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STARSHIP ISSUES NEW STATEMENT ABOUT FOOD ROBOTS AFTER REVIEWING FOOTAGE OF VIRAL INCIDENT

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Emily Wolfe News Editor

Starship Technologies, which halted testing Monday at Pitt of its food delivery robots after a wheelchair-using student reported a safety concern, issued an updated statement Tuesday night after reviewing video of the reported incident.

Emily Ackerman, a fifth-year engineering doctoral student, posted a Twitter thread Monday afternoon describing a “major safety and accessibility issue” posed by the robots. Ackerman wrote that the robots rest in the curb ramp while they wait to cross the street, creating difficulties for wheelchair users like herself who need to use the curb ramp to reach the sidewalk.

Ackerman made the thread because she had been “trapped” by one of the robots on Forbes Avenue earlier in the day, she said.

The thread quickly gained attention, and Pitt and Starship paused testing of the robots to “review the technology and ensure everyone’s safety,” as Pitt told Ackerman on Twitter. Starship sent The Pitt News a statement Tuesday morning apologizing to Ackerman and clarifying that the robots were not intended to wait in the curb ramp.

But after reviewing footage of the incident Ackerman described — each Starship robot is equipped with a camera — the company emailed The Pitt News a changed statement which did not include an apology. Starship spokesman Henry HarrisBurland said the video showed Ackerman traveling “past the robot without stopping.”

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Kristen Pieffer of Hummus Pittsburgh serves graduate student Emily Manganaro a gyro salad at the Food Truck Roundup in support of the United Way in the William Pitt Union driveway. Leela Ekambarapu | staff photographer

OAKLAND RESIDENT SEEKS TO UNSEAT CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT Natalie Frank

For The Pitt News After almost 12 years of City Council President Bruce Kraus representing District 3, a 28-year-old Pittsburgh native and Oakland resident said he is fighting for new leadership and community change.

Jacob Nixon announced his candidacy for the District 3 seat last month as an independent against Kraus, a Democrat, in the Nov. 5 general election with the goal of improving the “safety and economic security” that compose the council district.

“As community and economic development occur throughout our district, I will work day and night to make sure that the people who live here see the benefits, in the form of jobs, workforce development and support services,” Nixon said.

Nixon’s main areas of concern for his campaign include strengthening small businesses, cleaning up the Oakland neighborhood and repairing EMS and fire and police stations in the area. Nixon said he wants to work with residents to understand their needs and help the Oakland community evolve.

Nixon is currently the director of development for the Pennsylvania College Access Program, a nonprofit that provides disadvantaged high school students and veterans with college preparatory services. Before that, he served as an administrative officer for the Pennsylvania Expungement and Pardons Program, where he helped expedite the process of clearing Pittsburgh community members’ backgrounds and criminal records to help them reintegrate into society.

Nixon said his accessibility and his interest in the needs of the community are the reasons why he jumped into the race.

“You call me, you will get a call back. If there is something happening in our community, I won’t be there with a letter, I will be there in person, saying ‘What do we have to do to change that?’”

Nixon said.

Through his work with community members involved in higher education, Nixon said he understands students’ needs and will work to fix laws he thinks are targeted toward students in Oakland.

He cited the City’s “predatory” parking laws, which he said are only enforced in Oakland and nearby South Side from 7 a.m. to midnight. Pittsburgh’s Residential Parking Program gives residents a “better chance to park near their homes,” but only See Nixon on page 2

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allows only one visitor pass per household.

These parking laws currently have strict regulations for one-hour parking, causing residents to receive an increased amount of tickets almost every day of the week, according to Nixon’s campaign website.

“This predatory enforcement allows for students to receive numerous tickets and some towed,” Nixon said. “Oakland makes the City millions from predatory parking enforcement by making residents pay for parking passes and no more than one guest.”

Nixon said he plans to combat this problem by first meeting with residents to understand their thoughts on the matter.

“This must be done during the academic year while the students and residents are present, not in the summer when the students are not present to voice their concerns,” Nixon said.

Nixon also criticized a 2018 move by the Council to hike taxes on real estate transfers, which Kraus said was “intended to make hous-

Robots, pg. 1 tential issues are flagged to us that can help make us better,” Harris-Burland said in the statement. “We have reviewed the footage from the reported incident yesterday afternoon and are glad to see that Emily was able to travel past the robot without stopping.”

Harris-Burland said the company has updated the robots’ mapping to allow for additional room at the intersection of Forbes and Bigelow Boulevard, where the incident occurred, and that the company will review other intersections on Pitt’s campus to take similar precautions. He didn’t say when the robots would be back on the streets of Oakland.

Ackerman said Tuesday that when she saw the robot in her line of vision, she was able to move to the side and reach the sidewalk partially by using the sloped part of the curb. The thread she posted was meant to convey the difficulty the robot created by being in her path, she said.

In addition to describing herself as

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ing more affordable.” Nixon said the higher tax rate “hurts residents and businesses as a whole.”

Kraus voted for the legislation, which passed in a 7-2 vote.

He said, if elected, he will work to repeal this legislation to develop small business within the community by providing opportunities for them to “complement the big chains” and push “legislation that will empower our residents.”

“I would meet with our community Chamber of Commerce and individual business owners to address their concerns on what they need,” Nixon said.

He added that he wants to clean up parts of Oakland through promoting different Pitt volunteer organizations and renovate local EMS, police and firefighter stations with the City’s budget surplus.

“We have numerous Pitt organizations that currently volunteer to pick up trash throughout our neighborhoods,” Nixon said. “These issues can be addressed by encouraging tenants and residents to call our City’s code enforcement officers.”

Nixon said he would also like to avoid giving

nonprofit organizations control over City parks — which he said are already paid for via the City’s Public Works Department — as well as reform the process of selling City-owned or vacant buildings and land.

“This will be done through new rules and regulations giving the City-owned property deadlines to sell and or demo the property that is deemed noninhabitant,” Nixon said.

Nixon is not the only person to try and unseat Kraus. Pitt student Chris Kumanchik and former chief of staff Kenneth Wolfe ran against Kraus in May’s Democratic primary, but were ultimately unsuccessful in their attempts to unseat him.

Nixon said four more years of Kraus in office will not accomplish anything that has not already been accomplished and District 3 has the opportunity “to elect new leadership, with new ideas, a new vision that will advocate for the community.”

But despite Nixon’s push for new leadership, Kraus said leadership skills need to be developed over time.

“Leadership is evolved and engaged,” Kraus said. “I’m not sure how one learns what’s impor-

“trapped” by one of the robots on Forbes Avenue, Ackerman said in her thread that the robots could force wheelchair users to “remain in now moving traffic,” though she didn’t say explicitly that she had been forced to remain in moving traffic.

Ackerman defended her use of the word “trapped” Tuesday, saying she was referring to the change she had had to make to her path.

“I don’t think that me moving past it and me being trapped can’t happen at the same time,” Ackerman said. “The point is that it was in the way … I don’t see where the specifics of this, like how long it took me to get past it, is relevant, because it shouldn’t have been where it was.”

Ackerman and Heather Tomko, another member of the Pitt community who uses a wheelchair, both said Monday that accessibility issues with the Starship robots don’t start and end with the crosswalk difficulties Ackerman described on Twitter.

Tomko described her experience following a robot in her wheelchair on the sidewalk in front of Towers Monday, unable to pass

by.

Tomko also said she wouldn’t be able to use the robots herself because of her height, although she would appreciate the convenience of having food delivered.

“Once again, there are new technologies … that aren’t planning for people with wheelchairs, whether it’s in the use or in the implementation,” Tomko said.

Starship said in both versions of its statement that the company tested the robots in communities with the help of disability rights organizations including Guide Dogs, Disability Rights UK and the Royal National Institute for the Blind, but that it can “always do more.”

Harris-Burland said the company wants to make its technology accessible for everyone.

“Autonomous delivery has the promise to be a welcomed help to many people with disabilities by assisting in the ease of getting groceries, food and packages delivered directly to their doorsteps,” HarrisBurland said.

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tant to the community or to the constituency if they don’t have a history of being engaged.”

Kraus added that he has only met and talked with Nixon on one occasion and has yet to notice Nixon’s involvement in the community and the Council to discuss pertinent topics and community needs.

“There are special meetings of Council that are open to the public. There are public hearings that are required by law that we have to conduct to take those things under consideration,” Kraus said. “And I would argue those were the times Jacob needed to be present to let his views be known.”

Nixon said a large part of his focus is on the Oakland community, its needs and what he can do to best serve it.

“We are there to advocate for our residents and our communities. We need to be an advocate for small businesses,” Nixon said. “We need to secure our community as it develops and provide an opportunity for them — not just for big chains, but for small businesses that can complement the big chains, so that we have an opportunity to grow our communities.”

Starship’s food delivery robots have been criticized for creating difficulties at crosswalks for wheelchairusing students. Madison Brewer | contributing writer

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RESEARCHERS NEED MORE EMPATHY IN APPROACHING COMMUNITY HEALTH CONCERNS

Grace McGinness Staff Columnist

Washington County has recorded a concerning increase in childhood cancer since the Marcellus Shale fracking projects were approved for the area in 2005. The Pennsylvania Department of Health held a meeting with county citizens on Oct. 7 to explain why this spike of rare cancers was not significant enough to be deemed a cancer cluster and therefore investigated as such.

The meeting at Canon-McMillan High School stands as a fresh example of how the scientific community can sometimes forget the need for empathy and understanding, and this disregard for people’s concerns has sparked outrage and hurt. Instead they were told to drop the issue without any acknowledgment of their anxieties. It is imperative that the research community retains the public’s trust, but dismissing the concerns and hardships of the general populace is not the way to do that.

Part of the reason Washington County citizens are so concerned over this issue is the increased diagnosing of a specific cancer, Ewing sarcoma, in the area. Ewing sarcoma is a very rare bone and soft tissue cancer that develops mostly in children and young adults. Only about 200 Americans are diagnosed with the disease every year, yet 18 cases of Ewing sarcoma have been identified in Washington and Westmoreland counties within the last decade, with two recent diagnoses within the last year.

A $100,000 grant was given to UPMC researchers in late September to study these incidents in response, but the study has been specified to focus on the genetic causes of cancer and has no mention of investigation into environmental causes. The people of Washington County argued at the October meeting that the six reported cases of rare childhood cancers in their county should be considered significant enough for research into the possible influence of fracking, which is common in the area. Needless to say, the dismissal of these cases did not go over well with the

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public and the meeting was cut short, with health experts from the Health Department and UPMC needing to be escorted out of the building by police.

Most of the recent tension between the public and medical health professionals stems from whether or not the increase of childhood cancer in the area should be considered a significant cluster deserving of more environmental research. Local and state health departments determine whether an area has become a cancer cluster once the rate of cancer has exceeded expectations and indicates

The average citizen may not be a doctoral scientist with a lab and funding to conduct their own research, but parents tend to notice when their children fall ill under suspicious circumstances.

Intuition is not infallible, not by a long shot, but if enough people harbor the same growing concerns then those with the power to appropriately find the answers should invest effort in doing so.

While the Health Department and researchers determined the cases of cancer in the area to be insignificant, the people of Washington County questioned why they only included three Promiti Debi | staff illustrator

that there may be additional contributors to the risk of cancer in the area.

There have been cancer clusters identified all over the United States. For instance, from 1973 to 1986 there was a spike of leukemia in Woburn, Massachusetts, that capped off at 21 diagnosed cases that researchers determined were connected to the quality of drinking water in the area.

But it was the people of Woburn who first raised the alarm over the possibility of water pollution contributing to the rise in leukemia. It took them years just to get a lawyer to represent their case and get officials to listen to their concerns. And it turns out they were right.

of the recent deaths of rare cancer in the analysis instead of the full six reported in the area. In response, officials conceded that there may have been a mistake in the cancer registry that led to a miscalculation in the statistics, but also held firm that another analysis would not guarantee investigation into the influence of fracking on cancer risk in the area.

It would be charitable to interpret this discrepancy as an unintentional mistake that anyone could make, but when such a mistake has the power to divert attention and funding away from a possible cause of cancer, it becomes a mistake that can not be taken lightly. If authorities have

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been elected to wield such power, every decision must be held to the highest scrutiny of all parties.

Officials should also be more empathetic towards the citizens’ concerns, since the research they organise and fund affects the lives of their patrons in a number of ways. In these types of situations, the people are left in a very vulnerable position. They do not have as much access to scientific information and debate nor can they really help facilitate it outside of electing government officials who may believe in one direction for research over another.

Dismissing these fears and leaving hundreds of thousands of people who live in these communities in the dark is not an appropriate response and it certainly is not a humane one. Cancer cluster as a term has been dismissed as a buzzword that only serves to fearmonger people, and in 1990 at the National Conference on Clustering of Health Events keynote speaker Kenneth J. Rothman kicked off the conference by expressing his distaste towards disease cluster research. He determined cluster research to be useless to the scientific community — something the incident in Woburn shows is not the case.

These scientists enjoy the benefit of detachment from the tragedy of disease and cancer.

What they have deemed useless information to them can be vital and the missing link to a whole community that has been kept on the sidelines, even when the people in the community are the ones who must deal with these diseases.

The events of the Washington County meeting may have been the result of some unfortunate misunderstandings, but the tension between the public and research officials still came to a head because of the dismissal of public concern. Some people only put their trust in research, but no one can trust what they have been denied. They may not be the experts, but the public are not sheep to be led blindly to a conclusion either. The people have demanded answers, and they should be heeded.

Write to Grace at GEM53@pitt.edu.

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PITT CLUB SQUASH MAKING PANTHER SPOTLIGHT: A RACQUET IN OAKLAND TWYMAN, WEST AND AKEO Elliott Borawski Staff Writer

The Pitt club squash team has been around since last year, but just became competitive this season. Photo courtesy of Pitt club squash team

Griffin Floyd Staff Writer

Squash — it’s not just for dinner anymore.

The racquetball-esque sport, confined to a tight court by four playable walls during competition, is anything but limited. It’s estimated that more than 20 million people play squash in 185 countries worldwide. While it tends to be more popular in Europe and the Middle East, the sport is played by an estimated 1.1 million people in the United States — and has gained a foothold on Pitt’s campus in Oakland thanks to a pair of underclassmen.

Lucas Haggerty and Peyton Stuart, both sophomores, had to spend a lot of

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time and energy getting the club team off the ground since last year. The team has only started competing with other schools this season. “[Setting up] was brutal,” Haggerty said. “We had so much paperwork, different forms, club bylaws, our constitution and logo approval. We even did some of the forms wrong the first time.

We had to get our roster together before all this, as well as an adviser … After all that, we also had to get approved by U.S. Squash.”

In the team’s inaugural match against Carnegie Mellon on Oct. 6, it fell to the Tartans 3-6.

“They’ve been set up longer,” HagSee Squash on page 6

With the fall sports season approaching its final stretch, these three Pitt athletes have been crucial in helping their teams outperform expectations.

Jaylen Twyman, football Pitt’s football team (5-2, 2-1) faced uncertainty on the defensive line when junior tackles Rashad Weaver and Keyshon Camp were both ruled out for the year due to early-season injuries. But after seven games, the Panthers have completely put those doubts to bed.

Pitt’s defensive line has actually been its best unit, currently leading the nation with 36 sacks that have resulted in 238 opponent yards lost. Sophomore tackle Jalen Twyman has emerged as the unit’s leader, pacing the team with seven sacks. That mark is tied for first in the ACC and is a massive improvement from last season, when he recorded half a sack in a lesser role.

Twyman has 23 total tackles on the season, which means almost a third of his tackles have been on the opposing quarterback. In Pitt’s game against Ohio, he finished the contest with three sacks and four tackles. The following week against Penn State, Twyman had six tackles and 1.5 sacks. While he recorded his first solo sack in three weeks against Syracuse, he has still been Pitt’s most effective pass rusher.

Twyman will look to add to his already impressive resumé and help the Panthers pick up their fifth-straight win when they host Miami on Saturday afternoon.

Amanda West, women’s soccer Pitt women’s soccer (5-7-3 overall, 2-3-2 ACC) struggled early on but still has much to look forward to this season and onward, largely because of first-year forward Amanda West.

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West got off to a hot start, scoring seven goals in her first six starts. While she has dropped off from that mark, she has still started all 15 games and leads the Panthers in almost every statistical category, including 48 shots, 30 shots on goal, eight goals and eight assists. West has 24 total points — the next highest on Pitt is redshirt senior Juliana Vazquez with eight.

West has also shown a knack for clutch moments, scoring four game-winning goals this season. In back-to-back games in August, she scored an 84th-minute winner to beat Loyola Marymount 5-4 and another in the 101st minute to beat Bucknell 1-0.

Recently, West had three assists in a 3-3 tie against Miami, a goal in the 2-1 victory over Boston College and an assist on the lone goal against No. 3 North Carolina in a 3-1 loss.

West has emerged as the undisputed goto player for the Panthers and will look to continue her successful season when Pitt travels to take on Wake Forest Thursday night.

Lexis Akeo, volleyball The No. 3 Pitt volleyball team (19-1 overall, 8-0 ACC) has been dominant this season, with its only loss coming in a series split with No. 8 Penn State. The Panthers are firmly on pace to three-peat as ACC regular season champions.

Much of the credit should be given to first-year setter Lexis Akeo, who has taken over as the team’s starting setter. She came in place of her older sister Kamalani, who graduated last spring, as well as redshirt junior Kylee Levers, who tore her ACL in practice at the start of the year.

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Squash, pg. 5 gerty said. “Because of that longevity they’re a better organization. They aren’t just trying to fight through their first season ever.”

For those who aren’t squash aficionados, the name “squash” doesn’t come from the vegetable, but rather from the fact that the ball squashes as it bounces off the walls and floor. Each set is played to 11 points and must be won by two points. Points are scored if the ball bounces twice before being returned by the opponent, if a player hits it out of bounds or if the ball rebounds and hits the back wall before being returned. Interference can be called if a player gets in another’s way. Both players face the front wall rather than each other as they play.

The sport is played on an indoor court similar to that of racquetball, with a ball that’s about the size of a quarter.

Players hit the ball with racquets, playing it off the floor and walls, either in a one-on-one or two-on-two format.

Pitt’s team — which currently has 28 total players on the roster — sticks to

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the one-on-one format, and in matches sends its nine top-seeded players to compete.

“We don’t have the space for a doubles match,” Haggerty said. “Placement is key. You have to be aware of where the ball might bounce and move towards it before it gets there. We focus a lot on spatial awareness because of that.”

Haggerty and his teammates hope to simply improve upon their debut performance when they travel to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore this weekend for their second-ever match.

Despite limits due to the program’s infancy, Pitt still boasts some select experience. Haggerty singled out praise for junior Clay Countess, who credits his success to having over a decade of experience.

“I’ve been playing squash for 11 years,” Countess said. “My dad played it when he was young and then taught me how to play.”

Countess was thrilled to see that Pitt finally had a way for him to play competitive squash. He had continued to play at courts Downtown, but an oncampus club made his childhood pas-

sion even more accessible.

“I’m really excited for this team and to see what the future holds. Hopefully we can get better facilities at some point, but for now we’ve got a great group of guys and girls and I want to see what we can do with it,” Countess said.

Trouble with the facilities was a common theme, as Stuart worried about the team’s accessibility to prospective fans.

“The courts are super hard to find,” he said. “They’re on the wrestling side of the Fitzgerald Field House, but there aren’t any signs showing you where to go.”

It’s clear that there’s still a ways to go before Pitt club squash can achieve the success of more established programs. But for now, the team is focused on laying the groundwork for a culture that maintains stability for years to come.

“We saw as we set the team up that good organization is crucial,” Haggerty said. “We have to lay a strong foundation. No matter how popular a club is, it won’t last if it isn’t organized well.”

Recruiting is essential to the strong foundation that Haggerty outlined. This

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can be difficult for any new club, but particularly for the team of a relatively unknown sport like squash.

“Recruiting was half-and-half. Some members had played squash before and knew what it was, others just went out on a limb and decided to give it a shot,” Haggerty said. “It’s a lot of fun once you get into it … it’s a dynamic sport and you can get good at it quickly.”

Besides playing it, Haggerty occasionally watches professional squash in his free time as well.

“When I first got into the sport Nick Matthew was a big inspiration. He’s retired now but he was pretty good in his prime,” he said.

Matthew, who played professionally for 20 years from 1998 to 2018, won the British Open and World Open — squash’s most prestigious events — three times each and was ranked the best player in the world for a time.

In his role as team president and lead recruiter, Haggerty wants to do what Matthew did for him and make the game accessible for anyone curious about playing.

“Come out and try it,” he said.

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