9-9-2016 by The Pitt News

Table of Contents Students build aquaponic farm Casual friday Don’t mention sandusky penn state game preview pitt football season preview memories of tailgates past 8 beer at heinz field 10 walt harris: q&a 11 gallagher pens letter 16

Letter from the Editor

Let me start by admitting a couple of things: 1. I applied, and was accepted, to Penn State 2. Football is a sport I’m wholly uneducated in. That being said, I enjoy a good rivalry as much as the next millennial — Taylor vs. Kanye, Harry vs. Draco, Drake vs. Meek Mill — and I’m excited to feel the energy (from the press box) at this year’s potentially attendance-record-setting Pennsylvania showdown. If you can’t be convinced to stick around ‘til the end by chips and off-brand sodas, I hope the sheer insanity of Heinz Field will keep you past Sweet Caroline. If not, The Pitt News will be there for you every minute of it, covering live. Until tomorrow’s noon kickoff, this issue will keep you busy, full of stories you won’t find elsewhere: conversations with Pitt alum who bring us back to the ’70s and ’80s of Pitt-Penn

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State games, a Q&A with a former Pitt coach who’s faced the Nittany Lions before and everything you need to know about the booze situation at Heinz this year. Thanks for reading and Hail to Pitt, Elizabeth Lepro Editor-in-Chief/ Proud Penn State Rejecter

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Students use fish to create urban farm Jace Bridges

For The Pitt News While some Pitt students struggle to keep their houseplants alive, sophomore Vinh Luong and his team are using a school of fish and a shipping container to grow an entire farm. In March, Luong, a computer science major, and his project partner Joe DiPietro, a sophomore actuarial sciences major, won $10,000 in seed funds from the BetaBurgh competition to fund a selfsufficient mini farm that uses fish farming to grow plants. In their presentation at BetaBurgh, a competition that ended up funding the project, the duo explained how downtown Pittsburgh is a food desert, meaning it has no local sources of fresh produce. Luong and DiPietro saw aquaponic — the use of fish to grow food — as a way to bring fresh leafy greens to an urban area. When Luong arrived at Pitt in 2015, he realized that not many people had ever heard of aquaponics and decided to put his entrepreneurial passion to the test. “I wanted to create a system to not only educate people about aquaponics but also build these systems throughout Pittsburgh so that people could actually benefit from them,” Luong said. The group houses their project in a 16 by 20 foot structure, built by Sipes and Sons General Contractors, that resembles a shipping container. The system filters out the solid particles of the fish waste from the water they live in, and uses bacteria to transform the ammonia-rich water into nitrate-rich water. This nitraterich water is then ported over to the roots

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of the plants, providing them with the nutrients they need to grow. Though Luong and his team still have to feed the fish, the system is otherwise self-sufficient. The entire installation is outdoors — Luong, DiPietro and their team will move the crate on Friday from its construction location in Polish Hill to its permanent Downtown location at Stanwix Street and Penn Avenue. Luong and DiPietro’s funds came from the BetaBurgh competition sponsored by the BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania. The competition was created as a part of the Downtown Pittsburgh Partnership, which aims to support and implement new business ideas that will help the community and engage downtown Pittsburgh residents. For DiPietro, the thrill of the project lies in the enthusiastic responses he gets when he talks about his work. “Watching how excited people get about aquaponics and something that I am creating is definitely the best part,” DiPietro said. The steel fish tank sits at the base of the portable farm system and houses about 300 tilapia. The system filters the fish water and converts it into nitraterich water, which is pumped up to the wooden greenhouse through irrigation tubes and over to the towers of the farm. The towers hold the roots of the plants, so as the water runs through it provides the plants with the nourishment they need to prosper. The aquaponics portable farm is expected to produce about 1,000 plants every month. Luong

The partially-built aquaponics project and the original artist rendering. Courtesy of Vinh Luong and his team will start by growing basil traditional plant farming model. According to the USDA’s 2012 Census plants, but hope to expand to growing of Agriculture, corn and soybeans tolettuce as well. An aquaponics farming system uses 90 gether accounted for over 51 percent of percent less water, 70 percent less energy all harvested cropland, a statistic Luong and can produce 10 times the amount of uses to argue that aquaponic farms could See Aquaponics on page 4 food in the same amount of space as a

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Aquaponics, pg. 3 diversify food production in the United States. “The way the food system is setup now, it is inherently going to fail,” Luong said. “It is important that we move away from producing just two things and start producing a more diverse array of produce.” Beyond the physical aquaponics project, Luong and his team also proposed an interface called Aquacloud as

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a way to help farmers digitally monitor the pH, temperature and air quality of their aquaponics farm. He entered this proposal into the Blast Furnace student startup accelerator competition hosted by the Innovation Institute at Pitt. Babs Carryer, the director of education and outreach for the Innovation Institute, said the Institute aims to give students advice on how to create a successful startup, as well as provide networking opportunities and funding through competitions. For Luong’s team, who won first place

at the Blast Furnace competition in June, that support meant an additional $1500 to fuel the next stage of their aquaponics project. Carryer said she and her colleagues at the Institute were surprised and impressed Luong’s team won the competition, since they had only just completed their first undergraduate year. The Institute, Carryer said, urges students to pursue realistic and achievable projects such as Luong’s. “We want to support and encourage innovation and entrepreneurship for all students at all levels,” Carryer said.

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Luong has no doubt implementing the aquaponics portable farm will be a learning process, because the entire system is dependent on living organisms, which tend to be fickle. Despite this, Luong, a self-described “ideas guy,” said this project has captured his interest more than any of his other ideas. “[It] would just be idea after idea, week after week,” Luong said. “I didn’t really have anything that I was super passionate about yet. But then aquaponics came along.”

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Casual Friday Extra Espresso, please A new heavy-duty coffee drink is making its (g)rounds in the caffeine world. Much to Starbucks’ dismay, Australian cafe owner Steve Benington crafted a new coffee which he claims to be 80 times stronger than espresso called “The A**kicker.” The Aussie barista says it can keep you awake for 18 hours and must be drunk slowly over three to four hours. Otherwise, prepare for potential health issues including the shakes, sweats and potential heart problems. Nevertheless, college students and caf-fiends are lining up to taste the turbo coffee. We’ve bean meaning to try it, but uncertain if it will be a cup of woah, or a cup of no. Poo-haul An unexpected crash in Michigan raised nostrils this week when a U-haul truck collided with a tanker truck on an interstate highway. In the crash, the truck unloaded the “human waste” it was carrying and dumped all over three lanes of the road. The publicly funded pooper scooper saved the day by using sand to soak up the waste so that it could be removed efficiently, though it might be hard to flush down the drain. Either way, you can bet traffic was crappy that day. Next time, the tanker truck will wipe before he wipes out. Fired revenge As she was burning with revenge, a 19-year-old woman, Carmen Chamblee, was arrested this week for setting her ex-boyfriend’s car on fire. Little did she know, the white car did not

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belong to her ex-boyfriend. Florida police caught her in the act and charged her with second degree arson. The reasons behind her crime remain unknown, but she mentioned a heated argument with her hot-headed boyfriend. The stranger who’s down a car is without a doubt in a fiery mood now. It could’ve been a good music video, but there were no winners at play here, just hot wheels. Skyrim bender An 11-year old boy went to GameStop to buy a video game, but accidentally found a different kind of “deal.” Once the boy bought Skyrim, he opened the package to find a baggie with an unknown substance. His father took it to the Louisiana police and made it crystal clear that it was methamphetamine. The father underestimated how addicting the game would be. But he was glad he didn’t meth it up. Unfortunately, when the kid tried trading it in, Gamestop still only offered him $3. Leg-go Marc Cronin may be the only person excited to step on a Lego. The 32-year-old man was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Complications led to an amputation of his left leg, so he needed a prosthetic replacement. Since it would take weeks to have the prosthetic made, the man built himself a replacement limb out of Lego. Using his daughter’s Lego set, he chose one engineering advancement that will never be outdated. Talk about building yourself up.

no need for fans to make light of sandusky saga

Jerry Sandusky has no place in the revived Pitt-Penn State rivalry. TNS

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Senior Staff Writer ‘Ped State!’ ‘Joe Knew!’ “Hilarious. I’ve got to get that on a Tshirt. Or a sign. Or something.” This is the unhinged thought process that select members of the Pitt fan base will likely go through, or have already gone through, prior to the Panthers’ longawaited clash with their in-state rival. The slogans refer to Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State defensive coordinator who was convicted of sexually assaulting multiple eight to ten year old boys during his time at Penn State. The 72 year-old will spend what is likely the rest of his life in jail. Subsequently, former and longtime Penn State Head Coach Joe Paterno was accused of ignoring the accusations against Sandusky and thus allowing the abuse to continue.

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But Pitt fans who use the scandal to smack talk Penn State are falling into the same trap of dismissing sexual assault that doomed the previous regime of administrators at Penn State. Most human beings should understand that the nosebleeds or the student section at Heinz Field during a football game isn’t the appropriate venue to start a discourse on the prioritization of athletics over people at state schools. It’s more than disheartening to see the hashtags and photoshops and to hear the callous jokes and chants. People are belittling the children and families that Sandusky, and by proxy the administration at Penn State, have already hurt. Imagine a sexual assault survivor walking Downtown, or watching television, See Sostek on page 6

Sostek, pg. 5 and hearing a Pitt fan gleefully chant that former Penn State coach Joe Paterno knew and ignored sexual abuse committed by a member of his coaching staff. Imagine how a mom would feel, scrolling through social media to see Sandusky’s grinning smile cropped into a photo of a Penn State locker room. There’s nothing funny about it, and it won’t create any productive dialogue. We as a society should still be heavily invested in aiding the victims of Sandusky’s predatory acts, as well as determining exactly how a major university like Penn State could turn a blind eye to it for so long. But that’s not what any of this nonsense is about. I firmly doubt that any actual empathy or concern for the victims of abuse is the motivation behind the mocking signs. Instead, the design draws from some sort of warped insecurity that amounts to nothing more than the desire to prove that Pitt is better than Penn State, and only that. Those who are using the Sandusky case to trash talk a rival football team are us-

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ing the assault and trauma of a large group of children to win a barstool argument — just to say the team of football players that wear “Pitt” on their jerseys are good and the players in the white and navy are bad. The jokes are not only offensive and dismiss i v e — they are unnecessar y. There is plenty of fuel for the anti-Penn State fire that doesn’t involve invoking the S a n dusky saga. Pitt is a promising program, with a dynamic head coach in Pat Narduzzi, a blistering, young physical freak of a defensive

back in Jordan Whitehead and perhaps the most inspirational story in all of college athletics in running back James Conner. Meanwhile, Penn State is a program that has struggled to find an identity since

No one who’s been affected by Sandusky will be comforted or avenged by your gag tee or your #JoeKnew hashtag Bill O’Brien left. James Franklin seemingly ruined a blue-chip quarterback in Christian Hackenberg, and has the same amount of con-

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ference wins as Narduzzi despite having two years of head coaching experience under his belt instead of one. Paterno won’t be roaming the sidelines, Sandusky won’t be dialing up blitzes. Tim Curley and Graham Spanier won’t greet the Nittany Lions in the locker room postgame. It’s a matchup between the 2016 Pittsburgh Panthers and the 2016 Nittany Lions. If you believe the sexual abuse scandal is something that Penn State should be ashamed of — which it is — do something that will actually help survivors. Instead of buying a crudely designed T-shirt with some antagonistic message on it — which is becoming a harder task, as backlash is causing some sites to stop offering products — donate to a charity that supports abuse victims. Go volunteer. No one who’s been affected by Sandusky will be comforted or avenged by your gag tee or your #JoeKnew hashtag. Go to the game. Boo Trace McSorley, yell obscenities, print out large-scale photos of that picture of James Franklin with tiger face paint. But the Pitt football program is better than child abuse jokes. The fans should be too.

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Editor’s note: In a story on Thursday, Sept. 8, titled “City Expecting Record Crowd,” The Pitt News misstated the current Heinz Field attendance record as 6,234. The attendance record is 67,234, set in a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos on Dec. 20, 2015.

PREDICTION: PITT 20, PENN STATE 17 Dan Sostek

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Senior Staff Writer Pitt vs. Penn State: an in-state rivalry that needs no introduction. In a game that is projected to be the most attended sporting event ever in the city of Pittsburgh, two flawed yet evenly matched teams will meet at Heinz Field at noon on Saturday. Here are a few key players and matchups to keep an eye on in this year’s Keystone Classic. To infinity and Saquon While James Conner continues to inspire and Jordan Whitehead is a wizard in the defensive backfield, the best player on the field Saturday may very well be Penn State tailback Saquon Barkley. The 5-foot-11, 223-pound sophomore running back was dynamic as a freshman, rushing for over 1,000 yards and tallying nearly six yards a carry. He continued that momentum into 2016, running for 105 yards on 22 rushes in the opener. Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi thinks Barkley is

in select company. “Saquon Barkley is maybe the best tailback in the country,” Narduzzi said earlier this week. “I don’t look at them all, but he is a great tailback, and he is a guy that will be a priority to stop.” Pitt’s front seven is obviously tougher than Kent State — Penn State’s week one opponent. “War daddy” defensive tackle Tyrique Jarrett will be manning the middle of the line and fellow senior Matt Galambos — a solid run defender — will be stationed at middle linebacker. The Panthers will need to contain Barkley early. The Nittany Lions’ star sophomore back is prone to big plays, which could quiet an electric Heinz Field atmosphere if he pulls off a string of them in the first half. Mobile boost Last season, Pitt had its share of struggles See Prediction on page 12

PITT SEASON PREVIEW: MORE OF THE SAME Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

Pitt opened its football season with a 28-7 win against the Villanova Wildcats, handily dispatching of the notoriously scrappy Football Championship Subdivision — formerly I-AA — opponent. Although the Wildcats nearly defeated the last three Football Bowl Subdivision — formerly I-A — teams they played, nobody expected Villanova to upset the Panthers. Now that Pitt is 1-0 to start the season, the team’s most challenging stretch of the schedule gets underway with a game against in-state rival Penn State this Saturday at Heinz Field, followed by trips to take on preseason top-25 teams Oklahoma State and North Caro-

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lina. Here is a forecast for how the rest of Pitt’s season will play out. Sept. 10 - vs. Penn State See above. Prediction: Penn State 16, Pitt 13 Sept. 17 - at Oklahoma State Pitt travels to Stillwater, Oklahoma, in week three for its first away game of the season, to face off against one of its strongest opponents, the No. 22 Oklahoma State Cowboys. The Cowboys feature a high-powered offense, and if they jump out to a multiple-score lead, it could be virtually impossible for the Panthers to stage a comeback. Prediction: Oklahoma State 38, Pitt 17 Sept. 24 - at North Carolina The Panthers wrap up a three-game

gauntlet when they visit last year’s ACC Coastal Division champion North Carolina. The Tar Heels started the season ranked inside the top 25, but lost at home to Georgia, 33-24. Pitt will need to keep explosive North Carolina receiver Ryan Switzer in check in order to keep pace with the Tar Heels. Prediction: Pitt 27, North Carolina 24 Oct. 1 - vs. Marshall Pitt will return home to the friendly confines of Heinz Field for a showdown with the Marshall Thundering Herd, one of college football’s most dangerous teams outside the Power Five conferences. The Panthers won’t have to worry about Byron Leftwich throwing bombs or Randy Moss catching them on this year’s iteration of the Thundering Herd,

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but Marshall is no pushover. Prediction: Pitt 34, Marshall 13 Oct. 8 - vs. Georgia Tech Perhaps Pitt’s most anticipated home game of the year other than Penn State, the Panthers will break out their royal-blue-and-mustard-yellow throwback uniforms for homecoming week against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Georgia Tech got its first win of the season in week one against Boston College after a 3-9 season last year, but Pitt should have no trouble taking the sting out of the Yellow Jackets. Prediction: Pitt 31, Georgia Tech 14 Oct. 15 - at Virginia New head coach Bronco Mendenhall’s tenure with the See Preview on page 10

A rivalry renewed Fans reminisce on

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Pitt fans lined up on DeSoto Street in Oakland, 1991. Courtesy of ULS

or the first time in 16 years, Pitt students will rise Saturday morning for a date with the Nittany Lions. It’s something no current Pitt student has done, but alum throughout the past century, from the age of Chuck Berry and poodle skirts to Nirvana and chokers, recall the annual PittPenn State face-off as an integral part of their college careers. Back in the 1980s, when leg warmers were creeping above knees, video was killing the radio star and Pitt was a football powerhouse on the decline, Becky Brandt came to campus as a communication and political science major. She joined the Pitt Band as a trumpet player and, by her sophomore year, found herself on the sidelines of Pitt Stadium. Now she runs her own small marketing business, but Brandt vividly remembers the energy on campus before a Penn State game. Over the course of her three-year stint with the band — rising to be one of the fanfare-hurling heralds by her senior year — she saw teams go 3-7-1 and 8-4. “It was always electric, no matter how good or bad [Pitt was],” Brandt said. Part of that buzz came from the setting: Pitt

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Stadium. Located at what is now the Petersen Events Center, the stadium was built in 1925 in the style of old school college bowls — no overhangs, no columns, just gently sloping stands filled with benches. Clete Anselm, class of ’85, attended PittPenn State games throughout the ’80s, during the golden age of the rivalry — and when the stadium was half a century old. “It was our house,” he said. “You could tell it was old, but you didn’t really care.” The student section Anselm and his cohorts sat in faced downhill, presenting students with the best seats in the house, overlooking Oakland and the towering Cathedral of Learning. Anselm, after attending games at Heinz Field with his alumni daughter, lamented the loss of Pitt football’s on-campus home. He said games seem less exciting now. Amanda Priebe, class of ’05, saw the same in her time as a Pitt fan, though she had less experience at the old stadium than Anselm. Priebe only attended games at Pitt Stadium during her first year, which was also the last season the Panthers were on campus. Even still, she could recall the “collegiate feel” of the

home base. As she got older and classes got tougher, she found it more difficult to make it to Heinz. “Pretty much every football game is an away game [at Heinz Field],” Priebe said. Lou Rusiski, class of ’71 and a former bass drum player in the Pitt Band, said he feels “the enthusiasm is still there” despite the move. Although Pitt has consistently battled low attendance at games in the recent past, Rusiski said the size of the stadium is actually just dwarfing the turnout. Pitt Stadium maxed out at 56,500 fans, compared to 68,400 in Heinz Field. A packed Pitt Stadium crowd would leave Heinz Field feeling roomy. It wasn’t just the rivalry that brought students in droves to Pitt Stadium, it was also typically the final game of the season, when students were trying to get one last glimpse at their favorite stars and one last taste of the college football experience. The two Pennsylvania schools closed their seasons against each other for the majority of their 96 meetings. Both teams were independent until the 1990s, allowing extra freedom for the coaches to schedule without conference constraints.

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Ending the season with a rival meant putting more than pride on the line. Bowl eligibility — or even national championships — were at stake. Although from 1968 to 1971, while Rusiski was a Panther, Pitt was never above .500. Even so, he stuck around as an equipment adviser — and a loyal Pitt Band member — to assist the band into the ’70s and witnessed Pitt’s greatest triumph. In 1976, Pitt cinched the national championship, including a 24-7 take down of Penn State. Over the decades, Rusiski made sure to back his team with more than bluster by making bets with Penn State fans at work. He remembers the day after lost games as a day of reckoning. “I wore a Penn State hat [to work] once or twice,” he said. He then switched to buying donuts for his boss, so he could “eat his mistakes instead of wearing [them].” The biggest mistake a Pitt fan could make this Saturday might be forgetting sunscreen for the hot, late-summer sun. Rivalry games of yesteryear were a tad different — late November is more likely to give you frostbite than sunburn.

(Above) View of the Pitt Band in the formation of the letter “P” at Pitt Stadium, 1987. (Right) Lou Rusiski, Class, 1971. Courtesy of ULS In the 1980s and ’90s, the Brandt described the weather as “brutally field Towers to find face painting stands and cold.” Robert Swaim, class of ’59, said the tem- to listen to the prideful reverberations of the Pitt Band would serve as the Pied Pipers of Oakland, beginning perature could touch 20 degrees while in the Pitt Band playing. Before the Digital Plaza blasted Top 40 hits at their old home in Bellefield Hall stands. Sometimes fans would bring blankets to stay cozy — sometimes, they’d bring flasks. into the skulls of passing students, traditional and marching through the neighborhood “[We brought] a little hair of the dog to tailgating — out of the back of a car — could to rally the fans. Priebe said she would wave be found all over Oakland. Brandt said fans pom-poms out of her window as the parade keep warm,” Swaim said. Now, though, the booze is more readily would “tailgate wherever you could find a passed by before heading out herself. Then, with fans in tow, the band would available. Pitt’s decision to sell beer at Heinz spot.” “As a student, most of the tailgating was at turn to face Cardiac Hill. Brandt remembered Field this season has since dashed the need for sneaking it in. In exchange, students are now people’s houses,” Anselm said. Students could it as a grueling experience. “Marching and playing uphill was hard,” getting up much earlier to catch their games, be found hanging out on porches from Atdue to the shifting demands of TV schedules wood to Meyran, with the party even spilling Brandt said. “[But we’d] try to take some of the pain out of Cardiac Hill.” since the 1980s. In the past, kickoffs were out onto the sidewalk. The mass of Pitt students arriving at once Students were grilling and chilling in the scheduled in the afternoon and night games were impossible, as Pitt Stadium lacked lights. parking lot outside the Syria Mosque — a would be so dense, sometimes the student After a pleasant snooze, students would since demolished concert venue on Bigelow section wouldn’t fill out until the middle of Boulevard, now the site of a UPMC parking the first quarter. Brandt said the crowd was wake to find Oakland alive with activity. “The students would all corral on cam- lot — and at the Giant Eagle on Fifth Avenue, usually about two-thirds Pitt, one-third Penn pus,” Priebe said. “It was a lot of fun, there was which is now a CVS. Schenley Plaza was even State. Putting aside feelings towards PSU fans, a parking lot at the time, and it was filled with most alum said the atmosphere of the house a lot of energy.” divided was civil. Priebe could look out her window in Hol- fans. Things are a lot different now. One hundred miles away in Happy ValToday, while Oakland porches are still full land Hall and watch cheerleaders doing flips in the Quad, while Anselm remembers — af- of Pitt students, tailgating for games at Heinz ley, Brandt didn’t see as affable crowds. Nitter waking up at 10 a.m. and grabbing Mc- Field has become a limited experience that’s tany Lion fans heaved rock laden snowballs at Panthers in Beaver Stadium. Donald’s — returning to his home in Litch- contained to a few, mostly expensive, lots.

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“My t r u mp e t used to have dents in it,” Brandt said. “I’ve earned my animosity.” Today, fans on each side trade digital blows over Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. But even as the nasty rhetoric ratchets up in online brawls, Rusiski stands by his love for the rivalry. “It’s collegial,” he said. “It wasn’t that [we] hate you, it was that [we] wanted to beat you.” So when Rusiski picked up a thick parcel holding eight tickets three weeks ago, he realized what the game Saturday meant — a chance to rekindle an old rivalry in a new house. “When I opened up my season tickets and saw Pitt script with a kickoff against Penn State, I knew all was right with the world,” Rusiski said.

BEER HERE: ALCOHOL SALES BEGIN INSIDE HEINZ Matt Maielli Staff Writer

The beer that usually flows outside and before Pitt football games is now pouring into Heinz Field. On June 27, Pitt Athletic Director Scott Barnes announced the decision to expand beer sales from the suite and club seats to general assembly, meaning anyone 21 or older can buy beer in the stadium. Barnes said in his announcement that officials came to the change, as well as several others, after consulting the Panther Fans Experience Committee –– a group of 22 Panther fans selected from over 800 applications. According to Pitt Senior Associate Athletic Director Marcus Bowman, selling alcohol will be a bit easier for Pitt compared to schools with on-campus stadiums, since the University partners with Heinz Field. “The current policies in place for Steelers games at Heinz Field will be the same at Pitt games,” Bowman said in an email. “The only difference is directly related to Pitt students who are of age — 21 or over –– they will only be allowed to purchase one drink per trans-

Preview, pg. 7 Virginia Cavaliers — the ACC Coastal Division’s perennial doormat — got off to the worst start imaginable in a 37-20 blowout loss to the Richmond Spiders. Things won’t get any better for Mendenhall and the Cavaliers when they host the Panthers. Prediction: Pitt 40, Virginia 17 Oct. 27 - vs. Virginia Tech Pitt will host fellow ACC Coastal Division contender Virginia Tech for a crucial Thursday night contest in late October, where the winner will gain an advantage in the race with North Carolina and Miami for the Coastal Division crown. Pitt enjoyed plenty of success against legendary Hokies head coach Frank Beamer — who retired after last season — and there’s no reason to believe new VT head coach Justin Fuente will fare any better at Heinz Field. Prediction: Pitt 23, Virginia Tech 21 Nov. 5 - at Miami, Florida

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action and there will be no roving vendors in the student sections.” Bowman later said that there will be increased security in the student sections, and staff will card anyone that looks under 30. The decision is part of a larger trend among colleges that now allow beer sales in their general assembly. Other schools that have turned on the taps in the recent past did so as a way to reduce binge drinking before the game — will it work? And who exactly is this change for, Pitt or game attendees? An end to pre-gaming? In an interview with the Pittsburgh PostGazette, Barnes claimed that selling alcohol in the stadium would help curb binge drinking, citing a similar tactic at West Virginia University, which started selling beer in 2011. “We think there’s a direct correlation to our alcohol sales and incidents going down,” said Michael Fragale, WVU’s associate athletic director for communications, in an interview with The Pitt News last April. That same year, though, the school ended its “pass

See Beer on page 14 The Panthers will be tested with a demanding late-season road trip against a pair of high-quality ACC opponents, starting with a trip to take on the Miami Hurricanes and new head coach Mark Richt. The Hurricanes got off to a scorching start with Richt at the helm in a 70-3 season opening win against Florida A&M. This contest will certainly be a much more competitive battle than that, and may be Pitt’s most exciting game of the season. Prediction: Miami 30, Pitt 27 Nov. 12 - at Clemson Without a doubt, Pitt’s most difficult

Stephen Caruso SENIOR STAFF GRAPHIC DESIGNER matchup on the schedule will take place against the defending ACC champion Clemson Tigers, led by junior quarterback Deshaun Watson — a leading Heisman Trophy candidate. The Tigers

The [Penn State] game could come down to a key play, like a missed field goal... didn’t seem too dangerous escaping week one with a 19-13 triumph at Auburn, but there’s no question they should be one of the very best teams in the country again in 2016. Prediction: Clemson 44, Pitt 19

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Nov. 19 - vs. Duke Pitt returns home for the final two games of the season, starting with a meeting with the upstart ACC Coastal Division rival Duke Blue Devils. Running back James Conner should be the one most anticipating this game, having ran for 263 yards and three touchdowns the last time he took the field against the Blue Devils. Prediction: Pitt 33, Duke 17 Nov. 26 - vs. Syracuse The Panthers’ regular season comes to a close at Heinz Field against the Syracuse Orange, one of Pitt’s biggest rivals in basketball, but not so much on the gridiron. Coming off a 4-8 record a year ago, the Orange got off to a quick start with a 33-7 win over Colgate University to start the 2016 season –– but they will be outclassed in the season finale against the Panthers. Prediction: Pitt 36, Syracuse 13 Final regular season record: 8-4 overall (6-2 ACC)

Q&A: the last pitt coach to defeat penn state Dan Sostek

Senior Staff Writer Until Pitt’s Chris Blewitt or Penn State’s Joey Julius kicks the ball off Saturday, the last Pitt head coach to take on the Nittany Lions is none other than Walt Harris, who headed the program from 1997 to 2005. Harris coached the Panthers to a 52-44 record in eight seasons with the team, culminating in Pitt’s lone BCS bowl appearance against Utah in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl. He guided the Panthers to a 12-0 shutout over Penn State in the last meeting between the teams Sept. 16, 2000. The Pitt News caught up with Harris — who will serve as an honorary captain Saturday — to discuss his memories of the rivalry, his thoughts on current head coach Pat Narduzzi and his outlook on this year’s matchup. What is the first moment you think of when you think of Pitt-Penn State? What stuck out from your experiences coaching in the games? I think of Rod Rutherford catching the [62-yard touchdown], that’s the one thing that sticks out. That was a very exciting moment, because that gave us some breathing room. It’s all kind of a blur now –– it was a long time ago, 16 years. How disappointed were you that the rivalry discontinued in 2001 and stayed dormant for so long? I was very disappointed, because we were trying to build a program. Obviously, coach [Joe] Paterno and Penn State had a much better football program than we did. At the same juncture … defeating Penn State, finally climbing that mountain and beating them was huge for us in our quest to build our program back. Then, not playing them anymore, it took a little air out of the sails because, to me, it was a noteworthy victory for our football program, which would help us mightily in recruiting. And [now] we don’t get to play them anymore. So it was tough. Who was the best Penn State player you ever coached against? That’s a tough question. Probably [defensive lineman] Courtney Brown. He was a force. You’re going to be an honorary captain this week, and you’ve attended Pitt practices earlier this year. What is your relationship like with Pat Narduzzi? Did you know him before he

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valry. But when you hear about the history of it, and I’m sure coach Franklin has had some ex-players from Penn State that played in PittPenn State games to try to talk them, just as probably coach Narduzzi is doing. It’s still PittPenn State, whether it’s a big rivalry for these kids or not, they’re going to feel it when they get to the stadium if they haven’t already felt it. Pat Narduzzi has cut off the media from players and practices for the week. Have you ever done something similar, and is this something you think will help Pitt? Well I know that the press have to leave practice after half an hour [usually]. I wish I had been much more in that direction. For some of the negative publicity I got and we got, we were awfully nice to the press. We gave them free access, and I heard that Ben Howland and Jamie Dixon didn’t, and I kind of wished I had changed that way back when, in hindsight. It’s at least a safe idea, and Pat knows his team, and so it’s probably a real good idea for him and his players. When you coached against Penn State, you coached against Joe Paterno. What was that like? I didn’t really know him from before, but I kind of got to know him ... I think he got some award in Pittsburgh, I think at the [National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame]. And at the event, I was on the dais as was he, and he had a player who had broke his neck against Ohio State while I was at Pitt, Adam Taliaferro. And so what I did was, I wrote the young man a couple letters, wishing him well. And when [Paterno] accepted his award, he thanked all the people for giving him the award, but he talked about how nice it was that I wrote this young man those letters. It caught me comWalt Harris led Pitt to its first BCS bowl game in his final season as head coach pletely off guard, because that was primarily Courtesy of Pitt Athletics. his acceptance speech. That was very nice of personality that’s really upbeat, and I think the was hired? him, he didn’t need to. I did not [know him], but I knew of what players really dig him and want to give him Obviously, you’re going to be on the Pitt he had done, and was doing. I have nothing their best effort. sideline Saturday, but do you think one team Some Penn State players have been quoted but the greatest respect for him. I think he’s dohas a clear advantage? ing a fabulous job. I know he has resuscitated saying that they’re not really sure this matchup I’m sure it’s going to be an evenly matched those defensive players that had such a horrible is a rivalry anymore. Would you disagree? contest. I would think Penn State has what they I can understand why they say it. In a lot experience when they played Houston in [the have, they have outstanding players, they obvi2015 Armed Forces Bowl] when coach [Paul] of ways it isn’t. The two universities — I don’t ously have an outstanding coaching staff. One of Chryst and some of his staff were getting ready know who is really culpable for the situation, them was one of my ex-coaches, Joe Moorhead, to go to Wisconsin. He resuscitated those guys obviously the football players and football who is in a key position for them. And I know and they played tremendous on defense last coaches had nothing to do with it. They don’t Pitt is looking forward to it because it’s a home year. I think he’s really an outstanding defen- get to make those decisions. game for them... But I think it’s going to be an I can see why they don’t think it’s a big risive coach, and I think he’s got a really great evenly matched game, with Pitt winning.

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Prediction, pg. 7 defending mobile quarterrbacks, highlighted by Navy’s Keenan Reynolds’ utter annihilation of Pitt’s defense in Navy’s 4428 win in the Military Bowl. No one’s going to confuse Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley with a talent such as Reynolds, but Pitt is going to need to wrap up McSorley. The first-time signal caller is a solid runner whom Narduzzi thinks the Nittany Lions ns will rely on even more thiss week. “They’ve got quarterback runs and quarterback keepers now,” Narduzzi said in his Monday press conference. “He’s going to carry the ball, and, in big games, I’d imagine he’s going to carry it even more.” McSorley carried the ball 14 times for 47 yards lastt week against Kent State, while le Pitt quarterback Nathan Peterrman accounted for minus-8 yards on 3 carries against Villanova. Someone to rely on James Conner’s two touchdowns against Villanova — his first since beating cancer and a torn MCL — were moments most Pitt fans will remember for a long time. But after his first game back, Conner admitted that he still has a lot of work to do. Narduzzi acknowledged as much in his postgame press conference and reiterated the need for Conner to try to settle down a bit in the backfield. “He was a little rusty,” Narduzzi said. “As you watch it, when he hit the hole he did well –– but when he tried to do too much, he wasn’t as effective.” Pitt will need the bruising running back to return to form sooner rather than later, as the passing offense looked inept against an FCS team in week one. With a mostly inexperienced wide receiver

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Saquan Barkely TNS corps, Pitt is going to have to rely on their running game heavily until either Quadree Henderson, Dontez Ford or Jester Weah emerge as a go-to target. Expect more carries for Darrin Hall, the sophomore tailback who only carried the ball six times against Villanova, as well as Qadree Ollison, who seemed to be the clear backup to Conner in week one. PREDICTION: In a gritty, low-scoring affair, a bounce on a fumble or deflection will be a deciding factor in the game. These teams are evenly matched, with equal shares of star power and question marks. With rain in the forecast, the trenches will also have a heavy impact on the outcome. But the Panthers hold the advantage on both the offensive and defensive lines and Pitt will win, 20-17.

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Beer, pg. 14 out” policy, which allowed fans to leave the stadium at halftime and re-enter at a later time. Before making the decision, Pitt spoke to every Power Five conference school and several other non-Power Five universities that currently serve alcohol to the general public. Aside from the outlier of WVU, most schools, Bowman said, have seen no increase or decrease in incidents after beer sales. The University of Texas at San Antonio also hosts games out of a multi-use venue, the Alamodome, and began selling beers with its inception in 2011. “It wasn’t a choice of ours, it was something that was just always done [at the Alamodome],” spokesperson Jim Goodman said, adding that UTSA doesn’t share in any of the profits made from beer sales. “It’s no different than if they went to a concert down there if they were of age, and they can buy it just like anyone else can.” Goodman also explained that while the school researched whether or not instadium beer sales would increase student

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misbehavior, it ended up being a non issue. “We had talked to other schools that were in similar situations, and all the feedback we had gotten was that there were few, if any, issues,” he said. “We’ve pretty much found that to be true. We’ve had very few instances of anybody being disorderly because of alcohol sales at the games.” The University of Minnesota, too, saw its rate of incidents stay virtually the same. The school dealt with 57 alcoholrelated incidents in 2011, before sales, and 59 in 2013, after sales. That number was already down from 77 in 2010, according to The Star Tribune. In Pitt’s first game this fall against Villanova, there were no arrests involving alcohol, which is down from one arrest last year at the opening game against Youngstown State, according to Pittsburgh Department of Safety’s Assistant Public Information Officer Emily Schaffer. Brian Miller, the head of the Panther Pitt football student section, said the student section leaders thought the move was sensible.

“We said at the meet, ‘Right now people just tailgate in the gravel lot, they drink there. If they drink back in Oakland, then they come in and they coast out, or sober up and go back out,’” Miller said. “If you sell alcohol in the stadium you’re probably going to still have people tailgating, but you can also control alcohol consumption in the stadium and have a little more control over it — make a little money off of it.’” The cost of beer inside, however, is not lost on students. Miller, a finance major, said he might have a beer or two and unwind with other members, but otherwise spoke practically about most students’ need to keep cash tight. “I don’t envision myself [drinking too much inside the stadium] personally … got to spend money wisely,” Miller said. “Eight bucks a beer is not the best when you can go to Gene’s Place and get a pitcher for $4.50.” Tyler Muldoon, a senior economics and information systems double major at the University of Maryland, turned 21 when the school started selling alcohol in 2015. It hasn’t stopped him from drinking before the game.

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“My average game day includes buying a lot of beer outside the stadium and drinking while tailgating early in the morning,” Muldoon said. “I have known a few people that sneak in flasks and the sort, but nothing outrageous. Typically, I will only buy one beer at a game because they are incredibly expensive.” Who’s cashing in? Don’t expect any $4 pitchers at Heinz Field. Beer at Heinz hovers around $8 a pop. With the expansion of beer sales, the University expects to see a “revenue opportunity of [about] $500,000 annually,” according to Bowman. A portion of the proceeds are going toward alcohol education programs and awareness for the overall student body through the Office of Student Affairs, Bowman added, and much of the startup costs are already covered by Heinz Field. However, the student section only makes up about one-sixth of Heinz Field, and the number of students over 21 is even lower than that. So, the alcohol isn’t really for student fans. “Our goal is to enhance the fan See Beer on page 17

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Gallagher asks for gameday civility Emily Brindley

Assistant News Editor As Pitt and Penn State fans flood social media with posts about “hate week” in anticipation of Saturday’s renewed football rivalry, university leaders at both schools are calling for respect. Both Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and Penn State President Eric Barron published an open letter Wednesday about Saturday’s upcoming Pitt vs. Penn State football game, urging students, alumni and fans attending the game to be passionate about their teams but to also show common courtesy and respect for one another. “Good sportsmanship is key to any successful athletic contest and knowing that our fans are some of the best in the world, we expect no less,” Gallagher and Barron’s letter said. The game is the first matchup between the two universities since 2000, when most of this year’s first-years were 2-years-old. As “history in the making,” the letter said, it’s vital that both schools “showcase the best versions of ourselves to help support our respective teams.” The letter comes after Penn State fans began a Twitter campaign called White Out Heinz, encouraging fans to attend the game wearing all white in an effort to make their presence more noticeable. Additionally, some Pitt fans have been using the Sandusky sexual abuse case to smack talk Penn State by printing slogans like “Joe Knew” on t-shirts, signs and in Tweets. Thursday’s letter marks yet another preparation Pitt is making for Saturday’s game, its biggest and most anticipated of the season. The athletic department said this week it expects the game to draw the largest ever crowd to Heinz Field with about 70,000 people expected to attend. The letter also marks the most recent partnership between Pitt and Penn State’s top leaders. In February, Gallagher, Barron and the leaders of Pennsylvania’s other state-related universities penned a letter calling on the state legislature to pass a

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budget that would fund the schools. Along with the open letter, Vice Provost and Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner announced an unofficial task force in August to address the gameday concerns. The task force includes representatives from the police department, Student Affairs, Pitt Athletics and the Title IX Office — the University wants all of its branches to be “on the same page,” according to Bonner. Though Pitt did not formally announce the task force, Bonner said this week Pitt would ramp-up its usual messaging campaign, which sends out messages to students through Campus Connect, social media and the Pitt website. The messages advise students to celebrate responsibly and respectfully. In addition to electronic messages, the University will also distribute fliers with similar information. “There’s an emotional element to this game that we may not have with other games,” Bonner said earlier this week. “We want students to be respectful of each other, but at the end of the day, it’s a typical football game where you have a lot of students converging on the North Shore.” Gallagher and Barron acknowledged this game looms large in the minds of both Penn State and Pitt fans, but urged civility. “The wait is finally over,” the letter said. “Be loud, be respectful, and be a good sport.”

Beer, pg. 10 experience for all patrons in a variety of ways,” Bowman said. “This specific initiative, however, was targeted for nonstudent fans.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering that the Panther Fan Experience Committee that Barnes and other officials consulted with is made up of mostly alumni. So, if selling alcohol at Panther games doesn’t really decrease drinking incidents, and it’s not targeted at students, at least the University — and by extension the students — should see some added revenue. Yet, there have been studies that don’t find any positive correlation between beer sales and revenue, such as the one done by the Journal of Sports Economics in June 2015. For some schools — UTSA included — revenue from beer sales isn’t even an opportunity to earn money for school programs. It’s as simple as not owning or partnering with the stadium, according to the University of Hawaii Assistant Associate to the Athletic Director Conrad Mostiller. “We don’t own our stadium, so we don’t even control that,” Mostiller said of expanding beer sales to students, as well as policing alcohol abuse at Aloha Stadium, where the NFL Pro Bowl was formerly played. In fact, both the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota actually lost money in their first year selling alcohol due to startup costs associated with having to implement the facilities and staff to sell beer. Maryland had estimated an added revenue of $500,000 for university programs, including “mental health counseling, sexual assault prevention and responsible drinking programs,” but had to put off funding them until they could pay off the startup costs, according to The Diamondback. In a follow-up interview, Miller, from the Panther Pitt, said he didn’t think the presence of booze changed the atmosphere of the game. “I didn’t notice any difference due to alcohol,” he said. “And because of price, like we thought, not many students bought beer. I don’t believe next week’s bigger rivalry game will change that.”

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