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About 3,000 students and community members came to hear Michelle Obama speak. Elaina Zachos VISUAL EDITOR
FLOTUS STOPS AT PITT TO SUPPORT CLINTON
First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at the Fitzgerald Fieldhouse about voter registration and Clinton’s candidacy | by Amina Doghri and Wesley Hood | The Pitt News Staff Walking out to Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls),” Michelle Obama encouraged Pitt students and community members to run the election, urging them to be the much needed “youth vote” Hillary Clinton has been trying to lock down in recent weeks. As students lined up to see Obama at the Fitzgerald Field House on Wednesday, a red-, white- and blue-speckled line snaked around upper campus. Donning Hillary Clinton T-shirts, stickers and buttons, about 3,000 students and community members
came to hear Obama speak in support of Democratic presidential candidate Clinton. In a dig at Clinton’s opponent, Obama told the audience to vote, even in the face of the negativity that has dominated the election. “Don’t ever let anyone take away your hope. Negativity is hard to sort through. Don’t let a negative candidate discourage you,” Obama said, referencing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Speaking just a day after National Voter Registration Day, Obama told the audience
they had a responsibility to vote in the upcoming election, especially in Pennsylvania, a contentious swing state. In 2012, Barack Obama only won Pennsylvania by 300,000 votes, she said. “That amounted to only about 17 votes per precinct. So if you think your vote doesn’t matter, it does,” Obama said. “Get out there and vote.” Erin McClelland, the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 12th district of Pennsylvania, came onstage before Obama
to specifically urge women in the crowd to use their political sway this season. “You are 52 percent of the population,” McClelland said. “You are the majority. You just have to vote for it.” Obama has been encouraging voters to support Clinton since July, when she first rallied in favor of the candidate in Virginia and announced her backing during a speech at the Democratic National Convention. Earlier this month, Vice President Joe See Obama on page 2
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TRIB TO CUT PRINT NEWSPAPER Lauren Rosenblatt
News Editor Trib Total Media announced Wednesday that its flagship publication, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, will cease printing a physical, daily newspaper and will only publish online beginning in November. The change will require laying off about 106 full- and part-time employees, in addition to 95 employees who took voluntary buyouts earlier this month. The company plans to focus more on local coverage of Allegheny County while offering a free “customizable” version of the paper online, according to a statement on the Trib’s website. President and CEO Jennifer Bertetto said in an announcement to employees that the company plans to increase staff covering Westmoreland and Valley News Dispatch editions of the paper. The company will continue publishing 11 of its 14 weekly newspaper publications. Luis Fábregas, the Deputy Managing Editor for the Tribune-Review, said in the statement that the paper’s digital side will focus on politics, technology, health and breaking news. Trib Total Media began restructuring after owner and publisher Richard Mellon Scaife died
Obama, pg. 1 Biden and Clinton’s running mate Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, came to Pittsburgh to campaign for Clinton during Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade. Next month, the President will visit Pittsburgh for the White House Frontiers Conference. Clinton’s opponent, Donald Trump, visited Pittsburgh last week as the keynote speaker for the Shale Insight conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Currently, Clinton leads Trump by three points in Pennsylvania, according to a Muhlenberg College and Morning Call poll conducted from Sept. 19 to 23. Although still ahead in the polls, Clinton maintains a
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in 2014. With buyouts, layoffs and the closing of several company’s newspapers, Trib Total Media had worked to stabilize the company since then, according to the statement. Nationally, average weekday circulation of newspapers fell by 7 percent the next year, the greatest decline since 2010, according to Pew Research Center’s “State of the News Media 2016” report. While digital circulation increased in 2015, it only accounted for about 22 percent of total circulation. According to the same report, newspaper employment rates from around the country dropped by about 10 percent in 2015. In Pittsburgh, the Tribune-Review’s circulation for Monday through Thursday, combined with Sunday circulation, totaled 287,590 as of June 2016, according to data from the Alliance for Audited Media. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had total circulation for the same days of 419,006. Bertetto said in the statement, the “intense financial reality” forced the company to make further revisions. “These changes, although difficult, are necessary to ensure our long-term viability. I am incredibly confident in the direction our organization is heading,” she said. slim lead, edging out Trump by an average of just 1.8 points according to realclearpolitics.com. Nationally, Clinton is two points ahead of Trump, according to an ABC News and Washington Post poll. In her speech, Obama refused to call Trump by name, focusing largely on Clinton and her qualifications. She did, however, indirectly refer to the Republican candidate through a few snarky comments on his qualifications. “Being president isn’t anything like reality TV,” Obama said, emphasizing that Clinton has far more qualifications than her opponent. “We need a grown-up in the White
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Obama, pg. 2 House.” Paralleling Clinton’s political experience with qualifications necessary to be commander-in-chief, Obama said Clinton is the only candidate who can handle the high-stress situations required of a country with international engagements. “I’ve seen what it takes to do this job, for eight years, and I know [Clinton] is the most qualified,” Obama said. “She’s the real deal.” Throughout the speech, campaign organizers and volunteers, such as Sharon Ricketts, 64, from Monroeville, circulated through the crowd, asking attendees if they were registered for the upcoming election. “I just want to be a part of this,” Ricketts said. “I’ve been working with the campaign. I want to ... show my support. I’ve been phone banking for the past week and a half and registering voters.” Amongst the voices calling for voter registration and participation, there were some in the crowd, including East Liberty resident Wanda Young, 58, who came solely to see the first lady in person. Young said she was excited because
Obama represented a success story in the midst of racial tension and inner city turmoil. “[I wanted] to live long enough to see a black girl’s dream come true. End of story,” Young said. “To see a female as educated and celebrated as Michelle Obama, as an AfricanAmerican woman, a dark AfricanAmerican woman, [I want] to see this. It’s encouraging to all women.” Ab out halfway through her speech, audience members raised their hands in a call for help as one attendee had fainted in the center of the crowd. Obama halted her speech to check on the situation, alerting EMTs and security. But she made light of the moment after the
audience member was deemed OK. “See, young people, I hope you’re eating your vegetables,” Obama said, referencing the healthy eating campaign she’s dedicated her time to as First Lady. Along with Obama, other local political figures came to the rally to show their support for Clinton as well, including Allegheny County C ontroller Chelsa Wagner, self-described fiscal watchdog of the county. Wa g n e r, 39, from Point Breeze, brought her two children –– ages 7 and 4 –– because she wanted to introduce them to the political process. She said her eldest son came home from school one day and said, “If Trump becomes president, we’re going to have to move to Canada.”
Elections aren’t just about who votes, but also who doesn’t vote.
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“I watch the debates with my son, and he’s observant,” Wagner said. “He can tell [Clinton’s] not showy or angry. Her composure, her leadership skills, you can’t underestimate that.” Dolan Edinboro, a first-year student, whose class was cancelled at the last minute, sprinted up the hill to the Field House to see the first lady. The run, he said, was worth it. “Inside it was almost electric, it’s just so cool to be a part of this,” Edinboro said. “I voted for a Republican candidate in the primary, but then once it came to Trump versus Hillary, it was almost obvious I had to get behind Hillary.” Edenis Augustin, a first-year student who plans on majoring in psychology, said his fear of this election cycle is driving his vote. “We need someone to lean on, like Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton,” Augustin said. Before leaving the stage, Obama asked the crowd, “Are you with me?” “We can not afford to squander this opportunity. Do you hear me Pittsburgh?” said Obama. “Elections aren’t just about who votes, but also who doesn’t vote.”
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Trib’s digital shift more than “tough” for 106 laid off In most cases, reporters becoming the center of a story is a sign something’s gone wrong. Sometimes, though, it’s worth acknowledging the people behind the curtain. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, one of the city’s flagship newspapers, announced Wednesday it would cease publication of a print newspaper within Pittsburgh Nov. 30, in order to focus fully on its digital product. Along with the shift to digital-only, the paper’s announcement said it would be expanding coverage of Allegheny County news beyond the city limits. “Our Westmoreland and Valley News Dispatch readers are loyal to these newspapers, and we want to give them even more of the local coverage that will keep them coming back every day,” President and CEO Jennifer Bertetto said in a post on the outlet’s website. Unfortunately, the Trib’s retreat from print distribution came complete with a basic error in journalistic writing: It buried the lede. The paper’s transition will result in 106 employees losing their jobs, a month after 95 others took voluntary buyouts and less than a year after the Trib laid off 153 more. But that gets only one line in the story, which spends most of its space framing this as a push toward the future rather than an admission that its market is shrinking. As a publication responsible for producing physical newspapers every day class is in session, we get it. Physical media is hemorrhaging money, and there’s no end in sight — especially in a relatively small city with options for local news outnumbering most large ones. The problem here isn’t the modernized distribution model the Trib is taking, which supposedly will offer free, customizable digital publications — it’s the presentation. Lost jobs are a normal consequence of technological change, regardless of industry, but the Trib’s announcement spends one sentence and a hollow public relations quote from Bertetto acknowledging the lost positions. That’s not to say she or the Trib takes lay-
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offs lightly, because surely she cares about her employees. Still, calling the move a “tough decision” is the best a building full of writers can offer? These are real people with families to support. Many of them are likely the ones in charge of producing the physical publication, so their jobs are now obsolete. They understand that. They are also likely to understand that the job market for newspaper printers isn’t quite booming, and that their chances of finding work in this region — or even the same industry — are slim. That’s not worth more than a quick remark about the pressure on people getting to stick around? Nov. 30, will be a sad day for everyone involved, but putting the spotlight on leaders rather than those most affected is the type of coldness generally reserved for Fortune 500 corporations where employees have always been just a number. At newspapers, unlike multinational companies, people have always been the proud foundation of the business: people sharing stories, people writing stories, people holding powerful people accountable. The product — be it a newspaper, a newsletter or an online article — is the result of the oft-unrewarded, tireless work of a steadfast group of people. The Trib is losing more than 100 of its own and marketing it in a shiny new package. Change has to come to the newspaper industry, we know. But let’s be honest about the way that change is coming about — for some people, it’s at a cost, and there’s nothing wrong with being sentimental about that. Hopefully the Trib’s new ventures are successful. Its coverage of Pittsburgh’s surrounding areas is consistently the most extensive and valuable available, and a profitable digital platform may one day recoup the jobs lost. For the sake of journalism in general, we need companies able to embrace change and continually innovate. But that doesn’t mean they should forget those who brought them there.
PERKS OF TECH FATIGUE: SANITY
Terry Tan SENIOR STAFF ILLUSTRATOR
Bayard Miller
For The Pitt News When I went to the Verizon store last August, the salesperson thought I was crazy. “You know, you’re the first person I’ve ever seen do this. I’ve gotta tell you, I think you’re making a mistake.” My friends’ opinions were no different: “You’re just making your life more inconvenient to prove a point. Why are you doing this?” I willfully ignored everyone’s reproaches. I had made my decision: I was giving up my smartphone. By October 2014, 64 percent of Americans owned a smartphone, up from 35 percent in 2011. Why on Earth would anyone purposefully take a technological step backward? After all, my iPhone
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5 had served me well in the past. I was able to talk and text with anyone anywhere at any time. I had the accumulated knowledge of mankind right at my fingertips. I should have been completely satisfied with this miracle of technology, but I started to resent its outsized role in my life. When I was talking to someone in person and there was a momentary lull in conversation, I would immediately reach for my pocket. The average American opens a social media app 17 times a day, spending nearly five hours a day on their smartphones, and I was no exception. Just waiting for a red light to change seemed an intolerable bore and soon I was unable to get through one without checking my phone. I realized that my relationship with my See Miller on page 6
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Miller, pg. 5 smartphone was analogous to a smoker’s relationship with cigarettes. Before you start smoking, you never want or “need” one. But once you get addicted, every cigarette relieves the stress that comes from having not smoked in a while. Cigarettes solve the very problem they create — temporarily. So it was with my phone. Apple helped me realize that I, in fact, craved stimulation at all times. My phone was always there to set my attention span-less mind at ease — if only for a few minutes. I’m not alone in my tech fatigue. Just last week, Kanye West tweeted: “I got rid of my phone so I can have air to create.” Louis C.K. similarly ranted on “Conan” three years ago, bemoaning the fact that phones have destroyed the ability of people “to just be a person.” “That’s what the phones are taking away,” he said, “the ability to just sit there.” The YouTube video of his diatribe has over 11 million views, clearly striking a chord with viewers. In Canada, Toronto lawyers Steven Pulver and Daniel Levine have accomplished the wonderfully oxymoronic by creating a technology conference without the technology. Their Fire-
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side Conference, started in 2014, is notable for forbidding usage of devices and being located in one of the few remaining corners of the Earth unpenetrated by cellphone reception. Attendees were reportedly jarred by having to ask strangers for directions around the site, an action they hadn’t performed in years due to the mass proliferation of GPS technology.
whenever I’m in Wi-Fi I use my iPod Touch to iMessage instead. I maintain an Instagram and Facebook account. But I inhabit the virtual world far less than I had before. My fingers don’t get itchy when I’m not talking directly to someone. I can sit through a movie without playing Candy Crush. I can go out with my friends without documenting my move-
My relationship with my smartphone was analogous to a smoker’s relationship with cigarettes. The number of participants for the Fireside Conference this year was double that of the previous. Increasingly, people are willing to brave inconvenience to get away from their phones. I have not sworn off all technology. I make calls and write texts with my flip phone, but
ments to the world just to prove I do fun things. I can come up with a funny observation without needing to put it on Twitter. I can sit at a red light and stay entertained by people-watching. I’ve been the subject of ridicule among my friends and family, but I absolutely do not regret
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my decision. I don’t deny the benefits of technology and have no desire to shut them completely out of my life. I instead have admitted my inability to resist the cry of my phone and adjusted my behavior accordingly. Louis C.K. would be proud: for the first time in years, I can sit down without stimulation and just “be a person.” It sounds simple, but it’s much easier said than done. Without my smartphone, I cannot fill every moment of my time with mindless scrolling to avoid the difficult business of introspection. I cannot drown my anxieties in a sea of cat videos and memes. Sometimes, this leads to intense discomfort. Avoiding stressors may lessen anxiety in the short term, but in the end it always is the mental equivalent of throwing gasoline on the fire. By giving up my phone, I’ve learned to confront my problems and expose myself to miniexistential crises. But through those trifles I have emerged a more emotionally secure and less stressed person. It is easy to point out the material advantages of owning a pocket computer, snatching up the newest iPhone and being able to document your most magnificent moments as they’re happening. But I lost touch with myself in all of that. Ultimately, the comfort of sanity outweighs inconvenience.
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or most of her life, Emily Zielinski has had a close relationship with art. But after battling an eating disorder, she realized just how important it was to her. “[Art] got me away from other things,” said Zielinski, a senior studio arts major. “It has a calming power that gives me a way to express myself.” Before coming to Pitt, Zielinski studied art therapy for two years at Mercyhurst College but had to take a medical leave due to her battle with anorexia. During this time, she turned to art therapy, which she had decided to pursue as a profession at the end of high school. She learned early on that the process of creating is sometimes more important than the finished product. “I found personally in my recovery process that art was integral,” she said. “ Art was an exploration for me discovering what influences me and what makes me angry about our society.” Art has continued to play an important part in Zielinski’s recovery
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process, such as in “Self Healing,” where she painted a self-portrait and learned how to show self-compassion in the process. Zielinski intends to continue her studies with art therapy after getting her studio arts degree. In the meantime, Zielinski has received a grant from Pitt to launch her own pilot program with the Caring Place Downtown, a non-profit organization that specializes in helping children and teens to cope with the loss of a loved one. Zielinski intends to create a program just for children and teens, giving them art supplies to create collages — combined with their personal items — or paintings of their lost loved ones. Afterwards, Zielinski plans to set up a gallery so that the kids can display their work. “I want the art to bridge the disconnect that sometimes forms between parents and children after trauma and make discussing something that’s hard to express more approachable,” she said.
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“I painted this a year ago as part of a ‘self-portrait’ assignment for a class. While I was in recovery, I had so many amazing people to help me, but I wanted to show how I could help myself as well. I needed to show myself compassion, and every mark, every line of paint is something expressive of what I was feeling.”
“image 0220” “This is an older piece from a few years ago. It’s entirely made up of magazine pages that I cut and wove back together. I was working through my anger at the impossible standards that the images in these magazines portrayed, these images that had formerly contributed to my anorexia and bodyimage issues.”
SEE ONLINE FOR FULL GALLERY. “Image 0225” “This was very different for me, and the pieces are much larger than they look in the photos. Each pill is nearly the size of a hand. I used a fabric mold which I then covered in plaster to make the bottles, and for the pills I created molds and cast the pills from those molds. I had to buff all of the pieces to make them smooth, and it was a very laborious process. Again though, that repetitive process is part of what makes the piece so fulfilling.”
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DON’T MAKE FUN OF US, HANNIBAL The Pitt News enters the canon of Buress’s many college newpaper interviews — and tries not to become part of his act in the process. | by Dan Sostek | Senior Staff Writer
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s a college student, Hannibal Buress never expected to be found on prominent IMDB pages. Instead, he was on his way to having a listing in the Yellow Pages. If told he’d be a prominent actor and comedian then, Buress assumes he would’ve said, “What are you talking about? ... I’m a business major.” Buress went from studying at Southern Illinois University Carbondale to telling jokes, eventually writing for “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock.” Later, programs like “Broad City” and “The Eric Andre Show” casted him in feature roles. He’s set to appear in highly anticipated films next summer such as “Baywatch” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” As part of his Hannibal Montanabal Experience stand-up tour, the popular comedian stops in Pittsburgh today, performing at 7:30 p.m. in the Byham Theater. Buress
chatted with The Pitt News about finding his footing in the business, his writing process and his love for his hometown of Chicago. Dan Sostek: I feel like there’s a lot of pressure interviewing you as a student newspaper reporter with your bit [which chided Eastern Illinois University’s paper for a headline saying that he brought “diversity to campus”] — from “Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace.” Does that still stand up as the worst student paper interview you’ve ever done? Hannibal Buress: The interview wasn’t really bad. It was just me: I wasn’t as good of an interview at the time, so I was giving a bunch of answers that were kind of goofy, and I was joking. And [the writer] didn’t catch the tone. So it wasn’t the article. It was a mixture of things in how it came together. But it ended up being not a great article, which was partially my fault, with some of the quotes that were in there that weren’t from me and some that were from me. So it
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was not something that really is a focus of my stand-up anymore. I can’t really hang my hat on making fun of articles about me. DS: You last performed in Pittsburgh in 2014. Does it differentiate itself from other cities you perform in, or is it just kind of another stop? HB: It’s a quick stop, just because of the schedule. But it’s a fun city — I enjoy hanging out [here]. I’ve been there three or four times. The people are cool. I enjoy Pittsburgh nightlife. I have no regular spots there — there was this one music venue I kind of like ... I know a couple people there, the comic from there, Davon Magwood, I met him and he showed us around the city and took us to some good spots. It’s one of those cities that I’ve been to a bunch over the past. I think my first trip there was 2011.
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PREDICTION: PITT 34, MARSHALL 13 Steve Rotstein Sports Editor
Ejuan Price (5) has been virtually unstoppable in Pitt’s first four games. Jeff Ahearn SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The unbridled joy the Pitt football team felt after its 42-39 victory over instate rival Penn State on Sept. 10 evaporated quickly. After excruciating back-to-back defeats on the road against Oklahoma State and North Carolina, the Panthers know they were just a play or two away from coming home with an undefeated record and a national ranking. They, of course, did not. Pitt returns to Heinz Field Saturday at 7:30 p.m. to take on Marshall, a team that enters the game on its own twogame skid. The Thundering Herd (1-2) are coming off three consecutive seasons with at least 10 victories, so avoiding a third straight loss will be no easy task for the Panthers.
Here are three focus areas that will decide Saturday’s tilt: Price is right Pitt currently ranks No. 89 out of 127 Football Bowl Subdivision — formerly I-A — teams in total defense, allowing an average of 422 yards per game. But don’t blame defensive end Ejuan Price. Finally healthy after missing all of the 2012 and 2014 seasons and half of 2013 with various injuries, Price racked up 11.5 sacks in 13 games last year to lead the ACC with an average of 0.88 sacks per game. This year, he’s been on another level. The sixth-year senior leads the ACC and ranks second in the country with 5.5 sacks, 9.5 tackles for loss and three forced fumbles. Against North Carolina See Preview on page 10
VOLLEYBALL EXTENDS WINNING STREAK David Leftwich Staff Writer
Whether it’s the unfamiliar arena or the heckling fans, playing on the road in any sport can be difficult. But the Pitt volleyball team settled right in Wednesday night with a victory in Blacksburg, Virginia. Pitt (12-3 overall, 3-0 ACC) began its second week of conference play by cruising to a 3-1 match victory over the Virginia Tech Hokies (6-8 overall, 1-2 ACC). The teams split the first two sets, then the Panthers took command in the third and fourth sets to close out the match. The Hokies struggled to create any offense in the early going, and Pitt took advantage, jumping out to a 7-2 lead. After a brief run by Virginia Tech, the Panthers won eight points in a row to stretch the lead from 13-11 to 21-11. The Hokies broke down defensively, and Pitt repeatedly took advantage to
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easily take the first set, 25-12. After getting dominated in the first set, Virginia Tech bounced back and put together some solid offensive play. With the second set tied at eight, the Hokies went on a run similar to the Panthers’ streak in the first set, racking up six straight points to go up 14-8. The Panthers tried to chip away at the lead, but couldn’t close the gap as Virginia Tech continued to build its lead and took the set by a score of 25-18. Pitt seemed disjointed in the third set, starting out strong before running into some errors and communication mishaps that kept the match close. Pitt built an early 9-7 advantage but the Hokies kept attacking, never allowing the Panthers to gain much momentum. With the set tied at 11, Pitt started struggling with its serve-receive. The Panthers were out of position on Virginia Tech’s serves, forcing them to
either make an error or pass the ball back over the net rather than attack offensively. Pitt head coach Dan Fisher decided to call a timeout with his team trailing, 13-11, but this didn’t shift the momentum. The Hokies kept playing well-balanced volleyball and expanded their lead to 18-13. The Panthers found themselves down, 2319, in danger of falling behind 2-1 in the match. But Pitt battled back to take the next three points, which forced Virginia Tech into calling a timeout of its own. After the timeout, outside hitter Stephanie Williams hit a crucial push shot on a broken play to tie the game at 23 apiece. The Panthers conceded the next point, but Williams came up big with another kill to tie the set at 24. The teams traded points back-and-forth, both searching for the two-point lead that would end the set. Eventually, Pitt surged to close out the
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third set, 29-27. The Panthers carried this momentum over to the next set, taking a quick 6-1 lead. Virginia Tech tried to catch up, but Pitt maintained a solid four- or five-point lead throughout. As good as the Panthers’ offense looked during the set, they maintained great back line play to keep up defense and neutralize the Hokies’ offense. Virginia Tech’s intensity started to fade midway through the set, and Pitt capitalized. The Panthers pushed the lead to 20-12 and completely shut down the Hokies’ offense along the way. Senior middle blocker Jenna Potts put the match away with an emphatic block to take the fourth set, 25-16, and clinch a 3-1 match victory. The win was Pitt’s fifth in a row, keeping the team’s perfect ACC record intact at 3-0. The Panthers will return home to the Fitzgerald Field House to take on the Virginia Cavaliers Sunday, Oct. 2, at 1 p.m., in a matinee matchup.
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“Really it’s coming down to fundamentals. That’s what it comes down to, and making sure that the kids don’t have too many checks back there to call as far as coverages go,” Narduzzi said. Don’t let up The Panthers have been plagued for three weeks in a row by an inability to pick up first downs in the fourth quar-
“[Marshall has] a great quarterback in Chase Litton.” -Pat Narduzzi need a much better performance out of its defensive backs to avoid an upset against the Herd. Narduzzi said on Wednesday he thinks the secondary’s play can be improved by making things a little more simple for the players.
ter with a chance to put the game away. Against Penn State, Pitt got the ball with exactly five minutes left and a 4239 lead, needing just a couple of first downs to run out the clock and win the game. Instead, the Panthers went threeand-out and punted the ball back to the
Nittany Lions, only coming out on top after Ryan Lewis’ game-clinching interception in the end zone. Against Oklahoma State one week later, Pitt faced third-and-4 at its own 48-yard line with 3:45 left in the game. Rather than try to pass for a first down, the Panthers called a halfback toss to James Conner, resulting in a five-yard loss and a punt. The Cowboys went on to score the game-winning touchdown on the next drive. Last week, Pitt held a 36-23 lead in the fourth quarter against North Carolina and twice had a chance to seal the victory by picking up a few first downs. Both times, the team refused to let quarterback Nathan Peterman throw the ball downfield, and both times, the Panthers went three-and-out. UNC put together two touchdown drives to win, 37-36. Pitt can’t afford to get complacent against Marshall. The Panthers will need to stay aggressive if they take the lead and keep adding to it to avoid suffering a third straight devastating defeat. Prediction: Pitt 34, Marshall 13.
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last week, Price tackled UNC’s star receiver Ryan Switzer in the end zone for a safety on the Tar Heels’ first offensive play in the game. “Getting a sack is probably my favorite thing to do, even better than a touchdown,” Price said on Wednesday. “But making a big tackle for loss like that to spark the game for my team with two points, that was a great feeling.” After terrorizing opposing quarterbacks in each of the first four games, Pitt needs Price to keep up his ferocious pace against Marshall to get back in the win column. Containing Chase Marshall quarterback Chase Litton has been cleared to return to action after missing the Thundering Herd’s 5928 loss against Louisville last Saturday. In Marshall’s first two games of the season, the 6-foot-6, 211-pound sophomore threw for 722 yards and 10 touchdowns with only three interceptions. His 181.7 quarterback rating ranks seventh in the country. “They’ve got a great quarterback
in Chase Litton,” Narduzzi said at his weekly media teleconference on Wednesday. “We know we’re going to get the passing game, so we’re ready for it.” The Panthers’ secondary has been shredded the past two weeks by tall, strong-armed quarterbacks Mason Rudolph and Mitch Trubisky. Pitt will
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2-3-4 bedroom houses. Available now or January 1st. At corner of Parkview and the Boulevard. Free laundry. Central air. Really nice. 412-414-9629.
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The Psychiatric Molecular Imaging Program is seeking men 18-25 years of age for brain imaging research studies. Participants must be in good physical and mental health, planning to stay in the Greater Pittsburgh area for the next 12 months, and willing to provide blood samples to confirm eligibility. The study involves questionnaires, interviews, and brain scanning. The research study will take place at UPMC Presbyterian University Hospital. Subjects will be compensated up to $800 upon completion. For details, call 412-586-9888.
Cashier, part-time/full-time. Must be professional, customer oriented and available days/and or nights and weekends. Ask for Gina 412-521-3530. Christian Home Health Care is hiring home health aids in the immediate area. Supplement your income around your busy class schedule. Nursing students are encouraged to apply. Call 412-323-0203, X 6132 or X 6141. HELP WANTED: Courthouse Clerk. Downtown law firm seeks courthouse/office clerk. Set own schedule! Good experience for underclassmen if interested in law school. Applicant needs to be organized, reponsible, detail-oriented; ablility to follow directions. 15-20 hours/wk. Fax resume to 412-281-6302, e-mail to assist@gislaw.com or send to Gismondi & Associates, Suite 700, The Grant Building, 310 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 HELP WANTED Painting, yardwork, miscellaneous. Student preferred. Shadyside, Fox Chapel. $12/hour. 412-963-9889. georgebsg@ cs.com.
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Direct Service Professional for Residential Program for adults with intellectual disabilities in South Hills. Flexible hours, PT, FT, benefits. No experience neededwe train. 18+ and PA driver’s license needed. EOE. Email questions/resume to loril@southwindsinc.org Host/hostess wanted for Church Brew Works. Must be friendly and people person. Apply in person at 3525 Liberty Ave.
MARKETING/NETWORKING: Gaming company seeking up to 10 motivated students to sign 3,000 players up for early testing on the world’s FIRST EVER INTERACTIVE SPORTS APP. Marketing materials provided. Earn up to $25/hr. plus bonus opportunities. This is a great and an easy opportunity for leaders of fraternities, groups, and teams. Email requests to rchristoff010@gmail.com.
Mercurio’s in Shadyside is now hiring for full-time and parttime positions. Pizza makers, servers, gelato servers, hosts, cooks, and dishwashers. Apply online: www.mercuriosgelatopizza.com or call 412-621-6220.
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Pittsburgh’s Grand Hall at the Priory located on the North Shore offers a breathtaking space for weddings and corporate events. Our venue has been honored with winner of Best Banquet Facility with Pittsburgh Magazine & winner of Best Weddings with The Knot. We are currently seeking part time banquet servers to work evening and weekend events. Qualified candidates should have experience in the food and beverage industry, present a polished appearance, and have a great personality. Compensation for this position will start at $10 per hour plus gratuity based on experience. Interested candidates should submit their resumes to Courtney Burns at courtney @thepriory.com. Please no phone calls.
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Looking for retail experience? Now hiring part-time salesperson.Come work at one of Pittsburgh’s premier shoe stores. Must be professional, fun, outgoing. Ask for Justin or stop in. 412-521-3530. Waiter/Waitress, Dishwasher/Cook: 20 hours/week, great working environment. Cafe Sam, 5242 Baum Blvd. Apply Monday-Friday 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
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Uncle Sam’s Submarines, Pittsburgh’s best little sandwich joint is looking for fun-loving and hard-working people to work at our Oakland location. Applications for full or part-time positions are now being accepted at 210 Oakland Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213. South Fayette Township School District is seeking substitute teachers. Positions available for all grade levels and areas of content. Complete job descriptions are available at southfayette.org. Please send your complete application packet to South Fayette Township School District, 3680 Old Oakdale Rd., McDonald, Pa. 15057. Sharper Walls Studio is seeking individuals to tutor middle and high school students in academic subject’s math, science, english, writing, history and foreign languages, as well as, computer programming, graphic design, web design, photography, drawing, architecture, fashion design, music composition, music fundamentals, song writing and sound recording, filmmaking. We offer flexible hours. For more information please email Brian at sharperwallsinc@aol.com
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Sales Clerk For Tea Store in Squirrel Hill Margaret’s Fine Imports is looking for a highly-motivated individual, able to provide great customer service. 5872 Forbes Ave., Ph: 412-422-1606 www.TeaPittsburgh.com Apply at www.pittsburghcuppa.com/jobapplication1.html
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ADOPT: Happily married well educated couple unable to have baby desires to adopt newborn. Call Marisol & Steve 800-272-0519. Expenses paid.
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