11-12-2018

The Pitt News

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WEEKEND SPORTS:

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, VOLLEYBALL WIN BIG

‘POLISHFEST’ PERFORMERS DANCE THE DAY AWAY

Griffin Floyd Staff Writer

Pitt sports had an impressive weekend collectively, as all six teams playing were victorious in one way or another. On the cross country team, junior Sam Shields punched her ticket to nationals with All-Region honors, while the women’s basketball and volleyball teams dominated their opponents.

Women’s basketball The women’s basketball team bounced back from its season-opening loss to UCF, crushing New Orleans 90-38 Friday evening at the Petersen Events Center.

In a contest that was 50-18 by halftime, depth production was the name of the game as 47 of Pitt’s 90 points came from the bench. The Panthers also forced 29 turnovers and scored 46 points off those turnovers, leading to a blowout victory.

Senior guard Cassidy Walsh led all Pitt scorers with 21 points in 23 minutes, while junior Alayna Gribble chipped in 17. The team combined to shoot an outstanding 43 percent from 3-point range, making 12 of 28 shots.

The Panthers are now 1-1 on the season, with a chance to improve next week as the homestand continues against the Youngstown State Penguins and Cincinnati Bearcats on Nov. 13 and 16, respectively.

Volleyball No. 10 Pitt volleyball avenged its only previous loss of the season against Duke on senior day, sweeping the Blue Devils in front of a record crowd at the Fitzgerald Field House Sunday afternoon.

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Holy Family Catholic Church Lajkoniki dancers perform traditional Polish dances at Sunday’s “Polishfest” in the Cathedral of Learning. Sarah Cutshall | staff photographer

Leon Ford announces run for City Council Kieran McLean

during his campaign kick-off at East Liberty’s Repair the World working space. “We are in this Staff Writer together.”

There are challenges brewing in Pittsburgh’s Pittsburgh’s 9th District includes the neighpolitical establishment. borhoods of East Liberty, Homewood, FriendInsurgent progressive state House candidates ship, Garfield, Larimer, North Point Breeze and Summer Lee and Sara Innamorato unseated a Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, which Burgess has southwest Pennsylvania political dynasty in last represented since 2008. But between Repair the week’s midterm elections. Pittsburgh District World’s nude brick walls and windows sporting Justice Mik Pappas won his race as an Indepenmotivational posters, Ford made the case that his dent last year against a two-decade Democratic personal history of being disabled by a Pittsburgh incumbent, after promising to abolish cash bail police shooting positions him best to be on City and delay evictions for constituents who couldn’t Council. make rent.

“Six years ago, I was walking. And I was on a And now, community activist Leon Ford is completely different path,” Ford said. challenging 10-year 9th District incumbent the On the night of Nov. 11, 2012, Ford was Rev. Ricky Burgess for his City Council seat. pulled over by two officers who mistook him for “We are here as part of a movement,” Ford a suspect with a similar name, according to Citysaid to a crowd of supporters from his wheelchair

Lab. He was 19 at the time and complied with the officers’ request for his license, insurance and registration. But after Pittsburgh detective David Derbish jumped in Ford’s car and the two started to struggle, Derbish shot Ford in the spine.

Ford later woke up in the hospital to find that he’d been arraigned on charges of aggravated assault against a police officer. It took months for him to recover from his wounds, often handcuffed to his bed with no guarantee he would survive.

“My friends and family weren’t allowed in to see me ... and I found out I could be facing 20 years in prison,” Ford said.

Ford was found not guilty of aggravated assault, and later filed his own suit in 2013 on claims of excessive force by the officers. He won, and the See Leon Ford on page 3

News

Clean air policies go up in smoke Erica Guthrie Staff Writer

Pittsburgh was named the second most livable city in the United States a few months ago in The Global Liveability Index, an annual report

by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

But take healthcare, education, entertainment and other factors out of the equation and look solely at air quality, and the City’s ranking drops drastically.

Pittsburgh is ranked the eighth worst city in the country for particle pollution by the American Lung Association and received straightF grades for particle pollution and ozone. And according to local clean air groups such as Pittsburgh’s Breathe Project and Clean Air Council, Shell Oil Company’s upcoming ethylene cracker plant — projected to open in the early 2020s in Potter Township, 30 miles away from the City — may drop those rankings further, increasing air pollution and endangering the health of Pittsburgh residents.

Pittsburgh isn’t a newcomer to low rankings in air quality. The days of steel mining may have come and gone, but the City of Steel still has a difficult relationship with air quality due to its location and the high density of manufacturing plants.

For residents of Pittsburgh and surrounding areas, bad air quality translates to a higher risk for a wide variety of health conditions, ranging from asthma to childhood cancer to diabetes.

Dr. Matthew Mehalik is the executive director of Breathe Project, a Pittsburgh-based group that aims to

make accurate air quality information easily accessible to the public.

He said part of the challenge that the City faces with cleaning up its air is that nearly 60 percent of the air pollution comes from industrial plants.

“Our airshed is unique compared to other cities around the country that struggle with bad air quality.

Places like Los Angeles, and so on, they mainly have mobile sources like cars and trucks,” Mehalik said.

“Pittsburgh is different. Our air pollution is mostly industrial sources.”

According to the Pittsburgh PostGazette, more than half of the pollution in Pittsburgh is “remote,” meaning it comes from other areas in a 500-mile radius. Dr. Aurora Sharrard, director of the University’s Office of Sustainability, said the geography of the City makes it extremely difficult to eliminate this air pollution.

“Pittsburgh suffers from inversion, which means essentially the topography and hills and mountains around us work against us in having better air quality,” Sharrard said.

The geography also makes it difficult to measure the quality of the air throughout the City, according to Chris Ahlers. Ahlers is a staff attorney at the Clean Air Council, an environmental organization that focuses on sustainability and public health in the mid-Atlantic.

“The mountains and valleys of the region can cause a concentration of air pollutants at a particular location,” Ahlers said, “Which can cause the data at air quality monitors to be unrepresentative of the air pollutants that people actually breathe.”

The City has seen slow-but-sure

progress since the steel mills became defunct in the early 1980s, but still fails to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards. The EPA’s air quality tracker notes that in more than two-thirds of the days in 2016, Pittsburgh’s air quality was deemed “not good” because of high presence of multiple pollutants.

Environmental experts like Mehalik worry the progress made so far will be stunted by the addition of three new ethylene cracker plants planned in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

“Our region is still out of attainment of national standard for air pollution, for particulate matter,” Mehalik said. “We’re still not meeting what’s legally required.”

Shell Oil Company announced in June 2016 that it would construct an ethylene cracker plant in western Pennsylvania. The site, which will be called Shell Polymers, is located 30 miles from Pittsburgh in Beaver County’s Potter Township. The plants will take ethane and heat it up until it “cracks,” or transforms into ethylene, a key component in the production of plastics. According to a press release from Shell, once it opens in the early 2020s, the Pennsylvania plant is expected to produce 1.6 million tons of polyethylene each year.

Shell’s emissions permit said they plan to emit 522 tons of volatile organic compounds each year. This would make the cracker plant the largest emitter of volatile organic compounds pollution in western Pennsylvania and the third-largest in the state. VOCs are released as gases during the production of certain liq-

uids and solids, and have many negative health impacts.

With this projected increase in pollution, the progress that Pittsburgh has made in eliminating VOC pollution would be erased, according to research done by Pitt environmental and occupational professor Jim Fabisiak. Shell did not respond to a request for comment.

Mehalik and his team took the data from the emissions amounts that Shell was approved for in their permit and used an EPA tool known as Cobra, or CO-Benefits Risk Assessment, to model the impact of the increased air pollution on health care costs for Allegheny County.

“What we were able to determine, to summarize the increased health care costs that come from more respiratory distress, more asthma, more emergency room visits and more cardiac events, that Allegheny County’s health care costs will go up somewhere between 15 and 32 million dollars a year,” Mehalik said.

“If you have this plant that operates for 30 years, then that’s going to be somewhere a billion dollars of added health care costs for Allegheny County.”

This is of particular concern to environmental groups like Breathe Project because Pittsburgh already continuously fails to meet the federal government’s standards for ozone, fine particulate matter and sulfur dioxide.

“We struggle with that. Our region is still out of attainment of national standard for air pollution, for particulate matter,” Mehalik said.

“We’re still not meeting what’s legally required.”

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Leon Ford, pg. 1 City awarded him $5.5 millon. But Ford said it was the moments after when he woke up in the hospital that pushed him into community work.

“I knew I was not alone. The grace of God was covering me,” Ford said.

Since then, he’s spoken in front of universities, and with celebrities and tech titans about police brutality. He’s released a book tilted “Untold” and was named Pittsburgh City Paper’s 2017 “Pittsburgher of the Year.” But during his campaign kick-off speech, he said that he hadn’t considered a career in politics until East Pittsburgh Police officer Michael Rosfeld shot and killed 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr. last summer.

“I had about four different offers on the table for jobs over $300,000,” Ford said. “But after Antwon got shot ... I was talking to the family and realized, ‘I’ve been there. That’s been me.’”

[Read: Community responds after high school student fatally shot by police] Ford led a June protest in Pittsburgh’s South Side to pressure the district attorney to indict Rosfeld after the shooting. He also helped organize other protests, and in doing so, established the base from which he would launch his candidacy.

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Community activist Leon Ford (right) speaks with supporters at his campaign kick-off at East Liberty’s Repair the World co-working space.

Bader Abdulmajeed | staff photographer Brandi Fisher, president of Pittsburgh’s Alliance for Police Accountability, worked with Ford during the protests. She’s currently working as an organizing manager for Ford’s campaign, and emphasized changes she’d like to see such as improving public education, protecting city water from privatization and facilitating meaningful employment for local teens who don’t go on to college.

“Ricky Burgess is an example of many politicians who lose touch with their community,” Fisher said. “We know change doesn’t happen overnight ... but we need change.”

Elaine Houston, 30, from East Liberty, is also volunteering for Ford’s campaign. She was formerly his neighbor and is also in a wheelchair, and said she wants Ford to draw attention to police violence against people with disabilities and

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make the district more accessible for them.

“Some of our storefronts are not accessible,” Houston said. “We want people to [engage in issues of accessibility] not just because it’s the legal thing … but to do it because it’s the right thing.”

But some speakers took a more cautionary tone. Former Philadelphia City Controller staffer Isaiah Thomas, who unsuccessfully ran for Philadelphia City Council in 2015, drove across the state to speak at Ford’s kick-off. He warned that a loss could hurt community morale.

“Y’all gotta win,” Thomas said. “If you don’t, people will become even more disillusioned than they already are.”

State Rep. Summer Lee also endorsed Ford, citing her own difficulties in running against the Pittsburgh political establishment to encourage audience members to donate time and money to Ford’s campaign.

“Sometimes, the attacks come from inside the community,” Lee said. “[Ford] will need every prayer, every thought, every dollar and every door to win.”

But Ford said he believes overcoming previous adversities has prepared him for the coming race.

“I’m here today as a testament that anything is possible,” Ford said. “We can make this happen.”

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Opinions

The president who cried Remember mental health ‘fake news’ of shooting victims

from the editorial board

It’s been only 16 days since the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and already the eyes of the nation are turned to the latest tragic shooting — the largest one in 16 days.

A U.S. Marines veteran armed with a legally obtained pistol allegedly entered the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, on Wednesday and fatally shot 12 people, not including himself. Among the victims was Tel Orfanos, who survived the 2017 shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas in which 58 people were killed and 489 wounded.

Pittsburgh is still feeling the damage a mass shooting can have on a community.

We’re tired of reading about it. We’re tired of writing about it. And we’re acutely aware, after having lived through it and after one person was a part of two of these events in the span of a year, that mass shootings have become a cultural problem that must be fixed.

There has been many conversations about the role of mental health in shootings. Mental health has not been a major topic of conversation following the Tree of Life shooting, but it seems the alleged shooter in California may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from his five years with the Marines.

In a Facebook update posted around the time of the shooting, the alleged shooter wrote, “I hope people call me insane… [laughing emojis]... wouldn’t that just be a big ball of irony? Yeah… I’m insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is ‘hopes and prayers’.. or ‘keep you in my thoughts’... every time… and wonder why these keep happening.”

He shows an awareness of how people react to shootings that must stem from the

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fact they are cultural phenomena. He demonstrates a chilling disdain for the consequences of his actions and a flippancy toward mental disorders that underline the need for better mental health services for those who may suffer from PTSD. Following a reported disturbance in the alleged shooter’s home in April, mental health specialists talked to him about the possibility of his having PTSD, but ultimately decided that he wasn’t a threat to himself or others and that he didn’t qualify to be detained by state law for evaluation and treatment.

And while we must discuss how mental health services can prevent future violence, this particular event brings to light the fact that we need adequate resources for survivors of mass shootings too. One of these ordeals is hard enough to process and deal with — but they’ve become commonplace to the point that more than one person at the bar in California has been through two of them.

According to the National Center for PTSD, about 28 percent of people who experience a mass shooting develop PTSD. Approximately a third of those people develop acute stress disorder, which can occur after traumatic events. The cruel irony is shooters who suffer from PTSD only add more trauma and stress into the world — and there needs to be adequate resources to deal with that.

California, Pittsburgh and the survivors of each shooting are just beginning their healing processes. But for those who survived both the shooting in Las Vegas and the shooting in California, this is the beginning of a lifelong process of healing and recovering from the trauma of living through two massacres just 402 days apart.

President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House.

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Kelly Loftus

Staff Columnist President Donald Trump declared earlier this month that U.S. military personnel at the border should consider migrants throwing rocks equivalent to them wielding rifles. Trump may think sticks and stones should be met with gunfire, but it seems he’s still trying to figure out what to do about words.

For now, his administration is suspending press passes and releasing fraudulent videos. Following a heated press conference on Nov. 7, Trump stripped CNN Reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass, after Acosta refused to hand the microphone to an aide in the midst of a series of hard-hitting questions from Acosta.

Trump’s tumultuous relationship with the media has quickly become a defining characteristic of his presidency. But this war against the media not only signifies a lack of respect for both the Constitution and American history, it represents a threat to one of democracy’s most basic fundamentals

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rights — freedom of the press.

The president has taken to calling the media “the enemy of the people,” and repeated the phrase to Jim Acosta after accusing CNN of reporting fake news — a phrase closely associated with Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Russia, which at the time was levied against anyone threatening the governments.

British journalist and author Sasha Abramsky theorizes Trump’s political success are attributable to widespread feelings of vulnerability among many members of the American public.

Abramsky cites Trump’s racial aggression as a blatant indicator of his fearmongering tactics, which he describes as “the darkest, darkest form of demagoguery.”

Likewise, political scientist Brian Klass — whose areas of expertise include democracy, authoritarianism, U.S. foreign policy and American politics — says Trump is replicating the same kind of behavior often found in authoritarian states. When addressing See Loftus on page 5

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Loftus, pg. 4 Trump’s relationship with the media, Klaas compares Trump to Turkey’s dubiously democratic Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently made international headlines for imprisoning critics. “[Erdogan] has abused the press, has tried to shut down outlets,” Klaas said, “which Trump has done repeatedly in threatening to revoke licenses or attacking them or calling them out publicly to be boycotted.”

Acosta’s press pass was suspended because he disagreed with Trump and refused to back down. Not because Acosta behaved inappropriately toward an intern — which he didn’t — and not because he’s a “rude, terrible person.”

Acosta was aggressive in his questioning because it is notoriously difficult to receive a concise, relevant statement from the president. Reporters must adapt the manner in which they approach an interview on an individual basis. After Trump refused to elaborate on why he considers an incoming group of migrants “an invasion,” Acosta alternatively asked about the Robert Mueller investigation in the hopes that Trump could be more enlightening.

After the incident, Trump suggested that Acosta might not be alone in being denied access to the White House, his reason being that the White House and the presidency must both be treated with respect. And by respect, Trump means the two basic principles of every just democracy — blind loyalty and unquestioning support.

Yes, the media should be respectful, but asking tough questions can hardly be considered disrespectful. Members of the press are forced to endure constant verbal abuse from Trump because unsurprisingly, Trump’s version of respect doesn’t entail reciprocity.

When speaking of Urban Radio Networks’ April D. Ryan at a recent press conference — for which Ryan wasn’t even present — Trump said, “You talk about somebody that’s a loser; she doesn’t know what the hell

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she’s doing.”

Later Trump lost his temper with another journalist from CNN. When Abby Phillip asked how newly appointed Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker planned to handle the Mueller investigation, Trump responded, “What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot — you ask a lot of stupid questions.”

As for Jim Acosta, it is unclear if his press pass will be restored. President of the White House Correspondents’ Association Olivier Knox said the organization supports Acosta and is lobbying on his behalf. “One of the things that I’ve learned from many colleagues nationally and internationally is, essentially, if they can do this today to Jim, they can do it tomorrow to someone else,” Knox said.

President Trump’s disregard for the democratic right to freedom of the press should not, and cannot, be taken lightly. Reporters shouldn’t have to worry about being suspended for doing their job. Trump’s constant accusations that major networks are publishing “fake news” are purely self-serving, not to mention widely unfounded. By exacerbating needless paranoia, Trump makes extremist values seem warranted and creates a warped sense of righteousness among his followers, both of which allow him to manipulate fundamentals of democracy — such as free press — to assert his own power-hungry agenda.

If Trump were more familiar with American history, he might try to emulate the precedents set by Presidents John Adams and Woodrow Wilson in drafting some kind of Sedition Act to regulate the press — and violate the Constitution. Hopefully no one reads a textbook aloud to him any time soon.

The greatest present danger to the American way of life isn’t approaching the border in a caravan — it’s in the White House and it’s not leaving any time soon. Acosta might be the first, but he most certainly won’t be the last. It’s time the public stops throwing rocks at Trump and starts using its Constitutional right that is currently at stake — speech. Because if we don’t act now, it might soon be too late.

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Sports

Unproven Panthers show drastic improvment Andrew Kelly Staff Writer

The Pitt men’s basketball team is off to a hot start in 2018, beating each of its first two opponents — Youngstown State and Virginia Military Institute — by a combined score of 163-108.

You might point out the fact YSU and VMI are far from top competition. You are correct, as both play in far less competitive conferences, albeit in the same Division I level. But it’s a notable accomplishment when you compare this Pitt team to where last year’s team was at this point. The 2017 Panthers started out 0-2, losing to the similarly low-level squads of Navy and Montana.

And it’s not just encouraging that the Panthers are winning, but rather how they are winning. With new head coach Jeff Capel at the helm, Pitt is playing a fast and aggressive brand of basketball, forcing turnovers and scoring points in transition. Even when the Panthers are slowed down and forced to play in the half court, the offense is filled with motion and energy that goes a long way toward getting the team good looks at the hoop.

Along with coach Capel, there are plenty of new faces on the men’s roster. First-year guard Xavier Johnson is the standout so far, emerging as the team’s focal point. He provides the Panthers with an element they dearly lacked last season — quickness.

They say speed kills, and Johnson embodies that mantra. Because of his relentless on-ball pressure and ability to explode to the hoop on offense, Johnson leads the team in several categories, including points (30), steals (4) and assists (16) — no other player has more than five assists.

Fellow first-year players Trey McGowens and Au-Diese Toney have shown early returns for Capel’s recruitment as well.

Although McGowens has struggled with ball control, leading the team with nine turnovers, he’s shown glimpses of what made him a highly touted four-star recruit. He led the Panthers with 17 points against YSU, and has already provided several highlight-reel dunks throughout the young season.

And Toney — another four-star recruit — has quietly carved out a meaningful niche on the team. Recruited as a guard, the 6-foot-6 Toney has instead played more of a forward role for the undersized Panthers. He leads the team with 17 rebounds and is the second-leading scorer after Johnson, with 26 points through the first two games.

Among the most crucial returning players for Pitt is senior forward Jared Wilson-Frame. He was thrust into a leading role last season after senior leader Ryan Luther went down with an injury, and although he finished as the team’s leading scorer with 13 points per game, it wasn’t pretty to watch. Like the rest of the team, many of Wilson-Frame’s shots came from contested

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First-year guard Xavier Johnson (1) currently leads as Pitt basketball’s most offensively productive player. Kaycee Orwig | staff photographer heaves near the end of the shot clock, leading to an inefficient 37.5 field goal percentage.

Wilson-Frame’s production so far shows the difference between last year’s team and this year’s. He tied for the team lead with 14 points in an exhibition against Pitt-Johnstown, but was forced to sit out the season opener due to internal undisclosed disciplinary actions. Wilson-Frame picked up right where he left off against VMI, leading the team with 20 points off the bench thanks to a hyper-efficient five of nine shooting performance from three-point range. Although the sample size is small, Wilson-Frame is poised to provide the Panthers with a legitimate sharpshooting threat, and he will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the new movement-oriented offense.

Through two games last season the Panthers shot under

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30 percent from deep. This season is another story, the team is shooting over 40 percent from deep, despite a very tough time hitting shots in the opener.

As a team, the Panthers shot 32.6 percent from three through their first two games in 2017. This season, Pitt is shooting far better from long distance — 41.7 percent from three. This increase in efficiency comes partly from an increase in talent, but it comes more from Pitt having an offensive system which prioritizes penetration and ball movement, making the extra pass to find the open man for a good look at the basket.

Pitt’s defense is also much improved, with the team making a visible effort to apply heavy ball pressure. The Panthers have only forced two more turnovers at this point than last season — 33 compared to 31 — but the way they’ve taken advantage of those turnovers differs drastically. Pitt has scored a whopping 51 of its 163 points — or 31.3 percent — off turnovers so far.

Through two games last year, Pitt scored 23 of its 140 points — just 16.4 percent — off turnovers.

The Panthers will face an increase in competition starting Monday, when they take on a Troy team with talent far exceeding that of Youngstown State and VMI. While it’s certainly still a game Pitt should win, it will be a better test for the young team than they’ve faced so far this season.

Of course, another issue that potentially looms for the Panthers is their tendency to play small, typically starting four guards and a center. This type of lineup has been effective so far because Pitt has simply been more athletic than its opponents.

But eventually the Panthers will play teams equal and superior in talent and height, and it remains to be seen how much a lack of size will hurt the team down the stretch.

So despite the Panthers’ early-season success, fans shouldn’t get ahead of themselves with massive expectations. Pitt plays in the ACC after all, typically considered the best conference in college basketball. With teams like Virginia, North Carolina and Clemson all looking to have strong seasons — and Duke being the best team in the country — the in-conference schedule will certainly be an uphill battle for the Panthers. Luckily, that part of the schedule is still quite a ways away, and this young team will have time to grow and progress before facing such strong competition.

Pitt takes on Troy at home Monday night in what will easily be its toughest test of the young season. The Trojans are coming off a close loss to St. Louis, a perennial NCAA Tournament team, in which they blew a late lead. The Panthers will use this game as a litmus test for their apparently revitalized program — and as a springboard to keep proving doubters wrong as they enter the tougher portion of the schedule.

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Weekend, pg. 1 The first set was the toughest for the Panthers, with 15 ties and 10 lead changes. But Pitt prevailed in the end — winning 25-20 — and never looked back, winning the final two sets with ease by matching scores of 25-17 for the 3-0 sweep.

Sophomore Kayla Lund was the Panthers’ primary producer on offense, recording a matchhigh 13 kills. Junior Nika Markovic also starred all around with 11 kills and a team-leading eight digs in Pitt’s final home match of the season.

The Panthers now hold a 26-1 overall record, 14-1 in the ACC, as they head south for their final road trip of the season. They’ll face Florida State Friday, Miami Sunday and Georgia Tech the following Wednesday, concluding the regular season.

Cross country The men’s and women’s cross country teams traveled to Penn State over the weekend to compete at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional meet.

Shields led all Pitt runners by finishing 10th in the women’s 6K with a time of 21:29.

Shields’ performance — which earned her All-Region honors — led the women’s team to a ninth-place overall finish out of 30 teams. The men’s team also finished ninth in the 10K out of

Senior guard Cassidy Walsh (04) led the offense by scoring 21 points during Pitt’s 90-38 victory over UCF. Kaycee Orwig | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER 24 teams, marking their best finish since 2006.

Sophomore Zach Lefever led the way with a time of 32:15, good for 37th place. First-year Tyler Rollins and junior Nick Wolk weren’t far behind, finishing 44th and 45th, respectively.

With her finish, Shields became just the third Panther ever to earn a spot at the NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championship. No other Pitt runner qualified for the meet, which will take place Saturday, Nov. 17, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Swimming and diving Juniors Samy Helmbacher and Valerie Daigneault represented the Pitt swim team this weekend at the inaugural ACC/Big Ten Challenge at Purdue over the weekend. Helmbacher headlined the event by winning the men’s 400yard IM in 3:44.43 — the best time in the nation for that event this season.

Helmbacher stood out in a contest that featured top competition from each conference, but his contributions for the ACC team weren’t

enough as the Big Ten emerged victorious, 179174. Although she didn’t win any of her events, Daigneault continued her stellar production on the season by finishing sixth in the 200-yard IM with a personal-best time of 1:58.76. But the Big Ten women dominated even more, beating the ACC 251-102.

Up next, Pitt’s swimming and diving teams will compete as a whole again at the Ohio State Invitational, beginning Thursday and continuing through Saturday.

Wrestling The wrestling team started off its season with a resounding victory, taking nine of 10 matches and downing Cal State-Bakersfield 324. Several wrestlers made their blue and gold debuts, including junior Demetrius Thomas.

A transfer from Williams Baptist University, Thomas starred in his first regular-season action for the Panthers, downing fellow heavyweight Jacob Sieder 18-2 in a massive victory.

Senior LJ Bentley had another impressive debut for the Panthers — this time as a part of a new weight class, moving up from 125 to 141.

Bentley cleaned house as well, beating his opponent Carlos Herrera 12-1.

Pitt’s next match will be at home against the Northern Iowa Panthers this Saturday, in a battle of the big cats.

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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

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.

2 units for rent: First floor ‑ 2BD, 1BA, $1,200 everything in­cluded. 2nd and 3rd floor apt. 4BR, 1BA, $1,500 everything in­cluded. Please call 412‑353‑6623 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 2BR apt South Oak­ land. $1,095/mo + electric.

New kitchen, bal­cony, and A/C. Call 412‑661‑6622 3436 Ward. Spacious 2‑Bedroom, 1 bath, equipped kitchen, $1,195 + electric,

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.

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Deadline:

Two business days prior by 3pm | Email: advertising@pittnews.com | Phone: 412.648.7978

Close to universi‑ ties. Laundry and dish­washer. Large deck. $1,900/mo. plus utili­ties. Contact gbazz­i7@gmail.com M.J. Kelly Realty.

Studio, 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bedroom Apart­ments, Duplexes and Houses.

N. & S. Oakland from $750‑$2500. mjkellyrealty@gmail.­ com. 412‑271‑5550. www.mjkellyrealty.­ com Newly remodeled first floor apartment with 2/3 BR and laun­dry in apartment. $1500 + utilities.

412‑683‑0363 Newly remodeled sec­ond and third floor, 5 BR, 2 BA apartment with laundry room in­ side apartment. $3000 + utilities. Has a sky‑ light. 412‑683‑0363 North / South O Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry and Central Air Call 412‑38‑Lease

South Oakland Oakland house spa­ cious two and a half story, living room, dining room, eating equipped kitchen, 5 bedrooms two baths, front and rear porch, yard. $2,000 +utili­ties 412‑321‑6282 South Oakland

off‑campus housing.

2‑6 BR apartments/­ houses for rent.

Up­dated kitchens

and Bathrooms. A/C, laundry, and some

with parking. Avaial­ able August of 2019.

412‑445‑6117

Southside

Employment

tions. Oakland Ave ‑ 2

Employment Other

BD/1 BA, hard­wood

floors, free heat, avail‑

Houses for rent. steps to campus. starting at $1800+ utilities. Fully equipped kitchen.

Laundy Available in august 2019. call Brian 412‑916‑4777

able Au­gust 1, 2019.

Huge 5BR apartment in Panther Hollow.

August 1, 2019. Call

S. Bou­quet ‑ 2 BD/1

BA available May 1.

Ward St. ‑ studio, 1,

2, 3 BD. Free park­ing, free heat, avail­able 412‑361‑2695

November 12, 2018

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 THE CARLTON RESTAURANT Lo­cated in the One BNY Mellon Center, 500 Grant Street is accept­ing applications for Serving Assis‑ tants. We are seeking friendly, organized and reliable appli­cants to work in an upscale dining envi­ronment.

Please ap­ply in person Monday through Friday after 1:30

August 2019 avail­able 3 and 5 bedroom house. New kitchen, AC, 2 new bath­ rooms, washer and dryer, and dish­washer.

1508 Sarah St. Call 412‑287‑5712

Oakland ‑ various

South Oakland loca­

fun, outgoing people looking to gain sales experience.

Call Justin at 412‑521‑3530 if inter­ ested.

child care assitance needed, working with infants toddlers or preschool, flexible scheduling, $10/hour 412‑462‑4463 Part Time sales staff wanted. Littles Shoes is looking for

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