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Dixon exits Oakland for Alma Mater
“Disgraced” play exposes internal biases Online March 22, 2016 | Issue 126 | Volume 106 Jamie Dixon at his introductory press conference in 2003. |Pitt News File Photo
Pitt head basketball coach Jamie Dixon is leaving the Panthers to take over at his alma mater, Texas Christian University Dan Sostek Sports Editor
For Pitt and men’s basketball head coach Jamie Dixon, the 2015-2016 season was unlucky No. 13. After 13 seasons at the helm, Dixon has accepted an offer from Texas Christian University — his alma mater — to become its new head coach, Pitt athletic director Scott Barnes announced at a press conference Monday. Dixon finished his career with a 328-123 mark. He has coached at the University since 1999, starting as an assistant coach and eventually earning a promotion to head coach following the departure of Ben Howland in 2003. Dixon played basketball at TCU from 1984-1987. The head coach met with his players Monday afternoon to inform them of his decision, though Barnes revealed initial discussions between himself and Dixon about the coach’s future started “in recent weeks.” Under then-Athletic Director Steve Pederson, Dixon signed a contract extension in 2013 that ran until 2023, with an undisclosed buyout attached.
Barnes described that number as “as big of a buyout as I’ve ever seen in the marketplace.” According to Barnes, the University agreed to negotiate the total down to facilitate a deal, noting that Dixon clearly wanted to return to his alma mater. “We softened that buyout because, again, where his heart and his head was was at TCU,” Barnes said. “And because of that, it wouldn’t have been good for our program and our student athletes or him and his family to hold him hostage by what was a way-beyond-market buyout.” Barnes added that despite decreasing the amount, the school still managed to “take care of [its] fiduciary responsibilities.” During his tenure at Pitt, Dixon earned numerous accolades, including the Naismith College Coach of the Year in 2009, the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year in 2010 and the Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year in 2011. He won two regular season Big East conference titles in 2004 and 2011 and
a Big East To u r nament championship in 2008. Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher released a statement regarding Dixon’s decision, thanking the coach for his 17 years of service. “He was a great leader who cared deeply for our student-athletes and our entire basketball program,” Gallagher said
i n the r e lease. “I can appreciate that the rare chance of coaching for your alma mater does not come up very often and is hard to pass up, but we will miss him here at Pitt. We wish him the best, and we now turn our attention to advancing our gram, building on the solid foundation See Dixon on page 7
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COOKING UP EQUALITY Alexa Bakalarski
Deborah Harris, associate professor at Texas State University, presented “Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen.” Nikki Moriello | Senior Staff Photographer
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As Deborah Harris watched female chefs teetering in heels on a cooking show challenge where contestants thought they were going to a nightclub, she realized sexism is a main ingredient of the culinary industry. The gender, sexuality and women’s studies department hosted Harris, an associate professor of sociology at Texas State University, to discuss her book, “Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen,” in the Cathedral of Learning 4 p.m. Monday as part of the Year of the Humanities and Harris’ lecture series. Julie Beaulieu, a lecturer in the GSWS department, said the department chose to invite Harris to campus because her talk aligned with the department’s message and meshed well with the Politics of Gender and Food class the it offers. The class explores the intersections of politics and food, much like Harris’ lecture did. “Food is something that we do every day but don’t think about critically a lot,” Beaulieu said. Harris said the societal pressures on women in male-dominated spaces — pressure to prove grit, conform to traditional methods and act less-than-feminine — make for unequal kitchens and thwarted female talent. “Why is it the gender we typically associate with cooking in the home? Why is it when it cooking is a profession, it is so male-dominated?” Harris said about the focus of her research. “It’s this higher echelon of cooking that has been dominated by men.” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2012 report, women only made up about 20 percent of executive and head chef positions — and Harris and co-author Patti Giuffre found there are even fewer female chefs than female CEOs. In Pittsburgh, too, only one female chef made Pittsburgh Magazine’s Chefs of the Year 13-person list in 2014, the last year the Magazine published the list. Beginning in 2008, Harris and Giuffre researched and analyzed more than 2,000 chef profiles and food reviews, and conducted 33 interviews with female chefs for their book, which came out May 2015. As she combed through food media articles, Harris saw a difference between adjectives commonly used to describe male chefs —
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“experimental,” “visionary,” “decadent” — and those used to describe female chefs — “pleasing diners,” “homey,” “like a home-cooked meal.” She said this tangible separation is the product of a society that associates home-style cooking with women and elegant, gourmet cookingg with men. According to Harris, femalee chefs often feel they’re only expected to be capable of cooking for a household settting — and that, historically, this feeling comes from male oppression in the culinary industry beginning around the French Revolution. When that household structure meant people could get free, high-quality meals without out the hassle of traveling to a restaurant, ant, Harris said, male chefs began to fear that thee association between culinary arts and women n would devalue the art. “There is always this threat at of [women’s] work being devalued because of this constancy of associating cooking with women’ men’s work, unpaid work in the home,” Harris said. To challenge this, male chefs drove a rivet between high-end “haute” cuisine from home cuisine, which initiated an effort to exclude
women from culinary school, large competitions and high-end restaurants, according to Harris. “At this point in history, chefs were just servants,” Harris said, referring to the French Revolution. “Today, chefs are the
to watch competitive cooking shows between classes, so she was interested in a sociological, research-based analysis of kitchen misogyny. “I always think it’s interesting that all the women [on competitive cooking shows] are talkingg about how theyy have to work so much harder and prove that they’re they good cooks in reAbbonizio said. lation to the men,” Abbon h-year senior Elise Fifth Fengler said Harris’ reFen search will “get the ball se rolling” on issues of gender inequality in professional kitchens — something she said she didn’t consa sider as a problem until side heard Harris speak. she hea think it’s gotten as much “I don’t thin should, so I think this is spotlight as it should a good jumping point to get people more Fengler said. aware of the topic,” Feng to this insidious Harris said the solution solu gender inequality lies in seizing the “hot pop culture moment” chefs are currently in and demanding change in kitchen subcultures. “A lot of the women have made this part of their work and are reporting really good results from that in their kitchens,” Harris said.
“Why is [female] the gender we typically associate with cooking in the home? - Deborah Harris
new rock stars.” Taylor Abbonizio, a senior psychology major, said she notices sexism when she kicks back
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Obama’s visit to Cuba sparks necessary discussion President Obama’s Cuba visit this week was met with cheers and jeers, but his trip makes room for a conversation all Americans should consider. After nearly six decades, an American president has ended the diplomatic isolation between the United States and Cuba. While opponents are labeling his trip as just another check on the president’s legacy bucket list, that shouldn’t diminish the valuable conversations we must have about human rights issues in Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, trade and travel that this visit foregrounds. Because of our broken ties with Cuba for the majority of the last century, Americans know very little about Cuba, despite its proximity to the United States. At least at Pitt, we can stay in touch with Cuba and its culture through our study abroad in Cuba program, but that program is one of the only academic exchanges to Cuba in the country. Cuba is not just an island with a prison, and it’s not just a country with classic cars and cigars. There are people in Cuba with families in the United States that are our neighbors, and there are people in Cuba who have had little contact with the outside world because of their oppressive government. Many people, such as Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, argue the president’s visit will not incite any change or reform because Cubans are already empowered enough. Parrilla said after the 1959 revolution that put the current government in power, Cubans aren’t in need of any help, but we shouldn’t ignore the poor conditions in Cuba because of the facade its government paints. We have to remember that Cuba’s government may not be on the best of terms with the United States, but we shouldn’t
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define Cuba’s inhabitants by the diplomatic sins of its leaders. The international community agrees there are many human rights issues there in particular that raise red flags. According to Human Rights Watch, Cubans who criticize the government continue to face prosecution, and the government prevents human rights groups from accessing its prisons. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Guantanamo Bay violates the Geneva Conventions because of its lacking prisoner-of-war camp status, where prisoners fall outside the law. Because there are no labels, prisoners are interrogated, punished and forced to answer questions from which the Geneva Conventions provides protection. We can’t turn a blind eye on the degradation and abuse of prisoners and Cuban citizens. The newly rekindled relationship with Cuba provides for this conversation as well as a discussion about the halfcentury old embargo and stringent travel restrictions. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Obama announced moves last week to further lift U.S. restrictions on Cuba. That includes easing travel restrictions and restoring Cuba’s access to the global financial system by ending the trade embargo. “What we did for 50 years did not serve our interests or the interests of the Cuban people,” Obama said about the embargo. Ending the embargo, facilitating travel, shutting down Guantanamo and allowing for conversation to improve living quality and human rights in Cuba are all topics in the spotlight because of Obama’s visit — and topics we should discuss. With those discussions, maybe then the United States and Cuba can finally find some common ground.
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DON’T CONFUSE TRAVEL FOR IMPERIALISM Tim Nerozzi Columnist
“Ellen Page’s Gay Imperialism is Not Activism” No, that’s not a headline from some sort of neo-masculinity-fueled hate blog. That’s the title of an article written for Harlot Magazine, a self-described “pro-PoC, pro-Black Lives Matter, proimmigrant, pro-indigenous, pro-queer” online publication that has taken issue with Ellen Page’s documentary on international LGBTQ+ rights. Page’s documentary, called “Gaycation,” explores what it means to be “lesbian, gay, bi or trans all around the world.” Harlot emphasizes how this is just another instance of “white supremacy settler colonialism” disguised as human rights to narrate and justify the
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imperial enterprise that has been a repeated and long-standing tradition. Harlot goes on to explain that Ellen’s journey to explore what it means to be lesbian, gay, bi or trans is a journey to “impose what it means” in order to affirm a more “palpable political ordering.” The article further suggests that her trip is completely distasteful and an exemplification of privilege and modern imperialism. This is a small microcosm of a growing mindset in progressive movements opposing members of western civilizations indulging in exotic, foreign cultures. What these people don’t seem to understand is that globalization and foreign travel are some of the most powerful ways to open minds and form deeper See Nerozzi on page 4
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Nerozzi, pg. 3 connections with cultures other than one’s own. The article in question justifies the open hostility to the documentary by stating that “access to transnational mobility by white (able) bodies relies on the detainment, delimitation and ejection of minoritized populations.” Its other arguments aside, the article is inherently wrong in its claim that embarking on global missions and traveling abroad as a white, cisgendered person is central to white supremacy and settler colonialism today. The picture used of Ellen Page and her friend in Japan is extremely relevant, as the Japanese are far more known for their international vacations than Americans who are stereotyped as isolated to our continent. It’s interesting to observe two different fronts of the progressive movement, LGBTQ+ rights and cultural awareness, colliding and finding conflict where there should be none. The entire spectacle ends up as a self-cannibalization of the movement. Harlot is not alone in its assertions
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about the west’s modern-day role in colonization via travel. Jezebel, the feminist news and opinion blog, has gone so far as to compare the expansion of British fashion designers to foreign fashion meccas to colonization. “Imperialism” is the new buzzword, replacing “cultural appropriation.” To me, it’s baffling that anyone who claims to fight for diversity and racial relations would stand against international travel and globalization. The compartmentalization of cultures and building of walls between nations is exactly what egalitarians should stand against, not for. Anti-travel sentiments can also have devastating effects on a country’s economy. No matter how obnoxious a foreigner is, they are going to be spending money at their destination, probably a lot of it. Egypt has historically relied on tourism for a significant part of its economic stability. The country has such a rich culture, past and present, that people from all over the world flock to the country to see the sights. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council Data, Egypt’s tourism industry contributed 14.8 percent of the national gross domes-
tic product. But back in October of last year, a Russian plane came down over Egypt, an incident that immediately raised eyebrows about security in air travel, and the country’s tourism industry plummeted to a 10-year low. Amani El-Torgoman, board member of the Egyptian Tourism Federation, called the situation “devastating,” and today Egypt is the 43rd country on the list of countries that have the largest tourism industry, falling from spot 28 in 2005. According to a study conducted by Matthew J. Stone and James F. Petrick of Texas A&M University, traveling resulted in personal growth, increase in life skills and knowledge. Travel to exotic places also exposes us to different cultures that could help shape our receptiveness to different perspectives, experiences and religions. In the confines of our nation, we are often isolated to the degree that we can’t experience the multiple dimensions of cultures that exist beyond our borders, and even within our country. Not only does travel provide this insight, but it fosters a sense of respect for cultures un-
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like our own. While Harlot may suggest that when we do travel, we place a western narrative, are we better off not experiencing the sights and personalities of other cultures? The media and books won’t expose us to the realities of other countries. They won’t allow us to explore the realities quite like actually going abroad does. Our “western narrative” may not account for the actual experiences of the inhabitants of those places, but we still get the chance to look through a lens not completely shrouded with our everyday perceptions of American life, and in this process, we can then shed our preconceptions. Travel is important for both the individual seeking to broaden their horizons and countries who rely on tourists’ money for financial security. There are few other ways to learn more about other cultures than by delving into them yourself. The worst thing we can do to further cross-cultural relationships is to be afraid of new experiences and people. Hop on a plane, walk around the world and don’t let anyone try and tell you it’s wrong.
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TALES FROM MOROCCO:
NAVIGATING THE DESERT Elaina Zachos Staff Writer
“Tales from Morocco” is a reoccurring column on reporter Elaina Zachos’ semester studying culture, tradition and daily life in the North African nation. These days, I don’t ride the 71C — I ride camels. Last month, my study abroad program took journalism students from seaside Rabat, Morocco to the landlocked south. We made stops in the Moroccan cities of Meknes, Fez, Ouarzazate and Marrakesh, as well as the country’s cedar forests in Ifrane and its desert in Merzouga. We spent most of the six days on the road, and slept in a different city each night. The blue coach bus stamped “North Africa Tours” announced our presence everywhere we went, making us an easy target for vendors selling cheap scarves and fake fossils at tourist traps. We breezed through centuries-old medinas and browsed local cooperatives to buy souvenirs and gifts. We also met a
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Moroccan man known for playing the part of Osama bin Laden in American movies. But, through it all, I’ll remember Merzouga the most. Merzouga is a small village in southeastern Morocco. It’s home to the Erg Chebbi, which is one of the country’s two Saharan ergs, or large seas of sand dunes. The dunes can be more than 160 yards high in some places and span 31 miles north-to-south. They stretch 3 to 6 miles east-to-west, right next to the Algerian border. To start the journey, we leave Ifrane in the morning, where snow dusts the peaks of the High Atlas Mountains. By afternoon, we reach Rissani, Morocco, a dusty suburb of the Sahara. We stop for lunch at a multistoried restaurant, where waiters serve us medfouna. Medfouna means “buried” in Arabic, and it’s basically a savory stuffed flatbread. Some call it “Berber pizza,” after the native tribes of North Africa. After finishing up, we make our way to a sandy lot a couple blocks away from the
restaurant. There, four silver Land Rovers wait for us, along with people dressed in bright, traditional garb who work at the auberge, the remote desert inn where we will be spending the night. Our group splits up and we climb into the vans. I jump in a Land Rover with four other students — Kelsey, a petite Pittsburgher who goes to Villanova University, Mackenzie, a Denison University student, Wes, a photographer from Dickinson College and Savin, a sassy Italian who goes to Xavier University. I’m sitting directly behind our Moroccan driver. A patch of his curly black hair pokes through his dark purple turban. His hands wrap around the steering wheel, arms covered by his dark blue caftan. He turns on the car and Arabic rolls out of the stereo. His sky blue Nikes press the pedal — we’re off. We start driving through the town, following a dirt road bordered by dusty storefronts. But after a couple minutes, the town shrinks into a mirage in the
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rear-view mirror as we approach the desert. The old buildings fade away, replaced by barren lands sprinkled with rocks and tufts of dry grass. Tawny sand dunes draw us to the horizon. The Sahara is the third largest desert in the world, right behind Antarctica and the Arctic. Roughly the size of the United States at 3.6 million square miles, it spans northern Africa from Mauritania in the west to Egypt in the east. The arid climate gives way to sandstorms and dust devils, making it one of the harshest environments on the planet. About 2 million people live day in and day out in the desert, but tourists like us pass through on a leisurely basis. After driving for a few minutes, we reach a traffic barrier on the road. Then the driver steers to the right and we’re offroading. Wes and I roll down the windows. Breeze ripples our hair and the driver turns up the volume on the radio. The See Morocco on page 6
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together in lines of two or three. One of the Moroccan guides leads Mackenzie to a camel, then another helps Kelsey to the same string of animals. I step over the camel behind Kelsey and grab hold of the metal bar that serves as reins. The animal stands up, rear first, pushing me forward before stepping up with its front legs and straightening out. One of the guides grabs a rope dangling in front of my camel and starts walking. We’re off again. Riding a camel is a serene experience. A guide leads us up and down the rolling dunes. We lean forward when going uphill and backward going downhill. The camels’ cloven hooves sink into the sand with each step. From the west, the setting sun stretches our shadows again, this time casting the shapes of the camels into mammalian ATAT walkers. We dismount and climb up a neighboring dune on foot. The fine sand attempts to swallow our feet, and we have to run to make it up the dune. The guides have laid out some blankets for us on top of the dune. On the horizon, the sun is a neon orb, floating just above the distant dunes. It dips lower, slowly sneaking behind the sandbanks. Within a few min-
utes, it dissolves, leaving a pale sky behind, a subtle rainbow fading from grayish purple to bright yellow. We stay up on the dune for a few more minutes. Badr challenges us to roll down the sandbank, and after some “I’ll go if you go’s,” three girls tumble down. Wes follows them with his camera, snapping action shots and jumping out of their brakeless way. We take more pictures and stare at the aftermath of the sunset for a couple minutes before heading back to the awaiting camels. The guides pick up the now empty blankets and bring them to where the dune slopes down. They lay them down, angled, and grab two corners on the lower part of the slope. “Berber sledding,” one of them says. We stand there for a second, not sure what to do. Then someone takes one of the blankets and the rest of us follow suit. I hop on a blanket behind a dark-haired girl named Amelia. A guide pulls on the corners and runs backward, dragging us down the dune. We scream like we’re on a roller coaster, even though the ride only lasts for a few seconds.
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music rivals the wind snapping through the car. Kelsey slides on a pair of turquoise sunglasses to fight the bright sun. Soon, we’re turning circles in the sand. I can see another one of our Land Rovers in the distance to my left, stirring up sand like a Saharan parasailor. Mackenzie, Wes and I slide around in the middle seats, bracing ourselves against the car doors. Wind dances around Mackenzie’s white cotton shirt and teases her topknot. I look back to see Savin pointing his film camera out the window. Wes is doing the same, following the other Land Rovers in our caravan with his Fujifilm electronic rangefinder. We are laughing and screaming as we zoom up to another Land Rover. Badrdine, our Moroccan program assistant, holds an ombre scarf out the passenger side window, tightly wound around his fist. The wind pulls the fabric taut, making it almost flush with the van. Both Land Rovers slow down and the scarf slackens, churning in the wind like smoke from an extinguished candle. I reach out my window and try to grab the rogue textile, but the wind whips the scarf just beyond my reach. Our
driver steers to the right and we bend away from the other Rover. The rocky brown-gray dirt fades into orange sand as we drive through the Sahara. The sun hovers above the not-so-distant dunes, low in the sky but not quite about to set. Within half an hour we reach the auberge. Mackenzie, Wes and I have to climb out of the middle seat before we can flip it forward and free Savin. We grab our belongings and rush toward the hotel. Sand leaks into my mesh sneakers as we make it up stone steps to the lobby, which is a large square room with a fountain in the middle and a reception desk taking up space in one of the corners. Some students head for the bathroom — the medfouna was not kind to them. The rest of us drop off our bags in an empty common room before going back out to the desert. The sun is lower in the sky now, stretching our shadows into shady giants. We walk back to where the Land Rovers dropped us off, but instead of vans, camels now wait for us. Their massive legs are folded under them and their humps are covered with woven saddles. Rope harnesses string them
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PITT WRESTLING SEASON ENDS
The Panthers will rely heavily on Dom Forys next season. Theo Schwarz |Senior Staff Photographer
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Dixon, pg. 1 Jamie left us.” In terms of filling the vacancy on the sideline, Barnes said it’s his obligation as an athletic director to be prepared for departures. “If you’re an AD worth your salt, you better have a list [of potential replacements] in your pocket at all times in today’s day and age and today’s market,” Barnes said. “So certainly there are folks we’ve had in mind, and we’ll pursue aggressively.” Barnes referred to Pitt as a “national job,” noting that he won’t limit Pitt’s search to any one area or look for anyone with specific geographical ties. He said the department enlisted a search firm within the last couple days and
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added that hiring a sitting Division I head coach is a priority. Barnes considers the opportunity to coach at Pitt a prestigious one, as it has numerous factors working in its favor. “Maybe I’m looking at it through rose-colored glasses,” Barnes said. “But you think about the facility, you think about the fan support, you think about the platform that is the ACC, and, oh, by the way, the incredible success that Pitt has had over a number of years. This is a fantastic job, and I think it is viewed that way by coaches around the country.” Rose-colored glasses or not, Barnes would prefer to wrap up the coaching search before the sun sets Tuesday. “Tomorrow would be great,” Barnes joked. “I’m already behind.”
Dom Forys nearly reached his goal of earning All-American status over the weekend, but the sophomore wrestler came up just one win short. While Forys still put together a strong showing at the NCAA Wrestling Championships Friday, his performance reflected the Pitt wrestling team’s up-and-down season — admirable, but just missing its lofty goals. Still, Forys said if the narrow loss accomplished anything, it gave him a clear mindset for his junior campaign after capping off a 25-3 season. “It was a success in that I learned a lot of things from the weekend that I can apply to the coming offseason, for next season. I have a motivation now, there are things I can get better at. I need to set my goal [next year] to be a national champ,” Forys, who wrestles at 133 pounds, said. He added that the loss helped illustrate how close he is to achieving his dream. “Now I know there’s just a tiny string separating me from being the top guy,” Forys said. For Pitt as a team, nationals will again be the goal, but it will want to make a bigger splash, as only Forys and freshman LJ Bent-
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ley won a bout this year. The Panthers finished the season 10-7 overall, with a 2-3 mark in ACC competition. Pitt started off its season hot, defeating No. 15 University of Wisconsin Dec. 12, and sweeping Pitt Duals Jan. 9. But the team ran into trouble facing a gauntlet of nationally ranked opponents, dropping six of its last seven dual matches. Between Jan. 17 and Feb. 5, Pitt faced — and lost to — three top-10 teams in Oklahoma State University, North Carolina State University and Virginia Tech. Pitt head coach Jason Peters said part of the midseason lull came from starting several freshmen out of necessity, such as Bentley and TeShan Campbell. The team will work on its strength and conditioning, Peters said, to maintain early season success next year. “Being freshmen, they don’t really realize how long the season can be. We wanted to redshirt them and couldn’t, but they got valuable experience to carry them through to next year,” Peters said. “We’ll continue to improve technically, and some guys like Cody [Wiercioch] need to get stronger. His strength was definitely exposed. If they all commit to getting stronger, that will help us.”
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Nice 4 bedroom, 1 bathroom, plus study. Located close to Pitt campus and Schenley Park. Brand new kitchen and hardwood floors. Free washer and dryer included. $1850+ utilities. Available August 1, 2016. Call Peggy at 724-877-7761. South Oakland Duplex. 4 bedroom 2 baths. Central air, dishwasher, washer and dryer. Available August 1. (412)915-0856.
Townhouse for rent in South Oakland. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Dishwasher, finished basement, Central air conditioning, 2 car garage, outdoor deck. Close to Pitt Shuttle & Laundromat. 8 Virgila Place. Contact 4127368095 for questions. 4909 Center Ave. Updated 1 BR with new kitchen, dishwasher & hardwood floors. Laundry, storage and parking available. Close to Pitt & shopping district. Available now and for August. 412-720-4756. 3 & 5 bedroom. May 2016. Sarah St. Large bedroom, new kitchen, air conditioning, washer & dryer, dishwasher, large deck. 412-287-5712.
March 22, 2016
Second floor duplex. Solway Street. Available 6/1/16. $1495/month +utilities. 3 BR 1 Bath. Kitchen. Large dining room/living room/basement. Washer/dryer. Garage. Near bus/shopping district. Ray 412-523-2971, rwiener602@gmail.com. 1 BR bungalo in Greenfield with deck and large backyard. $600+ utilities. Close to busline, downtown and Oakland. 412-377-3985. Ask for Karen.
Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2016 & sooner. Oakland, Shadyside, Friendship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availability online, check out www.forbesmanagement.net, or call 412.441.1211
Undergrads needed to test tutoring system: 18 or older, native English speaker, adequate academic background as determined by a brief questionnaire. 2-5 hrs; $10/hr., possible $20 bonus. Contact rimac@pitt.edu
SMOKERS NEEDED! Researchers at UPMC are looking to enroll healthy adult cigarette smokers ages 18-65. This research is examining the influence of brief uses of FDA-approved nicotine patch or nicotine nasal spray on mood and behavior. The study involves a brief physical exam and five sessions lasting two hours each. Eligible participants who complete all sessions will receive up to $250, or $20 per hour. This is NOT a treatment study. For more information, call 412-246-5396 or visit www.-SmokingStudies.pitt.-edu
Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh has an opening in our event sales department. We’re looking for an experienced sales professional to show companies and groups the great time that awaits them at Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh. Every day we celebrate our German Heritage with live entertainment, craft beer brewed onsite and authentic German Cuisine. We need your help letting groups in Pittsburgh know we can help them celebrate Oktoberfest all year! Must have a minimum of 2 years of restaurant/event/marketing sales experience.
Now hiring professional and friendly individuals to provide backyard pest control treatments in the Pittsburgh area during the spring/summer. Good working environment, excellent pay. Paid training. Need valid driver’s license. Call 412-298-2139.
Seasonal Work: Shadyside Management Company needs full-time dependable landscapers, painters, and assistant roofers for the summer. Must be at least 18 years old. No experience necessary. $10/hour. Mozart Management, 412-682-7003. Email: thane@mozartrents.com.
Rolling Fields Golf Club in Murraysville. Multiple positions available immeduately. Including bartenders, beverage cart, and pro shop assistant. Contact proshop@rollingfieldsgolf.com or 724-335-7522.
Send your resume to twilliams@prg.us.com
SUMMER HELP NEEDED, Ice company close to campus. Weekends necessary. Production/driving/maintenance positions available. Good pay, part-time/full time. Contact Mastro Ice Company 412-681-4423. mastroice@aol.com
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