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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | October 18, 2017 | Volume 108 | Issue 49

Taking Back The Night: Students share their abusive relationship stories

Bailey Frisco |Staff Writer Dana Good held a handmade sign above her head that read “I’m not ovary-acting” as she marched through the streets of Oakland Tuesday night. More Pitt students walked alongside her, waving posters saying “reclaim the streets” and “I march for those who can’t,” while being escorted by Pitt Police.

“Whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes and no means no,” the marchers chanted.

Good — a junior French and communications major — was participating in Take Back the Night, an annual international

Students march through the streets of Oakland Tuesday during Take Back the Night.

Issi Glatts | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER rally held to promote awareness about sexual harassment, abuse and assault. The rally — hosted at Pitt by the Campus Women’s Organization — kicked off in the William Pitt Union and included demonstrations, discussions and a parade through Oakland.

Good said she came to the event to support survivors of sexual assault and promote discussion about it.

“A lot of the time, there are misunderstandings or people are reluctant to listen to you because you’re emotional about something,” Good said. “I think that if people just sit down and start having discussions about

it on a regular basis, it’ll hopefully enact some change.”

The club has hosted Take Back the Night since the early 1990s, according to CWO President Megan Heintz.

“We take back the night, and have this event, because no one should feel unsafe walking home alone at night,” Heintz said.

“Regardless of gender or who you are, you should be able to feel safe at night.”

The march began outside of the union, wound through Oakland for about half an hour and returned to the union front entrance. Afterward, CWO served pizza and

refreshments in the assembly room. Two Pitt peer educators then held a bystander training event, walking the audience through potential scenarios of sexual harassment and assault and instructing them on how best to intervene.

Leading up to the event, several women shared their stories of abusive relationships with The Pitt News. At the request of the sources, their names have been changed for safety and anonymity.

Jane — a senior psychology major — said every relationship she has ever been in See Stories on page 2

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has been abusive. Her most recent experience with relationship abuse ended less than a year ago with a boyfriend she dated for three years and shared an apartment with, she said.

“It wears you out and it makes you tired.

It makes you feel bad about yourself,” she said. “I remember calling my mom crying every day when he wasn’t around. But then when he was around, I had to act like everything was fine.”

According to a report by Knowledge Networks, 43 percent of dating college women have reported violent or abusive behavior in a relationship and 16 percent have been sexually abused within a relationship.

“College students are not equipped to deal with dating abuse — 57 [percent] say it is difficult to identify and 58 [percent] say they don’t know how to help someone who’s experiencing it,” the report says.

Jane said her ex-boyfriend would manipulate her by threatening to ruin his own

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life and blamed her for being the cause of all of his problems. She said he would also go through her phone and accuse her of cheating when he came across innocent messages between Jane and other men.

“I was depressed all of the time because he just blamed all of his problems on me and didn’t want to take responsibility for anything,” she said. “The easiest way for them to manipulate was to threaten ruining their life somehow.”

She thinks she stayed with him for so long because she was scared. To this day, she still feels like she has to constantly watch her back. She said having the support of her family and friends has helped her cope.

“I think me going out, and being able to work whenever I wanted to work and stuff like that,” she said. “Just being on my own and not worrying about another individual really helped me, because I wasn’t able to do it before.”

Her advice to anyone experiencing relationship abuse is to be surrounded by a See Take Back on page 6

George Takei recounts experiences, encourages activism Anna Bongardino Contributing Editor

Shortly after his fifth birthday, George Takei and his family were forced out of their home in Los Angeles at gunpoint.

Along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, Takei’s family was sent to a Japanese internment camp.

Takei and his family spent a few months in a camp on the West Coast before moving to another internment camp in the distant swamps of Arkansas. In each camp, every family was assigned to one narrow horse stall that reeked of manure.

But despite the camps’ poor living conditions, all of the children still attended school.

“I could see the barbed wire outside the classroom while I was reciting ‘liberty and justice for all.’ I was too young to understand the irony of those words,” Takei said.

More than 1,000 people gathered in

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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall Tuesday night to hear Takei’s personal story of activism and displacement — the theme of this year’s Pitt International Week.

Takei, 80, has reached international stardom for his role as Hikaru Sulu in “Star Trek,” but as a guest of Pitt’s International Week, he didn’t focus on discussing his sci-fi persona. Instead, he spent the two hours on stage speaking about his experience in Japanese internment camps in the United States after Pearl Harbor.

Lynn Kawaratani — acting associate director of Pitt’s Asian Studies Center — organized the event. She said she had personal ties to Takei’s childhood experience — her own father was held in a Japanese internment camp. Kawaratani said she admired Takei’s ability to use his fame as a platform to speak out against injustice. “[Takei’s] not just someone who experienced it, but someone who took those experiences and felt inspired and motivat-

ed to speak out and to become an activist,” she said.

Kawaratani said she planned the event with relevant political issues in mind — particularly how recent executive orders could play a role in the 65 million displaced people worldwide.

“Now more than ever, with the current administration, we think those things will never happen again. We think American citizens are protected, but we have to be vigilant,” Kawaratani said.

Takei explained the widespread discrimination of Japanese Americans as a visceral reaction to the Pearl Harbor bombings.

“Overnight, people started to look at us with fear, hatred and suspicion simply because we looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor,” Takei said. “We were betrayed by the government, but more than that, we were betrayed by the American people.”

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At the end of the war, Takei and his family members were each given $25 and a one-way ticket to any destination in the United States. His family returned to Los Angeles where they lived on Skid Row, an area in downtown Los Angeles known for its large population of homeless people.

“We were free but we were impoverished,” he said. “They took everything from us.”

As a teenager, Takei took an interest in civics and activism after discovering the lack of attention given to the history of Japanese internment camps in the United States.

“I became a voracious reader and I began to read civics books, but I couldn’t reconcile the democratic ideals with our imprisonment,” he said. “I couldn’t find our imprisonment anywhere.”

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Opinions column

from the editorial board

Commemorating a slain journalist It was a sunny afternoon yesterday in the island nation of Malta, between North Africa and Sicily. Daphne Caruana Galizia was driving her Peuguot near her home when a car bomb exploded, killing her and tossing the wreckage of the car into a nearby field.

When The Guardian broke the news last night, we were devastated. Galizia was a world-renown journalist best known for her investigative work exposing corruption in Malta during the 2015 Panama Papers scandal — a leak of 11.5 million documents detailing offshore corruption. She ran a blog in Malta that had a daily readership of more than 400,000 — that’s more than all of Malta’s newspapers combined, and 95 percent of Malta’s population.

Subjects of her comprehensive investigations have called her a “terrorist,” such as former European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli, who Galizia took down in a tobacco lobbying exposé. An unnamed government official told Politico she “single-handedly brought the government to the verge of collapse.”

But around the world she was celebrated — Politico included her on their annual list of 28 people who are shaping the future of Europe, calling her a “one-woman WikiLeaks” who crusaded against corruption and campaigned for transparency.

Journalists like Galizia embody the spirit of the practice of journalism. She wrote cutthroat pieces about government corruption in a country her son called a “mafia state” after her

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death. She risked her life, as she probably knew, each time she made a post on her blog.

And she did so until she joined the ranks of the other 27 journalists killed this year for their work. Forty-eight journalists were killed in 2016, and the number of journalists killed since 1992 stands at 1,255.

Try as we may, our calls for worldwide free press make little difference.

At the office we may complain among ourselves about sources giving halfhearted answers, but we are privileged to have legal protections and grateful that our lives are never in immediate danger.

What we can do is acknowledge that our president regularly places blame on “fake news.” He regularly attacks the press and recently asked when it would be appropriate to challenge NBC’s license after the network broke a story about Trump’s disagreements with top military officials.

The answer to his question is never — thankfully, we live in a country where other branches and agencies of the government will stand up to this, as the Federal Communications Commission did in response to Trump’s tweet.

But above all, we wish to commemorate Daphne Caruana Galizia and her fellow slain journalists for the admirable work they did, and remind America that regardless of whether or not we like the corporate news media, we should respect journalists for the risks they take to inform us.

In wake of Maria, don’t blame Puerto Rico.

Blame the United States.

President Donald Trump visits Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.

TNS The people of Puerto Rico are dying — Maggie Durwald the death toll as of Oct. 17 was 48 — but For The Pitt News the U.S. government is treating the situaIn the wake of Hurricane Maria, an tion in an unacceptably flippant manner. overwhelming 80 percent of the 3.4 milU.S. tax laws are responsible for much of lion Americans in Puerto Rico are still Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. But in light without electricity, adequate amounts of Hurricane Maria, it’s clear that it’s not of food and hospital supplies and, most just tax laws that are to blame — U.S. atalarmingly, potable water. More than titude and a multitude of U.S. laws, inthree weeks after the storm, shipments cluding the lately debated Jones Act, are of water can’t keep up with the demand, at fault. and the islanders are turning to wells on Trump’s claim that Puerto Rico’s fisites contaminated with hazardous waste nancial crisis is solely the fault of the instead of chancing the tap water they fear Puerto Rican people is ludicrous and igmay be infected with diseases. norant. The same day as Trump’s tweets, In a rapid string of Oct. 12 tweets, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., made an President Donald Trump blamed Puerto See Durwald on page 4 Rico yet again for the natural disaster.

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impassioned speech before the Financial Services Committee in an effort to hold both the president and his choice for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, accountable for the ridiculous falseness of the tweets.

“I am the only member [of this committee] who is a Puerto Rican-American citizen,” Velazquez said, directly addressing Carson. “I just would like for you to let him know how shameful all the tweets that he put out this morning are … and I would like to suggest that the president get some history lessons regarding the Puerto Rican relationship with the United States.”

And if the president does as Velazquez suggests, he’ll find on multiple occasions in our complicated history with the island that the United States imposed economic laws that greatly hindered, and perhaps doomed, Puerto Rico’s chances at development.

Congress passed the Merchant Marine Act, or the Jones Act, in 1920 to protect American shipping and ensure national security. The Jones Act said only Amer-

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companies to avoid U.S. corporate income taxes on profits made in U.S. territories.

For decades, Operation Bootstrap worked. But under pressure from tax reformists, former President Bill Clinton repealed Section 936 in 1996. Average manufacturing wages decreased by 16.7 percent, and the number of manufacturing establishments decreased by 18.7 percent. The average unemployment rate rose to nearly 12 percent, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Trump suspended the Jones Act. Former President George W. Bush acted similarly in 2005 when he waived the Jones Act for 20 days following Hurricane Katrina, although no foreign aid ships entered the Gulf of Mexico at that time because “[t]wenty days is not enough time to reposition and do anything useful,” according to Jones Act expert Charlie Papavizas.

Foreign vessels need more than the short period of time of a waiver to reach U.S. ports, which is another reason to slash the Jones Act. The 10-day suspension for Puerto Rico expired Oct. 8, but the Department of Homeland Security refused to create an

extension.

“We believe that extending the waiver is unnecessary to support the humanitarian relief efforts on the island,” DHS Press Secretary Dave Lapan said. “There is an ample supply of Jones Act-qualified vessels to ensure that cargo is able to reach Puerto Rico.”

But of the qualified Jones Act fleet capable of carrying aid, only three actually delivered to Puerto Rico, according to the DHS. This isn’t how a country should treat its citizens in their hour — or three weeks — of need.

There is only one way to reconcile the lack of response the federal government has given Puerto Rico, and that is to permanently kill the Jones Act. In the short term, this would get much-needed aid to Puerto Rico from ships that aren’t eligible under the Jones Act. In the long term, Puerto Rico would experience a decrease in price of basic goods that would help reestablish a stable economy.

“To kick fellow citizens when they are down is shameful,” Velazquez told Dr. Carson.

We’ve kicked Puerto Rico down for far too long. It’s time we help them back up.

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ican-built, -manned and -owned ships may transport goods and people between U.S. ports.

This antiquated law mandated that foreign ships pay extra tariffs and taxes to unload into Puerto Rican ports, which are transferred directly to the Puerto Rican consumer. In fact, a 2012 study by the University of Puerto Rico found using U.S. vessels nearly doubled maintenance costs and insurance, and the cost of an American crew was nearly four times the cost of a foreign crew.

And this loss has real impacts in Puerto Rico. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York found the cost of shipping an identical 20-foot container of household goods to Puerto Rico was nearly double the cost of shipping it to Jamaica or the Dominican Republic in 2012. If wages went up as a result of the Jones Act, this might be understandable — but other American laws ruined this possibility.

Operation Bootstrap was an elaborate plan designed in the mid-1940s to stimulate the Puerto Rican economy, and it was mostly carried out through tax codes. It culminated in the passage of Section 936 in 1976, which allowed manufacturing

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Sports

THIS IS NOW, THAT WAS THEN:

Pitt football undefeated 100 years ago Colin Martin

For The Pitt News

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he year was 1917 — neither the Cathedral of Learning nor the Pittsburgh Steelers existed, and the Pittsburgh Pirates had finished last in the MLB standings with a 51-103 record.

This was also the same year Pitt’s football team completed a perfect 10-0 season. Times have certainly changed.

The current Pittsburgh Panthers football team is far from undefeated, standing at 2-5.

But there are still things in common between this year’s team and the undefeated team from 100 years ago.

The 1917 team’s performance was not a fluke. Led by legendary head coach Pop Warner, the Panthers entered the season as twotime defending national champions, after going 8-0 in 1915 and 1916. However, the roster was very different in 1917 because many players served in WWI. There were some familiar opponents on the 1917 Panthers’ schedule — Syracuse and Penn State. Pitt beat the Orange 28-0 and the Nittany Lions 28-6. Compare that to the 2017 results — the Panthers struggled keeping up with top-ranked Penn State, losing 33-14, and also lost a close game to Syracuse 27-24.

In addition to scoring well, the 1917 team only gave up on average 3.1 points per game to its opponents. The current Pitt team has given up 30.8 points per game through six games and would probably struggle defending the 1917 Panthers’ offense.

Warner had his players run the doublewing offense, which is similar to the tripleoption offense that Georgia Tech runs today.

Against Pitt, Georgia Tech had 436 rushing yards in its 35-17 triumph earlier this season.

Georgia Tech was coincidentally one of Pitt’s rivals in 1917. Georgia Tech head coach John Heisman challenged Warner and Pitt to a postseason game to determine a national champion since both teams ended the season undefeated. Warner declined, and postponed

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The University of Pittsburgh football team was undefeated during their 1917 season.

ULS Archives the game until the following season — when be coming out of the Heinz Field tunnel any played baseball and basketball in addition to Pitt would win its third national champion- time soon. The team also played — and beat football. He went on to become Pitt’s head ship. But because of this postponement, Pitt — Bethany, the University of Pennsylvania, basketball coach for 31 years, and was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame was not awarded the national championship Washington & Jefferson and Camp Lee. The 1917 Panthers also got to play rival in 1959. until 1918.

The other star on the 1917 Pitt football Imagine Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi de- West Virginia in the classic Backyard Brawl clining an invitation to a bowl game today — game. Current fans of the team are excited to team was the man who would eventually replace Warner as head coach in 1924, Jock it would never happen. The current Pitt team see this rustbelt rivalry return in 2022.

Fans also get to see team captains from Sutherland. Sutherland was an All-American needs to win at least four more games — for a total of six wins — to even become bowl eli- each partake in the coin flip before every in 1915 and 1916. In addition to football, game. The 2017 Pitt football captains are se- Sutherland wrestled and was on the track and gible.

Pitt is a member of the ACC and plays nior quarterback Max Browne, senior wide field team while at Pitt.

Pitt’s current All-American, junior wide most of its game within the conference, but receiver Jester Weah and senior and junior back in 1917, conferences did not exist. Pitt defensive backs Avonte Maddox and Dennis receiver Quadree Henderson, hasn’t indicated he has any plan of returning to his alma mater was an independent team — similar to Notre Briggs.

In 1917 there was only one team captain as coach.

Dame football today — and many of its The Warner-era Pitt Panthers football scheduled opponents were schools the team on the football team — compared to today’s four. Leading the team to victory was Pitt’s team had a 32-game win streak from 1915 to wouldn’t play today.

The team also played some familiar in- was Doc Carlson, an All-American end who 1918, and was awarded three national titles state schools, like Lehigh University and helped the Panthers win the 1916 national over that span. Narduzzi may need to look back and take some notes from the undefeatCarnegie Mellon — formerly known as Carn- championship.

Carlson was an exceptional athlete who ed 1917 team to help Pitt succeed today. egie Tech. Today, these schools probably won’t

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Take Back, pg. 2 support system and to have someone to talk to. She said they should find a way to get out and have the courage to leave, because no one is worth being treated that bad.

“Know that you don’t have to be treated that way. Nobody has to be treated that way,” she said. “Guys are replaceable. If a guy is treating you that bad, you can find somebody better.”

Jane is a member of Pitt Unmuted, a club in the process of becoming affiliated with the University, which has roughly 20 members. Unmuted was created to provide a platform for survivors of sexual assault, where they can share their stories and express themselves through works of poetry.

The group is hosting a three-meeting series on intimate partner violence in light of the death of Pitt junior Alina Sheykhet.

The first meeting took place Oct. 16, and the next two will be Oct. 30 and Nov. 13.

Matthew Darby, Sheykhet’s ex-boyfriend against whom she filed a protection-from-abuse order in September, was charged with homicide Oct. 10. State Senator Jay Costa said he thinks this could’ve been prevented.

Costa is a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 196, aimed at strengthening PFAs by putting an electronic monitoring device on the defendant if they pose a risk of violating the order.

“No victim of domestic violence should live in fear of their abusers, especially after they have gone to court and sought a PFA,” Costa said in an email. “I’m a cosponsor of SB 196 because I believe it could’ve helped Alina, and it should be enacted to help protect more potential victims of deadly

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Megan Heintz, president of the Campus Women’s Organization, gives a speech to open Take Back the Night. Issi Glatts | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER domestic violence.”

Mary — a Pitt student and member of Unmuted — has had experience with both abusive relationships and sexual assault.

During her first year of college, she started dating a close friend. Everything seemed fine at first, she said, but soon it became clear he was manipulative and abusive.

“He took advantage of me emotionally and physically,” she said. “I lost a lot of friends through that process, because I was only spending time with him.”

Mary said her boyfriend would guilt her into sleeping with him and would wait for her outside of her dorm, saying things like “I have to stay over tonight.” He would often make her question her own thoughts and feelings, she said, and his constant demands for her attention caused her relationships with others to deteriorate.

“I just started kind of going through the motions. I began to be really numb to feeling, in the sense that I didn’t really know what was going on and I just tried to avoid the problem to just kind of keep going,” she said.

Mary finally found the strength to break it off when she reached out to a few people who took her concerns about her relationship seriously. She also began attending sexual assault awareness events on campus that clarified her perspective on the abuse from which she was suffering.

“I think just talking to those people, listening to those presentations and getting those resources [helped],” she said.

“Although I didn’t use the resources at the time, just having them on my phone if I needed anything was really useful.”

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University spokesperson Kevin Zwick said Pitt has several programs that work to prevent abusive relationships, citing the counseling center and the Title IX office as places students can go with questions and to find resources. Pitt’s SAFE program is also premiering a new Healthy Relationship workshop Oct. 25. This workshop will teach students to identify characteristics of relationships through the use of an interactive presentation.

“Students will learn to recognize the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships,” Zwick said. “The Pitt Police and the Office of Student Conduct are also here to help.”

Mary said while the relationship has been over for a while now, it still brings back painful memories and feelings she’s trying to move past.

“I think it always sticks with you.

You move on from it, you grow as a person. But it’s definitely difficult some days where you have triggers or something just really reminds you of it,” she said. “And it’s really important for me to remind myself that it’s OK, and that I need to heal.”

Mary often writes a poem or a sentence about what she’s feeling when she is reminded of the abuse. She sometimes returns to these “pocket poems” to examine her progress in healing.

“Even though there is still pain, I’m trying to cultivate the pain in a more positive light,” she said.

Mary said finding a way to channel negative emotions and accept what happened is key to moving on after abuse.

“Your validity as a person is not undermined by what you’re going through now,” she said. “You are strong, and even though it may not feel like there are people out there for you, there are.”

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