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Jimmy Johnʼs experiences security breach Cristina Holtzer News Editor
Pittsburgh Underwear Ride rolled through Oakland last night to promote safe cycling. Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer
How valuable is your internship, really? Lauren Rosenblatt Staff Writer When Michael Tammaro had a 93-yearold woman fling a phone at his head, he knew he’d found the right internship. While interning as a patient care technician at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn., last summer, Tammaro encountered a phone coming toward his head as he woke an elderly woman up around midnight to collect her vitals. He said her surprise and confusion after he woke her up led to the outburst. Aside from the incident, Tammaro said internship experience has been integral in learning how to work in a hospital. He was responsible for checking on
patients, collecting their vitals and other samples, transporting items to and from the lab and other miscellaneous tasks. “Overall, it taught me the inner workings of a hospital and how my potential career as a physician’s assistant is related to all the other parts of a hospital,” Tammaro, a sophomore rehabilitation sciences major, said. Unfortunately for Tammaro, according to a study released by LinkedIn, Tammaro’s likelihood of receiving a job offer as a direct result of his internship is very slim. LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking service, analyzed the profiles of 300 million of its users to determine which industries were most likely to offer
internships and which had the potential to lead to a full-time job. According to the results, only 27 percent of internships in the hospital and healthcare fields lead to full-time jobs. Yet Tammaro is still confident his position could lead to a full-time job in the future. “[My supervisor’s] intention with hiring me was so that I could work there for a while,” Tammaro said. “She had hired other high school students that worked throughout their undergraduate summers and had the potential to come back after [physicians assistant] school.”
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Anyone who has used credit or debit cards at two Pittsburgh Jimmy John’s locations this summer may want to closely monitor their bank statements. On Thursday, the national sandwich shop chain released information relating to a security breach at 216 stores this summer. According to the Jimmy John’s release, the company learned that an intruder possibly stole card information from the stores between June 16 and Sept. 5 of this year. Pittsburgh locations affected include the Forbes Avenue location in Oakland and the East Carson Street location in the South Side. “Cards impacted by this event appear to be those swiped at the stores and did not include those cards entered manually or online,” the release said. The hacker could have access to card numbers, “and in some cases” cardholder names, verification codes and expiration dates. Information entered on the Jimmy John’s website, including usernames and passwords, remains secure according to the release. The company learned of the possible break-in on July 30, 2014 and “immediately hired third party forensic experts to assist with its investigation.” The investigation will continue. “Jimmy John’s values the privacy and security of its customers’ information, and is offering identity protection services to impacted customers,” the release said. Michael, a customer service representative from PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, said concerned PNC customers should keep
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INTERNSHIPS Tammaro said he plans to continue working at the hospital for at least the next three years before attending graduate school. Tolu Fasoranti, a sophomore emergency medicine student, found herself in a similar position this September. Earlier this month, Fasoranti began her internship at North Way Christian Community in the children’s ministry, where she helps preschool- and elementary-aged students discover their faith. For Fasoranti, a full-time job offer would only come if she clicked with the people and the position. “A job could come out if it but not because of the internship. It would come if I showed an interest and if I did well in it and had my heart in it — and if they thought I did, too,” Fasoranti said. The LinkedIn study confirmed Fasoranti’s statement — the results showed that nonprofit organizations and other institutions offer many internships but
September 26, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com very few full-time jobs. In industries such as nonprofit management, international affairs and public relations, about 19 percent of interns are offered a full-time job, post-internship. But in other areas, including investment banking, design and information and technology services, many internships result in jobs. According to the study, 61 percent of interns in the accounting field are offered a job after graduation. Despite the low percentages, Fasoranti and Tammaro are confident that their experiences as interns will help them with their future endeavors. “The door is always open there. I had a good relationship with all the nurse supervisors, so there’s no longer a question of good personality, or good work ethic,” Tammaro said. “If I wanted to stay in Connecticut, I could probably get a job there.” Fasoranti had a similar experience. “Having a background in ministry will show me the ins and outs of it, show me if I have an interest in it,” she said. “And even if it’s not something I want to pursue
in the future, I want to be involved in it.” The LinkedIn study acknowledged that an internship in any industry will allow students to “get their foot in the door, learn relevant skills ... and grow their professional network.” Caterina Pagano, a sophomore civil engineering major, interned at the Vascular Medicine Institute at Pitt last summer. Pagano agreed that internships are a good way to get involved but did not think they were the most important aspect of finding a job post-graduation. The study’s data confirms this, as 35 percent of civil engineers will receive the opportunity to turn an internship into a full-time career. Thus, Pagano is currently looking for a co-op position, which are temporary full-time jobs that students hold instead of spending a term taking classes at their university — and usually organized in conjunction with the university. “It’s not typical for internships to be continued [among engineers],” Pagano said. “Co-ops require you to do three rotations, so you really get to know the people, and they are more likely to hire you.”
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JIMMY JOHN’S close watch over their online banking accounts and call their bank as soon as they notice strange charges. PNC will also notify customers if there are strange charges. “You may get something in the mail if we do identify your card as a compromised card,” he said. Michael, who declined to give his last name, said that PNC customers with questionable charges on their accounts may have their accounts frozen until the charges are removed. The full list of Jimmy John’s stores affected by the security breach is available on the company’s website.
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EDITORIAL
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OPINIONS Casual Fridays
Frogs are people too In Westworth Village, Texas, local firefighters pulled off a daring rescue while combatting a house fire. The life saved that from the blaze that day was a frog’s. The amphibian in distress was apparently very thankful for the firefighters’ bravery that day, as was his girlfriend, Miss Piggy.
Prisoner: Really good roommate A prisoner in a western Montana jail attempted an escape late Wednesday night. And he would’ve gotten away with it too, if
he weren’t such a nice guy. As it turns out, the prisoner, Simeon Keith Lippert, 24, surrendered in the middle of his escape because he didn’t want to disturb his fellow inmates’ sleep. Reportedly, he even turns off his alarm clock every morning, unlike MY roommate.
Fra-gee-lay: It must be Dutch Dutch man Leo Bonton recently had his leg amputated after developing a nasty infection. Instead of wallowing in the loss of his leg, he looked at the bright side: the awesome business opportunity the situation provided. He decided to turn his
amputated leg into a lamp and attempt to sell it on eBay. Unfortunately for Bonton, eBay said it breached their policy banning the sale of human body parts. In other news, IKEA announced a new line of lamps coming this spring.
Let it go Formerly obscure author Isabella Tanikumi is suing Disney for $250 million. Why? It turns out that Disney’s “Frozen” is a rip-off of her semi-autobiographical book, “Yearnings of the Heart.” The author claims that “Frozen” plagiarized her story, characters and plots of her book,
which took place in the Andean mountains. Meanwhile, scientists are searching for a talking snowman in Peru.
Officers receive tip In Portland, Ore., a Pizza Hut delivery driver got into a crash and injured his neck while on the job. When police officers arrived on the scene, they knew what they had to do: finish the delivery. Officers Michael Filbert and Royce Curtiss delivered the pie successfully to the hungry customers. Unfortunately, the only jokes we could come up for this were ... extra cheesy.
COLUMN
Sweet smell of ‘swagger:’ gendered products are useless Channing Kaiser Columnist
You are a man with a smelly apartment. Do you: A. Ignore it. This is college. Your mom’s not here. Who cares? B. Spray Febreze everywhere and light a vanilla-scented candle, letting your masculinity take a hit. C. Order a “mandle” with a scent like “kegger” or “stripper’s mouth,” and let your apartment smell less like moldy pizza crusts while still retaining your masculinity. Man candles, or candles made for men, are a perfect example of a uselessly gendered product sold online and in some retail stores. Why is a coconutscented candle feminine, while a wood shop-scented candle is masculine? There shouldn’t be any pressure to adopt items or behaviors simply because they’re considered to be masculine or feminine. Gendered items, like candles,
push for an even greater division. The division between masculine and feminine hasn’t always looked this way. For example, pink used to be associated with boys and blue with girls — one theory for this change is that, during World War II, Hitler assigned pink triangles to mark homosexuals, so men ditched their association with the color and adopted blue in its place. But stores and marketing institutions funnel us toward more modern and specified gender roles with their products. Walk into any toy store and it is easy to distinguish which aisles sell toys aimed at girls and which aim their products toward boys. Gendered marketing becomes more subtle when we are older but still exists. Women’s deodorant comes in pastel blue and lavender containers with scents like “fresh linen” and “tropical mist,” whereas men’s deodorant comes in bright red, gray or black containers, and men can choose between smelling like “De-
nali” or “swagger.” Besides color, companies target men or women using wording. According to Mandleco.com, the candle called “stripper’s mouth” supposedly smells like peppermint, but, somehow, titling it “peppermint” isn’t manly enough. After all, why name a candle after a basic scent when you can use a sexualized woman instead? On the other end of the spectrum, a female-oriented candle might not be titled “peppermint,” either, but instead called something cutesy like “snow bunny” or “winter wonderland.” I have a lotion called “Enchanted Forest” in a shiny pink tube and I have no idea what it is supposed to smell like (wood sprites? Magical elm trees?). The title can be vague as long as it vastly generalizes what the targeted gender is supposed to like. The list of uselessly gendered products is endless: razors, body wash, ski jackets, even leprechaun costumes.
Sometimes it makes sense to have gendered items — women often have larger hips and butts than men, and guys’ jeans are not as accommodating in those areas as women’s jeans are. Nonetheless, companies make it obscenely hard to even venture into the other gender’s realm. If I wanted to try on men’s pants, for example, I would not only have to walk to the opposite side of the store, but I would also have to know my hip measurement in inches — U.S. women’s pant sizes are arbitrary numbers whose only correlation with measurement is the wider the hips, the larger the number. Sizes can differ from store to store, though. A size eight pant at Abercrombie & Fitch is not the same size as a size eight pant at Old Navy. Sometimes gendered products are sneaky about creating differences. All women’s button-ups have their buttons on the left side while men’s have theirs on the right. What’s the point in that? With minimal exceptions, gendered
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KAISER products are useless. Besides grossly stereotyping the female and male genders — women apparently like all things cute, pink and with six-pack abs, while men only like breasts, beer and football — they also run into the problem that there are more than two genders. What about all those individuals who identify
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as neither male nor female, but somewhere in between? Which candle are they supposed to buy? It puts a lot of pressure on ascribing to traditional forms of masculinity and femininity where there shouldn’t be any. It shouldn’t be “unmanly” for a guy to like gingerbread-scented candles or for a girl to want to smell like “swagger” instead of a rose bush. We need to ditch pointlessly gendered items and simply buy what we like. If we,
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the consumer, show companies through our purchasing power that we’re not willing to be confined by gendered marketing, then maybe they’ll loosen up the rigid boundaries. So if you identify as male and your apartment smells bad, I recommend choosing D: clean up the source of the smell and then light whatever candle you want. Just make sure your smoke detector is working. Email Channing at clk87@pitt.edu
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Pitt faces pass-happy Akron a week after its first loss zone field goal and could not convert on two interceptions thrown by Penn State’s sophomore quarterback Christian Hackenberg. Akron has a noteworthy quarterback itself, albeit one who operates in a spread offense — junior Kyle Pohl, who will step under center Saturday. Pohl has molded the Zips’ experienced offense — which features eight of 11 returning starters from last season — into a potentially dangerous one through three games, averaging 286.3 yards through the air per game, good for 33rd in the nation. “He’s athletic, he reads coverages well, he runs well, he’s just an all-around player,” Pitt senior linebacker Todd Thomas said during a press conference Wednesday. But Pohl’s ability to rack up yardage doesn’t mean the Zips score often. In fact, over its past seven quarters, Akron’s firstteam offense hasn’t scored a touchdown. Moreover, Akron has gone 12 of 42 on
Ryan Bertonaschi Senior Staff Writer Broken by separate calamities years ago, Pitt’s and Penn State’s football programs may have stopped the bleeding. Both teams now appear to be on the winning track, and Pitt fans finally get an opportunity to see how their Panthers (3-1, 1-0 ACC) might match up against the 4-0 Nittany Lions when mutual opponent Akron (1-2, 0-0 MAC) comes to Heinz Field Saturday. Following Pitt’s Saturday afternoon game against Akron, a squad that lost to Penn State 21-3 several weeks ago, fans will be able to call up some of their Lionloving co-workers on Sunday to compare, contrast and perhaps taunt if Pitt runs away with a blowout victory. During the Sept. 6 game at Penn State, the Nittany Lions led 7-3 late in the third quarter but pulled away from Akron with two unanswered touchdowns to avoid the would-be scare. The Zips missed a red
Todd Thomas and the defense now face the 33rd-best passing attack in the country in Akron. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Panthers cannot find first conference win at Boston College Kevin Wheeler Staff Writer
Lately, the issues facing the Pitt women’s soccer team have to do with the team’s inability to give a full effort on defense. This was evident Thursday night as the Panthers allowed three goals to Boston College. The Panthers went down early in their first ACC matchup of the season last week against Duke, after a lack of defensive execution allowed the Blue Devils to score three goals in the first 20 minutes of play. While Pitt was able to fend off the Eagles for most of the first half on Thursday, the team fell behind in the second half and ultimately lost the game 3-1. In the 26th minute, Boston Col-
lege’s sophomore forward Hayley Dowd scored the first goal of the contest for the Eagles, putting them up 1-0 midway through the first half. The goal was Dowd’s seventh this season. Pitt kept battling, but the Eagles eventually gained the advantage in offensive chances over the Panthers, recording nine shots, compared to Pitt’s five. Pitt went into the halftime break down by only one score. The team created a fair amount of chances for themselves, and was on the brink of scoring, but never capitalized on those chances in the first half. The Panthers’ optimism didn’t last long, however, as the Eagles came into the second half on a mission. In the 51st minute, Boston College took control of
the game. Once again, it was Dowd who scored for the Eagles off a pass from sophomore midfielder Rosie DiMartino. The goal gave the Eagles a 2-0 advantage over Pitt. Dowd still wasn’t done with Pitt. Less than two minutes later, she got by the Panthers’ defensive line and sent a pass to midfielder Jana Jeffrey, who booted the rock into the twine for the Eagles, putting them up 3-0. Senior defender Jackie Poucel said the team was frustrated that the goals didn’t reflect the team’s play. “Those [goals] were just disappointing because we had been shutting them down on the attack the whole time, then we have two little slips that cost us goals,” she said. “It’s upsetting knowing they didn’t deserve [the goals]. We
were outplaying them.” Despite giving up two quick scores, Pitt didn’t lie down in the second half. The Panthers fought to earn 10 shots in the second period, as opposed to BC’s three, giving Pitt the advantage in total shots for the game, 15-12. “We were having fun and possessing the ball really well,“ Poucel said. “This is the team I know we are. This is how Pitt can play.” Pitt wasn’t afraid to be physical, either, and committed seven fouls in the second half. Head coach Greg Miller wanted effort from his team, and he finally saw it on Thursday. “We played absolutely unbelievable and the scoreline doesn’t dictate how
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FOOTBALL third downs since its week one pounding of Howard, and it has scored just six times in 12 red zone appearances, an issue that contributed to the Zips’ loss in Happy Valley. Akron relies heavily on Pohl, who drops back to pass on average 40 times per contest. The high passing rate is probably justified by the Zips’ pitiful rushing attack. Akron’s leading rusher has just 69 yards, and that person is Pohl. Trailing the do-it-all quarterback on the ground are several running backs of different shapes, sizes and ages that have collectively run for just 205 yards. To put that into perspective, Pitt’s sophomore bruiser James Conner has already amassed 699 rushing yards alone. Pitt may be familiar with some of Akron’s players, as the Zips have three players who once starred in the WPIAL: freshman Tommy Woodson, a product of Gateway High School, tight end Michael Kish of Brentwood and quarterback Chandler Kincade from Blackhawk.
September 26, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com Kincade committed to Pitt as a sophomore in 2011, but, shaken by former coach Todd Graham’s departure, he backed out of his commitment a year later. “I want to make sure wherever I go that I’m their guy,” Kincade told Kevin Gorman of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review at the time of his commitment. Akron head coach Terry Bowden, son of former legendary Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, is also familiar with Pitt. He grew up in Morgantown and played running back for West Virginia in the ‘70s. His father coached at West Virginia for the duration of Terry’s childhood before making his historical mark in Tallahassee. “I remember everything about walking up to that old stadium,” Terry said Tuesday, referencing the hike up Cardiac Hill that ended at the south gates of Pitt Stadium. Bowden adamantly defended the successes of his young quarterback Tuesday when he spoke to reporters, implying that his team is fine; it just needs to capitalize on drives. “We’d like to run the ball better,” Bowden said. “But I look at Florida State,
the No. 1 team in the country, and they got 13 yards rushing and beat Clemson, and [Florida State is still the No. 1 team in the country].” Bowden added that the Panthers are a team that “is probably coming out mad as heck because they lost a game to Iowa that they were winning the entire game.” Indeed, Pitt is coming off a 24-20 loss spawned by a second-half collapse that caused a sickening feeling in the stomachs of many Panthers. Conner said Monday that senior safety Ray Vinopal gave Pitt’s locker room attendees a motivational talk for the ages following the Panthers’ crushing defeat. Vinopal told players that they’ve now experienced the hurting sensation that comes with a bad loss and that they don’t want to feel it again this season. Thomas concurred. “We don’t want to see that feeling again. It’s just time to work harder and grind.” Thomas led Pitt’s defense against Iowa with five solo tackles, including a tackle for loss. “Now it’s just time to get back to winning again,” he said.
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ACROSS 1 Dressage gear 5 Sound of warning 9 Repel, with “off” 14 Member of a ’60s quartet 15 Competitive blade 16 Projecting window 17 Like an insufficient account 19 Best-dressed goal? 20 Start of an optical illusion quip 22 Agnus __ 23 Film dog’s first name? 24 Quip, part 2 31 “A little __ the mightiest Julius fell”: Horatio 32 Rocket retired in 2011 33 Cry for help 35 “The Scream” artist 38 One in a cage 40 Drive erratically 41 Like the thing not to do 43 Zip 45 Org. with an elephant in its logo 46 Quip, part 3 50 “No more seats” letters 51 Cross shape 52 End of the quip 60 Small songbird 61 Customers 63 Not showing much life 64 Masseur’s selection 65 Project 66 New beginnings 67 Stout grain 68 Rip violently DOWN 1 USN rank 2 Sitar master Shankar 3 Gp. that includes Venezuela
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SOCCER the game went,” he said. “We were just really resilient, and I’m definitely proud of the effort.” Junior midfielder Roosa Arvas put the Panthers on the board off of an assist from Taylor Pryce, shortly after Jeffrey’s goal, with a score of her own, narrowing the deficit to two for Pitt. But the Panthers were unable to overcome their shortcoming. The team put up a fight but did not capitalize on offensive chances on its way to the 3-1 loss, dropping them to 0-2 in ACC play in 2014. Pitt will move on to face the Syracuse Orange on Sunday to complete the twogame road trip. Freshman midfielder Hanna Hannesdottir said she is still feels encouraged despite the result. “I am very proud of my team tonight,” Hannesdottir said. “We might not have gotten the results we wanted, but I think we proved ourselves that we can compete and we deserve to. It’s a matter of us just growing from here on out.”
10/10/14
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