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SING US A SONG, YOU’RE THE PIANO MEN
SGB CANDIDATES
DEBATE KEY ISSUES FOR PRESIDENCY
Jon Moss
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While Pitt does not have a formal program like NAU, Pitt students and staff do similar work through the Pitt FoodShare page. According to Sawyer Sidelinger, Pitt’s Sodexo sustainability coordinator, this page functions much like Sodexo’s NAU program. “I believe that Sodexo was in on the planning and implementation of the food share program,” Sidelinger said via email. “Both [the NAU and Pitt FoodShare] programs let the event host post the opportunity to food share.” While Sodexo supports the Pitt FoodShare page, Sidelinger said they do not post. “Currently, the majority of events are catered through Sodexo on Pitt’s campus. While our catering staff does not post on the Pitt FoodShare page, we inform others of the option,” Sidelinger
Across the room from several Pitt students playing ping-pong Monday night in Nordy’s Place, two presidential candidates for Student Government Board bounced ideas back and forth about key issues facing students. Juniors Eric Macadangdang and Ravi Gandhi debated several central SGB issues, including the Allocations process, diversity and inclusion efforts, working with University administration and campus sustainability. Janine Faust, the editor-in-chief of The Pitt News, and Savannah Sowell, president of Pitt ACLU and the communications director of the Political Science Students Association, moderated the hour-long debate ahead of the Feb. 25 elections. Gandhi is at the top of the ticket for YOUR Slate, running alongside board candidates Victoria Chuah, Victor So and Katie Richmond. Macadangdang leads the Voices Slate, running with board candidates Kathryn Fleisher, Ben King and Annalise Abraham. The Launch Slate, composed of current SGB members Tyler Viljaste and Cedric Humphrey does not have a presidential candidate. The flashpoint of the debate was a discussion of the SGB allocations process, through which student organizations can receive a slice of the $900,000 offered every academic year from the Student Activities Fund. Gandhi characterized the current pro-
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Pitt student pianists Clement Ekaputra (left) and Walt Yang perform the music of Claude Debussy and Robert Schulz at the Department of Music’s “Music Monday” at Bellefield Hall Auditorium. Romita Das staff photographer
PITT FACEBOOK GROUP REDUCES FOOD WASTE Madison Brewer Staff Writer
There is no greater joy than stumbling upon free food on campus. But for those who’d prefer a heads up, the Pitt FoodShare Facebook group is the place to look. Here, students can post about bagels, walking tacos, sandwiches and other food left over from events around campus, free for the taking — but not every Pitt student is aware of the Pitt FoodShare page. Of more than 28,000 students at Pitt, fewer than 4,000 are members of the group. While the group is University-sponsored, it remains out of view for many. Students like Oliver Yao, a first-year economics major and member of the Pitt FoodShare group, only heard about the page through word of mouth.
“People don’t know about [the page],” Yao said. “Whether it’s through flyers on campus or whether it’s … at the bottom of an email … more awareness could be appreciated.” According to a New York Times article about food insecurity, Sodexo will alert students at Northern Arizona University to leftover food from campus events — a program called Louie’s Leftovers. To register for the program, students must have the University’s NAUgo app on their phone and must opt-in to the Louie’s Leftovers notifications. Events with Sodexo catering have the option to share their extra food via Louie’s Leftovers upon ordering the catering. After the event is complete and leftovers are available, the host must fill out a form detailing the location, amount of food and how long it will be there, then a notification is sent out.
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cess, regulated by SGB’s 23-page Allocations Manual, as a “bit of a mess.” “What I’ve heard from a lot of people, and what I like to say, is I feel like Allocations is sometimes designed to push people away or drive people insane,” Gandhi, a mechanical and electrical engineering major, said. “It’s not a very approachable or easy process.” Gandhi added that he has heard of some smaller student organizations utilizing fundraising to provide money for all of their operations, in an effort to avoid the allocations process altogether. “I think Allocations should be there to support students,” Gandhi said. “I think the human approach in allocations has been removed and I want to bring that into it again.” When asked after the debate for more information about problems with the current allocations process, Gandhi said he took issue with how some SAF money was
Food Waste, pg. 1 said. “Due to food safety, we only permit food sharing to occur at events that are not staffed by Sodexo.” According to Erika Ninos, the Student Affairs sustainability coordinator, Pitt FoodShare began in 2016 as a Student Affairs-supported project to reduce uneaten, and therefore wasted, food on campus. Like the NAU program, students must elect to be notified. A student must join the group, then tell Facebook to alert them when a post is made, as it is not done so automatically. According to Ninos, anyone can post on the Facebook page. Based on recent posts, they are mainly made by students and staff, who advertise all sorts of food — from free salad in the Union to sandwiches at Alumni Hall. “It is a public Facebook page and anyone can join and post when there is excess food available,” Ninos said via email. “The page is very much a community in that members of the page do a good job at policing it.” When food is posted, it can go quickly, ac-
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Investigation ongoing into Pitt student’s death at pittnews.com being distributed to large student organizations, but declined to comment further, citing confidentiality. He also declined to go into details about what exactly he would change in the Allocations Manual, but said if elected, would survey the campus community to ask student organizations directly what works or doesn’t work for them. Macadangdang, whose slate includes current SGB Allocations Committee Chair Ben King, pushed back against Gandhi’s remarks. He said it is important to have clearly defined guidelines about how SAF money can be handed to clubs. “We have to think very clearly and responsibly about how every single person is putting money into a system, and we have to make sure what we’re putting that money to is going to benefit students,” Macadangdang said. Macadangdang also said he has heard more concerns about the allocations process with regard to the role of the Student Organization Resource Center, which handles financial tasks like fund disbursement
and bank account management. Efforts are currently underway, he said, to incorporate outside bank accounts and utilize the money transfer app Venmo to make allocations easier for student organizations. “There’s over 600 student organizations on campus. There’s two business managers in [SORC],” Macadangdang said. “They’re not much of a resource whenever there’s that much overworking and understaffing.” The conversation on allocations highlighted differences in how Macadangdang and Gandhi think about the SGB presidency, and the board generally. Gandhi said he viewed the presidential position as more of an advocate for student organizations on campus, vowing to use data-driven efforts to gauge students’ opinions about key issues. He cited as evidence the work underway in his current capacity as chair of SGB’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, such as launching a public survey to solicit feedback about constructing an LGBTQ+ student center on campus
and building unity among dozens of D&I student organizations. “I want to shift Student Government away from us having our own initiatives and us doing our own work and meeting with administrators,” Gandhi said, “and shift that to us meeting with students, us meeting with student groups, uniting them, having a lot of collaboration events, working for them and doing more student advocacy.” Macadangdang said he saw the role as more of a bridge between administration and student organizations, ensuring that students have a voice in changes that occur on campus. He mentioned his re-formation of the multi-organization Sexual Assault Prevention Coalition after the October release of a survey about sexual misconduct on campus and his proposal for a student seat on Pitt’s Board of Trustees as examples of this.
cording to Erin O’Rourke, a junior computer science and political science major and a member of the Pitt FoodShare group. “I posted about food available around 7 p.m., and, within 45 minutes, probably 10-12 students came,” O’Rourke said. “And many took food away in bags for later.” Yao experienced a similar event when posting leftover food from an event in the Union. “Even before I pressed the post button, word already got out around the Union, just through word of mouth, that there was a lot of free food,” Yao said. “So even before I posted there were swarms of people coming in, and then after I posted another 30 people or so came in and cleared the food within 10 minutes.” The page requires that food posted may not be in small quantities or unsafe to eat after a period of time. These rules were set by Student Affairs and Sodexo, according to Ninos and Sidelinger. In addition to Student Affairs, the Pitt Pantry, an on-campus food bank for students in need, is involved in the Pitt FoodShare group, often posting extra food. According to Sustainability Program Assistant Ciara Stehley, the page has
directed students in need to the pantry. “We do have pantry users who found out about us through our FoodShare posts,” Stehley said via email. “[Students] have expressed that visiting the Pantry for produce or recovered food made them feel more comfortable about utilizing our other services.” Stehley said the Pitt Pantry receives more food than it needs, so they share it with Pitt FoodShare. The pantry’s extra donated food is open to any student, not just those who qualify for assistance to shop through the pantry by having an income that is less than 150% of the federal poverty line. Caleb Hart, a senior linguistics major and member of the Pitt FoodShare group, said he used the page to check for extra food at the Pitt Pantry about once or twice a month. “Especially for individuals with food insecurity, it can be a real asset,” Hart said. The Food Recovery Heroes, a program through the nonprofit 412 Food Rescue, also assists with on-campus food waste reduction. According to Sidelinger, volunteers pick up tobe-wasted food from dining halls and University dining locations and take it to nonprofits
like the Pitt Pantry, where it then can be shared to Pitt FoodShare. “The Food Recovery Heroes pick up most days from different locations around campus and utilize 412 Food Rescue to find places to take the food,” Sidelinger said. “We rescued approximately over 15,000 pounds of food in 2019.” Some students would like to see the food sharing process improved. Yao suggested the University advertise the page to make more students aware. Hart said he would like to see the page reach farther than it currently does. “I also think it could be expounded and developed more,” Hart said. “Better accessibility. Maybe some sort of external app. A platform to advocate for food insecurity. Lots of opportunities are there.” O’Rourke said the group is an important part of the Pitt community that helps fight hunger and create a more sustainable campus. “I think it brings awareness to the issues of food waste and food insecurity on campus, and can help to raise awareness for other resources on campus that are available to help students who are food insecure,” O’Rourke said.
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How much do classic novels actually have to say? Leah Mensch Opinions Editor
I absolutely could have gone my entire life without ever reading “Moby-Dick,” but unfortunately, I have read it. Twice. I’ve had to read it twice. I can trace it as far back as middle school — the teachers’ desire to aggressively push classic literature on students as much as possible. And it makes sense, in some ways. There are perks to being well read — a more robust vocabulary, mental stimulation, concentration and understanding of literary references in the world. But at the same time, being well read doesn’t necessarily mean reading classics solely for the sake of reading classics. Especially when many of the mainstream classic novels have unaddressed racist and misogynistic undertones. This isn’t to say that these classic novels serve no purpose in curriculum or in the literary world — classics are, in many ways, vital to a well-rounded education in literature. But so are pieces of contemporary literature and books from centuries ago that haven’t been coined classics. There’s a fine art to incorporating the classics. So yes, there’s room for classic novels. But right now, there’s too much room for classic novels. Classics challenge our reading, thinking and comprehension skills in different ways than contemporary literature does — the language and syntax are different than they are today, and, thus, we have to process the text differently. This is why they aren’t always the most exciting or engaging texts to read, but it’s also why they have an important place. There are also many modern sayings that come from classics — like “Big brother is watching,” from George Orwell’s “1984,” “Tomorrow is another day,” from Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind” and “Hey Boo,” which originally comes from “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It’s worth something to be well versed in texts that have made an impact on the construct of modern day language. But at
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Promiti Debi staff illustrator the same time, when classic novels are put on syllabi or inserted into high school curriculum, said novels should be selected with care — not just selected because it’s “what everyone in the field reads” — which yes, has been said to me before. The conversation often leaves me thinking about Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” which is a novel that seemingly everyone in the literary world has read, though none of us can figure out why we had to. The book, which was written by a privileged white guy, is a story about imperialism, colonialism and what happens when “civilized” people leave society. It often feels racially charged, and the story is told through the lense of white British men paddling down a river. Nobody can actually agree on what the plot is, and the Nigerian
novelist Chinua Achebe famously deplored the text as racist. Many modern day literary scholars agree with Achebe. Achebe’s classic, “Things Fall Apart,” is also a novel that critically tackles the topics of colonialism and imperialism, but in a much more assertive way. This novel seems to be less commonly taught than “Heart of Darkness,” but it’s the better option. I often think of the ethical implications of teaching texts that have racist, misogynistic and patronizing undertones. Some of them are important, but I think we need to ask ourselves a few critical questions before choosing certain texts, like — can another text be taught to make the same point? Are there other texts that tackle the issue more ethically? And, how many works of a certain author who has an ag-
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gressive reputation — like Ernest Hemingway — need to be part of the curriculum or reading list? I don’t have an answer to these questions. But if we decide to teach texts with problematic themes, then the themes need to be addressed and discussed, rather than dismissed as something that was “typical for the time period” — even if they were. I’m thinking specifically of the anti-Semetic undertones in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” Hemingway’s misogyny and the blatant racism in beloved books like “Gone With the Wind.” And as far as contemporary literature goes, there seems to be a notion that it doesn’t offer as much wisdom and has less value and, therefore, we can’t learn as much from it. I’ve found this to be most untrue. Pitt’s writing program requires a course in contemporary literature for graduation — which is to say, it is in fact important. After all, we tend to learn best from things that we can connect to, and contemporary literature is often the most relatable. And though it hasn’t had the time to become a classic, the structure and syntax holds its own. It’s different from classic work, but it’s not less valuable. My favorite literature classes that I’ve taken as a student have combined everything — from memoir to fiction, from ancient epics and classics to contemporary essays and nonfiction — when it’s all there, I feel like I learn the most. For children, specialists often recommend exposure to a wide variety of styles and genres in literature in order to enable them to experience different ways of saying and writing about the world. It’s important for teenagers and college students to see everything offered as well. Not just contemporary writing and not just classic writing. So let’s take a step back from the classics. We think that they’re pushing us forward, when, really, they might be standing in our way. Leah writes primarily about books, writing and the spices of the world for The Pitt News. Write to her at LEM140@pitt.edu.
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Artists reflect on femininity in new exhibits
Nadiya Greaser For The Pitt News
Lines of oil-painted mothers and children will be marching across the walls of Frick Fine Arts Building for the next month. The oil paintings were part of an exhibit on Mary Ethel McAuley, a Pittsburgh journalist and artist, and the quilted skirt was part of an accompanying exhibit called Three Artists (Three Women). The exhibits will be on display in the University Art Gallery until March 28. Sylvia Rhor, the director and curator of the University Arts Gallery, said the exhibits are framed around the idea of forgotten women artists. Rhor told an audience at the opening reception Thursday night the story of Lila Hetzel, a Pittsburgh artist and member of the AAP in the 1900s, who did not want to become a forgotten artist after her death. Rhor said the goal of the exhibits is to highlight the work of a female artist who was forgotten and showcase current female artists. “We are here to lift up these amazing female artists, and the work they are doing and the work they have done,” Rhor said. McAuley was a Pittsburgh-based journalist and dispatcher who lived in Germany and wrote about the beginning of World War I. She was also one of the inaugural members of the AAP, a Pittsburgh artist’s collective, in the 1910s. Shown alongside her work are pieces created by the titular Three Artists — Tina Williams Brewer, Frances Gialamas and Sheila Cuellar Shaffer. Brewer is a fiber artist who creates nontraditional quilts with layered textiles, photographs and embellishments, Gialamas is a photographer and painter who portrays industrial remnants in Pittsburgh, and Shaffer is a painter who depicts female bodies and imaginary landscapes. McAuley’s paintings, which are almost
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The oil paintings of Mary Ethel McAuley, a Pittsburgh journalist and artist, are on display in the Frick Fine Arts building. Thomas Yang assistant visual editor exclusively of women and children, illustrate the lives of the people she encountered in Germany during World War I. The paintings are intended to accompany a book McAuley wrote called “Germany in Wartime: What an American Girl Saw and Heard.” She painted depictions of everyday life behind the frontlines and heavily featured women working and mothering. Shaffer, a featured artist in the Three Artists (Three Women) exhibit, paints similar subjects of female bodies and feminine scenes. Shaffer said her work is intended to highlight maternal figures and female bodies in society.
“My work is so influenced by women, by the generations of women in my family,” Shaffer said, “it’s an honor to work with and be exhibited with these women.” According to Madeline Gent, the executive director of AAP, there is a national push by museum curators and artists for exhibits of women’s art, especially at this time of year. Gent said that because Feb. 19 marks the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage and because March is Women’s History month, museums and galleries around the country are beginning to focus on art by forgotten women. “Here in Pittsburgh, and within AAP, we have enough female artists that we
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could do this exhibit 100 times, with 100 different artists,” Gent said. The artists in the Three Artists (Three Women) exhibit engage closely with the themes of motherhood and femininity reflected in McAuley’s work. Brewer, a featured artist who works with textile and fiber arts, focuses heavily on the symbolism of family, women and spirituality. Brewer makes textiles using traditional quilting and embroidery methods with nontraditional materials, like photographs and crystal beads. Karen Kaighin, a friend of Brewers, said that Brewers’ art is a way of keeping personal history. See Gallery on page 6
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Gallery, pg. 4 “We’re all trying to keep history, that’s what [McAuley] was doing with WWI and Berlin,” Kaighin said, “but Tina is keeping their life, pictures of a life, and it does remind me of women’s lives.” According to Rhor, the exhibit came together because of Tasso Spanos, who has owned the collection of McAuley’s work since buying the artist’s paintings in 1971, a few months before she died. Spanos said he talked to McAuley on the phone that year and she asked him to en-
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sure her paintings would be featured in an exhibit in Pittsburgh. “I was lucky to talk to her, one time, before she died,” Spanos said, “I had bought them in New York, and she wanted me to get her work shown in Pittsburgh.” Though a few of the paintings have been shown before at the Westmoreland Museum of Art, the John Hermann Museum and the Carnegie Museum, this is the first time all of McAuley’s work has been exhibited together. According to Spanos, the paintings were meant to be seen together with her book. He said that they appeal to all onlookers, not just artists. “Look at them — there is a universal appeal to them, when you look at them,” Spanos said, “Museum curators love them, but so do children. You can see them, it’s easy to understand.” The pieces have been restored for the exhibit, revealing new details. Spanos said that prior to restoration, it was impossible to see a chimney or icicles in a featured painting which depict women filling baby carriages with coal from a train. Before being exhibited, McAuley’s work was sitting in an attic. When the Spanos’ moved to Ohio, a friend of his, Joann Lindstrom, stored the paintings in her attic. “I felt like Jo, from Little Women,” said Lindstrom, “I would go up to my attic, and there were these paintings all over, and I was just drawn to them. I would find excuses to sit up there.” At the center of the gallery, a massive yellow and red skirt, sewn and embroidered by Brewer, hung over a display. Kaighin said that, to her, the skirt resembled an apron — large and feminine. “It must be a skirt for a goddess,” Kaighin said, “it is so maternal, so female.”
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PITT BASKETBALL FACES LONG ODDS AT FSU
Sam Krimins Staff Writer
Pitt men’s basketball hasn’t lost three straight games all season, but it looks like that could change Tuesday night against No. 8 Florida State (21-4 overall, 11-3 ACC). The Panthers are in the midst of a dreadful stretch, coming off consecutive double-digit losses to middling Clemson and Virginia Tech squads. The Seminoles, meanwhile, are undefeated at home this season. ESPN.com gives Pitt a measly 8.4% chance to win. Despite this, there’s still reason to believe the Panthers (15-11 overall, 6-9 ACC) can pull off the upset — namely, because they’ve done it before. Head coach Jeff Capel’s crew kicked off this season by beating the Seminoles 63-61 at the Petersen Events Center. They’ll seek their second win against a very motivated Florida State team. Florida State sophomore guard Devin Vassell heads Pitt’s defensive focus. His explosion onto the national stage has helped catapult the Seminoles into a top-10 college basketball team. The young guard has increased his points per game from 4.5 last season to 13.4 this season thanks to an ACC fifth-best 42% 3-point field-goal percentage. The Panthers will need to run Vassell off the line in order to keep the contest close. Pitt’s own sophomore guard Xavier Johnson burst onto the scene last season as a rookie but has largely underperformed in his second-year campaign. Facing Vassell and senior guard Trent Forrest presents a challenging test for Johnson, whose defense must be on point to slow down Florida State’s dynamic scorers. On offense, Pitt needs production from sophomore guard Trey McGowens. The Panthers’ success often depends on whether his shot is falling or not, and lately it’s
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Sophomore guard Trey McGowens (2) has scored 15 total points combined in Pitt’s last two games. Thomas Yang assistant visual editor been the latter. McGowens has scored just 15 points combined in Pitt’s last two games on a woeful 4-17 shooting. Look for him to be aggressive early as he attempts to get back in rhythm. The duo of Johnson and McGowens must step up against an outstanding Florida State foe that has been dominant since its opening loss to the Panthers. Like most games, the turnover battle will be paramount in Pitt’s success. The Panthers’ aggressive guard play is often a hindrance as much as it is a strength. The tale of games seems to be either electric scoring or humiliatingly sloppy play. Florida State’s defense, which leads the ACC in steals and ranks second in blocks, allows its offense to get high-percentage looks in transition. Johnson and McGow-
ens need to take care of the ball and consistently make the right play. If they don’t, Pitt will get flattened by a well-balanced opponent that excels on both sides of the ball. Not to be underestimated is Pitt’s defense, which currently ranks 40th out of 350 teams nationally in opponent scoring, allowing 63.9 points per game. McGowens’ quick hands (1.77 steals per game) and sophomore forward Au’Diese Toney’s lockdown ability lead the way for the Panthers. The pesky perimeter defense of these two can irritate the shooters of Florida State. Running the Seminoles’ shooters off the 3-point line will be crucial for Pitt to slow down its offense. Most important of those shooters are Vassell and Forrest, who can be lethal if not contained. Just ask Vir-
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ginia — Vassell shot 7-7 from distance in a win over the defending champs as they let the star guard let loose from deep. The biggest obstacle for Pitt may be the fact that Florida State dominates in its own stadium. Currently undefeated at home, the Seminoles have a significant advantage when playing in front of their rowdy Tallahassee crowd. If Pitt falls to a large deficit early, Florida State will simply ride out the momentum of its home fans to victory. It’s a nightmarish test for a Pitt team already stuck in such a rut. But, as is the Panthers’ nature, there always remains the possibility that McGowens has one of his patented high-scoring performances, while the defense smothers Florida State’s playmakers. The two teams will tip off at 8 p.m.
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ACROSS 1 Govt.-backed investment 6 Travelocity recommendations 10 Comprehends 14 Commandment verb involving parents 15 Niño’s “nothing” 16 Difficult exam 17 Kagan of the Supreme Court 18 Fruit grown in bogs 20 *Billy Crystal comedy featuring a cattle drive 22 __, amas, amat ... 23 Gnaw (at) 24 Grocery walkway 28 Offshore oil drillers 30 *Exact look-alike 34 Stiff-upper-lip type 36 Under, in French 37 Graffiti signature 38 *Daily filming schedule on the set 42 Musical gift 45 Roman robe 46 Hustle genre 50 *One in la-la land 54 Croat or Serb 55 Mexican mister 56 Correct 58 “__ had it!” 59 Somewhat liberal, or where you might find the first words in the answers to starred clues 64 Soap opera genre 67 1960s jacket style 68 Cooking spot 69 Large-scale 70 Warning signs 71 Like fake fruit 72 See socially 73 From Lillehammer, say
2/18/20
By Craig Stowe
5 Clear data from 6 Provoke 7 Dealer’s foil, briefly 8 Southern neighbor of Sask. 9 Reasonable 10 Enters 11 “To say they __ I dare not be so bold”: Shakespeare 12 North Carolina __ Heels 13 Cunning 19 Slow-cooked, as short ribs 21 Young chap 25 Bilko’s rank: Abbr. 26 Grazing area 27 Joule fraction 29 [not my error] 31 Family name in Mideast politics 32 Homer’s “I’m an idiot!” DOWN 33 Feel remorse 1 “My Best Friend’s over Girl” rock band 35 Provided food for 2 Like poker games 39 Tone-__: “Wild for high rollers Thing” rapper 3 Small takeout 40 NYC airport near order Citi Field 4 Tiger mascot with 41 “__ the a red scarf season ... ”
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42 Scout leader? 43 Monkey relative 44 Sought a political seat 47 Move like a mamba 48 Carlsbad __ National Park 49 Do to death 51 Revolutionary territory 52 Wear away, as a coin surface
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53 Nervous twitch 57 Noble gas 60 Dancer Astaire 61 Spanish appetizer 62 Leave out 63 Verne captain 64 Work on a lawn 65 “Training Day” actress Mendes 66 “Superman” villain Luthor
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