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‘dear old pittsburgh...’ we’re back

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CLASSES RETURN FULLY IN PERSON FOR FIRST TIME IN 18 MONTHS

I feel like it’s better than online classes, the learning process online just doesn’t work for me. I feel Colm Slevin like it’s good to have the opportunity for in-per- Staff Writer son classes. But I am worried about COVID and Photos by John Blair staff photographer my safety because I don’t know who’s vaccinated It’s not just your imagination — from and who isn’t.

Amaya Lobato the Snapchat stories from “Welfest” or First-year, psychology & marketing a record-breaking number of first-year students, Pitt’s campus has been much busier lately.

In the library, the quad and all your favorite study spots, open seats are hard to find. The clamor of students discussing everything from academics to weekend plans fills the air.

The first week of fully in-person classes began Monday, after two weeks of an in-person optional format. After an academic year of mostly remote classes, the once desolate Oakland is now flooded with students cramming It is really nice being back and having a seminormal senior year. I just hope that we can stick the streets and swarming the entryways.

While many students are happy about with the progress we’ve made and stay in person as long as possible. I think everyone is a lot more a return to fully in-person classes, some cheerful and positive because more people are are worried about the rising number of out and about this year.

Emma Kotes cases on campus. The COVID-19 MediSenior, neuroscience & French cal Response Office recorded 78 cases among students, faculty and staff from Aug. 27 through Sept. 7.

The CMRO also reported on Sept.

9 that 89% of undergraduate students, 88% of graduate students, 78% of faculty and 81% of staff on Pitt’s Oakland campus submitted proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said in a Sept. 3 interview that there is still no “secret playbook” for how to manage an ever-changing health situation and a “pretty volatile time” in history.

“We’re all going through a pandemic As a commuter, it’s good to be here and to be in the class with everyone. It was nice to have the for the first time in our lives, so there’s Zoom option, but there was something lacking no secret playbook that some people with the teaching process, it felt disconnected. have that others don’t,” Gallagher said.

“Consultation and information and idea Eric Stoeckle sharing has been really important.”

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It’s definitely an adjustment. But I like it, getting to inally began, most Pitt students were at be with everybody and meeting new people. I am home over spring break. Gallagher sent still cautious definitely, I think everybody should a University-wide email on March 11, be wearing masks and getting the vaccine.

2020 and said that due to an “unprecedented scenario” for U.S. universities, Jordyn Rabinowitz Pitt would add a week to spring break Sophomore, political science and then move classes online for the foreseeable future.

Pitt administrators said last academic year that classes would shift back in person in late August, but amid shifting guidelines, most classes remained entirely remote for the year.

While Pitt is currently not mandating a COVID-19 vaccine, it has implemented measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, such as wearing masks in Pitt buildings. Additionally, unvaccinated students are required to take weekly COVID-19 tests. Anyone who fails to Coming into this year I was nervous because I produce a negative COVID-19 test will spent all of my senior year and half of my junior year online. So I wasn’t used to being in a big lose access to University buildings. classroom with a lot of people — jumping from The CMRO also said the majority of a class of 30 people in high school to a lecture hall reported cases are mild and among vac- of 300 people.

Caylie Dwyer cinated individuals. They said this emFirst-year, neuroscience phasizes the importance of people wearing masks — especially when in large gatherings — and getting vaccinated as soon as possible. The Pitt CoVax Vaccination Center, located in the ground floor of Nordenberg Hall, is open six days a week with expanded hours throughout September.

Pitt administrators also addressed students’ heightened anxiety and stress with returning to in-person activities by making the University Counseling Center more accessible. Provost Ann Cudd also said professors can consult the Uni- I am concerned because some classes are very versity Center for Teaching and Learn- crowded, but other than that I really like being in ing for tips on how to accommodate person. It feels more like my first semester freshman year — there’s a huge difference from last both student and professor absences.

Rebecca Johnson and Jon Moss con- year, there’s more people on campus and people are getting more involved in clubs and in classes. tributed reporting.

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Soldiers & Sailors honors lives lost since 9/11 with dog tag memorial

Colm Slevin Staff Writer

When people walk past Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum on a breezy day, they may hear the jingling of silver garlands — made up of thousands of dog tags — hanging over each set of steps leading up from Fifth Avenue to the building. John McCabe invites people to stand and just listen to the rustling.

“Anyone who gets a chance to spend some time on any day where there’s a slight breeze is lucky,” McCabe said. “If you’re standing on those front steps as the wind blows, they clang together. It’s very moving to hear them, because not only do you see them but it’s almost like they’re talking to you also.”

Soldiers & Sailors strung 7,053 dog tags across the entrance to the building, in an exhibit which started Sept. 2 and will be up through the end of the month. The dog tags represent American lives lost in the past two decades from conflict overseas after the 9/11 attacks.

McCabe, president and CEO of the museum, said the team at Soldiers & Sailors chose dog tags because of their association with the military. Every member receives dog tags at the beginning of their training that always stay with them during their service.

“You see a dog tag and you immediately think of the military,” McCabe said. “It was a way that we felt was somewhat inexpensive.

We use dog tags in our memorial in our museum. We sell dog tags already and we have a dog tag machine from the 1950s that we can print on them. We can sell a dog tag that has been specifically printed with something on it. So these won’t go to waste.”

Ally Colgan, a sophomore emergency medicine major, said seeing so many dog tags made her realize the true magnitude of the lives lost during the wars that followed 9/11.

“I think it’s special that they chose dog tags,” Colgan said. “I think it makes it clear who they’re honoring and just how many people gave their lives to protect ours. That number is hard to wrap your head around, but seeing all of them shows just how thank-

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ful we need to be.”

According to McCabe, planning for the memorial started less than a month ago when Soldiers & Sailors decided on dog tags, which the museum printed onsite.

“There’s 7,053 dog tags that each one stands for each service member, according to the numbers from the Department of Defense,” McCabe said. “Each that had lost their lives [giving] the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq in those 7,053 includes 300 specific dog tags with an American flag on them. And those are the 300 Pennsylvania veterans who were killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.”

While the memorial is out for all of September, there was a sounding of “Taps” at dusk on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 last Saturday. The musical arrangement is played during military memorials and funeral services, and Marine Corps veteran John Weinheimer played it this year.

Emma Isenberg, an undeclared first-year engineer, said she heard “Taps” from her room in Nordenberg Hall and was moved by the rendition.

“Even though I wasn’t alive for 9/11, I still think it’s one of those things you have to commemorate,” Isenberg said. “I heard them from my room and I was really touched. With the sun coming down it was a beautiful atmosphere.”

McCabe said the memorial remembers those who have lost their lives in the wars since 9/11, this choice was made because it was reflective of the mission of Soldiers & Sailors — “honor them with your presence.”

“We wanted to find a way to honor it and do it in a way that is reflective of what we do,” McCabe said. “We decided on the exhibit, reflecting and honoring those service members. We want to show this exhibit as a way to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice. This was a very finite example of how we could identify and recognize all of our service members who have fought for our country following 9/11, but specifically for those sacrifices.”

Isenberg said leaving the dog tags up for the whole month has a greater lasting effect on community members than if it was just for one day.

“When people walk past it everyday for

a while, not just a day it creates more of an ambience,” Isenberg said. “I think it makes a more thankful atmosphere for students.

Because what happened and the response to it is much more than any of us can understand.”

Colgan said she likes that the memorial is a month long rather than just being one day, because these people gave their whole lives up for others and feels that they need more than one day of commemoration.

“I really love that it’s the whole month,” Colgan said. “I think honoring these people shouldn’t be something you do once a year, it should be more often or for longer.”

She said she thinks it’s very important to have the memorial up as a reminder of 9/11 and the lives lost since.

“I think it’s really important. We’re getting to an age where a lot of students are too young to remember 9/11,” Colgan said. “So having a memorial so close to campus that people see every day helps us to not forget those who we lost, at home and overseas.”

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Culture Pitt Ph.D. student Brett Bankson

wins Top Chef Amateur competition

Darin Fields

For The Pitt News Food may be a necessity or a pleasure for most of us, but for 28-year-old Pitt Ph.D. candidate and recent "Top Chef Amateurs" winner Brett Bankson, food is much more. For him, food is a medium in which to interact with other people and the world around us.

“To me, food is a way to express myself, to intimately interact with people,” Bankson said.

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The casting process took about three months, starting with an online questionnaire followed by a series of interviews and auditions, according to Bankson. Once cast, the show’s producers flew Bankson out to Portland for three days of filming. After an eight-day quarantine, Bankson went through a day of pre-interviews, a day of competition and a day of post-interviews.

Even though Bankson was excited he won the episode with a distinct walnut soup, he said cooking shows offer only a brief snapshot of what cooking and food mean to him.

“In my everyday life, I’m a very noncompetitive, non-confrontational person,” Bankson said. “I don’t think that cooking competitions are anything other than what they are. Which in this case is one hour of two people in a very artificial environment on TV.” Food for Bankson is anything but an artificial concept — it’s been an essential component in his life since childhood.

He pointed to memories such as eating Gouda cheese on the floor of his new home with his cousins as child and exploring new cities through their culinary scene.

“The most poignant memories in my life have a food component,” Bankson said. “I love to interact with the world through taste.”

Food isn’t the only passion in Bankson’s life. Along with his blossoming culinary career, he is also pursuing his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Pitt. He works under associate professor Avniel Singh Ghuman studying high-level vision — how people recognize faces, objects and other visual stimuli.

Ghuman said Bankson has an amazing ability to balance the various aspects of his life.

“In balancing everything in his life, he’s got a passion for all of them,” Ghu-

man said.

But Bankson’s relationship with his academic pursuits has not always been a healthy one. The academic road can be a mentally exhausting path paved with failure and frustration, according to Bankson. Throughout much of his academic career, Bankson said he was fueled by thoughts of perfectionism and battled with feelings of inadequacy.

“If I wasn't feeling overwhelmed I didn't feel like I was doing enough,” Bankson said.

It was during this time of intense frustration that Bankson turned to his passions, and began to find solace in them.

He described the tensions between pursuing new and exciting opportunities in food, as a result of winning “Top Chef Amateurs,” and remaining in cognitive psychology.

“There is this tension between this thing that I have no training in that makes me feel so good, and this thing that I have been developing skills in for eight-plus years,” Bankson said.

Sydney Boutros — Bankson’s best friend who is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience at Oregon Health and Science University — said the rigor of a Ph.D. program often leads people into other creative outlets.

“The stress and difficulty that comes with being in a Ph.D. program really pushes people to find something outside the Ph.D,” Boutros said.

According to Boutros, food and cooking are not just stress relievers for Bankson — they are a means to convey love and to interact with those around him.

She said Bankson began cooking for her and their other friends purely to share the love food brings him.

“He started out by cooking for all of his friends just because he wanted to share the joy it brought him,” Boutros said. “And getting to see him get recog-

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nition for how creative he is is amazing, because the more people that get to experience the love he puts into his cooking, the creativity and all the thought processes behind, is really something special.”

For Bankson, he said the success on “Top Chef ” is just another opportunity for him to continue to spread love through his work.

“I am having a very galvanizing and positive experience sharing what I think about food with people because of this wonderful random opportunity on ‘Top Chef,’” Bankson said. “Clearly people care, that’s fine, I just want to cook for you.”

Brett Bankson, a Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. candidate at Pitt, recently won “Top Chef Amateurs,” a spinoff of the hit show “Top Chef.”

Image courtesy of Brett Bankson

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Opinions

How to use the news to solve problems

Lucas DiBlasi

Senior Staff Columnist This column is the third in a three-part series exploring the urgent and existential threats to humanity and how we can best respond to them.

The idea of ignoring most news and dramatically cutting back on social media consumption sounds backward, if not horrifying. We’ve become so accustomed to being bombarded by vast amounts of information that we’re not seeing what it does to us — or how beneficial it would be to reduce that constant influx.

We need to reshape our relationship with the information we consume from the news and social media. An emphasis on less breaking news and more thorough, nuanced journalism will reduce stress and allow us to take more efficient steps to address some of the world’s biggest problems.

In part one of this series, I went over how breaking news is inherently skewed toward negative, shocking events and how our overconsumption leads us to overrate some issues and underrate others. In part two, I described how our reactions to these poorly-assessed risks are often decidedly useless or even counterproductive.

Anyone who cares about their own mental health and the problems that the world faces would be left wondering where we go from here.

It’s not our fault that these issues exist, and we don’t need to take the weight of the world on our shoulders, but it is our responsibility to do the best we can.

The first issue caused by our overconsumption of media is diminished well-being. We need to reassess the way that we consume information to guard our mental health, while still being informed about events that impact our lives. Importantly, almost none of the news we consume tangibly impacts our lives.

That’s right, I’ll come out and say it in a news publication — although I’ll get back to why you should keep reading The Pitt News later — the news is almost entirely entertainment. Whether or not there are American troops in Afghanistan directly impacts very few American citizens. Onthe-ground reporting about a hurricane in Louisiana directly impacts very few Pennsylvanians.

The minutiae of Senate rules has no real impact

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on our day-to-day lives.

I’m calling the news “mostly entertainment” because almost none of the stories we read lead to us changing our behavior. The most I could do about arcane Senate rules is vote for the political party that I think will change them favorably, but how many breaking news articles have you read

other type, news that does directly change how you would act, is incredibly valuable — it’s just not usually exciting, breaking-news type stories.

We should all take time to find nuanced journalism that informs us in ways that will change our behavior for the better. Long, wellresearched magazine articles, in-depth analyses

Promiti Debi senior staff illustrator in your lifetime that caused you to switch from supporting Democratic candidates to supporting Republican candidates, or vice versa?

The idea of “being more informed” as some sort of moral obligation is nonsense. What matters when you consume information is not having more ideas in your head, but what you do with those ideas. If all that’s occurring when reading news stories is stressing yourself out without doing anything different, it’s a useless activity. And if you’re enjoying an article, but not changing your actions, it’s just entertainment.

It’d be worrying if everyone stopped consuming news altogether, but the issue here is news that doesn’t have an impact on your life. The

of current issues and entire books can give you an accurate idea of the importance of a topic, and place it in its historical and cultural context.

Paradoxically, these types of sources will actually make you more informed about current events than anyone who is frantically consuming just the current headlines. Knowing the wider context surrounding an event allows you to place it in historical perspective. From that vantage point, you can more objectively see how worrying something is and how it could change your individual behavior.

We need to actively search out high-quality journalism on issues that actually impact us. Local news outlets — like The Pitt News — and

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thoughtful experts require more effort to find and support, but it’s worth it. At the same time, we need to ruthlessly cut out any news that doesn’t impact us and just stresses us out.

That means no more doomscrolling, no more browsing headlines whenever you have a free moment and a complete shift in most people’s approach to social media. Some studies have shown that social media can be beneficial to your health, but you need to be using it in the right way. Curate your feed and your browsing habits so that instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media, you’re intentionally engaging with information and staying connected with friends.

And as much as we can take action to have an impact on these issues, make sure that you’re getting the most bang for your buck. You can get involved in local politics — even if that just means being informed and voting — and have an outsized impact on important elections that directly impact your life. If you have the means to make donations, there are organizations that make sure your money does as much good as possible.

Effective Altruism is an organization spawned from a social movement that advocates for, well, being as effective as possible in your altruism. They — and other organizations like them — have plenty of resources to make sure that your donations actually relieve suffering and have a direct impact on the world, rather than being used to pay a CEO an outsized salary.

On a personal level, instead of getting into fights on Twitter that ruin the rest of your day, you could be a positive influence on those around you. Getting off of Twitter may not make you perfect, but a little less stress and a little less panic about the world can contribute to being a better friend, partner or parent.

These solutions I’m offering are no panacea, but that’s because there is no such thing as a perfect solution. It may not be easy to change the way you consume information, or to shift your mindset around the sorts of actions that will make the world a slightly better place, but it’s worth it.

It’s worth it to be a little better informed, a

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Sports

Men’s soccer vs.

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Crowd roars in return to Ambrose Urbanic Field

Zack Gibney

Senior Staff Writer It had been nearly two years since the last time fans packed the bleachers at Ambrose Urbanic Field. Prior to the 2021 season, Pitt athletics announced that after a COVID-19-induced hiatus, spectators would be once again allowed to watch a live sporting event on Pitt’s upper campus.

As the gates opened on August 26, the capacity crowd scrambled for standing room on the concourse railing — a refreshing contrast from what had been an exhausting year for everyone.

Ever since its inception, fans have been an integral part of what makes college sports so special. Between tailgates, student sections and age-old traditions, the army of people wearing the colors of their beloved

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institution created an environment that is distinct to college athletics.

But just like many other aspects of daily life, college athletes and fans alike were stripped from the palpable energy found at games across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After more than a year of vacant bleachers and seasons riddled with uncertainty, fans finally returned to support Pitt Athletics in dramatic fashion with a doubleheader featuring the men’s and women’s soccer teams at Ambrose Urbanic Field.

Fans and players were ecstatic to see hundreds of spectators filter into the Petersen Sports Complex on the brisk Thursday evening. But the road toward the first true home game was not a straight one for any of those involved — especially the players.

There was no shortage of moving pieces in sophomore midfielder Chloe Minas’ first year with Pitt women’s soccer. The Montreal native left high school early and enrolled at Pitt in the spring 2020 semester. But she was forced to return to Canada less than two months after arriving in Pittsburgh due to the pandemic. When her local fields and other public areas began to shut down, finding a place to merely practice was an uphill battle at times.

“The parks were closed, everything was shut down,” Minas said. “We were practically on lockdown ... I had to go to playgrounds to find places where I could pass a ball.”

When Minas returned to campus for her first season at Pitt in fall 2020, Minas adjusted on the fly. There was little to no consistency when it came to a schedule — the uncertainty of the pandemic made planning ahead a near-impossible task.

“It was a rollercoaster because one week they told us we were practicing and then the next we would have to quarantine,” Minas said. “It was really on and off.”

The 2020 season began last September, but both the men’s and women’s teams played abbreviated seasons. In a campaign full of change-ups, a midseason hiatus may

have been the most dramatic.

About a year later, both squads finally got their opportunity to showcase two years’ worth of progress to their fans. For Minas, her journey from practicing on local playgrounds during the height of the pandemic to playing in front of a packed crowd reminded her and her teammates of those in their corner.

“When there were no fans, it felt like a practice,” Minas said. “At our home opener, when it was packed, it really helped us. It showed us that there were people who actually wanted to support us. It feels more real.”

Both the men’s and women’s teams gave those people something to cheer about, winning 7-0 and 5-0, respectively.

Not only did the players and fans enjoy the revamped atmosphere at Ambrose, but staff members working behind-thescenes also embraced the return of fans.

While players and coaches see more of the spotlight on both college and professional teams, managers, photographers and other staff members were fixtures at team events during last year’s volatile conditions.

From the sidelines of both games stood photographer Matt Hawley — a familiar face around the Pitt Athletics scene. Hawley is entering his fifth year with Pitt as a photographer and was one of the few people allowed to step inside the empty venues last season.

“There’s definitely a noticeable difference,” Hawley said. “You can definitely tell the fans give [the players] a little extra boost.”

Hawley experienced firsthand what everyone else saw on TV last year — eerily quiet venues with no sound besides the chatter amongst players and coaches, as well as some artificial crowd noise. The latter, he remarked, was one of the stranger elements of the already abnormal experience.

“Last year with the fake crowd noise, it was just awkward,” Hawley said. “There’s just no other way to describe it … I was looking at a game happening but it didn’t

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feel real.”

Much like the players, Hawley also felt rejuvenated at the return of more than a thousand people to Ambrose Urbanic Field last week for the doubleheader. Not only was the static crowd noise replaced by hundreds of students and other supporters, but there was a discernible energy to the event.

“I think fans are a huge part of the gameday atmosphere and, for me, it gives me things to take pictures of,” Hawley said.

“Fans are engaging with players … you can just feel the energy … It’s definitely more enjoyable.”

Unlike Minas and Hawley, many Pitt students experienced their first glimpse of live Pitt sports in more than a year, including sophomore Gavin Hetz.

“We tried to [stream games online last year],” Hetz said. “It was hard because we were in the dorms, but we tried to watch as many as we could … But we didn’t get to go in person.”

Partially due to their recent successes, soccer has become a hot ticket around campus. Hetz, a native of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, said soccer is somewhat of an afterthought where he comes from. So the excitement about the sport in Oakland is brand new for him.

“Yeah, it was cool because I had never gone to a soccer game like that before,” Hetz said. “Where I’m from, soccer is not that big of a deal, so it was cool to see everybody go out to watch a game.”

For the students lining the bleachers of Ambrose that night, the pandemic is still present in their day-to-day lives. Masks are still a fixture and people are gradually returning to pre-pandemic life. But after a tumultuous year of isolation and unpredictability, the roar of students and other spectators made the Petersen Sports Complex a place of relief and celebration for the Pitt community.

“We were trying to gauge if people were actually going to show up,” Minas said. “And when they did, it was kind of exciting.”

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