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INSIDE THIS EDITION Australia is burning PG.3 10 days in Israel PG.3 ‘Spinning Out’ review PG.5 Making knit work PG.5 Victory Heights PG.7 Trent’s takes PG.7

STARSHIP FOOD ROBOTS NOW FULLY OPERATIONAL

Mary Rose O’Donnell Assistant News Editor

Future Health Professionals make positivity journals including encouraging quotes and jokes to give to the Ronald Starship Technologies and Pitt Dining McDonald House adjacent to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Sarah Cutshall visual editor announced that Starship delivery robots are now fully operational in a Monday email to students, faculty and staff.

The robots now deliver food from Common Grounds, Forbes Street Market, Sub Connection, Taco Bell, Tres Habaneros and Einstein Bros. Bagels to locations across campus.

Users order food through the Starship would be managed to create an eco-friendly energy efficiency and creating strategies for sav- Delivery app and can now pay with Dining Natalie Frank campus. ing energy set to be implemented in the coming Dollars, debit or credit cards, Panther Funds Staff Writer Scott Bernotas, associate vice chancellor years. and Lunch Money. Delivery hours are based Expanded chilled water capacity, new utility for facilities management, led the discussion Bernotas said some major saving strategies on each food vendor’s hours of operation. lines under Bigelow Boulevard and networks of through a PowerPoint presentation on the Uni- include air-change and temperature setbacks set Starship food robots arrived on campus sensors — these are among the ways that Pitt’s versity’s Energy and Utilities Plan and addressed per occupancy and schedule, the commission of last summer and began delivering to cusfacilities management team is using to try and the 10-year and 30-year needs for “condition, ca- fume hood zone presence sensors, demand con- tomers in October during its pilot phase. create a more sustainable and energy efficient pacity and configuration.” trol ventilation using air quality or particulate Pitt briefly paused the testing of the robots campus.

Bernotas highlighted the importance of the sensing in lab spaces and the conversion of exist- in October after a student raised concerns The University Senate’s Plant Utilization and maintenance and extension of the chilled water ing lighting to LED lighting. regarding the safety issues they may create Planning Committee met Monday afternoon plants around campus, with main lines located Bernotas said only offices and classrooms will for wheelchair users. The delivery robots in Forbes Tower to discuss the changes to Pitt’s at Posvar Hall, the Petersen Events Center and be affected by scheduled temperature changes are 98% autonomous, move at a maximum campus brought up in the recently released InBiomedical Science Tower. and not temperature-sensitive research facilities. speed of 4 mph and each have their own lock, stitutional Master Plan. The meeting focused on A major focus of the meeting was improving See Senate on page 2 GPS and camera.

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Racial slurs case unsolved after three months

Jon Moss

News Editor More than three months after two rounds of slurs targeted a black first-year student, Pitt has not been able to identify the perpetrator or group of perpetrators who committed the acts, according to University spokesperson Kevin Zwick.

Zwick said the inquiry into the incidents remains open, and that a Pitt police report was filed Oct. 10, 2019.

“Racist comments run in stark contrast to the University’s values and mission, and we remain dedicated to supporting an inclusive, safe and welcoming environment for every member of the Pitt community,” Zwick said.

But Jamal Johnson, the targeted student, said he was frustrated by the lack of progress from the University.

“Still nothing solved and didn’t really even go a step forward,” Johnson, an English writing and political science double major, said.

The first slur appeared in the early morning hours of Sept. 25, 2019, written on a bulletin board on his Holland Hall South floor, where he lived at the time.

Johnson said he found the statement “Jamal = Aunt Jemima,” equating him to the black female character serving as the face of a breakfast food company, which many consider to be an offensive embodiment of racist stereotypes. Johnson met with residence hall officials that week about the writing.

Pitt’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion opened an investigation and also hosted an education session for his floor, including a discussion around microaggressions and how to combat them.

Pitt’s Office of Residence Life also con-

tacted Johnson and offered to move him to a different residence hall. At the time, Johnson declined the offer and said that if he left, the perpetrator might feel that their behavior was acceptable.

Another slur appeared on Oct. 8, 2019, this time written on a blackboard on the floor. Several floor residents had written their names Scrabble-style on the board, and someone wrote “Aunt” before Johnson’s name, apparently referencing the Aunt Jemima character again.

Johnson, a native of west Philadelphia, said he expected college to be different from home, but did not expect to deal with incidents of racism directed at him.

“I came to college just to get my education, not to have to deal with being targeted in my own residence hall,” Johnson said.

Edenis Augustin, a former Black Action Society president and current president of

both the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, said it was “definitely disheartening” that the case remains open.

“I actually forgot that the issue was not even resolved based on how little follow-up I heard from it,” Augustin, a senior psychology major, said. “I’m optimistic that it’s justice delayed, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was [justice denied].”

Johnson moved across Fifth Avenue from Holland to Nordenberg Hall in late October, after finding it difficult to keep returning to where the statements were written.

“I just dreaded walking and staying in the building everyday,” Johnson said.

Pitt community members with information about the case can contact the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at 412-648-7860 or the Pitt police at 412-624-2121.

The University Senate’s Plant Utilization and Planning Committee met Monday afternoon in Forbes Tower to discuss the changes to Pitt’s campus brought up in the recently released Institutional Master Plan.

Image via University of Pittsburgh ing students to walk in the road to get to their work is partially focused on the important task classes. In response, Bernotas said this issue of connecting water chiller lines across campus. will be fixed and mentioned he would speak “Chilled water is the biggest thing,” Bernotas with Wagner about the matter after the meet- said. “Everything on Bigelow Boulevard to date ing. is all chilled water-related.”

Bernotas also mentioned the current conBernotas added that the chilled water line struction on Bigelow Boulevard and how this work is being completed now, since other utility

lines under Bigelow are also under construction.

“We figured as long as we were redoing that street and it was going to be closed,” Bernotas said, “we might as well get in there and get the utilities, the chilled water line, that’s going to come from Posvar up to meet the new line coming down from the new plant in place.”

Other changes being implemented include exploring solar power generation opportunities, such as the use of microturbines placed on buildings around campus.

To conclude the meeting, Bernotas discussed the results of the current energy changes around Pitt’s campus and how they positively contribute to the 2030 District Goals, which outline a 50% reduction in energy use and greenhouse emissions.

A graph comparing Pitt’s energy usage to that of the 2030 District Goal showed how Pitt “met and exceeded the target” in the past 4 years.

While many attendees were optimistic about Pitt’s environmental future, Menegazzi reiterated his desire for the green movement.

“That’s moving in the right direction,” he said. “But there are a lot of other things we can do in the very near future.”

Senate, pg. 1 One of the meeting’s 15 attendees, Dr. James Menegazzi, an emergency medicine professor, surprised other people in the meeting by citing Pitt’s standing in the Sierra Club’s list of “Greenest Colleges” to looks of shock.

“Not in the top 100, for starters,” Menegazzi said, “195 out of 282.”

Another attendee, Eugene Wagner, senior lecturer and director of undergraduate physical chemistry laboratories, introduced concerns to the attendees expressed to him by students who frequent the area around Eberly Hall.

Wagner said he received several student complaints regarding unsafe walking conditions due to the placement of construction railings along the road.

“I have had a number of students say that they feel very uncomfortable,” Wagner said.

“When you walk around that corner, the gating and fencing is so far out that when you come around the corner it’s very treacherous because ... cars are coming around.”

He also explained how the construction gating takes up too much of the sidewalk, leav-

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Australia is burning: It’s on us to get fired up about climate change

Devi Ruia

Senior Staff Columnist The fires in Australia are decidedly not “lit” — at least not in the way that we’ve come to use that term.

For months now, Australia has been dealing with horrible wildfires. The fires have damaged homes, destroyed wildlife and killed animals and people. Weather conditions are making these fires even worse and emergency responders are having a tough time responding to the crisis.

Many agree that these fires are being exacerbated as a result of climate change. These fires show us even more the scale of the climate change problem. We need to continue to send money and aid to Australia, but we also must come together globally and take action to combat climate change — before it’s too late.

Twenty-eight people have died from these fires, and at least 24 million acres of land in Australia have burned. Millions of animals are estimated to have died in these fires as well. While the fires in Australia are more severe, they still bring to mind the wildfires in California and the Amazon. Dangerous wildfires are not new to us, and in the past year they have been at the forefront of our news cycle as they get worse across the globe.

“The catastrophic scenes from Australia’s wildfires should alarm all of us,” tweeted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., “Climate change is driving even more dangerous and destructive fires across the world, from California to New South Wales — and we must fight together to defeat this crisis.”

Climate change has been a large reason for the severity of these fires. Rising temperatures in Australia have made the fires worse by making the climate warmer and drier. Climate change experts have predicted that unless our global society makes some drastic changes, the risk of extreme

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droughts and wildfires will increase exponentially. If this happens, the situation in Australia risks recurring in other countries, affecting not only humans but innocent animals and wildlife as well.

About 1 billion animals are estimated to have been affected so far by the fires in Australia. Nearly a third of koalas in New South Wales may have been killed and other animals — like the pygmy possum — are in danger of becoming extinct. Animals that survive the fires then have to contend with the destruction of their habitats that the fires cause. While hospitals and locals in Australia are doing their best to help save these animals, governments must take action against climate change in order to prevent further natural disasters from occurring and harming animals in Australia and elsewhere.

Climate experts have stated that the fires in Australia are directly impacted by climate change.

Advocates and many celebrities — especially Australian ones — have used the fires in Australia to call on governments around the world to take action to combat climate change.

“Make no mistake, the tragedy in Australia is climate change-based,” actor Russell Crowe said in a statement read by Jennifer Anniston at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards. Crowe was unable to attend the awards as he was protecting his home and family in Australia. “We need to act based on science, move our global workforce to renewable energy and respect our planet for the unique and amazing place it is. That way, we all have a future.”

We need to take action to combat climate change and stop treating it like it’s a partisan issue.

These dangerous, climate-caused issues affect everyone who inhabits the earth, regardless of what political party they’re a part of. Many conservative climate change deniers are super old — especially See Ruia on page 4

10 days in the ‘Heroic Little Nation of Israel’

Aidan Segal

For The Pitt News The sun sets on the hills of the Old City of Jerusalem as we are greeted with the singing of “Am Yisrael Chai” and the blowing of the shofar. It is a celebration marking our arrival to the heart and soul of the coveted land our ancestors could only dream of returning to throughout thousands of years of exile — Israel, the lone Jew among the world’s nations.

We are a group of 33 Jewish students over the age of 18 on our winter breaks, primarily from universities in Pittsburgh and Denver, embarking on a rite of passage unlike bris and b’nai mitzvah, which are ancient traditions. This rather new tradition — established only 21 years ago — is a trip through Birthright Israel, an organization which sponsors a free trip to the Holy Land as a way to “strengthen Jewish identity” and secure a “vibrant future of the Jewish people.”

For the majority of us, it is our first time visiting the State of Israel. We first learned of this country in Hebrew school while reading the Torah, in which this land is referred to as God’s “everlasting possession.” The sacred text says it was bestowed upon Abraham and his descendants, the Israelites — a people to be “as numerous as the stars in the sky” through His covenant.

And now we are here, under the flag with the Star of David, which once was a marking sewn onto our clothes for identification and humiliation, but now is a symbol of our resilience. For 10 days we explore the land that gave birth to the most tenacious and brilliant people in history — and every step feels familiar.

The first steps we take are in Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv — named after the country’s

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first prime minister — where we meet the eight Israeli soldiers accompanying us on the trip.

Israeli men and women over the age of 18 are required to serve in the military, and the soldiers on our trip work in anything from the Iron Dome — a missile defense system devised to intercept and destroy enemy rockets — to identifying and demolishing underground tunnels constructed by Hamas, a terrorist organization.

Together we enjoy the holy and mystical city of Tzfat, the ancient fortress of Masada and the simple beauty of communal living on Kibbutz HaOn, located on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Then there is Tel Aviv, where Jewish life is expressed in high rises, bars and technological innovation, rather than synagogues, kosher restaurants and religious observance.

Jewish identity in that regard is a perplexing phenomenon for me, because many of us, including myself, believe that we are not just members of a religion, but a nation.

Theodor Herzl, along with many of the founders of the State of Israel, like Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, were entirely secular, and they are no less Jewish than Moses or any other religious figure. For many of us, we are Jewish not just because of our religion and culture, though the two are indivisible, but because we are born of a Jewish ethnicity.

A lot of the participants on our trip are confronted with that realization at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, myself included. It is the sole remnant from the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the holiest site in the world for Jews. It is customary to place a written note or prayer in a crevice of the wall.

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Segal, pg. 3 for Jews approaching the wall — the presence of the Divine, a sense of awe for such an ancient structure, an appreciation for their heritage or, just as likely, nothing at all.

For me, it is an awareness of the responsibility I have to every Jew, especially those in my family, who can’t stand before and place their hand on the Jerusalem stone wall that is central and emblematic to the Jewish people.

My Bubbe — Yiddish for “grandmother” — who passed away before I was born, was one of those Jews. Her name was Anne Segal, and she was an ardent defender and champion of the “heroic little nation of Israel,” as she called it in one of many letters to the editor she would write to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette or Pittsburgh Press. If there is any one thing I feel at the Kotel — as the wall is called in Hebrew — it is the immense and unapologetic pride she instilled in me, being a Jew, despite never meeting her.

But, the world is still at odds with the existence of Jews. Anti-Semtism remains an incurable disease in Europe, as is seen with the many Jews, especially French, fleeing to Israel. The United States, despite historically being a safe haven for Jews, is not immune to the ancient hatred either. There were 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents alone in 2018, including the Tree of Life massacre, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Yad Vashem, the architecturally breathtaking memorial and museum of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, is a reminder of that undying dilemna. Sitting on Mt. Herzl,

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the building “penetrates the mountain from one side to the other, with both ends dramatically cantilevering into the open air,” as described on the museum’s website.

After a museum tour chronicling the vicious and systematic slaughter of European Jewry, my trip participants are lead to a lookout into the open air presenting the landscape of the country of the brave diasporic people who would rise from the rubble of genocide and create new generations. Jews who will never have to know what it is like to be without a home for past generations know the cost of not having one.

We are told by our tour guide, Noam, that he hopes this trip leaves us with more questions than answers. With another wave of antiSemitism penetrating the United States and Europe, you can’t help but question your place in the world as a Jew — where do we belong?

In Judaism, there are always more questions than answers, and if there is any one thing I cherish about being Jewish, it is that skepticism and questioning are encouraged.

“As long as in the heart within,” the Israeli national anthem goes, “the Jewish soul yearns” for the beautiful and inspiring Land of Israel that we can call home, where we can live free, where every step feels familiar because it is the very earth our ancestors wandered.

A land where we sing, “Am Yisrael Chai” — the Jewish Nation Lives.

Aidan is a junior majoring in English Writing with a certificate in Jewish Studies. He primarily writes about film and Judaism. Write to Aidan at als473@pitt.edu

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in the United States — so they may not care about the future of our planet, but we are the ones who will be affected if the world goes up in flames.

We either need to get politicians to take action to combat climate change or we need to vote them out and replace them with ones who will.

One strong solution that has been proposed to combat climate change is the Green New Deal, which is a resolution that global governments could implement. Another solution could be strengthening and incorporating more governments into the Paris Agreement. No matter what solution we decide to take as a global society, we must act now and we must make sure the solution we implement is comprehensive.

On the 2020 Climate Change Performance Index, Australia was voted to be one of the countries with the worst climate change policies —

the United States was ranked even lower — by a group of climate experts. However, the fires in Australia seem to be pushing the general public to take more action regarding climate change.

Polls are showing widespread support for climate action and companies are taking action on their own to lower their emissions.

While it’s great that a majority of individuals support taking action to combat climate change, and it’s even better that corporations in Australia are doing their part as well, more needs to be done to help in Australia and around the world.

We must donate to organizations working to fight the fires and help injured animals. Those that are trained should travel to Australia to help if they can. Governments around the globe must work together to solve climate change before it’s too late.

Devi primarily writes about politics for The Pitt News. Write to her at dvr7@pitt.edu and follow her on Twitter for more hot takes @DeviRuia.

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Making knit work with the Fiber Arts Crew MJ LaRocque Staff Writer

While the Fiber Arts Crew at Pitt is not particularly tight-knit, a mission of giving back to children in need through art stitches them together.

What started as one group of people in one small town eight miles outside of Harrisburg, the Fiber Arts Crew is now spread out across the University’s regional campuses.

The collective of more than 40 knitters and crocheters are working together to make 100 blankets for foster children.

Kathleen Swain, assistant director of the Child Resource Center for Pitt’s School of Social Work, stationed in Mechanicsburg, started this group at work in 2019. Swain, who knows how to knit and crochet, taught her skills to some interested coworkers a couple years ago.

In 2019, the group decided to use its skills to give back to its community by crafting and donating a blanket made of simple patterns of blue, gray, white, brown and purple yarn scraps to be raffled off to a foster child at the Older Youth Retreat, an event held annually by the School of Social Work’s PA Child Welfare Resource Center.

Since last year, the group has grown to more than 40 members, and now aims to make at least 100 blankets for the 2020 Older Youth Retreat, which helps prepare current or former substitute care youth for adulthood. They’ve completed 20 blankets so far in shades of pink, blue, purple and white, and don’t plan on slowing down. Swain said their goal is to help teens in foster care feel loved and supported.

“Our mission is to wrap the youth in warmth. We want to wrap them in support, and the blanket is to wrap around them,” Swain said. “We want them to have physical evidence of the support we have for them to take as they transition from foster care to adult life.”

After receiving a grant from Pitt’s Year of Creativity project, the group is able to send

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supplies and tools to those helping with the blankets. Still, making enough 8-by-8-inch squares for blankets before the retreat this summer is a tough task, and as of December, the Crew was looking for more members.

“We’re always looking for more people.

Depending on where people are located, we would be able to teach people how to knit or crochet, if they’re interested in that, as well as give them supplies to make the squares,” Swain said. “We also want people to know that any kind of fiber arts work, whether it’s knitting, crocheting or anything else is also a very productive yet relaxing activity.”

Marlo Perry, an assistant research professor with the Child Welfare Education Research program in the School of Social Work, said she joined the project because she wanted to contribute to a cause that did not have an enormous time commitment.

As a knitter in her spare time, she leads the branch of the Fiber Arts Crew at Pitt’s Oakland campus. Though Perry is mainly in contact with her members through email, between now and August, when the next retreat is hosted, there will be a few get-togethers for members to knit, crochet and assemble blankets.

Because children placed in the foster system do not have many personal items, Perry said she hopes the handmade blankets will be significant to them.

“I think it’s meaningful for anyone to have something handmade with care and I think the youth don’t always feel a lot of care,” Perry said. “Having a blanket that they can take with them, I hope, will be meaningful.”

Swain said the yarn they’re asking contributors to use must be washable, and that they want to avoid wool so the blanket doesn’t shrink. They’re also open to accepting quilts, so quilters are more than welcome to join.

According to Perry, anyone who already knows how to knit or crochet can manage to make an 8-by-8-inch square in their spare time. The squares can be as intricate or as simple as the members want them to be, though the time investment depends on the weight of the yarn and the intricacy of the square.

“My skills are pretty rudimentary, so my squares are all basic knit stitches, and I tend to prefer bulkier yarn, so squares knit up pretty quickly,” she said.

Perry’s team in Oakland includes both basic knitters to accomplished fiber artists. She

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Courtesy of Dana Farrell said a single person doesn’t have to produce an entire blanket themselves — however, some fiber artists may opt to create entire blankets on their own.

“I think the other nice thing about this is you can just make one square or you could make five dozen,” she said. “It just depends on your availability and willingness.”

Dana Farrel, of the Clinical Translational Sciences Institute, is a champion for the group here in Pittsburgh. She received an email when the Crew started looking for members and decided she wanted to join.

Now, she’s teaching others to crochet.

“I said I was going to do this at work,” she said, “Now I have five coworkers that are also going to contribute squares, 8-by-8 squares, for the project.”

With a blanket in tow, Farrell hopes the teens will remember that people want them to succeed as they enter adulthood and that there are people out there that care and wish nothing but the best for them.

“I’m hoping that when they receive these blankets that they know that there are people out there that care about them,” Farrel said.

“That people are thinking about them and wishing them well.”

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This week in Pitt sports Trent Leonard Sports Editor

The upcoming week in Pitt sports boasts a packed slate, including two men’s basketball games, a top-10 battle involving the redhot wrestling team and a chance for women’s basketball to steal a long-awaited road win.

Panther fans, get your popcorn ready.

Men’s basketball The Panthers’ up-and-down season continued Sunday. Fresh off an impressive win at UNC the previous Wednesday — which might not be so impressive after all, considering the Tar Heels have now fallen to Clemson and Georgia Tech — Pitt (11-5 overall, 2-3 ACC) fell back to earth at Miami, shooting 35.9% from the field while allowing the Hurricanes to shoot 52.9% in a 66-58 loss.

First-year forward Justin Champagnie entered the game on a hot streak but shot an abysmal 3-16 from the field. Junior guard Ryan Murphy went 1-5 on 3-pointers and 4-12 overall.

Perhaps most worrisome of all was that sophomore guard Xavier Johnson, Pitt’s lead playmaker, performed so poorly that head coach Jeff Capel seemed to lose trust in him.

Johnson had as many turnovers (4) as points and was relegated to the bench for much of the contest, tying his season low with 24

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minutes.

The good news is that another trio of Panthers — sophomores Trey McGowens and Au’Diese Toney and junior center Terrell Brown — played admirably. McGowens led Pitt with 18 points and seven assists, Brown made a season-high five of six field goals and Toney contributed across the board in his first game back from injury.

The bad news is that things don’t get any easier for the Panthers in their next game.

They received just one full day of rest before hosting No. 11 Louisville Tuesday night at 7 p.m.

The Cardinals may not be as daunting as when they hosted Pitt as the nation’s No. 1 seed in the teams’ first meeting on Dec. 6.

The Panthers hung around in that game, even drawing within five points in the second half, before losing momentum down the stretch and falling 64-46.

But while Louisville’s ranking may be different, its core lineup hasn’t changed. And as long as superstar junior forward Jordan Nwora — the ACC’s leading scorer with 20.8 points per game — is on the court, the Cardinals remain a nightmare for opponents.

For Pitt to have a chance, it would take a resurgent effort from the struggling Johnson, coupled with a similarly strong perfor-

mance from his backcourt mate McGowens.

On the interior, the undersized Panther frontcourt of Brown, Toney and graduate center Eric Hamilton must put on its bigboy pants against Nwora to prevent him from single-handedly taking over the game.

If the Panthers do falter and lose a second straight to Louisville, Pitt fans need not worry — Capel’s crew will have a golden opportunity to get back on track with another home matchup against the woeful Tar Heels Saturday at noon.

Women’s basketball The Pitt women’s team can’t seem to catch a break.

After beating Ole Miss on Nov. 30, the Panthers have now dropped eight straight games, including four in the ACC. To its credit, Pitt (3-12 overall, 0-4 ACC) hasn’t been an easy out, losing by single digits in six of those eight games.

But with such an inexperienced roster — aside from fifth-year guard Aysia Bugg and junior center Cara Judkins, the Panthers typically start three first-year players — the Panthers simply haven’t yet figured out how to win close games.

There is, perhaps, some room for optimism. Rookie guard Amber Brown has shown the potential to be a bona fide star

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down the line, carving out a role as the Robin to Bugg’s Batman by averaging 11.1 points and a team-leading 8.4 rebounds per game.

Pitt’s next game could finally see the Panthers snap their streak against a beatable Clemson opponent. The Tigers (5-11, 1-4 ACC) aren’t exactly worldbeaters, though they handily beat a Notre Dame team that Pitt lost against.

The Panthers will travel to Clemson this Thursday for a 7 p.m. tip-off that should serve as a litmus test for head coach Lance White’s squad. If Pitt can’t steal a win from the Tigers, its losing streak could continue for the foreseeable future, considering the two are bunk buddies at the bottom of the ACC standings.

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newly updated and modern, laundry included. $2400 plus utilities. Avail‑ able August 2020.

Please contact at 412‑414‑9629 or visit douridaboudproperty­ management.com Fall 2020 Rentals ‑ 1 and 2 bedroom apart­ments very close to campus, well main­ tained, 24 hour laun­ dry, secured build­ings.

Rates starting at $700 with some utili­ties in‑ cluded. Call us today at 412‑682‑7622 Hudson Oakland Apartments. 2BD 1BA Located on Craft Ave, Semple St, & Cable Pl. $1,300‑ $1,495/month +elec­ tric. Within walking distance to Pitt. Tel: (412) 407‑9001 x.1 www.hudson‑oakland.­ com

Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unre­lated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Per­mits, Licensing & In­spections.

412‑255‑2175.

Now renting for Fall 2020. Apartments and houses of all sizes.

Conveniently located throughout South Oakland. Rents start‑ ing as low as $620.

John C.R. Kelly Realty. Call to­day at 412‑683‑7300 www.jcrkelly.com

Corner of Semple and Bates Street.

4 bedroom apart‑ ment. 2 bathrooms, central air, everything

Pet Friendly!!

Studios ‑ $695‑$705 1Beds ‑ $795‑$815 2beds ‑ $975‑$995 3beds ‑ $1,245

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• ADOPTION • EVENTS • LOST AND FOUND • STUDENT GROUPS • WANTED • OTHER

412‑455‑5600 or www.pghnexus.com South Oakland Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry/ Central Air. Call or Text 412‑38‑Lease. AMO Man­agement.

Studio, 1, 2, 3, and 4 BD apartments avail­ able in South Oak­land from $800‑$2500 M.J. Kelly Real Estate mjkellyrealty@gmail.­ com. 412‑271‑5550.

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summer 2020! Call now! 412‑441‑1400

Rental Other Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2020 & sooner. Oak­land, Shadyside, Friend‑ ship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availabil‑ ity online, check out www.forbesmanage­ ment.net, or call 412.441.1211

Luxury 2 bedroom apartments and charming 3‑4 bed­ room duplexes in Shadyside for sum­mer 2020! Beautiful and modern updates, call today! 412‑441‑1400

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Gorgeous and unique duplexes in the beau­ tiful neighborhood of Squirrel Hill! 2‑5 bedroom options for

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Two business days prior by 3pm | Email: advertising@pittnews.com | Phone: 412.648.7978

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3 BD, 1‑1/2 BA town­house on Beacon St. Updated kitchen.

Washer/dryer on premises. Nice back­ yard. On bus line.

Per­fect for Seniors and Grad students.

Call 412‑281‑2700.

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OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage­ ment Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcom­ing spring semester, to interview & pro­cess rental appli­cants, do internet post‑ ings & help staff our action‑central of­fice. Part time or full time OK starting in January; full time over the summer. $13/ hour. Perfect job for current sopho­mores & juniors, graduating seniors set to enter grad school, returning grad stu­dents, and first year law students!

Mozart Management 412.682.7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com

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