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PITT TO PARTNER WITH ONLINE EDUCATION STARTUP THROUGH SUMMER

VICIOUS ON VIRGINIA

Vaibhav Gupta Staff Writer

Pitt students have squinted at complex equations on blackboards and scrambled through calculus exams for decades. Now, they can still squint at equations and sweat through exams on a computer screen through an online course offering. The University partnered with Outlier.org, a New York-based education technology startup, to provide online Introductory Calculus and Psychology courses and will continue working with the company through the summer term. Outlier would not respond to specific questions about its history, the implementation process at Pitt or its partnership with the University. The company declined an interview, but provided No. 9 184-pounder Nino Bonaccorsi completed eight takedowns in his 19-7 victory over Virginia’s Michael Battista. a statement on behalf of Outlier founder and CEO Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor Aaron Rasmussen that said Outlier provides university-level courses taught by educators in their respective fields through universities across the country. Grace Giglio iel said in the TED Talk. “I saw myself on Be Alright,” offered viewers a glimpse into “We create accessible, affordable and well-deFor The Pitt News a bicycle all dressed with my helmet, do- his rise from poverty, the loss of his wife signed courses taught by some of the world’s best ing a long bike ride in some exotic loca- and the experience of undergoing a heart Pitt alum John Daniel laid down in instructors to make learning fun and effective for tion. That got me through all the pain. The transplant. The Pittsburgh native and 1979 2015 to receive a heart transplant which students,” Rasmussen said. discomfort. Just having that vision in my Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences gradwould extend his life for a minimum of 10 Jonathan Rubin, the chair of the mathematics head … And so, the thing is, when you face uate came to the 35th floor of Pitt’s Catheyears. He stood four years later to give a department, said Outlier had initially approached something that seems daunting and over- dral of Learning Sunday morning to talk to TED Talk on the power and experience of the University and proposed implementing an whelming, you’ve got to have a picture of students about his perspective on success intentional thought. online Calculus I class in early 2019. He said the “I had this picture in my head,” Dan- you on the other end.” See Outlier on page 2 See Daniel on page 2 Daniel’s TED Talk, “Everything Will

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online class size for Calculus I is about 30 people. “Part of the reasoning for this is the high number of students and the demand that exists for such courses,” Rubin said. “Outlier will provide access to education to those who have not yet felt comfortable in the classroom setting, maybe preparing for other classes, people who are not yet enrolled in college, but might be interested.” According to Outlier’s website, the online courses cost about $400 each and provide transferable course credits, videos from experts in the field, personalized learning, an interactive textbook, study groups and free tutoring. The online course follows a traditional classroom model with midterms, final exams, homework and quizzes. Rubin said the main goal of the project is to provide the same high-quality Pitt education that in-person students experience day to day, but instead move it to a more affordable online presence.

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“The program is going to be of sufficient quality,” Rubin said. “It will fulfill the same goals of a traditional Calculus I but differs only in the way it is presented.” According to Joseph McCarthy, vice provost for undergraduate studies, who helped with the program’s execution process, Pitt’s relationship with Outlier rests upon reducing the financial strain of education, which fulfills one of Pitt’s missions to support access and affordability. “We wanted to explore ways of enabling lowcost access nationally and internationally,” McCarthy said. “Our pilot with Outlier.org allows us to explore that — and, early on, we see that prospective/nontraditional students are achieving well.” Rubin said the program has not experienced any major challenges, and Pitt will continue its partnership with Outlier through the summer semester. He added that an advisory group, largely composed of faculty, will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the program at a later date, as well as a possible future expansion.

Daniel, pg. 1 and cultivating a positive mindset. Raymond Davis, the charitable relationship manager of the Division of Philanthropic and Alumni Engagement, suggested that he appear as a speaker at the Honors College after watching Daniel’s TED Talk and getting to know him. “I thought he was just a fantastic example of someone who took their education and ran with it. He looked for opportunities and worked hard,” Davis said. At the event, Daniel focused on the four basic factors to which he credits personal and professional success — selfawareness, perspective, adaptability and resilience. Careful attention to these processes, he said, is what has led him to success and ultimately maintains his positive outlook. Growing up, Daniel learned from his mother how to balance the chaotic and dynamic lifestyle that they shared. He moved 10 separate times as a child, he said, coupled with frequent trips to and from hospitals to combat health issues. “I came out of that with some sense of the ability to be in control of my circumstances,” Daniel said. Working as the executive vice president and chief human resources officer for First Horizon National Corporation, Daniel said he finds pride in teaching employees the ways in which they can gain control over their own circumstances. According to Daniel, heightened self-

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awareness is an effective tool in developing rational thought and emotional intelligence. In the workplace, he said he frequently uses feedback as a strategy to raise employees’ self-awareness. “This idea of intrapersonal awareness, which I call self-awareness, is really important,” Daniel said. “[It] is your ability to understand your moods and behaviors and their impact on others. Reflection is key in developing the skill of self-awareness.” In Daniel’s experience, the largest obstacle in gaining self-awareness and perspective is a negative mindset. “The brain has a negative bias. So when something happens, the first question is why,” Daniel said. “Growing up, I wasn’t automatically fighting the system, I was trying to understand the system.” Maintaining productive habits and seeking perspective now comes as second nature to Daniel, but only in retrospect. Productivity and positivity are attributes he believes are built with consistent and applied practice and must be practiced through the best and worst of times. Fluctuations in social environments produce variations in human behavior that are reflective of the human ability to adapt to the unknown. The ability to adapt, he said, corresponds with resilience — which he defines as the capacity to rebound from trauma.

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‘IOWAIT’ A BETTER PRIMARY SYSTEM Devi Ruia

Senior Staff Columnist Last week’s Iowa caucuses were an absolute disaster. Who knew that a voting process that works about the same as picking teams in an elementary school gym class wouldn’t go totally smoothly? It sounds like a foolproof process to me! Except it definitely wasn’t this time. Between human errors, app failures and straightup incompetence, vote counts weren’t released at all on caucus night. Results were instead released in waves in the following days, leading to confusion, anger and conspiracy theories on social media. The Iowa caucuses were a fiasco that no one wants to witness again. Last week made it very clear that the Democratic Party needs a better system for choosing a nominee. It’s time we do away with caucuses, switch to a ranked-choice voting system instead and change which states go first in the primaries. Ranked-choice voting is the best way to ensure the candidate that has a majority of support from the voters wins elections. Voters rank candidates in order of preference, then votes are counted in rounds to determine the winner. If a candidate holds the majority in the first round, they’re declared the winner. If no candidate reaches a majority in the first round, the candidate with the least amount of votes is eliminated and the ballots are then recounted with the voters who ranked the eliminated candidate first having their second choice count instead. This goes on until a candidate reaches a majority and wins the election. Caucuses work similarly, except instead of voters being able to easily rank candidates and then go home

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In the Iowa caucus, Pete Buttigieg (pictured) received 26.2% of the votes, and Bernie Sanders received 26.1%. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor and wait for results, they have to stand in a church basement or a school gym for three hours. Still, both caucuses and ranked-choice voting value having second choices and work in rounds. In a caucus, caucus goers line up with other supporters of their candidate at their caucus location. If their group is comprised of at least 15% of the people there, they’re deemed viable and are able to move onto the final round. If they do not reach 15%, their candidate isn’t viable and supporters have to realign to another candidate. Delegates are then awarded to can-

didates based on the amount of voters that they receive at each caucus location after the final alignment. In cases of a tie, coin flips are used to determine who gets an extra delegate — which is not exactly the most democratic system. Ranked-choice voting eliminates the hassle that caucuses put voters and volunteers through. It still involves having multiple choices, which defenders of caucuses point to as a positive thing that forces candidates to be more civil with each other as they need to be able to pull from their own coalition as well as those of other candidates. But ranked-

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choice voting doesn’t force you to play musical chairs with all your neighbors on a weeknight. Plus, it would just make the winner of Iowa the person who got the majority of support and would then award delegates based on that, eliminating ridiculous coin tosses and making it more difficult to have mathematical errors. Turnout was also pretty low in the Iowa caucuses this year. Some of that could be due to candidates not inspiring a higher level of turnout, but part of it is due to the fact that caucuses aren’t See Ruia on page 5

Ruia, pg. 4 convenient for many, especially parents with young children and disabled individuals. Ranked-choice voting, on the other hand, is more accessible since it’s a quicker process than caucuses and doesn’t force people to stand around for hours. Ranked-choice voting is also shown to increase turnout in primaries by promoting more positive campaign strategies and eliminating some of the perceived costs associated with voting, like wasted votes, according to a study

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conducted by the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Another criticism of the Iowa caucuses is that Iowa’s population is 90% white. It’s not exactly the most diverse state out there, and it’s certainly not very representative of the Democratic Party or of the country as a whole. Having an overwhelmingly white state like Iowa go first can often leave out candidates of color. This Democratic primary was hailed for its diversity, but only one candidate of color was left going into Iowa, Andrew Yang. Sen. Ka-

mala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, DN.J., and Julian Castro all had to drop out prior to Iowa yet Pete Buttigieg is a front-runner, in part due to his performance in Iowa, despite the fact that he’s doing horribly with voters of color. Ranked-choice voting can help to solve this issue too — although we really should also have a more representative state go first — as several studies have shown that ranked-choice voting increases representation of women and people of color in public office. This is partially due to the fact that ranked-

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choice voting increases turnout and allows candidates to run without splitting the vote. Regardless, after the election in November Democrats need to overhaul the primary process and fix the system. If we want to pick the best nominee possible, we need to eliminate caucuses and switch to a ranked-choice voting system. Devi primarily writes about politics for The Pitt News. Write to her at dvr7@ pitt.edu and follow her on Twitter for more hot takes @DeviRuia.

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INJURIES SINK PITT OFFENSE AT NOTRE DAME

Dominic Campbell Senior Staff Writer

Pitt women’s basketball entered Sunday’s game against rival Notre Dame hoping to get revenge for its close, early-January loss to the Irish. Despite a strong start, Pitt’s shooting struggles and a key injury handicapped the team on its way to another big defeat, 74-52 in South Bend, Indiana. This marks the third loss in a row for the Panthers (4-19 overall, 1-11 ACC), with each coming by 20 points or more. It is also their 12th straight loss at the hands of the Fighting Irish (10-14 overall, 5-7 ACC). Finally, it is the second straight game in which redshirt senior guard Aysia Bugg has been out after the injury she sustained against Florida State on Feb. 1. Both teams went on runs in the first quarter with the lead changing hands five times. Pitt jumped out to a 10-5 lead with 4:31 remaining. Notre Dame then went on a 9-0 run to lead 14-10 with 1:39 to go, and Pitt finished the quarter on a 7-0 run to lead 17-14. With Bugg sitting with an injury, Pitt was looking for someone to step up in her absence. First-year guard Dayshanette Harris did just that, leading the Panthers with seven points in the opening period. But the Panthers were unable to find any rhythm offensively in the second quarter. They shot 3-17 from the field and went through a six-minute scoring drought. Harris shot a measly 1-7 from the floor after her hot start and mustered only five points. Notre Dame was able to capitalize off

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of the poor shooting from Pitt, posting shooting marks of 4-7 from the 3-point range and 6-8 from the foul line. Firstyear forward Sam Brunelle, who had been in foul trouble in the first quarter, jumpstarted Notre Dame’s offense with two quick 3-pointers, while graduate guard Destinee Walker lead with eight points on two 3-pointers and two free throws. The Fighting Irish outscored the Panthers 24-14 in the second quarter and went into halftime with a 38-31 lead. The complexion of the game changed entirely when Harris was elbowed in the face by Irish senior guard Kaitlin Cole midway through the second quarter. Harris was able to play the remainder of the second quarter and even the first 1:30 of the third quarter, but after taking a successful charge, she sat out the rest of the game. With Harris and Bugg out, the Panthers’ top two scorers weren’t available for most of the second half, and their offense missed their production dearly. Pitt shot 10-39 from the field in the second half and made no 3-pointers, missing all 15 attempts. First-year guard Emy Hayford and junior guard Gabbie Green combined to shoot 0-12 from 3-point range. They also made no shots in the second half at all and combined for 0-16 from the field and zero points. The only player that had a decent second half at all was first-year guard Amber Brown. After coming off of six straight halves of play where she didn’t

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Women’s, pg. 6 make a field goal, Brown made seven of her eight shots from the field, scoring 15 points in the second half. The rest of the Panthers shot 3-31 from the field. The Fighting Irish did better on offense than the Panthers, but only shot 14-33 from the field and 3-12 from 3-point range. Walker was a big part of their second-half scoring with 10 points and on a perfect 4-4 from the field. Due to Brown’s play, Pitt kept it relatively close in the third quarter and entered the final frame down 10. But Brown’s four points in the fourth quarter were all that Pitt could counter with, allowing Notre Dame to break away for an easy win. Sunday’s final quarter marks the fourth time that the Panthers scored four points or less in a quarter of ACC play this season — an all-too-familiar trend for the ACC’s statistically worst shooting team. Pitt will try to halt its losing streak when it hosts Duke on Thursday at the Petersen Events Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.

First-year guard Dayshanette Harris led the Panthers with seven points in the opening period before being elbowed in the face by Irish senior guard Kaitlin Cole midway through the second quarter. Kaycee Orwig | senior staff writer

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