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Science classrooms get a makeover

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BANDING TOGETHER

Ilya Yashin For The Pitt News David Nero is flipping a space this fall, but it isn’t a house. It’s his classroom, and it’s not in the way you’re thinking.

Nero and other professors at Pitt are swapping the traditional sequence of instruction to help students better learn the material. In a “flipped classroom,” students learn new concepts at home — often through online lectures — and work on homework and other problems in class with an instructor’s help.

While many humanities professors have adopted this approach, so, for example, students don’t waste class time reading a novel, professors of science and math courses usually devote class time to presenting new information.

Nero, a physics lecturer at Pitt, said physics educators have long been thinking about flipping their classes. Pitt’s department of physics and astronomy approached him this spring about flipping his fall class as an experiment.

“It’s not that the traditional lecture doesn’t work — we know that it works,” Nero said. “But can we do something better? Research says yes.”

A study by San Jose State University found that a flipped engineering course in 2012 resulted in improved grades, which had been notably low in the past.

Read the rest online at Pittnews.com.

The Brass Roots, led by maestro Lance LaDuke, performed patriotic tunes in front of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall to commemorate Memorial Day. Sheldon Satenstein | Visual Editor

College of General Studies moves to Posvar Hall Macie Ellis Staff Writer

Students in the College of General Studies will report to a new location for classes next semester.

The College of General Studies is moving to the first floor of Posvar Hall. Sherry Miller Brown, director for the college’s McCarl Center for Nontraditional Student Success, said the move will give the college more space for faculty offices.

University spokesman John Fedele said the construction, contracted by FMS Construction Services, based in Sharpsburg, Pa., should be

complete by early to mid July. Fedele said the contractors will convert the old first-floor library space in Posvar into offices and meeting spaces. The number of rooms in the renovated space is to be determined, he said.

The College of General Studies, a school for students who are continuing or completing their degrees, entering the workforce or changing or advancing their careers, consists of 12 majors, three minors and 13 certificates and is currently located on the fourth floor of the Cathedral of Learning.

The new location in Posvar is easily accessible on the first floor, Fedele said, which is important to the non-traditional students like

veterans, students taking evening classes and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute members, who are age 50 and older and take classes for no grades or credits.

Moving to the new location also opens up space in the Cathedral.

The fourth floor of the Cathedral, where the College of General Studies is currently housed, will be under renovation this summer for faculty offices and an instructional support area for the Department of English and administrative faculty office space for the Cultural Studies program, Film Studies program and the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program, Fedele said.

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Correction: On May 21, The Pitt News reported in an editorial that Allie McCarthy, president of Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance, said, “This has the potential to lay the groundwork for future legislation promoting equality, offering other protections for the LGBT community, for example, in the workplace and healthcare access,” in reference to Pennsylvania’s ruling regarding marriage equality. This is not correct. Helma de Vries-Jordan, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, said this. The Pitt News regrets this error.

First same-sex marriages in Allegheny County bring new concerns Josh Ye For The Pitt News For Lyndsey Sickler, the legalization of same-sex marriage encourages younger LGBTQ people to feel more comfortable being themselves because they are entering “a world where their relationship and how they love would be validated.”

Now the LGBTQ community is one step closer to that validity.

U.S. District Judge John Jones III declared Pennsylvania’s prohibition on the marriage of same-sex couples unconstitutional last Tuesday.

Pennsylvania is now among the 19 states and District of Columbia in which same-sex marriage is officially recognized by law.

The day after the ruling, Gov. Tom Corbett announced he would not appeal the court’s ruling allowing same-sex marriage.

The recent wave of legalizing same-sex marriage began last summer when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, which banned marriages between any couples of the same sex. Sickler, the chairwoman of Gay and Lesbian Community Center Downtown, said most people she knows reacted to the decision with joy.

“Many people in the [LGBTQ] community have literally been together for decades,” Sickler said. “Now, they can finally have their marriages and unions recognized by the law. This is a huge step to equal treatment for LGBT folks in the States.”

Many of Sickler’s friends in the LGBTQ community decided to apply for marriage licenses or get engaged as soon as they could.

Bonnie and Sally Hattman from McKeesport have been together for 30 years and applied for a marriage license online last Tuesday. They received their marriage license in a week — after waiting for the state’s three-day period and the Memorial Day holiday.

Bonnie, a 73-year-old LGBTQ rights activist, said she was “over the moon” when she first heard the news. She said she can finally share the same last name with Sally, 66. Before Bonnie and Sally retired, they worked for the Metropolitan Community Church of Pittsburgh, “a church for all peo-

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ple,” and Wild Sister, a feminist magazine, to raise LGBTQ awareness in Pittsburgh area.

Bonnie and Sally went to the first Pride Parade in Pittsburgh in 1973, and were two of the roughly 150 people who were openly gay at the parade.

“The fight is finally over,” Bonnie said.

Bonnie and Sally said they plan to invite their family to celebrate their marriage as soon as possible. They have three sons and two grandchildren.

“Our entire family is absolutely ecstatic,” Bonnie said.

Pitt students are also pushing to raise awareness in the area.

Michael O’Brien, the vice president of Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, said the Pitt LGBTQ community is thrilled that marriage equality has come to Pennsylvania.

O’Brien said the group’s members are already excited about the Pride Parade on June 15.

In addition to the upcoming parade, the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh held a celebratory rally in Shadyside on Tuesday after

the ban was overturned. Sickler said many community members participated in the rally, and there would be other celebrations going throughout the year as well, such as pride events hosted by GLCC throughout the summer.

District Judge Hugh McGough officiated some of Allegheny County’s first same-sex marriages on May 20, the day after Jones declared the ban unconstitutional.

Though many in Allegheny County celebrated the decision, Sickler said she still hears complaints that same-sex marriages will upend the current family structure of society. Sickler said these worries are unnecessary.

“I think people who aren’t for gay marriage are just fearful of what they don’t understand. Gender differences don’t hinder family happiness. There will be all kinds of family, all across the spectrum,” Sickler said. “There will be blended family, adopted family and so on. The fear that people have that gay marriage is going to affect family is completely unfounded and ridiculous.”

Kitty Foster, a 20-year-old volunteer at

GLCC, said legalizing same-sex marriage is a step toward equality and inclusivity for everyone. , “It should just be [called] marriage. But people’s attitude on same-sex marriage won’t change overnight. We can change the law. But people’s conception of what marriage implies has to be changed slowly,” Foster said.

Sickler said many GLCC community members still deal with discrimination besides marriage inequality, including discrimination in the workplace.

Along with a change in how society identifies same-sex marriage, O’Brien said changes in the workplace are needed, too.

While many places have their own policies in place that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, it’s not mandated by Pennsylvania law, as listed on the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission website. O’Brien said a bill that specifically targets discrimination at work is essential and it has to be done on a statewide level.

“Essentially a same-sex couple could legally get married today, and could get fired from their job for having their wedding pictures up,” he said.

Richard Teaster, the director of Pitt Men’s Glee Club, echoed O’Brien’s sentiments. Some of Teaster’s LGBTQ friends and colleagues at the University are considering marriage, but they still plan to hide their identities in their workplaces.

It’s easier for Teaster to be “out,” he said, because his colleagues and students in the music department are supportive, and he feels more comfortable being open with his sexuality. But he said some other fields, especially medicine, are still very conservative.

The next step of the LGBTQ social movement has to include more of a focus on the T and Q, O’Brien said, which stand for those who identify as transgender or queer.

“Trans rights are so often overlooked because they are the least understood part of our society,” he said. “And sometimes it’s just as hard wrapping your head around someone who is queer because it implies a sense of not fitting into any already established categories.”

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EDITORIAL

OPINIONS

Attention: Editorial contains critique on trigger warnings A contentious question has been spreading from campus to campus as of late: should college professors be required to forewarn students of the sensitive material they’ll discuss in class?

Bailey Loverin, a second year literature major at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and co-author of a resolution for her student government on this very question, thinks so. “Trigger warnings,” as they are commonly called, “are a way of identifying what may cause someone who recently experienced trauma or has post-traumatic stress disorder to relive their trauma,” she said.

In other words, trigger warnings prevent professors from freely exposing students to material that may be psychologically harmful, especially to those who have experienced it firsthand, including rape, war, racism and sexism.

Therefore, texts or media presented in classes that contain any of these hot-button subjects must come with an adequate notice on the syllabi, like an “R” rating on a violent film.

But higher education has a different audience than the film industry.

College students are paying tuition to prepare for the real world, which unfortunately contains rape, war, racism and sexism. To understand certain courses, such as history and world cultures, students must confront these issues in the classroom. Trigger warnings would leave students sheltered from reality.

While the intent to protect students from possibly psychologically damaging content is noble, it’s still difficult for a student to begin to understand something he or she has never experienced — like war — without knowing the all of the details.

These warnings also hinder professors from fully exploring their subjects in an academic environment.

“Any student who felt triggered by something that happened in class could file a complaint with the various procedures and judicial boards, and create a very tortuous process for anyone,” said Marc Blecher, a professor of politics and East Asian studies at Oberlin College, in relation to the consequences professors could face if they do not adequately label material deemed to be triggering.

Because of this possibility, professors may feel limited in their teachings, which could lead to students attaining a shallow understanding of certain courses.

Students and professors should judge for themselves what is and isn’t appropriate on a caseby-case basis or, in other words, use common sense. If a student feels that he or she is deeply offended by material presented by a professor, then that student can seek justification for his or her self.

A blanket policy insisting that all course materials be labeled the same way for the entire student body, regardless of the context of the course, takes common sense out of the equation.

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Fighting racism first requires awareness Channing Kaiser Columnist

Princeton University is known for a lot of things, like its Halloweenthemed school colors, its position in the Ivy League trifecta and its affiliation with Albert Einstein. Currently, the prestigious school is making headlines for publishing an article in a conservative and moderate student-run publication, The Princeton Tory, titled “Checking My Privilege: Character as the Basis of Privilege.”

Princeton freshman Tal Fortgang wrote the article to discuss his disgruntlement with the attribution of his success to “white male privilege.”

He argues that his ancestors — Poles persecuted by the Nazis who eventually immigrated to America — faced plenty of struggles, and his family’s history has not always been privileged. He argues that his character and accomplishments — not lineage — should define him.

But, societally speaking, it does not.

Fortgang falls short in his understanding of what “white male privilege” means. We’re all participants in an invisible system of privilege, whether we acknowledge it or not.

Fortgang’s gender, skin color and socioeconomic background — he hails from the well-off city of New Rochelle, N. Y. — all set him up for opportunities that others are usually not afforded.

Nevertheless, a new MTV study described our generation as being “post-racial,” with 67 percent of participants — who were between ages 14 and 24 — reporting that race is no longer a “barrier to accomplishments” in light of Obama’s election.

The most concerning statistic from this study was that 48 percent of white millennials said discrimination against whites is as grandiose of a problem as discrimination against racial minorities.

Essentially, nearly 50 percent of

our generation believes that white people are being oppressed. It can be difficult to understand how institutional oppression works if you’ve never been oppressed. Being in the majority awards you privilege, but not empathy for minorities. As a female, I’ve faced my own bouts with discrimination, such as sexual objectification in the workplace and social situations.

Although sexism is radically different than racism, my experience offers me insight into the world of oppression. It is insight that white males often have no way of experiencing firsthand.

We are all different, and differences demand to be acknowledged in a fair, meritocratic society. What we need is an increased understanding of the obstacles that others — specifically minorities — face. Only then can we solely judge one on his or her accomplishments.

The best way to combat any kind of discrimination is to broaden understanding of others’ backgrounds through mainstream education,something that Fortgang and many other white millennials seem to lack.

For instance, I took an utterly eyeopening class in Africana studies one semester that focused on black families in America. I realized that I took for granted how nuanced and subtle racism really is.

Racism is no longer overt. There are no signs saying, “Sit in the back of the bus.” But it’s resurfaced in a softer form, like when a white person asks a black person, “Can I touch your afro?” reducing him or her to an intriguing object instead of a human.

These are things white people, like me, might not understand without an explanation. We never have to experience it and, therefore, can be blind to its existence and effects.

Formal education isn’t the only tool for increased understanding, though.

Social media websites — like

Tumblr — can have very insightful and original articles on discrimination. If you have socially conscious friends, Facebook can be a valuable resource, too. Friends might link and post articles on cultural and racial issues that you would have otherwise never found.

The Internet is a smorgasbord of information about discrimination and, if we truly want equality, we have to assume responsibility for exploring the accounts available to us.

Fortgang is probably very smart and hardworking — getting into Princeton is a laudable accomplishment for anyone. But he lacks the understanding of how his position in life and the circumstances he was born into — beyond his control — automatically granted him privileges and greater chances of success. For example, look at incarceration statistics: 14 million whites, and 2.6 million African-Americans are reported illicit drug users. But African-Americans are incarcerated for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of white people, a direct result of system prejudices, according to the NAACP. So, it seems like a lot of other millennials are missing this point, too, if they think that whites’ struggles are comparable to those of minorities, seeing that about 50 percent of millennials believe that they’re being oppressed.

Inequality exists, and ignoring its existence will help it perpetuate.

Recognizing that you have privilege doesn’t belittle your personal success. The existence of inherent privilege is a critique of our institutions and society, and the problem begs for action.

If we truly want to be the generation that heralds equality, we must first recognize where our society falls short. Change can only be brought about if first there’s awareness that a problem exists.

Write to Channing at clk87@ pitt.edu

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Letter to the Editor

To the editor of The Pitt News: While I certainly agree that Pitt students should learn about cultures, races, genders and religions different from their own, I think your May 14 editorial “Diversity Class Requirement has value in higher education” could leave a misleading impression.

A course on Muslims or African-Americans or Jews or women never focuses “solely” on the members of the group in question. The academic study of culture, ethnicity, race, religion and gender in-

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volves understanding our subjects from the “inside” and from the “outside” — putting those groups in comparative and contextual perspective, as well as understanding culturally constructed boundaries between groups of people.

It’s a mistake to view these courses as explorations of “essential differences between cultures.” I hope our courses quickly disabuse students of the idea that differences between particular people or groups are “essential” rather than historically contingent.

Perhaps the general education require-

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ments do need to be tweaked to offer more incentives to students, and it’s certainly worthwhile to open such a discussion. But it is not the case that Pitt students lack the “means to become genuinely informed about the diversity they will meet in the post-baccalaureate world.” There are currently dozens of courses being offered at Pitt that allow students to explore the dynamics of cultures, races, ethnicities or religions other than their own.

I would love to see editorial space in The Pitt News devoted to urging your constituency, including incoming freshmen,

to take advantage of the multiple opportunities that already exist at Pitt, rather than leave them with the impression that such courses do not exist. Perhaps in the weeks leading up to registration each semester, you could work with departments and programs to highlight upcoming courses that fulfill the goals you have outlined in the editorial?

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Seeing double: Young Professor X (McAvoy) faces his future (Stewart). MCT Campus

‘X-Men’ soar to new heights in time-jumping comic masterclass Dan Sostek Staff Writer

“X-Men: Days of Future Past” Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence Directed by: Bryan Singer Grade: AThe best comic book films are able to toe the line of fun and absurdity.

Bryan Singer’s third and latest entry in the X-Men franchise, “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” walks that line like a skilled tightrope walker, formulating a dark, complex story arc while supplying a more-thansufficient amount of flash and frivolity. In doing so, “Days of Future Past” soars, providing a new apex for the franchise.

The film – based on an iconic X-Men storyline written by Chris Claremont and John Byrne published in 1981– opens in a dystopian future where machines called Sentinels, designed to eliminate mutants, have begun targeting all humans, leaving the entire race in danger.

Because of this, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent back in time to the 1970s by Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) to prevent the shape-shifting Mystique ( Jennifer Lawrence) from murdering the inventor of the Sentinels, Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage, in his franchise debut). To complete this task, Wolverine must enlist the help of the younger Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to track down Mystique and prevent the chain of events which leads to their inevitable extinction.

The film features some cutaways to the future, but the majority of the plot unwinds in the past, which Singer utilizes for style, humor and story. When Wolverine arrives, he learns that Magneto is imprisoned for allegedly assassinating John F. Kennedy – following in the footsteps of Matthew Vaughn’s solid “X-Men: First Class” as another mutant period piece.

The effects are dazzling in the film, particularly in the buzzworthy scene involving the super-speedy Quicksilver (Evan Peters).

Singer, Peters and a classic Jim Croce song

create a showcase for the mutant’s ability — so ingenious that the audience in my screening erupted in applause. The fight set-pieces set in the future are astounding as well. Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), who fights in the future, has never looked cooler than this.

What elevates “Days of Future Past” from its predecessors, though, are the performances.

Jackman, Lawrence and Patrick Stewart (reprising his role as Professor X from the original trilogy) are all solid, while Fassbender continues to prove that he could probably make a Wheaties commercial interesting, as he allows necessary glimmers of humanity shine through the cold, calculating Magneto. Dinklage, sporting a thick mustache that would make Ron Burgundy envious, is terrific as the radical, but not necessarily evil, Trask, seeming right at home in the X-Men universe.

But the real heavy lifting is done by McAvoy.

In every other iteration of the franchise, Professor X is a pretty standard, one-di-

mensional character — the Yoda of the X-Men, he is the perfect mentor figure.

This time around, Xavier is still reeling from the fallout of “First Class,” in which he lost his pseudo-sister, Mystique, and his best friend, Magneto, while suffering a paralyzing spinal injury in the process.

This emotional strain allows the character to explore previously uncharted areas of doubt, anger and confusion — all of which are reflected in nearly every line of McAvoy’s dialogue.

The film isn’t without its problems.

There are some conveniences made for plot’s sake, such as Xavier’s medication, which cures his paralysis but disables his mutant psychic ability, as well as Pryde’s new and vaguely explained ability to send people back in time. The conclusion of the film, while likely crucial for continuity purposes, is somewhat predictable and cliched.

These blips on the radar are insignificant when compared to the entirety of the film. No amount of nitpicking can dampen the 131 minutes of panel-to-panel fun in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

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TAIREY

PEREZ

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Tairey poses for an elusive selfie. Photo Courtesy of Tairey Perez

Evan Malachosky For The Pitt News Hip-hop artist Tairey Perez, a rising sophomore at Pitt-Greensburg, has worked hard over the past six years to get where he is now.

His father — also a rapper — exposed Perez to rap and hip-hop music while he was growing up.

During his freshman year of college, Perez managed to continue releasing music at a steady pace. Until recently, after a decision to start over, Perez had an abundance of music on his SoundCloud account. The account now has only two songs: “Finals” and “Zodiac.”

The quality is much improved, and Perez expects to release an EP by the end of June. He describes his genre as “late-night chill rap with catchy lyrics.”

The Pitt News talked to Perez via email about juggling schoolwork with music, Pittsburgh’s local rap history and an uncertain future.

The Pitt News: What’s the most difficult thing about balancing school and music?

Tairey Perez: There’s never enough time to do both school and music, so I have to choose.

I hate not having enough time to make the music I want because I have to study.

TPN: Are you originally from the Pittsburgh area?

TP: I was born in Worcester, Mass. I moved to Pittsburgh when I was about nine. I love it here so much. I never want to live anywhere

else.

TPN: How has the massive success of Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa inspired you?

TP: It’s incredible to see what they did.

They put Pittsburgh on the map, and they still show love to local artists. I don’t see myself as “next” yet. I think I’m the best local artist as far as making a whole song from scratch, but I don’t feel like I’m next to make it yet.

TPN: If you could collaborate with one artist who would it be?

TP: The Weeknd. I love The Weeknd so much. He’s like all I listen to. I already have the beat for when he recognizes how awesome I am.

TPN: What do you love most about Pittsburgh? Your three most favorite things?

TP: I love everything about [Pittsburgh], but my three most favorite spots are Grandma B’s, my most favorite place to eat, ever. Timebomb is the best streetwear store in the city and Mount Washington is a view everyone has to see once.

TPN: Any advice for freshmen?

TP: Choose carefully who you hang out with. Find some people you truly enjoy being around, and don’t let school stress you out too much.

TPN: What’s next for Tairey?

TP: I wish I knew. I’m just going with the flow right now, trying to make the best moves I can for me and my team. Expect a new Tairey project soon.

AGENDA Wednesday, May 28 Steel Panther Stage AE 400 North Shore Drive, North Shore Time: 7:00 p.m. doors Admission: $25 advance / $27 doors

Steel Panther, the farcical heavy metal heavyweights, stop in Pittsburgh to support their latest fulllength album, All You Can Eat. Wednesday marks the second trip to Stage AE in as many years for hard rock’s answer to The Lonely Island.

Thursday, May 29 Momentum Through June 1 City Theatre Company 1300 Bingham St., South Side Time: Schedule varies Admission: $20 four-day pass, $5 per reading

Momentum, City Theatre Company’s annual festival, offers a look into the earliest incarnations of a play. With five play readings, a dramatic writing workshop and a panel of playwrights and directors, Momentum has much of the creative process covered.

Friday, May 30 “Out of the Box: Time Capsule Opening” The Warhol Museum 117 Sandusky St., North Side Time: 7:00 p.m.

Admission: $10 general / $8 student, member The Warhol’s “Time Capsule” series continues with an unveiling of yet another one of Warhol’s 612 cardboard box capsules.

Saturday, May 31 Eddie Izzard — “Force Majeure” May 31 - June 1 Byham Theater 101 6th St., Cultural District Time: 8:00 p.m.

Admission: Starts at $55.25

The British comedy legend brings his international “Force Majeure” tour, which will span 25 countries, to Pittsburgh. He plans to perform in French, Spanish, Russian, German and Arabic around the world.

Sunday, June 1 Singin’ In the Rain Benedum Center 803 Liberty Ave., Downtown Time: Matinee at 2 p.m., Regular show at 8 p.m.

Admission: Starts at $10

Possibly the most ubiquitous movie musical of all time — and the definitive starring vehicle for Pittsburgh’s own Gene Kelly — comes to the Benedum Center for one week only, as part of the PNC Spotlight Series.

Monday, June 2 “Halston and Warhol: Silver and Suede” Open from May 18 - Aug. 24 The Warhol 117 Sandusky St., North Side Time: Regular museum hours

Admission: Included with standard admission Halston and Warhol is The Warhol’s ongoing exhibition that explores the overlapping lives and styles of Andy Warhol and Halston in fashion and art.

Tuesday, June 3 Needtobreathe Stage AE 400 North Shore Drive, North Shore Time: 7:00 p.m. doors

Admission: $26 advance / $30 doors The Christian folk rockers are touring behind their highest-charting album yet, Rivers in the Wasteland, which debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.

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You’ll never have to eat again: new drink provides essential nutrients Vincent Smith Senior Staff Writer

‘Soylent Green’ this is not -- Soylent promises nutrients, not people.

What if you never had to worry about choosing a healthy meal again? What if everything that your body needed came in a yellow-tinged liquid that you could always consume on the go?

There are certain days where that idea sounds too good to be true.

Soylent, a California-based product, claims to be able to accomplish just that: nourish your body with everything it needs, with no food substitution necessary. The food substitute was created by software engineer Robert Rhinehart, and its first shipment to the public went out last month, but it’s been in the works for more than a year. Made from maltodextrin, rice protein, canola oil, fish oil and raw chemical powders, Soylent provides the body with all its essential nutrients for less than $5 per meal.

The concept may seem crazy, if not remarkably appealing. I’ve heard of replacing meals with protein shakes or substituting

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fruit smoothies for after-dinner snacks.

But the idea of an all-in-one solution to nutrition for efficiency’s sake is a new one — and it sounds like science fiction.

But the company isn’t shying away from that reputation. “Soylent” is taken from the Charlton Heston film “Soylent Green,” a dystopian movie that depicts a world where humans, because of overpopulation, must subsist on crackers known as Soylent Green. The famous twist is that the crackers are made from human flesh.

While Soylent isn’t made of human flesh, it taps into a popular notion held by our tech-savvy and efficiency-driven society: never waste time doing something that could be done in a quicker and easier way.

In a recent New Yorker article, Lizzie Widdicombe discusses how, when drinking Soylent, “you realize how much of your day revolves around food,” and as a result, we’ve become ghastly inefficient.

For me, a morning routine consists of a

Soylent

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May 28, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com ACROSS 1 Corp.partnership hybrids 5 Turkish title 8 Prepare for a trip 12 Icy-road application 13 Intravenous substance 16 Final or midterm 17 Reader of product instructions 18 Fool check writers?

20 Verbalized 22 “Do unto __ ...”

23 Hoodwink companies?

25 High spirits 29 Take out, as text 30 Award recipient 31 “Give it a shot” 32 Papal crown 35 Bank teller’s call 36 Swindle court appointees?

39 Pail-of-water fetcher of rhyme 42 Japanese cartoon art 43 Kenny G’s horn 46 Como or Crosby, notably 49 Infuriate 51 Prom attendee 52 Mislead groups of vacationers?

54 Visit briefly 56 Certain 57 Pull a fast one on proctors?

61 Evens up 63 Away from the wind 64 Dog-__: folded at the corner 65 Grabs a bite 66 Change direction 67 Classified messages 68 Word before fall or ball DOWN 1 Pelican State sch.

2 Cowboy using a rope 3 In a tidy way 4 Bitter discord

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14 “Kinda” suffix 15 California’s San __ Padres 19 Nana 21 “Me, too” 23 Ill. summer hrs.

24 Jockey’s strap 26 Before, to Byron 27 Nickname on the range 28 Nevertheless 30 Big name in spydom 33 Partly open 34 Hosiery mishap 36 Religious place of seclusion 37 Black cat crossing one’s path, to some 38 Rates on Monopoly deeds

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39 Store founder Penney and golfer Snead 40 Wrath 41 Actor Chaney 43 Lizardlike 44 Go along with 45 Ballet box fillers?

47 Quick message 48 Unevenly notched, as leaves

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50 Paths to take 52 1980s-’90s Olds 53 When right turns may be allowed 55 Educ. fundraiser 57 Ohio NBAer 58 Cheer for a matador 59 Born, in wedding announcements 60 ’60s activist gp.

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sit-down breakfast and subsequent cleanup. After reading Widdicombe’s article, I realized that my daily ritual usually takes me about an hour to complete. An hour of my day – the first hour of my day – is dedicated solely to food. And that’s only one meal.

With Soylent, five minutes and a blender can concoct three full meals with all the nutrients you need for a day.

With that in mind, imagine all of the extra time you would have to accomplish other things if you only drank Soylent. If you watch the beautifully rendered video on the company’s website, you could pick up an activity like kickboxing with all the time you spend preparing spare ribs or boiling potatoes.

But, as Widdicombe points out after her initial Soylent test, “with a bottle of Soylent on your desk, time stretches before you, featureless and a little sad.”

Unfortunately, I can’t blame my general inefficiency solely on food preparation. I also like to get lost in the Internet, and I often prioritize playing basketball before keeping up with my assigned readings for the week.

The idea of consuming only Soylent is intriguing because it would allow you to use every hour of the day in the exact way that you would want, and you’d never be constrained by the long hours that go into buying, rationing and preparing food.

I don’t think it is unrealistic to question if such efficiency could lead to further time-wasting. I still think I would end up checking the score of the baseball game and watching videos on YouTube more

than I would like to admit if I had more time to do such things.

On the other hand, I think that a product like Soylent has its positives. Because there is a market for TV dinners and microwavable meals, there is no questioning that consumers crave quick and efficient eating.

We also justify eating fast food because we just don’t have the time to make a good, wholesome meal during the work week.

So if we want quick meals, why not consume a beverage that not only is quick to prepare, but nourishes you completely?

Widdicombe also claims in her article that Soylent keeps you both full and satisfied.

Although I am not deconstructing my kitchen cabinets to make room for a blender and pouches of Soylent, I find the idea of one-step nourishment fascinating and worth discussing. Even being able to grasp the idea of a healthy life void of consuming solid food is exciting.

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Pitt Ultimate loses in national quarterfinals, falls short of goal Sean Corrado Staff Writer Marcus Ranii-Dropcho dropped to his knees, buried his head into the dirt and realized that his college Ultimate career had ended.

Pitt’s Ultimate team, En Sabah Nur’s attempt to three-peat as national champions came to an early, unexpected end Sunday when the team dropped its quarterfinal match against the University of North Carolina-Wilmington 14-13 in the 2014 College Men’s National Championships.

UNCW’s Xavier Maxstadt saved the final possession with an athletic layout and sent the disc to Austin McGrayne , who was waiting for the game-winning score at the front cone of the end zone.

The observers signaled the score, and UNCW began celebrating its most prolific victory in program history all across the field.

Players shed their jerseys, piled up on top of each other and even the UNCW coach got in on the act, demonstrating a sprinting moonwalk in the middle of the field, for No. 5 UNCW’s upset of No. 2 Pitt, which came after a break on a double game point.

Meanwhile, after McGrayne hauled in the disc to cap off the upset, Pitt was noticeably shaken. Only three players on the squad have been a part of a loss in the national tournament. The team’s last loss in nationals came in 2011 in the quarterfinals to Colorado, 12-7.

“In hindsight, every member of the team and staff is certainly running over various things that could have been done differently,” head coach Nick Kaczmarek said. “That is especially characteristic of our team, which is a brotherhood of players who take responsibility for their contributions to the whole.”

Pitt came into the tournament with momentum, having won all 13 of its postseason matches by at least six

points. It then had convincing victories in pool play against the University of Central Florida, Michigan, Texas A&M and Dartmouth.

“We were able to use our depth throughout the first four games,” Kaczmarek said. “Our D-line made incredible adjustments to playing each opponent and really took each team out of their game.”

But once the single-elimination portion of the weekend began, UNCW met Pitt with a type of athleticism that Pitt wasn’t prepared for, according to senior captain Aaron Watson.

“They had a level of skill and athleticism that we did not anticipate,” Watson said. “They are a very hot and cold team that we ran into red-hot.”

Pitt, a notably quick team, saw mostly zone defenses throughout the postseason. But UNCW showed that it wasn’t afraid of the opponent’s speed by using man-to-man defense.

This strategy put pressure on the Pitt offense, which could not extend a lead beyond two scores throughout the entire match.

Pitt came out of halftime with an 8-7 lead, but the offense of UNCW became more efficient. UNCW broke through zone defense with hucks and hammers.

Hucks are long, high passes often nearly the full length of the field to a tall player in the end zone, while hammers are high overhead throws where the disc flies upside down in a parabolic type path.

When Pitt led 10-9, Kaczmarek sent out his top line, which include five AllRegion players: Watson, Ranii-Dropcho, Max Thorne, Pat Earles, Tyler Kunsa, Trent Dillon and Christian Pitts.

Pitt received its third technical of the match for language and rushing the field early, and UNCW received possession closer to the end zone.

“The third technical gave UNCW great field position, but it took away

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Carvin Nkanata helped set a Kenyan national record. (Photo courtesy of Pitt Athletics)

Pitt track athlete makes mark in international debut Jasper Wilson Sports Editor

When Carvin Nkanata competed at the international level for the first time, he helped set a Kenyan national record.

The Pitt sprinter received a late call-up to the Kenyan track and field team last week to compete in the 4x200 relay at the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) World Relays Championships in the Bahamas.

As the anchor, or last leg, of the event, the senior pushed the squad to a 1:22.35 finish — a national record and good enough for fifth place.

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qualifier for the 2015 World Championships and the 2016 Olympic Games.

“I feel honored to represent Kenya in my first major international competition,” Nkanata said in a Pitt Athletics release.

“I’m ready to run fast and perform to the best of my ability.”

“I have never run in Kenya. I went to the U.S. when I was three and I would like to come back home and participate in the Commonwealth Games Trials next month, but much will depend on my academic program and schedule,” he said, according to a Kenyan media report.

Pitt’s track and field team will resume competition at NCAA East Regionals on Thursday in Jacksonville, Fla.

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20 years later, soccer’s progress here is almost unfathomable Linda Robertson MCT Campus

Before he became the guitar-playing, gingerbearded face of American soccer, Alexi Lalas was just another guy on an airplane, making small talk with a fellow passenger.

“I remember I was on my way to the 1994 World Cup opener, and this older lady asked me what I did for a living, and I said, ‘I play soccer,’” Lalas said. “And she replied, ‘Oh, that’s nice, but don’t you have a real job?’”

A week later, Lalas and his teammates were playing in the planet’s biggest sporting event, followed by a billion passionate fans.

He still wonders if that lady ever became aware of the tournament being played across the United States.

As the 2014 World Cup approaches 20 years later, Lalas is confident that the layer of obliviousness to the world’s most popular sport has been erased in the country that came so late to the party.

The beautiful game will be on display from June 12 to July 13 in Brazil, and, other than Brazilians, Americans have bought the most tickets. All 61 games will be shown on TV and accessible on numerous multimedia platforms.

The U.S. team, once considered an interloping curiosity, will be sorely disappointed

Support for the beautiful game has grown rapidly in the past decades. MCT Campus

if it does not advance beyond the first round, even though it is burdened by its draw in the “Group of Death” with Ghana, Portugal and Germany.

“You are judged by how you do in the World Cup,” Lalas said. “We don’t settle for moral victories anymore. Truly good teams find a way to win.”

SUCCESS EXPECTED High expectations are a measure of the evolution of soccer in the United States since 1990, when the team returned to the Cup after a 40-year absence. The roster, announced

by coach Jurgen Klinsmann on Thursday, also reflects a progression in quality, as all 23 men have professional experience compared with the team of a quarter century ago, which was largely made up of college players. Klinsmann showed his disregard for sentimentality and his uberpremium on competitiveness when he cut Landon Donovan, the most well-known and accomplished player on the national team.

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Pat Earles sits dejected amid celebration. Kevin Leclaire | Ultiphotos

their hucks which they heavily relied on in that game,” sophomore defender Connor Kazmierczak said. “So it actually gave us our best chance at a break, we just couldn’t punch it in.”

Pitt defended the UNCW possession after the technical but couldn’t take advantage of its next possession. UNCW scored on its next five possessions and only allowed Pitt to score three times, which carried the score to 14-13. Pitt was unable to break, and its season was over a couple games earlier than expected.

“We made some adjustments and started to force a few turnovers, but our offensive execution wasn’t quite strong enough to get the break,” Kaczmarek said. “It ended up being a game in which both teams executed at a pretty

Beckham can plant a franchise. Ten MLS players made the World Cup roster compared with four in 2010.

U.S. Soccer has deepened its talent pool with a systematic approach to identifying and grooming young players through 80 academies sprinkled across the country, including three in South Florida. Each MLS team has its own academy, mimicking the European way of developing potential pros.

Perhaps a future Lionel Messi, who was nurtured from adolescence by Barcelona, will bloom on U.S. soil.

Success at the World Cup would act as a catapult for soccer if it hopes to expand the Big Four hegemony of football, basketball, baseball and hockey — which is unique to the United States — into the Big Five, said Andrei Markovits, professor at the University of Michigan and author of “Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism.”

“If the U.S. advances and loses gloriously 4-3 to, say, Argentina, or Tim Howard becomes a crossover athlete and goes on ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ then the sport catches that semi-periphery of fans and gives MLS a kick in the pants,” Markovits said. “In 1994, FIFA rented out the U.S. and soccer here was forgotten two days after the Cup ended.

Read the rest online at Pittnews.com. high level offensively and they simply out-executed us at the end.”

Next year, Pitt will most likely only lose two seniors, Watson and RaniiDropcho, to graduation. Ranii-Dropcho was a Callahan Award nominee, Ultimate’s Heisman Trophy, this year.

But their Ultimate careers needn’t be over — either player would have another year of eligibility if he pursued a graduate degree at Pitt .

Since the squad will retain most of its starting lineup, adding onto its streak of 10 consecutive trips to nationals is likely. The team will begin preparing for that task in early fall.

Kazmierczak is looking forward to accomplish a little bit more next season than just another trip to the national tournament, though.

“The loss in quarters lit a fire in all of us. It will make us work harder so we don’t face the same disappointment next year,” he said.

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Sacred Heart School in Shadyside is looking for responsible adults interested in volunteering their time to coach girls' volleyball teams. Positions available for JV (grades 5th and 6th) and Varsity (grades 7th and 8th).

Practices will begin late July 2014.

If you are interested, please contact Alyssa Ilov at alyssailov@gmail.com.

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