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NEW MEAL PLAN COMING TO PITT IN JANUARY

SPLATTER, BLOT & BLOW

Rebecca Johnson Staff Writer

Erik Schuckers (right), the Center for Creativity workshop manager, leads Monday’s Splatter, Blot & Blow: Painting without Brushes event. Caela Go staff photographer

PITT ADMITS ADMINISTRATORS, RETIREES DON’T BELONG IN FACULTY UNION Neena Hagen

Senior Staff Writer Faculty union organizers have argued since June that Pitt deliberately inflated its list of 4,018 union-eligible faculty with hundreds of retirees and administrators in order to derail unionization efforts. Now, Pitt’s attorneys concede that their proposed bargaining unit contained at least 200 individuals too many. Since the last round of hearings in July, Pitt has admitted that several categories of individuals on the March 23 eligibility list — administrators, retired faculty and faculty who left Pitt years ago — don’t belong on it. That crosses off half the people in question,

and leaves union eligibility up in the air for about 200 more. Pitt’s legal team and union organizers gathered at Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board headquarters Monday for the start of a new round of hearings to debate whether or not those remaining names should be included in a faculty union bargaining unit.

hearings. Most individuals in the letter either left Pitt years ago or never held faculty positions, according to their resumés, LinkedIn profiles and Pitt pages. Marina Antic, now an assistant professor at Indiana University, hasn’t taught at Pitt since 2009. Pitt admits that faculty who left the UniverJoseph Charlton and Patrick Bateman sity years ago don’t belong in a faculty union earned advanced degrees from Pitt in 2005 and The University sent a letter to organizers on 2008, respectively, but there’s no indication that Oct. 31 with a list of 89 “faculty” originally in- either ever held a faculty appointment. cluded on the eligibility list that Pitt’s legal team Matthew Connell and Aaron Cecala both would now “agree to exclude.” Pitt’s attorneys left Pitt in 2014. presented the letter at Monday’s faculty union See Union on page 2

A pizza from Pie Express or a gyro from Halal Pitt could be on your meal plan next semester – if you’re willing to outsource. Elevate Meal Plan, a privately owned company started by University of Virginia graduates Seth Kramer and Josh Cohen, has partnered with 12 local restaurants to provide a twist on the concept of a meal plan — students will be able to purchase a meal plan through the company where they get between 45 and 105 meals per semester at a fixed rate. The greater flexibility and variety of meals is what made Lauren Matulevich, a sophomore pre-physical therapy major, interested in getting an Elevate meal plan when she moves into an apartment for her junior year. “I want to live in Bouquet, so I don’t know if I even want a Pitt meal plan, so Elevate is something I would look into,” Matulevich said. “I probably would have gone for it as a freshman, but I would definitely go for it now just because I know what I like.” Elevate is currently on nine other college campuses after being established at UVA in 2016. Kramer and Cohen came up with the idea for Elevate after founding a catering company, FlashCater, for fraternities and sororities at UVA. Elevate Meal Plan is separate from Pitt Dining’s meal plan and can only be purchased on the company’s website. Kramer said Pitt is a perfect addition to their company because of the close proximity to so many restaurants. “We think students are excited because Pittsburgh is a great market for Elevate,” Kramer said. “There’s so many great restauSee Meal Plan on page 2

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Several dozen individuals in the letter once held research or teaching appointments but left Pitt between 2015 and 2018, according to their Pitt pages and LinkedIn profiles. One former lecturer, Jack Klingler, calls himself a “retired guy” on his LinkedIn profile — he retired from Pitt in 2016. The letter comes on the heels of a Pitt News investigation from October, which found that more than 100 of the inclusions on Pitt’s list of union-eligible faculty either supervised dozens of faculty or retired from Pitt years ago. According to precedent set by Temple University’s faculty union in 2015, faculty must have taught in both of the past two semesters to be considered eligible for a union. None of the individuals in Pitt’s letter have taught classes in the past year. Six names from the letter — Antic, Seymour Drescher, Peter Koehler, Roy Marangoni, Marianne Novy and Frederick Pettit — were also listed in the investigation as individuals who likely did not belong in the bargaining unit because they all stopped teaching at Pitt several years ago. University spokesperson Kevin Zwick said that after Pitt submitted its list of union-eligible faculty to the PLRB March 23, its attorneys “stipulated a small number of individuals who were either included or excluded in error.” “This was a result of our rigorous review of over 1,500 pages of paper-based employee records from all five University campuses,” Zwick added in an email. Pitt has also agreed to include up to 15 indi-

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viduals who weren’t originally on the eligibility list, according to the letter. Pitt agrees to exclude administrators from a faculty union Pitt’s attorneys presented a list of 152 administrators at the Monday hearings — deans, provosts, chancellors and department chairs, whose names were all enumerated in the The Pitt News’s October investigation — that Pitt now claims don’t belong in the bargaining unit. Organizers complained as early as July that administrators should not be included in the bargaining unit. Individuals who hold “supervisory” positions are typically not allowed in a union with the employees they supervise, according to the Public Employee Relations Act, which governs union policy in the public sector. All deans control dozens of faculty employment contracts, so including them in a faculty union would place them on the same side of the bargaining table as the faculty they supervise. One administrator on the list, Associate Dean Holger Hoock, testified on behalf of administration at a set of graduate student union hearings in October 2018. Five months later, Pitt’s attorneys included Hoock on the list of faculty eligible for a union. Pitt now admits that administrators don’t belong in a faculty union, but Zwick claims they were rightfully included on the list. “While the University proposed categories of who should be excluded as a manager or supervisor, we did not have agreement from [union organizers],” Zwick said. Union organizer Robin Sowards called Pitt’s claim “absurd.” “We made clear … that we [wanted to] exclude the various deans, presidents, provosts

and chancellors since they are all supervisory and/or managerial,” Sowards said. There’s no longer much disagreement between organizers and Pitt’s legal team about which individuals should be excluded due to their supervisory status. At the hearings Monday, organizers also submitted a list of 145 administrators they recommend excluding — only seven fewer than on Pitt’s list. The two parties will iron out any discrepancies between those two lists at Tuesday’s hearings. Other than that, this week’s hearings will also address the roughly 200 people whose union eligibility is still in question. In July, PLRB Hearing Examiner Stephen Helmerich declared hundreds of inclusions on the eligibility list to be questionable and ordered Pitt to turn over employee records to organizers. Sowards said the records show that some people on the list haven’t been employed by Pitt in many years, some people that organizers have challenged do, in fact, belong on the list and some inclusions that are still up in the air because the record either doesn’t elucidate the individual’s employee status or because the document is “unreadable.” Union organizers hope to determine the final size of the bargaining unit by the time the hearings wrap up on Wednesday. The PLRB would then rule again on whether union organizers collected enough signed authorization cards to prompt a union election in spring 2020, since the initial “showing of interest” fell short in April. “The question now is not whether [Pitt] packed the list but by exactly how many hundreds they packed it,” Sowards said.

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Meal Plan, pg. 1 rants within walking distance of campus, so we think our service is resonating with Pitt students who are looking for an alternative to traditional dining halls.” Elevate has currently partnered with 12 local restaurants — JJ Poke Bowl, Night Gourmet Market, Lotsa Pizza, Treats and Beans, Halal Pitt, Little Asia, Pie Express, Milano’s Pizza, Prince of India, Ali Baba, Forbes Gyro and Sorrento’s Pizza Roma. Kramer also said Elevate is looking to partner with more restaurants before the start of next semester. The Elevate meal plan is similar to the Pittaffiliated plan in that students pay a set price for a certain amount of meals. While Pitt’s prices have not been finalized, Kramer estimated the price will be around $9.50 per meal. Pitt’s meal plans average out to about $9.50 to $12 per meal depending on what tier a student chooses. Kramer also said his company’s plan is more cost-effective because businesses typically lower prices to attract students. “We’ll be announcing our final pricing soon, but typically our prices are approximately $9.50 per meal,” Kramer said. “Elevate provides a better value than using cash as well. Restaurants often give discounts of up to 20% to attract business away from dining halls. In addition, restaurants can choose to offer rewards on the Elevate app, giving students a free meal for every 10 meals they use on Elevate at that restaurant.”

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Ady Barkan proves power lies in activism Devi Ruia

Senior Staff Columnist As the 2020 presidential election approaches, everyone is focused on what the candidates can do to beat Donald Trump. While that’s important, we also need to think about what everyday Americans can do — and that’s where activism comes in. Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., landed an endorsement from progressive activist Ady Barkan a couple weeks ago. In a powerful video framed as a message for his newborn daughter, Barkan detailed the reasons why he and his wife, Rachael, are supporting Warren. This endorsement is crucial, not only because of the clout Barkan has gained among progressives, but because of who he is as a person. Barkan has spent his entire career advocating for social and economic justice. This hasn’t changed in recent years, even though Barkan’s health has been deteriorating as a result of ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The life expectancy for people with ALS is about two to five years after diagnosis. Despite being diagnosed about three years ago, Barkan hasn’t slowed down his activism. He’s fighting harder than ever to affect positive change — and we could all learn something from him. Prior to being diagnosed with ALS, Barkan worked as a lawyer. Alongside the Center for Public Democracy, he ran the “Fed Up” campaign designed to advocate for economic justice, as Barkan believed that the current economy wasn’t working for most Americans — particularly minorities. The purpose of Fed Up was to confront the Federal Reserve to get members’ concerns heard, and after several protests the Federal Reserve finally agreed to listen to Barkan and other Fed Up participants and sit down with them to discuss their concerns. This was a huge victory for Barkan and a large step forward in the fight for economic justice.

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Activist Ady Barkan recently endorsed presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren. Image via Wikimedia Commons A little over a year after being diagnosed with ALS, in 2017, Barkan went to Washington, D.C., to protest the GOP Tax Plan that could have resulted in severe cuts to health care. The bill ended up passing, despite the efforts of Barkan and many other individuals, and it is one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation to date. While activism wasn’t new for Barkan, being in a wheelchair was. However, he was using his newfound disability to bring more attention to the health care cause. Luckily, the country started to pay attention to Barkan following the protests. On a flight home after the protest, Barkan happened to find himself on the same plane as then-Senator Jeff Flake. In an emotional ex-

change that went viral, Barkan urged Flake to vote against the bill in order to protect health care for vulnerable Americans like Barkan. While Flake ended up voting for the bill, the events in D.C. and on the plane still helped Barkan discover a newfound purpose for the remainder of his time left. “It was through collective struggle, I began to realize, that I could find my personal liberation,” Barkan wrote in his memoir, “Eyes to the Wind.” “I could transcend my dying body by hitching my future to yours. We could transcend the darkness of this moment by joining the struggles of past and future freedom fighters.” A lot of people in his situation would have

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given up, not done something as courageous as Barkan in dedicating his time to activism. Many individuals don’t even vote, much less organize to create change. Barkan is an inspiration and more people need to join him in the fight to affect change. In the almost two years since his viral confrontation with Flake, Barkan has refused to give up fighting for positive change. From testifying in front of Congress to advocate for Medicare for All to protesting Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, Barkan is out there giving everything he has to make our country better. “In terms of your legacy, Ady, I think it will be very clear that even with the terrible illness that you’re struggling with right now, that you didn’t give up, that you understood that — especially given your illness — that you could play a significant role in rallying the American people toward a sane and humane health care system,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in a conversation with Barkan. Barkan’s legacy will be that despite everything he has dealt with, he has not given up the fight. Hopefully his story and his activism will help inspire others to fight as well, as we are at a point in our country where the need to stand up for what is right is incredibly crucial. While it may be easier to just ignore politics, it is imperative that every American pays attention and at minimum shows up to vote. However, taking steps to get involved beyond voting are just as important. More Americans need to start engaging in activism, whether that be through protesting, calling elected officials or encouraging others to get involved. If Ady Barkan can dedicate the remainder of his time on Earth to fighting for democracy, average Americans should at least join him in that fight. Devi primarily writes about politics for The Pitt News. Write to her at dvr7@pitt.edu and follow her on Twitter for more hot takes @DeviRuia.

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Culture

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more of a film community rather than just coming to see a movie by yourself,” she said. “People go into the taproom now to have discussions.” Also in Lawrenceville, Kickback Pinball Cafe features an assortment of more than 20 pinball machines for visitors to play. Manager Stephanie Duffield said that people visit Kickback for the pinball machines, then find themselves surprised to discover that the cafe also serves coffee, food and allows customers to bring their own alcoholic drinks. According to Duffield, 70 of the top world pinball players live in Pittsburgh, making the City a hub for the pinball community. “People come here specifically for pinball and then find out we serve sandwiches and good coffee,” she said. “But pinball is the main draw.” Across the City on the North Shore, Mana Boardgame Tavern opened its doors last month. Though Mana is located down the street from Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field, it’s The Kickback Pinball Cafe in Lawrenceville features an assortment of more anything but a sports bar. The tavern sells than 20 pinball machines for visitors to play. Image via Kickback Cafe drinks and a small selection of food and offee for tickets to see a certain number of get around those laws. We’re able to show fers board games from the couple’s personal movies per month and have access to perks things that other movie theaters literally collection for patrons to play. like free popcorn. Obermaier said she was can’t show.” The idea for a board game bar came drawn to Row House’s weekly themes — According to Obermaier, the combi- from Shannon’s love of games, a need for like this week’s, which celebrates Japanese nation of the theater’s film club member- more space for the couple’s collection and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki — and its abil- ship and Bierport’s location next door has the desire to start their own bar. Shannon ity to show films that audiences rarely get helped the theater form a tightly knit com- said that her love of board games was lifethe chance to see on the big screen. munity. She said patrons aren’t just coming long, as her parents started collecting rare “With the way that certain laws and to Row House alone, they’re coming to see board games when she was a child. studios are starting to affect theaters, Row movies with their friends and talking about Find the full story online at House is an exception to those things,” she them over a beer in the taproom. said. “We aren’t first run so we’re allowed to “We’re trying to branch out and make it

Niche hangouts around town Thomas Wick

Senior Staff Writer Brown Chicken Brown Cow, in which players must use modeling clay to construct images of sexual innuendos that other players must guess, is just one of the games available to play at the newly established Mana Boardgame Tavern. Mana Boardgame Tavern is the creation of couple Shannon and Vince Ebbitt, who both took their passion for board games and bartending to the next level with their new business. Not only is Mana, located on the North Shore, the only board game bar in Pittsburgh, but it is the latest in a trend of niche bars and restaurants in the Pittsburgh area, including Row House Cinema — adjacent to beer distributor and tap room Bierport — and Kickback Pinball Cafe, a pinball arcade, both located in Lawrenceville. Row House Cinema, which opened in 2014, screens strictly classic films on the big screen, offering popcorn and beer as refreshments. Row House shares its space with craft beer distributor Bierport, which sells individual cans and bottles of beer from all over the country and features a basement taproom with 19 taps. Delena Obermaier is director of Row House’s film club, a membership service where patrons can pay a monthly or yearly

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IS PITT’S BEST PLAYER … JUSTIN CHAMPAGNIE? Kyle Saxon Staff Writer

Just a few weeks prior to the Pitt basketball season, it wasn’t certain that first-year forward Justin Champagnie would play a single minute in 2019-20. Suffering a knee injury in the offseason, Champagnie was seen wearing a bulky brace shortly after, causing concern that he could miss significant time. Head coach Jeff Capel said in September that the injury “could be” season-ending. But his diagnosis shifted from a potentially torn ACL to a sprained knee, and he was cleared to play for Pitt’s season opener against Florida State. Since that time, Champagnie has done more than just contribute — he has perhaps become the Panthers’ best player. And despite the seemingly small eight-game sample size, Champagnie’s early success is not to be taken lightly. At this point last season, then-first-year players Xavier Johnson and Au’Diese Toney led Pitt in scoring and rebounding, respectively. When the season ended, they had only further established themselves as the team’s leaders in these aspects of the game. After his 21-point, six-rebound performance against Northwestern on Wednesday, Champagnie now leads the Panthers in both categories with per-game averages of 12.3 points and 5.8 rebounds. Whether he can hold these statistical leads remains to be seen, but what’s certain is that he will continue to be a leading force for the Panthers. Most people did not predict that Champagnie would make such a sizeable impact this early in his Pitt career. He joined the Panthers this summer after reclassifying to the class of 2019, and was the lowest-ranked recruit in Pitt’s 2019 class by 247Sports. His preseason knee injury didn’t help his outlook. Rebounding and general lack of size were Pitt’s biggest flaws last season. Although Champagnie stands just 6-foot-6 — relatively short for an ACC forward — his instincts on the glass and his remarkable athleticism have made him a formidable force in the post. His skill set has also translated to the defensive end, as Champagnie constantly excels at protecting the rim and defending the post. Though he starts at the power forward position and spends much of his time down low, Champagnie has

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First-year forward Justin Champagnie (24) leads the Panthers in points and rebounds per game. Kaycee Orwig senior staff photographer proved to be extremely versatile. In the Florida State game, he knocked down two absolutely pivotal 3-pointers from the corner to propel the Panthers to victory. Champagnie has struggled shooting the basketball since that game, making just 18.5% of his shots from deep on the season. But his clean form and 84% freethrow rate indicate that his shooting numbers should come up over time. In the meantime, Champagnie has scored by making savvy cuts to the rim for alley-oop dunks and easy finishes inside. He can score the basketball in many different ways as well as defend and play multiple positions, making him sort of a Swiss Army knife for the Panthers. Champagnie hails from Brooklyn, New York — the birthplace of former Pitt greats like Levance Fields and Travon Woodall. Jeff Capel has repeatedly expressed a desire to recruit heavily from the state of New York, and it’s easy to see why. There’s a heightened level of toughness, grit and passion associated with the area, and Champagnie has exemplified that so far. He has displayed the energy and fortitude that the Panthers need to take them to the next level as a team. Star sophomores Trey McGowens and Johnson head-

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line Pitt’s lineup, but it’s quite possible that Champagnie will finish the season as Pitt’s most valuable player. Johnson and McGowens possess greater talent, but this has allowed opposing teams to focus their game plans on stopping them. With teams playing aggressive defense on the two guards and crashing in on drives, it is essential for Pitt to have a player who can spot up in the corner, make cuts on the baseline and serve as an overall scoring threat on a potential kick-out pass. Champagnie has displayed an elite ability to do all of these things, allowing not only himself to make an impact, but also open up the floor for Pitt’s primary ball handlers. The Panthers won first place in the Fort Myers TipOff tournament last week, with Champagnie earning MVP honors. This accolade epitomizes the overall impact he has had in all eight of Pitt’s contests thus far. And though it’s likely that either Johnson or McGowens will overtake the scoring lead — while graduate center Eric Hamilton has recently looked like a rebounding machine — Champagnie remains Pitt’s primary X factor. He may be a newcomer, but he’s already proving to be a star for this Panther team.

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