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Thai Hana closed FARM TO TABLE until violations resolved Janine Faust
Assitant News Editor The Allegheny County Health Department issued a consumer alert for Thai Hana and Sushi Bar Tuesday. According to the ACHD, the presence of roaches, flies and bags of rice infested by moths were among the reasons for issuing the alert for the restaurant located on the 3600 block of Fifth Avenue. Other reasons included a dishwasher that was not sanitizing properly, the presence of an unknown liquid leaking from the ceiling and cold food being stored at unsafe temperatures. As of Tuesday afternoon, a sign hung on Thai Hana’s front door saying it is closed for extensive plumbing repairs and will reopen Sept. 2. The ACHD has labeled the restaurant as Priority Code H, meaning that follow-up inspections were conducted on the facility within a five- to sevenmonth period due to violations in two or more high risk categories — such as employee health and cleaning and sanitation — during an initial inspection. The ACHD conducted a total of four inspections of the restaurant since late July, according to reports on the ACHD’s website. Both the initial report and the three subsequent follow-up inspections leading up to Tuesday showed repeated violations in areas including pest management and employee personal hygiene. The Pitt News made several calls to the restaurant on Wednesday and were met with a voicemail echoing the sign on the restaurant’s door.
Abigail Seltzer of Son Shine Farm sells fruit to Chris Josephs during Green Market at Phipps on Wednesday afternoon. Anna Bongardino ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR
STUDENTS, FACULTY RESPOND TO FOSTER STATUE Rachel Glasser News Editor When Laurence Glasco traveled to China in 1989, a Chinese band played for the group of visiting Americans and struck up a medley of Stephen Foster songs. “I said to them, ‘Gee, you know, you don’t really hear Stephen Foster songs anymore in America,’” Glasco said. “They were just dumbfounded.” A statue that sits on Forbes Avenue
near the Carnegie Museum of Art commemorates Foster — a Pittsburgh native — and his contributions to American music. But the statue — which has prompted controversy in the past — has recently become an even greater point of contention, receiving national attention and mention in The New York Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a widely circulated article by Very Smart Brothas’ Damon Young. The monument was completed in 1900 and was located in Highland Park,
but after being vandalized repeatedly, it was moved to Oakland during the 1940s. The statue depicts Foster standing tall, dressed as a gentleman, with a black man sitting at his feet. The black man is toothless, wearing tattered clothing and strumming a banjo while Stephen Foster stares off into the distance and transcribes one of his iconic songs — “Uncle Ned,” a song about a slave. Kirk Savage, a professor in the history of art and architecture department, See Foster on page 2
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Pro-life Pitt student aims to take hypocrisy out of casual politics Matt Maielli For The Pitt News
Rosemary Geraghty has been quoted as an activist in Marie Claire, PublicSource, Jezebel, and The Atlantic. Anna Bongardino ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR
Foster, pg. 1 said a statue can be offensive in two distinct ways — it depends on who is being represented and how. “In this case, Foster himself is not necessarily problematic,” Savage said. “I think it’s pretty certain that if the black banjo player weren’t on this statue — if it were just Foster himself on a rock — there’d probably be no controversy, or very little controversy about this monument.” Glasco said Foster was not out to demean people or to keep black people as slaves such as the Confederate generals displayed in other controversial statues. In fact, Foster never saw a slave or traveled to the south. “Unfortunately, he gets sort of lumped in with all the rest of the statues
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that are truly offensive and have a real political, racial theme of white supremacy and white domination,” Glasco said.
Rosemary Geraghty’s club at Pitt was accused, on social media, of being composed of “radical feminists” and “social justice warriors” promoting “transgenderism.” “And I was like, ‘Absolutely — you got me,’” she said with a laugh. Geraghty — a purple-haired, noseringed, queer, feminist atheist, in her own words — is a senior political science and communication double major and president of the pro-life club Choose Life at Pitt. As a pro-life feminist, Geraghty knows that she is in an odd position at what is a very liberal University. She doesn’t prefer to use labels, but her politics put her further left than most people — liberal and conservative — on campus. “Everyone likes me when I get to be like, ‘Pro-lifers aren’t really pro-life!’ and I get a lot of friends,” Geraghty said. Brytney Humphries, a senior who studies natural science and Africana studies, visited the statue last night as
I’m African-American myself, and I have mixed feelings about it — but that’s okay. -Laurence Glasco “Foster was celebrating black music. He loved it.”
part of Glasco’s History of Black Pittsburgh class. Despite Glasco’s argument
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“Then I start to talk about why I am also against abortion, and I lose all my friends.” Geraghty is the new media coordinator at Rehumanize International — a nonprofit based in the South Hills that promotes the consistent life ethic — and protested at both the Democratic and Republican national conventions last year, detailing the “consistent life ethic” to anyone interested. The consistent life ethic is a political philosophy opposed to abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and war. More simply, the consistent life ethic opposes the destruction of life at all stages of consciousness — from conception onwards. The phrase itself traces back to a Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, Humberto Medeiros, in the 1970s, but Geraghty believes that the ideas and values contained within the consistent See Geraghty on page 8 that Foster empathized with AfricanAmericans, Humphries believes the statue represents cultural appropriation. “The statue represents his getting a song from another African-American, and he’s the one who gets the name at the end of the day,” Humphries said. As a historian of music, Deane Root, a Pitt music professor and chair of the department, sympathized with what he believes the sculptor was trying to portray — the inspiration given to Foster by different cultural groups, particularly inspiration from African-Americans. “Perhaps unintentionally, he created a highly racist image,” Root said. “I think the statue unfairly depicts Foster, because I don’t think that was his perspective.” The Center for American Music at See Foster on page 3
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Foster, pg. 2 Pitt is home to the largest archive of Stephen Foster-related materials in the world, according to its website. While fewer than 20 of his over 200 songs are classified as minstrel music — traditionally done in blackface — such songs were extremely popular, the website says. From Root’s point of view, Foster tried hard to find the humanity in all people. Although he used the language of the times — much of which was racist — he took it upon himself to shift away from racial slurs. Foster detailed his perspective in a letter he wrote on May 25, 1852, to E.P. Christy, the leader of Christy’s Minstrels, saying he wanted to use fewer, “trashy and really offensive words.” Some of Foster’s music — such as the song “My Old Kentucky Home” — even accompanied the abolitionist stage production of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” But in the Post-reconstruction era, following his death, his songs were reinterpreted to be more derogatory.
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“After the Civil War, the true racists grabbed his songs and converted them into these kind of hate-filled, stereotyped images of blacks,” Glasco said. Jenea Lyles, an officer of Pitt’s Black Action Society, said she didn’t think much about the Stephen Foster monument until someone mentioned it in the BAS office. Afterwards, the sophomore microbiology and sociology double major began to research him. “What stuck out to me is he was known for minstrel music,” Lyles said. “So automatically I was thinking, this man does not deserve to be honored anywhere near my campus.” While the City of Pittsburgh owns the statue and the land on which it sits, about a year ago Pitt faculty and students raised concerns about the imagery of the Foster statue, located near Pitt’s campus. In response, Pitt’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion formed a group comprised of Pitt faculty experts, students and representatives from the Carnegie Library, Carnegie Museum of Art and City of Pittsburgh, according to Pam Connelly, vice chancellor for the office.
The group provided the city with contextual information, including the history of Stephen Foster, the history of the statue and varying opinions of the group members. The Pittsburgh Art Commission and Historic Review Commission are currently reviewing the statue. A petition on change.org urging the commission to remove the statue has garnered more than 1,000 signatures in one week. Although the statue is still under review, last Friday, Mayor Bill Peduto personally came out in favor of moving the statue to a different location. Glasco, who has used the statue as a teaching tool, would prefer the monument to remain in a public space. He feels keeping it in a public space will make people more aware of their environment and will prompt those who are offended to learn about the statue. “I’m African-American myself, and I have mixed feelings about it, but that’s okay — that’s what makes art interesting. It generates some emotion in us,” Glasco said. “It’s just something we really have to wrestle with.”
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Florida university should let professor speak In the aftermath of last fall’s elections, many on Twitter who had opposed President Donald Trump’s campaign blamed Florida — one of the states that gave the Republican an electoral victory. But Floridians, it seems, are just as quick to condemn the residents of other states that voted red. Kenneth Storey — a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Tampa, originally from Orlando — stirred up a Twitter controversy of his own this week when he suggested that the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in southeastern Texas was retribution for the state’s electoral vote. “I dont [sic] believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas,” Storey said in a now-deleted tweet. “Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesn’t care about them.” Within two days, Storey’s university employer released a statement announcing that he would be relieved of all duties immediately. The university emphasized that the content of Storey’s private tweet didn’t reflect the school’s opinion of the disaster in Texas. “We condemn the comments and the sentiment behind them, and understand the pain this irresponsible act has caused,” it read. Storey’s sentiments, more or less dismissing the scale of the tragedy in Texas because of the state’s electoral vote, were unquestionably misguided, callous and indefensible. But the University of Tampa’s reaction was excessive — and the apparent lack of
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concern from the usual defenders of free speech on campuses is alarming. While Storey’s tweet included phrasing that was questionable, to say the least, his point largely stands that the current Republican administration has already done much to intensify the damage from Hurricane Harvey. Trump revoked an Obamaera regulation earlier this month requiring that government structures in the region be better equipped to withstand hurricane weather. Trump also ended a federal program in March that helped local governments prepare for extreme weather events related to climate change. But even if none of this were the case, it nevertheless remains that Storey made his comments about the natural disaster on a private Twitter account. He did not make his observations on behalf of the University of Tampa, nor did he receive official sanction or an official platform for his statements. If freedom of speech is sufficient excuse for a university to invite and amplify far-right voices, such as Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter, it’s difficult to understand why a university employee wouldn’t be allowed to have the same liberties — especially when acting as a private individual. Kenneth Storey undeniably made an unwise decision as a private individual to tweet political antipathy toward the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. But that alone shouldn’t be a reason to axe him from a university position, especially if universities truly want to represent a free intellectual environment.
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TRAVEL IN COLLEGE TO GAIN PERSPECTIVE Henry Glitz Opinions Editor As my car sped across the plains of northwestern Ohio — passing open fields, red barns blazing in the sunset and the distant impression of neon — the only thing my mind could focus on was that I wasn’t back in Pittsburgh yet. With summer coming to a close, I had decided to take a road trip with a friend to visit the vast swathes of the upper Midwest in Illinois, Wisconsin and Min-
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nesota — states I’d only seen before from an airplane. The pressures of beginning a new semester, trying to sort out my postgrad plans and resuming the responsibilities of my job here at The Pitt News all held a place in my preoccupied mind. But something I was surprised to discover, as twilight turned to night and signs began to herald Cleveland, was a sort of relief at returning to the challenges in my life with a newness See Glitz on page 5
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Glitz, pg. 4 and freshness that had been absent before. There’s something to be said for traveling, even without accounting for personal enlightenment. It can be helpful to remember that other people, in other places, are facing similar problems to you. But whether you drive across five states to get there or you find it right here in Oakland, perspective is among the most important aspects of success. Talking to friends about a prospective road trip usually leads to more or less the same questions. Why waste so much time driving? Why not travel by plane? And while ignoring the difficulties of flying on a multi-destination trip, the question also seems to assume that the process of getting to a place is irrelevant to the experience of the place itself. Determined to enjoy the trip, I pushed my preoccupations to the back of my mind. Worries about the upcoming semester temporarily faded as I drove farther from their physical origins in Pittsburgh, but they didn’t disappear completely. As late afternoon arrived on the first day out from Pittsburgh, I crossed the highway out of Indiana and into Illinois. The golden afternoon light slanted into my eyes as gusts of wind and a faint skyline over Lake Michigan announced proximity to Chicago. For me, driving as a means of longdistance travel has always had much more significance than flying. On a plane, you
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take your seat and simply reappear at your destination in a few hours. The road makes you feel connected to your destination, like there’s something concrete attaching this new place to a place you know already. What you find there is real and, to an extent, more relatable. Spending only one night in Chicago made the city’s character difficult to figure out. As a lifelong Pittsburgher, I’ve always found the energetic charge of really large cities both puzzling and enticing. We visited rooftop hangouts at the zenith of skyscrapers — despite being priced out of virtually every drink on the menu — and watched welldressed Chicagoans socialize. Inevitably, the majestic setting and the obviously important bar patrons made my own worries feel petty and forgettable. I’ve spent much of my college career bouncing between taking everything too seriously and not taking things seriously enough. I can remember the monumentally important finals — and the disappointed crushes that, at the time, seemed life-ending — just as well as the homework assignments begun an hour before they were due.
It’s easy to fall into a pattern of switching back and forth between these two. Mistaking the magnitude of your problems and how to respond to them is even harder to avoid when you have no context with which to evaluate them. For a lot of Pitt students who come from out of town, the geographical distance between home and school can give at least some means of distinguishing between the ephemeral and the truly important. With my family, my childhood and teenage friends and my collegiate career all in the same city, it can sometimes be hard for me to determine which experiences will stay with me because they’re truly important and which are still with me simply because of proximity. My enthusiasm for traveling — especially road trips — comes partially out of a desire to resolve this ambiguity. Being able to see the lives of other people in other cities parallel my own in some ways and differ in others helps give a clearer window into how to look at my priorities. The Twin Cities of Minnesota provided an experience in this respect I hadn’t really had much of before. Usually, you travel to a place that’s exceptionally different
Immerse yourself in a worldview that’s not your own.
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from your home — whether that’s Hawaii, France or New York. Minneapolis, for its distance, bore an unmistakable resemblance to a colder Pittsburgh. What made the city fascinating wasn’t so much its environment, but its people. For all their outward similarity, Minnesotans live their lives with a markedly different attitude than what I’m familiar with here at home in western Pennsylvania. The stereotypes painting Minnesotans as aggressively friendly to strangers, literate and almost uncannily extroverted were confirmed with an alarming directness. For all the cities’ attractions and institutes, little stood out in my mind as we began the long drive home than this quality of Minneapolis and St. Paul — the people. I imagined how my life would be different if I or the people around me acted the way they did there. And while you won’t hear me adopting an Upper Midwestern accent any time soon, I decided that I could learn something from this alternate approach to living. Traveling is an experience that’s often too difficult for college students to undertake outside of the occasional spring break fling. However, that doesn’t mean that the benefits that come with experiencing another perspective on life are or should be out of the question. Immerse yourself in a worldview that’s not your own — see what there is to see. Henry is the Opinions Editor of The Pitt News. Write to Henry at hgg7@pitt.edu.
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MULTIMEDIA ZINE CULTIVATES CREATIVITY Sarah Morris Staff Writer With the right angle and some adjusting of the photo’s exposure and saturation, Caitrin Bogart made art out of five cracked eggs she saw spattered on an Oakland street. The photograph, aptly titled “oops!,” was featured in ambi- magazine — a multimedia zine at Pitt — in February on the magazine’s Tumblr. Bogart, a senior majoring in linguistics and French, co-founded the zine three years ago with zine President Victoria Stevans, a senior English literature and fiction writing major, with the intention of creating a welcoming space for all forms of art. “[Stevans and I] went to a couple meetings for different publications, and I know that I personally found them utterly terrifying — incredibly intimidating,” Bogart said. “I was like, I am not experienced, but I definitely had things that I want to share, and I wanted to be around creative people.” And they have a great appreciation for these other publications that exist, acknowledging the importance of different levels of editing going on at organizations around campus. But it’s clear ambi- is filling a space that was not previously occupied — a place for sharing all types of work in a way that is official without needing to be scary. “A lot of things are creative expression, even if people don’t label them creative expression,” Bogart said. Stevans and Bogart chose ambi- — a prefix meaning “both” — as a name for their zine because they wanted to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship between editors and creators. And “both” applies to more than that now — ambi- exists both in print and online, and also takes on traditional, literary
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Both pages were published in the fall of 2016 under the theme entitled “roots”. Courtesy of Victoria Stevans
writing as well as more unexpected forms. ambi- accepts a variety of art forms for submissions — poetry, fiction, short films, comics and even things not usually considered art, like recipes and playlists. Bogart herself has submitted a number of recipes for ambi-, and both she and Stevans feel that these works are the kinds of creativity that typically fly under the radar with other magazines. “Originally we were planning on taking mostly prose and poetry, but now we’re much more interested in taking all different ways students at Pitt
express themselves creatively,” Bogart said. A physical form is published annually, but most submissions — which are rolling and guided by a bi-monthly theme — are featured exclusively on the zine’s Tumblr. “Most of [the print zine] is collage and is definitely in the vein of zines like Riot Grrrl zines from the ‘90s,” Stevans said. Although ambi- isn’t making any sweeping political statements like the Riot Grrrl zine — an underground feminist punk zine — Stevans and Bogart take interest in the aesthetics
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and functionality of that homemade patchwork style. “We’re just a little bit more handmade, and a little bit less intimidating,” Bogart said. Stevans and Bogart work on making the physical issues themselves — the final product resembling what looks like a more professional version of a collage. And the website has a similar feeling to it — while not a traditional, physical collage, the works sit together over a soft, sky-themed background on a Tumblr blog, bringing the internet as close as it can come to the feel of a See Zine on page 8
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Geraghty, pg. 8 life ethic are much older than American politics — she points to traditional Buddhism and even LaVeyan Satanism as schools of thought that teach the value of life at every stage. Aimee Murphy — Geraghty’s boss at Rehumanize International — is among Geraghty’s list of people who inspire her. And Murphy — the nonprofit’s executive director — returned the praise. “Honestly, adding Rosemary to our team has been one of the best choices that I think our hiring team has made,” Murphy said. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen Rosemary shy away from a difficult conversation, whether it’s on abortion or war or torture or euthanasia.” And Geraghty’s outspokenness hasn’t gone unnoticed — she has been quoted as an activist and writer for the consistent life ethic in several publications, including Jezebel, Marie Claire, PublicSource and The Atlantic. Geraghty sees her consistent views as just one way to take some of the hypocrisy out of casual politics. But that’s more of a fortunate side effect, because she truly believes in it. She also doesn’t feel that she has to reconcile
her views on abortion with her feminism in any way — the two can simply coexist. And Geraghty’s pro-life beliefs don’t stop at human lives. She lives a cruelty-free and vegan lifestyle and is a member of Panthers for Animal Welfare — Pitt’s vegan and vegetarian club on campus. She tabled for the club Sunday at Pitt’s student activities fair, telling students who came to the table about the club’s trips to animal shelters and farm sanctuaries. Maria Fenner, the vice president of Choose Life, describes Geraghty as openminded — specifically citing Choose Life’s counter-protest of the pro-choice march at Pitt in the spring as an example of her level head and her ability to not force her beliefs onto people. “She always tells us that we’re not here to change people’s minds, but to educate them about what we believe,” Fenner said. Essentially, Geraghty is after a type of “radical inclusivity” that she thinks could be part of the future of American politics. “I think that so many people are disillusioned by the political climate in this country that I think they are looking for something else, and that the consistent life ethic might fill that void,” Geraghty said.
Zine, pg. 6 zine. Bisshoy Anwar — a sophomore English major and writer for the magazine — said ambi- has a much more casual atmosphere than other publications, making it more approachable for beginner writers. “That’s not to say we don’t take it seriously — we do,” Anwar said. “But there’s a great air of informality that makes it very easy to take risks with your writing because you know no one will judge you too harshly if they’re not in favor of it. It’s as healthy a creative environment as I think there can be.” And this freedom has produced some submissions that might really seem out there. According to Stevans, one of ambi-’s contributors was working in a chemistry lab and had an experiment where the physical product inspired the creator to turn it into an art project for the zine. That’s what sets ambi- apart — its ability to see creativity where others might not, and to foster it. Stevans and
Bogart both talk a lot about creating playlists — an art form that people really don’t always recognize as such. But they recognize the passion that people put into this form of creation, and how important it can be to the artist. “You have people who say, ‘Oh I’m not creative, I’m a chem major,’ but they write poetry in their spare time — [they] clearly are a person who creates,” Bogart said. Stevans and Bogart encourage students across disciplines to submit, saying that college is a great opportunity to try new things and experiment with art. “College is a good chance to try to do something that lasts longer than you,” Stevans said. And for Stevans and Bogart, the creation of their zine — a creative community at Pitt that encourages personal growth and exploration through art in many mediums — is the thing they hope will outlast them. “Pitt is this school that a big part of its identity is being STEM — but we want to make it STEAM. Insert that A for Arts. Or for ambi-,” Bogart said.
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LEAVE IT TO LYKE: SIX MONTHS OF PROGRESS
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Mackenzie Rodrigues Assistant Sports Editor
Heather Lyke became the athletic director in March 2017 and has since developed her team and started new projects. Jordan Mondell SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
When Scott Barnes resigned as athletic director last December, the Pitt athletic department was left without a leader for the second time in two years. Over the next five months, three head coaches had either retired or been fired, and the basketball program was in shambles. Things were looking down when Athletic Director Heather Lyke joined Pitt in March of 2017, but after her first six months, she’s managed to bring a new sense of stability to the Panthers. Still, there’s a lot of work left to be done to improve the teams’ results and better the department all around. Prior to arriving at Pitt, Lyke served in the same capacity at Eastern Michigan University for almost four years. From hiring new coaches such as Chris Creighton to increasing fundrais-
ing efforts, she began to rebuild the football program, turning it from one of the worst in the Mid-American Conference to something beginning to thrive. As the head of Pitt Athletics, she’s had no problem making herself at home. She immediately began filling vacant positions in both coaching and executive roles. Her first big hire came in April when she announced Keith Gavin as wrestling head coach. Gavin was a former national champion at Pitt in 2008 and most recently was an assistant coach at Oklahoma University. This decision was made within a month of her arrival, but it was a priority following the team’s incident in December which resulted in the firing of coach Jason Peters. Lyke also appointed two more coaches
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PANTHERS POUNCE ON TITANS, 3-1 Dominic Campbell Staff Writer With its third win of the season, the Pitt women’s soccer team surpassed its previous season’s winnings while maintaining an unbeaten record. The Panthers (3-0-2) took on the Detroit Mercy Titans (2-1-1) Wednesday night at the Ambrose Urbanic Field. Pitt’s total shots nearly tripled those of its opponent, boasting 20 to the Titans’ seven. Detroit’s goalie had nine saves to Pitt’s three. In other categories, the teams remained relatively even, with two corner kicks for Detroit, three for Pitt and 10 fouls for each. Pitt’s three goals came from junior Mikayla Schmidt, redshirt junior Taylor Pryce and sophomore Christiana Davey, while Detroit senior Rachel DeLuca scored her team’s lone goal. “I think today we moved the ball around
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pretty well more than we have in the past,” Pryce said. “I think at the end of the day if we play well and connect well as a team, that opportunities will open up and space will open up to get those goals in.” The first half opened with rapid and intense shooting from the Panthers. Pitt rattled off a total of five shots just 13 minutes into the game. Although none of the shots gave the Panthers the offensive advantage they were looking for, their attempts demonstrated how prepared they were for a fight. While the beginning of the half didn’t see much action initially, both teams defended well and kept the ball out of the net. As the half progressed, the Panthers started to break down the Titans’ defense, finding holes for quick passing. Linking together a solid set of passes from redshirt junior Seyla Perez and junior Kaylee Rabatin, the Panthers moved the ball through Detroit’s defenders. Schmidt rocketed the ball
into the bottom right corner for a goal in the 44th minute. She gave her team a 1-0 lead at the end of the first half. Even though Schmidt did not start, she managed to get the first goal of the game. Pitt head coach Greg Miller saw tonight’s performance as an indication of the positive effect substitutions can have on his players. “It only boosts their confidence to be able to come in [from] a reserve role and get points for the team,” Miller said. “So that kind of experience and confidence is gonna carry forward on into the ACC.” The second half began just the way the first ended — a quick play set up by a Perez throw-in to first-year Vildan Kardesler. Pryce serviced Kardesler’s pass and slotted it home with her left foot to give Pitt a 2-0 lead in the 47th minute. Pryce also created many opportunities throughout the game and almost capitalized off
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a bad back pass from a Detroit defender soon after she scored. The Titans didn’t get their first shot on goal until late in the second half when they took advantage of a questionable penalty call. Senior Rachel DeLuca sent the shot past first-year goalie Katelyn McEachern to bring it back to 2-1 in the 74th minute. After an easily missed chance by Kardesler to finish off the game, sophomore Christiana Davey scored. With an assist from Pryce, Davey scored with less than five minutes remaining, effectively putting the game to bed at 3-1. Davey was another one of Miller’s game substitutions. She replaced Schmidt in the 77th minute and, in less than 10 minutes, scored the final goal of the game. Miller was ecstatic after the win — his girls remained undefeated after five games. He See Women’s Soccer on page 10
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Essentially, the more points a school receives, the better the quality of its athletic program. When a school receives low scoring or no points for one of its teams, this indicates a potential issue. In the 2016-17 academic year, the Panthers finished 92nd in the country and second worst in the ACC. The winter sports were by far the team’s best, racking up 111.5 points. Fall was next with 75, while the spring teams managed only 29.5 — all of which were contributed by the men’s track and field team. This isn’t quite a surprising result, either. In the 2014-15 standings, the Panthers placed 96th while finishing slightly worse one year later at 110th. Considering everything, this year was a bit of an improvement for the department, but there’s obviously still a long way to go. Success of the individual teams is tantamount to the success of Pitt Athletics. For Lyke to continue on her path of renovation, she can’t lose sight of improving the overall reputation of the school’s sports. Of course, this will be a long process. But if all goes well, she might be able to make progress as she did at EMU and turn Pitt into an allaround success. She’s explained her vision well, but now she has to follow through — with the real challenges just beginning.
Women’s Soccer, pg. 10 especially praised his two substitutes, Schmidt and Davey, for both scoring crucial, gamewinning goals. “I think the biggest difference for us was our energy: on the bench and on the field it was consistent,” Miller said. “As we move players into the game, they bring that energy that they had on the bench onto the field, and we were able to establish some pretty consistent pressure and we got some good goals out of it.” Pryce was a standout player, scoring both her own goal and assisting Davey’s. All of the redshirt junior’s five shots were on goal. The only other player to come close to Pryce’s performance was Kardesler. She racked up three shots, but only one was on goal. She did, however, assist Pryce’s goal. Although he was happy with the win, Miller believed that the team needed to work on a specific parts of its performance. “I think we’re still working on playing a full 90 minute match,” Miller said. “As you can see when we were up 2-0, we were a little too complacent, a little too relaxed — but credit to our team, we were able to get that last goal and put the game away.” The Panthers remain in Pittsburgh for their next game to host Illinois State at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3.
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in June, hiring Samantha Snider as the Pitt gymnastics head coach and Katie Hazelton as the diving head coach. The two took over for a pair of extremely successful coaches in Debbie Yohman and Julian Krug, respectively, and the new hires will be crucial to continuing that success. Looking at these quick hires, it’s clear Lyke isn’t one to relax and take her time on important issues, even when it comes to filling executive positions. But it doesn’t hurt having former colleagues from Eastern Michigan University willing to follow her. So far, three of Lyke’s four upper-administration hires have come from EMU. She began recreating her team in May when she hired Christian Spears as the deputy director of athletics for external affairs, followed by two more former colleagues in June with Chris Hoppe and Kelly Brennan. With this trio following her, it seems Lyke is attempting to reproduce the structure and feel of her former department. But will she be able to take Pitt, as an overall project, further than her previous school? Whatever the result, it should be good news
for football Head Coach Pat Narduzzi and the program. Lyke’s attentiveness to football has led to success all throughout her career. So, one of her key focuses should continue to be getting the football team to compete with the best and have an increased presence in the city. She accomplished this task with EMU — a previously stagnant and less prominent program — so one can only imagine what she’ll do with a team already on the rise. Overall, the willingness of Spears, Hoppe and Brennan to follow Lyke bodes well for the Panthers. Since many of her administrators already know how to best work with one another, they can formulate and develop ideas from their previous jobs in a more succinct manner. And that will be needed as the department moves past its rebuilding phase. Now, her attention should turn toward providing each of the Panthers’ 19 programs with the resources they need to get to the next level. This would all help the department improve as a whole and in the Directors’ Cup — an annual ranking of athletic departments across the country. The cup highlights institutions that excel in athletics, taking into consideration 20 teams — 10 male and 10 female — at each Division I school and awarding points based on on-the-field achievements.
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For Rent North Oakland Available NOW! Rooms available in furnished 5 bedroom house in North Oakland. Close walk to University of Pittsburgh and shuttle. Utilities included. AC/ washer/dryer. $600/ mo. Contact: rentalschool22@gmail. com or 412-953-8820 . Offering housing in North Oakland in exchange for working 12-15 hour/week with active senior man needing personal care and assistance with therapy at home and daily pool exercise. One block from Pitt, very large estate. Great opportunity for health and rehabilitation science students. Experience not necessary. Day and evening hours, also overnight available. Contact Mike 412-901-4307 or felafelman@gmail. com.
South Oakland 1,2,3,4 BR. Apartments, prices range from $450-$750 per person. Some include utilities, some you have to pay. Call Jarrad 814-403-2798
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South Oakland 2 bedroom house available starting September 1st 2017 for $800/month. Five minute walk to Pitt. No pets. 1 year lease ending July 2018. Call 412-983-5222. 3 bedroom and 4 bedroom. Free laundry on premises, separate utilities. Available now. 412-334-8804. 3,4,6 houses Available now. Lawn St. Ward St. and Juliet. Call 412-287-5712. 4 BR. House for rent. Ideal for 3 students. 2 car indoor garage and 2 outdoor parking spaces. Large living room and dining room. Kitchen with new countertop. Two bathrooms. Convenient location, close to law school and Cathedral of Learning. Call 724-328-1133. 5 bedroom house available starting September 1st 2017 for $2000/month. Five minute walk to Pitt. No pets. 1 year lease ending July 2018. Call 412-983-5222. 7 bedroom house available starting September 1st 2017 for $2800/month. Five minute walk to Pitt. No pets. 1 year lease ending July 2018. Call 412-983-5222.
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Squirrel Hill 3 BR. house, 1 bathroom, living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen, basement, garage, and porch. All kitchen appliances, washer/dryer, and central air included. $1550 a month plus utilities. Available October 1st. Please call BEFORE 7PM anyday of the week 412-421-7548. Professors or medical residents only please.
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FOR SALE: Miscellaneous household items and furniture. Perfect for college students. Near campus. 412-760-9524
For Sale Other Instant cash paid for: baseball cards, sports cards. Game used sports items. Bats. Gloves. Jerseys. Goudey sports cards. Antiques. Gold. Silver. Coins. Diamonds. Watches. Paper money. Old toys. Trains. Comic books. Huge collections.
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Parking Residential parking available. Dawson street. Please call 412-682-6976. Terris Parking
Services Other Dana’s Dunkin Duds is the cheapest, oldest laundromat in the area w/ the hottest driers! Located on Cable and Semple.
WOMEN – Improve your safety, strength and confidence! Self-Defense class October 1-22 (four Sundays) 10am – noon at Falk School. $120, financial assistance available. Registration limited. LionessMartialArts. com or 412-241-6519
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