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Hold the receipt: Students cut paper waste Harrison Kaminsky and Abbey Reighard The Pitt News Staff Some students are shred up with crumpled receipts in backpacks and pockets. Paperless, a student group, wants to reduce the amount of paper waste on campus, according to member Sean Huzinec, a junior majoring in environmental studies.
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Alessa Karal, Anna Miller and Victoria Direnzo, Tri Delta sorority members, ride a thirty minute shift for the Pi Kappa Theta bike-a-thon. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer
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Hard day’s night: Students juggle jobs, school Elizabeth Lepro Staff Writer Kimberly Bader spends most of her waking hours on weekends serving tables at The Cheesecake Factory in SouthSide Works. Because Bader, a junior rehabilitation sciences major, closes the restaurant on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights,
then comes back to open the restaurant the next morning, she works what’s called a “clopening” shift. Although Bader strives to maintain a healthy sleep regimen, some employees who work clopening shifts find it difficult to balance a demanding work schedule with a healthy amount of sleep. “I push myself to work that much so that I can pay for my rent and be as inde-
pendent as I can be,” Bader said, adding that she chose her schedule and loves her position as a hostess at the dining hotspot. Bader’s weekend work schedule frees up a significant amount of time for her during the week, which she fills with volunteer work and catching Z’s when she’s
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CLOPENINGS not in class. “Sleep banking,” a term commonly used by students with schedules like Bader’s , means staying awake for a long period of time and then catching up on sleep later. Sleep banking does work to a small extent, according to Charles Atwood, an associate professor of medicine and director of the UPMC Sleep Medicine Fellowship. “Sleep debt is a real concept,” Atwood said. “Making up sleep on weekends is part of how many people live their lives.” Regardless of the amount that students sleep during weekends, it would be optimal, Atwood said, to get enough sleep on a nightly basis. According to the National Sleep Foundation, the recommended optimal sleep time for young adults is seven to nine hours per night. Bader said she has become much better at prioritizing and budgeting her time, but, she said, “unfortunately the one piece of the puzzle that I’ve lost along the way is my social life.” Long weekend nights and early Sunday morning shifts makes going out with friends not an option. Mike Jason, Bader’s manager at The Cheesecake Factory, declined to comment and referred all queries on schedul-
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ing to the corporate office. Jenny Burke, a spokeswoman for The Cheesecake Factory, declined to comment. Although Bader hadn’t heard the term clopening before, it has been cropping up in the news lately. Some companies, including Starbucks, have responded to public criticism for the hours employees have been required to work. A New Y o r k Times ar-
ticle from last August reported that a Starbucks employee named Jannette Navarro worked the clopening shift and other long, difficult hours while also raising a son on her own. In response, Starbucks Group regional president Cliff Burrows issued a statement to all U.S. partners immediately after the article was published.
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In the statement, which Starbucks spokeswoman Laurel Harper forwarded to The Pitt News, Burrows said, “Jannette’s experience is just one example of where we can’t rest on status quo and must rise up to our mission and values to be a different kind of company that consistently leads through the lens of humanity.” Burrows listed steps the company takes to address scheduling issues, in-
Forbes Avenue, Janice Roberts, referred all comment to corporate officials, but a shift supervisor who would not provide his name said employees will not find a clopening shift on their regular schedules, though some students end up with clopening shifts when they switch shifts with other workers. Abby Bouslough, a sophomore elementary and special education major, is familiar with the necessity of squeezing in shifts back-to-back. Abby Briner | Staff Illustrator Bouslough worked a weekend clopening shift last summer for Sauce Boss Pizzeria at DelGrosso’s Amusement Park in Tipton, Pa. She closed the restaurant at 10 p.m., leaving at roughly 11 p.m., and then returned the next morning to open back up at 9 a.m. Bouslough operated on this schedule because she was one of two assistant managers at the pizzeria and needed to save money for school and rent. Her management position and a second job at a daycare, she said, carried sleep loss that exhausted her physically and mentally. “I try to hang out with friends, but usually I fall cluding working with district manag- asleep wherever we go,” Bouslough said. ers to ensure that partners are never Bouslough’s manager at the pizzeria, required to work opening and closing Margaret Miller, schedules shifts, but shifts back-to-back. works jointly with her assistant managers “District managers are having ongo- to navigate their schedules. ing conversations with our store man“I usually try to rotate so that if Abby agers to ensure the scheduling policy is was there at night, I would come in the consistently applied,” Harper said. The manager of the Starbucks on Clopenings 4
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RECEIPTS The group’s current initiative, “Let’s Beat the Receipt,” aims to reduce the number of paper receipts at Pitt. The group wants the University to utilize BlackBoard to email receipts to students. Starting Monday, campus cashiers will not automatically offer paper receipts, but students can still request copies of their receipts. However, locations like Einstein’s, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Chick-fil-A must follow corporate policy, which requires receipts, according to Abdou Cole, Sodexo’s resident district manager. Cole is still calculating how much waste Pitt will potentially save through the initiative, he said. The group — which also includes Haleigh Wright and Amanda Smoluk — met with Jim Earle, assistant vice chancellor for business, and Cole Thursday afternoon in McCormick Hall to discuss the completion of the initiative. After the meeting, Earle and Cole agreed to sup-
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port the project. Earle said Dining Services will work with Sodexo to fulfill the initiative and assist Paperless with future initiatives. “Any reduction in paper waste will be considered a success,” Earle said. “But the opportunity is very significant, since
on Monday. Supervisors will instruct cashiers to withhold receipts unless the student specifically requests one, Cole said. Shannon Achille, a senior rehabilitation sciences major, initially spearheaded the project in the spring 2013 semester as part of her sustainability and comput-
“Any reduction in paper waste will be considered a success.” Jim Earle Sodexo serves 30,000 meals per day on our campus.” Cole said Sodexo is training cashiers on the program and is putting signs at the registers informing students of the initiative. He expects the training phase to end
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ing class. “They wanted us to come up with something we could implement and actually see through to the end, and I saw the project as something that would be helpful to Pitt,” Achille said. Achille said she brought her proposal
3 to then-SGB president Gordon Louderback during summer 2013, and Louderback then pitched the project to Cole and Earle in fall 2013. “They loved it because it’s only going to help us in the long run,” Achille said. Achille then allocated more of her time to other initiatives, she said — and that delayed the receipts project. The project hadn’t seen much progress since fall 2013 — until this semester. The meeting between Huzinec, Wright, Smoluk, Earle and Cole marked the resurgence and implementation of the initiative. “We wanted to carry on [Achille’s] torch and see if we could complete this project,” Smoluk, a junior majoring in environmental studies and history, said. Wright, a senior majoring in scientific computing, acknowledged that the absence of paper receipts will require an adjustment on campus. “Although we’re well on our way to accomplishing a receiptless dining experience, it needs to become commonplace and habitual, which will take time, but will happen,” Wright said.
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CLOPENINGS next morning,” Miller said, but she added that Bouslough chose her own back-toback shift on the weekends to fit her schedule. Mike Miduri, director of food services for DelGrosso’s, said closing and opening times at the park’s food stands allow for nine hours between opening and closing shifts. “We just rely on our department managers and team leaders to be considerate and work on those schedules as a whole,” Miduri said in an email. Bouslough’s lack of sleep from working two jobs intensified her migraines, originally caused by stress and other factors. Her doctor prescribed her medication to deal with the persistent headaches. Sleep is a key remedy for migraines, according to Daniel Buysse, the UPMC Endowed Chair in Sleep Medicine and a professor at Pitt’s School of Medicine. He said that, in the short term, losing
March 20, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com sleep can negatively affect attention span, alertness, judgment and problem-solving skills, as well as mood. Bouslough now works 15 hours per week at the ticketing office in the Petersen Events Center and said time management
their employees, too. Matt Lemme, a manager at the Dunkin’ Donuts on Forbes Avenue, is sympathetic to his employees. Lemme said he never schedules employees, many of whom are also students,
“I try to hang out with friends, but usually I fall asleep wherever we go.” Abby Bouslough has become a priority. “It takes a lot of planning things out,” Bouslough said. “I keep a monthly, weekly and daily planner.” Now that’s she’s not filling a managerial position, Bouslough can give her managers her class schedule and get a shift schedule that works accordingly. Managers understand the plight of
for clopenings at Dunkin’, which opens at 5 a.m. and closes at 12 a.m. “We try to give employees eight to 10 hours between shifts,” Lemme said. Darice Nagy, a spokeswoman for Dunkin’ Donuts Pittsburgh, said each Dunkin’ is owned by an individual franchisee who is solely responsible for complying with state, federal and local laws regarding shifts and hourly wages. Across the street, a manager at Panera Bread on Forbes Avenue rolled his eyes
when he said he knew what it felt like to be clopened. He declined to provide his name and referred all official comment to the corporate office, but he said he’s never heard of a company policy restricting employees from working late and long hours. When he assigns a clopening to an employee, however, he’s apologetic. Natalie Mikula, marketing coordinator for Panera Bread and Covelli Enterprises, said employees at Panera have a “flexible [work] schedule,” especially student workers. But, flexible or not, long hours can cause adverse medical effects, according to Atwood. Atwood said the long-term effects of sleep loss can lead to weight gain and metabolic problems including insulin resistance — the first step toward type two diabetes mellitus. The problem for most people, especially those who work hectic schedules, Buysse agreed, is that small amounts of sleep loss are often piled on top of chronic sleep restriction. “Some people say, ‘I’ll sleep when I’m dead,’” Buysse said. “Problem is, shortchanging your sleep could get you there faster.”
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Casual Fridays
Who let the dogs out? They say you have to walk a mile in someone’s shoes to understand — but what if you’re a dog? A man in China, identified as “Zhu,” trained his poodle to walk a mile on its hind legs — in women’s clothing. After being begged to stop, Zhu declared that these walks never tick his dog off — his pet enjoys them. It must not be that ruff since Zhu has started training oodles of poodles to walk the walk. Still, some say it’s inhumane — the owner should be Shih-Tzued for this unpawful behavior.
Disaster of disguise Last Saturday, California proved it was fresh out of smooth criminals. After fleeing from a stolen car parked in his neighborhood, Jose Espinoza really wanted to paint it black. “It” refers to his face, of course. After he returned home, Espinoza hid the way any sensible person would — by spray-painting his face black as camouflage. Unfortunately, he hid against a white wall, leaving quite the mark. Espinoza might be great at face painting, but not at fleeing. When arrested, he was charged not only with receiving stolen property, but also with terrible graffiti skills. Banksy would be ashamed.
The naked mile Last Saturday, a Pakistani motorcyclist showed off his crotch rocket to Islamabad police for the last time. Shehroz Khan rode
his motorcycle through the city completely in the nude twice the previous week, garnering quite the social media following. The naked truth was that Khan had bet his friends he could get away with the lewd stunt. His naked mile came to an end, though, when police arrested Khan for speeding, violating traffic laws and generally ridin’ dirty.
Breaking bathroom Wal-Mart’s prices are still too high for some people. The solution? Sell meth. Or, at least that’s what a man at an Indiana WalMart thought. Last Thursday, an employee notified police after he noticed a suspicious person walk into the restroom with a backpack and emerge without one. Upon investigation, it turned out there was a meth lab in stall four — a fully functioning meth lab had been set up. Wal-Mart declined to comment on its new Breaking Roll-Backs.
McStomachache In the name of St. Patrick’s Day, professional eater Matt “Megatoad” Stonie downed seven large Shamrock Shakes in a YouTube video. Needless to say, no one was green with envy over this meal. Stonie finished all seven shakes — and their accompanying 5,740 calories — in four minutes and 41 seconds. With the luck of the Irish, Stonie didn’t throw up. In fact, he even chased his light meal down with a cheeseburger. Later, when asked, “do you want fries with that?” Stonie was too green for comment.
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A knack for Yik Yak: Why millennials turn to an online diary Courtney Linder Assistant Opinions Editor
I didn’t even have to go outside during midterms week to find out that the sidewalks were miniature ice rinks and students were slipping on the pavement and breaking limbs. I had Yik Yak. Although the anonymous social media app has drawn some furtive glances from the likes of concerned parents and Business Insider since its inception in fall 2013, college students have embraced it. Though social media has met demands for college-related content — think “Overheard at Pitt” on Facebook and “Pitt Makeouts” on Twitter — Yik Yak is a more fully developed and streamlined version of the concept. Yik Yak changes the market for anonymous content in a positive way — through its tight, 1.5-mile
geographical radius and filtering system. In a time where we’re constantly hungry for new technology, Yik Yak has gained fame on college campuses not only as a community bulletin board but also as an online diary for millennials. The furry, brown mammal isn’t in the headlines for no reason. At Vanderbilt University, a fraternity brother tried to gather students through Facebook and Twitter for mouth-swabs to try to find a blood transfusion match for his brother, who had lymphatic cancer. Facebook and Twitter left the student stuck in certain social circles. Once he posted a Yak about it, though, he rallied about 1,100 students and kept swabbing until they found a match. The good deeds don’t end there — Pitt uses Yik Yak for good, too. On Wednesday, my feed had a Yak about a missing item. “PSA: found
some keys on the 10a! There’s a keychain with the Eiffel Tower on it and a Mozart management tag.” With 15 upvotes, the Yak was moved to the “hot” section where more users would see it. Due to Yik Yak’s geographical boundaries, the content near college campuses is mostly produced by students. As a result, the app creates a sort of community announcements page where students can post about upcoming events. For instance, the first week of March, I saw Yaks about the upcoming Spring Carnival at CMU and the Lupe Fiasco concert at Pitt. Yik Yak plans to capitalize upon this ground — cofounders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington want Yik Yak to be a source for breaking news commentary. “Imagine people in Ferguson, Mo., Yik-Yaking about
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LINDER what’s going on,” Buffington told Forbes. “Anytime anything newsworthy happens, people are going to be going to Yik Yak to see what people there are saying.” But, along with most social media outlets, Yik Yak isn’t just a place to talk about campus issues or create a dialogue about current events — it’s a channel to release emotional stress and talk about personal issues. On Wednesday night, one Yak read, “4 days into clean but flexible eating along with working out and I feel 100 times better and hope to eventually look better for myself .. [sic] not for others.” Another said, “I think I’m in love and I’m absolutely terrified,” to which several responses reassured the user that the turmoil called for celebration. The harsh reality, though, is that sometimes we’re slightly passive-aggressive. Twenty-somethings are fired up — we’re perpetually anxious, and, sometimes, a thorough rant feels merited. Rather than choosing to “subtweet,” or implicitly refer to our ex-
March 20, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com boyfriends on Twitter where it’s more obvious who the message is about, we choose Yik Yak because it offers a cloak of anonymity. It’s unrealistic to tell millennials to stop whining on social media. However, with the change from physical diaries to online tirades, it’s essential not to leave an embarrassing trail behind your name. Like it or not, potential employers do check social media. A 2014 study by Career Builder reveals that 43 percent of employers use social networking sites to research job candidates — so don’t attach things to your name that would make your grandmother blush. Employers don’t need to know how creative you are with the swear words of the English language — if you have to do it, opt to be anonymous. But what about the people being Yakked about? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but offensive Yaks simply won’t stand up in court. Rest assured, though — messages that involve bomb threats will be investigated, eventually traced through IP addresses, proven through precedence in a California case regarding Yik Yak last fall at Mira Costa High School. A series of three Yaks led to Mira Costa closing for a full school day. The most incriminating reads,
“tomorrow at 2 be ready Costa, you’re going on lockdown.” . However, this instance is an outlier — most complaints are trivial, referencing irritating blurbs about someone who is “fat” or “ugly.” Thankfully, most of these Yaks don’t address individuals by name, a positive result of passive-aggression — you want to make people wonder, but not pull a full-on Regina George. While Yik Yak opens the door for rude comments, the platform can weed them out. Users can “downvote” posts that they don’t want to see on their feed. Additionally, Droll and Buffington claim Yik Yak has an advanced reporting system. “People that are consistently posting negative material get suspended or banned,” Buffington told Tech.Co. Droll and Buffington have even addressed their greatest controversy in the news — that high schoolers simply aren’t mature enough to use the anonymous app. Through Maponics, a geographic data company, Yik Yak has set virtual boundaries that block about 85 percent of high schools and middle schools from using the app, according to The Cavalier Daily. With this upgrade, most high schoolers can’t see Yaks that could possibly trigger sensitive
mental health issues. I can attest to this — when I went back to my hometown, Plum Borough, Pa., for break, there was hardly any Yik Yak presence at all, much to my chagrin. Luckily, there’s a simple solution to any identifiable harassment that slips through the cracks — with one light touch of your pointer finger you can delete the app. With all the negative media attention, though, why do we continue using Yik Yak? We’re the tech generation. Millennials are obsessed with the Internet — so we’ll continue to post online. Yik Yak is the perfect place not only to get your feelings out without sacrificing your future, but to connect with the people around you in a fresh way. For now, I’m keeping the app. Maybe if enough people Yak that my column sucks, I’ll have to delete it, but, for now, I’m glad to have a forum where I can check out what’s happening on my campus in my peers’ words. Keep Yakin’. Courtney Linder is the Assistant Opinions Editor of The Pitt News and primarily writes on social issues. Write to Courtney at cnl13@pitt.edu.
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Kiesel, team excitedly await first tournament game Saturday Chris Puzia Sports Editor
Even Brianna Kiesel, Pitt women’s basketball’s senior leader and most battle-tested player, will have no experience from which to draw on Saturday in the first round of the 2015 NCAA Tournament. The point guard, who never played on an NCAA Tournament team before her final year, has led the team to come-from-behind victories in recent games. But she said the team cannot afford similar slow starts, such as when it trailed Clemson by 15 in its final regular season game. “I’m sure there are going to be nerves,” Kiesel said. “But you have to try to put those in the back of your mind, go out there and give it your all.” That early start will come against the Chattanooga Mocs in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. Pitt, a No. 10 seed, will face a Mocs team that went undefeated in the Southern Conference en route to a No. 7 seed in the tournament. “We have to get a good warmup,” Kiesel said. “When we hit shots early, the game goes a whole lot smoother. We have to definitely get transition points.” Saturday will mark Pitt’s first NCAA Tournament game since 2009, when it lost to No. 1 Oklahoma, 70-59, after advancing to the Sweet 16. In her second year as head coach, Suzie McConnell-Serio brought the Panthers (19-11, 9-7 ACC) to the tournament for the fourth time in program history. Still, she said the team will not prepare any differently for Chattanooga (29-3, 14-0 Southern) just because it now comes as part of a single-elimination tournament. “We’re doing the same routine that we’ve done for every other game we’ve played all season long,” McConnell-Serio said. “We watch film, we watch personnel, we watch sets offensively, we’ll watch their defense.” Before Monday night’s selection show announced the Panthers’ opponent, the team had focused its practices on conditioning and scrimmaging each other, rather than the to-
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be-named opponent. “It’s exciting, now, to have an opponent [to prepare for],” she said. “We’re looking forward to the challenge and opportunity, and just enjoying the experience.” Preparing to face a new team, McConnellSerio said, helps her squad forget about its last game. On March 5, Pitt lost in its first ACC Tournament game 51-45 to a Virginia Tech team that won only one conference game during the regular season. “We have to hit shots, and we didn’t do that in our last game,” McConnell-Serio said. “That’s been an emphasis in the practices
leading up to this game.” Kiesel, who scored nine points on 4-of-15 shooting against Virginia Tech, said Chattanooga may use an approach similar to that of the Hokies by doubling the pressure on her when she has the ball. “[Virginia Tech] took me completely out of my game,” Kiesel said. “The team goes as I go, and I wasn’t going. I was slowing down.” Against Chattanooga, she said she expects similar pressure, but said she’ll “score when I can and pick it up on defense.” A key part of Pitt’s preparation for Saturday’s game will be Chattanooga’s sophomore
forward Jasmine Joyner who leads the team with 12 points per game. Sophomore guard Chelsey Shumpert follows closely behind with 11.9 points per game. One weakness McConnell-Serio will likely try to exploit comes on the boards. Despite its strong defense, Chattanooga averages 33.3 rebounds per game, and on the season the Mocs have had a negative-rebound differential. Pitt, on the other hand, averages 40.6 rebounds per game. Chattanooga’s biggest strength comes in its defense. The team allows only 50.4 points per game, and it accomplishes that by slowing down the pace of games and limiting possessions. “We’re high-tempo,” Kiesel said. “We like to push the ball and get into transition, so although they want to slow the game down, we still have to play our own game.” But Kiesel won’t be the only Panther in that effort. Several freshmen, including forward Stasha Carey, have rounded out Pitt’s lineup so that it does not have to rely entirely on Kiesel. Carey said that to support the senior, the team will have to score. “If we can start to score more, the team will have to sag off of [Kiesel],” she added. While Carey will also appear in her first career NCAA Tournament game, she said she’s not worried about nerves overcoming her. “I would have more excitement than nerves,” she said. “I’m kind of used to being put on a bigger stage, so I’ll shake off the nerves before I get there.” Kiesel said that contributions to Pitt’s success from freshmen such as Carey, guard Aysia Bugg and forward Yacine Diop have been almost a year in the making. She said she knew last summer during workouts that “they were going to be impact players.” “They had to be,” Kiesel added. “We were low in numbers, so they had to come in and fill big shoes ... I think they blew everyone away.” Carey and the other freshmen will have to continue that productive trend on Saturday. The winner advances to face either No. 2 seed Tennessee or No. 15 seed Boise State. Tip-off is scheduled for 11 a.m.
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SPOKANE HAZARD Pitt’s women’s basketball team will be playing in their first NCAA tournament game in six years on Saturday. Here’s a look at the rest of the Spokane region. Maryland and Tennessee are just two of the many talented team’s in Pitt’s region. TNS
No. 9 Green Bay No. 5 Mississippi St. No. 12 Tulane No. 4 Duke No. 13 Albany No. 6 George Washington No. 11 Gonzaga No. 3 Oregon St. No. 14 South Dakota St. No. 7 Chattanooga No. 10 Pittsburgh No. 2 Tennessee No. 15 Boise St.
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WEEKEND RUNDOWN
Wrestlers make final push as baseball, softball enter crunch time Dan Sostek Assistant Sports Editor
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Pitt heads into its next ACC series with some momentum, coming off a series win against the then-No. 11 North Carolina Tar Heels as well as taking one of three from the No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers. The Panthers (9-10, 3-3 ACC) will travel south to Durham, N.C., to take on the Duke Blue Devils (16-5, 2-4 ACC) this weekend in a three-game series. The series opener will take place on Friday at 6 p.m., and the final two contests will take place on Saturday and Sunday, with both of those games beginning at 1 p.m. The starting pitchers have yet to be announced, but expected to take the hill in one of the outings for Pitt is sophomore ace T.J. Zeuch. In five games started this season, Zeuch has been dominant, posting a ACROSS 1 Sweet Spanish wine 7 Work unit: Abbr. 11 Mendel’s sci. 14 Place to surf 15 Washbowl partner 16 Protein-building molecule 17 Holy woman sculpted by Bernini 19 Battleship letters 20 Self-conscious question 21 Preceder of old age? 22 Peoria-to-Decatur dir. 25 It may call for lateral thinking 28 Iconic figure with an anchor tattoo 30 Tenochtitlán natives 31 Zenith 32 Chanted phrase 35 Van Gogh painting depicting peasants 41 Hostile advance 42 Toe loop kin 43 Not around much 46 Campaign ad urging 48 Many a sofa 52 Common animal in “The Far Side” comics 53 Participated in a poetry slam 54 Holey reef dweller 56 Give __: pay attention 57 Words spoken often this time of year, one of which is anagrammed four times in this puzzle 62 Whirlpool site 63 __ nitrate 64 Allow 65 Lush 66 In the wrong business? 67 Scone fruit DOWN 1 High pts. 2 “So that’s the answer!”
1.15 ERA and an impressive 39-5 strikeoutto-walk ratio. Duke is led offensively by a trio of hitters all batting above .300, as Mike Rosenfeld (.323), Andy Perez (.321) and Kenny Koplove (.318) lead the way for the Blue Devils. Their rotation is led by sophomore righthander Bailey Clark, who sports a 1.64 ERA and 34 strikeouts on the year.
Softball After receiving votes in the National Top 25 poll for the first time since 2008, the Pitt softball team (22-6, 4-2 ACC) will host the North Carolina State Wolfpack (15-9, 3-0 ACC) this weekend in the team’s 2015 home opener. The Panthers are hoping to bounce back from a mid-week 3-1 loss to the Penn State Nittany Lions in State College, Pa. Pitt will likely throw out its big arms against the Wolfpack, led by senior pitcher Savannah King. King has been dominant
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this year, picking up an ACC Pitcher of the Week honor in February. She currently boasts a 13-2 record with 41 strikeouts. The team will be led offensively by junior Shelby Pickett, whose .430 average and 26 runs scored leads the team. Pitt will have its hands full with NC State’s lineup: The Wolfpack has five players with four or more home runs on the season. The Panthers have just one. The series will take place at Charles L. Cost Field. The first two games will be a double-header on Saturday, with the first one slated for 1 p.m. and the second slated for 3 p.m. The series finale will start on Sunday at noon.
Wrestling After winning their first two matches of the NCAA Wrestling Championships on Thursday in St. Louis, senior wrestlers Max Thomusseit and Tyler Wilps each advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament.
Thomusseit, the second seed in the 184-pound weight class, easily disposed of West Virginia’s Bubba Scheffel in the opening round Thursday afternoon, winning the bout by a score of 14-4. He then defeated Wisconsin’s Richard Robertson in his second round match that evening, cruising to an 11-4 victory. Wilps’ matches were a little closer than his senior counterpart’s but, nonetheless ,escaped the two rounds unscathed. The eighth seed in the 174-pound weight class, Wilps finished off a tough battle with Oklahoma’s Matt Reed by a score of 7-4. His final match of the day was of greater ease, as Wilps outscored Ohio’s Cody Walters 5-0 in the third period to win 7-2. On Friday, Wilps will take on Nebraska’s Robert Kokesh, the top seed in his weight class. Thomusseit will match up against Lehigh’s Nate Brown. If either advance further, the semi-finals will take place Friday at 8 p.m., and the finals will kick off on Saturday at 8 p.m.