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Pitt is delaying its search for a new dean of students until the start of the fall term after saying in February it would begin the search sometime this summer. Pitt spokesperson Ken Service said in an email last week that the schedule he provided in February was an estimate and said Provost Patricia Beeson is planning a search. Further details will not be available until the start of the fall semester. At that time, Service said, the provost will form a search committee. Service said in February that students would have a say in the University’s search for a new dean. He said on Tuesday that students will still be able to give their opinion. Chancellor Patrick Gallagher appointed Kathy Humphrey as senior vice chancellor for engagement and chief of staff on Jan. 14. Kenyon Bonner assumed the role of interim vice provost and dean of students after working as director of student life for the past 11 years and associate dean of students for the past seven. Pitt currently has two job listings on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Vitae website, a search engine for jobs in higher education, including one for a new advising center director, but not one for vice provost and dean of students. Service would not say why Pitt has not posted a job listing for the position even though it has been looking to fill the position since Jan. 14. Including Humphrey, Pitt’s last four deans of students have all had doctorate degrees. Bonner holds a Master’s of Education degree in rehabilitation counseling. Humphrey holds a doctorate in education leadership. Pitt will announce the qualifications for the position at the start of the search, Service said.
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Her true colors: Oakland gathers in Schenley Plaza for Women’s World Cup Alexis Mazzeo Staff Writer
Independence Day had passed, but thousands of Schenley Plaza visitors stayed in their red, white and blue ensembles for one extra day. An estimated 3,000 soccer fans gathered in the park, donning their most patriotic attire, to watch the public screening of the Women’s World Cup Final. Minutes into the game, people leaped up from the grass and erupted in applause as they watched Carli Lloyd score the first U.S. goal 2,600 miles away from the game’s location in Canada. The City of Pittsburgh organized the free screening. According to Katie O’Malley, a spokesperson for Mayor Bill Peduto’s office, the City had received collaborative support from Pittsburgh Dynamo Youth Soccer to put on the screening. One smiling father playfully tossed his young son in the air in celebration. A group of young men in the middle of the crowd started a “U.S.A.” chant.
Carli Lloyd’s hat trick in the Women’s World Cup finals gave Yinzers watching at Schenley Plaza a lot to cheer about, as the U.S. defeated Japan 5-2. TNS
Joe Brown, an attendee and junior mechanical engineer at Pitt, was impressed by the event. “In light of recent events with FIFA, it’s
great that we can go out and watch women’s sports,” Brown said. See World Cup on page 4
At Three Rivers Regatta, no boats doesn’t mean no fun Chidi Nwakpuda Staff Writer
At this year’s Fourth of July boat racing event, there were no boat races. Regatta organizers, including John Bonassi, had originally planned to host jet ski stunts and a formula one powerboat race, but because of debris cluttering the rivers near the Point Downtown, EQT Three Rivers Regatta closed the rivers to all boat racing events. The Regatta has been an annual Pittsburgh tradition filled with live entertainment, food, and boat races for at least 38 years. From July 3-5, around 500,000 people came to the Regatta, but just for the on-land events. Competitors and spectators from across the U.S. and other countries came to watch the cancelled boating competition. Bonassi, chair of the Regatta’s board,
Bonassi said, and often draws similarly sized crowds. Even so, the cancellation of the boat racing did not stop Bonassi, nor other spectators, from coming down to the event. Jim Allen, a Pittsburgh native and vendor for the Wild River Kettle Korn concession stand during the While boats were in short supply, playful pups put on a event, was one of those show for vistors to the Three Rivers Regatta. people. Stephen Caruso LAYOUT EDITOR Allen, 57, is no said Pittsburgh’s Regatta is unmatched. stranger to the event, “There is no comparison [to our Re- as he said he’s worked at the Regatta gatta],” said Bonassi, who has been a almost every year — he recalled coming member of the board for 25 years. to watch the boat races for years during The Regatta’s three-day event costs See Regatta on page 5 between $700,000 and $1 million,
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While the real guns have stopped firing, some Confederate Apologists stand up for their meaning of the confederate flag Dale Shoemaker
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espite Dylann Roof ’s raciallycharged attack on South Carolina churchgoers last month, Mike Lawson doesn’t think the state should remove the Confederate flag from state grounds. Lawson said the debate about the flag, which Roof was photographed wearing on his jacket, is unfounded. The flag, he said, doesn’t represent slavery or racism, and everyone who says it does is wrong. “People are just so stupid, they’re bandwagon jumpers, you know? Americans are that way. I don’t know what’s wrong with them, but they jump on these bandwagons and they want to be part of some social movement like in the 60s … and if this is it, they’re going to latch onto it and say ‘I was a part of that,’” Lawson, who reenacted the Civil War’s Battle at Cumberland Church as a Confederate soldier on June 27, said. The battle originally took place late in the war, on April 7, 1865, just two days before Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum hosted the reenactment from June 26-28, a week before the Fourth of July — and 10 days after Roof ’s attack. In South Carolina, the scene of Roof ’s massacre and hate crime on June 17 that took the lives of nine African American members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Confederate flag is nearly gone following public pushback after the attack.
Above: Mike Lawson at his Confederate camp. Stephen Caruso LAYOUT EDITOR Left: Soldiers and Sailors organized a reenactment for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s end. Theo Schwarz VISUAL EDITOR
Cover: Chris Jones (left) and a fellow reennactor adjust a Confederate battle flag atop a tent in thei r camp. Theo Schwarz VISUAL EDITOR
On Monday afternoon, South Carolina’s Senate voted to remove the Confederate flag from state grounds, with an overwhelming 37-3 majority. The Senate’s vote marks the state’s first step toward removing the flag from public grounds. South Carolina’s House of Representatives still must pass the bill before it reaches Gov. Nikki Haley, who has said she will sign legislation to remove the flag. Lawson and about 300 others gathered in Hartwood Acres — a park outside Pittsburgh — for a Civil War reenactment celebrating the 150th anniversary of the
Civil War’s end. People who fly the Confederate flag today, Lawson said, shouldn’t be punished for the South’s antiquated use from its slave-owning past. “You have this camera,” Lawson said to a group of spectators at the reenactment. “You don’t beat it, you don’t mistreat it, if it’s damaged you’ll get it repaired. Twenty years from now when they outlaw owning that camera, does that make you a bad person for ever owning one now?” Lawson explained that during the Civil War, slaves were considered the same as
inanimate objects, like his hypothetical camera. “Back then, this camera and that person were the exact same thing. We now know this is totally wrong,” Lawson said. “How they ever came up with the idea of slavery in the first place is beyond me.” During the reenactment on Saturday, Michael Kraus, a historian for Soldiers and Sailors and narrator for the event, said the flag should stay put on the field. “I can see it as an interpretative tool. Beyond that, it’s a matter of freedom of speech,” Kraus said. “If it’s government, it’s time to bring it down. I don’t think we can erase it. We want to keep interpreting See Flag on page 4
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Two minutes after the first goal, the crowd got even more fired up when Lloyd scored her second. A group of young men in patriotic capes and suspenders sprinted across the lawn in front of the screen, shouting. “Anything can happen in the game of soccer, but I got a strong feeling we’ve got this,” Kyle Shaffer, a junior exercise science major, said. Shaffer watched as Lloyd scored her third goal on Japan goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori from midfield. “This is mind-blowing, everyone is going crazy. The atmosphere is electric, everyone here is having a great time,” Shaffer said. Small children played their own soccer match beneath the projected screen, lobbing the ball in the air and trying to score by shooting the ball at the back of the porta-potties. Other attendees sat watching intently on blankets and some were sitting on the edge of their lawn chairs. The match ended with a 5-2 American victory — the Schenley crowd erupted. “It’s been a great American weekend,” Shaffer said.
it. I want to keep seeing it in museums. The Civil War has long arms and we’re still in the reach of that.” On some — like John Spaziani, who acted as Confederate General Samuel Cooper — those arms have a tight grasp. Spaziani arrived in full uniform and referred to himself as “General Cooper.” As the General, he was steadfast in support of his troops, but when he took his hat off and broke character, he said he agreed with Haley’s stance to remove the flag from South Carolina state grounds. “It is clear that the Confederate Flag does offend some people, and I can understand why it might,” Spaziani said. “[But] those of us who honor history look at it as a symbol of history.” For Reggie Shuford, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania, an organization that works to defend the individual rights that the Constitution grants, the Confederate flag is a symbol of history, but one that should not be honored. To Shuford, it is a reminder of an ugly
chapter of America’s history. “Removing the Confederate flag from government property, while not a solution to our nation’s racial issues, is certainly a step in the right direction of making this a more equal country,” Shuford said in an email Monday. Spaziani agreed that taking the flag down isn’t a cure-all for racism. “All of a sudden now the debate is linked to, ‘If you only take the Confederate flag down, racism will disappear,’” Spaziani said. “I’m sorry, whatever the underlying causes are for racism, they’ll still be there whether a Confederate flag flies or not.” In Gettysburg, the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the flag still flies — though only in some places. In an email on Tuesday, Katie Lawhon, a spokesperson for Gettysburg National Military Park, said the park’s bookstore is no longer selling standalone items that “solely feature” the Confederate flag. This includes replicas of the flag, T-shirts and stickers. Other than removing those products, the park hasn’t made major changes. “It all has to do with [historical] con-
text,” Lawhon said. “The Confederate flag will always have a place at [the park].” Kraus said the National Park Service had not set any limitations on displaying the Confederate flag at the reenactment. For Chris Jones, who acted as a Confederate Lieutenant Colonel at the reenactment, taking the flag down is an attack on his family. Having maternal ancestors who fought on both sides in the Civil War, Jones and his younger brother have been reenacting battles since he was young. Several years ago, he and his brother mirrored their ancestors and fought on opposing sides at a Gettysburg reenactment. For most of the battle, the two faced one another on the mock battlefield. “I’d take a shot and he’d kinda duck, and he’d take a shot and I’d kinda duck … but it was just really eerie the first time I realized, ‘Oh s***, I’m shooting my little brother. My family did the same thing,” he said. “You hear about the brother on brother thing, my family was literally that.” See Flag on page 5
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Instead of arguing his opinion on the Confederate flag, Jones said he will do all that he can to educate people on the flag’s history and what it means to him. “I will educate, I will teach, I will tell [people] what it means to me, what it meant to my family who fought and died. They didn’t have shoes, much less slaves. Dale Shoemaker It was not like that,” Jones said. “It may News Editor not be pleasant history, but it’s still our The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police are looking history.” to hire new officers, but for the first time, community members will have a say in who gets a job. As part of a new initiative, Pittsburgh Police put out a call for volunteers last week to increase the number of civilian community members taking part in the oral board portion of the hiring process, one of the first assessments for candidates. The initiative is meant to increase community policing, Jennifer Ford, a commander for the police who is overseeing the program, said. Volunteers will interview potential candidates between July 21-30, joining officers to conduct the interviews. The candidates whom the police and volunteers are interviewing are expected to join the force next March if hired. “Other cities have done [this] and we wanted to give community members a say in hiring police,” Ford said Tuesday. Ford said the police wanted to bring volunteers into interviews back in 2011, but later decided against it. After he was sworn in last December, Police Chief Cameron McLay called for more community policing. In an email to the police force in January, McLay explained that communityoriented policing is essential to cutting down on police violence. “We have an administration that’s open to it,” Ford said. From now on, Ford said, the police will ask civilians to volunteer for interviews in each round of hiring, about every 18 months. Before the interviews, both the civilian volunteers and the other police who will sit on the oral board will undergo a training session for what they should expect and evaluate and what questions they should ask. Police presented the plan at an Oakwatch meeting last week, according to Wanda Wilson, director of Oakland Planning and Development Corporation, but the police are no longer accepting applications, Ford said.
Regatta, pg. 2 his youth. “I have been coming here since I was a kid. I’m old,” he said. Along with the event cancellations, organizers also barred boat-owners from using the waters for personal use. Jennifer Stapel was one attendee who couldn’t use her boat as a result of the dangerous water conditions. While she was disappointed, she didn’t let the cancellations ruin her weekend.
5 “I love coming to [the Regatta]. I hang out with friends and family,” said Stapel, an advisor in Pitt’s psychology department. Carolina Caidena, 28, who is from Mexico and is visiting Pittsburgh for an observationship in the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, was upset by the lack of water activities at the Regatta. “I was disappointed. The only thing I wanted to see was the boat race since it is the most important part. The river doesn’t look dangerous,” she said.
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Don’t mess with history, Texas
On Monday, 37 members of the South Carolina Senate voted to remove the Confederate flag from its capital, a landmark act in acknowledging that our history is scarred with racism and brutality. But next month, Texas seeks to re-hoist the controversial emblem — symbolically, at least. This August, the Lone Star State will roll out a new set of social studies textbooks that whitewash slavery’s role in the rural south, specifically during the Civil War era. This is a grave decision with serious repercussions for our youth. Since Texas is the second-largest textbook buyer in the U.S. after California, purchasing about 48 million texts per year, national publishers will cater to its standards. And by catering to those skewed standards, we are distorting history. The Texas Board of Education is introducing these textbooks as a result of a 2010 decision to revise its social studies curriculum. A board of conservative members sought to put politics before education in an effort to balance academia. Don McLeroy, leader of the conservative faction of the board told The New York Times in 2010 that the board was “adding balance. History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left.” In this effort to supposedly “rebalance” academia, the Board is misconstruing history. Using euphemisms to downplay slavery’s role in our history, the texts rename the slave trade the “Atlantic triangular trade.” Even worse, though, the Washington Post reports that the textbooks frame the causes for the Civil War as “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery,” in that deliberate order. Since when has the Civil War been more involved in states’ rights than slavery? Why is slavery being treated as a side issue in a war that was completely immersed in black-white relations? It’s simple — slavery is too controversial. It’s pathetic that the Texas Board of Education feels the facts of American history are too contentious to be taught in schools. In light of heated race relations, it’s critical that we teach children the history of our country — no matter how ugly. In order for students to understand the context of racism today, we need to portray our past frankly. It’s our duty to put the politics to rest and correctly portray history — honestly.
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I sat there, staring at my phone’s browser in shock. My results were in — and contrary to what I had strongly believed since I had first learned the definition of the term, I wasn’t a Democrat. According to a political alignment quiz, I was actually a member of the Green Party. My heart slumped to my stomach as I realized that something I had considered an essential part of myself was apparently a lie. I vaguely remembered hearing about the Green Party as part of English politics, but I didn’t even know what the Green Party stood for. But during my research, I realized that their frontrunner for the 2016 Presidential election — Jill Stein — was exactly who I wanted as a candidate. The more I dug into the Green Party, the more I realized what I had been missing from the Democratic Party. The Green Party is dedicated to environmentalism, non-violence, social justice and grassroots organizing. It is attempting to renew democracy without corporate donors. I
quickly realized I had been missing the whole point of being a good voter and citizen — rather than finding the right party for me, I was satisfied with forcing my views to fit the party I thought I belonged to. American citizens need to find parties that fit their values. Under media control, we subscribe to a two-party system that pigeonholes us into choosing from two main pools of candidates. Brazen headlines brim with news about Democratic scandals and G.O.P. mishaps. We’re so distracted by elephants and donkeys that we forget there are other parties with qualified candidates. With next year’s presidential elections looming, it’s imperative that we give other parties a chance. It’s time to look past our country’s two-party system and at least become educated on other subsidiary parties and their platforms. What if you only agree with half of Bernie Sanders’ platform but discover an Independent candidate is your spirit animal? It’s time to give the little guys — or third parties — a shot, to hear out candi-
dates that typically live in the shadows of our two-party candidates. We need to get informed. Unfortunately, when we hear about smaller party candidates, it’s usually because they’re super wacky. I’m sure we all remember Jimmy McMillan, the founder of The Rent is Too Damn High Party. He was an older man with a Dumbledorian white beard, screaming about how “the rent is too damn high” — hilarious, and makes for great television. Unfortunately, focusing on the fun smaller party candidates causes us to overlook serious contenders. These candidates may hold some of the answers for solving our major issues, but since they don’t have major corporate backing, we don’t see as much of them. Stein, who is seeking the 2016 nomination for the Green Party’s bid, is attempting to fund her campaign without backing. She is pro-choice, in favor of ending occupational apartheid — a concept under See Tasker on page 7
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Tasker, pg. 6 which individuals cannot freely choose their occupation due to race, disability, age, gender, sexuality, religion or political preference — and heavily supports government reform. She is what I personally found lacking in the Democratic Party, and I intend to fully support her in the coming elections. On the more conservative side, Tom Irwin is a small-town man seeking the American Party nomination. He is pro-life, pro-military and pro-guns. He lives in Sandy Lake, Penn-
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ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT one’s trash is another’s treasure Exhibit li!ers The Warhol with abstract, neon dumpsters
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Indie market gives ar!sts exposure in SouthSide Works Nick Mullen Staff Writer
Carrie Nardini, a Pitt alum, couldn’t find a place to promote her own art — so she made her own. “I was making jewelry and couldn’t find a lot of outlets at the time to sell my work,” Nardini said. In 2007, she teamed up with another artist named Nina Barbuto and started I Made It! Market. “I met Nina Barbuto at a craft fair at CMU and we started talking and decided to do it. It’s been running since that time,” Nardini said. I Made It! Market produces and organizes indie craft markets. From July 10-12, it’s producing the 11th annual SouthSide Works Exposed artist’s market in SouthSide Works. I Made It! Market recruits, organizes and promotes the artists who are a part of the event. The SouthSide Works Exposed market features handmade art and crafts from local artists, along with a variety of live entertainment and food trucks. I Made It! Market has produced the event for the past seven years. I Made It! Market also runs market events like the Whole Foods Market in Wexford and a market at the Three Rivers Regatta. The SouthSide Works Exposed market
Last year’s SouthSide Works Exposed market featured artists and vendors from the Pittsburgh area. COURTESY OF THE I MADE IT! MARKET FACEBOOK
features handmade art from different genres and mediums, including jewelry, glassware, photography, clothing, wood-working and more.
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Made It! Market team look at the different artists that apply and decide if each artist’s work is in line with the market’s aesthetic. “[We ask], ‘are they creating something with a modern edge that has a high level of skill in the creation of the product?’” Nardini said. “We also want to ensure that each item is handmade.” Through the market, artists get exposure and an opportunity to make a profit on their works. In return, artists pay a vending fee to the market to cover overhead costs like rent, utilities and advertising. I Made It! Market also organizes a number of other events in Pittsburgh, like “Neighborhood Flea,” which runs once a month on Sundays throughout the summer in the Strip District. According to the “Neighborhood Flea” website, it is a flea market which aims to bring together quality vendors with their customers. The market encourages dialogue between vendor and consumer by choosing vendors who create or curate their own collections. This enables the customer to learn from the seller, who has intimate knowledge of the products they’re curating. The SouthSide Works Exposed market features many artists, but focuses on local artists around Pittsburgh. See Market on page 10
Thirteen-hour sentence: Netflix makes prisoners of us all Nick Mullen Staff Writer
Fans of Netflix’s hit original series “Orange Is The New Black” were imprisoned by the desire to binge-watch all 13 episodes of the new season before the finale on June 11. Binge-watching has changed the way that audiences watch television. Online streaming services like Netflix and Hulu make bingewatching easy by releasing full seasons of television shows at once. Many television viewers, myself included, prefer to bingewatch because it lets us watch full seasons in a matter of hours or days. Instead of watching shows as they air weekly on television, viewers can binge-watch shows around their own schedules. Newer shows, like “Orange,” are designed to take advantage of the popularity of binge-
watching by including more complex plotlines and characters, because the stories are still fresh in the viewers’ minds. “Orange,” based on Piper Kerman’s memoir of the same name, stars Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, an upper-middle class woman whose life is disrupted when she is sentenced to 15 months in a federal prison for carrying a suitcase full of drug money to her former girlfriend Alex Vause, played by Laura Prepon. Piper then struggles to deal with the pressures of isolation from the outside world, with her strained relationship with her fiancé and prison life. The third season of “Orange” ditched much of the R-rated, sexually explicit content, including numerous sex scenes between inmates, for more flashbacks and character history. Each episode of the third season featured a specific character and showed flash-
backs into their pre-prison lives. To further complicate the plot, “Orange” also added many well-known guest stars like actress Mary Steenburgen, model Ruby Rose, who played the inmate Stella, a love interest for Piper, and comedian Mike Birbiglia, as the new corporate boss of the prison. While the first two seasons focused on a few main storylines, the third season spends less time focusing on just a few storylines or a small handful of characters. Instead, the third season focuses on fleshing out its already expansive character base. Almost every main and recurring character have their own storyline this season. Piper’s relationship with Stella and Caputo’s handling of the prison’s privatization made up the bulk of the “A” stories, but the show juggled other minor storylines as well. These included Poussey’s (Samira Wiley) struggles
with depression, Sophia and Gloria’s struggles with their children and Suzanne’s fame from writing a popular short story. The show’s long list of minor characters made “Orange” feel like a very well-rounded show, filled with diverse and developed characters. But by telling so many stories at the same time — with only 13 one-hour episodes — the show often became distracting or hard to follow. Netflix-only shows like “Orange,” where full seasons are released all at once, can attempt to juggle so many characters and stories, because the latest episodes are still fresh in the viewers’ minds. While the third season of “Orange” was slightly overwhelming because of the number of characters, audiences would have had no chance at following the characters if the show had aired on a weekly basis. Read the rest online at Pittnews.com.
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Trash, pg. 8 “Truck,” 1985, a little-known series of four prints he made for the 20th World Congress of the International Road Transport Union. When Rudnick looked at “Truck,” which depicts a tractor-trailer in various neon hues, she noticed similarities to her 2014 “Dumpster” works. Similar to “Truck,” her collection frames dumpsters — a frequently overlooked everyday object — within unusual colors, angles and locations. “Dumpsters populate every street, from [a] broken-down alley to mansion-side driveway, yet we’re not really supposed to pay attention to them. When you do start paying attention, you realize that they’re
Market, pg. 9 Some artists, like Amanda Lee, plan on showcasing art that focuses on the city. She designs hand-painted glassware, such as wine glasses, shot glasses and mugs, which feature many different designs representing Pittsburgh. Themes in her popular “Steel City Collection” include the Pittsburgh skyline and famous bridges. The collection has sold more
July 8, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com really interesting,” Rudnick said. “’Truck’ also has geometry that very much relates to the type of structure that I try to build in my paintings, especially the ‘Dumpster’ series.” After she compared her art with Warhol’s, Rudnick made window displays that highlighted her dialogue with the famous pop artist, yet advanced the commentary of her “Dumpster” works. “Lawrenceville” is one of the 2014 works Rudnick is referencing, which shows a salmon-colored dumpster surrounded by smudged, vibrant geometric patterns. Instead of using canvas on the new paintings, she’s experimenting with translucent fabric as a nod to Warhol’s screen printing process that initially
earned him popularity. Rudnick also chose several items from The Warhol’s gift shop to go alongside her art, including penny bank Coca-Cola bottles, banana-inspired objects and bookends resembling balloon dogs. For Rudnick, the quirky products she chose go along with the “TREASURE/ TRASH” concept, and they continue the tradition of Warhol’s famed treatment of everyday items. “His ‘Brillo Boxes,’ his ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ — for me, they’re wonderful because they successfully elevated the cheap and ubiquitous to the nearly priceless. A ton of contemporary art owes its legitimacy to that success,” Rudnick said.
While Rudnick recognizes Warhol’s influence on contemporary art, “TREASURE/TRASH” ultimately aims to react to — and even challenge — the tradition he established. With the exhibition, Rudick is looking to explore the rising amount of ignored objects on the streets, rather than the household items Warhol worked with during his career. “This legacy, while extraordinary, has consequences for emerging artists today,” Rudnick said. “The title TREASURE/ TRASH is also a reference to that — the ideological pushback against the commodified, fabricated, commercialized art market that Warhol and Koons helped to create. It’s treasure, and it’s trash.”
than 30,000 glasses in four years. Lee said she’s never embodied the “starving artist” stereotype. Instead, she has always found a way to sell her art, including through the SouthSide Works Exposed market. “I would describe myself as an artist that lives by the brush,” Lee said. “I’ve been making money from my art since I was a kid.” For Lee, the SouthSide Works Exposed market has given her business lots of expo-
sure. “I did my first [Exposed market] last year and not only were sales great there, but I continued to get business in my storefront in Oakmont throughout the year,” Lee said. Other artists use the market to give them an opportunity to have personal, face-to-face interactions with customers. Artist Colleen Harmon explained that the market gives her an opportunity not only to
grow her ceramic business, but to interact with customers, new and old. “I love the compliments, the stories from customers about all the compliments they get when wearing one of my pieces and the questions about my process,” Harmon said. “I want my work to mean something to the person wearing it, and the conversations I have with customers at shows like [this] prove that it does.”
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SPORTS NATIONAL TREASURES
Quartet of Pitt Ultimate players head to London for World Championships
The Maxwell Football Club named Pitt running back James Conner and wide receiver Tyler Boyd to the Maxwell Award watch list, the University announced Tuesday. The award annually recognizes the best college football player in the nation. Two Panthers have won the award in the past, including running back Tony Dorsett in 1976 and defensive end Hugh Green in 1990.
BYE-BYE BUTLER Class of 2016 defensive back recruit Tony Butler announced that he is decommitting from Pitt and re-opening his recruitment. Butler, a threestar recruit who committed to Pitt on March 21, is now looking at schools including Arizona State, Ohio State and Michigan, among others. Butler has not stated whether Pitt is still a potential landing spot. Senior Marcus Ranii-Dropcho’s play for Pitt this year and through his career has earned him a spot on the U.S.’s national team for the Ultimate World Championships in London. COURTESY OF PITT ULTIMATE’S FACEBOOK
JONES-SMITH DONE FOR YEAR Jaryd Jones-Smith, the Panthers’ starting offensive tackle, will miss the entire 2015 season following a right knee injury he suffered during offseason workouts, Pitt announced on Thursday. Jones-Smith started three games last year and played in 13. Jones-Smith’s replacement in the starting lineup has not been announced.
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Despite all the success that members of Pitt’s Ultimate team — affectionately called “En Sabah Nur” — have achieved, including winning two consecutive national championships, a quartet of them have their eyes set on something bigger. Trent Dillon, Tyler Kunsa, Marcus Ranii-Dropcho and Max Thorne are among 23 men who will represent the United States on an Open (all-male) team at the World Under-23 Ultimate Championships next week in London,
from July 12-18. In doing so, they make up the largest contingent from any one program on either of the three participating teams that USA Ultimate, the sport’s national governing body, is sending to Europe. The tournament takes place every two years, and 2013 was the first time America fielded an open team in the event, winning the title over Canada. To each of the players, their individual selections, while of course a reflection of their own talent and skill, also reflect positively on the work of something else.
“It just speaks to how highly [Pitt’s] program runs, recruits and develops players,” Thorne, a rising fifth-year mechanical engineering major, said. Five years ago, Dillon, Ranii-Dropcho and Thorne tried out for the U-19 team but didn’t make the cut. Now, undeterred and also encouraged by the experiences of some older college teammates who tried out for the national team in 2013, they, joined by Kunsa this time around, took the opportunity to try again. See Ultimate on page 13
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“I’d been looking forward to this date for a while. I knew, we all knew, we had a pretty good shot to make it,” Ranii-Dropcho, a fifth-year senior who graduated in April, said. “So really starting in the summer when they announced the tryout application form, we pretty much decided we were going to go for it and do it. “ To make the team, they first had to each submit the application, which included a form about their history playing the sport, along with recommendations from coaches. According to USA Ultimate, more than 500 people applied, including men and women. USA Ultimate then invited 100 men to tryout for the men’s team last November — the Pitt contingent was among this group. Traveling to Orlando, Florida, they played for eight hours a day, according to Kunsa, scrimmaging each other and going through drills such as agility ladders. Final rosters were announced in December.
In Florida, Open head coach Bob Krier, who coached the 2013 champions, was struck by the shared intangible traits and attributes each Pitt player demonstrated individually, specifically in regard to their leadership capabilities.
going to be coordinated together in their role,” Krier said. “If we can bring others into the mix where they play well with pairs of those players, that just increases the overall cohesion of our team.” Establishing chemistry quickly will
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It just speaks to how highly [Pitt’s] program runs, recruits and develops players. He’s counting on the understanding amongst En Sabah Nur teammates, having played with one another for the past four years, winning national titles in 2012 and 2013, to aid the national team in its attempt to repeat. “Being able to put a couple of them out on the line, we know already they’re
be crucial if the team is going to replicate its past success, as it will not have had more than a week-long training camp to build familiarity as a complete unit before crossing the Atlantic. And with the U.S. having lost to Canada in its last international competition, at the U-19 Worlds last summer, snapping
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a 54-game win streak spanning four years and multiple age groups, a sense of national pride — Americans created the sport — is serving as something as a motivator. “There’s kind of like this feeling, or at least this feeling that I have, I don’t want to be on the team that doesn’t win,“ Dillon, a rising fifth-year mechanical engineering student, said. “The expectation when you’re playing for Team USA in Ultimate is that you win. And if you’re not on that team then it’s like you really messed up. I think that it’s safe to say that it would be an embarrassment to lose.” Currently in the Chicago-area for its week-long training camp, the U.S. begins to play on July 12 against host Great Britain in the first game of the tournament. “It’s a great opportunity. Not a lot of people get to do it. I’m incredibly excited about being able to wear red, white and blue,” Kunsa said. “Representing your country is something I feel like everyone wanted to do when they were a kid, watching the Olympics.”
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