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Forbes Avenue. The group sat in silence for 20 minutes to symbolize the statement of Dan Turner, father of Brock Turner — a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in January 2015 — that the effect of the conviction on his son’s life was “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action.” Turner’s conviction caused a national outcry after he received a sentence of six months in county jail and three years of probation. He faced a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
their recovery, more so than a protest of the conviction itself. “What this really is for is for our anger, our healing and our solidarity,” Shaw said. The event rose from the strength and multitude of the public response to Turner’s conviction. “As a victim myself, I was incredibly saddened by the case,” Shaw said. “I wanted Pittsburgh to do something
Edward Stricker will step down as dean of Pitt’s University Honors College before the fall of 2017 semester, but he’s not going far. Stricker, who has served as the dean since July 2011, announced Thursday that he will resign as dean and rejoin Pitt’s Department of Neuroscience faculty. A search committee will form to select a new dean this fall. Stricker said he is stepping down to focus “on other things, both at home and at the University.” “The University Honors College embodies the ideals of research and scholarship as well as that of excellence inside and outside the classroom, library and laboratory. It has been a great privilege for me to be a part of this remarkable organization,” Stricker said in a release. “I look forward to returning to the Department of Neuroscience, where I will continue to teach and generally help students reach their fullest potential and thereby advance the mission of the University of Pittsburgh.” During his time as dean of the Honors College, Stricker established Health Professions Advising, which assists students in applying to the health professions committee and medical, dental, optometry, podiatry and veterinary schools. He also formed the Academic Community Engagement Advising to help students connect academic interests with oppor-
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Students, including sexual assault survivors, gathered at Schenley Plaza to protest the recent Brock Turner case and rape culture. Kate Koenig VISUAL
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Alexa Bakalarski edestrians slowed their pace as they passed a group of about 30 people sitting silently on the ground. A few members of the group, which gathered in Schenley Plaza Wednesday afternoon, held signs in front of them that read: “Blame the system, not the victim,” “You don’t get to define how survivors survive” and “End rape culture,” among other statements related to sexual assault. A sign with the phrase, “Dismantle the system that allowed this to happen,” sat on a green chair near the center of the circle of people, facing the intersection of Bigelow Boulevard and
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Before the 20 minutes of silence began, four survivors shared their stories about suffering sexual assaults and the group of people chanted “However we dress, wherever we go, yes means yes and no means no,” as well as, “Say it once, say it again: no excuse for violent men.” Anna Shaw, a rising junior majoring in psychology and gender, sexuality and women’s studies, organized the event. According to Shaw, the event was to help survivors and
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According to the Rape, Abuse and In- 6.2 percent of undergraduate men reported cest National Network, an American is experiencing sexual violence while at Pitt. pg. 2 Shaw told their story of being raped sexually assaulted every two minutes. A 2015 Pitt survey found 23.6 percent multiple times to the people who gathered. about it.” “Each time I was raped, my life ended Shaw and those who helped them orga- of undergraduate female students reported and I started a new nize the event eventually deone,” Shaw said. cided to broaden the focus to rape culture in general, Jayne Instead of clapping May-Stein, a Squirrel Hill resafter a survivor spoke, ident and survivor who spoke the group said, “We at the event, said. love you, we believe “We decided it shouldn’t be you, we support you,” about one thing,” May-Stein in unison. said. “It should be about every May-Stein, who rape.” also spoke, said even The silence was originally though telling her stogoing to take place in Marry was “nerve-wrackket Square, Downtown. The ing,” it was necessary. location changed to Schen“I’ve been going to ley Plaza early Wednesday, therapy for years, and I to prevent commotion from knew it was something Downtown causing distress to I had to do,” May-Stein survivors. said. “Vulnerabil“We just want to make victims feel as safe as pos- Some of the signs declared personal accounts of survivors, while oth- ity doesn’t mean weakness. Being vulnerable is sible,” Shaw said. “That’s why ers recounted the facts of rape in the US. Kate Koenig VISUAL EDITOR to be strong. It is one of we moved it to Schenley Plaza. Our main concern is watching out for any- experiencing sexual violence in their four the most important things that we have as years on campus. The survey also found humans.” one who’s been through this.”
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Stricker, pg. 2 tunities in local communities and expanded the Honors Housing Program to accommodate more than 700 undergraduates. Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia Beeson said it was a “pleasure” to work with Stricker as dean. “His impact on the growth of the Honors College and the entire University through his role on the Council of Deans cannot be overstated,” Beeson said in a release. “I am pleased that he will continue his academic career here at Pitt for the foreseeable future.” Stricker has been at Pitt for 45 years, beginning as an associate professor of psychology and biological sciences in 1971. He served as the founding chair of the Department of Neuroscience from 1986 to 2002 and as the founding director of Pitt’s Conte Center for Neuroscience of Mental Disorders. Stricker received the Bellet Teaching Excellence Award in 2001 and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. “I’m pleased with what we have been able to accomplish during the five years I have been dean, which makes it easier for me to move on,” Stricker said in an email.
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Bell lawsuit confirms racial insensitivity From a mass shooting to a lawsuit, Wendy Bell’s responses to controversy have proven to be tone-deaf. On Monday, former WTAE news anchor Wendy Bell filed a federal lawsuit against Hearst Communications, the parent company of WTAE, for race discrimination in her March firing from the station. Bell’s dismissal followed a Facebook post she made in response to the Wilkinsburg mass shooting on March 9, in which gunmen killed six people and injured five others during a backyard picnic. Before the police department made any arrests or announced suspects related to the killings, Bell speculated that “[the perpetrators] are young black men, likely teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs.” Resounding backlash and complaints soon followed, and WTAE fired Bell for violating the company’s ethics and journalistic standards. Now, instead of acknowledging that her racially insensitive remarks were offensive to people of color and against journalistic ethics, she is fighting back with a lawsuit that will attempt to portray her as the victim. By making the case that WTAE would not have fired her if she were black, she is attempting to absolve herself of culpability and showing that over the course of her public downfall, she has learned absolutely nothing. If she had not racially profiled the suspects and made demeaning assumptions in the first place, she would not be in this situation. Her removal
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of the post and apology for the comments were intended to show that she recognized the harm she caused by making such statements. This lawsuit defending her actions only demonstrates that these empty gestures were not genuine and that she still does not get it. She does not understand the lack of integrity she demonstrated as a wellknown broadcast journalist, a role in which the public trusts her to objectively present factual information. By publishing a baseless opinion on her public WTAE Facebook account, she neglected that responsibility. If she truly recognized the damage she caused by reinforcing negative stereotypes and false judgments of people of color, then this lawsuit would not exist. Her handling of these missteps has been as thoughtless as the words that caused them. To suggest that one is being discriminated against for being white simply ignores this country’s history of racism. By insisting that she did no wrong, Bellis misleading her viewers about what discrimination really is. She is justifying the complaint that members of the media misunderstand how to portray communities of color by showing that she doesn’t even understand the problems they face. If Bell had admitted her mistake, spoken out against what she had said and taken steps to improve her awareness of racial issues, perhaps the response would be more forgiving. Perhaps then she would actually deserve the forgiveness — or the vindication — she’s demanding.
CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE
As Syrian Christians face persecution in the Middle East, they are in dire need of priority refugee status
The Armenian genocide memorial is an example of what can happen if we do not get involved. TNS
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The U.S. is going to be complicit in the world’s latest genocide, and we cannot let history repeat itself. On Monday, World Refugee Day prompted thousands of people to flock to social media and insist that the U.S. take in more refugees from the Middle East and Africa. We’ve seen the grim images and heard the harrowing tales many refugees have told about their perilous treks from war-torn Syria. I’ve heard these stories from members of my own family who have risked their lives by existing in a region ravaged by civil war. I’ve also heard the tales my fam-
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ily has told me about their neighbors being executed in their churches during mass and of my mom’s uncle, who was shot dead in front of a grocery store in a predominantly Christian village. We all can sympathize with those living in the tumultuous conditions Syrians are currently facing. It is not exclusively Christians who are exposed to these conditions — Muslims are as well. All Syrians are susceptible to the senseless violence that Muslim fundamentalists have inflicted on innocent civilians. But the U.S. government has yet to address and assist the most vulnerable population in the Middle East and Syria — Christians. On June 14, the Refugee Process-
ing Center reported that since January 1, 2015, the U.S. has processed 5,435 Muslims from Syria. Within that same time frame, American officials processed 28 Syrian Christians of the total 28,066 Syrian Christian applicants, which is 0.0009 percent of applicants and less than 1 percent of the total refugees processed. Yet Syrian Christians constitute 10 percent of Syria’s population and have become the demographic that has fled Syria to neighboring countries for safety in the largest numbers. Because President Obama and congressional Democratic leadership continue to maintain that the See Safi on page 5
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Safi, pg. 4 U.S. should not consider an applicant’s religion in deciding whether to grant refugee status, Syrian Christians — whom ISIS systematically targets, abducts and murders because they are Christian — are not prioritized, despite the persecution they face. In spite of the issue being politicized across party lines, at the end of the day, these are human beings. We cannot afford to let partisanship prevent Christian Syrians from seeking refuge and human dignity. Despite the U.S.’s executive failure to assist Syrian Christians, organizations around the world have recognized the brutalization of Christians for what it really is — genocide. The European Parliament recognized for the first time in February that the ongoing conflict was a genocide targeting Christians and other religious minorities in Syria. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress has deliberated over using the word “genocide” because it would mean the Obama administration would have to formally address it. The United Nations 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which the UN enacted after the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the Holocaust’s conclusion in 1945, outlines what the UN considers genocide. It contends that genocide is any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: acts such as killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to destroy the group in whole or in part, preventing births and the forcible transfer of children qualify as parts of genocide. The treatment of Syrian Christians fits that bill. While “discrimination” carries a heavy denotation, it is our country’s duty to protect those
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who are targeted at church and slaughtered because they’re Christian. We have a humanitarian duty to preserve the heritage of a religion that 2.2 billion of the world’s inhabitants follow, keeping the religion from going completely extinct in its place of origin. Muslim lives are by no means less valuable than Christian ones — all life is sacred. But Christians are facing a direct threat that systematically seeks and punishes them, meaning the risk Syrian Christians face by virtue of worshipping a Christian God is elevated in comparison to their Muslim neighbors. The U.S. needs to start considering the religions of the refugees they process or risk the blood on their hands when ISIS wipes Syrian Christians from the face of the earth. While many U.S. politicians have avoided publicly acknowledging that there is a Christian genocide happening in Syria, conservative politicians such as Texas senator Ted Cruz and Florida governor Jeb Bush have supported bringing Syrian Christians to the U.S., and even Secretary of State John Kerry has labeled the genocide as such. News outlets such as Vice and MSNBC taunted both candidates for doing so, suggesting these predominantly liberal outlets don’t even recognize the need for giving Syrian Christians priority over Muslim refugees. John Kerry’s exposure of the genocide to the public was largely ignored as well. The media’s lack of coverage of Syrian Christian persecution completely disregards the value and humanity of this population, making it more difficult to bring awareness to their needs. At this rate, the total extinction of Syrian Christians is becoming a possibility. The Chaldean bishop of Aleppo, Syria, Antoine Audo, held a press conference in March from the UN’s headquarters in Geneva about the state of Christian persecution. According to the report, in only five years of conflict and per-
secution, the Christian population has dropped by two-thirds, from 1.5 million to 500,000. The number of Christians in Aleppo had fallen from 160,000 to just 40,000, and most of the population of Syrian Christians has fled to regions the Assad regime controls because it has historically protected Christians. Escaping by sea to European countries is dangerous and has resulted in the tragic deaths of hundreds whose boats have capsized, and going to refugee camps in Europe has become dangerous because Muslim refugees have reportedly brutalized Christian refugees. According to a study by the Gatestone Institute in May, of the 231 Christian refugees interviewed between February and March of 2016, 86 reported they had been physically assaulted by Muslim refugees or shelter security staff, and 70 had received death threats for their faith. President Roosevelt’s silence about the Jewish people massacred during the Holocaust and President Clinton’s silence about the Tutsis in the Rwandan Genocide cost the world millions of lives when U.S. intervention could have spared them. The U.S. cannot afford to stand idly by while the 21st century experiences its own manifestation of American failure to stop international genocide. President Obama and whoever succeeds him should not allow the extinction of Syrian Christians to blemish their legacy as leaders of the free world and commanders of a country that values human life and vows to protect those who cannot protect themselves. As a country that prides itself on preserving religious heritage, religious liberty and human dignity, we must ensure that Syrian Christians do not become extinct. They have nowhere else to turn for help, and the U.S. cannot ignore their pleas any longer. Marlo Safi primarily writes about public policy and politics for The Pitt News. Write to Marlo at mes26@pitt.edu
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Murray Avenue shows medley of cultures during Squirrel Hill Night Markets Stephen Caruso
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here was a time when most people knew Squirrel Hill simply as Pittsburgh’s Jewish neighborhood. While the occasional yamaka and kosher deli still remind visitors of that legacy, Saturday’s Squirrel Hill Night Market showed off the neighborhood’s new variety. Held on Murray Avenue from Forbes Avenue to Bartlett Street, the market was organized by Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition and is in its second year. Vendors selling everything from cigars to DJ lessons to Korean fried chicken cupcakes kept the two blocks vibrant with happy pedestrians instead of jammed with traffic. Jasmine Cho, the brain behind the chicken cupcakes, is a Squirrel Hill resident. A Korean American, she is culinarily self-taught and runs Yummyholic, a bakery specializing in sweet treats that look to her combined heritage for inspiration. “I’m inspired to bring different flavors to Pittsburgh,” Cho said. Her fried fowl dessert places a small nugget on top of a golden baked cake. A small spread of soju — a Korean rice wine — glaze adds a touch of gooey sweetness. Her favorite of her inventions, though, is her chocolate chili cookie, which she describes as “super chocolatey and fudgy, but [it] leaves a little heat at the end.” While Cho has run her bakery from home since its relaunch in October 2015, she hopes to one day have a storefront in Squirrel Hill. But George Mowod, who runs USA
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Professional Karate at 2345 Murray Ave, knows that is a tough task. “It’s pretty hard to keep your business in the same place,” Mowod says, who has been in business on Murray for 35 years, although his exact location has changed. As two of his students sparred on a mat, Mowod fielded the piqued interest of market attendees. “It’s always an amazing thing to see how far they come with their skills,” Mowod said, gesturing towards his pupils. Mowod participated in the last market as well and
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thought it helped his business draw interest. To fellow Squirrel Hill entrepreneur Cathy Willis, owner of Aiello’s Pizza and participant in last year’s Night Market, this year’s turnout won’t mean disappointment for any of the vendors. “It definitely seems See Market on page 8 busier this year,” Willis
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and founding member of the multi-genre spoken-word collective Dark Noise. Also featured were Tyehimba Jess, author of “leadbelly” and “Olio,” and Duriel E. Harris, associate professor of English at Illinois State University, author of several collections of poetry and a co-founder of the Black Took Collective. Rankine started off the event with a few poems from her Danez Smith book, including “PosPoet session,” dealing with a case of unhealthy dedication. “My arms are full, the other shore besieged by longing,” she read. “I am a sickness. I want to give you more.”
We earned this paradise by a death we didn’t deserve.
Rankine went on to read her poem “The Increasing Frequency of Black Swans,” which was inspired by the black swan event theory, a metaphor for a surprising event that drastically changes everything surrounding it. “The grief is a planet,” Rankine reads. “A dust ring. A small moon that’s been hidden under my pillow, that’s been changing the way my body moves this whole time.” Rankine, whose parents are Jamaican immigrants, also read her poem “The Free World,” which she dubbed her “complicated love letter to America.” “I thought this was meant to be a romance: I was delivered here in order to love you. I was delivered here and ordered to love you. If we could be friends. I wore this new dress for you.” See Poetry on page 8
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Black poetry has a well-established home in Pittsburgh. The Kelly Strayhorn Theater hosted four poets on Sunday, June 19, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cave Canem — Latin for “beware the dog” and pronounced “Kah-veh Kah-nem” — a nonprofit literary organization that highlights and sponsors African American poets. Pitt’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and PNC cosponsored the event as part of East Liberty LIVE!, which spans more than 20 events throughout the summer. Terrance Hayes, the co-director of the CAAPP, explained the event as a way to engage the city and the University. “A lot of what we do at the University is always on the University, so we sorta felt like
one great idea is to take the University and move it into the city,” Hayes said. Sunday was many important days all wrapped into one. It was Father’s Day. It was Juneteenth, the anniversary of slavery’s official end in the Confederate South. It also marked the first full week since the Pulse shooting in Orlando. All of these thoughts held sway over the theater as the poets, all Cave Canem Fellows, took the stage one by one. The featured poets were Camille Rankine, author of “Incorrect Merciful Impulses,” and Danez Smith, a 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam finalist
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Poetry, pg. 7 Rankine’s delivery was the most traditional of the featured poets. The remaining readers veered into the experimental. Danez Smith doesn’t recite poems so much as he gesticulates stories at the crowd. Smith moved the entire theater with a shortened version of his poem “summer, somewhere,” in which he imagines an alternate heaven exclusively for young black boys who were murdered. “History is what it is,” Smith said. “It knows what it did.” Smith’s poem sketches a sanctuary where blood-stained shirts become ruby gowns, and the color white is absent enough for even the snow to fall black.
Market, pg. 6 said as she sliced pizza for hungry marketgoers. Willis inherited the pizza shop, a Squirrel Hill staple for 38 years, from her father Joe Aiello when he passed away. Perched in the middle of the market at the intersection of Murray Avenue and
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“Please, don’t call us dead, call us alive someplace better,” Smith read. “We say our own names when we pray. We go out for sweets & come back.” Near the end of the excerpt, Smith reminded the audience that this imagined heaven comes at a cost. “You are not welcome here,” Smith said. “Trust the trip will kill you. Go home. We earned this paradise by a death we didn’t deserve.” As Smith reads, a black girl in a sports jersey bows her head as another consoles her by placing a hand on her shoulder. The poem’s impact is clear. These rhymes cut deep, but the feelings behind them cut deeper still. Smith lightened the mood with a few of his other poems, which dealt with subjects from 90s R&B music videos to Prince (a se-
ries titled “Purple Sonnets”) and a potential movie pitch. The latter was the focus of Dinosaurs in the Hood, describing a film that would be “Jurassic Park meets Friday meets The Pursuit of Happyness.” Smith used the pitch to talk about making the ideal movie, devoid of stereotypes. “I don’t want any racist [stuff ] about Asian people or overused Pan-Latino stereotypes. This movie is about a neighborhood of royal folks — children of slaves and immigrants and addicts and exiles — saving their town from dinosaurs,” Smith said. Tyehimba Jess started his reading by thanking the poets and the CAAPP for hosting the event, stating that “this is my summer right here.” Jess read from his poem “Infernal,” which dealt with his father and his childhood in De-
troit. “We survived,” Jess read, “mostly by fleeing the flames while sealing their heat in our minds the way a bank holds a mortgage — the way a father holds his son’s hand while his city burns around him...” Jess also read an excerpt from his book “leadbelly” — complete with a quick rendition of legendary blues musician Lead Belly’s song “Pick a Bale of Cotton,” which Lead Belly originally sang while picking cotton at Sugarland, a prison plantation. The event’s last poet, Duriel Harris, read a variety of poems, including “Simulacra: Black Mary Integrates the Schoolhouse.” “Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb,” Harris read. “Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was black as sullied snow.”
Darlington Road, Willis’ tent was one of many food options in the shadow of Manor Theatre’s marquee. Nearby, other stands sold lemonade and chicken on a stick, while more varied fare — such as crepes, burritos and wok — flowed from the food trucks lining Darlington Road. Reminding attendees that they were still in Pittsburgh, one truck proudly sold pierogies.
Over the dull roar of hundreds going to and fro was the twang of an acoustic guitar coming from The Squirrel Hillbillies — a group made up of Squirrel Hill residents Jenny Wolsk Bain and Gary Crouth. The duo played classic American folk music, harmonizing over each other with ease. But there was still the occasional cosmopolitan twist — one song featured
Wolsk Bain singing a Buddhist prayer. The crowd clapped as the song ended. Wolsk Bain looked up at the gathered crowd and summed up the general sentiment of the evening. “One of the great pleasures of living in Squirrel Hill is all the diversity here,” she said.
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U.s. open rEturns to Oakmont Country Club, 14 miles from Pittsburgh city center, hosted its ninth U.S. Open this past weekend. Jeff Ahearn SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Dustin Johnson overpowers historic course to claim first major victory Steve Rotstein Sports Editor
The 2016 U.S. Open Championship returned to historic Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, for the ninth time this past weekend – more than any other course in the world. Praised as one of the world’s most beautiful golf courses, Oakmont is also arguably the most difficult. And when the national championship comes around, United States Golf Association officials do everything in their power to make the course as unforgiving as possible. They roll the notoriously fast greens until they no longer resemble a viable putting surface. They grow the grass in the deep rough about
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four inches high, move the holes to the most precarious spot on the green and position the tee boxes so far away the flags are virtually out of sight. The goal? To create the most challenging test possible for the world’s best golfers, where finishing at even par is often sufficient to secure the championship. Hometown favorite Jim Furyk, Scott Piercy and 54-hole leader Shane Lowry all finished below par at 1-under 279, but that was only good enough for second place this time. Dustin Johnson — the longest driver on the PGA Tour, who entered the tournament as the No. 6 ranked golfer in the world — became the 116th U.S. Open champion with a 4-under 276, claiming his first major championship and exor-
cising a long line of demons in the process. The 31-year-old Johnson’s struggles to close out major championships on Sundays have been chronicled and analyzed for years now. In the 2010 U.S. Open, Johnson took the 54hole lead into play Sunday only to shoot a final round 82 and fall out of contention. Two months later at the 2010 PGA Championship, Johnson mistakenly grounded his club in a stray bunker, incurring a two-stroke penalty on the 72nd hole that cost him a spot in the playoff with Martin Kaymer and Bubba Watson. At the 2015 U.S. Open, Johnson had maybe his best chance yet to silence the naysayers. A massive 357-yard drive followed by a 247-yard approach shot set him up for a chance to win the championship with a 12-foot eagle putt.
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But Johnson pushed the putt four feet past the hole and missed the ensuing birdie putt that would have forced an 18-hole playoff with 21-year-old Jordan Spieth. Instead, Spieth celebrated his second consecutive major victory near the scoring trailer while Johnson settled for second place yet again. This year, as Johnson mashed his way up and down the storied course at Oakmont en route to the 36-hole lead entering the weekend, the questions really started to heat up. Would this be the time he finally won a major? Would he crack under the pressure again? Was he destined to go down as the best golfer to never win a major championship? See U.S. Open on page 10
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Sports news (in Brief) Pitt Falls Short at Olympic Trials Pitt’s Dom Giordano and Meme Sharp competed on the 3M springboard at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis on Monday and Tuesday. A rising senior and reigning NCAA 3M champion, Giordano placed 33rd at the Olympic Trials with a six-dive score of 290.10. Sharp –– a rising junior and reigning ACC 3M champion –– narrowly missed the cut after posting a five-dive score of 219.90 and finishing in 22nd place. The top 18 finishers advanced to the semifinals in both events. Meme Sharp | PITT ATHLETICS
Stallings’ son called up by bucs The Pittsburgh Pirates called up rookie catcher Jacob Stallings –– son of Pitt men’s basketball head coach Kevin Stallings –– from Triple-A Indianapolis for Sunday night’s nationally-televised game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. With Coach Stallings in attendance on Father’s Day, Jacob got the start behind the plate and went 0-for-4 in a 10-5 loss in his MLB debut.
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U.S. Open, pg. 9 By Sunday night, everyone had their answers. After posting a 1-over 71 in round three, Johnson started his final round four shots behind the leader, Lowry. Many believed Johnson would benefit from being the hunter this time rather than the hunted. Johnson signaled that the chase was on at 3:20 p.m., Sunday, blasting a mammoth 378yard drive almost a quarter of a mile down the middle of the fairway on his first tee shot. Lowry and Andrew Landry had yet to tee off in the final pairing, but a swarm of spectators followed Johnson and Lee Westwood down the fairway and trailed them the rest of the way. Westwood fell out of contention early, but it was clear that the crowd was there to see “DJ.” Starting the final round of a major tournament on top of the leaderboard was a completely new experience for Lowry, and the spectacle of the moment appeared to wear on him. Johnson continued to crush tee shots, avoid the rough and find greens in regulation. He birdied the par-4 ninth, Lowry followed with
a bogey and the two were tied atop the leaderboard at 4-under heading into the back nine.. At least, that’s what most people believed. Players, commentators and spectators alike were shocked to find out that the USGA was reviewing the tape of Johnson’s putt on the fifth green. More specifically, they were reviewing what happened before that putt. Depending on your perspective, Johnson’s ball may or may not have moved a fraction of an inch before his putt. But if he never addressed the ball, it’s hard to say if he caused it to move. The USGA, though, deemed it was “more likely than not” that Johnson was at fault. Johnson alerted a rules official of the possible violation before finishing the hole, then moved on. But an official interrupted him at the 12th tee to let him know the USGA was investigating what happened on the fifth green and that he could be assessed a one-stroke penalty. Commentators, spectators and even fellow pro golfers expressed disbelief at the possibility of a penalty for not even contacting the ball. The USGA released a statement regarding the ruling Monday night. “Upon reflection, we regret the distraction caused by our decision to wait until the end of
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the round to decide on the ruling,” the statement said. “This created unnecessary ambiguity for Dustin and the other players as well as spectators on-site and those watching and listening on television and digital channels.” Meanwhile, Johnson gave himself a threeshot lead entering the final hole after par-saving putts on 16 and 17. A perfectly executed drive and approach shot set Johnson up for a can’t-miss birdie putt on 18, which he sunk to the roaring approval of the crowd. He took a four-stroke lead into the clubhouse, rendering the one-stroke penalty –– which was enforced at the completion of the round –– obsolete. “I hit two great shots on 18. [The second shot] might be one of the best shots I ever hit,” Johnson told reporters after the championship. “So that was very nice to have a short putt like that to get it in the house.” Forced to go through the final seven holes without knowing his official place on the leaderboard, with all of his past failures creeping back into focus, Johnson could have easily folded under the immense pressure. Instead, Lowry was the one who crumbled while Johnson conquered all — his opponents, his demons, the world’s toughest course and, most of all, the USGA.
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3 bedroom apartment. $1450 (utilities included). 704 Enfield St. Call 412-969-2790. Craig Street. Safe, secure building. 1bedroom, furnished. Newly remodeled, wall-to-wall carpeting, no pets. $785 and up. Heat included. Mature or Graduate students. 412-855-9925 or 724-940-0045. Email for pictures: kelly.m317@yahoo.com
House for rent. 5 BR 1.5 Bath. Newly renovated - Breckenridge St. For mature or graduate students. Close to Peterson Events Center, Trees Hall & bus route. Equipped w kitchen, hardwood floors, washer/dryer, full basement, fenced in backyard & deck. Looking for 5 students to share. Available Aug. 1st. $450 per student + utilities. No Pets. For information, please call (412) 683-5120 or email bradley3145@comcast.net.
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2 bedroom available 8/1/16 at $900/month includes all utilities. 3 bedroom available 9/1/16 at $1,350/month includes all utilities. Located on Juliet Street. Security deposit required. Call 412-608-8581. 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Dawson Street. Available 8/16/16. $1500 + electric. Contact (412) 915-0856. 3 BR, furnished, sharing for 3 people. Oakland Ave. $1905 ($635 per person), utilities included. Available in August. Contact 412-848-9442. 3444 WARD ST. -3 BR 1 Bath apartments available Aug. 1, 2016. Free parking, free heating. Call 412-361-2695. No evening calls please.
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Available 8/1, 1 BR/1 Bath, 5 min. walk to Cathedral, A/C, hardwood floors, newly renovated, starting at $995+, 412.441.1211 Available 8/1, 3 BR/1 Bath, less than 1 mile to campus, updated, Dishwasher and AC, starting at $1299+, 412.441.1211
Available August 1st. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath house. Great location. Renovated. Central air. Equipped kitchen with dishwasher and microwave. Washer/ Dryer. Starting at $1575+/utilities. Porch/yard. No pets. Call 412-916-4777.
FOR RENT AUGUST 1 2016: Spacious 3BR 1.5 BA remodeled home on treelined residential street. $1695/mo + utilities. Parking available. Panther Properties of PA, pantherproperties2@gmail.com. Photos: https://panther-life.com/properties/ oakland/ Large 1-2-3 BR apartments available Aug. 1st, 3450 Ward St. Free parking. Minutes to campus. Cat friendly. Call 412-977-0111.
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LARGE, SOLID BUILD HOUSE FOR 3-4 PEOPLE, with spacious kitchen and living room, nice roomy backyard, enjoyable front porch, some recent renovations -- starting August 25. Only $340 per room. Call 412-692-1770 to see house. Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2016 & sooner. Oakland, Shadyside, Friendship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availability online, check out www.forbesmanagement.net, or call 412.441.1211 M.J. Kelly Realty Studio, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom Apartments, Duplexes, Houses. $775-$1650. mjkellyrealty@gmail.com. 412-271-5550, mjkellyrealty.com 4909 Center Ave. Updated 1 BR with new kitchen, dishwasher & hardwood floors. Laundry, storage and parking available. Close to Pitt & shopping district. Available now and for August. 412-720-4756.
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Shadyside: 2 bedroom. Quiet, clean, well-maintained apt house. Great location. Fully equipped kitchenette, A/C, laundry, wall-to-wall carpeting. Near busline and shopping. No pets. $1190. Heat included in rent. Lease available for August 1 (If desired, also available to sublet for June/July at reduced rate). 412-628-1686. Shadyside spacious 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Hardwood floors. New kitchen. August 1st move in. Call 412-361-2695. 3 br, bath, storage, W/D, garage, near bus, C/A. $1650 + utilities. Faculty, graduate students preffered. Call BEFORE 7pm (412) 421-7548. 2 BDR, 1 BA, LA, DR, eat-in kit., W/D, A/C. Optional offstreet parking. $1200 + utilities. Avail. 8/1/16 (412) 443-6210.
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FOR RENT AUGUST 1 2016: Tastefully renovated, bright 3BR 1.5 BA home near Bloomfield Bridge. $1625/mo + utilities. Panther Properties of PA, pantherproperties2@gmail.com. Photos: https://panther-life.com/properties/bloomfield/ Bloomfield 2 BD apartment. Avail. Aug 1st. $1200 (+ gas & electric). Great location- 1 block from West Penn. Call 412-969-2790. Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unrelated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Permits, Licensing & Inspections. 412-255-2175. Regent Square Summer Rental 4 bedroom house with yard/garage on great street. Close to Frick Park and busline to CMU/Pitt/UPMC. $2,400 month + utilities available JulyAugust/September. Call 412-805-5166.
STUDENT WORKER Compile events calendar for University Times. Start immediately or start of fall term. 15 hours/week, very flexible schedule. Organized & detail-oriented. Prefer freshman, sophomore or junior, but seniors are welcome to apply. Would like workstudy-eligible student but not a requirement. Email resume with work history & contact information ASAP to utimes@pitt.edu. Office and retail job in North Oakland Part time Mon-Sat 85 pm. $12/hr. Basic computer & retail skills are preferred. 313 North Craig St. Contact (412) 621-7215 for more information.
Full time/part time administrative position available at Schachner Associates, P.C.; Comprehensive Psychological Services. Responsibilities include: assistance with client services, including greeting, scheduling, and insurance payments; general communication management and client insurance eligibility and benefit confirmation; and basic filing, bookkeeping, and assistance with office projects. Excellent interpersonal skills, multitasking, and computer and typing skills are required. College students and recent graduates are welcome. Please send a resume to admin@schachnerassociates.com. Caregivers and babysitters needed. FT/PT. Earn $25/hour. No experience required. Will train. Call now. 888366-3244 ext. 102.
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Summer Help Wanted: Night shifts available. Full or part time. Apply at 3901 Forbes Ave. Orignial Hot Dog Shop. Come work where it’s Oktoberfest every day. Now hiring for all positions at Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh. Apply in person Monday through Friday. Sacred Heart Elementary School in Shadyside is looking for volunteer Volleyball Coaches and Basketball Coaches for the Varsity and JV Teams for the 201617 Seasons. Must be at least 18 years of age and have transportation. If interested, please contact Amy Volpe at jaisvolpe@gmail.com or call 412.295.9260
OWN INSTEAD OF RENTING! House for sale, perfect for student dormitory or faculty. 719 S. Aiken Ave. 5 blocks from Pitt. 3 BR, 2 BA, hardwood floors, kitchen with new appliances, fireplace in living room. 2 private parking spaces on site. Call 412-683-9300 or email arpprc@gmail.com for showing.
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