cory Holding and Peter Trachtenberg. Both Holding and Trachtenberg are assistant professors in Pitt’s English department and have promoted justice within the Pittsburgh community through their writing. Justice for inmates and maintaining their visibility and humanity were common themes throughout the conference, which aimed to spark TNS

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Pitt staff discuss implementing strategic plan Emily Migdal

For The Pitt News After weeks of student-led discussion, faculty and staff had their turn to comment on the Pitt administration’s proposed strategic plan Friday in the William Pitt Union. On Friday, Nov. 6, the Staff Association Council, an organization representing University staff, discussed the implementation of Pitt’s strategic plan from noon to 1:30 p.m. The workshop-style forum allowed 80 staff members to give input to the working groups of faculty and staff who created the plan, including David DeJong, who helped organize the student forums. DeJong, executive vice provost for academic planning and management, opened the discussion with a short presentation outlining the five strategic goals — which include strengthening the Pittsburgh com-

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munity and focusing on diversity and inclusion — and explained the shift into the next phase of the project. Staff members from different units or departments broke into groups of five to 10 and discussed ideas about how to implement the goals. “By far the biggest goal was to give folks the chance to weigh in on ideas for advancing the institutional plan, that’s what we’re all about now as we’re in the implementation mode of the plan,” DeJong said. Because of time constraints, faculty members only discussed two of the five goals during the hour and a half-long meeting. DeJong and Pam Connelly, associate vice chancellor for inclusion and diversity, guided the discussion, starting with goal four, building foundational strength, and later shifting into goal five,embracing diver-

sity and inclusion. Staff members expressed concern with the lack of communication between and within units — such as a need for a more streamlined decision-making process, the inability to recognize co-workers and the difficult computer systems. Many faculty and staff brought up how difficult it was to meet people in other schools and departments and suggested that the University host more large faculty events, such as this summer’s faculty picnic. “People mentioned the picnic as an opportunity just to get out and talk to other folks,” DeJong said. To improve communication between departments, multiple groups suggested combining the departmental newsletters. Currently, faculty members can subscribe to school’s and department’s informational

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newsletters. Those who want to stay updated on more than just their own unit can already subscribe to other newsletters. After each group had a chance to speak, the presenters took over the conversation. Connelly shifted the focus to embracing diversity and inclusion by mentioning the extensive discussion of this topic at the second student forum. Associate Vice Chancellor Ronald Frisch and Connelly worked together on the diversity and inclusion goal and policy, which consists of recruiting a diverse student body, faculty and staff, integrating global perspectives into the curriculum and expanding study abroad programs and other forms of engagement with diverse cultures. “We’ve been doing a series of task forces See Council on page 5

Conference, pg. 2 education efforts for people incarcerated in the Allegheny region. Through education, presenters at the conference said prisoners can reclaim their sense of personhood and come to terms with where they are in their lives. “It’s important to be mindful of the community around you, especially if that community is invisible,” Holding said. To make inmates more visible, several men from McKean Federal Correctional Institution, a prison in Lewis Run, Pennsylvania, spoke at the conference via video stream. Inmate Anthony Boyd and three other inmates gave a presentation and spoke with members in the audience — the first time in the conference’s history an interaction like that had ever happened. “You’ve heard us called ‘inmates,’ ‘felons,’ but we prefer ‘incarcerated students,’” Anthony said. Organizers, including Holding and Trachtenberg, geared the conference toward academics who visit prisons to teach college-level classes, a program they referred to as “teaching inside.” The majority of the 150 attendees were either professors or former inmates who have benefited from these classes. Ed Wiltse, an English professor at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, teaches literature and writing courses on campus and at the local Monroe Correctional Facility. The courses are identical in their grading and content, Wiltse said, something that often surprises both sets of students because both are held to the same high standards. “It always pushes my buttons — in a good way,” he said.”Everything [one of the speakers] said made me stop and go ‘whoa.’” Several of the more than 50 speakers were either currently incarcerated or had been previously. Nikkia Roberts, in the first year of her 10-year probation after 10 years in prison for armed robbery, led a discussion on the difficulties of re-entry after incarceration. A lack of concrete rehabilitation programs in prisons, Roberts said, makes re-entering the free world more difficult. Roberts said she regained some sense of her self-worth through higher education in prison. She described how she came to terms with the crime she committed and acknowledged that she placed herself in that situation. Then, tak-

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ing university-level theology classes though Emory University, she found new hope. Even with that hope, Roberts said re-entering the free world after being in prison for 10 years was anything but easy. “Crimes become your identity in prison,” Roberts said. “The only people that know me after 10 years [in jail], the only ones I could ask for recommendations, are those that knew me in prison.” She related this hard truth: people just released from prison lose a significant amount of their lives and many contacts on the outside.

The only people Roberts could conceivably ask for recommendations of any sort were the people who came into the prison and taught classes. She could not forget her time in prison without forgetting the only contacts she had, Roberts said. For Roberts, the ultimate success of higher education in prisons was its ability to keep her from falling into despair, and its ability to remind her of her worth, she said. “Success is changing the culture. Inspiring wardens to see themselves as deans of university campuses,” said Tony Gaskew, professor of

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criminal justice at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, in an earlier talk Saturday morning. Gaskew spoke of how prisons foster cultures of anger and desperation, discouraging the inmates and staff alike. Education can transform prisons into places where inmates can retain their humanity and a sense of hope for the future, Gaskew said. But we must not base success solely on the number of classes available to the inmates, or the number of degrees they receive. “You have to educate the soul,” he said.

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Council, pg. 2 across the University, essentially asking staff, what is diversity, what’s inclusion?” Frisch said. Diversity is not a straightforward, onesize-fits-all topic, the discussion will constantly change depending on who is engaging in the conversation, Frisch said. “We spent a lot of time looking at units within the organization and saying what makes up these 30,000 strong people that walk on this campus every day,” Frisch said. To implement the goal of inclusion and diversity, the University wants to create an accepting environment. “Inclusion is bringing it together in a way that says we’re one, but we are one in a very different way,” Frisch said. To some staff members, the administration is not doing enough to diversify on campus. Kristin Bentrem, project coordinator within the Office of the Provost, suggested that rather than having diversity as an individual goal, it should act as an umbrella over all the goals. “Because diversity and inclusion is a difficult topic to pigeonhole into a specific entity, if you expand that thinking and filter it through all of the goals of the institution, it’s

Market, pg. 1 Market employees who served Hutto the pasta. Cole said the employees said they hadn’t noticed anything unusual in the pasta before they served it to Hutto. “We’re collecting information and talking to employees,” Cole said Sunday. Cole said he could not answer most questions about the incident until a Pitt spokesperson could review his answers. Neither Buchner nor Hutto responded to requests for comment by Sunday afternoon. After Buchner tweeted the video, news

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more likely to take shape and grab a foothold,” Bentrem said. Discussion within the breakout groups ranged from how to incorporate diversity into the curriculum — a concern that staff members expressed at the student forum, according to DeJong — to figuring out how to change recruiting methods to better diversify the staff. “Diversity has a lot of different ways of manifesting itself, and what I heard is, make sure that we don’t focus too narrowly on that question,” DeJong said. According to DeJong, now that there have been both student and faculty discussions, the next step is for the strategic planning team to find common themes — such as diversity – in order to integrate ideas from all perspectives on campus. The need to embed diversity into the curriculum is one thing DeJong heard from both sides. “We heard that a lot from faculty, and you heard the same thing from students, and so then that then becomes a major thing that we need to make sure we nail,” DeJong said. As the group only discussed two of the five goals at Friday’s meeting, many staff members felt another conversation is necessary to ensure that the University hears all their ideas. “I’m hopeful that there will be more sessions like this that people can share their ideas from,” Bentrem said. of the incident spread on social media, even prompting an unknown Twitter user to a launch a @pittmaggot account, joking “(low key, I recommend the pasta for dinner).” Pitt Dining replied to Buchner’s tweet about 40 minutes later saying, “@Johnny_ JBe OMG! Please DM us immediately so a Market manager can meet with you & your friend. We take these complaints very seriously.” In response to other tweets from twitter users, Pitt Dining has tweeted twice since Friday that it was investigating the situation and would post updates when it had them.

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Opinions Correction: In an article published Nov. 5, 2015, The Pitt News wrote that The Huffington Post’s writer, Samantha-Jo Roth, did not talk to Ted Cruz for an article titled “Ted Cruz Wants Only Conservatives to Moderate Future Debates.” Roth did speak to Ted Cruz during a press conference held following the Iowa GOP’s Growth and Opportunity Forum. The Pitt News regrets this error.

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Mizzou football team right to reject ‘sorry’ university inaction A swastika drawn with human feces on a Missouri University dorm wall is a loud and clear message of heinous bigotry. This hate act warrants a swift response of zero tolerance and outrage, not the vague acceptance Timothy Wolfe, the University of Missouri president, gave the campus. Rightfully, the students are outraged. On Saturday, the Legion of Black Collegians, the black student government, posted a photograph to Twitter of more than 30 black football players linking arms with Jonathan Butler, a graduate student staging a hunger strike in protest of the racial discrimination running rampant on their campus. An accompanying message described the football players’ refusal to participate in any football related activities until Wolfe resigned or the university removed him over his negligence of marginalized students’ experiences. Wolfe said in a statement on Thursday, “Racism does exist at our university and it is unacceptable.” “It is a long-standing, systemic problem which daily affects our family of students, faculty and staff. I am sorry this is the case. I truly want all members of our university community to feel included, valued and safe.” But “sorry” is not enough. It is one thing to want an inclusive campus, it is another to boldly fight for it. The Missouri football players’ reaction sets a precedent for how universities should handle racial discourse. The football players were not targeted or involved in the racial conflict on the University of Missouri campus, but that doesn’t matter. As a part of the university’s community, the pain felt by several students on their campus is pain felt by all. “The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team truly believe ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’,” accompanied the

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photograph tweeted by the Legion of Black Collegians. The football players, with the support of their coaches, speak from a position of power and influence for all marginalized students. Given their playing goals and the scholarships they wield, they take a phenomenal but worthwhile risk by refusing to play and protesting the administration. Race relations at the University of Missouri have long been strained. According to a 2006 Survey of the Racial Climate at the University of Missouri’s Kansas City campus, 58.4 percent of African American students and 25.5 percent of non-African American students strongly disagreed, or disagreed that the campus was free from racial conflict. Prior to the scrawled swastika, students had thrown cotton balls around Mizzou’s Black Culture Center, abused Payton Head, the Missouri Students Association president and an African American, as he walked home and shouted racial slurs at members of the Legion of Black Collegians rehearsing for a play in a campus plaza. Clearly, a critical response was long overdue. By linking racial discourse to sports, the players broaden the conversation to a community that does not simply consist of students of the university, but also the fan base and national audience behind University of Missouri sports. On Monday, the football players will discuss their boycott. We encourage you to listen and consider the severity of their message and the need for response. Like these players, we must all reject the public relations-friendly, passive acceptance of ingrained problems. Someone drew a swastika with excrement. The student body needs to hear the administration institute a zero tolerance policy, not tell them they are “sorry.”

I don’t want big sister watching me

Courtney Linder Senior Columnist

“The Hot Tea” is a weekly column dedicated to unearthing the intricacies of London’s social, political and millennial issues in the context of Pittsburgh’s own complex culture. LONDON- I have my own personal paparazzi — London’s closed-circuit television cameras, a governmental video surveillance system. According to The Association of Chief Police Officers, cameras catch my mug shot about 70 times on a typical day. In the United Kingdom, roughly 1.85 million CCTV cameras lurk around any given corner, waiting to snap me committing a crime — or, more likely, picking my nose. Although London is the world’s capital for Orwellian video surveillance, it’s not the cameras that make my skin crawl. I’m more perturbed by the invisible hand of government that may soon spy on all U.K. Internet activity. Last Wednesday, Home Secretary Theresa May announced draft legislation for a Investigatory Powers Bill, in stark opposition to the United States’ own surveillance policies in a post-Edward Snowden era. In short, the United Kingdom is infringing upon its citizens’ virtual privacy, while the United States has been trying to ease up. While the draft is necessary — a means of updating investigative telecommunications for the 21st century — it needs some revision before the United Kingdom’s Par-

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liament finalizes it next year. The bill seeks to retain a record of the Internet services a specific device has connected to — like a website or instant messaging application — that is captured by the company providing access to the internet for up to a year. There must be some way to assure that the government does not abuse this information by infringing on the privacy of its citizens. The United Kingdom should also acknowledge how this bill can affect international relations, specifically with the United States, which places a higher premium on privacy. Under the Investigatory Powers Bill, the government will require companies to store all Internet connection records, or ICRs, for one year. On Nov. 4, May described these as “simply the modern equivalent of an itemized phone bill.” However, keeping a log of every website you’ve visited is far more personal than simply viewing the numbers you’ve dialed. While phone records don’t necessarily show the content of your call — just its recipient — a log of all the websites you’ve visited in the past 12 months is inherently personal. Snowden described the proposal succinctly as resembling “a list of every book you’ve ever opened.” If May is legislating this retention of records, shouldn’t she also make an effort to acknowledge the privacy rights of U.K. residents? How can Britons be sure they have adequate privacy? See Linder on page 7

Linder, pg. 6 The foundations of the bill point toward a United Kingdom with more transparent Internet curation, though with no added measures for privacy. This lack of privacy echoes a British sentiment that is utterly head-scratching to an American whose government has hammered the ideals of “freedom” into her head from a young age. According to a 2014 TNS poll, a 71 percent majority of Britons believe that the government should “prioritize reducing the threat posed by terrorists and serious criminals even if this erodes people’s right to privacy.” Imagine an American saying that. In the United States, we are seemingly obsessed with the principle of freedom. According to a study by Pew Research Center in spring 2014, 74 percent of Americans said they should not have to give up privacy and freedom for the sake of safety. In January, Prime Minister David Cameron made it clear he wanted to increase Internet surveillance in response to the Charlie Hebdo crisis in Paris earlier this year. “We need to work with these big companies to make sure we keep peo-

ple safe,” he said, according to The Independent. placed record storage decisions in private comThe newly appointed U.N. privacy chief, Jo- panies’ hands. It was a huge success for individuseph Cannataci, even described current digital al freedom and privacy against the prying eyes of surveillance in the United Kingdom as “worse” the government. than anything George Orwell imagined. He went It’s strange that after the Snowden revelaon to call the surveillance “a rather bad joke at its tions, the United States reacted by increascitizens’ expense.” ing individual priMeanwhile, in vacy, while the United the United States, Kingdom is effectively the National Sesquashing it. Snowden curity Agency damaged U.S. national continues to lose security and prompted power after whisan extensive debate tleblower Snowden about government released classified surveillance. How is government docuit, then, that the U.K. ments. The Senate government can’t passed the USA pass legislation like Freedom Act the Investigatory Powers Bill? on May 26th, More imwhich replaced Nikki Moriello VISUAL EDITOR portantly, how the Patriot Act that expired the day before, largely in response will a bill like this play out in a global economy where so many businesses are based in the to Snowden. The USA Freedom Act ended the NSA’s mass United States but interact with British citizens? collection of Americans’ phone records, restored Perhaps a British judge gains a warrant to view some expired powers to security agencies and a U.K. citizen’s conversation with an American,

but the U.S. citizen has more rights to privacy. How will the two governments make a compromise in this scenario? Surely without streamlined laws for international corporations there will be mishandled cases. Before this draft reaches the final vote next year, there needs to be some amendment for not only assured privacy but also a uniform way to handle U.S.-U.K. relations. Theresa May is right to address government surveillance legislation — it’s been a long time coming. However, it is imperative that the U.K. government respects its citizens’ rights to privacy and transparency in the same way the United States has attempted. Neither government is perfect. Conversations about security and privacy are inherently complex. But the Investigatory Powers Bill really must have George Orwell turning in his grave. There’s no way he could have predicted the Internet era’s curmudgeon of a watchdog. To me, Theresa May has effectively earned the title Big Sister — and if Big Sister is watching me, I want to know exactly how and why. Courtney Linder is a senior columnist at The Pitt News, primarily focusing on social issues and technology. Write to her at CNL13@pitt.edu.

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Dan Fisher knew a win over No. 22 Louisville this weekend would sharpen Pitt volleyball’s NCAA Tournament chances, especially given his team’s season-long road struggles. That upset win never came, as Pitt (20-6, 10-4 ACC) lost a five-set heartbreaker on Friday in Louisville, Kentucky. A road win over a ranked team carries more weight with the tournament selection committee, but Pitt still salvaged a crucial 3-0 sweep on Sunday over a weak Notre Dame team to bolster its conference record. “[Beating Notre Dame] was absolutely critical if we want to make the NCAA tournament,” Fisher, Pitt’s head volleyball coach, said. Still, a road win over a ranked Louisville team would have made reaching the postseason significantly easier. Early in the first match against the one-loss

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Cardinals, Louisville used a 15-9 run to build a lead. But Pitt dug in and mounted a strong comeback to win the first set 25-23. The Cardinals had less difficulty in the next frame, winning 25-15, thanks to its .314 hit percentage. “Louisville is a strong defensive team,” Fisher said. “They challenged us in a lot of ways.” Fisher said one of these challenges was putting away points after volleys, where they struggled until the third set. In this round, the Panthers shut down the Cardinals’ offense, holding them to a .026 hitting percentage while they increased their hitting to better than .300. Pitt easily went on to win 25-10. At 21 apiece in the fourth set, Louisville scored two straight points to take a 23-21 lead. Knotted at 24, the Cardinals won two points on a service error from libero Angela Seman and then

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noted that it takes organizational strength to create these opportunities for players. He said Chancellor Patrick Gallagher brought in “a winning team” with athletic director Scott Barnes and head coach Pat Narduzzi. “It’s the whole administration, it’s the attitude they’re trying to establish,” Covert said. “We want to be excellent in everything that we do as a university — and not just on the academic side, because it’s a great research and academic institution, but on the athletics side as well.” Despite the decisions Covert praised, the game he watched at Heinz Field didn’t replicate that organizational success. On Saturday, Pitt’s running backs totaled just 46 rushing yards and averaged 2.9 yards per carry. While those poor numbers result from

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more than offensive line play, Dorsett said in 1975 his line’s strength helped power his 303yard performance against Notre Dame. The AllAmerican added that Saturday was the perfect day to retire Covert’s jersey because of the longlasting rivalry with the Irish. “That rivalry that we’ve created over the years, it’s gotten intense,” Dorsett said. “When I was a kid watching them on Saturday mornings, I always said, ‘Man, I’d love to one day play for them or to play against them and do some wonderful things.’ And fortunately, I was able to play against them.” Notre Dame finished Saturday’s game with three sacks for a combined 25 yards lost, as well as 28 yards on tackles for losses. Covert said before the game that regardless of the result, he is encouraged by the direction Narduzzi is taking the program. See Football on page 10

Volleyball, pg. 8 a kill from outside hitter Maya McClendon to win the set 26-24. This forced the match to go to a fifth set, in which the first team to 15 points wins. After Pitt snatched a 8-5 lead, Louisville’s Erin Fairs hit seven kills to help Louisville revive and win the fifth set 15-11, taking the match 3-2. Graduate transfer outside hitter Kadi Kullerkann said the team didn’t let the loss linger, as Louisville was a quality opponent to face on the road. “It was just two really good teams battling back

and forth,” Kullerkann said. On Sunday, the Panthers faced a significantly more beatable opponent in Notre Dame (6-20, 1-13 ACC), and the visitors continued Notre Dame’s season-long struggles. The Panthers stormed out to a 14-10 lead to open the match. After a small charge moved the Irish within one point of the Panthers, the visitors won six of the next seven points to take the first set 25-19. Both teams had a strong offensive start, but Pitt’s gaudy 20 kills and .390 hitting percentage won out. Pitt kept up the momentum and never al-

lowed Notre Dame within three points the rest of the second set, closing out Notre Dame 25-22. Kullerkann led the Panthers with a game-high 17 kills in the match, and Jenna Jacobson tallied 30 assists to lead the team. Even though Pitt did not drop a set, Fisher said Notre Dame played stout defense and limited senior middle hitter Amanda Orchard. “They had a really nice game plan against Orchard,” Fisher said. “They limited her offensively, which is very tough to do.” Notre Dame put up a fight in the third set, but the Panthers took it 25-23 and swept the match

3-0. Pitt’s defensive intensity led the way for the team, particularly in the final frame. It held Notre Dame to its lowest hitting percentage of the match at .053, while maintaining the offensive output from earlier in the match. Explaining their defensive success, redshirt junior middle hitter Jenna Potts said the team formed a defensive game plan and stuck to it for the match. “We had a really clear idea what they were going to do offensively,” Potts said. “I think we blocked really well because we knew what they were doing.” In the bigger picture, the split weekend still keeps Pitt’s NCAA tournament hopes alive. The Panthers lost to a ranked Louisville squad, but most importantly for Fisher, Pitt pulled off a crucial road win against Notre Dame. “I don’t think it mattered that much emotionally, but it mattered a lot for our goal to make the tournament,” Fisher said. Pitt will continue its four-game road stretch Friday when it travels to North Carolina for a 7:30 p.m. match.

Football, pg. 9 “Pat just needs a couple more years of recruiting under his belt,” Covert said. “Get people in there that will be competitive. It doesn’t have to be all four- or five-star guys either. You just need guys that can play and have some heart and want to be part of the football tradition, and that’s what Pat will do.” Covert’s college teammate, Marino, said the atmosphere of hosting a top-five team reminded him of their playing days together. He talked to Pitt’s current team about the significance these games carry. “It’s great to be here for my main man Jimbo, my left tackle and my lifelong friend,” Marino said. “I told the team about the opportunity they have, to play Notre Dame and play at home to a sellout crowd. For these young kids, we’ve had our history, now it’s time to make their history.” Ditka said people of Covert’s caliber, as a teammate as much as a player, are a rare commodity. “You don’t get too many people like that who come around. He had the respect of the players and his coaches, and that’s important,” Ditka said. “He earned that respect by kicking people’s asses.”

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3 & 4 bedroom apartments. Available immediately. Newly remodeled. Air conditioning. Bigelow Blvd, N. Neville St. Call 412-287-5712 **AUGUST 2016: Furnished Studio, 1-2-3-4 Bedroom Apts. No pets. Non-smokers preferred. 412-621-0457 1-2-3-4-5 Bedroom Houses & Apartments. 376 Meyran, 343 McKee, & Atwood, St. James, Bates St. $1,095-$2,000. Call 412-969-2790 1,2,3,5,6,7, & 8 bedroom houses. August & May 2016. Bouquet, Atwood, Meyran. Please call 412-287-5712. 2 & 3 bedroom houses, Lawn & Ophelia. Available Now. Please call 412287-5712. 2 nice 3-bedroom houses. Good location. Rent $400/room. Available August 1st, 2016. 412-881-0550 or 724-757-3367.

Accepting applications for newly constructed large home in S. Oakland. Available August 2016. Excellent location to university, 2 blocks off Forbes. For further information call: 412-720-5023

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2-3-4-5-6-7 bedroom apartments and houses available in May and August 2016. Nice, clean, free laundry, includes exterior maintenance, new appliances, spacious, located on Meyran, Semple, Wellsford, Dawson, Juliet. 412-414-9629. 2,3,4,5,6 bedroom houses in South Oakland. Available for rent August 2016. Very clean with different amenities (dishwasher, laundry, AC, washer and dryer, 1-3 baths, parking, newer appliances & sofas) Contact Ken at 412287-4438. Renovated Large Three Bedroom Townhome for Rent. Available January 2016. The kitchen features frost free refrigerator with automatic ice maker, fullsize range, self-cleaning oven, dishwasher, garbage disposal and microwave. The bath has been completely updated. All floor coverings and window treatments are brand new. Your own washer and dryer are included. On University of Pittsburgh shuttle and PAT bus lines. Two blocks to Magee Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital. $1,275/mo, contact 724-422-2250.

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Brand new, completely renovated 5 BR, 2 full bath house. All appliances including washer and dryer are brand new and included. Too many features to list. Close to Magee Women's Hospital. On Pitt shuttle and PAT bus lines. 10 minute walk to Univ. of Pittsburgh. $2500/mo. 412-983-0400 3 & 5 bedroom. May 2016. Sarah St. Large bedroom, new kitchen, air conditioning, washer & dryer, dishwasher, large deck. 412-287-5712.

SMOKERS NEEDED! Researchers at UPMC are looking to enroll healthy adult cigarette smokers ages 18-65. This research is examining the influence of brief uses of FDA-approved nicotine patch or nicotine nasal spray on mood and behavior. The study involves a brief physical exam and five sessions lasting two hours each. Eligible participants who complete all sessions will receive up to $250, or $20 per hour. This is NOT a treatment study. For more information, call 412-2465396 or visit www.SmokingStudies.pitt.edu

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SEASONAL MARKETING ASSISTANT Shadyside property management firm established in 1960 neeeds two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Word, internet, & spreadsheet files from approximately December 15th to July 15th, four days/week from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Saturday and/or Sunday hours a must; some flexibility on days and hours will be considered; most hours will be solitary on the computer with no phone work; 40 WPM and strong computer skills required; no experience needed & we will train you at our Shadyside office; free parking. $12/hour plus generous season end bonus. MOZART MANAGEMENT www.mozartrents .com 412-682-7003

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November 9, 2015