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The Pitt News

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SGB HEARS CRITICISM OF SODEXO, THE UNIVERSITY

EYES ON THE WORLD RECORD, PG. 5

Emily Wolfe Staff Writer

Pitt’s Student Government Board had a busy meeting Tuesday night, fielding questions about recent Sodexo health violations, University planning and more.

SGB will hold its second Eat and Greet meeting this Friday — the first public opportunity for students to question Sodexo officials since revelations last week that the Allegheny County Health Department cited Market Central for 14 health code violations. A petition to replace Sodexo in Pitt’s dining facilities has climbed to more than 2,000 signatures since the health inspection.

Sam Smallwood, president of the Resident Student Association, asked at the meeting if SGB planned to address concerns about the violations.

“I hate to bring that up,” he said, “but I just want to know if there’s going to be something done about it.”

In response, board member Albert Tanjaya cited remarks by Abdou Cole, resident district manager of Pitt Dining by Sodexo, that a sanitarian has been added to the Pitt Dining management team. Tanjaya added that a second inspection a week after the first showed fewer violations than the first.

“There’s a lot about this that we as board members might not be completely equipped to answer,” board member Zechariah Brown said. “[Eat and Greet] would be a great time to talk to all the managers and really ask them the questions that you have and voice your concerns.”

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Attila Domos started handcycling in 2009 in preparation for the 2010 Pittsburgh marathon. Kaycee Orwig |

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PITT STUDENTS SHOW LOVE FOR UNIVERSITY Sarah Shearer

Assistant News Editor

Pitt sophomore Oluchi Okafor didn’t anticipate walking into a sea of free burgers and cupcakes when she left her class in the Cathedral of Learning Tuesday afternoon, but she didn’t hesitate to get in line.

The political science major joined long lines of students awaiting a variety of free food and drinks, such as popcorn, sandwiches and apple cider at yesterday’s I Love Pitt Day. The annual celebration of all things Pitt brought large crowds of students to the front of the William Pitt Union for food and giveaways — SGB raffled off Pitt-themed license-plate holders, water bottles, frisbees and more.

See SGB on page 2 “I came out of Cathy from class and

saw people,” Okafor said. “I missed it last year so it’s nice to get to it this year.”

The Division of Student Affairs hosted the event with SGB, who set up a table to hand out items like stress balls and pins to promote self-care — SGB held the event in conjunction with Mental Health Awareness Month.

“Our slogan this year … is ‘I care, let’s talk,’” SGB Wellness Committee Chair Eric Macadangdang said at the event.

“We’ve just been showing that we care.”

Dean Kenyon Bonner, who made his way around the Union driveway talking with students, said the University’s partnership with SGB for Tuesday’s event was a part of a concerted effort to bring more student organizations and initiatives to I

Love Pitt Day. “I think the goal is to just represent and express the affinity and the love we have for the University,” Bonner said. “It’s a day for everyone to come together and celebrate, particularly for students … Let’s take a day to pause and show our appreciation and love for our school, our place of employment and a place that means a lot to a lot of people.”

In addition to SGB, Pitt Dance Marathon also had a table — as well as the new financial program Panthers Forward.

Unveiled at the beginning of the month, Panthers Forward enables Pitt seniors with federal loans to apply for a grant funded by a network of successful See Pitt on page 2

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reason for it.

“I went to [high] school down the street, so [Pitt] is kind of already my home,” Human said. “I think [the alumni. Up to 150 students will receive grants of up to event] is good to help people get more excited about $5,000 this year and are encouraged in a nonconPitt.” tractual agreement to make donations to the proOkafor agreed that I Love Pitt Day establishes gram in the future as a way to give back to students a strong community among students, and specifiin the Pitt community. cally valued Bonner’s presence during the day.

“We think we’re innovating something that’s “I think it’s important, just because the dean’s quite new,” Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said in an here and people get to see his face,” Okafor said. interview with The Pitt News earlier this month.

“He kind of gets to personalize himself with the “This idea of paying it forward and kind of replacstudents and makes them feel more at home.” ing the commercial loan space with an evergreenMacadangdang echoed Okarfor’s belief that the ing fund that we all support ourselves is [new].” day was an important piece of student life at the Applications opened Oct. 8 and will close Oct. University, and emphasized the link between stu31 at midnight. dents’ ability to love Pitt and their ability to love Pitt Dance Marathon, the largest student orgathemselves. nization at Pitt, also had a table at the event. This “I think to love Pitt you also have to love year, thousands of students participated in the yourself and you have to love what you’re doing,” annual 12-hour dance marathon, which is a fundMacadangdang said. “So I think that a barrier to raiser for the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and enjoying all the stuff that Pitt offers is if you’re a partner with the Children’s Miracle Network. having problems with self-care, problems with deI Love Pitt Day happened on the heels of a SGB board member Zechariah Brown hands out “Let’s Talk” pression or anxiety. That can really stifle you from month filled with Pitt pride. With an entire week stress balls at SGB’s table during Tuesday’s “I Love Pitt Day.” experiencing the full college experience.”

Sarah Cutshall | staff photographer devoted to festivities in the Pitt community like the

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fireworks and laser show, the crowning of Pitt’s Homecoming King and Queen and the William Pitt Union’s 120th birthday party, it’s been a celebratory month. And according to first-year Madelyn Human, there’s good

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Earle.

Mercer also advised Hill to follow up with the University directly, which Hill said he plans to do.

“We’re historically cultural organizations,” Hill said.

“When a plot is created, it signifies at the University that those cultural organizations matter here at Pitt. And we gave them a chance and they failed us.”

The Pitt News has contacted Pitt about the issues Hill raised, but Pitt did not respond by the time of publication.

In the weeks leading up to midterm elections Nov. 6, SGB will also continue efforts to promote student voting. Community and Governmental Relations Committee Chair Ritika Bajpai said the committee will distribute materials informing students about their polling places and local candidates’ positions.

“We’re going to make a resource for the SGB website talking about the candidates for this area,” Bajpai said, adding, “It’s nonpartisan, of course.”

The Elections Committee is also starting to plan an even more local election — the annual spring Student Government Board elections. Elections Committee Chair Katie McLaughlin said the committee plans to soon begin spreading awareness about how to run, starting with a table in the Towers lobby on Halloween that will give students the opportunity to learn about running for SGB. “You can stop by, get some candy and learn how to run for board and what that takes,” McLaughlin said.

Pan-Hellenic Council, an organization of historically African American fraternities and sororities, voiced a complaint with a plot that he said the University had promised to set aside for NPHC during renovations of the quad, and which failed to materialize. Hill is particularly concerned with the University’s new Master Plan, which he said contains no plans for a NPHC plot.

“We are nowhere on their radar, even though we have been advocating for plots years before the Master Plan,” Hill said.

Hill described the plot as a monument to the organization and said during the meeting that NPHC had paid the University for this plot — though he clarified in a followup email to The Pitt News that he had misspoken and no formal payment had occurred.

“My understanding of the agreement is the University would set aside the space for the plots, and we would have to fundraise for the actual monuments to be there,” he said in the email.

SGB seemed unfamiliar with the issue. In a conversation with Hill after the meeting, Executive Vice President Jahari Mercer and Tanjaya agreed that Tanjaya would bring up the issue at an upcoming meeting with Pitt Associate Vice Chancellor for Business and Auxiliary Services Jim

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After having postponed a vote on an allocations request from the Student Slovak Club for the past two weeks, the board finally voted Tuesday to deny the request in full after the club failed to send a representative to defend the request for three consecutive weeks. It had requested $2,250 for its Annual Slovak Festival, which it said mostly nonPitt students would attend, leading to a recommendation to deny from the Allocations Committee.

The University’s new provost Ann Cudd also stopped by the meeting to introduce herself. She always enjoys hearing from students, she said, and added that she plans to start holding office hours later in the semester.

She also liked getting the chance to see the board in action, she told them.

“Seems very organized,” she said. “It’s very impressive.

You go lickety-split!”

Allocations: The Student Slovak Club requested $2,250 for a festival.

The board denied in full.

Women’s Club Gymnastics requested $6,312.96 for a conference. The board approved $6,030 and denied $282.96.

Some of God’s Children Gospel Choir requested $2,715 for a concert. The board approved in full.

Mock Trial requested $1,951.97 to attend a tournament.

The board approved in full.

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North Carolina voting laws supress minorities Midterm elections are right around the corner, and in seemingly every corner of the country, states have been trying their utmost to clamp down on minorities’ voting rights — just last week, North Carolina joined that list in dramatic fashion.

A law passed by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature will reduce the number of polling places open for early voting by 20 percent this year. Many see the decision as targeting the voting rights of African American citizens, particularly considering the state’s multiple failed attempts to introduce similar legislation in the past.

North Carolina offers a highly popular 17-day early voting period, which more than 60 percent of voters used in the 2016 election according to the state’s Board of Elections. A group of 2016 laws, which were overturned by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, would have introduced new voter ID requirements and cut the early voting period from 17 to 10 days — a cut which Judge Diana Motz said in her opinion targeted African American voters “with almost surgical precision.”

“As ‘evidence of justifications’ for the changes to early voting, the State offered purported inconsistencies in voting hours across counties, including the fact that only some counties had decided to offer Sunday voting,” the 2016 decision read. “The State then elaborated on its justification, explaining that ‘[c]ounties with Sunday voting in 2014 were disproportionately black’ and ‘disproportionately Democratic.’”

But even though North Carolina lawmakers in the past openly admitted to trying to suppress black voters, some representatives are still trying to justify this year’s shortened voting period as beneficial to voters.

“What we set out with the intention to do is to be able to make it more reliable and dependable that the voters would know that the

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early voting site or sites in their county was open from a set time in the morning to a set time in the evening,” Republican state Rep. David Lewis, who supported changes to early voting, said during the debate on the bill.

But this bill specifically eliminated days when African Americans were most likely to vote, suggesting it had political and racial motivations. This is simply the latest example of voter suppression masquerading as a necessary policy — and it’s not an isolated incident.

In Georgia, county officials are facing several lawsuits alleging suppression of minority voters. In Gwinnett County, nearly 600 absentee ballots were rejected for various reason and more than half of them belonged to Asian and African Americans.

And in North Dakota earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled that citizens must have a street address to register to vote. Since Native American reservations don’t have official addresses, this ruling barred thousands of Native American citizens from voting in the upcoming midterm elections.

Voters who are subject to intimidation can also call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-OUR-VOTE or the U.S. Department of Justice Voting Rights Hotline at 1-800-253-3931. For people denied the right to vote, polls are required to issue provisional ballots, which election officials will count if they determine the voter was eligible.

There’s no easy fix to voter suppression.

Initiatives like Electionland by ProPublica — which works with local newsrooms to report various voting problems — are the perfect place for suppressed voters to voice their complaints.

But it shouldn’t be up to voters to secure their own most basic rights — it falls on the local, state and federal government to change our system for the better.

NEEDS NEEDLE

DISPOSAL CONTAINERS Cammy Morsberger For The Pitt News

Needle phobia is one of the most common fears in the American populace — affecting nearly 20 percent of the population — yet among the squeamish masses, more than 8 million Americans require daily injections to treat chronic conditions.

Among those afflicted by these conditions, which include diabetes, allergies, migraines, multiple sclerosis and arthritis, about 200,000 are under 20 years old. Unfortunately, facilities to dispose of these sharp waste products are extremely limited at universities across the country — including Pitt. So installing needle-disposal containers

in Pitt’s public bathrooms is necessary to accommodate students who struggle with chronic conditions.

Most college students with Type 1 diabetes, for example, need injections several times a day just to maintain normal blood sugar levels. Khalil Eljamal, a sophomore industrial engineering major who suffers from Type 1 diabetes, has to carry his sharps container with him until he gets home to dispose of the container.

“I think sharps containers in public restrooms would be helpful,” he said.

“If people are going into bathrooms to inject at work or school, it’s right there so there is less of a chance of the needles leaving the bathroom.”

A single-use sharps disposal container. Wikimedia Commons

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Needle Disposal, pg. 3 According to the College Diabetes Network, 71 percent of diabetic college students report struggling with their condition in school. People like Eljamal must dispose of their sharps themselves using “sharps containers.”

Though fortunately for Eljamal, Pitt offers assistance to students who need help disposing of sharps.

“Should a student prefer, we can also accept the full sharps containers and dispose of them for the student,” Joe Miksch, director of media relations at Pitt, said in an email. “Also, our University Pharmacy can provide the necessary diabetes medications and supplies.”

This service provides free needle disposal — but it’s nowhere near the access science labs have to sharps disposal. Pitt, like Duquesne and CMU, already has sharps disposal containers in science laboratories through the environmental health and safety department on campus. Having a trained staff and warning labels can erase much of the risk, meaning installation

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is feasible if Pitt takes the right precautionary measures.

When waste containers for sharps are scarce, needles often end up in trash cans or toilets, posing an immense risk to sewage workers, janitors and essentially anyone who uses a public bathroom. The CDC estimated in 2011 that 17 million Americans were infected by improperly disposed medical waste. Injuries from needle pricks range from soreness to serious infections such as Hepatitis B/C and HIV — injuries that could be prevented by making disposal containers more widely available.

But according to Miksch, putting needle-disposal container Pitt’s public restrooms poses safety concerns, too.

“As for deploying sharps containers throughout campus, the potential health hazard makes this unfeasible,” he said.

Yes, containers could be dangerous — janitorial staff could mishandle their contents, or unlocked containers could injure students who use the bathroom.

But many public places are taking

the right precautionary measures to guard against these incidents. These containers are common in airports, malls and other high-traffic locations so there’s no reason universities shouldn’t have them too. Sharps Compliance and Cardinal Health are two leading commercial providers in needle disposal bins. Both large-scale corporations are in compliance with all safety and medical regulations, so misuse is rare but also it often goes unreported.

Needle use in the United States is on the rise, including needle use related to injectable drugs as well as diabetes. Drug exchange programs, which offer unused needles to drug users, have seen an 18 percent increase in participants in the last decade. The CDC reported in 2008 that diabetes rates had risen 90 percent since the late ’90s. The frequency of opioid use among adults, including college students, has also increased, as has the rate of mortality due to opioids — and many drug-related illnesses are a result of sharing needles.

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prevalent, it makes sense now more than ever for University officials to install disposal containers. It’ll aid students with various conditions and protect the rest of the student body from potentially dangerous sharps.

And installing wall enclosures is not expensive either, since one sharps container, with the capacity to hold 5 quarts of discarded needles or syringes, only costs $38.

For now, diabetic students struggling to transition to college life can contact the College Diabetes Network — a nationwide organization that offers advice on dining hall eating, internships and an abundance of other useful information. And students at Pitt can always contact the University’s Student Health Service.

Pitt prides itself on being an inclusive environment, but inclusion also means accommodating students with illnesses.

Students with medical conditions overcome many obstacles to live like the rest of the student body — needle disposal should no longer be one of those obstacles.

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Sports Attila Domos:

Handcyclist, author, parapalegic rockstar Attila Domos attempted to break the Guinness World Record for longest distance handcycled in 24 hours on Oct. 6 and 7. Photo courtesy of Rob Larson

Griffin Floyd Staff Writer

The City of Pittsburgh has seen its fair share of Guinness World Records, from the man with the highest-insured hair to the world’s largest pierogi. For Attila Domos, a Pittsburgh native, a place in the record books means more than that — he doesn’t just want the record for the longest distance handcycled in 24 hours. He wants to inspire others in a way that will do his life story justice.

Domos, 50, is a longtime Pittsburgh resident, musician and paraplegic athlete who attempted to break the record for the longest distance handcycled in 24 hours — a record he’s gone for twice already — at the Uber test track in Hazelwood on Oct. 6 and 7.

“I want people to look at the big picture [of the world record],” Domos said in an interview before the attempt. “Whatever you are dealing with, it could be a thousand times worse than it is right now. I want to provide this perspective for people.”

Originally a native of Romania, Domos moved to Hazelwood in 1980 as a result of the troubled political climate.

“We are Hungarian, the largest ethnic group in Romania,” Domos said. “Nicolae Ceausescu, the president at the time, was wiping out Hungarian privileges, taking away schools, so we moved to Austria for a couple of years before leaving for the United States.”

He attended Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill, where he played for the football team and started his own band.

He became paralyzed from the waist down in his late 20s due to a falling accident just after his band, Big Bad Wolf, had signed a

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major record deal. The band broke up shortly after his accident.

“We were sort of a typical late ’80s early ’90s rock band, similar to Van Halen in style, but we had a huge range of musical influences. I was the songwriter, but I had the other guys write their parts to the songs,” Domos said.

While at the Austrian refugee camp, Domos passed time by playing soccer, and it’s this experience that led him to consider himself an athlete. Even when he became paralyzed, he continued to stay in shape., so to test his endurance and abilities, Domos took on handcycling in 2009 in preparation for the 2010 Pittsburgh marathon.

Handcycles are similar in concept to bicycles, consisting of wheels and a method of gear shifting for improved efficiency on varying terrain, but the similarities stop there. The one Domos uses has three wheels and is pedaled by hand while lying down.

After Domos’ 2010 Pittsburgh Marathon attempt, he was left with a condition known as skin breakdown, an ailment in which there is a lack of blood flow to an area of skin, that is especially severe for paraplegics. He was confined to his bed for the next threeand-a-half years.

While on bedrest, Domos focused on his other interests besides athletics.

“Luckily, technology is available to kill time,” Domos said. “I got really good at frisbee golf on Wii Sports and I almost broke the world record on the console. I also rescored the movie ‘Nosferatu.’”

Now a solo artist, Domos has released two albums — “Never Enough” and “407.7.”

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The number 407.7 holds a special significance for Domos — it’s how far he managed to go when he unofficially broke the 403.8mile handcycling record in 2016 at the Bud Harris half-mile cycling oval.

“When we left in Romania in 1978 we moved to a refugee camp about 40 miles from Vienna. It was rough in the refugee camp, a lot of fights and things,” Domos said. “My parents wanted to get me out of that environment so they auditioned me for the Vienna Boys Choir, and I got in. It took up my week, and on weekends I would come back and just try to keep it secret I was in the boys choir due to the rough environment.”

But today, his current genres include rock and pop — two genres that stray from his background singing in a boy’s choir.

“Classical music was my biggest influence,” Domos said of his early musical career. “My parents were in a symphony in Romania.”

Domos also wrote his self-published autobiography, “Because You Shouldn’t be Afraid to Chase Your Dreams,” while on bedrest, and it was during this time that he decided to go for the handcycling record — a feat he would attempt more than once.

Unlike other endurance sports, handcycling is an anaerobic activity, requiring short, explosive bursts of energy. This makes a record carried out over 24 hours even more impressive, according to Wendy Bell, a journalist and friend who witnessed his first official attempt at the record in Borrego Springs, California, last year.

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WVU beats Pitt, 2-1, in Backyard Brawl Ben Zimmer Staff Writer

The Pitt men’s soccer team faced West Virginia in its last regular season road game Tuesday night at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia. Pitt was without its leading goal-scorer, sophomore forward Edward Kizza, and it showed — the Panthers put just one shot on goal and were outshot 14-5 overall, falling 2-1 to the Mountaineers.

The game exposed what has been one of the Panthers’ biggest flaws this season — their inability to generate any offense outside of Kizza, who has more than twice the amount of shots on goal, points and goals than any of his teammates. With Kizza forced to sit out after earning a red card in the team’s previous match, Pitt fell to 7-9 on the season.

Despite not being ranked like seven of the Panthers’ previous opponents, WVU entered Tuesday night as a formidable foe, with a 10-5 overall record and 3-0 conference record. The Mountaineers also had some added motivation, considering Pitt trounced them 7-0 in last year’s Backyard Brawl.

On the offensive front, Pitt utilized first-year midfielder Rodrigo Almeida and redshirt freshman midfielder Fiorre Mane in the middle of the field,

Domos, pg. 5 “He had a brutal, painful [attempt] coming up short in California. [He hopes to] bring home the world record in Pittsburgh,” Bell said in a live stream on Facebook. “I don’t know if any of us could ever do anything even remotely like that.”

For someone strapped to their back mere inches from the ground while traveling at high speeds, elements like water and rugged terrain are a huge issue. This came to light during the Borrego Springs attempt, which left him concussed just shy of the 200-mile mark as a result of the constant jostling. As a result of this, he was forced to end the try prematurely.

Armed with experience and new strategies, he took to the starting line at the Uber test track at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6, surrounded by a support crew of family and close friends.

“I have lived my whole life rolling with the punches, reacting to what I was given,” Domos said. “This is how it has always gone for me. In 1993, I signed a record deal and was paralyzed the next day. Now the Uber track is half a mile from where I grew up. The story has come full circle.”

The strategy was to finish 100 miles in the first five hours — a pace that would give him almost four hours of cushion. Domos followed through and covered 43 laps, each a little under a mile, within the first two hours. This pace more than doubled that of the current world record, which Thomas Lange of Germany has held since 2009.

Although he managed to stay close to the intended pace at the start of the event, his huge lead quickly diminished through

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with the outside pressure of sophomore forward Alexander Dexter on the left side and first-year defender Nyk Sessock on the right. Defensively, Pitt stonewalled the WVU attack with a unit of midfielders that shut down the channels of the Mountaineer attackers. To counteract this, WVU began going primarily around the perimeter of the field and attempting crosses into the box.

This tactic worked in their favor. A ground pass from the right side of the field from forward Tsubasa Takada arrived at the feet of midfielder Josh DiMatteo in the 16th minute. Although the pass was a little behind him, DiMatteo got enough power behind the ball to send it past Pitt first-year goalkeeper Johan Penaranda, giving WVU an early 1-0 advantage.

The second half was dominated by open play from both teams throughout the entire field, leading to an uptick in offensive opportunities. WVU routinely burst through the Pitt defensive zone, drawing a foul just outside the box in the 49th minute. The ensuing free kick proved to be the decisive moment of the match — WVU redshirt senior midfielder and captain Joey Piatczyc stepped up and delivered a beautiful shot past Penaranda into the upper right corner of the net, putting the Mountaineers up 2-0.

Despite facing a two-goal deficit, the Panthers didn’t lie down. They charged upfield immediately after the WVU goal, and Dexter scored his second goal of the season just one minute later in the 50th minute. This bounce-back from Pitt ignited the Mountaineers, who attempted to bury the game right away with a flurry of offensive attacks. They kicked five shots over the next 15 minutes — as many as the Panthers shot all game — but Pitt’s defense held strong.

The Pitt offense, however, could not find another breakthrough. WVU shifted toward a possessionbased strategy, keeping the Panthers from starting any offensive plays. The only attempt from the Panthers came from Dexter in the 76th minute, who received a long ball on a breakaway down the middle of the field. Mountaineer midfielder Sebastian GarciaHerreros ran down Dexter to execute a clean tackle, completely stifling the chance. WVU saw the rest of the game out, earning the 2-1 victory to avenge 2017’s blowout loss.

With Kizza returning, Pitt will look to rebound in its next — and last — match of the season, this Saturday, Oct. 27, versus No. 23 Notre Dame. The 7 p.m. home game is the Panthers’ senior night.

the night as weather conditions deteriorated and affected his performance. It rained earlier in the day, leaving puddles all over the course which made navigation difficult. The night was humid and hot, far from ideal circumstances. These conditions took their toll on Attila.

“He is extremely bloated … very sore, very miserable-looking, very tired. He’s hurting bad,” Attila’s brother Csaba Domos, 44, said in the live stream.

“He really is extremely beat up,” the younger Domos continued. “Those puddles killed him, absolutely killed him. That slows you down, makes you soaking wet and miserable and it kills your time.”

Unfortunately, the hot, sticky weather continued and his team soon had to spread out around the course, cheering and doing anything they could to keep his morale up as he reached the critical stretch of his journey.

In the end it wasn’t enough. With 90 minutes left to go on Sunday, Oct. 7, Domos still had over 40 laps to complete, a distance that had taken him two hours when he was well rested. At this point, he decided to end the attempt.

But for Domos, an attempt like this is just the beginning. Although he had maintained initially that this would be his final attempt at the record, new details came to light after the try. Danny Chew, a Pittsburgh cyclist and friend of Domos who was paralyzed in a 2016 accident, told Domos that Lange didn’t achieve the record on his own.

“During their attempt, multiple people were racing, drafting off of each other and using that to their advantage to further the

record,” Domos revealed.

Drafting is a strategy used while racing to eliminate drag, thereby increasing speed — over the course of a 24-hour race, such an advantage could have a massive impact on the total distance.

According to Guinness Book of World Records PR coordinator Rachel Gluck, Lange’s record still counted as a solo attempt despite being in a race setting. Regardless, this information galvanized Domos, who has since committed to another attempt at the record.

“Next year I’m going to start at noon and cut out places of the track where the rain collects,” Domos mused, already internalizing the details of his next attempt.

Once he finally breaks the record, Domos wants to complete the more than 4,200-mile Trans Am Bike Race across the United States, swim across the Atlantic Ocean and eventually cross the entire world of his own volition via swimming and handcycling.

He plans to create a reality TV-style program centered around his exploits with the goal of raising money for charities concerning spinal injuries.

“Events like swimming an ocean come along every once in awhile — there’s a media circus as they begin and fanfare when they finish, but no one ever gets to come along with them on the journey. That’s what I want to provide,” Domos said.

When it comes to his own personal goals, Domos happily pleads an optimistic testament to his willpower and dedication.

“I’ve lived a life of sex, drugs and rock and roll,” Domos said. “If I get eaten by sharks, so be it. Everyone has to die somehow.”

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Rentals & Sublet • NORTH OAKLAND • SOUTH OAKLAND • SHADYSIDE • SQUIRREL HILL • SOUTHSIDE • NORTHSIDE • BLOOMFIELD • ROOMMATES • OTHER

For Rent South Oakland **2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Bed­room Houses/ Apart­ments in South Oak­land. Available for rent August 2019.

Very clean with dif­ferent amenities (dishwasher, A/C, washer and dryer, 1‑3 baths, off‑street parking, newer ap­ pliances & sofas).

Check out my Face­ book page: https:­// www.facebook.­com/ KenEckenrode­ RealEstate/. Call Ken at 412‑287‑4438 for more informa­ tion and showings or email name, phone number, desired number of bed­ rooms, and anything else you want in housing to kenshous­ ing@gmail.com. **AUGUST 2019: Furnished studios, 1,2,3,4 bedroom apartments. No pets.

Non‑smokers pre­ ferred. 412‑621‑0457.

1,2,3 and larger bed­ room available 2019 Central, and South Oakland (central air, dish­ washer, washer dryer included) 412‑551‑0094 2 br apt South Oak­ land. $1,095/mo +

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New kitchen, bal­cony, and A/C Call 412‑6661‑6622 2‑3‑4‑5‑6‑7 bedroom apartments and houses available in May and August 2019. Nice, clean, free laundry, in­ cludes exterior main‑ tenance, new appli‑ ances, spa­cious, and located on Semple, Oak­land Ave., Mey‑ ran Ave., Welsford, Bates, Dawson, and Mckee 412‑414‑9629. douridaboud­ propertymanage­ ment.com 3‑bed room available immediatley $1,495 central air dishwasher laundry 256 N Craig street 412‑271‑5550 3436 Ward Spacious 2‑Bed room, 1 bath equipped kitchen $1,195 + electric, heat included 412‑271‑5550 4 BR HOME ‑ SEM­ PLE STREET, LO­ CATED NEAR LOU­ ISA. EQUIPPED KITCHEN, FULL BASEMENT. NEW CENTRAL AIR ADDED. AVAIL­ ABLE IMMEDI­ ATELY AND RENT­ING FOR MAY AND AUGUST 2019.

(412) 343‑4289 or 412‑330‑9498.

6,7&8 bedroom hous­ es available start­ing August 1st 2019. Five minute walk to Pitt.

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• AUTO • BIKES • BOOKS • MERCHANDISE • FURNITURE • REAL ESTATE • PETS

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• EDUCATIONAL • TRAVEL • HEALTH • PARKING • INSURANCE

Call 412‑983‑5222.

Apartments for rent.

2, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments avail­ able. Some available on Dawson Street, At­wood Street, and Mc­kee Place. Newly re­modeled. Some have laundry on site.

Min­utes from the Univer­sity. For more info please call Mike at 412‑849‑8694 Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unre­lated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Per­mits, Licensing & In­spections.

412‑255‑2175.

Huge 5BR apartment in Panther Hollow.

Close to universi­ ties. Laundry and dish­washer. Large deck. $1,900/mo. plus utili­ties. Contact gbazz­i7@gmail.com North / South O Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry and Central Air Call 412‑38‑Lease Oakland ‑ various South Oakland loca­ tions. Oakland Ave ‑ 2 BD/1 BA, hard­wood floors, free heat, avail­ able Au­gust 1, 2019.

S. Bou­quet ‑ 2 BD/1 BA available May 1.

Ward St. ‑ studio, 1,

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• ADOPTION • EVENTS • LOST AND FOUND • STUDENT GROUPS • WANTED • OTHER

2, 3 BD. Free park­ing, free heat, avail­able August 1, 2019. Call 412‑361‑2695

Shadyside Shadyside: 1Bed­ room‑available now.

EXCELLENT LOCA­ TION ‑ Summerlea St. Fully equipped kitchen, A/C, wall‑to‑wall carpeting.

Near Pitt shuttle bus stop. Between Walnut Street and Ellsworth shopping districts.

No pets, no smoking. $840. Rent includes heat. 412‑628‑1686.

Employment Employment Other 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 BR apartments available May & August 2019.

South Oakland, North Oakland, and South­ side on Bouqet St., Meyran Ave., At­wood St., North Neville St., and Sarah St. Call 412‑287‑5712 Hiring After‑School, Evening, and Week­ end Sitters. Great pay.

Flexible sched­ules and fulfilling work with a wide va­riety of families. Must have a car and insur­ ance. Contact Fran, College Nan­nies and

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Health

Local middle‑eastern restaurant looking for positive, energetic people to join our team! Excellent cus­tomer service,

Medical and Heart Care, Students Welcome, 155 N. Craig Street, Dean Kross, MD, 412‑687‑7666

good character, and strong work ethic.

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

Looking for social media influencers who love music and are interested in so­cial media marketing. For consideration, please reply to BTHR­ CRDS@aol.­com with a resume and links to your Twitter, Face­ book and/or Instagram page.

Notices Events October 26th Hal­ loween Costume Con­test with Oak Hill Apartments!

WHERE: Lotsa Stone Fired Pizza 3621 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 WHEN: 4PM‑7PM WHY: Prizes, give­ aways, and more! www.oakhillapts.com

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

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

Services Health Medical and Heart Care, Students Welcome, 155 N. Craig Street, Dean Kross, MD, 412‑687‑7666

October 24, 2018

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