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CMU grad’s website a new way to find concerts

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Macie Ellis For The Pitt News

Lady Gaga is playing a show Downtown at Consol Energy Center Thursday. If you’d used eventmapper.net, a new website created by a 2009 Carnegie Mellon graduate, you might already know that.

For concert prowlers, Kevin Qi’s eventmapper.net can offer a solution. Qi, a 2009 Carnegie Mellon University graduate with a degree in computer science, created the site to organize nearby concerts based on date, popularity and location by city.

With countless venues and bands performing on any given evening in Pittsburgh, it can be difficult for students and community members to find one nearby that interests them.

One such student is Stephanie Gargone, a junior psychology major, who has attended several concerts in the Pittsburgh area, including acts such as Timeflies, OneRepublic and All Time Low. “Concerts are somewhat manageable to hear about, but they are not advertised around campus well,” Gargone said.

According to Brendan Pester, an administrator for Opus One Productions, a company that organizes scheduling for several local

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Sophia Antonucci cooks up a gyro at the Greek food festival, an annual event put on by Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral. This year’s festival will run until May 10. Sheldon Satenstein | Visual Editor

Students fight to bring Islamic courses back Elizabeth Furiga Staff Writer

Pitt students will have four fewer opportunities to learn about the Islamic faith this fall, and some are worried that this will lead to Muslim stereotypes going unquestioned.

During the upcoming fall semester, Pitt will no longer offer any of the four previously available classes that focused solely on the Islamic religion. The Muslim Student Association learned of the classes’ cancel-

lations via an email from the Office of the Provost in March.

In response, members of the MSA have coordinated the Offer Islam Campaign, an attempt to bring Islamic courses back to campus by petitioning to Patricia Beeson, provost and senior vice chancellor, and Juan Manfredi, vice provost for undergraduate studies.

University Vice Chancellor of Commu-

nication Ken Service wrote in an email last month that the University will cancel four courses indefinitely: The Anthropology of Islam, The Sociology of Islam, Intro to Islamic Civilization and The History of the Ottoman Empire.

Service said the four cancelled courses are upper-level or special topic cours-

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es that are not regularly offered each semester.Intro to Islamic Civilization will be cancelled because the instructor who taught the course, Pinar Emiralioglu, is leaving Pitt for personal reasons. Emiralioglu declined to comment any further in an email sent mid-April.

Service pointed to other classes still available to students.

“From a broader point of view the University of Pittsburgh offers approximately 30 courses next fall (fall 2014) that focus on the Middle East region, an example of how the University of Pittsburgh is a leader in how Global Studies are incorporated into our curriculum,” he said in the email.

Service listed courses including Christian Muslim Relations, Islamic Art and Islam Politics and Britain from the history, art history and urban studies departments, respectively.

Laila Al-Soulaiman, a member of the MSA, said that she thinks the University is “skirting around the issue” by referring students to the other classes still available.

“We want to make it very clear that we don’t believe there is any malicious intent from the University for cancelling these classes,” Al-Soulaiman, a freshman majoring in political science, said. “[The available classes] don’t fulfill what we are asking for by any means. They are supplemental.”

Sherean Ali, a junior majoring in biology and member of the MSA, said she believes that classes about Islam will help shape students’ outlooks for the better.

“There’s so many Muslims out there.

There’s a lot of misconceptions,” Ali said.

“It will give students a different perspective on things portrayed in the media.”

The MSA posted a petition online at Change.org, a website which enables users to mobilize support through online petitions, on April 13. The MSA’s goal is to reach 1,000 signatures as soon as possible.

As of May 5, the petition has accumulated 753 signatures.

According to Al-Soulaiman, the group has garnered 250 signatures on a paper petition as of May 6, too.

The paper petition states, “The Offer Islam Campaign requests that the University of Pittsburgh offer Islam in a curriculum that represents global citizenship, diversity and equity.”

May 7, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com The petition also lists the goals of the campaign. “This petition requests that Islamic courses be offered in the history, anthropology, sociology and religious studies departments by spring 2015 [and that] two tenured track professors with Islamic history expertise be hired by fall of 2015,” the statement reads.

Ali said the MSA announced at a meeting on April 3 that the University cancelled the four classes.

As the Islamic courses will not be returning in the fall, some of the teachers who taught the courses will also no longer be at Pitt.

David Montgomery, a visiting assistant professor who taught Anthropology of Islam, said in an email that he has decided to leave Pitt to look for a tenure stream job.

As a visiting professor at Pitt, his five-year contract expires this fall, and the University did not offer him tenure.

Service also responded to requests for tenured Islamic-focused faculty in the email.

“The Dietrich School is committed to adding faculty resources in Islam and Islamic culture in the future, following the academic and planning processes in place to maintain a high-quality faculty,” Service said.

For Al-Soulaiman, teaching Islam is relevant and important to Pitt’s reputation.

“Being that those four classes are cut, now there’s not a single class dedicated to Islamic thought or history and that’s unacceptable for a world-class research university,” she said.

Al-Soulaiman also said offering these classes at Pitt is key to curbing negative stereotypes about the religion.

“In this country, there’s a lot of misinformation and, frankly, a lack of information regarding Islam and its basic teachings,” Al-Soulaiman said. “Muslims in this country face an uphill battle. But on principle, we should have these classes. It’s one of the three largest monotheistic religions in the world.”

Ali has personal reasons for joining the cause and said the education she’s received so far at Pitt has strengthened her Muslim faith.

Al-Soulaiman shared Ali’s sentiments.

“I am a Muslim, and I am very open about my faith, and being in a community that is open and accepting and knowledgeable of my faith [is] important to me,” Al-Soulaiman said.

Ali said that offering courses on Islam will exemplify Pitt’s receptiveness to diversity, and that the university is willing to accept everyone. The Offer Islam Campaign is continuing to expand.

According to Al-Soulaiman, the MSA also plans to add members who are nonMuslim who would simply like to get involved in the campaign.

One of these new members, Kara Kloss, does not practice the Islamic faith, but joined the campaign because she is studying international relations with a focus on the Middle East. Islamic courses being offered is important to her academic career.

Kloss, a sophomore political science major, said teaching Islam is relevant because of how large and widespread the religion is.

According to a study by the Pew Research Center, 1.6 billion people worldwide identify as Muslim.

“If you look at basic statistics, it’s the fastest-growing religion,” Kloss said. “It’s a fifth of the people in the world. To exclude the understanding of a fifth of a people in the world is to understand the world a fifth less.”

The MSA has also contacted alumni and parents of MSA members to ask them to write letters to Beeson and Manfredi addressing their interests of keeping the Islamic courses at Pitt.

Ali hopes the campaign will show that students can influence administrative policy.

“This campaign was organized by students completely,” she said. “If it’s successful, it will show that any student can make a difference.”

Renovations approved for David Lawrence Hall Harrison Kaminsky Assistant News Editor

A project to renovate David Lawrence Hall, Pitt’s largest classroom building, will begin this summer.

According to a University press release, Pitt’s Property and Facilities Committee approved a more than $7 million project to renovate the building last week. The committee is responsible for approving major construction and renovation projects on all of Pitt’s campuses. The Provost Reserves and Plant Funds — a reserve of funds for capital projects — will fund the costs, according to University spokesman John Fedele.

According to the release, the project’s primary focus is the renovation of the building’s large existing auditorium on the first floor into two separate lecture halls to create a more effective learning environment by reducing the distance between instructors and students.

Jerome Cochran, executive vice chancellor, commented on the improvements in the release.

“The renovated lecture halls will improve the acoustics and lighting and will greatly improve faculty/student interaction, and the new second-floor classrooms will provide much-needed instructional space,” Cochran said. “The comprehensive renovation will provide greatly improved functionality and a fresh new look for this high-use classroom building.”

According to the release, the renovations will reconfigure the seating of the large auditorium — already divided into rooms 120 and 121, which each seat 500 people — to feature smaller classrooms seating 332 and 571 students, respectively.

The smaller room will feature swing-away seating and tables to encourage collaboration, while the larger room will feature large-screen technology.

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MAPPER venues, there is potential demand for such a website, especially one that shows the popularity and location of a concert together.

“I haven’t seen anything that has combined the two. I could see it catching on, especially in this day and age,” Pester said.

Other students, such as junior Kacie Gallo, see the website as a possible resource for her concert planning in the future.

“It seems like a helpful website to have everything in one place,” Gallo said. “Sorting by popularity is a good idea. I think also sorting by price range would be useful.”

Qi said the website is very useful to lazy people, like himself.

Currently living in Boston, Qi said it was tedious to look up the names of all the different acts performing in the city. Eventmapper.net was his solution.

Qi said he was partially inspired by PadMapper, a program that digitally maps apartment listings from Craigslist, a classified advertisements website.

“I figured a similar interface with a map would help give you a sense of which con-

certs are closer by,” Qi said. To develop the site, Qi used an application programming interface, a programming template that determines how certain aspects of a website interact with each other. He also used data from Songkick, a website that tracks bands and concerts, to create a list of nearby concerts and determine the popularity of each show based on the number of people “interested” or “going to” each event.

“I was testing it on New York, and I’d see like, Miley Cyrus right at the top,” Qi said.

“The popularity metric might not be perfect, but I think the bigger bands definitely show up at the top, which is cool to see.”

Gargone also said she has had trouble in the past finding popular acts to see.

“Many concerts in the Oakland area are [acts] whom I am not familiar with,” Gargone said. “The people I want to see, I usually look up myself for concert dates.”

According to eventmapper.net, Luke Bryan, Jimmy Buffett and Miley Cyrus highlight some of the biggest acts coming to Pittsburgh in the coming months, at locations including Consol Energy Center, Heinz Field and First Niagara Pavilion.

The distance aspect of eventmapper.net is key to some students, like Megan Stauffer.

Stauffer, a junior marketing major, has been to nine concerts so far at in different cities and said staying close to Pittsburgh is a priority during the fall and spring semesters.

“Distance doesn’t really matter when I can road trip to the concert with friends I’m going with, but at school when I don’t have access to a car I’m more reluctant to go to a concert,” Stauffer said.

Eventmapper.net’s location-based listings provide Stauffer with an easy way to find nearby performances.

The site is still a work in progress for Qi. He said although he has only worked on it for about five or six days so far, the use of Songkick saved him a lot of time because it compiled the data on song popularity for him.

While the site is a side project for Qi, it’s simplified the concert search for his entertainment-seeking audience.

“I think [eventmapper.net] will be useful because we’ll be able to look up concerts that interest us in a reachable area,” Gargone said. “Many students do not have their own source of transportation while at school so local concerts are more appealing.”

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RENOVATIONS The new lecture halls will feature two 10,000-lumen high-resolution projectors, Masset said, allowing instructors to display two different types of content on the screens. The new screens will be 10 feet high and 16 feet wide, and the renovations will include improvements to the acoustics of the lecture halls.

In addition to this project, a new secondfloor mezzanine will feature three 50-seat classrooms. Additionally, new small group seating areas in the lobby will “facilitate study and interaction between students,” according to the release.

Other improvements include the renovation of the stairwells to improve traffic flow, the replacement of the vestibule storefront at the Forbes Avenue entrance and the expansion of the ground-floor restrooms. Upgraded heating, ventilating and air conditioning units will be installed in the building as well.

The renovated classrooms are expected to be finished by May 2015.

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EDITORIAL

OPINIONS

Recent PA court ruling will undermine police accountability

Following a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, car searches will now be much less arduous for police. Contrary to the diction found in the fourth amendment of the Constitution, the court ruled to remove the “legal burden” that requires police officers to obtain a warrant before searching a vehicle.

After the decision made in this particular case, which involved a 2010 traffic stop that led to a warrantless vehicle search and marijuana seizure, Pennsylvania police will only need to meet one legal burden before searching your vehicle: probable cause.

The Oxford Companion to American Law describes probable cause as “information sufficient to warrant a prudent person’s belief that the wanted individual had committed a crime or that evidence of a crime or contraband would be found in a search.”

This vague definition — which is now the only verbiage restricting police officers from searching private citizens’ vehicles — not only makes it easy for police to arrest citizens for possession crimes, but also leaves police

officers’ public accountabilities exceedingly susceptible to erosion. A loss of police accountability has the potential to undermine public safety, certainly more so than, say, marijuana users.

With fewer legal boundaries, police will now have more room to commit abuses of power.

Probable cause includes whatever “information” a police officer may deem suspicious. This may include the driver’s demeanor, appearance of the driver’s car and possibly even the driver’s race, depending on the police officer.

With every abuse of power, authorities can expect to see the public’s trust and faith in the police force decline with each offense to individual privacy. According to Justice Debra McCloskey Todd’s dissenting opinion on the decision, citizens will not be keen to see their fundamental liberties violated. Warrantless searches will inevitably contradict, “over 225 years of unyielding protection against unreasonable search and seizure which our people have enjoyed as their birthright,” McCloskey wrote.

This is problematic because with less trust will come less cooperation with law enforcement. People will not be willing to work with an unaccountable source of authority. They will have no incentive to assist officers who do not represent their constitutional rights and interests.

Not only do the consequences of this ruling have the potential to be societally devastating in regards to public welfare, but there was no reason to change the law in the present context.

Reggie Shuford, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that, “There really was no pressing need [for the ruling]. The law was fine as it was.”

The state’s crime rate has been steadily decreasing over the past decade, so why did the original Pennsylvania search standards need modification?

Sara Rose, a staff attorney for the ACLU, blamed societal factors.

“We’ve just seen a consistent devaluation of privacy rights in this country, and a lot of it

has to do with the war on drugs and the war on terror, leading to more limitations,” Rose said.

The composition of the bench also makes the ruling questionable. The justices favoring the change included an ex-Philadelphia police officer, a former Philadelphia district attorney, a former Cumberland County district attorney and a past prosecutor with the state attorney general’s office — all professions that benefit from deregulation.

Unfortunately, despite the lack of a pressing reason for the ruling, it is impossible for the decision to be reviewed by the US Supreme Court because the original law was based on the Pennsylvania — not federal — Constitution. However, the ruling does leave open the possibility for future cases regarding the new interpretation of the law based on potential police abuses.

What can be gathered from this case is that the inevitable re-opening of the public versus private debate will eventually prove that the court’s decision is out of step with the interests of Pennsylvania citizens.

In defense of protests by Rutgers University class of 2014 Nick Voutsinos Opinions Editor

For this year’s graduating seniors, Rutgers University invited former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to deliver the commencement address. Rice, however, will not be present at the ceremony on May 18, as she announced on Saturday, following weeks of protests led primarily by her would-be audience of seniors.

Rice said she did not want her presence to detract from the importance of the occasion, stating, “Rutgers’ invitation to me to speak has become a distraction for the University community at this very special time.”

But distraction is an understatement.

Students expressed their disdain for her invitation vehemently, staging one of “the largest sit-ins in Rutgers’ history” outside the office of University President Robert L. Barchi, with signs that read “No honors for war criminals” and “RU 4 Humanity?” among others.

It shouldn’t be difficult to ascertain why these students opposed Rice’s invitation to a ceremony that begins their journey into the real world.

As secretary of state during the Bush administration, Rice was heavily involved in the Iraq War, arguably the most controversial war since Vietnam. She helped the Bush administration lie its way to invasion, falsely warning Congress that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was allied with alQaida. She was a strong voice in the effort to bring democracy to Iraq by force, which led to eight long, bloody years of war resulting in the deaths of more than 4,000 American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, while costing the U.S. more than $1 trillion.

And still, democracy never truly came to Iraq.

Therefore, Rice — a face consequentially attached to the Iraq War — is not an appropriate person to honor students who had no role in the war, yet still experienced the ramifications. And although Rice would surely not have mentioned Iraq in her speech, it’s unfair to unwrap old scars of a disappointing war effort on the day of commencement.

But were the students justified in driving out Rice — still one of the most influential women in politics of the 21st century — from their commencement ceremony?

The short answer is: of course.

Commencement belongs to the students, not the university board, faculty or anyone else. Students get one college commencement to reward them in a special way for years of working hard towards a degree.

Graduating seniors, then, have a right to express their input on a ceremony that epitomizes their achievements. Who is anyone else to say how they are to celebrate “their” graduation?

Nonetheless, many from the outside still had a lot to say on the Rutgers case. Republican New Jersey State Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini called the protests and Rice’s subsequent withdrawal “appalling and an embarrassment to our state.”

“This is nothing more than a political firestorm fueled by their hatred of an opposing ideology and President George W. Bush in particular. Dr. Rice and the people of New Jersey deserve better,” Angelini said.

Angelini’s disgust is coupled with the argument that college campuses conventionally should be open to all points of view, and to protest Rice’s speaking at commencement is

to protest this very paradigm.

This argument, however, overlooks the significance of commencement as a celebration of the graduates’ educational careers.

And let us think about what was going on during this particular graduating class’s earlier educational career.

Most of the students in Rutgers University class of 2014 were in their early years of elementary school during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, an event that is forever etched in the minds of my generation.

As kids, it was hard for me and others of my generation to grasp exactly what was going on during and after the attacks.

All we knew in the weeks and months following was that there were people who wanted to destroy our country and homes and kill us for no particular reason.

We were inevitably afraid of them, and in many cases, hated them. We had to get them before they got us. War was, therefore, deemed necessary. So we watched with pride

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VOUTSINOS as our loved ones went overseas to protect us.

As we grew older — becoming more aware of the world and the people in it — the reasons for our involvement in the Iraq War became further muddled.

It’s obvious now that the threat of Iraq was less severe than Congress had originally anticipated because there were no weapons of mass destruction, contrary to what we previously believed. And later, we learned that our noble invasion neither thinned the terrorist ranks, nor transformed Iraq into the stable

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democracy we had envisioned.

Instead, the American invasion’s connection to Iraqi civilian casualties further inhibited democracy. The Taliban and al-Qaida used the casualties to fuel their anti-American cause, which subsequently spread across the Arab world. And although Saddam Hussein did fall, there remain millions of refugees in Iraq and omnipresent internal violence in the state.

So, after more than 4,400 American lives lost, 30,000 US service members wounded in action and more than $2 trillion spent, the results were not worth the price.

Disillusioned youth naturally followed the war that generated the opposite of our

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expectations. And who could blame them?

At a young age, my generation helplessly watched an uncompromising war unfold and bring little to nothing in return. It was prominent in the background as we grew up, and it’s nothing to be proud of or repeated.

As my generation now experiences commencement, students celebrate both their lives up to graduation and also what is to come.

The Iraq War represents for my generation — including the Rutgers University class of 2014 — something that was thrust upon our childhoods unwillingly.

The consequences of the war do not reflect our actions, nor what we want to achieve, yet they still negatively affected our lives through

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lost loved ones and lost faith.

While wondering why students were so upset over Rice speaking at their commencement, we must remember that the ceremony celebrates graduating with a hard-earned education and going off to make the world a better place. Such a celebration would be hindered by the presence of a leading speaker associated with a dark part of their lifetime.

Rice’s withdrawal from this particular commencement ceremony wasn’t a result of partisan politics, but rather, accountability for past policy decisions, which, in an essence, is what American democracy is all about.

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ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT

Walk-up music a crucial fixture for Pirates players Shawn Cooke A&E Editor

Whenever Pittsburgh Pirates closer Jason Grilli emerges from the outfield to wrap up a game at PNC Park, no matter what the situation might be, there’s always an element of consistency.

Much like Mariano Rivera’s adoption of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” Grilli finds motivation from a steady song choice of his own: Pearl Jam’s “Whipping.” But for the 2014 season, his song selection carries an even more meaningful context than when he entered to it in previous seasons.

During the band’s stop at the Consol Energy Center last October, Grilli joined Pearl Jam onstage for their performance of his entry song.

“There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of that moment when I was on stage with the band,” Grilli said through the team’s Director of Baseball Communications, Jim Trdinich. “Sometimes I think about it when I’m running in, but it comes and goes.”

McCutchen favors “songs that have a He chose “Whipping” not only because great beat.” MCT Campus

it’s “such a great song – by a great band,” but also for its lyrical connection to his baseball career.

“I chose ‘Whipping’ because the very first couple lines parallel my career,” Grilli said.

Until recently, Grilli’s career was heavily marred by physical ailments, including a severe knee injury and Tommy John surgery. Consequently, Grilli spent much of his 11-year career in the minor leagues with seven different organizations before finding success in Pittsburgh after joining the team in 2011.

Those lines from “Whipping?”

“Don’t need a helmet, got a hard, hard head.”

While Grilli takes pride in sticking with one of his favorite songs, some players favor a more varied approach to selecting entrance music.

Since everyday players will often walk up to the plate three, four or seven (on special, 13-inning occasions) times, listening to the same song multiple times over the intercom could grow old. Walk-up music

has been a fixture in Major League Baseball for decades now, but some current players prefer to mix up their personal soundtracks more than others do.

Reigning National League MVP Andrew McCutchen opts for the less rigid approach, employing multiple walk-up tracks and retiring them throughout the season.

“I’ll change my songs a few times during the season. I won’t have the same three all year,” McCutchen said through Trdinich.

“I always like to mix it up.”

Just one month into the season, McCutchen has already mixed it up considerably, scrapping his entire lineup of April tracks, which included cuts by TNGHT, KB and Lil Jon, for “DJ Turn It Up” by Yellow Claw and “You Can’t Stop Me” by Andy Mineo.

Aside from their common classification under the broad term of hip-hop, McCutchen chooses an eclectic mix within the genre, including Christian rap, electronic hip-hop producers and one of the more

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tUnE-yArDs sports wealth of ideas on new avant-pop masterpiece Dan Willis For The Pitt News

tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack Grade: A Many of tUnE-yArDs’s contemporaries — if related article and video algorithms are to be believed — have released albums that critics were hesitant to embrace on the grounds that the artists behind them had “too many ideas.” Similar albums — such as Ava Luna’s Ice Level, Everything Everything’s Man Alive and Max Tundra’s Mastered

by Guy at the Exchange — were all just a little bit too much for some people to process.

Interestingly enough, though, all

three artists put out relatively pareddown follow-ups, and their former detractors began to cite a process of maturation and refinement, handing out “most improved” medals to anyone who ceased to vex them. But if an artist’s best work is also his or her most boiled-down, then how do you explain an album like Nikki Nack? tUnE-yArDs is the recording project of Oakland-via-Montreal singer-songwriter Merrill Garbus, although her bassist and co-writer Nate Brenner’s affinity for off-kilter jazz harmony is becoming an increasingly important element of her sound. Beginning as a loop-based live act in 2006, tUnE-yArDs has since released two albums of tense yet exuberant songwriting fueled by intricate, Afrobeat-inflected drum loops.

The 2011 album w h o k i l l, in particular, was lauded for its wild creativity, as well as Garbus’ incredibly versatile behemoth of a voice. But for as off-the-wall as that album was, her third studio effort Nikki Nack is more so, and yet it’s all the better for it.

First, Garbus’s voice has not lost an ounce of its expressiveness since we last heard it, only now it’s being placed in radically different contexts. She tries on girl-group close harmony during the chorus of “Real Thing” and it suits her just as well as the snarling call-andresponse, glitchy cut-and-paste and desperate belting that we hear later in the very same song.

But despite her chameleonic, fouroctave range, her performances are rarely disjointed, because she uses her

vocal acrobatics to emphasize the emotional contour of both the music and the lyrics. When she sings lines like, “Give me your head!/ Off with his head,” she does so with all-caps conviction, and the contrast makes it all the more effective when she delivers lines like, “A thousand roads to injury/ Most of them so smooth it doesn’t feel like they’re hurting me,” with an eerily vacant coo.

Sex and violence have always been tUnE-yArDs’s lyrical M.O., but here, they’re nestled alongside some sociopolitical vitriol to further complicate matters. Nikki Nack invites quite a few new possibilities for expression: frustrated tenderness, prideful desperation and even morose brilliance.

“Real Thing” is a particularly in-

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‘Neighbors’ In-house ‘Star Wars’ expert weighs in on casting deftly blends Stephanie Roman actors include Domhnall Gleeson (the to portray some sort of alien or beast, but Staff Writer best Weasley, Bill, from the Harry Potter will he be a hideous creature like Gollum comedy and series), Oscar Isaac (the titular character or a mentor in the vein of Frank Oz’s Yoda?

Maybe we’re finally at the point where the from the Coen Brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Serkis’s casting troubles me because award-winning “Let it Go” from Disney’s Davis”), Adam Driver (also from “Inside part of what hurt the prequels was an overmaturity “Frozen” no longer loops repetitively in Llewyn Davis” and most notable for his reliance on computer animation. Though Ian Flanagan Staff Writer

“Neighbors” Directed by: Nicholas Stoller Starring: Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne Grade: B+ If you’re expecting “Neighbors” to be some simplistic prankster war between juvenile adults, blame it on the dumbed-down TV spots. Be sure to ignore the misleading marketing — “Neighbors” is way smarter than it looks.

When a fraternity led by party-crazy Teddy Sanders (Zac Efron, finally in his element) moves into a house in the suburbs, first-time parents Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) find their peaceful adult lifestyle at risk with these rowdy new neighbors. They try to find ways to make the fraternity lose the house, but this only causes Teddy and friends — including the very funny Dave Franco — to retaliate in their fight for their right to party.

The humor may be as crass and sometimes as childish as one might expect, but experienced comedy director Nicholas Stoller (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Get Him to the Greek”) keeps the film humming with an agreeable sense of enthusiasm, loose and casual pacing and uncommon intelligence.

“Neighbors” is thoughtful and gleefully lighthearted, rising far above the standards of the average summer comedy.

Rogen continues to cash in on his lovability, this time with exceptional ease as a new father to an adorable baby so he, along with Byrne, who exercises some confident comedy chops as Rogen’s British wife, quickly earn our sympathies. That’s not to say that Efron and friends are exactly villains — both houses are awarded equal screen time, and each of our lead characters are unexpectedly well-defined

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our heads, so it’s time to move on to another huge undertaking.

“Star Wars: Episode VII” has been cast with an admirable lack of overt-Disney cuteness, despite prior rumors after Disney’s 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm, director George Lucaås’s company behind the “Star Wars” franchise. But no Ryan Goslings, Zac Efrons or Selena Gomezes showed up to adopt the mantle of Jedi Knight for Disney’s Star Wars flick, set to debut in December 2015. Rather, director J.J. Abrams’ work-in-progress forayed to hire a bunch of unknown personalities, and as C-3PO would say, “Thank the maker.”

Of course, getting the old gang (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher) back together is cause for excitement, but the addition of new faces and talent might be just what “Stars Wars” needs to rectify the old fans’ corrupted opinions after the travesty of the prequels.

Unfortunately, the only plot details come from vague character descriptions, which include a “Darth Vader-like villain,” a “Han Solo-type rogue character” and “the Solos’ daughter.”

Abrams’ “Episode VII” takes place 30 years after “Return of the Jedi,” which in the “Star Wars” timeline, is 34 AB, or after the Battle of Yavin. The future film remains clouded in mystery, but the new cast members propose to reinvent the franchise.

The most exciting casting choice is the potential female leading character: Daisy Ridley. With little screen credit besides scarce appearances on TV, Ridley is the perfect brown-haired, brown-eyed attractive actress to play the daughter of Han and Leia Solo. For as much of a nobody as she is, Ridley portends to show, if not something awesome, at least something previously unseen.

Though I’m thrilled at the prospect of an unknown female lead, Ridley is certainly not the only newcomer. Other

role as Adam Sackler on “Girls”) and Jason Boyega (with little on his resume other than British film “Attack the Block” and a prominent role in the brand new “24: Live Another Day” miniseries).

Oscar Isaac is rumored to play a “Han Solo-type rogue.”

But the most interesting addition comes with Max von Sydow, whose acting credits stretch back to 1949 and include films in multiple languages. Von Sydow could make for an incredible villain à la Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin — he’s got a properly Imperial look about him.

The last major announcement, and what comes as a galactically unexpected casting, is that Andy Serkis, the motioncapture veteran who everyone should recognize as Gollum from Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” films, will also have a role in the new film. Presumably, he’ll don the skeletal mo-cap suit once again

the film is science fiction and part of that definition denotes flashiness, laser beams and outer space, the original “Star Wars” boasted some of the best practical effects ever seen on the silver screen. Is it too much to ask for a mix of both practical and computer effects? Nevertheless, Serkis is a venerable actor and should still turn in another strong performance.

At this point, all we can do is speculate.

The formerly canonical books offer a ton of areas in which to venture, but seeing as they have recently been redesignated as “Legends” and no longer codex, I wonder just how much will be adapted from the post- “Return of the Jedi” archive.

The “Han Solo-type rogue” could be a character named Talon Karrde, a smuggler and information broker, who might be the perfect fit for Oscar Isaac. Andy Serkis could portray the alien Chiss Admiral Thrawn, one of the most complicated and brilliant villains ever written. Adam Driver might fit the role of Darth Caedus, as a considerably more youthful “Darth Vader-like villain.”

Truthfully, the new actors could fill 100 already qualified roles, and as much as this superfan would like to see Abrams do that, it’s unlikely. Some adaptations from the EU novels are to be expected, but I won’t be getting too hopeful about that prospect. Instead, I’d rather look forward to the new future of the franchise and the new hope that Ridley, Driver, Isaac, Serkis, Gleeson, Boyega and von Sydow will craft.

For the sake of comparison, Fisher, Ford and Hamill were about as unknown as these padawans when they signed on for “Star Wars” back in the day. Will the newcomers find the same success?

Details will surely trickle in, but likely at the pace of a Gamorrean. Until then, it’s best to make what we can of these new actors and dedicate some time to checking out their work. Dec. 18, 2015 is still far, far away.

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and fairly believable.

We clearly see both sides of this comedic struggle, and though the jokes ultimately supersede the character nuances, the ideas on each turf are profound and honest. With Rogen and Byrne, there’s a portrait of young thirty-somethings adjusting to the life-changing shift to parenthood. With Efron, the film depicts the frightening limbo between college and real adulthood through a woefully unprepared college senior.

In fact, with such a relaxed structure and miniscule scale, there’s plenty of room in the lean 96 minutes to have the bigger, louder comedic moments and the joyful breathers in between. The best laughs aren’t from the sex jokes and brash slapstick, but from the seemingly unimportant conversations amongst the film’s more indisposable plot points in the neighborhood feuding.

In one scene, Rogen and Efron discuss the different film incarnations of Batman in intricate detail. Another scene finds Rogen and Byrne stoned and slowly falling asleep while discussing how parenting is much different than they expected. These instances

May 7, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com are so well-scripted that they feel real — or maybe it’s just some masterful improvisation.

This little film is neither slight nor as pointlessly noisy and brazenly crude as the lackluster advertising might imply. “Neighbors” is an intimate, personal and exceptionally mature comedy that is, best of all, so much fun.

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AGENDA Wednesday, May 7 Music 101: Noah Bendix-Balgley, “Concertmaster, The Symphony’s Quarterback” Heinz Hall 600 Penn Ave., Cultural District Time: 12:30 p.m.

Admission: $2 / Free to students, children Noah Bendix-Balgley, who will soon head overseas to become the new first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, leads a lunchtime lecture at Heinz Hall.

Thursday, May 8 Oneohtrix Point Never The Warhol Museum Entrance Space 117 Sandusky Street, North Side Time: 8:00 p.m.

Admission: $15 General / $12 Student Though he might have gained rec-

ognition — and a few Twitter followers — for hilariously live-tweeting Billy Corgan’s eight-hour ambient cover of Hermann Hesse’s “Siddhartha,” Daniel Lopatin also released an excellent album last year. He’ll test his open, electronic experiments in The Warhol Museum’s open Entrance Space tomorrow night.

Friday, May 9 Mastodon Stage AE 400 North Shore Drive, North Shore Time: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Admission: $25 advance / $28 night

of show Though their new album, Once More ‘Round the Sun, isn’t out until June 24, Mastodon’s hitting the road anyway — and may even play a few new album cuts along the way.

Saturday, May 10 Chelsea Handler: “Uganda Be Kidding Me” Book Signing The Book Center 4000 Fifth Ave., Oakland Time: 2:00 p.m.

Admission: Free Comedian Chelsea Handler will be on Pitt’s campus for a free book signing, just before her stand-up performance at the Consol Energy Center later that evening.

Sunday, May 11 Seussical the Musical Byham Theater 101 6th Street, Cultural District Time: 2:00 p.m.

Admission: Tickets start at $12.25

“Seussical the Musical,” which runs all weekend, brings the vibrant, colorful and fantastical world of Seuss to the stage — with an appearance from former Steelers quarterback Charlie Batch.

Monday, May 12 Crosses Altar Bar 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District Time: 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $19 advance / $21 at

the door Crosses, the side-project of Deftones’ Chino Moreno, stops in Pittsburgh to support their self-titled debut LP, which followed a pair of self-released EPs.

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PIRATES crass party rappers around.

Though little may unite these artists on paper, McCutchen favors strong production above all else.

“I like to pick songs that aren’t too popular, but have a great beat,” McCutchen said.

So does this mean McCutchen should add a “Hipster of the Pirates” award next to his MVP trophy, and inspire a “Free Flannel Friday” promotion? Probably not. But he’s certainly less concerned with picking recognizable songs than some of his other teammates.

Catcher Tony Sanchez strives for the more crowd-pleasing route, with his current lineup of at-bat songs including “E.I.”

by Nelly, Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” and “Let it Go,” the current smash hit from the 2013 Disney film “Frozen.”

Sanchez isn’t the only one — other Pirates’ walk-up songs include relatively famous hits like “Start Me Up,” “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Don’t Stop Believing” (selections of Ike Davis, Travis Snider

May 7, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com and Clint Barmes, respectively).

Once players have selected their walkup songs during the final week of spring training, they pass them off to Trdinich. He then sends the selections to Mark Zidik, director of in-game entertainment. Then, the players and Zidik will settle on the best segment of a song to play before an at-bat.

Though picking a brief snippet of a song to represent a player’s on-field persona might seem like a daunting task, Sanchez isn’t fazed by the decision-making process.

“No, there’s no pressure with picking any songs,” Sanchez said, through Trdinich. “I just like to make it something the people will enjoy.”

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AVANT-POP tense experience, which bookends unabashed sexual confidence with tongue-in-cheek lines like, “I come from the land of slaves/ Let’s go Redskins!

Let’s go Braves!” She’s capable of conveying many different emotions with her voice and lyrics as if she got tired of each individual feeling, and chose instead to see where they intersect.

Another interesting development on this album is Garbus’s ever-increasing willingness to experiment with rhythm.

“Look Around” pulls its elliptical vocal melody around rigid drums like taffy while the pulsating moans that color the hook on “Wait for a Minute” seem to adhere to no rhythmic logic whatsoever.

But don’t let it fool you; absolutely nothing in Nikki Nack is left up to chance.

Once you learn to speak their language, the systems that govern these apparently chaotic songs reveal themselves, and you’re given the choice to either peer into or get lost in their twisted logic.

It’s a logic made all the more explicit

by tUnE-yArDs’s fortunate, if counterintuitive, choice to work with some bigname pop producers here, enlisting the help of John Hill (Phantogram, Shakira) and Malay ( John Legend, Frank Ocean).

They both do an excellent job of smoothing out the discontinuities that naturally arise with an eccentric performer like Garbus, but they also manage to avoid sacrificing any of the sonic quirks that make her music so attractive. They just rein the chaos into tight, perfect pop songs instead of letting it all sprawl out incomprehensibly, which is what allows the music to be so completely bonkers.

Before recording the album, Garbus studied Haitian dance-drumming traditions on a humanitarian excursion to Port-au-Prince. But weeks later, upon returning, she read Molly-Ann Leikin’s “How to Write a Hit Song” with the exact same voracity for culture. And Nikki Nack feels like such an elegant reconciliation of those tendencies.

It’s a hyperactive, pan-global avantpop masterpiece, on the same scale as its predecessors but somehow even denser.

If you thought w h o k i l l had too many ideas, wait until you hear this.

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Pitt students complete marathon feat

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Recent big-profile hires by Penn State now worrisome Ryan Bertonaschi Senior Staff Writer

Dan Sostek Staff Writer Running a marathon isn’t something a person can just wake up and do. It’s considered one of the ultimate tests of the human body, and pushes mind, body and spirit to the brink.

Pitt juniors Jared Disanti and Jake Kuhn found this out Sunday when they participated in the sixth-annual Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon for the first time.

“There’s no easy way to run 26.2 miles,” Disanti said.

The two teammates on Pitt’s Division II club ice hockey team had different reasons for running the marathon, which started and ended downtown. Kuhn was motivated by people close to him, while the competitive aspect of the race intrigued Disanti.

“Last year, my mom finished the half marathon, and my girlfriend Emily [Fagan] completed the full,” Kuhn said. “That motivated me to start training for this year.”

Instead of personal ties, being a part of the action — outside of his demanding athletic schedule — drove Disanti to sign up.

“I always wanted to do it for some reason,” Disanti said. “When you’re in college and you aren’t playing in a Division I sport, you don’t really get to compete in big-scale events.”

The two began training 12 weeks ago and adopted similar methods of preparation.

Disanti said he would go on three small runs during the week, and he completed a long run on the weekend.

“You can’t just go out and run a marathon,” Disanti said.

Kuhn had a similar training approach, varying distances by doing a short run, medium run, short run and then a long one on the weekends, too.

Fagan, a Pitt senior, trained with Kuhn in the months leading up to her second marathon. With the long-distance intervals, she

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The race route took participants down Forbes Avenue. Courtesy Pittsburgh Marathon

said the couple started out running 13 miles and worked up from there. Their longest run prior to Sunday was 20 miles.

It wasn’t just the distance that required training. The terrain of the course also called for acclimation.

“We ran a lot of hills. The toughest part of the marathon is around mile 11, a threequarter mile uphill,” Fagan said. “Overall, the whole marathon is pretty hilly, so running a lot of hills really paid off on race day.”

After months of preparation, Disanti and Kuhn were blown away by the environment

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James Franklin is the anti-Paul Chryst.

This is the exact phrase that went through my mind when Franklin took the podium at Penn State after being announced as the university’s 17th football coach in January. He’s awesome, I thought. A legend in the making.

He’ll recruit the heck out of the mid-Atlantic region, ultimately kicking up dust along the Pennsylvania Turnpike for Chryst and his Pitt staff to choke on. Chryst often seems tonguetied at press conferences and he’s entered a period of mediocrity, while Franklin’s confidence and energy levels can — and will — guide his teams to annual first-place finishes in the Big Ten and his authoritative, yet kindhearted, voice has what it takes to convert a rotten apple recruit into a 4.0 student.

To contain my crush for Franklin and his overly friendly demeanor, I spent hours — days, probably — researching in order to determine just who this Franklin character was. It turns out that he was raised just outside of Philadelphia, played quarterback at a small Division II school and eventually coached Vanderbilt University to national prominence after his hiring in December 2010.

Somewhere during my research, though, my Franklin obsession turned to suspicion. I discovered he had a connection to the sort of event Penn State has become familiar with over the past two years.

As I scanned through his life facts, I came across his comments from a 2012 interview on Nashville, Tenn., sports radio station 104.5 The Zone.

“I’ve been saying it for a long time,” Franklin said on-air. “I will not hire an assistant coach until I’ve seen his wife. If she looks the part, and she’s a D-1 recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That’s part of the deal.”

Huh? “There’s a very strong correlation between having the confidence, going up and talking to a woman, and being quick on your feet and having some personality and confidence and being fun and articulate, than it is walking into a high school and recruiting a kid and selling

him,” he said.

He issued a blanket non-apology for his remarks via Twitter the next day, but this is when I sensed something fishy in Penn State’s hire.

I continued my search. A few pages later, I found a series of articles from June 2013 when four of Franklin’s former players at Vanderbilt were arrested for allegedly raping an unconscious woman at an on-campus dorm. All were kicked off the team by Franklin and he maintains that he committed no wrongdoing, acting quickly and assertively against such deplorable crimes.

But recent evidence regarding his involvement in the events have called that stance into question.

In late April, The Tennessean, the main daily newspaper in Nashville, reported that Franklin held the case’s smoking gun.

According to The Tennessean, prior to the rape, Franklin instructed the victim to get “15 pretty girls together and form a team to assist with the recruiting even though he knew it was against the [NCAA’s] rules. He added that all the other colleges did it.”

The point here isn’t that Franklin violated a petty NCAA rule. It’s not even that he singled out “pretty” girls in sexist ways. Franklin is guilty of setting up the girl — whose unofficial job title is referred to as “hostess” in the NCAA community — with his players in the first place.

Four days later, according to the story, the woman was hospitalized for a medical examination and Franklin contacted her to say he cared about her because “she assisted [Vanderbilt] with recruiting.”

To make matters worse for Franklin, evidence from the rape case — phone calls, text messages, social media posts, DNA test results, an interview, police notes, medical records and videos — were deleted from digital history, leading to suggestions of tampering .

In September, Buzzfeed reported that “a source close to one of the defendants” was “99.9 percent sure” Franklin had seen security

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FRANKLIN tape of the dorm incident and he told the player to erase it. Franklin’s attorney denied such allegations and it doesn’t make much sense for Franklin, who had kicked the players off the team, to hide any sort of information.

What adds intrigue to this information is Franklin’s position as the current coach at Penn State.

Penn State is two years removed from receiving some of the most detrimental sanctions in the history of the NCAA. They were issued because some of its highest-ranking employees, including its president, vice president, athletic director and legendary football coach Joe Paterno, chose to hide many components of a child rape case in which Paterno’s former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, was charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse of young boys.

Paterno was fired in fall 2011 after his role in the cover-up emerged, and he was replaced with the New England Patriots’ offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien, who had clean hands and knew as little about Penn State as the average Pitt student.

But when O’Brien bolted to take the Houston Texans’ coaching job this past December, Penn State’s higher-ups were forced, yet again, to fill an unexpected coaching vacancy.

Since many Penn State fans felt slighted by O’Brien’s departure, some pressured the board of trustees to hire the candidate that best exhibited Paterno-like qualities: a friendly coach from the state of Pennsylvania who would coach there for 40 years or until he died.

That was fine, but all the university’s leaders had to do was steer clear of someone with a reputation connected in some way to a sexual assault incident. But they couldn’t.

Franklin was hired early in the process without a peep from the media about the ongoing rape case. But Penn State’s higher-ups weren’t finished making ill-advised decisions when it came to placing people into the university’s most powerful and highest-paying positions.

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier resigned in 2012 after pressure from the board of trustees relating to his cover-up of child abuse during Sandusky’s timeline of predatory activity.

The university searched for his replacement for more than a year, which made sense.

There were certain guidelines for the job.

Penn State is a large and prestigious research institution, so a national search was conducted to find an experienced facilitator of renowned prestige.

And much like the football coaching position, all the university had to do was find someone not connected in any way, shape or form to court cases relating to sexual assault.

But Penn State couldn’t.

The university hired Eric J. Barron — the president of one of 55 schools recently named in a report by the Department of Education for its inability to properly handle sexual violence cases in recent years.

Barron formerly presided over Florida State University, a school that’s dealing with the fallout from an alleged rape cover-up scandal involving its football team’s Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, Jameis Winston, and a girl who has since been threatened by people in the university’s community for claiming that Winston forced sex upon her.

There is no specific evidence that Barron broke the law after Winston’s alleged incident, but a recent New York Times investigative piece about the “Flawed Rape Investigation” of Winston reported that, “The administration of Florida State mishandled the allegations against Winston, and possibly other sexual-assault cases involving FSU students.”

Barron oversaw the university’s administration during the investigation. Much like the Sandusky case and the case involving Franklin’s players, the Winston case is far from over.

While the legal systems and investigative teams try to determine the fate of both Franklin and Barron, something even wackier than the board of trustees’ decisions is about to unfold: A restaurant owner in State College has begun raising money to build a life-sized statue of Paterno, sitting on a bench, in front of his restaurant.

How short is the human memory? We’ll see in due time. At this rate, it’ll only be five years before we could see a bronzed replication of Franklin high-fiving Barron in front of Beaver Stadium.

I don’t care if Pitt wins another conference game this decade. All I can ask of Chryst, men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon, athletic director Steve Pederson and Chancellor Patrick Gallagher is that the Cathedral of Learning not be on the next cover of Sports Illustrated with the word “SCANDAL” plastered across its green lawn.

Stephen Vranka (21) helped ignite Pitt’s offense. Jeff Ahearn | Staff Photographer

Panthers win series, remain in postseason contention Jasper Wilson Sports Editor

Coming into last weekend, Pitt baseball sat in second-to-last place in the Coastal Division of the ACC. But despite the team’s precarious position, with a record below .500 (19-23, 9-12 ACC), extending its season was still a possibility.

The format of the league’s postseason tournament, which includes 10 of the 14 conference schools, makes this scenario possible. After the two division leaders, the eight other teams that will advance depend on their conferencewinning percentages, regardless of what division they are in.

With this qualification process in mind, the team’s final nine ACC regular games, which began after taking a break for finals week and then travelling to Pine Bluff, Ark., for a nonconference series, are of the utmost importance.

The three teams the Panthers face in this final portion of its regular season schedule, Boston College, Maryland and Notre Dame, all face similar situations: occupying the bottom of the standings and trying to put together victories to be one of the last teams to make the field of the ACC Tournament, which begins in Greensboro, N. C., on May 20.

Boston College, the first of these oppo-

nents, hosted the Panthers over the weekend.

Coming into the series, the Eagles had an 8-16 conference record.

By Sunday evening, the Eagles had an additional win but, more importantly, two more losses. And while Pitt still occupied the sixth place spot in the division, it helped Pitt’s case for a trip south in a couple weeks.

Game one: Boston College 3, Pitt 2 The opening game had little offense, with neither team able to get a run across in the first three innings.

The hosts scored first in the fourth inning, after the Panthers’ starting pitcher Rhys Aldenhoven gave up back-to-back singles. Leadoff batter Chris Shaw advanced into scoring position on a wild pitch to the second hitter, Michael Strem, and then continued to third when Strem singled. Two hits were all they needed, as Tom Bourdon flied out to center field allowing Shaw to make it home safely.

Aldenhoven walked the next batter, then settled down, retiring three straight to keep the Eagles from adding to their advantage.

However, when Aldenhoven took the mound in the next inning, he again allowed the first two hitters to reach base, putting himself in a difficult position. Similar to the

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MARATHON of the marathon on race day.

“The number of people [who] come out early in the morning to support you and cheer you on, while 20,000 other people are running beside you, was just incredible,” Kuhn said.

Disanti said the surrounding atmosphere was “awesome.”

“When you get to the later portion of the race, you’re really just focusing on every step you take. But at the beginning of the race, you just get to soak [the environment] all in,” Disanti said.

Kuhn, who was paced by Fagan, finished a second behind her with a net time of 4:15:27, good for a pace of 9:44 per mile.

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The 6-foot-4 redshirt senior with a sidearm delivery got the Panthers out of the jam by striking out the first batter he faced and getting the next to fly out.

The one-run deficit held for 2 1/2 innings.

Neither team was able to find offense.

Pitt began the top of the eighth with two straight outs, second baseman Matt Johnson grounding out and pinch-hitter Caleb Parry striking out swinging.

But then the Panthers broke out with Stephen Vranka doubling down the left field

time of 4:58:00, translating to a pace of 11:21 per mile.

Disanti and Kuhn were thankful to have each other’s support in the race, and advised any prospective runners to find support in compatriots.

“It’s just better to run with someone else,” said Kuhn. “It really pushes you to finish, and to help each other get through it.”

The teammates were hesitant about the idea of running another marathon after completing Pittsburgh’s. Kuhn said he would run it again with his mother if she decided to take up the challenge of a full marathon, but Disanti was not as willing to commit.

“I loved the experience. But I’m exhausted right now. So I just don’t know,” he said.

“Ask me again in January. I might have a different answer.” line and Boo Vazquez scoring him when he tripled to left-center to tie the game. Casey Roche then singled Vazquez home to take the lead. With Steven Shelinsky Jr. up, Roche stole second base, but it didn’t matter because Shelinsky struck out.

That stranded runner and three others earlier in the game at varying points would come back to hurt Pitt.

In the bottom of the ninth, Boston College got the tying and potential game-winning run on the bases with the first two batters, who walked and singled. Hobie Harris, who had come in for Danielczyk to begin the eighth, got the lead runner out at third with a fielder’s choice force play. Joe Cronin singled to left to advance Blake Butera, score Gabriel Hernandez and tie the game. Shaw did the same on the next play, Butera coming around from second to win the game for the Eagles.

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412-421-2140.

A large one-bedroom efficiency located on Oakland Ave. Available in August/September.

Call 412-877-6555 Oakland. Atwood St. Near Forbes. 1 BR. Wall-to-wall, fully equipped. $600 +electric. Available June 1st. 412-586-4335 Single-person apartment available next to Katz School on South Bouquet Street. Available August 1st. $625 +Electric.

412-5214257 South Bouquet Street 2BR sublet. $800+ utilities.

326 North Neville Street. 3BR. $1400 including utilities.

Both available MayAugust. Please call 412-287-5712.

House for Rent. Beautiful 3-BR house newly renovated-Allequippa Street. Close to Peterson Center & Pitt Dental School.

Equipped kitchen, new carpeting, washer/dryer, 2 bathrooms, full basement, fencedin back yard, security system. Looking for 3 students to share/or single family. Discount on first month’s rent. Security deposit required. Students require adult co-sign.

Available August 1, $1650+ all utilities.

No pets. For more information, please call 412-303-5043. Email: dtm1003@comcast.net.

Studio, 1, 2 & 3 BRs Available for Aug! Large, close to Schenley Park and Pets Welcome.

Call Today! Laura 412-5769717

Shadyside/Bloomfield.

1 bedroom, large living room, eatin kitchen, carpeted, d i s h w a s h e r , fridge/freezer, stove/oven, microwave, sunporch, coin laundry. Rent $750. Call 412-6872661 or 412-496-1014

4 BR, bath, Highland Park, 1st floor. Available immediately.

4 BR, bath, Highland Park, 2nd floor, Available May 19.

412-487-3648, or 412487-6398

Spacious, newly remodeled 2BR overlooking waterfront.

Close to bus/shops & 5 miles from campus.

Equipped kitchen, laundry.

Security building w/front &back porches. 750800 + utilities/month.

MUST SEE! 412-9567933

A PA RT M E N T S AVAILABLE Oakland: N Craig 1BR $695, Atwood 1BR $795, Dawson 3BR $1,800 Shadyside: 1&2BRs $695-$1,495 Squirrel Hill: 2BRs $975-$1,350.

MJ Kelly Realty (412)271-5550 www.mjkellyrealty.com

House for rent. 129 Burrows St. 4BR w/ Equipped kitchen, central-air, laundry, 2 car garage. $1225+.

Available August 1, Sachs Management Company, 412-4212140.

Looking for datenight babysitter for 3 children-7 years, 4 years and 2 months.

412-421-1011

Gymnastics coach wanted, part-time, some experience necessary. 412-782-2221.

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Construction Laborer for a real estate company located in the Oakland/East Liberty area – Immediate Full Time summer employment. $11/hour. maryann@realestateenterprises.com.

Garden helper needed, one day a week for approximately 2-3 hours throughout the summer. $15.00 per hour.

Landscaping or gardening experience preferred.

Walking distance from Pitt.

Call 412-687-6916.

Live & Work at the Beach!

Telescope Pictures is looking for hard-working, fun-loving, and teamoriented people for Summer 2014. Be part of something different! Apply Online today @ www.M y Te l e s c o p e P i c tures.com Restaurant counter help wanted various shifts, full or parttime, good wages, apply 3901 Forbes Ave Oakland Summer Job--Landscape and pool maintenance.

Approximately 10 hours/ week, $15/ hour. References required.

Need transportation.

Squirrel Hill, 412889-8934.

Non-profit in Homestead, PA is looking for reliable, fun-loving Group Supervisors/Assistant Supervisors to lead groups of youth through an exciting summer curriculum. The program runs from June 9th-August 16th.

Previous experience with youth preferred but not required.

Please apply if you want to make a difference this summer!

Send resumes and two professional references to: jmarsili@musasv.org $9-$10/hr

Chucks. Blow guns.

Cuffs.

Billies.

Knives. Swords. BB, Stun Guns.

Sais.

Crossbows.

Kamas.

Throw Axes. Gold, Silver Chains. Diamond Rings.

MARY’S SHOPPE. 4114B Clairton Blvd.

30 Minutes from Pitt.

412-881-2948.

*ADOPTION* Adoring Financially Secure Couple yearn for 1st baby to Devote our Lives.

Expenses paid.

1-800-562-8287 *CHRISTINE & GREG*

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