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Pitt doctor helped review, approve Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Rashi Ranjan

Senior Staff Writer Armed with a 100-page packet of data, Dr. Patrick Moore helped evaluate the safety and efficacy of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for the United States — in just four days.

But even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of this vaccine wasn’t normal, Moore said he wants all Americans to know the Pfizer vaccine is an important step in ending the pandemic and keeping Americans safe.

“We’re in an emergency, obviously. We have to have some way of stopping this epidemic — it’s completely disrupted our entire social and economic fabric,” Moore, a distinguished professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at UPMC, said. “We’re facing enormous risk from COVID-19, and we feel very confident that there’s very low risk for the vaccine.”

Moore serves on the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Committee, which reviewed data regarding Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in December. The FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Dec. 11 for emergency use authorization.

Moore said the FDA invited him to analyze preliminary data from Pfizer about the safety and efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine alongside 20 other scientists. He said the committee gives advice to the FDA regarding the release of pharmaceuticals.

“We give [the FDA] a better sense of whether we agree with releasing it under the circumstances that they’ve posed or not,” Moore said. “It’s a committee that, every year, has to also give advice on the components on the influenza vaccine.”

Moore speculated that he was selected for the committee due to his experience in cancer

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neurology and chronic disease biology, as well as handling epidemics. As an epidemic intelligence service officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he said he worked in Chad and Ethiopia to control meningitis epidemics in Africa.

Moore said all the scientists serving on the committee must be “mature,” since their job is to look objectively at this data in a critical way.

Besides the panel’s own critique, the committee comments from the public that were previously submitted to the FDA. “There are legitimate concerns that people may have,” Moore said. “We should bring [them] up with the company as best we can, even if we, personally, do not think those concerns are terribly important.”

Moore said having the public’s trust in the safety of the vaccine is crucial to get a nationwide vaccine rollout going.

“A reasonable person will want to know, and should know, that people who don’t have a conflict of interest are evaluating this, and it’s based on data, not opinions,” Moore said.

Dr. Shou-Jiang Gao has worked with Moore for many years, initially as a postdoctoral researcher in Moore’s lab at Columbia University.

Now Moore’s boss, Gao, a professor in the department of microbiology and molecular genetics, said they focus on cancer viruses. Moore, along with his wife, Dr. Yuan Chang, a distinguished professor in the department of pathology at Pitt, discovered two of the seven human cancer viruses — one in 1994 and another in 2008.

Gao said Moore is one of the “brightest scientists I’ve ever known” and that the scientific review he was a part of was “critical.”

“Scientific review is critical and a topic of public concern in terms of efficacy and safety,” Gao said. “I think the panel, which included him, did a fantastic job and evaluated all the data to give the best recommendation.”

Moore’s former colleague Dr. Lee Harrison, a professor of medicine and epidemiology in the department of medicine at Pitt and chair of the Allegheny County Board of Health, also spoke highly of Moore. He said they traveled together for the CDC, where they intercepted airplanes

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carrying passengers from Saudi Arabia who may have contracted meningitis.

“We traveled to New York City to intercept Saudia 747s at the tarmac of JFK Airport because there was a big meningitis outbreak going on in Mecca during the Hajj,” Harrison said. “We intercepted before they got to the gate and did a study of how to prevent meningococcal infection in people coming off the airplane.”

While potential COVID-19 vaccines were being discussed months before any approval, Gao said the decision to approve the vaccine must have been a difficult one.

“The majority of these vaccine trials only have two-month data available right now,” Gao said. “They have to make the best scientific judgment they can.”

With the vaccine approved, Americans are eager to get vaccinated. But vaccine rollouts have been slower than anticipated, according to Moore. According to the Associated Press, Pennsylvania is tied for 39th among the 50 states in terms of the percentage of the population that has received at least one dose of a vaccine, as of Feb. 3. Only 10.6% of Pennsylvanians have received at least one dose of a vaccine as of Sunday, according to The New York Times.

“Countrywide, [the vaccine distribution] has been miserable.You knew there was a vaccine being evaluated, I certainly knew there was a vaccine being evaluated,” Moore said. “Everyone in the public health community should have had clear marching orders from Washington to the states to the counties to the providers.”

Moore said there are a lot of hurdles with distributing this vaccine, including the necessity for two doses and identifying patients who are at a higher risk to line them up in an orderly way early on.

Harrison agreed that the vaccine rollout was less than ideal. He said a prevalent issue was having more demand than supply.

“There’s a big demand, and then not as much supply. The logistics of getting people immunized is proving more difficult than was an-

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Pitt faculty prepare for union election, adjust campaigning amid pandemic

Nathan Fitchett and Neena Hagen Senior Staff Writers

Melinda Ciccocioppo used to walk around campus proudly sporting her “Union of Pitt Faculty” button. She’s visited faculty offices, labs and classrooms for years to talk with professors about how a faculty union could improve their lives.

But since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the psychology lecturer has had to rely on professors’ willingness to answer a phone call or email.

“I think overall it's more difficult,” Ciccocioppo said. “Probably the biggest change is that we can no longer do class visits or office visits.”

Despite those hardships, faculty union organizing efforts have ramped up since March, when COVID-19 largely shut down Pitt’s campus and forced classes online. With a union election likely to take place in the summer or fall — according to representatives from United Steelworkers, the union assisting faculty and graduate students in their attempts to unionize — organizers have had to adjust quickly to make their message heard.

Instead of candid one-on-one conversations with professors after class, organizers have pivoted to Zoom happy hours and emails. Ciccocioppo said organizing in this way can make it harder to get new faculty on board.

“It's hard to get a response sometimes to cold emails if people don't know you,” Ciccocioppo said. “It’s easier if I’m reaching out to someone that I know, that works out better. But if it's a faculty member that I’ve never met before, it can be hard to get a response.”

As the faculty union campaign reaches the five-year mark, Paul Johnson, an assistant professor of communications, said “enthusiasm for the effort remains very strong.”

Union organizers filed for an election in January 2019 after they said they collected signed authorization cards from the required 30% of Pitt faculty. The campaign up until that point lasted three years, but it was only the beginning of a long process.

The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board ruled in April 2019 that organizers had not collected enough cards to trigger an election. Five months later, The Pitt News found that Pitt had included hundreds of administrators and retired professors on its list of union-eligible faculty. Labor Board hearing examiner Stephen Helmerich

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subsequently ruled that the Pitt-submitted list was “factually and legally inaccurate,” allowing faculty to move forward with an election. Due to the pandemic, the election will likely take place using mail-in ballots.

Pitt has also paid “union avoidance” law firm Ballard Spahr $2.1 million since 2016 to provide legal support during the separate faculty and graduate student union campaigns. Many organizers have slammed the payments as a waste of money.

Pitt spokespeople have repeatedly denied allegations that the University tried to stall union-

are going to take in the new semester,” Johnson said. “When they read about those in the news instead of receiving direct information from chairs and administrators.”

Many Pitt faculty also complained that they had little say in the implementation of Flex@Pitt, a part in-person and part remote learning model that Pitt instituted for the 2020-21 academic year.

Ciccocioppo said the decisions surrounding this teaching model were a surprise to many instructors.

“One effect that the pandemic has had on organizing is that it's really shed a light on how

tracts and address various grievances within the department. Tyler Bickford, an associate professor in the English department, said that process will be crucial for evaluating faculty needs.

“When we go into bargaining, we’re going to make sure we’re very closely communicating with the faculty about priorities,” Bickford said.

Organizers have long complained that adjuncts and visiting lecturers don’t have a voice in administrative decisions. They say improved representation could help mend the fractured relationship between top officials and lowerranking professors.

Johnson said organizers “feel pretty confident” that a union bid will succeed. At least 50% of professors must vote yes to form a faculty union at Pitt, which would be affiliated with the Academic Workers Association, a division of United Steelworkers.

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Faculty union organizers have had to turn to Zoom calls and emails to rally support. TPN file photo ization efforts.

“In every instance, Pitt has followed the process laid out by the PLRB,” Pitt spokesperson David Seldin said.

Organizers have had three main priorities since they officially kicked off their campaign in 2016 — improving pay, job security and transparency between the administration and faculty.

For Johnson, an issue that's become magnified during the pandemic is transparency. Pitt’s administration drew criticism from faculty over the summer after sending an “inadvertent” email to incoming first-year students about fall plans before informing faculty.

“People are frustrated when they find out decisions that are made about when students are coming back to campus, what the form of classes

little say faculty have in terms of important decision making that happens, even involving our primary tasks, like instruction, for example,” Ciccocioppo said. “There was really no faculty input in terms of going to this Flex@Pitt model, it really kind of came out of the blue for all of us.”

Provost Ann Cudd said in May that the University’s fall-planning task force received “lots of input from students and faculty.” Chris Bonneau — president of the Faculty Assembly, which represents faculty on campus — served on the task force’s executive committee, and faculty were included in the working groups.

If the union election goes the way of organizers, the first step would be to elect faculty representatives from each department who could set up a committee to peer review employees’ con-

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News Editor The Fossil Free Pitt Coalition unveiled a billboard Monday morning at the corner of the Boulevard of the Allies and Bates Street in South Oakland. The billboard features two eyes and the words, “PITT THE WORLD IS WATCHING, DIVEST NOW.” Ellen Oordt, a member of FFPC, said the billboard will hopefully remind Pitt’s Board of Trustees of their “moral and fiduciary” responsibility to divest from the fossil fuel industry.

“There are so many eyes waiting for Pitt to make the just decision,” Oordt, a junior ecology and evolution major, said. “We await as Pitt finds the courage to do the difficult thing that needs to be done to ensure a thriving world for our children and grandchildren.”

The Board of Trustees’ Ad-Hoc Committee on Fossil Fuels was tasked with providing a report

by Jan. 15, with options as to “whether, to what extent and via what methods the University, in its endowment, should consider divestment from fossil fuels in existing and/or future investments.”

The committee hosted two virtual forums last semester to collect feedback from community members about the committee and divestments.

The committee’s report of findings and options — which was delivered to Board Chair Thomas Richards on Jan. 15 — is now under review by Richards and the Board’s executive com-

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mittee. According to the committee’s website, the full report will be made public prior to any action by the full Board of Trustees.

The board formed the committee in June after years of pressure from the student body, including groups such as the FFPC, who staged a 12-day sit-in at the Cathedral of Learning last spring, as well as a protest at last February’s board meeting.

The Board of Trustees unanimously approved a formal socially responsible investing process and committed to carbon neutrality by 2037 in February.

The billboard gained support from other advocacy groups around Pittsburgh including the Center for Coalfield Justice, 1Hood Media, Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh, the Green Party of Allegheny County, CMU Against ICE, Jailbreak PGH and Pitt club Free the Planet.

Oordt said after the billboard was released that FFPC now has three demands: 1. Chancellor Patrick Gallagher must immediately call for the Board of Trustees to vote to divest from fossil fuels.

2. Trustees with ties to the fossil fuel industry must abstain from the vote.

3. The board must involve the input of Pittsburgh community members in reinvestment decisions, including that of the organizations who

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Opinions Ajani Powell

Black hair is professional

Staff Columnist

Black hair is diverse. She is versatile. She is gorgeous. But she is a headache. I have embraced my natural coils since I was born on this earth, thanks to my mother who cared for it through my childhood.

With my nappy, natural hair came love and hate — I would get backhanded compliments about my hair being “so long and healthy,” but it would look better if it were “straighter” or “looser.” I was asked if I was mixed because I had “good hair” that was too nice to just be Black. I got teased for having braids and twists — called an octopus, a little boy. I was even called baldheaded.

When I embraced my natural hair in its natural state, people would ask when it was getting done, but it was done. My hair grew out of my head and some days I left it as it wanted to be. But that wasn't enough for people. So many people were caught up in the idea of my hair, but they didn’t understand half of the struggle.

It was one thing to deal with thick, coily hair — the tangles, the knots, the sore shoulders. It is another to deal with hate for your hair. People telling you that your hair is too big, too nappy, too coarse with too many styles. Otherwise stated, too Black. Not just growing up, but now. People will make unsolicited comments about the status of your hair. They will insinuate that you are dirty because you don’t wash it everyday. They will deny you a position because you don’t “fit into company environments.” They will bother you because your hair is in the way.

Well, move around.

Black hair has a rich history that extends beyond what my brain allows me to imagine. There is proof of Black hairstyles’ intricacies that dates back to 30,000 years ago — showcasing different braids, twists, wigs and locs on statues and hieroglyphics. Each hairstyle, material and decor had various meanings that Western society overlooked. Black hair had a major role in African culture. It was displayed as a symbol of familial con-

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nection, social and marital status, spirituality and tribe. It is due to this fact that we can trace hairstyles back to their origins today — Fulani braids that are still popular today have foundation in braiding styles of the Fulani tribe. We can even trace cornrows back to Africa. Although the name was derived from enslaved persons seeing resemblance to the cornfields they harvested, the braiding style is traced back to Africa.

Though African hair was originally recognized as notable and important, it was through slavery that Black hair became dis-

bons and feathers — turning this act of oppression to a stance against the government.

Although Black women have worked to overcome societal boundaries and limitations on Black hair, they are still subject to hair discrimination that is systematically engrained into workplaces. Black women with traditonally Black hair and hairstyles are more likely to suffer discrimination in the workplace and are less likely to get a job if they wear those styles. There are even cases of young women being kicked out of school and off of their sports teams for hav-

Dalia Maeroff Senior Staff Illustrator respsected. Black hair was compared to wool to diminish the desirability of it, and made to be thought of as inferior to white hair.

This was done to help amplify a power dynamic — to be deemed reputable or worthy of social acceptance, one would have to assimilate into Western standards of hair and chemically alter it to be straight. This was deemed to be “good hair.” But that was not enough. In Louisiana, Black women were forced to wear headwraps to undermine their “exotic” features and tempting allure.

These Black women did not allow this to stop them from expressing themselves. They decorated their headwraps with jewels, rib-

ing natural hairstyles. This is not new. When I was a senior in high school, I was suspended from the cheerleading team because my hair was not a “natural color,” but there was a non-Black girl on the team with the same hair color who did not get suspended. I raised war in that school regarding such discrimination, but I shouldn’t have had to.

There are so many scenarios like mine or worse that have not gotten any attention.

Black hair discrimination prevents people from getting jobs, graduating from school and playing sports. It is so severe that there was an initiative to start a lobbying group called The CROWN Act, which stands for

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“Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.” The group advocates for states to pass laws meant to prohibit race-based hair discrimination. It even goes as far as to describe what race-based hair discrimination is.

Hair discrimination does not always present itself as simply as not hiring someone because of their hair. It presents itself as not hiring properly trained people to do Black hair. It presents as someone thinking that a coworker is dirty because they have locs. It can be proved as wanting someone to change their hair to fit an “aesthetic” of your work environment. Though it may be hard to believe, this happens in everyday life and behind the scenes for your favorite celebrities. Trina McGee from “Boy Meets World,” Monique Coleman from “High School Musical” and Tati Gabrielle from “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” have all spoken about their struggles with Black hair in the film industry. They would have to do their hair independently, come to set with their hair done or cover up mistakes of hairdressers who were not trained in Black hair. That is hair discrimination. How can a hairdresser not be trained in Black hair? Is it not hair?

It is hair. But it's not just hair. It doesn’t get to just be hair when we are criticized and ridiculed for the way our tresses decide to lay, or the way we get our edges to be laid (to the gawds). Black hair has too much political input to just be hair. It is about more than hair when non-Black people can take Black things and get credit, while we, the creators, take the punishment. Black hair should not be mimicked or mocked if we can not clock into work with it. And there is nothing, no unprovoked thought or unwarranted opinion, that can change my mind — Black hair is professional.

If you would like to learn more about hair discrimination, check out the Crown Culture Club on campus.

Ajani Powell writes about social influences and Black culture. Contact them at ajp168@pitt.edu.

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Volunteering, unpaid internships and research opportunities need to be accessible

Dalia Maeroff

Senior Staff Columnist When the COVID-19 pandemic started, I lost one of my two jobs. It left me bored, pissed off and with more free time than I had ever had before. I became more politically active than ever before and put my goals and priorities in line for what must be the first time in my life. I decided I wanted to make a difference. I am passionate about education and traveling, so I found two organizations that could help.

The first is Choose a Challenge, which takes you on a challenging trip of a lifetime — in my case trekking for 10 days across the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains — in exchange for raising a given amount of money for a charity of your choice. The second is Funds2Orgs, which donates to a charity of your choice in your name in exchange for collecting used shoes for countries in which people often go shoeless. My charity

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of choice is Pencils of Promise, an organization that helps build schools, train teachers and provide hygiene and sanitation services for students all over the world. Everybody deserves a quality education, and I am determined to give a part of my time to make that happen.

I had never volunteered before this pandemic, nor had I ever raised money for charity, or worked in an unpaid internship or research position. Neither I nor my parents have a high enough income to allow me to dedicate large portions of my time to things that don’t pay. In high school, while other students were out partying on weekends, I was worried about getting up at 5 a.m. for my shift at Starbucks, because I needed the money for my undergraduate career.

Now that I’m in college, and was laid off from my job at Starbucks back last March, I spend my Saturdays and Sundays writing columns, making illustrations and going out in the cold to photo-

graph things for the newspaper, because I know I’ll need the cash for grad school and for whatever life I decide to lead after that.

Our society seems to think that in order to be a good person you have to volunteer. Someone who donates their time and energy to helping people without getting paid is the ultimate example of altruism — though it might also just be someone who really wants to be able to get into their top-choice college. Volunteering, charity work, unpaid research and internships all give you boosts not only in applying to colleges but afterwards when applying for jobs. The experience you get from volunteering or an unpaid internship or research position gives you chances to make connections and gain practical knowledge that many other students miss out on.

It is clear that volunteering, internships and research give everyone a leg up in both careers and education. These experiences need to be

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accessible to all people of all incomes so we can level the playing field for those who are falling behind. These organizations cannot operate or help people to the fullest extent without gigantic numbers of people working for them to perform the labor. In internships and research, people are needed to run out and get coffee, crunch numbers, do outreach and the work that higher-ups don’t want to do. Volunteering is a matter of sheer numbers — the more of them, the better.

I plan to go into psychology, a field in which unpaid research or internships are often the ticket into a lifetime of world-improving research.

Those unpaid internships and research projects often require just as much time as a part-time job, and I get nothing in return except for college credit, which I am paying tuition to get anyway.

I need to work so that I have money for now, as

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Culture

Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid keeps food on workers’ tables

Charlie Taylor Culture Editor

Kacy McGill and Taylor Stessney, cofounders and co-chairs of the local nonprofit Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid, saw the need to help their fellow restaurant workers when the food service industry shut down in mid-March. What started as a Facebook group and a small operation on McGill’s front porch now helps hundreds of workers and their families every week.

“We got started essentially on the night that dining facilities closed, which was March 16,” McGill said. “I sent Taylor a Facebook message like, ‘Hey, do you think this would be helpful if we started a group on Facebook?’”

PRWA hands out care packages containing food, cleaning supplies, pet food, diapers and more at their distribution center in North Point Breeze every Tuesday through Saturday. Through the care package program, as well as their GoFundMe campaign — which has raised over $57,000 for PRWA to redistribute in the form of cash grants — and several partnerships with local businesses and nonprofits, the group has offered aid for workers in one of the industries most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to McGill, who worked a bartending shift the night before the shutdown, constant changes in regulations on restaurants have led to inconsistent hours for workers. They said even after restaurants reopened, the lack of customers and limited building capacity meant workers saw a decline in tips, which make up a large portion of many restaurant employees’ incomes.

"They still had to show up to work, and it's a minimum wage so they weren't making any money,” McGill said. “Even now, we’ve had a seesaw of regulations in our industry, and it's been really difficult for workers to have consistent work.”

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Larisa Mednis, PRWA’s advocacy organizer, found themself in a precarious situation this spring in their job as a host. They said restaurant workers not only face inconsistent schedules and pay, but also have to fight to feel safe while serving the public.

“Once COVID started, we started facing a lot of challenges as workers, with advocating for our health and safety — trying to just campaign for better protections for ourselves like hazard pay or appropriate PPE,” Mednis said.

ied needs of restaurant workers, according to Mednis. Those groups include Petagogy, a locally-owned pet store, and Hungry Hippo’s Pet Food Pantry, both of which provide PRWA with pet food. The Western PA Diaper Bank also gives PRWA free diapers and other baby supplies — something McGill said is crucial to many restaurant workers.

“40% of our recipients have dependents that require diapers,” McGill said. “I think when folks think about restaurant workers, they have a tendency to think of folks

Local nonprofit Pittsburgh Restaurant Workers Aid’s distribution center in North Point Breeze. Sam Alburger Staff Photographer Mednis quit their service job in June, and applied to work for PRWA soon after.

In their current position, they communicate with those who receive PRWA’s care packages to ensure the supplies meet their needs.

Mednis also helps workers find resources from other organizations that will guide them through filing for unemployment, provide temporary housing and connect them with affordable child care, to name a few.

PRWA has also collaborated with several local and national groups to meet the var-

our age, like 20s to 30s. But they don't think about the folks who have been working in the industry for 20 years.”

Mednis said although PRWA can help workers with their immediate basic needs, such as food, diapers and housing, their aid can’t effectively replace a steady income.

“If people don't have any money, they can't take care of these things. There's rent assistance programs out there, but they're not going to cover everybody,” Mednis said. “These social service organizations

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and faith-based organizations only have so much money. They're not the government, and they only have so much capacity to give it out.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that between February 2020 and this January, employment in “leisure and hospitality,” including bars and restaurants, dropped by 22.9% nationwide. Pennsylvania has seen over 5 million applications to its federally supported Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs, with many applicants complaining of clogged phone lines and delays in payment.

Even for those who have obtained unemployment, Stessney said the coming months will prove strenuous as recipients file taxes on their unemployment checks.

“Now that we're coming around on tax filing season, people are getting these statements to pay their taxes on what they've received from unemployment,” Stessney said.

“But also a lot of people haven't received everything from unemployment so they're paying taxes on money they never received.”

With changing regulations on bars and restaurants in Allegheny County, McGill said PRWA has had to adapt their programming to meet workers’ needs. They said the group saw significantly less need during the summer months as businesses reopened, but tightening regulations following the winter surge in case numbers have sent workers back to PRWA for help.

“We try to keep our finger on the pulse with what's going on best we can, especially with policy [and] unemployment — we've been weekly following to see what updates are happening with their system,” McGill said. “Just letting folks know we have the resources in the meantime, but keeping them in the know of what is going on.”

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Emmanuel Acho discusses need for uncomfortable conversations about race

Charlie Taylor Culture Editor

Emmanuel Acho is an expert at having uncomfortable conversations. He’s received many awkward questions from white people on his webseries, “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.” But he said he’s glad he gets those questions — even the blatantly ignorant ones.

“It's exposing us. It's exposing our ignorance, it's exposing our naivete,” Acho said. “When I talk to a white person and they say something ignorant or something that's deemed to be dumb, I'm glad.

And not because you get to cancel them, not because it's a gotcha moment, but because you can't fix something you're ignorant to.”

Acho is a Fox Sports analyst and former NFL linebacker. His webseries, along with his 2020 book of the same title, aims

to advance racial justice in America by involving non-Black people in conversations that many would usually avoid.

Acho joined Pitt Program Council in a Zoom event Monday night to bring those conversations to the Pitt community, as part of PPC’s Black History Month programming.

Quincey Johnston, PPC’s lecture director and a junior chemistry major, asked Acho pre-prepared questions, as well as questions from students and faculty submitted during the event. Topics ranged from Acho’s experiences as a student at the predominantly white University of Texas, his perception of racial justice in the NFL and his advice for students navigating their own uncomfortable conversations. In a year of increased visibility for social justice movements, Acho said willful ignorance still stands as the greatest barrier to racial equality.

“We currently have a huge popula-

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tion in this country that's in denial about oppression, and denial about systemic racism, in denial about police brutality,” Acho said. “How can you fix that problem that you're refusing to admit that it exists?”

Acho, who grew up in a Nigerian family and attended a majority white private high school in Dallas, said he first became aware of the extent of his white peers’ ignorance in college, after thinking back to his earlier experiences.

Still, he said he didn’t feel that his professors encouraged open conversations about racism. Acho emphasized the importance of pursuing meaningful education about race at the college level, but only from well-informed professors.

“I don't want an unqualified individual trying to educate me on a matter that I am uneducated on,” he said. “I think certain educators should be primed and ready to have these conversations, but once again, we have to be mindful of the blind leading the blind.”

Chinyere Okonkwo, a first-year political science major, asked Acho how he navigated going to a predominately white school as a Black man. Acho said much of his college and professional experience has required him to code switch, or change his speech and mannerisms, while in white spaces.

“You have to change your vernacular, you have to tuck in the gold chain that you might typically have, because you have to present yourself in a manner that makes them feel more comfortable,” he said. “We have to do a better job of understanding other cultures, exposing ourselves to other cultures, so that we're not thrown off by said cultures.”

Okonkwo said Acho’s response to her question affirmed her experiences as a Black student at Pitt, and she would have liked to hear Acho talk further in depth about that topic.

“His response affirmed what I have been doing already and made me feel better,” Okonkwo said. “There's such a huge lack of diversity on [Pitt’s] campus that

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when you vocalize how you simply do not fit in, everyone thinks that is your own fault and problem.”

According to Acho, students should make more intentional efforts to expose themselves to people of different races and cultural backgrounds while they’re still young.

Acho pointed to Bruce Arians, head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as proof that exposure to diversity in college leads to a more tolerant mindset later in life. Arians was the first white player at Virginia Tech to have a Black roommate, and has established a coaching staff that, for the first time in NFL history, has three Black primary coordinators.

“If you cannot federally mandate integration, then you must mandate integration in your own life. Mandate integration in your small groups, mandate integration in your friend groups, mandate integration in your classrooms,” Acho said. “Mandate integration in some capacity, because that's the only way we'll really be able to get over this racial barrier that exists.”

Johnston said PPC invited Acho to speak in order to give students the tools necessary to approach uncomfortable conversations about racial justice with reluctant friends and family members.

“I think that's what the tool in this event specifically is, is being able to have a conversation when you didn't know how to go about it,” Johnston said. “That's something we always ask. How do you introduce these conversations to people who might not want to be having them?”

Acho said when approaching uncomfortable conversations, students, especially white allies, should spend time preparing for the conversation, and be upfront about their own ignorance.

“Admit that you've been ignorant,” Acho said. “‘OK, I don't know everything.

But here's what I have learned and here's where I have been wrong.’ Take ownership of your own shortcomings and your own flaws.”

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Sports

Pitt minor leaguers traverse obstacles in pursuit of MLB dreams

Alex Lehmbeck Sports Editor

A professional sports career seems like a utopian fantasy to most of us average Joes, whose peak moment on the playing surface most likely comes when they catch fire from deep in their weekly church basketball league. It takes a tremendous combination of skill and hard work to make one’s way into collegiate sports, and fewer than 2% of college athletes will play professional sports at any level for any amount of time.

Once an athlete breaks into that prestigious echelon, the hardest work and stress has to have passed right? They’ve beaten all the odds, now it’s time for the infinite money, fame and glory.

Right? If it were only that simple.

While sports fans gawk at Los Angeles Angels superstar Mike Trout’s 12-year, $430 million contract extension, the majority of players in the sport must delicately budget their earnings to survive. While the minimum major league salary is $563,500, a lawsuit filed by a group of minor leaguers in 2014 claimed most earn less than $7,500 annually. Though the MLB did raise the minor league minimum salary slightly for the 2021 season, the new wages for their threemonth or five-month season still do not guarantee minor league players a livable wage, as they do not receive compensation during the offseason or spring training.

Former Pitt outfielder Connor Perry, who the Detroit Tigers selected in the 28th round of the 2019 MLB Draft, knew the financial reality he’d face going into the league.

“I signed for a bag of chips to play professional baseball,” Perry said with a laugh. “We do get paid in-season. Is it a lot? No. But, I think a lot of things in life are perspective, so I kind of don’t worry about that financial aspect right now, I just kind of enjoy playing the game.”

Perry, like most of his ex-Pitt teammates in the MLB farm system, must find work in the offseason to support himself. He gives baseball lessons, coaches and runs camps near his

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hometown of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He even founded a summer baseball league this summer called the AAB Collegiate League, which attracted over 114 players, including senior Pitt outfielder Nico Popa.

“I started my own collegiate baseball league kind of as a joke, and it just took off,” Perry said.

“That was one kinda cool thing I did in the offseason to put some money in my pocket as well as help these guys out.”

Perry’s story represents just one of many Pitt alumni minor leaguers finding ways to make money in the offseason, while making important impacts on many people in the process.

Former Panther pitcher Derek West, drafted by the Houston Astros organization in 2019, found more than just a cash-grab in his offseason job in Delray Beach, Florida.

West worked with the Drug Abuse Foundation from September to January, monitoring, supervising and teaching recovering drug addicts and alcoholics on their road to sobriety. He said he wanted to make an impact this offseason, and the shocking drug-related deaths of MLB pitchers Jose Fernandez and Tyler Skaggs helped open his eyes to the issue.

“Not a lot of people like to talk about that kind of issue,” West said. “These people aren’t defined by their addiction. It’s not their character, it’s not their personality. It really gave me a new perspective in this world.”

Although he recently had to leave his position to report to the Astros’ rehab camp, as he recovers from tearing his ACL at the start of 2020, West said he definitely wants to return to this area of work in the future, adding that the DAF wanted to hire him as a facilities manager if he didn’t go back to baseball.

“I really made an impact there, and I came up with creative ways to emphasize rehab and getting your life together,” West said. “We would teach the clients and come up with different situations and scenarios to help them understand and gain the knowledge from another person’s

perspective.”

West said hearing the experiences of what his clients had gone through and the mental strength they endured in their path to recovery has changed his life. He had a glove custom made for this season in his work colors, with the letters “DAF” lining the side, to represent the people he helped at the organization on the baseball field.

West said he worked part-time at Pizza Hut on Baum Boulevard when he attended Pitt, so he has long become used to balancing a hectic schedule on and off the field. Alternatively, fellow Panther alum and Astros minor leaguer RJ Freure only has one source of income now — his baseball salary. As part of his temporary work

visa, the Canadian pitcher said he can’t legally accept another job during the offseason.

Minor league players often receive host families — volunteer households that provide players with food, shelter and more — easing some of the stress off the field during the season. Freure said he had a particularly great experience with his host family in Davenport, Iowa, who attended all of the games he pitched in support.

He even gave the couple’s son, who pitched for his high school team, some professional pointers from time to time.

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Takeaways from Pitt’s road loss against Georgia Tech

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For The Pitt News Pitt men’s basketball fell to 9-7 (5-6 ACC) after dropping Sunday’s contest against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets by a score of 71-65. This marks the team’s fifth loss in their last six games, and Pitt now sits in 11th place in the ACC after being as high as third earlier this season.

Sophomore guard Ithiel Horton led the Panthers with 18 points, going 4-8 from beyond the arc in 33 minutes on the floor, but his precision couldn’t make up for the Panthers’ abysmal first half and a seemingly endless stream of turnovers.

After falling behind by as much as 11, head coach Jeff Capel’s squad battled back as the second half came to a close, tying the game at 55 with just over four minutes to go. But Georgia Tech finished the deal to pick up the win in a pivotal ACC contest.

The team will have plenty to think about on its flight back from Atlanta.

Here’s a few takeaways from a game that had no shortage of what-ifs.

Panthers plagued by free throw shooting, a slow start and foul trouble Sound familiar? Three issues that have held the Panthers back all season came back to haunt them once again in one of the most important games of the 2020-21 campaign.

Pitt shot a measly 8-15 (53.3%) from the line, a number that included multiple misses from junior guard Au’Diese Toney, as well as first-year guards Femi Odukale and William Jeffress.

Since the start of ACC play, Odukale has shot a startling 36.4% from the line after going 0-2 on Sunday. While Odukale has been effective at times running the point, his free throw shooting continues to be a glaring weakness in the young guard’s game.

On the other end, Georgia Tech performed superbly at the line, making 2123 (91.3%), including a perfect 10-10 in

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the final four minutes. As Pitt tried to foul themselves back into a game in the final minutes, the Yellow Jackets held serve and kept Pitt at bay with clutch performances from the line.

The Panthers haven’t shaken their untimely free throw gaffes, and it’s costing them games.

While the offense finally showed up in the second half, its first half struggles ultimately made its deficit insurmountable. The Panthers headed into the locker room for halftime after managing to score only 22 points in the first 20 min-

to the bench less than a minute into the second half after picking up his fourth foul. Johnson and his teammates’ foul troubles have forced Pitt’s head coach to pull the plug on a starter early on, and if nothing changes, it will happen again.

Pitt in need of a strong presence down low Game after game, Pitt has a natural disadvantage in the paint on both sides of the ball because of its lack of a consistent big man. Due to the erratic production of the Panthers outside shooting, this has become a glaring issue as the

Au’Diese Toney pictured against Virginia Tech on Feb. 4.

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utes of play — an unfortunate familiarity for the team, as Pitt possesses a minus 34-point differential in the first half through 11 conference games. Coming out of halftime behind the eight ball has proven to be a crucial reason for Capel’s squad finishing on the wrong end of several close games.

Additionally, the trip to Georgia Tech signalled yet another game in which the Panthers handcuffed themselves due to foul trouble. Junior guard Xavier Johnson forced Capel to call him

season has progressed.

Sophomore forward Abdoul Karim Coulibaly has started 15 of the Panthers’ 16 games this season as the team’s big man. After the indefinite suspension of first-year forward John Hugley, Capel tasked Coulibaly with serving the vast majority of minutes in the frontcourt for Pitt, with the exception of scattered appearances from senior forward Terrell Brown. While Coulibaly has shown flashes of starting-five potential, his inability to consistently keep up

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with the dynamic big men in the ACC has become apparent.

In 37 minutes of play on Sunday, Coulibaly shot 1-5 from the floor and finished with two points and an equal number of turnovers.

Coulibaly’s role in the Pitt offense has seemingly revolved around setting picks at the top of the key and attempting to roll into the paint. It hasn’t worked.

March will have to wait Barring a stunning run in the ACC Tournament, the Panthers will sit on the outside looking in come Selection Sunday for the fifth consecutive season.

Despite the strong start to the season and flashes of brilliance from sophomore forward Justin Champagnie and others, this team simply isn’t built for the NCAA Tournament. We saw glimpses of the Panthers’ potential against Virginia Tech and Syracuse, where Pitt rolled out a prolific offensive attack centering around its three impact players in Johnson, Champagnie and Toney.

Unfortunately, games in which all three play to their full potential remain too few and far between.

Looking back at contests such as those against St. Francis, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Wake Forest, the Panthers’ put their weaknesses on display, specifically on the defensive side of the ball. When they weren’t getting burned from behind the arc, Pitt had immense trouble defending the paint.

While many hoped to see the Panthers in the 64-team field in March after a hot start to the season, this recent skid has just about silenced any optimism.

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