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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | September 26, 2016 | Volume 107 | Issue 33
FIRST LADY COMING TO PGH Lauren Rosenblatt News Editor
In preparation for the quickly-approaching presidential election, First Lady Michelle Obama will campaign for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on Pitt’s campus on Wednesday. Obama will speak at the Fitzgerald Field House at 3:30 p.m., where doors will open at 1 p.m. Anyone interested in attending can RSVP on Hillary Clinton’s website. According to a release from Hillary for America, Obama — who will be in Philadelphia earlier that day — will urge Pennsylvania voters to register to vote and support Clinton and Kaine. The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 11. Obama’s speech in support of Clinton will come just days after the first presidential debate, which many pundits predict will be a decisive turning point in the election. Michelle Obama officially began supporting Clinton in September with a rally in Virginia, after both Obamas voiced their support for Clinton during speeches at the Democratic National Convention in July. Both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have campaigned for Clinton in the area, highlighting Pennsylvania’s importance as a battleground state in the presidential election. Nationally, Clinton is two points ahead of Trump, according to an ABC News and
Hudson Mohawke performs at Thrival + Innovation Music Festival Saturday night at the Carrie Furnaces in Swissvale. Stephen Caruso SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
STUDENT CHARGED AFTER CRASH Lauren Rosenblatt and Emily Brindley News Editors
City police have charged a Pitt student with driving under the influence and causing personal injury, after he caused a car crash Saturday evening that sent three people to the hospital with minor injuries. After a brief search on Saturday, police identified Nicholas Bozzo, a 22-yearold Pitt student, as the driver of an SUV that hit another car and the University See Obama on page 4 Bookstore on Fifth Avenue.
At about 7:30 p.m., Bozzo crashed a black Chevrolet Suburban into a red Ford Fusion before striking the side of the bookstore and guardrail along the sidewalk, according to Sonya Toler, public information officer for Pittsburgh’s Department of Public Safety. After the crash, Bozzo fled on foot but later returned to the scene, she added. Toler said on Sunday that Bozzo had been driving in the bus lane along Fifth Avenue toward Downtown immediately before the crash. Police have filed seven charges against
Bozzo, including two counts of driving under the influence and three counts of causing injury, according to court records. His preliminary hearing will be Oct. 5. The second car involved in the crash, the Ford Fusion, was behind the Chevrolet after the wreck and had a dented front bumper as well as damage to the front left tire and driver’s side door. It was not immediately clear how the Fusion became involved in the crash. On Sunday, Toler did not offer any additional details. See Crash on page 4
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Correction: In Friday’s story “City speaks out,” Betty Shelby, a Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer, was inaccurately said to have been convicted of felony manslaughter. Shelby was only charged with felony manslaughter. The Pitt News regrets this error.
PORT AUTHORITY SETTLES CRASH CASE Emily Brindley
Assistant News Editor The Port Authority of Allegheny County reached a settlement agreement on Friday with the family of a couple killed in a bus accident near upper campus last October. The Pitt News reported on Oct. 26, 2015 that a vehicle driving down Centre Avenue made a left hand turn onto Allequippa Street when it struck Henry Walker, who was in a wheelchair, and threw him down in front of the 83 Bedford Hill bus he had just exited. As his wife, Christine Williamson, attempted to help him back up, a Port Authority bus pulled forward and struck and killed them both. On Friday, the family of the couple settled with Port Authority for $450,000,
according to Port Authority spokesperson Adam Brandolph. According to the summary of resolution from Port Authority, Walker and Williamson’s daughter, Desiree Williamson, filed a suit against Port Authority on Feb. 16, 2016. Brandolph said in a statement Sunday “the [bus] operator remains an employee but is not actively working at this time.” According to the resolution, the driver had stood up in his seat twice in an attempt to see over the edge of the bus to where Walker had fallen. The driver, however, left the bus in drive while he stood up, and thee bus rolled forward and struck the couple. “This was an absolutely tragic accident, and we at Port Authority extend our deepest sympathies to the family of Mr. Walker and In October, a Port Authority bus struck and killed two pedestrians. Ms. Williamson,” Brandolph said. Dale Shoemaker MANAGING EDITOR
STUDENTS CELEBRATE KOREAN THANKSGIVING Janine Faust
For The Pitt News Pitt student Paige Bruckner spent her Friday night racing others to down a cup of spicy Korean ramen. With the tangy, spicy scent of the dish wafting through the air, Bruckner slurped the noodles, tipped back her head and hastily swallowed the remaining broth. As part of the celebration of Chuseok, or Korean Thanksgiving, Bruckner and nine other guests competed to finish the Korean dish first in the Kurtzman Room of the William Pitt Union. With shaking hands and sweaty brows, participants slurped the soup, which contains ramen noodles mixed with spices including garlic, pepper and soy sauce and hot peppers. The spicy ramen challenge was one
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of several games played at Pitt’s Korean Conversation Club’s third annual Chuseok dinner Friday night, an event to celebrate the traditional Korean holiday and introduce students to Korean culture. About 40 Pitt students celebrated with a combination of Korean and American games and a buffet of traditional Korean cuisine. Bruckner, a sophomore computer science major, beat out the other competitors by eating her noodles in about one minute. Bruckner won a bouquet of flowers and a gift card to Oishii Bento, a Korean-Japanese restaurant on Oakland Avenue. This is her first year participating in the club, which she joined because she plans to study abroad in Korea. “Tonight was pretty fun. I definitely plan on staying involved as long as I’m taking Korean I,” she said.
The night kicked off with the introduction of the club’s officers and then a short speech by Yun-Oh Whang, a Korean-American assistant professor of business administration at Pitt, who was there to answer questions about Korea and the holiday. “Chuseok is similar to the American holiday of Thanksgiving, as it brings families together at the end of the harvest season,” he said. In the Korean heritage, the holiday is a time for families to honor their ancestors and come together to exchange gifts and eat songpyeon — rice cakes made with sesame seeds, red beans, chestnuts or other similar ingredients. Whang, who attended college in Korea, said that 25 years ago, when he was at Pitt for his master’s degree, there was little interest in Korean culture. Now, he
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is excited to see the club — and Pitt students — embracing Korean traditions. “It’s wonderful that they’re holding this,” Whang said. “As a Korean who lived in America for most of my life, I’m glad that the Korean culture is becoming so popular in the U.S.” A mixture of Korean and American pop music blasted over the speakers as guests of all nationalities were invited to divide into two groups and participate in a variety of games, some of American origin and some of Korean. Channeling Korean traditions, guests also played Kai, Bai, Bao — the Korean equivalent of Rock, Paper, Scissors, where two opposing members from each team face off against each other at a time. The loser has to sit out, and the team with the most individual winners remaining wins. See Thanksgiving on page 4
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Film festival highlights Asian cultures
David Robinson For The Pitt News
Pitt welcomed Asian culture into Oakland with the annual Silk Screen Film Festival, which had viewings on Pitt’s campus for the first time this year. The weeklong Asian Arts festival is specific to Pittsburgh and offers a celebration of diversity and multicultural appreciation through film viewings and traditional dance performances. For the first time in its 11-year history, Silk Screen, a non-profit organization that aims to educate Pittsburgh about Asian culture, held the festival in September rather than July, in order to increase student awareness, according to Associate Director at Pitt’s Asian Studies Center Lynn Kawaratani. Kawaratani said the festival’s time and venue changes bring it in closer contact with Pitt. “It’s a huge step that it’s moved to the academic year, and then another huge step to … have the screenings on campus,” Kawaratani said. As people filled auditoriums around Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University to see the movies, audiences first saw the image of a butterfly formed out of a reel of film, this year’s logo, on the screens. Moviegoers settled in to watch films about Asian LGBTQ+ communities, patriarchy in Asian societies and explorations of musical culture. The screenings began Friday, Sept. 16 at the Regent Square Theater on South Braddock Avenue with the opening screening of the Iraqi picture “El Clasico,” an Iraqi road trip movie about two brothers trying to meet soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo. Other notable films included “Parched,” about four women claiming liberation from their rural village and patriarchy in northwestern
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The 11th annual festival included viewings of international films as well as traditional Asian dance performances. Julia Zhu STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER India, and “Raman Raghav 2.0,” or “Psycho Raman,” a pop psychological thriller about a serial killer in India seeking out his protege, which had its U.S. premier at the festival. The festival’s movie screenings ran from Sept. 16 to 25 and featured 31 films from all across Asia, with selections from India, Iran and South Korea that have premiered within recent years. Most of the films featured are not distributed in the United States except at festivals. Before the movies began, Silk Screen held an opening Red Carpet Gala at the William Penn Ballroom in the Omni William Penn Ho-
tel Downtown with multiple culturally inspired performances, including a traditional Chinese lion dance and a performance from Pitt’s own First Class Bhangra team. Steel Dragon Martial Arts, lead by Chris Young, performed the lion dance, in which dancers mimic a lion and display luck and good fortune through props, including tangerines that represented the sweetness of life. “We do a certain amount of outreach to promote our culture because it’s something worth sharing,” Young said. “[Silk Screen is] promoting, in a sense, our heritage through films.”
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In 2005, Harish Saluja, a radio host and artist, founded Silk Screen to fill a void in Pittsburgh after noticing there was no Asian film festival in the city. He came to Pittsburgh in the early ’70s and began working in radio, hosting “Music from India” weekly on local NPR. His film “The Journey,” which is about a retired Indian headmaster who comes to America, premiered in 1997. Pitt students had free viewings of films at Frick Fine Arts, and discounted rates at showings held at the Carnegie Museums and Carnegie Mellon University. Pitt’s increased participation in the festival included input from individuals such as Kawaratani — a member of the festival’s advisory board — and Neepa Majumdar, a Pitt film professor and a member of Silk Screen’s Film Programming Committee, the group responsible for film curation and selection. The festival’s Film Programming Committee started curating this year’s films last November. The committee consists largely of Pitt faculty from the film studies department and Asian studies department. Though Aseem Chhabra and Alex Charlton, programming director of the festival and assistant programmer of the festival, respectively, found many of the films through scouting, they also filtered through the hundreds of submissions from international directors and production companies until they decided on the final listings. According to Kawaratani, an advisory board of stakeholders and Pitt faculty act as liaisons to Silk Screen. Faculty and professors help determine how Pitt’s curriculum can overlap with what films are shown.
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The driver of the Fusion, also a Pitt student, was taken to UPMC Presbyterian along with two pedestrians who were injured by debris from the crash, paramedics said. One of the pedestrians had an isolated ankle injury while the other had bumps and bruises, according to Jeffrey Meyer, district chief for the Pittsburgh Bureau of Emergency Medical Services. All of the injuries were minor, he said. Three front windows of the bookstore were cracked and a railing outside the bookstore collapsed as a result of the crash. A light post also came down. Police were called to the scene at about 7:30 p.m. and a tow truck arrived to remove the cars at about 8:15 p.m. On Fifth Avenue on Saturday, two lanes of traffic were slowed but not stopped between University Drive and Thackeray Avenue. Buses were diverted away from those blocks for a short period of time as well. Both Pitt and city police responded to the crash, but city officers are investigating.
Washington Post poll. Clinton has a three-point lead in Pennsylvania, against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to a Muhlenberg College and Morning Call poll conducted from Sept. 19 to 23. Although still ahead in the polls, Clinton dropped from a nine-point lead last week, according to the same poll. Apart from their campaigns for Clinton, both Barack Obama and his wife have directly influenced Pittsburgh during President Obama’s time in office. Phipps Conservatory launched Let’s Move Pittsburgh as a part of Obama’s national Let’s Move campaign, an effort to increase exercise and decrease time spent on electronics. In her time as first lady, Obama has been praised for her influence on healthy eating and fitness, as well as her advocate work for service members and their families and improving education for girls internationally. In October, Barack Obama is coming to Pittsburgh for the White House Frontiers Conference, a collaborative event hosted by Pitt, Carnegie Mellon University and officials from the White House to focus on improving technology and innovation nationwide.
Throughout the night, participants also played games that tested their Korean knowledge or teamwork and problem solving skills. In one game, inspired by a Korean variety show called “Running Man,” players moved oranges down a line of people without using their arms and hands. Instead, players used their necks and the backs of their knees to shuffle the fruit down the line. After playing, guests sat down to a dinner of common Korean dishes alongside American candy and soda. The four main dishes were japchae, which consists of cold noodles mixed with vegetables and spices; bulgogi, which is beef marinated in a mixture of sauces and spices; mulmandu, or boiled dumplings, and white rice. These four dishes are mainstays of Korean Thanksgiving Day, along with fruit, Korean pancakes, songpyeon and hangwa — an artisanal dish made with rice, honey and fruits and decorated in colored patterns. Most of the food came from Eliza
Kang’s parents, who own a Sama Korean grocery store in the Strip District called Sambok in the Strip District. Although Kang, a senior microbiology major and first-year member of the club, enjoyed the celebration with other students, she said her family celebrations are often more laid-back and don’t involve juggling oranges or racing to finish a cup of ramen. “We ate songpyeon together and just hung out as a family,” she said. “It was a lot more low-key than this.” Now that the Thanksgiving Dinner is over, the club plans to focus on the Korean horror movie showing they’re planning for October, as well as weekly conversation meetings each Friday, according to Elise Antel, the club’s president. Reed Salus, a first-year computer science major, joined the club to practice his Korean, but he was drawn in by the food and games in celebration of Chuseok. “I’m definitely staying with the club. The food was awesome, and tonight was pretty great, even though my team got humiliated in the orange game,” Salus said.
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Yahoo breach should lead to stronger regulations When a multinational company experiences a massive security breach that affects hundreds of millions of people, don’t its users deserve to know? Yahoo, the multinational digital company, announced last week that in 2014, a state-sponsored actor, or a hacker supported by a foreign government, hacked the account information of over 500 million users. The attack is one of the largest security breaches of an email provider. Although Yahoo claims that it was not aware of the breach until this summer, it failed to notify the public of the potential massive security breach at the time. Given the large scale of users this could affect — Yahoo has about one billion monthly active users — the company’s late reaction further compromised millions of users’ personal data. User information including names, email addresses, telephone numbers and security questions were hacked, meaning users will have to change their passwords and worry about their personal information being out in the open for an indefinite amount of time. Yahoo could have communicated to its users about the hack sooner, but instead it chose to wait with little regard for people’s security. The question on how a major company could allow a mistake like this to go unnoticed for so long should make us re-evaluate the digital laws we have in place and demand greater accountability and transparency for companies’ security practices. Before sending out emails, Yahoo made the announcement on its Tumblr page, a social media platform that is not widely used to the extent of Yahoo’s email base. When users’ identities are at stake, Yahoo should be serious about informing
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the public of this large-scale hack. The company blamed the attack on a “state-sponsored actor,” rather than taking responsibility for its actions and issuing an apology. The users deserve an explanation of how the company’s security checks and regulations missed this broad overreach. The company discovered the breach by accident after investigating a Russian hacker in June who claimed to have stolen data from the email provider. While Yahoo could not verify these specific claims, officials discovered the massive breach shortly afterwards. If Yahoo had been checking the security systems consistently, a small incident wouldn’t have been necessary to reveal a major hacking scare. But data notification laws make accountability almost impossible. Since laws vary by state, it is difficult to tackle these issues and hold companies accountable for threatening users’ cybersecurity. In Pennsylvania, the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act requires any business organization to notify users of a breach of the security of a computerized data system “to any resident of this Commonwealth whose unencrypted and unredacted personal information was or is reasonably believed to have been accessed and acquired by an unauthorized person.” The phrase “reasonably believed” is open to interpretation on whether the company deems a hack worthy of disclosing to its users. The vague definition gives companies too much discretion to hide such information, rather than asserting that any potential threat should be communicated clearly.
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DAILY ACTIVISM CAN DISMANTLE RAPE CULTURE
Terry Tan STAFF ILLUSTRATOR
Erica Brandbergh For The Pitt News
“May we have your attention please / We’re looking for the fun ones / And say f**k off to a tease.” Those were the words of OZ, an off-campus fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania, in an email in late August inviting women to a party at the beginning of the school year. The email contained numerous offensive remarks — including the excerpt above — and resembled an invite sent last year for the same event. The email, in poem form, continued, “Wednesday nights will get you going / With Bankers flowing all night / Tonight is your first showing / So please wear something tight.” Earlier this month, a group of female students posted about 600 copies of the email around campus with the words, “This is what rape culture looks like” written across them in protest. The university released a statement saying that the email was appalling. Ron Ozio, director of media relations for the university, said the
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email was “offensive and has no place at Penn.” He also stated that “sexual harassment and sexual assault are unacceptable and will not be tolerated on campus.” Monica Yant Kinney, executive director of communications and external affairs for undergraduate life, however, pointed to a letter previously sent to parents of undergraduates, clearly specifying that all off-campus fraternities are unaffiliated with Penn. Since OZ is not an official campus fraternity, there is not much the university can do on a disciplinary level. The fraternity is able to send sexist emails like this one, as it has in the past, without being punished by the university. It seems the university only responded this time because students protested. But even if the university could hold someone accountable, the problem persists not as a Penn-specific issue, but a cultural one. When institutions fail to take action on inexcusable behavior, it is up to the student body to take action for ourselves. We can all be advocates on a daily See Brandbergh on page 7
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Brandbergh, pg. 6 basis to address sexual assault and degrading language. I have a button on my backpack that I received from a seminar on consent my first year that says, “I ask first.” Whenever somebody asks me what that pin means, I have the opportunity to talk with them about consent and sexual assault on campus. Protesting, holding open forums and covering campus in fliers are all important and admirable ways to fight rape culture. But there are small ways we can all contribute every day to the larger discussion about sexual harassment, assault and microaggressions on campuses. Simply supporting victims of sexual assault can be the most effective way to combat dangerous stigmas and social ills. If a friend experiences sexual assault, it’s important to be there for him or her. While it is optimal for this friend to seek the support of a professional — and you should encourage him or her to do so — whether you respond negatively or positively has the ability to mold the experience of the victim. By not speaking out, we are perpetuating a society that objectifies women and normalizes sexual violence. In class this past week, a classmate shared a story about two boys she was sitting next to while eating lunch on campus. They were arguing over whether a woman they had met was “hot” or “ugly,” objectifying her in open conversation. The way these young men were so openly demeaning this woman proves how desensitized they’ve become by a culture that does not respect women. As a young female student, I am very much aware of the existence of rape culture on college campuses all across America. I’ve been told, along with thousands of other girls my age, that we should not stay out too late at night, that we should be mindful of what we wear and that we shouldn’t give any boys the “wrong idea” because something bad could happen to us that we would regret. According to Pitt’s AAU Campus Climate Survey, 23.6 percent of female undergraduates reported experiencing non-consensual penetration or sexual touching by force or incapacitation by their senior year. Greek life, and the party and heavy drinking atmosphere that often accompanies it, offers the perfect example of how normalized rape culture has become. At campus fraternity parties, It is often normal for women to get in for free, while guys have to pay. Men frequently won’t be allowed
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into parties unless they have a group of women with them. We don’t think of this has out of the ordinary, but this essentially means guys are paying to be in the presence of drunk women. Investigations by the FBI and Department of Justice found that out of 100 rapes, 46 get reported to the police. Only 12 of these reports will lead to arrest, and five to a felony conviction. Only three out of 100 rapists will spend even one day in prison. Think of all the college students who received little to no jail time for rape. Think of Brock Turner. Think of Austin Wilkerson. Think of John Enochs — charged with two counts of felony rape but, because of a plea bargain, went to prison for a single day for misdemeanor battery. I know it sounds like wearing a pin or having a conversation means nothing in the face of such serious offenses. But daily activism is a way to fight against rape culture in subtle but meaningful ways through our interactions, conversations and everyday routines. It takes every one of us making changes in our everyday lives to challenge sexist cultural norms. Call out your friend for making a joke about rape. Listen to someone’s experience without trying to find a reason for why it happened or by invalidating their experience. Stop others from talking down on somebody who has come forward with their experience with assault. You may even have the ability to help prevent assault from occurring in the first place by way of bystander intervention. At its most basic level, bystander intervention is the act of someone preventing a potentially harmful situation from escalating by intervening and preventing the inappropriate actions of another. Bystander intervention can also involve speaking out against comments that promote sexual violence, or making sure a drunken student at a party gets home safely. Beyond that, it involves stepping up when we see others making sexual violence acceptable in our culture. In the same AAU study at Pitt, among those who had witnessed somebody headed to a sexual encounter, a total of 79.7 percent indicated that they did nothing, with 23.7 percent saying they weren’t sure what to do and 56 percent saying they did nothing for another reason. If we want to make a change, we must be talking openly about rape on college campuses. It shouldn’t be a taboo discussion. Sexual assault can happen anywhere or anytime. By engaging in everyday activism, you are working to make a difference is somebody’s life. This isn’t an issue of liberal vs. conservative, nor is it a women’s fight. It is an issue of respect and equality. This is an issue that affects us all.
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UNC 37 Pitt 36
Duke 1 Pitt 1
Notre Dame 4 Pitt 0
Clemson 0 Pitt 3
PITT PLAYS IT TOO SAFE AGAINST UNC
Steve Rotstein and Ashwini Sivaganesh | Sports Editors
For the third week in a row, the Pitt football team scored more than 35 points against a formidable opponent. But for the second week in a row, the Panthers’ conservative play in the final quarter cost them the game. The Panthers went into Saturday’s game knowing that a victory against North Carolina — last year’s ACC Coastal Division champion — would set the tone for their ACC season. Instead, it was a repeat of last year. “We’ve got to stay on the field. That was our goal this week, to stay on the field on third downs,” Pitt quarterback Nathan Peterman said at his post-game press conference. “I thought we did a better job of it, up until [the end].” Last year, UNC defeated Pitt 26-19 in a game that decided who would play for the ACC championship. And this year the Tar Heels topped the Panthers, 37-36, in the opening game of conference play on a touchdown pass in the final moments of play. Pitt grasped the lead early on, but UNC quickly followed up with their own touchdowns. In the second half, after the Panthers seemed to pick up the pace, senior wide receiver Ryan Switzer carried the Tar Heels to victory with 16 carries for 208 yards. The Panthers took over with 8:44 left in the game leading, 36-23. Any sustained scoring drive would have put the game away. Instead, the offense refused to take risks on big plays and couldn’t rely on Peterman to throw the ball downfield on third-and-long. First-year running back Chawntez Moss and sophomore wide receiver Quadree Henderson picked up two yards each on handoffs, then quarterback Nathan Peterman threw an incompletion on third down. By the time Pitt punted the ball back to UNC, See Football on page 10
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Redshirt freshman Stephanie Williams (13) led the Panthers with 21 kills against Georgia Tech on Friday. Edward Major STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
VOLLEYBALL SWEEPS AT HOME David Leftwich Staff Writer
Just like last year, the Pitt volleyball team opened conference play with back-to-back wins at the Fitzgerald Field House this past weekend. Now the question remains if the Panthers can avoid the same losing streak they ran into on the road in Virginia in 2015. Pitt (11-3, 2-0 ACC) began conference play Friday night against Georgia Tech, delivering an impressive 3-1 victory against the Yellow Jackets. Two days later, the Panthers made it two in a row with a dominant 3-0 sweep over Clemson Sunday afternoon. Pitt held a lead throughout the first set against the Yellow Jackets, but a four-point advantage eroded into a 22-22 tie late in the
set. This stalemate continued to 24-24 until the Panthers took the next two points after a kill and block from outside hitter Stephanie Williams and middle blocker Layne Van Buskirk. The difference in the set was the offensive explosion from the Panthers, who hit 21 kills with a .289 attack percentage — which subtracts the amount of errors from kills and divides this number by the total number of kill attempts. Georgia Tech recorded 14 kills in the second set, its highest total in the match. The Yellow Jackets grabbed a lead at 13-12 and retained that advantage to win the set by a score of 25-21. “We were a little reckless offensively and
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we let them hit .400 so it was kind of a perfect storm of both offense and defense,” Pitt head coach Dan Fisher said in his post-match interview. The difference in the match was the team’s offensive firepower, as Pitt battled to win the third and fourth set by scores of 25-19 and 25-21 to clinch the ACC opener, 3-1. Williams led the charge for the Panthers with 21 kills and a .395 attack percentage, while junior Mariah Bell chipped in with 16 kills. With five players to hit eight or more kills, this well-balanced attack propelled the team to a victory. “It feels really good to take this one,” Fisher said in a press release. “I know it’s early but See Volleyball on page 10
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PITT DEVASTATED BY NOTRE DAME, 4-0 Ashwini Sivaganesh
Assistant Sports Editor The Pitt women’s soccer team suffered its third shutout loss in as many conference games Sunday afternoon. The Panthers (1-9-1, 0-3-0 ACC) fell to the No. 24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (71-3, 2-0-1), 4-0, in South Bend, Indiana. Notre Dame stormed out to a four-goal lead in the first half, then kept control of possession while holding off Pitt’s offense in the second half. The Fighting Irish entered the game second-to-last in scoring offense in the ACC with 1.3 goals per game, but held the second-best goals against average with just five goals allowed in 10 games, for an 0.5 average. Notre Dame’s defense was stingy as usual, but the offense took control of the game from the start. Less than five minutes into the game, the Fighting Irish secured a corner kick opportunity. Defender Monica Flores took the kick and sent it soaring toward the goal box, where forward Kaitlin Klawunder was wait-
ing to head the ball into the net for the first goal of the game. With the Fighting Irish threatening to create an unrecoverable advantage, the Panthers started to retaliate. But Notre Dame goalkeeper Kaela Little was stellar, as she has been all season. She swiftly blocked a shot by Pitt midfielder Juliana Vasquez, before forward Sarah Krause’s shot went wide. In the 14th minute, the Fighting Irish found the back of the net once again. First-year forward Jennifer Westendorf took a cross from midfielder Kaleigh Olmsted and beat Panthers goalkeeper Taylor Francis from six yards out for her fifth goal of the season. Pitt tried to regain momentum, but Olmsted took a cross from defender Natalie Ward and headed it into the net in the 18th minute for her first goal of the season to make it 3-0. From that point on, the Panthers struggled to keep the ball in possession. The Fighting Irish kept control of the ball in Pitt’s territory, and with less than See Soccer on page 10
Pitt goalie Taylor Francis struggled to keep the Fighting Irish from scoring against Pitt Sunday. Jeff Ahearn SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Football, pg. 8 only 70 seconds had ticked off the clock. Quarterback Mitch Trubisky led the Tar Heels on a scoring drive in just two minutes and 10 seconds, cutting the deficit to only six points with more than five minutes to play. Still, the Panthers had a chance to run out the clock and potentially kick a game-clinching field goal by gaining just a few first downs. Starting Pitt’s final possession with a 36-30 lead and 5:24 remaining, Peterman handed the ball twice to star running back James Conner for a gain of three and a loss of one. Then, facing third-and-8, he settled for a short dump-off to Conner for no gain, forcing the Panthers to punt after another three-and-out. Again, less than two minutes elapsed by the time UNC got the ball back. Pitt never got the ball again, and the Tar Heels — who had never led in the game and trailed for more than 55 minutes — took the lead with two seconds left on a second touchdown pass from Trubisky to 6-foot-5 wide receiver Bug Howard. “We didn’t do what we could have to control
Volleyball, pg. 8 this is one of the best teams in the league. I have a feeling that we are going to look back and say that this was a pretty big win.” This strong offensive play carried over to Sunday when the Panthers took on the Clemson Tigers in their second match of the weekend. The first set was the most competitive of the match, but it wasn’t very close. After taking a 4-1 lead, the Panthers maintained a steady point gap and took the set by a 25-19 score. Clemson kept the second set close to the midway point, where the teams were knotted up at 12. From there, the Panthers took six of the next seven points and maintained this gap through the end of the set for a 25-
Soccer, pg. 9 seven minutes left in the half, Notre Dame forward Karin Muya put the game out of reach with a header on a cross from teammate Meghan Doyle. Neither team put together any real scoring chances after halftime, but the Fighting Irish continued to dominate possession and outshot the Panthers 8-2 in the second half
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the wind of the game and we [have] to do a better job offensively,” Peterman said. “Third down completions — certain things that need to go better at the end of the game — we’ve got to do better.” The Panther’s defense also struggled in the last quarter by letting two North Carolina touchdowns occur in the last five and a half minutes of play. While the Panthers have scored over 35 points these past three games, they’ve let their opponents do the same — resulting in back-to-back losses and a 2-2 record after four games. “Getting off the field on a fourth down or getting a critical first down when we needed it in the fourth quarter — we didn’t do that,” Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi said. “We didn’t take a drive in the fourth quarter and do what we needed to do and you end up coming up short.” After the four games played this season, it’s clear Pitt can score touchdowns. But if they continue to let quarterbacks and receivers break records against their secondary, it won’t matter how many points the Panthers’ offense scores. “We were up big time, but we just couldn’t finish,” Henderson said. “It hurts to watch but you [have] to move on.” 17 victory. After two easy set wins, Pitt kept its focus and kept the pressure on Clemson in the third set. The Panthers dominated the Tigers, 25-9, with a .600 attacking percentage to put the match away in straight sets. Pitt took care of two wins it needed, one against a quality opponent in Georgia Tech and one against lesser competition in Clemson. These early triumphs will be important moving forward as the Panthers get set to take on the ACC’s best. Williams and Bell have been leading Pitt’s offense, but the team has other viable options on the roster to boost its chances for an ACC Championship spot. Pitt will travel this week to take on the Virginia Tech Hokies at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Blacksburg, Virginia. and 23-5 for the game. This marked the third ACC game in a row in which Pitt not only lost, but failed to score a goal, meaning if the Panthers are playing to be championship contenders, they need to stay motivated on offense and close the holes on defense. Pitt returns home to Ambrose Urbanic Field for its next game against the No. 15 Florida State Seminoles at 2 p.m. Oct. 1.
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