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Student Government Board President Zechariah Brown said at Tuesday’s SGB meeting that the board’s student task force on independent student organization names has yet to meet following its formation last week.

Brown announced on Sept. 6 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. Victoria Nourse, Ralph V. Whitworth Professor in Law at Georgetown spoke Tuesday about separation of powers and Brown said he reached out on Tuesday to 13 of the current state of politics. Wu Caiyi | staff photographer the hundreds of clubs that could be affected by the change and is in the process of scheduling the task force’s first meeting.

Brown said there has been difficulty schedfaded out this semester while the UniverPitt adopted Blackboard in the early uling and making changes with clubs who want Rebecca Johnson For The Pitt News sity gears up to replace it with competitor 2000s. The platform was last updated in to be involved.

After years of using Blackboard as Canvas next summer. In preparation for 2015, allowing instructors to upload vid“We received all the responses and are coordinating a date right now,” Brown said. “There Pitt’s learning management system, the this massive transition, a select number eos to their class pages, grade students’ were some changes in terms of representatives University is gearing up to give students of faculty are piloting the platform this assignments anonymously and delegate from different clubs and which clubs wanted to and faculty a clean slate — a canvas, in semester as part of the Early Adopters groups of students to their teaching asfact.

Program shaped jointly by the University sistants. be represented on the task force.”

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GEORGETOWN LAW PROFESSOR TALKS CONSTITUTION, TRUMP

Madison Brewer

For The Pitt News Each year since the passage of a 2004 federal amendment, Constitution Day is celebrated on September 17, commemorating the day 230 years ago when delegates from the original 13 states ratified the Constitution, giving life and law to our republic. But some questions still remain about the Founding Fathers’ original intentions — and Victoria Nourse thinks she has some answers.

Pitt Law invited Nourse, the Ralph V. Whitworth Professor of Law at Georgetown University, to serve as its speaker for the annual Constitution Day lecture. Nourse spoke Tuesday in the Barco Law Building about modern debates surrounding interpretations of the Constitution, including oligarchies, presidential power, teaching law and other topics.

Nourse called attention to the backsliding of American democracy, noting the country is not an oligarchy — a government ruled by the few — yet. But she did ask the audience to consider how a country gets to be one and how the United States could as well.

“One does not need to get rid of elections,” Nourse said. “One need only control the electoral machinery and make people believe that rule by the few is in their interest and legitimate.”

Joshua Cossin, a first-year law student who attended the lecture, said this moment in Nourse’s lecture stood out to him.

“I thought it was interesting, the [recognition] that we’re moving towards an oligarchy but we’re not there yet,” Cossin said.

Nourse is not the first to worry about America being on a path towards becoming an oligarchy. Concerns about the impacts of far-reaching executive power have existed in the United States since the Constitution was written — George Washington worried about politicians who only cared for themselves and a government that did not fight for its people.

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Relating it to the present day, Nourse talked about President Donald Trump and his relationship with executive power.

She said Trump’s lawyers embrace the idea of the “unitary executive,” a political theory in which the president has “all executive power.”

Nourse called this idea, first presented by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, “desperately wrong.”

“The Constitution doesn’t say all executive power … [Justice Scalia] is adding that,” Nourse said. “It’s a small set of words, ‘all executive power,’ but it packs a punch … when you take that word out of an opinion … [and] send it down Pennsylvania Avenue to the lawyers at the White House.”

Nourse listed off many unconventional political moves Trump has made that push the boundaries of executive power — expressing the desire to intervene in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies, pushing for a citizenship question on the census and refusing to cooperate with Congress.

Specifically in interactions with Congress,

proponents of the unitary executive theory say the legislative branch doesn’t have the power to subpoena the president — a power they argue can only be utilized by the executive branch.

Separation of powers was last challenged in a major way in 1952, when the Supreme Court ruled against President Harry Truman in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.

Nourse believes the current legal battle over subpoenas issued by the House Democratic majority will go all the way to the Supreme Court and become a landmark case.

“There’s 100 years of law that says Congress has a legitimate purpose and that includes the purpose of inquiry,” Nourse said. “[This case] will go to the Supreme Court and we will have the biggest clash on the separation of powers since 1952.”

Beyond interpreting the Constitution, Nourse said it’s important for everyday citizens to have a basic understanding of elections and civics.

“Constitution days are occasions to reflect on the fundamentals … mostly, what people

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teach in Constitutional law is … our Supreme Court and the fancy phrases they use,” Nourse said. “But that’s not our entire Constitution.

And it’s certainly not what the Constitution does, its action.”

Nourse focused on the text of the Constitution, particularly on the structure and separation of powers.

“There is no more important time than now to remember a few things about our Constitutional structure,” Nourse said. “[Our Constitution] represents a powerful idea … that people have fought and died for.”

Hannah Christ, a third-year law student, said Nourse’s structural approach to interpreting the Constitution made her speech more poignant.

“I think it’s one of those topics that, in the news today, is pretty contentious,” Christ said. “Having a speaker that’s able to speak from a structural standpoint and not a partisan standpoint is a pretty important thing to have.”

During the Q&A portion of the lecture, a woman in the crowd asked Nourse about the Electoral College, which some consider a vestige of the original Constitution. Nourse acknowledged the reasons why many are against the Electoral College, noting the “deeply undemocratic feeling” of a candidate winning the popular vote while losing the election. But she also provided a positive example of maintaining the Electoral College.

“The only virtue of the Electoral College is that presidents must pay attention to small states,” Nourse said. “The problem that some people see is that you’ll get the coasts, which have the most population, and they will always win.”

Ultimately, Nourse said, it’s up to the people to decide what the Constitution means for life today.

“The words may be fixed as originalists say,” Nourse said. “But the people who vote are not.”

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SGB, pg. 1 ginning 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.”

One way SGB proposes for student organizations to keep their names is by introducing a third tier of student organizations, lying somewhere in between independent and sponsored.

In her report, Nelson said the Judicial Committee is working to research schools similar to Pitt that use a tiered system for context.

“This preliminary meeting will be to see where everyone’s head is at and how they would respond to a tiered system, and what the steps would look like in terms of reregistration if that’s something they’re okay with,” Brown said.

Brown added that SGB held its Chancellor’s Lunch on Monday and discussed college affordability. A college affordability town hall was scheduled to be held on Nov. 12, but Brown said the event is going to be moved to

Canvas, pg. 1 for Learning Management Support assistance and consulting, said the UCTL researched many different alternatives for Blackboard and ultimately decided on Canvas.

“We were looking to find the most intelligent and visually appealing platform,” Ackerman said. “Having done that, we found that Canvas was the best option.”

For the limited release this fall, about 100 faculty and 3,000 students across all five of Pitt’s campuses are piloting Canvas. Students and faculty alike have recognized differences in its appearance and functionality compared to Blackboard.

Ackerman said Canvas boasts many features not found in Blackboard, such as a much more modern and easier-tonavigate mobile app, a new speed-grader tool, a more interactive discussion board, a to-do list for students to view upcoming assignments and a 24/7 help button.

Ackerman said that one of the UCTL’s main goals of the rollout was to save professors’ time by presenting them with an easier-to-use platform.

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a different date that has not been announced.

“We’ve actually moved the date of our town hall so that we can get some better people to come out and speak to you all about the topic of college affordability and college debt and everything that falls under that umbrella,” Brown said.

Macadangdang said in his report that he, Wellness Committee Chair Nina Duong, Pitt Unmuted and SAFE peer educators met to discuss creating a new student-led coalition to educate students about sexual assault and misconduct on campus. He said he plans to reach out to other organizations to expand their team.

Board Member Lynn Dang’s report mentioned her work with the Office of the Provost concerning open-education resources. Dang has been working with Provost Ann Cudd’s office to expand awareness of what open education resources are and how students can access them.

Dang said they also discussed expanding the current use of OERs — which she said are mainly used in introductory courses in engineering and medical departments — to more schools in Pitt outside of those centered on STEM. “We don’t want professors wasting time figuring out how to work the computer,” Ackerman said. “We’re excited to see what they can do with that time.”

Some students said their experiences with Canvas so far are much better than with Blackboard.

Amanda Carson, a first-year neuroscience major, said she used Canvas last year in her high school and noticed a huge difference between the two systems when she started at Pitt.

“Canvas is so much better than Blackboard,” Carson said. “It’s much prettier and more inviting.”

But it wasn’t only students who pointed out the change in appearance.

Uwe Stender, a part-time professor in the German department, said he was unable to customize his online courses using Blackboard.

“I felt like I wasn’t able to give personality to the course,” Stender said.

“With Canvas, I can focus on teaching the course rather than finding stuff on Blackboard.”

April Dukes, Faculty and Future Faculty program director at the Swanson School of Engineering and adjunct neuroscience professor, said that Black-

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board’s antiquated system had made teaching her classes more difficult.

“Canvas is much more visually appealing. I feel like Blackboard just doesn’t make changes to their system,” Dukes said. “It’s nearly identical to when I started using it 10 years ago.”

But while the response to Canvas from faculty and students appears overwhelmingly positive, a rollout of a new learning management system, especially in a one-year time frame, is not without its difficulties.

For the initial rollout, the UCTL provided each professor with two consultants, one to help with Canvas troubleshooting, and another for course design.

Opinions are mixed among instructors as to the helpfulness of these consultants, as well as subsequent online and in-person training sessions.

Sean Brigden, the director of academic advising at the School of Computing and Information, who had extensive experience with Canvas through prior work at Penn State and Kansas State universities, said his experience with the UCTL has been great.

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fantastic,” Brigden said. “They have been extremely helpful.”

Dukes, who had never used Canvas before this semester, said instructors needed more help in setting up courses.

“As someone who does teach workshops, any time you have anything over an hour you start to lose people,” Dukes said. “I think if they’re going to do training for faculty and TAs in the future, they may want to break down the training into smaller pieces.”

Stender, Brigden and Dukes all said even though students preferred Canvas to Blackboard, they were frustrated with being forced to switch between Canvas and the multiple other systems Pitt currently uses to find their coursework.

“Canvas is more straightforward than Blackboard, but teachers bounce between platforms too much,” Carson said.

Despite some complaints about Canvas, faculty and students are optimistic about an expanded pilot program launching this spring. Stender said he is excited for students to get to experience the aspects of Canvas he has grown to love.

“I think if Canvas does the same for students as it does for me, it’s going to be awesome,” Stender said.

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STATE AWARDS $100,000 GRANT FOR SCHENLEY PARK RESTORATION Jon Moss

Assistant News Editor Schenley Park’s Flagstaff Hill will soon be getting some TLC, thanks to a state grant.

Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Funding Authority awarded the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy a $100,000 grant on Tuesday to restore parts of Flagstaff Hill, located across from the Phipps Conservatory. The grant is a series of state programs paid for by the Marcellus Legacy Fund, which is endowed by fracking fees.

According to State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-23, the grant pays for the restoration of a 111-year-old set of stone steps and its retaining and terrace walls.

It also pays to recreate the Woodland Garden, as designed in 1936 by Ralph Grisold, and create two gardens near the Hill’s east and west entrances, among other improvements.

Frankel said Schenley Park is an important and prominent keystone in Pittsburgh’s extensive park system.

“Flagstaff Hill, in particular, is one of the city’s signature vantage points and preserving this important location will have a positive impact by preserving residents’ access to green spaces and recreational resources,” Frankel said. “Our parks are enjoyed by residents and visitors of all ages and are critical to the Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Funding Authority awarded the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy a $100,000 grant to restore parts of Flagstaff Hill, located across from the Phipps Conservatory. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor health and well-being of all of us.”

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AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READERS AREN’T AN INVASION OF PRIVACY

Grace McGinness

Staff Columnist A county judge in Fairfax, Virginia, ruled against the use of data collected from license plate readers in April, reasoning that it was a violation of private information.

The judge’s ruling was not clear on whether it intended to eventually eliminate the use of automatic plate readers, but it would be a mistake to be too restrictive with their use. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has had its own trouble in finding the Goldilocks middle ground for regulation of the technology, but plate readers are valuable to both law enforcement and citizens in many ways, and they are here to stay.

Automated license plate readers were invented in 1976 and have been widely used since the ’90s. Today, they have the ability to automatically scan any license plates within a 6- to 50-foot range, depending on the quality of the scanner.

Their main purpose is to check for speeding and outstanding warrants and to track stolen cars.

Ever since their introduction, automated license plate readers have caused controversy and concern. Some people consider the technology a breach of privacy and in violation of their legal rights to due process, stating that since the plate readers are automated, they also record the private activity of noncriminal citizens. However, people should not be so fearful of this technology, as it is only being used in public spaces for their benefit by increasing the effectiveness of law enforcement.

The increased presence of cameras and monitoring in public spaces can be unsettling to some, but it is important to remember that our roads are public spaces that are maintained by the government and are therefore under government jurisdiction. Police ought to be able to perform their jobs to the best of their ability in these spaces, which can only be accomplished when they have the adequate tools to do so. Privacy is not guaranteed in these spaces. Your safety is the priority.

Police forces from across the country and even up to the federal level have employed thou-

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Shruti Talekar | staff illustrator sands of these scanners to monitor the roads, and the results have been dramatic. Use of the scanners resulted in twice as many arrests of carjackers, according to a study conducted by the Police Executive Research Forum.

These scanners are a tool that have allowed the police to do its job better by essentially giving law enforcement a better pair of eyes. Police have always had eyes to read license plates — the reader technology is simply a more effective tool to accomplish that.

It can be concerning to think about whether there are files upon files of data on citizens’ public behaviors just sitting around for anyone to use since there is no current federal-level legislation regulating their use and data storage. But there has been no reported case of such an occurrence. If anything, license plate readers have been more helpful in other more violent crimes, such

as tracking down a homicide suspect. It is more likely for these automated readers to help the average citizen in some aspects of their life, from insurance disputes to curbing racial profiling in law enforcement.

The benefits easily outweigh the costs, even for the noncriminal population, since plate readers can also help to reduce the number of police stops made on biased judgments when the task is handed over to a machine. Essentially, the automated reader would determine who is a priority for the police to pursue instead of the officers themselves deciding who to stop amongst the handful of drivers speeding.

The reader also ensures that whoever is being targeted has actually committed a crime. “Driving while black” is a term coined to describe the sharp increase in traffic stops made on people of color as compared to their white counterparts.

Everyone has their own internal biases, and if

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an automated technology can reduce how much these biases affect law enforcement then it should be employed across the country.

Automated license plate readers are only an improvement on how law enforcement is conducted and so far they have only proven to help preserve the safety of communities. It is pessimistic and irrational to doubt the use of this technology and to insist on its removal until the country’s slow legislature imposes more strident regulations on data storage from automated plate readers.

Besides, our devices are already apparently monitoring our behavior, and that occurs in your home. A camera mounted on a telephone pole to monitor daily traffic on public roads, catch reckless drivers pushing 60 mph in a school zone and make sure criminals aren’t fleeing the state is far from being a similar invasion of privacy.

Write to Grace McGinness at gem53@pitt.edu.

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from the editorial board

Merriam-Webster is helping legitimize nonbinary language The Merriam-Webster dictionary recently added 533 new words and meanings, including a new meaning for the word “they.” The pronoun can now be used in reference to a “single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”

Of course, “they” has been used in this way for a long time without being in the dictionary. But the move

by Merriam-Webster, announced via Twitter on Tuesday, lends legitimacy to a term that is liberating for many nonbinary people who don’t identify with traditionally male and female pronouns.

Inclusive language is evolving, with many organizations across the country making room in the language they use for nonbinary “they/

them.” Several journalism style guides have adopted new policies on genderneutral pronouns in recent years. The Associated Press began permitting the singular “they” in 2017 in certain cases. The Washington Post has recognized gender-neutral “they/them” as of 2015.

In a blog post, Merriam-Webster points out that “they” has been consistently used as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s. It gives an excerpt from a letter written by Emily Dickinson in 1881 in which she uses “they” in reference to a singular person and points out that even sticklers use this pronoun in this way in casual speech. So this isn’t a new phenomenon, no matter what English teachers might say.

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nonbinary, including Sam Smith, who tweeted Friday that they decided to go by these pronouns.

“Today is a good day so here goes,” they tweeted. “I’ve decided I am changing my pronouns to THEY/ THEM after a lifetime of being at war with my gender I’ve decided to embrace myself for who I am, inside and out…”

This recognition by Merriam-Webster might seem insignificant, but it’s part of the ongoing social shift towards more openness and inclusivity towards people who don’t conform with traditional gender labels and norms. It helps legitimize a linguistic practice of referencing individuals who don’t feel their language properly represents them that has often been called ungrammatical.

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PITT, PENN STATE PREPARE PARAMOUNT VOLLEYBALL SERIES

Alex Lehmbeck

Staff Writer The Petersen Events Center will play host to possibly the most anticipated home volleyball match in Pitt’s history on Sunday. The undefeated No. 6 Panthers will face off against rival and No. 4 team in the country, Penn State.

Pitt (10-0), is riding one of its best starts in program history, while Penn State (6-1) has plenty of strong victories logged on its own resumé. The Panthers beat No. 10 Oregon and No. 16 Utah last week as part of a challenging non-conference schedule. Penn State beat the Ducks as well, but dropped a match to the defending national champions and top-ranked Stanford Cardinal.

Although volleyball has been one of Pitt Athletics’ stronger programs in recent years, Penn State boasts a long history of volleyball prominence. In his 41st season as head coach, Russ Rose is Division I’s winningest coach ever, by both percentage and total victories, amassing over 1,200 wins in his tenure at a .861 winning percentage.

The Nittany Lions’ seven national championships are the second most of all time, all won with Rose at the helm. They’ve won six since 2007, including four in a row from 2007-2010.

Penn State’s title total sits behind only the Stanford Cardinal, who won their eighth this past season.

The Nittany Lions roster is stacked with young stars. Sophomore setter Gabby Blossom averages 11.91 assists per set, the third best rate in the country, which when paired with sophomore Serena Gray and first-year Kaitlyn Hord — who rank fourth and sixth in the nation in hitting percentage, respectively — create a potent front line.

The hatred between these two

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schools is no secret. The rivalry dates back to their first football matchup in 1893. Although the football rivalry has received the most attention, all of Pitt’s sports teams have had some history with Penn State, especially volleyball.

recent years, adding even more meaning to this weekend’s matchup. Penn State knocked Pitt out of the NCAA tournament two years in a row in 2016 and 2017, the Panthers’ first tournament appearances since 2004.

First-year Kayla Lund (1) talks with teammate Chinaza Ndee. Kaycee Orwig | senior staff photographer “They say we have no rivals, but I feel like we have a rivalry with them just in general, since we’re both in Pennsylvania,” first-year setter Lexis Akeo said.

Penn State has had Pitt’s number in

Pasadena, California, native Kayla Lund was not familiar with the rivalry before arriving at Pitt. Now, she realizes how much this game means to both schools.

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“The history between Penn State and Pitt is something I’ve had to learn about,” Lund said. “With Pitt football just losing, this would be an awesome statement for us if we could get this [win].”

Lund, who played on the 2017 team that Penn State eliminated, emphasized that this game is much more than simply retribution.

“It would be great to get a vengeful victory over Penn State, but I wouldn’t say it’s too much about revenge because we have a completely different group of girls from a couple years ago,” Lund said. “This year is more about being able to continue making a statement for our program. We need to prove that we belong in competition with the best of the best, so playing Penn State will do that.”

The team will make a temporary move from their home at Fitzgerald Field House down Allequippa Street to a venue that can accommodate the magnitude of Sunday’s matchup. Sunday will be Pitt’s first match this season in the Petersen Events Center, usually home to Pitt basketball.

Last year’s team played their first and second round of NCAA tournament games in the Pete, but since this is Akeo’s first year with the team, she has yet to play at the venue.

“It’s pretty big, I’ve never played in a place that big before,” Akeo said before the season. “There’s supposed to be a lot of fans, so I’m pretty excited.”

As part of a home-and-home scenario, the two teams will first face off in State College on Friday night, then return to Pittsburgh for rematch at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Sunday’s game can be viewed on Big Ten Network, while Sunday’s will be aired on the ACC Network.

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Com­pensation nego‑ tiable. If interested, please call or text 412‑849‑4209 South Fayette Twp. School District HIGH SCHOOL AS­ SISTANT PRINCI­ PAL Complete job descrip­ tion is available at: www.southfayette.org South Fayette Twp. School District 3680 Old Oakdale Road McDonald, PA 15057 Deadline: September 27, 2019 or Until Po­ sition is Filled EOE

Employment Other Drummer needed for

Septmeber 18, 2019

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