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SGB ANNOUNCES FIRST MEETING OF CLUB NAMES TASK FORCE

THE FUTURE IS FEMALE

Emily Drzymalski Staff Writer

After announcing three weeks ago that a Student Government Board task force would be created to preserve current student organization names, President Zechariah Brown said at Tuesday’s public meeting that the task force plans to hold its first meeting this Sunday. The student task force was formed as a result of the recent changes made to SORC naming guidelines. Among the task force’s members will be SGB Vice President Anaïs Peterson, SGB member Eric Macadangdang, SGB’s Judicial Committee and its chair, Grace Nelson, as well as 13 of the hundreds of clubs that could be affected by the change. SORC announced in late August 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 See SGB on page 4

Grace Nelson, Anaïs Peterson and Caroline Unger discuss being women in politics as a part of Civic Engagement Week. Wu Caiyi | staff photographer

PITT TO FULLY IMPLEMENT NEW ADVISING PLATFORM BY 2022

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Navigating university advising can be overwhelming. Pathways, Pitt’s new advising platform navigated through a smartphone app, hopes to address that. After launching a pilot phase with firstyear engineering and nursing students last fall, Pathways is due to expand to the rest of the University, including branch campuses, by 2022. The platform, which is a coordinated effort by faculty, staff and academic leadership in line with the Education Advisory Board’s Student Success Collaborative platform, is designed in two parts. It includes an advising plat-

form to handle appointments and centralize information, as well as a data analytics system for identifying trends in student behaviors and how they correlate to student success. Students interact with Pathways through an app called Navigate Student, which allows them to schedule appointments with their adviser, get directions to different buildings on campus and seek academic help. According to Amanda Brodish, the director of data analytics & Pathways for Success at Pitt, the University’s goal in implementing Pathways is to increase student success and retention rates across the University. One significant change Pathways is introducing is the ability for advisers to make notes after appointments that

can be viewed by another adviser at a different office. The number of students in the U.S. who choose to seek a second major, minor or certificate is on the rise, and those at Pitt who choose this path usually have to see more than one academic adviser. Often, students must serve as a link between two or more advisers who may not know the details of the other academic programs. Pathways is meant to bridge that gap for them. “In the past, each advising unit had its own system for housing advising notes about students,” Brodish said. “[A new adviser] would See Advising on page 4

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GRAD UNION ORGANIZERS READY FOR SECOND ELECTION Jon Moss

Assistant News Editor Just days after a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board official ruled that Pitt committed unfair labor practices during April’s graduate student union election and ordered a new election, union organizers said they are gearing up for a second election sometime this semester. Kim Garrett, a union organizer and doctoral student in the School of Public Health’s department of environmental and occupational health, said she was excited by the opportunity presented by the PLRB’s ruling. “I was really happy to get an opportunity to get a second chance, like, that doesn’t happen too often,” Garrett said. “I feel really motivated now to dive into my organizing work again.” PLRB hearing examiner Stephen Helmerich said in the ruling that Pitt committed “coercive acts” leading up to the April vote, which was meant to determine whether or not graduate students at Pitt should unionize and join the Academic Workers Association of the United Steelworkers. After initially ruled inconclusive, students voted against unionizing by a margin of 37 votes — 712 to 675. Helmerich criticized an email sent by Steven Little, chair of the University’s chemical and petroleum engineering department, which made it appear as though students’ votes were “under close scrutiny and observation by the management of the University.” Helmerich also noted that the University posted false information on its grad student unionization website by claiming that “the University is not permitted to discuss academic appointments directly with students” in

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Union organizer Kim Garrett addresses the crowd at Bernie Sanders’ rally in Schenley Plaza in April. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor a union. The PLRB has 20 days to file an exception to Helmerich’s proposed ruling, in accordance with Board regulations, or else it will take effect. At the time the proposed ruling was released, Pitt spokesperson Kevin Zwick said the University did not believe it violated any laws during the election process. “In the strongest possible terms, the University disagrees with any suggestion that we acted inappropriately in the election where Pitt graduate students voted not to be represented by

the United Steelworkers,” Zwick said. “We will review this proposed ruling and consider next steps.” Jeff Cech, an organizer and USW staff member, said he hopes the PLRB will schedule an election before the end of the semester, and Pitt will adjust its behavior based on the ruling. “We’d like the Pitt administration to respect the graduate student employees’ right to a fair election,” Cech said. But union organizers also said they would be adjusting some of their organizing tactics in an effort to reach out to more students.

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Garrett said union organizers are continuing their multi-pronged effort to reach voters from the spring — hosting happy hours at the Thirsty Scholar Bar and Grille on Fifth Avenue, talking with colleagues in departments and phone banking. “We’re really just trying to get information out to people,” Garrett said. “A lot of students didn’t know what was going on over the summer. I talked to a lot of people who said, ‘Hey, we already voted on that.’” She added that union organizers are making an extra effort to reach out to STEM students, who she said have shown greater opposition to the unionization effort — which she largely blames on confusing information such as Little’s email. The main Graduate Student Organizing Committee recently formed a separate STEM Committee to try and reach out to these students. “I was part of a STEM committee that we developed over the summer to look at these issues specifically, and see what made particular departments hesitant to support the union,” Garrett said. “Being able to talk scientist to scientist and say, ‘Hey, there’s evidence that unions help workplaces.’” Garrett said she and fellow union organizers are urging fellow graduate students to become involved in the unionization campaign as organizing heats back up again. “Getting involved can mean anything you are able to do — as simple as wearing a button or posting a sign at your desk. Those are some of the small, baseline things you can do to get involved that really make a big impact,” Garrett said. “The union drive is what we make it.”

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U.S. HOUSE TO START IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

Assistant News Editor U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that the House will begin a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump — the fourth inquiry in the 243-year history of the American government. The inquiry will act as an umbrella for the six House committees — Oversight and Reform, Ways and Means, Judiciary, Intelligence, Financial Services and Foreign Affairs — currently investigating various allegations of misconduct concerning Trump. The committees will continue their separate investigations, and present possible articles of impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee. The Committee will then collate and vote on a final package of articles, before sending them to the House floor for consideration.

“The President must be held accountable,” Pelosi said. “No one is above the law.” According to Politico, over 200 House Democrats — and no Republicans — currently support either an inquiry into impeaching Trump or impeaching him directly from office. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., announced he was supportive of starting an impeachment inquiry following the June release of the Mueller Report, and added Tuesday that withholding Congressionally directed funds is an impeachable offense. “If there is evidence that the President has broken the law while conducting foreign affairs, Congress has the obligation to investigate the alleged wrongdoing — and the Administration has no right to withhold the whistle-blower’s report from Congress,” Doyle said. “That the President of the United States would

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ington Post. But Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, has blocked the IC’s inspector general from disclosing the complaint to Congress — possibly acting in violation of the law to protect Trump. The Washington Post reported that Trump directed his staff to withhold Congressionally directed aid to Ukraine in July, several weeks before calling the country’s president, Vladimir Zelensky. In the call, according to The Washington Post, Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President and current 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Pelosi said Acting DNI Maguire is scheduled to testify Thursday, and is framing the hearing as a final chance for him to provide the complaint to Congress, as required by law. “The law is unequivocal,” Pelosi said.

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withhold Congressionally directed funds to an ally in need, in order to compel it to smear a political rival, seems to amount to blatant extortion for personal political gain.” The Tuesday surge of House Democrats calling for the impeachment of Trump came after national newspapers reported on a whistleblower complaint filed by an Intelligence Community employee with Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general. The Washington Post reported that the complaint, filed in mid-August, involves a troubling “promise” made between Trump and an unidentified foreign leader. By law, the IC’s inspector general must notify congressional committees if a complaint is deemed of “urgent concern” — and Atkinson said the complaint met that standard, according to The Wash-

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Pathways is a new advising platform that is currently being used by first-year and sophomore engineers, nursing students, undeclared Dietrich students and students in the College of General Studies and the School of Computing and Information.. via pathways.pitt.edu SGB announced that their SORC task force will meet for the first time this Sunday. Wu Caiyi | staff photographer

SGB, pg. 1 Williams-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 has proposed creating a third tier of student organizations, lying somewhere in between independent and sponsored, as a solution to the crisis. He said Sunday’s meeting will discuss the tiered system option and other possibilities student organizations might suggest. “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. He added that the task force doesn’t have a set schedule in mind for future meetings, and will determine future meetings after the initial get-together on Sunday. “I think that we’re going to start with this first meeting,” Brown said. “Based off of that we’ll move forward with determining if we need a second meeting with just SGB and the organizations, or if we want to move to a larger meeting involving those organizations, as well [as] SGB members and SORC.” Brown will provide an update on the student task force’s meeting during next week’s SGB meeting. Tuesday’s meeting also saw the first introduction of a resolution for this academic year. Peterson introduced a resolution call-

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ing on Pitt to divest all holdings in the fossil fuel industry by next April. In her resolution, she further called on Pitt to release updates at the beginning of each academic term detailing its progress with divestment. “Given that the University prides itself on being a leader in higher education and sustainability … it risks falling behind the lead of many universities that have already divested,” Peterson said. Peterson is a member of the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition, one of the main student activist groups pushing for the University to divest from fossil fuel investments. After pressure from FFPC, and the July release of a report examining several aspects of socially responsible investments, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher announced in late August that the University is developing socially responsible investing strategies. Gallagher charged Chief Financial Officer Hari Sastry with working on three SRI strategies — developing criteria to “positively screen” investments, screening and presenting proposed investment exclusions to the full Board of Trustees and leveraging the University’s Sustainability Plan. Peterson said divesting from fossil fuels is important because their resultant emissions are a leading cause of climate change. “This crisis is the largest threat to our generation and the ability of Earth’s ecosystems to sustain life as we know it,” Peterson said. Peterson’s resolution will be available online later this week and will be voted on during SGB’s meeting next Tuesday.

Advising, pg. 1 have no access to … information that you had talked about with someone else.” Pathways is currently in use by first-year and sophomore engineers, nursing students, undeclared Dietrich Arts & Sciences students and students in the College of General Studies and the School of Computing and Information. The platform is also being used by a couple of non-academic groups and services on campus, such as the Career Center, Veteran Services and Residence Life. Claire Young, an undeclared second-year Dietrich student, said centralizing information is essential because advisers aren’t able to be an expert on each of the University’s 100-plus degree programs and careers each may lead to. Young said in her experience, first-year advisers didn’t have all the information about her planned majors — anthropology and history. “[Advisers] don’t know what specific careers you’d want to do,” Young said. “The Career Center does know that, but you have to seek them out.” Pathways also has the ability to analyze trends in student interests through collecting PeopleSoft data from students in the system. It uses this information to match advisees with past students who had similar interests and goals. Devin Kiska, a first-year engineering adviser, said this functionality would allow her to make more personalized recommendations for courses to take. Kiska said she will be able to look at a past student and see what they studied or worked on at Pitt that helped them reach their goals. Then, she can recommend her current student to follow a similar path. Pathways also uses data to provide personalized recommendations about classes and extracurriculars to student users, such as study

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abroad options and Outside the Classroom Curriculum credit opportunities. The data analysis aspect of Pathways will be overseen by Othot, a Pittsburgh-based data analysis company specializing in higher education enrollment. It is already in use at a few other universities, including Temple University and Louisiana State College. The data passes between Pitt and Othot through a secure network to ensure the safety of students’ privacy. Furthermore, Brodish said Pitt is working to allow students the option of keeping their advisers from seeing the results of Othot’s work. Unfortunately, not all students in the pilot program feel they were familiar with how Pathways worked by the end of the program. Zach Ritchey, now a second-year physics and German major, was a first-year engineering student during the app’s pilot phase last fall. He said he doesn’t know much about what the app can do in addition to scheduling advising appointments. “I never used that app,” Ritchey said. “I mostly coordinated with my adviser through it.” Kiska said the students she advised didn’t use many of the app’s functions either. “I don’t really know how much [students] know about what it does besides just help them make appointments,” Kiska said. “I think they find it convenient, as long as they just remember what it’s called.” According to Kiska, as more students are phased onto the platform, Pathways’ functionality will increase and more data will be available to help students. Pathways is meant to make the advising experience more personalized so students can be better provided for, Brodish said. “We’re excited about what Pathways has to offer and we think they should be excited too,” Brodish said. “Pathways is really going to enhance their advising experience.”

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IMPEACH JUSTICE KAVANAUGH

Devi Ruia

Staff Columnist Most people who watched the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings were struck by intense emotion at the process. Many survivors of sexual assault were inspired by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and outrage at Kavanaugh’s confirmation partly contributed to Democrats taking back the House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections. Now, almost a year after those hearings, new information has come to light that raises even more questions about the confirmation process, FBI investigations and Kavanaugh’s fitness to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Brett Kavanaugh never should have been confirmed to the Supreme Court in the first place due to the credible allegations of sexual assault and misconduct leveled against him by multiple women. Unfortunately, he was confirmed to the Supreme Court anyway, in an embattled confirmation process that concluded in a narrow 50-48 Senate vote along party lines. But in light of the most recent allegation against him, along with evidence that he most likely committed perjury, Kavanaugh needs to be impeached. The New York Times reported on Sept. 14 this year that a former classmate of Kavanaugh’s from Yale, Max Stier, was at a party at the university where he saw Kavanaugh with his pants down and saw friends push Kavanaugh’s penis into a female peer’s hand. This allegation is similar to the one made by Deborah Ramirez, another former classmate of Kavanaugh’s from Yale, who accused him of exposing himself to her and thrusting his penis in her face at a dorm room party. Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied these allegations under oath. However, The New York Times article corroborates Ramirez’s allegations with seven testimonies from people who heard of the incident years before Kavanaugh was even a federal judge, much less a Supreme Court nominee. Ramirez provided a list of 25 people who could corroborate her allegations to the FBI. However, the FBI did not reach out to any of the individuals on Ramirez’s list in its supplemental

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investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh due to the control that the Republicans in the Senate had over the investigation. This blatantly shows that the FBI investigation was not a thorough exoneration like Senate Republicans said it was — though many already knew this immediately following the investigation. The new information provided in the Times piece that corroborates Ramirez’s allegations also brings to light the question of whether or

“Kavanaugh knowingly lied to the Senate in his testimony,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., tweeted on Sept. 15, following the release of the Times piece. Gillibrand is known for calling out alleged perpetrators of sexual assault regardless of political party. “The House should begin formal impeachment investigations without any delay.” Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Former Housing and Urban Devel-

Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh testifies on the first day of his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Sept. 4, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press | tns not Kavanaugh committed perjury. After all, Kavanaugh stated in the hearings that “[if] that had happened, that would have been the talk of campus in our freshman dorm.” Since two of the people who corroborated Ramirez’s allegations were Yale students who heard about the incident days after it happened, the Times reporters believe that it was talked about on campus. As a result of this new information, several high profile Democrats in the last week have called for impeachment proceedings against Kavanaugh to begin.

opment Secretary Julian Castro, Congressman Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., have all also called for impeachment proceedings to begin against Kavanaugh in the past week. An impeachment process would not necessarily be an easy task. The process for impeaching a Supreme Court Justice is basically the same as the process for impeaching a president. The proceedings start in the House of Representatives, and if a majority vote to impeach is reached there, it then moves to a trial in the Senate, which needs to reach a two-thirds majority

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vote in order for the party to be removed. The last — and only — time efforts were made to impeach a Supreme Court Justice was in 1805, but Justice Samuel Chase was not removed on the charges of being too partisan because the Senate could not reach the two-thirds majority. Due to the partisan nature of the Senate, it is unlikely it will ever reach a two-thirds majority vote on anything. However, the proceedings could potentially force Kavanaugh to resign. And beginning the impeachment process is simply the right thing to do. According to the Constitution, Supreme Court Justices can be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. Perjury certainly falls under those conditions. What this comes down to is not legal action against Kavanaugh in terms of prosecuting him for sexual assault. It is about whether or not he is deserving of a job. Serving on the Supreme Court isn’t his right, it is a privilege. It’s a privilege Kavanaugh does not deserve, based on the previous allegations against him, the new allegation and the probability that he perjured himself. Our Senators and the rest of the country watched as Dr. Ford bravely testified, alleging that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, and revealed the negative impact that this event had on her life. Dr. Ford had nothing to gain from making these allegations and everything to lose, and 50 Senators let her down. They let down Ramirez by not even allowing her claims to be properly investigated. And they let down the American people by pushing forward with the confirmation process despite these credible allegations. Impeaching Kavanaugh is the only way to make this right. This new information at least raises questions as to Kavanaugh’s credibility and whether or not he committed perjury during the confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh does not deserve the privilege of serving on the Supreme Court and the House must begin impeachment hearings immediately. In the immortal words of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib: “impeach the motherf*cker.” Devi primarily writes about politics. Write to her at dvr7@pitt.edu and follow her on Twitter for more hot takes @DeviRuia.

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Conservative attacks on climate activist disrespectful, offensive Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg, a climate activist from Sweden, gave a passionate speech at the United Nations on Monday that criticized world leaders for not making necessary efforts to protect the environment. Thunberg has become the focal point of a debate surrounding the movement to stop the climate crisis, with many conservative pundits employing ad hominem attacks against the teenager and saying she is being exploited for a leftist cause. There is absolutely no need for these attacks, which are offensive and distasteful. Just hours after Thunberg made her U.N. speech, conservative pundit and Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles decided to weigh in on the situation on a Fox News segment about climate change. “None of that [individual efforts to stop climate change] matters because the climate

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hysteria movement is not about science,” Knowles said. “If it were about science, it would be led by scientists rather than by politicians and a mentally ill Swedish child who is being exploited by her parents and by the international left.” What Knowles said was problematic for a slew of reasons — climate scientists have been warning us for years about the danger our planet and the life on it is in — but what has caused the most backlash online and in the news is the “mentally ill Swedish child” comment. Thunberg has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. She doesn’t see Asperger’s as a mental illness, though, and has called it her “superpower” in the past. “Some people mock me for my diagnosis,” she wrote in a February Facebook post. “But Asperger is not a disease, it’s a gift. People

may say that since I have Asperger I couldn’t possibly have put myself in this position. But that’s exactly why I did this. Because if I would have been ‘normal’ and social I would have organized myself in an organisation, or started an organisation by myself. But since I am not that good at socializing I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything.” Knowles took to Twitter Monday to defend his earlier comments and further attack Thunberg. “There is nothing shameful about living with mental disorders,” he wrote. “What is shameful is exploiting a child — particularly a child with mental disorders — to advance your political agenda.” Other commentators have also taken the point of view that Thunberg is being exploit-

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ed to carry out the political agenda of her liberal parents. Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza likened Thunberg’s image — a “Nordic white girl with braids and red cheeks” — to Nazi propaganda from the ’30s. The comparison is absurd and wildly offensive. What these critics don’t understand is that Thunberg isn’t being exploited. She’s a part of the generation that will have to deal with the fallout of the climate crisis, and is most likely afraid for herself and her peers. Saying she’s being exploited is a way of minimizing the frustration, anger and fear of the generation that will have to face the consequences of government inaction regarding climate policy. Knowles and other conservative pundits should listen to Thunberg’s call to action, rather than launch offensive and useless attacks.

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walk-on Anthony Starzynski, along with New York state. Davis holds offers from graduate transfer forward Eric Hamilton, Georgetown, North Carolina and Kansas, Panthers basketball head coach Jeff are the only players on Pitt’s 2019 roster among others, and his decision will hint Capel added the first member of the 2020 guaranteed not to return next year. For at what sophomore guard Xavier Johnson’s recruiting class on Monday night. Noah those keeping score at home, that leaves next move is. Johnson was the quietest of Pitt’s three Collier, a 6-foot-7 power forward from four scholarships for only two open roster spots in 2020-2021 after adding Collier. 2018 recruits, but quickly established himNorristown, Pennsylvania, is rated as a Pitt has been linked to as many as self as one of the ACC’s up-and-coming three-star recruit and the No. 3 player in seven recruits ranked in Rivals150. Right stars. He was named to the All-Freshman the state. now, the Panthers simply don’t have room team and even found himself mentioned Collier is a prospect built in the mold of Jamie Dixon teams past — an athletic, tough inside scorer with long arms that hails from just outside of Philadelphia. But he joins a Pitt team that built its reputation on tenacious defense, so he will have to adopt an even more Dixon-style approach to his game. Obviously, this year’s team has been injected with greater offensive talent, but don’t expect Capel to stray from the scrappy, underdog, everything-earned-nothing-given attitude that he instilled in last year’s squad — defense will be paramount once again. And while he is listed as a power forward, Collier’s somewhat undersized at his position. At 200 pounds, he will have to add weight to his thin frame and be ready to bang around in the post with bigger, Xavier Johnson stood out among Pitt’s 2018 recruits, but his next steps are stronger ACC big men. No matter his height, weight or posi- uncertain. Kaycee Orwig | senior staff photographer tion, Collier will take up a roster spot next as one of 2020’s best NBA prospects. Johnyear. According to Pitt players, he won’t to add everyone they’re pursuing. That said, college basketball is volatile son is raw, but his speed, athleticism and be the only newcomer, which leaves Capel and as with every season that passes, the youth will make him a tantalizing project and his players with math to do and decisaturation of young talent only increases. for NBA scouts come next summer. sions to make. Players transfer and there is turnover on Johnson has made no mention of his With the addition of walk-on sophoteams of all quality. The Panthers will be plans beyond this season, but if Davis more guard Chayce Smith, Pitt’s 2019 no exception, which begs the question: commits to Pitt, it could likely be because roster is full, but only uses 10 of their 13 what kind of attrition will Pitt suffer and Johnson plans to move on sooner rather NCAA allotted scholarships. And of those who will fill those spots? than later, opening up playing time at 10 scholarships, only two are taken by Right now, Pitt is considered the fapoint guard. players who are entering their final year vorite for 2020 combo guard R.J. Davis, Johnson’s classmate, sophomore forat Pitt. a four-star recruit and the No. 1 player in ward AuDiese Toney, might not be as Senior forward Kene Chukwuka and

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lucky. Toney could find himself on the outside looking in, as the number of wings pile up on Pitt’s roster. Because of Pitt’s lack of size last year, Toney was forced to play out of position, with Capel opting to use him as more of a power forward that defended post players and primarily rebounded. That moved him from a more familiar offensive alignment on the wings to down inside the paint. Pitt did add some reinforcements to their frontcourt in the offseason in firstyear forward Karim Coulibaly and graduate transfer forward Eric Hamilton, but whether Toney is able to find playing time at the right position will determine whether or not he is overshadowed by the newcomers. Speaking of post positions, junior forward Terrell Brown is another Panther that could potentially find himself at another program by season’s end. The 6-foot-10 Brown showed flashes of tremendous athleticism, but has also been prone to have a low motor and drop passes during his time at Pitt. Brown has the potential to be one of the ACC’s leading shot blockers and an effective target for Johnson and the rest of the backcourt to find for easy buckets around the rim. But Brown’s consistency and night-in night-out effort will determine whether he too is pushed out by the youth movement. These are good problems for Capel and his staff to have. A stroll down the roster showcases NCAA tournament potential for a team with NCAA tournament aspirations, but Capel wants to construct a roster capable of more, and that will inevitably involve losses. Expectations have been raised and now the players have to follow.

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Research Lab at The University of Pitts burgh is looking for males to participate in a research project. Must be between 21 and 28 years old and be a social drinker. Must be willing to drink alcohol. Earn $90 for participating in 2 session study. For more information call 412‑624‑8975 or email asrl@pitt.edu

Employment Other Drummer and guitar player needed for a punk rock band. We play original music, no covers. Must have equipment. Serious inquiries only. Contact Marty at 412‑400‑5067 HIRING IMMEDI ATELY! Middle‑East‑ ern restaurant in Shadyside looking for positive, energetic and experienced people to join our team! Excel‑ lent customer service, good character, and strong work ethic. Call (412) 683‑4757

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additional sessions as needed for test prep. Compensation nego‑ tiable. If interested, please call or text 412‑849‑4209 South Fayette Twp. School District High School Substi tute Spanish Teacher Complete job descrip tion is available at: www.southfayette.org South Fayette Twp. School District 3680 Old Oakdale Road McDonald, PA 15057 Deadline: October 4, 2019 or Until Position is Filled EOE 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

In‑home tutor wanted for 12th grade student studying elementary statistics. Must have strong mathematics background. Sessions once a week, with

September 25, 2019