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SGB revamps website, announces new adviser

COMING SOON TO A CAMPUS NEAR YOU

Emily Ahlin Staff Writer

Pitt’s Student Government Board unveiled a new website and a new adviser at last night’s public meeting.

In its third public meeting of the semester, SGB announced Associate Dean and Director of Residence Life Steve Anderson as the new SGB adviser, as well as an overhaul of the Board’s previous website. The website now includes more relevant information such as Plans for the new lecture halls in David Lawrence Hall. Construction is due to finish in June. Nicole Gye | Staff Photographer

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Sexual assault film prompts campus discussion Meaghan Hart Staff Writer

Despite the large number of people packed into the William Pitt Union Ballroom to catch a film, the viewers stayed silent for the entire documentary.

The Hillel Jewish University Center, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Campus Women’s Organization and Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity showed “Brave Miss World” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday night.

The film was part of a Brave Miss World on Campus, a program that travels to local colleges such as Pitt, Duquesne and High Point University to show the documentary on sexual assault and discuss the film’s key issues. Lind-

say McCord works for JFilm, the Pittsburgh Jewish Film Festival that set up the program.

“The Jewish Healthcare Foundation gave us a large grant to start [Brave Miss World on Campus], and we are using it to share the story and raise awareness,” McCord said.

Brave Miss World is a documentary about Linor Abargil, a rape victim and winner of the Miss World competition in 1998, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2014.

Approximately 70 students — 50 female and 20 male — attended the film.

Abargil narrates the film, which follows her journey around the world as she shares her story and talks to other rape victims. Viewers also see her trial to seek justice in the film, and

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the struggles she faces from those who did not believe her or think she should fight.

One in six American women are the victims of rape or attempted rape, according to the Rape Crisis Center. Approximately 68 percent of rapes are not reported to the police, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network website.

After the movie, Pittsburgh Action Against Rape — a counseling and prevention center for rape victims and their families — led a discussion with audience members about precautions students should take to protect Graeme Meyer introduced Steve Anderthemselves against sexual assault. PAAR also son, who will fill in as the SGB adviser, at

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HILLEL urged students to report sexual assault.

Suzanna Hinkle, vice president of Campus Women’s Organization and a junior majoring in chemical engineering, helped plan and advertise the event.

Hinkle said CWO agreed to collaborate on the event with Hillel because the film and discussion align with their goal to “fight against sexual assault.”

“CWO has been working to raise awareness about sexual assault and to prevent it since the start of our organization,” Hinkle said.

Courtney Strauss, the director of engagement at Hillel JUC, also played a part in organizing and broadcasting the event.

A 2012 Pitt graduate, Strauss helps students get more involved in Pittsburgh’s Jewish community, and works with Jewish students who want to start new organizations in Pittsburgh.

“Sadly, sexual assault is very prevalent on college campuses, and the more films like this that are shown, the easier it is for victims to talk about it,” Strauss said. “Many people are

ashamed to talk about it, but once they see someone else share their story, they feel more comfortable.”

Showing films like Brave Miss World are an avenue to destigmatizing the conversation about rape on college campuses, Zachary Kramer, a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, said.

“There’s a stigma behind it and the people who do talk about it usually make jokes about it,” Kramer, a sophomore biology major, said.

“We want to focus on the fact that it’s not bad to talk about it, and we think that the movie is a great way to do this.”

Meital Rosenberg, vice president of the Hillel Student Board, said she focused on getting the word out about the film and about raising respect for women and rape victims.

Rosenberg, a sophomore majoring in global studies, said she was proud to work with the other groups on the event, which she thinks will help to make Pitt’s campus a safer place.

“The Hillel Jewish University Center and Jewish students on campus deeply care about these issues and want to be active proponents for encouraging dialogue and awareness about what we can do to prevent sexual assault,” Rosenberg said.

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SGB information on the history and structure of SGB, as Board President Graeme Meyer said he wanted to “create more of an informational hub for the student body.”

Anderson, who will continue in his previous role as well, said he’s looking forward to “learning about what the Board wants to accomplish.”

According to Executive Vice President

January 28, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com Nasreen Harun, the adviser assists Board members in their projects, provides feedback and helps Board members get in contact with University administrators.

Anderson fills the position after former SGB adviser Kenyon Bonner assumed Kathy Humphrey’s vacant seat as provost and dean of students. Chancellor Patrick Gallagher promoted Humphrey to senior vice chancellor of communications and chief of staff two weeks ago. Anderson was appointed to the position by Bonner.

“The biggest benefit with Steve is he’s an

associate dean in student affairs, and he can connect us to the rest of the administration,” Meyer said.

Anderson attended SGB’s planning session last Friday to learn more about what the Board members hope to accomplish.

“I’ll be listening to them and [I’ve been] listening to what their platforms were,” Anderson said.

Meyer also said Anderson will be a great asset because many Board members have initiatives that relate to residence life. According to Pitt’s website, Anderson man-

ages, directs and implements programs and events for students to create a positive living-learning community for residence hall students.

Board member Everett Green is working on a guest pass initiative. Green said he met with a representative from Panther Central to talk about the current system of signing guests into University housing and the differences in policy for student and non-student guests. According to Pitt’s Housing Services website, the current system requires guests to provide proper photo identification to guards to scan before gaining entry to the building.

“More specifically, we spoke about what we could do in the future to streamline the process for guest sign-in,” Green said in an email.

Green also said he would be meeting with the Panther Central representative again after she comes back from a conference in February.

Vice President and Chief of Cabinet Natalie Dall is working on a gender-neutral housing and bathrooms initiative. Dall said she is currently researching policies at other ACC schools, as well as other schools who already have policies for gender-neutral housing and bathrooms and schools currently in transition.

Meyer also said that the Board discussed increasing the number of living-learning communities on campus in a planning session, but added that the Board currently hasn’t started working on the initiative yet.

Overall, Meyer said he’s looking forward to working with Anderson in his new role.

“We’re really excited to work with him on everything,” Meyer said. “He’s really, really committed to understanding the operations of SGB and the student body as best he can.”

Regarding the new website, Meyer said that it is “much more user-friendly” and “inviting.”

“We’re adding in quite a few new pages that didn’t exist on the old website. We want it to be a one stop shop with all information about SGB,” Meyer said.

Some of the new features on the website, which Meyer created, include information on the history and structure of SGB. The Board will dedicate a section online to Student Assembly, which the previous Board introduced and students passed in a referenda.

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EDITORIAL

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OPINIONS

Training teachers to prevent teen suicide Using the power of law to prevent tragedy should be every state legislature’s goal. New Jersey lawmakers are doing just that by working to better train school teachers in suicide prevention.

Although work toward prevention is good news, it is the result of past sorrow — specifically, from an increase in teen suicide. The lawmakers believe that the unfortunate trend is connected to the cyberbullying that comes with advanced technology. The proposal would require public school teachers to receive two hours of suicide prevention training from a health care professional every year, rather than every five years as the law currently mandates.

We applaud the bipartisan New Jersey initiative and hope that other states will take similar action to ensure that teachers are well equipped to recognize and prevent tragedy.

High school is not only an academic environment — perhaps, even more so, it is a social scene in which teens deal daily with academic and social pressures. As we know, despite all of the conveniences technology brings us, it brings negative consequences as well. Cyberbullying and any mistreatment of teens by their peers through technology makes it more difficult for teachers to recognize when a student may be suicidal. In the United States, eight out of every 100,000 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 commit suicide, making it the third leading cause of death among our nation’s youth, behind unintentional injury and homicide.

Therefore, government or school initiatives that mandate

suicide prevention training for students should include extensive training in understanding depression — after all, around 90 percent of teens who commit suicide suffer from depression. Teachers should thus not only be able to recognize signs of depression, but also effectively communicate the seriousness of depression to students. If teachers could do this, then ideally students could go through school in a more pleasant and enriching social environment.

Additionally, if students better understood how their negative actions affected others, as teachers could more clearly communicate, then students would bully each other less than if they did not possess such knowledge. That said, it would be naive for us to believe that these programs could completely eliminate bullying. However, teachers could help by passing their own training onto students by taking time to address depression and bullying. Teachers could even devote just a few classes out of the year to depression and bullying education, as well as offer individual advice to each student on how to seek help in dealing with depression and bullying. Thus, students would possess the resources to more frequently recognize, report or intervene when bullying happens, ensuring their safety and the safety of others.

Overall, governments and school districts have a responsibility to train teachers not only as academic educators but as social stewards as well. Suicide prevention is a serious matter. Let’s hope more states treat it as one.

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THE TALBERT REPORT

‘American Sniper’: Our nation’s most pressing issue Eli Talbert Columnist

Last Tuesday was President Obama’s sixth State of the Union, an important speech filled with controversial policy proposals, chock-full of far-reaching effects for the country. Policy debates are ridiculously blasé and hardly merit our discussion, even if a federal law, by definition, affects the entire nation.

No, the really important controversy is over “American Sniper” — the 2015 hit that garnered six Oscar nominations and broke box office records during its opening weekend.

I’m sure some would claim that a movie, even an Oscarnominated one, is simply not worth arguing about when we could argue about more fascinating federal policies . These persons would be terribly wrong, because in the United States, where 115.2 million homes contain TVs, nothing is more important than movies — well, besides maybe sports. That is why analyzing all

the details about late U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s life and his autobiography-turned-movie is purely essential to profound American life.

As a refresher, the primary conflict over “American Sniper” is whether it unduly glorifies war and promotes Kyle as an American hero. This is an important enigma, because the title of American hero holds more power than, say, New York State Assembly Speaker. The latter is considered to be one of the most powerful people in a state of 19.65 million people and plays a key role in that state’s legislation, but the former means people will say nice things about you.

That is why it is so concerning that Kyle might have lied about several incidents detailed in his book and might not have been a generally nice person. Alternatively the federal government arresting Sheldon Silver — the current New York State Assembly Speaker — being arrested on charges of corruption earns only (perhaps) a yawn. Sure, the act of

telling tall tales is not worse than the crime of taking millions in bribes, but we don’t have a movie about Silver’s life, do we?

Similarly, the argument over whether “American Sniper” is political — something its director, Clint Eastwood, and main star, Bradley Cooper, have explicitly denied — is far more important than actual politics. After all, those who watch “American Sniper” might come off with the impression that soldiers are predominantly decent people who can even be heroic. This might brainwash them into supporting the Iraq War—which, although officially over, is something liberals like to emphasize was bad.

In comparison, President Obama’s asking Congress to authorize force against ISIS in his State of the Union is similarly unimportant. A new war in the Middle East and its so-called heroes will only become relevant once that war is over, when we can look back and judge whether

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TALBERT or not it was a good idea.

Of course, it would be dishonest for me to say that “American Sniper” is the most taxing contemporary controversy. There is something that is as big as or potentially bigger than the controversy over “American Sniper” or a new war— Deflategate: whether or not the New England Patriots knowingly deflated their footballs of some

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air during the NFL’s AFC Championship Game. While Deflategate is huge, with Vice President Joe Biden even commenting on it, “American Sniper” is still more important.

Now, that is not to say that Deflategate is unimportant. I agree that the sanctity of the Super Bowl also deserves far more press than President Obama’s desire to change the tax code or the Supreme Court potentially gutting a law aimed at preventing discrimination in housing.

After all, unveiling character flaws in a dead man or, conversely, vehemently shout-

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ing down his detractors seems like a more efficient use of time than asking whether the Patriots cheated when or whether Sheldon Silver is guilty or not guilty of corruption.

Deflategate aside, arguing over a movie is probably the most productive thing you or the rest of the United States media could be doing. Policy proposals and political corruption are simply too boring and require too much reading to generate substantial, widespread debate.

It’s not as if in our democracy, where leaders are elected and accountable to the

public, you can really do anything to affect actual change. With this in mind, I urge you to go see the movie and talk about it with your friends. It is of vital importance to society that your voice is heard, because without it, our entire culture could be changed without your consent. If we let an elite few determine what qualifies a movie as good, similar to how laws are passed, America is truly doomed.

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The game before the game Pitt’s basketball student managers compete in ACC games of their own Pitt’s men’s basketball managers play on the court at the Petersen Events Center. Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Jasper Wilson Senior Staff Writer As student managers from the Pitt men’s basketball team begin to warm up at Petersen Events Center, people stop what they’re doing and watch. Something looks off.

“Y’all play for the team, bruh?” someone cleaning the building asks.

It approached 10 p.m. last Saturday, the night before the men’s team faces off against Louisville, and a cleaning crew worked its way around the main court’s mostly-empty arena, picking up trash and vacuuming. A group of men, wearing athletic clothing and sneakers, had just walked out of the tunnel opposite of the Oakland Zoo. “Managers,” came the reply from one.

The man who asked the question looks on from the side of the court, intrigued, which makes sense. It’s an odd scene, because of the unfamiliar faces — unfamiliar, at least, to people only looking for Pitt’s varsity team.

No. 10 Louisville was in town for its game against Pitt, but that game, a sellout, didn’t tip off until Sunday afternoon. Right now, in front of a handful of spectators, including Pitt players Sheldon Jeter and Cameron Johnson,

it’s the managers’ time to play. Their usual tasks of filling water bottles and handing out towels will just have to wait a day.

Manager games in college basketball are the practical, entertaining result of shared circumstances. Visiting teams that aren’t within driving distance of a school almost always arrive a day early. These games, which usually take place late at night in the host’s main or practice gym, offer a break for the guests from the monotony of life on the road and a chance for both groups to connect with other managers who do the same, often thankless, job. The games may be unofficial, but that doesn’t mean the managers take the competition any less seriously. Like their varsity friends, they have a reputation to uphold, and with the number of manager games everincreasing, the pressure heightens.

“A lot us love the game of basketball. A lot of us played in high school and just want to continue the passion for the game, and what better way to do it [than] with other managers,” Mike Lindenbaum, one of Pitt’s head managers said. “There’s a meaning to it. [You’re] not just playing pickup like, we are up at Trees Hall ...You’re representing your school, and you’re playing pretty competitive

games. So it’s a lot of fun.”

Recently, these managers versus managers games have become more common at Division I schools across the country.

The popularity increase is thanks in large part to ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas, who often tweets out teams’ humorous scouting reports before games as well as photos from the contests to his 808,000 followers and counting.

“There will be trash talk and blood on the floor (and pros to clean it up),” he tweeted before an Iowa-Iowa State game.

Bilas said he dedicates so much of his social media time to these manager games because of his respect for those managers.

“I’m a big admirer of the job that managers do. I think they’re the hardest working people in basketball. You get to know them … You go to practices, and you get to know the managers at different schools, and they’re great kids. They’re the first ones there, last ones to leave,” Bilas said. “After a while, you find out, ‘hey, there’s a game tonight’.”

Bilas, who played at Duke from 1982 to 1986, said when he was a student, the managers at Duke played other schools. Bilas began the shoutouts while in Iowa City, Iowa, for

an Iowa-Iowa State game last month after a couple managers from the home team gave him their scouting report of the opposition.

That’s where the above tweet originated, for the December in-state rivalry game.

“This kind of thing would have been a little blurb entry into an article that you’d do if this were 20 years ago, or get mentioned on a game broadcast or something,” Bilas said. “But now more people get a kick out of it, and do a little bit more with it.”

Lindenbaum’s first manager game took place during his freshman year. The current fifth-year senior played against West Virginia when the Mountaineers made the one-anda-half-hour drive to Oakland.

Before this year, Pitt’s only other manager game over the past four seasons came against Penn State last December, which Pitt’s managers won.

Lindenbaum, an administration of justice major, and Will Supowitz, the other head manager, wanted to make the games against other schools more than an occasional occurrence.

They’ve succeeded. Pitt has a record of

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MANAGERS 4-3 and has played almost a full conference schedule thus far, plus non-conference opponent Florida Gulf Coast, with more games scheduled.

“We’re closer. The Pitt managers are closer. We get along a little bit better,” Lindenbaum said, regarding the increase in games.

“And especially, switching over to the ACC, I think it’s something they’ve done previously in the past. The Big East didn’t really do it, other than rivalry games. Down in the ACC, a lot of the schools are a little bit closer together and familiar with each other. I think that’s probably the biggest reason why.”

Pitt director of basketball operations Brian Regan, who has worked for the team since 2007, often serves as the middleman when organizing the matchups. Lindenbaum goes to him before games to ask for the opponent’s head manager’s contact information. Regan then contacts that team’s director of operations, and the process develops from there.

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“It’s really starting to come together as something more than a pickup game,” Lindenbaum said.

The group’s social media presence has also helped it line up games. The Pitt managers (@PittBballMngers) joined Twitter last March, during the NCAA Tournament. Chase Goldstein, the head manager at FGCU, found the team through their Twitter before the schools played over break and reached out via the social media outlet about playing to their almost 900 followers.

The team often tweets insider pictures of the varsity-level team, as well as results of their own games with the occasional smack talk and humor thrown in. An early tweet from the managers read “Tough transition from Gatorade to Powerade water bottles, but we found a way to fight through the adversity.”

Back on the court, Louisville is a man short, having traveled with four, so the game becomes four-on-four with the rule that, following a turnover, all players must come back across half court to avoid any unfair fast break situations.

Otherwise, the contest, like others similar

to it, consists of two 20-minute halves with no shot clock or officiating. The game mostly uses a running clock, which stops only after made baskets with two minutes or less to go in each period. The ball is checked in after out of bounds or fouls, which are called on merit.

The Louisville Cardinals do fine with what they have, overcoming a five-point halftime deficit to beat Pitt, 62-51.

An hour or so after the game ends, Maninder Singh, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, sits lined up with friends in the Petersen Events Center lobby, hoping to get good seats for tomorrow. When asked what he knew about managers playing other schools, he explained that he knew they played after seeing an Oakland Zoo tweet about it once but thought their games happened after the main one, not before.

“I had no idea they were playing today,” Singh said. “But then when I heard the buzzer go off, we were kind of confused as to what was going on.”

Regan agreed, saying that while the tradition may still live underground, it is growing.

“It’s almost like a culture that goes on that no one knows about or has an idea about,” Regan said.

BASKETBALL

Pitt suffers setback in overtime loss at VT Chris Puzia Sports Editor

A late 17-7 run by Virginia Tech over the final two minutes of the game gave the Hokies their first conference win over Pitt on Tuesday night.

The Panthers (13-8, 3-5 ACC) surrendered game-tying and game-winning 3-pointers at the end of regulation and overtime, respectively, to the Hokies (911, 1-6 ACC).

With 17.5 seconds remaining in the game, and Pitt holding on to a one-point lead, Pitt junior point guard James Robinson hit a jumper from the corner of the foul line to put his team up by three.

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