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November 12, 2015 | Issue 62 | Volume 106

POLICE INVESTIGATING ATTEMPTED BURGLARY Dale Shoemaker News Editor

Pittsburgh police are investigating an attempted burglary in Oakland Tuesday morning.

According to a crime alert posted on its website, the Pitt police assisted the city police in an attempted apartment break-in on the 3400 block of Bates Street at about 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 11.

Early yesterday morning, an unknown man tried to enter the second floor apartment through a window off a fire escape, the alert said. When the man attempted to open the window, a burglar alarm went off and the man fled, according to police.

The crime alert describes the unknown man as black and wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt, with the hood up and dark-colored pants. The man also had a beard, the alert said.

This is the third reported incident this semester involving unknown men entering or attempting to enter homes and apartments in South Oakland.

Police are asking anyone with information about this incident to contact the Pittsburgh police at 412-422-6520 and reference their report CCR #15-216775, or call Pitt police at 412-6242121 and reference their report #15-03422.

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SPILLING THE NATION’S SECRETS Emily Brindley Staff Writer

Dana Priest, a Washington, D.C., native of more than 25 years, started noticing the city’s skyline changing in drastic ways in 2004.

As replacements for buildings that were previously well-known establishments, other buildings began to crop up

with confusing and vague names like “L6.”

Four years later, Priest joined forces with William Arkin, a former U.N. adviser who spent years compiling data about the proliferation of top-secret government organizations beginning after 9/11. The result is a book called “Top Secret America: The Rise of the New

American Security State,” which came out in 2012 and exposed many of these “classified” government tactics to counteract terrorism.

“In our brains, it was like the human genome project,” Priest said Wednesday night. She added that the information resulted in “an alternative geography to See Priest on page 2

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the United States, a top-secret geography.”

Priest, a prominent Washington Post investigative reporter of almost 30 years, spoke in A l u m n i Hall’s Connolly Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday about “The Curious Disappearance of Civic Info in the Age of the Internet.” Her talk focused on modern-day censorship of media in the United States

and abroad and the challenges journalists face. The Honors College sponsored the event, and Carnegie Mellon University and the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy, among others, also contributed to Priest’s visit.

P r i e s t is no amateur when it comes to investigating gover nment operations.

In 2014, Priest became the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the Uni-

“You have to question the things that are happening behind closed doors.”

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Priest, pg. 2 versity of Maryland. She has also won two Pulitzer Prizes, most recently in 2008 for public service regarding her reporting on the conditions of an outpatient ward at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. A report she released on CIA secret prison sites sparked an international firestorm in 2005.

Edward Stricker, the dean of the Honors College, commended Priest’s work in investigative journalism. Stricker said there are two things necessary to achieve transparency and competency in the media.

“You simply have to be educated in order to understand the complex issues [of the modern world],” Stricker said. “And the second requirement is that you have to have a first-rate group of journalists who report on what’s happening.”

Priest discussed the effects of restricted media within and outside the United States. She emphasized the sheer number of journalists who have faced death, imprisonment or have been “roughed up” for refusing to follow the restrictive laws imposed on them. “[The number of journalists] driven out of their profession is record breaking at this moment,” Priest said. “[Recently] an average of one journalist every week has been killed doing their job.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 46 journalists have been killed worldwide in 2015 in direct relation to their work. Since 1992, 1,150 journalists have been killed, according to the CPJ. In countries that outrightly repress the media, Priest said, journalists don’t just face jail time for exposing the truth.

“It’s a macabre fact that the world is divided between those who jail journalists and those who kill journalists,” Priest said, in reference to the countries like Mexico, where suppression of journalists is more blatant.

Maria del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, a journalist who used Twitter as an outlet for her reports in Mexico, went missing after she tweeted about the location of shootings and the identity of missing persons.

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Someone hacked Rubio’s Twitter account and posted an apology for her behavior, followed by a photo of her dead body. The Mexican police made no arrests, though many in the international community suspect the drug cartel was responsible.

Priest said government stonewalling of the media is not a foreign concept— it happens in the United States as well, particularly in areas involving national security.

Priest and Arkin combed the Internet

for job listings, job descriptions and environmental reports for “Top Secret America.” During this investigation, they identified 33 new buildings in the Washington, D.C., area since 9/11 — all of which related to national security in some way, but whose exact functions the government left vague.

Lora Matway, a senior urban studies major who attended the speech, said she sees issues such as this lack of transparency playing out not only nationally, but on college campuses as well.

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“I think that when you are involved with any sort of institution, you have to question the things that are happening behind closed doors,” Matway said.

Priest called for support of journalists who face persecution for reporting openly, and for both journalists and nonjournalists to continue fighting for free press and open budgets at the governmental level.

“Stand up for that, because [an] open government is a better government,” Priest said.

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Rubio right on vo-tech, wrong TEACH CONSENT on minimum wage Better sexual education in high school will lead to safer college campuses | by Kirsten Wong

“Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.”

Sen. Marco Rubio made this assertion at Tuesday night’s Republican primary debate — it’s meant to illustrate his main gripe with the U.S. education system.

While the first part of his quote is false — Americans with philosophy degrees make more than welders on average, according to PayScale — Rubio still has a point. There is little opportunity for students to learn vocational skills in high school. Consequently, if you don’t go to college to get a degree, you most likely won’t have the skills to compete in the workforce and obtain a livable wage — making a college degree an all-or-nothing type of venture.

In 2014, about 9.3 million Americans were unemployed, which equated to an unemployment rate of about 6.5 percent. Yet at the same time, there were about 4.8 million available job slots — jobs that employers couldn’t fill because of a lack in human capital, according to a report by The Atlantic. Most of these open job slots were in the technology sector, meaning that if more of these unemployed workers had the relevant skills, they could have potentially occupied these job slots.

Today, less than 5 percent of young Americans train as apprentices in a vocational field. This is as compared to Germany, where 60 percent of young people train as vocational apprentices. Vocational training in Germany is state sponsored.

It seems Germany has realized the academic track isn’t for everyone, and it has compensated for this by providing those who don’t pursue higher education with skills needed for livable work.

Meanwhile, in the United States, only 55 percent of college undergraduates who enrolled in

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2008 finished a degree within six years, according to The National Student Clearinghouse — that’s the lowest college completion rate in the developed world. Since students don’t receive proper training in vocational skills in high school, as mentioned above, they have little to fall back on.

We need to make a future for Americans who don’t earn college degrees. According to Pew Research Center, those people with a bachelor’s degree earn, on average, $15,500 more than people with just a high school diploma.

We can narrow this pay gap by providing vocational training to students in high school — federal investments in vocational-technical programs can help to achieve this. Schools can then create separate vocational-technical curriculums for their students. This will give them the choice to pursue vocational skills over the general skills high schools cater toward colleges. Students who don’t enter college will then have a fighting chance in obtaining a rewarding career.

Of course, we need more than vocational skills to narrow the pay gap between college grads and non-college grads. The federal government must raise the minimum wage as well so that all without a college degrees can earn a livable wage too.

Raising the minimum wage, of course, is a strategy that Rubio is strictly against, but we must implement a raise if we want to further decrease the need for U.S. workers to pursue a college degree — which is what Rubio ultimately supports.

“What makes America special is that we have millions and millions of people that are not rich, that through hard work and perseverance are able to be successful,” Rubio said in the debate before his welder versus philosopher comment.

People in America can work hard, but without the right opportunities or wages, they won’t be fiscally “successful.”

Do college students know the meaning of consent? Did they learn this vocabulary lesson in sexual conduct in high school?

Studies have revealed that college students do not know what constitutes consent and what does not. According to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey on college students’ perceptions of sexual assault, 83 percent of students agreed that a clear “yes” from both parties is consent, but when given different scenarios, the answer was not as clear.

Forty seven percent of college students said when both people have not given clear consent it is sexual assault, while 6 percent said it is not and 46 percent saying it is unclear.

For instance, students aren’t sure if a partner nodding in agreement, taking off their own clothes or getting a condom is consent or not. Similarly, when both parties are under the influence of alcohol or drugs, 59 percent stated consent was unclear.

Only both parties making clear and aware verbal agreements is a sign of affirmative consent — any other form would be sexual assault.

The mixed results of the Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation’s survey exemplify the ambiguous understanding of consent among college students. At its root, this unclear idea of consent

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stems from a poor sexual education curriculum in high school.

Many states don’t require schools to teach any sexual education at all. And even if there is a sexual education curriculum, only 33 states mandate that sexual education in primary schools at least teach students about STD/ STIs — specifically HIV/AIDs. Methods for prevention can include anything from condoms to abstinence-only programs in many schools — which aren’t sexual education. On average, students are not receiving sexual education that includes essential factors about having sex itself — sexual education, it seems, focuses more on the consequences of poor sexual education. There is no standardized teaching of the definition of consent, issues of sexual assault and sexual violence and resources on how to report them.

To better combat sexual violence in college, we must teach consent in high school.

While Pitt declared November as Sexual Violence Awareness Month, many other colleges and universities are also taking action to create safer environments on campuses. But as a nation, we can fight the problem of sexual assault at its root — we should emphasize the importance of safe, consensual sex as early as possible to prevent See Wong on page 5

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Wong, pg. 4 sexual assaults later.

Pitt students should know what kind of sexual conduct the University expects of them before they even arrive on campus. Pitt’s own definition of consent is “an informed, affirmative decision made freely and actively by all parties to engage in mutually acceptable sexual activity ... given by clear words or actions.” It also states that someone who is unconscious, asleep or otherwise mentally or physically incapacitated, whether due to alcohol, drugs or some other condition, cannot give consent.

Pitt’s definition of consent outlines its “yes means yes” policy, which is stronger than the former “no means no” idea of consent. In that, “no means no” implies that consent may mean simply not saying no at all. More than 300 universities have also adopted this policy — meaning that most institutions of higher learning agree that consent must be an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement.

Consent between both parties is the

difference between a safe, positive experience and being traumatized for life. It is crucial for students to know what consent is in all its forms. Sexual assault is a rampant problem among colleges and universities — mainly because students are not learning enough about the issues of sexual violence and consent in high

onstrates the inconsistency, unreliability and the lack of prudence when it comes to sexual education. This fails to prepare students for the expectations universities have of them.

Implementing sexual education models in high schools similar to those of colleges, such as sexual assault preven-

Consent between both parties is the difference between a safe, positive experience and being traumatized. school.

That there is no comprehensive, medically accurate high school sexual education programs in many states, and no sexual education at all in others, dem-

tion programs, bystander training, resources on reporting assault and lessons on consent, could help students understand these issues well before they enter college.

California is already instituting such a program for its public high schools.

Last month, the state’s governor, Jerry Brown, approved legislation that will require high schools to teach sexual consent and sexual violence prevention starting next year — the first state in the nation to take this measure.

As a leading example for the country, this legislation is a huge step to making this a nationwide trend.

The Association of American Universities’ recent Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct showed that 23.1 percent of female undergraduates experienced sexual assault since they enrolled in college — that number was 16.3 percent for Pitt.

These results should be a wake-up call for policymakers — too many students aren’t mature or aware enough to engage in sexual activity in college.

Kirsten Wong primarily writes on social justice issues and education for The Pitt News.

Write to her at kew101@pitt.edu

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‘GOOD KIDS’ ARRIVES AT PITT Valkyrie Speaker & Brady Langmann The Pitt News Staff

We’re all good kids, every one of us.

That’s what the ensemble of playwright Naomi Iizuka’s “Good Kids” keep telling each other throughout Pitt Stages’ latest production, inspired by real events from a 2012 high school sexual assault case in Steubenville, Ohio.

But when the story rewinds to the morning after the attack — the questions about who is or isn’t a “good kid” stop, as a girl, Chloe, stands alone on the stage.

Despite her peers’ perpetuated rumors and social media posts, she struggles to rememb er details from the night before — that spot on the floor, the ceiling tiles, anything but what the Steubenville football players did to her — then strips to her underwear, nearing tears as she looks for answers.

The Big Ten Theatre Consortium’s New Play Initiative, which will commission a female playwright each year for the next 10 years to write plays that universities across the nation will then perform, debuted Iizuka’s production in 2014 at the University of Michigan as part of a seven-stop tour.

Showing at the Henry Heymann Theater, Pitt Stages, the flagship production company for Pitt’s department of theatre arts, debuted

“Good Kids” in Pittsburgh Wednesday night, which will run through Nov. 22.

Iizuka unveiled “Good Kids” to combat the culture of sexual violence on campuses.

The production purposefully avoids the use of age and last names, making it as relatable to its student audience as possible. The play also emphasizes the facilitating role social media and alcohol play in sexual assault — mirrors inscribed with Twitter hashtags hang in the stage’s background, and characters constantly hold either a phone or a red solo cup, or both, in their hands. During Chloe’s rape scene, her assaulters shout hashtags signifying the harm our cultural obsession with social media can have on sexual ass au lt victims.

A c cording to freshman psychology major and audience member, Emily Dentinger, other campuses might not produce shows such as “Good Kids.”

“I don’t think that a lot of universities would be comfortable with this kind of a show being put on,” she said. “So I think it’s really great that we’re a part of a community that allows the conversation to be had.”

In addition to students and curious minds, representatives from the University Counseling Center will attend each performance for those who need support during the show.

Pitt junior theatre major Jiane Amoroso,

Sexual assault is an extreme topic, and it’s happening. It needs to be brought to light.

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who plays Madison, a popular soccer player and Chloe’s classmate, sees the play as a creative platform to start a dialogue about sexual assault across the nation.

“Sexual assault is an extreme topic, and it’s happening. It needs to be brought to light,” Amoroso said. “Hopefully the production will provoke a sense of urgency or action that if they encounter something like this, it needs to be talked about.”

In addition to its 11 shows, Pitt’s “Good Kids” also boasts a website with national sexual assault statistics from nonprofit organization Rape Response Services, as well as a message Chancellor Patrick Gallagher issued earlier this year on campus sexual violence, among other media coverage of the Steuben-

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ville case.

Director Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, who has worked with the Pitt department of theatre arts for five years, said the play empowers students to “connect and to take responsibility for the things that happen on our campuses.”

“It challenges us to look more closely at ourselves and confront violence and how society allows for violence, as well as our complicity or lack of resistance to change it,” she said.

Those involved with the production hope to speak to Gallagher’s call to end sexual assault on Pitt’s campus, and Jackson-Schebetta hopes that “Good Kids” ignites that movement.

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THE SPY WHO LOST ME: ‘SPECTRE’ DISAPPOINTS

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Starring: Daniel Craig, Christopher Waltz, Léa Seydoux Directed by: Sam Mendes As Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig returned after the dizzying Bond bliss of “Skyfall,” fans were likely expecting a marginally better film than “Spectre.”

Craig, the durable center of the Bond canon since 2006, has left his mark on the franchise by applying his chiseled face to the character’s 21st-century incarnate. He has headed the most artistic and emotional films of the franchise — the all too necessary real-world reboot “Casino Royale” and the visually sumptuous “Skyfall.” However, the 24th entry in the longest running film franchise in history fails to honor the

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gravitas that Craig brings to the robotic, immortal role.

“Spectre” has everything needed to join the ranks of the aforementioned Bond classics, but the script severely undermines it with its numerous jarring intentions.

At 148 minutes, the $245 million “Spectre” is the longest and most expensive Bond film to date, but it is also an intrinsically conflicted film. Snagged between being the business-as-usual Bond and a narrative culmination of the entire Craig series, “Spectre” has issues larger than its insufferable theme song “Writing’s on the Wall.” Sam Smith does nothing but lend a phoned-in performance to soundtrack the film’s creepy, octopus-filled opening credits segment.

But whereas the superior “Skyfall” forged a new path for the franchise, “Spectre” is stuck in the past. The late M (Judi Dench, in the briefest of cameos), in the event of her death, gives Bond orders via prerecorded video to kill Marco Sciarra (Alessandro Cremona), an anonymous target linked to the titular corporation, and attend his funeral. This assassination is

the basis of the film’s exhilarating opening sequence — beginning with an ambitious tracking shot through a Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico City and completed with some typically awe-inspiring stunts.

Once Bond seduces Sciarra’s wife Lucia (Monica Bellucci) for information about her late husband’s career, he infiltrates a meeting of the ominous crime organization Spectre, headed by Franz Oberhauser (an underused Christoph Waltz).

Bond then traces a lead back to Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), a minor vil-

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Good Kids, pg. 6 Iizuka’s intention was to write a play relevant to college students. According to the National Institute of Justice, an estimated 35 incidents of rape happen each academic year for every 1,000 women attending a college or university.

The Association of American Universities also found that 21 percent of undergraduate females and 6 percent of undergraduate males reported being victims of sexual assault on

campus this calendar year.

Senior marketing major Claire Sabatine, who plays Brianna, another of Chloe’s peers, said victims of sexual assault will relate to “Good Kids,” but hopes it reaches non-victims as well.

“The production is based off of the Steubenville case, but our story takes place in Anywhere, USA,” Sabatine said. “Sexual assault may not be happening to you personally, but it’s out there, and it needs to stop. We can’t compare our numbers to other campus’ numbers — we need to eliminate them altogether.”

Bond, pg. 7 lain from Craig’s first pair of films, whose daughter, Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), can help Bond locate the hub of Spectre’s main facility.

Mendes’ elegant portrayal of the contemporary action film, paired with the dazzling camerawork of Hoyte van Hoytema (“Interstellar,” “Her”) — echoing the moody clarity of Roger Deakin’s work in “Skyfall” — makes “Spectre” an impeccable visual conception.

A middle act sequence in Austria is one of the film’s scenic highlights.

The cinematography carries “Spectre” through what may be too little action for some, considering its generous runtime. But when the action hits, it’s brutal and grandiose — if also startlingly campy at times.

Take the Mexico sequence, in which Bond is saved from a long fall in a crumbling building by plopping comically on a couch, interrupting the otherwise epic action of the scene.

Similarly, in a hard-hitting fight with henchman Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista) — a possible throwback to the monstrous character Jaws of the Moore era — Bond vanquishes his foe in near-slapstick fashion.

Some humor really works, like Bond interrogating a rat at gunpoint after a few drinks in a seedy hotel in Morocco, “Who are you working for?” — but these goofier moments hinder the credibility of a film that wants us to take it seriously.

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Q&A DUKING IT OUT Dan Sostek Sports Editor

The Pitt football team is heading down to Durham, where they will face a Duke team fresh off of a 66-31 drubbing to their rival North Carolina Tar Heels..

With the Panthers taking the Blue Devils on Saturday at noon, The Pitt News reached out to Duke Chronicle sports editor Ryan Hoerger to provide some context regarding this year’s Duke game. Hoerger discussed the Blue Devils’ quarterback Thomas Sirk, the team’s strong defense and how Duke has replaced the production of former star wideout Jamison Crowder.

TPN: Regardless of the controversial ending against Miami, Duke hasn’t looked nearly as impressive as it did early on in the season.

What have been some contributing factors to these struggles?

DC: A big part of it has to do with the way Duke’s schedule played out. The Blue Devils

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loaded up on early, very winnable non-conference games, and as a result, they looked great against the likes of Tulane and Army — who have a combined record of 4-14 — and FCS foe N.C. Central. Now that Duke is in the thick of ACC play, Thomas Sirk and company are encountering defenses with a little more resistance, and the defensive unit has to deal with elite speed. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, that was on full display Saturday against North Carolina as the Tar Heels churned out big play after big play to get to the ugly 66-31 final.

TPN: Did people around Duke expect Thomas Sirk’s transition from situational quarterback to full-time starter to go this smoothly? Are there still any areas he needs improvement on?

DC: I’m not sure everyone here in Durham would call the transition for Sirk smooth.

He’s had some great moments — his play throughout the four overtime game at Virginia and those two late-fourth quarter drives

against Miami come to mind — but there have also been growing pains. A popular complaint among all the offensive coordinators in the stands is that Sirk rushes through his progressions too quickly and finds his checkdown receiver without taking a good look farther downfield. The numbers bear this out — Duke runs a lot of short pass plays to free up receivers and running backs in space, but Sirk has seemed to be dialing up more shots downfield of late. As a running quarterback, he’s a true weapon, churning out both long, explosive runs and short-yardage chunks through contact to lead Duke in rushing.

TPN: Up until Saturday’s game against UNC, Duke’s defense has been formidable, with Jeremy Cash leading the way. Was the unit’s success this season expected, or have they overachieved? What have they been doing well?

DC: Duke’s secondary was expected to be the strength of the entire team because

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of its returning experience. The Blue Devils brought back all five defensive backs from last year’s squad, and Jeremy Cash and DeVon Edwards have flown all over the field to help compensate for the torn ACL suffered by cornerback Bryon Fields before the season.

Up front, Duke faced several question marks after the loss of many of its linemen, but the unit, though undersized, has performed well up until last Saturday. The Blue Devils entered Chapel Hill as a top-10 defense nationally, thanks in large part to their ability to stop the run. Cash and Edwards play a big role in that — Cash especially will play up near the line of scrimmage to either blitz or bring down runners in the backfield.

TPN: How has Duke filled the shoes of Jamison Crowder? Has it been more of a committee approach in terms of replacing his production?

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PITT READY TO DANCE WITH THE BLUE DEVILS Jeremy Tepper

Senior Staff Writer Artie Rowell has to admit it; losing two straight games elicits some dejection “You try not to get down, but when you invest a lot into something — your time, your energy — it’s hard not to take it rough,” Rowell said.

Rowell and his teammates can’t mope too long, though, as an important conference game looms. Pitt (6-3, 4-1 ACC) will have an opportunity to get back on track this week when it travels to Durham, North Carolina, to face Duke (6-3, 3-2 ACC) at noon Saturday.

Head coach Pat Narduzzi recognizes that his team must up its play this week from its past two losses.

“Our kids have to play a lot better than we played last week to go on the road and beat Duke,” Narduzzi said.

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To that end, Rowell said his team won’t suffer from its setbacks. For its loss last week against Notre Dame, Rowell called it a “pride game,” explaining that it doesn’t have any bearing in the team’s hunt for the ACC title. And, still, through that loss and the North Carolina loss the previous week, Rowell said the team grew.

“Any loss is only detrimental if you don’t learn from that experience,” Rowell said.

In Duke, Pitt is playing an opponent that is also trying to snap a losing streak, having lost to Miami and North Carolina consecutively.

A top 10-ranked defense at the start of the year, the Blue Devils’ unit has been on a skid lately, surrendering 139 points the past three weeks. The defense now ranks 30th in yards allowed per game.

Leading that defense is safety Jeremy Cash and linebacker Dwayne Norman, who are tied

for 41st in the country with 79 tackles each.

Cash, in particular, has stood out accumulating 16.5 tackles for loss and is a semifinalist for the Chuck Bednarik award, which recognizes the nation’s top defensive player.

Pitt will try to stand ground with an offense that has yet to find its stride this year.

Showing flashes in various games, the offense still has yet to consistently finish drives.

“It’s been the same story the past two games,” Rowell said. “We drive the ball, we hold the ball and we’re winning that time of possession in the first half, but then we’re not scoring points. That has to change.”

Pitt hopes the recent addition of safety Jordan Whitehead to the offense will help spark the unit. Functioning in a few packages as a running back against Notre Dame,

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Whitehead ran for two touchdowns. The freshman’s efforts impressed running backs coach Andre Powell.

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2 & 3 bedroom houses, Lawn & Ophelia. Available Now. Please call 412287-5712.

2 nice 3-bedroom houses. Good location. Rent $400/room. Available August 1st, 2016. 412-881-0550 or 724-757-3367.

4 BR townhouse, Semple St., available May 1st & August 1st, 2016. Equipped kitchen, full basement. 412-343-4289.

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2-3-4-5-6-7 bedroom apartments and houses available in May and August 2016. Nice, clean, free laundry, includes exterior maintenance, new appliances, spacious, located on Meyran, Semple, Wellsford, Dawson, Juliet. 412-414-9629.

Brand new, completely renovated 5 BR, 2 full bath house.

All appliances including washer and dryer are brand new and included. Too many features to list. Close to Magee Women’s Hospital. On Pitt shuttle and PAT bus lines. 10 minute walk to Univ. of Pittsburgh. $2500/mo.

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2,5,6 bedroom houses in South Oakland. Available for rent August 2016.

Very clean with different amenities (dishwasher, laundry, AC, washer and dryer, 1-3 baths, newer appliances & sofas). Contact Ken at 412-287-4438.

Renovated Large Three Bedroom Townhome for Rent.

Available January 2016. The kitchen features frost free refrigerator with automatic ice maker, fullsize range, self-cleaning oven, dishwasher, garbage disposal and microwave. The bath has been completely updated. All floor coverings and window treatments are brand new. Your own washer and dryer are included. On University of Pittsburgh shuttle and PAT bus lines. Two blocks to Magee Women’s Hospital. $1,275/mo, contact 724-422-2250.

6, 7, or 8-bedroom house. Washer & dryer available. NO PETS. Available August 1, 2016. One year lease. Meyran Ave. 5 minute walk to University of Pittsburgh. 412-983-5222.

Accepting applications for newly constructed large home in S. Oakland. Available August 2016.

Excellent location to university, 2 blocks off Forbes. For further information call: 412-720-5023

3 & 5 bedroom. May 2016. Sarah St. Large bedroom, new kitchen, air conditioning, washer & dryer, dishwasher, large deck. 412-287-5712.

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SEASONAL MARKETING ASSISTANT Shadyside property management firm established in 1960 neeeds two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Word, internet, & spreadsheet files from approximately December 15th to July 15th, four days/week from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Saturday and/or Sunday hours a must; some flexibility on days and hours will be considered; most hours will be solitary on the computer with no phone work; 40 WPM and strong computer skills required; no experience needed & we will train you at our Shadyside office; free parking. $12/hour plus generous season end bonus.

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SMOKERS NEEDED! Researchers at UPMC are looking to enroll healthy adult cigarette smokers ages 18-65. This research is examining the influence of brief uses of FDA-approved nicotine patch or nicotine nasal spray on mood and behavior. The study involves a brief physical exam and five sessions lasting two hours each. Eligible participants who complete all sessions will receive up to $250, or $20 per hour. This is NOT a treatment study. For more information, call 412-2465396 or visit www.SmokingStudies.pitt.edu

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