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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | January 24, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 96
PITT SUSPENDS SIGMA CHI
John Hamilton Managing Editor
Second-year medical student Paolo Vignali demonstrates routes of administration for Narcan at Pitt Trauma and Emergency League’s Narcan Training Tuesday night. Sarah Cutshall STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Students learn to administer Narcan Anish Salvi Staff Writer As an Emergency Medical Technician of four years, Anthony Lupinacci is no stranger to administering Narcan — and knows the difference the drug can make. “Especially when I have worked in this area, out in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, we see overdoses fairly often,” Lupinacci said. “I can say that Narcan works as a wonder drug for people that have overdosed on any sort of opiate whether that be heroin, fentanyl or over-the-counter, more traditional opiate medications.” Lupinacci, a junior studying in Pitt’s Emergency Medicine Program and President of the Pitt Trauma and Emergency League, saw the need for students to learn more about the drug. So, PTEL
hosted a Narcan Training event Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. in room 548 of the William Pitt Union. The lecture was in collaboration with the Addiction and Medicine Interest Group, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pitt’s School of Pharmacy and the Pittsburgh Poison Center. Event attendees listened to Pitt medical students provide background information on Narcan, an opiate reversal agent, and watched as they demonstrated its administration on a human dummy. “[PTEL] saw it as an opportunity to [give] some students some perspective on what’s going on in our community. Western Pennsylvania has a very serious problem with opioid abuse,” Lupinacci said. “Our theme this year for the Pitt
Trauma and Emergency League has been recognizing, educating, creating awareness about the opioid epidemic.” Pennsylvania has become a national leader in the past decade in deaths related to opioid abuse. According to a 2017 report from Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, the state had a fatal overdose rate more than twice the national average. The epidemic has become so uncontrolled that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf declared it a “disaster emergency” earlier this month. Lupinacci also said it’s important for people to understand the opioid epidemic issue in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania because it affects their See Narcan on page 2
Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner suspended Pitt’s Sigma Chi chapter after a student was hospitalized Thursday because of a “serious alcohol incident.” Pitt spokesperson Joe Miksch confirmed Tuesday that the fraternity allegedly involved in the alcohol incident had been suspended, pending the results of an ongoing investigation, but he wouldn’t confirm it was Sigma Chi. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday that Sigma Chi’s national office said Pitt’s chapter was suspended. The national office didn’t answer a call The Pitt News placed Tuesday evening. “Sigma Chi International Fraternity is aware of the incident that took place with our chapter at the University of Pittsburgh in which they apparently violated several provisions of our policy on alcohol and drugs,” Executive Director Michael Church told the Post-Gazette in an email. Sigma Chi’s president at Pitt has not responded to emails and Facebook messages regarding the incident. Bonner placed all of Pitt Greek life on “modified social probation” after the incident, meaning they cannot “host, sponsor or participate in any social activities in which alcohol is present,” Miksch said. As part of the probation, he said, Greek life will make an “action plan for creating change in social activities.” “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. 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. Miksch said Pitt doesn’t comment on a student’s medical condition, but said Saturday the student’s family was notified.
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Correction: In yesterday’s edition of The Pitt News, the caption for the front page photo said the person pictured at the faculty unionization event was Paul Johnson of Pitt’s communication department. This is not true. The picture was of Tyler Bickford, a professor in the English department. The Pitt News regrets this error.
Correction: In yesterday’s story titled “Pitt Dems and Libs debate health care,” The Pitt News misquoted and misrepresented Phil Saggese’s rebuttal. The story has been corrected online to reflect these changes. The Pitt News regrets this error.
SGB prioritizes human rights, Safety Fair Madeline Gavatorta
morrow with Pitt sociology professor and hu- look at the feasibility [of the event and] to look man rights advocate Jackie Smith to discuss at what type of format we want to have,” KentSmith said. Executive Vice President of Student Gov- when and where the conference will be held. In addition to SGB’s larger events, Board “Th e purpose of meeting tomorrow is to ernment Board Zuri Kent-Smith wants to educate the Pitt community about what is going on in regards to human rights and immigration around the world by organizing a human rights conference at Pitt. “I hope people get a strong foundation in human rights concerns as it relates to immigration obviously. And not only inform but they are able to, they know what actions they can take themselves to get involved with efforts to address the crisis,” Kent-Smith said. At Tuesday night’s SGB weekly meeting, Kent-Smith discussed briefly immigration as it relates to the current surge in Syrian and African refugees, as well as with DACA recipients. Disagreement regarding a reformed immigration plan has been the subject of debate among lawmakers in Congress and could affect immi- Student Government Board member Ian Callahan discusses SGB’s Wellness grant students at Pitt. and Safety Fair at Tuesday night’s meeting. Sarah Cutshall STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER In light of this, Kent-Smith is meeting to-
Member Ian Callahan partnered with Priscilla Morales in Pitt’s Public Safety Office to discuss plans for the Spring Safety Fair in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 30. Pitt Police and Computing Services and Systems Development will be tabling at the event. Callahan estimated more than 150 students went to the Fall Safety Fair and he expects more than 200 to attend this upcoming one. “I don’t like to see harm done to anyone, and if I can help be a facilitator, to help educate in the different ways they can stay safe, it helps me sleep better at night,” Callahan said. SGB President Max Kneis also updated everyone present about how Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement Kathy Humphrey and Deputy Secretary of the Board of Trustees Cyndi Moore trained student representatives of the Board’s committees last Sunday.
manifest as nausea and muscle cramps because a person no longer feels the euphoric qualities of the opiate. “Narcan might run out and the drug might kick back in. That’s another reason why it’s really important to get this person to the emergency room because they’re going to have to manage the secondary overdose,” Landau said. Maddie Broadbelt, a sophomore microbiology major, attended the Narcan Training event because she knew people who suffered from opioid abuse in the past. She wanted to learn how to administer Narcan, but also found learning about the treatment’s background to be informative. She encouraged other students to attend events like this one because they could learn how to potentially save a person’s life in an hour. “I think it’s [Narcan Training] something that if we can learn how to do it, [if ] we can learn how to administer Narcan, we should learn because I’m sure at least some people will be confronted with a situation where they need to use
it,” Broadbelt said. Libby Kiefer, an undecided sophomore who applied to the Emergency Medicine Program, also attended the event. As a registered EMT, she found the lecture to be an interesting refresher course. She considered this event important as it sheds light on the opioid abuse issue. “It’s just such a prevalent issue now, especially in Pittsburgh,” Kiefer said. “I’m from Columbus, and it’s a big issue there too. So it just is always a good thing to know.” Speakers at the event, such as Tejasvi Gowda, a second-year Pitt medical student, emphasized how necessary it is for the public to be aware of how to handle an overdose. She also stressed how farreaching the issue is. “The opioid epidemic doesn’t just touch people that use opiods. It also affects their friends and loved ones,” Gowda said. “So really, thousands of people in this country deal with the effects of the opioid epidemic.”
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Narcan, pg. 1 community. According to Lupinacci, opiates depress the respiratory system by binding to receptors in the brain, preventing the human body from breathing on its own. The drug Narcan, however, can bind to these receptors, stopping the effects of the opiates and allowing a person to breathe. Paolo Vignali, a second-year Pitt medical student, spoke about the effects the body can experience when overdosing. To aid in the attendees’ understanding, Vignali demonstrated these effects using a lifelike model. He explained the classic triad of overdose symptoms to watch out for — a drop in the respiratory rate, the inability to awaken from unconsciousness and pinpoint pupils. “So next what we’ll see is an increase in the amount of CO2 being pushed out as people are trying to combat this loss of respiratory drive,” Vignali said. Vignali also said a bystander should
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first check if a potentially overdosed person can be awakened. If a pain stimuli, such as rubbing knuckles against the sternum, does not work, the bystander should check the person’s chest for breathing movement. A pulse may not register if blood pressure is too low. Students also learned what to do if these signs are present and Narcan is available. Aaron Landau, a second-year Pitt medical student, demonstrated how to use Narcan on the human model. Narcan you can get from the pharmacist can be obtained and administered in a variety of forms — some are sprayed into the nostrils, while others are injected like epinephrine. “This [Narcan] doesn’t reverse cardiac arrest, this doesn’t bring people back from the dead,” Landau said. “But it does knock out those receptors and gets someone breathing again.” Landau warned, though, that people who receive Narcan will experience symptoms of withdrawal. While opiate withdrawal isn’t deadly itself, it can
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State gerrymandering decision needs action now
As midterm elections loom and Pennsylvanians prepare to deliver their opinion on President Donald Trump’s first two years in office, the Commonwealth’s Supreme Court added to the drama Monday when it ordered a change to the lines of battle themselves: Congressional district borders. In a long-awaited legal decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania said the current shape of the state’s 18 congressional districts “clearly, plainly and palpably violates the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” The court further required that the state government draft and pass new boundaries by Feb. 9 — prior to both the special election to fill the vacant seat in the 18th District, directly to the south of urban Pittsburgh, and the general election for the 17 other district seats this November. The current Pennsylvania congressional map was originally both drawn up and approved by the GOP majority in the state legislature and Republican then-Gov. Tom Corbett in 2011. Whether or not it was knowingly intended to siphon political strength from the state’s Democrats to Republicans, it’s undeniably resulted in skewed representation since taking effect. And despite arguments against the decision from GOP members in Harrisburg, now is the optimal time to fix that unfair skew. In Pennsylvania, Republican presidential candidate Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by a margin of less than 1 percent statewide in 2016. Yet on the same day, races for seats in the House left the state delegation firmly in conservative hands. The GOP won more than two-thirds of Pennsylvania’s seats, leaving Democrats with only five.
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While the Supreme Court’s decision might not lead to a perfect solution to the problems of representative government, it’s at least a step in the right direction. Yet some Republicans in the state Senate appear unwilling to let go of the reins of power just yet. State Sens. Joe Scarnati and Jake Corman, who both represent districts near the center of the state, released a statement the same day as the decision protesting how quickly it would take effect. “The PA Supreme Court has [...] set up an impossible deadline that will only produce chaos in the upcoming Congressional election,” they said. “It has elected to give the legislature 19 days to redraw and adopt the Congressional Districts.” Scarnati and Corman’s complaints should fall on deaf ears. The state legislature had seven years prior to the court’s decision to act on unfair district borders and did nothing. More time is obviously not going to help them make their decision. What’s more, several plans are already in existence that are clear improvements to the current system — including one drawn up by the staff of The New York Times’ blog “The Upshot” in a matter of days. What’s at issue with the the state legislature’s court-appointed task isn’t so much that they don’t have the resources — they just don’t have the will or the courage to give up political strength. And with the possibility of a Democratic surge this November, perhaps Republicans shouldn’t consider redistricting in their best selfinterest. Fair districts are ultimately beneficial to everyone, and the Commonwealth Supreme Court took a definitive step toward that positive earlier this week. Now it’s up to the GOP to decide whether or not it wants to stand in the way of democracy.
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HQ fad Tires out Brian Gentry
disappearance. “I made it to question 17,” Surrey My friends and I sat around the one writes. “My children will eat today.” Surrey’s dystopian America is an irremaining phone, our palms sweaty from anxiety. We were playing “HQ,” a trivia rational fantasy, and similar claims that app that features prizes ranging in value HQ signals a new world order are little from $1,000 to $10,000 awarded to those who can correctly answer 12 trivia questions. Out of the four people who started the game, only one of us had gotten 11 consecutive questions correct. We had made it to the final question. Scott Rogowsky, the host for the day, paused for dramatic effect before revealing the final question: “Are Muppets predominantly left-handed, right-handed or ambidextrous?” Fortunately, I could quickly Google “muppets” and pull up the Wikipedia page, command-F “hand” and saw the word “left” at least once. We pressed “lefthanded” at the last second, and awaited our fate. “And the answer is … left-handed!” Rogowsky exclaimed. We won $16.31, splitting the $1,500 prize with 91 other people. Elated, we screamed and probably angered the neighbors. Based on what I’ve described, the app HQ seems like a benign, modern-day HQ Trivia host Scott Rogowsky. rendition of a trivia game. But it’s not Courtesy of Apple iTunes all fun and games — technology skeptics are paranoid about the app’s rise to more than slippery-slope arguments with fame. Miles Surrey, a writer for pop cul- no factual basis. Anyone who truly beture website The Ringer, imagines a fu- lieves that HQ is a “harbinger of dystopia” turistic, 1984-esque society in which all has been watching too many episodes of Americans compulsively play HQ every “Black Mirror,” the Netflix series comhour from 6 a.m. to midnight. Winning posed of hypothetical vignettes describthe game is the only way to obtain food, ing a world enslaved to technology. and refusal to conform results in forced See Trivia on page 4 Columnist
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simple, while the hardest questions prove to be nearly impossible. It prevents players from actually exercising any brain power — either someone immediately knows the answer, or they cannot narrow their options from the list of three given choices. The time limit for each question further prevents players from thinking. From the time the host begins to read the question, contestants have 10 seconds to submit an answer — hardly enough time to process the question, let alone consider each answer. This is one of the game’s necessary evils, designed to prevent players from Googling answers. If the time limit were increased, players would have more time to find the answer on the Wikipedia page for the topic at hand. But this strict time frame limits a contestant’s ability to think logically about the question, forcing players to select answers in a knee-jerk manner. This even contrasts with fast-paced, reputable games like “Jeopardy!,” where the contestant has five seconds to answer from the moment Alex Trebek stops reading the question, giving players ample time to process the question. Even the prizes — the ultimate goal of
playing the game — detract from trivia games’ purpose. Though even the smallest prize of $2,000 is a large prize to give out every day, there are often more than 100 winners, lowering the payout per person to under $20. On days when the prize is larger, such as $10,000, more people play, which keeps the payout low. Players can’t cash out until they’ve accumulated $20, so it often takes multiple wins to earn any money. And even by then, the prize is hardly enough to buy a dinner for two at a nice restaurant. Despite its flaws, HQ has a lot of promise. It parallels the increased presence of technology in our daily lives and isn’t necessarily a bad thing — it brings trivia into everyone’s homes and provides accessibility to everyone with a smartphone. With improvements to its structural issues, the app would be a great technological version of a trivia game. But until these are fixed, the app only serves to damage the principle of trivia games as tests of general intelligence — and I’m not holding my breath. Brian primarily writes about politics and the environment. Write to Brian at briangentry@pitt.edu.
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But HQ does represent something more sinister than the games of trivia we grew up playing in the living room with friends, or across the table from aunts and uncles after a holiday dinner. It’s the canary in the coal mine for trivia as we know it, threatening to reduce fun intelligence tests to meaningless displays of instinct reactions. The app design destroys any focus someone might have when playing the game. When you open the app for the first time, you’re met with a royal purple background with random, brightly colored shapes floating around aimlessly. As the game starts, the HQ logo spins in the middle, adorned with rotating messages like “no smoking.” A countdown begins, interrupted occasionally by old television color bars. The game starts with nonsensical announcements from the host, usually including puns on the word “quiz.” Comments from players race across the bottom of the screen, often containing obscenities, Star Wars spoilers or “TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP” — all while hypnotic tunes hum in the background.
These annoying details divert HQ players’ attention away from the actual content of the app — trivia questions. These distractions prevent players from focusing on the questions and force them to resort to gut instincts. Don’t expect HQ to compensate for their ambience with killer questions, either. In most trivia matches, such as “Jeopardy!” or “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” the easiest questions come first with more difficult ones to follow. While HQ follows this pattern, it takes the difficulties to the extreme. One recent match, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, began with a question that even the most absentminded quiz-taker could answer. “Which of the following can be found in a toolbox?” Kimmel asked players. “A hammerhead shark, a hammer, or MC Hammer?” Around question six, the difficulty immediately ramps up — later questions are often so obscure one can only hazard a guess at the answer. Who knows what singer claimed that Daft Punk played at his house in 2005? The easiest questions are disarmingly
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Sports analysis
FANS FIND IDENTITY, COMMUNITY IN SPORTS
David Leftwich
Equally as important, groups help improve athlete.” Athletes aren’t who fans identify with, but members’ self-esteem. Being part of something rather the brand associated with each franchise. Specifically, “demographic” and “memberThe City of Pittsburgh took a collective gut provides a positive sense of self through interpunch last weekend as the Steelers suffered a personal relationships and positive comparisons ship organization” identities have been shown to have the strongest impact on group connection to 45-42 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars to end the with other groups, according to Tajfel. Applying social identity theory to fans, people sports franchises, according to research by Bob season. Beyond the more than 60,000 people who group themselves as a part of the franchise and Heere and Jeffrey D. James. Demographic groupings can include things flocked to Heinz Field to sit in 20-degree weather feel personally a part of the failures and successes and watch the loss live, around 20 million people of their favorite teams — success or failure can af- like geography, ethnicity and gender, while memat home invested about three and a half hours watching the game on television. And when things didn’t go the Steelers’ way, fans unleashed a wave of anger. People took to Twitter to criticize the coaching staff and players. A few days later, Mike Tomlin booted offensive coordinator Todd Haley, and to the delight of fans — especially the more than 4,300 fans that like the “FIRE Todd Haley” Facebook group. But this tough loss shouldn’t directly affect fans sitting at home, right? Steelers fans aren’t on the team — most have never even spoken to a player or coach. With the majority of them without a financial stake in the outcome, millions of Steelers fans personally felt sad, frustrated and angry to see the season end. Pittsburgh Steelers fans celebrate their team’s 18-16 win over the Kansas Why do these Steelers fans care so much? City Chiefs during the AFC Divisional Playoff game on Jan. 15, 2017, at More broadly, why do fans across sports feel such Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. TNS a strong connection to teams they have very little bership organization can include factors like vofect fans’ self-esteems. tangible connection with? “The aim of differentiation is to maintain or cation, religion or political beliefs. One dominant theory explaining this behavWhen examining the Pittsburgh Steelers, the ior deals with psychologist Henri Tajfel’s theory of achieve superiority over an out-group on some social identity — or knowledge of group mem- dimensions,” Tajfel and fellow psychologist John organization immediately capitalizes on two of these identities — the City of Pittsburgh and the bership combined with the emotional value of Turner said in their 1979 paper. Yet, group identities are complicated. Just one area’s historical connection to the steel industry. that group. All people classify themselves and others into person can think of themselves in terms of their In turn, members of the community think of groups, be it something expansive like ethnicity ethnicity, hometown, education level, career type Pittsburgh and the steel industry when thinking or any number of categories in between. Even of the Steelers, not rich athletes with whom they or something as small as clubs at Pitt. Our brains constantly place stimuli and peo- among Steelers fans, 4,000-plus people created have very little in common. The Rooney family even had this in mind ple into different categories to help speed up men- their own “FIRE Todd Haley” Facebook group. But what really connects people to sports when they first changed the team name from tal processing. With built-in stereotypes about certain groups, it is easy to process the never-end- teams? Very few would categorize themselves the Pirates to the Steelers at the end of the 1939 ing cycle of new information presented every day. within the group of “millionaire” or “professional season. Senior Staff Writer
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Manufacturing group identities just through the name of different franchises is the norm throughout sports. Just think of the Dallas Cowboys, the New England Patriots or the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL. The more social identities a team has in common with people, the more likely the people are to become fans. And often, franchises have no competition for fan support within their regional market. There is generally one team per sport in markets working to draw fans — meaning that people are presented with connections to limited teams. As the only game in town for each sport, franchises can easily make connections with the nearby population just off of a few details like the team name. Once a franchise makes this initial connection to people, it’s common for it to become a part of people’s identities because of the possible social identity benefits. As a Steelers fan, going to Heinz Field last weekend not only provided the opportunity to befriend more than 60,000 other Steeler fans, but also offered the chance to flaunt superiority over Jaguar fans if the Steelers won. Proving the power of sports identities, a 1992 study showed that people predicted better future performances for both themselves and their team after wins as compared to losses. A win or loss for your team can actually impact the way you see yourself performing in life. Understanding the role sports franchises serve within a person’s social identity, it actually makes sense that sports fans feel a part of their favorite teams. A sports franchise can make a real difference in the self-esteem of fans. So don’t judge Steelers fans as they spew anger and mourn the recent loss to the Jaguars. The players may have felt the immediate pain, but the social identity of the people of Pittsburgh suffered as well.
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Noah Palmer brings local flair to Pitt defense Alex Lehmbeck Staff Writer Noah Palmer finished his high school football career with a win at Heinz Field. The 2018 Pitt football signee is hoping for many more victories in the stadium during the next four years — but this time in a blue and gold uniform. Palmer is listed as a 6-foot-4, 215-pound strong-side defensive end by 247sports.com, and ranked No. 29 in the state of Pennsylvania. The three-star recruit chose Pitt over mostly mid-major programs, such as Army, Buffalo, Miami (Ohio) and Robert Morris. The Pitt coaching staff and proximity to home were the biggest factors in his decision, as Palmer attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania. Noah Palmer played defensive end During his high school career, he played and tight end while attending Thomboth defensive end and tight end for the Jag- as Jefferson High School in Jefferson Hills. Courtesy of Noah Palmer uars. He earned first-team all-conference defensive end honors in 2016, and he returned Palmer is not the only Jaguar joining Pitt’s an interception for a touchdown during the roster in 2018. His high school teammate, 2016 Jaguars’ state championship 42-0 blow- Devin Danielson, committed to Pitt in June out at Heinz Field. 2017.
“Me and Devin both know each other very well,” Palmer said. “We know our playing styles. We know what we need to do to be successful. It’s great when one of us needs that extra boost at practice, to get ready for a game and play to our full potential.” Palmer and Danielson anchored a dominant line on one of the best defenses in the state. During the Jaguars’ 27-0 victory in the 2017 WPIAL championship, the defensive front held Montour to just 18 yards rushing on 27 carries. The Jaguars also became the first team in 29 years to win a WPIAL championship without giving up a single point in the playoffs. “We got together as a team and we stressed that we can’t make mistakes,” Palmer said. “We gotta play smart, play hard and limit the mental errors. We came together and shut out every team in the playoffs and made a run.” During his time at Thomas Jefferson, Palmer played for head coach Bill Cherpak, a former Pitt offensive lineman. Cherpak started for the Panthers for three years before suffering a career-ending injury in 1989. At
Thomas Jefferson, Cherpak has built a powerhouse program, becoming the all-time winningest coach in the school’s history. Since Cherpak became head coach 22 years ago, the Jaguars have won 10 conference championships and seven WPIAL championships, with a win percentage of .849 during this period. Cherpak was also inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame last year. “He definitely made me the person I am today,” Palmer said. “He stresses mental toughness. You always have to do everything full speed, 100 percent and never take a play off. In life, you’ve got to do everything to the fullest potential that you can and work hard.” Palmer is excited about his new coach, Pat Narduzzi, who just signed a new seven-year contract, saying that Narduzzi’s energy was one of the most appealing aspects of the program. “Being close to my family was very important,” Palmer said. “The coaching staff was very enthusiastic about me being there. They wanted me there, so that’s where I wanted to be.”
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Join KEYS Service Corps, AmeriCorps. Mentor, tutor, and inspire Pittsburgh area youth. Summer and fall positions with bi-weekly stipend and education award. Full and part-time. Possible internship credit. Call 412-350-2739. www.keysservicecorps.org Office and retail job in North Oakland Mon-Sat 8-5 pm. $12/ hr. 313 North Craig St. Contact (412) 621-7215 for more information. Inquire within. OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Management Company seeks person w/min 2 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester to interview & process
rental applicants, do internet postings & help staff our action-central office. Part-time or full time. AVAILABLE NOW; full time over summer. $13/hour. Perfect job for current sophomores & juniors, graduating seniors set to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first-year law students! Mozart Management 412-682-7003 thane@ mozartrents.com Seasonal Marketing Assistant Shadyside property management firm established in 1960 needs two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Excel, Word and the internet from approximately NOW to August; four days/week from 9am-6pm. Saturday and/or Sunday hours a must; some flexibility in days and hours will be considered; most hours will be solitary on the computer with no phone work; 40 words per minute
and strong computer skills required; no experience needed & we will train you at our Shadyside office; free parking. $13/hour plus generous season end bonus. Mozart Management 412-682-7003. thane@mozartrents. com
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