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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | october 20 2016 | Volume 107 | Issue 60

DISABILITY ADVOCATES SPEAK Rebecca Peters For The Pitt News

The whole room went silent after Sister Anita Maroun asked a crowd of Pitt students and community members how many people with disabilities are needed to change a lightbulb.

“One person to change it and five able-bodied persons to tell them they’re an inspiration,” Maroun joked.

Maroun showed the crowd a picture of a runner with a prosthetic leg, captioned, “If he can do it, you can do it.”.She called it inspiration porn for people who are able bodied. It’s pictures like these, she said, that exclude people with disabilities from society.

“They’re just doing day-to-day things, like making dinner, washing dishes and laughing,” she said.

Maroun came to Pitt to speak about expanding inclusion in social, academic and work settings as a representative for L’Arche USA — an organization that provides homes and workplaces where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together as peers.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 50 million Americans have a disability. L’Arche Erie, the first and largest L’Arche community in the United States, was founded in 1972 by Reverend George Strohmeyer and Sister Barbara Karsznia of the Order of Saint Benedict.

Maestro Tango’s Alejandro Pinzon performs for Pitt Art’s Artful Wednesday series in Nordy’s Place. Meghan Sunners SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MORE BODY CAMS TO COME At a Public Safety meeting, community leaders presented new technology they’re using to improve community relations and safety.| by David Robinson | Staff Writer

Adding to the 170 wired body cameras Pittsburgh police are already wearing, the Bureau said at a public safety meeting Wednesday that it ordered another 500 wireless body cameras to use in the coming year.

See L’Arche on page 4 The new cameras have higher video

quality and storage capacity, officer Garrett Bickmore said. He added that the city’s current cameras attach to the collar and wire to the belt and pose a danger of catching on something.

The new body cameras are an Axon Body 2 model, made by Taser — a com-

pany that designs and sells body cameras, electrical weapons and digital evidence management solutions — and come with HD video and unlimited storage on Taser’s servers.

The city invested in the cameras as a See Public Safety on page 3

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SENATE ANNOUNCES NEW PARTNERSHIPS Leo Dornan Staff Writer

Pitt’s Senate Council announced two partnerships Wednesday night that its administrative members say will make it easier for high school students from any socio-economic background to apply to the University.

Pitt will enter into partnerships next fall with the Coalition for Access and Affordability and Raise.me — a website that allows high school students to track their achievements and apply these to micro scholarships.

According to Marc Harding, chief enrollment officer for Pitt, the Coalition organizes information students might need when applying — including sample essay prompts, financial support and admission statistics — on one online platform.

Pitt is one of 50 member institutions of the Coalition for Access and Affordability, which is based on the idea that if all the information is in the same place it will encourage high school students to seriously think about applying to college, said Harding.

“Coalition makes it less overwhelming for kids to start looking at colleges,” Harding said.

Before the Coalition, similar tools for easily accessible application information were generally only available through a dedicated counselor, someone many students do not have access to because of poor funding at schools

or overwhelmed counselors, said Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia Beeson. The partnerships will help close the gap between schools with poorer funding and those with better funding.

Pitt is also initiating a partnership with Raise.me to increase accessibility and foster diversity at the University.

High school students can earn up to a $7,000 scholarship credit for Pitt through using Raise. me to track their efforts. Each university can set the amount of money students are able to earn through the program. The Raise.me program also allows universities to customize what classes or accomplishments merit scholarship credit.

“If a student passes calculus or maybe three years of lab science or becomes Eagle Scouts [sic], they can collect rewards for that,” Harding said.

This ensures that any student who takes part in this scholarship possesses qualifications that Pitt values, Harding said.

“If you want to move the needle in terms of providing access you need to start early,” Harding said. “Both Raise.me and the Coalition are promoting early intervention.”

Senate President Frank Wilson said these initiatives are part of Pitt’s Year of Diversity and Inclusion. With minorities and poorer students shouldering more debt, both Raise.me and the Senate Council discussed partnerships to help high school students apply to See Senate on page 5 Pitt. Katie Krater STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

DOD TO FUND PITT’S TRAUMA RESEARCH Alexa Bakalarski

Assistant News Editor Pitt received $90 million in federal funding Wednesday to improve trauma care for military members and civilians.

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Pitt’s School of the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences the $90 million contract to collect data and, eventually, initiate projects with the Department, said Jason Sperry, a professor of surgery and critical care medicine at Pitt’s School of Medicine as well as a trauma surgeon at UPMC. “Our immediate goal is to characterize what our network can do by obtaining intensive data

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from the pre-hospital and in-hospital settings, which is beyond what is normally obtained by trauma centers across the country,” Sperry said in a UPMC release. “After approximately two years of accruing large amounts of data, we’ll be able to launch subsequent projects at the DOD’s request.”

The contract is launching with a $10.8 million project to create the Linking Investigations in Trauma and Emergency Services Network –– a national network of trauma centers and systems that will conduct research for improving military trauma care.

Sperry, the principal investigator on the re-

search, said that the LITES Network has the potential to inspire research leading to clinical advancements.

In its first study, the LITES Network plans to link information spanning from a patient’s prehospital care to his or her recovery after being discharged. The network will collect data for thousands of patients nationwide on moderate and severe injuries.

Eventually, the goal is to break down the treatment and management of injuries by region of the country.

According to the UPMC release, LITES Network projects will rely on a University review

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board to give the network more flexibility and make it more efficient.

Trauma centers at the University of Texas at Houston, Vanderbilt University, University of Louisville, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Arizona will also be a part of the initial study. Other trauma centers across the United States –– such as the University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah and University of Texas Southwestern –– will participate in subsequent studies.

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Public Safety, pg. 1 safety measure for both the officers and the public and a measure to increase evidence necessary for use in court, Bickmore said.

There is legislation pending that would require law enforcement officers to wear body cameras. Currently, officers are not allowed to record in households.

About 130 people gathered Wednesday night at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers building for the semi-annual, citywide public safety meeting, which the police Bureau and Department of Public Safety hosted. There, presenters displayed new tools and technology that ranged from more body cameras for city police, to a tool that allows responders to identify the source of a fire, to online and mobile platforms that gather and respond to residential complaints.

Wendell Hissrich, public safety director in the city of Pittsburgh, opened the meeting, congratulating city safety officials for their progress, such as equipping officers with Narcan to combat overdose and increasing the spread of swift water rescue training for police and EMS.

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Hissrich also talked about plans for 2017, including a Public Safety Department campaign to hire more EMTs and the commission of a fireboat.

Ken Wolfe, president of Zone 3 Public Safety Council and an organizer of the meeting, said he hopes these initiatives will encourage members of the community to become more actively involved in relationships with other residents and public safety concerns.

“More participation, that’s really what it comes down to ... from regular citizens ... so they are more aware of what’s going on, not only in government but also in public safety specifically,” Wolfe said.

At the nearly two-hour-long meeting, Captain David Hamburger of the Pittsburgh Fire Bureau also presented the department’s new thermal imaging camera.

The camera — a handheld device that looks like a science-fiction handgun — was developed by MSA Safety Incorporated, a public safety company based in Pittsburgh, and Hamburger demonstrated its ability to see victims through a blaze.

Pittsburgh now has one device for See Public Safety on page 5

At a Public Safety meeting, community leaders presented new technologies Anna Bongardino STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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L’Arche, pg. 1

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, among the 29.4 million people with disabilities of working age, 12.1 million are employed. According to Maroun, public policy can be more inclusive by defining success as what persons with intellectual disabilities are able to accomplish based on the available resources.

“We are a nation constitutionally committed to recognizing the value and equality of each person,” she said.

Vicki Washek, a community leader for L’Arche Erie, said that it is possible to recognize this value and equality daily. Growing up with her uncle Bob, who had an intellectual disability, Washek said including people with disabilities quickly became a normal routine.

“When students from local schools in Erie make personal connections and friendships, inclusion becomes second nature,” she said. “They learn to focus more on the person, not the disability.”

While working at L’Arche Erie, Washek integrated patients who were previously committed at Polk Center, a mental hospital in Pennsylvania, into the community in Erie. Bob would have gone to that hospital if he hadn’t moved in with Washek’s family.

Since Maroun was speaking to a group of mostly doctors and students from Pitt’s School

of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, she focused on how those in the medical field can teach people to see the human being before the disability.

“In the medical field, you’re not treating the disability, you’re treating the person,” Maroun said. “[Inclusion is] understanding that when you see a patient with a disability, you may not be able to keep your 10-minute limit per patient.”

Sara Munera, a master’s student in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, attended the lecture so she could bring what she learned back to Colombia, where she is from.

She plans on returning after receiving her master’s to “improve access to assistive technologies for people with disabilities,” she said.

“It’s interesting to hear thoughts about how society influences our thoughts about people with disabilities,” Munera, 26, said.

L’Arche Erie, the only L’Arche community in Pennsylvania, houses 24 core members in eight homes and one apartment.

In these homes, strangers become family, according to Maroun.

“What is human in me meets what is human in you. What is infinite in me meets what is infinite in you. In that meeting, there’s something that’s reborn. It is a sense of humanity,” Maroun said.

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Maroun, the eastern U.S. regional coordinator for L’Arche USA, and other representatives from the organization spoke Wednesday afternoon in the University Club as part of the Thornburgh Family Lecture Series on Disability Law and Policy, an annual lecture rooted in the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy.

Clifford Rounds connected with the L’Arche Erie community in 2014 while living in a senior living home after a drastic decline in his health due to diabetes, kidney failure and vision loss.

Amanda Horton, a seven-year L’Arche Erie assistant, helped Rounds tell his story.

“L’Arche gave me family. Without it, I would probably be dead,” Rounds said.

Richard Hauser, a member of L’Arche Erie, sings his praises of the community. As part of the presentation, Hauser sang a song for the crowd about fulfilling God’s will in every country.

“This is my home. The country where my heart is. Other hearts in other lands are beating with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine,” Hauser sang.

Steve Washek, the deputy director of L’Arche USA, accompanied Hauser to the podium.

“Richard has as much to teach me as I have to teach Richard,” Washek said.

Throughout her speech, Maroun focused on her desire to see legislators expand the Americans with Disabilities Act to focus not only on legally eliminating discrimination but also encouraging inclusion.

Former President George H. W. Bush enacted the ADA in July 1990 to prohibit federally funded institutions from discriminating against people with disabilities in their hiring and building processes, among other things.

But Maroun said there is still room for the ADA to expand, listing four additional categories that could be more inclusive — legal funding, public policy, society and religious institutions.

As of now, government funding is limited depending on characterization of organizations, such as for “group homes.” Maroun said she would like to see more funds going toward integrative community programs for people with and without intellectual disabilities.

Much of the ADA public policy focuses on physical inclusion, such as access to schools, restaurants and bathrooms. But the ultimate criteria for social inclusion is success, Maroun said, which is defined as the person’s ability to be employed and live by themselves.

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Public Safety, pg. 3 each of the city’s 28 fire rigs. Previously, there were only a few devices in the entire city.

Alongside the police and fire department, the third component of emergency medical services brought its own new technology to show off at the meeting.

Leonard Weiss, an emergency physician at Pitt and the city of Pittsburgh, presented PulsePoint — an app that alerts anyone who has the app to locations where cardiac arrests are occurring.

The app also includes a registry of AEDs — automated external defibrillators, medical devices which restart hearts after cardiac arrest — and their locations.

After the operator receives a 911 call, they put in an alert to both PulsePoint and the nearest ambulance so that whoever is closest to the victim — whether it be an off-duty paramedic or a bystander with the app — can assist them.

“We are basically trying to use technology to help save lives. That’s what our goal is — we’re starting with cardiac arrests and PulsePoint and AED mapping

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and public safety now,” Weiss said. “If we can conquer that, we’ll keep going to other things — there are other medical and non-medical emergencies that we can use technology to improve.”

The 17th Street Block Watch, a South Side neighborhood watch group, unveiled a new online platform called Nextdoor Wednesday night.

Robert Cavalier, leader of the 17th Street group, used South Side Flats as an example of what Block Watch, an online platform, can do.

Using the online medium Nextdoor, Cavalier and his neighborhood watch, have been able to quell complaints from residents over public drunkenness or house parties in the South Side, by submitting complaints that officers can respond to.

Complaints about students are resolved through universities, like Pitt or Duquesne University.

But the app’s true benefit is its encouragement to have neighbors meet each other, changing how residents — especially student residents — perceive their community by providing names and faces to the residences, according to Cavalier.

Wolfe said it’s been a long time coming to this level of efficiency.

“Normally block watches have been a telephone thing, so if you see something, there’s a telephone chain that you call that I’m calling you, you’re calling someone else, that person’s calling the next person so you know what’s going on in the community,” Wolfe said. “In the 21st century and the age of computers, Nextdoor –– the Nextdoor app –– has been the de facto.”

Allison Harnden, a nighttime economy coordinator in the Department of Public Safety, acts as a liaison between residents and businesses or students to educate people about proper conduct during nights out.

Harnden said that similar strategies in Oakland, such as the community codeenforcement group, Oakwatch, have made students more responsible in their communities.

“Because [Oakwatch has] been working on that initiative for four years now, now you have every class that’s been touched. The seniors tell the [first-years], the juniors tell the [first-years]. It’s getting reinforced that way,” Harnden said.

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Senate, pg. 2 Coalition aim to increase accessibility to Pitt for any future student who wants to apply, encouraging ongoing diversity.

“This is a particular moment where the opportunities are available to us to take advantage of,” Wilson said. “These discussions can help move us forward as a University.”

The Senate Council also announced that the formation of the School of Computing Informatics is in its final stages. Beeson, at the Senate Council meeting Wednesday, announced her plans to present the final proposal for the additional school to the Board of Trustees next week.

The discussion to create the new school started last year after Beeson brought faculty members of the Information Sciences and Computer Science together to discuss how integrated both fields have become.

“Today, it’s hard to sort out what’s a computing problem and what’s a data problem,” Beeson said. “Computing and information is present in every field.”

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Opinions The Pitt News

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Liberty University censorship betrays freedom Despite its name, Liberty University seems to think freedom of speech is only worth protecting when students aren’t being “redundant” in how they criticize his chosen presidential candidate.

According to the school’s studentrun newspaper, The Liberty Champion, an opinion column critical of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “locker room talk” was blocked from publication by university officials. Liberty’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr., called the article “redundant” when questioned on Twitter about his decision and dodged questions about why he was involved in deciding whether to run the article at all.

Legally, Falwell is fully capable of cutting the column in question. Because the university is a private institution which does not get government funds, it is capable of restricting free speech on campus. And as the head of the university, Falwell ultimately gets to make those calls — even when they are arbitrary and a misuse of his authority.

The blocked column presents a perspective from the Champion’s sports editor, who argues that Trump’s sexual assault remarks are not representative of how most men treat women. The letter to the editor, which Falwell highlights as covering the same issue, addresses Trump’s remarks as indicative of his inability to lead.

The only commonality between the two stories is Trump.

We’re in the midst of the first presidential election most readers and student paper staff members are old enough to participate in, and this has been the most controversial and emotionally heated election in decades — so

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the bar for “redundancy” when talking about a main party candidate is pretty high. Two articles don’t meet that bar, as they address different issues related to a candidate for whom there is plenty worth criticizing.

Yet Falwell claims otherwise. Though he is a vocal supporter of Trump in the presidential race against Hillary Clinton, and he has denied a connection between that endorsement and his decision to cut the article, he’s provided no rationale beyond personal judgement.

All the legal protections in the world don’t discount the immorality of an administrative official limiting the speech of students to fulfill an agenda. Even if Liberty University has the freedom to limit speech, it has an equal ability — and a moral obligation — to avoid doing so for hollow reasons.

After publishing our editorial board’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton Tuesday, The Pitt News was inundated with criticism from those who disagreed.

Such backlash is simply part of expressing a public opinion, and being an independent paper has allowed us to publish those opinions freely.

Cutting off a dialogue before it can even begin is disrespectful to the Champion’s crop of young journalists and free speech in general. As a university administrator responsible for educating and supporting a group of young writers and journalists, how can Falwell say their writing is only acceptable to the extent that it doesn’t anger the people in his political circle?

For a leader so publicly supportive of conservative values, Falwell seems to care very little about this country’s founding principles.

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ELITISM OVER MAJOR MISGUIDED

Emily Schoenberger Columnist

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimized by a Pitt engineering or pre-med major.

It’s safe to assume most students pursuing liberal arts degrees have both hands and a leg in the air.

Our students, like so many other college students across the nation, constantly argue with one another over whose major is more demanding and important.

I’ve heard science majors slam gender studies majors, English majors slam philosophy and business majors slam economics.

This superiority complex is rampant across all majors, in all schools. Why is it that we all believe our own studies are the hardest?

And more importantly, why do we feel the need to prove it with endless complaints about workloads and requirements?

As an English and history double major,

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insults at each other from across the educational aisle. Therein lies the issue with collegiate academics: We subscribe to a culture of self-superiority.

But the reality is that all students who care about their studies work hard. Frankly, which major is quantitatively “hardest” is irrelevant.

People have a tendency to only see what they do, and not what others do. We think we work harder and more than everyone around us, a phenomenon psychologists deem “overclaiming.”

This is certainly evident when one major scoffs at another. But each major is different, and subject to its own difficulties. Just because I have less lab reports to do than a while STEM — science, technology, en- chemistry major, doesn’t mean I have less gineering and math — majors are “hard.” work — my work might just involve less This difference usually comes down to memorizing and more documenting.

Students choose majors based on their GPAs, average hours of homework per week and credit hours. And for some reaSee Schoenberger on page 8 son, students in both majors tend to toss

I have been called “lucky” and told I have it involve the question, “Would you like fries easy. No wonder I have a high GPA — I’m with that?”

Typically, education, language and an English major, for heaven’s sake.

It’s because I’ve selected an “easy” ma- humanities majors are considered “easy,”

I have been called “lucky” and told I have it easy. No wonder I have a high GPA — I’m an English major, for heaven’s sake. jor in which professors toss out top marks willy-nilly in classes during which we talk about whatever we please. We spend our classes filling our heads with ideas that have no bearing on the real world or our future careers — careers that will obviously

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Schoenberger, pg. 7 future careers, and we should value the diversity in majors which ultimately allow for diversity in professions. We can’t all be mechanical engineers.

But somehow, it’s inevitably what your family questions you about at Thanksgiving dinner and what students want to know when I tell them I write and study the past.

“Really? That’s your major? What are you going to do with that degree?”

This reaction comes not only from crotchety uncles but from other students.

When we are kids, we are told to follow our dreams. When we reach college, we are told to follow our wallets I have no idea where I will be in three years. I could be working for a magazine, a non-profit or a museum. I could be in media, marketing or grad school. I could be teaching, working in fashion or one of those people who dresses up in period clothing and sells rock candy in Colonial Williamsburg.

So if I can’t predict the future, why would I waste four years — or even one second — doing something I hate? I have

zero interest in engineering, and an absolute zeal for English and history.

I certainly want a return on my investment — or, more accurately, my parents’ investment — in a college education, but not at the cost of being perpetually unhappy at my job. It’s not pure naivete to be confident in saying I’ll be able to find a career that I enjoy, in my field or a related one, without having to live on the streets.

It’s frustrating when someone ridicules my choice in majors, because my majors are a significant part of my personhood at this stage in my life.

There are hardworking engineers and lazy engineering majors, just as there are hardworking and lazy English students.

When it comes down to it, a major is only as difficult as a student makes it.

If you are overburdened by your workload or unhappy with your GPA, remember that you chose this path, and it is up to you whether you choose to rise to the occasion or complain.

More importantly, understand that just because someone is pursuing a different major, doesn’t mean they are taking an easier route.

Stop judging, and start applauding.

Third debate most substantive Well, it’s over. While we haven’t heard the last of either candidate, the final presidential debate of 2016 is behind us. Here’s a breakdown of how we got here.

Donald Trump learned the value of preparation. While the first debate was a perfect encapsulation of every argumentative, hostile element of his temperament, Trump’s performance in the final debate featured relatively few interruptions and a generally measured tone.

He did call Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman,” but overall he kept personal attacks, including those against Bill Clinton, to a minimum.

Clinton gave up on being fun. After nearuniversal mocking, Clinton finally dropped the dumb taglines and focused on extended, aggressive attacks on Trump’s record rather than his personality. She appeared more authoritative than in the last debate, when she giggled at Trump and brushed him off as a clown. By confronting him as a serious threat, she confidently shot back at him on topics including his use of charity funds and tax plans.

The foundations of democracy continue to elude Trump. Refusing to solidly say he would

support a Clinton victory and backtrack his accusations of a rigged election, Trump’s worst moment came when Clinton thoroughly broke down how dangerous his rhetoric is. While some of his most extreme supporters may think his open-ended response is something to rally around, the flak he has received from moderates and liberals alike will only increase.

Clinton still ducks questions she should be able to answer easily. Chris Wallace’s opening question about the role of the Supreme Court should have been an easy home run for Clinton, who used to be a lawyer. Instead, she deflected and focused on policies she wants a potential Supreme Court nominee to agree with her on.

Once again, she failed to solidly rebuke Trump’s comments about her private server and when he accused Democrats of seeding his rallies with violent protesters, she had nothing to say.

Clinton and her supporters may think these are small issues, but undecided voters are still listening.

There are only three weeks left. Good luck everyone — we’ll all need it. Just make sure you vote.

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AFTER #OSCARSSOWHITE, TV STEPS UP Kelechi Urama Staff Writer

One of the most talked about scenes in FX’s “Atlanta” happens at the beginning of the first episode.

The series’ protagonist, Earn Marks, played by creator Donald Glover, lies in bed with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and daughter’s mother Van (Zazie Beetz). Their playful banter about morning breath quickly becomes tense when Earn is slow to say, “I love you,” back.

Annoyed, Van slips out of bed and into the bathroom, where she removes the silk scarf around her head and loosens her twists. It’s an intimate ritual most black women perform daily, but it’s rarely included on screen.

“It’s such a tiny detail that, in the wrong hands, would not have played out so well,” said Yona Harvey, assistant professor in Pitt’s English department. “But that’s the beauty of having diversified teams who are working on these stories and invested in telling them accurately and creatively.”

Harvey also has a hand in writing Marvel’s upcoming Black Panther companion “World of Wakanda” comic book series with prominent writers Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay. That series has been hailed as breaking the mold in what’s essentially been a culture dominated by white writers and characters.

In the television industry, “Atlanta” joins a handful of other new series created by and starring black voices, like HBO’s “Insecure,” OWN’s “Queen Sugar” and Marvel’s “Luke Cage” — which attracted such high traffic that it temporarily shut down Netflix for nearly two hours the day it premiered. These shows are notable in that they all are written by, star and are directed by people of color.

“The thing that I’m most proud of with this show is that we got away with being honest,” Glover said in an interview with The Daily Beast. “The things that people are most attracted to online are the things that are the realest, the most honest. We tried to do that on the show because I feel like that’s a part of being black that people don’t see. I’m trying to make people feel black.”

For many viewers, this wave of diverse televi-

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sion is a welcome sight after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy earlier this year. April Reign, editor-at-large of NU Tribe Magazine, created the hashtag in 2015, when no people of color were nominated in any of the four major Academy acting awards.

The hashtag gained momentum in early 2016 when, once again, the Academy announced allwhite nominees in its major categories. Actors, including Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, publicly boycotted the Oscars ceremony, and others like “Queen Sugar” creator and director Ava DuVernay and director Spike Lee spoke openly about a lack of opportunities for people of color in Hollywood, both behind and on the screens.

The uproar had an effect.

The LA Times reported that the Academy nominees were 91 percent white and 76 percent male, which, along with the calls for more diversity, prompted Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs to announce diversity initiatives meant to introduce more minority and female Academy members.

Additionally, comments from those behind the scenes indicate this new wave of TV shows may be a conscious effort by networks to diversify their programming. Kelly Edwards, vice president of HBO talent development and programming, told The Huffington Post last February the network was on the lookout for “new voices with an authentic and original point of view.”

That search delivered voices like Issa Rae, creator and star of HBO’s new series, “Insecure,” which premiered Sunday, Oct. 9. “Insecure” revolves around an average black woman grappling with the anxiety of approaching her 30s — an area unexplored in media. The show’s very nature, Rae said in an interview with NPR, is groundbreaking.

“Isn’t it sad that it’s revolutionary?” Rae said.

“It’s so basic ... but [black people] don’t get to do that. We don’t get to just have a show about regular black people being basic.”

Eugene Garcia-Cross, 2003 Pitt grad and production assistant on ABC’s upcoming sitcom “Downward Dog,” has witnessed the push for diversity firsthand. He moved to Los Angeles last fall and finished the National Hispanic

Mike Colter, star of Netflix’s new series “Luke Cage.”TNS Media Coalition’s Television Writers Program this April. The program is one of many diversity programs used by networks to find diverse talent to place on their shows. As an example, Garcia-Cross pointed out his friend Jorge RamirezMartinez, who recently joined NBC’s new show “The Blacklist: Redemption” as a staff writer. “#OscarsSoWhite was important, because there wasn’t a lot of diversity — there’s still work to be done — in front of the camera and behind it,” Garcia-Cross said, addressing the fact that recent Writers Guild of America, West reports still find that minorities make up only 13 percent of television writers rooms.

“I have a lot of friends that are Latino actors and constantly getting cast as ‘Cholo #3’ or drug dealers, so it’s nice to see the diversity not in terms of people being cast but also the quality of the roles,” Garcia-Cross said.

According to Carl Kurlander, Pitt senior lecturer and Hollywood expatriate (“St. Elmo’s

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Fire,” “Saved by the Bell: The New Class”), Hollywood executives haven’t been ignoring nonwhite audiences out of malice.

They’re simply following the dollar signs. “[Shows like] ‘Empire’ hit and people realize, ‘Oh, there’s something here,’” Kurlander said.

He also said the increasing number of networks and streaming services has led to more competition. Thus, executives are afraid to spend money on independent and “niche” films and television shows out of fear they won’t recoup their money. The success of Netflix’s most watched series, “Orange is the New Black,” and FOX’s ratings giant,“Empire,” have made studios more confident to diversify their programming.

In the past, diversity in casting has opened doors for more diversity throughout the industry — though it usually comes in bursts.

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A WALK THROUGH THE MUSEUM AND A NICE CHIANTI James Evan Bowen-Gaddy For The Pitt News

When “The Silence of the Lambs” was released in 1991, viewers gathered in theaters around the world and watched in horror as Hannibal Lecter escaped the captivity of his massive one-man cage.

Pittsburgh moviegoers might have recognized this scene’s setting as the ballroom in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum.

John McCabe, Soldiers and Sailors’ president and CEO, said that the film gave the museum more exposure than expected.

“This put on us the map for some folks,” McCabe said.

That’s why for its third Over-21 Night at Soldiers and Sailors, the museum will reimagine the terror of the famous cage scene right where it was originally filmed, using both a life-size reconstruction of Lecter’s cage as well as a team of actors playing roles from the legendary thriller.

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The film’s 25th anniversary celebration will be hosted at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and an Museum on Thursday, Oct. 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. p. The event costs $10 in advance and $15 at the th door and will also include a psychic medium and an a tarot card reader to add to the Halloween theme. There will also be caricature sketches for sale.

McCabe said that the museum’s Over-21 Nights exist to let visitors “see the museum in a different way” than they may be used to. These special night events include a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres, and for Thursday’s “The Silence of the Lambs” tribute, guests are even invited to sport their Halloween costumes. A DJ will be in attendance to run a dance floor, which will be open to the event goers.

Stand-ins for film characters Hannibal Lecter and Detective Starling will mingle with the crowd and attendees will be able to approach Lecter in his model cage to take selfies with the crazed maniac himself.

Actors will also portray Anthony Hopkins’

The recreation of the cage from “The Silence of the Lambs” is set to spook See Preview on page 11 museum-goers tonight. Wenhao Wu SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Preview, pg. 10 and Jodie Foster’s lead roles and smaller parts including the military men from the film. Lisa Petitta, a historian from the Soldiers and Sailors staff, attracted the attention of one the original actors from the film through an open casting call on Facebook.

“We’re so excited to have him. He’ll be wearing a military uniform similar to the one he actually wore in the film,” said Peta.

In preparation for the event, McCabe reached out to the staff of the well-known Hundred Acres

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Manor haunted house in Pittsburgh’s South Park to see if they would be interested in building a replica of Hannibal’s cage. The team at Hundred Acres Manor got on board with McCabe’s idea and agreed to reproduce the set.

Tyler Kozar, artistic director of promotion and design at Hundred Acres Manor, said that when building the cage, their team did as much research as possible to make their replica true to the original design. They studied movie shots, photos and trailers until they felt they had firm grasp on all of the cage’s minute details.

“We studied really anything we could get our hands on,” Kozar said, “even if there’s a big mark

or scratch, we [tried] to reproduce it.”

Kozar added that the cage had to be constructed very carefully. Since the structure has to be set up and broken down before and after the event, it was built in over 30 distinct pieces.

The Hundred Acres Manor team was surprised to find in its research, however, that the cage may have actually been built as one piece onsite at Soldiers and Sailors during the original filming.

Examples of the film being modified to fit its environment can be found all around Pittsburgh.

Scott Lloyd, homeowner of Buffalo Bill’s house in the film, said the pit in which the sinister villain kept his victims was actually based on a pit that

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filmmakers found after production had begun.

“That infamous pit is a copy of an old well that was out on my property,” said Lloyd. The filmmakers were looking for a pit, and Lloyd exclaimed, “‘Hey, I got one right out there.’”

At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, where the moth research scene was filmed, entomologist John Rawlins recalls how director Jonathan Demme first approached him, asking for help with the script and stage direction.

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Sports MIDSEASON AWARDS

SOSTEK SELECTS: STANDOUT PERFORMERS Dan Sostek

Senior Staff Writer The Pitt football team entered its bye week on the strength of three straight wins but will face a gauntlet of a threegame stretch coming out of the break.

With a 5-2 overall record and 2-1 record in ACC play at the midway point of the season, the Panthers are in position for a run at the division title. But the team will have no room for error in the grueling three-week stretch ahead with games against Virginia Tech, Miami and Clemson.

Plenty of p l a y ers and coaches h a v e been key components to the Panthers’ strong record, but these are the few who stand out.

Most Valuable Player: Quadree Henderson, WR/KR The biggest question entering this season for Pitt was how the Panthers would make up for the loss of wide receiver Tyler Boyd, who left for the NFL after his junior year. Boyd is Pitt’s alltime leading receiver and left a gaping hole of yardage for the team to replace.

It turns out the Panthers didn’t necessarily have to replace his presence through the air.

Quadree Henderson has proven to be as dynamic, if not as productive, as Boyd. Through offensive coordinator

Matt Canada’s utilization of jet sweeps, Henderson is second on the team with 349 yards rushing and fourth with 174 receiving yards.

He’s also been arguably the best kick returner in college football, holding the distinction of being the only player in the nation with two kick-return touchdowns. Henderson makes defenses shudder whenever he has the ball –– precisely the type of presence Pitt needed to emerge this season.

Biggest Surprise: Matt Canada, Offensive Coordinator When Jim Chaney bolted from his post as Pitt’s offensive coordinator after one season, the Panthers were left with a handful of talented puzzle pieces that didn’t appear to fit into a coherent offense.

But in just one offseason, new offensive coordinator Matt Canada has solved that jigsaw, using creative schemes and motion to turn Pitt into one of the ACC’s premiere offenses. The Panthers rank second in the ACC with an average of 38.4 points scored per game.

He’s figured out the best way to use his undersized athletes on offense like Henderson, Rafael Araujo-Lopes and Tre Tipton, constantly moving them around the formation with the threat of jet sweeps, play actions and handoffs to

Henderson makes defenses shudder whenever he has the ball

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3 PANTHERS NAMED MIDSEASON ALL-AMERICANS Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

Football is a game of three phases –– offense, defense and special teams. This week, players on Pitt’s football team were recognized for excellence in all three.

Senior defensive end Ejuan Price, sophomore wide receiver/kick returner Quadree Henderson and senior offensive tackle Dorian Johnson received midseason All-America honors from multiple publications on Tuesday and Wednesday after helping lead Pitt to a 5-2 start.

All three Panthers earned a spot on SI.com’s midseason All-American team, with Henderson and Johnson making the first team and Price making the second. Price and Henderson also made the 27-member teams selected by Sporting News and CBSSports.com Tuesday.

USA Today released its 26-player team featuring Price and Henderson on Wednesday, and Johnson appeared on ESPN’s 25-member team, which didn’t See Football on page 14 Dorian Johnson is one of three Panthers selected to midseason All-America teams. Jeff Ahearn SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Awards, pg. 12 running backs to keep defenses off balance.

Canada is largely responsible for the offense’s transformation into an explosive, high-scoring group. He is proving why head coach Pat Narduzzi said, in hiring Canada, he hired someone “as good or better” than Chaney.

Most Disappointing: Avonte Maddox, CB As the Panthers’ No. 2 cornerback the past two seasons, Avonte Maddox has shown promise, using quickness and good hand skills to thwart opponents’ No. 2 wideouts.

His transition to Pitt’s No. 1 corner this year has been anything but smooth.

Maddox struggled mightily against Oklahoma State and North Carolina’s talented wide receiver corps. He did return an interception for a touchdown on the last play of Pitt’s 43-27 win over Marshall, but other than that, his season has been filled with negatives.

Things aren’t exactly getting better for Maddox either. The junior corner

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missed Pitt’s last game against Virginia with his arm in a sling, and redshirt sophomore Phillipie Motley played well in Maddox’s place in his first career start.

Maddox should regain his starting spot when he gets healthy, but it’s worth watching to see how much leeway his coaches will give him.

Most Unsung: George Aston, FB Fullbacks will naturally get overlooked in offenses, but George Aston is making that tougher and tougher to do every week.

A former walk-on linebacker, Aston found playing time last year primarily as a short-yardage pass catcher, hauling in a pair of touchdown receptions.

He’s been even more involved in the offense this year, tallying five touchdowns already on just 24 touches. He’s emerged as a secondary goal line back to bruising tailback James Conner, forcing defenses to divert their attention away from Conner and account for him when Pitt is within a few yards of the end zone.

Aston doesn’t pile up yardage, but he lowers his shoulder with the best of them, and his penchant for finding the end zone has been key for the Panthers.

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Following a first-team All-ACC performance in 2015, Price has been even more dominant to start in the 2016 season. Three out of four analysts from Athlon Sports chose him as the midseason favorite to win ACC Defensive Player of the Year.

Price, a sixth-year senior from Rankin, Pennsylvania, leads the nation with 1.29 sacks per game and ranks third with 1.9 tackles for loss per game. Both marks are tops in the ACC, and he also ranks fifth in the conference with three forced fumbles.

Henderson, who has been one of the most dynamic players in college football in 2016, made all four midseason AllAmerican teams as a return specialist.

The sophomore leads the ACC and is third in the NCAA with an average of 35.9 yards per kickoff return, and he is the only player in the country with two kick-return touchdowns. His 12.4 yardsper-punt return average is good for fifth in the ACC and 12th in the NCAA, and

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he ranks second in the ACC and seventh in the NCAA with 172.9 all-purpose yards per game.

Johnson, a preseason All-America selection at offensive guard by ESPN, received the midseason accolade from ESPN and SI.com.

A 6-foot-5, 315-pound senior from Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, Johnson has started at left guard in 33 straight games and helped pave the way for the Panthers’ steady ground attack. Pitt ranks 19th in the country with an average of 239.1 yards rushing per game, and the team has now rushed for over 200 yards in six straight games.

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