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October 7, 2015 | Issue 37 | Volume 106

SGB STUDENTS QUESTION PITT’S PLAN SWEARS IN NINTH MEMBER

Lauren Wilson Staff Writer

Four months after the position became available — and one month into the school year — Robert Tessier has filled the empty seat at Pitt Student Government Board’s table.

Deferring most individual board member and committee reports for a week, SGB spent a majority of Tuesday’s weekly meeting filling its empty seat.

After two rounds of public interviews and private deliberations, the Board voted unanimously to fill its open position. The Board swore in Tessier, a senior neuroscience and sociology major, after its vote.

“We think you’ll be a great asset,” Board President Nasreen Harun said. Tessier will start working on the Board effective immediately.

Before the Board’s announcement, the five candidates endured public interviews in front of the eight sitting Board members, about 20 other students and SGB committee members in the William Pitt Union’s Nordy’s Place.

The Board interviewed each of the five applicants — Tessier, Kaitlyn Pendrak, Harry O’Byrne, See SGB on page 1

Pitt administrators speak at Tuesday’s forum. Meghan Sunners| Senior Staff Photographer

Lauren Rosenblatt Assistant News Editor

Students said they came for answers and received a sales pitch at the University’s open student forum Tuesday.

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, Pitt hosted an Open Student Forum from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Ballroom as an opportunity for students to express concerns about the University’s “Plan for Pitt” for 2016-2020.

Approximately 60 students suggested changes and asked questions to a panel of team members the Chancellor organized to enact the plan.

Although Raghav Sharma had a chance to

speak, he didn’t feel that University heard his voice.

“It seemed to me that this was an attempt by the University to say they addressed our concerns,” Sharma said. “But in reality, it was a place for us to talk at the University and not be heard.”

David DeJong, vice provost for academic planning and resources management, spent the first half-hour summarizing the plan for students before opening the floor to student questions.

DeJong outlined the five main goals in the plan of advancing educational excellence, engaging in research of impact, strengthening

communities, building foundational strengths and embracing diversity and inclusion.

DeJong said the plan has been a work in progress since last year. Last February, the planning team started engaging with students, administration, alumni and local community leaders to decide on which points of concern the plan should focus.

“We are never going to say, ‘Here is the final plan.’ We are never going to etch it in stone,” DeJong said. “We want [the plan] to [change] in response to the input we receive and the landscape as it changes.”

The planning team held the forum in See Forum on page 2

Forum, pg. 1 response to a letter Chancellor Patrick Gallagher received on Sept. 25, from members of Free the Planet and Americans for Informed Democracy. The letter stated their discontent with the lack of student input in the plan.

Kenyon Bonner, interim vice provost and dean of students, and students from Americans for Informed Democracy, Free the Planet and Students for Justice in Palestine decided an open forum would be the best way to gather student opinions.

Students asked about 20 questions during the hour and a half-long meeting, covering issues including how to improve interdisciplinary communication, promote entrepreneurship and support wage and contract negotiations for security guards, non-tenured professors and adjunct faculty. Students snapped in appreciation as they listened to their peers express concerns about sexual assault, diversity, fair wages and sustainability.

Sharma, president of Students for Justice in Palestine, was one of the first to pose a question to the panel. Sharma asked if the University had considered the multiple attempts students had made to learn more about the University’s finances and the roadblocks they consistently encounter.

DeJong suggested starting a conversation with the appropriate administration members, which Sharma questioned.

“How can students have a discussion on those issues when they’re not being provided with the information to have those discussions?” Sharma asked.

“That’s a good question, maybe that’s where we need to start,” DeJong replied.

Sage Lincoln, a member of Free the Planet who was involved in sending the letter to Gallagher, asked how Pitt was planning to strengthen the South Oakland community and deal with the issue of high costs for sometimes unsafe living conditions.

Bonner responded that the University is partnering with the local community and that it is an issue Pitt “needs to start addressing.”

Lincoln said there were positives and negatives to the night, but she felt that the students were “talked at” more than they got a chance to talk.

“It felt like we were being sold the University,” Lincoln said. “But we already bought it. We’re already here.”

Other students took to Twitter to express their disappointment.

“We asked for a forum, not a sales pitch. #pittstrategicplan,” @LofquistSam tweeted. @PghStudentsPSSC tweeted, “Dejong: ‘Sustainability will be center in strategic capital planning’ OK so divest from fossil fuels.”

Sharma said he felt as if the University controlled the conversation.

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“It’s a stalling tactic [the University] do[es] again and again. They will grant you an audience with some dean or some professor. They’ll make you feel like you talked to someone,” Sharma said. “And then go and do whatever they want anyway.”

To move forward, Sharma said students should lead the conversation and plan the events among themselves before confronting the University as a united front.

“What we need is for students to recognize their own individual power and realize the incredible feats that we can accomplish if we put our individual power toward our collective interest,” Sharma said.

“We are unstoppable.”

Sharma said he still plans to attend next week’s forum, which DeJong announced will be 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 14.

In the future, Lincoln hopes that the University makes it more clear what they expect from the students at the beginning of the forum.

“It wasn’t clear at the beginning [that the University wanted] students to say ‘This is important, and I would like to see this in the plan,’” Lincoln said.

Most students came prepared with questions and points that they wanted to raise. Lincoln and DeJong noted that several students brought up points, such as improving sustainability, securing higher wages for part-time faculty members and raising the amount of need-based scholarships outside of the plan.

To Lincoln, these diversions represented a lack of opportunities available for students to express their opinion.

Bonner insisted this would change in the future and encouraged students to contact him with their concerns.

“It could be as simple as emailing me. I could set up a meeting, I could invite people or we could come up with some other idea,” Bonner said. “Whatever format, I’m open to it.”

For Bonner, the forum was not about quelling concerns, but about learning what actions are needed.

“This type of forum is not the most conducive to answering questions or responding on the fly. The value is to get feedback,” Bonner said. “I went into this looking to make a list of [the students’] concerns, interests and needs.”

To create the plan, DeJong said the University went through several stages of receiving feedback, creating and revising the plan until it arrived at the plan it has today. Now, the University is moving into the implementation phase, while still maintaining conversation with the community.

“This is the stuff you look forward to. You get out and talk to folks, and that makes it all worthwhile,” DeJong said. “Especially when you know you’re converting this stuff to action. Otherwise it would just be soul crushing.”

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SGB, pg. 1 Rebecca Tasker and Charles Q. Yang — for five minutes before SGB deliberated. After its first round of deliberations, SGB invited three of the candidates — Tessier, Pendrak and Yang — back for a second round of 15-minute interviews.

SGB has worked with eight Board members instead of its standard nine since former president Graeme Meyer resigned his post at the end of May. After Meyer resigned, then-Executive Vice President Harun moved up to fill the presidency — which is the rule per SGB’s governing code.

Board member Everett Green filled Harun’s position as executive vice president.

After SGB opened applications for the open board position Sept. 23, nine students initially applied by the Oct. 2 deadline, Harun said. The Board invited five of the applicants to interview Tuesday. One of the nine applicants pulled their application before the Board sent interview invitations.

Following public interviews, all five candidates waited while the Board deliberated privately for 20 minutes in its eighth floor office in the William Pitt Union before returning to Nordy’s Place for the second round of interviews.

During his first interview, Tessier said it

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wasn’t until his junior year that he came to love his school. That love, Tessier said, is why he applied for the open Board position.

“I have a desire to give back education and help and empower others to have the same kind of experience that I had,” Tessier said during his interview.

Tessier said he didn’t run for the Board during the campaign season because he was too busy and didn’t want to be irresponsible.

Pendrak, a sophomore political science and philosophy major, said she applied for the position because she saw it as an opportunity she didn’t want to miss.

“I couldn’t pass this up,” Pendrak said. “Everything was aligned.”

O’Byrne, the third to interview and a junior bioengineering major, said he was drawn to SGB because he wanted to “make a lasting impact.” He said that SGB tends to “focus more on freshman

and sophomores” but that it should also focus on students preparing to enter the workforce.

For Tasker, a seat on the Board would offer her the chance to make a difference on campus.

“It’s not just something to add to a resumé.

It’s something I can use to help change things on campus,” Tasker said. “I would make SGB more involved and transparent.”

The last to interview, Yang, a junior marketing and psychology major who transferred to Pitt last semester, said he’s passionate about Pitt and the Pittsburgh community and the opportunity to impact Pitt.

During his second interview, Tessier said he would appreciate the opportunity to work on large-scale projects for SGB. He described himself as “adaptable” because of his ability to work with two very different organizations, Humanity in Action and Delta Chi, in different roles.

Tessier said his background in martial arts left him with a hands-on approach as a leader.

“You can’t lead [others]

without being there and

doing it with them.”

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“You can’t lead [others] without being there and doing it with them,” he said.

Given that SGB works closely with Pitt’s administration, Tessier said he would give deference to the administration’s ideas but also challenge them.

“SGB has to walk a very fine line because they have to push their own initiatives and what students want, but I imagine sometimes the administration will probably see things differently,” he said.

Tessier said he hopes to move forward with his proposed initiative to support Pitt’s current bystander intervention training programs and introduce Circle of 6 — a smartphone app students can use to call for help in the event of an emergency on campus.

Harun said she is meeting with Tessier starting Wednesday to begin his training.

Allocations The American Institute of Chemical Engineers requested $2,548 to attend a conference.

SGB approved $1,961.25 and denied $586.75 per the allocations recommendation.

The Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh requested $4,399.41 to host an event on campus. SGB approved the request in full.

Pitt’s Model United Nations requested $4,454.38 but withdrew its request at Tuesday’s meeting.

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Opinions from the editorial board

Anti-abortion programs harm women, spread misinformation Our government scrutinizes federal funding for objective women’s health organizations like Planned Parenthood — yet overlooks state funding for antiabortion programs.

The hypocrisy is palpable.

Real Alternatives — a nonprofit, which provides alternatives to abortion, based in Harrisburg with a five-year, $30.2 million grant with the state of Pennsylvania — has bypassed intensive government attention for the past 19 years.

According to an article published Monday in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Eugene DePasquale, Pennsylvania’s auditor general, began hearing “concerns” about the program’s promotion of religion this summer. He intends to announce an audit of Real Alternatives this month.

The Post-Gazette uncovered discrepancies between the mission statement and advertised services of Harrisburg’s Morning Star Pregnancy Services, a Real Alternatives provider. In several brochures the Post-Gazette gathered, Real Alternatives providers spread medical information about abortions that medical specialists had refuted. Real Alternatives providers stated that abortions increased the risk of developing breast cancer and led to a decrease in emotional health — assertions that research has debunked.

This revelation comes several weeks after a national debate on the merits of Planned Parenthood — during which Congress threatened to shut down the government if funding for Planned Parenthood continued.

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The spread of misinformation by antiabortion providers isn’t just a problem in our backyard.

A fall 2006 Guttmacher Policy Review examined state abortion counseling material throughout the United States.

The Review discovered that five states falsely asserted a possible link between breast cancer and abortion. Seven states falsely asserted strictly negative emotional responses. Materials from five states included information on the ability of a fetus to feel pain. This inaccurate material led to decisions the Review termed “Misinformed Consent.”

Informed consent — our right to receive accurate, unbiased information regarding medical care — is not just a principle of medical ethics, but a national law.

If the audit on Real Alternatives uncovers manipulative practices and the spread of misinformation, it wouldn’t be unprecedented — Rep. Henry Waxman of California released a report in 2006 citing 20 of the 23 centers his investigators visited as “providing false or misleading information about the health effects of abortion.”

The Center for Medical Progress accuses Planned Parenthood of selling fetal tissue, and we spring to attack. Women complain for years that anti-abortion organizations spread misinformation, preach Christian ideology and use “manipulative practices,” yet we’re oblivious to their very presence.

Planned Parenthood may be the flashier target, but it’s the wrong mark.

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MEDIA MUST INFORM, NOT JUST ENTERTAIN VOTERS Henry Glitz Columnist

Forget the Fairness Doctrine — the American media now follows a new policy: pump ratings and cover the outrageously entertaining.

The Federal Communications Commission introduced the Fairness Doctrine as policy in 1949, and Congress reaffirmed the policy in 1954. The media identified the doctrine mainly by its provision that broadcasters provide equal coverage — if not equal time — to opposing views on controversial “issues of public importance.”

Although many — including the plaintiff in the landmark 1969 Supreme Court case Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC — made the case that it infringed on broadcasters’ freedom of speech, the doctrine lasted until 1987, when the FCC itself decided to abol-

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ish the practice.

With today’s 24-hour news cycle and expanded digital landscape, the media has gradually become less objective in coverage.

A 2012 Pew Research Center poll found that 77 percent of those surveyed said the media “tends to favor one side” compared with 53 percent who said so in 1985.

Whether it’s because of the industry’s political agenda or simply because of the need for higher ratings in a shrinking news economy, the media’s near tabloid-style coverage is a real problem our nation needs to fix.

The movement toward entertainmentoriented news affects both sides of the political spectrum. According to a 2014 Pew Research Center poll, the increasing reliance on partisan and ideological news sources See Glitz on page 7

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Glitz, pg. 6 on the right and left entertainment outlets dominating the field are news sources for the “consistently liberal” and “consistently conservative.” Thirty-four percent of selfdescribed “consistently liberals” cited the expressly comedic Daily Show as their primary source for information, and more than eight in 10 “consistently conservative” subjects cited Fox News’ less explicitly comedic entertainment as their primary source.

With an overcommercialized culture of entertainment dictating coverage by the mainstream news industry, the candidacies of presidential hopefuls like Donald Trump have gained significant traction. Seth Grossman described Trump as the “presidential candidate that reality TV made,” in an oped for The New York Times. CNN’s Sept. 16, GOP primary debate featuring the billionaire candidate brought in an estimated 22.9 million viewers, over 6 million more than the network’s previous record.

Maybe, as Kentucky Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul suggested

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in a July interview on Face the Nation, the “billion dollars worth of free advertising” Trump has been receiving from virtually all corners of the media since he declared his candidacy has helped him “get [his] message out.”

The willful ignorance of the mainstream media toward lesser-known candidates is not only morally shameful, but harmful to diversity in both parties. Even without FCC fairness mandates, media outlets should recognize their responsibility in alerting the general public to smaller campaigns to allow them to make informed decisions. It is the media’s job to inform the general public and present objective facts.

Certainly, lack of attention hasn’t hindered Trump’s message — if you could call it that . His absurdly impractical centerpiece policy of building a wall at the Mexico-U.S. border transformed from a rarely mentioned, fringe idea to an essential Republican candidate policy almost overnight.

“What will you do about illegal immigration?” suddenly became a hot question at debates.

Why has Trump’s campaign received so

much attention? The amount of time CNN lavished on him at the most recent debate — 18:47 minutes, surpassing Jeb Bush who clocked in at 15:48 minutes — was so high that Trump’s front-runner status alone can’t explain it. Many of the other candidates parroted or even outdid the extremism of the same anti-immigrant policies that helped popularize Trump. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey wants to track foreigners like FedEx packages, and Ben Carson wants to employ armed military drones at the border.

Even Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has echoed Trump’s desire for a repeal of birthright citizenship. The amount of air time the media gives Trump’s absurd policies — which has affected poll numbers — is also dictating the this election’s policies.

The simple answer is that Trump’s outrageous packaging is a cash cow for entertainment-based news — particularly his convictions about immigrants from Mexico, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” The longer the media can sustain his campaign, the longer it will.

The media should give people what they want — and they want to hear about Trump.

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However, that argument can’t defend CNN’s devotion of a whopping 78 percent of its primary coverage to the candidate leading up to the Sept. 16, debate. Trump, whose support in Real Clear Politics aggregated polls never topped 30.5 percent, doesn’t deserve that amount of coverage by merit of his ideas.

Even if Trump’s support did reflect his media coverage, the media would still have a moral responsibility to be more equal in its coverage of the GOP field. It’s very probable that candidates who poll beneath 1 percent have something valuable to add to the conversation.

Today’s mainstream media outlets are kingmakers early in the election cycle.

With or without the Fairness Doctrine, they should acknowledge journalism ethics and realize the candidates that make them the most money might not be the candidates who are best for the country.

Henry primarily writes on government and domestic policy for The Pitt News.

Write Henry at hgg7@pitt.edu.

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Sports

Cameron Johnson gained 30 pounds this offseason. | Jeff Ahearn Assistant Visual Editor

GAINING GROUND: JOHNSON BULKS UP

Jeremy Tepper

Senior Staff Writer Most students fear the “freshman 15.” Pitt shooting guard Cameron Johnson embraced all that and more with open, growing arms this offseason.

Johnson, an unheralded 2014 recruit from Moon Township, arrived at Pitt as a slender 6-foot-8, 185 pounds boy — taller and lighter than the average collegiate shooting guard. He played the first eight games of last season then a shoulder injury in December ushered him to the bench.

In the time off, Johnson gained 30 pounds — not all of which was muscle — Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon said at Pitt basketball’s annual media day, a body change that will help Johnson’s physicality on the court.

“Cameron Johnson’s gotten heavier and it hasn’t all been great weight, as far as muscle —

that’s usually what you expect,” Dixon said. “He just needed weight, and now we’re going to have to redefine it.”

With Johnson’s skinny build coming in to Pitt, Dixon expected Johnson to put on some body mass, and the guard made that an emphasis this offseason.

Johnson specifically aimed to improve his lower body because he couldn’t lift weights with his shoulder injury. He underwent surgery on the shoulder in January.

“The biggest thing was working on strength overall. Lower body strength was a big thing until I got my shoulder strong,” Johnson said.

Johnson — who had a late growth spurt that began in high school, bringing him from 6-foot-4 to 6-foot-8 — knew he needed to put on weight once he got to Pitt.

“I knew it was going to happen. I’m sure See Cameron on page 10

PANTHERS TIE NIAGARA Adam Richman For The Pitt News

Dan Lynd (33) leaps for the save against Niagara.

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The Pitt men’s soccer team fell victim Tuesday night to a strike from a former bearer of the blue and gold.

Squaring off against the Niagara Purple Eagles, the Pitt Panthers squandered a 1-0 lead with less than seven minutes remaining on a late goal by Niagara freshman Bautista Pedezert, who headed a corner kick from former Pitt Panther defender Ryan Myers. The final score was a 1-1 draw.

Entering the game, Niagara appeared to be the inferior team, with its 1-8-2 record paling in comparison to Pitt’s mark of 5-4-1. Pitt’s record is slightly misleading, though, as the Panthers still had yet to earn a conference victory in the ACC, a streak that has now extended into its third season.

In the first half on Tuesday night, the word sloppy epitomized the play of both teams. Neither squad could fire a shot.

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Niagara controlled the advantage in terms of possession time — but only because the team slowed the tempo by holding the ball on its side of the field.

Whenever the Panthers intercepted any lengthy pass attempts by Niagara, they proceeded to give the ball away themselves when jumping out on the counterattack. Niagara’s inefficient play similarly discouraged head coach Joe Luxbacher.

“I thought we were flat all night,” Luxbacher said. “We were a step slow all night. It was just a flat performance.”

Pitt saw its first scoring opportunity in the 12th minute. A cross from the left side left the Panthers staring at a wide open net. Unfortunately for Pitt, freshman Matt Nozedar’s header crashed directly into the crossbar and Niagara cleared the ball out of the box immediately.

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Cameron, pg. 9 everybody knew it was going to happen because I didn’t have much to lose and I had a lot to gain,” Johnson said.

That inevitability combined with his hard work in the gym added up to a 30-pound weight gain, Johnson said.

“I’m just filling out naturally, along with lifting,” Johnson said.

Johnson can now compete more physically with his improved strength.

“It’s a lot easier to push people where I want to push them. It’s a lot easier to go where I want to go,” Johnson said. “It feels good to move rather than to be moved.”

Besides gaining weight, Johnson said he worked on improving his defense.

“The more defensive principles you learn, the more you remember what you’re supposed to do, the more confident you are in what you can do and what you’re supposed to do,” Johnson said.

Dixon also expressed that the guard needed to improve on the defensive end. This didn’t come as a surprise to the coach, given the lack of focus on defense in high school basketball.

“What he needs to become is a great defender, and he has the ability to do it, it’s just never been something he had to do in high school,” Dixon said.

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Johnson provides Pitt with a rare combination of height with shooting and guard skills.

Thanks to these attributes, Dixon said he could be an X factor off the bench.

Dixon lauded him as Pitt’s best shooter last year, as he registered eight total three pointers in eight games before going down with the injury.

He averaged 14.4 minutes per game coming off the bench “He can shoot the ball at 6-foot-8,” Dixon said. “He can shoot, he can pass and he puts the ball on the floor a lot better than people would think.”

With the Panthers’ first exhibition game coming on Nov. 6, at the Petersen Events Center against Gannon University, Johnson is anxious to throw his weight around on the court again.

“Just missing all that and watching on the sideline, it makes you hungry. You want to get out there and do whatever you can to help,” Johnson said. “I’m going to play as hard as I can, give everything I can, be unselfish, play good defense and do what we have to do in order to win.”

While Johnson hasn’t yet carved out his niche on the Pitt roster — he’ll likely have to make contributions from off the bench — Dixon is glad to have the developing guard on the team. “[Cameron’s] obviously a late bloomer, a guy that’s grown late,” Dixon said. “He’s filling out, and we’re excited about him.”

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