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SOFTBALL WINDS DOWN

DAVIS AND ELLISON TO TRANSFER FROM MEN’S BASKETBALL PROGRAM

Stephen Thompson Senior Staff Writer

Abby Edwards (23) pitches against Ohio State on Wednesday afternoon. Pitt lost 2-5. Knox Coulter | senior staff photographer

FACULTY BRACES FOR PITT’S UNION ‘STALLING TACTICS’

Neena Hagen

Senior Staff Writer With at least six months until Pitt organizers’ third attempt at a faculty union election, Pitt administration and faculty are deep in a debate over the merits of unionization — something Provost Ann E. Cudd has discussed since her first month on the job. In August, new faculty

asked Cudd at an orientation session explicitly whether she and the rest of the Pitt administration would support a union. “Faculty members own this institution, and they are the people who govern it,” Cudd said. “[But] I’m not really clear what the need would be [for a faculty union].” Despite Cudd’s conciliatory approach and administrators’ public indecision about the union

effort, many organizers said they know better than to think administrators have their best interests at heart. Tyler McAndrew, a prominent organizer and visiting lecturer in the English department, said he and others in the union effort are gearing up for a battle in the coming months. And up to this point, the process has been hard work. See Union on page 2

Pitt men’s basketball announced its second player departure in three days on Wednesday afternoon. Sophomore guard Khameron Davis and junior forward Malik Ellison will transfer at the end of this semester. After transferring to Pitt from St. John’s after the 2017 season, Ellison was forced to sit out the following year due to NCAA transfer rules. Ellison was named captain of this year’s Panther team and averaged 5.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game in 31 games. He expects to graduate this spring before departing, according to a University release. Davis announced his plans to transfer on Monday afternoon. Davis, who still has two seasons of eligibility remaining after he transfers, averaged 3.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per game in his two seasons at Pitt while shooting 35% from 3-point range. Davis and Ellison join Shamiel Stevenson and Peace Ilegomah, who also transferred from Pitt midseason after their playing time dwindled as the season progressed. The Panthers now have three open roster spots, which Capel and his staff are actively looking to fill by way of high school recruits and transfers. Neither Ellison nor Davis have released any details on potential transfer destinations.

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Unionization efforts were well underway by the time Cudd delivered her speech. After several years of on-the-ground campaigning, organizers began collecting signed authorization cards from more than 3,500 Pitt faculty in January 2018, citing many pay- and job-security-related concerns. They filed for an election with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board, or PLRB, exactly one year later with more than the requisite 30% of faculty needed to prompt an election. The University responded swiftly, hiring Ballard Spahr, a Philadelphia-based law firm that offers “union avoidance training,” according to its website. In a teleconference with union leaders and United Steelworkers representatives in March, Pitt administrators demanded two major alterations to organizers’ proposed bargaining unit: include the medical school and its 3,600 employees, effectively doubling the size of the union, and exclude chairs, whom the University claimed held “supervisory positions” similar to those of administrators. “These are stalling tactics, pure and simple,” McAndrew said. “The medical school is a separate bargaining unit … and it’s been that way for decades. This proposal doesn’t make any sense.” The PLRB ruled in 1976 that the School of Medicine was a separate bargaining unit due to its different funding and employment structure, a decision the board reaffirmed in 1990. For one, McAndrew said, many medical school faculty are jointly employed by Pitt and UPMC, whereas conventional Pitt faculty are employed solely by the University. The medical school also receives close to three-quarters of its funding from grants and various other outside sources like the National Institutes of Health, not the University, according to Guillermo Romero, who teaches biochemistry in the medical school. That fact alone, he said, defeats the medical school’s interest in a union, because faculty could only bargain with the University for a fraction of their incomes. And that’s partly why, Romero said, the medical school’s bargaining unit, the Faculty Association of the School of Medicine, or FASM, has remained dormant since its inception — the same year Pitt faculty tried and failed to unionize for the first time.

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Provost Ann E. Cudd said the faculty union should encompass all Pitt faculty, and that excluding the medical school as organizers want would be counterproductive. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor “I can tell you just by talking to my peers bargaining units adds needless complication to … the medical school doesn’t want a union,” the entire process — but he thinks that’s part of Romero said. the University’s plan. A number of other university faculty “This kind of move — packing the [bargainunions, like Temple University’s TAUP, which ing] unit — is so standard that it happens in at represents 13 of the university’s 15 schools, also least half of all organizing campaigns in all secexclude the medical school. TAUP vice presi- tors,” Sowards said. dent Jennie Shanker said she would fully supSowards cited Yale’s graduate student unionport a union of medical school faculty, but that ization campaign as one of the most consequenthey’ve never expressed any interest. tial examples. Yale’s graduate students petitioned “Medical schools aren’t exactly cash- for separate bargaining units in several different strapped,” Shanker said. “I think some profes- departments in 2017, which would allow grad sions are just more corporate and can rake in students to opt out of the union, but the Univercash more easily … They just don’t have much sity demanded each department be combined of an interest in collective bargaining.” into one large unit. Organizers then pulled the But Cudd said the faculty union should petition, suspecting they’d receive an unfavorencompass all Pitt faculty, and leaving out the able ruling from the Trump-appointed chair and medical school because of an outdated ruling general counsel of the National Labor Relations defeats the campaign’s purpose. Board, thereby setting a poor precedent for grad “The idea that [the medical school] would unions nationwide. be excluded from the bargaining unit seemed According to the NLRB, many employinconsistent with the overall goal of the union- ers threaten legal delays to dampen morale, ization effort, which is to represent all of the fac- drum up legal costs and ultimately defeat ulty,” Cudd told the University Times in March. unionization efforts. USW researcher and organizer Robin So“[Pitt’s administration’s] purpose in raising wards said if the medical school wanted an ac- objections appears to be to deprive the faculty of tive union, it could start campaigning within their right to a prompt election by introducing the one it currently has. Logistically, he said, months of needless litigation,” Sowards said. decertifying FASM, which the University peBut Pitt’s decision to exclude supervisors, titioned to do last month, and joining the two namely chairs, from the union rests on better

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legal precedent than trying to include medical school faculty, Sowards said. McAndrew maintains that chairs are faculty, and exist to advocate for their departments despite performing some administrative tasks. “The chair is a rotating position … It alternates every two to three years,” McAndrew said. “And at least in the English department, the chair is elected by faculty.” It works the same way in other departments, according to Pitt statistics chair Satish Iyengar. Iyengar assumed his position at the beginning of this year, and said he’ll serve as chair next year before taking a sabbatical the following year. He declined to say whether he signed a union authorization card, and admitted he’s not sure which way he’ll vote once the PLRB determines an election date. “First and foremost my duty is to my department,” Iyengar said. “I’m a professor because I like teaching and research, and I want to make those things easier for other faculty in my department, who I’m sure have the same goals.” Just like many other chairs, Iyengar’s administrative tasks include recruiting part-time faculty, assigning work to faculty, defending candidates for tenure against upper management and monitoring the department’s finances. For these reasons, Pitt believes chairs should be classified as administration, according to University spokesman Joe Miksch. “Faculty members who fill these important roles should be classified as management,” Miksch said in an email. “[But] having managerial duties and being classified as management is a legal determination and has nothing to do with whether chairs are advocates for faculty.” Iyengar remains unsure if chairs should be labeled as administrators, but said he can see arguments on both sides. “It’s true that I see myself as a professor in most contexts,” Iyengar said. “But it’s also a fact that I perform administrative tasks … It’s a tough decision without an easy answer.” Incoming English chair Gayle Rogers declined to say whether he supported the unionization effort or believed chairs should be included in the main bargaining unit. He said the entire point of the union vote was to ensure chairs don’t speak for faculty in their departments.

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Opinions from the editorial board

Lilly Singh is what late-night needs The 10th-highest paid YouTube star isn’t just dominating YouTube anymore. Starting in September, Lilly Singh will replace Carson Daly as the host of NBC’s 1:35 a.m. talk show, where he had a 17-year tenure as host. Singh’s new role with NBC is a huge step forward for diversity and representation on late-night television. Not only will she be the only female who is currently hosting a late-night talk show on a Big Three network, but she will also be the first late-night television show host who is a bisexual woman of color. She has channeled her love of performance into her YouTube channel, and has more than 14 million subscribers since she began making videos in 2016. She’s known for her variety of comedic sketches, raps, vlogs and other skits that satirize and combat racial and gender stereotypes. Singh came out as bisexual in late February to her 5.8 million followers on Twitter. “Throughout my life these [traits of being female, colored and bisexual] have proven to be obstacles from time to time,” she wrote. “But now I’m fully embracing them as my superpowers. No matter how many ‘boxes’ you check, I encourage you to do the same x.” At the end of 2017, the University of Southern California published a report on the lack of diversity on television. Indiana University researcher Nicole Martin studies the importance of representation in media. She coauthored a study in 2012 about the effect of television on children’s selfesteem. She found that television typi-

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cally made white boys feel good about themselves, but boys and girls of color reported much lower levels of self-esteem. She says she feels confident that the lack of diverse representation on television is responsible for this effect. “There’s this body of research and a term known as ‘symbolic annihilation,’ which is the idea that if you don’t see people like you in the media you consume, you must somehow be unimportant,” she explained in an interview with HuffPost. At only 30 years old, Singh is also the youngest person to ever host a talk show. Not only will she be a relatable figure to those who are bisexual and people of color, but also to a younger audience in general. The younger generation wants to be heard and represented — just look at the 2018 midterm voter turnout. ABC exit polls suggested that millenials made up 13% of the population’s vote, which is 11% more than 2014. In some states like Nevada, the millennial voter turnout was five times as high as it was in the previous midterm. Because of the current political climate, it is more important than ever to have diverse representation in the media. Even if people are not experiencing oppression directly, it is important for them to hear personal stories about it and be aware of how current events are affecting the people around them. Lilly Singh’s new role is exactly what people need right now to stay both entertained and informed. She represents more than just bisexual women of color. She is a perfect start to increasing representation in the media.

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IN DEFENSE OF THE NAP Eli Savage | contributing editor

Leah Mensch

Senior Staff Columnist When I moved away from home to start my first year of college, people warned me about three dangers: underage drinking, walking alone at night and napping. There is a well-known narrative of the college student who falls into an insidious napping pattern, stops attending lecture and then fails all of the semester’s classes. The moral of the story is to be mindful of your sleeping habits. But over time, the narrative of college students napping has stigmatized the nap into an act of laziness, and also thrown napping as a whole under the umbrella of things to avoid. It makes sense that many perceive resting during the day as an act of laziness. And the Harvard Business Review conducted a study in 2013 and found that people generally perceive a higher level of busyness with a higher status level of a person. But napping isn’t inherently bad or lazy. It’s only harmful if it’s done carelessly and ineffectively. When done right, taking a nap is not only harmless, but it can increase alertness and productivity. It’s time to stop equating napping with laziness. A Brown University study conducted in 2010 found that 73% of college students show signs of sleep problems. On college campuses it might seem like the norm, but it’s actually quite unnatural and dangerous. In the short term, sleep deprivation manifests as decreased focus, attention and irritability. In the long term, sleep deprivation can inhibit the immune system, making fighting off illnesses and healing difficult for the body.

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The solution to sleep deprivation for some might be simple: sleep more. But for college students, it’s often more complicated. Even if a student plans and sticks to their schedule down to the last event, their bedtimes are still sometimes out of their control. For students like first-year chemistry major Delaney McCarthy, napping is the best way to stay productive. “Sometimes I have no choice but to stay up late and study,” she said. “Especially if I’m working on a group project or studying with friends. Then I have to wake up for my early labs the next morning. If I didn’t nap sometimes, I would honestly be too tired to keep up with any of my work.” Perhaps the reason people so often see napping as unproductive is because of the fatigue they feel upon waking. It’s true that napping for periods longer than 40 minutes can prolong sleep inertia, the groggy feeling we often get upon waking. This can interfere with our ability to productively do work and pay attention in lectures. In order to avoid this, sleep expert Michael Breus suggests we set an alarm to keep naps from extending longer than 30 minutes. “The [30-minute] nap is particularly important for people who are tired during the day and didn’t sleep enough that night, and want to supplement their sleep a little bit,” Breus said in an interview with HuffPost. “If you take it longer than 30 minutes, you end up in deep sleep … you’re sleeping too long and you’re going into a stage of sleep that’s very difficult to get out of.”

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Culture

PITT STAGES PREPS FOR ‘INTO THE WOODS’

Tamara Alchoufete Staff Writer

As most Pitt students begin their preparations for finals, the students of Pitt Stages are getting into costume and character at the Charity Randall Theatre. As they rush to dress rehearsal as classic fairy-tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Rapunzel, they go over their lines, preparing for opening night of the mainstage production of “Into the Woods.” The musical, written by James Lapine with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault fairy tales. Since its debut in 1986, “Into the Woods” has become a Broadway hit as well as a feature film, released by Disney in 2014. The Pitt theatre arts department will perform “Into the Woods” opening tonight at 8 p.m., running through April 14. Niffer Clark, the musical’s director who is visiting for the semester from Milwaukee, said she was excited to bring the magic of the show to the stages at Pitt. “It takes the archetypes of fairy tales, and Sondheim and James Lapine present all these archetypal fairytale characters like Snow White and Red Riding Hood,” Clark said. “It really is the journey of that fairy-tale feeling.” Clark believes this show brings something different to the traditional fairy-tale story through the changes the traditional characters undergo. She stressed the importance of having wants and wishes, but also understanding that others will be affected in different ways as the characters pursue their wishes. “It’s like a ‘me’ story, where everything is about what I want, living happily ever after, so things are really black-and-white, simple,” she said.“They go from the ‘me’ to a sense of independence, which you don’t see really when you look back at fairy tales.” Usually, the second act of the musical portrays the woods as a dark and dreary place meant to highlight the consequences of the characters’ ac-

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The Pitt Stages cast rehearses on Wednesday evening. Pitt Stages will present “Into the Woods” from today until April 14. Hannah Heisler | senior staff photographer tions in the first act. But in this version, there is playing Cinderella will wear took a team of five times in their life and to understand that those still an air of acceptance for the repercussions of people a month and a half to complete. will pass and that you’re going to come out betthe choices that were made. Katrina Dagenais, a senior English literature ter because of it,” he said. “I have a theory that One such character who learns the inde- major, and Dorothy Sherman, a senior theatre arts the show was written for the people who work pendence described by Clark is the character major, served as main costume-shop workers for on it and it helps them learn way more than it of the Mysterious Man, played by sophomore this production. The pair spent at least 50 hours helps the audience learn.” theatre arts major Pedar Garred. His charac- mapping, stitching and making the necessary Once performances begin, it is the reter is one of the few in the story with expe- adjustments. Dagenais said she and her counter- sponsibility of the stage manager to make rience in the woods and passes wise knowl- part started working on the Cinderella dress for sure everything goes as planned. Taking on edge onto another character, the Baker. six hours each week, and the process lasted much this task for the show is senior theatre arts The Mysterious Man has learned to accept the longer than expected. Sherman agreed. major Shane Smay, who will arrange the choices he has made and that shows in songs he “I think people don’t really understand the props, stage direction and general manageperforms, like “No One Is Alone” in the second time that goes into building [costumes and sets] ment of the performance from curtain call to act. Garred shared some of that understanding. and how long it takes to actually make some- final bows. Smay shared his excitement to see “Something unique that we’re doing thing,” Sherman said. his hard work pay off come opening night. with [‘Into the Woods’] is using a general Stage crew, costume designers and actors alike “The audience can look forward to the comguide because the woods in the show are experienced weeks of hard work, as rehearsals be- plex and sophisticated music and lyrics of Stetrees, but the woods in life are just like the gan back in February. For Garred, the long hours phen Sondheim in a sometimes dark, sometimes hard times,” Garred said. in the theater — six days each week from 6 p.m. uplifting, always engaging take on traditional The show is a favorite among fairy-tale fans, to 10 p.m. — helped him find his way as an actor fairy tales,” Smay said in an email. “I’m so excited not only for its high number of staple fairy-tale and get excited for the performances to come. for people to come see this show! Our cast and characters, but also for its lavish costumes and “As a whole, I think [this show is] some- crew are so ready for an audience, and I can’t wait intricate design pieces. The dress that the actress thing that tries to prepare people for the hard to share our production with the world.”

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TOP WAYS TO SOAK UP THE SPRING IN PITTSBURGH

Delilah Bourque

Stock up on your favorite jean shorts, sandals and tank tops from American Eagle, Forever 21, H&M, Abercrombie & Fitch and every other store from your local mall. Go home and get dressed up in your new threads and then realize that even though it is much nicer outside than it was in January, it is still 50 degrees and definitely not warm enough for shorts. Looks like those cute jorts will hang in your closet for another two months! Put in an endless amount of internship applications If there’s one thing you learn in college, it’s that the grind doesn’t stop! Even if the sun is shining and all of your friends are heading to their third darty of the week, you need to get those applications in for summer and fall internships. If you don’t have another internship to add to your resumé, what else are you going to tell your extended family about at the next big gathering? Keep your future in mind, and keep on that grind toward success! Maybe even study for finals while you’re at it.

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Finally, after months of gloom, snowstorms and freezing rain, the sun seems to have found its way to Pittsburgh. Walking to class isn’t so bad anymore now that you don’t have to get bundled in layers of jackets and scarves, and the sun stays out until at least 7 p.m. Here are some tips to making the most of this much-needed change in the seasons. Walk through the mud at Schenley Park A walk in the park is an ideal way to take in warm sun and clear skies, but after the months of snow and rain, the local parks in Oakland have more mud to offer than romantic scenery. A walk through Schenley Park this afternoon will bring you shoes covered in brown sludge and damp socks, but at least you’ll get the view of the City with all of the gray, leafless trees surrounding the skyline from Flagstaff Hill. Waste all your money on summer clothes even though it’s still too cold out to wear them This time of the year, summer fashion trends are popping up on social media — and in your email inbox from every retail store you’ve ever shopped at.

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MEN’S CLUB BASKETBALL MAKES VENGEFUL RETURN TO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Ben Bobeck Staff Writer

Luke Kindberg was there in South Bend, Indiana, two years ago, playing with Pitt’s club men’s basketball team for the National Club Basketball Championship Tournament. He and his team squandered a 15-point lead with 10 minutes left and lost in devastating fashion to the team from Purdue University. Now just one of three players left from that squad, his focus is getting the currently undefeated Panthers another shot at what they missed out on last time. “That’s the goal right now,” Kindberg, a senior finance major, said. “Get back to the national championship.” So far, so good. Kindberg’s squad wrapped up its unblemished regular season with a threegame sweep of neighboring Robert Morris on March 23, securing their spot as host of the Great Lakes Regional Finals. The Panthers stayed hot through the regional tournament, emerging unscathed from two matchups from the west side of the region. On their home floor of Trees Hall, the Panthers beat No. 4 Michigan 83-78 in the opening round before dispatching No. 1 Central Michigan 80-72 in the regional final Saturday. With that win, the Panthers have booked their ticket to South Bend for the 2019 National Club Basketball Championship Tournament. The tournament is held at Indiana University South Bend from April 12 through April 14. Pitt will play as the tournament’s top seed, opening against the No. 8 Georgetown Hoyas. The NCBBA has held the tournament in each year of its existence, with the

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The men’s club basketball team. photo courtesy of pitt men’s club basketball first in 2014 at La Roche University outside of Pittsburgh. Virginia Tech was the inaugural champion following its defeat of Spring Hill College, per the NCBBA’s website. Throughout this season, Pitt competed in the Great Lakes East Region against club teams from West Virginia, Robert Morris, Kent State and Carnegie Mellon, among others. The club’s vice president, junior computer science major Max Lampe, wasn’t there for the last tournament run. Lampe, a transfer from the U.S. Coast

Guard Academy, played his first season with Pitt last year as a sophomore. “When I came here, I was just playing up at Trees [Hall], just picked up a ball and I met a few guys and they convinced me to join last year,” Lampe said. “We weren’t terrible, but we had a very underwhelming season.” That tournament run two years ago was led by strong performances from Anthony Starzynski and Joe Mascaro, both of whom later earned walk-on spots with Pitt’s varsity team. Mascaro, a senior marketing and finance dual ma-

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jor, started the final game of his senior year this season against Notre Dame, while Starzynski, a junior finance major, has made seven appearances off the bench under coach Jeff Capel. Kindberg fondly recalls the special impact both those players had on the team, but he sees how things have changed for the better for this year’s team. “This year, I think if we get the opportunity, we’re more well-rounded. I think we have more guys that can initiate offense See Club on page 9

Club, pg. 8 and defensively we’re more intense. But overall, having four or five guys who can consistently go up and get a basket instead of two is going to be a big difference,” Kingberg said. Lampe agreed, also noting the team’s defensive focus has helped it throughout its terrific run this season. “If you look at a lot of our scores, they look a lot lower than they would have last year,” Lampe said.

tournament time and that means winning or going home. And after leaving their last trip to the national tournament empty-handed, they now have a clearer idea of how to make the return trip more worthwhile. “We’ve been talking about a national championship since tryouts,” Lampe said. “We know what we have to do.” The Panthers’ quest back to the national championship game begins on April 12. Tip-off versus Georgetown is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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We’ve been talking about a national championship since tryouts. We know what we have to do. Max Lampe

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Lampe is right. Last season, en route to a 7-5 mark, the Panthers allowed 60.25 points per game to their opponents. This season, that average was cut by almost 10 points per game to 50.85. Lampe attributed the improvement to a different team mentality — one that shifted more of a focus to the defensive side of the ball and emphasized constant movement. “Everyone was eager to compete this year, and we knew we could,” he said. Pitt’s play hasn’t just been recognized by its opponents and in the record books. For the second time in the last three weeks, the Panthers were voted the number-one club team in the nation by the NCBBA, edging out the team from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and last week’s No. 1 Towson. During the final weeks of the regular season, the team was fairly attentive to the weekly rankings. After all, the four highest-ranked teams from each region would have the opportunity to host the regional playoffs, and Pitt had put itself into a fantastic position for that. But to Kindberg, Lampe and the rest of the team, rankings and recognition don’t matter anymore. Now, it’s

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$1750/mo + utilities. Spacious, beautiful, well‑maintained. Dishwasher, washer/ dryer, central AC. Close to Pitt campus & shuttle. Off‑street parking available. Panther Properties, 412‑328‑6236, pan therproperties2@ gmail.com. pan‑ ther‑life.com/oakland Welsford St. ‑Large 6 bedroom house, 3.5 bathrooms. Recently renovated with dish washer, washer/ dryer. $2900/month. 724‑825‑0033

Shadyside 4909 Centre Ave. Great location for this spacious 1BR apartment located be tween Pitt and CMU. On buslines, near restaurants, hospital. Rent includes heat. Laundry, storage & parking available. Updated kitchens and hardwood floors. $100 Amazon gift card upon move in. Avail‑ able spring, summer and fall. Contact Sue

at 412‑720‑4756. Brett/Thames Manor Apts. (Ellsworth & S. Negley Ave.) near CMU and Pitt. Studio‑One‑Two bed room apts. available for immediate move in. On bus line, close to restaurants and shops. *CALL IN FOR SPECIALS!* Contact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546 Shadyside: 1 and 2BR, great location, hardwood floors. Free heat. Immedi‑ ate occupancy. Call 412‑361‑2695 Shadyside: Studio ($740) or 2 Bedroom ($1190). Quiet, clean, well‑maintained apartment house. Great location ‑ in heart of Shadyside! Fully equipped kitchenette, A/C, laundry, wall‑to‑wall carpeting. Near Pitt shuttle and city busline and shopping. No pets, no smoking. Available Aug. 1st. 412‑628‑1686.

Rental Other 3+ BR 1.5 BA home in Swissvale. Gas Appliances. Washer and Dryer. Pictures at tinyurl.com/swiss valehome 25 min bus ride to Pitt campus. $1,250/mo. Call 412‑467‑6665 union ave7819@gmail.com 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 B&R Pools and Swim Shop looking for general help to maintain swimming pools. No experience necessary! Candidate must be 18 years of age or older with valid driver license. 40 hours per week for the entire summer, overtime possible at time and a half. IDEAL FOR COL LEGE STUDENTS! Candidates should call 412‑661‑7665 to inquire. Looking for people to start imme diately!!!! OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage ment Company seeking person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester, to interview & process rental ap plicants, do internet postings & help staff our action‑central office. Either part time or full time OK now; full time over the summer. $13/hour.

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Perfect job for sopho mores/juniors, seniors planning to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first‑year law students! Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003 thane @mozartrents.com SUMMER WORK Shadyside Manage ment Company needs full‑time dependable landscapers, painters, and assistant roofers for the summer. Must be at least 18 years old. No experience necessary. $11/hour plus additional atten dance bonuses are available, if earned. Work involves land scaping, painting, roofing, and general labor. Perfect sum mer job for college students! Mozart Management phone:412‑682‑7003 email:thane @mozartrents.com Team Scotti (insur ance broker for major league baseball) seek ing an information technology intern to assist in technical sup port, troubleshooting issues, organization and maintaining IT resources. Help with upgrading network equipment, assisting IT and other depart ments with reports, tracking hardware and software inventory and other duties as assigned. Ideal candidate would have strong computer skills and a passion to learn. Familiarity with Access is required. Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently is necessary. Contact Dave Webster at dwebster@team scotti.com for further information.

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