The Pitt News
T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | September 17, 2018 | Volume 109 | Issue 23
game day takeaways: ollison, scarton and offense
SINGIN’ ON A SUNDAY
Trent Leonard Sports Editor
After a morale-crushing 45-point blowout loss to Penn State last weekend, Pitt’s football team got back on track with a 24-19 win against Georgia Tech Saturday. It was a rebound game for the Panthers’ season and revenge for their 3517 loss to the Yellow Jackets in 2017 — and Saturday gave Pitt its first win in a crucial ACC play. A conference victory is certainly a step in the right direction for the Panthers (2-1 overall, 1-0 ACC), but there were times where the team still The Diamante Trio and Lilly Abreu perform salsa and tango songs by Argentinian and Brazilian artists at Heinz looked more flawed than improved. Accounting Memorial Chapel Sunday afternoon. Maria Heines | staff photographer for all the highs and lows, here are some of the foremost takeaways from Pitt’s third game. Ollison has the keys to the backfield After the Panthers’ week one win over Aland Stella’s storefront on Fifth Avenue. Pitt plans University-owned grocery store. Christian Snyder bany, it remained unclear who was the lead runto incorporate the bakery into the upcoming Zuri Kent-Smith, a senior Africana Studies Editor-in-Chief ning back in Pitt’s backfield. Senior Darrin Hall and philosophy major who served as executive grocery store on Forbes Avenue, which is set to For the grand re-opening of the 12-year-old finished as the team’s leading rusher in 2017 but vice president on last year’s Student Government open by Nov. 1 — two months later than origicard and gift store Maggie and Stella’s on campus received only four carries in the opener, while Board, said he organized Friday’s noontime pro- nally planned. fellow senior Qadree Ollison rushed seven times Friday, Pitt hired a DJ and parked its new SodexoOakland had a grocery store up until April test because University administrators ignored for 73 yards. Surprisingly, sophomore AJ Davis owned food truck in the quad while administrastudents’ voices — something he thinks is a pat- 2017 — IGA, an international franchise, had a tors gathered around. ended up leading the Panthers with 13 carries. branch by the name of “The Market on Forbes” tern. Past that — in the middle of the quad — a Head coach Pat Narduzzi revealed that the “We’re protesting a lack of student engage- on Forbes Avenue. The owner, Ron Levick, said distribution of carries against Albany was more group of students gathered holding signs reading ment and input,” he said. “We lost our bakery for his store had to close due to competition with of a facade in Pitt’s second game versus Penn “Transparency Please” and “Living conditions other larger grocery stores. a Hallmark store.” State — Ollison carried the Panther offense, and Learning conditions.” These protestors at“My store was only 5,000 square feet. You Kent-Smith was referring to Oakland Bakery, amassing 21 carries for 119 yards and a touch- tended the reopening to protest what they saw as which until last year was in the current Maggie See Protest on page 2 See Takeaways on page 6 Pitt prioritizing a gift shop over the forthcoming
pitt progressives protest maggie and stella’s