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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | november 20, 2017 | Volume 108 | Issue 72

SASA, BSA converse about colorism

CARVING AT THE CATHEDRAL

Hannah Schneider For The Pitt News

Until about two weeks ago, Anvit Rai wasn’t familiar with the concept of colorism.

“I had heard of [colorism], but I didn’t know how pervasive or important it was,” Rai said. “To a degree, I always thought that colorism was racism. I didn’t know it was a completely separate entity.”

More than 50 students joined Rai in David Lawrence Hall Friday evening to participate in a discussion titled “Let’s Talk About It: Colorism.”

The South Asian Student Alliance hosted the event in collaboration with the Black Action Society.

The event educated students on the differences between colorism and racism, the importance of identifying colorism and how to eradicate the issue. In their initial presentation, SASA defined colorism as, “the prejudice or discrimination against those who have darker skin.” Racism, on the other hand, is the general mistreatment of people of different races, according to SASA. SASA explained colorism typically exists within an ethnic group, whereas racism transcends ethnic groups. Colorism involves instances where two people of the same race — but different skin tones — are treated differently.

Rai, a senior studying neuroscience and the president of SASA, said the group wants to hold these discussions to highlight societal issues the organization feels are not being examined closely enough.

“The whole idea with why SASA has these [events] is we want to highlight issues in our See Colorism on page 2

Pittsburgh Intercollegiate Ski/Snowboard Team hosts Rail Jam on the Cathedral Lawn Sunday evening.

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Students demand disarmament

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Another man standing outside of Uncle Sam’s Sandwich Bar cheered them on.

“I could get in on this!” he shouted.

A group of students marched throughout The march — which began on Fifth Avenue, Oakland Friday afternoon waving flags and signs with slogans such as “Disarm the police, arm went through Schenley Quad onto Forbes and your desire” and chanting “A.C.A.B., all cops are ended on Oakland Avenue — was the aftermath of a rally staged Friday afternoon by about 40 stubastards.”

Their words elicited varying reactions from dents and community members.

The rally marked the end of an “occupation” of observers.

“They’re making fools of themselves,” a man the Cathedral of Learning which began Tuesday.

The “occupation” began with a small group of stuoutside of Noodles and Company said. dents who went to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher’s Assistant News Editor

office early Tuesday morning with a letter of 15 demands, including disarming the Pitt police and divesting from fossil fuels.

According to a rally organizer, who didn’t want to be named, the four-day occupation and Friday rally were held to coincide with the first anniversary of a protest last November against student debt and President Donald Trump. Pitt police arrested two people during the protest last year after an altercation took place in Towers lobby.

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society that we as an organization feel are not getting their due diligence,” Rai said.

Rai said in choosing a partner organization for the event, the Black Action Society stood out to him.

“We felt that’d be an incredible collaboration for us to have,” Rai said. “Incredible activists, standing for what we felt were very honorable causes.”

For a majority of the event, students shared their own personal experiences and discussed how certain issues affect minority groups differently. A number of students said as children, their parents discouraged them from going outside, for fear of them becoming darker.

Rai shared an experience from kindergarten.

He said he was teased since there weren’t many Indian children in his class, and when he told his parents, the amount of time Rai was allowed outside was limited.

“Instead of my mom taking it in the sense of, ‘Why are these kids calling you brownie?’ it was more like, ‘Why are you turning more brown?

Why are you turning darker? Why are you not a lighter skin color?’” Rai said.

Another common experience many students shared was the practice of skin bleaching. During the discussion, Karee-Anne Rogers, a junior English writing and Africana studies student, recalled an experience with skin bleaching that a close family friend encouraged.

“She was like, ‘You’d be pretty, if you bleached your skin,’” Rogers said. “She literally had jars of bleaching cream in her drawers, and she tried to give me some.”

Rogers said other stories of skin bleaching she heard during the discussion were “striking.”

During a small group discussion, another stu-

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“Her mom made her keep it on for the full 25 minutes anyway,” Rogers said. “Allergies can get worse over time and it seeps into your skin, so I was upset that she was made to do that ... That really stuck with me.”

Nkeiruka Nwobu, a senior psychology student, said she didn’t find the stories of skin bleaching surprising, just sad.

“People are using these products but you don’t realize how it affects them emotionally,” Nwobu said. “That was probably the most striking part of the conversation for me.”

Many students said it’s important to note parents aren’t using these practices against their children with malicious intent. Many said their parents believed having lighter skin would provide them with a better life.

“They do it, I guess, out of love. We could say it’s love, but it’s misguided,” one student said.

“There’s something wrong there.”

Rai said he believes skin bleaching is a gendered issue, saying the pressures for women to attain societal beauty standards are far greater than those for men.

“Especially in South Asian societies, a man who isn’t very good looking could very easily get married ... But the woman needs to be very pretty, fair, to be marriageable,” Rai said. “I definitely do think there is a gender bias in this issue.”

While it’s good to discuss colorism and the systemic effects it has on people of color, Nwobu said, not enough is being done to discuss the cause of the problem. Rai agreed, saying more awareness is needed on the issue.

“I think it’s important for people of every color to go to these events,” Rai said. “It’s important that people from all branches of the aisle come together.”

Rally, pg. 1 “We wanted to show [the University and Pitt police that] we are still here, still taking action,” the organizer said.

Associate Dean of Students Linda Williams Moore and Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner were present to observe the rally. About 10 to 15 Pitt police officers stood inside Towers lobby while four to five stood outside the entrance of Towers. Several police cars were parked across on Thackeray Avenue. Unlike last year, there were no violent confrontations between rally attendees and the police.

Prior to the rally, Bonner approached the protesters with some “ground rules” for the event, including that they could not go into Towers lobby and would face repercussions if the rally turned into anything confrontational. “[Towers] is a reservable space, they need to reserve the space for a protest here,” he said of Towers lobby. “There’s plenty of places off-campus where they can protest, just not this place.”

Students and community members — several clad in “Black Lives Matter” shirts or with their mouths covered by bandanas — joined hands and formed a circle in front of Tower B around 4 p.m.

Many individuals spoke at the rally — including a Pitt alum who recounted their experience at last year’s protest and another student who read an account said to be from one of the arrested individuals from last November.

Each rally attendee asked refused to provide names to The Pitt News.

The Pitt alum present at last year’s protest said the police’s action were “brutal and unjust” and blamed the University for allowing it to happen.

“I love this University, I grew so much here,” they said. “But in my experience they only care

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about what you have to say if it aligns with their goals of power, prestige and profit.”

Another rally attendee spoke about deaths of people of color by the hands of police, citing individuals such as Jason Pero, an eighth grader who died on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation less than two weeks ago after police shot Pero.

“All these cops are stealing life every day, it’s their job to do that,” they said.

A student who wished to remain anonymous said he wasn’t involved with the group that organized the rally but joined it halfway because he wanted to show support for their views.

“The chanting was good, but I don’t know if it was productive,” he said of the “group of white people” chanting anti-police slogans.

The student said plenty of cops do have their priorities in the wrong place, but there are many who just “want to make a living.”

“I don’t think the right response is to dehumanize the administration,” he said.

The students and community members ended their march on Oakland Avenue around 5 p.m. Several broke off to go elsewhere. Others hung around and engaged in a discussion with Cameron Hallihan, a sophomore neuroscience major and member of the Pitt College Republicans who came to the rally to ask its attendees about their political views.

“I think they’re misguided and I disagree, but I don’t disagree with their right to free speech,” Hallihan said.

Another rally attendee said they thought the rally served its purpose in showing continued opposition to the Pitt police’s actions last year.

“More needs to be done, but it says something that there were less than 50 of us and like 20 cop cars were around that place. It shows the University’s scared of us,” they said. “It went well, but it’s not over.”

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Opinions from the editorial board

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GOP tax plan would aggrieve grad students Republicans acted last week with their tax bill to relinquish the United States’ status as a country with one of the highest official corporate tax rates in the world. In its place, the GOP plans to tax another group at record rates — graduate students.

Despite uniform resistance from congressional Democrats, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a bill modifying the country’s tax code last Thursday, sending it to the Senate for approval. Speaker Paul Ryan, RWis., who pushed the bill through the chamber, framed it as a boon for American competitiveness.

“When you tax your businesses at much, much, much higher tax rates than your foreign competitors tax theirs, they win, we lose,” Ryan said at a town hall hosted by Fox News last Tuesday. “We’re losing jobs, we’re losing companies, we’re losing headquarters.”

Not everyone echoed Ryan’s hymn to his own tax plan’s competitive edge, however. Chief among the bill’s biggest detractors were members of one of the country’s few remaining competitive industries: research and higher education. The GOP tax bill would not only remove the country’s edge in research — it would place an immoral burden on graduate student researchers.

In order to partially counterbalance large income and corporate tax rate cuts, Ryan’s tax plan would close several long-standing tax exemptions that directly affect workers in academia.

One of the biggest changes would tax the tuition waivers schools give to graduate students to defray the costs of

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staying in school.

Graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told NPR last week that their calculations showed the bill would institute a tax hike in the range of 300 to 400 percent for graduate researchers. Such an enormous increase would unquestionably be harmful — both in its immediate consequences and in longer-term effects on education in the American workforce.

“The short-term effects would be to drastically punish doctoral students,” Larry Lyon, vice provost and graduate school dean at Baylor University, told the Waco Tribune-Herald last week.

“The long-term effects would be to drastically harm the economy.”

Here at Pitt, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher voiced his opposition to the bill’s negative effects on universities’ more general economic well-being. In an update addressed to Pitt community members last week on Pitt’s website, Gallagher listed a number of University activities that the proposed changes would impact, including grad student tuition waivers, student loan interest deductions and deductions for donations to the school’s athletic and capital projects.

All of these are important considerations. But tax hikes on graduate students are especially well situated to lead to the end of American dominance of scientific research. U.S. citizens and high-achieving foreign-born researchers alike will be discouraged from contributing their knowledge to a country where they can barely afford to get by financially.

Talking politics at Thanksgiving shouldn’t be taboo Anne Marie Yurik For The Pitt News What do you do when someone close to you says something about a topic in the news you find simply reprehensible?

Oftentimes, the instinct is to shut up and pretend it didn’t happen — something that’s especially true over the holidays. If your Thanksgiving expectations are similar to mine, you know that the turkey isn’t the only thing that will get stuffed — you have to stuff some of your seemingly controversial ideas deep down.

According to conventional wisdom, it’s obvious a family gathering over the holiday isn’t the time to talk about President Donald Trump, immigration, abortion or football players kneeling during the national anthem. And I agree that I would be easier to enjoy my food and talk about my life when I see my family this Thursday, rather than mediate a debate between aunts, uncles and other relatives.

In some ways, expectations that we keep political opinions hush-hush on Thanksgiving have created a communication barrier between family members.

Many people opt out of political or controversial discourse in favor of a more bland topic, such as the weather, when talking among those who might possibly disagree or who have disagreed in the past. A full 31 percent responded in a Reuters poll earlier this month that they’d intentionally avoid discussing politics this holiday season.

But in the long run, keeping our opinions to ourselves about the important issues facing our society can only do more

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harm than good. At a time when our legislators appear incapable of bridging partisan differences, being afraid to face those who disagree with us within our own families is more cowardly than it is conciliatory. And this holiday might just offer the perfect opportunity to bridge the gap.

When we don’t take ownership of our beliefs, we entrench ourselves even more deeply in the us-versus-them dichotomy of the political atmosphere. It’s easier to villainize the other side when you don’t realize that your loved one believes in all the political principles you consider repugnant.

Much of my immediate family opposes my views on women’s rights, immigration, fossil fuels and much more. At first, their rejection of my views felt personal.

But once I gained an understanding of where they came from, and vice versa, it was easier to accept each other’s opposing ideas and talk more calmly than get upset and not talk at all.

If your boyfriend, parent, relative or friend spoke on the opposite side of an argument, would you cut them out of your life? Hopefully not. Rather, you could both talk calmly and respectfully about why you see the issue the way you do.

A 2015 study from the American Sociological Association found that more than half of children in American families either misjudged their parents’ political views or rejected them entirely. While researchers found that more dialogue between See Yurik on page 4

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Yurik, pg. 3 parents and their children didn’t necessarily make the kids any more likely to adopt their parents’ politics, they were much more likely to have a realistic grip on what their parents actually believed.

Even among close family, a lack of discussion around political issues leads to misinterpretations and makes the topic seem taboo. It’s hard to get anywhere if we can’t even agree on what the other believes.

Of course, a conversation at the din-

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ner table on Thanksgiving isn’t guaranteed to change anyone’s mind. But that shouldn’t necessarily be your goal when you engage in political discourse. If both sides are only out to convince the other from the start — and neglect to actually listen to how the other person thinks about the issues — the entire conversation will only end in a bitter stalemate.

No one will benefit.

The goal is understanding. When we go into conversation wanting to understand and be understood rather than simply to “win,” we’re able to address the

other person’s concerns more effectively.

Otherwise, we’ll just ignore them and end up more divided than when we started.

Opinions should be malleable and don’t always have to be inherently linked to your sense of identity. And while political opinions can be a major part of social identity for members of oppressed communities, simply ignoring a conflicting opinion at the dinner table won’t make it go away, no matter how illogical you think it may be.

“Democrat,” “Republican,” “liberal,” “conservative” and “libertarian” don’t

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have to be dirty words. We can’t let our opinions become so internalized that they gain more importance simply because we have not heard otherwise.

Don’t let the Thanksgiving dynamics of political discourse take over your life. Politics are about the defining issues determining how the country runs, and dancing around those discussions is more detrimental than it’s worth. Conversations have to start somewhere, so let them start at the dinner table.

Write to Anne Marie at any41@pitt. edu.

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Sports

Women’s Basketball Recap online

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Women dominate while men fall behind Jordan Mondell and Trent Leonard The Pitt News Staff As the fall sports teams near the end of their regular seasons and the winter teams get underway, five teams took the field, court, pool and mat this weekend.

Women’s basketball triumphed over Towson in double digits, and volleyball swept two ACC teams in straight sets, but the wrestling team was pinned and the football team lost its bowl eligibility.

Swimming The Panthers swim team traveled to Columbus, Ohio, this weekend and took sixth overall in the Ohio State Invitational. The team had an impressive weekend, setting six school records

and qualifying 10 swimmers for the invite’s finals.

At the competitive meet — which is held every year — Pitt took on programs like topranked NC State, Ohio State and Notre Dame.

On the men’s side, sophomore Samy Helmbacher shattered two school records and placed third overall at the invitational.

He first trumped the school time for the 200-yard IM on Friday, placing third in the event with a time of 1:45.76 — besting a Pitt record previously set by senior swimmer Gabe Larson at the 2017 ACC Championships in See Recap on page 6

Three Pitt divers placed in the top 20 for their events at the Ohio State Invitational this weekend. Thomas Yang | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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PICKETT ONLY PROMISING PROSPECT Trent Leonard Staff Writer The Pitt football team’s heartbreaking 20-14 loss to Virginia Tech on Saturday brought their season record to 4-7, while also disqualifying them from bowl contention for the first time since 2007.

The loss also overshadowed what should have been an exciting occasion — the emergence of firstyear quarterback Kenny Pickett.

Pickett got his shot when he replaced redshirt sophomore quarterback Ben DiNucci after an interception near the end of the first quarter. He performed admirably in the remaining three quarters, completing 15 of 23 passes for 242 yards— more than DiNucci amassed in a game all season.

While this was not Pickett’s inaugural appearance, it was easily his most successful. He first took the field for one play against Syracuse in week six after redshirt senior Max Browne suffered a season-ending injury, and backup DiNucci lost his helmet and was tempoFirst-year quarterback Kenny Pickett completed 15 of 23 passes in the rarily sidelined — effectively burning his redshirt.

His next showing came against North Carolina Panthers’ loss to Virginia Tech. John Hamilton | MANAGING EDITOR

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State, when head coach Pat Narduzzi made the muchmaligned decision to thrust the young signal-caller into a close game. Pickett’s final stat-line that game was an unimpressive 5-13 for 61 yards.

For the Panthers’ next three games, junior running back Darrin Hall took the pressure off the passing game. DiNucci performed competently enough to maintain the starting job, so Pickett appeared to be relegated to a consistent backup role.

But Virginia Tech successfully eliminated Pitt’s rushing attack, stopping Hall for just 4 yards on 15 carries. This forced the Panthers to take to the air, where DiNucci did have initial success. He completed four of his first seven passes for 54 yards and led the team to a touchdown in the first quarter.

When he threw an interception on the ensuing drive, though, Narduzzi had apparently seen enough.

He elected to put Pickett under center for the team’s opening second quarter drive.

This time, Pickett made the most of the opportunity. While he wasn’t responsible for any touchdowns, See Leonard on page 6

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Leonard, pg. 5 Pickett displayed formidable accuracy, completing 65 percent of his passes compared to DiNucci’s season average of 55.7 percent. Most importantly, he showed poise.

Pinned on their own 25-yard line and down 20-14 with one minute remaining, the Panthers faced a fourth-and-4 with the game on the line.

Pickett stepped up into the pocket and delivered a strike to redshirt senior wide receiver Jester Weah. The pass was just outside the reach of Hokie redshirt senior cornerback Brandon Facyson, and Weah plowed over a defender and outran the defense on his way to the end zone.

The 74-yard pass was called a touchdown on the field, which would have given the Panthers a chance to win with an extra point. The exciting, unlikely game-winner would have been the icing on the cake for Pickett’s big day.

Instead, instant replay showed that Weah was a yard shy of the end zone. Virginia Tech stuffed Pitt on the next four plays, and what was nearly an incredible victory turned into a demoralizing loss for the Panthers.

While Narduzzi’s methods of playing quarterbacks is unpredictable and puzzling, Pitt fans can take solace in the performance of Pickett.

The first-year quarterback’s quality performance

on Saturday was the culmination of his ascent up the depth chart.

Now, with one game remaining, Pickett finds himself in a position where he may take the reigns to close the season. It’s uncertain who will start at quarterback in the Panthers’ final game against Miami, but Pickett figures to play a large role regardless, as Narduzzi acknowledged in Saturday’s postgame press conference.

“We think [Pickett’s] probably a better passer at this point,” Narduzzi said. “He did give us a shot with some of the balls he threw.”

Looking past the Panthers’ upcoming final game, Pickett at least gives Pitt fans something to look forward to. As a sophomore next season, he’ll have already gained some critical confidence from his first year. Along with Hall, the two should bring back something the offense lacked entering this season — experience.

The Panthers are in desperate need of a confident, consistent quarterback who can keep drives alive with his arm. The team’s third down conversion percentage is one of the worst in the nation —114th out of 130 teams — at just 31.85 percent.

If Pickett continues to display poise as he did in Saturday’s contest, it will majorly benefit an offense that has struggled this year. His next chance will come against an undefeated No. 2 Miami team this Friday.

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March in his third-place finish. Helmbacher broke another record on Saturday in the 400yard IM with a time of 3:45.80, taking third again.

First-year Bence Szucsik set a record as well with his time of 1:44.17 in the 200-yard backstroke during prelims Sunday.

For the women, senior Lina Rathsack also set a new bar, placing fourth in the 200-yard IM with a time of 1:57.66, tying her own school record.

The Pitt women’s 800-yard free relay team, comprised of junior Rachel Brown, sophomore Valerie Daigneault, freshman Shahar Menahem and senior Amanda Richey, also set a school record of 7:14.27, besting the previous record from the 2014 ACC Championships.

The relay also placed fourth overall.

At the finals on Sunday, Richey followed up her relay performance with a stellar individual showing in the 1650-yard freestyle. She placed third in the event, but her time of 16:01.45 set another record.

The Panthers will see the pool again Nov. 29, when they travel back to Columbus to attend the USA Winter Nationals.

Diving The diving team also competed and took sixth overall at the Ohio State Invitational this weekend, with standout performances from multiple divers.

Senior Meme Sharp took second overall in the women’s 3-meter diving on Friday, the top scorer of all Pitt aquatics athletes at the meet.

Sharp also impressed on Saturday, placing second in the women’s 1-meter diving finals.

Aside from Sharp, two other Pitt divers placed in the top 20 of their events. Freshman Noah Marble finished 19th on the men’s 1-meter springboard, while sophomore Krista Jones also earned a 19th-place finish on the women’s 3-meter.

In the finals, Sharp placed second overall in the women’s 1-meter dive.

The Panthers will compete next Dec. 1, when they travel to North Carolina to attend the USA Diving Winter Nationals.

Wrestling The Pitt men’s wrestling team also had a busy weekend, as they traveled out west for three matches to begin dual-meet competition.

The 25th-ranked Panthers had an unimpressive showing, falling to 1-2 to start the season.

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