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SGB PROVIDES UPDATE ON STUDENT ORG TASK FORCE

TRADING TRINKETS AND TRAVEL STORIES

Emily Drzymalski Staff Writer

Jordan Snyder, founder of the Long Way Trading Company, and senior marketing major Jay Ciccolini share travel experiences outside the William Pitt Union on Tuesday afternoon at a pop-up shop selling handmade goods from around the world. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor

200 STUDENT ATHLETES MOVE INTO BRIDGE ON FORBES Nicole Marzzacco Staff Writer

The newly opened Bridge on Forbes could easily be mistaken for a hotel, with tall glass windows, bright yellow lights and a lounge furnished with couches and large wooden tables. But the building located between Halket Street and McKee Place is actually a luxury apartment complex geared toward students in the area. And while Pitt students of any persuasion are welcome to apply for a lease, a certain number of student athletes are guaranteed a place to stay there, starting this year. While anyone — student or non-student — can rent an apartment in the building, Pitt is leasing 87 of the building’s 197 apartments, creating a “master lease” for student athletes. This year, the leased units are occupied by 230 student athletes, community assistants and a community director. The upscale

building features a 24-hour gym and study rooms that residents can book. University spokesperson Kevin Zwick said Monday that the living arrangement will “benefit recruitment efforts” by allowing Pitt to cultivate a “stronger community” among student athletes. “This plan also allowed Pitt to open up needed additional space in Sutherland Hall to provide more housing for incoming first-year students,” Zwick wrote. “It also made more living space available for returning undergraduate students wishing to remain on campus.” Pitt approved the three-year lease of the apartments in February, citing “increased demand” for housing as the student population grows. Pitt’s threeyear lease runs a total of $8,790,567 — $2,631,310 for this year, including one rent-free month, $3,007,719 for the second year and $3,151,538 for the third.

Zwick did not respond to questions asking how much each athlete is paying the University to live at the Bridge. Another University spokesman, Joe Miksch, said in February that the apartments would be priced similarly to Pitt’s other apartment-style living options like Bouquet Gardens, where a single apartment costs $4,250 per semester to rent. Renters at the Bridge have the option of choosing from one-, two- or three-bedroom pre-furnished apartments. For those not paying through the University’s master lease, a one-bedroom apartment at The Bridge costs about $1,750 per month. A space in a two-bedroom starts at $1,135 per month, and a space in a three-bedroom starts at $1,005 per month. Zwick noted that although Pitt leases additional housing to accommodate students “when necesSee Bridge on page 3

At its second public meeting of the year Tuesday night, Student Government Board provided an update on a recently announced student task force, as well as several new upcoming initiatives. SGB President Zechariah Brown announced Friday that SGB will form a task force with student organization leaders to address new naming guidelines that will affect many student groups at Pitt. He added Tuesday that SGB Executive Vice President Anaïs Peterson, SGB member Eric Macadangdang, SGB’s Judicial Committee and its chair, Grace Nelson, will all serve on the task force. Brown said he reached out on Tuesday to 13 of the hundreds of clubs that could be affected by the change and is in the process of scheduling the task force’s first meeting. SORC announced two weeks ago that beginning fall 2020, its registration guidelines would prohibit the names of independent student organizations from including University trademarks or wordmarks like “Pitt” and “Panther,” instead encouraging clubs to use phrases such as “at Pitt” or “at the University of Pittsburgh.” At the time the guideline changes were announced, University spokesperson Meg Ringler said the changes followed a summer audit of current SORC guidelines and student organization names that determined many student organizations were not in compliance with existing University policy. Brown, Peterson and Macadangdang met Friday with Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Life Linda WilliamsSee SGB on page 3

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PASSING THE MEMORY OF 9/11 TO A NEW GENERATION

Martha Layne Staff Writer

With most students entering college at the age of 18, Pitt’s class of 2023 is likely the last class to have a sizable number of students born before Sept. 11, 2001. On that date, a total of 2,997 people died after planes hijacked by extremist group al-Qaida struck the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Another hijacked plane directed towards Washington D.C. crashed in western Pennsylvania following an attempt by the passengers and crew to regain control. Despite the intense impact 9/11 had on American culture, the event is crossing the divide of personal memory into history for a lot of younger people. Some of Pitt’s older students, like senior psychology major Nikki Webb, have only distant memories of the events of 9/11. “I was in preschool, I think, and I remember my mom picked me up from preschool that day, because everyone was freaking out. I remember watching it on the news,” Webb said. “It just makes it more real because when you look back at things in history class, sometimes you think it doesn’t affect you as emotionally because you weren’t there for it.” The events of 9/11 affected America socially and politically. The United States government launched “the War on Terror” and created the Department of Homeland Security in

response to the attacks. Airport security became much more complex, Islamophobic sentiments increased and thousands of first responders, survivors and witnesses were left with illnesses from the attack, including respiratory diseases, cancers and post-traumatic stress disorder. Memorials were instilled throughout the country to honor the fallen, including the opening of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the original World Trade Center site in 2014. Some young adults, like first-year psychology student Peri Brown, have no recollection of the terrorist attacks at all. Brown said she believes it’s important for the younger generation to learn about what happened through the memories of others. “Because we don’t remember what happened, we don’t have that sentimental connection to it,” Brown said. “So, I think talking to other people who do have that kind of connection to it is important because it’s really important to know why things are how they are now.” Although many students may not have specific memories of the terrorist attacks, they are aware of the changes it spurred in American culture. Zach Spodek, a senior studying marketing, supply chain management and business information systems, said although he has no recollection of the attacks, he can clearly recognize the impact it has had on the country. “I naturally learned about [9/11];

I can’t remember the exact date,” Spodek said. “It’s a significant event, a changing point in our culture. You can pinpoint the impact it had on airports and just American culture in general being more secure.” Researchers are working on new ways to educate this younger generation about traumatic events because of the impact that these kinds of events have on history. Mary Margaret Kerr, a professor in the education department, is a research coordinator currently studying children’s experiences at historic sites that are associated with traumatic events. Kerr said the initiative falls onto everyone, including Pitt students, to discover why 9/11 is a significant event. “I don’t try to tell people why it’s important. I don’t want, necessarily, to tell you what’s important to you about an event in history. The reason that I like this kind of work is that it gives people the experience of finding out why it’s important. And I think people need that,” Kerr said. “I think it’s so much more meaningful, after any tragedy, when people find what it means to them.” Kerr’s team has developed a collection of resources, activity books and cell phone tours, specifically for young visitors at the Flight 93 Memorial in Somerset County. The memorial honors the passengers of the flight who attempted to overthrow the hijackers, resulting in the plane crashing into a field instead of reaching its destination of Washington, D.C.

The team works closely with eighth-graders at Mechanicsburg Exempted Village School District in Ohio to develop educational resources to place at areas relevant to 9/11, such as the Pentagon. Through a collection of teaching videos created by Pitt students, the middle school students learned from Kerr’s team about the history of 9/11, as well as the research process. Daniel Keller, a biological sciences senior and one of Kerr’s undergraduate researchers, said that while events like 9/11 are traumatic and unwanted, they shape our country’s identity, and people should continually learn about them in an integrated way. “One way to create that kind of education is to weave them together as one collective understanding of trauma and pain, but also of resilience and pushing forward to make the world that we’re living in today better than the one we experienced when we had that kind of tragedy,” Keller said. Kerr said Pitt students should take initiative today to remember the events of 9/11 through educating themselves, as well as thoughtful reflection. “If not 9/11, I hope that the lessons of tolerance [will be remembered],” Kerr said, “Remember some of these human stories, and then remember something in that story that inspires [you] to do a certain behavior or be a little more tolerant or and be a little more open — that would be a really good goal.”

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SGB, pg. 1 Moore and SORC Coordinator Lynne Miller to discuss how enforcement of the policy will affect student organizations. Both parties described the meeting as “open” and “productive.” Brown said the focus of the task force’s first meeting is to discuss proposed solutions to the guideline changes, including his own to create a third tier of student organizations, lying somewhere in between independent and sponsored. “At this first initial meeting, what we’re trying to do is kind of understand more or less how responsive these organizations would be to a tiered system,” Brown said, “as well as some of the solutions we came up with in terms of changing registration information and kind of getting a gauge of where they are in terms of what they would be willing and unwilling to do.” Brown said once they’ve discussed the tiered system with student organizations, their next goal would be to research how other universities currently use tiered systems in practice with student groups. “If organizations are on board for this part

of the plan, the best thing would be to work with our judicial committee and kind of get a gauge for how other universities are doing it and how that can be more directly applied to the University of Pittsburgh,” Brown said. Brown said once the task force decides on a solution to move forward with, it will prepare and submit a report to Vice Provost and Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner. “Once all of that is set in place it’s just about writing the proposal, which if we have all the research and we have student support on that, it should be the easy part of the process, but it is just going through these steps that we are predicting might take more time and that’s why we’re working as fast as possible,” Brown said. Later in the meeting, several SGB committee chairs provided updates on their initiatives. Tyler Viljaste, the chair of SGB’s Community and Governmental Relations Committee, provided an update about upcoming Civic Engagement Week events occurring in late September. Viljaste said at SGB’s first public meeting last Tuesday that the CGR Committee will assign a specific theme to each month and plan events accordingly.

SGB provided an update on the student task force for clubs and organizations in response to SORC’s updated registration guidelines Tuesday night. Nate Kohler | staff photographer

Bridge, pg. 1 sary,” the University’s campus master plan calls for more on-campus housing in the future. Sophomore football player Will Connelly, a rehab science major, said the new building is noticeably nicer than Sutherland, where athletes were housed until last year. “It was really nice having the gym to use in the building before practices began,” Connelly said. “It’s an amazing apartment and I really enjoy having my own kitchen because I’ve never had one before.” The athletes living at the Bridge are also able to make use of a shuttle service that buses players from the building to practice. In addition to the gym and shuttle service, Connelly said he’s enjoying the other options offered at the Bridge, including the study rooms and a community coffee pot for residents who may not have one but need coffee before classes. “I really like how I have to option to book out the study rooms. If I have a meeting, I know I could just schedule it inside the study room,” Connelly said. “It’s a big difference from living in Sutherland last year.” Sophomore nursing major Maddy Sheffer, a non-athlete renting at the Bridge, said she appreciPitt has leased 87 of the Bridge on Forbes’ 197 luxury apartments, creating a ates the Bridge’s amenities and its proximity to her “master lease” for student athletes. Knox Coulter | assistant visual editor for multimedia nursing classes in the Victoria Building.

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“My favorite part about living there is the location,” Sheffer said. “It may be off campus, but it’s not so far off campus to the point where it doesn’t even feel like you’re at Pitt.” Tyler Perlmutter — the chief operator of Pinecrest, the company responsible for the building plans — said that despite the “luxury” label, the goal of the Bridge on Forbes was to create an environment for students to learn rather than lounge, hence the existence of the study rooms. Construction on the building began in July 2017 and was finished this August. The building opened before classes began, allowing students time to settle in, Perlmutter said. “We felt that there was a shortage of high-end housing being offered for students, which is why we built The Bridge,” Perlmutter said. He said the company was “adamant” about having the apartments open before classes began. Since this is the first year that the Bridge is open, this serves as a pilot year to see what needs improvement and what’s working for student residents. There are 197 apartments inside the Bridge and each one is being rented out this year. The leases begin in August and finish July 31, 2020. “We’re trying to listen to residents this year about what they like and don’t like, and maintain a nice living environment,” Perlmutter said. “We want to create value and run the building well in terms of equity.”

PITT TO OFFER 5-YEAR MASTER’S PROGRAM

Jon Moss

Assistant News Editor Pitt engineering students will soon be able to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degrees of science in five years, rather than six, through a new program launching next fall. The Engineering Accelerated Graduate program will be offered across all six of the Swanson School of Engineering’s departments — chemical and petroleum, civil and environmental, bioengineering, electrical and computer, mechanical and materials science and industrial. Students will pay undergraduate tuition rates through the first four years of the program and then pay graduate tuition for the fifth and final year. Mary Besterfield-Sacre, the Swanson School’s associate dean for academic affairs, said the program is aimed to provide Pitt graduates with an extra level of competitiveness in the

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workforce. “This program is designed to meet that desire on a rigorous but workable timeline for the student who wants to excel in the job market, expand their research capabilities or even further pursue a PhD,” Besterfield-Sacre said. To participate in the program, current sophomore and junior engineering students must maintain a cumulative 3.50 GPA through their junior year. Then, students must meet with undergraduate and graduate program coordinators and apply to the graduate program. Current and future first-year students who score 1510 on the SAT or a composite score of 34 on the ACT, are in the top 5% of their graduating class or have an equivalent GPA will be offered provisional admission to the five-year program pending a cumula- The Engineering Accelerated Graduate program will be offered across all six of the Swanson School’s departments, allowing engineering students to tive 3.50 GPA by their junior year at earn a bachelor’s and master’s degrees of science in five years, rather than Pitt. six. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor

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Opinions

LEAVE THE VAPES ALONE

Josh Beylinson Staff Columnist

Vaping has garnered a lot of negative attention lately, which has led to bans on the sale of some vape products. Recently, the state of Michigan decided to follow in the footsteps of San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado, by banning the sale of flavored ecigarettes, professing concern for the health of the state’s youth. This happened soon after numerous e-cig users across the United States were hospitalized with lung disease. Many people quickly jumped on the bandwagon against e-cigs without waiting for the full facts to come out on the suspected lung disease link. But banning flavored vapes won’t make them go away. It only punishes adults by eliminating a safer alternative to cigarettes while doing nothing to improve the health of America’s minors. We know now that vapes in general likely aren’t the main culprit behind this increase in lung disease. Simply vaping for a few weeks won’t put you in the hospital. Concerning the recent outbreak, U.S. public health experts found that the vapes that people smoked were either bootlegs or contained bootleg cartridges. This means the vapes were not obtained in a licensed dispensary, or contained marijuana oil derived from vitamin E, which is dangerous if inhaled. The argument on banning vapes or flavors rests on the idea that by banning them, a state or city can claim that they care about the health of their teens. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan echoed this sentiment in a statement shortly after the flavored vape ban was announced.

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“As governor, my number one priority is keeping our kids safe and protecting the health of the people of Michigan,” said Whitmer. This viewpoint is complete hypocrisy. Vaping contains no tobacco and produces fewer carcinogens than cigarettes. Despite this, it has received plenty of criticism recently while cigarettes, marijuana and alcohol seem to be hardly addressed in this new wave of hysteria over teen drug use. Federal laws state that vapes and vaping products, like the latter three substances, cannot be purchased by minors, while adults can buy them (though marijuana depends on the city or state). But somehow, states such as Michigan seem to think adults also can’t handle vaping. If the Michigan government truly cared about kids, it would instead regulate sales of flavored vapes better to ensure they stay in the hands of the adults who are legally allowed to have them. Banning flavored vapes altogether will likely lead to more people of any age buying bootleg materials, which appear to have caused the recent outbreak of lung disease across the United States. The ban may also affect adults who use vaping to quit smoking cigarettes, arguably a more dangerous product than vapes. Data shows that 82% of former smokers who had successfully quit smoking prefered using fruit-flavored vapes. E-cigs have been proven to be twice as effective at getting adults to stop smoking than all other nicotine replacement products, such as the nicotine patch. By banning vapes or by banning flavors, this hurts these adults and will lead them to start smoking cigarettes again, since there are many

that rely on flavors to keep off cigarettes. The ban also makes room for cigarettes to gain a competitive advantage over their arguably safer and cheaper alternative. This has proven to be true in San Francisco, which recently adopted a vape ban. Since they enacted the ban, tax revenue from tobacco products has hardly changed, since the increase in traditional cigarette purchases has covered the loss from the vaping ban. Like cigarettes, marijuana and alcohol are also considerably more dangerous than vapes as they severely impair the user’s judgement, while vapes do no such thing. Alcohol is legal for adults over 21, while marijuana legalization has been trending for the past few years. Like these substances, we should be allowing vaping to be legal for adults, educating the public on its negative effects and making sure people understand how to use these substances responsibly, not ban them. Ultimately, it is the government’s job to inform the citizenry, children included, about the negative effects of vaping, smoking and drinking and then keep it in the hands of people who are legally al-

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lowed to do these things. The government should be less involved in the business of deciding the quantity and flavor of nicotine or alcohol that adults are allowed to consume. Banning flavored vapes is fruitless and an ineffective way of preventing kids from vaping while hurting adults in the meantime.

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More states should copy New Jersey’s new gun policy With 289 mass shootings in the United States this year and counting, it’s a cliche and an understatement to say that we’ve normalized gun violence in the national consciousness. Unfortunately, our national government is at a standstill regarding this issue. We’ve seen no real solution proposed or implemented to stop what has become a national crisis. State governments have also been slow to act, but one state recently announced its plan to use economic clout to get gun manufacturers and retailers to adopt gun control measures. This approach is one that could prove to be effective, if other states follow its lead. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order Tuesday that would stop the state from doing business with gun manufacturers and retailers that

don’t adopt gun control measures, in the hope of using economic incentive to sway these groups. New Jersey won’t do business with those that don’t have background check policies or policies prohibiting the sale of firearms to people with a history of mental illness or domestic abuse convictions, among other things. Local law enforcement agencies, state troopers and prosecutor offices who purchase firearms through the state would also be banned from dealing with gun manufacturers and retailers who don’t comply with the conditions as set forth in the executive order. “Taxpayers are the top purchasers of firearms,” said the executive order. “The State should not be purchasing firearms, ammunition or equipment from vendors that place civilians and

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This could bode well for those who have been pushing for these kinds of gun control measures for years. The executive order expects responsibility and accountability from businesses that sell and make guns as well as banks that deal with them. “If we find folks not living up to our standards, we reserve the right to stop doing business with them moving forward,” Murphy said. Given the stunning inaction of the federal government on the issue of gun legislation, the New Jersey executive order is cause for some hope. It speaks to gun businesses in a language they respond to most — money. More states should consider similar executive orders going forward to have a greater possible impact on gun policy in this country.

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law enforcement in harm’s way by virtue of not adopting responsible practices related to firearms.” The state will also apply financial pressure on gun makers and sellers by seeking information from banks that do business with New Jersey. It could choose to stop doing business with banks that have relationships with gun manufacturers and sellers that don’t adopt these new measures. New Jersey pays more than $1 billion annually in bank fees and intends to use this as leverage. New Jersey already has strict background checks, but the new regulations will apply to out-of-state companies not already bound by state law. Murphy also hopes that his state’s new policies will inspire other states to adopt similar policies.

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PITT VOLLEYBALL IS READY FOR REDEMPTION

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Sports Editor When Kayla Lund hit the floor, she immediately knew the injury was bad. Not bad enough to keep her out for a season, a month or maybe even a week — but definitely bad enough to keep her from playing the very next day against Michigan in the second round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, which was all that mattered at the time. “I knew right away,” Lund, now a junior outside hitter on Pitt’s volleyball team, said. “I have never had that serious of an injury. I’ve had very minor injuries … But I knew pretty early on, like almost the second that it happened, that it wasn’t going to be any good.” With the score tied 5-5 against Iona in the third set of Pitt’s first-round tournament game last November, Lund met an opponent at the net to defend a potential spike. Her opponent jumped too, but chose to pass the ball off to a teammate. The two returned to the ground almost simultaneously, with Lund landing on top of her opponent’s foot. She instantly collapsed to the ground, grabbing her right ankle. She couldn’t put any weight on it. By the time Pitt’s trainers helped Lund off the court, the ankle had already swollen profusely. The Panthers swept the Gaels, but with the victory came the loss of Pitt’s season leader in points, kills and service aces. Lund tried to play the next day, arriving at the team’s facility at 8 a.m. and rehabbing her ankle with the training staff non-stop, right up until about 30 minutes before the team played Michigan at 7 p.m. With enough tape wrapped around her ankle to block off a crime scene, Lund took the court with her teammates for pregame warm-ups. But in a sport that involves quick and constant movement, there was no way she could do all the things that made her a great player. The team decided it would be better off rolling with then-redshirt sophomore Zoi Faki at 100% health rather than Lund at 60%. Lund could only watch from the sidelines as her teammates battled back from a 2-1 deficit before losing in the deciding fifth set, 15-9, to the No. 18 Wolverines. And so, for the third straight year, Pitt’s season ended in second-round heartbreak — but with the realization that the program was on the brink of a

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postseason breakthrough. This season, the Panthers took measures to improve upon last year’s 30-2 team. Pitt loaded up its 2019 schedule with tough non-conference opponents, both to simulate the level of competition it’ll face in the postseason and to improve the team’s rating percentage index, a tool used by the tournament selection committee which awards higher seeds to teams who faced better competition. Pitt will play No. 10 Oregon, No. 16 Utah and two games against No. 4 Penn State.

replacing Kamalani with the next best thing — her sister, first-year setter Lexis Akeo. Lexis has picked up right where her older sister left off, leading the Panthers with 178 assists through six undefeated games so far. The Panthers have dominated every game, winning every single one of their 18 sets. For Lexis’ teammates — many of whom spent two or three years playing with Kamalani — it’s been interesting to play with each sister and see how they differ. Lund says the two are alike in some ways, but

The Panthers high-five after being defeated by Michigan in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament in December. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor With Pitt now ranked No. 6 and fielding one of its most talented rosters since Fisher took over in 2013, the team is already gearing up for its ultimate goal — an extended run in the NCAA Tournament. The Panthers brought back five of their six starting players from 2018 — Lund, senior Layne Van Buskirk, junior Chinaza Ndee, redshirt senior Stephanie Williams and senior Nika Markovic. They only lost Kamalani Akeo, which certainly hurts after the star setter from Hawaii finished her Pitt career third all-time in assists. But the Panthers still maintained as much continuity as possible by

complete opposites in others. “Their personalities are extremely different. They look alike, but I do not think they’re alike at all,” Lund said. “They do have similarities. The biggest one that always stands out to me is their work ethic … they both come in ready to work. You can tell Lexis is doing everything in her power to get better.” Lexis has welcomed the challenge of having such big shoes to fill, saying that it adds a little extra motivation to create her own legacy within Pitt volleyball’s constantly improving program. “I feel like I embrace it. Like, it’s a little competi-

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tion between me and my sister,” Lexis said. “Like she set the standard already, and I want to beat that.” Head coach Dan Fisher is confident that Lexis can meet and even surpass the lofty expectations left by her sister, noting that she has a naturally higher ceiling because of her raw talent. Lexis wasn’t even a teenager yet when Fisher first met her on a recruiting visit with her and Kamalani’s family, but he monitored her impressive career and was quick to make an offer. Akeo committed to Pitt when she was still a sophomore in high school. “It became clear early that Lexis was a little bit more talented, a little stronger, an inch taller,” Fisher said. Though Lexis is talented, she doesn’t have to play perfect for Pitt to win. That’s because she’s surrounded by veteran leaders at every other starting position, including a trio of core players — Lund, Ndee and Van Buskirk — that all verbally committed within the same two-month span in 2015. At that point, Fisher started to picture a team that could make noise on a national stage. “When those three players committed, I knew we had a chance,” he said. “They’re good enough that, now it’s on me. Now I need to coach.” Fisher has also made a concerted effort to reach past his six starters and get the team’s bench more involved. Redshirt senior transfer Hali Hillegas and redshirt junior Zoi Faki round out Fisher’s eightdeep rotation, while redshirt first-year Maddie Soboleski and sophomore Sabrina Starks have received notable playing time. By utilizing Pitt’s depth, Fisher wants to make sure that the team doesn’t miss a beat in a worst-case scenario like Lund’s injury in 2018. The Panthers have yet to face a major challenge this season, but will put their 18-set win streak on the line when they host a talented No. 10 Oregon team on Wednesday night at the Fitzgerald Field House. As Pitt’s biggest game of 2019 so far, the team expects a good showing from its steadily increasing home crowd — something Lexis in particular is looking forward to. “I definitely think it’s easier to get in the moment and really focus when you have so many fans cheering for you,” she said. “It feels really good to know that this many people want you to win and support Pitt volleyball.”

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