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RUNOFF ELECTION REACHES FINISH LINE
VOTERS CHOOSE DIVESTMENT, PETERSON AS EXECUTIVE VP Brian Gentry and Emily Wolfe
Assistant News Editors Anaïs Peterson won big in Tuesday’s runoff SGB election — and so did one of her major initiatives, as more than 2,000 students said Pitt should divest from fossil fuels in a referendum vote. Of the 2,401 students who voted on the initiative, 91 percent said Pitt should divest. SGB will use that number in future discussions with administration. President Maggie Kennedy said she would talk to Chancellor PatAnaïs Peterson (top right) and members of Fossil Free Pitt react after hearing that Peterson won the runoff election rick Gallagher for his input on the best for SGB executive vice president. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor way to relay those results to the Board of Trustees. Peterson, a member of the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition, took in 1,387 votes to win the role of executive vice president, defeating Caroline Unger, mendations after hearing from student leaders. or the entire next school year. Maureen Hartwell the current chair of SGB’s facilities, One student leader, Resident Student As“With the turnaround from Monday [the 4th] Staff Writer transportation and technology comsociation President Sam Smallwood, expressed through Friday the 22nd, with spring break being It was a long, busy night for the Student Govmittee, who won 855 votes. Peterson concern during an open floor about the allocain that period, it’ s very difficult for student orgaernment Board, full of back-and-forth between and Unger were both elected to SGB tions committee’ s approval process for student nizations to gain access to the information they the board and its allocations committee. The for the 2019-20 school year in the Feb. groups whose budgets are approved a semester need, ” Smallwood said. board spent more than an hour deliberating al19 election, but tied for the top spot of in advance. Smallwood said these student groups Smallwood said he wished the allocations locations at its Tuesday meeting, and voted to meet with the allocations committee each spring amend five of the allocations committee’s recomSee SGB on page 3 See Divestment on page 3 to request funds for either the upcoming fall term
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RESEARCHER, ADVOCATE: SOSSENA WOOD PROMOTES DIVERSITY IN ENGINEERING
Maggie Young Staff Writer
Sossena Wood entered the Swanson School of Engineering in 2007 as an electrical engineering major, a major where only 0.9 percent of degree-earners nationwide are black women. But after losing her partial academic scholarship — and because she felt isolated in her white- and male-dominated major — she seriously considered going home. She graduated in 2011 and went on to be the first in her family to get a graduate degree, earning a doctorate in bioengineering from Pitt in November 2018. Now, she’s working on her postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon. Wood says her success derives heavily from her involvement in diversity programs in the Swanson School of Engineering. She joined Pitt EXCEL, a program intended to help those less represented in the field, and was also involved with the National Society of Black Engineers, in which she served as the national chairperson for Pitt’s chapter from 2013 to 2015 as a graduate student. “It was really the supportive programs in the School of Engineering that made it possible for me to continue to push myself and not be fearful of if I was capable or not, and continue to give good feedback based on various milestones that I was going through at the time of my undergraduate years,” Wood said. The percentage of African American students throughout engineering programs at universities is extremely low. According to Yvette Moore, the director of Pitt EXCEL, African American students experience the implications of these statistics every day. “A lot of times, when you go into Ben-
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Sossena Wood’s academic career was impacted by diversity programs in the Swanson School of Engineering such as Pitt Excel, where she served as a mentor, and the National Society of Black Engineers, where she served as the National Chairperson for Pitt’s chapter. photo via engineering.pitt.edu edum, as a student of color, it’s not always a home,” Moore said. “The majority of students, it’s their home because they see thousands of students that look just like them. When you go to class and there’s 200 students in class that look just like you, that makes you feel comfortable. No one ever wants to be the only one of anything.” Moore said programs like Pitt EXCEL and the National Society of Black Engineers are important because they give minority students a place to connect with others going through a similar experience and help them navigate spaces predominantly occupied by white men.
It’s easy for the majority white environment to discourage minority students like Wood, Moore said. In addition to this, Wood was juggling engineering coursework and the demands of college athletics. Consequently, Wood lost her partial academic scholarship during sophomore year — which covered about half of her tuition — because she didn’t meet the GPA requirement. According to Moore, Wood was at one point the only woman of color among her electrical engineering class. This and her declining grades led Wood to doubt herself and her academic ability. But by connecting with Pitt EXCEL and its students, as well as connecting with Moore as her mentor, Moore said Wood became more confident of herself in her academics and was able to continue school. “She finally found her niche toward the end of first semester sophomore year, and from then on, when she connected, she was in there,” Moore said. “She was one of the prime leaders of Pitt EXCEL.” Moore helped Wood find an electrical engineering co-op, or long-term internship, but after getting the hands-on experience in industry, Wood was more inclined to start doing research. Wood was accepted to Swanson’s Pre-PhD Program, which was created by Dr. Sylvanus Wosu, the associate dean for Diversity Affairs in the engineering school. The program works with minority students over a summer program to prepare them for graduate school. While Wood was unsure in her potential to go to graduate school, she had support from both Wosu and Moore to continue her research career. “I’m the first one in my direct family to go to graduate school, so that experience in itself was a lot. I was the first one to go to engineering school period,” Wood said.
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“Navigating this by yourself, having someone give you the ‘yes you’re doing OK’ when you think you’re not because of your classes, it goes a long way.” Wood studied neurodegenerative brain diseases using MRI technology during this program and continued to work on the project during her graduate degree. While she said she enjoyed having the ability to lengthen lives with advanced technology, she worked in a lab where at one point she was the only female researcher. “It took quite a while for me to gain my independence in the sense of vocalizing how I felt,” Wood said. “Articulating yourself as a female among men who just kind of blurt things out was not so much of a challenge, but something for me to adapt my personality to in order that I could be heard and respected.” According to Wosu, Wood shined during this program. Wood’s specific journey differed from the typical track because she did electrical engineering during her undergraduate career, but became interested in studying bioengineering before applying to graduate school. “I watched this young lady develop into just a level of excellence, a level of critical thinking that she developed within nine weeks of this program,” Wosu said. “Sossena was able to articulate bioengineering.” Wood graduated from the graduate program in bioengineering in 2018 and has now been doing postdoctoral research for three months. Her next goal is to become a professor. “I think it’s important for someone like me to be seen,” Wood said. “So I hope to become a faculty member. I hope to be one that’s reachable to do research that gives a lot of students opportunities to make a difference in the world.”
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committee had pushed this deadline back a week or sent out an email a week prior. Daniel Rudy, RSA vice president of finance, said RSA events tend to be very large and require involvement from many organizations on campus, making the quick turnaround time difficult for RSA. “I did hear from our previous vice president of finance that our request was too large to be uploaded to the normal website they use,” Rudy said. “So I think that speaks to the amount of documentation and number of resources we have to include.” Later in the meeting, board member Albert Tanjaya announced that Forbes Street Market will soon accept payment via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Electronic Benefits programs. He said EBT will allow students to use a preloaded card to obtain basic necessities from the Forbes Street Market with convenience. He said the University submitted a ticket to the federal government requesting that Forbes Street Market be recognized as a business to accept payment via SNAP and EBT. Tanjaya said the federal government shutdown caused a delay in the decision, but he noted that once the request is reviewed and implemented, students
executive vice president. Along with fossil fuel divestment, Peterson’s campaign focused on addressing the issue of lead in Pitt’s water, and increasing the availability and accessibility of gender neutral bathrooms on campus. As executive vice president, Peterson would be next in line to be president if Zechariah Brown were to step down and will also serve as the speaker of the Assembly, the lower legislative body of student government. A total of 2,242 students voted in the executive vice president runoff race. The Feb. 19 election, where Peterson and Unger won 1,154 votes apiece, drew 3,394 voters. Peterson said she was “completely shocked” by the results of the executive vice president vote but happy with the result of the divestment vote. “Throughout today, I was all over social media making sure everyone knew about it,” Peterson said. “I’m just glad all of the hard work to get here paid off.”
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SGB President Maggie Kennedy discusses allocations at Tuesday night’s meeting. Hannah Heisler | staff photographer can start using these payment methods shortly afterwards. “It’s a need because there are students with SNAP and EBT,” Tanjaya said. “Food insecurity is a big thing on campus.” He also provided updates on several of his other initiatives, including completed updates to the SafeRider app and a push for more variety of feminine products at Forbes Street Market, Market To-Go and QuickZone. Tanjaya addressed upcoming improvements affecting residence halls with the announcement of Amazon-like lockers to be installed in Sutherland and Towers. He said this initiative seeks to
respond to student concerns that the mail room hours don’t match with everyone’s schedule. Tanjaya said students would receive a code and a locker to obtain their packages without the supervision of mailroom staff. Tanjaya said he is working with Jim Earle, associate vice chancellor for business and auxiliary services, to get these lockers in not only Towers and Sutherland, but also halls like Panther, Irvis and Forbes-Craig in the future. “We’re trying to alleviate people that have packages coming in,” Tanjaya said. “The new big things is packages instead of letters, so we are trying to get with the times.”
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Trump makes empty promise for ‘A Plus’ emergency relief President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday in the aftermath of deadly tornadoes in Alabama that ripped through the state and killed 23 people. “FEMA has been told directly by me to give the A Plus treatment to the Great State of Alabama and the wonderful people who have been so devastated by the Tornadoes,” he tweeted. The tornadoes in Alabama warrant a fully committed response from FEMA. Fatalities are up to 23 people and at least seven remain missing while dozens more were injured. But Trump’s approach to the disaster in Alabama comes in stark contrast to his harmful rhetoric and actions toward other states that have experienced similarly catastrophic natural disasters. Trump’s inconsistency in responding to disaster relief is unacceptable, and future disaster-affected states deserve the same support he has given Alabama. After hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through the Caribbean, Puerto Rico’s death toll rose to nearly 3,000, many of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million residents were unable to access clean water and hospitals were struggling to replenish medical supplies. Instead of fully committing disaster relief efforts, Trump chose to blame Puerto Rico for its own crisis, claiming its infrastructure was in shambles before the hurricane even hit. When San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz leveled criticism at the hobbled federal response on the island, Trump accused her and other local leaders of poor leadership and wanting “everything to be done for them.” And Trump’s response to emergencies in mainland states like California, which in 2018 experienced the deadliest wildfire season in California history, was certainly
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not “A plus.” Most notably, the Camp Fire killed 85 people, burned 153,000 acres and destroyed almost 14,000 homes. The town of Paradise was almost entirely destroyed. Instead of promising “A Plus” FEMA treatment, Trump threatened to cut off federal emergency aid to California after accusing the state of mismanaging its forests. “There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests,” he tweeted. “Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!” But experts overwhelmingly agree that the California wildfire season was not tied to forest mismanagement. Instead, the wildfires were fueled by high wind and dry, hot conditions made worse by climate change. Not only did Trump misrepresent how and where wildfires start, he also drew fire from the president of the California Professional Firefighters who called the tweet an attack on those at the frontlines of battling the wildfires. “The President’s message attacking California and threatening to withhold aid to the victims of the cataclysmic fires is ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as the men and women on the front lines,” Brian K. Rice said to CNN. When natural disasters place the lives of Americans at risk, relief efforts are no place for political sparring and showmanship. Trump promised Alabama the best federal efforts had to offer and rightfully so. His willingness to withhold that kind of support in past deadly situations elsewhere is disgraceful.
PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW MENSTRUAL PRODUCT INGREDIENTS
Delilah Bourque
Senior Staff Columnist Feminine hygiene products make up a $3.57 million market in the United States alone. Despite the existence of reusable methods like menstrual cups and super absorbent period underwear, most women still prefer traditional disposable methods. In one study, 98.67 percent of respondents reported they used either pads or tampons during their last period. Though tampons are present in many women’s period routines, manufacturers of tampons and other menstrual products are not required to include ingredient lists on their labels. Currently, people who menstruate are unable to make informed choices about what they are putting into their bodies since such information is not being shared. The Food and Drug Administration must reclassify tampons and other feminine hygiene products as medicine or even as cosmetics to force
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Shruti Talekar | staff illustrator manufacturers to label tampons with their ingredients so women can make informed choices. Chemicals in menstrual products used to be quite harmful. For example, chemicals in tampons were found to amplify the bacteria that causes toxic shock syndrome in the 1980s and have since been changed to prevent incidents of TSS. While TSS is no longer a significant threat, women still deserve the safety of knowing what chemicals they could be putting into their bodies at what levels. The FDA currently classifies menstrual tampons and pads as medical devices, along with items like automated external defibrillators, denture adhesives and permanent phakic intraocular lenses. However, tampons, as well as other feminine hygiene products, are very different from these devices. Unlike tampons, AEDs — external See Bourque on page 5
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shock devices used to restore the heartbeat of heart attack victims — are not applied inside the body. And intraocular lenses — permanent contact lenses used to correct nearsightedness — are permanently implanted by a doctor who can explain their makeup to a patient, not found on drugstore shelves like feminine products. Also, neither AEDs nor phakic lenses are used as often or as widely as feminine care products. The average woman in the United States has a three-to-seven-day long period about once a month for about 40 years. Although phakic lenses are permanently installed and spend a longer time in the body than most menstrual products, many more people menstruate than get permanent contact lenses. Denture adhesives are similar to tampons and pads in the sense that people are able to go to their local drugstore and pick up a box to suit their needs. But unlike tampons and pads, the FDA suggests denture adhesive labels have an ingredients list explaining the active and inactive substances in the product, because overusing denture cream has potentially dangerous side effects. The FDA’s website lists potential hazards from zinc, a mineral found in denture adhesives, which can cause nerve damage if consumed in excess. Some denture adhesives are zinc-free and say so on the label so the consumers can make educated choices in the products they are putting in their bodies. Even cosmetic products used on skin and hair are required to have their ingredients listed on packaging, although they are not necessities in the same way menstrual products are. In addition to ingredient lists, cosmetic manufacturers even include expiration dates on their products, even though the FDA does not mandate they do so. If the FDA does not wish to reclassify period products as drugs, labeling them cosmetics would also require manufacturers to have ingredient labels on their products. As for current regulations on period products, the FDA currently mandates that the manufacturers of menstrual products for women submit a 501(k) Premarket Notification form, proving that a new product is “is at least as safe and
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effective, that is, substantially equivalent, to a legally marketed device.” But that is not enough. A manufacturer proving that its new products are just as safe as existing products still does not inform women what ingredients are in products that go in their bodies. Some have decided to capitalize on the lack of information on ingredients by starting companies that market organic cotton tampons and pads, and BPA-free plastic applicators. Brands like LOLA, L and The Honest Company all market themselves as better alternatives to traditional menstrual products. Despite marketing themselves as better alternatives, each company has different standards to what that means. LOLA’s tampons are 100 percent organic cotton, with BPA-free applicators. L makes tampons, pads and liners, and claims they are free of synthetic pesticides, dyes, fragrances and chlorine. Brands like L, LOLA and The Honest Company are able to draw business because of the fear women have of not knowing what is in more generic menstrual products. Some are more focused on choice than others. LOLA’s website says the creators got inspired after a conversation they had about not knowing exactly what was in their tampons. Others have more dangerous rhetoric. L’s website details there are “no ingredients you can’t pronounce” in their products, which can lead people to believe because you cannot pronounce an ingredient it is inherently harmful. Although these products market themselves as better alternatives for women, they’re unfortunately more expensive. A pack of 10 tampons from L costs $4.95, while a pack of 18 tampons from Tampax costs $3.99 at Target. That’s a difference of 27 cents per tampon. At about 20 tampons per cycle, a woman would pay over $2 more for organic products, or over $1,000 over the course of her life. Women will use tampons and other period products for an average of 40 years over the course of a lifetime. People deserve to know what they are putting in their bodies, and the FDA needs to do a better job of regulating the way feminine products are labeled. By reclassifying tampons and other menstrual products as a drug or even as a cosmetic product, women would be able to make more informed choices about what goes into their bodies.
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TAKEAWAYS FROM NFL HURRICANES BLOW SCOUTING COMBINE BY PITT, 76-63
Andrew Kelly Staff Writer
The NFL Scouting Combine — a glorified job interview for college football players looking to improve their stock for the draft in April — began last Friday in Indianapolis and concluded on Monday. Let’s take a look at the standouts, draft implications and how Pitt’s lone representative fared against the competition. Strong year for D-Line Defensive linemen posted some of the strongest numbers seen from that position group in recent years. Alabama defensive tackle Quinnen Williams, universally considered a top-five draft pick, posted the fourth fastest 40-yard dash time of any player more than 300 pounds since 2006, clocking in at 4.83 seconds. Williams’ raw speed, as well as the burst he showed in the first 10 yards of his dash, will keep him from slipping outside the top five of what is shaping up to be a crowded draft class at the top. Mississippi State edge defender Montez Sweat also boasted an impressive amount of athleticism, setting the modern (since 2003) record among defensive linemen with a 4.41 time in the 40-yard dash. That’s especially impressive when you consider Sweat is 6-foot-6, 260 pounds. Toss in Sweat’s top-five rankings in his position group in agility drills like the three-cone drill and 20-yard shuttle, and Sweat likely boosted his stock from the mid-first round into the top 10, with NFL.com’s Daniel Jeremiah predicting the Buccaneers to take him at No. 5. Quarterback measurables Coming into this year’s combine, there was one quarterback whose measurables were of specific interest to the
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NFL Draft community — 2018 Heisman winner Kyler Murray, the baseball phenom who elected to play football despite being a top-10 pick in the MLB. Murray’s diminutive stature (various sources had him listed anywhere between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-11) and hand size had pundits worried about his ability to succeed at the next level. He may have put some of those concerns to bed over the weekend, with his hands measuring well over the NFL standard of nine inches and his height surprising some people, standing just an eighth of an inch over 5-foot-10. After these reports, buzz began to generate that Murray could be the No. 1 overall pick by the Arizona Cardinals and head coach Kliff Kingsbury. Jeremiah agrees, putting Murray as the first pick in his first post-combine mock draft. Is Metcalf as dominant as most think? The short answer is yes, but there could be more to the story. Former Ole Miss wide receiver D. K. Metcalf had a downright dominant performance in almost every way at the combine. The 6-foot-3, 228-pound wideout tied for the lead in the bench press, lifting 27 reps of 225 pounds. He then blew scouts away with a 40-yard dash time of 4.33 seconds — nearly unheard of for a player his size — and top-five finishes in the vertical jump and broad jump. If there was one hiccup in Metcalf ’s performance, it was in his ability to show agility. The three-cone drill, a standard gauge of a wide receiver’s ability to get out of cuts when running routes, can tell teams a lot. Metcalf didn’t fare so well
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Pitt (12-18, 2-15 ACC) lost its 13th consecutive contest, 76-63, at the Watsco Center against the Miami Hurricanes on their senior night. Turnovers, poor free throw shooting and bad rebounding prevented Pitt from coming out on top. Meanwhile, Miami senior guard Anthony Lawrence II did all he could to get his team the win, scoring a career-high 27 points — including his 1,000th career point — to go with 11 rebounds. Sophomore forward/center Terrell Brown (21) scored While the Panthers the first and only point for the Panthers within the first kept it close throughout, few minutes of the game against Miami Tuesday consistent misses from night. Knox Coulter | staff photographer the foul line prevented from the field. After several minutes of them from ever fully erasing the defi- play, Pitt’s only point was a Terrell Brown cit. The team shot a ghastly 12-23 at the free throw, and Miami held a 5-1 lead. stripe, including numerous instances of Miami sophomore point guard Chris Panthers missing both free throws. In Lykes found senior teammate Zach Johncomparison, Miami was 14-18 on free son for two easy transition plays when throws. Pitt failed to get back on defense, giving The contest got off to an unusual start the Hurricanes a 9-3 advantage. when Pitt first-year guard Trey McGowFor the first 10 minutes of play, neiens and a Miami opponent got tangled up ther team had much rhythm. The Panfor a jump ball off the tip. Since neither thers and Hurricanes traded missed shots team had possession a second jump ball for several possessions in a row, and a ensued, and this time Miami managed to break at the 10:47 mark left the score 14-9 control the ball. in favor of Miami. Both the Panthers and the Hurricanes Find the full story online at got off to slow starts, with Pitt missing its See Combine on page 7 first four shots and Miami starting out 1-7
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Combine, pg. 6 in this test of quickness, finishing with a time of 7.38 seconds that was thirdworst among wide receivers. Without a doubt, Metcalf is an athletic freak who had a strong day in all the most popular drills that fans love to look at when checking in on players drafted by their teams. Just two seasons ago, the Cincinnati Bengals drafted wide receiver John Ross after he ran the fastest 40 in combine history. But Ross only had 21 catches in his first two seasons. Outlook for Pitt Former Pitt running back Qadree Ollison was the only Panther invited to this year’s combine. Ollison put up respectable numbers in the 40-yard dash, his best time coming as an official 4.58. Given his large size, this wasn’t a poor showing — for comparison, former teammate and current Steelers running back James Conner ran a slightly slower 4.65. Ollison’s showings in the threecone drill and broad jump, however, did not help his draft stock, as he finished dead last in both. Ollison will likely have a tough time
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Former Pitt running back Qadree Ollison was the only Pitt player to attend this year’s combine. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor getting drafted, especially in a draft that is loaded with talent at the running back position. But it remains likely that he’ll find his way to an NFL training camp as an undrafted free agent, and could fight his way onto a roster or practice squad if he can carve out a role as a power back.
Draft implications Though it may seem silly to put so much weight on a bunch of odd drills that often don’t even involve a football, the combine is the biggest day in the lives of many NFL prospects. Players who will get drafted regardless can make
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their stock soar higher, while some players must earn the right to be drafted by catching a team’s eye on the field or finding their way into a team’s heart in the interview room. A slip-up at the combine could be the most expensive mistake these players ever make — just ask former Florida defensive lineman Jachai Polite. Originally a top-20 prospect, Polite is reportedly slipping down draft boards due to poor results on the field and in interview rooms at the combine. First, Polite ran the 40-yard dash in 4.84 seconds, thirdworst in his position group. Then, he grouched about teams giving him a hard time in interviews about his flaws as a player, which is standard procedure. Polite capped it off by admitting that he’s never watched film of himself and sees his talent as more natural, raising questions about his coachability. Per Spotrac, a fall from 15th overall to 33rd overall is a loss of roughly $7 million in total contract value. At the end of the day, the combine really is the most important job interview of a player’s life — if they’re lucky enough to even get an invite.
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412‑881‑0550. Available Now! 2‑bedroom fully furnished house, Air Conditioned for $1,200 plus utilities on North Avenue, Millvale. Need Secu rity Deposit and Credit Check. Please call: 412‑315‑8024. Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2019 & sooner. Oakland, Shadyside, Friend‑ ship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availabil‑ ity online, check out www.forbesmanage ment.net, or call 412.441.1211
Employment Employment Other Comfort Keepers, a Post‑Gazette Top Workplace, is seeking caring individuals. Caregivers work alongside seniors to provide companion ship, light housekeep
ing, personal care ser vices. Flexible hours available. If interested call 412‑363‑5500 OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage ment Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester, to interview & process rental applicants, do internet post‑ ings & help staff our action‑central office. time or OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage ment Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester, to interview & process rental applicants, do internet post‑ ings & help staff our action‑central office. Either Part time or full time OK now; full time over the summer. $13/hour. Perfect job for sophomores & juniors, seniors planning to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first‑year law students! Mozart Management
412‑682‑7003 thane@mozartrents. com full time OK starting now; full time over the summer. $13/ hour. Perfect job for sophomores & juniors, seniors plan ning to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first‑year law students! Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003 thane@mozartrents. com Personal, professional masseuse needed. Long term position. 2X/week. Washington County location. Call 724‑223‑0939 or 724‑229‑8868 any time.
Services Educational The Phlebotomy Training Center www. justphlebotomy.org 2 evening classes weekly, 5 weeks + excellent Clinicals. Call 412‑521‑7334.
Shadyside 4909 Centre Ave. Great location for this spacious 1BR apartment located be tween Pitt and CMU. On buslines, near restaurants, hospital.
March 6, 2019
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