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to go back home for a day or two … it’s not worth it.”

Even still, Wan misses being at home for celebrations. He said he sees his friends celebrating on social media and it makes him feel like he’s missing out.

Rayhana Aldubaisi, a sophomore pre-EMS student and vice president of the Muslim Student Association, said celebrating a holiday like Eid al-Fitr isn’t the same when she can’t go home.

“When I’m here, it’s almost nothing … I just go to the mosque and pray,” Aldubaisi said.

“When I’m back home, we pray, we go to visit family. It’s a time to unite.”

Pericherla recognizes the difficulties associated with scheduling exams, he said.

Instead of sleeping in, Gabrielle Fortier and about 40 other Pitt students were already up at 10 a.m. last Saturday, ready to volunteer at the Foster Love Project in Dormont.

Fortier, a first-year microbiology and anthropology major, said volunteering at the 12th annual Pitt Make a Difference Day provided an opportunity to help those who may not always have support.

“It’s really great to see everyone in the morning getting their shirts and getting on the buses,” Fortier said.

FLP, which provides clothes and toys at no cost to foster children and their families, is one of more than 90 organizations, across more than 50 City neighborhoods, where teams of students traveled for PMADD. The event, run by the University’s Office of Pitt Serves, is Pitt’s largest day of service, with students racking up more than 20,000 hours of service in one single day by helping with tasks in neighborhood community centers, winterizing community gardens and picking up trash along streets and highways.

One of FLP’s main initiatives is distributing placement bags, which are then provided to foster children who may arrive at a new foster home with little to no clothes or essential items.

The organization loads items such as pajamas, socks, underwear, toothbrush-

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Junior nursing major Ashley Van Slyke helps with landscaping outside the Oakland Career Center as part of Pitt Make a Difference Day on Saturday. Ally Hansen | staff photographer

PITT CALENDAR AND RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL TRADITIONS CONFLICT FOR SOME Madison Brewer Staff Writer

Most Christian students don’t run into problems scheduling celebrations on major religious holidays — the school calendar is built with a break for Christmas, and Easter falls on a Sunday each year. But students of other religions sometimes find a conflict between their academic calendars and their religious ones.

While some students say it’s not difficult to find arrangements that make them and their instructors happy, others say they sometimes feel forced to choose between religion and school.

Some Jewish students report difficulties with professors and classes around the High Holy Days, and Hindu and Muslim students can feel the pressure too. University events can also conflict with cultural celebrations like Chinese New Year.

Shreeman Pericherla, a sophomore neuroscience major and secretary of the Hindu Student Council, said he would have loved to go home during Navratri, a nine-day autumn celebration of the victory of good over evil, to celebrate with his family this year — but he had a midterm. So Pericherla, as he does during many Hindu holidays, stayed on campus.

“Who wouldn’t want to go home and see their parents?” Pericherla said. “That’s what these holidays are for, to celebrate with our families and friends. That’s something we can’t do.”

Jon Wan, a junior psychology major, said he can’t go home for Chinese New Year in January or February because he is simply too busy with school.

“I usually have to stay in school because it’s exam time,” Wan said. “I’m not missing school

News

CATHEDRAL FALCON NEST GETS A NEW MATRIARCH

Emily Wolfe

News Editor The Cathedral of Learning appears to have lost Hope. For some local birdwatchers, that’s a good thing.

Hope, the female peregrine falcon who’s nested on the 40th floor of the Cathedral since she arrived in 2015, was infamous for killing and eating some of her chicks each spring — an inexplicable trait that didn’t endear her to local birdwatchers. But a new female arrived at the Cathedral earlier this fall, and appears to have since driven Hope off for the foreseeable future.

The newcomer is unbanded, meaning her backstory is unknown. Local bird monitors have named her Morela, Polish for “apricot” — a nod to the female’s distinctive peach-colored breast, belly and cheeks. Pittsburgh bird blogger Kate St. John, the primary monitor of the nesting site, has documented Morela’s story on her blog, “Birds Outside My Window,” a main source of information for the community of falcon devotees in Pittsburgh.

Morela arrived at Pitt sometime before Sept. 4,

PMADD, pg. 1 es, books and stuffed animals into bags and distributes them to more than 30 agencies throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

FLP is currently gearing up for its annual placement bag drive, which happens every November and December. The student volunteers helped organize FLP’s basement to prepare for the drive — sorting dozens of clothing bins by season, age and gender and moving miscellaneous toys, diapers and other items.

Emily Sullivan, FLP’s donation center supervisor, said FLP relies heavily on volunteers, with a staff of only four people.

“When Pitt Serves comes, I make a long list of things to do, and then within the first 30 minutes, we’re done with the things.” Sullivan said. “It’s amazing.

At the end of the day, a ton of stuff has been done that wouldn’t have gotten

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when linguistics professor Alan Juffs first caught her on camera. She spent a few weeks warring over the nest with Hope, its previous female occupant.

Hope now hasn’t been seen for several days, and it seems Morela has successfully laid claim to the Cathedral and the male that lives there.

Although Pittsburgh’s various bridges and tall buildings are home to a number of peregrine pairings, the Cathedral site is a prime location for falcons because it’s so much taller than any other buildings in the immediate area.

The first falcon to try to nest on the building, Dorothy, arrived in 2001. It was St. John who convinced Pitt, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the Pennsylvania Game Commission to install a gravel box where Dorothy could lay her eggs.

St. John noted that the new female paid a long visit Thursday to the nesting box outside the 40th floor of the Cathedral, although she wouldn’t lay eggs there until the spring. Though the male peregrine — Morela’s new mate — hasn’t been caught on camera for a few months, he is most likely Terzo, who arrived at Pitt in 2016. done otherwise.”

Many of the students who went to FLP on Saturday are already highly involved in service. Two Pitt groups volunteered with FLP — America Reads Challenge, which employs students as tutors to support elementary school students with reading skills, and Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children, which focuses on providing access to medical care for underprivileged and medically underserved families around the world.

Shruti Idnani, a senior neuroscience major and president of Pitt’s FIMRC chapter, said PMADD provides an unmatched opportunity to give back to the Pittsburgh community.

“It’s really cool to see everyone come together and to have a full day blocked off just for volunteering,” Idnani said.

For Manisha Kukkillaya, a senior natural sciences major and vice president of Pitt’s FIMRC chapter, helping others is more than a fun Saturday ac-

A new female peregrine falcon arrived at the Cathedral nesting site earlier this fall, appearing to have outcompeted Hope, the prior nesting female. via the national aviary snapshot camera at university of pittsburgh

tivity — it is an obligation.

“I think it’s our duty to help,” Kukkillaya said. “Especially here where we’re providing help for children in foster homes.”

Members of America Reads Challenge have made volunteering at FLP a yearly tradition. Corrine Koziel, a junior neuroscience major and volunteer coordinator for the group, said much progress has been made over the past three years.

“When we first came, they didn’t have too much for us to do and now they have all these donated goods and bags,” Koziel said. “It’s great to see these bags actually helping foster kids in their placements.”

Students weren’t the only Pitt community members volunteering at FLP — staff also pitched in. Sarah Popovich, the assistant director for leadership education in Pitt’s Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development, said PMADD is important for multiple

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reasons.

“It allows students to get outside the ‘Oakland bubble’ a little bit, and to learn a little bit more about the neighborhoods that surround Pittsburgh,” Popovich said. “For me, I think of it as a way to get to know my neighbors.”

Popovich added that for her, PMADD is a source of pride.

“It makes me feel really proud to be a part of Pitt because it’s one day that highlights how much of a commitment the University has to service,” Popovich said. “So much of the work that Pitt Serves does throughout the year is highlighted today.”

For some students helping FLP, they said no task is too small for the student volunteers — anything they do is helping to make a difference.

“Even just helping them sort their basement, I know that if it was just them working, it might take them a while,” Koziel said. “It really makes it worthwhile.”

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Calendar, pg. 1 “I always understand that accommodating people can be hard,” Pericherla said. “But it’s the duty of the University to make them feel welcome.”

Some students, however, don’t even feel comfortable asking. Pericherla said he didn’t want to be singled out if he asked for accommodations. He was worried about being misunderstood. Pericherla said that there are many regional holidays in Hindu tradition, meaning very few students would be celebrating with him.

“I’d be afraid to ask my professor,” Pericherla said. “If every Hindu did it it would be a different thing. But if it’s just me then now you’re being a pain in [the professor’s] butt.”

Pitt’s guidelines for religious observances recommend faculty work with students to reach “mutually agreeable arrangements,” and suggest professors encourage students to reach out to them early in the semester if they need accommodations. University spokesman Kevin Zwick echoed the guidelines in a Wednesday email.

“Pitt strives to create an environment where students and faculty can reach mutually agreeable arrangements to reschedule the aca-

demic activity or provide a substitute activity or evaluation,” Zwick said. “Faculty members are notified that students should not be penalized for absences.”

Aldubaisi said she personally had no problems making other arrangements when important dates fell on religious holidays. When a quiz in one of her classes was scheduled for Eid al-Fitr, she said, she talked to her TA and arranged to take the quiz at another time.

But missing instructional class time for a religious observance can be another matter, Aldubaisi said, even if students do make arrangements to protect their grades. As a result, some students choose to not observe holidays to make way for academic responsibilities.

“If you can ask the professor for a few days off, they would be fine with that,” Aldubaisi said. “But … it decreases [the student’s] ability to keep up with the class … because we don’t have a vacation for every student.”

Pericherla said the structure of the academic calendar makes it difficult for non-Christians to find time to celebrate their holidays.

“Everyone gets off for Christmas break,” Pericherla said. “They call it winter break, but let’s be honest, it’s for that specific purpose.”

Pericherla feels this poses a challenge to students of other religions. Students feel stuck

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between religion and school — each carrying an important weight in their lives. Khushana Chaudhri, president of the Muslim Student Association and a senior communications major, said it can be difficult to be religious during Ramadan.

“Even though you’re going through this whole spirituality journey,” Chaudhri said, “you still have to go about your day-to-day life.”

In contrast, Swathi Tata, a junior neuroscience major, said while she sometimes has to put religion to the side, focusing on her education is a part of her faith.

“A big part of Hinduism is your duty as a student is to do well in your studies,” Tata said.

“So I feel like it’s a continuation of my faith to focus on school.”

Diwali, the Hindu celebration of lights, falls on Oct. 27 this year. Students at Pitt can celebrate the festival along with Indian student organizations, but will miss out on family celebrations at home. Pericherla has an exam the next day this semester, so he can’t go home to celebrate. Tata said Diwali doesn’t feel the same stuck in the stress of midterms. “[Diwali] is really really fun … [but] it usually falls around the time of midterms or exams,” Tata said. “It’s just not a fun time … [and] it’s not like everyone around you is cel-

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And unlike the Gregorian calendar used by the Western world, Muslim holidays follow a lunar calendar. This means that every year the day of the holiday shifts around. This spring, Ramadan — celebrated for a month by fasting while the sun is up — will begin the Thursday of finals week. Each year after that, it will inch earlier in the year — starting in 2021, Ramadan will take place during the academic year.

Aldubaisi said she was concerned about potentially taking finals while fasting.

“It’s gonna be really tiring because I’m going to have to fast and take finals,” Aldubaisi said. “I’m really worried.”

In contrast, Chaudhri said she would be excited to celebrate Ramadan at school.

“It’s more exciting to spend time with your friends who also have the same values and who are also participating,” Chaudhri said.

Balancing his Hinduism with school isn’t easy, Pericherla said. Sometimes it feels like the two are in conflict.

“It’s like you have to pick one or the other.

You can pick one but at the expense of the other,” Pericherla said. “I don’t think it’s possible, as other religions have it, to have the best of both worlds.”

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Opinions

WARREN LEAVES MUCH TO BE DESIRED AS A DEMOCRATIC FRONTRUNNER

Hayden Timmins Staff Columnist

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. — who was polling toward the bottom of the candidate pool when she first announced her campaign — is steadily rising in the polls. Warren is projected to be the front-runner over former Vice President Joe Biden, and CNN actually labeled her as its poll front-runner on Thursday.

While Warren is becoming increasingly popular, a closer inspection of her policies shows her ideas are outlandish and, in some cases, unconstitutional. She has been caught in several lies of omission and commision that she could not explain her way out of, which led to her being publicly lambasted at the last debate. Her rhetoric and incoherent policies show that Warren is a weak candidate in comparison to her current opponents.

One of Warren’s proposals includes Medicare for All, a stance that an increasing amount of Democrats are taking. However, she has consistently dodged the specifics of how she will pay for it. When asked during the most recent October Democratic debate if middle-class families will pay more in taxes, Warren said, “costs will go up for the wealthy and for big corporations, and for hardworking middle-class families, costs will go down.” Her nonanswer provided a glaring target for numerous other candidates to attack.

In a recent interview, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, DInd., said, “[Warren] was more specific and forthcoming about the number of selfies she’s taken than about how this plan is going to be funded.”

Biden also highlighted the absurdity of her proposal by pointing out how much this will actually cost, saying she is “conning the American people.”

“The plan is going to cost at least $30 trillion over 10 years,” Biden said. “That is more on a yearly basis than the entire federal budget.”

The current federal corporate flat tax rate is 21%. In 2017, the corporate tax rate raised $297 billion in revenue, which is 9% of the federal budget. Even if Warren increased the corporate tax rate to 100%, everything else being static, it would not come close to paying for Medicare for All. However, Warren did announce other ways of collecting revenue.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the Women’s Leadership Forum conference in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17. Yuri Gripas, Abaca Press | tns Her wealth tax policy, which is remarkably similar to the “tax on extreme wealth” policy of Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., would implement a 2% tax on the net worth of households worth more than $50 million and a 3% tax on households worth more than $1 billion. Not only would this raise a mere $220 billion per year in revenue, but this is potentially unconstitutional as it is a direct tax on individuals who have already paid income taxes.

Direct taxes, such as property taxes and taxes on assets, are illegal under Article 1 Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution. Andrew Yang targeted this proposal, saying that it historically does not hold water.

“A wealth tax makes a lot of sense in principle,” Yang said. “The problem is that it’s been tried in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden and all those countries ended up repealing it because it had massive implementation problems and did not generate the revenue that they projected.”

With nowhere else to turn, Warren would inevitably need to increase all tax brackets to avoid exponentially increasing the federal deficit.

But, unfortunately, her list of plans doesn’t stop there. Another of Warren’s asinine policies includes a borderline communist mandate, of which she incomprehensibly calls “accountable capitalism.” This proposal compels every large corporation in America to have 40% of its board elected

by the employees. This effectively allows low level workers, such as cashiers or waiters, to have almost full control over their own wages, which would immediately bankrupt the company when they certainly elect someone to vote for substantial pay increases.

This also blatantly violates the free market principles of consensual agreement of labor for compensation, namely working for a wage that is determined by the worker and the employer. Most people in this country want to independently negotiate their salary with their bosses, since there is only a 6% private sector unionization rate in America. The reason why unions have declined in popularity is because their operating model is not compatible with a free market economy, so effectively precipitating them into existence would be detrimental to both the general economy as well as laborers.

Warren claims she’s not “punitive” and the heads of the corporations didn’t build the roads on which they founded their business. However, she fails to mention that the top 1% of earners pay more than a third of collected income tax and the top 25% of earners pay 86% of collected income tax. So in reality, the heads of corporations pay for the roads they worked on, the police departments who protect the city and the firemen who save

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lives more than anyone else.

During the debate, Warren highlighted other areas of contention. While her policies are atrocious, her rhetoric is just as bad. Warren says that she is bewildered as to why “anyone would call her punitive,” but she is suspiciously willing to jump the gun on the most recent impeachment scandal with President Donald Trump. ”Donald Trump broke the law again in the summer, broke it again this fall,” Warren said. “No one is above the law, and that includes the president of the United States.”

With no hard evidence of a quid pro quo, even Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, recognized that impeachment is a partisan issue.

“If impeachment is driven by these hyperpartisan interests, it will only further divide an already terribly divided country,” she said. “Calls for impeachment really began shortly after Trump won his election.”

Polls on the impeachment are very split. While more people favor an impeachment inquiry, a minority of people support impeachment. A closer inspection of the partisan gap shows a supermajority of Democrats, nearly 85%, a slim minority of Republicans, around 12%, and about 46% of Independents actually support impeachment.

As Warren is attempting to paint Trump as the enemy, and not just an opponent, she is also trying to derive sympathy from her constituents.

In a desperate attempt to appeal to the average American, Warren said, “the rich are not like you and me.” Not only is this a punitive and incorrect statement, as economic mobility is very high, but Warren herself is worth $12 million.

In another vain attempt for sympathy, Warren decided to mention that she was fired for getting pregnant while working. But a transcript of her during an interview has since shown she admitted to quitting on her own accords.

While Warren’s high energy on the campaign trail is appealing, her policies and lies cannot be ignored. If Warren cannot answer simple questions by her Democratic colleagues, she will be lampooned by Trump during the general election.

Hayden writes primarily about politics. Write to Hayden at HWT3@pitt.edu

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from the editorial board

South Side walker and biker trail project insufficient East Carson Street isn’t the most pedestrian-friendly road in Pittsburgh.

The sidewalk on the main drag of the South Side Flats is tight and the bars are often packed, leaving little room for pedestrians to roam. Last April, two people were hospitalized after a pedestrian accident on this road.

In order to curb incidents like this, Pittsburgh announced it will start construction of a trail system from Oakland through the South Side tomorrow. This improvement will both lighten traffic and better protect residents who travel by bike or on foot by keeping them off of East Carson Street, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

While these safety measures are an improvement, they shouldn’t be limited to people who only travel through Oakland and the South Side. They’re

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needed in many other areas of Pittsburgh.

A woman was badly injured last week after being hit in a heavily residential area of Point Breeze. In August, someone was hit on the Westinghouse Bridge, on the border of East Pittsburgh and North Versailles. The same day, CBS reported that a woman in the Manchester neighborhood was hit by a car after getting off a Port Authority bus. Six students were struck by a car in the Hill District on their walk home from school last October. A month prior, a pedestrian was hit by the Morewood Avenue and Fifth Avenue intersection in Shadyside. The list goes on.

In general, people tend to walk and bike to areas that they have difficulty accessing by way of public transportation. But the South Side can be easily

accessed from Oakland, and Oakland can easily be accessed from the South Side simply by riding the 54, 75, 82 or 83 bus line. Each of these buses runs seven days a week.

Accessing an area like Lawrenceville from Oakland is much more difficult.

The only direct route to most parts of that neighborhood requires riding the 93 bus, and that line does not run on the weekends. In order to access Lawrenceville on the weekend, someone traveling from Oakland might have to bike via Liberty Avenue — a main road that extends from Bloomfield through Lawrenceville and the Strip District all the way to Downtown.

Liberty Avenue has seen its fair share of pedestrian-related accidents just like East Carson Street, but currently, there don’t seem to be any official plans to build a safer route for

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bikers and walkers on that road.

A Pittsburgh law firm partnered with San Diego data firm to analyze Pittsburgh pedestrian accidents from 2013-2017. They subsequently compiled a running list of the most dangerous intersections for pedestrians.

East Carson Street did not make the list, and Oakland only appeared once, with the intersection between McKee Place and Forbes Avenue. The North Side neighborhood appeared on this list as well as the Murray Avenue and Forbes Avenue intersection in Squirrel Hill. Two of the most dangerous intersections were downtown, and two were located in the East End neighborhood.

Pedestrian casualties and injuries are prevalent all over the City. These safety improvements are a step forward, but they shouldn’t be limited to only Oakland and the South Side.

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Sports

Victory Lights burn bright during dominant weekend for Pitt athletics pittnews.com

ORANGE CRUSHED:

PITT EKES OUT VICTORY OVER RIVAL SYRACUSE

Griffin Floyd Staff Writer

Pitt football made the trek north Friday to Syracuse for the 75th all-time meeting with its former Big East and current ACC rivals, the Orange. This year’s installation of Panthers football has developed a flare for the dramatic, to put it lightly.

The same was true inside the Carrier Dome on Friday night, as the Panthers nearly blew a halftime lead for the sixth straight game. But another dominant defensive performance carried them to a win and inched them further up the Coastal division standings.

Powered by a resurgent ground game, the Pittsburgh Panthers (5-2, 2-1 ACC) cruised to a 24-6 halftime lead over the Syracuse Orange (3-4, 0-3 ACC) in their first game following the bye week. While the second half was once again marred by questionable officiating and a halftime lead that was almost entirely surrendered, the Panthers emerged victorious, 27-20.

Junior running back A.J. Davis had the first 100-yard rushing game of his career, picking up 103 yards on 16 carries, good for 6.4 yards per tote.

The defense continued their stout play, even without star redshirt sophomore safety Paris Ford, who sat out the first half because of a targeting penalty against Duke on Saturday, Oct. 5. Syracuse quarterbacks Tommy Devito (redshirt sophomore) and Clayton Welch (redshirt senior) picked on the Panthers’ secondary as coach Pat Narduzzi shuffled his defensive backs around in Ford’s absence. A dominant pass rushing performance and six first-half sacks limited the damage — on two trips inside the Panthers 10- yard line, the Orange only managed two field goals.

The only blemish of the first half was a muffed punt off the hands of senior receiver

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Maurice Ffrench, who attempted a late fair catch and let the ball bounce off of him and into the arms of a Syracuse defender. That turnover led to the Orange’s first points of the game, a field goal by redshirt sophomore kicker Andre Szmyt.

Pitt was able to respond with a pretty touchdown strike by junior quarterback Kenny Pickett, a deep pass on a tricky double lateral play that allowed senior receiver

The first came after a dominant defensive series forced the Orange to punt from their own goal line, giving Pickett a short field to work with. The second came in the two minute drill as Pickett engineered an efficient 10-play, 85-yard drive that bled the remaining time off the clock, capped by a sharp back-shoulder throw and catch for a touchdown.

In the locker room during the break,

Junior running back A.J. Davis (21) achieved the first 100-yard rushing game of his career, picking up 103 yards on 16 carries against Syracuse on Saturday. Sarah Cutshall | visual editor Aaron Matthews to run free downfield. The score put the Panthers up 10-3 in a lead they would not relinquish.

Syracuse pulled out some trickery of its own, however. Head coach Dino Babers routinely juggled quarterbacks, catching the Panthers off guard with the threat of Welch’s running ability before opening up the playbook and letting him air it out when the Panthers sold out to contain him.

The Panthers had two more scoring drives in the first half, both touchdowns.

Pickett gave a fiery speech after seeing his teammates smiling and relaxed, especially in the wake of blown first-half leads in five of Pitt’s six games this season. Despite improvements running the football — and the added jolt of Ford’s return — the Panthers found themselves in for a tense second half.

Narduzzi’s aggressive defensive playcalling, so successful in the first half, came back to haunt him in the second half when he dialed up a safety blitz on third-and-9 that freed sophomore receiver Taj Harris for a

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94-yard Syracuse touchdown.

The Orange’s long touchdown targeted junior defensive back Jason Pinnock, who has been nursing a hamstring injury since the first half of the win over UCF on Sept.

21. Pinnock was once again burned on the deep route, which he has had trouble defending since the injury.

Pitt held an 11-point lead at the start of the fourth quarter, but the Orange were threatening. On a third-and-7 from the Panthers’ 25-yard line, redshirt junior Patrick Jones II came up with a sack, one that would loom large as Szmyt missed the ensuing 49-yard field goal attempt. So after a trio of questionable pass interference calls, Pitt’s defense stood tall in the red zone and forced Syracuse to settle for three points.

The Panthers regained possession and slogged through a 12-play, seven-minute long drive to chew away time, capping it with a field goal to stretch the lead to 14 with seven minutes remaining. Syracuse responded with a touchdown drive, but Pitt’s defense made them fight for every yard as they took 15 plays and four minutes to punch it in the end zone.

The Orange elected not to try for an onside kick, and the ground game again came up big with two first downs from Davis. But keeping with the apparent theme of 2019, the Panthers would provide no shortage of drama. A first down carry by first-year running back Vincent Davis with 1:57 left in the game was initially ruled a fumble recovered by Syracuse before replay reversed the call. The two first downs by the former Davis forced Syracuse to burn its remaining timeouts and allowed Pickett to kneel out the clock.

Up next the Panthers return to the friendly confines of Heinz Field for their first home game in almost a month for a noon kickoff with Miami this Saturday.

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Newly remod­eled and new carpet. Two person max. Call 412‑608‑8581.

3408 Parkview Ave. 2 BD for $950 & 3 BD for $1,295.

Available immedi­ ately. Pet Friendly & Parking. CALL NOW! 412‑455‑5600 Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unre­lated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Per­mits, Licensing & In­spections.

412‑255‑2175.

SNOW REMOVAL For winter 2019‑2020.

Near the Cathe­dral of Learning. Ex­cellent pay. If inter­ested call 412‑682‑7672 South Oakland Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry and Central Air Call or Text 412‑38‑Lease

Employment

• ADOPTION • EVENTS • LOST AND FOUND • STUDENT GROUPS • WANTED • OTHER

R A T E S

Insertions

1-15 Words

16-30 Words

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2X

3X

4X

$6.30

$11.90

$17.30

$22.00

$7.50

$14.20

$20.00

$25.00

5X $27.00 $29.10

6X $30.20 $32.30

Add. + $5.00 + $5.40

(Each Additional Word: $0.10)

Deadline:

Two business days prior by 3pm | Email: advertising@pittnews.com | Phone: 412.648.7978

Team. Starting is $10.

A‑players can get to $12 in 6‑8 weeks.

Flexible Schedules for students. Please apply in person or on­line at joinchoolaah.­com.

COME JOIN US AT LA FERIA, PERU­ VIAN RESTAU­ RANT AND CRAFT SHOP. PART TIME RE­TAIL OR RESTAU­RANT WORK . NO EXPE‑ RIENCE NEC­ ESSARY. PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON. ABOVE PAMELAS RESTAURANT AT 5527 WALNUT STREET. 412 682 4501.

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Medical and Heart Care, Students

Welcome, 155 N. Craig Street,

Dean Kross, MD, 412‑687‑7666

Part Time Banquet

Servers needed at The PRIORY HO­TEL.

Starting rate of $11

an hour. If inter­ested please email zach@ priory.com or call 412‑224‑6306.

Employment Other

Personal, profes­sional masseuse

needed.

CHOOLAAH restau­ rant located at 6114 Centre Ave is looking to hire Cooks and Cashiers to join our

Washington

County

Long term position. location. Call

724‑223‑0939 time.

any

October 21, 2019

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