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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | October 18, 2018 | Volume 109 | Issue 43

DARBY TAKES A SYMPHONY OF STRINGS PLEA DEAL Janine Faust Managing Editor

Twenty-two-year-old Matthew Darby was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday afternoon for the murder of Pitt student Alina Sheykhet.

Sheykhet, a junior aspiring to become a physical therapist, was found dead in her home in Oakland on Oct. 8, 2017. Darby — her ex-boyfriend and a former student at Pitt’s Greensburg campus — was charged shortly afterward with homicide, flight, burglary, theft, trespassing and possessing an instrument of crime. He was arrested in South Carolina on Oct. 11, 2017.

Darby appeared in court Wednesday at 10 a.m. before President Judge Jeffrey Manning, according to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office. The DA’s office had originally sought the death penalty for Darby but withdrew it after he agreed to a sentence of life The University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs the Scherzo from Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony in the without parole — pleading guilty to first-deBellefield Hall auditorium Wednesday night. Kaycee Orwig | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER gree murder, trespassing and numerous other charges in the death of Sheykhet.

The formal sentencing occurred that afternoon, which was when Darby was sentenced to life without parole plus 24 to 48 years concurwere violated, with six deemed “high risk,” were removed from the unit, according to the Hannah Schneider rent prison time, according to the DA’s office. according to the report. Of the eight General report.

Assistant News Editor “District Attorney Zappala would like to The high-risk violation for the category Sanitation categories, four categories were commend the family and friends of Alina, esMarket Central, the main hub for student violated, with three deemed “low risk” and “hot holding temperatures” said certain foods pecially her parents and brother, for the dignity dining at Pitt, was cited for multiple health were being heated under heat lamps at 100 one having no risk. and strength they have exhibited throughout violations by the Allegheny County Health The first high-risk violation — categorized degrees to 120 degrees. According to section this difficult time and for the powerful message Department on Wednesday, Oct. 10. as food source/condition — was described as 303.4 B in the ACHD Rules and Regulations they sent through their impact statements,” the Out of the 25 Food Safety Assessment condensate observed dripping onto sealed office said in a Facebook post. categories reviewed by ACHD, 14 categories See Market on page 3 boxes of french fries and raw meat. All foods

MARKET CITED FOR 14 HEALTH VIOLATIONS

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Bob Woodward takes Trump to task Emily Wolfe Staff Writer

Investigative journalist Bob Woodward discusses the process of interviewing sources for his book “Fear” at Pitt Program Council’s “An Evening with Bob Woodward” Wednesday night. Knox Coulter | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Bob Woodward has covered every president from Nixon to Trump in his 50 years at the Washington Post, helping the paper pick up two Pulitzer Prizes on the way.

“I’ve been accused of being a leftist, I’ve been accused of being part of a right-wing conspiracy,” Woodward said. “Last year, someone called me an ultra-centrist.”

Most famously, in the early 1970s he covered the Watergate investigation and the subsequent implosion of the Nixon administration with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein. He and Bernstein then co-authored “All the President’s Men” in 1975, a Pulitzer Prizewinning account of the investigation. His most recent book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” details the inner workings — and chaos — of the Trump administration.

Now, after two years spent doing research and interviews for the book, Woodward came to the William Pitt Union Assembly Room Wednesday to talk about it. Several hundred people came to hear Woodward’s lecture — hosted by the Pitt Program Council — in which he talked about everything from Trump to Nixon to the process of casting the film version of “All the President’s Men.” “My general conclusion about the Trump presidency is that we are witnessing a nervous breakdown,” Woodward said, comparing the current political atmosphere to the time just before World War I. “The sun is setting again on the world order.”

The most explosive quotes from “Fear” broke the news cycle in early September, a week before the book’s release. The Washington Post published a description of Trump, quoted in the book, from Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who said the president has “the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader,” and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was quoted as saying of Trump, “He’s an idiot.”

Trump called Woodward in August, a month before the book’s publication, to ask why he hadn’t been interviewed. According to Woodward, though, he requested interviews through several senior Trump aides, including Kellyanne Conway and Sen. Lindsey

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Graham, R-S.C. Trump finished the call, of which the Post published an audio recording, by saying Woodward’s book would be “inaccurate.”

Trump’s denial of the book’s accuracy is part of his general denouncement of the “fake news” media, a stance which Woodward called a “strategic decision” to undermine the media’s credibility.

Some reporters, he said, allow Trump’s attacks on the media to cloud their reporting, but it’s important that they cover Trump the same way they would cover any president.

“You have to be factual,” Woodward said. “You have to not be emotional.”

Debbi Gillotti, a Pitt trustee who works at the software company nVoq at the corporate level, bought a copy of “Fear” from a table set up in the back of the room. She said she thinks she’s read every book Woodward’s written since he started publishing them.

“I lived through the Watergate years,” Gillotti said. “I was wondering how the anecdotes that seemed to all be from the early ’70s would resonate with a [student] audience, but I thought they were insightful. Certainly, for someone of my generation, a lot of them resonated.”

Maddie Ward, PPC’s lecture director, introduced Woodward at the beginning of his lecture. She had the idea to bring Wood-

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ward for a lecture at Pitt when she heard about his book earlier in the fall.

“It ended up working out that he was available and he wanted to do it,” Ward, a senior marketing major, said. “I thought it was interesting to be able to hear what he actually had to say rather than just reading it off a page.”

Students filled most of the crowd, which Woodward noted with pleasure. They lined up at microphones on both sides of the room to ask questions after the talk, and PPC members eventually had to turn students away. One senior English literature major, Adam Bumas, asked Woodward for recommended reading on history and politics for better context on current events.

“Give me your email,” Woodward said to Bumas, and promised to send him a list.

After the talk, Bumas stood at the side of the room, collecting email addresses from people who stopped to talk to him, saying he would forward the reading list once he’d received it. As for “All the President’s Men,” Bumas said he’s already read it — or at least most of it.

“Obviously, I’ve seen the movie.” He paused and laughed. “Before I had read or seen ‘All the President’s Men,’ I read the Mad [Magazine] parody, ‘Gall of the President’s Men.’” Another student had brought four different Woodward books, hoping for a moment when the journalist could sign them. Though Woodward didn’t do any book signings, the student did get the opportunity to ask him a question — what advice did he have for an aspiring journalist?

“Go to the scene,” Woodward said. “[Reporters] are not showing up in our business.”

Many modern reporters he knows conduct most of their interviews by email or phone, Woodward said. But he’s gotten his best results by meeting with his sources in person — even when that means tracking down a source’s address and showing up at the front door in the middle of the night.

“You have to have personal relations with people,” he said. “It’s the key.”

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Market Central and Market To-Go violated 18 out of 33 total inspection categories in the Allegheny County Health Department’s most recent Food Safety Assessment Report. TPN File Photo

Market, pg. 1 for food safety, the internal temperature of food requiring hot storage should be 135 degrees or greater.

Pitt was also cited for a high-risk violation in the category “cold holding temperatures,” for certain cold foods measuring at 47 degrees to 56 degrees. According to section 303.3 B in the ACHD Rules and Regulations for food safety, food requiring refrigeration should be held at or below 41 degrees.

Insufficiently cleaned ice-cream scoops were observed in visually cloudy water at the Tower Treats station. After employees were instructed to correct the issue, the scoops were observed to still be in cloudy water at the end of the inspection, resulting in a highrisk violation of cross-contamination prevention.

Employee personal hygiene was deemed a high-risk violation after an employee was observed wiping their nose with the back of their hand and subsequently handling clean dish racks without washing their hands.

A tray of utensils was found dirtied with debris, including the parts of the utensils that come in contact with food. Sanitizer in a dishwashing room was found at an insufficient concentration. Both of these resulted in a high-risk cleaning and sanitation violation.

Abdou Cole, the resident district manager of Pitt Dining by Sodexo, said Sodexo operations at Market use a comprehensive food safety system called Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, which follows the flow of food throughout the daily operation

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of a food service institution. According to the FDA, HACCP is intended to prevent biological, chemical and physical hazards in foods at any point in the food-making process.

“We take food safety seriously. In my many years of serving food to Pitt students, safety is always at the top list. Sodexo has a comprehensive food safety system that goes beyond routine inspections of equipment and appearance. It helps uncover and solve any dangerous defects in food handling,” Cole said in an email. “Our strong food safety policies require Sodexo operations to conduct frequent self-inspections daily and adhere to third-party surprise audits.”

According to Cole, violated categories in reports are identified for follow-up action and scheduled for reinspection, which Market always completes successfully. If Market Central does not address the violations before its next inspection, a further penalty including fines or closure could be imposed by ACHD, depending on the severity of the violations. Cole said inspections are a collaborative and educational effort with the ACHD. “We have hired a registered dietician, a culinary director, a new general manager and a food safety coordinator. This group will be the food safety committee specifically responsible for addressing employee training and retraining, food labelling, accountability and control points monitor verification,” Cole said in an email. “We are working with the ACHD collaboratively to get our new food safety coordinator up to speed with training from both Sodexo and the ACHD.”

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Opinions from the editorial board

Riding high: United States should follow Canada’s pot legalization Canada’s always ranked high on social freedom, but since Wednesday, the country’s also been high on marijuana. The United States’ northern neighbor just became the second country in the world to legalize cannabis — and its citizens have reacted enthusiastically.

“We know the world is watching,” Kelly Coulter, a small-scale farmer in British Columbia, said. “We hope other countries will see what’s happening here and replicate it.”

The United States absolutely should replicate Canada’s decision. A number of states have voted to decriminalize the drug — but that’s not enough. Nearly a quarter of Americans regularly smoke weed, so to ensure all Americans have safe, consistent access to the drug, it needs to be legalized and regulated at the federal level.

Unfortunately, Attorney General Jeff Sessions remains firmly opposed — he believes marijuana is just as harmful as heroin, a powerful opioid.

“I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store,” Sessions said while speaking with police officers in 2017. “And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana — so people can trade one lifewrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful.”

Under federal law, which Session supports, cannabis is deemed just as dangerous as heroin, with high potential for abuse and zero practicality in medicine. But this is ludicrous — it’s impossible to overdose on marijuana, but nearly 13,000 Americans die every year from heroin. And more than 3 million Americans use medical marijuana to treat various ailments.

In fact, legalizing marijuana nationwide

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is proven to make citizens safer. Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize marijuana in 2017, and since then, it’s seen a 20-percent reduction in drugrelated crime. In the United States, nearly half a million people were admitted to the emergency room in 2011 for consuming marijuana laced with harmful substances like PCP. If marijuana was legalized and regulated on a federal level, we’d have far fewer cases like this — and we could drastically reduce government spending, too.

The United States spends more than $50 million per year locking up more than a million people for mere possession of marijuana. But Canada’s putting a $1 per gram excise tax on consumers. If the United States implemented a similar policy, we could cut the cost of imprisoning people for an insignificant offense and rake in millions per year in taxes.

“We don’t know the size of the marijuana market right now,” Carl Davis, senior analyst at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy told The Huffington Post. “But we do know that legalization would lead to a positive revenue impact on the income and sales tax side.”

While 46 states have legalized medicinal marijuana, possessing marijuana in any form is still a federal crime.

Violators won’t receive prison time but they can lose access to federal services, such as subsidized student loans and housing. Only legalizing cannabis on a federal level can solve these complicated legal discrepancies, as well as grant greater freedom to Americans overall.

Canada set a great example through legalizing marijuana. The United States should follow suit — we need to weed out oppressive drug laws.

Trump mocks Ford: A tragedy for #MeToo Kelly Loftus Staff Columnist Dr. Christine Blasey Ford resurrected the #MeToo movement with her sexual assault allegation against then-Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh last month — and, for a second, America cared again.

Celebrities took to social media to express their support for Ford. Matt Damon appeared as Kavanaugh on “Saturday Night Live.” Amy Schumer was arrested for protesting in Washington, D.C. But one person who didn’t seem to care was our president. He repeatedly made fun of Ford for coming forward, blindly defending Kavanaugh’s integrity without giving the accusations a thought.

Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court confirms that the American two-party system prioritizes partisan loyalty over moral integrity.

They don’t take sexual assault seriously.

On paper, Kavanaugh fits the job description for Supreme Court justice. He has an Ivy League education and 12 years of experience as a federal judge. But when put under the spotlight for his testimony, he cracked open as easily as one would a cold one with the boys — calling the allegations a left-wing conspiracy.

“This whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election … and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups,” Kavanaugh said in the hearing.

After showing he’s both strongly partisan and incapable of maintaining composure under stress, not to mention he accumulated multiple sexual assault allegations, Kavanaugh still managed to secure a spot on the Supreme Court bench. This came after several Republican senators conceded that Dr. Ford provided a solid testimony. Even President Trump said Ford was a “very compelling … very credible witness.”

But then Trump mocked Ford at a rally in Mississippi on Oct. 2. The crowd laughed and

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cheered as Trump imitated Ford, saying “I had one beer” and “I don’t know.”

All but one Republican senator voted for Kavanaugh’s confirmation like the obedient party members they are. It didn’t matter that Kavanaugh may have committed sexual assault, nor did it matter that he showcased a temperament more similar to a fifth grader than a Supreme Court justice. All that mattered was that the Democrats lost, even if it meant America would lose with them.

It should go without saying that the men and women of Congress should act in a way that benefits the country and their constituents, regardless of party pressure. Then again, it should also go without saying that sexual assault is no laughing matter.

Accused of sexual assault himself, the president is notorious for making derogatory remarks toward and about women, including his own daughter. With his brand built on what supporters hail as a lack of political correctness, Trump frequently crosses into lacking basic human decency as well — as seen by his comments on Ford’s allegations.

“I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents,” Trump said in a tweet before the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing.

It should not matter if she was reporting the alleged attack immediately or 36 years later — Ford’s accusation should be treated with respect, not bombarded with criticism from president of the United States himself.

Roughly two out of every three instances of sexual assault go unreported. Trump belittling Ford’s claims confirms the fears of every sexual assault victim in the country that even if they go through the pain of facing their perpetrator and sharing their story, they will not be believed — they will be ridiculed.

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City of Asylum brings exiled writers to Nordy’s

cally on the phone. The poem ended with the memorable line, “Will anyone call me back?”

Two exiled writers from Later in the evening, Das Bangladesh and Syria took the came back on stage to read stage Wednesday night at Norsome of his poems in his nady’s Place to share their poetry, tive language.

Few of the aushort stories and heartbreaking dience members could undertales of seeking asylum. stand what Das was saying, but The writers — Osama Aloall watched attentively as the mar of Syria and Tuhin Das words rolled off his tongue. of Bangladesh — are residents One student was excited of Pittsburgh through City of to hear from Das, as he a felAsylum, an organization that low Bangladesh native. Zarrar provides a home to authors, poNashman, a sophomore neuets and journalists exiled from roscience major, shared his their native countries because positive thoughts on the repof their writing. The two were resentation Das brought to the welcomed to the University by evening.

Pitt Study Abroad Office Di“This event brought to light rector Jeffrey Whitehead, who the different issues that surwas there for the event on beround not just one country, but half of Pitt International Week. Writer and activist Tuhin Das speaks about the dangers Al-Qaeda presented to writers in his many different ones,” Nashman The evening kicked off with homeland of Bangladesh at Wednesday night’s “City Of Asylum Exiled Writers Residencies” said.

“I’m from Bangladesh, a statement from Tommy Nel- event. Sarah Connor | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR so I can relate to a lot of what son, the director of external [Das] had to say.” became clear that we didn’t belong in our town berelations at City of Asylum and Syrian refugee Alomar took the stage after Das, a former Pitt professor in the department of physics cause we were minority [citizens],” Das said. “My prepared to read his stories and poetry. When he was childhood friends all said I should leave Bangladesh and astronomy. first exiled in 2008, Alomar initially went to Chica“Our primary mission [at City of Asylum] is to and go to India and write.” go, where he drove a cab for a living. He applied for He remained in Bangladesh for some time, at first provide sanctuary to endangered literary authors like City of Asylum in 2013 and has been in Pittsburgh our writers here tonight so that they can continue to taking up writing through poetry. As he grew up, his ever since.

Alomar was exiled from Damascus, Syria, write and their voices are not silenced,” Nelson said. hometown became a place of protest for persecution when an intelligence agency became unhappy with a “We’re very happy the international studies depart- of Hindus and atheists by fundamentalists — and he piece that he wrote. ment put this together and that we can be here and did not shy away from it. In 2013, things started to He started things off with a short story called “Huchange for Das. have this opportunity to share what we do.” man Rights.”

“I joined the candlelight vigils and the marches The first speaker to take the stage was Das. Nelson “Human rights decided to take a trip around the introduced Das by stating that he is a “poet, activist, and read my poetry at public gatherings,” he said. world,” Alomar said. political columnist, short-story writer and essayist.” “My main goal was to speak against religious perseThe story continued to tell a tale of a woman who The Barisal, Bangladesh, native began his presenta- cution.” went around the world and was wronged in many This got Das into hot water with his home governtion by talking about his experiences in and exile countries, her human rights violated by the unnamed ment when he and many other activists and secular from his home country. “them.”

Alomar read many other short stories and Das — who has published seven books of poetry writers became targets of militant fundamentalist poems as he stood at the microphone, many of them in his native language of Bengali — set up a slideshow groups. Das made the decision to leave his country to with funny metaphorical statements. for guests to read as he spoke through a thick accent, save his own life in 2016. He has been in Pittsburgh “He sat down on his mouth and released a terrible talking about his time growing up with Hindu beliefs with City of Asylum ever since. fart,” he said.

He spent the rest of his time on stage reading some in Bangladesh and his tough trials as a writer.

That was a line from one of his last stories that “Even though my family, who are citizens of Ban- of his short stories and poetry. His final poem dealt gladesh, have shared equal rights with everyone, it with loneliness and looking for connections, specifiSee Asylum on page 7

Sarah Connor Culture Editor

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Asylum, pg. 6 told of a man who frequently messed up in life, but the mess-ups were represented through symbolic actions. Many guests were surprised by the comedic element in Alomar’s writing, something he was proud of integrating into his work.

“This is my personality. Life is not easy at all,” he said. “I try to be strong. We have to be strong.

I always try to be funny, to challenge bad circumstances.”

His motivation for this strength and humor comes from his passion to achieve his goal — to become an

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established writer in America. Alomar had achieved success with his writing in Arabic while he was still living in Syria, publishing books of short stories and poems, but he is still working toward gaining that recognition in the States.

The evening closed out with a Q&A session with the two writers, moderated by Nelson. Nelson was impressed with the two writers and shared his love for working with the pair. When a guest asked how the two writers were doing with their English-learning processes, they both had elaborate answers, but Nelson added a simple comment.

“I would say they are both very good at telling jokes already,” he said, causing laughter from the au-

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dience.

Nelson felt very lucky and happy to have the opportunity to bring the message of City of Asylum to Pitt and was thankful to get to spend time with Das and Alomar. He believes he has learned a lot with them.

“I’ve learned that people are remarkably, shockingly resilient and that you should never allow the pressures of the world to prevent you from doing what you want to do in life,” he said. “I enjoy seeing both of these guys very much and I’m grateful every day that I get to be beside people every day who show that we can all be so much better than the rhetoric we steep ourselves in every day.”

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Pitt figure skating spins into 2018 season

Tessa Sayers Staff Writer Jess Lott had her college choices narrowed down to the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Maryland. Her final decision came down to one thing — figure skating.

Lott had been figure skating since she was 6 years old and it was something she wanted to continue in college. Last March, she attended the Carnegie Cup, Carnegie Mellon’s first-ever figure skating competition held at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. She was able to watch both Pitt and Maryland compete and decided shortly after where she would spend her next four years.

“I got to see both skating atmospheres,” Lott said. “And I felt I fit better with the Pitt figure-skating team.”

Two years ago, Lott would not have had the ability to compare Pitt’s club figureskating team to another school’s — because it didn’t exist.

While the club is still young, it is already making an impact on Pitt and its students. It has given current students the opportunity to skate again and has given future students the opportunity to continue their passion where it wasn’t an option before.

The club was founded by junior exercise science major Cara Murphy when she arrived at Pitt as a first-year in 2016. Murphy also started figure skating when she was 6 years old and wanted a way for her to continue her passion in college.

She began attending the Student Organization Resource Center’s information sessions on starting clubs, and learned she would need at least 10 people before the University could recognize an official club.

“It was pretty difficult,” Murphy said.

“Ten doesn’t seem like a lot, but there aren’t a lot of figure skaters to begin with, so finding 10 was a little bit difficult.”

In order to help find 10 people, Murphy enlisted the help of Tenley Brownright, a

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Michelle Nguyen (left), a junior biology and English writing major, performs a layback spin. Jenna Teplitzky (right), a sophomore history and theater arts major, practices jumps at the Pitt Figure Skating club’s practice Tuesday morning. Thomas Yang | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR sixth-year doctoral student studying epidemiology. Brownright and Murphy knew each other from their work coaching youth skaters at the Robert Morris University Island Sports Center.

Brownright also had previous experience in collegiate figure skating. While earning her undergraduate degree at Dartmouth University, she played a major role on its club figure-skating team, earning two team and two individual national championships.

After she got some help, Murphy started reaching out to figure skaters she knew who went to Pitt and to coaches in the area. Those coaches, in turn, put her in touch with their former students who now attended Pitt.

“The figure-skating world is small,” Murphy said. “So you know everybody even if you aren’t skating at the same rink.”

By the fall of 2017, they had enough members and submitted the application to become an official club. It was approved in the spring of 2018. Now, less than a year

after becoming official, the figure-skating team is up to 19 members.

“I was very surprised with how many people were interested in joining the club,” Murphy said. “We started finding skaters from so many different places like Philadelphia, New York and Virginia that were happy to know that they would be able to continue skating in college.”

All members of the team are expected to practice at least once a week, but many of them practice up to five times a week. Because there is no rink on campus, practicing multiple times a week takes dedication.

Members of the club are able to skate at any open figure-skating sessions at the Alpha Ice Complex or the RMU Island Sports Center, but they also have to drive up to an hour and a half just to get there.

Because they can attend any open skating session, some members are skating at the same places and with the same people they grew up skating with. They also skate

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with people of all different ages and skill levels. Usually the practices last anywhere from an hour to two hours.

“I’m impressed by how much people make the effort and people want to be a part of this team when it’s not as easy for them,” Brownright said.

The team’s first real competition will be the Violet Competition at New York University in November. The Violet Competition is one of three competitions in the Eastern Division that the team is eligible to compete in. At the end of the competitions, the total points will be calculated and the three teams in the Eastern Division with the most points will receive a bid to nationals held at the University of Delaware.

For many of the skaters, the Violet Competition will be their first time ever competing on a team.

“I’m excited for the change,” Lott said.

“It’s a little bit more pressure that you want to do really well so you can support the team and get points for your team. But I think it’s really cool that now we have people behind us, supporting us at the competition and rooting for you.”

In order to be eligible to compete, certain skills are required, like a waltz jump and scratch spin. Thus, the team is prioritizing looking for members who have experience skating and who will be able to compete for them right away, rather than people who are simply looking to skate recreationally.

The club is hoping to grow larger and gain more competitors in the next couple of years. Many figure skaters in the Pittsburgh area weren’t considering Pitt because it didn’t have a figure-skating team, but because of Murphy, that has changed.

“A lot of parents were really happy because … we have a lot of parents who are Pitt alumni and they all want their kids to go to Pitt,” Murphy said. “But their kids really weren’t considering Pitt because we didn’t have figure skating offered. So they’re very grateful that we started this team and they are excited for their kids to join us.”

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South Oakland, North Oakland, and South­ side on Bouqet St., Meyran Ave., At­wood

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St., North Neville St., and Sarah St. Call 412‑287‑5712 Hiring After‑School, Evening, and Week­ end Sitters. Great pay.

Flexible sched­ules and fulfilling work with a wide va­riety of families. Must have a car and insur­ ance. Contact Fran, College Nan­nies and Tutors, 440‑520‑4430, arlington­varecruiter@ college­nannies.com.

Local middle‑eastern

restaurant looking for positive, energetic people to join our team! Excellent

cus­tomer service,

good character, and strong work ethic.

Filling all positions immedi­ately! Call (412)‑680‑9094

Part‑time administra­ tive position avail­able at Schachner Associ­ ates, P.C.; Compre­ hensive Psy­chological Services. Respon­ sibilities in­clude: assistance with client services, in­cluding greeting, schedul­ ing, and insur­ance payments; gen­eral communication man­ agement and client insurance eligi­bility and benefit con­ firmation; and basic filing, bookkeeping, and assistance with

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$6.30

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5X $27.00 $29.10

6X $30.20 $32.30

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(Each Additional Word: $0.10)

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office projects. Excel­ lent interpersonal skills, multitasking, and computer and typ­ ing skills are re­quired.

College stu­dents and recent grad­uates are welcome. Please send a resume to admin@ schachn­erassociates. com.”

Part‑Time Job: Earn up to $200 a day driv­ ing and hanging out with senior citizens.

Apply here: https:­// www.fountain.com/­ papa‑technologies/ ap­ply/pittsburgh‑pa­ pa‑pal

Services Services Other

$16ph and up. We are looking for someone

who is engaging, per­ sonable, enthusiastic

and responsible. Must be very strong for lift­ ing and help­ing with

PT. Position requires

driving a handicapped van for outside ac­

tivities, swimming & per­forming personal

care (dressing, toilet­ ing, feeding). Male

companion preferred.

Please inquire

412‑889‑8934

Notices Events Halloween Costume Contest with prizes and giveaways!

Location: Lotsa Stone

Caregiver/companion

Fired Pizza

with cerebral palsy in

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Saturday 4pm‑9pm.

from 4PM‑7PM

shifts also available.

www.oakhillapts.com

for lively young man

3621 Forbes Ave,

Squirrel Hill needed

Time:

Possible morning

See you there!

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