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Students shed locks for charity Joelle Smith Staff Writer Jason Davison got a haircut yesterday — but instead of walking to one of the many barber shops in Oakland, he got the same treatment by sitting on a folding chair in the middle of the William Pitt Union Lawn. From noon to 4 p.m. yesterday, Pitt’s chapter of Buzzing for Change, a student service organization , hosted a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation in support of children with pediatric cancer. About 300 students registered, received a number corresponding to their place in line and waited for a trim or a buzz. Five stylists from the Supercuts in Bethel Park, Pa., lined the lawn in front of the Cathedral, administering about 40 complimentary haircuts on a green tarp. Extension cords ran from the Union across the lawn to power the electric clippers. Haircuts were free to students, but “Buzzing for Change” T-shirts where given to students who dropped off donations. Donations made at the event went to the Children’s Hospital Founda-
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Panther Parkour member Scott Johnson, an undergraduate civil engineering major, practices flies, spins and flips in front of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall. Theo Schwarz | Staff Photographer
Protestors sit down, urge Pitt to stand up for justice Raechelle Landers Staff Writers
Students attempting to stage a “die-in” yesterday to draw attention to recent advocacy efforts were forced back to life by University administrators and campus police. About 25 Pitt students, including members from two student groups fo2 cused on social justice, participated in a
passive protest by attempting to lie down in the Cathedral Commons to simulate dead bodies. The students intended to protest the University’s lack of response to calls to sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, an independent and legally binding agreement that holds corporations accountable for workers in their factories in Bangladesh. The groups included Americans for
Informed Democracy, an advocacy group at Pitt, and members of No Sweat: Pitt Coalition Against Sweatshops, a student group affiliated with AID. According to Joe Thomas, cofounder of AID, the simulation symbolized lives lost to poor factory safety. The Accord was developed last summer after the collapse of Rana Plaza, a
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tion, and Ellie Beam, president of Pitt’s chapter of Buzzing for Change, said the group raised $480. In addition to haircuts, students received free pizza, soda, music and cookies from Eat’n Park. Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed service fraternity, distributed food at the fundraiser. A brother of Alpha Phi Omega, Davison arrived at the event to chat with fellow members of the fraternity. “I stopped by, realized I needed a haircut anyway and figured I’d rather the money went to some sort of cause,” Davison, a sophomore psychology major, said. While he was not personally affected
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by childhood cancer, Davison said he still appreciates the cause. “I have a couple friends who are survivors, so it’s just kind of important for me to see this cause go somewhere and not just sit,” Davison said. “I’m happy to donate.” Beam, a sophomore education major, intended for the initiative to raise both money and awareness for pediatric cancer. “When [child patients] go through chemo, they lose their hair, so the free haircuts are in support of them,” Beam said. Beam explained that students could come to have dead ends trimmed or request a full-on buzz cut. If a student scissored off enough hair, he or she had the option of donating his or her tresses to Locks of Love, a nonprofit
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organization that creates hairpieces for cancer patients from salon donations. Sarah Modispacher, a Supercuts stylist who donated her time to cut hair at the event, said two students cut off enough hair to donate to Locks of Love. She said she appreciated the gesture. “[The donations] were really sweet and almost unexpected that someone would want to do that — supporting a good cause and helping out kids with cancer — which is amazing,” Modispacher said. The majority of her requests that day were for trims, Modispacher said, although she estimated that the group gave about 10 buzz cuts during the event. Mary Burke, a sophomore communications and rhetoric major, registered at the event after a class.
She said she heard about the event through her membership in Gamma Sigma Sigma, a service sorority. She said she was in need of a spring trim and was happy to participate in the fundraiser after learning about the initiative. “I just think [the Children’s Hospital Foundation] is a really great cause,” Burke said. “I know people who have used that hospital before, and I really support it.”
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Bangladeshi garment factory, causing the death of 1,129 factory workers. “This is how students have to communicate with administrators,” Thomas, a senior biology and political science major, said. But before the students could lie down, campus police, Vice Chancellor for External Relations G. Reynolds Clark and Kenyon Bonner, director of student life and associate dean of students, delayed the protest by 15 minutes. Instead of allowing the students to lie down in protest, University officials let them stage a sit-down protest. For about 20 minutes, demonstrators sat on the floor of the Cathedral of Learning common room in two lines. According to University spokesperson John Fedele, the demonstrators were not allowed to lie down because the commons is a reservable space, and it would be considered a tripping hazard. The students would have had to reserve the Cathedral Commons for their event in order to lie down, Fedele said. Julie Radomski, AID’s vice president, said the goal of the “die-in” was to get the University to sign the accord. “We want to prove this is something that Pitt students really care about,” Radomski, a senior anthropology and economics major, said. AID organized the protest after feeling unheard in their efforts to lobby the University into signing the accord, Radomski and Thomas said. The organization has submitted letters and a petition with hundreds of signatures to Chancellor Mark Nordenberg urging the University to sign the accord. To further progress on signing the accord, Radomski and other members of AID have been meeting with Lori Burens, coordinator of licensing in Pitt’s Athletics Department. However, the decision to officially align with the accord lies in the hands of University officials, Radomski said. Following Burens’ suggestion to approach the chancellor about aligning with the accord, Radomski met with Nordenberg “informally and briefly” at a reception and dinner for the Bellet
Teaching Award about two weeks ago. Radomski said she felt that Nordenberg did not think the issue was relevant to Pitt. Fedele said Pitt officials are currently considering the matter of signing the accord and are in the process of reviewing the accord with the Collegiate Licensing Company, which coordinates licensing agreements between suppliers and Pitt. “Students will be notified when a decision has been made,” Fedele said in an email.
At 12:45 p.m., after discussing the matter with campus police, Clark and Bonner, about 25 students were finally allowed to sit in the Cathedral Commons for their protest. The 15-minute discussion between AID, the police and administrators received more attention than the actual protest. A small crowd of about 10 protesters gathered in front of the main entrance to the Cathedral to talk to the administrators, obscuring the doorway. During the 20-minute protest, Nick
3 Goodfellow, a junior and AID board member studying communications and rhetoric, passed out fliers asking passersby to sign the group’s petition. Goodfellow said he finds it concerning that Pitt has waited this long to start talking about this issue. “I think we got a response from the administration,” Goodfellow said after the protest. “My Pitt apparel shouldn’t come at the expense of workers’ lives.” Read the rest online at Pittnews.com.
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Physical punishment of children is a All talk: Brogan human-rights violation sidesteps key issues Natalie Russell
Six months after taking on the position of Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education chancellor, Frank Brogan was officially installed yesterday and delivered his first “State of the System” address at the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg, detailing his vision for the future of Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities. Brogan’s vision consists of a state education system that allows universities to adjust pricing to better address program costs and enrollment demands, implement new programs (including additional online education offerings) and gain more local control in approving academic completion and presidential selections. But Brogan left out several key issues in his address that negate his optimism about higher education in Pennsylvania: a lack of state funding, declining enrollment and the desire of many universities to secede from the system. Some of the 14 universities within the state system want to secede, and recently introduced State Senate legislation may enable them to do so. Senators Tommy Tomlinson, R-Bucks County, and Andy Dinniman, D-Chester County, introduced legislation in March that would allow system universities to transition from state-owned to state-related status. West Chester University, a state-owned school of 15,000 in the suburbs of Philadelphia, stands to benefit from the legislation. As a well-attended university within the state system, the senators argued that West Chester would gain the freedom to manage
its budget more freely by gaining state-related status. Brogan urged the 14 universities to collaborate to move education matters forward, but failed to address the fact that certain universities among them wish to leave the system. Severe state funding cuts have reduced the system’s support to very low levels. Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget appropriates $412.8 million to the 14 state universities. Brogan sidestepped the problem. The state government did not appropriate an adequate amount of money for universities to implement the programs he promised to put into place. As chancellor for the state school system, he has an obligation to address the matter, since it has a significant influence on how much money is appropriated to each state university. Universities within the state system have lost about 7,200 students in the past three years. While many of Brogan’s goals — reducing out-of-state tuition rates and increasing the number of online education courses — will indirectly affect enrollment rates once put into place, he ought to address these issues head-on and draw attention to their severity. To have such inspirational rhetoric promising change seems normal for a newly appointed chancellor. But we can only hope that further, more substantial recommendations are made to successfully address the problems within the system and that Brogan will work to strengthen educational opportunities in the state.
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It seems absurd that there is still debate over the barbaric abuse of parental authority that is corporal punishment. According to researchers at the University of Chicago, 77 percent of men and 65 percent of women believe it is sometimes necessary to discipline a child with “a good, hard spanking.” That this crass, repugnant and medieval word choice was still approved by an average of nearly three-quarters of parents in the United States is disturbing, but I shudder to think of what the results might have been had the proposition been worded with one of the euphemisms frequently employed to make violence more palatable. Setting aside the inherent wrongness of corporal punishment, decades of research prove that such punishment (not including child abuse) is not only ineffective, but harmful to a child’s cognitive development and psychological health. A long-term study by researchers from the Columbia University School of Social Work focused on 2,000 families in 20 cities across the United States. Parents were interviewed right after their children were born and then at ages 1, 3, 5 and 9. Children who were spanked at ages 3 and 5 had higher levels of rule-breaking and displayed aggressive behavior at age 9. The results also showed that children who were spanked by their fathers at age 5 were more likely to score lower on language-comprehension and vocabulary tests. The study carefully controlled for other potential influencers, including
prior levels of troubled behavior, earlier development and other risk factors. A 2013 study authored by Emily Douglas, associate professor of social work at Bridgewater State University, and Rose Anne Medeiros, a quantitative methodologist at Rice University, found that spanking is no more effective at correcting short-term misbehavior than alternative forms of discipline such as time-outs, withholding privileges or simply explaining why the child’s behavior is wrong. The study offered further evidence to support that childhood spanking leads to increased aggression and slower mental development and continued on to report significant links between childhood spanking and criminal offenses, antisocial behavior, domestic violence, lower academic achievement and unhealthy parent-child relationships. But let’s take a moment to talk about the “I turned out fine” crowd — the human cockroaches who out themselves as the stragglers of social progress in every morality debate. If you’ve ever dreamt of time travel, these folks create an eerily accurate replica of the Dark Ages. They’re the ones who are (suspiciously) adamant about the cause of needlessly terrorizing children. They’ll accept vague anecdotes over decades of scientific research. Though the requirements necessary for “turning out fine” are subjective and predictably self-serving, I’m skeptical about the “fineness” of a person who is entirely undisturbed by physically harming a child. Perhaps a second opinion is necessary. Murray Straus, founder and co-director of the Family Research Lab and professor emeritus of so-
ciology at the University of New Hampshire, collected more than four decades of research on the subject in his book “The Primordial Violence,” noting the various side effects seen in children who have been disciplined by force. He points out, “More than 100 studies have detailed these side effects of spanking with more than 90 percent agreement among them. There is probably no other aspect of parenting and child behavior where the results are so consistent.” As a result of this overwhelming evidence, physical punishment is outlawed in more than 20 nations around the world. The United Nations called for worldwide prohibition of spanking, yet the practice is still legal in all 50 U.S. states. An appalling 19 states still allow corporal punishment in schools, which leads to the subjection of thousands of students to this archaic disciplinary tactic every year. It’s no surprise that the states with the highest amount of human rights violations are the same ones that claim moral superiority. (Proverbs 13:24: “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”) Corporal punishment of children is a public-health issue. It’s not a matter of parenting preference, but of the right of children to live free of physical attacks that are justified under the guise of “discipline.” It took until the turn of the 20th century for U.S. law to validate a woman’s right to not be physically punished by her husband. Is it really going to take another century to recognize the gross injustice of violence against children, too? Write to Natalie at natalie.russell8@gmail.com.
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Letter to the Editor To the Editor, While walking through Towers Lobby yesterday, I was caught off guard by a small, though alarming, flyer that was littering the ground. Delivering information regarding the Health Fair at the School of Pharmacy, this flyer had a great list of topics ranging from cancer to dementia to diabetes. The list ended, however, with a topic that was not like the others: “LGBT.”
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Simply put, this isn’t a viable discussion topic for a health fair. The health fair makes the mistake of mixing both preexisting clinical conditions with unhealthy decisions — seen in the listing of “cancer” with “physical activity.” This exposes the prevalence of misinformation about the LGBT community proliferated by advertisements that create a dangerous parallel between sexuality and illness. The implicit association of LGBT with tobacco use and physical inactivity implies
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that being a member of the LGBT community is an unhealthy choice. Further, this health fair neglects heterosexual activity in its campaign, which thereby associates homosexual activity with diseases — further stigmatizing the LGBT community by associating it with illness. I am fairly certain there isn’t any disease that only afflicts gays, so why would only LGBT be listed in the health-fair advertisement? Obviously, this advertising campaign is, it-
self, afflicted by misinformation. As a member of the gay community on campus, it is incredibly frustrating to see such a vividly negative association of the LGBT community with illness. I assumed that such a diverse college community would be intuitively more intelligent about incorrect associations, yet I am left disappointed. Jonathan Wyatt Koma Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT
Ava Lounge blends nighttime entertainment with American fusion food. Theo Schwarz | Staff Photographer
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Craig Street’s Ava Lounge brings nightlife back to Oakland Sam Bojarski Staff Writer The dining room at the Ava Lounge is small and intimate. A lone poet mutters his cryptic verse into a microphone in the corner of the room, which is full of old Ava Lounge faithfuls, as well as artists. People at the long, expansive bar turn their bodies toward the sound, one hand on their drinks. Most of the booths are occupied for the poetry night — one of the first events to take place at the lounge’s new space. Owner Justin Strong has big plans for the Ava Lounge on North Craig Street. This is evident as he looks around the large, cluttered upstairs room, the sounds of slam poetry reverberating up the old staircase.
When the room is ready, entertainment will take place there, not in the dining room. For now, it is his office space, with his computer sitting on a desk against a wall. “We’re going to do a full kitchen, we’ll put a dumbwaiter right there,” Strong said, beckoning to a wall adjacent to the bar. “Then we’re going to get the catering. All the stuff we weren’t able to do in the old space, we can do here.” For now, Ava Lounge is BYOB, but that is only until it receives a pending liquor license, which Strong says the lounge will get within the month. The new Ava Lounge will essentially be a reincarnation of Quiet Storm during daytime hours, serving almost exclusively vegan dishes in a cafe environment. In
the evenings, Ava Lounge will take over, keeping its former concept of nighttime entertainment and American fusion food. Although the two establishments shared nothing but similar clientele before Ava moved to Oakland, Strong’s new Ava Lounge is a unique collision of two worlds. More than 16 years since he first inquired about opening a restaurant and night club in Oakland, Strong is back again. But this time, with an afternoon cafe featuring the cuisine of Quiet Storm, a vegan cafe which became a staple of Garfield’s recent renaissance before shuttering it’s doors in the neighborhood last fall, his business has a much broader appeal. The new location, which opened on Feb. 19, promises a new dynamic to the North Oak-
land dining and nightlife scene. Take a walk down Forbes Avenue, where national brand names hang from signs and adorn windows. There are a few noted exceptions, such as the Original Hot Dog Shop, Red Oak Cafe and Forbes Gyro, but according to Strong, the nightlife in the neighborhood is a shadow of its former self. When Strong first started coordinating events as a promoter and entertainment entrepreneur in Oakland in the late ’90s, the business landscape was quite different. Also the former owner of Shadow Lounge in East Liberty, Strong especially remembers the nightlife scene when Oakland was
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‘Pantagleize’: Quantum Theatre’s latest unorthodox production
‘Pantagleize’ makes use of old office building.. Courtesy of Quantum Theatre
Allison Latzko Staff Writer A dilapidated and vast office building that’s falling apart might not seem like an ideal place to stage an uprising, but Quantum Theatre’s latest production, “Pantagleize,” nonetheless utilizes such a space. “Pantagleize” — which runs from April 11 to 27 — is a humorous play about revolution based on Michel de Ghelderode’s 1931 “farce to make you sad” and serves as an allusion to Allen Ginsberg’s “King of May” trip to Prague in 1965. It centers on the character Pantagleize, a philosophical and somewhat cynical man who accidentally utters a secret phrase and sparks a revolution in an unnamed Eastern European country. Playwright Jay Ball wrote the latest stage adaptation, which creates a new twist on the original 1931 script that was popular between playwrights but otherwise relatively unknown. A lot of the humor was outdated, and most of the characters spoke Czech. The new version is more accessible to Americans and utilizes modern references to make it more appealing. It asks questions that pertain to democracy and contemporary revolutionary movements. As a “farce,” the play sets a similar tone to the work of Monty Python. “I love that about the original play: the
mixture of laughing and crying,” Ball said. “It’s almost how I respond to Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show.’” Ball and Jed Allen Harris, the director of “Pantagleize,” spent time in Eastern Europe over the course of their careers. “Pantagleize” marks their fourth collaboration together and their second with Quantum after 2010’s “The Task.” “Jed and I were very interested in using the play to think about the current world of revolutionary topics,” Ball said. “For example, the Occupy movement or what’s going on in Ukraine.” Quantum is also known for creating a wildly different atmosphere every time it produces something new. “Pantagleize” will be staged at the Lexington Technology Center, a run-down office building that Quantum Artistic Director Karla Boos found in the area of Pittsburgh called “construction junction.” For this new setup, Harris worked with his design team to maintain the Technology Center’s intimacy while adapting the space. “One of the things I liked about the space was that there are offices and walls. You can go behind a window,” Harris said. “We’re discovering how to use it as much as possible.” Along with the design of the set, costume designer Susan Tsu collaborated closely with
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MUSIC
Shabazz Palaces offshoot less avant-garde than it thinks John Lavanga A&E Editor I’ll admit, I’ve always been skeptical of the Pitchfork media darlings. Give a band that vaunted “Best New Music” label and I’m certain to play contrarian to the Internet’s most respected team of taste-making contrarians. Perhaps it’s the reactionary in me — the plain and simple fact that I’m not keen on being told what to think of music, no matter who’s telling me. Pitchfork’s verbose pseudo-intellectualism certainly doesn’t help matters. Avant-rap outfit Shabazz Palaces was no exception. At first I blanched at the group’s warbling, off-kilter production and downright weird barrage of admittedly captivating lines. Still, after a few listens, the brilliance of their 2009 self-titled debut became difficult to deny. The draw of the record was, first and foremost, its production. Weird? Certainly. But weird like a viscerally stirring visualization at a VIA show. Weird like
cubism when it first rocked the art scene. In other words, good weird. The intelligence and thoughtfulness of the work simply couldn’t be denied, nor was it displeasing. “RiZe vadZimu riZe,” the debut release from Shabazz Palaces member Tendai Maraire’s side project Chimurenga Renaissance is very much a continuation of the group‘s avantrap tradition. But a funny thing has happened to mainstream hip-hop, and all of a sudden, what felt like it was pushing boundaries just feels like standard fare. Much has changed since 2009 — a statement that, when typed out, makes me feel sad and old. The sort of production that might have been pushed to the margins has now found a comfortable place at hip-hop (and, hence, pop music’s) forefront. Clams Casino teamed up with A$AP Rocky and brought the same old tropes some fresh life with mesmerizingly off-kilter percussion and melodies carried by saccharine, glittering tones. Danny Brown used his 15 minutes in the spotlight to
prove that the maddening techno being blared in shelled-out industrial cities on both sides of the Atlantic are fit to drop bars on, and Kanye West channeled the polarizing architect Le Corbusier (whose work, by the way, was also the inspiration for Posvar Hall) on his way to Yeezus — a record that re-established the coexistence of poignant political commentary amid chuckle-worthy one-liners. Perhaps this is why “riZe vadZimu riZe,” doesn’t feel so avant-garde. It’s a collection of very solid, interesting tracks, many of which are built over distinctly African instrumentation, and it is eager to make reference to resistance movements across that continent. Yet for these ploys at novelty, the record feels yawningly conventional. In 2014, hip-hop production needs to keep a listener’s head spinning just to keep pace, and the record’s lyrical themes — many of which rail against the sad materialism of modern black culture — would have felt just as comfortable in an indie rap album from
the ’90s as they do here. In fact, it’s these lyrics that make the album’s avant-garde aspirations seem so desperate. Whether Maraire is lambasting, “Make a million dollars selling Gucci or hot beats,” as he does on “The B.A.D Is So Good” or giving us similarly generic complaints about the state of modern hip-hop materialism, the words don’t do much heavy lifting. When your complaints about your genre — a topic you’ve presumably thought about — echo the words of a 17-year-old New Zealand girl, it’s pretty safe to say you’re not saying anything particularly new. That’s a shame, because from a production standpoint, this record is marvelous — a precarious balance of modern electronic beats with complex instrumentation that’s as shocking of a spectacle as juggling flaming chainsaws. Had Maraire put as much thought into complicating our discussion of hip-hop’s materialism, he might’ve made something really innovative — even avant-garde.
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‘Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster’ a worthwhile upgrade Stephanie Roman Staff Writer
“Final Fantasy X/ X-2 HD Remaster” Developer: Square -Enix Grade: B Tidus, a 17-year-old professional athlete, gets scooped up by a Godzilla-like monster called Sin and transported 1,000 years into the future to a world called Spira, which is constantly on the verge of destruction by Sin. Like Sin, who dies and is reborn, “Final Fantasy X” in many ways hasn’t changed from its first incarnation — for better and for worse.
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Dear Kelly
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Dear Kelly, All of my teachers keep sending me OMET surveys and I don’t know what to do. I tried to ignore the initial emails, but they keep sending reminder emails, too. Even my online class sent one out! My inbox is filling up. Please help! -#OMETprobz Dear #OMETprobz, I feel your pain. I, too, have received multiple annoying OMET emails from all my professors. But fear not: I have a few suggestions on what you can do. First, you might want to look into changing your Pitt email address — or at least giving your teachers a fake one. While you might miss out on useful class information during the majority of the year, you certainly won’t be receiving those pesky evaluation requests. If you don’t want to go to those lengths, don’t fret. Another option you have is to channel your anger from the incessant emails and use it to give entirely negative feedback on the OMET surveys. In the comment section, make sure you use all capital letters to really emphasize how angry you are. Even if you actually enjoyed the class and liked the teacher and are thinking about them reading your response and crying, this strategy will surely make you feel better about the constant emails — sort of like getting revenge. If neither of these options work for you, just hope that your professors set aside some class time to fill out the surveys. At that point, you can answer honestly and will hopefully stop receiving the emails once you complete the survey. But who am I kidding? By the time your professor does something like this, you will have gotten about five emails per class and will have most likely resorted to one of my other, more realistic options. Best of luck! Kelly Dear Kelly, I’m a huge Timeflies fan, and I’m nervous that since Tyga was a no-show, they may not show up, either. What should I do? Sincerely, Timeflies Fanatic Dear Timeflies Fanatic, I wish I had a way to assuage your fears, but alas, if there’s one characteristic that every successful musician has, it’s unpredictability. The ability of a band to keep the audience on the edge of their seats is something that only the greats have: The Beatles, Tyga and the like. Take it as a sign that maybe, one day, Timeflies might be uttered in the same sentence as those musical gods. In the meantime, don’t hang your head. There’s little you can do. Will they show up? Who knows. Like Tyga, it all hangs in the balance of whether or not they know how to get on an airplane. Your best bet might be to get in touch with Tyga, and ask him why he missed his flight. It’s probably a really silly mistake — or the worst excuse ever. Just hope that Timeflies doesn’t leave any sizeable amount of toothpaste in their carry-on — that would be problematic. Kelly
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61 Head-turner DOWN 1 One of DC Comics’ Teen Titans 2 No longer fazed by 3 Willy-nilly 4 Family address 5 Fred Astaire, for one 6 State in a “State Fair” song title 7 You must keep it up throughout 32-Across 8 Moldavia, once: Abbr. 9 Speedy exhortation 10 Enlist 11 Takes in or lets out 12 Not robust, vocally 15 Short-lived English king of 1483 21 Saffron-yielding blooms 23 Blood test initials 26 Monopolized the conversation 28 Salzburg pronoun 31 NATO member since 1982
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33 Jane Austen’s “most disagreeable man in the world” 34 You might subscribe to it via PayPal 35 Many a fed. holiday 36 Canyon formers 37 Jazz greats, maybe 38 Suffer financially
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41 Bit of schoolyard backtalk 42 One getting strokes, in a good way 43 Can’t tolerate 44 Uninspiring 45 Olive enthusiast 46 Moguls 47 Farmyard chorus 54 Ocean delicacy 55 Chill
Thursday, April 10 Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II Heinz Hall 600 Penn Ave., Downtown Time: 7:30 p.m. Admission: Starting at $15, prices
vary The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra merges classical music and classical cartoons, featuring all most the iconic Looney Tunes characters and brand-new 3D theatrical shorts.
Friday, April 11 St. Vincent Stage AE 400 N. Shore Drive, North Shore Time: 7 p.m. Admission: $22 advance, $25 day
of show Annie Clark stops in Pittsburgh for her Digital Witness tour in support of her joyfully strange and paranoid self-titled album.
Saturday, April 12 Beers of the Burgh Festival 97 40th St., Lawrenceville Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission: $45 Regular, $79 VIP,
$15 Designated driver This Saturday, 39 local breweries are coming together to welcome spring and celebrate Pittsburgh’s local beer scene.
Sunday, April 13 Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings Byham Theater 101 Sixth St., Cultural District Time: 8 p.m. Admission: $32.25-$42.25
Soul revivalist Sharon Jones and company take over the Byham Theater for a night, playing tracks off their stunning and powerful record “Give the People What They Want.”
Monday, April 14 “Past Presence” Through April 20 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 6300 Fifth Ave., Shadyside Time: All day
Admission: $5 general admission This innovative sculptural gallery by Keith Lemley combines roots and uprooted trees from around his home with white neon to meaningfully illuminate areas of the wood.
Tuesday, April 15 Danny Brown Altar Bar 1620 Penn Ave., Strip District Time: 8 p.m. Admission: $18 Danny Brown returns to the Altar
Bar for his second Pittsburgh show in the past year, but this time, he’ll likely show off more songs from his excellent album “Old,” which was released just after his September show here.
Wednesday, April 16 “RACE: Are We So Different?” Through Oct. 27 Carnegie Museum of Natural History 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland Time: All Day Admission: Free with admission
to museum Developed by the American Anthropological Association, “RACE” is a nationally traveling exhibit that explores personal stories, history and the science behind how we perceive race in America.
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Harris to create costumes that fit each of the 10 characters. She created the looks by examining Eastern European countries and military revolutions over the last 50 years, reading up on the original text and created a distinct style. “People disguise themselves and change roles,” Tsu said. “It’s not a play of subtlety in any way.” Because Quantum doesn’t have its own theater or costume personnel, there are practical limitations to some of the designing that demand a lot of creativity and artistic ability from the designers. “Every play is different because of the design teams,” Tsu said. “One of the things I enjoy enormously is the crew that Karla assembles.” According to Harris, however, all these moving parts only serve to make Quantum’s performances all the more surprising. “I think it’s an exciting adventure for the audience,” Harris said.
home to the nightclubs Graffiti and Laga. “You had big college dance nights Thursdays and Saturdays. You had every single band or hip-hop act come through there,” Strong said. Strong took up entrepreneurship soon after graduating from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1996 because he was “bored [and] needed something to do.” “Most of my friends were leaving Pittsburgh and swearing never to come back. I was still embedded in [the city],” Strong said, referring to the family dry cleaning business where he also worked. Oakland was the place he looked to start his first business, Shadow Lounge, but couldn’t find a space. “Where Starbucks is now, I inquired about that. Where Jimmy John’s is now, I inquired about that,” Strong said. Eventually, he opened Shadow Lounge in East Liberty in 2000. Strong expanded in 2005, adding The Blue Room and even-
tually Ava Lounge, which gradually began to outperform Shadow Lounge. The first Ava Lounge was on South Highland Avenue in East Liberty. “It became this really cool bar and lounge, very deep, DJ-heavy, but we had a really successful Monday jazz night that ran for like six years,” Strong said of the Ava Lounge in East Liberty. When Quiet Storm owner Jill MacDowell called Strong to tell him about an opening in the building that had formerly been the Luna Bar at 304 North Craig St., Strong jumped at the opportunity, deciding to move his most successful business venture down the road. “The place feels very welcoming, definitely meant for a more mature crowd,” said E.J. Griffin, a customer who came to Ava Lounge for the Steel City Poetry Slam. General Manager Anand Young credits the new place with “being able to bring about a creative menu that we can constantly evolve.” The food, he said, is the emphasis now. “We have yet to tap into our full potential because we haven’t gotten to do the events we want to do,” Young said.
13 Strong said he can hardly wait until everything is ready and the college students starting coming through the door. “The population as far as students, grad students, foreign-born students — it’s a gold mine here. Why aren’t people entertaining these folks?” he said. “We would like to develop a neighborhood place where people can kind of walk down to and enjoy themselves.”
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FANTASY When “X” first hit stores in 2001 for PlayStation 2, it set the record for fastestselling console role-playing game and went on to be the seventh best-selling PS2 game of all time. The “Final Fantasy” series has been around since 1987, but “X,” the 10th installment, was the first to produce a true sequel, “X-2,” in 2003. As the console generation winds down,
April 10, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com developers have been re-releasing classic games with some high-definition gloss, and conveniently, Square Enix packaged “X” and “X-2” on one Blu-ray disc for PlayStation 3 and separately for the PlayStation Vita. Modified character models astound with novelty and an extended range of expression. Facial animation and design was completely reworked, and the highresolution models compete with more contemporary games. The low-resolution models are on the level of the high-res
ones from the original game, so it’s nice to look at something resembling a human, not one whose face is awkwardly squashed in. Despite the tweaked faces, general animation weighs down the otherwise attractive new characters — each still has only a few programmed actions (Rikku’s puppy-dog air-pawing comes to mind), which are stiff and typically don’t match the conversation being conveyed. Undoubtedly, the best part of the remaster is its remixed music. Stale and repetitive tracks have been dismissed
(looking at you, “Battle Theme”), and replaced with brand-new vibrancy, key changes, tempos and overall robustness. The soundtrack remix denies subtlety. Heading into new areas becomes exciting mostly to hear how the music’s been redefined, and it never ceases to innovate over the original. Even the series’ victory fanfare that plays at the end of random battles has been altered to sound more orchestral, rather than new-age. The remaster includes the international versions of both games, meaning that a few new superbosses, the Dark Aeons, await battle. A short movie called “The Eternal Calm” bridges the content between games, and “Last Mission” is playable for the first time, a sequel to “X-2” revealing what happened to the protagonists after its conclusion. The most groundbreaking addition in the international version is the Expert Sphere Grid, an improved form of the leveling system. The expert grid doesn’t make the game any harder, but it affects how you play because of its radical difference from the traditional Sphere Grid, which is strict and easy to follow. Rather, the expert grid puts all seven characters in the middle and gives players leave to develop characters into whatever role they choose. The summoner and major character Yuna and her guardian, the black magician Lulu, stand out particularly, as they can swap black- and whitemagic paths from the very outset, meaning that players can give them a variety of new and different abilities earlier in the game. While this allows for extremely interesting and crazy customization, the expert grid is recommended only to expert players — at the expense of novel opportunities, it winds up weakening the characters’ strength, defense and magic stats, making them less effective individually. The HD remaster is a great investment for old fans and those looking to get into the series for the first time. The new stuff entertains pretty well, but some old bits haven’t reformed, which can be a detriment. Regardless, the HD remaster is worth picking up, because it might be the final and most definitive overhaul of these popular storylines as the “Final Fantasy” series delves into newer plots on future consoles.
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Senior All- Panthers’ offense disappears on road trip American does everything for wrestling club Dustin Gabler Senior Staff Writer
Between working to keep his teammates’ weights in check, helping with coaching, setting up practice schedules, planning tournament trips and all of the other odds and ends of building a developing wrestling squad, Scott Schretzenmaier had little time left to work on his own wrestling. “Scott did a huge amount of work,” teammate Dan Albamonte said. “Despite everything else that we did, and I know Scott was super busy all the time, he was at every practice, planned every tournament and was on top of all of the paperwork.” Amid it all, the senior still managed to become the Panther Wrestling Club’s second-ever All-American after placing sixth at nationals last month. And now, thanks in large part to Schretzenmaier’s efforts, the club appears poised to continue its rapid growth. When he joined as a sophomore, the club consisted of five wrestlers. Two years later, it had 13 wrestlers competing at the Mid-East Conference tournament and qualified six other wrestlers for the national tournament. The growth of the team really took off this year as the officers, led by club President Schretzenmaier, set out before the season with a plan to field a full 10-person lineup, according to sophomore Philip Tanenbaum. “We knew that we wanted to compete this year and would need a full lineup to do so, so recruiting and retention was our biggest priority right out of the gate,” Tanenbaum said. The officers attended the Student Ac-
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Center fielder Carly Thea went 2-of-6 at the plate in the doubleheader, but her teammates struggled. Bobby Mizia | Visual Editor
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The Pitt softball team’s lack of offense doomed it to a doubleheader sweep on Wednesday. The Panthers failed to win a game against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., registering a mere four hits in each game of the one-day series, falling 3-2 and then 2-0. With the pair of victories, the fourthplace Hokies (24-16, 13-6 ACC) have won five straight games, while the Panthers (13-19, 4-9 ACC), who continue to hover around the eighth-place position and final conference playoff spot in the Atlantic 16 Coast Conference, have lost four out of
their last five games. Virginia Tech 3, Pittsburgh 2 The hosts grabbed an early lead in the opener, taking advantage of the Panthers’ only error to plate all of their three runs in the bottom of the first. Alexa Larkin, the starting pitcher for Pitt, lasted only one out in the outing. Larkin (6-6), a junior, surrendered three runs on two hits, only two of which she earned, in just one-third of an inning. She got the Hokies leadoff batter to fly out to center before an error by Pitt shortstop Carissa Throckmorton allowed the next Virginia Tech player up, second baseman Kylie McGoldrick, to reach base. With a runner now on board, left fielder Vanessa Gonzalez smacked a home run to
center to help the Hokies go up 2-0. Two batters later, the Hokies plated what would end up being the final and decisive run of the contest when Katey Smith scored from first on a Dani Anderson double to left center after reaching base on a strikethree passed ball. The score remained unchanged until the top of the sixth. The bottom of the Panthers’ batting order tried to rally Pitt back into the game, but ultimately fell short. First baseman Kaitlin Manuel began the inning with a bunt single. Three batters later, the Panthers had the bases loaded with only one out. Second baseman Maggie Sevilla hit a ground ball to third that
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WRESTLING tivities Fair in August to try to recruiting new wrestlers. After the team was formed, they set up mixers with other club sports teams and came up with other off-the-mat options to help the team develop camaraderie. However, the club faced an obstacle that threatened to undermine all the progress. Unfortunately for the club, it had exhausted all of its funds, and with the tournament taking place in Texas, attending would be expensive for any interested wrestlers. “It was frustrating,” sophomore club member Matt Bruskin said. “We prepared all year for a chance to attend nationals, only to be unable to attend after qualifying.” The club used the majority of its $5,000 allotment from Student Government Board to attend the minimum number of tournaments to qualify for the conference tournament and, thus, a shot at the national tournament.
April 10, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com “A pretty consistent thing for the top 10 teams this year was that they had almost double the number of matches we did,” Tanenbaum said. “We were able to do a lot with a little, and I think with more funding, we could crack that top-10 status.” Schretzenmaier, who was able to afford the trip to Texas after receiving help from his family, explained the severe financial disadvantage that his club faces in talking to competitors in Texas. “A lot of clubs are the only wrestling programs at their schools, so they get more funding,” he said. “Plus, they have longer histories, so they have more alumni to look to for donations.” With the less-than-ideal monetary situation figured out, Schretzenmaier could focus on wrestling. He finished in sixth place to earn himself All-American status. The top eight wrestlers become All-Americans. He hopes that his accomplishment will motivate his teammates and also help them attend next year’s tournament. Despite the concentrated effort to field a full lineup at the beginning of the school year, it was impossible for Schretzenmaier to truly understand how the club would
take off. “I really had no idea that six other guys would qualify,” Schretzenmaier said. “I didn’t get the team in the mindset that, not only were we training to do well at conferences, but we were training for nationals.” At the beginning of the season, the club was doing little to show anyone that it would eventually qualify seven wrestlers for the national tournament. Schretzenmaier and Tanenbaum, who function as player-coaches and assist with the team’s four weekly practices, made a change early in the season to try to get the club wrestling at its best form. “At the start of the year, we focused a lot on technique and teaching new moves,” Tanenbaum said. “After not doing so well after our first few tournaments, we changed the focus of practice to intense conditioning.” It paid off, as along with Schretzenmaier and Tanenbaum, Bryan Muchoney, John Hoover, Albamonte, Bruskin and John Lemon also turned in performances worthy of national tournament invites from the Mid-East Conference. “I’ve said from the beginning of the
year that I’ve accomplished everything I wanted from the sport a long time ago, so everything I do is for the team, not for me,” Schretzenmaier said. “It makes me happy to get the team some recognition on the national level, and hopefully it’ll make the path easier for my fellow teammates in the future.” While Schretzenmaier’s on-the-mat performance gave the club instant recognition, it’s what he did off the mat that will leave the most lasting impact on the club. “Scott is the glue holding this group together. He came in this year determined to make a team of less than 10 people into a full lineup that would compete at tournaments,” Tanenbaum said. Perhaps that’s why he feels more of a sense of achievement from what his team has achieved, as opposed to his personal success. “I really hope that my accomplishments challenge my guys to not only want to go to nationals in the future, but to do even better than me,” Schretzenmaier said. “I’m very excited to see what my fellow teammates and officers can accomplish in the [future].”
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SOFTBALL brought home Manuel to slim the deficit to a pair. Center fielder Carly Thea proceeded to score on a passed ball and left fielder Tori Nirschl moved to third, but Pitt failed to bring home the tying run, and the score stayed the same. Virginia Tech 2, Pittsburgh 0 In the nightcap, the offensive woes continued. Pitt outhit Virginia Tech 4-2 but didn’t manage to plate any runs in the contest. Savannah King (7-13), the junior who served in a relief role in game one, started the second and suffered the loss, despite giving up a mere two hits and two walks while striking out three in four innings of work. The only real action that took place in the game came in the bottom of the fifth. The Hokies led off their half of the inning with back-to-back singles. With runners on first and third, a passed ball by Pitt pitcher Larkin, who was pitching in relief this time, gave Virginia Tech their first run. The Hokies followed that with a flyout that brought home the second and final run. The Panthers never posed a threat in the game, as all four of Pitt’s hits were singles and they struck out seven times. Junior center fielder Carly Thea went 2-for-6 in the doubleheader and kept her batting average at 0.397, which currently ranks third best in the ACC. Pitt returns to action this weekend when they take on new conference member and old Big East foe Syracuse (15-18, 6-7 ACC) in a home series. First pitch is 1 p.m. on Saturday at Vartabedian Field in the Petersen Sports Complex.
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4 Bedrms, 3.5 Baths, Modern dining Kitchen, Furnished dining room & Office, 2+ garage, Mother in-law suite lower level. Edgewood and Frick Park views from large decks. FACULTY ONLY
Huge 2 BR w/balcony, all hardwood floors, lots of closets, new kitchen w/dishwasher, near shopping. Available July or August. $1,395, heat included. 412521-3282
Charming, spacious 1 BR hardwood floors, new kitchen w/dishwasher. Available August 1st. $850, heat included. 412-521-3282.
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Bedroom for sublet at 350 1/2 Semple St. Rent is $420/month plus utilities. Contact Aubrey at awoodward5792@gmail.com
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Sports Field Construction Company looking for summer workers. 60/hr week. $20/hr+ average. Includes retirement. Must commit to whole summer and willing to travel east of the Mississippi. Contact Tim at tpkinc2@verizon.net for more information.
Busy Apartment Management Company seeking full time front desk help. Must be able to multitask, handle multiple phone lines, problem solve, and provide excellent/friendly customer service. The ideal candidate is intelligent, punctual, and thrives in a fastpaced work environment. Please send resumes to shadyside.leasing@gmail.com Cashier, part-time/full-time. Must be professional, customer oriented and available nights and weekends. Ask for Gina 412-521-3530. Looking for Male/Female with transportation. Yard work/odd jobs. North Hills area. Contact 412-487-7336 Part or full-time spring or summer exterior painting position available. $9-$11/hour. Access to a vehicle preferred. Training provided. Apply at cwpjob.com using the marketing code 31991. Part-time caregiver needed to supervise teenager for afterschool sports, activities, and homework. Private home located a short distance from campus. Child clearance is preferred and previous experience/references required. E-mail resume/information to resumesdental@aol.com or fax 412-6819614 for consideration. Personal, professional masseuse wanted. Permanent position. Washington County. 724-223-0939 or pager#888-200-8116.
PART-TIME RETAIL SALES POSITION. Shadyside florist looking for an energetic and quicklearning sales associate for a retail store on Walnut Street. Flexible hours, no evenings or Sundays. Please call Toadflax at 412-6212500 for more information. Shadyside Management Company needs full-time dependable landscapers, painters, and assistant roofers for the summer. Must be at least 18 years old. No experience necessary. $9/hour. Mozart Management, 412-682-7003 thane@mozartrents.com Summer Camp Counselors College or graduate students needed to work with elementary school children in an active summer camp in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. $9-10 per hour, flexible hours, must have own tranportation. Between 2 and 4 ten-hour days per week, your choice. Email resume or letter of interest to jhroberts66@comcast.net
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