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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | may 30, 2018 | Volume 109 | Issue 3
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PITT BASEBALL FALLS TO LOUISVILLE IN ACC SEMIFINAL Trent Leonard Staff Writer
Gary Jackson from Baldwin recovers in the makeshift locker rooms in the basement of the Priory Grand Hall after losing his amateur boxing match. Theodore Schwarz|STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS CELEBRATES MEMORIAL DAY Sam Weber Staff Writer
Butler-local Tom McKay, an ex-Marine, stood outside Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on Monday to experience the museum’s annual celebration for the first time. He described the day as a “sweeping experience.” Red, white and blue T-shirts and flags were scattered across the front lawn of Soldiers and Sailors to commemorate the lives of fallen American soldiers with a community event that balanced both moments of celebration and solemn reflection. McKay said not only was this his first time attending the Memorial Day ceremonies, it was also the first time he had ever been to Soldiers and Sailors.
“Whenever we were bringing our daughter through Oakland, we’d see Soldiers and Sailors, but we’d never been in it before. I’m glad we went today to see it and got to see how many other veterans came out to remember our fallen brothers and sisters,” McKay said. McKay was struck by the support Pittsburghers had for veterans in their community and nationwide. “We’ve driven through here hundreds of times,” McKay said, “but I’ve never been able to see this kind of community celebration for us veterans before.” A local Americana band called Brassroots took to the center of the celebration to perform for the growing audience. The band transitioned between “America the
Beautiful,” the “Armed Forces Salute” and other patriotic songs, and the crowd sat silently while the band played. As the salute ended, a lone trumpet player concluded the music with a rendition of “Taps” in memory of the fallen soldiers. As he finished, the crowd erupted into cheer. The chance to experience the community’s gratitude is one of the biggest achievements for the museum. John McCabe has worked with the community to push events like the Memorial Day celebration into the public eye since he was appointed as president of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in 2008. McCabe also works as an attorney, and has 20 years of military experience. He See Memorial Day on page 7
While it was an exciting run, all good things must end — and that’s what happened for the Pitt baseball team Saturday afternoon when a 5-2 loss to the No. 5 Louisville Cardinals put an end to the No. 12 Panthers’ ACC Baseball Championship bid in the semifinal round in Durham, North Carolina. After beating No. 8 Georgia Tech and No. 1 North Carolina in its last two tournament games, Pitt entered the ACC semifinal — its first in program history— as an underdog. And although the Panthers cut the deficit down to one late in the game, it was Louisville junior second baseman Devin Mann who ultimately proved to be the difference-maker. Mann hit three of the Cardinals’ five RBIs and two of their five runs. He went 2-3 on the day, with both his hits — a triple and a home run — coming at crucial moments for his team. Pitt fell behind in the bottom of the first inning when Mann hit a one-out triple to score sophomore shortstop teammate Tyler Fitzgerald from second base. Pitt sophomore pitcher Dan Hammer struck out the next two batters, leaving Mann stranded on third base going into the second inning. With the Cardinals holding a 1-0 lead, the two teams battled to a scoreless draw over innings two and three. Mann gave the Panthers trouble once again in the fourth inning, as he drew a walk, stole See Baseball on page 6
A NIGHT AT THE PRIORY
Lyubomyr Pinchuk works on his technique at the Conn-Greb Boxing Club in North Oakland a week before his headline match against Matthew Garretson. Theodore Schwarz|STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
THE CROWD SPENDS HUNDREDS ON TICKETS, FIGHTERS PREPARE FOR MONTHS AND PROMOTERS NERVOUSLY WATCH ON – WHAT DOES HOSTING A FOUR-FIGHT EVENT TAKE, FROM THE ORGANIZERS TO THE STARS THEMSELVES?
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The ballroom of the Priory Grand Hall, a small hotel in the historic Pittsburgh neighborhood of Deutschtown, is actually a converted church — but last Friday it became a boxing ring. A red-matted ring bordered by red and blue ropes sat in the center of the ballroom, hit directly by the fading evening light coming from the glass roof. The crowd of about 500 slowly filled the seats around the ring, drinks in hand, waiting in anticipation of a four-match fight card promoted by Conn-Greb Boxing Club. The crowd was full of people connected to either the fighters or the Pittsburgh fight scene in general. A table filled with T-shirts promoting the fighters and Conn-Greb sat near the entrance to the ballroom. Near what used to be an altar for mass was a DJ playing everything from AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” to N.W.A.’s “Express Yourself.”
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week before the fight, “Express Yourself ” blared from the speaker connected to Mike McSorley’s phone at Conn-Greb. The gym is full of workout benches, weights and punching bags, and the walls are covered with fight posters and photos. A practice ring sits in the center of the gym. It’s tucked away on the second level of a parking garage in North Oakland, making it almost impossible to find unless you know McSorley, the owner. “We are very underground by design,” McSorley said in a text, explaining where the gym is. McSorley has been training fighters out
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of Conn-Greb — named after the two famous Pittsburgh boxers Billy Conn and Harry Greb — for the last six years. Greb, nicknamed “The Pittsburgh Windmill,” fought in the 1910s and ’20s. He was a famously difficult matchup because of his nonstop motion in the ring, and competed in nearly 300 fights in his career. He was voted the greatest middleweight of all time in 2006 by the International Boxing Research Organization. Conn, nicknamed “The Pittsburgh Kid,” fought throughout the ’30s and ’40s. Conn famously fought Hall of Famer Joe Louis twice, including a 13-round bout in 1941 which Conn appeared to be winning before Louis won by knockout — a fight that ESPN named one of “Joe Louis’ Greatest Matches.” Old fight posters and photos featuring Conn adorn the walls of the boxing club, many of which McSorley said were donations from Conn’s son. But McSorley only recently started promoting his own fights, and the contest at the Priory was still among his first. It was originally supposed to be headlined by two fighters he’s been training for the last two years — Lyubomyr Pinchuk and Oleg Dovhun, both from Ukraine.
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This was the part I wanted to do ever since I was young. I always wanted to look at another person in the face and be able to put myself against them,”
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America’s first openly gay boxer
Leemont Johnson gets his hands wrapped before his fight with Jeremy Lane. Theodore Schwarz|STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Pinchuk is a domineering figure, standing well over six feet — his nickname is “Demolition Man” — but at just 21 he still looks youthful, and surprisingly untethered for a fighter. McSorley first found him on Facebook and reached out to him to train him. “Mike found me on Facebook and we start talking … he text me, I text him, and he asked me about a couple fights, if I can send him [video],” Pinchuk said. “I sent him some of my fights, he liked it, he asked me if I can come and now I’m already here and we work together.” Both Pinchuk and Dovhun came to America after prolific amateur careers. Pinchuk said he fought in over 250 amateur fights in Ukraine, estimating he racked up an
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amateur record of about 220-30. McSorley said that Dovhun fought in about 350 amateur fights. Pinchuk joked about the toll his illustrious amateur career has taken on him. “In Ukraine I have big amateur experience. I have like over 250 fights,” Pinchuk said, pointing to his temple. “Maybe too much, too many hits in my head.” He recalled one amateur fight that he was particularly proud of. “I remember one fight where I had three cuts. One on my head, one by my eye and one on my nose,” Pinchuk said. “But, I still won the fight!” Pinchuk said that training in America has been different from his experience in See Fight Night on page 5
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ABC valued ratings over diversity with Roseanne The revival of working-class sitcom “Roseanne” was cut short Tuesday after two months on ABC — and unlike “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” it probably won’t be picked up by another network after the creator and star of the sitcom, Roseanne Barr, compared black former White House aide Valerie Jarrett to an ape on Twitter Monday night. ABC responded swiftly, canceling the show hours after the now-deleted tweet was posted — but the show should never have been revived in the first place. The poorly executed reboot of the once-beloved show proves the new “Roseanne” was merely meant to cater to Trump supporters at the expense of marginalized communities, and proves ABC doesn’t care about good, diverse content — it cares about viewership. The new “Roseanne” wasn’t just out of touch with liberals — it was out of touch with itself, in both plot and style. Plot holes like unexplained pregnancies and a reversed death littered the reboot, and showed a callous disregard for the series itself. “Roseanne” wasn’t rebooted for Roseanne’s sake — it was just for the numbers. And unlike the original, the revival refused to discuss many real issues. The original “Roseanne” jumped headfirst into topics like abortion, gay rights and race. But in the revival, Trump’s name is never even mentioned — the president is referred to symbolically as “he.” Political aspects of characters, such as the skirt-wearing grandson’s refusal to conform to gender norms, are often treated as quirks — and even more often, made the butt of jokes. The show simply brushed on controversial topics without fully incorporating them into the storyline, making ABC look like it didn’t care if the revival remained true to what originally made it iconic — as long as people were watching.
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And as for Barr herself, her mere presence as an ABC network creator contradicts ABC’s commitment to diversity. She has a history of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, having tweeted about “Islamic pedo culture” in 2013 and “Jewish mind control” in 2012. Allowing someone who has made bigoted statements in the past to run a show on the same network as programs such as “Blackish” and “Fresh Off the Boat” shows a disregard for the portrayal of minority experiences in America that ABC claims to respect. ABC picked up Barr’s show in the hopes it would tap into an underrepresented conservative demographic — and it did, garnering 23 million views for the first episode. But while Barr portrays a sympathetic Trump supporter on television, supporting her biracial granddaughter and trying to get along with her liberal sister, she’s known for spreading offensive and misleading conspiracy theories online about Democrats and Trump opponents. Barr spread a theory on Twitter that one of the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting gave a Nazi salute at March for Our Lives. And only a few hours before insulting Valerie Jarrett, she accused progressive philanthropist George Soros — who survived the German occupation of Hungary — of being a Nazi who turned Jews over to be murdered in concentration camps. This side of Trumpism is something ABC should have seen coming. “Roseanne” was one of the most popular sitcoms in America during its original run, making the American working class feel truly represented. But ABC’s decision to revive it as a badly remade sitcom for Trump supporters — while fully aware of its creator’s reputation — was a foolish move and proves how superficial many of its other programs are.
with abortion vote Anne Marie Yurik Columnist
Ireland overturned the Eighth Amendment of its constitution May 25, effectively ending one of the world’s most restrictive bans on abortion and allowing room for more progressive laws to emerge in Ireland. Meanwhile, the United States seems to be moving backwards. The Supreme Court this week refused to hear a case against Arkansas, which bans medication abortion — paving the way for the most restrictive abortion law in the nation. But in Ireland, about 66 percent of citizens supported overturning the ban, including the thousands who traveled home from abroad since absentee ballots were not accepted. The activity surrounding Ireland’s vote and the decision that ultimately sprang forth shows that it is possible for a country to mobilize in favor of women’s reproductive rights. At a time when the United States appears to be regressing while other countries are progressing, U.S. citizens need to consider the role abortion plays in women’s health, safety and autonomy, and advocate for what is truly best for women. Reasons for abortion ranges from person to person — some women do not feel they are prepared to carry a child to term, or fear it will interfere with the lives they are building. A 2005 study by the Guttmacher Institute found that the main reasons women cited for ending pregnancies included inability to financially support a child and interference with the woman’s education, work or ability to care for those who depend on them.
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Abortions are also necessary for women’s mental health and safety. About 1 percent of all abortions are sought by women who were raped and less than 0.5 percent by women who seek to terminate pregnancies as a result of incest, according to the Guttmacher Institute. While that may sound low, the numbers are still in the thousands — and it is not uncommon for mothers to neglect or abuse children born of rape and for these children to develop mental health issues as a result. Abortion services can prevent women who have been assaulted from continuing to have to live through their trauma and forcing them to have a child they resent. Some people encourage stricter use of birth control to prevent abortions, but abortion already exists as a last resort for most women. Fifty-four percent of women who received abortions in 2000 said they were using a contraceptive measure in the month they became pregnant and at an average price of up to $800 per medication abortion, the procedure is too costly to even consider as a primary method of birth control. Those who argue that women could just wait and then give the baby up for adoption when it is born do not take into account the physical and mental toll that carrying a child for nine months requires, including decreased lung capacity, lower back pain and postpartum depression. Pregnancy also requires financial investment — if you don’t have health insurance, the average cost of prenatal care is about $2,000. Natural birth alone can cost $9,600, if it’s uncomplicated. See Yurikon page 4
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Yurik, pg. 3 Women who have no access to abortion are likely to turn to unsafe methods that damage their health. A 2015 Women’s Health policy report estimated that about 100,000 Texan women in the state’s 18-49 age range at the time had attempted a self-induced abortion at some point in their lives. This information came two years after Texas passed a law prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks and the number of abortion care facilities in Texas subsequently dropped from 42 to 19. Stricter abortion laws lead to more unsafe abortions. In Uganda, where abortion is only permitted to save the life of the mother in certain circumstances, thousands of women attempt to induce abortions themselves. About 93,300 women were treated for complications from unsafe abortions there in 2013, and a 2010 report by the Ugandan Ministry of Health estimated that 8 percent of maternal deaths were due to unsafe abortion methods. Reasons for abortion are personal and the United States’ increasingly strict laws
Votes poured in May 25 in Dublin for the referendum on the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which prohibited abortions unless a mother’s life was in danger. The Irish voted 66.4 percent in favor to repeal the amendment. COURTESY OF BRIAN LAWLESS/PA/ABACA PRESS/TNS
show no respect for women’s sexual freedom. Women have no control over American men’s reproductive rights but men can easily make decisions about women’s bodies. The all-male Freedom Caucus panel in 2017, where men discussed rollbacks on women’s healthcare and maternity services, is a primary example of this. But the vote in Ireland should give people hope and encourage action for the future of the United States. In repealing its Eighth Amendment, which gave an unborn fetus the same right to life as its mother, Ireland removed a law that prohibited abortion in most or all circumstances. Abortion shouldn’t be a dirty word. American women who take advantage of access to safe abortions are making a decision that allows them to live a full, healthy life and the country they live in should respect and value that. Denying American women widespread reproductive rights creates scores of pregnant women who are unprepared and unwilling to undergo a pregnancy — which will only lead to unsafe methods that are potentially fatal, not only for the embryo, but for the mother as well.
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PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS TO CLOSE DOORS IN NORTH OAKLAND Sarah Connor and Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot The Pitt News Staff
After 20 years of providing classes to residents of Pittsburgh and students at Pitt, Pittsburgh Filmmakers will end its days in Oakland. Due to financial struggles, Pittsburgh Filmmakers has canceled its fall courses in film and photography, and has made plans to sell its building on Melwood Avenue in North Oakland where those classes were held. It will also consolidate staff and programs at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts on Fifth Avenue in Shadyside Pittsburgh Filmmakers — one of the oldest and largest nonprofit media arts organizations in the United States — bought the building in 1998 for $1.2 million, where it offers independent certificate programs and public showings of art films. Filmmakers also worked in collaboration with the Pitt film and media studies department to offer classes to Pitt students. In 2006, Pittsburgh Filmmakers merged with Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, which at
Fight Night, pg. 2 Ukraine. American fighting, he said, is less strategic. “In Ukraine we work a little bit more for technique, for strategy. Right here it’s like more slower,” Pinchuk said. “First it was a little bit difficult for me, changing my style, but now I start to do the same job with Mike, I start to work for power. I have all that they teach me in Ukraine and now here they teach me something new.” McSorley describes Pinchuk as a “devastating puncher” and said it’s been hard to find fights for him because of his experience and reputation. Pinchuk wasn’t even able to secure a sparring partner for his match at the Priory. But Dovhun was. He sparred at ConnGreb eight days before the scheduled fight and ended up getting a cut across the width of his nose. McSorley, who worked as a
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the time was facing financial difficulty. The organization was forced to lay off 20 employees in 2015 because it could not meet payroll — and is facing the loss of future classes. Courses in the fall of 2018 will not be held due to debt. Classes should resume in spring of 2019, according to Will Zavala, associate professor at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. “Right now, Pittsburgh Filmmakers will continue for the summer exactly unchanged,” Zavala said. Randall Halle, director of Pitt’s film and media studies program, has spoken with colleagues at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and was aware of the challenges confronted by the institution. He said due to Filmmakers’ relocation to the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, there would likely not be the same kind of collaboration with the institution. “We will have a new structure in place with little disruption to currently enrolled students,” he said. When asked about the effect of this situation on Pitt’s film and media studies program, Halle was confident.
“I anticipate that we will see an expansion of students in film and media studies courses, because classes will be offered on the Oakland campus,” he added — but noted that with the expected growth, definite changes will be made. “The students in the film and media studies program will have a program focused specifically on their needs,” Halle explained. “The program will offer new opportunities, like broadcast courses to integrate students into the new Atlantic Coast Conference.” Noah Livingston, a senior film major, feels that although the University is making a good effort to compensate for the loss of the Melwood building, the presence of a space just for film students will be missed. “The best part about Filmmakers was the actual physical presence,” he said. “Having a separate place just for film was special in such a crowded university. The space is beautiful — I almost wish Pitt could buy the space and make it a part of the University.” Livingston said that the University and his
film professors have been communicating with film majors regarding the plan of action for the fall semester given the Filmmakers building will not be housing many of their required classes. “There has been lots of communication, it doesn’t seem like the fall semester will be that big of an issue with how quickly the department has been reaching out to solve any problems,” he said. Ultimately, Livingston said that the only true harm in the closure of this building would be if the University failed to provide for its thriving community of filmmakers and film-lovers. “If the University can give us the space and resources that our growing major deserves, I think we will be in a great place as a department even without the institution of Pittsburgh Filmmakers,” he said. Pittsburgh Filmmakers will host “Mottled Metal,” a multimedia exhibition exploring the romanticization of the industrial landscape from May 25 to July 30 at its Melwood Avenue theater before it closes.
cutman for professional fighter Sammy Vasquez, immediately called a local doctor he knew. He and Dovhun left quietly and quickly. Too serious a cut could mean Dovhun misses the fight — and McSorley loses his headliner. While McSorley was out, two other fighters stepped into the ring to spar. Leemont Johnson, 27, a super middleweight living in the West End of Pittsburgh, holds a perfect 5-0 record with three knockouts. He was the biggest of all of the fighters at Conn-Greb the week before the fight. He has an immediately noticeable reach, making him a dangerous opponent for any fighter that tries to step inside. His sparring partner at Conn-Greb was Jarrell Brackett — the only openly gay boxer in America — who was preparing to make his professional debut at the Priory. Brackett, 30, wore his hair in a curled mohawk dyed purple on top. He goes by the
moniker “The Samurai” and bowed toward Johnson from his corner before the sparring began. The two sparred for six rounds, which got progressively more contentious, at one point spilling over the ropes of the practice ring before onlookers helped the fighters back to their feet and into the ring. Brackett filmed the entirety of their sparring session on his laptop, warning people not to step in front of it. “If you step in front of my camera I will stop whatever I’m doing until you move,” Brackett said. He has a YouTube channel full of videos of both his amateur fights and sparring sessions. The description of the channel says the videos are to “have a video recording of this journey.” Brackett has been fighting since he was 12 years old and said his inspiration for becoming a fighter came from a desire to be like the superheros he saw on television.
“I was 12 and I realized that I wanted to be like the superheros I saw on TV. I wanted to be like the Power Rangers. I wanted to be like Sailor Moon. I wanted to be Dragonball Z. I wanted to be like Bad Beetleborgs,” Brackett said. After 57 amateur fights and a college boxing career at Olivet College in Michigan, where he was team captain and helped secure the 2016 United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association National Title, Brackett was ready for his professional debut. “This was the part I wanted to do ever since I was young. I always wanted to look at another person in the face and be able to put myself against them,” Brackett said.
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PITT ULTIMATE FRISBEE MAKES HISTOR RY
Sophomore pitcher Dan Hammer allowed two runs over 3.1 innings in Pitt’s 5-2 loss to Louisville Saturday afternoon.
Team captain of En Sabah Nur, Pitt men’s ultimate frisbee team, Dylan Best, throws the frisbee during their game against UNC at the national championship.
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Baseball, pg. 1 second base and proceeded to score off an RBI double from junior outfielder Josh Stowers. After Pitt head coach Joe Jordano replaced Hammer with senior pitcher TJ Pagan, the Cardinals scored one more run on an error by Panthers redshirt sophomore shortstop David Yanni. Trailing 3-0, Pitt’s batters continued to struggle against Louisville sophomore pitcher Nick Bennett. Bennett cruised through the first five innings, striking out six while allowing just two hits and no runs. But the Panthers finally saw success in the top of the sixth inning when first-year outfielder Ron Washington Jr. knocked a home run just over the right field wall, scoring himself and Yanni to make the score 3-2. The Cardinals threatened to increase their lead again in the bottom of the sixth, with the first two batters hitting singles
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to put runners on first and second with Dominic Campbell no outs. Jordan elected to swap Pagan out Staff Writer This weekend in Milwaukee was hot — with junior relief pitcher Yaya Chentouf, the Panthers’ leader in saves. The move over 80 degrees in the sun, and hotter on the paid off — Chentouf forced a double play turf fields of the Uihlein Soccer Park, where and a strikeout to get his team out of the the Pitt Ultimate frisbee men’s and women’s teams competed for a shot at their respecjam unscathed. In the seventh inning, with Pitt still tive national championships. But according trailing 3-2, Chentouf found himself fac- to rising fifth-year senior Hafeez Shams, it ing Mann with two outs and a runner on didn’t make a difference. “Ever since we started playing Ultimate third. Like he did all day, Mann came up clutch, knocking a triple — which was we had dreamed of playing on that field determined to be a home run after replay on that stage so the heat wasn’t exactly the review — over the left field wall to score first thing on our minds,” he said. The women’s team — also known as himself and sophomore third baseman The Danger — proved many people wrong Justin Lavey. The Panthers failed to string together at Nationals this year, starting out as the consecutive hits in the eighth and ninth 10th seed. They won their pool with an uninnings, leaving a runner stranded on defeated 4-0 record, beating No. 3 North third at the end of each. The game ended Carolina 13-11 and coming back from a with junior catcher Cole MacLaren strik- four-point deficit to beat No. 6 British Coing out swinging, leaving first-year out- lumbia 16-15. The Danger went on to upset No. 5 fielder Chris Cappas on third base as Pitt Oregon in the quarterfinals 15-10, which lost by a final score of 5-2.
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meant that they finally made it to the semifinals for the first time in program history this Sunday. They would go on to play another underdog, No. 12 Colorado, for a shot at the championship final. The game went back and forth until it was a tie score at 12-12 at the end of full time. The game then went into universe point, which is sudden death in Ultimate, and Colorado ended up scoring first to beat Pitt and go on to the title game. Despite the loss, rising sophomore CJ Dawson was still happy the team made it as far as they did. “This isn’t even something to be sad about,” Dawson said. “We played our hearts out there. We left it all out on the field and even though it was disappointing of course to lose, we were just so happy with how far we’ve come and how well we performed that day.”
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Memorial Day, pg. 1 takes great pride in being able to give back to the Pittsburgh community through the museum and events such as the celebration. “I didn’t know anything about running a nonprofit,” McCabe said, “but the staff here really help us supply history to everyone.” Soldiers and Sailors attracted visitors from across the state for the Memorial Day festivities. During his trip exploring the area, Dan Jung, 25, made a point of coming by the celebration to experience the festivi-
ties and see the museum. “Even though I’m in Harrisburg usually, I haven’t gone to see many museums or sites,” Jung said. “They’re just there so it’s not as different to see. I’d wanted to see Pittsburgh for a while, and it just worked to see the museum while I was here.” Jung said that the atmosphere at the celebration really captured the gratitude for the soldiers, and the music and the attitude of the people at the celebration made it feel special to be there during the holiday. “I really wanted to experience what it would be like here,” Jung said, “and being here for Memorial Day meant a lot.”
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial held their annual Memorial Day Celebration offering activities like face painting and bounce houses while attendees and veterans paid their respects to soldiers. Sam Weber|STAFF WRITER CORRECTION: In The Pitt News’ May 23 print edition, Kathy Humphrey was incorrectly called Pitt’s ex-senior vice chancellor for engagement. Humphrey is Pitt’s current senior vice chancellor for engagement. The Pitt News regrets this error.
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Local Americana band Brassroots performed patriotic songs to pay respects and salute soldiers during annual Memorial Day celebration at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial. Sam Weber|STAFF WRITER
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6X $30.20 $32.30
Add. + $5.00 + $5.40
(Each Additional Word: $0.10)
Deadline:
Two business days prior by 3pm | Email: advertising@pittnews.com | Phone: 412.648.7978
landscaping. Parttime and weekend work also available. Must be 18. Experience helpful but not required. Immediate openings. Email bigtfeight@earthlink.net
transportation. Call
SUMMER WORK
Interested in paying off your student loan within a year? A car loan or credit card? Only serious applicants need reply. Text or email for free consultation. Rick 412-779-0308 or ral1313@verizon.net
Landscape help, wall and patio construction, planting, mulching, and concrete work. Near 279 Camp Horne Rd exit. Full time and part time. $11-15/hour. Need
May 30, 2018
412-477-3800.
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