The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | April 3, 2018 | Volume108 | Issue 140
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UNIVERSITY CONTINUES SEARCH FOR UCC DIRECTOR Janine Faust Assistant News Editor
The Pitt Dance Team showcases its routine at the Petersen Events Center Monday night. Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR
Students report on community work in Homewood gram this spring — an initiative with the intention of strengthening the ties between the Staff Writer University and surrounding communities Students, Homewood residents and within Pittsburgh. The Homewood branch members of the Community Engagement of the CEC will encompass two buildings Center filled the Homewood-Brushton within the neighborhood, which will proBranch YMCA’s meeting room, waiting for vide a space for University-sponsored protheir chance to hear how the community gramming such as community meeting workers had been spending their time. spaces, training sessions and medical and Residents of Homewood attended the counseling services. Pitt CEC’s Community Assistant Report Out Daren Ellerbee, director of the Homeevent at the YMCA at 6 p.m. Monday night. wood branch, is a Pitt alumna who joined The event showcased the projects 10 particithe project in July 2017 after working for pating students have been working on. Stuthe Urban Redevelopment Authority of dents involved with the project, called comPittsburgh. munity assistants, have been working with “I worked with a lot of a lot people, a community organizations as volunteers and lot of community leaders in Homewood alassistants since fall of 2017. ready, so it was a really nice transition for me Kathy Humphrey, senior vice chancellor ... I’m a nice hybrid of all of these different for engagement, started the Pitt CEC pro-
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entities,” Ellerbee said. The Homewood branch is the first to open, and over time up to five centers will be built in to-be-determined neighborhoods around the City. She said Homewood’s is set to open in September, with a location in the Hill District set to open in early 2019. “I think what we want to do is make sure we’re not stretching ourselves thin and make sure that we get it right in Homewood and the Hill District,” Ellerbee said. According to Ellerbee, the University has been involved in social research within Homewood since the early ’90s. She said social work students who have worked in Homewood are part of the reason why Pitt has come to Homewood. “It just made sense for us, given those See CEC on page 3
The search for a University Counseling Center director is still ongoing, according to University spokesperson Kevin Zwick — who also did not comment on whether there will be a new director by the start of the 2018-19 academic year. Pitt has been without a full-time UCC director since Allegheny County Police charged previous director, Edward Michaels, for possessing child pornography and Pitt dismissed him from his position in May 2017. Michaels had held the position since June 2015. Marian Vanek, who is also the executive director of Pitt’s Wellness Center, has been supervising the Counseling Center as interim director since then. The University did not comment on whether they have encountered issues or challenges in running the counseling center without a director. Zwick said the University is contracting with an “external search firm” to assist with the recruitment process and will finish once a suitable candidate has been found. He did not comment or specify details regarding the external search firm, including its name. “There are several candidates identified that are being taken under consideration,” he said. The University’s job posting for the UCC director position, posted in mid-March, said the anticipated application deadline is in June. The posting said the UCC Director will work with the executive director of the Wellness Center to identify strategies for strengthening the UCC services and programs. “The incumbent will develop, implement, and maintain UCC policies and procedures and ensure they are in alignment with those of the Wellness Center, [International Association of Counseling Services], the University, and all applicable state and federal regulations,” the posting said.
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partnerships that we already had, to make our first center in a place that we have such a presence,” Ellerbee said. The program is continuing to build these relationships through its community assistants. To become a community assistant, students had to apply for the position in the summer of 2017, after which they were placed within an organization within Homewood. Earl Goldsborough, a sophomore ecology and evolution student, volunteered at the Afro American Music Institute — an organization co-founded by James Johnson, Jr., a music professor at Pitt. “It’s a nonprofit organization that caters to a bunch of different kids, especially underrepresented and kids in rough areas,” Goldsborough said. “The atmosphere is kind of one where you have to go there to understand.” Elizabeth Steiner, a sophomore social
work and sociology major, worked with Homewood’s Community Development Collaborative, the CEC administration and Building United — an organization focused on increasing home ownership within Homewood. Steiner did research for Building United, compiling a document containing the details for more than 800 parcels of land within Homewood, including tax status, code and use. “We were trying to look at how many properties are publicly owned in homewood, how many were residential versus commercial and what their uses were,” Steiner said. Steiner’s biggest project was a repository of research consisting of community and outside organization documents and research. She said a lot of the research at Pitt is then utilized by the community partners in Homewood. “That’s what the CEC is all about — is strengthening the partnership between Pitt and the Homewood community,” Steiner
said. Jalen Bryant, a sophomore chemical engineering major, volunteered for the Maker’s Clubhouse at the Bible Center Church in Homewood for 14-20 hours a week. He put together a program to teach thirdthrough fifth-grade students robotics and logic. “The program was like, ‘Here’s a bunch of legos, make a robotics program,’ so I didn’t know what to do with that,” Bryant said. “I had them test different wheel sizes, motors, chassis and mechanisms so they’d learn what cars would be the fastest.” Over the course of the semester, Bryant increased the complexity of the program. He eventually began teaching them basic physics and engineering concepts. “I think my favorite part about this whole thing was that I never was another teacher, you know,” Bryant said. “I made them tell me what they wanted to learn ... it was kind of crazy, kind of wild at times, but like, I didn’t have an overall objective I had
to reach at a time.” Cheri Smith, a Homewood resident and member of the CEC Advisory Board, became involved with the project last year after becoming aware of it through social media. “It’s pretty new. I kept reading things on Facebook about it, and then they brought it to different meetings and that’s when I really started to get involved,” Smith said. “Then I nominated myself to be on the Advisory Board.” The board consists mostly of Homewood residents, business owners and people who have a vested interest in the community. Smith believes that once the CEC is fully operational, it will have a positive impact on the community and people will be extremely supportive. “Once they are in place and people see what they do, it’ll work,” Smith said. “Right now people have that ‘I don’t know’ attitude because they’re not sure what’s gonna be involved ... I can hardly wait for it to get up and running, I hardly can.”
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Not enforcing State pension forfeiture laws wastes tax dollars It’s no secret that Pennsylvania public schools have a deficit that seems to get larger and larger as the gap in federal funding widens between poor and affluent districts. Many lay off or threaten to lay off teachers and cut funding for music and theater arts programs. In an environment like this, it should go without saying that a former band director convicted of sexual relations with a minor student shouldn’t get a cut of the ever-dwindling state funds for such programs. But that’s exactly what’s happening. Former band director of East Allegheny High School Jarold Winkleblech had such relations with a 15-year-old student in 2006 before confessing his love to her. Although the state revoked his teaching certifications, Winkleblech still receives a pension to this day. It’s not an isolated incident, either. More than 200 former Pennsylvania educators are in a similar position, having committed a variety of crimes ranging from illegally helping students during tests to sex crimes like Winkleblech’s. All those pension payments add up to unfavorably large chunk of change — more than $300,000 monthly — paid to 204 educators with either revoked of surrendered teaching certifications, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette analysis. Allowing pensions for educators with revoked certifications should be illegal in any case, but doling out paychecks to these teachers can have even greater consequences in a state like Pennsylvania, where the disparity be-
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tween public school funding is already wide. Poorer districts like Mount Carmel receive up to 33 percent less federal funding than affluent Philadelphia suburbs, an inequity governor Tom Wolf has sought to remedy since his inauguration. But just because educators like Winkleblech receive a pension, which averages to $1,067 per month, doesn’t mean they’re supposed to. Pennsylvania’s forfeiture laws include forfeiting a pension for crimes committed directly against students or directly related to the educator’s job duties. A 2017 general auditor, however, reported shortcomings in these laws and missed opportunities to identify cases that would require pension forfeitures, resulting in continued pension checks wrongfully arriving in the mailboxes of criminal ex-educators. The audit also revealed that the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System refrained from consulting police records to determine forfeiture cases, providing additional opportunities for undeserved pensions. The repercussions of the PSERS’s laziness extends beyond checks arriving in ex-educators’ mailboxes — it’s an unlawful deduction in funds that should be going toward the many underfunded public schools in Pennsylvania. The state may not be intentionally providing pensions to uncertified educators like Winkleblech, but the collateral damage from these slip ups can be the difference between a public school keeping or cutting their theater arts program and teachers.
Women in STEM events demolish discrimination
Ana Altchek Columnist
When it comes to the major revenuegenerating sources, it’s no secret that women face disadvantages in the workforce. And when it comes to STEM fields, this gender gap is even wider. With men holding the majority of STEM-related careers, I don’t need to be a STEM major to know the struggle women face when pursuing careers in science. But I do know that the women involved want to see that percentage decrease — and they’re doing all they can to change it. Pitt, along with many other universities, has attempted to help move women’s participation in the STEM field forward with programs like Women’s Empowerment Week, which featured events like the women’s career panel “She’s the Boss.” These kinds of women-focused events often occur within Pitt’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, such as the recent panel featuring women speakers like Barbara Staniscia, a senior director at Bechtel Plant Machinery. Staniscia spoke about her “pyramid for success” — a mixture of academic drive and technical know-how. While it can be easy to see STEM-focused events on campus as unnecessary or lacking the need for specific attention, they are crucial in uplifting women in STEM who lack support systems in a male-dominated field — an environment that plays host to significant discrimination. STEM career paths are particularly challenging, but the absence of women in the field is not because women lack pre-
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disposed capability. It’s actually a variety of factors including stereotypes, gender bias and workplace discrimination. In a Penn State study, psychologist Lynn Liben dismisses any possible cognitive difference between boys and girls. Though she says spatial thinking, a skill more prevalent in boys, is a factor in mathematical intelligence, it’s only one of many skills related to the area. “If you look at math achievement, for example in coursework,” Liben said, “girls do as well as boys.” Liben also affirmed stereotypes’ roles in impacting a girl’s ability to succeed in STEM careers. “If girls think they don’t do well in a subject,” she said, “they have a diminished interest in it.” So while there seems to be a common misconception that men excel in math and women perform better in the arts, the reality is that, though these fields may lend themselves to certain kinds of thinking that may be more prevalent in boys or girls, children of any gender can learn to develop these skills just the same. If anything, it shows that the discrimination girls face in math and science is a real factor in diminishing their success. And it’s time for lies about women’s lack of intelligence and capabilities in STEM positions to stop inhibiting some of the best and brightest from pursuing such important work. Women in STEM events like the one hosted by Pitt’s Society of Women Engineers in February are just what women need to squash these lies. Not only are See Altchek on page 5
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Altchek, pg. 4 they beneficial for young women to network and gain more opportunities that will enable them to succeed, but it gives them female role models to look up to. Pitt News columnist Neena Hagen dismissed discrimination of women in STEM careers last week by citing a panel of women in STEM at Robert Morris University. “If discrimination truly was a huge barrier to women trying to enter STEM fields,” she wrote, “surely most panelists would have grueling stories about their victimization at the hands of a patriarchal industry.” Hagen used the lack of discussion about personal instances of discrimination as a basis for saying that it just doesn’t happen — but the fact that these women do not speak about harassment and bias in the workplace when sharing their success stories does not mean that discrimination does not exist. A crucial factor of discrimination is that it’s often in-group favoritism rather than blatant bias — especially in a pro-
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Liam McFadden | STAFF ILLUSTRATOR fessional environment. If the vast majority of people working for a company are men, more men are likely to be hired than women. This may not be a conscious decision, but psychologically, it’s a fact people are drawn to others like them. In her 2003 study, Frances Aboud, a psychologist at McGill University, showed in-group favoritism to be a very real trend, one that begins in infancy. Babies
tend to express comfort and reassurance when surrounded by their own race and gender — and as they grow up, these preferences become even more exaggerated as they naturally cling to others within their race, sexual orientation, gender or even cultural background. Because of the amount of in-group bias that occurs within STEM, women adopt the same stereotypes as well. Not
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only does discrimination come from the men in the field, but women begin to compete against each other as well because the opportunities are so slim. These events are crucial because women need to support women. A 2014 study by Fortune assessed performance reviews in technological companies. The study showed that 87.9 percent of critical reviews for women contained negative feedback, while only 58.9 percent of critical reviews for men contained negative feedback. What’s worse is that the gender of the reviewer made no difference — both men and women showed significantly harsher judgement in their reviews for female employees. With an absence of men in the field, women must support and encourage one another rather than view themselves as a rarity in the field. This is why having women come together for these kinds of women in STEM events is so important — it creates a strong female foundation that thrives on mutual success instead of competition. Ana primarily writes about culture and social issues. Write to Ana at aea51@pitt. edu.
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COMEDIAN BILL BURR WALKS HIS WAY OUT TO PITTSBURGH
John Hamilton Managing Editor
Since the last time Bill Burr was in Pittsburgh, he’s had a kid and written three seasons of an animated Netflix show, “F is for Family.” But he’s adamant that his worldview and his stand-up routine remain largely unchanged. That means when he makes his “triumphant return” to the City April 6, most in the audience at his two shows at the Benedum Center will be entertained by his rant-filled act. But a few will likely leave offended by his direct approach and ability to anger just about any side of any issue. The Pitt News talked with Burr ahead of his two stand-up shows in Pittsburgh, one of the first stops on his current tour. The Pitt News: You had a lot of jokes in some of your previous specials about parenting before you were a parent. Are you rethinking any of that now that you’re a year or so in? Bill Burr: No I’m not. I find most parents annoying. I really do, they’re just constantly patting themselves on the back about whatever they’re doing. It’s just like, you know, what you’re doing is important and blah blah blah, but you decided to have a kid, you know what I mean? I can listen to somebody that got trapped — someone that was like “Oh man, it’s fine, I’m on the pill,” then she wasn’t, and then all of a sudden you’re having a kid with someone you didn’t want to. The two people who fell in love and got married and decided to have a kid, when they start complaining, I just can’t listen to it. What is the problem? Having a kid is f---ing awesome. It’s awesome. No matter what hardships you have, when the kid comes up and hugs you, it’s over. TPN: What can people expect on the new tour? BB: I’m working on all of the stuff. I’m sort of examining a lot of my own shortcomings in the second half of my act — the first half of my act is me going off on some things that are freaking me out. You know, I can have a little bit of a different worldview now that I have a kid. But you know, it’s not a wholesome worldview.
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Comedian Bill Burr will be in Pittsburgh April 6 for two shows at the Benedum Center starting at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Courtesy of Koury Angelo People keep asking, “you got a kid now, are stand your levels, we can move along a lot more you afraid it’s gonna make you soft?” I’m more efficiently. TPN: Do you think that working on podfreaked out than ever. TPN: What have you been working on in casts has changed the way you approach your stand-up? the past couple months? BB: Well it’s already my approach to standBB: We’ve been working on “F is for Family.” It’s all written and recorded, so now we’re up so it’s sort of the same thing. Going up there, just editing and fine-tuning season three, if you you start talking, and you try to do as little of can believe it. That’s going to come out later this your act as possible. Why would I want to do year. And then I did a movie called “Front Run- my act? That’s work. Just going off is fun, I feel ner” that stars Hugh Jackman, directed by Jason like I’m in the break room having a sandwich. I have my act, but hopefully I go out there Reitman, which is a really cool movie. For some reason on my IMDb page they and I catch a zone or something, and then it’s have me listed as playing George McGovern. I like literally 20 minutes of material, and you think somebody’s making fun of the fact that look down and you’ve done close to an hour. I’m bald, that’s what it is. But it’s funny to me And then on bad days, 20 minutes of material because it’s just like, there’s just no checks and takes six minutes. It’s a whole boring process. If I really talk balances on IMDb — how did that get on there? TPN: You’ve already written and recorded to you about the process of putting an hour of all of season three. Do you find that after two comedy together, it’s one of the most unfunny things ever. seasons you still have some fresh ideas? TPN: One of your go-to topics is that people BB: I think this is our best season. It’s gone the most smooth as far as, like, the editing and get too offended by comedy. BB: Honestly, I don’t think that people are all that. The first couple years, the animators were trying to figure out each other’s language. offended by comedy, I just think the people that Dial that down, bring this up — that’s really are offended by comedy make the news because vague the first two years. So once people under- it’s an easy story, and it’s a way to avoid talking
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about other things that are actually way worse problems, but those way worse problems actually buy advertising time on those news networks, so they choose to ignore those and go after stand-up comics doing jokes about gender neutral bathrooms. TPN: Do you think that that kind of practice, talking about stuff like that, has changed the way you approach your stand-up? BB: Well it’s already my approach to standup so it’s sort of the same thing. Going up there, you start talking, and you try to do as little of your act as possible. Why would I want to do my act? That’s work. Just going off is fun, I feel like I’m in the break room having a sandwich. I have my act, but hopefully I go out there and I catch a zone or something, and then it’s like literally 20 minutes of material, and you look down and you’ve done close to an hour. And then on bad days, 20 minutes of material takes six minutes. It’s a whole boring process. If I really talk to you about the process of putting an hour of comedy together, it’s one of the most unfunny things ever. TPN: One of your go-to topics is that people get too offended by comedy. BB: Honestly, I don’t think that people are offended by comedy, I just think the people that are offended by comedy make the news because it’s an easy story, and it’s a way to avoid talking about other things that are actually way worse problems, but those way worse problems actually buy advertising time on those news networks, so they choose to ignore those and go after stand-up comics doing jokes about gender neutral bathrooms. TPN: When you come to Pittsburgh, any places you’re going to try to go? BB: You always got to go to that Primanti’s, but I’ve been trying not to eat that way. But I feel like I can eat one of those, because I don’t live in Pittsburgh — because that food is like crack. Once you get it into your system, you crave it. But I’m going to leave the next day, so I think I’m going to be fine. Read the full interview at pittnews.com.
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‘Ready Player One’: Riddled with nostalgia Vikram Sundar Staff Writer Film deity and acclaimed director Steven Spielberg takes audiences on a two-hour-and19-minute nostalgia fever dream with his latest film, “Ready Player One.” Based on Ernest Cline’s popular novel of the same name, Spielberg’s adaptation of “Ready Player One” was shaping up to be the defining film of our generation — combining a visually immaculate world with an engaging commentary on technology. Instead, the film turned out to invest fully in the grand scale of its virtual reality and its hidden cultural references, or Easter eggs, at the expense of the story. Set in a decaying futuristic society in 2045, the film introduces us to protagonist Wade Watts, played by Tye Sheridan — an average, nerdy teenager living with his poor aunt and uncle in “the stacks,” an arid tech junkyard located in Columbus, Ohio. Like everyone else, Wade is a captive of the OASIS, a virtual
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The first person to find this egg will inherit Halliday’s company stock, amounting to half a trillion dollars, and will gain mastery over the OASIS itself. Wade and his friends Art3mis, Aech, Daito and Sho — played by Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Win Morisaki and Philip Zao, respectively — set out to find this egg. They hope to find it before the evil megacorporation Innovative Online Industries gets its hands on the egg — preventing the company from taking control over the OASIS and, eventually, the entire world. From left, Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts, Olivia Cooke as Samantha Cook, “Ready Player One” is undoubtedly the Win Morisaki as Daito and Philip Zhao as Sho in “Ready Player One.” most meta film to be released in decades. The Warner Bros. Pictures/TNS OASIS is an all-encompassing amalgamation reality dreamscape where the possibilities are your heart desires. However, not everyone is of countless pop culture references, ranging limitless. from ’80s horror movies, Spielberg blockbustaimlessly playing the game for kicks. The OASIS is the ultimate escape — a Before his untimely death, the creator of ers, contemporary and retro video games, cloud nine of sorts — for everyone fed up with the OASIS, James Halliday, played by Mark comic books and anime. living through the harrowing monotony of Rylance, tasks the inhabitants of the OASIS Find the full story online at reality. In the OASIS, you can be anyone you with finding an Easter egg hidden within the want, go anywhere you like and do anything game.
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Sports Pitt cheerleaders and Dance Team showcase skills before heading to championships Marissa Perino Staff Writer On quiet upper campus yesterday evening, an eager crowd gathered to support the Pitt cheerleaders and Dance Team. Under the bright lights of the Petersen Events Center, the teams showcased their polished routines, which will debut at the National Cheer Association and National Dance Association Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championships later this week. Both teams will escape Pittsburgh’s rainy forecast April 4 to fly to sunny Daytona Beach, Florida, and will stay until results April 7. Theresa Nuzzo, head coach of the teams for more than 35 years, will once again oversee both squads. “They’re a terrific group, very hardworking, very talenting,” Nuzzo said, “They are great ambassadors for the University.” The teams will receive support from the athletic director’s office on the trip, as Kelly Brennan, the new executive director for strategic initiatives and engagement under Director of Athletics Heather Lyke, will also accompany Nuzzo and her teams to Florida this year. The Dance Team will compete in the Division 1A performance team dance category, highlighting three different segments: jazz, hip-hop and pom. The team of 28 sends 20 members each year to Daytona for its biggest event of the season. One of the team’s choreographers, Stephanie Wanamaker, put together the jazz and pom segments, while Tracy Zangaro Indof — another team choreographer — put together hip-hop. The team aims to be well-rounded, performing in 30-second increments for each The Pitt cheer team performs a stunt as part of their routine for the NCA category. Collegiate Cheer Championship. Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR Nuzzo explained this complex routine at the Petersen Events Center, the crowd when she introduced this year’s squad to the last year. moved up the hill to Trees Hall, where the “Th ey look great, confi dent, ” Raber said, mixed crowd of family, friends and faculty. cheer squad performed its routine. The cheer “I’m happy to see them go down [to DayPlenty of alumni were also present, including team will compete as a Division 1A small tona]. ” Kayla Raber, a Dance Team alumna who was coed group. Nuzzo noted how the squad’s Following the dance squad’s performance there supporting the team after graduating
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routine heavily focuses on the use of signs, megaphones and flags alongside its usual steps and flips. The cheer team will compete this year following an off season in 2017. Sophomore flyer Francheska Pokora discussed how the team is determined to do well in competition. “I’m looking forward to representing the University, because that’s not something that we did last year,” she said, “I think we’re really prepared this year.” Corinne Repcheck, a Dance Team member not on the competition squad, came to support both groups. She said this is the first time her Dance Team did a full run-through with costume, makeup and hair done as if the dancers were competing in the Florida event. “We came out because it’s absolutely imperative that we support the team,” Repcheck said, “Obviously they’ve worked so hard.” Coach Nuzzo detailed this hard work by describing additional practices her team takes on in order to properly prepare for the competition. She describes Pitt as a primarily “game day team” that trains extensively for its one competition each year. The intense training schedule includes daily practices, often as early as 5:30 a.m., starting in February to prepare for the competition. Monica O’Neil, a junior on the dance squad, will compete this year for the third time. Both the cheer and dance teams have achieved top-ten finishes in past years, and O’Neil’s goal is to break the top five. “This year, we are all really excited about it,” O’Neil said, “It’s a really fun atmosphere.” The championships in Florida include performances throughout the day beginning at 8:30 a.m., when teams compete one after another on the main stages. “We’ve been putting in a lot of time,” Pokora said, “I think it’s going to pay off.” The Panthers will have their first performance at 9:22 a.m. on Thursday, with coverage on the NCA and NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship website.
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Employment Employment Other Children’s International Summer Villages Pittsburgh needs a volunteer leader, 21+, for an international camp for 11 year olds in Detroit June 26 - July 29. Expenses paid. Contact cisvpittsburgh@gmail.com 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 Seasonal Marketing Assistant Shadyside property management firm established in 1960 needs two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Excel, Word and the internet from approximately NOW to August; four days/week from 9am-6pm. Saturday and/or Sunday hours a must; some flexibility in days and hours will be considered; most hours will be solitary on the computer with no phone work; 40 words per minute and strong computer skills required; no experience needed & we will train you at our Shadyside office; free parking. $13/hour plus generous season end bonus. Mozart Management 412-682-7003. thane@mozartrents. com. SUMMER 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 plus additional attendance bonuses are available, if earned. Work involves landscaping, painting, roofing, and general labor. Perfect summer job for college students! Mozart Management phone: 412-682-7003 email: thane@ mozartrents.com
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Women’s club Volleyball
Women’s club Volleyball
Rcmba
Women’s club Volleyball
men’s rugby men’s rugby men’s volleyball
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black action society
men’s lacrosse men’s lacrosse sports business
black action society
Men’s club soccer
Men’s club soccer
american medical student assn. black action society black action society
exercise science organization
Men’s club soccer
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women in business
women’s ultimate women in business
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rainbow alliance
pitt outdoors club
rainbow alliance
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kappa delta
wpts women’s ultimate
pitt outdoors club
exercise science organization
Alpha kappa psi
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asian student alliance
chi omega
The winning organization will receive
$300 in gift cards to hello bistro
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