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Pitt police report three assaults Dale Shoemaker News Editor
Pitt police are investigating three assaults that occurred over the weekend in Oakland . According to a crime alert, an unidentified man told police that an unknown person assaulted him around 1 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. The victim told police he was assaulted and injured on the 3400 block of Saint James Place . The victim went to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital and reported the assault to police at about 1:51 a.m. The police report does not specify the man’s injury. The man described his assailant as a 6-foot white man with a slender build, brown hair and brown eyes. At the time of the assault, the assailant was wearing khaki pants, a white shirt and a navy blue blazer. Police ask anyone with information about the assault to call them at 412624-2121 and reference report # 1600372. Later that morning, police reported that three men indecently assaulted an unidentified woman Saturday while she was walking on Oakland Avenue near the intersection of Oakland Avenue and Sennott Street. The woman reported the assault to police Sunday, Jan. 31 at about 2:24 a.m. and told police three unknown black men touched her inappropriately. See Crime Brief on page 4
Heba Mahjoub represents Syria at Pitt Muslim Student Association’s Halal-a-Palooza. Jordan Mondell STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Senate candidates discuss issues Alexa Bakalarski Staff Writer
Five hundred students and community members got a closer look on three U.S. Senate candidates’ views Sunday at Carnegie Mellon University. Instead of participating in a debate, Pennsylvania’s democratic candidates gathered for an annual forum 2 p.m. Sunday in the school’s Jared L. Cohon University Center. The annual Barbara Daly Danko Political Forum gave vot-
ers an opportunity to hear candidates John Fetterman, Katie McGinty and Joe Sestak speak on popular issues before the April 26 primaries. Fetterman, currently the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania; McGinty, former chief of staff for Gov. Tom Wolf; and Sestak, formerly a member of the House of Representatives, provided their stances on gun violence, immigration, environmental issues and more at the forum, which was part of the annual 14th Ward Democratic Candidates Forums.
Running against incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who did not attend the forum, Fetterman, McGinty and Sestak are competing for a U.S. Senate seat at the primary election on April 26. The general election is Nov. 8. Moderators Paul Klein, an Allegheny County Council member for District 11, and Krysia Kubiak Vila-Roger, the director of state regulatory strategy and government affairs, questioned the candidates for around an hour, See Forum on page 2
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Correction: In a story titled “Pitt hears Pittsburgh’s history of lesbian feminism,” The Pitt News misidentified the founder of the Hard Hatted Women. A woman named Nancy, whose last name was withheld from The Pitt News for confidentiality reasons, founded the group. Additionally, The Pitt News stated that women and minorities could get non-traditional jobs after the Equal Rights Act passed. This is not true. This act never passed, and women and minorities got non-traditional jobs in the ’60s and ’70s, after the Civil Rights Act passed.
to the United States, pointing out that the United States does not get to pick and choose the most educated or most talented immigrants. When a moderator asked him how he would counter Toomey’s stance, Fetterman read an excerpt from a New York Times article about Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned, asking the audience why this boy’s life should matJohn Fetterman speaks at annual forum for U.S. Senate candidates. Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ter less than his own In a November news release, Toomey said the son’s. pg. 1 risk of accepting Syrian refugees is too great. “We all came from a boat somewhere,” FetterUnlike Toomey, all the candidates stressed the man said while discussing his favorite immigrant setting 30-second to two-minute time limits for importance of permitting Syrian refugees into the success story, his wife Gisele. each answer. Candidates Support Pro-Immigration United States. McGinty said the 18-to-24 month review Fetterman, who gained national attention process for immigrants to enter the nation should Policies Klein and Vila-Roger repeatedly asked the for his effort to revitalize the borough of Brad- be enough time for authorities to decide who was candidates about immigration and directed them dock since moving there in 2001 and becoming running from terror and who might become a mayor in 2005, said he supports immigration to counter Toomey’s stance on immigration.
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threat. Sestak, a former three-star admiral for the U.S. Navy, said he supports religious freedom — he was one of the only House Representatives to support building a mosque near the site of 9/11. Candidates Prioritize U.S. Racial Inequality When moderators asked how the candidates would reform the justice system to reflect racial equality, McGinty and Fetterman both said they saw community policing as a highly effective approach to criminal justice reform. “Black lives matter, period,” McGinty said, garnering applause from the audience. “I think we have to charge after this [issue of criminal justice system reform] hard.” Sestak shared a story about seeing the N-word on one of his Navy ships and how he gathered the crew to tell them he would find out who did it. Fetterman said he has supported the Black Lives Matter movement and its principles before the creation of the hashtag. “[There is] not one area in this country that we can’t improve to honor Black Lives Matter,” Fetterman said. Fetterman repeatedly spoke about the issue of inequality in America, and said someone’s homeSee Forum on page 3
SEASA celebrates aguman sanduk and gender identities Amanda Halili For The Pitt News
Pitt students celebrated gender identity and optimism with their version of a traditional Filipino cross-dressing festival Saturday in the William Pitt Union. Southeast Asian Student Alliance and Global Ties, a program that aims to facilitate cultural awareness in the Pitt community, hosted its version of Aguman Sanduk, a Filipino festival in which men dress up as women and dance to spread positivity, Saturday at 5 p.m.
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About 30 students watched cross-dressing models strut down the runway and listened to presentations on gender identity, followed by a screening of a cult classic that embraces crossdressing — “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Thai Hana, a traditional Thai and Japanese restaurant in Oakland, catered the event, which collaborating organizer Global Ties funded. Although the Filipino event does not traditionally focus on gender-related issues, SEASA used the cross-dressing aspect to learn more about gender identity. Through the movie
screening and a presentation from Erin Cullen, vice president of Rainbow Alliance, SEASA president Sarah Suhaimi said the event aimed to provide students different perspectives on transgender and cross-dressing culture. “We can widen the conversation about transgender issues and the way that we talk about gender in our communities and extend that discussion to other communities,” Cullen said. Sarah Suhaimi said Aguman Sanduk, which is around 84 years old, began when male villagers in Minalin, Pampanga, in the Philippines
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dressed up during a drought to cheer up their fellow townspeople, despite a food shortage. Traditionally, the festival features cisgendered men dressed as women, but Pitt’s version had female cross-dressers because not enough men attended to hold a competition, according to Jiahui Wei, SEASA’s vice president. Wei, also a Global Ties member, competed with two other women for the title of “most handsome,” modeling blazers, dress shirts and black pants. See SEASA on page 3
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Forum, pg. 2 town shouldn’t dictate their quality of life. “We in this country have to address inequality in all its forms,” he said. Candidates See the Need to Address Climate Change The moderators pressed the candidates on their proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. McGinty spoke about the need to push for green buildings and more eco-friendly transportation. Sestak cited environmental efforts he made while in the House of Representatives, and Fetterman spoke about bipartisanship in regards to environmental issues. “It’s 63 degrees in January. Climate change is a serious issue,” Fetterman said. Candidates discuss ISIS The moderators questioned the candidates about the fight against ISIS, particularly under what circumstances they would send U.S. soldiers to fight on the ground in Syria. Sestak, as well as McGinty, stressed the use of air power and economic offense by striking the
oil profits of ISIS to defeat ISIS without needing to resort to using U.S. ground troops. Sestak said Middle Eastern nations need to lead the ground effort. “We need to stop this mentality that we have to go over and bomb the hell out of everybody,” Fetterman said. Student Reactions Juan Pablo Mendoza, a grad student at CMU, attended the forum out of curiosity about the candidates as a volunteer for the Bernie Sanders campaign. “They all seemed like reasonable people, but I wanted to see where their differences lie,” said Mendoza. Mendoza said he wished the candidates spoke more about their differences, though he felt he got a better sense of each candidate. “People don’t know often what their local options are,” said Mendoza. “[That’s] not the way we’re going to be able to achieve change.” Matt Harrison, a Pitt sophomore and a staffer for Fetterman’s campaign, said he thought the forum went well overall. “I wanted to hear more about civil liberties,” Harrison said, seeing it as an important current issue.
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Hua Lang, SEASA business manager, strutted down the runway in a leather jacket after creating an alter ego, Sam, for the event. “Before, I never thought [cross-dressing] would be an event,” Lang said. “I thought it would be interesting, like someone would make it a funny thing to do.” SEASA board members decided not to name a winner to keep the competition friendly, but for Lang, the event was more about the education on gender identity than the competition. “I’d like more people to do this kind of event and for more people to get involved,” Lang said. “If later the Pitt community has more events like that and more people join us, they will know more about gender identity.” According to Suhaimi, the festival is not typically centered on issues of gender identity. “It’s meant to break the machismo,” Suhaimi said of the tradition. “Culturally, it’s meant to have fun ... it’s meant to entertain.” For guests to learn more about the gender aspect of cross-dressing, Suhaimi invited members of Rainbow Alliance to present at the festival.
Erin Cullen presented definitions of different gender expressions and identities on a PowerPoint, including definitions of cross-dressing, transgender, cisgender, gender identity, gender expression and nonbinary genders from the website Transequality.. “A lot of people, of all ethnicities, will not understand that we talk about biological sex differently than we talk about gender identity,” Cullen said. “For a lot of people, it’s a huge problem in their lives that the people around them don’t understand their experience of gender.” After Cullen’s speech, attendees watched “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” while Thai Hana served steamed rice, fried rice, curry and pad see ew, a Thai noodle dish. Runqi Wang, a junior triple major, said she’d never celebrated Aguman Sanduk before, but SEASA and Global Ties’ version of the festival was fun and educational. “I feel like I learned more about the LGBTQ community,” Wang said. “I found it really interesting.” For Wei, the cross-dressing, cultural learning and collaboration among organizations could help Pitt understand and appreciate students’ differences.
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Pitt researchers link obesity and sedentary lifestyle Annemarie Carr Staff Writer
A new Pitt study suggests health researchers should study not only an obese person’s physical activity but also their downtime. Wendy King, a researcher in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health, measured sedentary behavior in severely obese adults. King found that researchers can most accurately predict adverse health effects if they measure obese people’s activity in 10-minute increments as opposed to a 30-minute threshold. Ten minutes of sedentary behavior, according to the study, leads to increased risk for negative health effects associated with obesity. The study was a statistical analysis of a long-term bariatric surgery study that took place between February 2006 and February 2009 and will appear in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine in March. The researchers conducted the statistical analysis at Pitt, but the original bariatric surgery
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study took place at 10 different hospitals across the United States. Of the 927 obese people analyzed, only one-third engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity in bouts of at least 10 minutes. Seventy-nine percent of the people analyzed were women, and their median age was 45. The study considered a person obese if they had a body mass index of 30 or greater and classified people with a BMI greater than 35 as severely obese. According to the study, which the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases funded, obese and severely obese people were more likely to show signs of metabolic syndrome, higher blood pressure and a greater waist circumference than subjects who were sedentary for one minute and subjects who were sedentary for 30 minutes. King hopes these results will help change physical activity guidelines for obese adults, who make up two-thirds of all American adults, according to the
National Institute of Health. Currently, activity guidelines only account for activity recommendations and do not include guidelines for sedentary behavior. “We found that there is a great deal of variation in sedentary behavior in this population,” King said. “This variation helped explain differences in likelihood of diabetes and metabolic syndrome.” According to the NIH, metabolic syndrome is a group of factors that increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other illnesses. Jia-Yuh Chen, a graduate student who worked on the statistical analysis, said the original study involved an ankle monitor to measure the number of steps taken each minute to record sedentary behavior in one-, 10- and 30-minute bouts.
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Crime Brief, pg. 1 The woman described two of the men as black and 5-foot-9-inches and the third as black and 6 feet tall. Police ask anyone with information about the assault to call them at 412624-2121 and reference report #1600374. On Sunday,, an unidentified woman told police that an unknown male assaulted her around 7 p.m. in the 3400 block of Fifth Avenue, according to a crime alert. The victim told police that the man approached her from behind and grabbed her inappropriately before running away. The report described the assailant as a tall male of unknown race. Police ask anyone with information about the assault to call them at 412624-2121 and reference #16-00382.
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Obama’s mosque trip offers chance to lead President Obama is out to show that political gestures don’t have to be empty. The White House announced Saturday the president will speak at the Islamic Society of Baltimore this Wednesday. It will be President Obama’s first trip to an American mosque since taking office seven years ago, and administration officials have described the event as a symbolic gesture meant to show solidarity with Muslims during the most intense anti-Islam period since 9/11. But the visit can mean much more if other politicians decide to follow suit and start engaging with the community they spend more time discussing than almost any other. The speech is a good show of community outreach, but the media’s treatment of it as a monumental event reveals the true problem. An American president reaching out to Muslim Americans shouldn’t be rare enough to merit commendation. Why appearances like the president’s are so scarce should be clear to any news reader: 61 percent of Americans expressed unfavorable views of Muslims in a November poll by the Brookings Institution. Conservative politicians, such as Donald Trump, paint Muslims as dangerous potential terrorists, and the biggest response from liberals has been to insist that society should not punish a religious group for the actions of radicals. That sentiment feels oddly insincere, though, when national leaders are rarely willing to let voters see them standing next to actual members of the Muslim community. Of the current crop of presidential candidates, only Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders have spoken at a mosque this election cycle. On both occasions, the primary purpose was to attack Trump. Both assured listeners that they knew not all Muslims are terror-
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ists, but that’s really it — campaign rhetoric and platitudes. Compared to how local politicians have responded to hateful rhetoric, there is plenty to be desired from the candidates. Our own Mayor Bill Peduto has actively stressed the need to support Muslim communities, openly courting Syrian refugees to come to Pittsburgh. This, too, is rhetoric — but it’s rhetoric with purpose and direction. As much of the public takes cues from national leaders, though, local leadership isn’t enough. President Obama’s visit does not need to include a massive new public outreach initiative, but hoping for more than hand-wringing is not a ridiculous request. For someone who began his career as a community organizer, the president should know that stump speeches are not enough to change minds. The president must use this as an opportunity to break down the fake barriers between “mainstream America” and its Muslim members, and his fellow politicians should follow his lead. He should call out the challenges specifically facing these communities, such as profiling and hate speech, and highlight the moral links that tie all faiths together. The mosque is in Baltimore, and Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan has requested that the federal government stop sending Syrian refugees to his state because of “public safety” concerns. There is no better place to attack misguided political rhetoric. President Obama must embrace this as moment to shift to offense from defense. Deflecting bigoted attacks and calling it solidarity is nice, but genuinely representing the needs of those individuals is action. It is time for the rest of Washington to step out from behind the lecterns and walk among the people.
Don’t let iowa decide 2016 election
Annabelle Goll ILLUSTRATOR
Henry Glitz Columnist
Today is the first chance to cast votes in the 2016 presidential election. Once again, Iowans will choose between presidential nominees with an ego they don’t deserve. The Iowa caucuses, set to begin tonight at 7:00 p.m. across the state’s 99 counties, act as predictors for how each party’s nomination will turn out, as well as a way of vetting candidates for the nation’s highest office. But on both counts, Iowa has always been a poor predictor of who ends up winning the party nominations and general election. The Iowa caucuses are skewed and undemocratic. They take away almost all the impact that primary voters in bigger states, such as Pennsylvania, could possibly have on the nominating process. Historically speaking, the Iowa contest
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has very little tradition backing up its notoriety. It wasn’t until the ’70s that the state’s caucus received any kind of media scrutiny. In 1972, Sen. George McGovern, D-South Dakota, used Iowa as part of his run challenging the traditional nominating procedure in the Democratic Party. In the aftermath of the messy Democratic Convention four years prior, which included protesters violently clashing with police, McGovern helped push the McGovern-Fraser Commission through the Democratic National Committee. The commission essentially modified the traditional nominating process, which had mostly been the affair of elite party leaders, to today’s primary-centric model. But while these reforms might seem to See Glitz on page 7
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Iowa’s third-place winner George McGovern eventually won the party nomination but lost the general election. Incumbent President Richard Nixon won the general election with 61 percent of the popular vote compared to McGovern’s 38 percent, the largest voter margin ever.
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Republicans in Iowa selected George H. W. Bush with 32 percent of the vote. Runner-up Ronald Reagan would win both the party nomination and the general election.
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Democrats selected Dick Gephardt in Iowa with 31 percent of the vote. Third-place Michael Dukakis won the party nomination. Bob Dole won the Republican Iowa caucus with 37 percent of the vote, but eventually lost the party nomination to George H. W. Bush. Bush came in third in Iowa, but won the general election for his party.
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Iowa Democrats resoundingly chose Tom Harkin, Iowa’s own governor, with 76 percent of the vote. Clinton won the party nomination and general election.
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Iowa selected Mike Huckabee as the Republican winner of its caucus, giving him 34 percent of the vote. Fourth-place John McCain won the party nomination.
2012
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Glitz, pg. 6 make the process more democratic, they really haven’t. And a number of problems in today’s nominating process stem from the expansion of Iowa’s power. First, it’s important to note that McGovern didn’t even grab a plurality of votes in Iowa’s 1972 caucuses — he came in third. But media portrayal of McGovern as doing better than expected gave him enough momentum to win a large majority of delegates at the Democratic Convention. Another effect of the shift to focus on Iowa appeared in McGovern’s enormous loss that November to incumbent President Richard Nixon. Pegged by Republicans as the candidate of “acid, amnesty and abortion,” he was woefully too liberal for many Democrats. Texas’ thengovernor, Democrat John Connally, even led an extensive movement of “Democrats for Nixon,” denouncing McGovern as unrepresentative of the party. Iowan voters pushing extreme candidates without nationwide support forces strong candidates to repackage themselves. Just four years ago, the state notably picked former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania, over the eventual GOP nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Fortunately, we don’t have to contemplate how disastrous a Santorum campaign in the general election would be, but the “conviction candidate” still managed to harm Republican prospects in the general race against President Obama in 2012. After losing in Iowa and a host of other early states, Romney was forced
to shift campaign messaging to portray himself as more conservative than his record as governor of Massachusetts suggested. Not only did Romney’s loss in Iowa push him to the right, but some, including the Washington Post, branded him as having a serious “flipflop problem” because of it. Iowa does not have a representative demographic. Part of the reason the state has such a poor record of choosing eventual nominees has to do with the fact that issues they supported, or even just considered important, in Iowa are not necessarily so in the rest of the nation.
While these concerns are significant to Iowans, they should not drive national political leadership. They do not matter as much in New Hampshire or South Carolina, but they will still have a hand in driving the entire conversation up to those contests. We don’t know what tonight’s outcome will mean for primary voters in Pennsylvania and the 2016 presidential race. But it’s a safe bet that we won’t have much of a say in who gets to run as the Republican and Democratic nominees. Despite having a substantial 188 delegates to send to the Democratic Convention and 74 to the GOP, our April 26 primary date puts us months behind the first votes in Iowa and likely gives us very little choice of candidates. Iowa has a population equal to about one-fourth that of Pennsylvania’s, but it will, unfairly, help decide our voters’ options. This oversized influence on national politics needs to go. Although it may have sprung from a movement to make the primaries more democratic, the state’s small, unrepresentative population and poor track record of candidate selection outweigh any positive influence the caucuses have on the nominating process. A better method for selecting the Republican and Democratic nominees for president could involve a popular vote among registered members of each party nationwide. Even the original method of selection via the leadership-only, smoke-filled room could probably yield better candidates. If you’re planning on having a real say this election cycle, you better start learning how to grow corn now.
The Iowa caucuses are skewed and undemocratic. Those looking for the influence of Iowa-specific standards this election cycle need only look at Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign. The conservative senator relies heavily on votes from the evangelical population, which made up more than half of the 2012 Republican caucuses in Iowa. But on the national level, evangelical Christians make up just 25.4 percent of all Americans, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center study. Cruz’s campaign has also taken hits recently for his stance against continuing federal subsidies for Iowa’s large ethanol industry. At the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on Jan. 19, the state’s longtime Republican governor, Terry Branstad, went so far as to advise Republicans in the state to vote against the Texas senator.
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Sports Pitt pummels Virginia Tech, 90-71 Jeremy Tepper Staff Writer
With his team struggling to stop the Pitt men’s basketball offense, Virginia Tech head coach Buzz Williams must have been sweating through his suit. Williams shed layers down to a buttonup in the first half and settled on a longsleeve purple Dri-FIT after halftime. But the game didn’t cool down, as no defense or outfit change could stop Pitt’s potent offense. The Panthers (17-4, 6-3 ACC) rode to a 90-71 win over the Hokies (12-10, 4-5 ACC) at the Petersen Events Center Sunday night. Pitt shot 53 percent from the field in the game, knocking down eight 3-pointers and assisting on 30 of its 36 baskets. “They were incredible offensively,” Williams said. “They shredded us in every way.” Pitt guard James Robinson attributed his team’s strong offensive performance to a headstrong attitude. “We shared the ball really well tonight,” Robinson said. “We were the aggressors, we didn’t play on our heels or play passive.” The team traded baskets early, sitting at 11 each at the TV timeout with 15:30 remaining in the first half. Forward Sheldon Jeter did the early heavy lifting for Pitt, with nine points in the first five minutes. Jeter started instead of center Rafael Maia, as Jeter played power forward and usual starting power forward Michael Young played center. Jeter would continue his streak, knocking down another jumper and finishing a crafty pass by Jamel Artis with a dunk to help put Pitt up 19-13. He finished as Pitt’s leading scorer on the night, knocking down nine of 13 shots for 23 points. Early on, Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon
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Sheldon Jeter comes in hot Dan Sostek Sports Editor
Michael Young led the Panthers with 13 points Sunday night. John Hamilton STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER said Pitt was more aggressive in picking up the bench. dribblers early and deterring drives to the Pitt, though, would go on another small hoop by forcing charges. run, as Ryan Luther knocked down a mid“The first thing was the charges,” Dixon range jump and a three in the corner. Stersaid. “It was a big emphasis — it’s been a ling Smith, who found himself wide open big emphasis — but we really put it out on the wing, took Pitt to a 29-23 lead with there this week.” another three. Virginia Tech battled back, eventuPitt took advantage of loose defense by ally pulling within one off a layup by Kerry the Hokies the entire game, especially RobBlackshear Jr. Pitt’s stall in scoring was a inson, who assisted on 11 buckets. product of its lineup at the time, as Dixon “We were finding the open guy. We See Men’s Hoops on page 10 kept leading scoring Artis and Young on
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When the Petersen Events Center PA system bellowed out the Pitt men’s basketball team’s starting lineup, the first name called probably surprised the majority of Panthers faithful. The announcer roared Sheldon Jeter’s name over the pre-game hype music blaring in the background. Jeter hadn’t started a game this season. Up until Sunday, Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon had opted for either Alonzo Nelson-Ododa or Rafael Maia as Pitt’s fifth starter, although the coach has continually referred to Jeter as “one of our four guys.” But against Virginia Tech, with Maia ailing from a groin injury, Dixon tapped Jeter, and the junior forward provided more than a boost early on, helping Pitt avoid another slow start. The Beaver County native finished with a career-high 23 points in Pitt’s 90-71 victory over the Hokies. After checking into the game with a smile, Jeter converted an old-fashioned 3-point play. He nailed two free throws. Then he made a contested jumper. Then another. He was searing. “It was really big for us, Sheldon being aggressive,” senior point guard James Robinson said. “I think when he comes in off the bench, he brings that scoring from the bench. But today he came right off from the jump and was aggressive for us, hit shots for us. He had a really good game.” Then, as he does every so often, Jeter took flight, slamming home a dunk for his 11th point of the game that electrified the crowd at the Petersen Events Center. See Jeter on page 10
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Panthers clutch second road win at Clemson Logan Hitchcock Staff Writer
A week after securing its first conference win on the road, the Pitt women’s basketball team doubled its out-ofstate success Sunday in South Carolina. Pitt (10-12, 2-7 ACC) scrapped out a tough win against the Clemson Tigers (4-17, 0-8 ACC) 59-56 in Clemson, South Carolina. Pitt brought out a tough defense in the first half, cinching its second conference victory this season. The Panthers got on the board in the second minute when sophomore point guard Aysia Bugg knocked down a jumper for the team’s first points of the game. The basket jump-started the Pitt offense, propelling it on a 17-8 run that spanned the final 8:43 of the first quarter. During that run, the Panthers defense severely hampered the Tigers’ offense, holding it to just 4-17 from the field in the first quarter. Freshman Kalista Walters spearheaded Pitt’s first quarter offense in her new role off the bench. She chipped in three of her five points from the charity stripe. Foul trouble riddled the Panthers in the second quarter as Walters, Brenna Wise and Yacine Diop all spent additional time on the bench after picking up their second fouls. In that time, Clemson climbed its way back into the game, erasing a nine-point Pitt lead when sophomore Nelly Perry’s layup knotted the game at 18. After a pair of Clemson free throws, Pitt regained control with junior guard Fred Potvin’s second triple of the game. Potvin, who recently moved into the starting lineup, has been a consistent deep threat for the Panthers — she led Pitt with five threes in Sunday’s game. Senior forward Diop added a jumper to extend the Pitt lead, but brief runs from both teams marked the final six minutes of play in the second quarter. Pitt was up 23-20 beginning the
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Brenna Wise took nine points in Sunday’s game against Clemson, despite fouling out. Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR quarter when the Tigers used three consecutive layups and a pair of free throws to take a five-point lead. A six-point Pitt run ending with a Diop jumper countered Clemson’s lead and put the Panthers ahead by one — but not for long. Clemson finished the quarter making three of its last four shots and took a six-point lead into halftime.
The Tigers, bouncing back from Pitt’s tough defense in the first, shot 9-13 from the field in the second quarter, outscoring Pitt 23-12. In the second half, Pitt began pulling at the Tigers’ 10-point lead. Sophomore Stasha Carey, coming back from a scoreless game last week, connected on a 3-point jumper and started a 15-4 Panther run that spanned
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the rest of the third quarter. A pair of free throws and back-toback baskets by Potvin followed Carey’s three and tied the game at 39. The Panthers met a Clemson layup with a pair of free throws and another Carey triple, putting them ahead by one. Pitt quickly extended its lead in the fourth quarter, as Potvin connected twice more from behind the arc. She offset a Clemson three and gave Pitt a four-point lead minutes into the quarter. From there, the game began unwinding as Pitt fought off a Clemson comeback. Down by four, Clemson rattled off six straight points, and after a Carey 3-point play gave Pitt a brief lead, the Tigers snatched it right back. Trailing by three with just more than a minute remaining, the Panthers broke a nearly four-minute scoring drought when Wise knocked down a pair of free throws. On the next possession, Wise added another free throw following a steal, tying the game at 56. Guard Brittany Gordon forced another Clemson turnover after Wise’s free throw, and Pitt called a timeout with 26 seconds left. Back in the game, Pitt got the ball inside to Carey, who gave Pitt the lead with a layup with 16 seconds remaining. Clemson’s attempt to tie the game or take the lead on the next possession failed, forcing the Tigers to foul. Wise made one of two free throws at the line, and Clemson couldn’t force overtime in the final seconds. Potvin led the Pitt scoreboard — all 15 of her points were from beyond the 3-point arc. Stasha Carey added a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds. The Panthers will play next 7 p.m. Thursday when the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (11-11, 2-7 ACC) make their way to the Petersen Events Center.
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Men’s Hoops, pg. 8 were being unselfish,” Robinson said. “Not that we got away from it too much, but it wasn’t really there the last couple games.” With the score at 41-32 into the half, the Hokies couldn’t answer Pitt’s offense, which shot 60 percent in the first half on 16 of 27 shooting. Pitt assisted on 14 of the 16 baskets. Off the break, Pitt quickly tacked onto its halftime lead after Young converted a reverse layup off the dribble and Artis added a layup in transition. At the first TV timeout of the half, Pitt led 52-39. Seth Allen scored the Hokies’ first seven points of the period. Allen was by far Virginia Tech’s best player in the game, scoring 28 points — 15 of which came from long range on five of five shooting. The blemish on Allen’s stat sheet, though, was five turnovers — a teamwide trend for the Hokies, who turned it over 21 times. Dixon said forcing turnovers was a large focal point during practice, and it showed. “The defense, the charges, we wanted
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to force some turnovers,” Dixon said. “I thought that was something we really emphasized this week, so it’s good to see something you emphasized come through.” Williams recognized that his team’s high turnover rate had a profound effect on the game. “It was the worst we’ve been,” Williams said. “[Twenty-one] turnovers, that was 28 percent of our possessions.” Two more baskets by Young, along with a Luther layup and three in the corner from Damon Wilson, let Pitt bring its lead to 18. Wilson was one of three players off Pitt’s bench who had productive evenings. Wilson finished with eight points, while Luther and Cameron Johnson accumulated nine each. Pitt’s bench outscored the Hokies’ second unit 29-4. “Ryan gave us good minutes, and obviously Cameron,” Dixon said. “We continue to develop that bench.” Pitt will return to play at noon Saturday, when it takes on No. 11 Virginia at the Petersen Events Center. The Oakland Zoo will host a blackout for the game, which will be televised on ESPN3.
Jeter, pg. 8 Jeter said he learned about Sunday’s lineup earlier in the day when assistant coach Brandon Knight asked him if he would come in “with a lot of energy.” “I said yeah. Then, a couple seconds later Coach Dixon came over to me and told me that I was starting,” Jeter said. Virginia Tech head coach Buzz Williams was curt regarding his thoughts on Pitt’s lineup change. “I think that was the first game [Jeter] started,” Williams said. “That was a good decision. Obviously they saw something they thought he could exploit and he did.” If early energy was what Pitt wanted to get out of Jeter, mission accomplished. Jeter scored 13 of the Panthers’ first 17 points, while also grabbing a pair of rebounds and a block in the first half. Foul trouble curbed his momentum for the rest of the first half, though, as he sat until intermission after picking up his second personal with 5:11 remaining. Jeter returned to start the second half,
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soaring to grab a defensive rebound in the opening seconds. He picked up his third foul shortly after, prompting Dixon to replace him with Ryan Luther to avoid Jeter succumbing to foul trouble. “Obviously, [the foul trouble] concerns us with the matchups early at the start of the game,” Dixon said. “And certainly, that’s what occurred. Because he got into foul trouble. So there are some disadvantages to [starting Jeter].” Jeter wouldn’t return until 9:51 remained in the half. He was passive for a stretch, until eventually finding a rhythm, something he said was much easier to do in the first half as a starter. “It’s just a lot easier to make shots,” Jeter said. “Transitioning from warming up — when you’re shooting shots and your legs are loose right — to walking out and playing, as opposed to sitting down and not getting in until four to five minutes into the game, which in real time is like eight to 10 minutes.”
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