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GREEK LIFE PROBATION FOLLOWED STUDENT HOSPITALIZATION
Pittsburgh Women’s March focuses on elections
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Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner put Greek life on modified social probation after a “serious alcohol incident,” he stated in a letter to both fraternity and sorority presidents Friday. The incident resulted in a student being hospitalized. The student’s family has been notified, University spokesperson Joe Miksch said. “This situation serves as a reminder of the expectation that members of the Pitt community seek help for each other in times of medical need,” Miksch said. In the letter, Bonner says this incident took place Thursday evening involving members and non-members of one fraternity on campus. According to the letter, Greek organizations are not permitted to serve alcohol while the incident is being investigated. Modified social probation, according to Miksch, means Greek organizations cannot “host, sponsor, or participate in any social activities in which alcohol is present.” “The circumstances surrounding this incident are extremely concerning and disappointing,” Bonner said. All Greek life leaders attended a meeting Saturday with Summer Rothrock, the director of the Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development, which houses Greek life. Rothrock said the meeting was to inform the Greek leaders about what being on social probation meant. Rothrock would not comment on the specific incident after the meeting, referring questions to University spokespeople. The Pitt News contacted University officials for statements but has not yet received comments. “This is a sobering reminder of the importance of examining the culture of our campus and our collective and individual roles in defining who you are and who you ought to be as a fraternity and sorority community,” Bonner said. “I look forward to our discussions.”
Two marchers cheer while passing through downtown Pittsburgh during Sunday’s Women’s March. Anna Bongardino | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Chants of “All love, no hate! That’s what makes America great,” projected through the streets of downtown Pittsburgh Sunday as citizens joined together to take part in the second annual Women’s March. For some, the day was about walking for someone else. Gerard H. Weiss, 73, of Washington, Pennsylvania, attended the march with his daughter Polly to walk for his wife Nancy Weiss, who passed away several days earlier. “She put in countless hours for women voters, really cared about democracy and seeing it destroyed under Trump, and she walked last year,” Weiss said. “I’m not a great walker, but that’s why I’m here.”
According to organizers, the crowd consisted of approximately 30,000 marchers of various ages, genders and races — a few thousand more than last year’s estimated crowd. Many of the people were carrying political signs to express their thoughts regarding the march, with one sign reading, “This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement.” The march was organized by the Women’s March on Washington-Pittsburgh and the voter education group Indivisible Pittsburgh. This year, the organizers of the march incorporated the national new theme — “Power to the Polls” — into the march, which focused on the importance of voting in the upcoming midterm elections. Mayor Bill Peduto, who said he attended the march in support of the women of Pitts-
burgh, said voting in non-presidential elections is critical to changing “what’s happening right now in Washington.” “The midterms will be the bellwether of 2020, but even more important, they will dictate where this country will go the next three years,” Peduto said. “If we want to see change happen we can’t wait until the next presidential [election]. You have to be out there.” The event started at the Pittsburgh CityCounty Building at 11:30 a.m. Several candidates running in the midterm elections, including Democrat Summer Lee, who is running for the 34th Pennsylvania Senate seat, and Democrat Mike Devine, a candidate for the 20th Pennsylvania House of Representatives seat, had the chance to speak See Women’s March on page 3
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Obituary: Professor Theodore Cohen transformed chemistry department
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When Bret Cohen was visiting home from his university studies one day, he asked his father, Theodore Cohen, “What do you do when you feel sad or depressed?” “I think about the way brown rice in a double boiler cooks,” Theodore said. At face value, a strange concept — but it makes sense when considering Cohen’s thought process. “He loved the idea of having processes and putting processes together that did everything just right,” Bret said. Cohen, who was a chemistry professor at Pitt for 60 years, died Dec. 13, at 88 years old. During his time at Pitt, he authored more than 200 research papers, and graduates of his lab can be found teaching at colleges and universities around the world.
He studied chemistry at Tufts University from 1947-1951, and received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Southern California in 1955. Cohen began working at Pitt in 1956 and retired in 1999, but continued teaching with the new title of professor emeritus, assisting with graduate student research. Cohen spent a majority of his career working with organometallic reactions, exploring how reactions occur in the presence of metal. Sunil Saxena, a Pitt professor and chair of the chemistry department, said Cohen was one of the first people at the University to begin getting federal funding for his research. Pitt now collects about $760 million in federal grants each year. “That was very, very unusual for a place like Pittsburgh, it was essentially just a four-year college,” Saxena said. “[Cohen] was always a leader. He was never a follower.” He recalled how the University got nuclear
magnetic resonance equipment for the first time — equipment that radically changed the chemistry department. NMR is a research technique that determines the makeup of elements and molecules in a particular material. The equipment was free for chemistry faculty to use, and with NMR equipment, work that previously could take up to a month to complete only took a day. Even so, Cohen didn’t boast about his role in transforming the department. “He was very humble in that way,” Saxena said. “Many scientists would have told the first half and followed up immediately with the second half. Ted never did. That, to me, speaks of who Ted was.” Justin Chalker, currently a senior lecturer at Flinders University, began undergraduate research in Cohen’s lab in 2003. Chalker said one See Cohen on page 3
Pitt chemistry professor Theodore Cohen died Dec. 13, at age 88. He was publishing papers up to age 87. Courtesy of Michele Monaco
Republican gubernatorial candidates debate state issues at CMU Madeline Gavatorta Staff Writer
The crowd erupted into a mix of boos and cheers at the in Kresge Theatre Saturday night when Laura Ellsworth admitted she did not vote for President Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, favoring another Republican candidate — John Kasich — instead. “The reason that I didn’t support President Trump was because there was a divisiveness that I thought he brought that was going to, at best, be a distraction to our country. There was so many things that I liked what he was saying but the divisiveness bothered me,” Ellsworth said. Ellsworth — who is running against Paul Mango, Scott Wagner and Mike Turzai in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania governor — explained fur-
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ther what she did like about the Trump presidency, such as his Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, his work with veterans and deregulation. “I do not agree with everything that he does. I don’t agree with everything my husband does, and I love him. But that’s where I am at,” Ellsworth said. WPXI anchor David Johnson, the debate moderator, probed the four participants’ opinions of Trump and other topics at the Pennsylvania Republican Gubernatorial Debate, held Saturday night at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts building. The livestreamed event — with about 250 people attending in person — featured a mix of questions from WPXI, CMU students and those submitted to WPXI’s website, with topics ranging from infrastructure to the opioid crisis.
Candidates were given two minutes to make an opening statement and then launched into answering questions. Contrary to the title of the event, the candidates did not actually debate one another. They had at most a minute and a half to respond to questions after the order was determined by pulling names from a Penguins hat. The other three Republican gubernatorial candidates were firm yeses on supporting Trump. Mango said he voted for Trump in both the primary and general election and gave the maximum amount of $2,700 to Trump’s campaign, which was met with enthusiastic applause. “I think he’s doing an outstanding job. He’s for jobs and economic growth. He’s for infrastructure and development. He is for bringing dignity back to skilled labor,” Mango said. “I just think the direction we
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would have been in with the alternative would have been a disaster for the United States.” The debate kicked off with each candidate being asked if they thought current Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ’s declaration of a statewide emergency for the opioid epidemic was an appropriate response or if they thought more was required. Mango took his time to criticize Wolf on this subject, and in later question responses, called him a “liberal progressive socialist governor” — a term he repeated twice more during the debate. “Last summer I was on Fox News, on national news, and I asked our governor in June to declare a statewide emergency. Since then, 3,000 Pennsylvanians have died,” Mango said. “That’s not leadership. See Debate on page 5
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Women’s March, pg. 1 to the audience before the crowds started marching toward Market Square. Marcher Cheryl Begg said events like the Women’s March are meant to be fun, but they’re also about progress and change. “I came to support women and men everywhere who are saying that we need to be registered to vote and get the vote out, cause that’s the way we change things,” Begg said. “All of this is fun. But the work has to be done at the ballots.” With polling rights and awareness as the focus of this march, other demonstrators attested to the importance of voting. Marcher Emma Christley, a Point Park student, said she was to bring visibility to issues she cares about. “I believe in education and being an informed voter,” Christley said. “I mean, voting is the only power we have right now, and it would be a shame not to use it.”
Cohen, pg. 2 of the first things he noticed was Cohen’s “infinite curiosity.” “I remember him telling me once in his characteristically enthusiastic tone that, ‘Organic chemistry is profoundly interesting. We can design entirely new reactions and use them to make molecules that have never existed before,’” Chalker said. “I was hooked.” This kind of enthusiasm was present in many of Cohen’s relationships with students. He mentored more than 40 PhD students, 25 masters students and numerous other postdoctoral and undergraduate students. Nicole Kennedy was a graduate student of Cohen’s and said he took a chance on her at the lowest point in her life. “He believed in me, as well as all of his students,” Kennedy said. “No matter how sick or unwell Cohen felt, he was always sharp, willing to teach and willing to work.” Kennedy also mentioned how Cohen’s steadfast dedication to a healthy lifestyle was “an inspiration.” “He was so healthy that his doctor prescribed potato chips in order to introduce sodium into his diet,” Kennedy said. Dennis Curran, a professor and researcher in the chemistry department, said Cohen incorporated health-conscious choices in all aspects of his life. His daily commute to his office in Chevron involved climbing 12 flights of stairs while reading the New York Times.
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Once the march took off, the crowd walked down Grant Street and Fifth Avenue, filling the atmosphere with chants about equality and justice, along with disagreements with President Donald Trump and his policies. They marched their way to the center of Market Square to hear from several community organizers who were hosting the event. Tracy Baton, head organizer of the march, began by introducing each of the speakers, starting with William D. Anderson, an active member of redistricting reform group Fair Districts PA, who spoke about the need to put an end to partisan gerrymandering. He said many politicians redistrict certain areas to benefit their party, rather than accurately representing the people from those areas. “We all know that the representation of our community should come from someone that comes from your community — someone who See Women’s March on page 4 “He was always somewhat of a health fanatic, but in a scientific way,” Curran said. “He was interested in health, but he wanted evidence.” Peter Wipf spoke to Cohen’s character and personality, and said everyone who worked with the fellow chemistry professor and researcher will remember him in a positive way. “[Cohen] was a pillar of reliability within the department,” Wipf said. “Every opportunity he had, he was supporting the [chemistry] department and supporting the City as well.” The Pittsburgh section of the American Chemical Society took notice of this and awarded Cohen the Pittsburgh Award in 2009. His nomination letter to the Pittsburgh Award Committee spoke to his continuous contribution to the growth of the scientific community in the City of Pittsburgh. According to the letter, the start of Pitt’s Department of Chemistry as it is known today can be attributed to Cohen’s arrival in 1956 — including a well-known independent evaluation committee’s description of Pitt as a nationallyranked program. Cohen is remembered by his students and coworkers as a brilliant scientist with a compassionate personality. Saxena said Cohen lived a full life, and we should continue to admire his contributions and work ethic. “There are very few of us who would be active — publishing papers — at 87. Graduating a Ph.D. student at the age of 87,” Saxena said. “Honestly, I don’t think Ted would have asked for anything different.”
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Women’s March, pg. 3 understands your community and knows what it needs,” Anderson said. Baton introduced another speaker, Lisa Perri-Lang, who directed the 2017 Dyvonne Body, a CMU student, stands on the Women’s March on Pittsburgh and also steps of the City-County Building before the organized a group of 300 busses that Women’s March Sunday afternoon. brought marchers from Pittsburgh to Anna Bongardino | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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the Women’s March on Washington last year. Perri-Lang spoke about the achievements accomplished by the women of Pittsburgh so far, and urged them to continue to push for progress. “We will stand up against hate, greed, ignorance and anything that gets in the way of our freedom to live our lives without fear,” Perri-Lang said.
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Closing out the speeches, Baton emphasized the need for continued efforts in registering more citizens to vote. She challenged the audience to reach out a hand to those who are too vulnerable to help themselves. “We stand with real American values. We believe in justice, we believe in truth and that is the American way,” Baton said.
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Debate, pg. 2 Leadership is anticipating when things go wrong and ensure you take care of your people. Gov. Wolf has not done that.” Wagner said the crisis is complex, and Pennsylvania’s method of pushing people through rehabilitation too quickly is not working. He called for more education on the dangers of drugs among younger children. “We are going to have to go deep into our schools and we’re going to have to educate,” Wagner said. “If a child’s a toddler and they go into a public setting, a daycare facility, they need to hear that drugs are bad, needles are bad, drug dealers are bad.” While all four candidates supported medical marijuana and were against its distribution for recreational use, there wasn’t agreement on the topic of gerrymandering. There is controversy surrounding how the state congressional map was drawn, but Turzai was pleased with how it was passed. “The fact of the matter is when it was passed in the House it was a bipartisan
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vote,” Turzai said. “The bill could not have passed without democratic votes.” While the three other candidates didn’t take significant issue with the map, Ellsworth disagreed with how it was created. She said she does not believe the
partisan group that relooks at how we exercise our vote is called for in Pennsylvania, and it’s called for urgently.” Ellsworth and Turzai also differed on the topic of campaign finance. As of May 2015, individuals in Pennsylvania can
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Whoever becomes the candidate against Tom Wolf we are definitely going to support fully. Lorenzo Riboni President, Pitt College Republicans current system puts out the best result and supports a bipartisan commission to relook at the lines. “I didn’t believe when the Democrats controlled the process, I don’t believe it when the Republicans control the process,” Ellsworth said. “I think if we are fair and honest with one another, a bi-
make unlimited contributions to candidates for office. Turzai supported unlimited donations as a freedom of speech, while Ellsworth said it hurts voter choice. “I think [unlimited donations] presents perverse incentives that are ultimately not good for our state and ultimately don’t provide the voters with the
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best, qualified candidates because it closes out many, many, many, many capable candidates,” Ellsworth said. Senior marketing major and Republican Thomas Strock said he came into the debate with an open mind, and decided Mango performed better than the others. He said Mango, from what he saw Saturday, had the best chance of beating Gov. Wolf, and liked how Mango didn’t avoid any of the questions, like other candidates. “He wasn’t afraid to speak what he believed in, he didn’t take politically correct responses to anything, he voiced his support for what he believed in, voiced his opposition for what he didn’t,” Strock said. Pitt College Republicans President Lorenzo Riboni, who was in attendance at the debate, said about 20-25 College Republicans members attended. He liked that they had the chance to hear from all of the candidates. “We don’t endorse any one primary candidate. We are excited to hear from all of them,” Riboni said. “Whoever becomes the candidate against Tom Wolf we are definitely going to support fully.”
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Second Women’s March goes beyond resistance One day after the anniversary of Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House, downtown Pittsburgh looked a lot like it did a year ago — dense with the picket signs and pink hats common among the president’s opposition. According to organizers, nearly 30,000 people — including women and others who support women’s rights or oppose Trump’s agenda — gathered to march Sunday morning. The event, billed on Facebook as the “Women’s March on Washington: Pittsburgh — Power to the Polls,” was a callback to last year’s original Women’s March, which drew more than two million participants globally and around 25,000 in Pittsburgh. One key distinction between last year’s march and this year’s — besides the surprising increase in attendance here in Pittsburgh — was the content of the signs protesters waved in the air. In addition to the seemingly endless iterations of the standard “resist” catchphrase, were campaign signs, calls to register to vote and admonitions to remember the 2018 Congressional midterms. If there were any doubt in the past that the opposition to Trump’s administration would do anything more than simply fizzle out, it’s hard to deny it now. More than ever before, yesterday’s march showed an anti-Trump opposition that Republicans will have to take seriously this November. Perhaps the candidate with the most signage at the rally was Conor Lamb, a Democrat running in a special election this March for Republican Tim Murphy’s old seat representing Pennsylvania’s 18th district in the House of Rep-
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resentatives. Lamb’s candidacy in the Republican-leaning district has already instigated a massive inflow of resources from the Republican Party’s national leadership, with conservative donors spending $350,000 on campaign advertisements and Trump himself visiting a factory in the district last week. It’s still too early to know for sure whether or not the political momentum against Trump will last until midterms in November — or even until the next special election. But with a Democratic surge in special elections from Alabama to Wisconsin throughout 2017 and into 2018 and rising levels of participation from women and other key Democratic constituencies in politics at every level, it’s easy to see it persisting. At the forefront of this sustained movement are women. Emily’s List, a group advocating for female participation in electoral races, only saw 920 women inquire about running for office in the 2016 general election — but 19,000 since then. Women continue to be more likely than men to strongly disapprove of Trump by significant margins across class and racial groups, according to a SurveyMonkey report of polls aggregated throughout 2017. And women have played a strong role in political discourse since Trump’s inauguration last year, especially as the #MeToo movement took hold last fall. Women are a central part of an energized progressive response to the Trump administration. If Democrats want to continue to tap into the enthusiasm and energy on display this weekend on the streets downtown, they should keep that reality in mind.
Republican debate should disappoint conservatives
Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor debate at Carnegie Mellon University Saturday. Photo by Madeline Gavatorta | STAFF WRITER
Neena Hagen Columnist
The babbling of the audience hushed as the theater lights dimmed, heightening the buzz of anticipation felt by everyone gathered Saturday evening at Carnegie Mellon University. The debaters took the stage, confident and relaxed in contrast with the tension in the crowd. The Republican gubernatorial debate had begun. The event was a discussion on statelevel politics focused on issues such as rebuilding infrastructure, reforming drug laws and liberating the economy from the oppressive, over-regulative tax policies of current Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. Four Republican candidates squared off in the debate — retired health care consultant Paul Mango, lawyer and Pitt Law alumna Laura Ellsworth, state
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senator Scott Wagner and state house speaker Mike Turzai. But despite their prominence within their own party, all of them put on a rather lackluster performance — many times failing to articulate a cohesive vision and frequently embracing policies at odds with the opinions of many Pennsylvanians perturbed by the current administration. The debaters were quick to offer the type of proposal their party’s voters prefer on tax policy. Wolf raised the state tax by $1.2 billion in 2015, which included a personal income tax hike from 3.07 percent to 3.7 percent. This likely contributed to his unpopularity, with only 36 percent of Pennsylvanians approving of his job as governor according to a 2015 Quinnipiac poll. This issue of See Hagen on page 7
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Hagen, pg. 6 over-taxation is one thing Republicans can certainly address with a more conservative plan. And a more conservative plan was exactly what Saturday’s debaters proposed — sort of. “We need to bring our jobs back home ... that’s how we ensure we don’t raise taxes,” Mango said to enthusiastic applause from the audience. But the bright spots seemed to remain few and far between. The candidates generally lacked conviction in their arguments, and often seemed to have only a cursory level of understanding about the main issues — rendering them inarticulate and superficial at times. None of the candidates actually went into specifics regarding their tax plans. Most were content with spewing typical, albeit vague, conservative talking points — slash taxes, end outsourcing. Mango even stooped so low as to call Wolf a “liberal progressive socialist,” as if that amounted to an adequate argument. The issue of drug laws proved to be a particularly noteworthy example of the disconnect between the candidates and
average Pennsylvania voters. According to a 2017 poll from the Philadelphia Inquirer, 59 percent of Pennsylvanians support the full legalization of marijuana. But Scott Wagner remained firmly opposed. “I do not support legalizing the recreational use of marijuana,” he said. Other candidates echoed this senti-
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Given the candidates’ poor performances, it seems the only winner of the debate was our current governor. ment on recreational marijuana, but Laura Ellsworth and Mike Turzai softened their stances on medical marijuana — emphasizing the importance of providing needy patients with proper treatment — not quite a liberal viewpoint, but a sharp rejection of traditional conservative policy, no less.
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bringing “our jobs back home,” as Mango repeatedly and fervently endorsed in his economic policy. These similarities to Donald Trump strike a dangerous tone for the candidates’ prospective governing styles. Cracking down on non-violent drug offenders and investing huge sums
of money into infrastructure are big government policy prescriptions and certainly not consistent with the limited government approach conservatives should favor. Pennsylvania is in desperate need of economic reform. Democrats and Republicans have traded governorship every eight years since 1950, helping keep Pennsylvania from falling victim to extreme policies. But this cycle broke with Tom Wolf ’s Democratic Party win in 2014 over single-term Republican former Governor Tom Corbett. Now that liberal taxation policies have put a stranglehold on market growth and stagnated wages for middle income families, the time is ripe for another party switch in the governor’s seat — possibly the winner of Saturday’s debate. But given the candidates’ poor performances, it seems the only winner of the debate was our current governor, who could be rubbing his hands with a wolfish grin at the near certain prospect of another easy Republican defeat in 2018. Neena primarily writes about politics and local issues for The Pitt News. Write to Neena at nnh7@pitt.edu.
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The debaters also failed to fall in line with the traditional American right when they advocated for growth in infrastructure spending — atypical of otherwise fiscally conservative candidates. It was, however, reminiscent of President Donald Trump’s agenda — which also includes astronomical infrastructure spending hikes, and supports
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UCF underdog. Penn State ended the season ranked The Golden Knights finished off the 2017 No. 9 with an impressive 35-28 win over WashStaff Writer ington in the Fiesta Bowl, and are expected to season doing the unthinkable in modern colWith the recent finalization of Pitt’s 2018 lege football by completing a perfect season. start the season ranked in the top 10. football schedule, it’s never too early to start Still, the Nittany Lions are a bit of a mys- The 2018 UCF team will field a vastly differplanning ticket purchases and tailgates. tery heading into the new season after losing ent program, headed by new head coach Josh The team is set to face a tough non-conmultiple playmakers on both sides of the ball. Heupel. ference schedule, including two perennial Former head coach Scott Frost signed on to Standout junior running back Saquon Barkley, national title contenders and a team that just senior tight end Mike Gesicki, graduate stu- coach the Nebraska Cornhuskers for his alma went undefeated. While ACC opponents stay consistent, the out-of-conference matchups are a mixed bag and next year the Panthers face some difficult, sometimes familiar, foes. Albany The Panthers start out the new season on Sept. 1 with a contest against the Great Danes. Albany, led by head coach Greg Gattuso, suffered a down year in 2017, finishing with a record of 4-7. The Great Danes entered the offseason looking to shake things up a bit, though, by promoting Keith Dudzinski to defensive coordinator, and Nick Sanchez to assistant defensive coordinator. With the new staff, Albany looks to have a revamped defense heading into 2018 after some inconsistent performances last season. The Great Danes faced two shutouts as well as letting up more than 30 points in three games. Pitt football emerged with a 42-39 victory during its 2016 home game The Panthers shouldn’t take the Great against Penn State. TPN File Photo Danes lightly on opening weekend. Their 4-7 record was a bit misleading, as two of their dent wideout DaeSean Hamilton and senior mater at the end of the season. Frost turned losses came in overtime, one of which was safety Marcus Allen are all leaving for the NFL the program around in three years by taking in double overtime. If the Panthers come out the Golden Knights from 0-12 the year before draft. sloppy or don’t take Albany seriously, they Barkley was an especially potent Panther he got there to 13-0 and a Peach Bowl victory could see themselves on the wrong side of an poacher during his time in State College, put- over Auburn. upset to start the season. The UCF defense will see the most cruting up 173 rushing yards, five rushing touchPenn State cial turnover in the offseason, as the Golden downs and two receiving touchdowns. Pitt will have an opportunity to get revenge The Nittany Lions present a mountainous Knights lost one-handed senior linebacker at home after last year’s 33-14 beatdown at the challenge to the Panthers early in the season, Shaquem Griffin — who was third on the dehands of rival Penn State on Sept. 9. This game but that’s the thing with rivalries — anything fense in tackles — and junior defensive back affords the Panthers more than just revenge — can happen. Perhaps Pitt — as it often does Mike Hughes to graduation and the NFL draft. it’s also an opportunity to move ahead in the — will revel in the potential to play spoiler to Hughes led the team in pass breakups, served rebooted series, which is tied 1-1. a team with National Championship aspira- as the kick returner and is an expected early The matchup won’t be easy, and the Pandraft pick in the NFL draft. tions. thers will definitely head into the game as the
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While the defense will have some kinks to work out, the offense is likely to run on all cylinders. The Golden Knights are set to return junior dual-threat quarterback McKenzie Milton. Milton marched UCF up and down the field last year in its open offense. The Golden Knights game will serve as an interesting test for the type of team the Panthers are. If Pitt can beat UCF on Sept. 29, it could indicate that a bowl game is in the cards. If the Panthers get walloped, well, it’s still pretty early in the season. Notre Dame Head coach Brian Kelly heads into the new year with a new defensive coordinator and a gaggle of talented recruits. Kelly, whose time at Notre Dame has produced mixed results, likely needs this season to end in a major bowl birth to keep his gig with the Irish. Kelly will have a great deal of talent at his disposal after bringing in top ten recruiting classes the last two years to go along with an already talented team. New defensive coordinator Clark Lea takes the reigns after spending just one year as the Fighting Irish linebackers coach. The Fighting Irish defense will likely be on the same page and swarming by the time they see the Panthers on Oct. 13. Although the defense has a new leader at the top, it’s the offense that’s likely to be in flux when they face the Panthers. Last season saw starting junior quarterback Brandon Wimbush struggle with injuries and the new offense. Wimbush at times had issues throwing the football, and if his issues continue, Notre Dame might be fielding a brand new quarterback when Pitt gets into town. The game against the Fighting Irish marks a third — and final — difficult out-of-conference opponent for the Panthers. With such an obviously tilted schedule outside the ACC, Pitt will likely feel relieved when they take on familiar faces in the conference.
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Weekend sports: gymnastics sets records, wrestling gets pinned a time of 3:12:81. In addition to these wins, Ismail won the It was a packed weekend for Pitt sports, as 400m sprint with a time of 55.75 seconds, and teams both claimed historic victories and continsophomore Taylor Middleton posted the top disued prolonged losing streaks. tance in long jump at 5.84m. Sophomore Dante Pitt gymnastics made history setting a new Watson, who was a part of the men’s 4x400 team, program record, and the men’s and women’s also won the 800m. swimming and diving teams claimed decisive vicAdditionally, Pitt had 10 other top-three fintories. Still, men’s basketball continued to struggle ishes. The Panthers will take to the track next in the ACC, while wrestling had a tough start to when they travel to Clemson, South Carolina, their conference schedule. next weekend for the Bob Pollock Invitational.
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Gymnastics — Jon Shaiken, for The Pitt News The Pitt gymnastics team broke one program record and tied another in its 196.225 to 195.175 victory over New Hampshire Saturday. The Panthers’ final score was the third-highest score posted in program history, and its best since 2004. The team broke the school record on bars, which had been in place since 1999, posting a score of 49.275. Pitt also tied their record on beam
was pinned in sudden defeat at 125 pounds. After Forys — who is ranked No. 11 in the country at 133 pounds — defeated No. 14 Dennis Gustafson 4-1, Virginia Tech proceeded to win the next seven matches. Solomon, ranked No. 16, closed out the day on a high note for Pitt with a 2-0 decision over No. 18 Andrew Dunn at 285 pounds. Pitt’s struggles continue as this loss pushes them to 2-7 on the year. They travel to Chapel Hill this Friday to take on another ACC foe in UNC.
Tennis — Max Sirianni, for The Pitt News The Pitt tennis team opened its season with two home wins Saturday, beating Youngstown Wrestling — Jon Shaiken, for The Pitt News State and Akron at the Oxford Athletic Club. The Panthers started the day with a 6-1 vicPitt wrestling fell to No. 10 Virginia Tech, 316, in their ACC opener Sunday at the Fitzgerald tory over YSU and defeated Akron by the same Field House. Senior Dom Forys and redshirt se- score hours later. First-years Claudia Bartolome nior Ryan Solomon secured Pitt’s two lone indiFind the full story online at vidual victories. Junior LJ Bentley put Pitt in an early hole as he
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Track — Jon Shaiken, for The Pitt News The Pitt indoor track and field team took home seven victories Friday at the Youngstown State College Invitational. The Women’s 4x400 relay team set a facility record with a 3:41:20 time. With that time, the team consisting of seniors Morgan Harvey, Quadaisha Newkirk, Laila Ismail and Desiree Garland posted the best mark among ACC schools this season. The Men’s 4x400 relay team also took home a victory with
with a 49.125, a score achieved only twice in program history in 2003 and 2004. Individually, first-year Haley Brechwald — who took home the all-around title — won on floor and tied with junior Lucy Brett and senior Catie Conrad for first on bars. Sophomore Alecia Petrikis won the vault event tied for second on bars. Conrad also tied for first on beam. As part of Pitt’s record-setting performance on bars, Brechwald posted a season-high and Brett set her career high, both scoring a 9.875. Pitt heads to East Lansing next Saturday to compete in a quad meet against Michigan State, Eastern Michigan and Rutgers.
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