The Pitt News T h e in de p e n d e n t st ude nt ne w spap e r of t he University of Pittsburgh
April 13, 2016 | Issue 142 | Volume 106
STUDENT RAINBOW BRINGS SAMʼS STORY TO PITT ARRESTED FOR CHILD PORN Alexa Bakalarski and Dale Shoemaker
The Pitt News Staff Pittsburgh police arrested a Pitt student Tuesday on child pornography charges, as well as criminal use of a cell phone and the internet, according to a police report. Ammar Butaleb, a first-year Pitt student, was arrested at an apartment Tuesday afternoon on Allequippa Street in Oakland on one felony charge for storing child pornography on a Dropbox account and his cell phone, as well as one felony charge for using the internet to commit a crime, according to the report. The report said Butaleb, who is originally from Kuwait and came to Pitt to study English, said he knew that possessing child pornography was wrong. He told police that he didn’t intentionally store the pornography and thought he had deleted all of it from his Dropbox, the report said. Officers confirmed that Butaleb did not currently have child pornography in his Dropbox account. He told police that he deleted the pornography because he knew it was illegal and only looked at it because he was curious. Butaleb received the porn through links sent from strangers over Omegle, an online messaging system, which he then sent directly to his Dropbox account. He accessed the See Child Porn on page 4
The former NFL athlete spoke to students Tuesday night as part of Pride Week. Alex Nally STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Ashwini Sivaganesh Staff Writer
Michael Sam didn’t set out to make a name for himself as a gay athlete — he just wanted to play football. But when a teammate’s cousin said Sam’s story inspired her against taking her life, Sam realized how influential he could be. Sam told this story Tuesday night as part of the Rainbow Alliance’s second day of Pride Week. The group also hosted a panel from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Assem-
bly Room of the William Pitt Union called “The Pitt LGBTQIA+ Experience: Past, Present and Future.” Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay athlete, who is now a free agent, followed the event with a lecture and Q&A about his experiences before and after coming out. The eight panelists included former presidents and members of the Rainbow Alliance, current Pitt students, faculty from Pitt’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Department and University leadership. Brandon Benjamin, a Pitt graduate and former president of the Rainbow Alliance,
moderated the event. They said the most “surprising” takeaway from the panel was the way Pitt students engaged with policy and activism in the LGBTQ+ community and beyond. “Hunger strikes and lawsuits aren’t the first things people assume happen on college campuses, but the advances we’ve made at Pitt in the last two decades are a testament to the power of student coalitions,” Benjamin said. “I hope that these sorts of programs help young activists find their roots and continue the hard work of See Michael Sam on page 8
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STUDY CALLS FOR EXPANDED CAREGIVER SUPPORT
Erin Hare Staff Writer
Although retired, Edward Petrisek has not taken a day off in four years. In 2011, Petrisek moved his parents, both in their 90s, into his third floor Pittsburgh walk-up, where he cared for his father until he passed away in 2014 and still cares for his now 98-year-old mother. Petrisek’s work, combined with the work of informal caregivers for nearly 12 million people across America, is worth between $470 and $520 billion annually, according to an April report from the Stern Center for Evidence-Based Policy at Pitt. The report makes recommendations for state and federal lawmakers to provide better support for unpaid family caregivers like Petrisek. According to the report, unpaid caregivers lack the programs needed
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to reimburse the emotional and financial toll that caregiving puts on them. The report said current systems in place, such as adult day care and Medicaid, are working, but policymakers need to expand and advertise programs m o r e widely. P e trisek, who applied for Veterans Affairs benefits for his father in 2012 and his
mother in 2014, said that even knowing what financial help is out there can be a challenge. “ There is money out there,” Petrisek said. “The thing is, I had no clue that it was even out there. You just stumble across it,” Petrisek said. There is no guidebook, you just have to network, he said, and then there are a lot of
You know its going to be
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hoops to jump through and a lot of waiting. According to the Institute of Medicine, unpaid caregivers provide an estimated 90 percent of long-term care for the elderly. “People often want to provide this kind of care. They want to be there for their parents. Older adults want to stay in their homes,” Philip Rocco, author of the report and postdoctoral researcher in the Health Policy Institute, said. While family caregivers may be preferable, they need services and support to deal with the day-to-day activities of caregiving, Rocco said. Respite solutions, such as adult day care, are an important part of that support system. In these programs, seniors participate in physical therapy, receive medical monitoring, eat healthy meals and socialize. See Caregivers on page 4
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SGB DROPS BILL Due to lack of student support, SGB withdrew a proposal to make Pitt a tobacco-free campus. by Lauren Wilson | Senior Staff Writer After gauging student feedback, Student Government Board has extinguished a resolution to support a tobacco-free campus. At its weekly public meeting Wednesday night, SGB member Jack Heidecker made a motion to remove his tobacco-ban bill, a resolution that said SGB would support University efforts to make Pitt a tobacco-free campus. A committee consisting of students, faculty and staff, which Heidecker serves on, could still draw up a policy to make campus tobacco-free, but it won’t have SGB’s official backing. After introducing the legislation last week, SGB posted a survey online asking for student feedback on the bill. About 750 students voted on the policy, which 50.02 percent favored and about 47 percent opposed. Three percent voted that they were “unsure” whether they supported a tobacco-free policy. “It was basically split at that point,” Heidecker said. “The Board as a whole didn’t feel comfortable voting on the resolution.” Heidecker, who authored the resolution and has made the tobacco-free campus policy his
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top project for most of his term, said the Board had not gauged student interest on the project before last week, as he planned the survey’s release to accompany the upcoming resolution. According to SGB President Nasreen Harun, the Board felt that it was unsure on how to vote given the survey results, and wanted to make sure it was accurately representing the students. Other Board members, including Lia Petrose, said because the survey results were too close, they didn’t feel comfortable voting on the resolution. Because of the split decision, Heidecker decided to withdraw the bill, meaning it would not go up for a vote, but said the tobacco-free efforts on campus are “part of a conversation that will continue.” Heidecker does not plan to introduce another resolution or reopen the survey to students. According to Heidecker, the fact that the Board did not take an official position on a pending University policy does not mean that See SGB on page 5
Last week, Board member Jack Heidecker proposed a bill to ban tobacco on Pitt’s campus. Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Child Porn, pg. 1 Dropbox account with two cell phones that he owned, but not with his laptop, the report said. According to the report, Butaleb said he received and looked at legal porn through Omegle and that only some of it was illegal. He said he never asked for the child pornography and only looked at it out of curiosity, the report said. Butaleb told police he is not addicted to porn and does not need professional help. Butaleb told police he never shared the pornography and he has never inappropriately touched a child under the age of 18. The report said police began tracking Butaleb after Dropbox, Inc. reported a cybertip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about a user accessing videos of child pornography in July and October from two
Caregivers, pg. 2 According to the report, nearly 30 percent of family caregivers said respite care was their first or second choice to ease the burden of caretaking, indicating that the program works. However, only 11 percent participate in such a program due to lack of access. “We do know that adult day care is very cost-effective when it comes down to ‘should I place?’ or ‘should we keep Mom or Dad at home and just find a respite solution during the day?’ That’s where adult day cares come into play,” said George Gesser, director of the Catholic Youth Association adult day care program, which both of Petrisek’s parents attended. Although there are some programs to reimburse family caregivers — such as tax incentives, social security benefits and Medicaid — they are underutilized and far from comprehensive, Rocco said. In Oregon, for example, a tax credit used for qualified expenses to keep people out of nursing homes was terminated this year due to underutilization. On average, 40 people in the state claimed the credit annually. The report suggests that standardizing these programs across states as well as broadening eligibility criteria and increasing awareness of financial options would lead to more participation. In addition to the financial burden, caregiving also takes a hefty emotional toll, Rocco said. According to the report, caregivers are at a higher risk for depression and anxiety. For Petrisek, the hardest thing is feeling
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IP addresses. Police detective Lynn Havelka requested a court order for subscriber information from the IP addresses from Comcast Cable on Feb. 9, the report said. Comcast Cable responded the same day of the court order with subscriber information on Butaleb. This week, police obtained a search warrant to Butaleb’s home in Oakland. There, he admitted to storing the pornography, according to the report. “I was wrong, I don’t blame you for coming here. I know it was wrong and illegal,” Butaleb told police, according to the report. “I thought I would be getting a knock on the door, I know it is illegal.” Butaleb did not respond to an email or return a voicemail message requesting comment. According to court documents, Butaleb awaits a preliminary hearing on April 26. as if he is living in the Bill Murray movie, “Groundhog Day,” where Murray continuously relives Feb. 2. “You know it’s going to be the same thing tomorrow, the same thing next week, the same thing next month ... You have nothing to look forward to,” Petrisek said. The report found that 125,948 caregivers utilized The National Family Caregiver Support Program, which funds counseling for caregivers. The report says the number of participants is “small compared to the potential number of clients.” To address the emotional stresses of caretaking, Gesser runs a support line for family caregivers to discuss the latest developments in their loved one’s condition as well as their own medical issues. Nearly all of the 18 families at the center take advantage of this resource. “The bond is there with all of the families and all of my staff as well,” Gesser said. In the future, Pitt plans to investigate the consequences of increasing pay for formal caregivers. Using computational models, Rocco hopes to address how a pay increase will impact the number of caregivers and the quality of life for people receiving care. For now, Rocco is working with policy makers, such as the Alzheimer’s Association, AARP and the Senate Finance Committee to combine and expand current programs to make coverage more comprehensive. “We want people to see not just that this is a problem that we should be addressing, but also it’s not like one of those intractable problems that there’s no solution to,” Rocco said.
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SGB, pg. 3 efforts to ban tobacco on campus will come to a halt. The Student Health Advisory Board, along with the tobacco-free task force and other groups, has been drafting a policy since the fall semester that would ban tobacco from campus. Heidecker said the task force — a group of Pitt faculty members from the Graduate School of Public Health, the University Senate Council and SHAB — will continue to draft a proposal to make Pitt tobacco-free. “There are other ways to advocate,” he said. “The fact is this is a conversation that is going to continue. This decision [to withdraw the resolu-
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tion] doesn’t mean it’s over.” Heidecker said he plans to continue working with SHAB to make Pitt tobacco-free in the future. In other action, Petrose introduced a bill proposing that SGB renew its subscription to the Collegiate Readership Program, which provides free daily newspapers to Pitt students. SGB has funded the program since 2011. It offers free USA Today, New York Times and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspapers to students at newsstands around campus with a Pitt ID. The Board will vote on the bill at next week’s meeting. The Board renews its subscription to the Col-
legiate Readership Program by a resolution every year. According to Petrose, from Aug. 31, 2015, to April 1, 2016, 24,600 students have picked up copies of the New York Times, and 22,661 students have picked up copies of USA Today since the beginning of the school year. “We wanted to make sure it was being used, and we felt [the program] was sufficiently used,” Petrose said. According to the data, the average sale of newspapers in the program is 369 papers per day. “SGB only has to pay for copies actually taken out,” Petrose said. “The rest of the cost is absorbed by the [newspapers] themselves.” Petrose
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said SGB does not know the number of copies Pitt gets from the newspapers. SGB also voted in Allocations Committee appointments Stephen Berry, Gianna Callisto, John Brennan, JP Leskovich, Zach Ward, Naran Babha, Erin McMahon, Gabby Galliero, Brian Crowley and Marcus Robinson. Madeline Guido will take over as Committee chair. Allocations The Women’s Water Polo Club requested $2,704 for regional league dues. SGB approved $2,000 and denied $704. Pittsburgh Club Baseball requested $2,144.48 for a tournament at Cornell University. SGB approved the request in full.
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Opinions column
from the editorial board
While Trudeau apologizes, Kerry sidesteps Nobody can heal without first recognizing harm. During Monday’s Vaisakhi celebration, an event marking the Punjabi harvest festival, Justin Trudeau became the first Canadian prime minister to apologize for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident. Canada refused to allow immigrants from Punjab, India, to disembark from their ship, the Komagata Maru, leaving it trapped in the Vancouver harbor for two months. When the Komagata Maru returned to India, 19 passengers died in gunfire that broke out after the ship docked — killed for being Sikh. The U.S. government could learn from Trudeau’s example. It is time to acknowledge that America has more blood on its hands than almost any other country in modern history. Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry visited Hiroshima, Japan, the site of the world’s first nuclear bombing. As the first cabinet-level American official to visit the city’s memorial, there was some speculation that Kerry might apologize for the United States’ 1945 bombing. Instead, he chose to speak broadly about the need for global peace. That’s a message worth spreading, but ignoring an opportunity to offer amends is disappointingly narrow-minded. No doubt, the decision was a purely political calculation. In the minds of some Americans, recognizing any moral failing in the country shows weakness. To them, the United States has final say on what counts as justice — that just about everything our own nation does qualifies as purely coincidental. We can try to defend our use of nuclear weapons as integral to ending World War
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II, potentially saving millions of lives by sacrificing 199,000 others in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Still, those lives belonged to innocent civilians. There have been scholarly debates about the ethics of using nuclear weapons ever since, but other American acts of violence have absolutely no claim to the “justified” label. The genocide of Native Americans was supposedly necessary for the United States to exist, so that makes it defensible to some. Of course, that does not account for the centuries of killing Native Americans that served exclusively economic ends. Judging the morality behind internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II is, according to Donald Trump, a “had to be there” situation. Without slavery, the American South wouldn’t have reached economic stability, and 37 percent of Americans don’t think students should hear that it caused the Civil War. Kerry avoided taking blame in Hiroshima, but Americans must recognize that we have made mistakes. Those missteps don’t invalidate a vision of American leadership, they show us how to be better. The United States is an exceptional place. It is a country where most people express themselves without fear of imprisonment or killing. That hasn’t always been the case, though, and ignoring that fact feeds into an idealistic but ultimately false image. American exceptionalism can — and often does — go too far. The lives we have justified destroying shows national denial that we would not accept from Germany 70 years ago. If we are supposed to set a moral standard for the world, we should at least meet it ourselves.
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REGULATE THE BUREAUCRATS Arnaud Armstrong Columnist
Another day, another set of regulations hog-tying American businesses. Last week, the Obama administration unveiled a broad set of new regulations affecting everything from retirement advising and white-collar overtime to organic food labeling. From an administration squeezing as much bureaucratic intrusion out of its last few months in office as possible, this is not surprising. Most people reading this will be inclined to dismiss these new regulations as having very little impact on them personally. This is true, at least on the surface. After all, how many of us are staying up at night worrying about how poor old Pfizer Pharmaceuticals will get by without using a corporate tax inversion to dodge U.S. corporate taxes in favor of Ireland’s? I would guess not many. But this way of thinking is dangerous for us as consumers because it distracts
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us from the very real and very damaging issue of regulatory abuse. Apathy, however, is not our only mistake — we far too often buy into the logic and talking points of statist politicians. The corporate tax example encapsulates everything wrong with this mindset. Inversion is a method of avoiding domestic corporate taxes by merging with a foreign company and moving the corporate headquarters abroad. President Obama has railed against this tactic recently, saying that “when companies exploit loopholes like this, it makes it harder to invest in the things that are going to keep America’s economy going strong for future generations. It sticks the rest of us with the tab.” This is an appealing argument to most Americans. But the president and his supporters have apparently failed to consider whether the government caused the problem in the first place. In this case, the problem is the U.S. See Armstrong on page 7
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Armstrong, pg. 6 corporate tax rate — the highest in the Western world at about 39 percent. By comparison, the liberal paradises of Denmark and Sweden both have corporate tax rates of 22 percent. Ireland, the country Pfizer tried to move its headquarters to, has a corporate tax rate of 12.5 percent. So what was this administration’s bold solution to obscenely high taxation? Our good friend bureaucracy, of course. The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently unveiled a new set of regulations forcing Pfizer to give up on the merger. We accomplished our goal of keeping Pfizer under our thumb. But I’d recommend you hold off a moment before you crack open the champagne to celebrate the victory of our brave bureaucrats over those black-hearted traitors at Pfizer. There are a few side effects to the bitter pill that Pfizer had to swallow. First, we have to remember that Pfizer and others like it didn’t try to leave because they’re no-good tax cheats — they did it because they’re desperately trying
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to remain competitive. Our corporations are competing with other corporations from around the world, and doing so is much more difficult when they have to give a far larger proportion of their income to the government than their competitors. Second, while we have a tendency to equate corporations with overcompensated CEOs and lavish boardrooms, they can employ thousands of people. It’s those lower-level employees who are hurt most by the Treasury Department’s actions. If Pfizer could save to pay a lower corporate tax rate like that of Ireland, it would have had far more money to invest in salaries, jobs and research on new drugs and treatments. At the end of the day, using the regulatory bureaucracy to solve a problem created a litany of additional problems. A better solution? Cut the corporate tax so that our corporations don’t end up fleeing the country. This is just one of the recent examples of regulation having severe consequences for our economy, however. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2015 set a record with 81,611 pages of
new regulations. Each new regulation may usually seem too innocuous or mundane to do any harm, but in unison, the consequences can be crippling. CEI’s “Ten Thousand Commandments” report on the cost of regulations found that in 2014, federal intervention cost U.S. consumers and businesses $1.88 trillion in lost productivity and higher prices. That’s 11 percent of the 2014 GDP. This staggering cost illustrates the constricting effect of regulation on the ability of businesses — particularly small ones — to expand. According to a 2014 report from the National Association of Manufacturers, the average peremployee regulatory cost to businesses with 50 or fewer employees was $11,724, while the cost to businesses with more than 100 employees was $9,083. These costs, already high, pale in comparison to those facing similarly sized manufacturers. According to the same NAM report, the average per-employee regulatory cost to manufacturers with 50 or fewer employees was a whopping $34,671, while the cost to manu-
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facturers with more than 100 employees was also very high at $13,750. What’s more, when manufacturers were asked how they would spend this money if it was not being used for regulatory compliance, 63 percent answered that they would use it for internal investment. Given these numbers, it should come as no surprise that the economy continues to struggle while the manufacturing sector has been in recession since October. If there was any doubt that regulatory overreach killed jobs and stifled growth, these statistics should dispel it. As millennials continue to worry about their job prospects, it is critical that we begin to consider the consequences of the regulations coming out of Washington. Our generation cannot continue to think of the federal government and its many departments and bureaucrats as the only entity capable of delivering meaningful change. Statist politicians who happily increase the size of our already bloated federal bureaucracy aren’t the ones answering for the consequences. Passing the buck shouldn’t be easier than passing these regulations.
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Sports
PITT TOPPLES WVU, 4-1
Steve Rostein Staff Writer
Although fellow Pitt baseball starting pitchers T.J. Zeuch and Aaron Sandefur are grabbing all the headlines this year, Sam Mersing snagged the spotlight against West Virginia Tuesday night. Mersing allowed just three hits and one walk with seven strikeouts over six scoreless innings to improve to 5-2 on the year. The junior guided Pitt (15-13, 6-8 ACC) to a 4-1 road victory over the rival Mountaineers (17-14, 4-4 Big 12) in Granville, West Virginia. As in their game against Penn State last Tuesday, the Panthers struggled to put runs on the board. The feeling was mutual this time around, as Mersing matched his mound opponent zero for zero. Pitt had plenty of chances to score early on, but couldn’t come up with a hit with runners in scoring position. Junior Jacob Wright led off the game with
Starting pitcher Sam Mersing was nearly unhittable on Tuesday. Wenhao Wu SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Michael Sam, pg. 1 me, my peers and our predecessors.” After the panel concluded at 6:30 p.m., Rainbow Alliance members shuffled to set up for Sam’s speech as new guests trickled in to hear the former football player speak. While Sam didn’t build his career around LGBTQ+ activism, his status as an openly gay athlete made him a public figure and a role model for young, nonhetero athletes. “It wasn’t until I started to scroll through my social media [after coming out] that I started to realize how many people looked up to me,” Sam said. About 75 people showed up to form an intimate crowd — prompting Sam to ditch his position at the podium and speak directly to members of the audience without a microphone. Rather than jumping into his career as an athlete, Sam started from the very be-
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ginning, explaining how the losses of three of his eight siblings as a child formed his character later in life. Sam’s oldest sister drowned before he was born, and when he was 5 years old, his oldest brother was shot. His other brother, Julian, went missing in 1998 and Sam saw him for the last time that October. After a series of tragedies, Sam needed an outlet. He convinced his parents to let him play football in high school, after serving as the team’s waterboy in eighth grade. “The best thing my dad did for me,” Sam said, “was convince my mother to let me play football and sports.” His career took off from there — several top Division I universities recruited Sam as a high school athlete. After accepting an offer from the University of Missouri, Sam said he planned to “experiment” with his sexuality and figure out if his feelings for people of the same sex amounted to more than just a passing interest.
“The first day I was at Missouri — during my first interaction with a guy — I realized I was gay,” Sam said. In the locker rooms, Sam said his teammates used to talk about how they never saw him around campus with a girl. One night, Sam said he purposely went out his way at a party to talk with a woman to keep the rumors at bay. But when he met and began hanging out with another gay college athlete, the rumors flew. After graduating from college with numerous accolades including 2013 SEC Defensive Player of the Year and amassing 11.5 sacks his senior year, Sam turned his attention to the NFL Draft. In an interview with ESPN on Feb. 9, 2014, before the NFL Draft, Sam publicly came out as gay. People were still shocked when Sam kissed his boyfriend on TV after the St. Louis Rams drafted him in the seventh and final round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
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a walk, then advanced to third on a single by sophomore Charles LeBlanc. West Virginia starting pitcher Michael Grove picked LeBlanc off first base then recorded backto-back strikeouts to escape the first inning unscathed. Freshman second baseman David Yanni started the second inning with a walk and sophomore Frank Maldonado followed with a single, but Grove conjured up a double play and a strikeout to keep the Panthers off the scoreboard. Pitt loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the third on a hit-by-pitch and a pair of walks. Again, Grove came up with a strikeout to end the threat. It was more of the same in the top of the fourth, as junior P.J. DeMeo tripled to right field on a two-out, full-count pitch — but again, Grove kept the Panthers off the scoreboard with an inning-ending strikeout. Senior Alex Kowalczyk drove Grove out See Baseball on page 9 The Rams cut him from the roster during the 2014 preseason — during which Sam tied for fourth in the NFL with three sacks. The Dallas Cowboys added him to their practice squad Sept. 3, 2014, before dropping him again Oct. 21, 2014. “I was so naive. I thought it’d blow over,” Sam said of his sexuality. But it didn’t — Sam’s announcement was met with an onslaught of media attention. Chris Bennett, a senior film studies major who attended Sam’s speech, said he hadn’t known much about Sam other than his status as a gay draft pick. “I did not know all the details of his personal life,” Bennett said, “but it’s amazing to see and hear an athlete talk about their experience with the LGBT community.” Marcus Robinson, president of the Rainbow Alliance, said the evening’s events were centered around hearing experiences like Sam’s, so attendees could See Michael Sam on page 9
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Baseball, pg. 8 of the game with a single to lead off the sixth. Reliever Conner Dotson entered and retired the next three batters to keep the game scoreless. Pitt got its best chance yet in the top of the seventh when Dotson plunked junior Manny Pazos and Wright on consecutive pitches. An errant pickoff throw allowed the runners to advance, then Dotson loaded the bases by intentionally walking LeBlanc. Junior Nick Yarnall walked on four pitches to bring home the first run of the game for the Panthers. With the bases still full, Kowalczyk scorched a two-run single up the middle, just past Mountaineers shortstop Jimmy Galusky’s outstretched glove. Yanni’s sacrifice fly gave Pitt a 4-0 lead before the inning was over. Sophomore reliever Isaac Mattson replaced Mersing to start the seventh. He picked up where the starter left off, putting up a pair of zeroes — though he may be nursing a nasty bruise as a result. Mattson walked the leadoff batter, then Wright dropped a routine fly ball in right field. A flyout put runners on the corners with two outs for Braden Zarbnisky, who smoked a line drive right back up the middle. But instead of bringing home West Virginia’s first run, the screaming liner ricocheted off Mattson’s leg and bounced directly to DeMeo. The third baseman picked it up and threw to first for an unconventional 1-53 putout to end the inning. Things didn’t go as smoothly for DeMeo in the bottom of the ninth, as he misjudged a skyscraping pop-up that could have been the final out. Instead, the ball fell in the infield, and the Mountaineers had runners on the corners with two outs. Mattson then walked the bases full, and Pitt head coach Joe Jordano turned to freshman reliever/outfielder Yaya Chentouf to get the final out. Chentouf gave up an RBI single, breaking the shutout and bringing Darius Hill to the plate representing the winning run for West Virginia. But Chentouf got Hill to fly out to end the game and save the 4-1 win for the Panthers. Pitt travels to Blacksburg, Virginia, this weekend to resume conference play against the Virginia Tech Hokies. Game one of the three-game series is Friday, April 15, at 5:30 p.m.
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Michael Sam, pg. 8 understand what changes need to be made. “We wanted to have an event that addressed where Pitt is now with the LGBT community,” Robinson said, “as well as allow people to talk about their different experience and ways they saw the community moving forward in the future.” Saron Shiferaw, who asked Sam how he has dealt with being openly gay in the black community, said she wanted to draw a connection between often-stigmatized
groups of people. “I think it was great for him to talk about racism within LGBT. It’s important to emphasize the intersection between the two,” Shiferaw, a graduate student, said. Sam still plans to make it back in the NFL. Even if he doesn’t, he said he’s happy knowing that he’s motivated people to reevaluate their views on the LGBTQ+ community. “What I learned these past few years is that everyone has a story,” Sam said, “and it’s important we start listening to each other.”
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Large 1,2,3 bedrooms available for rent starting June-July. Prices range from $695-$1490/month. Includes gas, heat, and water. See websie 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, Duplexes, Houses. $775-$1650. mjkellyrealty@gmail.com. 412-271-5550, mjkellyrealty.com South Oakland Duplex. 4 bedroom 2 baths. Central air, dishwasher, washer and dryer. Available August 1. (412)915-0856.
Spacious 2-BR apartments on Dawson Street, single or double occupancy. Partially renovated & improved. August 25 availability. Very affordable rent. Limited parking spaces also available. Call 412-692-1770 to see apartment, parking spaces. Studio ($665) and 1 Bedroom ($699). 216 Coltart. Off Street Parking. Available Aug. 2016. Free heat. Greve RealEstate. 412-261-4620.
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Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2016 & sooner. Oakland, Shadyside, Friendship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availability online, check out www.forbesmanagement.net, or call 412.441.1211
519 Zulema Street. Female preferred. 1 Bedroom available in a 4 bedroom apartment from beginning of May to end of July. Furnished. Air conditioning and free laundry. $600 but price negotiable. Contact (224)577-8166 or nmm73@pitt.edu 4909 Center Ave. Updated 1 BR with new kitchen, dishwasher & hardwood floors. Laundry, storage and parking available. Close to Pitt & shopping district. Available now and for August. 412-720-4756. Shadyside spacious 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Hardwood floors. New kitchen. August 1st move in. Call 412-361-2695. 5 bedroom. May 2016. Sarah St. Large bedroom, new kitchen, air conditioning, washer & dryer, dishwasher, large deck. $2500+utilities. 412-287-5712.
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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. 412-255-2175.
ATTENTION OCCASIONAL SMOKERS! UPMC seeks healthy adults ages 18-65 who occasionally smoke cigarettes. This research is examining how smokers respond to cigarettes that are low in nicotine. There are up to seven sessions lasting about three hours each. Research participants completing the study will be compensated up to $60 per session, or $20 per hour. For more information, call 412-246-5393 or visit www.SmokingStudies.pitt.edu
Sacred Heart Elementary School in Shadyside is looking for volunteer Volleyball Coaches and Basketball Coaches for the Varsity and JV Teams for the 201617 Seasons. Must be at least 18 years of age and have transportation. If interested, please contact Amy Volpe at jaisvolpe@gmail.com or call 412.295.9260 Caregivers and babysitters needed. FT/PT. Earn $25/hour. No experience required. Will train. Call now. 888-366-3244 ext. 102. Come work where it’s Oktoberfest every day. Now hiring for all positions at Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh. Apply in person Monday through Friday. 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.
Irish Design Center. Retail sales assistant needed 1 or 2 days per week throughout the year. Flexible schedule, close to campus. Experience preferred. Respond by email only to paul@irishdesigncenter.com. Seasonal Work: Shadyside Management Company needs full-time dependable landscapers, painters, and assistant roofers for the summer. Must be at least 18 years old. No experience necessary. $10/hour. Mozart Management, 412-682-7003. Email: thane@mozartrents.com. SUMMER HELP NEEDED, Ice company close to campus. Weekends necessary. Production/driving/maintenance positions available. Good pay, part-time/full time. Contact Mastro Ice Company 412-681-4423. mastroice@aol.com
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