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men’s basketball

LIONS LEVEL PANTHERS, 85-54

Trent Leonard Staff Writer

In a semi-final matchup of the Progressive Legends Classic versus Penn State, the Pitt men’s basketball team was annihilated by its in-state foe, falling 8554 in a game that was essentially over by halftime. The Panthers (1-3 overall, 0-0 ACC) had nothing going for them in a blowout loss to the Nittany Lions (4-0 overall, 0-0 Big Ten), falling behind early and failing to recover. Pitt could have used some of the shooting touch of two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry — who was watching from the Barclays Center sidelines — as the team shot an abysmal 31 percent from the field. After allowing two early 3-pointers, the Panthers first got on the scoreboard when junior guard/forward Jared Wilson-Frame countered with a three of his own. But Penn State quickly went on a 10-0 run and established an early 16-3 lead, prompting a Pitt time-out. Senior point guard Shep Garner led the Nittany Lions’ early attack with six points in the first five minutes. The Panthers continued to fall behind, chucking up 3-pointers instead of working the ball inside. Pitt went the first 10 minutes without making a 2-point field goal — first-year guard Marcus Carr scored the team’s first non-three with 9:31 remaining in the first half, making the score 27-11 Penn State. See Men’s Basketball on page 6

Andrew Masich (right), president of the Heinz History Center, talks about the current controversy surrounding American monuments at a panel discussion titled, “American Memorials in the 21st Century: A Monumental Mess?” Monday afternoon in Posvar Hall. Aaron Schoen STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

STUDENTS DEDICATE TIME TO DEVELOPING DRONE Anish Salvi

For The Pitt News Levi Burner had dreamed of making a flying machine since he was 8 years old. The junior electrical engineering student finally got his chance when he started to build a drone for the International Aerial Robotics Competition more than a year ago. “The fact that we have found a competition that follows that dream just gets me really excited,” Burner said. “I’ve always been a robotics fan, so I’ve been building robots since I was quite young.” Burner, along with the Pitt Robotics and Automation Society, engineered

a drone capable of flight to compete in the North American venue of the IARC, hosted at the Georgia Institute of Technology this past summer. The student group — which began work on the drone during the summer of 2016 — has since worked to improve their initial drone by developing its software and hardware so that it can compete again next summer. In the robotics competitions — which hosted Pitt students last summer and will do so again next year — the Pitt group competes against other teams to complete Mission 7. The mission specifically involves developing a drone that is capable of herding a group of roombas — moving robots — like sheep, from

one side of a 20 by 20 meter arena to the other. The drone must navigate without the aid of a GPS, or by using its distance between large objects, to determine its relative position. There are also moving targets which the drone must avoid. Because no team successfully completed this task at the competition this past summer, the mission remains the same for the upcoming competition. According to Burner, the type of technology developed for Mission 7 could have potential applications in search and rescue, the military and mapping. The See Robotics on page 2

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group members also mentioned that their drone’s technology is similar to what Amazon is developing in its drone delivery system — and that both are working on more precise landings. “[IARC’s Mission 7] aims to demonstrate something that cannot be done by a government or private entity — trying to demonstrate localization without global reference points,” Burner said. The team that earns the most points overall for both IARC competition venues — the North American venue and the Asia/Pacific venue, hosted at Beihang University — wins the competition. While the Pitt team did not have the most points last summer, it received an award for best system design for earning the most points at the North American venue.

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Liam Berti, a leader of the project and a senior electrical engineering student, worked on the drone’s circuit board, wiring and software. “This was a fun-looking competition that would be challenging for us, so we decided to take a crack at it,” Berti said. “This quickly became a lot larger than anything we’ve done before.” Starting with 20 members in the summer of 2016, the team has grown to more than 30 robotics enthusiasts. The seven leaders in the project — which include Burner and Berti — typically spend 20 hours per week developing the drone’s technology, while members are encouraged to work eight hours per week. But sometimes the project can be even more time-consuming. “Over the summer, we pretty much lived in the robotics room, so easily 70 See Robotics on page 5

Liam Berti (left) and Levi Burner (right) program the drone in their lab. Isabelle Glatts STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Volunteer, but not on Thanksgiving

Neena Hagen

For The Pitt News It’s Thanksgiving, and you’re bustling around the sweltering, crowded soup kitchen, maneuvering around your fellow volunteers, taking up practically every inch of space on the floor. Someone jostles your elbow, almost causing you to spill the giant pot of soup you’re carrying around. Despite the struggle, you’re at least comforted by the thought that you’re doing a good deed for the impoverished in your community today — you wouldn’t even spare another thought to consider how empty and barren this same kitchen looks every other time of the year. But even with the best of intentions, volunteering like this during the holiday season typically does more harm than good. Around Thanksgiving in particular, volunteers flock to soup kitchens and inundate food pantries with donations. Everyone during the holidays has the same idea — that they should share the spirit of gratitude by giving back to the rest of their community. But this overflow of volunteers actually harms efficiency of operation, and the surplus of food gathered on the holiday is often wasted. Midnight Mission, a charity operation in Los Angeles, is a particularly striking example of this problem. Spokeswoman Georgia Berkovich told LA Weekly in 2015 that the large volume of volunteers forces the charity to focus on Thanksgiving — as opposed to the needy populations they’re actually trying to serve. “The most difficult thing about these holidays is not feeding thousands of our homeless and near-homeless community but trying to accommodate the hundreds of volunteers that want to volunteer on Thanksgiving and the day after,” Berkovich said. Most small, local food banks and soup kitchens can accommodate a couple dozen volunteers at most. Even Midnight Mission,

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which serves meals to hundreds of homeless people daily, has limited access to space and resources. Training newcomers for a one- or two-day stint simply isn’t in the cards. As an alternative to volunteering during the holidays, people should consider focusing their generosity on other parts of the year that see less volunteerism and donate their time and effort with greater regularity throughout the calendar year — at times when homeless and impoverished people are struggling a great deal more. “The biggest need we have is the breakfast and lunch services on weekdays and the breakfast service on weekends [throughout the year],” Berkovich added. Federal holidays, too, such as Independence Day, Labor Day and Memorial Day are far better opportunities to step up and volunteer — many food pantries and soup kitchens are alarmingly understaffed during these times. If you still consider giving to the less fortunate during Thanksgiving a matter of necessity, the solution is simple — write a check. A dollar goes a long way toward fighting starvation and doesn’t carry with it the effort and inconvenience of having to train a new volunteer. And if you’re not keen on hand-writing a check, there are plenty of other ways to satisfy your craving for charitable giving. Technological advancement has put a modern spin on the charity game, vastly improving the way in

which we distribute capital. Websites such as GoFundMe, CrowdRise and GiveForward make it easier than ever to give to the cause or charity of your choice. There are ways to directly sync your Facebook account with charitable organizations, where you can not only donate from a social media platform, but can also share your generosity with your hundreds or thousands of friends — and encourage them to pitch in as well. Charity is a practice that builds social cohesion and more fairly allocates wealth throughout communities. And those who engage in volunteer work might be well-meaning, virtuous human beings, but their volunteer work, specifically during the holiday season, is ultimately misplaced generosity. Difficulties from society’s insistence that individuals volunteer their time and effort specifically on holidays like Thanksgiving go beyond issues of efficiency and effectiveness. The assumption amounts to a scathing indictment of our values and expectations as a society. Even though we’re social creatures, it seems no one

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Garrett Aguilar STAFF ILLUSTRATOR expects us to feel responsibility for the poorest among us except on a handful of days throughout the year. Of course, if we as a culture could establish a norm of volunteering and giving to the less fortunate on a more regular basis, we wouldn’t need to place so much emphasis celebrating rare generous acts during the holiday season. Perhaps if we as a society refuse to embrace our social dilapidation and once again view charity as, not a special occasion, but as a social expectation, we’d be able to more directly mend the wounds of the less fortunate wrought by classism, poverty and income inequality. This Thanksgiving, before you pat yourself on the back for donating a can of beans to your local food bank, take a moment to think about the people who would be just as grateful for a meal on all the other 364 days of the year. And after you mark your calendar for one of those days, you can sit back and enjoy your meal knowing that your help will make a difference where it’s needed the most. Write to Neena at nnh7@pitt.edu.

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Feeding you the truth abou t Thanksgiving Jaime Viens

Contributing Editor Each year we celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November — we eat turkey, cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes to commemorate the 1621 feast at which Pilgrims and Wampanoags peacefully gathered in Plymouth, Massachusetts. And every year since, Americans have put aside their own family feuds and followed strict traditions to show their appreciation for everything they have. At least that’s the narrative most of us have been taught. But as it turns out, Thanksgiving might not actually be as rich in objective historical context and deep-rooted traditions as we’d like to believe. For starters, the 1621 harvest celebration between Pilgrims and Wampanoags in Plymouth is generally thought of as the first Thanksgiving. But Virginia, Texas and Florida all claim they hold the same title for various feasts held at earlier times within their states. And it wasn’t until 1789 when George Washington declared Thursday, Nov. 26, a day of “PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER ... to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.” After Washington’s declaration, presidential proclamations would announce Thanksgiving on different days and months each year. Thanksgiving hasn’t been a continual tradition since its inception nearly four centuries ago, and was not perpetuated as the more secularized holiday we know it to be today. But regardless of time and place of origin, there’s no question Thanksgiving is distinctly and traditionally American, right? Actually, Canada, Germany, Japan, Grenada, Liberia and many other countries all have their own variants of Thanksgiving with histories dating back

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much further than our own. And even here in the United States, diff erent fferent cultural communities incorporate their own traditions into the celebration. Tom Carabuena, uena, junior communication science and disorders orders major, celebrates his heritage by eating deep fried turkey alongside traditional Filipino dishes like mechado, beefsteak and pancit. “I like that there’s a mix of things because se we still have a more traditional Thanksgiving meal, but we’re also able to share our culture and d enjoy our own food,” Carabuena said. “So we really get the best of both worlds.” But how traditional are those foods to begin with? That oven-baked pumpkin pie and perfectly roasted turkey the Pilgrims and Wampanoags famously feasted on way back ack in 1621? Unfortunately, this too is an eyeopening myth of Thanksgivings past. Itt was during the mid-1800s that a woman named ed Sarah Josepha Hale created many of the “traditional” recipes we know today. Hale, an influential 19th-century author, education advocate and editor of the magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, became widely known for publishing the latest in literature, fashion and cooking trends. But Hale was also a history buff and, after reading about the 1621 feast, became the country’s firstt and leading champion for turning Thanksgiving giving into a national holiday. She published recipes for turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, modified from foods she believed may have been present around the time of the first feast. While there may have been cranberries and pumpkins, it’s unlikely that either were cooked down and mashed. And turkey is never actually mentioned in firsthand accounts of the harvest fest, but fowl and venison are. So Hale’s annual editorial urging Thanksgiving’s inauguration as a national holiday was actually the start of many food traditions we

know today. Along with her editorials, Hale began a campaign encouraging people to write letters addressing the president, as well as all members of Congress and governors of U.S. states and territories, in the hope of establishing Thanksgiving as an official

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national holiday. Still, it wasn’t until Lincoln’s ProcProc lamation of Thanksgiving in 1863 that the holiday gained national status and the last Thursday of each November became a tradition, though not a set date. But during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933, its date began to split the nation. Business leaders argued that if the holiday was held on the last Thursday of the month, just 24 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas wouldn’t leave enough time for holiday shopping. They asked Roosevelt to move the holiday up one week with the goal of stimulating the economy

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during the Great Depression. Roosevelt refused, but when the same concern arose again in 1939, he conceded and declared that Thanksgiving would be held Nov. 23. However, in favor of tradition, many states chose to continue celebrating the holiday one week later, Nov. 30. Roosevelt would hold Thanksgiving on the second to last Thursday of the month for two more years. But this divide meant that families in different states were often unable to celebrate together. together Public outcry grew so strong that Congress passed a law Dec. 26, 1941, declaring Thanksgiving a set date to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November each year. Over the years, Thanksgiving has slowly been built up to the holiday we recognize today. The truth is, Thanksgiving has grown from so many invented traditions, many of us remain misinformed about its origins. But while we may blur the line between those traditions and their realities, the principles of gratitude and togetherness the holiday has always been rooted in remain clear.

Robotics, pg. 2 plus hours a week working on the drone, especially getting into later months,” Berti said of the lead-up to the competition. For that competition, the team concentrated on building a nimble drone capable of flight. Now, with the award for best system design in hand, the group will focus on improving the drone’s herding ability. The team faced several challenges while working toward their first goal — building the drone. One issue was unreliable thrusters — engines that help maneuver the drone — which affected the drone’s flight stability. The group also had several minor crashes while testing. “Upkeep of the drone has always been a challenge,” said Burner. “We had to get very good in modifying the different parts when they were broken.” The robotics team is currently working on the drone’s hardware so that it will be capable of carrying necessary sensors and equipment. The group is also working to develop artificial intelligence and obstacle detection software for the drone in preparation for eventual full-scale testing. Aaron Miller, another team leader, is heavily involved in developing the drone’s software. The senior computer science and physics major will focus

on its artificial intelligence and perception software this year, which will allow the drone to herd the moving robots in preparation for IARC’s next competition in July 2018. “The IARC Competition we went to is international so there are teams from all over North America, so the level of competition at the IARC is much higher than any level of competition we’ve done before,” Miller said. Burner attributed most of the team’s success this year at the IARC competition to the debates the members of the robotics team often have in order to bounce ideas off each other and figure out what works best. Miller said much of the knowledge required to build the drone is self-taught. “A lot of the things we do are things we don’t learn in class. We taught ourselves a lot of these things,” Miller said. “And when we bring in new members, we try to pass those things on as they’re working on the project.” Miller said the team has a lot of freedom with how to carry out the project, so spending the time to develop the technology demands a large amount of self-motivation — which he said most of the team members have. “All of this stuff we’re doing outside of class, just because we think it’s cool. We don’t really do this to win the competition, although that’s a nice bonus,” Miller said.

Senior electrical engineering student Liam Berti (left) and junior electrical engineering student Levi Burner (right) test out their 10-pound drone in preparation of the International Aerial Robotics Competition. Isabelle Glatts STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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HURRICANES TO BLOW AWAY

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Receiver Jester Weah breaks a tackle before running to the 1-yard line in the final minutes of Saturday’s loss to Virginia Tech. John Hamilton MANAGING EDITOR

Men’s Basketball, pg. 1 Pitt’s inexperienced roster — which entered the season just three returning players — struggled against Penn State’s more experienced roster. Pitt went ice cold from the field, making just 28.6 percent of its first-half shots. On defense, the Panthers allowed their opponent to make 17 of 33 field goals, including six 3-pointers. The Nittany Lions went on a 15-1 run to end the half, giving them a 47-21 lead and deeming the game a foregone conclusion after just one frame. Sophomore guard Tony Carr led Penn State’s offensive

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eruption, scoring 14 points and sinking all four of his 3-pointers. Wilson-Frame led all Panthers with eight points, while no other player managed more than three points. Down 26 points, and with a win nearly out of the question, the Panthers entered the second half looking to preserve their dignity and prevent the deficit from growing any larger. Senior guard Jonathan Milligan kept Pitt afloat with five quick points to start the half, but the Panthers failed to get stops on defense and fell behind even more. Penn State led by 34 points, 63-29,

with 11 minutes remaining in the game. After a jumper by Wilson-Frame, the Panthers went on a nine-minute scoring drought in which they went zero for 12 from the field. Senior forward Ryan Luther finally ended the dry spell when he hit a free throw with eight minutes remaining, making the score 69-30. For the remainder of the game, head coach Kevin Stallings took the opportunity to give floor time to some of Pitt’s less-experienced players, including firstyear Nigerian prospects forward Samson George and center Peace Ilegomah. Ilegomah went 2-2 from the free throw line

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Trent Leonard Staff Writer

The Pitt football team has one game remaining to resurrect a season defined by missed opportunities. The Panthers’ bowl hopes are over, meaning they are motivated by just one thing — ruining their opponent’s perfect season. Pitt (4-7 overall, 2-5 ACC) hosts No. 2 Miami (10-0 overall, 7-0 ACC) Friday in the Panthers’ final game of the season. The Panthers enter the contest riding a twogame losing streak in which they prodded the line between victory and defeat, ultimately dropping both games to seal their bowl-less doom. Leading University of North Carolina by four points in the fourth quarter, Pitt appeared to be in line for a week 11 victory Nov. 9. Instead, the Panthers let the ACC’s bottom-ranked team march down their home field to score a game-winning touchdown. The Panthers had another chance to win over the weekend, this time against a quality opponent in Virginia Tech. After redshirt senior Jester Weah’s 74-yard fourth down reception, the offense had four tries to score a game winner from the 1-yard line. But they came up short each time, and fell 20-14 to the Hokies. If the Panthers could have taken advantage of these late-game opportunities, they See Preview on page 6

and also contributed four rebounds. By the time the final buzzer sounded, six Penn State players had tallied double-digit points, led by Carr’s 16 points. Wilson-Frame was the only Panther to score double digits, leading the way with 17 points, while Pitt’s Carr was second with nine. Luther, normally a leader on the Panthers’ young roster, produced an uncharacteristically poor performance in which he made two of 11 shots. The Panthers remain in Brooklyn to take on Oklahoma State in the tournament’s third-place game with the tipoff set for 3:30 p.m.

Preview, pg. 6 would be 6-5 and eyeing up their tenth consecutive bowl game. Instead, the team currently stands at 4-7 and a loss on Friday could give the team its worst finishing record since 1998. “We’ll use Miami as a measuring stick to find out where we are as a football team, how far we’ve grown and learned through the entire year,” head coach Pat Narduzzi said Monday. However, a loss seems likely, especially with a matchup against the undefeated Hurricanes. Miami has dismantled quality opponents, beating Virginia Tech 28-10 and Notre Dame 41-8, in two of the last three weeks. Those teams were ranked 13th and third, respectively, at that time. But their so-far-perfect season hasn’t been all easy. Despite blowing out ranked teams, Miami has struggled with lesser opponents. The Hurricanes squeaked out victories over Florida State, 24-20, Georgia Tech, 25-24, Syracuse, 27-19, and UNC, 24-19. Pitt falls into the same realm as these unranked, mediocre teams, so the Panthers could have a chance of catching the Hur-

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ricanes off guard and giving them a close game. Even though many of Miami’s wins have been ugly, it takes more than luck to go 10-0. The Hurricanes’ success can be attributed to, among other things, their turnover chain — a massive, 10-karat Cuban link necklace complete with a bejeweled Miami “U” logo. “They’ve got that chain going and the U and the whole deal,” Narduzzi said. “They’ve got confidence that they’re going to get turnovers every time they walk out onto the field.” Since the beginning of the season, the chain has been bestowed upon any Miami defender coming to the sideline after forcing a turnover. This incentive has gained national popularity, but it’s more than a gimmick — the Hurricanes currently have the nation’s best turnover margin, having forced 27 turnovers and given up just 11. On offense, Miami outranks Pitt in every major category, including points per game (33.7 to 23.9), passing yards per game (265.3 to 219.9) and rushing yards per game (176.7 to 148.2). The Hurricanes’ attack is led by quarterback Malik Rosier, who has thrown for 2,620 yards

and 23 touchdowns this season in addition to 377 yards and five touchdowns on the ground. Sophomore running back Travis Homer has amassed 849 rushing yards and seven touchdowns, singling himself out as a lethal complement to Rosier. On the other side, Pitt’s leading rusher — junior running back Darrin Hall — has rushed for 598 yards and nine touchdowns. Hall had carried Pitt’s offense since he gained the starting job in week eight, rushing for 486 yards and eight touchdowns over three games, but he was stifled last week for just four yards on 15 carries. In his absence, first-year quarterback Kenny Pickett stepped up to throw for 242 yards after replacing sophomore Ben DiNucci in the second quarter. Narduzzi has been reluctant to play one quarterback for an entire game, insisting that the he’ll play whoever gives the team the best chance to win. DiNucci will most likely start, but unless he plays perfectly you can expect to see the up-and-coming Pickett under center at some point. Pickett showed flashes of legitimacy versus Virginia Tech and if he outperforms DiNucci again, he may take over the starting job

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heading into 2018. Whoever plays under center for the Panthers will need to exercise caution against Miami’s aggressive defense, whose 17 interceptions rank fourth in the nation. PREDICTION: Narduzzi has shown that he is capable of motivating his players to produce quality performances at unexpected times, as evidenced by last year’s upset victories over Penn State and Clemson. The fact that the Panthers are coming off two frustrating losses while the Hurricanes have won three straight games by 16 or more points may actually bode well for Pitt, as Miami has been known to start out lackadaisically against lesser teams. The Panthers will come out fired up and may take an early lead against the unsuspecting Hurricanes. Pitt’s defense will limit damage control for three quarters, while the offense does enough to keep the game close. But Miami has more to play for, and they’ll ultimately be motivated by their playoff aspirations. The Hurricanes will instinctively take over in the fourth quarter, preserving their undefeated season and dealing the Panthers their eighth loss. Miami: 30, Pitt: 20

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