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GUEST SPEAKER

Gunning for gold: Tim Gunn visits campus

More than just a gallery

Penn X Roup provides space for art, clothing, shoes and more

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Even though Tim Gunn has penned three books with a fourth on the way, he didn’t recommend trying it to the audience at Pitt Monday night.

“If you have written a book — hats off to you, if you’re thinking about it — don’t,” Gunn said.

Gunn said this in jest and went on to explain how writing a book was quite an arduous process for him and required a great amount of collaboration.

Borrowing from the title of his second book, the Pitt Program Council lecture, dubbed “Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Lessons for Making It Work,” was originally thought to include insight on the fashion industry and awareness about LGBT, depression and suicide issues. But Gunn mostly stuck to his book of the same title and his experiences in the fashion industry.

Lindsy Steinberger, the lecture director of PPC, said they “get a broad basis about what they’re going to talk about” from research before the event.

Pitt Program Council estimates that

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Young players exceed expectations Tim Gunn “makes it work” Monday night at William Pitt Union. Heather Tennant| Staff Photographer

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SGB election candidates announced

Abbey Reighard Senior Staff Writer

For the second consecutive year, the candidates running for Student Government Board member positions have an easy election season ahead of them.

There are only nine candidates running for the eight Board member posi-

tions and three candidates running for president in this year’s election. The low turnout is reminiscent of last year’s election, when 10 students competed for the Board seats, while the presidential candidate — current President Mike Nites — ran unopposed.

Current Board member Graeme Meyer, Wasi Mohamed and Andrew

Stefanick are running for the presidential seat.

Allocations Committee Chair Nasreen Harun, current Board member Megan Murphy and Everett Green, a sophomore majoring in finance, make up the 87’s slate.

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SGB Mohamed, a senior studying chemistry, history and philosophy of science, neuroscience, philosophy and religious studies, formed the Bridges slate with Matt Skyes, a junior majoring in industrial engineering, and Natalie Dall, a sophomore majoring in molecular biology.

Stefanick, a senior accounting and economics major, is running on the Pitt United slate with Jessica Snyder, a junior majoring in resources management and accounting, and Jack Heidecker, a sophomore majoring in German and political science. Stefanick interviewed for a position on the Board twice when the Board was seeking applicants to fill vacancies.

The remaining three candidates — Meyer, Jade Diamond and Jacky Chen — will run independently.

According to the Elections Code, candidates can run with up to three people per slate. However, independent candidates can affiliate themselves with a slate, which is what Meyer will be doing with the 87’s.

The 87’s and Meyer came up with 87 initiatives they hope to pursue as Board members.

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485 students attended the lecture in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room.

Gunn fans are most likely familiar with his popular catch phrase, “make it work,” which first caught on when he was still working as an educator at Parsons. Gunn elaborated on this wellknown philosophy during the lecture.

Gunn said that “making it work” teaches you that you can’t just abandon things that are not going well and makes you work with what you have.

According to Gunn, this strengthens you and your quality of work.

He began as an educator and innovator for the reinvention of the design curriculum at Parsons in Manhattan, but Gunn is better known for his mentoring role on Lifetime’s “Project Runway.”

Gunn thoroughly engaged with the audience and provided a word of advice

for Board include taking full advantage of their terms, which will be an academic year and a half because of the recently passed referendum to change SGB’s term to follow the academic year instead of the fiscal year.

Harun said one of the 87’s initiatives will include restructuring SGB. Stefanick said the members of Pitt United also intend to affiliate themselves with independent Board candidate Diamond, a junior majoring in communication and information sciences.

Chen, a junior majoring in neuroscience and psychology, is also running as an independent candidate.

Chen said his top initiatives include promoting cultural awareness through campus-wide events, increasing the number of electrical outlets in Hillman Library and making the OMET survey results available to students.

Mohamed said some of his slate’s initiatives include restructuring Student Government so it’s more inclusive to students, increasing student involvement in the academic process so students have more of a voice in what classes are offered and a focus on campus safety.

Elections Committee Chair, Lauren Barney, said the lack of competition with nine board members running for eight positions is not a cause for concern.

for almost every story he told.

When first starting his book, “Gunn’s Golden Rules,” Gunn was writing from the perspective of an “irked New Yorker” surrounded by people who couldn’t tear themselves away from technology.

But the main idea soon turned into a collection of personal stories and anecdotes.

Gunn is a firm believer that you should truly “own” who you are — one of the very first things that he said was “know where you come from.”

He “doesn’t care what you wear as long as you take responsibility for it,” because we are perceived by our appearance, and he feels that it’s important to be aware of appearance when going out in public.

Gunn is not huge on trends for that reason — he doesn’t like having the authority to tell people what or what not to wear and he doesn’t. He said that he is often cynical about them, because they vary so much, but he also likes the shifts, because it gives people

Presidential Candidates Graeme Meyer Wasiulluh (Wasi) Mohamed Andrew Stefanick

Board Candidates Jacky Chen Jade Diamond Natalie Dall Everett Green John (Jack) Heidecker Nasreen Harun Meghan Murphy Jessica Snyder Matthew Sykes

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Bridges = Green 87’s = Gold Pitt United = Red Independent Candidates = Blue

the freedom to wear what they want.

He said that it’s OK to be whatever you want, but just “don’t be an axe murderer.”

During the Q&A portion of Gunn’s lecture, an audience member asked him to elaborate on his support of PETA and the Humane Society, along with his distaste of fur in the fashion industry.

Gunn sees no reason to wear fur, but he also has a problem with faux fur as well. He said that he prefers imitation fur and animal skins to not only be fake but also to look fake. He believes that we should be environmentally and ethically responsible, and he jokingly finished his statement by saying, “If you want to wear it, kill it.”

Gunn was highly receptive to student questions, and he even offered students who went up to the mics an opportunity for selfies and hugs onstage.

Pitt junior Mary Brooke Umhau said that she “loves Tim Gunn because he’s approachable, honest and a great mentor.”

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EDITORIAL

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OPINIONS SIMON SAYS

Egg freezing reflects lack of parental leave Freezing eggs — could mothers of newborns.” In this be the solution to workplace equality?

Companies from Facebook to Apple to Citigroup have begun to cover the cost of egg freezing. According to Time Magazine, this process would surgically “preserve healthy eggs on ice” until they’re ready to become parents, at which point they begin the process of in vitro fertilization.

This is a step in the right direction, as women will have less pressure to leave their careers early and risk falling off the leadership ladder, thus increasing life planning flexibility.

But even more pressing is the reality it reflects.

Regardless of when it is taken, time away from work creates a bump in one’s career path. This is the central issue that employers must address.

The United States lags behind among the developed world in providing paid parental leave. In fact, according to the Huffington Post, “When Australia passed a parental leave law in 2010, it left the U.S. as the only industrialized nation not to mandate paid leave for

the U.S., new mothers are guaranteed their jobs for 12 weeks following the child’s birth. However, this is without pay and exemptions remain for small companies.

Furthermore, child raising should not be the mother ’s sole responsibility. Federal laws should protect both mothers and fathers from losing pay for assisting one another following a newborn’s early days. It is the federal government’s responsibility to set policy that promotes the general welfare. Allowing parents time to raise their own children would promote family stability, most importantly benefiting the child while not obstructing career prospects for the mother.

Nature cannot be changed. Women who want to both bear children and climb the career ladder will inevitably meet conflict. But this conflict can be minimized if women are afforded better assistance and job security.

Every developed nation has realized this. It’s time for the United States to as well.

PMADD: Let’s serve for more than one day

Students partake in the annual Pitt Make a Difference Day. Theo Schwarz | Visual Editor

Simon Brown Columnist More than 3,000 highlighter yellow-emblazoned students embarked on buses Saturday to plant trees, clean trash and generally “make a difference” in the Pittsburgh area. Pitt Make a Difference Day demonstrates our campus’ admirable commitment to the community, but it also demonstrates everything lacking in the University’s notion of “service.”

Criticizing PMADD is like criticizing the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge — it’s usually accompanied by ample eye-rolling and minimal sympathy. I’m not claiming that PMADD is bad for the community.

I’m certainly not claiming that the students “making the difference” in PMADD do so with unadmirable intentions. But, I am claiming that students and universities can do better, and that begins with a

better definition of service.

Service has become a catchall for volunteering and public engagement administration at the university level. One need only look to this fall’s Student Volunteer Outreach absorption into ‘PittServes’ — to note the prevalence and appeal of the word.

Since the mid-1980s, universities have scrambled to incorporate “Service-Learning” within students’ curricular and extracurricular activities. Universities have seen a particularly pronounced increase in students’ services in the past few years. According to statistics compiled by Campus Compact from its 1,100 member universities, including Pitt, universities saw the number of students participating in “community work” climb from roughly 30 to 45 percent, with a $4 billion total increase in the value of the service to the community.

No sensible person could deny that this considerable increase deserves praise. Universities accurately recognize that students can and should learn to apply their classroom-taught skills to assist nonprofits and community organizations that address social problems. More important, however, is that it can expose students to systemic social ills from which they are otherwise sheltered within the confines of campus life.

Exposure, however, is only the first step to correcting social inequities. For university “service” projects, though, it is usually the last.

“Service” at its best can force students to confront problems close to campus. Service does not, however, solve those problems. No matter how many hours

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SIMON SAYS students commit to cleaning up South Oakland, trash will remain on the streets until students seriously consider how their presence in the neighborhood affects quality of life for longtime residents, homeowners and businesses. No matter how many college students tutor low-income high schoolers to prepare for the SAT, that demographic will still

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be underrepresented at universities as long as their classes are inadequately funded and their teachers inadequately prepared and supported.

These problems result from deepseated cultural attitudes and public policies, and we as students cannot satisfactorily address those problems if we do not begin to understand how to change the causes. That understanding, however, takes serious work — far more than six hours on a Saturday.

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to motivate this intellectual work born of community work. Getting the proverbial dirt under the nails through service, such as PMADD, should begin a process of reflection and research into the roots of the problems that service, as it is construed now, can only address on the surface.

Students should walk away from the trees they planted with not only well-deserved satisfaction but also some deserving questions. Why do under-resourced communities rely on college students to plant their trees, while students enjoy the

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trees on campus without having to give them a second thought? What organizations should be responsible for planting the trees in those neighborhoods?

Who can I vote for to make sure trees get planted where they need to be?

Motivating these questions ought be the central concern of university-run service departments and student-run community outreach. Until then, students’ work will only make a difference for a day.

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ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT

FEATURE

Daily Bread and Refresh PGH are two businesses that occupy Penn X Roup. Christine Lim | Staff Photographer

Pen n X Roup G a l l e r y mo r e ‘incub a t o r sp a ce’ t h a n a r t g a l l e r y Kathy Zhao Staff Writer Don’t let the name fool you — Penn X Roup Gallery is much more than just a place to look at artwork.

The space located at 5450 Penn Ave., between Garfield and East Liberty, does display and sell artwork. However, it’s also a clothing retailer, a shoe refurbishment center and a music venue.

“I’ve had people say that this is an ‘incubator space,’” said Nico Hartkopf, a 2010 graduate from Carnegie Mellon University and managing architect of the

gallery. “But we’re not here to help individual things grow and then leave, we’re here to help each other grow and at the same time, be a part of a community.”

About a year after Hartkopf graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture, he leased the space for a refurbished modern furniture store — 54/50 Modern. He boarded up the windows, made renovations — fixed rotted floorboards, replaced broken windows — and then reopened.

The response was tepid.

Hartkopf was frustrated. He wanted the community to appreciate that he was

taking a dilapidated storefront and making it into something useful.

“As an architecture person, sometimes you get so focused on architecture that you want to believe everyone cares about it the way you do,” Hartkopf said.

He realized the way to engage people is through the programming in an architectural space. The average person doesn’t care about what a building looks like as much as what actually occurs within it, such as musical performances, social events and unusual, creative businesses.

That was how clothing company, Daily

Bread, and shoe company, Refresh PGH, got involved.

Daily Bread is co-owned by Alex Avakian, who knew Hartkopf in high school.

It’s a clothing company based in Pittsburgh that began as an Internet blog in 2009. Now, it has a huge local following — including an Instagram account with nearly 9,000 followers.

Daily Bread specializes in printed shirts and vintage fabric hats. The company’s hats create a rainbow of textures and

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MUSIC

Against Me! and Branan hog the spotlight from Gaslight Danielle Fox Assistant News Editor

What Gaslight Anthem lacked in individuality Friday night at Stage AE, it painfully made up with an overactive light show and an arduously long 26-song set.

It was the end to the band’s fall U.S. tour, roughly one year after the group visited Pittsburgh to play at Mr. Small’s. The band has since claimed more popularity, and it managed to sell out the show, along with openers Cory Branan and Against Me!, who both played considerably better than the headlining act.

Branan, a singer/songwriter from Mississippi, sounded somewhere between a piss-drunk trucker, a homegrown choirboy and a Seattle anarchist.

It was delightful and original. Yet, he might not agree with the former description.

Branan told the audience that he asked Gaslight Anthem if they knew he is “not really punk, right?” when they asked him to join their tour.

However Branan wants to describe himself, Rolling Stone already graced him with an epithet in “10 New Country Artists You Need To Know: Fall 2014.” He’s also aging smoothly into his rougher punk/country/ folk sound. At age 39, Branan’s voice now allows for some snarl and rasp with its tenor notes, which adds a raw power that his earlier performances in the 2000’s lacked.

He varied Friday between upbeat lust songs such as “Prettiest Waitress in Memphis” and lonely lines such as “While she sleeps, I trace the places that your tattoos used to be.” He delivered these emotions through with intensity that threatened to snap his guitar strings.

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GALLERY cartoon pipe-smokers. Each snapback or camper hat is tagged with a wooden or cotton logo that says, “Daily Bread: Quality Cottons & Vintage Fabrics Est. 2009 Pittsburgh, PA,” ensuring that buyers display their Pittsburgh pride while wearing them. The hats can run anywhere from $25 to $125.

However, Nigel Calvimontes, chief

Against Me! her flowing, evfront woman Lauer-growing and ra Jane Grace desweat-drenched scribes herself in locks, you could her Twitter bio as occasionally a “True Tran Soul catch a Cheshire Rebel,” a title she Cat-grin underasserted Friday. neath. The audiGrace dedicated ence mirrored the band’s perforit, particularly mance of the 2014 when the band album’s title track, got down to “Transgender Dys“Thrash Unreal,” phoria Blues,” to a the climax in its fan who was fired high-energy set. after coming out as Guitarist James transgender.

Bowman was “Everyone degrasshopperserves the right to like, high-kicklive and be treated ing and doing like a human,” split jumps at Grace said. every appropriGrace, forate drumbeat. merly Tom Gabel, Grace, who is revealed she was known for close transgender in fan interaction, 2012. Her wife, seemed a little Laura Jane Grace blends activism with highband and fanbase energy punk. Harrison Kaminsky | Asst. News Editor restrained but enthusiastically was still passionembraced her transition. Grace now tours ate in the larger venue. in the body she feels at home and speaks Like Gaslight Anthem, Against Me! publicly about transgender issues, specifi- began its U.S. tour in Pittsburgh last year cally in the music community. and ended it on Friday. Its next stop is the Against Me! played six of the 15 songs United Kingdom, as the group begins a from Transgender Dysphoria Blues, the separate international leg. album inspired by Grace’s transition. But Branan and Against Me! had the crowd the band opened with a classic: “Pints of amped up aplenty by the time Gaslight Guinness Make You Strong” from their Anthem began. This made it all the more 2001 EP, Against ME! Is Reinventing Axl confusing to why the band pumped its Rose. bass levels through the roof and brought Although you couldn’t see Grace’s face as much lights as your average EDM show. for the majority of the show because of The New Jersey boys are doing well for

themselves these days and shouldn’t need to hide behind these distractions. The band’s latest album, Get Hurt, debuted at No. 2 on BillBoard’s Top Rock Albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan, despite a couple of negative reviews.

When band member Alex Rosamilia wasn’t on keyboard, there were sometimes four guitarists on stage, all usually in great sync. Despite the effort, the songs melded into one another. Besides a few moments of almost funny banter, the band seemed scripted and glued to their spots on stage.

The band members dug out some depth later on in their set and took risks by covering Pittsburgh indie artist Matthew Ryan’s “I Can’t Steal You.” They closed their encore with The Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” a nice touch that went over well but not as well as the crowd’s reaction to their well-known tracks “45” and “The ’59 Sound.”

One cover, “Sultans of Swing” was a strong attempt at first that fizzled out after a few seconds, because the band had to stop and reconsider how to play it before launching into its own track, “Too Much Blood,” from its 2012 album, Handwritten.

It was an odd slip into incoordination, as the band was tightly synchronized the rest of the night. Additionally, the group had apt control with slowing things down in its songs to allow them to dramatically pick things up.

Gaslight Anthem’s fans happily consumed the slip-up and the rest of the show.

Judging by the crowd’s enthusiasm throughout the night, it won’t be long until Gaslight Anthem returns to sell out a Pittsburgh venue once again. Let’s hope the next show trades the strobe lights for light heartedness and the 26-song melt for a focus on indescribable moments.

operating officer, wouldn’t label what Daily Bread does as only retail business.

He said it’s “facilitating a community and a culture of like-minded businesses and individuals who all wanted to support the arts and the city.” Daily Bread is more about a scene or attitude — one that integrates modern art with hip-hop and electronic music into a creative, party atmosphere.

Refresh PGH became affiliated after its partners — Baldwin Dawkins, Neil

in,” Tucker said, motioning to the doorway that leads to the rest of the gallery from the Refresh PGH portion. “Customers always ask, ‘Can we go in there?’ and then we show them around and they check out the rest of the space too.”

Like Daily Bread, Refresh PGH has built a large following of Pittsburgh residents and students using social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram.

Tucker and Sean Devine — spotted the building during a meeting at Commonplace Voluto Coffee across the street.

Refresh PGH is a company that specializes in sneaker consignment, refurbishment and customization. Tucker, the artist behind all sneaker customization at Refresh PGH, turns out sneakers in fluorescent tones and vibrant themes, from bright, shiny red to Pittsburgh black and gold.

“It’s always a tour when people come

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REVIEW

ʻFuryʼ rips every page out of WWII playbook, but still entertains Ian Flanagan Staff Writer “Fury” Directed by: David Ayer

Starring: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf Grade: C+ If you needed more proof that the war genre has been done to death, here’s

Pitt saves ‘Fury’ from being unbearable. MCT Campus

“Fury,” a handsomely made, decently acted and robustly entertaining WWII film that lacks any sort of originality and has almost nothing new to offer to the exhausted genre.

Known for his gritty, masculine action movies (ranging from the respectable “End of Watch” to this year’s S chwa r z e n e g g e r dud “Sabotage”), writer and director David Ayer — his hit-and-miss résumé aside — recreates, with grubby authenticity, a vividly grim depiction of World War II and injects the expected adrenaline into the full-blooded combat

scenes. But he is less recognized for his subtlety, the lack of which robs “Fury” of any palpable emotional substance.

Taking place at the tail end of the war, “Fury” follows unsympathetic sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) and his reliable tank crew — the religious Boyd “Bible” Swan (Shia LaBeouf ), the quiet Trini ‘Gordo’ Garcia (Michael Peña) and the rambunctious Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis ( Jon Bernthal). After losing a soldier in a previous battle, rookie Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) is thrust into Collier’s command as the Americans begin the final effort to push through Nazi Germany in order to end the war.

Though perhaps we haven’t seen tank warfare onscreen specifically, the film’s script is half-baked and teeming with clichés, both in its profanely predictable narrative to its recycled dia-

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logue. It’s all painfully oversimplified.

Yet, what is not in black-and-white is the film’s stance on war. It begins with what seems to be a clearly anti-war message based on the realistically gruesome violence that almost feels like it’s trying to be shocking — the opening shot features Pitt’s character stabbing an unsuspecting S.S. soldier in the face.

Seriously. But then the glorified final showdown between our outnumbered protagonists and hundreds of Nazis appears to venerate just the opposite.

It’s surprisingly difficult to guess if the group’s repetition of the line “the best job I ever had” just before the excitement of the climactic carnage is supposed to convey irony or the contrary.

Perhaps all the thematic confusion is based on how we connect with Lerman’s character — the scrawny, untested youth who, like us, is unfamiliar with his violent surroundings. The character is pathetically written, however, his unbelievable arc taking him from morally challenged weakling to Nazi-killing prodigy in a matter of a few days. Lerman, a fine young actor, tries his best, but he can’t salvage anything real from his robotically written role.

It’s Pitt’s performance as the nononsense commander that saves “Fury” from being unbearably trite. Underneath the disillusion of war, his heart of gold has long been hardened, easily making him the film’s most interesting character, and the supporting cast is commendable as well.

Also, despite the film’s tendency for battles and explosions, the second act of “Fury” is perhaps its strongest due to the intimate’s 20-minute pause in which Don and Norman take rest inside a German house with two women. Disquietingly meditative and containing dialogue miles better than anything else in the film, this peaceful sequence is the best moment in “Fury.”

Confidently directed and sleekly produced, it’s hard to call “Fury” a bad film — but, at least for the war genre, rehashing well-worn ideas is a futile effort no matter how reasonably entertaining the results may be.

Calvimontes said multiple Pitt football players have come to Refresh PGH to get their sneakers cleaned.

When Daily Bread moved into the gallery in 2013, Hartkopf tore out the front walls for two sections of the building, replacing them with architecturally salvaged glass windows.

He said it kept the neighborhood

involved with the change — residents weren’t walking by boarded-up windows that one day would disappear and reveal a store. They could walk in while the work was going on, ask what was happening and see the renovations. Daily Bread also kept its followers updated with every paint job and wooden decal addition via Instagram.

The businesses have also attracted would-be customers during the monthly Penn Avenue Arts District’s First Friday Gallery Crawl. Penn X Roup usually hosts

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Hartkopf leases rather than owns the Penn X Roup space, but he does own two more properties on Penn Avenue. He said it will be more than a year or so until the new properties will be functional spaces.

“Penn X Roup Gallery is a result of me graduating from the School of Architecture and,” Hartkopf paused, “ ... life.”

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SPORTS

NOTEBOOK

SOCCER

Notebook: Young Pitt team Panthers attempt to break benefitting from experience three game scoreless streak Ryan Bertonaschi Senior Staff Writer

Regardless of its win and loss total, a football team can only grow over the course of a season.

Players begin to master a coach’s system and, by January, they’ve learned more about their personal tendencies, as well as those of their teammates’.

A team with more underclassmen than any other in Division I this year, Pitt has epitomized this mind-set. When redshirt junior center Artie Rowell went down with a season-ending knee injury, redshirt freshman Alex Officer slid into his place. When freshman cornerback Avonte Maddox went down with a shoulder injury against Akron, head coach Paul Chryst thrust a true freshman, Pat Amara, into the cornerback spot, where Amara has recorded an interception.

But, Chryst said, “[We didn’t want] to come in at the beginning of this year and use youth as an excuse.”

So far, the Panthers haven’t. Running back James Conner and receiver Tyler Boyd, both sophomores, are in the discussion for All-ACC honors. Additionally,

freshman defensive end Rori Blair leads all Panthers in tackles for loss (3.5) and is tied for the team lead in sacks (3).

“We’ve got guys who have played their first [career] snaps this fall. They’re over 250, 300 snaps. I hope we never stop growing, never stop learning,” Chryst said.

Pitt (4-3, 2-1 ACC) hosts Georgia Tech (5-2, 2-2 ACC) Saturday in its 2014 homecoming game at Heinz Field. Georgia Tech runs a renowned triple option offense.

Without maximum discipline from its defensive line and linebackers to avoid confusion from fakes, Pitt defenders could find themselves tackling the wrong person.

However, Pitt brings tenure and experience to one key position heading into the matchup.

Two fifth-year outside linebackers, quarterback convert Anthony Gonzalez and Todd Thomas, finished 2013 as Pitt’s third and fourth-leading tacklers. They line up on either side of sophomore middle linebacker Matt Galambos. And redshirt junior Nicholas Grigsby plays his own position, “Freeze” linebacker, during passing situations.

Pitt lost 21-10 to the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta last season behind Georgia Tech’s 274 rushing yards, and if it weren’t for Aaron Donald’s 11 solo tackles, including six tackles for loss, Pitt would’ve likely been blown out. Navy, which uses a similar tripleoption playbook, narrowly defeated Pitt a week prior behind 220 ground yards.

“We weren’t flawless by any means against either one of them, Navy or Georgia Tech,” Chryst said. “[Gonzalez] and [Thomas] played last year. [Grigsby]

Paul Chryst leads the youngest team in Division I. Bobby Mizia | Staff Photographer

Notebook

Pitt plays its final non-conference game Tuesday. Meghan Sunners | Staff Photographer

Mark Powell Staff Writer

Considering how the Pitt men’s soccer team’s season has gone so far, the team’s last game, which ended in a scoreless tie,would be considered a positive result.

After a tie on the road against Virginia Tech, Pitt will try to put together another impressive performance at home, this time against a non-conference opponent.

In a battle of Panthers, Pitt will take on High Point (6-5-1, 3-1-0 Big South) in its final non-conference game of the season.

In its last outing, Pitt outplayed ACC opponent Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, registering more than 20 shots on goal and nearly putting itself ahead for the team’s first conference victory of the season.

However, the Panthers could not put the ball in the back of the net for the third straight game. The lack of scoring is a matter of quality rather than quantity. While Pitt has put itself in position to score in the last several games, it has not converted in the final third of the field.

“We dominated the game ... we had 21 shots and 17 corner kicks,” head coach Joe Luxbacher said. “Their keeper made some big saves, and we did miss some or shot balls right into the keeper.”

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teams that failed to make the NCAA tournament last year. Overall, the team has gone 3-3-2 outside of the ACC, compared to its 0-4-2 record in conference.

Two of Pitt’s non-conference victories came early in the season against Longwood and Presbyterian. More concerning for Luxbacher and the Panthers, is that their record in their last five games is 0-4-1.

While they got off to a fast start this season, this year is quickly beginning to resemble the last, in which the Panthers faded down the stretch.

High Point could provide a challenge to the struggling Panthers, as it has a respectable record out of the Big South conference. Their only non-conference loss came against West Virginia, which this season is a higher caliber team than Pitt.

Defensively, Pitt will have to stifle High Point’s attacking forward Mamadee Nyepon, who has already tallied nine goals and 19 points on the season.

Pitt’s defense has been solid in the last few games, despite the absence of senior defender Julian Dickenson. If the Panthers continue to be as dominant in their own half as they have in recent games, stopping Nyepon and the rest of High Point’s attack could create more

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possession for Pitt to manufacture more offensive opportunities.

“The main thing is we didn’t take a lot of chances and we were very clean in the back,” redshirt junior defender Ryan Myers said of the team’s performance against Virginia Tech.

“We didn’t really get countered much that whole game … it allowed our backs to push forward and we didn’t really have too much to worry about defensively except long balls.”

Offensively, Pitt has more problems to fix.

Kody Palmer and David Price split time for High Point in net, and they could add to Pitt’s offensive problems Wednesday.

Both Pitt senior forward Dan Prete and Luxbacher stated that the offensive problem hasn’t been the number of opportunities but the accuracy of the shots. Still, both were confident that they could break through against High Point.

“I think it’s just a matter of focus at this point,” Prete said. “We’ve gotten a lot of chances, and our team has actually played really well recently. I think it’s just a matter of getting to get over the hump and then we’ll be good.”

played quite a bit last year, so guys are seeing it. But each year is a new year …

[Georgia Tech] will have some things we’ll see that I would anticipate we didn’t see last year.”

Saturday’s game could have significant ramifications in the ACC Coastal Division, as Pitt is tied with Duke and Virginia for first place in the division, with Georgia Tech not far behind.

Pitt players and coaches still said that they will take a weekly approach to the remainder of the season, but the first-place team in the division will probably play No. 2 Florida State in the ACC Championship Game.

“I’m not going to lie, I think about it,” senior defensive end David Durham said.

“I know Coach Chryst wants to stay in the now, but I think that gives you energy for the next game.”

The winner of the ACC Championship is awarded a spot in the Orange Bowl.

“We’re never out of it,” junior defensive tackle Darryl Render added.

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Three Pitt players earn ACC weekly honors Chris Puzia Sports Editor The ACC recognized three Pitt football players for their performances in Thursday’s home game against Virginia Tech.

Senior tackle T.J. Clemmings was named the conference’s Co-Offensive Lineman of the Week, sophomore cornerback Reggie Mitchell was picked as Defensive Back of the Week and redshirt freshman punter Ryan Winslow was given Specialist of the Week.

The ACC has now recognized Clemmings twice this season for the honors, as the first time came in Pitt’s Sept. 5 victory over Boston College. Clemmings was part of an offensive line Thursday that allowed Pitt to rush for over 200 yards as a team. He shared this week’s honors with Duke center Matt Skura

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and Florida State guard Tre’ Jackson.

Mitchell, a transfer from Wisconsin, had a game-high 10 tackles and forced two fumbles in the game. He also had an interception in the end zone that was called back because of a penalty.

Winslow punted seven times in the game, including two punts downed within Virginia Tech’s five-yard line.

He matched his career long with a 50yard punt.

Pitt plays next on Saturday at home against Georgia Tech at 3:30 p.m.

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