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PITTSBURGH AGAINST FASCISM IN INDIA HOLDS PROTEST AT FRICK FOUNTAIN

TAKING A STAND

Ashton Crawley Staff Writer

Dozens of Pitt students, faculty and community members gathered on a cold Sunday afternoon around the fountain outside the Frick Fine Arts Building to chant “Aazaadi, Aazaadi” — “freedom” in Hindi — for India’s population of nearly 200 million Muslims.

Pittsburgh Against Fascism in India organized the event to protest growing fascism in India. The group also hosted a three-hour teach-in last Friday at Posvar Hall. About 200 people attended to learn more about India’s current political state, including country-wide protests and recent attacks on universities, such as the Jan. 5 attack at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

The protest coincided with the 70th celebration of Indian Republic Day, a national holiday commemorating the day when the Indian Constitution was enacted. The protest in Pittsburgh was just one of many worldwide protests against the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act, which grants citizenship to many religious minorities throughout India, but excludes Muslims.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since entering office in 2014, Modi and the BJP have pushed for nationalist Hindu values, often disenfranchising the country’s Muslim population.

Silpa Mukherjee, a doctoral candidate in Pitt’s film and media studies program, had a very personal link to the attack on JNU earlier this month — two of her former professors were injured by the attackers. In her eyes, the protest Sunday was a great success.

“The spirit of it lies in the solidarity, people standing close to each other, sharing that kind of closeness and warmth and energy. There was so much energy today, even outside in a big space,” Mukherjee said.

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Pittsburgh Against Fascism in India held a demonstration outside Frick Fine Arts Building Sunday afternoon to stand against growing fascism in India. The protest in Pittsburgh was just one of many worldwide protests against the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act, which grants citizenship to many religious minorities throughout India, but excludes Muslims. Kaycee Orwig | senior staff photographer

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO SURVEY THE NEIGHBORHOOD Charlotte Pearse Staff Writer

Lately, between Pitt’s Campus Master Plan and the construction of new apartments and offices, there always seems to be some kind of development going on in Oakland. Now, the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation wants to figure out what the neighborhood should look like in the next 10 years — and it wants to hear from its residents.

The local non-profit is seeking input on what changes Oakland residents would like to see in their community in development, mobility and infrastructure through the recently launched Oakland Community Surveya.

Jarrett Crowell, a staff member and community organizer at the OPDC, explained in an email that the City of Pittsburgh is creating an official neighborhood plan for Oakland. The survey asks residents several questions about living conditions in Oakland, such as “Is your home easily accessible to you?”

“Do you feel the air quality in your neighborhood is good?” and “Do you feel safe as a pedestrian in Oakland?”

“We were really looking for a way for all Oakland residents to have their experiences, and opinions, and thoughts present at the table when the Oakland Plan was being created,” Crowell said.

“It’s also a tricky situation where we don’t actually know how effective the

survey will be until the plan is actually created. But hopefully, in the long term, it will be a really effective way of making sure that the Oakland neighborhood plan adequately addresses our collective needs.”

The planning process of the survey began in the summer. The OPDC hosted a kick-off event when the survey launched in November to educate members of the community. As of right now it has around 130 responses, mainly from white women between the ages of 17 to 24. The survey will remain open until sometime in the spring.

Since the number of responses is low when compared to the population of all See Survey on page 2

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Abhishek Viswanathan, a second-year doctoral student studying information science, spoke at the protest about the importance of protesting the act not only in India, but in places like Pittsburgh as well.

“Ours is not the only protest happening on the 26th of January,” Viswanathan said. “Across India, there are thousands of people in thousands of places joining together to protest this.”

After organizers passed signs with various sayings such as “Free Kashmir” and “No Modi-fying the constitution,” the protest began with improvisational chants led by Mukherjee and Sritama Chatterjee, both Pitt grad students.

Chatterjee, a doctoral candidate in the English department, said the chants were advocating for freedom for all people in India, especially those currently held in detention camps.

“Pittsburgh is one of the cities joining a global movement against fascism,” Chatterjee said. “In India right now, there are detention camps being built and people have already died inside these camps.”

Viswanathan pointed out how this violence — holding people who cannot prove that they are citizens if their name does not appear on the National Register of Citizens — infringes on many people’s rights.

“The constitution of India has a preamble that designates India as a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic,” Viswanathan said. “Some of

Survey, pg. 1 of Oakland, they have yet to analyze data.

“We’re taking that data that we have now, and looking at it and saying, ‘what are some demographics that we haven’t captured yet?’” Crowell said. “Maybe rethinking some of our outreach strategy to be a little more intentional to engage folks that we know live here but maybe don’t have the easiest time taking the survey.”

David Salcido, a research assistant professor in emergency medicine at Pitt, is a resident of South Oakland and

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those rights are under assault right now.”

Uma Satyavolu Rau, a senior lecturer in the English department, read the preamble — which specifically secures liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship — and pointed out the hypocrisy in the CAA targeting specific religious groups.

“I always took for granted that we would believe in the things this says,” Rau said, before reading the document.

The many speakers at the protest continued to emphasize the importance of solidarity. Krystle Knight, a community organizer for the Thomas Merton Center, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit which seeks to raise social justice questions, was one of these speakers.

“You don’t have to be Muslim, you don’t have to be Indian to know this is a problem and that’s why we need to be out here standing in solidarity,” Knight said.

Knight added that Americans should be aware of the issues in India and in other countries, since what happens around the world can affect them, too.

“There’s this global fascism that’s on the rise.

Maybe you’re not directly impacted by it right now, but our liberation is bound within one another,” Knight said. “None of us will be free until all of us are free.”

Chatterjee said it was encouraging for her to see people from many different nationalities attend the protest, not just Indians.

“I think this is a situation not just exclusive to and one of the Pitt faculty representatives on the Steering Committee of Oakland. Every member of the Steering Committee represents a different group in Oakland and their interests — Salcido represents Pitt faculty. They all meet monthly to discuss goals for the community, and their input will help decide what gets addressed in the Oakland Plan.

“Before anybody makes any decisions about how Oakland should be developed, we need to know actually what people want,” Salcido said. “And the only way to do that is to ask them, so the survey is a great idea to do that systematically. It hits on a lot of important points, it asks about housing,

Demonstrators gather around Abhishek Viswanathan, a second-year PhD student studying Information Science, to listen to his speech about the importance of protesting in places like Pittsburgh as well as India against fascism. Kaycee Orwig | senior staff photographer India,” Chatterjee said. “It’s a problem that is worldwide.”

For Viswanathan, the Sunday protest gave him hope that the movement against fascism was picking up speed.

“I was really happy to see the outpouring of support from everyone. I think more people now get it — it being that we need to put out a strong front of resistance to the rise of global fascism and the marginalization of oppressed groups and minorities,” Viswanathan said.

Pittsburgh Against Fascism in India organizers said they plan to continue their work past the Friday teach-in and Sunday protest. In the upcoming weeks, the group will hold open dialogues and brainstorming sessions around campus to discuss updates on the CAA and fascism in India.

“Individuals can feel powerless, but my hope for the future is that people actually see that there’s strength in numbers and our struggles are all interlinked,” Viswanathan said. “I think that’s what we saw today.”

it asks about the composition of the family units that live in given housing, it asks about needs.”

Haleigh Wickett, an OPDC intern from the school of social work at Pitt, expressed interest to see what results the survey would reign in from all the different populations in Oakland.

“You have Central Oakland that’s all just students, UPMC and Pitt, and all the residence halls,” Wickett said.

“But then if you look beyond that, you have South Oakland which could have a completely different demographic, or North Oakland, or West Oakland, and all these different sub-neighborhoods that overall, what’s the demographic gonna be? I really don’t know

what we’re gonna find out.”

Eric Macadangdang, a junior Pitt student, SGB board member and former intern at OPDC, said the organization hopes to get responses from all of Oakland, not just Pitt students. But Macadangang added that he still think it’s important for students to take the survey, too.

“It’s easy for students who’ve only lived in Oakland for a year to brush it off,” Macadangdang said. “But we are more than students, we are tenants, we are people who help volunteer in the community, we use the businesses in Oakland, we use their services, so it’s extremely important for students to get involved.”

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DEMOCRATS— UNIFY OR DIE

Devi Ruia

Senior Staff Columnist It’s finally here. The ultimate showdown.

No, I’m not talking about the Super Bowl. I’m talking about the Iowa caucuses — which some may say are actually the Super Bowl for political science majors.

The Democratic primary has already gone on for more than a year and we’ve watched many debates and seen several candidates come and go. Now, the Iowa caucuses will kick off the voting process next week.

There are some things that Democratic primary voters need to keep in mind during the caucuses and throughout the rest of the primary voting process.

It’s important that Democrats keep their eyes on the prize over the next few months.

We must all vote for our first choice candidate in this primary process, but once the voting is over we need to put all of our energy into rallying behind the Democratic nominee. Many people voting in the Democratic primary will not be voting for the candidate that ends up winning the nomination.

As disappointing as that may be, the stakes of this election are too high for us to allow that to impact how much we put into organizing for the nominee.

Many people have grown attached to certain candidates and a lot of people have already decided who they are going to vote for. It’s great to see so many people engaging in this primary so enthusiastically, but we have to be careful to not let our enthusiasm for one candidate turn into hatred for other candidates.

As Iowa approaches, candidates are taking more shots at their primary opponents in order to draw distinctions between them.

This has resulted in supporters of some of these candidates getting rather divisive online.

Most recently, a faction of Bernie Sanders’ supporters flooded social media with

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Democratic presidential hopefuls participate in the sixth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by PBS NewsHour and Politico at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on Dec. 19, 2019. Kent Nishimura | tns posts calling Elizabeth Warren fake after the two candidates had a disagreement during the January Democratic debate. This is the latest in a long string of various candidates’ supporters attacking other candidates and their supporters online and it may have dangerous consequences for the general election.

According to a poll by Emerson College, 13% of Democratic primary voters say that they will not vote for the Democratic nominee if it is not their chosen candidate. While this number may not seem astronomically high, the 2020 presidential election is going to be a hard fight and Democrats need every voter that they can get. We can’t allow a contentious primary process to kill us in the general election.

Obviously, criticizing another candidate’s record and making sure they are thoroughly vetted is the whole point of the primary process. But we cannot allow criticism to turn voters so against a candidate that they will

not vote for them or volunteer for them in the general election. Beating Donald Trump has to be our number one priority.

“Here’s a pledge we should probably all be taking in our little hearts and even in tweets, as the odds are most of us will vote for a candidate who isn’t the nominee,” tweeted former Obama administration speechwriter Jon Lovett, “which is, whatever I would do to help the candidate who inspires me the most, that’s what I’ll do no matter what.”

I’m planning on voting for Elizabeth Warren in the primary — in fact I already have my absentee ballot all filled out and ready to mail. And I won’t be as enthusiastic if I have to vote for some of the other candidates in the general election (sorry Mayor Pete). However, I know that regardless of who the nominee is I will do whatever it takes to get them elected. I will phone bank, register people to vote, knock on doors, donate and even stuff ballot boxes … just kidding, please don’t arrest me.

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It’s understandable that it won’t be easy to immediately put aside feelings of ill-will for a nominee that you didn’t vote for. It’s also understandable that you may not have any desire to work as hard for a candidate that doesn’t inspire you as much as your choice did. However, four more years of Trump would be dangerous for our country. In his first term, Trump has given tax cuts to the rich, cut health care programs for the poor and disabled, put children in cages, got rid of gun regulations, destroyed the environment and almost got us into another war.

Another four years of Trump in office would be catastrophic. Democrats can beat Trump, we just need to show up to vote and organize for the Democratic nominee. We need to do this for ourselves, for the most vulnerable in our society and for our country as a whole.

So if Mayor Pete is the nominee I expect all Democrats to do the “High Hopes” dance straight to the polls. If it’s Joe Biden we’re all getting “malarkey” tattoos after finishing up a long day of registering voters. If it’s Amy Klobuchar we all better be prepared to phone bank for her while making corny jokes about all the fundraising Klobuchar was able to do from ex-boyfriends — and of course we must immediately replace forks with combs.

If it’s Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders we’re picking up our utensils and eating the rich to fuel us on long canvassing shifts. And if somehow it’s Tulsi Gabbard we’re firing every single pollster and moving to Canada for real this time.

In all seriousness, we must commit to doing whatever it takes to elect the Democratic nominee — no matter who they are.

The stakes are too high in this election for us to do anything less.

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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More diverse representation needed in climate movement An Associated Press photo of four climate activists went viral over the weekend. The reason? All the girls pictured were white, though if you look closely, you can see Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist, cropped out of the photo.

The photo — which included activists Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson — sparked a debate not only about blatant racism, but also a much larger issue within the climate change movement. Studies show people of color are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis.

But it’s also true that they are represented in the movement far less than white people. A more diverse representation is needed in the climate movement, and recognition of people of color — who are also leading the movement — is vital.

Communities of color are more likely to breathe polluted air and be located in close proximity to coal plants and other toxic waste sites, according to Green America. When the BP oil well burst in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, BP hired private contractors to clean up the tar and refuse from the polluted coastline, Michael Bullard, a professor at Texas Southern University, found in his research. Most of the waste “was trucked to landfills mostly in black communities in Louisiana and Alabama and Florida,” he said. Bullard says this using black communities as a wasteland was a case of history repeating itself, too.

Recently, Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Rush published an entire book about the climate crisis — specifically rising water levels and their disproportionate effect on communities of color. She documents cases like this on Staten Island in New

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York, Miami, Maine and all along the West Coast.

The problem with representation isn’t a lack of people of color working in climate activism. While Thunberg has become the center of the youth climate movement, there are actually plenty of students of color who have been doing the same amount of work as Thunberg, for the same amount of time. They’ve just been pushed to the sidelines by the media.

Take, for example, Jamie Maragolin, a 17-year-old first-generation American who is queer, Jewish and Latina. She’s a co-founder of the climate action organization Zero Hour. There’s also Mari Copeny, from Flint, Michigan, who wrote to Barack Obama in 2016 and asked him to help with their water crisis.

And Xiye Bastida, born outside of Mexico City, where flooding, due to environmental destruction, was the norm. She skips school every Friday to protest at the United Nations as part of Fridays for the Future initiative. Her passion is keeping indigenous people at the forefront of the climate conversation.

And of course, one of the many other activists of color is Vanessa Nakate, the girl who was cropped out of the AP photo. For several months, she protested alone about the climate crisis outside the gates of the Parliament of Uganda. Nakate founded the Youth for Future Africa and the Africans Rising.

This isn’t to say that white people shouldn’t speak up in the climate movement. But equal representation and media attention should be given to the people of color, who are taking an equal part in the movement — especially when they are the ones at the forefront of the climate crisis.

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Sports PITT WOMEN WILT AT NO. 5 LOUISVILLE, 83-49 Griffin Floyd Staff Writer

Pitt women’s basketball took on No. 5 Louisville — another of the ACC’s elite — on Sunday and was outplayed easily on both ends of the court, leading to a 83-49 blowout defeat on the road.

With the loss, the Panthers (3-16 overall, 0-8 ACC) extend their losing streak to 12 games and remain winless in conference play. The Cardinals (19-1 overall, 9-0 ACC) had four scorers lead the team — tied at 12 points each, six players in double digits — dwarfing the Panthers’ one double-digit scorer. Pitt even had four players see minutes and fail to score.

Pitt started off on top, leading 7-4 in the first two minutes of the first quarter, thanks to layups from first-year guard Dayshanette Harris and junior center Cara Judkins as well as a 3-pointer from redshirt senior guard Aysia Bugg.

The Cardinals then took control of the game, going on a 14-0 run over the next five minutes to gain a 18-7 edge with three minutes left in the first quarter. Junior guard Dana Evans stepped up for the Cardinals in the first quarter, scoring seven points off of two 3-pointers and a free throw.

The Cardinals were able to change the game in their favor by employing the press after going down early, causing the Panthers to turn the ball over six times, rush possessions and take bad shots.

Despite going down, Bugg hit her second 3-pointer of the quarter, the 102nd of her career, moving her to 10th place in school history for all-time 3-pointers made.

Pitt started the second quarter by going back to its original game plan — slowing the game down to exploit Louisville’s defense. This helped Pitt to keep Louisville within eight at the media timeout, with 4:31 remaining.

But, just like the first quarter, Louisville went on a run, 13-4 this time, to close out the period and lead 41-24, earning full con-

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With the loss to No. 5 Louisville, the Panthers (3-16 overall, 0-8 ACC) extend their losing streak to 12 games on the season and remain winless in conference play in womens’ basketball. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor trol going into the second half.

Louisville was extremely efficient in the second quarter, shooting 64.3%, far exceeding Pitt’s 5-23 shooting from the field and an abysmal 12.5% from behind the arc.

The Panthers trailed the rest of the game, struggling to score and defend against a much more experienced and talented Cardinals team. It also didn’t help that the Panthers turned the ball over nine times in the third quarter.

The Cardinals continued to score in the third quarter, shooting 52% from the field and taking advantage of opportunities from the free throw line, making six of their eight attempts.

Louisville was able to establish a 30-point lead at the end of the third quarter, allowing the Cardinals to slow the game down going into the fourth quarter for the victory.

The bench was crucial to the Cardinals’ success throughout, adding 24 points, while the Panthers could only get five points from their non-starters. This is why the fourth quarter was still in favor in the Cardinals, 17-14, despite the star players sitting out for most of it.

Pitt was only able to make nine of its 30 shot attempts. The Panthers’ slim success in the second half came from the foul line, where they shot 83.3% in the fourth

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The lone Panther standout player was Harris, who has led the team in scoring these past two games, earning 18 against Louisville and 17 against NC State in the previous game.

Harris has been one of the few bright spots for the Panthers, with her two most recent performances coming as welcome indicators of her future as the face of the program.

Pitt will return home to start a threegame homestand beginning with a Thursday night game against Duke. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Petersen Events Center.

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SWIM SUPREMACY AND WRESTLING CONQUEST HIGHLIGHT PITT SPORTS WEEKEND

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The weekend in Pitt sports was highlighted by the No. 10 wrestling team bouncing back in a big way after a tough loss against Oklahoma State on Saturday, Jan. 18. The swim and dive team excelled too — along with Senior Day festivities, they dominated other universities in the area in the Western PA Invitational at Trees Pool.

Wrestling The wrestling team took care of business on Saturday, Jan. 25, sweeping the 0-11 Duke Blue Devils 50-0. Duke was forced to forfeit three weight classes, spotting the Panthers an 18-point lead. In a contest rife with them, redshirt senior Kellan Stout had one of the best individual performances, earning a major decision on the strength of his 14-0 shut-out. The Blue Devils were Pitt’s first ACC opponent of the season.

The Panthers had no time to rest on their laurels, however, immediately traveling back to Pittsburgh for a home match against the Division 2 Edinboro Fighting Scots on Sunday, Jan. 26. Senior heavyweight Demetrius Thomas, who was given the day off against Duke, came

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out strong with a 3-0 decision to seal the match, 28-6, for Pitt.

Up next for the Panthers is another top-10 matchup, at home against the No. 5 NC State Wolfpack. They are now 7-2 on the season and 1-0 in ACC play.

Swim and dive Both the men’s and women’s squads went out with a bang on Senior Night, collecting 31 gold medals between them — the only event that didn’t see a Panther in first place was the women’s 1,000-yard freestyle. First-year Wojciech Dutkowiak showcased his endurance in the meet, winning both the 500- (4:29.66) and 1,000-yard (9:31.34) freestyles.

Senior Eben Vorster won the 200 butterfly (1:44.38) and the 200 IM (1:47.74), and senior Samy Helmbacher won the 200 freestyle (1:38.94) and the 200 breaststroke (1:59.12). On the women’s team, senior Valerie Daigneault won the 100 and 200 backstrokes (54.44, 1:56.19), as well as leading off in the gold winning 400-yard freestyle.

The Panthers will host the Ohio State Buckeyes on Friday, Jan. 31, in their next contest.

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Recap, pg. 6 Basketball Despite facing deficits of 16 and 20 points on the road against Syracuse, Pitt’s basketball team again showed the resilience that has been its calling card this season. The Orange’s zone defense tormented the Panthers, as sophomore guard Xavier Johnson shot 3-13 and the team shot 38.9% from the field. Early foul trouble for first-year Justin Champagnie changed Pitt’s offense for the worse, and although they were able to cut the lead to three with less than two minutes to play, the Orange went on a clutch scoring run to seal the victory, 69-61.

The Panthers are now 13-7, 4-5 in ACC play, and will face No. 8 Duke at home on Tuesday, Jan. 28.

Gymnastics Keeping with what has been a theme this season, the gymnastics team again lost a tight competition, this time in a dual meet in Chapel Hill against the Tar Heels. The Panthers won the first two events, led by seniors Michaela Burton (bars, 9.850) and Alecia Petrikis (vault, 9.850).

They fell short in floor and beam, however, surrendering the lead to UNC, which hung on for the win, 193.625-192.450.

Pitt is now 0-3 on the season and 0-2 in conference play, but will have a chance to improve on both those records in a quad meet hosted by the George Washington Colonials on Friday, Jan. 31.

Track and field For the second straight weekend, the track and field team traveled to Blacksburg for an invitational hosted by the Virginia Tech Hokies.

Senior Shyheim Wright continued his dominant campaign, earning the gold in the 60-meter hurdles (7.81s). On the women’s side, sophomore Eddita Pessima excelled in the same event, coming in fifth place (8.37s). Wright and Pessima’s times were good for fourth and third on Pitt’s all time list, respectively.

The women’s team also had success in jumps, as first-year Lydia Bottelier took second place (5’6) in high jump and senior Taylor Middleton brought home a bronze medal in long jump (19’9.5”).

The Panthers will continue their stretch of road meets, traveling to Happy Valley to take on the Nittany Lions (among others) at the Penn State National Open between Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1.

Women’s basketball Pitt dropped their 12th straight game in blowout fashion to No. 5 Louisville on Sunday, 83-49.

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Rentals & Sublet • NORTH OAKLAND • SOUTH OAKLAND • SHADYSIDE • SQUIRREL HILL • SOUTHSIDE • NORTHSIDE • BLOOMFIELD • ROOMMATES • OTHER

For Rent North Oakland 214 N. Craig Street.

Safe, secure build­ ing. 1BR, furnished.

Newly remodeled, no pets. Rent $850 and up, including heat. Mature or Graduate students.

412‑855‑9925 or 724‑940‑0045. Email for pictures: salonre­ na@gmail.com Apartments for rent. 2 and 3 bedroom apart‑ ments available. Some available on Dawson Street, At­wood Street, and Mc­kee Place.

Newly re­modeled.

Some have laundry on site. Min­utes from the Univer­sity. For more info please call Mike at 412‑849‑8694

South Oakland **August 2020, Oak­land Square. We have Studios, 1, 2 & 3BR apartments avail­able. Clean, walking distance to campus. Great location. $600‑$1300 ALL UTILITIES IN­ CLUDED! Off‑street parking available.

No pets, smoking or parties. Call

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412‑882‑7568 or email tsciul­li123@ gmail.com

Move May 1, 2020 or August 1, 2020. Call 412‑361‑2695

1‑2‑3 bedroom apart­ ments available for August 2020. Owner Managed. 40+ years on campus. Fully fur­ nished or unfur­nished, most units are newly remodeled Kitchens and baths , located on Atwood, Semple, Oakland Ave., Ward, Mckee Place, Juliet.

Call or text Tim @ 412‑491‑1330 www.­ TMKRentals.com

Apartments for rent on Semple ‑one bed­room ‑ availabil‑ ity Aug 1 recently reno­vated and great loca­tion. $795/mo..

In­cludes heat, electric is metered sepa­ rately. Call or text 412‑720‑5023.

11 Virgila Place, Pittsburgh, PA. Beau­ tiful 3BR, 1 bath.

Fridge, Stove, Dish­ washer, Washer and Dryer. $1600/mo plus utilities. Call Peggy 724‑877‑7761 2 BR apartment, newly painted, hard­ wood floors, appli­ ances. Private home ‑ 2 & 3rd floor. 2,000 sq. ft. Rent in­cludes all utilities. $790/mo.

412‑498‑7355.

322 S. Bouquet.

Huge 2 BR apart­ ments. Available May 1, 2020 or Au­gust 1, 2020. 412‑361‑2695 3444 Ward St. We have studios, 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apart­ ments. Bright and spacious. Free heat­ ing and free parking.

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.

Dawson Village Apts. near CMU and Pitt.

One bedroom apts. $935 + electric. Avail‑ able for immedi­ate move in. On bus line, close to restau­rants and shops. Contact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546 JPA Properties, apart­ ments and houses available August: 1‑6 bedrooms, from $600+utilities. Great locations near cam­ pus! Call Patrick at 412‑559‑3079 to schedule a viewing.

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

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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 Pet Friendly!!

Studios ‑ $695‑$705 1Beds ‑ $795‑$815 2beds ‑ $975‑$995 3beds ‑ $1,245 412‑455‑5600 or www.pghnexus.com South Oakland Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry/ Central Air. Call or Text 412‑38‑Lease. AMO Man­agement.

South Oakland off‑campus hous‑ ing. 2,3, and 4 BR apartments/­houses for rent. Up­dated Kitch‑ ens and Bathrooms.

A/C and laundry.

Available August of 2020. 412‑445‑6117

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.

Studio, 1BR, 2BR available. Heat in­ cluded. Parking Avail‑ able. Fall ‘20. Greve

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Brett/Thames Manor Apts. (Ellsworth & S. Negley Ave.) near CMU and Pitt.

Stu­dio, One, Two bed­ room apts. Thames Ef‑ fecency: $790 Thames 1BD: $990 Brett 2BD: $1600 Available for immedi­ate move in.

On bus line, close to restau­rants & shops.

Con­tact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546

Squirrel Hill 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.

Avail­able Now!

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

January 27, 2020

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

Employment Other Personal, profes­sional masseuse needed.

Long term position.

Washington County location. Call 724‑223‑0939 any time.

For Sale Pets FREE TO GOOD HOME,2 YORKIE PUPPIES RE‑HOM­ ING, AKC REG, CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL FOR MORE DETAILS ON:lwrnc­ marc01@gmail.com .

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