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APPROVES NEW HEALTH SCIENCES CHIEF Jon Moss

News Editor Pitt’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved Anantha Shekhar’s appointment as the University’s new senior vice chancellor for the health sciences, dean of the School of Medicine and an officer of the University at its Friday morning meeting.

Shekhar is currently serving as executive associate dean of research affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine and will begin at Pitt in June. He will replace Arthur Levine, who will move to a research position at Pitt’s Brain Institute, with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease.

The senior vice chancellor for health and sciences is responsible for Pitt’s six schools of health science — the Graduate School of Public Health, the schools of Dental Medicine, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy. They are also responsible for the integration of these schools with UPMC, the University’s clinical partner.

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher originally announced Shekhar’s nomination in January and said Friday that he was excited to have an “outstanding leader” join the University.

“It is difficult to overstate the importance of this senior position for the future of our University,” Gallagher said.

FFPC has committed to continuing its week-long sit-in in the Cathedral of Learning commons room indefinitely.

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HEINZ CHAPEL SHINES LIGHT ON WOMEN’S HISTORY Jade Chang Staff Writer

Apart from their historical importance, Emily Dickinson, Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale all share one thing in common — they’re featured figures on the windows of Heinz Chapel.

Heinz Chapel hosted its first, onehour “Women in Windows” tour on Sunday afternoon. The free tour, which will be held on Tuesdays at noon throughout March, serves to educate the public on several influential but lesser-known female portraits within the chapel’s four tall stained glass windows. Chapel docent and event coordinator Karen Sebolt or-

ganized the event to honor Women’s History Month.

There are 65 women featured in the 23 stained-glass windows of Heinz Chapel, designed by Charles J. Connick as a testament to Heinz’s values.

The four central windows each represent a different theme — tolerance, courage, temperance and truth, from left to right — accompanied by images chosen to depict each concept. Sebolt hosted the event and provided the history behind each panel.

“You’ll notice that it’s not just saints and biblical figures, but activists, writers, nobility, Native Americans and all types of women are represented,” Sebolt said. “They’re not just

minor characters here.”

The number of women featured in the windows is equal to the number of men. Sebolt speculated that this example of equal gender representation in the early 20th century could have been the result of the increased presence of women in Pitt’s staff during its commission — several of whom served on the Chapel’s design committee. Pitt hired Blossom Henry, the first female faculty worker, in 1918 and Thyrsa Amos, the first dean of women, in 1919.

“The committee to design Heinz Chapel included the dean of women, Thyrsa Amos, so maybe that’s why See Chapel on page 3

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SGB ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION CHAIR

FOSSIL FREE PITT TO CONTINUE CATHEDRAL SIT-IN INDEFINITELY Jon Moss

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Student Government Board Diversity and Inclusion Chair Ravi Gandhi has resigned from their position, effective Friday. Gandhi (left) ran for SGB president in this year’s election cycle and lost to Eric Macadangdang (right) Tuesday night with 49.8% of the student vote. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor

Benjamin Nigrosh Assistant News Editor

Student Government Board Diversity and Inclusion Chair Ravi Gandhi has resigned from their position, effective Friday.

Gandhi ran for SGB president in this year’s election cycle and lost to Eric Macadangdang Tuesday night with 49.8% of the student vote. According to Gandhi, one reason for their resignation is to give Macadangdang “space” to run the board the way his campaign intended.

“The president, in my opinion, is supposed to be the one who is doing goal setting, who is directing the organization in the way they campaigned on, and so I just don’t think it’s right or fair to Eric for me to stay in SGB,” Gandhi said.

“He had a very different vision, and I want to make sure he has the full capacity to implement his vision. He did win the election, and I want to give him that space.”

Gandhi will be succeeded by current Diversity and Inclusion Executive Vice Chair Varsha Suresh.

Gandhi said they were already planning their resignation during the campaign, but weren’t able to find the right time to do so amidst campaign activities. They still hope to pursue public service on their own time, they said, but now have ideas of what that should look like outside of SGB. Ac-

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cording to Gandhi, they want to use their time away from the board to pursue these new ideas.

“Lately, in an SGB capacity, I’ve felt more and more like that service was starting to feel like work,” Gandhi said. “That was the telling point for me when I thought I should take a step back.”

SGB President Zechariah Brown said that Ravi is a “dynamic and engaged student leader” and a valued member of SGB. Brown said that he is confident in Ravi’s ability to pursue their goals outside of student government.

“We are all just very happy to see Ravi doing what Ravi wants to do,” Brown said. “In Ravi’s email to everyone, Ravi had stated that they’re very happy at this time in their life. That more than SGB work or chairmanship or anything else that is really what this college experience is for is maintaining your own health and wellness, so personally I’m very happy that Ravi’s happy.”

Despite their decision to resign, Gandhi said, they have never wavered in their support for Macadangdang. They said that they are very hopeful for the future of SGB, and trust Macadangdang to lead the board.

“Eric is going to make a good president,” Gandhi said. “Even though we have different views, both views are good. You can have two good solutions. I ran on mine and Eric ran on his, and now it’s time for him to implement his.”

When protestors from the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition sang “we shall not be moved” at Friday morning’s Board of Trustees meeting, they meant it — literally.

FFPC has committed to continuing its week-long sit-in in the Cathedral of Learning commons room indefinitely, organizer Prem Rajgopal said. The occupation began last Friday at noon as a lead up to the Friday Board meeting, where organizers had pushed the Board to divest the University’s $4.3 billion endowment from fossil fuels at the Friday meeting, among other related demands. FFPC has previously said that unclear “appropriate action” would be taken if its demands were not met, and has since explicitly laid out what happens now that their demands have not been met.

“We have a lot of potential plans,” Rajgopal said. “We’re not going to just sit down and be quiet and wait until their June meeting to hope that things happen. We are definitely going to keep the pressure up and make sure they understand we’re still here.”

The Board voted Friday in favor of a formal socially responsible investing process, along with other sustainability-related matters, which grants Chancellor Patrick Gallagher two mechanisms to handle proposed investment exclusions, such as the long-standing student request for fossil fuel divestment. Gallagher, in consultation with

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Board chairperson Eva Tansky Blum, could either bring the proposed exclusion directly to the Board or create an ad hoc advisory committee to analyze the possible exclusion.

Kenyon Bonner, vice provost and dean of students, met Friday morning with organizers to remind them of guidelines for using the Cathedral space. Brian Hamluk and Summer Rothrock, two high-ranking officials in Student Affairs, met again with organizers Friday afternoon to further clarify these guidelines.

According to Rajgopal, these guidelines include not storing personal items inside small alcove spaces in the walls, not covering tables with orange paper, removing signs from chairs and not having the appearance of “reserving” spaces.

Organizers alleged that the guidelines described to them were “new” and not previously disclosed, but University spokesperson Kevin Zwick said the guidelines were not new, and Pitt was reminding students that the Cathedral space is to be “open to all students for congregating and studying.”

“The University reminded the students gathering in the Cathedral Commons that the space is open to all students for congregating and studying,” Zwick said. “The students gathered there were reminded to keep tables, chairs, floors, and other spaces free of signs, posters, banners and tabletop coverings and to ensure the space is open for use by other students.”

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Chapel, pg. 1 there is equal distribution in these windows,” she said. “Or maybe it’s because the chapel was dedicated to Anna Margaretta Heinz, Heinz’s mother.”

The tour of important but lesserknown female portraits began with the tolerance glass, highlighting prison reform advocate Elizabeth Fry, the “Angel of Prisons.” Depicted in a blue dress and comforting an emaciated female prisoner, Fry advocated for the separation of imprisoned men and women, the education of female prisoners and the improvement of prison living conditions in 19th-century Europe.

The first woman to ever address Parliament in 1818, Fry condemned the inhumane conditions in prisons and campaigned for the privacy of prisoners being transported from the courthouse to the prison, as people would often throw rotten food through the open carriages. She also opened a nurse training school,

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whose graduates accompanied Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Surveying the tolerance glass window, Naomi Mekeel, a web developer for the philanthropic and alumni engagement department at Pitt, said the tour was a great way to kick off Women’s History Month.

“I think it’s important that the college has a nondenominational chapter, and I love hearing that there was equal gender representation, even in the ’30s,” she said.

Sebolt then guided the audience toward the portrait of a woman in a purple cloak on the courage glass, carrying a child on her hip and holding the hand of another child. Sebolt identified the woman and children as members of the Brodhead family, the first people of European descent to settle in the area now known as East Stroudsburg in 1737.

The next stained glass window, temperance, showcased the biblical figure Ruth, depicted at the top of the window holding wheat. Her story follows her and her mother-in-

law Naomi, who must travel back to Bethlehem because she has no male relative in Moab. Despite the extreme poverty, famine and hardships that accompanied the trip, Ruth remained loyal to Naomi and refused to leave her side.

“We’re not sure who the author was of Ruth’s book, but it’s believed that it was written around 90 B.C.,” Sebolt said. “She is one of the people in the genealogy of Jesus.”

Sebolt then led the tour to the truth window and highlighted the English educator, abolitionist and writer Hannah More. In the image, More is reading to a young child and overseeing a classroom. More worked as a teacher at her father’s all-girl boarding school until her ex-fiance agreed to supplement her income after breaking off their engagement, allowing her to concentrate on writing plays and poetry.

As her writing circulated throughout London, she became a member of the elite Blue Stockings Society, an educational and social group for women. A vocal abolitionist, she

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frequently highlighted the atrocities committed by the slavery institution in her writings.

After the four-window showcase, tourists then explored the chapel, accompanied by organ music composed by two deceased female hymn lyricists, Sarah Flower Adams and Fanny Crosby.

Sam Amberg, an employee at Pitt’s communications and web services department, said the event allowed her to learn more about Heinz Chapel and women’s history.

“All of the detail in the panels, especially the roundels, try and capture all of the dimensions of the story, and I don’t know if I could have understood that without the tour today,” Amberg said.

This, Sebolt explained, is the purpose of Heinz Chapel — to be an educational resource to the Pitt community.

“It’s a nondenominational chapel open to all faces and backgrounds,” she said. “It’s really a gift for the students to use on a daily basis.”

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Opinions

WIN WITH WARREN Devi Ruia

Senior Staff Columnist The 2020 Democratic presidential primary has been going on for what feels like forever.

For more than a year now, a million different candidates have been battling it out to decide who will represent the Democratic party and run against President Donald Trump to take back the White House in 2020. As we arrive at Super Tuesday, the day in which the most states hold their primaries, we still have too many candidates to choose from.

The choice should be simple. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., should be the Democratic nominee. Despite the fact that she’s not the frontrunner in this race, she’s proven that she’s a fighter who deserves your vote. Warren can beat Donald Trump and would undoubtedly spend her time in office fighting for the American people and standing up to billionaires. She is the best person to serve as president of the United States.

While it’s true that Warren is not currently the frontrunner in the Democratic primary, most of the voting has not happened yet, and she’s one of the few candidates with the polling average and the money to stay in this and win. Warren was the frontrunner in the race a few months ago, but she’s dipped in polls as of late in part because of unfounded concerns about her electability.

Democratic primary voters — understandably — are obsessed with choosing a nominee that can defeat Trump. Unfortunately, many of them have let that obsession warp their ideas of what electability actually is. Electability, for many voters, has come to mean a white male candidate. These misguided notions have made some voters less inclined to vote for a candidate like Warren — who is a progressive woman — even if they genuinely like her the best.

But Warren is “electable” — meaning she’s won every election she’s participated in, even a tough fight against an incumbent Republican in Massachusetts. Warren has spent this entire campaign doing the work on the ground, listening and learning from members of marginalized communities.

She’s shown us that she can inspire large coalitions of organizers, that she can decimate Donald Trump

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Eli Savage | contributing editor on the debate stage — and that she can beat him in the general election. Not voting for Warren in this primary just because a theoretical voter in the midwest might vote for Trump over her because she’s a woman is ridiculous — and it is not the way we should pick our nominee.

Of course, misguided concerns about electability are not the only reason people may not want to vote for Warren. There are obviously many other good candidates in this race that people may prefer. Some voters may also no longer want to vote for Warren because she did not win any of the four early states and she’s been written off in several media narratives. But she is a persistent fighter who is the best choice for the nomination, and her campaign is far from over.

In this primary, Warren has been excluded by pollsters and told to drop out by political pundits and Twitter trolls. Still, Warren has stayed in this race and fought harder than ever — especially in the last two debates where she murdered Mike Bloomberg.

She’s proven repeatedly that she’s willing to fight no matter what — and that’s exactly what she’ll do for

the rest of this primary and as president.

“There is one candidate I see who is unafraid to fight like hell to make sure America’s promise will be there for everyone,” former presidential candidate Julian Castro said.

Warren will fight for Americans, both to free us from the Trump presidency and to ensure a country that works for all of us when she’s president. Fighting for Americans — especially underdogs — is what Warren has spent her whole life doing. Before she even became a senator, Warren worked with former President Barack Obama to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — or CFPB — a government agency responsible for protecting consumers in the financial sector. Creating the CFPB was not easy, as Wall Street and even some Democrats opposed it. But Warren got it done because of her commitment to ensure a better future for all Americans — which is exactly what she plans to do as president.

Warren has plans for tackling the climate crisis, fixing our health care system and ensuring Medicare for All, tackling corruption, combating student loan

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debt, reforming immigration, holding big corporations accountable, strengthening reproductive rights, ensuring racial and economic justice and opportunity for all, building financial security for all Americans and many, many more plans. One of the chief slogans of the Warren campaign is “I have a plan for that” for a reason.

Warren doesn’t just have the plans to combat these issues, she has plans to pay for these programs with her 2-cent wealth tax on the ultra-rich — a wealth tax even 50% of Republicans support. Warren also knows how to actually get her plans passed.

Items that she can get done by herself, like banning offshore drilling, Warren will handle on day one.

However, large legislative plans that need to be handled through Congress are a bit more complicated to get passed. Still, Warren knows exactly what to do there — abolish the Senate filibuster.

Even if Democrats are able to take back the Senate majority, the filibuster is still a blockade that will prevent Democrats from passing legislation. The filibuster is the Senate rule — cloture — that does not allow debate on a bill to move to vote unless threefifths of the senators — or 60 of them — vote to close debate. In this polarized climate, it is unlikely that 60 senators will agree on much of anything, which is why we need a president committed to abolishing the filibuster if the Republicans prove to be obstinate and block legislation like we know they will.

Warren is one of the only candidates with a chance of winning the nomination that is for abolishing the filibuster. If we want bold, progressive legislation that genuinely works for all Americans and helps marginalized communities, we need to elect a president with detailed plans to pay for and pass this legislation. That person is Elizabeth Warren.

Warren has shown throughout her campaign — and her entire career — that she’s willing to put in the work to get things done and that she’ll fight until the end. That’s exactly what she’ll do if we choose her to be the Democratic nominee. She can beat Trump.

We just need to give her the chance to do it.

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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from the editorial board

Pitt, don’t stall on divestment, just vote The Fossil Free Pitt Coalition is occupying the Cathedral of Learning indefinitely as of last Friday. These students only want one thing — divestment.

Their occupation began on Feb. 21 with the intention of pressuring the Board of Trustees to divest Pitt’s $4.3 billion endowment from fossil fuels. All week leading up to the Trustees’ meeting, students ate and slept on the main floor of Cathy, educating those who walked past on their mission by handing out flyers and displaying signs promoting their cause.

FFPC occupied the Cathedral because they wanted a divestment vote at the meeting, but instead, the Board voted to establish a socially responsible investing process. The newly approved SRI process allows Chancellor Patrick Gallagher to advance the students’ divestment request by either bringing it directly to the Board or assembling an ad hoc advisory com-

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mittee to analyze the drawbacks and benefits of divestment. The findings would then be sent to the board. Gallagher and Board chairperson Eva Tansky Blum must not choose the route of forming an advisory committee, which seems like a waste of time considering the existing amount of evidence that divestment has worked for other universities.

Pitt would not be accomplishing something unheard of by committing to divestment. After the UMass Board carefully evaluated the benefits and drawbacks, the school became the first major public university to commit to divestment back in May 2016. Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., voted to begin divestment in early February of this year, after sustained efforts from its own student-run fossil free coalition and review of divestment actions from a committee. Both universities did so primarily for environmental reasons.

“Animated by our Catholic and Jesuit identity, our University has sought to strengthen opportunities for our community to contribute to a more sustainable future by fostering dialogue, research, education and the engagement of all members of our community,” Georgetown President John J. DeGioia said. “This decision by our board of directors advances the deep commitment we have to sustainability and our efforts to respond to urgent global environmental challenges.”

The University of California school systems also voted to divest in September 2019, but the university said that, unlike UMass, its decision was not based on the moral high ground of climate change.

Jagdeep Singh Bachher, UC’s chief investment officer, and Richard Sherman, chair of the UC Board of Regents’ Investments Committee, said that they feel “hanging on to fossil fuel assets is a financial risk.”

“The reason we sold some $150 mil-

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lion in fossil fuel assets from our endowment was the reason we sell other assets: They posed a long-term risk to generating strong returns for UC’s diversified portfolios,” Singh Bachher and Sherman wrote.

All of the above — climate risk and financial risk — are things that an ad hoc committee at Pitt would evaluate. But these are also all things that have already been evaluated by other college campuses, who have gone onto divest after analyzing their findings. FFPC organizer Prem Rajgopal said that creating an ad hoc committee to study a particular investment exclusion a “stalling tactic” and that the committee would not uncover any new information.

Pitt needs to stop dragging its feet and just vote on the issue. We already know what a committee will find, and until the Board votes, no changes — environmental or fiscal — will be implemented.

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JACKSON WORKS OUT PITT BASEBALL PICKS AT 2020 NFL COMBINE UP 4 WINS IN FLORIDA OVER WEEKEND

Former Pitt cornerback Dane Jackson earned a grade of 5.99 at the 2020 NFL Combine. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor

Henry Jackson Staff Writer

The 2020 NFL Combine is in the books, and for former Pitt cornerback Dane Jackson, little has changed.

The prospect earned a grade of 5.99 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis this past weekend, a rating which would relegate most to a lifetime at second-string. But for Jackson that might mean little considering his stellar play on the field at Pitt.

At the Combine itself, Jackson ran a 4.57-second 40-yard dash, boasted a 35-inch vertical jump, and executed a 122-inch broad jump. The 6-foot, 187-pound cornerback prospect also ran a 7.070-second three cone drill and a 4.27-second 20-yard shuttle. All in all, Jackson fell around the middle of the pack compared to most corners. While he did not stand out in any way, most scouts consider him to have solid potential as a back-up.

“His instincts and ball skills should help

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him in man or zone, but some scouts question his ability to stick with NFL release quickness and recover deep if beaten,” NFL Analyst Lance Zierlein said. “He plays a confident, competitive brand of football and could become a solid NFL backup.”

However, as mentioned above, Jackson has proven himself to be more talented than his NFL Combine grade suggests. He improved his draft stock immensely as the lone Pitt representative at the 2020 senior bowl, reportedly catching the eyes of scouts from the New Orleans Saints and New York Giants. Jackson also caught attention last season with a red-hot stat line, allowing fewer yards per game than any other draft-eligible cornerback.

All things considered, Jackson will likely be drafted. He has been ranked anywhere from the 15th- to 19th-best corner in this year’s class and Pitt fans can anticipate him going in about the fourth to sixth round.

Pitt starter junior Chris Cappas threw five scoreless innings against Lehigh, giving up one hit and striking out a career-high nine batters to earn his first victory of 2020. Kaycee Orwig | senior staff photographer

Marshall Worth Staff Writer

Pitt baseball continued its red-hot start to the season over the weekend, sweeping its quartet of matchups against Lehigh and Central Connecticut State in the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational in Sanford, Florida.

With the wins, Pitt improved its record to 10-1, good for its best start since 2002 and first-place in the ACC Coastal division.

Game 1 vs. Lehigh Prior to the weekend, Pitt’s offense had averaged seven runs per game,

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led by four double-digit outbursts, en route to the team’s best start since 2017. That trend of offensive prowess continued and then some in Sanford, beginning on Friday against the Mountain Hawks. A six-run seventh inning headlined yet another offensive explosion for Pitt, which bested Lehigh by a final of 15-4.

Both offenses got off to a slow start before Pitt broke the scoreless tie in the fourth inning. Sophomore Sky Duff followed a run-plating balk by Lehigh pitcher Cam Van Hoorebeke with a two-run home run, stretching Pitt’s See Baseball on page 7

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lead to 3-0.

That advantage was all Pitt starter junior Chris Cappas would need. Cappas threw five scoreless innings, giving up one hit and striking out a careerhigh nine batters to earn his first victory of 2020.

A sixth-inning solo home run by junior Samuel Frontino built on Pitt’s lead before Lehigh responded with two runs of its own in the seventh.

Pitt’s six-run rally put the game out of reach in the bottom half, capped off by a two-run double by junior catcher Riley Wash. Pitt continued to pile it on during its next inning on offense, slowly scoring five insurance runs on a double by sophomore Kyle Hess and four consecutive walks.

Lehigh could only muster a pair of scores in the final frame and Pitt secured the win.

Game 2 vs. Central Connecticut State Pitt played its only close game of the weekend on Friday night, edging out Central Connecticut State 7-5. A two-run fourth-inning homer by junior Bryce Hulett gave the Panthers an early lead before a subsequent three spot by the Blue Devils thrust Pitt into its first deficit of the weekend. Hulett continued to produce later on, highlighted by a run-scoring single in the sixth to re-tie the game.

Central Connecticut State scored two runs to reclaim the lead in the seventh, but Pitt made sure their advantage was short-lived. A bases-loaded balk allowed Duff to score and cut the lead to one, before junior Ron Washington, Jr. crushed a go-ahead threerun home run.

Redshirt junior reliever Grant Powell was able to preserve the lead, throwing 2.2 innings of shutout ball to lock down the win. He was preceded by sophomore Billy Corcoran, who pitched the first 6.1 innings and allowed four earned runs, five hits and three walks with nine strikeouts.

Game 3 vs. Lehigh Pitt blew out the Mountain Hawks in their second meeting of the weekend, so much so that both teams decided to end the contest after seven in-

nings. Saturday’s drubbing ended with a lopsided 10-0 score.

Pitt’s pitching staff limited Lehigh to one hit, led by starter Mitch Myers who threw six innings with a seasonhigh 10 strikeouts. No Pitt pitcher had struck out double-digit batters in 2020 prior to Saturday’s game.

Hess stole the show on offense, falling just a single shy of the cycle.

Hess gave Pitt a 1-0 lead by smashing a home run in the second inning, and recorded a two-run double in the next inning to push the lead to three. Hulett followed with a two RBI double of his own just minutes later.

Hess was not done there. He plated three runs for the third straight inning on a bases-clearing triple in the fourth and doubled in the fifth before being driven in by first-year Nick Vera.

Sophomore Mason Ronan relieved Myers in the seventh, striking out the side to cement Pitt’s forfeited victory.

Game 4 vs. Central Connecticut State Pitt wrapped up the weekend with another blowout win, its eighth straight triumph, this time topping Central Connecticut State 14-2.

Junior starting pitcher Matt Gilbertson turned in his third consecutive dominant start, scattering three hits over five scoreless innings while striking out seven. Gilbertson, a junior college transfer, is yet to allow an earned run as a Panther. First-year Adam Bloebaum struggled in relief, giving up two runs while recording only one out in the sixth, before being relieved by sophomore C.J. McKennitt. McKennit and junior Chase Smith combined to record the game’s final five outs before Central Connecticut State, like Lehigh, forfeited in the seventh.

Pitt’s offense put the game out of reach by scoring 13 runs over the fourth and fifth innings. Wash burst open the floodgates with a two-run home run in the fourth, followed by run-scoring knocks by Duff, Popa and Hess. In the fifth, three consecutive walks all lead to runs, and the rally was punctuated by a three-run double from Washington, Jr. Pitt’s next game is set for Tuesday, when it’ll host Youngstown State in the home opener. First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.

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• AUTO • BIKES • BOOKS • MERCHANDISE • FURNITURE • REAL ESTATE • PETS

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• EDUCATIONAL • TRAVEL • HEALTH • PARKING • INSURANCE

Shady Side hos­pital.

Rent includes heat.

Laundry, stor­age & parking avail­able.

Updated kitchens and hard­wood floors.

Avail­able spring, sum‑ mer and fall. Contact Sue at 412‑720‑4756 daily between 8:00 and 6:00 4BR, 2BA. 311 Oak­ land Avenue $1900/ mo. 412‑337‑9916 call for Bob Apartments for rent. 2 and 3 bedroom apart‑ ments available. Some available on Dawson Street, At­wood Street, and Mc­kee Place.

Newly re­modeled.

Some have laundry on site. Min­utes from the Univer­sity. For more info please call Mike at 412‑849‑8694 Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unre­lated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Per­mits, Licensing & In­spections.

412‑255‑2175.

Dawson Village Apts. near CMU and Pitt.

One bedroom apts. $935 + electric. Avail‑ able for immedi­ate move in. On bus line, close to restau­rants and shops. Contact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546 LARGE, SOL‑ ID‑BUILD HOUSES FOR 2‑3 PEOPLE, Spacious kitchens, living rooms. Roomy backyard, front porch, recently reno­vated.

Available Au­gust 25

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• ADOPTION • EVENTS • LOST AND FOUND • STUDENT GROUPS • WANTED • OTHER

or NOW/EARLIER! $365‑$450 per room.

Call 412‑692‑1770 to see.

Now renting for Fall 2020. Apartments and houses of all sizes.

Conveniently located throughout South Oakland. Rents start‑ ing as low as $620.

John C.R. Kelly Realty. Call to­day at 412‑683‑7300 www.jcrkelly.com Pet Friendly!!

Studios ‑ $695‑$705 1Beds ‑ $795‑$815 2beds ‑ $975‑$995 3beds ‑ $1,245 412‑455‑5600 or www.pghnexus.com South Oakland Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry/ Central Air. Call or Text 412‑38‑Lease. AMO Man­agement.

Spacious 2‑BR apart­ ments on Dawson Street, single/double occupancy. Partially renovated. AUGUST 25 availability or IM­ MEDIATE availabil­ ity. Limited parking spaces available. $460‑$480/room.

Call 412‑692‑1770 to see apartment & park­ ing spaces.

Spacious, well‑main­ tained S Oakland 3BR house, $1875/ mo + utilities. Central AC, DW, W/D. Large kitchen, pantry, high ceilings, decorative FP, out­door space.

Close to Pitt & shut‑ tle. Off‑street parking avail. Panther Proper‑ ties, 412‑328‑6236, pan­therproperties2@ g­mail.com. pan‑

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Shadyside Brett/Thames Manor Apts. (Ellsworth & S. Negley Ave.) near CMU and Pitt.

Stu­dio, One, Two bed­ room apts. Thames Ef‑ fecency: $790 Thames 1BD: $990 Brett 2BD: $1600 Available for immedi­ate move in.

On bus line, close to restau­rants & shops.

Con­tact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546

Squirrel Hill 3 BD, 1‑1/2 BA town­house on Beacon St. Updated kitchen.

Washer/dryer on premises. Nice back­ yard. On bus line.

Per­fect for Seniors and Grad students.

Call 412‑281‑2700.

Avail­able Now!

Rental Other Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2020 & 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

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 full time OK starting now; full time over the summer. $14/hour. Perfect job for current sopho­ mores & juniors, graduating seniors set to enter grad school, returning grad stu­ dents, and first year law students!

Mozart Management 412.682.7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com Seeking door‑to‑door paint salespeople for the Pittsburgh area.

Part and full‑time work in spring, sum­ mer, and fall. Train­ing provided. Pay is commission based.

Reliable transporta­ tion necessary.

Contact Jim at 412‑680‑0102

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

Call 412‑521‑7334.

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