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Most students take time over school breaks to recover from the high-stress of a chaotic semester — but Christine Chau often finds herself fending off a fever in bed. “Getting out of bed when I’m sick is the hardest thing to do. I feel like there’s a huge brick on my body preventing me from getting up,” Chau said, referring to her tendency to fall ill right when she gets a break from school and goes home. Just a few weeks ago, Chau spent her Thanksgiving break with bronchitis. Now, with the stress of finals peaking and winter break approaching, one Dutch psychologist’s theory suggests Chau could get sick again when she goes home. In 2001, psychologist Ad Vingerhoets coined a name for a phenomenon he called “leisure sickness,” meaning the tendency for some people to get sick when their stress levels drop. Leisure sickness isn’t an officially recognized medical condition — neither the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy make note of it — but Vingerhoets’ research suggests that certain psychological traits, like being accustomed to high amounts of stress, can cause some people to fall ill when reprieves from work relieve their otherwise constant state of stress. According to Vingerhoets’ research, around 3 percent of adults he studied attributed their weekend migraines or consistent illness when they had downtime to leisure sickness. Vingerhoets found that some of these people reported they worked too much during the week and then had trouble shifting from work mode to leisure mode, causing their immune systems to

The Pitt Symphony Orchestra performed its final concert of the semester Wednesday evening in Bellefield Hall.

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CITY OFFERS HOPE FOR RENTAL REGISTRY Pittsburgh City Council has preliminarily approved a bill to set up a log of all rental property in Pittsburgh. Council’s final vote is set for Dec. 15. | by Annemarie Carr and Lauren Rosenblatt After delaying voting on its rental registry for months, Pittsburgh City Council gave a preliminary OK to the bill Wednesday, with plans to vote again next week. The City Council, which has been debating the bill since Mayor Bill Peduto introduced it in November 2014, voted to preliminarily approve the measure and move it to the floor

for a full council vote next week, according to Councilman Daniel Lavelle. Seven council members voted for the bill, which will create a citywide log of all rented property and impose a fee on landlords, while Councilwoman Darlene Harris voted against the bill and Councilman Corey O’Connor abstained. According to Neil Manganaro, community relations manager for City

Council President Bruce Kraus, the council will cast its final vote at the next City Council meeting Dec. 15. If the City Council votes to approve the bill Dec. 15, it will then go to Peduto’s office for his signature. Peduto first introduced the bill in November 2014, asking the city to create a log of every person who rents

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DEEP IN DEBT: PUERTO RICO TRIES TO MAKE CENTS

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Early this month, Walmart’s Puerto Rico branch threatened to throw its tea in the ocean over the commonwealth’s newest tax laws. Metaphorically, that is. What Walmart Puerto Rico actually did was file a lawsuit against Puerto Rico in which the company states the government “shortsightedly and illegally targeted Walmart Puerto Rico” as the result of a paralyzing financial crisis. In May 2015, Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García Padilla signed Act 72 into

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law and increased the Tangible Property Component. The TPC taxes transferred property from a related entity outside of Puerto Rico, meaning that Walmart will face higher taxes because it brings in a lot of product from other countries. Walmart alleges that García Padilla’s newest transfer tax is a cash grab in a desperate situation — Puerto Rico is $72 billion in debt. “Let us be clear: We have no cash left,” García Padilla said in a Senate Judiciary hearing Dec. 1. “This is a distress call from a ship of 3.5 million American citizens that have been lost at sea.”

A bonded economy econom Rican financial crisis has The Puerto R been brewing for some years but recentpoint because of a ly reached a tipping tipp downgrade on its it bonds that will cut the time Puerto Rico has to pay back its impressive debt. assistant cliniSheila Vélez Martinez, M cal professor of law la at Pitt, said the island’s crisis isn’t news. bound to happen, the econ“This was bou omy has been in trouble for a long time,” Martinez said. Martinez said Puerto Rico has only remained stable because of an economy stabl built on loans and bonds. Puerto Rico’s bonds completely exempt from taxare comp es, which makes them intriguing to U.S. bondholders. A llow rating from Standard nancial services company and Poor’s, a fin that provides analand ysis research on stocks and bonds, downgradd d ed Puerto R i c a n bonds to non-investment grade, or “junk status.” The downgrade triggered acceleration clauses, which would force Puerto Rico to repay certain debts within months instead of years. Puerto Rico made a $354 million payment the first week in December as an attempt to reassure investors that it would

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not default on its debt. But Sewon Hur, assistant professor of economics at Pitt, said that wasn’t enough. “They made a big show of paying back, but they already cut bonuses and raised revenue, so what else can they do?” Hur said. “Puerto Rico can’t sustain this payback, and it looks like [it is] going to have to default.” The question of statehood Many economists think filing for bankruptcy would be a more viable alternative for Puerto Rico than trying to settle its debt. But Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code allows municipalities of states to declare bankruptcy. The problem is a matter of legal definition — Puerto Rico isn’t a state, it’s a territory and can’t declare U.S. bankruptcy. “I’d be in favor of some sort of coordination to provide help,” Marla Ripoll, associate professor and director of graduate studies in Pitt’s economics department, said, adding she w o u l d advise a special Chapter 9 for Puerto Rico. Ripoll said Puerto Rico’s status as a non-st ate makes it difficult for its treasury to seek financial help. “In order to avoid a legal mess, the treasury may want to step in, but they technically can’t. The [International Monetary Fund] may not want to get involved

Let us be clear: We have no cash left. -Puerto Rico Gov. Padilla

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Registry, pg. 1 property under the same system. If the council and the mayor approve the bill, the Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspections will inspect each registered property once every three years to ensure it complies with city code. Kim Clark, deputy city clerk, said the council also added three amendments to the bill. In part, the amendments alter the fees landlords pay per unit — $65 each for 10 units or less, $55 each for 11 to 100 units and $45 each for more than 100 units. Properties such as hotels, motels, medical and rehabilitation facilities and college residence halls are not included in the bill. After City Council approval, the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority Board, which oversees the city’s finances, must approve the city’s budget before the council can enforce the fee. According to ICA Chairman Nick Varischetti, the mayor and City Council are respon-

sible for imposing the rental registration fee but the ICA initially turned down the mayor’s proposed 2016 budget. In November, Pitt’s Student Government Board passed a resolution in support of the registry because some members, including Governmental Relations Chair Patrick Corelli, held landlords accountable for the upkeep of their properties. “A big provision is that it’s a business license. [The properties] will be inspected,” Corelli said in November. “If landlords know there will be inspections and they will be held to code standards, they should take it more seriously.” Since SGB passed its resolution in support of the registry, Corelli has been working with students to show public support of the registry and to put pressure on the councilmen who don’t support the bill. “It’s really easy for us to get students to contact councilmen, it’s our councilmen asking us to do this,” Corelli said. “They’re working on the public support.”

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Leisure, pg. 1 falter. Vingerhoets said the symptoms of leisure sickness are usually mild and people who experience them know they’ll feel better when they begin working again on Mondays. Because of this, Vingerhoets said, people often don’t seek treatment for their ailments. “I think that there are globally two kinds of health problems — feelings of vague pains and extreme fatigue and more flu-like symptoms, including fever,” Vingerhoets, who studies the relationships between psychology and the body, said. Even though Vingerhoets’ diagnosis isn’t widely accepted, Marian Vanek, director of Student Health Services, said Mondays are the busiest days for walk-in appointments. “Typically we do see a few more students on Mondays as reflected in the number of walkins,” Vanek said. “This is one of the reasons why we have extended evening hours on Mondays.” Student Health sees an average of 31,000 to 32,000 student visits per year — 20 percent of which are due to cold, flu and upper respiratory illnesses, she said. Even for those students who don’t get sick on the weekends, transitioning from work mode to

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leisure mode is an essential skill, according to Karen Matthews, a psychiatry professor at Pitt. “Life engagement and purpose are fundamental building blocks of a healthy lifestyle,” Matthews said. According to Matthews, engaging in leisure activities, like taking walks or long baths, is necessary for a person’s health on many levels. Matthews’ own research has shown that people who participate in leisure activities tend to be healthier, suggesting those who do not take time for themselves and have large work or class loads for the week are more likely to become sick. Vingerhoets, too, said to prevent illness, people need to be aware of their work-leisure balance and may need to make adjustments to the balance and allow the body to unwind. People may feel symptoms on weekends and vacations more than they do during the week because the break gives them time to pay attention to the signals their body is sending. Chau said taking time for herself means watching Netflix or spending time with friends. Right now, however, she’s gearing up for another tiring finals week. “I just feel exhausted all the time, regardless of whether or not I just woke up or have been up for six hours,” Chau said.

Puerto Rico, pg. 2 because Puerto Rico isn’t a country,” Ripoll said. “That’s terrible. No legal entities to go to for Puerto Rico.” Walmart insists that in an unstable financial situation, the corporation has been one of Puerto Rico’s biggest economy boosters. “Walmart Puerto Rico collects more sales tax on behalf of the commonwealth than any other company or entity,” the almost 40-page lawsuit reads. “Every year, Walmart Puerto Rico purchases $1.6 billion of products from Puerto Rican vendors and suppliers.” The multinational retail brand alleges that the Puerto Rican government’s tax increase is aimed at megastores and that time is of the essence for the court to rejoin the law because Puerto Rico’s unstable economy leaves Walmart’s future as perilous as it is. Hur said the most likely course for Puerto Rico’s financial future would be for the island to default on its debt. For example, instead of paying off stu-

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dent loans when they’re due, a student could default and push the payments back for months or years. “Default isn’t pretending the debt doesn’t exist so much as it is a rescheduling [of the payments],” Hur said. Looking ahead As U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans can move freely from Puerto Rico to any of the 50 states, making it easier for people who have the means to escape the financial debacle. The steady flow of Puerto Ricans moving to the mainland United States began during the economic downturn in 2008, and Ripoll said it will most likely continue. “There will be more migration for sure, even if negotiations are good, I’m not sure the growth Puerto Rico needs to recover will come any time soon,” Ripoll said. At the moment, there is no agreement on a course of action. The financial situation is too complicated for any plan to be a realistic solution for all the contributing problems, according to Martinez. “Puerto Rico needs a major structural change, there’s no Band-Aid,” Martinez said.

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Push for change: Don’t criticize police scrutiny Police chiefs are feeling a little camera shy these days. With the advent of video footage of fatal police shootings flashing before the public’s eyes, police chiefs have faced radical changes in their work. They consider their jobs more difficult, more political and less secure. A story published in the New York Times Tuesday chronicled how police chiefs have begun altering their priorities — from simply solving crime to cultivating community relations — in response to the greater demand for accountability. Local police unions haven’t responded to the call for accountability with the same enthusiasm, battling chiefs as they alter their policies to make their forces more accountable. While the responses to the heightened scrutiny have varied, there is one response police forces shouldn’t adopt — backlash against scrutiny. As a result of probing, we’re witnessing police chiefs respond positively with change — that alone shows how effective it’s been. We need to maintain the heat to achieve the change we need. Confidence in the police is still low, and it’s going to take a lot of work — and openness — for police forces to restore trust within the community. According to a June Gallup poll, only 52 percent of Americans expressed confidence in the police, the lowest that confidence levels have been in 22 years.

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Police misconduct is rampant, and something we need to pay attention to. According to The Guardian’s “The Counted,” a database tracking the people killed by the police in the United States this year, police have killed 1,061 people this year — a number that is constantly increasing. In fact, our emphasis on police accountability is beginning to generate figures on police shootings that we haven’t tried to obtain in the past. Prior to The Guardian’s project, the FBI tracked police shootings using a voluntary program that allowed law enforcement agencies to choose to submit their annual count of “justifiable homicides.” As a result, only 1,100 police departments out of 18,000 agencies reported a “justifiable homicide” to the FBI between 2005 and 2012. In 2013, the FBI system only reported 461 justifiable homicides. But, following The Guardian’s project — and in line with new demand for police accountability from civilians — the FBI is planning to overhaul their current system that will publish a wider range of data and resemble “The Counted,” according to federal officials. Of course, change takes time, and we need to be realistic about our expectations of change. But we’ll never know how much of our eroding structure will budge if we don’t make the push.

ANXIETY DOESN’T HAVE TO CAUSE FINALS BLUES Mariam Shalaby Columnist

My eyes flew open, and the voice in my head greeted me with a frenzied recitation of my to-do list. It was 6 a.m. — tasks for chemistry, biology, violin, composition and housework ran through my head. An hour later, I stood in Hillman Library. As I waited for an elevator to take me to the fourth floor, I couldn’t help but rock back and forth on my heels. Why was this elevator so slow? With a sigh of exasperation, I turned around and ran up the stairs. That todo list still ran on loop through my mind. This was me exactly one year ago. There was a knot in my chest from the moment I woke up until I crashed on my bed 18 hours later. I didn’t know whether it was from the excess caffeine I consumed, the lack of sleep or my task list constantly running through my mind. But this routine continued all the way through finals week, and it was exhausting. Pushing ourselves too hard — or too little — is not a good thing. Extreme

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anxiety leads to poor decision-making, lower test performance and a worse mood. Maintaining moderate levels of anxiety throughout the semester encourages higher academic performance. Stress and anxiety results in a lack of motivation or focus — among other physical ailments — according to the Mayo Clinic. According to multiple studies — including one by UCLA professor of psychiatry Andrew J. Fuligni, UCLA graduate student Cari Gillen-O’Neel and Calif o r n i a State Univ e r s i t y, Northridge child and adolescent development professor Vi rg i n i a W. Huynh — cramming is actually counterproductive. They found that students who sacrificed sleep time to study were more likely to have more academic problems. Seems pretty obvious, right? Well, not until I was waist deep in my own worries at the end of fall semester did I decide to change something. When spring semester rolled around, I relaxed my approach — but I also took on more responsibility. I might have tak-

But this routine continued all the way through finals week, and it was exhausting.

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Shalaby, pg. 6 en it a little too far. In short, I didn’t accommodate the extra pressure that would result. The voice in my head still nagged, but I ignored it. After being in Godzilla mode at the end of fall semester, I felt put off by the idea of being anxious. So I slowed down my life and told the voice in my head to scram. But that was problematic. I didn’t just stop waking up early — I lacked the drive to get started early and get things done immediately. This turned into a loss of foresight and motivation to think ahead about the consequences of taking my time. Instead of being hyperconscious about my time, I wasn’t managing it enough. A study from the Journal of Educational Psychology found that students who felt like they had more control over their time reported better academic performance, increased work and life satisfaction and less role overload. They even reported less bodily tension. Once spring finals week arrived, I panicked. I found myself not as stressed as I had been the prior semester, but even more so. Instead of the voice in my head being purely anxious, now it was reprimanding me too. By calmly ignoring my responsibilities, I had put myself into the position of having to cram — which was just as harmful as the toxic sleep schedule I suffered through the semester before. One study at University of California, San Diego wanted to see whether time gaps between study sessions have an effect on material recollection on test day. They found that students who spaced their study sessions performed better than students who crammed. I noticed this. After both fall and spring finals weeks, the information that I crammed the night before the exam left as quickly as it had come. In fact, consistent, routine study sessions with frequent breaks are more effective methods of learning and retaining information long term. For me, this is especially important, as I’m studying infor-

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mation and skills I’ll need in the future. I can’t master biochemistry without a

chologist Doug Rohrer and UCSD distinguished professor of psychology Hal

I didn’t just stop waking up early — I lacked the drive to get started early and get things done immediately. solid foundation in organic chemistry. In fact, nobody can. University of South Florida psy-

Pashler conducted a study on the retention of information. They found that “mass learning” — or cramming — hin-

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dered long-term retention. A healthy level of anxiety helps maintain my motivation just enough to stay on top of my work without making me unhappy. If you feel too stressed for your own good, it’s time to cut back. Your mental well-being is much more important than a grade on an exam. Plus, your healthy mind is more likely to perform well than your mind functioning on too much caffeine and too little sleep. Don’t let finals slip into your dreams and dominate your life. Mariam Shalaby primarily writes on social change and foreign culture for The Pitt News. Write to her at mas561@pitt.edu

Culture LANGUAGE ALOUD IN LIBRARY Star Wars see online: Episode V

Louisa Lightfoot (far right) and other students take advantage of the Carnegie Library’s free language classes. Rio Maropis | Staff Writer

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Every first and third Tuesday of the month, Oakland’s Carnegie Library encourages its visitors to get chatty. That’s when the Japanese Conversation Club meets, in the library’s large print room. Nearly 20 participants sit at three separate tables. It’s obvious that attendees are familiar with each other and that they’re passionate about the language. They’re bubbly, and conversation moves quickly. Louisa Lightfoot, a Pitt senior studio arts major, gets the conversation going by tossing a softball-sized fabric block onto a table. She leans forward to read the phrase on the side of the block that’s facing the ceiling, written in Japanese. Five young men and women are seated around the table with her, and they simultaneously lean in to get a better read. A few seconds of comprehension pass, and they break out into smiles.

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“Movies,” the block prompts. The young men and women start up a light conversation in Japanese about their favorite films. In addition to Japanese, the library offers free classes in Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, German, French, Spanish,

who are projected to arrive in the United States in the coming years. Mayor Bill Peduto has said that he expects as many as 500 Syrian immigrants to relocate to the city within the next 18 to 24 months alone. Each language class has at least one lev-

At school you learn what you learn. It’s different than spontaneous conversation. -Louisa Lightfoot

Italian and English, according to senior librarian Bonnie McCloskey. “It’s a need,” McCloskey said. She likened this trend to the influx of immigrants

el — an introductory course for beginners or a conversation club for those with more experience. Most languages have classes for both levels, as well as at an intermedi-

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ate level. Each class typically meets twice a month for an hour as part of a growing trend in libraries across Allegheny County, where nine others are continuing to develop language programs. “It’s worth it to come,” Lightfoot said. “At school, you learn what you learn. It’s different than spontaneous conversation,” she said, which she can have at the library. Before coming to the classes, Lightfoot didn’t have any experience speaking Japanese, so she became involved with the free language programs at the Carnegie Library. Curriculum for each language class restarts each spring, summer and fall. New participants can join casually, as each class breaks into small groups based on skill level, McCloskey said. There’s no actual enrollment or paperwork — all it takes to participate is to walk into the classroom. Volunteers lead every language class — most are native-speaking immigrants, but some are professors and graduate students. See Language on page 11

INARRITU’S ‘REVENANT’ A TRIUMPHANT RETURN

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Subtle acting and masterful directing lift “The Revenant” Tarun Sathish

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In many ways, Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “The Revenant” is the opposite of his previous project, the Oscar-winning “Birdman.” For one, no character’s career is on the verge of breakout or implosion, as Michael Keaton’s was as “Birdman’s” titular character. But despite its title, “The Revenant” is less of a dramatic return for director Inarritu or either of his leading actors Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio — two of the most respected actors working today — and more of the expected continuation of already successful careers for all parties involved.

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TNS Ten minutes in, the director’s camera chases behind his characters engaging in a long battle scene on a river bed. With long takes, he moves from person to person as arrows shoot through heads, knives plunge into chests and horses trample men on the ground. Five minutes later, Inarritu has us on a boat creeping along the Mississippi River, and we can’t help but peer over our own shoulders. “The Revenant,” which Inarritu directed and co-wrote as an adaptation of Michael Punke’s 2002 novel of the same name, is the true story of western frontiersman Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), a well regarded fur trapper viciously attacked by a bear and left for dead by his group. Set in the 19th century Louisiana Territory — present-day South Dakota — Hugh’s fellow fur trader Fitzgerald (Hardy) initially agrees to stay with Hugh and his son, but a

fearful Fitzgerald — who already resents Hugh for marrying a Native American — kills his son and ditches Hugh. Physically broken but motivated by revenge, Hugh treks through 200 miles in the wintery expanse to find the man who wronged him. After winning three Oscars for his work on “Birdman” last year, all eyes were on Inarritu to see what he would do next, and he delivers by matching “Birdman’s” effort with exquisite determination. The shoot, which moved to southern Argentina after a mild Canadian winter, gained major controversy after complaints from the actors and crew of harsh filming conditions and a demanding schedule. The film utilizes entirely natural light, which extended the project longer than expected — but the final result is stunning. Unlike “Birdman,” this film has little dialogue, emphasizing a gritty tone instead. OfSee Revenant on page 11

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According to McCloskey, the size of a class may range from five to 50 adults and college students, but average class attendance hovers at around 12 to 15 people. Inspired by the Japanese anime films of Studio Ghibli, Lightfoot first became interested in learning the language when she was in high school. She visited the library regularly, and when she saw a flyer advertising the language class, she decided to get involved. “I wanted to create movies like that and work on animation,” Lightfoot said, which is why she began attending the free sessions. Dan Clothiaux, a first-year computer science graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, started attending classes after he returned from a year in Japan as an undergraduate student, where he learned basic Japanese. He said he wants to keep it in his working memory. “It’s important [to me] to keep the language up, as a skill,” he said.

ten the percussion and string-dominated score — arranged by Bryce Dessner, Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto — fills in for the absent dialogue, creating a suspenseful and ominous tone throughout. Inarritu also ditches the one-take shot he utilized in the playful “Birdman” for numerous layers of varying characters and terrain, complicating the tired revenge-survival story as a result. He introduces Native Americans, French tribes, the American fur traders and then Hugh separately, whose connection is not immediately apparent. In the film’s third act, Inarritu connects the puzzle pieces, magnificently building toward a larger reveal. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, who now has back-to-back Oscars for his work on “Gravity” and “Birdman,” seems like a lock to win his third award. He uses breathtakingly long takes — an Inarritu staple — in complex battle scenes that make the viewer feel they are right in the woods with the characters. Often a character’s breath fogs up the frame, or blood splatters across the corners. Lubezki goes into

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the water and off mountaintops’ snowy expanses. As we follow Hugh, we never lose sight of his situation’s hopelessness — the rugged landscape becomes just as important an antagonist as Fitzgerald. For all of “The Revenant’s” differences from the sporadic yet witty “Birdman,” Inarritu has once again dragged masterful performances out of his stars. Without them, this film would have failed, but both Hardy and DiCaprio were more than up to caliber. Hardy’s portrayal of Fitzgerald, as a man always on edge and with hair eager to escape his scalp, is always either on the verge to explode or implode. He speaks faster than he can think, his eyes bugged out and filled with fear and rage. Hardy played his villain as someone who always appeared to be somewhere else mentally, plotting his next move. He’ll surely be a contender for Best Supporting Actor, capping off what’s been a fantastic year for the 38-yearold Briton. But what DiCaprio did will certainly have him as a leading contender for the Academy Award. His role is almost silent, and by my count, he had fewer than 20 lines in English

in the entire movie. It’s a physical performance — he’s almost animal, with his famous baby face fully covered by a beard and long hair and speaking mostly in grunts of pain. Yet it’s still a subtle performance in many ways. He doesn’t let Hugh become a cardboardcutout hero motivated by love and vengeance — he makes him someone full of heartbreak and pain, loss and fear. In many ways this is the first time in his career where DiCaprio, now in his 40s, has appeared to be an adult. Even in “The Wolf of Wall Street” two years ago, he was passable as 20-something Jordan Belfort. He’s been gritty before in films like “The Departed” and “Blood Diamond,” but in those films he felt like a kid in a rough situation. Here, that’s gone. He’s every bit his age, and you’re afraid by how much sheer manliness he contains and the strength he still manages. Leave it to Inarritu to turn the boy we fell in love with in “Titanic” into a grizzled man. But despite the transformation, nothing about Inarritu’s latest project feels like a revelation. Instead, Inarritu has solidified himself as a reliable director capable of taking both washed-up and booming actors and churning out a masterpiece.

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NINE PITT PLAYERS EARN ACC COACHES’ HONORS Dan Sostek Sports Editor

After the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association honored a litany of Pitt football players in late November, the conference’s coaches heaped recognition on an array of Panthers. On Wednesday morning, the ACC released the 2015 Football Coaches’ Awards and All-ACC teams. It honored freshman running back Qadree Ollison and freshman safety Jordan Whitehead as ACC Rookies of the Year, while naming nine Pitt players to All-ACC teams, including a unanimous selection for junior wideout Tyler Boyd. The conference’s head coaches all submitted ballots for the awards. The

voting policy did not permit coaches to vote for their own players Ollison and Whitehead tied for the overall Rookie of the Year award, each receiving five votes apiece. Whitehead won the overall award the ACSMA presented in November. Ollison earned the Offensive Rookie of the Year award, earning eight votes of the 13 he was eligible for, while Whitehead earned the defensive honor, garnering nine of the possible 13 votes. Both received those awards from the ACSMA. Of the nine Pitt players the coaches placed on All-ACC teams, three of them earned first team honors. Boyd received the maximum of 39 points based on balloting, indicating that

every ballot named him to the first team, meriting a unanimous selection. After missing the first game of the season due to a suspension stemming from an offseason DUI incident, Boyd was dynamic, leading the ACC in receptions per game (7.7) and receiving yards per game (79.4). He became Pitt’s alltime leader in receptions and receiving yards this season. This is the second consecutive year coaches named Boyd first-team AllACC. They named him third-team in 2013, his freshman year. Senior defensive end Ejuan Price and redshirt junior offensive tackle Adam Bisnowaty rounded out the first team selections.

Price’s 11.5 sacks were the most made by a Pitt player since 2000 and led the ACC in sacks per game with .96 sacks per game. He was second nationally with 19.5 tackles for loss. Bisnowaty provided a steadying presence on the Pitt offensive line, as he and Dorian Johnson — who the coaches named to All-ACC second team — anchored the Pitt running game, helping Ollison to his tremendous rookie season. On the second team, Ollison, who earned a spot at running back, joined the junior guard Johnson. Ollison was the fifth Pitt running back to rush for 1,000 yards in his first See ACC on page 14

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Adam Bisnowaty

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dorian Johnson

darryl render

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Jordan whitehead

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ACC, pg. 12 season, finishing the season with 1,048 yards and 10 touchdowns after filling in for 2014 ACC Player of the Year James Conner, who was injured in the first week of the season against Youngstown State. Pitt placed four players on the third team — defensive tackle Darryl Render, Whitehead, linebacker Nicholas Grigsby and tight end J.P. Holtz. Render and Whitehead received thirdteam recognition from the ACSMA, while this is the first time the ACC has recognized either Holtz or Grigsby with a yearend honor. Render was a key piece on the defensive line for the Panthers, as the senior captain provided size and physicality in the trenches and finished with 16 tackles on the season. Whitehead was obviously a key contributor in his first collegiate season, leading Pitt in tackles with 99, and ranking ninth in the ACC in tackles per game (8.2). He also saw time offensively, carry-

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ing the ball 10 times for 79 yards and two touchdowns. A senior captain, Holtz had his best season as a Panther. He set new career highs in receptions with 24 and yards with 350, while tying a career high in touchdowns with four. The John Mackey Award Selection Committee named him to the Mackey Award watchlist earlier this season, given to the nation’s best tight end. Grigsby, a redshirt senior, was a fixture on Pitt’s defense, as the fast linebacker tallied 59 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and three sacks on the season. Pitt’s nine All-ACC nods were tied for the third most of any team in the conference this season, trailing only Clemson, which had 17, and North Carolina, which had 13, while matching Florida State’s output of nine. The Panthers will finish their season in the Military Bowl where they will take on No. 21 Navy and star quarterback Keenan Reynolds. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. Dec. 28, at Navy-Marine Corps Military Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.

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