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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | March 24, 2017 | Volume 107 | Issue 145

PEDUTO, STUDENTS DISCUSS HOT TOPICS Stephen Caruso

Contributing Editor

The second-place winners of the 2017 Randall Family Big Idea Competition pose with their awards.| Julia Zhu

BIG IDEA COMPETITION AWARDS 2017 WINNERS

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day. At the annual competition, run by the University’s Innovation Institute and open only to Pitt Looking for a monitor to measure your an- students, participants pitch and present ideas that aerobic threshold while you exercise? Need UV- could eventually blossom into startups.

Last year, the winner was POD, a startup deresistant ink for your new tattoo? How about a phone case that reminds you when to take your veloping portable oxygen devices for people suffering from obstructive pulmonary disease. This meds and then dispenses them? year, the $25,000 grand prize went to MediCase Pitt students might be able to hook you up.

Student entrepreneurs displayed these in- — a phone case created by a team of Pitt gradunovative ideas at the ninth annual Randall Fam- ates and undergraduates that interacts with an ily Big Idea Competition Awards Showcase, held app. The app keeps track of a person’s medication from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall Thurs- schedule and alerts them when they need to take Staff Writer

their medicine and dispenses the pharmaceuticals for them.

According to Lauren Brock, MediCase team member and graduate pharmacy student, the inspiration for the device came from an innovation challenge that she and her teammates participated in about two months ago — they had to come up with an original idea in 24 hours.

“We got second place in that competition, and that’s when we realized we were on to something,” Brock said. “So we figured we’d enter it in See Big Idea on page 2

Mayor Bill Peduto spoke to representatives from the Pittsburgh Student Government Council about the issues that impact them Thursday night, addressing immigration, harassment and a changing Pittsburgh.

The council’s representatives are from 10 Pittsburgh higher education institutions, including Pitt, Robert Morris and Carnegie Mellon.

Pittsburgh student government leaders founded the group in 2010 after working together to oppose former Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s proposed tuition tax.

Ravenstahl proposed the tax as a “Fair Share Tax” to help Pittsburgh fund city employee pensions and later withdrew the proposal after an uproar from both university administrators and students.

The group has since moved on from the tax debacle — holding government stakeholders accountable for other issues affecting Pittsburgh today. Peduto’s talk — which started as a history lesson — was cognitive of those potential problems, as he recounted Pittsburgh’s rise as an industrial powerhouse and its fall during de-industrialization. While Peduto remained hopeful that Pittsburgh was heading into a new era of growth, he cautioned that, as it had during the Gilded Age of See Peduto on page 3

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David Kalson, event moderator and sponsor, speaks at Pittsburgh Presents Robotics Thursday.John Hamilton

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PGH companies present at robotics event Maggie Medoff

Staff Writer At the Pittsburgh Athletic Association Thursday night, tables lined the room’s perimeter with computer screens flashing color displays, peregrine lander and rover models and panels of sound, light and distance sensors.

More than 100 locals attended Pittsburgh Presents Robotics, an event hosted by Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. and Pittsburgh Entrepreneurs Forum. The occasion featured a panel of 11 robotic companies and networking event.

As attendees wandered the venue before the panel, vegetable skewers and pudding cups in hand, local robotic companies shared information about their goals, innovations and contributions — all of which have made Pittsburgh a leading presence in the robotics industry.

Jay Douglass, head of Carnegie Mellon

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University’s Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Institute, was one of five panelists at the event Thursday. He countered the sci-fi film notion that robots are here to take blue-collar jobs.

“We’re going to work on bringing robotics back to factories in order to compete against offshore industries,” Douglass said. “We don’t want to replace our workers — we want to get them involved in new and different ways.”

Jackie Erickson, a panelist from the Pittsburgh Robotics Network — a volunteer organization representing more than 65 robotics companies in Pittsburgh — spoke to attendees about PNF’s part in company promotion, funding and growth. Her company is focused on attracting and fostering new robotic talent in Pittsburgh.

According to a survey PRN conducted in 2013, Pittsburgh has generated 19 new businesses since 2011 that provide robotics solu-

tions in industries ranging from agriculture to defense to health care and more.

Since former President Barack Obama announced the National Robotics Initiative in 2011 at the school’s National Robotics Engineering Center, employment by Pittsburgharea robotics firms has jumped from 700 to 2200 people. CMU, which is ranked nationally for its robotics program, has received more than $15 million from the NRI. “It’s important for companies to know that they can make their voices heard,” Erickson said. “While Carnegie Mellon-affiliated programs are amazing at what they do, other companies need a place to find their own voice for what they do, and we help them find that.”

Beyond the panel, company representatives had the chance to pitch their company’s robotic endeavours to people passing by their

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the Randall contest and use the skills we’d develop and resources we’d receive through the contest to improve upon it. ” 2015 Pitt graduate Noah Snyder, CEO of Interphase Materials, served as one of the night’s emcees. Snyder said the competition teaches students how to alter their projects in response to criticism — he knows from experience, since he won the competition in 2015.

“The competition’s not just a fun game or activity but a pathway for students looking to take their ideas to the market and figure out how to adapt to change,” Snyder said. “They’re not doing it for credits but for passion.”

Pitt alumnus and trustee Robert Randall and his family founded The Randall Family Big Idea competition in 2009 in order to encourage the growth of an entrepreneurial culture at Pitt. It spans February to March of each year and awards a total of $100,000 in prizes. The competition lasted three rounds, starting in early February, with 200 students making up 65 teams to 35 finalists by the third and final round.

At the awards showcase, finalists showed their ideas to potential investors, such as Aaron Tainter, a program manager at Pittsburgh-based startup accelerator AlphaLab. In two past visits to the Randall Family competition, AlphaLab has been able to connect with past Randall competitors including Utranslated and Suitable, now their own independent startups.

“It’s a great way for us to get in touch with people who have fresh new ideas,” he said.

Apurva Patil, a senior chemical engineering major, said talking with investors was one of many skills his team’s entrepreneur-in-residence mentor coached him about. Patil was at the Showcase representing his team’s startup Endurotracker, a mouth- and nosepiece system that monitors a person’s respiration.

Clad in a suit and tie alongside his three team members and the hundred other competitors in the room, he spent the first hour of the Awards Showcase explaining his product to interested potential partners.

“Besides coaching us on communication, our mentors from the Innovation Institute, our EIR, also helped us make connections with professionals and experts who could help critique and See Big Idea on page 4

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Peduto, pg. 1 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick, inequality can rise with prosperity.

“Future Pittsburgh won’t be impressed that we had the first robot cars. They’ll be impressed we made a city for all,” Peduto said.

He also encouraged the students to remain active in government and their communities to keep Pittsburgh “special” and not overrun by “Starbucks next to an Au Bon Pain next to a Cinnabon.”

After the speech, Peduto took questions.

Senior Rohit Anand, Pitt Student Government Board vice president, asked Peduto about changing Pittsburgh zoning ordinances to address the 3-person rule, which says that no more than three unrelated people may live together in a home zoned as a single-family residence.

The issue is often the center of controversy between Pitt and the Oakland community. Permanent Oakland residents say that a lack of zoning enforcement has caused overcrowding, limited on-street parking, litter and student mischief.

Peduto was non-committal to changes but did float the idea that the PSGC could help the city government look into the issue with suggestions.

Maria Taylor, Chatham Student Govern-

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ment’s executive vice president and communications director, also had some concerns for the mayor. She told Peduto she was worried about catcalling in the city’s East End after student complaints and asked if the city would consider passing code to specifically target street harassment.

Peduto said that he thought the city already had laws to stop harassment and instead said it was an enforcement issue. He encouraged students concerned about harassment to call 911 or

311. He noted that non-emergencies could even be reported by tweet.

If enough reports come in, Peduto said, students could expect to see Pittsburgh police on patrol in areas that show up frequently in complaints, like intersections or bus stops.

Taylor said after the meeting that she wasn’t satisfied with Peduto’s answer. She hasn’t found any specific statutes in the city that prevent harassment. While there are state laws against harassment and disorderly conduct in general,

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto spoke to representatives of the Pittsburgh Student Government Council Thursday. John Hamilton VISUAL EDITOR

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including laws against ”lewd, lascivious, threatening or obscene words, language, drawings or caricatures,” the city does not have any specific code related to sexual harassment of women in public space.

Taylor said she wants the city to pass the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, or CEDAW — a UN compact that protects women’s rights. The convention didn’t pass in the United States, but some American cities like San Francisco have started to add pieces of it to their own laws. A CEDAW proposal didn’t pass city council when presented in November.

“I would have liked to hear more,” she said.

Brett Meeder, La Roche College student government’s Public Relations Chair, brought up recent political debates over undocumented students on campus and asked what the city was doing to help.

Peduto responded by insisting that the city does not cooperate with ICE and is working on community outreach to help immigrant and refugee communities. He also described America’s long history of xenophobia to the students and told them not to fret standing up to the federal government’s new priorities.

“You’re on the right side of history,” Peduto said.

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Big Idea, pg. 2 advise us,” he said. “I really sharpened my business skills by participating in this.”

According to Don Morrison, an EIR at the Innovative Institute and fourth-year mentor for the competition, the results usually address a diverse array of needs.

“You have ideas for medical equipment that need to be FDA-approved to apps for traveling,” he said. “And the quality improves every year.”

Keynote speaker Jason Putorti, a 2002 Pitt graduate in computer science, venture designer at AngelList and Forbes 30 under 30 member,

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spoke onstage about his experiences with startups in Silicon Valley and gave advice to the aspiring innovators in front of him.

“Find a problem, one that a lot of people have, and figure out a way to solve it,” he said.

“Form a big vision, but don’t rush in reaching it.”

Here were the night’s big winners: The $1000 People’s Choice award went to h2Info, a startup that provides water-testing services to its customers.

The $1000 award for Best Video promoting their product went to the startup Root, a company

providing a method for effective defense against cyber attacks. h2Info also received a $2000 4th place award alongside the teams Green PEA, Helios Ink and Strategize.

The four 3rd place teams earning $5000 were Easy KeysE, Loop, Resect Assure and Dible. Second place winners receiving $15000 included Endurotracker, Travel Roots and Airborne Laser.

Medicase won the $25,000 first place prize.

The team members are working on slimming down the case and will use the money to work toward marketing the product.

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Robotics, pg. 2 station. Astrobotics founder John Thornton explained how his company uses lunar delivery to appeal to other countries working to send things to the moon. The project, called “MoonMail,” sends keepsakes to the moon — photos, mementos, letters and notes — and is marketed as the first “commercial trip to the moon,” on the company’s website.

“We’re building a DHL-like [shipping] service to the moon,” Thornton said. “We’ve already gotten 10 deals from six different nations. These nations are sending us rovers and landers in order to make the deliveries possible.”

While numerous attendees at the affair were from CMU and Pittsburgh robotic companies and start-ups, Pitt faculty and students, such as Joshua Tarlo, a first-year mechanical engineering major, are also exploring new engineering developments on campus.

As a member of Pitt’s Robotics and Automation Society — a student group that works on different robotics projects on campus — Tarlo’s team is currently building a life-size robotic panther. The panther will eventually be on display in the Benedum Hall lobby and double as a floor map of the entire building.

Currently, the RAS is working on five robotics projects, including the Micro Mouse, a robotic mouse that will navigate a maze.

The University also has an organization called Design Hub, a group dedicated to student innovations and startup procedures.

Design Hub provides students with brainstorming sessions, educational workshops, hands-on projects and community outreach opportunities.

“There is a large amount of networking events available for the students to partake in and gain valuable connections,” he said. “In addition, the professors and faculty are excellent connections to have in your professional network.”

The engineering department at Pitt offers a wide variety of classes for robotics exposure and project inspiration — including a course called The Art of Making for upperclassmen and second semester first-year students that gives them an opportunity to design projects early in their undergraduate career.

“Starting early on, students [have the opportunity to] easily jump into hands-on learning and immerse themselves in electronics, coding and foster a love of robotics and ‘making’ in general,” Gilmour said.

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Opinions column

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Top 10: Ways to dismantle the patriarchy Student Government Board’s Women’s Empowerment Week was certainly a hit.

Leslie Jones came to campus, followed by a very special women’s empowerment-themed episode of Pitt Tonight and, coincidentally, the hiring of the first female athletic director in Pitt history. With such inspiration, so we decided to dedicate our weekly top 10 to women’s empowerment as well.

10. Ask people to explain their sexist jokes What’re they supposed to say? “Well you see, Alice, it’s funny because it subtly reinstills generations of institutionalized sexism.”

9. Start ending all your prayers with ‘awomen.’

Amen? Whatever it actually means, it’s sexist, probably. Plus you’ll say it, people will be confused and then it’s an excuse to explain your entire feminist agenda to them.

For a completely gender-neutral option, try ‘a-person.’ Take that, Uncle Fred — that’s the last time you ask us to say grace.

8. Don’t get married for land.

Ugh, that’s so 10th century.

7. Appointing a female pope would probably help.

But first the Roman Catholic Church would have to allow women to be priests, and that’s already a whole thing. Then we would have to sit through the first female Pope’s mostly gridlocked reign, likely due to some dramatic but ultimately innocuous email scandal.

6. Only pay 79 percent of the retail price at your favorite stores.

Since the gender wage gap in Pennsylvania means women make only 79 cents to

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a man’s dollar — and women of color make even less — then logically, paying less makes sense too. Stick with it and show them the facts, the more confused they are, the better your chances of actually getting away with it.

DON’T GIVE INTO THE HYPE

5. Remind men where they came from in the first place.

Fact is, a lot of college guys still believe the stork story. That’s right, many guys haven’t even had “the talk” yet. They’re just kind of doing what they picked up on the streets.

4. Turn men into rocket fuel for the space matriarchy.

Do we know that men don’t make good rocket fuel? In a post-truth world, no, we don’t.

3. Start carrying your tampons around in a basket with a frilly, lace lining.

Don’t be shy about making a hoopla to take the basket with you in the middle of lecture to go to the bathroom.

2. Womansplain things to men.

Find that sweet spot between confidence and condescension, and then just lay into them about the nuances of parallel parking.

“Actually…”

1. Get a tool box We’re going to just have to start deconstructing the damn system old school, y’all.

Editor’s Note: Pitt Tonight’s female writers were actually too busy dismantling the patriarchy to help us write this list. So if any of these jokes are bad, that’s why. If any of them are good, it’s because women at The Pitt News’ office did the editing. You heard it here first folks — men aren’t funny.

Thomas Wick Columnist

When two gamers took their players on a virtual journey to a far-off video game planet, they expected to be able to see and interact with each other’s player in the game. To their surprise, they saw only empty planet, despite what the makers of the game previously promised.

Sean Murray — head of the developing team for “No Man’s Sky” — promised players there would be a multiplayer feature to the game before its release.

He claimed that though the universe in the game would consist of more than 18 quintillion planets, players would be able to interact and play with each other if they were in the same place at the same time. But shortly after the release,

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TNS two players easily debunked this alleged promise.

It’s clear that the developer Hello Games meant for gamers to be excited for the game’s release and its claimed infinite possibilities, most likely in an effort to generate as many pre-order and first day sales as possible. But in reality, when their promises fell flat and people noticed, the developer was unable to answer why the players couldn’t see each other — and thus take responsibility for the disconnect between what they claimed their game would be and what it actually was.

From movie trailers with dazzling cinematics that show little plot, technology ads that show off design more than See Wick on page 7

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Wick, pg. 6 function and commercials that focus more on the brand then the quality of what they’ve made, companies in every industry focus a lot of time and effort into making their products look like the next best thing.

But they rarely deliver on their promises.

The gaming industry isn’t the only market guilty of what the President of Pitt Gaming Club Jared Klatskin calls “hype culture” — where companies put maximum effort into making a product look spectacular before its disappointing release. But the video game market is a perfect microcosm of the theme, especially recently.

We’ve seen this same occurrence with a multitude of games in recent years, not only “No Man’s Sky.” Games such as “Destiny” and “Star Wars Battlefront” received lukewarm reviews on Metacritic, but user reviews were much harsher. Destiny got a 6.1 out of 10 by users on Metacritic and was considered one of the most disappointing games of the year. “Star Wars Battlefront” got a 5.0 by

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users, and even the publisher, Electronic Arts, said it was a disappointment.

Earlier this week, I wrote about the disappointing failure of remakes, and the pathetic cash grab studios participate in to rake in millions on recycled material. This is a similar issue, and part of the blame lies with us as consumers.

“I think companies should be held to a higher standard of honesty, but also, consumers need to be more skeptical.

Hype culture often sets people up to be easily disappointed,” Klatskin said.

Fan dismay over “Star Wars Battlefront,” came from issues with lack of content and the high standards of previous Battlefront games. The last one came out in 2005, so fans were excited for the prospects of new game that was just as good. But the makers attempted to use the success of the brand and its prior triumphs to sell copies of the new game without putting the work to making “Star Wars Battlefront” a success on its own.

Fan uproar may seem like something companies can shake off as long as they promise consumers the next best thing next time, but that’s not always the case.

“Aliens: Colonial Marines,” which came out in 2013, disappointed fans so drastically that the company faced consequences in court.

The game’s marketing was so misleading that firm Edelson LLC filed a classaction false advertising lawsuit against the games developer Gearbox and its publisher Sega. Gearbox was eventually dropped from the suit, but Sega agreed to pay $1.25 million in settlements to cover attorney and administrative fees and to reimburse the game’s purchasers.

Today, it seems there’s more energy going into marketing a product then actually designing and producing it.

Commercials and advertisements focus more on how something looks, and how the consumers will look using it, then the functionality and utility of it. Total ad spending has increased around the world between 2012 and 2017, with the end of this year predicted to yield more than $633 billion in advertising spending. And in some industries, such as pharmaceuticals, its common to spend more money on advertising than research — as nine out of 10 big pharma companies did in 2013.

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It makes sense from the side of the companies: their only goal is to sell. And if they can sell with minimal effort while still keeping customers mildly happy, they will most certainly do so. So it’s up to us, as customers, to determine what they can sell us.

“If consumers want change, they should wait until reviews come out to buy games and should not pre-order games,” Klatskin said.

Don’t give in to the hype — wait for the critic and tester reviews to see if a game is as good as the companies promised it would be, especially when these games are made by companies like Gearbox and Hello Games, who have a history of dishonesty.

It’s time to stand up to go beyond the labels and fancy ad campaigns. Whether it be video games, Hollywood, pharmaceuticals or technology powerhouses, we can’t get swept up in the hype.

Thomas primarily writes about visual media and gaming for The Pitt News.

Write to him at tmw79@pitt.edu.

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Sports CAMPBELL SAYS GOODBYE, Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

After 21 years in the steel city he’s called home, TeShan Campbell is moving out.

Campbell announced his decision Monday to transfer to Ohio State University to spend the final two years of his college career wrestling for coach Tom Ryan and the Buckeyes.

The standout sophomore started out wrestling at the Shadyside Boys and Girls Club when he was 6 years old. He only lost one match in his second year, then won a junior national championship by his third year.

Campbell went on to wrestle at Westinghouse High School, where he finished as the runner-up at the City League Championships in ninth grade. He transferred to Penn Hills High School before his sophomore year and capped off his high school career with an undefeated season and PIAA Championship — all with a sprained MCL. From there, he enrolled at Pitt and qualified for the NCAA Championships with a 17-10 record at 174 pounds as a true freshman. Campbell dropped to 165 pounds as a sophomore and made drastic improvements, becoming an ACC Champion and finishing with a 22-4 overall record.

“Some of my best moments in Pittsburgh were in that wrestling room with those guys,” Campbell said. “I’ll definitely miss them because I never really knew what it was like to be on a true wrestling team, other guys that really wanted to win and stuff like that ...

I’ll probably miss that the most, the bond I made with those guys.”

Junior 133-pounder Dom Forys — another Pittsburgh product — believes the

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team will be able to overcome his absence, but he knows it won’t be easy.

“It stinks to see a Pittsburgh guy leave his hometown and go somewhere else and give a team that’s already doing well another guy,” Forys said. “It’s tough to see but I’m good friends with TeShan, I’ve supported him all the way. I’ll continue to support him.”

The allure of the Buckeyes’ program proved too much for Campbell to resist.

Ohio State is coming off a second-place finish at the 2017 NCAA Championships and is only two years removed from winning the 2015 NCAA Championship as a team.

Campbell’s decision to transfer may have seemed like a snap judgment after a disappointing 2-2 finish at the NCAA Championships. But the truth is, his mind has been made up.

“I already knew I was going to Ohio State for maybe a month now. I just didn’t say anything,” Campbell said. “I just didn’t want that to be a distraction to the team. I already had a release form, I already knew ... I was just going to hold out until the national tournament was over so everyone could focus on themselves.”

Although Campbell said he loved his time at Pitt, there were some aspects of the wrestling team’s culture he didn’t agree with, though he didn’t delve into specifics.

“Just some of the things that were happening throughout the season were pushing me away as far as how I felt about Pitt wrestling,” Campbell said. “I just want to put myself in a better environment.”

It’s been more than two months since Pitt dismissed head coach Jason Peters following an incident during the team’s trip to Evanston, Illinois, for the Midlands Championships. Campbell said he made up his mind to

TeShan Campbell is transferring to Ohio State next season after winning an ACC Championship for Pitt as a sophomore in 2017. Anna Bongardino STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

transfer soon after Peters’ departed, and the uncertainty surrounding the head coaching position at Pitt factored into his decision to leave. “[Coach] Pete helped me a lot this year.

He definitely had a big role in my success,” Campbell said. “Even when he was fired, he still reached out to me, kept talking to me ...

He was still watching my matches. He always still stuck around even when he wasn’t necessarily around. I appreciated that from him.”

Campbell said he received his release form around the same time as Peters’ departure. That’s also about the time when he heard from Ohio State and said he “liked what they had to offer.”

He said he couldn’t refuse an offer with the Buckeyes’ program, which has worldclass talent scattered throughout its wrestling room. Ohio State’s roster features Olympic gold medalist, world champion and two-time NCAA champion Kyle Snyder, along with two other former NCAA champions: 133-pounder Nathan Tomasello and 184-pounder Myles Martin.

“When you have an opportunity like that,

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I had to just be real with myself. It was just, ‘Do I really want to put myself in the best position to be the best wrestler TeShan can be?’” Campbell said.

Campbell’s teammates are sad to see him go, but he said they’ve all supported him in his decision.

“We’re going to miss him, there’s no doubt about it. But I wish him the best of luck at Ohio State, as long as he’s not wrestling a guy in a Pitt singlet,” Pitt redshirt junior heavyweight Ryan Solomon said.

Campbell admitted it was a tough choice for him to make as the hometown kid and one of the faces of the program. But he said the support from his friends, family and people inside the program made him more comfortable with the decision.

Even though he’s taken the mat in a Panthers singlet for the final time, Campbell insists his former teammates haven’t seen the last of him.

“I’ll still be back, and when I come back, I’ll still be around with the boys. And I’m not one block away, but I’m still one call away, so I’ll always be around,” Campbell said.

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GIORDANO EARNS ALL-AMERICAN HONORABLE MENTION IN 1M DIVE AT NCAAS Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

Dominic Giordano earned an All-American Honorable Mention in the onemeter dive Thursday at the NCAA Championships. Jordan Mondell CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Pitt senior diver Dominic Giordano is already adding to his well-stocked trophy case at the NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

Giordano earned Honorable Mention All-American honors on day one of the 2017 NCAA Championships in Bloomington, Indiana, placing 16th in the onemeter springboard dive Thursday night with a score of 305.05 points.

The Wexford, Pennsylvania, native just barely missed out on qualifying for the finals after a ninth-place finish in his preliminary heat. Giordano tallied 347.60 points in the preliminaries but only the top eight finishers qualified for the finals.

Giordano also earned first-team AllAmerican honors on day one last year with an eighth-place finish after posting a

367.20-point score in the 1M finals.

“It could be argued that Dom dove better to place ninth in prelims than he did last year when he qualified for the finals in this same event,” Pitt diving coach Julian Krug said in a press release. “He performed a fantastic set of dives. With how competitive the field was, scoring team points for Pitt on one-meter was a great accomplishment.”

Giordano will now get ready to defend his national championship in his marquee event on Friday: the three-meter springboard dive. Giordano took home Pitt’s first-ever diving national title last season with a six-dive score of 460.30 points in the 3M finals in Atlanta.

The preliminary round of the 3M springboard will take place at 12:15 p.m.

Friday, and the finals will take place at 7 p.m. on ESPN3.

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