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GONE COLD

Pitt students in a club dedicated to solving unsolved homicide and missing persons cases are tracking down answers with the police and witnesses who know the cases best | by Janine Faust, staff writer

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n a Wednesday night in February, Rachel Feil stands at a whiteboard in room 232 of David Lawrence Hall, tapping a red Expo marker on her chin as she studies what she’s scribbled on the surface.

“I don’t know,” she tells the man standing next to her. “I don’t think that works. We need more information.”

Behind her, five groups of four to six University of Pittsburgh students on laptops are laser-focused on their research.

Some skim online news articles while others bounce theories off each other, fingers flying over the keyboard when it seems that somebody’s voiced a thought worth recording.

They’re trying to answer a question —not to an essay prompt or a physics problem, but to a puzzle left unsolved for more than 20 years: Who murdered Stephanie Coyle?

The students, most of whom are planning a career in fields such as law, law enforcement or forensics, are members of Pitt’s Conquering Cold Cases Club.

“Our main focus is trying to help the victims’ loved ones find some answers for the questions they have, so that they can finally have some closure,” sophomore club President Alex Morgan said.

It sounds like the setup for an amateur homicide investigation show, and it might be. The club has attracted attention since seniors Nicole Coons and Hannah Eisenhart founded it in 2015. A film crew even spent some time in February with the members to see if their work was worthy of a TV show — the club hasn’t heard back yet.

“The club’s still a work in progress, but it’s growing rapidly and is way more structured than when we first started it last year,” said Coons, an administration of justice and political science major.

Coons got the idea when she saw a flyer at a country club in her hometown in July 2014 asking for help locating Kortnee

Stouffer, who was 21 when she disappeared two years prior.

After talking with an attendant at the club and an old friend of Stouffer’s, she was inspired to enlist Pitt students to help track similar cases.

“Police departments always have a lot going on, and they can’t usually focus on just one specific case,” Coons said. “I thought that getting a bunch of Pitt students with a passion for criminal justice to hone in on a couple of cases in particular would be a great way to give back to the community and help some people out.”

The club now has roughly 30 members, all of whom skip around between examining the Coyle case, the Stouffer case and the 2005 murder of 94-year-old Beaver County resident Anna Rocknick. Students interested in participating in CCC have to sign a privacy contract and undergo an interview process with club leaders to make prove they’re serious.

“It’s not all about having fun or sharpening their detective skills,” Eisenhart said. “It’s about seeking justice.”

Pennsylvania has one of the highest clearance rates for solving murders and homicides, according to Project Cold Case — a national project aimed at tracking the number of unsolved murders nationwide — but still, more than 20 percent go unsolved.

Stephanie Coyle’s case is one that has gone without justice or answers for more than two decades, stumping investigators in western Pennsylvania.

Police found the 74-year-old woman on the floor of her bedroom apartment the morning of July 16, 1993, in the small town of Arnold, Pennsylvania. She died from a stab wound to her throat. A

design was carved into her back after death, and her corpse had been sexually assaulted.

CCC has been working on this case since September, after finding it with a Google search for “local cold cases.” The web is full of reports on the unsolved Coyle case — her grisly death rocked the Alle Kiski suburb where she lived. Her longsuffering son has since posted hefty rewards for anyone with information that could crack the case.

This is how CCC typically operates — tracking down information and related names through online news articles, and then using social media to find possible witnesses, family members and involved law enforcement.

This is the one edge they have over the police, said junior Zach Bruce.

“We’re a lot more tech-savvy than them, probably because See Cold Cases on page 4

from the editorial board

HERE IS WHAT IMPACT DAY IS ALL ABOUT

Although they were initially intended to be beacons of scholarship and research, universities have also served as vessels for fostering social and political movements throughout history.

The University of Michigan was one of the first to begin protesting the American intervention in Vietnam in 1965. Student movements for women and gay rights at the University of Georgia raged in the 1960s. Students held a three-week-long demonstration against Columbia University’s investment policy in South Africa during apartheid in 1985. A similar movement at Pitt also caused the University to pull out investments that were aiding apartheid in the 1980s.

The point is: students impact their universities, their communities and the country on an almost daily basis.

This year, The Pitt News teamed up with Sparknews and 19 other college newspapers across the country, in France and England to highlight student groups doing important work on our campuses. In this edition, you’ll find a story about a dedicated group of young criminologists at Pitt who investigate cold cases and information about what the Pitt Pantry is doing to address hunger on campus — an issue that’s only worsening as tuition increases. You’ll also find stories from Princeton University and New York University, where students have created an app to connect people struggling with mental health and a camp for young Palestinian refugees, respectively. You can read even more stories

like these at impactjournalismday-universities.com/read-ourstories/ and at Pittnews.com.

Of course, we couldn’t fit every student group between these pages. But we’ve been covering them all year. The Fossil Free Pitt Coalition — comprised of 32 Pitt-recognized student groups — has worked to get Pitt to divest from the fossil fuel industry since 2015. In spite of pushback from the administration, the coalition is still going forward with its mission in various ways: demonstrating in the Cathedral in early December 2016 and urging the Board of Trustees to divest during a meeting in February, for example.

Late last year, more than 50 students participated in a walkout to support Pitt becoming a sanctuary campus. And a host of protests occurred in November 2016, intended to be about the election of Donald Trump or student debt — the two sometimes blurring together due to the timing.

The Student Government Board hosted a slate of events for Women’s Empowerment Week, during which the Pitt Program Council brought comedian Leslie Jones in for a night of laughs and “Pitt Tonight” dedicated an entire episode to women’s empowerment. Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance hosted its annual Pride Week 2017 in March as well, including events such as an openmic night and a drag show.

Established, active groups including the Black Action Society,

Campus Women’s Organization, the African Student Organization, the Asian Student Alliance, Active Minds, the Southeast Asian Student Alliance, the Muslim Student Association, Hillel and too many more to name, represent students’ needs on an everyday basis.

Real, impactful movements by students are not in response to a trend, and they’re not optional. These actions are serious, and at times desperate, attempts to share and educate, to right wrongs or to obtain justice. The hard work and passion of the more than 400 student organizations at this University make change happen.

Here’s a word from the coordinators of this project about the power of Impact Day Journalism — Louis Slade, the manager of Impact Journalism Day Universities and Christian de Boisredon, the founder of Sparknews: “By writing about these innovative projects, the 20 participating student newspapers show the collective force that the media has to catalyze change. From teaching each other how to use computer science for social good, to creating platforms that crowdfund for university fees, to providing peer support for mental health, to sharing education with refugees, these stories show that students are actively challenging the notion that nothing can be done.”

participating schools:

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Cold Cases, pg. 1 we’re younger,” Bruce, an economics and business major, said. “They may have more information than we do, but we’ve got Google and more time.”

CCC has interviewed an EMT who responded to Coyle’s murder, one of her children and the Arnold chief of police.

“It’s pretty chilling,” Feil, an undeclared first-year student, said. “This isn’t CSI. This is real stuff that’s happened to real people.”

Asking the right questions Feil eventually sketched out the layout of Coyle’s house and the surrounding area on the whiteboard that Wednesday, recreating the scene based on research she did using Google Maps and news clippings from the time of the murder.

Feil is trying to determine a possible entrance to the house with what little information she’s been able to glean from the internet.

While she studies the board, her peers pick each others’ brains about what they know — and still don’t know — about the Coyle case.

“We need to figure out if this guy has left the area or not.”

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pitt pantry alleviates rising food insecurity

Janine Faust Staff Writer

After finishing a shift at Market Central, Alexandria Dsouza usually swings by the Pitt Pantry to pick up her groceries for the week.

“I come here primarily for toiletries, like toothpaste and toilet paper, and breakfast foods like bagels and cereal,” Dsouza said, leaning comfortably against the pantry door frame, a bag of bagels firmly cradled in the crook of her elbow. “And beans. Beans are great.”

Dsouza, an international student from India, lives off-campus in the Shadyside neighborhood. Since getting to the University of Pittsburgh in August 2016, she’s been visiting the pantry to save her wages for rent, tuition and additional costs that inevitably crop up.

“Every little bit helps...Most of the money I make working at Market Central goes toward my rent and other expenses,” Dsouza said. “Any chance to save cash makes a difference to me because I’ve taken on a lot since arriving here.”

The Office of PittServes — which connects students with service opportunities —facilitates the non-profit, volunteer-run Pitt Pantry. The Pantry takes donations from individuals, food drives and food recovered from businesses including Starbucks and Einstein Bros. Bagels. It also receives cheap and healthy recipes from the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.

“We’ve had tremendous support from the local community,” Smith said. “Sometimes we’ll get food from drives we didn’t even know were held.”

Tucked away in a corner room of the Bellefield Presbyterian Church’s basement, the pantry is not a permanent structure and is only open Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Fridays by appointment. Colorful paper decorations hang from the ceiling and brush shoppers’ heads as they follow their pantry guide — a student volunteer — to the beat of pop

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music playing in the background.

Healthy, easy recipe ideas dangle over collapsible shelves housing perishable items. Next to a refrigerator stocked with yogurt and salads is a folding wall, decorated with tacked-on coupons.

Junior Madoc Smith — one of three or four student volunteer workers on duty at all times — escorts individual shopper through the pantry during a shift in February, asking about their allergies and diet and if they own a can opener or microwave. If needed, the mathematical biology, computer science and urban studies major directs them to the vegetarian or gluten-free sections.

“The people who come in here, they’re just kids trying to eat,” Smith said. “We try to make it as welcoming an experience as possible.”

As Smith guides a shopper through the pantry, he tells them how much food they’re allowed to take. Pantry customers are allowed to make two visits a month and must fall under the United States Department of Agriculture’s federal income eligibility guidelines. The income limit is $17,820 for an independent individual, $24,030 for a couple and $36,450 for a family of four. The amount of food a customer is permitted to take depends on how many people they’re shopping for. For instance, a person shopping for just themselves may take one can of soup, but a person shopping for three people may take two.

“We try to supply students with aid beyond just giving them food,” Smith said. “We’ll also hold home winterizing workshops and do stuff like send them information about stores holding sales.”

At a University that costs upwards of $17,000 a year, or more than $28,000 for out of state residents, a food pantry seems like an ironic necessity. But it might be the high — and rising — cost of college, along with all the added costs of living, that make it so needed.

The Pitt Pantry’s customers are only a handful of the thousands of college students who visit campus food pantries across the U.S.

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— and that number has ballooned in recent years. The College and University Food Alliance welcomed its 400th food pantry in December 2016, a large increase from its original 13 college pantries in March 2012.

“Food insecurity has increasingly become an issue on college and university campuses and can pose a significant barrier to student success,” CUFBA’s website reads. “Addressing it serves both a human service and educational need.”

By food insecurity, CUFBA means lacking access to adequate food due to a shortage of money or other resources. Hunger is more common among college students than the U.S. population as a whole, according to the October 2016 report Hunger on Campus.

The report surveyed more than 3,000 students at a mix of 34 community and four-year colleges, and found that 48 percent of recipients experienced food insecurity in the past month, having to skip meals or shorten meal sizes because they lacked funds.

Of the food insecure students in the study, 32 percent said that hunger problems had an impact on their education — 53 percent of those respondents reported missing a class, and 25 percent reported dropping a class due to food insecurity.

Erika Ninos, the sustainability program coordinator for PittServes, said alumni feedback revealed that there were times in many Pitt students’ collegiate careers when they were unable to purchase nutritious food or were forced to cut back on meals to save costs. This information led to the pantry’s creation.

“After benchmarking other institutions and researching what is available locally for students, a cohort of students came together with the Office of PittServes to create the Pitt Pantry,” Ninos said.

During its first month, 23 people visited the Pitt Pantry. Now nearly two years old, the pantry serves between 50 to 100 members of Pitt’s faculty, staff and student body a month.

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Food Pantries, pg. 6 Pitt is not the only Pittsburgh-area college to start a food pantry. The Community College of Allegheny County — CCAC — started its own in April 2015.

The CCAC’s pantry, called the Campus Cupboard, follows the same federal income guidelines as the Pitt Pantry. It’s open two hours a day, four days a week, and customers are allowed to visit once per month. Kelli Maxwell, dean of student development of CCAC’s south campus, said that its visitors come from all demographics and socioeconomic statuses.

“We’ve got a lot of young people, but we also have older people going back to school to get a degree,” Maxwell said. “We also have students that are parents or full-time workers.”

Neither lack of employment, a lack of access to college meal plans or financial aid have been found to be contributing factors to food insecurity among students. The Hunger on Campus report found that of the food insecure students surveyed, 56 percent reported having a paying job, with 38 percent of them working 20 hours or more per week.

Among the respondents from four-year colleges, 43 percent of meal plan enrollees still experienced food insecurity, and three in four food

insecure students received some form of financial aid. More than half — 52 percent — received Pell Grants, and 37 percent took out student loans during the current academic year.

More students are going hungry simply because students are spending more money to cover the rising cost of tuition. According to a 2015 report by the Center on Budget and Policy

Priorities, tuition at public four-year colleges has gone up $2,068 on average since the 2007-08 academic year. Simultaneously, state spending on higher education nationwide is down an average of $1,805 per student since the Great Recession.

Furthermore, more and more people are feeling pressured to attend college even if it’s unaffordable. A 2013 study by Georgetown Univer-

Sophomore Rosemary Holtz, a nutrition and dietietics major, sorts coupons at the Pitt Pantry. Kyleen Considine STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

sity predicts that almost two-thirds of open jobs on the American market will require higher education beyond high school by 2020.

The burden of covering college expenses often falls solely on students, with family members less capable than before the recession to help cover costs. According to College Board’s 2016 report, the average total cost of tuition, fee and room and board rose 10 percent from 2010 to 2015 at public colleges while median family income rose just 7 percent over the same time period.

An undergraduate Pitt student and visitor to the Pitt Pantry who wished to remain anonymous said she attends the pantry because she can’t risk asking relatives for spare funds, and what money she makes must be put toward other expenses.

“I don’t want to bother [my mom] for cash for food while she’s got her own expenses to cover,” the student said. “All the cash I make over the summer I use to pay my rent.”

The student said she doesn’t think people realize just how many people benefit from the Pitt Pantry’s presence on campus and how much its services mean to many students.

“It’s definitely the best program Pitt has to offer — after all, everyone needs to eat dinner,” the student said.

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FROM THE DAILY PRINCETONIAN

PRINCETON CITIZEN SCIENTISTS RENEW CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

By Katie Petersen

By 1 p.m. Monday, March 6, over 500 university affiliates had packed Princeton’s Frist Campus Center.

By the end of the day, 64 teach-ins occurred, 13 university and community organizations promoted their respective causes and nearly 1,500 people participated in the campus-wide Day of Action, according to organizer Sébastien Philippe. A fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in mechanical and aerospace engineering, Philippe is also president and co-founder of Princeton Citizen Scientists, one of the two student groups to host the event.

The group banded together shortly after the November elections, when “it was pretty clear that there was a need for a renewed civic engagement,” Philippe said. The organization was “organic,” Philippe explained, because he and fellow students were looking for ways to process and move forward.

“People kind of came out of this election pretty shaken up,” he said.

Princeton Citizen Scientists is a group of about 40 science, engineering and social science graduate students who aim to address the current political discourse with their expertise.

“We, as scientists, have important contributions to add to the public See Scientists on page 9

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Princeton Citizen Scientists held a Day of Action March 6. Courtesy of Princeton Citizen Scientists

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Scientists, pg. 8 debate and the public discussion of scientific legislation,” said Michael Hepler, a fourth-year graduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering and another co-founder of Princeton Citizen Scientists.

In fact, there’s a very long tradition of that kind of contribution at the university. In 1946, the university started an organization called the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists.

The committee was founded by Albert Einstein and other scientists in the interest of warning the public about the dangers of nuclear weapons.

Today, Princeton Citizen Scientists seeks to raise awareness of those same nuclear security concerns, as well as issues like climate change.

To that end, Hepler said their objectives are educating themselves as scientists on how to be better advocates, reaching out to policymakers and finding ways to reach out to the general public.

The Day of Action addressed all three of those goals, with teach-ins on topics like “Science in the Public Sphere: How Can We Increase Non-Expert Engagement with the Knowledge and Values of Science?” and a science communication and education workshop.

“In order to talk about science, we can’t just talk about it in a vacuum,” Hepler said. “We

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need to connect it to the other social issues that are dividing us as a nation and as an international community.”

Philippe agreed, saying, “We never really take the time to pause our daily activities and engage in meaningful discussions and learning experiences on subjects that are not necessarily the ones that we are most familiar with.”

“Everybody was listening,” said Robert Socolow, professor emeritus of mechanical and

aerospace engineering. Socolow gave a talk, along with two other professors, entitled “Making Progress on Climate Change Policy in the Next Four Years.”

He celebrated the day as “sustaining university values in this country, which are under threat,” describing these values as a “complete search for truth and willingness to correct error, to listen to challenges.”

“I think this was the goal of March 6. We

Science, social science and engineering representatives held teach-ins throughout the day. Courtesy of Princeton Citizen Scientists

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learned a lot from the other disciplines, and that’s really important as we move forward,” Philippe added.

Looking ahead, the scholars plan to travel to the March for Science in Washington, D.C., April 22 to rally for, in part, the importance of evidence-based policy. Prior to that, they will host a teach-in on why scientists should be engaged in the policy process.

“One of the goals of Princeton Citizen Scientists is to kind of train young scholars and to kind of open paths for them to join government or NGOs,” Philippe said.

Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs, and another of the contributors to the “Making Progress on Climate Change Policy” discussion, emphasized the importance of student involvement.

“Despite the fact that, in some senses, the political atmosphere is grim, and there are indications that are explicit that the administration would like to reverse the environmental progress that’s been made over the last four to eight years, students have the opportunity to have their voices heard,” he said.

“It’s our responsibility as young scholars to rise up and start working, and use our knowledge ... to reach [the public’s] ears,” Philippe said.

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FROM NYU LOCAL

Letting Palestinian youth LEAD the way

By Melissa Godin

“The first time I was offered a cigarette was by a 12-yearold Palestinian refugee named Odayee, in a refugee camp right out of Nablus called New Askar,” said 21-year-old R.J. Khalaf, founder of LEAD Palestine.

Born and raised in Las Vegas, Khalaf comes from a long line of Palestinians. His grandparents moved to the United States in 1964. When Khalaf was 10, he visited Palestine for the first time.

“I went there not knowing there was a place called Israel, not knowing there was an occupation, not knowing everything that has gone on there for decades.”

Three years later, he went back to volunteer at his uncle’s summer camp in Palestine and it was here that he began to imagine his own summer camp program.

LEAD Palestine is an initiative that aims to empower, motivate and inspire the next generation of Palestinian youth.

Founded by two NYU undergraduate students, Khalaf and Hannah Benson, LEAD Palestine is a leadership camp for seventh and eighth graders living in New Askar, the refugee camp where Khalaf was offered his first cigarette almost a decade ago.

“I remember during the first week of my sophomore year,” Khalaf recalls, “I was pacing in front of Kmart talking to my mom on the phone and thinking, ‘How can I combine something I’m good at with something I’m passionate about?’ And I thought to myself, ‘Well, I’m good at leadership building but I’m really passionate about Palestinian refugees.’ The question at the time was, ‘How do I merge those two things?’”

For Khalaf and Benson, LEAD Palestine is a way of using their leaderships skills in service to their passion for Palestinian refugees.

The U.N. has done several reports about issues that young Palestinian youth face in the West Bank. The reports describe a general state of hopelessness and a general lack of empowerment among youth in these camps.

“Leadership empowers individuals,” reflects Khalaf, “If you can take an individual from having an external locus of control — one that allows them to look at their situations around them and think ‘There’s nothing I can do about this’ — then you have hopelessness. But if you can empower them with an internal locus of control — a belief that they can do something to address some of the issues around them—that’s powerful.”

LEAD Palestine has a three-pillar approach.

The first pillar consists of a summer day camp that will launch Aug. 14, 2017. The weeklong camp entails leadershipbased activities and workshops led by born-and-raised Palestinian university students.

“They know what it’s like to grow up in that area and can speak to these kids at a level that you and I cannot,” said Khalaf.

Through these kinds of workshops, the camp aims to in-

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R.J. Khalaf formed LEAD due to his desire to build leadership skills among young Palenstinian refugees. Photos Courtesy of R.J. Khalaf crease self-awareness and mindfulness and build a definition of leadership, spark collaboration, creativity and a general sense of teamwork.

The second pillar of this organization is a mentorship program. Palestinian camp counselors will continue to mentor

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the students long after the camp has ended and will be given a stipend, to reward them for their work with the youth and to incentivize them to continue to build and foster these relationships.

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LEAD, pg. 10 The third pillar of LEAD Palestine is the creation of a student council organization within the refugee camp to encourage children to be leaders for themselves, and for their community.

“Traditionally, these kids may have thought about leadership solely as a form of authority,” said Khalaf. “These leaders look like the president of Palestine or of the United States, and these kids don’t fit into that category of leadership.”

This is especially true for young women in the camp, who hardly fit the traditional image of an old, male leader.

“We can propose a different idea of leadership that is inclusive and that they can buy into,” Khala said. “One that focuses on selfawareness and emotional intelligence, being a leader for yourself, and building an inclusive community.”

LEAD Palestine recently reached its fundraising goal with the support of the NYU Liberal Studies’ program, the NYU Office of Civic Engagement and through the organization’s GoFundMe page.

Though funding is now in place, LEAD

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Young Palestine refugees can attend LEAD’s summer camp in early August.

Courtesy of R.J. Khalaf Palestine still faces challenges. Bureaucratic obstacles prevented the organization from working in the Gaza Strip, the place where they had hoped to set up camp.

“This was one of the biggest pills I had to swallow,” Khalaf said. “The Gaza Strip is where there are the worst problems and where there are the most unmet needs.”

LEAD Palestine had to relocate its programs to New Askar.

When asked if he had any anxieties about the program, Khalaf paused.

“I’m not scared of my safety and I’m not scared that we are not going to be prepared,” he said. “But I am scared that we are not going to be able to connect with these kids. I

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think they’re naturally pretty wary of people coming in from the outside to try and help them. The worst thing that can happen is we dump all this hope, make this connection and then leave after a week. So hopefully we can avoid such issues through the mentorship program.”

Though the founders are tentative to define long-form expansion goals for the organization before seeing if the camp is successful this summer, LEAD Palestine has clear dreams of what they hope their organization will achieve.

“What we hope is that in 10 years when these kids are the professionals, the activists, the business leaders, the teachers and the parents in their community,” Khalaf said. “We hope that they have this foundation of ethical leadership that can help them address some of the problems they might face.”

LEAD Palestine believes kids need to have a space and an opportunity to cultivate these skills.

“Kids are not born leaders,”Khalaf said.

“Leaders are made.”

For more information on LEAD Palestine, check out its website: https://leadpalestine. com/

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had been ripped off ?”

“Which suspect stands out the most to you?”

“Was there an area where there was a majority of blood, or was it all just drops?”

This is the kind of unbridled access that makes the club one of a kind, members say.

“We toured a medical examiner’s place once in my criminalistics class, but we’ve never done anything like speak with a cop about the details of a case,” said Nihita Manhem, a junior neuroscience major, after Webber’s visit. “We get to see stuff even the media isn’t allowed to see.”

Three weeks later — as March rolls in — the club moves on to its next step in the Coyle case, researching names on a suspect list from Webber. The students go through the usual routine of breaking off into groups, and immediately start combing the internet for contact information.

“I found a guy with that name in his late 60s who lives in New Jersey as a preacher!”

“Yeah, and I found one with the same name that’s white and proudly German.”

“Dude, this one hasn’t updated his profile since 2012.”

Eisenhart said working with loved ones of victims is the hardest but most rewarding

part about trying to solve cold cases. Besides Coyle’s son, Dan, the club has also spoken with the people who had close relationships with the victims in the Stouffer and Rodnick cases.

“It really puts it into perspective. This is what I might be dealing with someday, considering what I want to do,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking, but it’s good to know that the work I’m doing is giving them hope.”

By mid-March, CCC hasn’t solved Coyle’s case, but they’ve gotten some — currently confidential — new leads and plan on sticking with the investigation. Mark Safarik, a former FBI profiler whose job is to psychologically analyze a criminal’s behavior in the hopes of catching them, has even agreed to profile the Coyle case for the club.

Megan Hixon, an undeclared first-year student thinking about going into forensics, is hopeful that Safarik will help CCC members narrow down the information they’ve gathered so far.

With any luck, they might be able to finally bring a sliver of peace to Coyle’s family.

“Who knows, maybe 30-some college students are going to be able to spot something new,” she said.

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tight-lipped about sharing information with the group, and witnesses and family members are often skeptical about what a bunch of college kids can do.

“If it’s a family member of the victim, it can get pretty emotional, and you have to be tactful and patient,” Bruce said. “Also, you have to be prepared to get conflicting information. The policeman you talk to has probably seen several autopsy pictures in his lifetime. He or she may not correctly remember the one you’re asking about.”

Luckily, the club has retired Pittsburgh police commander and adjunct law professor Ronald Freeman to help. He agreed to serve as CCC’s adviser after Coons, a former student of his, approached him in 2014. He’s connected the club with former colleagues and friends — including a handwriting expert and a medical examiner — from his 37 years with the city police.

“This club is an excellent opportunity for law students still studying in the classroom to get some hands-on experience,” Freeman said. “[The students are] invested and they’re focused in the cases they’re working on.”

It was Freeman who put the students in

contact with William Webber, Arnold’s former chief of police. He responded to Coyle’s death as a patrolman and has kept up with it even after his retirement in 2015.

“It’s kept me up at night sometimes,” Webber said of the case. “This isn’t something I want to have to take to my grave unsolved.”

Facing Facts The Wednesday after Feil sketched Coyle’s house onto the whiteboard, CCC’s room was devoid of the usual animated chatter about suspects and speculations. Instead, only Webber’s deep voice echoed as he clicked through a slideshow of evidence and case files.

A graying man with a confident bearing, he rattled off details about the case without glancing at his Power Point, recounting what happened the night of Coyle’s death for the 100th time. The students stared unflinchingly at the screen, even when grisly autopsy pictures slid by.

“The reason I’m showing you this,” Webber told the students, “is because you might see something I don’t. I’d really like to find out who did this, so that I can punch a guy in the face.”

Almost as soon the last slide ends, members started firing off questions.

“Did it look like any article of clothing

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3408 Parkview Ave. 412-455-5600 CALL NOW Studios, 1,2,3 BRS Available June &Aug Pet Friendly & Parking 4 Bedroom 1 Bath House. Large kitchen, new windows and paint. Security System. Available August 16th. Bates and Semple. $1,600 + Utilities.

412-287-5406.

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Available 8/1, 1&2 BR/1 Bath, 5 min. walk to Cathedral, A/C, hardwood floors, updated, starting at $999+, 412.441.1211

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4 bedroom/2 full bathroom house.

Completely renovated. Equipped kitchen. Washer/Dryer in house.

Central air. Balcony/backyard. Onstreet permit parking.

Dawson Street, $1600+ utilities.

Available May/August 1st.

412-600-6933.

430 Atwood Street 412-455-5600 CALL NOW 1BR $725 Very Cute!

4 Blocks from Campus Avail Aug. Pet Friendly!

Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unrelated people can share a single unit.

Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Permits, Licensing & Inspections.

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FALL RENTALS 1 Bedroom apartments, excellent condition, starting at $625, some utilities included. Robb Real Estate Co. 412-682-7622 House for rent. 2BR, 1 bath. Available now. Call Lisa 412-682-4171.

Share house. Private bedroom. Kitchen/ living room/ bathroom. On Atwood St. Call Helen at 412-461-5709.

Large 1,2,3 bedrooms available for rent starting in August.

Prices range from $750-$1490/month.

Includes gas, heat, and water. See web-

site www.rentnearpitt.com. Call or text 412-725-1136.

Don’t call after 8 PM. M.J. Kelly Realty.

Studio, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom Apartments, N. & S. Oakland. $650-$1750. mjkellyrealty@gmail.com. 412-271-5550. www.mjkellyrealty.com Newly renovated apartments for rent.

3,4 bedrooms available for August/September 2017.

Atwood, McKee, Dawson, and Bates.

Please call Mike at 412-849-8694 for more information & for viewing.

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. $1860+ utilities. Available August 1, 2017. Call Peggy at 724-877-7761.

Spacious 2-BR apartmentson Dawson Street, single or double occupancy. Partially renovated & improved. Either AUGUST 25 availability or IMMEDIATE availability.

Very affordable rent. Limited parking spaces also available. Call 412-692-1770 to see apart-ment, parking spaces.

Studio & 1 Bedroom. From $650.

216 Coltart. Off Street Parking. Available Aug. 2017. Free heat.

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Large 1BR apartment. Living room, dining room, remodeled kitchen with dishwasher, hardwood floors, ceiling fan, laundry & storage available. Easy access to universities and hospitals. Available starting as early as May 1. Call Sue at 412-720-4756.

Shadyside: 2 bedroom. Quiet, clean, well-maintained apt house. Great location.

Fully equipped kitchenette, A/C, laundry, wall-to-wall carpeting. Near busline and shopping. No pets. $1190. Lease available for August 1 (If desired, also available for flexible sublet beginning in May through July at re-duced rate).

412-628-1686.

Shadyside:1 bedroom($870) or Studio($780). Excellent location. Fullyequipped kitchenette, A/C, wall-to-wall carpeting, Near Pitt shuttle bus stop. Between Walnut Street and Ellsworth shopping districts. No pets. Includes heat.

412-628-1686.

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1 bedroom luxury apartment. 2 apartments available in a beautiful brick home with private entry, private laundry, offstreet parking or garage, newly remodeled throughout.

Kitchen w/Dishwasher, Granite countertop & more! Located on Morewood Avenue, 15 minute walk to Pitt/CMU, Walnut Street. 5 minutes to UPMC Shadyside, West Penn Hospital. One block to Buses, hospital/Pitt/CMU shuttles and many restaurants.

Available August 1st, 2017. No Pets. $1095+ g/e. Call Jason at 412-922-2141.

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Southside Flats: 1,2,3 bedrooms available either April/May 1st.

1 block from Carson, Southside works & bus stop. Washer/dryer, equipped kitchen.

Credit check, no pets.

Call 412-343-3900 or rentals15203@outlook. com.

Come work where it’s Oktoberfest everyday. NOW HIRING: All positions at Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh. Apply in person Monday through Friday 11am6pm. 412-224-2328.

2705 S. Water St.

Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2017 & sooner. Oakland, Shadyside, Friendship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availability online, check out www.forbesmanagement.net, or call 412.441.1211

EARN WHILE YOU LEARN: Janitorial positions available in Pittsburgh and Surrounding area. Parttime or Full-time, Day or Evening hours, competitive wages. EOE Quality Services Inc. call for more info 412.371.9110

1BR. Equipped kitchen, separate living room and dining room, walk-in closet, laundry, storage and garage parking available. Easy access to universities and shopping district. Starting as early as 7/1. Call Sue at 412-720-4756.

3 bedroom and 4 bedroom. Free laundry on premises, separate utilities. Available August 1.

412-334-8804.

Charming 1 bedroom, hardwood floors, walk-in closets, new kitchen with dishwasher. Separate living room and dining area. Laundry available. Easy access to university and shopping district. Starting as early as June 15.

Call Sue 412-720-4756.

Huge studio apartment with fully equipped kitchen.

Separate dining and living areas. Large walk-in closet, laundry, storage & garage parking available.

Easy access to university & shopping district. Available as early as 5/1. Call Sue at 412-720-4756.

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Participants Wanted for Paid Psychology Research for a research project at Carnegie Mellon University examining the influence of alcohol on recall of cognitive and social experiences.

To be eligible for this study, you must be: •21-25 yrs. old •In good health •Able to show valid photo ID •Willing to consume alcohol You will earn $25 for your participation in this 2.5-hour study.

For more information, call The Behavioral Health Research Lab (412-268-3133) Note: Unfortunately, our lab is not wheelchair accessible.

Summer Employment. Aqua Pools Inc. We are looking for individuals interested in swimming pool service, maintenance and construction. Call Ed at 412-824-6900.

Experienced Caregiver needed immediately for a woman suffering with Dementia. $20/hour. Service needed for 5 hours at any suitable time between Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Email philippetkale@gmail.com if interested.

HYATT House Pittsburgh Southside Seeking full time and part time valets.

Experience with valet and manual transmission a plus. Must be able to work nights and weekends. Shifts are 7am-3pm & 3 pm11 pm. Pay is $8.25/hr +tips. Apply in person at 2795 South Water St.

Highland Park Tennis Club is recruiting 4 tennis coaches for our summer clinic.

Part-time, 12 weeks, Saturday's only 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. May 6th thru July 22nd. $20/hr. Must have tennis experience, preferably college level as a player or coach but others will be considered. Must have or obtain before hire child abuse criminal background and FBI clearances. Must be reliable, punctual and have strong people skills. Send cover letter, resume and 3 references to Miss Bey at msbeybey@hotmail.com. All applications must be received by April 14, 2017.

The Center for Research on Health Care Data Center at the University of Pittsburgh is seeking a faculty at the Assistant Professor level or above with a doctoral degree. The faculty should have at least 10 years of experience as faculty. The faculty will be expected to teach and collaborate with investigators in designing research projects.

Academic appointments, tenure status and salary are dependent upon qualifications and experience.

Send letter of interest and CV to Wishwa Kapoor, MD, UPMC, 200 Lothrop Street, Suite 933 West, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or e-mail noskoka@upmc.edu EEO/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled

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 phone: 412-682-7003 email: thane@mozartrents.com SUMMER LIFEGUARD NEEDED FOR RENTAL OFFICE MUST HAVE LIFEGUARD CERTIFICATION FULL OR PART TIME WORK DEPENDING ON YOUR NEEDS WORKING DAYS ARE MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY (WEDNESDAYS THE POOL IS CLOSED FOR MAINTENANCE) MUST BE ABLE TO CLEAN THE POOL WHEN NECCESSARY TO BE FREE OF LEAVES OR DEBRIS, MUST PUT IN DAILY CHEMICALS AS REQUIRED FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE POOL

TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMER, Ice company close to campus.

Some weekend work available. Production/driving/maintenance positions available. Good pay, parttime/full time. Contact Mastro Ice Company 412-681-4423. mastroice@aol.com The Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, is seeking clinical investigators. Candidates must have an MD with fellowship training or have a PhD. We are particularly interested in candidates in health services research, clinical epidemiology, health disparities, decision sciences and comparative effectiveness. Academic appointments, tenure status and salary are dependent upon qualifications and experience. Send letter of interest and CV to Wishwa Kapoor, MD, 200 Lothrop Street, 933 west MUH, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (fax 412 692-4825) or e-mail Noskoka@upmc.edu.

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University of Pittsburgh, Division of General Medicine is seeking a full time Clinician Educator.

Position includes both inpatient and outpatient teaching and leadership opportunities in specific areas of medical education depending on the interest and qualifications of the candidate. Academic appointments, tenure status and salary are dependent upon qualifications and experience. Send letter of interest and CV to Wishwa Kapoor, MD, 200 Lothrop Street, 933 West MUH, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (fax 412 692-4825) or e-mail Noskoka@upmc.edu.

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Having issues with your landlord? We can help. Call Ludin & Associates.

412-281-6557. Free initial consultation.

Grant building, Pittsburgh; garyludin@live.com

PAY IS $11 AN HOUR (PAY IS TWICE A MONTH) PLEASE CALL TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE POSITION: 412-469-3100 Summer Job--Landscape and pool maintenance. Approximately 10 hours/ week, $15/ hour. References required.

Squirrel Hill, 412-889-8934.

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