The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | april 17, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 150
Panelists question separation of medicine and faith PITT ANNOUNCES COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS Salina Pressimone Assistant News Editor
From left to right, Tyler Vanderweele of Harvard University, Tamara Dubowitz of the RAND Corporation and Jeffrey Bishop of Saint Louis University, discuss the relationship between medicine and faith during the Can Science Measure the “Culture of Health”? event in the William Pitt Union Monday night. Anas Dighriri | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Cassidy Power Staff Writer Although in Western tradition medicine and faith are considered separate entities, a Monday afternoon panel sponsored by the School of Nursing called Can Science Measure the Culture of Health? questioned why the two aren’t integrated. Speakers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Saint Louis University’s Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, the RAND Corporation and Pitt’s School of Nursing debated what the role of spirituality should be in health care Monday afternoon. More than 100 people attended the panel in the Wyndham hotel ball-
room, which consisted of Tamara Dubowitz, senior policy researcher at RAND Corporation, Jeffrey Bishop, professor at Saint Louis University, and Tyler VanderWeele, professor of epidemiology at Harvard. “It’s remarkable how much we understand about the determinants of cardiovascular disease and breast cancer and how little we understand about what we do to find meaning in life,” VanderWeele said. VanderWeele cited his research in public health claiming spirituality and health are intrinsically linked. He said not only can faith indicate better health, but it actually plays a key role in a person’s physical well-being.
VanderWeele countered his own point by reminding the audience that correlation is not always causation. He conceded that his crosssectional studies — which only consider data at a single point in time — are a poor way of establishing causal relationships because they can produce data marred by confounding variables. Yet he stood by his claims and said by implementing longitudinal studies, he was able to provide evidence for a causal relationship. He gave the example of smoking and going to religious services. In his research he found that those who attend services are less likely to smoke. See Panel on page 5
Pitt graduates receiving their University diplomas this month will hear from two Pitt alumni who have led prominent careers in public service since their own commencement ceremonies. Pitt will host Pittsburgh Mayor and ex officio member of Pitt’s Board of Trustees, William Peduto, at the undergraduate commencement ceremony and appellate attorney and partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick law firm, David C. Frederick, at the master’s, professional doctoral and doctoral degrees graduation. Peduto graduated from Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in 2011 after receiving his bachelor’s degree in political science from Penn State. He worked on Pittsburgh’s City Council for 19 years, where he wrote comprehensive government reform legislation and created Pittsburgh’s first campaign finance limit. Since he was first elected Mayor in 2013, Peduto has prioritized increasing transparency, developing a long-term investment plan for the City’s assets and promoting the City’s role in housing, small businesses and education. He’s also visited the University before to attend student-organized political, sustainability and sexual assault awareness events. See Speakers on page 5
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DUCK HOLLOW: PGH’S SMALLEST NEIGHBORHOOD Cassidy Power Staff Writer There’s only one way in and out of Pittsburgh’s smallest neighborhood — a one-lane bridge marred with potholes and streaked with graffiti. Duck Hollow was founded 140 years ago as housing for employees of the U.S. Steel Corporation and the Carrie Furnace. Situated south of Squirrel Hill on the north bank of the Monongahela River, the neighborhood was in an ideal location for workers. Although not originally from the Duck Hollow community, Addie Massery, 22, of North Side, visits the neighborhood often to join the groups who come at night to build campfires and drink by the river. “Everyone’s so welcoming,” Massery said. “We’ll go up to a campfire by the river, and just like that we’re friends with them because we know Duck Hollow.” Massery said there’s a sense of self-sufficiency to Duck Hollow — large wooden boxes filled with hoses scattered throughout the neighborhood serve as a stand-in for a fire company. Massery said access to the neighborhood can be a problem for emergency services, as Nine Mile Run Creek borders the north and west sides, and the Monongahela River runs along the southern end. “No one salts their streets. Ambulances,
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fire trucks don’t even know where to come for the most part. If someone is buying furniture, they have to meet the truck outside the neighborhood and carry the furniture across the bridge,” Massery said. The secluded neighborhood also serves as a receptacle for items long forgotten, Massery said. The hill, which forms the neighborhood’s northern border, is strewn with rusted cars and rotting carousel horses. Trash accumulates at the edge of Duck Hollow from people throwing anything unwanted down the hill. But Massery said Duck Hollow shows no signs of wanting recognition. A sign at the entrance to the neighborhood reads “Duck Hollow — Population: Just Enough.” Of the neighborhood’s three streets, two have “no outlet” signs. Massery said in the years she’s been coming to the neighborhood, she has yet to see one of its residents. “Most of the people living here are generations of the original community,” she said. According to 62-year-old Michael Portogallo of Swissvale, this community has existed for decades. Portogallo has been coming to Duck Hollow since the ’70s to party by the river and has seen the Pittsburgh skyline transform over time. When he first went to Duck Hollow as a teenager, the steel mill was visible across the river.
Duck Hollow, the smallest neighborhood in Pittsburgh, is only accessible via a small, weight-restricted bridge. Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR Portogallo started working at the steel mill out of high school and said Duck Hollow was a place for him and other steel workers to unwind. In the early years of his employment, he was young and had nothing better to spend his money on than the alcohol often available at the Duck Hollow riverside. “All the guys from the steel mill would walk across the bridge after their shift was over,” Portogallo said. “There’d be 20 or 30 guys just sitting by the river, having a drink.” Later, as employment at the steel mill declined and he lost friends to mesothelioma, Duck Hollow served as a monument to nostalgia for Portogallo. The neighborhood, tucked away behind nature trails and rail tracks, provided the perfect escape from the harsh life that accompanied steel production. “It’s sort of bittersweet memories, being here again. Most of my friends are dead now, but I still come back,” Portogallo said. Duck Hollow saw changes during the
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decline of steel as well. While Portogallo found employment tearing down the old mill, a new subdivision of multimilliondollar homes was erected on top of the slag hills that bordered Pittsburgh’s smallest neighborhood. But the effects of the steel mill aren’t gone for good. According to Massery, toxins from the slag seep into the creek that borders Duck Hollow. The damage to the ecosystem became so severe, the Army Corps of Engineers came to Pittsburgh to clean it up in the early ’90s. This doesn’t stop Tom Moeller and the Three Rivers Birding Club from frequenting Duck Hollow to birdwatch, though. Pittsburgh’s smallest neighborhood is popular with birds from all over the world, according to Moeller. He described the awe he felt seeing a kelp gull from South America only 15 minutes from his house. “The kelp gull has only been seen in Pittsburgh on two days. It was a most rare See Duck Hollow on page 5
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Parran legacy undermines mission of Pitt Public Health Delilah Bourque Columnist Since members of the Pitt Graduate School of Public Health and of the Graduate Student Union announced they were petitioning the University to rename Parran Hall — one of the two main public health buildings on campus — the legacy of Thomas Parran Jr. has been in question. Those opposed to renaming the building argue Parran’s contributions to the field of public health were great, including being a founding member of the World Health Organization. On the other side of the argument, those in favor of renaming the building cite Parran’s questionable medical ethics as director of the infamous Tuskegee and Guatemala syphilis experiments — studies in which hundreds of African-American and Guatemalan participants were infected with syphilis and told they would receive treatment which never came. The study led to death for many of its participants. To have Parran’s name on a building would be to educate future members of the public health community under the shadow of white supremacy and racism in the field of medicine. The University symbolically erases Parran’s hand in unethical experiments by honoring him with the continued presence of his name on a building on our campus and has a responsibility to change it. The Tuskegee experiments were originally intended to last six months in 1932, with a period of no treatment followed by a treatment period. But after funding ran out, the experiments continued for more than 40 years without treating the subjects — even after doctors at a U.S. Marine Hospital in Staten Island discovered penicillin was an effective course of treatment for syphilis in 1944. Many participants of the study who thought they would receive treatment after six months spread the virus throughout their communities unknowingly. Despite this, Parran gave his approval as Surgeon General of the United States for the study’s continuation. Parran’s reputation also suffers from his connection to a similar study in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948. The study, in which researchers
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Elise Lavallee | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR exposed Guatemalan subjects to syphilis without obtaining their consent to observe the progression of the disease, proceeded with Parran’s approval and personal interest. Since Parran’s death and the reevaluation of his legacy, other organizations have taken action to distance themselves from the ex-surgeon general. Following the revelations about his involvement in these questionable experiments, the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association renamed its lifetime achievement award from the Thomas Parran Award to the ASTDA Distinguished Career Award in 2013. With new information, it only makes sense to reconsider our societal norms. In a letter to the editor published in The Pitt News last week, Parran’s grandson and grandnephew argued against the renaming of Parran Hall, citing his positive contributions to the University and the field of public health.
It’s true, Parran worked to control the spread of infectious diseases in rural areas and remove the public stigma around syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections — treating them as a public health issue rather than a moral one. But it’s not enough to just say Parran’s positive contributions justify his namesake building. Naming a building after a person honors them and their legacy. The K. Leroy Irvis Hall — formerly Pennsylvania Hall, a residence building on upper campus — was recently renamed to honor Irvis, who earned a law degree at Pitt in 1954 and later became the first African-American speaker of the House in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Similarly, Salk Hall is named after Jonas Salk, who conducted research while he was a faculty member at Pitt that lead him to create a polio vaccine. Irvis and Salk are examples of people with distinguished legacies who deserve the honor of hav-
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ing a building named after them — and Parran Hall deserves a namesake just as distinguished. If Pitt renames the building, the good aspects of Parran’s legacy should still be studied and taught, especially as part of classes in the Graduate School of Public Health. A display inside the school acknowledging both Parran’s contributions and controversy would allow the University to accept its history without honoring a man who oversaw the suffering of hundreds and did nothing to stop it. The University should not have to honor those with questionable moral ethics in order to recognize the contributions of Pitt alumni and faculty. Only representatives of the excellency Pitt has in its past — such as Irvis and Salk — deserve the honor of a campus building named after them. A strong contender whose name deserves to be on Parran Hall is Maud Menten. During her tenure at Pitt in 1918, Menten’s research brought about a mathematical equation to describe the rate of biological reactions proportionate to enzyme and substrate concentration. Menten’s work helped lay the foundation of life-saving treatments, including enzyme replacement therapy, where enzymes an individual is lacking, usually due to genetic mutation, are administered to the patient via intravenous therapy. Enzyme replacement therapy is used to treat a broad range of diseases, such as Pompe Disease and Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. Menten also helped identify proteins from various bacteria that were then used to treat people against outbreaks of scarlet fever in Pittsburgh. Menten would be an ideal candidate to rename Parran Hall after. Her work is still relevant in medicine today. And while Parran’s contributions to the world of public health shouldn’t be ignored, there are better ways of educating public health students about the necessity of medical ethics rather than forcing them to study in a building named after the man who oversaw unethical and racist research. Delilah primarily writes about social issues and politics for The Pitt News. Write to her at dgb22@ pitt.edu.
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LABOR OF LOVE: PSA PUTS ON MOCK SHAADI
Shahum Ajmal Staff Writer Two first-year students exchanged vows in the William Pitt Union ballroom Saturday night — but all in good fun. The bride and groom were volunteer participants in the Pitt Pakistani Student Association’s second annual Mock Shaadi event. Awash in shades of red, yellow and pink, the ballroom was transformed into a wedding venue for the pretend marriage, which showed what decor, clothing, food, music and traditions are involved in a traditional South Asian marriage. The open space was outfitted with tall cocktail tables draped in red silk, crystal chandeliers and a traditionally decorated stage complete with two chairs for the bride and groom, facing outward toward the guests. Haniah Zaheer, a junior psychology major and president of the PSA, knew she wanted to host Mock Shaadi again after its success last year. She and 20 other members — several from non-Pakistani backgrounds — began planning the event after winter break. “We accept all different types of students to our club. We don’t want to restrict it to people who are only Pakistani,” Zaheer said. “It’s really showing our culture and allowing people to understand what we do and our traditions.” Zaheer also said she wanted everyone to enjoy the event and familiarize themselves with the traditions surrounding Pakistani weddings. “In the time we’re in right now, it’s good to make people more aware,” Zaheer said. “A lot of kids in our Pakistani group are Muslim as well. It’s more of a Muslim type of wedding.” Accompanied by his friends, this year’s groom, Danyal Quraishi, a neuroscience major, entered the room wearing a gold sherwani — a long silk embroidered gown — along with a red cap with a strip of long fabric that wrapped around his neck and fell onto his back. Board members from the PSA had voted for him to have the position. “A lot of my friends never experienced a
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shaadi before — let alone say it right,” Quraishi said, “So I just thought it’d be really great to show them what one would be like through this mock shaadi.” The South Asian Student Association chose biology major Kamya Menon to be the bride. Menon followed Quraishi as her friends held a sheer tapestry with gold stripes over her head. Menon wore a lehenga, a heavy twopiece floral-embroidered outfit with gold trim on the bottom, accented by a gold necklace and headpiece. “I really enjoyed the experience,” Menon said. “It was cool getting to be a part of the shaadi and to see the coming together of two cultures.” The couple joined each other on the stage, where they took their seats before sharing their vows — mostly inside jokes between the two friends — and exchanging candy rings. Erin Calvimontes, a Highland Park wedding planner who specializes in South Asian weddings, helped oversee the creation of the event. Calvimontes became involved in planning the pretend wedding at Pitt when she saw a photo on Facebook of the first Mock Shaadi Pitt and Penn State hosted together two years ago and reached out offering her services. “I said, ‘Please let me help you make this look awesome, we have to show up Penn State,’” Calvimontes said. Zaheer expressed how fortunate the PSA was to get in touch with Calvimontes, who works for the group Divine Celebrations. “That was literally amazing, because we would’ve just had lights on the wall,” Zaheer said. “She literally [brought] everything — a videographer, photographers, photo booths, lights and a fake cake.” After Quraishi and Menon’s friends made speeches to toast their faux wedding, the evening unfolded with a catered dinner from Salem’s Market and Grill consisting of white rice, chicken and vegetarian dishes. There were also multiple performances by Pitt dance groups such as Mastana, Controlled Chaos, C-Flat Run and SASA. PSA members also performed three pieces
Friends hold a sheer tapestry over the head of Kamya Menon, the bride in the Pitt Pakistani Student Association’s Mock Shaadi event. Courtesy of Jorge Santiago inspired by Bhangra — a traditional type of dance incorporating modern rhythms and performed during festivals and weddings in Pakistan. The dancers faced the bride and groom while performing their dance numbers, incorporating some of what happens during the Mehndi — one of the pre-wedding ceremonies done the day before a shaadi in a venue covered in flowers, with the bride and groom in light colored clothes of yellow or green. Guests were eager to put their Bhangra dance skills on display as the dance floor opened up to them for the remainder of the night. According to Calvimontes, the evening was similar to a real Pakistani shaadi, from the bridal entrance to the ring exchange — minus the fake rings and cake that were used because real ones were too expensive. Calvimontes and her team spent about 15 hours turning PSA’s vision into reality — and
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they never missed a beat, even as the choreographed routines came to a close and the bride and groom pretended to cut the fake five-tier cake. Noelle Eghbali, a first-year neuroscience major who came to the event support her best friend, the groom, said that as someone of both Iranian and Chinese heritage, she doesn’t have a lot of Iranian friends. She appreciated the blending of Indian and Pakistani students at this event and their shared culture. “People have that stereotype that if you’re not white, you just don’t have a lot of fun,” Eghbali said. “I think it brings a lot of awareness to humanity.” According to Eghbali, the evening was as much about entertaining the guests and showing all in attendance a good time as it was about celebrating the shaadi wedding ritual. “I’ll be here next year even if my best friend isn’t the groom,” Eghbali said.
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Graduate students’ featured speaker, Frederick, attended Pitt in the ‘80s and is still involved in with the University Honors College, providing funding for research opportunities and financial aid through the David C. Frederick Public Service Internship Award and David C. Frederick Scholarship. Frederick works as an appellate attorney in Washington, D.C., and has represented a variety of clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, including investors, immigrants, farmers and trade associations. He has won or settled cases in the Supreme Court for 13 years. Frederick received his bachelor’s degree in political science as a Truman scholar and graduated summa cum laude from Pitt in 1983. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and his J.D. at the University of Texas School of Law. He previously served as counselor to the inspector general and then assistant to the solicitor general in the Department of Justice before starting work at his current law firm. Frederick will speak on Thursday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m., and Peduto will speak on Sunday, April 29 at 1 p.m. — both in the Petersen Events Center.
occurrence for those of us who witnessed it,” Moeller said. Portogallo is also drawn to the wildlife of Duck Hollow. He said now that his drinking days are over, he comes to Duck Hollow a couple times a week to train for marathons. The otters, ducks and occasional great blue heron make his runs more interesting. Between the flat trails by the rail track, scenic views and the graffiti that covers every available surface, Portogallo said Duck Hollow never disappoints — even after 45 years. “It’s great down here. I come down here a couple times a week, and I’ve been coming here since ’85,” Portogallo said. “I see beavers and all sorts of stuff to keep things interesting on my runs.” So much of Pittsburgh’s history can be viewed from its tiniest neighborhood, according to Massery. Yet despite all the changes, she believes Duck Hollow is the last neighborhood to maintain its charm. “It’s one of the last raw parts of Pittsburgh,” Massery said. “It’s a calm place among everything that’s been changing so frequently.”
While by itself this data point could mean that those who smoke are less likely to attend services, through longitudinal studies he determined those who attend services are more likely to quit smoking than those who don’t. VanderWeele further claimed that for patients to flourish, their spiritual and moral health must be considered as well. He proposed doctors attend to five categories of wellness — close personal relationships, happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and life purpose and virtue and character. “People care not just about their physical health, but also about being happy, about finding meaning,” VanderWeele said. Bishop disagreed with him, though, stating there are aspects to the human existence that cannot be quantified. According to him, medicine cannot function without quantifiable data. He recounted an anecdote of a patient of his who was going through some difficult times. The patient had complaints of physical ailments, but Bishop eventually diagnosed her with depression. He said when he told her this, she was enraged and accused him of believing he knew something about her that she didn’t know about
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herself. Bishop likens this instance to the failures of medicine. According to Bishop, the physician looks at the symptoms and quantifies the patient’s experience as the diagnosis. But in doing so, he neglects to acknowledge the patient’s own selfunderstanding and how it looked nothing like a textbook list of symptoms. “We create a certain set of lenses that bring into focus certain things we think are important,” Bishop said. “But when I laid this image up against her, she felt like I had subtracted out all of the particularity of her life, all the most meaningful bits.” Sarah Gallups, 30, a doctoral candidate in Pitt’s School of Nursing, agreed there is something fundamentally unquantifiable about aspects of humanity. She attended the panel to see how researchers attempt to represent the experiences of their communities. She said she is hopeful that community voices will be better heard in health care discussions but is unsure that an individual’s experiences can truly be understood. “I think there’s something inherent to being human that is so beautiful. The human experience is vast and constantly changing,” Gallups said. “We as humans automatically want to place people in boxes to better understand them, but that’s not how it works.”
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Capel looks to rebuild Pitt basketball David Leftwich Senior Staff Writer After arguably one of the worst seasons in Pitt men’s basketball history, and facing the potential exodus of nearly half of last year’s roster, the program needed to make a change — so Athletic Director Heather Lyke hired Jeff Capel in March as head coach to bring the program back to prominence. The Pitt News sat down with Capel to discuss his transition from the Blue Devils to the Panthers, his coaching experiences and what he looks forward to in the upcoming seasons. The Pitt News: What was really attractive about Pitt’s offer? What made you make the move from Duke? Jeff Capel: I think being in the ACC was a big thing, being on the East Coast — those were the two main things right away that attracted me. The third thing was the tradition of the program. I knew about some of the history of the program — most notably a little bit during the Paul Evans era, but a little bit more during the Ben Howland and Jamie Dixon eras. I knew it was a program that had been successful. I learned that it’s a really good school — that’s something I didn’t know. Obviously, I knew that it was a great sports city, but I didn’t really know much about Pittsburgh besides that. The cap was when I met our athletic director and met the chancellor. I was very impressed by their vision, by their support, by their understanding of what it takes and doing it the right way. They matched my feelings and the things that I believe in. TPN: Previously, you were head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and Oklahoma. What have you learned from those jobs that you really want to bring here? JC: I think I understand the profession a little bit more. You know, we had success at both places but also had adversity and failure at both places, and I think I’ve learned from that. I was 27 when I got the VCU job. I didn’t really know what I was doing as far
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Jeff Capel, the new head coach of the Pitt men’s basketball team, previously served as the assistant men’s basketball coach for seven years at Duke. Mackenzie Rodrigues | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR as running a program. I feel like I learned how to coach on the fly. I was 31 when I went to Oklahoma. I was incredibly naive, and I was going to a completely different part of the country. And certainly the seven years after that, being at Duke, I learned a lot there. I think it’s made me a better coach, made me a better leader and more prepared for this challenge. TPN: Are there any specific things from coach Mike Krzyzewski at Duke you learned that you want to try to implement here? JC: As coaches, I think you try to take from everything, everyone, everything that you see. One of the best lessons I ever got was when I was 27, when I got the VCU job. I remember Coach K telling me, “Don’t try to be me, and don’t try to be who your dad was as a coach. You have to be you, and who you are is really good, and you have to trust that.” That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over my nine years of being a head coach back there at Duke. You have to be very comfortable with who you are as a
coach and do things your way. TPN: Have you tried to talk to any of the players to convince them to stay? JC: I’ve told them that I want them to stay. I’d like to coach them. I’ve met with each guy individually, I’ve met with the team several times collectively. I’ve tried to do things since I’ve been here, in the 14 days, trying to get to know them and trying to get them to know me. As far as trying to convince them, I wouldn’t necessarily say convince. I think they have to come to that decision on their own. What I’ve tried to convince them is that I think we can be good. I’ve tried to convince them that I can help them get better, I can help them improve, I can help them achieve the things they want to achieve. Not only can I do that, but Pitt can do that. TPN: After a very disappointing season in the ACC last year, what specific things are you trying to do to change the culture of the program right now? JC: It’s hard to answer that because I
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don’t know who is going to be in the program. The first thing is trying to see who my roster is. But the thing we’ve talked about constantly with the guys that have been in workouts is that we can’t think about the past. I really don’t want to talk about last year. Number one, I wasn’t here, and I didn’t experience that, so it would be stupid and insensitive on my part to talk about something that I didn’t experience. Those guys had a very tough time last year. I wasn’t a part of that. I can’t feel it like they felt it. So the thing I talked to them about is what we have to do moving forward. TPN: What kind of pitch are you making to recruits to try and convince them that Pitt is a great place to play right now? JC: Especially if it’s a young kid, a kid that’s in high school, you pitch the opportunity to build something, to be a part of something special, to be a part of a foundation. We pitch incredible resources — that’s what we have here at Pitt. We have a fan base that is desperate and wants this program to get back and that’s rabid in its support. We have an amazing City. We have a City that loves sports, and we have an amazing University that’s diverse and really good academically with really good research and is very supportive of the athletics teams. We talk about the fact we’re in the best conference for basketball in the country. TPN: Looking to next year, what are some of the expectations you have for the team? JC: I expect for us to play hard every night, for us to work to get better every day, for us to play the right way and for us to go out and be competitive every night that we play. The thing I talked about earlier is building and creating these habits, and I truly believe that’s what leads to winning. If you can create great habits — winning habits, championship habits — and learn how to do that every day, even when the coach is not there, learn how to do everything the right way, I think that leads to winning.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 houses available. August 2018. South Oakland: Bouquet St, Lawn St, Ward St. North Oakland: Bigelow, & Craig St. Call 412-287-5712.
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Rental Other Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2018 & sooner. Oakland, Shadyside, Friendship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availability online, check out www.forbesmanagement.net, or call 412.441.1211
Employment Volunteering Looking for volunteers to coach basketball at Sacred Heart Elementary School in Shadyside for 2018-2019 school year. Girls/boys teams grades 5-8. Clearances required. Contact Jennifer McPeak at jlmcpeak@ burnswhite.com, 412-310-3816.
Employment Other Comfort Keepers, a Post-Gazette Top Workplace, is seeking caring individuals. Caregivers work alongside seniors to provide companionship, light housekeeping, personal care services. Flexible hours available. If interested call 412-363-5500 Join KEYS Service Corps, AmeriCorps. Mentor, tutor, and inspire Pittsburgh area youth. Summer and fall positions with bi-weekly stipend and education award. Full and part-time. Possible internship credit. Call 412-350-2739. www.keysservicecorps.org Our department is seeking a student worker for a year-round position with an 8:30 am start time 4 days per week.
Schedule can be flexible. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Distributing mail, answering the door and phone, minor lifting of supply boxes, campus deliveries and general office duties as requested. We are looking for an individual who is reliable, well organized, and able to multitask. Fluent in Word & Excel. Please send resumes to: coreadmi@pitt.edu 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 (WEDNES-
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DAYS 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
help desk. Additional
PAY IS $11 AN HOUR (PAY IS TWICE A MONTH)
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duties will include assisting with the inventory, installation, and troubleshooting of computers, mobile devices, and printers. Daily tasks will also include general office duties, such as picking up and delivering campus mail, ensuring printer consumables the breakroom supplies, etc. This is a great opportunity to
PLEASE CALL TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE POSITION: 412-469-3100
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SUMMER WORK
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ers, mobile devices, printers, and software! Pay rate of $12/hour. hours/week. To apply
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 plus additional attendance bonuses are available, if earned. Work involves landscaping, painting, roofing, and general labor. Perfect summer job for college students!
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Mozart Management phone: 412-682-7003 email: thane@ mozartrents.com
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ing # S-06376-P. Uncle Sam’s Submarines, Pittsburgh’s best little sandwich joint is looking for fun-loving and hard-working people to work at our Oakland location. Applications for full or part-time positions are now being accepted at 210 Oakland Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213.
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