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Pitt: No set date on new certificate Lauren Wilson Staff Writer

Pitt Mastana performed at Phi Delta Epsilon’s Sing and Dance show benefiting Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

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Rules to change for student borrowing Mark Pesto

Senior Staff Writer In December, Pitt alumni with federal student loans will be able to make lower monthly payments.

The U.S. Department of Education an-

nounced on Oct. 27 two new sets of rules which will protect college students from unfair banking fees and keep graduates out of financial messes.

“These regulations will help make sure student loan debt is affordable for all borrowers

and bring overdue reforms to campus cards, a sector that too often puts taxpayer dollars and student consumers at risk,” Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement.

One set of regulations involves revisions to See Education on page 3

Ten months into her project to launch a new undergraduate certificate program, Student Government Board member Lia Petrose said it should be tentatively ready by 2017. The University said otherwise.

When Petrose was sworn into office in January, she began working to bring public health education to undergraduate students, something that is currently only available to graduate students through Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health.

Beginning in March, Petrose met with the Pitt administration, including the deans of the Graduate School of Public Health and the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, to discuss how to make and implement an undergraduate public health certificate.

At SGB’s public meeting Oct. 28, Petrose said Pitt could tentatively make the certificate available to students in the fall of 2017. Administrators in the two schools, however, have said there is no tentative start date.

Now, Petrose has clarified that she named fall 2017 as the start date for the certificate because that is when she hoped she would finish the project.

Petrose said she knew she and the schools had to find professors to teach the introductory courses, but still hoped they could finish things in two See Public Health on page 3

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GSWS library: flipping the pages of history

Alexa Bakalarski For The Pitt News

On the fourth floor of the Cathedral of Learning sits a little-known collection of books that offers a snapshot of LGBTQIA history from the 20th century to the present.

The Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies’ library is a small room to the left of room 402 in the GSWS program’s offices in the Cathedral.

The library holds about 1,000 books, journals and films that teach visitors about identity and social struggles that persist today.

The library developed alongside the GSWS program which began in the 1973-1974 academic year, and serves as a resource hub for students studying gender and sexuality. Previously, the program only offered a certificate in gender and women’s studies, until earlier this year when it began offering a GSWS major.

According to Irene Frieze, a professor at Pitt since 1972 who helped create the GSWS program, the library began forming unofficially while the program grew.

“The library was probably only a few shelves for the first decade,” Frieze said.

Senior Jessica Mermigos is getting a degree in Pitt’s new GSWS major, which the University unveiled this semester. She found the 1972 book “The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Lifeand-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi

Death Camps” by Heinz Heger in Pitt’s GSWS library tucked away on the fourth floor of the Cathedral.

Nazis arrested Heger in 1939 for his homosexuality, and placed him in a concentration camp where he remained until his liberation in 1945.“This book was the first I had ever come across that truly looked into the life of homosexuals in the concentration camps,” Mermigos said.

Karen Lillis, the GSWS program coordinator, said the library is important because it offers academic and anecdotal texts on society’s progress toward equality for all sexualities and genders.

“This room is a really special place to be because of the history, knowledge and passion of these books. It creates an intensity for me,” Lillis said. “This is a collection of items that chart where homosexuality has been in the late 20th century.”

Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR Students who want to visit the library have to ask a staff member to unlock the door. It stays closed so students don’t use the room to sit and study in.

According to Lillis, the library now receives less traffic after the program moved from Wesley W. Posvar Hall to the Cathedral.

“Maybe because [the library] was so visible in the main office then,” Lillis said.

The room that houses the library also serves as a meeting room for the GSWS and Cultural Studies departments. The University holds discussions with visiting guests in the room, such as a September discussion with Moroccan LGBTQIA writer Abdellah Taïa on his autobiographical novel, “An Arab Melancholia.”

The room is also home to the special topics See Library on page 4

Students, White House prep for Week of Action Elizabeth Lepro

Assistant News Editor One day after Pitt launched a sexual violence awareness month, the White House It’s On Us campaign unrolled plans for next week’s national Week of Action.

During a White House press call Nov. 5, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett spoke about nationwide plans involving the It’s On Us campaign and the Week

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of Action, which begins Nov. 8. Next week, Jarrett said colleges will host more than 240 events, including pledge drives and panels, at 92 schools in 35 states.

The White House and Generation Progress launched the It’s On Us campaign to combat sexual violence on college campuses in September 2014. Pitt was one of the first 200 universities and colleges to join the campaign. More than 250,000 people have signed the It’s On Us pledge.

“The campaign has become a rallying cry inviting everyone to step up and engage because the solutions begin with us,” Jarrett said.

The campaign’s partners — students, activists, college administrators and media companies — according to Jarrett, are “all committed to ending the horrifying fact that one in five women are sexually assaulted during their college years.”

Pitt’s Week of Action, which the Uni-

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versity announced Nov. 4, will include lectures, events and training sessions aimed at educating the campus community on sexual violence, relationship violence, sexual harassment and stalking.

Sharon George, a sophomore at Pitt, is on the National Student Advisory Committee for the It’s On Us campaign. She

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Cindy Bryce, associate dean for student affairs at Pitt’s Graduate Department of Public Health, said the department is discussing an undergraduate public health certificate, but nothing is definite.

“Pitt Public Health is excited to explore the possibility of offering an academic program for undergraduates interested in higher-level courses in the public health curricula,” she said. “At this point discussions are preliminary, no courses, timeline or structure have been established, and it is premature to comment further.”

One of the other deans Petrose said she has met with, N. John Cooper of the School of Arts and Sciences, said while he is open to the idea of the certificate, the school has not developed enough plans yet to set a date.

“Dean Cooper is very interested in this concept, and his office has invited the relevant deans to discuss how to best provide education in public health to undergraduates,” Pitt spokesperson John Fedele said in an email.

The third dean Petrose said she had met with

Eduction, pg. 1 the current Pay as You Earn student loan repayment plan, in which the amount the debtor pays each month is a percentage of his or her income.

The revision, which the Department of Education is calling the Revised Pay as You Earn Plan, will allow more Americans with loan debt to pay less each month. The REPAYE plan will be available beginning in December to anyone with federal student loans.

College graduates who enroll in the REPAYE plan to pay off their loans will have to pay 10 percent of their discretionary income every month.

If debtors have not paid their loans after 20 years, the government will forgive their debts, unless the person borrowed for graduate school or professional school. Those borrowers will have to pay their debts for 25 years.

Previously, the DOE restricted the PAYE plans to low income individuals. According to the DOE’s report, six million more Americans

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Edward Stricker, dean of Pitt’s Honor’s college, declined to comment.

On Wednesday, Petrose, too, issued a statement that said the date is not definite.

In SGB’s press release on Wednesday, Petrose said neither the School of Public Health nor the School of Arts and Sciences had confirmed the public health certificate and the introductory public health course, though she and the schools would continue to work on the project.

“We are still figuring out the details and working very hard to figure out the public health course,” Petrose said. “What we hope to create right now is the course. That’s what we see happening before any certificate is approved.”

Petrose said a public health certificate is important because it provides a vital set of skills for students and there is currently no public health certificate for undergraduates.

Though the schools would not comment further, Petrose said she is focusing her efforts on finding a financial model for the certificate and finding faculty to lead the courses.

“Right now nothing like this exists for undergraduates,” Petrose said. with federal loan debt will now have access to a PAYE repayment plan.

Student loan expert Mark Kantrowitz said although REPAYE extends relatively generous terms to more people, lower payments still mean the original PAYE plan is more forgiving.

“The [PAYE] plan has the lowest monthly payment and the best repayment terms,” Kantrowitz said in an email. “But, not everybody is eligible for it. All borrowers are eligible for the [Income-Based Repayment] and [REPAYE] plans.”

According to the DOE’s College Scorecard, 55 percent of Pitt students receive federal loans, resulting in a typical total debt of $26,897. Ninety percent of Pitt graduates with federal loan debt begin paying off that debt within three years of graduation, a significantly higher number than the national average of 67 percent.

Pitt spokesperson John Fedele said data showing how many Pitt graduates use the PAYE

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Library, pg. 2 course, Affect Studies, Gender and Sexuality, this semester.

The Mallory Crawford Sex and Sexualities collection, which offers insight into perspectives on sexuality during the late 20th century, joined the GSWS library in 2014. The 162 books that make up the Mallory Crawford collection includes topics such as pulp fiction, psychoanalytic perspectives on sexuality and how to solve sexual problems through self-hypnosis, among others.

Mallory Crawford, the namesake of the collection, studied Spanish and philosophy at Barnard College, but spent the majority of her career working as a counselor and psychotherapist in West Hartford, Connecticut.

“She felt she provided a special kind of therapy,” Eleanor Barrett, Crawford’s sister said. “[There was] no particular name for it. She just characterized it as unique and intense enough that she considered 15 hours a week full time for her.” Barrett said she doesn’t think Crawford continued working in therapy when she moved to Pittsburgh.

In Pittsburgh, Crawford founded Earth Mother Enterprises, a non-profit committed to

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education for natural parenting.

Crawford, who was also a member of Mensa International — an international society for people whose IQ is in the top two percent of the world’s population — died last March at the age of 72. She lived in Mount Washington.

“I could tell immediately she was a lifer,” said Julie Beaulieu, a visiting lecturer at the GSWS program, who curated the collection. Beaulieu defines a lifer as, “Someone always clearly committed to thinking about sexuality in progressive, radical ways.”

Though the Mallory Crawford collection consists mostly of books centered on counseling within the LGBTQIA community, there are also groundbreaking fiction and non-fiction LGBTQIA novels within the collection.

One of these novels, “The Lord Won’t Mind”

by Gordon Merrick, tells the story of two men who fell in love in the 1940s. In 1970, after the book’s publication, “The Lord Won’t Mind” stayed on the New York Times best seller list for 16 weeks.

The novel achieved long-lasting fame for being one of the first gay novels to not end in tragedy.

Merrick’s novel was not the only one to make a splash at the time of its publication. “Lesbian

Nuns: Breaking Silence,” a collection of 51 interviews edited by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan, became a landmark book after its publication in 1985. “Lesbian Nuns” focuses on the nuns trying to reconcile their sexuality with their religious devotion and vows.

The books, according to Lillis, exhibit not only the triumphs of the LGBTQIA community since the 20th century, but also the backlash the community has faced in the past.

“It would be really easy to forget all the wrinkles,” Lillis said.

For Beaulieu, the collection gives snapshots of perspectives on sexuality, proving that it is far from easy to attribute one viewpoint to a time period.

“When you go looking at these historical texts, it’s a mistake to say ‘U.S. culture thought this way then,’” she said.

The collection makes such a statement impossible because the books within the collection take different approaches to writing on sexuality, such as psychoanalysis, biblical perspectives and how myths shaped our understanding of sexuality.

“Someday, someone will look at what we say now on sexuality and say, ‘Wow, that’s weird,’” Beaulieu said.

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Education, pg. 3 plan to repay their loans was not readily available.

Kantrowitz said there are also pros and cons to the first set of regulations regarding the REPAYE plan.

For example, the monthly payment under REPAYE can increase without limit if the debtor earns enough income.

On the other hand, Kantrowitz said, the maximum monthly payment under REPAYE, which takes 10 percent of the debtor’s discretionary income, is lower than other plans like the Income Based Repayment Plan, which takes 15 percent.

According to Kantrowitz, REPAYE adds a level of convolution to the federal student loan bureaucracy.

“A key problem with [REPAYE] is the greater complexity of the repayment plan makes it harder for borrowers to calculate their monthly loan payments,” Kantrowitz said. “By introducing the [REPAYE] plan, instead of eliminating the eligibility restrictions on the [PAYE] plan, the U.S. Department of Education has made an already complicated set of repayment plans even more confusing.”

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Education, pg. 4 The second set of regulations opens up how students can receive their credit balances— the money left over when they have more federal student loans than they owe in tuition.

According to the DOE’s report, some colleges and financial institutions implied that students can only receive their credit balance in special purpose accounts, sometimes tied to collegelogo branded prepaid or debit cards.

After aid recipients opened accounts, some account providers “charged onerous, confusing, or unavoidable fees in order to access their student aid funds,” according to the DOE report.

The report said these practices “indicate that many institutions have shifted costs of administering [student loan] programs from institutions to students.”

The new rules will allow for students to receive their credit balances in their already existing bank accounts, and will also ban banks from charging student account holders overdraft charges or other fees on their college-branded cards and require them to provide access to surcharge-free ATMs.

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Because Pitt never used any of the tactics the report describes, Fedele said these new regulations won’t affect Pitt in any way.

David Pommerehn, vice president of the Consumer Bankers Association, a trade group based in Washington D.C., also said the new regulations are unnecessary.

“We feel that we’ve done a very fine job of providing thousands and thousands of students with accounts that are safe, cheap and effective for them to use,” Pommerehn said.

Pommerehn said the DOE did not define some of the phrases in the regulations, such as

“best interest of the student” and “reasonable access.” He said these terms’ vagueness could put banks at risk of lawsuits for failure to comply.

On the other hand, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a consumer group founded by Ralph Nader and based in Boston, issued a statement hailing the new regulations as a victory for student protections.

“Students are unfairly targeted by banks, and the Department of Education rule levels the playing field,” Christine Lindstrom, U.S. Public Interest Research Group’s higher education program director, said in the statement on its website.

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Casual Fridays Schoolhouse or bust On Thursday, broadcaster eNCA reported a South African high school student really went the distance for his grade.

When the bus driver didn’t show up to take the students to their final year mathematics exam, Le-An Adonis pulled out all the stops and pulled up the emergency break, commandeering the bus at the urging of his fellow classmates. Adonis ended up treating students to a drive-in admission when police stopped the bus a short distance from the school. Adonis had some fast and studious driving skills though, and the students still arrived on time for their exam.

Berning desires For the people who get really fired up

by Bernie Sanders’ campaign, a Vermont startup has created an underwear line featuring the presidential candidate’s image and slogan, “Feel the Bern.” The underdog may have climbed to the top of the polls, but now he’s back on bottom, and it can be your bottom for $15 plus shipping and handling. Looks like something can come between you and your Calvins — Bernie Sanders. The underwear come with Larry David’s instructions for authenticity, “Buy one pair, and wash them every day.”

Homeward bound A Texas pitbull’s California dream just came to an end. Police recently found Thor the dog wandering the streets of Crescent City, California, and dropped him off at the Del Norte County Animal Shelter. Apparently, he had gone out west after running from his San Marcos, Texas home during a May flood. Using microchip data, workers at the shelters discovered that Thor had traveled a full 2,000 miles to get to Califor-

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nia from Texas. After packing up his doggy bag, the pitbull hit the road with a driver who volunteered to drive Thor back to his family. His family’s in for quite a shock.

Thor has seen some ruff times as a traveling man’s best friend and will arrive home a changed dog.

No pick up On Tuesday, a Pittsburgh judge of elections decided to take a day off from work — on election day. Darrin Farmer of North Versailles, decided against coming into the precinct with the voting equipment, choosing to spend his day giving jitney rides instead. As it turns out, not even our election officials have much faith in the election system. While he may have started the day driving a jitney car, he ended it in a police car. Farmer faces charges of tampering with public records and obstructing a government function for his unexcused day off.

You better Belieb it Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley is no match for Justin Bieber’s Beliebers.

Last week, the pop star asked artists around the world to paint murals inspired by his upcoming album. He wanted Calvin Klein versions of him only. On Thursday, Bieber posted a picture of a mural featuring the phrase, “Where Are U Now,” inspired by a track on Bieber’s upcoming album, “Purpose,” painted on a Boston pizza shop.

O’Malley, a belieber in the law, joked that he would file legislation to keep such murals off city walls. Fans couldn’t belieb it and responded with tweets calling for O’Malley to focus on things like crime and poverty. O’Malley replied that his comment had been sarcastic. Fans weren’t buying it, telling him, “It’s too late now to say sorry.”

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Paul Ryan: new speaker, same leader Henry Glitz Columnist

When you think of the “ultimate affable nerd jock ,” few people come to mind, least of all, current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Paul Ryan.

Regardless, Washington, D.C., lobbyist Kathryn Lehman recently used the phrase in an interview with the Washington Post. She was trying to describe Ryan in the wake of his Oct. 29 election as speaker.

Calling Ryan a “nerd jock” is more whimsical than most pundits’ speculation about the new speaker’s personality and leadership style. The description shows the difficulty politicians have determining their feelings toward Ryan.

Unfortunately for moderate Republicans and Democrats hoping for a return to a functional Congress, Ryan’s first few days in his new position seem to confirm a widespread fear that a change in leadership won’t change much. The new speaker will be a figurehead for conservatives in Congress, but not much else.

As Ryan said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press that he hoped to return the GOP to its lost status of a “proposition

party,” he simultaneously announced he would delay anticipated immigration reform until President Barack Obama leaves office.

“I don’t think we can trust the president on this issue,” Ryan said, “I do not believe we should advance comprehensive immigration legislation with a president who has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue.”

It’s hard to imagine how anti-immigration activists, like the Tea Party Patriots’ Jenny Beth Martin, would take issue with such a statement, which is precisely the purpose of the maneuver.

The new speaker’s insistence on being what he called a “unifying figure” in an Oct. 20 press conference doesn’t mean that he will actively try to create consensus among the GOP’s congressional ranks. Rather, Ryan’s idea of consensus is a passive acceptance of the position the loudest in the party advocate. Ryan doesn’t want to deal with the difficulties of keeping the far-right under control.

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Glitz, pg. 6 to block any immigration bill that the majority of Republican House members didn’t support, which he has.

“I need your assurance that you will not use the speaker’s position to advance your immigration policies,” Brooks wrote in an open letter to Ryan last Tuesday. Ryan was part of the 2013 push to pass bipartisan immigration reform, which included a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

On the surface, betraying a careerlong support for immigration reform for the mere promise of one vote in an election for speakership seems like an unlikely choice for Ryan. But putting aside that Brooks, as leader of the powerful House Freedom Caucus, likely influences other votes beyond his own, Ryan’s rationale for sacrificing ideological authenticity says something important about what we can expect from the House he will lead.

Ryan doesn’t really want the job.

His reluctance to take it in the first place wasn’t an attempt to make a show of things. Tuesday night the new speaker told reporters, “I cannot, and I will not, give up my family time.”

The speaker is also notorious for being a “wonk’s wonk,” according to Paul Waldman, a blogger for The Washington Post, deeply invested in the minutiae of the issues themselves and less so in the politics of negotiating real compromise in the House on those issues.

These traits explain Ryan’s insistence on consensus during his term and among the Republican caucus in the House. Although legislative leaders chose Ryan to be more than a “caretaker” of the speakership until the 2016 elections, it seems that will be the extent of his leadership.

One of the promises Ryan made to secure the support of the influential conservative House Freedom Caucus in his bid for the position was a shift to a “bottom-up approach” in the party’s decision-making process. He’s al-

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Victor Gonzalez STAFF ILLUSTRATOR ready made good on this promise with the highway bill the House debated on Tuesday, which saw a freewheeling and open amendment process that empowered individual lawmakers. The concession ensured Ryan the speakership, and won t h e i r g o o d graces.

It also means R y a n w o n’ t have to fight the p a r t y former Speaker John Boehner left to him.

Boehner left office with a 33 per-

cent to 47 percent favorable to unfavorable rating in a CNN poll conducted Oct. 14 to 17. He took up the speaker’s gavel in 2011 in a room of new, conservative Tea Party representatives he c o u l d n’t control.

The former speaker’s caving to Tea Party members of his own party notably led to the 2013 government shutdown after House Republicans failed to defund ObamaCare. Despite his accommodations, Boehner was never

Although legislative leaders chose Ryan to be more than a “caretaker” of the speakership until the 2016 elections, it seems that will be the extent of his leadership.

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popular with the Tea Party populists .

Donald Trump, who represents much of the same movement, uttered a relieved, “It’s time,” in response to news of Boehner’s resignation.

No doubt, Ryan is making a good decision for his own physical and mental health by shirking the full responsibilities of speaker by formulating policies that will never get out of Congress. But Ryan’s absentee-style leadership in the House will have the same results of Boehner’s anarchy. The Tea Party and the far-right faction of the GOP will continue to hold the nation’s legislature hostage.

In the Oct. 14 to 17 CNN poll, CNN also asked respondents whether they believed a change in congressional leadership would “bring real reform to the way Congress operates.” Sixty-two percent of respondents were skeptical of real change. Only 34 percent expected reform.

As far as Ryan’s preliminary stances on immigration go, the majority were right to believe that real change in Congress will have to wait.

The new speaker may have all the novelty of the “ultimate affable nerd jock,” but his leadership style as speaker will be just as stale as Boehner’s.

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Boyd, Pitt confident against No. 5 Irish Tyler Boyd is confident in Pitt’s chances of knocking off No. 5 Notre Dame on Saturday. The Pitt News file photo

Jeremy Tepper

Senior Staff Writer Each week, Pitt’s football coaching staff preaches an even-keeled mindset, so players will maintain their focus throughout the season.

This week against Notre Dame, getting that message across became a bit tougher for wide receiver Tyler Boyd and the rest of the Pitt team. Saturday’s matchup isn’t just any other game, as the Pitt-Notre Dame rivalry runs deep.

“When you see Notre Dame on your schedule, that’s the only team you really want to beat for sure, even if you’re 1-11,” Boyd said.

On Saturday at noon, Pitt (6-2, 4-1 ACC) will welcome the No. 5 Fighting Irish (7-1) into

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Heinz Field in a nationally televised game on ABC. The Panthers will try to get back in the win column after a despiriting loss last Thursday to North Carolina.

After starting slow last week, Pitt wide receiver Zach Challingsworth said the team hopes to correct its lethargic starts and avoid self-inflicted mistakes.

“We have to come out with a lot of energy because we came out flat the last couple games,” Challingsworth said. “You can’t win a game when you play two people, yourselves and the other team.”

Avoiding costly mistakes will be especially important against Notre Dame, whose only loss came in a 24-22 contest against No. 1 Clemson. Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi praised

Notre Dame’s depth and skilled players.

“They’re probably one of the most talented teams to walk into Heinz Field this year,” Narduzzi said. “[Notre Dame head coach] Brian Kelly probably wouldn’t admit this, but they basically have their pick of who they get in recruiting.”

That talent overflows on both ends of the ball. On offense, Notre Dame ranks No. 17 nationally in yards per game. Leading that unit is quarterback DeShone Kizer, who poses a threat in both passing and running. Kizer has thrown for 1,669 yards and 11 touchdowns and run for 318 yards and five touchdowns this year.

“He can make plays and make all the throws he needs to. He’s a big, big guy,” Narduzzi said.

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When Kizer takes the snap, he has a variety of offensive weapons at his disposal. Wide receiver Will Fuller has been especially impressive, accumulating 748 yards and nine touchdowns, the latter of which ranks eighth among receivers. Boyd said the team can partly imitate much of what Fuller does in practice, though his speed presents a challenge.

“One thing he does best, he takes the top off the coverage. He’s got blazing speed,” Boyd said.

On the ground, running back C.J. Prosise leads the Fighting Irish with 947 yards and 11 touchdowns. Prosise is averaging 6.6 yards per carry and has run for at least 100 yards in five games.

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rugby team takes undefeated record into weekend Stephen Caruso Staff Writer

Looking at Pitt’s ranked rugby team, beards are cropping up everywhere — and it’s not just from NoShave November.

“I feel like I can’t shave it until we lose,” Pitt junior and forward Matt Dunleavy said.

Pitt’s club rugby team is currently undefeated in Keystone Conference play with its quarterfinal match coming up this Saturday at 3 p.m. at Founders Field against Villanova. A win would mean advancing to the semifinals against the winner of Temple vs. Millersville. After that, it’s the finals and a shot at the Keystone Conference Championship.

The team is currently ranked No. 9 in the country among Division I-AA teams — the highest a non-varsity

program can be — and No. 44 in the entire country.

Three wins with margins of victory better than 20 points will do that for a program, including a 65-0 blowout win against Lock Haven (0-4) on Oct. 3 and a 43-9 win in the conference opener against Millersville (2-2) on Sept. 19.

“Our league is a bit uneven,” Dunleavy said.

Founded in 1981, the Pitt Rugby Football Club entered the Keystone Conference in 2012 and won the conference’s inaugural championship after dominating the Allegheny Rugby Union’s collegiate level, winning seven championships in their last 11 years in the ARU. Since 2012, the team has made the playoffs but petered out down the See Rugby on page 10

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Notre Dame, pg. 8 Pitt’s defense, which had a hot start but has tapered off in the past three weeks, will face one of its toughest challenges yet in Notre Dame’s multiple weapons. Narduzzi said he’s had to call more blitzes with the defense not executing fundamentals.

“Our guys got to play better base defense, so you don’t feel like you have to, as I call it, junk it up,” Narduzzi said. “I felt like we had to junk it up really the last two weeks because our guys aren’t paying attention to the details in base.”

Even with more blitzing, the Panthers have struggled to get to the quarterback. Narduzzi and defensive coordinator Josh Conklin said their players aren’t getting in the backfield enough or making plays when they do get there.

“I think we’ve just got to do a better job of finishing. I don’t think there’s any magic potion,” Conklin said.

Similarly, Pitt’s offensive performance has sputtered, faltering in completing drives and generating big plays.

In particular, Pitt has struggled in executing throws downfield. Fixing that problem isn’t as

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simple as just throwing the ball deep more, offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said.

“I wish it was as easy as, ‘Hey, let’s just throw it down the field.’ It’s not that simple,” Chaney said.

“Sooner or later, you’ve got to generate big plays that score points, and our inability to do that on Thursday night cost us.”

Notre Dame presents Pitt with a talented group of defensive players, which collectively ranks 39th in points allowed per game. Cornerback KeiVarae Russell leads the defense with two interceptions. Boyd looks forward to the challenge against Russell, considered one of the top cornerback prospects for the upcoming NFL draft.

“Every time I get a chance to go up against him, I want to make sure the ball’s coming my way. I want to let the world know I’m still a great receiver,” Boyd said.

Boyd’s confidence has resonated through the whole team this week. Despite the daunting opponent, Challingsworth said he expects Pitt will secure the upset Saturday.

“We’ve had a good week, and we feel prepared. We’re going to come out swinging,” Challingsworth said. “We feel like we can compete, and we can beat them.”

Rugby, pg. 9 stretch, including a loss to St. Joseph’s in the semifinals last year.

According to team president and senior forward Aidan Nuttall, Pitt’s current success stems from the team’s experienced core, who have played together through the past two seasons.

“We’ve all learned everything together and gone through the different levels of understanding at the same pace,” Nuttall said.

Dunleavy has been with the team since spring of his freshman year. In that time, the team has grown close.

“We’ve got the same core group of guys coming to practice,” Dunleavy said. “We all hang out together and are good friends.”

Pitt coach Allan Murray, in his first year as head coach, has been coaching rugby since 2005 and thinks the team’s seniors have bolstered Pitt’s success.

“The guys that have been around for

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multiple years have really stepped up and been able to take the team in the direction they want to go,” Murray said.

This senior leadership starts with the captains, Dave Zimmerman and Connor Janawitz. “[Zimmerman] is a real hard-hitting kinda guy. He can amp the whole team up,” Nuttall said. “[Janawitz] is a very tactical player. He’s been playing for most of his life, so he’s a really valuable asset for us to have out here.”

The praise doesn’t end with those two. As a club sport, making sure everyone is on the same page, as far as training and practice is concerned, is vital.

“Everyone else has been doing a phenomenal job, our conditioning is up and everyone has been learning the game as the season progressed,” Nuttall said.

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