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SGB TO HOLD RUNOFF ELECTION FOR EXECUTIVE VP SPOT

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Center for Creativity workshop assistant Mike Campbell (center) leads a paper sculpture class Monday afternoon.

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CAREER POLITICIAN SHARES EXPERIENCES FROM THE CAPITOL Neena Hagen

Senior Staff Writer With its rust-belt roots, flourishing corporate sector and robust student population, Pittsburgh’s diversity has made it a popular stop for politicians on the campaign trail.

But Charles Dent, a former U.S. congressman and career politician, didn’t come to Pitt to rattle off political sound bites. Instead, he shared 28 years worth of stories from the heart of America’s highest ranking political circles to the nearly 200 people who packed Ballroom B of the

University Club Monday night.

Since day one of Dent’s political career in 1991, when he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to represent his hometown of Allentown as a Republican, he said he’s tried to cultivate an image as a pragmatist and a moderate, which former Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg acknowledged in his opening remarks.

“Raging moderates … as many have described Charlie Dent … is a term that might be viewed as critical by some in this current take-no-prisoners political environment, but it has a great deal of appeal

for the rest of us,” Nordenberg said.

Dent said he came to Pitt to tell a more intimate story of the political drama most Americans can only view on their TV screens. He shared tales of stressful and lighthearted moments with presidents and spoke about his most grueling days on the House floor, before fielding questions from audience members about today’s hot-button political issues.

After being elected to the U.S. Congress in 2004, Dent co-chaired the Tuesday Group, a caucus of moderate Republicans dedicated to promoting fiscal responsibilSee Politician on page 2

There’s one election left before the lineup is completely decided for next year’s Student Government Board. SGB announced Monday the office of executive vice president will be decided by a runoff election between the top two candidates on March 5.

The position is usually filled by the board candidate who scores the most votes. But after Caroline Unger and Anaïs Peterson won exactly 1,154 votes apiece in last Tuesday’s election — an unprecedented situation not totally covered in SGB’s Elections Code — the Elections Committee was left scrambling to figure out how to decide who would take the title.

Like the general election, the runoff election will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on elections.pitt.edu.

Elections Committee Chair Katie McLaughlin will announce the winner at that night’s public meeting.

While the Elections Code says there should be a runoff election in case of a tie between presidential or board candidates, it doesn’t give protocol for a tie for the top spot on board. McLaughlin said the committee decided on the procedure after reviewing the code and discussing the matter with SGB adviser Steve Anderson.

Peterson ran on a platform of fossil fuel divestment, sustainability and administration accountability. She wants to create a time for public comment at public Board of Trustees meetings like last Friday’s.

Unger, the current chair of the Facilities, Technology and Transportation Committee, wants to pursue campus safety policies, including a streamlining of the University’s two crime alert systems by combining them into one. She also hopes to create free and reduced meal plans for food-insecure students.

As executive vice president, either Peterson or Unger will serve as the speaker of SGB’s Assembly, a body comprised of students representing student organizations. Whoever wins will also become president if SGB President-elect Zechariah Brown steps down over the course of the year.

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ity, personal independence and a strong national defense. He also has fond memories of chairing the ethics committee for two years, a committee he said set the standard for practical decision-making in Congress.

“Most committees are either majority Republican or majority Democrat — not the ethics committee,” Dent said. “We made every decision on a consensus basis … because it simply feels unethical to compromise on values.”

As a pragmatist, Dent said he valued a confrontational approach to politics. Instead of arguing endlessly on the House floor, it’s important to communicate issues with top officials, he explained, launching into a story about negotiating with then-President George W. Bush during the Iraq War. “The war wasn’t going well. It was clear that we’d bitten off more than we could chew and we needed to … re-evaluate our military strategy,” Dent said. “I stood in the Oval Office with President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice and about a dozen other elected officials and cabinet members and we had a candid conversation … The next night, it was all over the news.”

Dent said he’d like all political negotiations to be that simple, but American politics — especially at the national level and increasingly at the state level — has become more polarized than ever.

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“I noticed [when I was elected in 1991] that Harrisburg could be painfully pragmatic — it often felt like there was nothing we couldn’t compromise on.

Washington, on the other hand, was all about messaging. Politicians made a lot of empty speeches just to score political points … It was excruciatingly ideological … Unfortunately, now, Harrisburg looks a lot more like Washington,” Dent said.

This failure to compromise on the most basic issues — “a never-ending circuit of firing squads,” as Dent put it — was one of the main causes of the 2013 government shutdown, which Dent said was one of the most “futile and stupid” exercises in government history, until the most recent shutdown under the Trump administration.

Dent resigned in May of 2018 during the Trump administration, but he’s still involved with politics as a frequent commentator on CNN. He said he’s concerned about the direction the country’s headed.

“Donald Trump is not the first president to abuse executive governance. Since FDR’s administration, presidents on both sides have exercised more authority … but Trump’s disregard for the Constitution is perhaps the most concerning example I’ve seen,” he said.

According to Dent, Trump’s continued push for a border wall seems like a fruitless endeavor — and it’s not the most pressing emergency the American people should be concerned about.

“The only emergency there is the as-

Former congressman Charles Dent speaks about his time in the House of Representatives at Monday evening’s “American Politics in the New World Order” Levko Karmazyn | staff photographer sault on Article I of the Constitution.

First of all, if you’re gonna declare an emergency, the proposed solution has to actually fix the emergency,” Dent said.

“A wall does nothing to change the fact that families and children from Mexico are displaced and have nowhere else to go.”

But despite painting a bleak picture of the current administration, first-year politics and philosophy major Tyler Viljaste, who went to lunch with Dent that afternoon, said Dent offered hope to younger generations.

“He did say it’s really hard to be a centrist and moderate in these times, but

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he wants good people to enter politics and fight for important causes instead of pushing party lines,” Viljaste said. “That’s something I think young people who want to see progress in their government can really resonate with.”

Nordenberg echoed Viljaste’s point, calling for more leaders in government who don’t view “compromise as a dirty word.”

“We look for leaders who do not consider people of the opposing political party enemies … who consistently seek common ground,” Nordenberg said. “We want leaders to represent those who have actually put them in office.”

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OLYMPIC BREAK DANCING WOULD PROMOTE INCLUSION

Delilah Bourque

mendations to the committee about what sports games “gender-balanced, more youth-focused deserve to be included in addition to 25 “core” and more urban.” The inclusion of breaking would When most people picture break dancing, sports. The Paris 2024 organizing committee rec- help accomplish these goals. they probably imagine young people on the streets ommended to the IOC that the three new sports The sport is relatively new. Breaking emerged of New York City, battling it out on a sidewalk or for Tokyo 2020 continue as part of the 2024 pro- in New York City’s South Bronx neighborhood, in in an alleyway where the victor is determined by gram, and that break dancing be added. primarily black and Hispanic communities in the applause and shouts of approval from the crowd.

Although it originated as a street sport, break early 1970s, later gaining popularity around the They probably don’t picture it taking place in front dancing, or breaking, is already a youth Olym- world. Professional breaking competitions started of official judges in Paris as part of the Summer Olympics.

But all that could change. The International Olympic Committee is considering adding break dancing, as well as a number of other sports, to the official list of sports for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris following recommendations by the Paris 2024 organizing committee. Break dancing would make its very first Olympic debut just six years after inclusion in the 2018 Buenos Aires Summer Youth Olympics.

The Olympic committees for both the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 games have made an important point of trying to keep the games relevant to the modern age by being more inclusive of newer or more niche sports. The inclusion of break dancing, as well as other nontraditional sports, is an important step towards the goal of keeping the Olympic games modern. The IOC should include break dancing in the Paris 2024 program if it wants to keep the games fresh, relevant and inclusive.

The IOC determined in July 2018 what nontraditional sports will debut at the 2020 summer Thai break dancers. image via wikimedia commons games in Tokyo. Sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding all made the cut, and will debut as pic sport, which debuted last year in Buenos less than 30 years ago, beginning with Battle of the Olympic sports during the next Summer Olym- Aires, Argentina. Breaking competitions oper- Year in 1990. Thousands of people submitted vidpics. ate like this: breakers battle in tournament-style eos online for a chance to participate in just one Additionally, sports like rowing, boxing and showdowns that are judged by a panel, similar to competition — Red Bull BC One — in Boston last swimming are seeing new events added and other other Olympic sports, such as figure skating. A year. events changed as part of an effort to be more in- knockout round of the top four breakers follows Breaking is also fairly gender-inclusive. Alclusive of gender, as per the 2020 Olympic Agenda. the tournament-style showdown and determines though men and women compete separately in For example, boxing now has eight weight classes who takes home the gold medal. individual competitions, group competitions confor men instead of 10, while the number of weight The Paris 2024 organizing committee de- sist of crews that include both men and women. classes for women increased from three to five. scribes itself as trying to further the goals of the Similarly, the sets of rules and scoring for men and The IOC allows host cities to make recom- Tokyo 2020 organizing committee by making the women in individual competitions are the same.

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The recommendation of the Paris 2024 committee to include breaking as an official sport has generated palpable excitement in the breaking community.

“As one of the head judges at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires last year, I witnessed the magnitude of the impact,” Kevin “DJ Renegade” Gopie said in an interview with The Telegraph. “It was the talk of the town and we had the biggest crowds of all of the new sports. Everybody wanted to be around, not because it was a novelty, but because the skill levels are so high.”

Though breaking began in the United States, it is now a global sport. South Korean dancers dominate competitions, and the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism touts the breaking community as a part of the national culture.

Russian 18-year-old Sergey Chernyshev and Japanese 17-year-old Ramu Kawai took home the first Olympic gold medals in breaking at the 2018 Buenos Aires Summer Youth Olympics, a testament to how breaking has moved from the streets of the South Bronx to an international sport, where dance often transcends language for competitors.

Though breaking is competitive and dancers often face up to trash talk each other during rounds, the youth competitors in Buenos Aires felt only camaraderie.

“There’s a bit of smack talk during the battles, but away from competition, it’s all love,” B-girl silver medalist Emma Misak said in an interview. “I think that makes breaking unique. We genuinely are like family. I’m so happy right now.”

Though breaking started with young, diverse New Yorkers battling on the streets, the past 30 years have seen it evolve into an international sport that is youthful and diverse. The IOC and various Olympic organizing committees have made it their mission to make the games more inclusive, and the addition of breaking as a new sport at the Paris 2024 games is a big step in the right direction.

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CLASSICAL INDIAN DANCE TEAMS COMPETE AT PITT DHIRANA

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With colorfully coordinated clothing and bells around their feet, dancers in this year’s Dhirana competition used their bodies and facial expressions to tell stories ranging from classic Hindu tales to modern stories of immigration and acceptance. The dancers showcased how Indian classical dance is a performative art form, featuring both classical and contemporary music and displaying emotions ranging from scary and violent to happy and peaceful.

Crowds gathered in Soldiers & Sailors auditorium on Saturday for the seventh annual Dhirana national Indian classical dance competition as eight collegiate dance teams competed for a $1,000 cash prize and trophy. All of this year’s ticket proceeds went to the Birmingham Free Clinic, a Pittsburgh organization that provides support to uninsured communities.

Pitt’s very own Indian classical dance team, Pitt Nrityamala, which was founded in 2013, has hosted the Dhirana competition for seven years.

Indian classical dance is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of different dance styles including Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Kathak, Kathakali, Mohiniattam and Manipuri.

This year’s competing collegiate dance teams included Cornell Anjali, JHU Shakti, GT Pulse, CWRU Nritya, UCLA Taara, UMD Moksha, UW Natya and Natya at Berkeley.

This year Natya at Berkeley took away the firstplace prize, with GT Pulse and UMD Moksha coming in second and third place, respectively. Pitt Nrityamala co-captains Anupama Jayachandran and Srividhya Madireddy described their appreciation for the hard work and efforts of the competing teams.

“I think they definitely deserved it,” said Jayachandran, a sophomore molecular biology and anthropology major. “The pieces that they put on were incredible in terms of outside of their theme itself.

Just the way that their dancers moved together as a team, their synchronization, the power and just the kind of emotion that they were able to convey from the stage is phenomenal.”

This year’s lead sponsor was Srinivasa Prasad International Foundation for the Performing Arts, which is focused on preserving the Indian classical dance tradition and helping North American youth promote the dance and pursue their dance passions.

The foundation was created in honor of Srinivasa Prasad Gutti, a world-renowned classical Kuchipudi dancer who passed away in a car accident when returning home from a competition. While some dance teams chose to incorporate more contemporary themes in their music choices and choreography, SPIFPA’s Most Classical Award also went to the first-place-winning team Natya at Berkeley for its emphasis on preserving the ancient traditional Indian dance form.

The performances were fully self-choreographed by the dance captains with the aim to tell a story. The teams made creative videos to introduce their dances and the themes behind the stories they told. Performances included JHU Shakti’s retelling of the three brothers in “Harry Potter” as the “Tale of Three Sisters,” as well as Cornell Anjali’s depiction of the story of the Hindu god Krishna, who is discovered to hold the entire universe inside of his mouth.

The Cornell Anjali dancers expanded this astrological theme and portrayed the different zodiac signs through dance.

Ananya Reddy, a junior biology major competing in JHU Shakti who had been on team for two years, said the process of perfecting the dance moves required extra effort because the team members came from a variety of different dance backgrounds.

“The majority of the practice time is just cleaning it,” Reddy said. “Because we come from so many different dance schools and so many different dance styles, there’s a lot of work that goes into making sure that we all look the same and that we’re all hitting the same angles. I think that’s the hardest part, making sure we all look the same.”

Despite most of the team members having studied the classical dance form of Bharatanatyam, Reddy explained that even within this type of dance there are many different styles. Each dance teacher has his or her own variation when teaching students.

This year’s judges consisted of dance specialists and instructors, including Guru Smt. Natyakalavathi Jaya Mani, Guru Smt. Dr. Uma Vyjayanthimala Kallakuri, Guru Smt. Dr. Chethana Raghupathy, Guru

Smt. Dr. Bdinu Madhavi Gutti, Guru Smt. Shobhitha Ravi and Guru Smt. Antara Datta.

Pitt Sangeet, Pitt’s Indian classical music group, introduced the competition, performing a classical vocal piece with tabla, Indian drums. The competition also featured three exhibition teams, Pitt’s Bhangra dance team First Class Bhangra, a cappella group The Songburghs and Project Convergence, a nationally acclaimed dance group that mixes tap dance and Bharatanatyam, using tap shoes and bells on feet as instruments while dancing.

Audreela Deb and Harsha Mikkilineni — codirectors for the Dhirana student organization this year — discussed the process that went into planning and preparing for the dance competition.

Both directors previously danced in Pitt Nrityamala and wanted to continue promoting Indian classical dance at Pitt through organizing this national competition. These co-organizers oversaw all of the 11 different committees within Dhirana that focused on different aspects of planning such as fundraising, logistics and sponsorship.

“All of this is so we can preserve Indian classical dance and showcase it to broader audiences,” said Mikkilineni, a senior sociology major and a former Pitt Nrityamala captain. “This is partly our Pittsburgh community, which is a huge part of our show because there is a really solid Indian population here who really loves the traditional arts, but we also want to show it to the Pittsburgh campus, just to get this really old art form into people’s minds.”

The performance ended with the Mangalam, where all of the dance teams came together on the stage and danced together to thank the audience and god.

“This whole system of the classical Indian dance collegiate circle is completely student-run,” said Jayachandran. “It’s all the students on the teams itself who choreograph the pieces, they create their mixtapes, everything is student-done and then Dhirana itself is completely student-run. And Natya from UC Berkeley took first place on Friday at Dhirana, the University of it’s crazy to think about just how professionally run Pittsburgh’s annual Indian classical dance competition.ck. Hannah Heisler | the show is and it’s just college students.” staff photographer

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RENOVATING RETRO: PITT ATHLETICS POISED FOR FULL-TIME RETURN TO RETRO COLORS Stephen Thompson Staff Writer

The iconic Pitt Victory Song, written in the 1920s, ends with the line, “For the blue and gold shall conquer as of old, so fight, Pitt, fight!” The “blue and gold” the song references has undergone some changes throughout the decades, with the current shades being dark navy and champagne yellow, but the athletic administration has hinted that will change in the near future, back to the royal blue and mustard yellow fans that know as the “retro colors.”

According to Director of Licensing and Merchandising Lori Burens, Panther fans should look for an official statement coming later this spring.

“We are anticipating some updated news from a branding perspective later this spring,” Burens told The Pitt News.

“We could circle back on this at the end of the semester.”

Until then, fans will have to take the subtle hints in stride. Nostalgia appears to be a valuable selling point for the athletic department’s marketing team. The eye test at any sporting event will show how popular the retro colors are among students and alumni alike.

The empirical data backs up the eye test. In October of 2016, the Pitt Team Store saw a 26-percent increase in apparel sales after adding more retro gear, compared to the previous year.

For now, Pitt’s marketing team and athletic department are subtly hinting at a restoration of the classic colors.

Since Pitt’s revival of the Pitt script for all varsity teams and the fresh retrocolored alternate uniforms in 2015, Pitt’s marketing department has leaked some of its suspected rebranding plans.

By the end of this academic year,

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Senior running back Qadree Ollison wearing the Pitt football retro uniform at last December’s ACC Championship Game. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor

all of Pitt’s varsity teams will have displayed their version of the retro uniforms. The Pitt Shop is advertising the retro colors on its website and retrocolored backpacks have been spotted around campus. Pitt also unveiled a new studio in the Petersen Events Center on Oct. 4 of last year, all decked out in retro colors. Even the athletic director herself, Heather Lyke, has been spotted around campus in the royal blue and gold.

Lyke has been hounded about the return to retro ever since she accepted

her position in 2017, but has been cautious in her response. At a press conference last fall, she was slightly less bullish.

“We have been studying that, obviously, since I got here,” Lyke said.

“The way the uniform process works, and our relationship with Nike is exceptional, but you order things so far in advance, so you have to plan it out.

That will be something for us to talk in the near future about.”

The writing is on the wall –– literally. When a fan enters the Fitzgerald

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Field House for a volleyball match or gymnastics meet, their eyes are immediately drawn to the massive “H2P” banners recently installed above the bleachers on the far side of the gym.

The royal blue signs with a bright yellow outline on the lettering stands in striking juxtaposition to the way the rest of the facility is decorated, with dark-navy outlines and champagneyellow Pitt script logos.

Originally, it was the men’s basketball and football teams that carried the banner of Pitt retro. They were the first teams to receive alternate uniforms with the classic colors immediately following the uniform upgrade in 2015.

This year, both teams have worn retro uniforms four times. The Oakland Zoo even tweeted a video of a new retrocolored light show to be used at the Petersen Events Center for the men’s basketball game against Clemson on Wednesday.

For years, the prospect of returning to the bright blue and yellow, made famous by the likes of Dan Marino, Tony Dorsett and Jerome Lane, was nothing more than a pipe dream for nostalgic fans. Ever since Pitt returned full-time to the Pitt script logo, the pressure for Pitt to restore the colors of what many consider to be a golden era of Pitt Athletics has gotten heavier.

Pitt football first donned what is today known as the retro colors in 1973, the first year in the tenure of head coach Johnny Majors. Majors was hired by then-Pitt Chancellor Wesley Posvar as a way of breathing life into a middling football program. Majors did just that, improving his win total See Retro on page 6

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rent navy and gold color scheme and a roaring Panther replaced the classic Pitt. Between the demolition of Pitt Stadium in 1999, the loss of the script and the relocation of men’s basketball from Fitzgerald Field House to the Petersen Events Center, Pitt has lost some of the monuments to the success built during the ’70s and ’80s.

After the first ACC Football Championship appearance in school history and the hiring of Jeff Capel to lead the men’s basketball team, it seems as though some of Pitt Athletics’ momentum is back. The color change could

be the next step.

It’s obvious –– not only does nostalgia sell, but so does style. The defining colors and images of Pitt athletic history occurred with Panthers proudly wearing their royal blue and mustard yellow, from the 1976 Sugar Bowl to Jerome Lane’s legendary, backboard-shattering dunk. Pitt Athletics has the opportunity to sell more gear, expand fan engagement and help attract athletes to Pitt by going back to the retro colors of the Panthers’ glory days. People should expect that move sooner than later.

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in three straight seasons before going undefeated and winning a national championship in 1976.

There was one issue he had to fix before that could happen, which Majors addressed in an interview with The New York Times.

“I looked at their uniforms,” Majors said. “And I thought they were pretty dull.”

Highlighting that sense of pride and distinction was intentional. Majors,

who designed the uniforms in which his Panthers played, utilized the blue and gold to help Pitt stand out from rival Notre Dame, who showcased a similar navy blue and gold look.

When the glory of Pitt’s latest national championship is relived through pictures or video, the retro colors are prominently displayed on the backs of one of the University’s greatest teams.

The 1976 football team is the reason so many Pitt fans associate the colors with success and tradition.

Pitt stuck with those colors until 1997, when it switched to the cur-

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Available Now! 2‑bedroom fully fur­nished house, Air Conditioned for $1,200 plus utilities on North Avenue, Millvale. Need Secu­ rity Deposit and Credit Check. Please call: 412‑315‑8024.

Fall Rentals ‑ 1 bed­ room apartments very close to campus, well maintained, 24 hour laundry, secured buildings. Rates start­ ing at $775 with some utilities in­cluded.

Call us today at 412‑682‑7622 Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2019

& sooner. Oak­land, Shadyside, Friend‑ ship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availabil‑ ity online, check out www.forbesmanage­ ment.net, or call 412.441.1211

Employment Employment Other

full time OK starting in January; full time over the summer. $13/hour. Perfect job for sophomores & ju­niors, seniors plan­ning to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first‑year law stu­dents!

Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com

Busy executive indi­vidual seeking part‑time personal assis­tant. Must be person­able, friendly and have great communi­cation skills.

Must have a good com­puter skill Hours are 20‑30Hrs Weekly.

Salary is $25.50/hr. applicant apply to jobinquiries820@ g­mail.com

Overnight caregiver for young man with cerebral palsy in Squirrel Hill. 9 PM‑8:­30 AM. Flex‑ ible days available, 1‑2 days a week.

No experience with cerebral palsy needed, just responsi­ble and compassion­ate person to check on him if he gets up during the night. Pay $16 per hour. Please inquire 412‑889‑8934

Need school year and summer help. Flexi­ble hours‑basic main­ tenance of Oakland rentals‑painting, light yard work, etc.

Some­one who can use a hammer or drill with­out killing them­ selves. $15/hour. Dave 412.688.0533.

Services

OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage­ ment Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcom­ing spring semester, to interview & pro­cess rental appli­cants, do internet post‑ ings & help staff our action‑central of­fice. Part time or

Personal, profes­sional masseuse needed.

Long term position.

2X/week. Washington County location. Call 724‑223‑0939 or 724‑229‑8868 any time.

Educational The Phlebotomy Training Center www. justphlebotomy.org 2 evening classes weekly, 5 weeks + excellent Clinicals.

Call 412‑521‑7334.

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