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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | November 27, 2017 | Volume 108 | Issue 74

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Volleyball earns spot in NCAA tournament Jordan Mondell

Assistant Sports Editor

Students traveling from Philadelphia exit a bus on Bigelow Boulevard Sunday night as part of the University’s “Home for the Holidays” program. Thomas Yang | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Study looks to link brain activity, suicidal thoughts Madeline Gavatorta Staff Writer After contributing work to a study on brain activity, Marcel Just described the effort to better understand human thought as “a psychologist’s dream.”

“Scientifically, it is fantastically interesting if you could assess the content of a thought,” Just, the director of the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon, said.

With suicide being the second leading cause of death among college students in the United States, research by Drs. David Brent and Lisa Pan, professors in Pitt’s Department of Psychiatry, might be the start of better identifying who is at risk.

“It’s probably the most pressing clini-

cal issue for a psychiatrist, is to determine somebody’s degree of risk,” Brent said.

The study — conducted by Brent, Pan and additional psychologists from Carnegie Mellon University, Florida International University, Columbia University and Harvard University — examined the association between brain activity in response to certain words and whether or not an individual has suicidal thoughts.

“You could argue that [suicide] is a biological experience and consequently, ‘not just in somebody’s head,’” Brent said.

Just, a collaborator in the study, said Brent came up to him after a talk he gave in September 2012 about brain activity and thought processing in individuals with autism.

“He said to me, ‘Do you think this would work on identifying suicidal thoughts?’ and I said, ‘Well we could find out with a research study,’” Just said.

“And we were off to the races.”

The study consisted of 34 participants — 17 people who had suicidal thoughts and 17 who did not. Participants entered an fMRI, or functional magnetic resonance imaging, scanner where a screen within the scanner flashed a list of 30 words, one at a time for three seconds each. During this process, the fMRI detected which regions of the brain were activated.

To detect whether or not the person had suicidal thoughts, the researchers then processed the data they collected See Study on page 3

After claiming the ACC Conference title this past weekend on a nine-game winning streak, the Pitt women’s volleyball team has secured a slot in the NCAA championship tournament.

This is the second year in a row they have qualified for the NCAA tournament, the last time before that being 2004.

The Panthers look to extend their season as the NCAA tournament begins Friday. Pitt will take on Virginia Commonwealth University Friday at 5 p.m in State College, Pennsylvania. If the Panthers advance, they will likely take on top-seeded Penn State, if the Nittany Lions beat the Howard Bisons. In the 2016 tournament, the Panthers were knocked out in the second round after falling to Penn State.

“I couldn’t be more proud of these girls,” head coach Dan Fisher said Saturday in a press release. “It just goes to show you that when you have a good group who works hard, and does things the right way great things can happen.”

This is the first time in the program’s history that the team has snagged the first-place ACC spot since joining the conference in 2013 — and only the second ACC title for any Pitt squad, with the wrestling team topping the conference in 2014.

“It’s something these girls are going to remember forever,” Fisher said of their ACC championship.

Overall this season Pitt has steadily held a winning record, currently sitting See Volleyball on page 5

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Latino youth well-being lacking in Pennsylvania, study finds

Lauren Forsythe Staff Writer Monica Ruiz said people are often unwilling to give funding to help the Latino community — which can include undocumented immigrants.

“I say it’s easier to find funding for a box of puppies who are left on the street corner to help them than it is to find funding to help undocumented folks,” Ruiz said.

Ruiz — a community organizer at Casa San Jose, a Latino social service agency in Pittsburgh — said Latino youth lack resources to overcome the barriers they face, such as a lack of funding for community programs and the absence of Spanish-speaking or bilingual employees at welfare offices.

In a recent study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Pennsylvania ranked No. 48 out of the 50 states in Latino youth well-being, based on an index score including data about educational attainment and family income, among other factors. According to the study, Latino youth face barriers in education, health and economic development throughout the nation compared to Asian and Pacific Islander and white children.

Jaime Booth, an assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Social Work, said the results of the study didn’t surprise her.

Booth received funding from Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems to conduct her own research on Latino youth in a study called “Visual Voices,” in which Latino youth ages 10 to 16 expressed their feelings about a prompt each day in a piece of artwork.

She said her work reflected the findings of the AECF research and that the youth in the Latino community suffer in various ways.

“I think that when you’re talking

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Jaime Booth, an assistant professor in Pitt’s School of Social Work, conducted a study called “Visual Voices” which measured the well-being of Latino youth by having them express their feelings through a piece of artwork.

Bethany Krupicka | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER about education attainment, living in high-poverty neighborhoods, and you’re talking about living in high-poverty households, and you’re talking about family separation,” Booth said, “I think it is as bad as the numbers say.”

According to the AECF study, only 8 percent of fourth graders from immigrant families were proficient in reading compared to 38 percent of students who are children of U.S.-born citizens.

Latinos also have the lowest percentage of school enrollment for children 3 to 5 years old compared to other races and ethnic groups.

Booth said a lack of awareness and

attention to the Latino community may be the cause of Pennsylvania’s low ranking. According to Pew Research Center, Pennsylvania had the 13th largest Hispanic population in the nation as of 2014, with 834,000 Hispanic individuals living in Pennsylvania and about 23,000 in Allegheny County.

“I think most people just think that we don’t have a lot of Latinos living here, so it’s not something to be concerned about,” Booth said. “I think the recent influx of immigrants is catching people off guard, and people just aren’t even aware that it’s happening,” Anita Herrera, a 21-year-old lifelong

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Pittsburgh resident, said the well-being of the Latino youth in Pennsylvania might be rated so low because most people don’t care to make it better. She said she has seen people act unsympathetic to Latinos who don’t speak fluent English.

“The people who do know English are like, ‘Why are you here if you don’t know English? If you’re in America you need to know English,’” Herrera said.

Bruno Vizcarra, the chair of Pitt’s Hispanic and Latino Professional Association, said the government must adjust to the influx of Latino immigrants in a proactive way. He said schools specifically See Wellbeing on page 4

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Study, pg. 1 using a machine learning algorithm, which gives computers the ability to learn and process information without explicit programming.

They fed the data on brain activity and suicidal thoughts into the machine learning algorithm for 33 of the 34 research participants. By looking at the final participant’s brain scan, the computer was instructed to follow the algorithm to determine whether or not that person has thought about suicide.

Researchers repeated the process so the computer had to guess whether or not each participant in the study had suicidal thoughts and it did so correctly 91 percent of the time.

“The most interesting thing, most important thing is possibly whether we can predict a suicide attempt,” Just said. “What would be extremely useful would be if

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we could predict if someone is likely to make a suicide attempt in the future. That could save lives.”

Six terms turned out to best distinguish those who had suicidal thoughts from those who did not — death, cruelty, trouble, carefree, good and praise. It was “maybe a little” shocking that “suicide” was not one of the six words from the original 30, Brent said, but the six words encompassed “words that were related” to suicide.

“We know that people have altered thinking about not just suicide but the words related to death and certainly words related to positive and negative emotions, they experience those words differently,” Brent said. “Afterward you can think about it, that a lot of people who are suicidal feel ashamed, they aren’t carefree.”

Madison Shaftic, a senior psychology major who struggles with two depressive disorders — persistent depression and major deSee Study on page 5

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Wellbeing, pg. 2 need to be better equipped with resources, such as improved evaluations for English proficiency and bilingual staff for Latino youth.

“I feel like nowadays it’s almost inexcusable that the government doesn’t have a proper procedure with welltrained staff that can handle the Spanish language and sort of start to interact more with these students,” Vizcarra said.

Language barriers can impact a student’s education, according to Karen

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Goldman, assistant director of external relations in Pitt’s department of Hispanic languages, but the political climate surrounding immigration and students’ fear of deportation for themselves or their family members can also affect students’ opportunities in education. “[Latino youth] are quite often themselves in a position where English is an obstacle for them to prepare themselves in terms of testing and in terms of academic preparation,” Goldman said. “If they get into a school where they are also required to fill out a FAFSA [Free Application for Federal Student Aid]

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form to access funding, they are often fearful of doing that.”

Although the structural barriers, such as a lack of bilingual support, that prevent Latino youth from upward mobility are a large part of the problem, Booth said other factors impact wellbeing. She said bullying, fear of deportation and issues of gangs came up in various sessions over the six-week “Visual Voices” study.

“Trump and the political climate came up every single session and we did not ask about it ever. There was a lot of talk about being bullied at school and they really tied it back to the presidential candidate and then the elected president and things that he had said about Latinos,” Booth said.

Issues such as bullying and gangs are not uncommon in Latino communities, Vizcarra said. He said as a Latino immigrant, he has seen the terrible conditions that many immigrant families live in and that Latino youth often lack role models, but not at the fault of their parents.

“I believe the biggest challenge that Latino youth have, especially for immigrant families, is the fact that when these families arrive, they arrive with pretty much nothing,” Vizcarra said. “In order to start from scratch, you have to work really hard. Mom and Dad get two or three jobs each, which means their kids are very much unattended.”

Although he has some fear about the future for Latino youth because of the Trump administration, Vizcarra said we should get back to a progressive government that supplies better organizations, after-school programs, evaluations and resources for the Latino youth.

“I think the government, small and large, are going to have to adjust because they are going to start seeing these families arriving,” Vizcarra said. “Whether they like it or not, their children are going to be here for a long time — they are the future working generation.”

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Study, pg. 3 pressive disorder — as well as generalized anxiety, has struggled with suicidal thoughts in the past and discussed the stigma around the act.

“A lot of times I think there is a stigma with it in entertainment, specifically with TV and movies and all that, like they kinda romanticize it or they use it as a plot device and don’t actually treat it as a serious issue,” Shaftic said.

Brent said he didn’t believe the study

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would reduce stigma surrounding suicidal thoughts necessarily, but would open a dialogue with patients to discuss options for recovery.

“People make decisions to kill themselves on the basis of beliefs like ‘things aren’t gonna get better,’ ‘I’m a burden to people,’ and those things are not absolutely true,” Brent said. “Our job is to get people through a suicidal crisis so that they can realize that they could have a reasonable future.”

Volleyball, pg. 1 at 25-6 overall and 18-2 in the ACC — their only losses coming at the hands of NC State and ACC co-champions Louisville, which has a matching conference record.

As a team, the Panthers have led their opponents both offensively and defensively all season, finishing regular play with 1578 kills, 1473 assists and 158 aces.

Individually, Nika Markovic and Stephanie Williams led the scoring, with 393 and 353 kills, respectively.

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Opinions column

from the editorial board

Journalists shouldn’t be afraid to contextualize evil What was unusual in the response to a recent New York Times story wasn’t its negativity so much as where the hate came from.

With figures on the political right, from President Donald Trump to Joseph Curl of the Washington Times, frequently deriding The New York Times as “failing” and “very, very (very) biased,” the Times’ editorial staff is likely used to conservative critics. But the paper had to deal with more anger from the left this weekend after printing a profile, titled “A voice of hate in America’s Heartland,” which told the story of a neo-Nazi living an otherwise normal life in an Ohio suburb.

“I’m both shocked and disgusted by this article,” one Twitter user said in response to the article. “Attempting to ‘normalize’ white supremacist groups — should [n]ever have been printed!”

While criticisms of how the Times handled such a story are justifiable — Richard Fausset, the story’s writer, himself agreed it needed more work before publishing — it would be preemptive to break out the torches and pitchforks just yet. Before we boycott the paper, we should recognize it’s vital journalists continue to pursue stories like this one, but they should do so with more context and sense of purpose — two elements notably missing in the Times’ piece.

In Fausset’s companion article to his profile of Ohio’s Nazi next door, the reporter laments how he was unable to pin down his subject’s “Rosebud” — the seed that motivated his transition from mainstream society to

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horrific, fringe fascism.

Perhaps there was nothing in his subject’s story to indicate predilection to extreme bigotry. But Fausset’s editors probably should have waited to publish his article until after a more convincing central narrative could be established and the story was framed more responsibly. And the piece was irresponsible in failing to correct or contextualize the subject’s inaccurate and anti-semitic quotes.

That being said, it’s difficult to square such a criticism of the Times’ actions with calls from concerned voices on the left to immediately cease all media coverage of political extremists in our society. Claims that such coverage, regardless of how it’s presented, “normalizes” racism in America ignores that the ideologies of fascism and white supremacy are already normal in many parts of the country.

A neo-Nazi doesn’t have to dress in the uniform of an SS officer or drown puppies for fun to espouse an ideology of hatred. It’s part of journalists’ job to investigate where, how and why extremist ideologies infect even the most outwardly innocuous parts of our culture. And that’s just what the profile that appeared this weekend in the New York Times set out to do, even if it ended up off the mark.

Newspapers and journalists shouldn’t be afraid to write about the ugly and malevolent in society. And while reporters need to remember to tread carefully when writing about issues surrounding extremism, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to make the attempt.

A long overdue farewell to The Pitt News Jaime Viens Contributing Editor “This is an exploration of feminism by a somewhat educated, 19 year old liberal arts major.”

This is the first sentence I ever wrote in hopes of getting hired as a columnist for The Pitt News back in 2015. Somehow, it worked, though the words were rightfully never published until today.

It’s been over two years since I wrote that truly captivating lede — the critique for which I can only imagine would cite my lack of hyphenation in an age description according to Associated Press style. And in just another two weeks I’ll be graduating and saying goodbye to The Pitt News, and Pitt, for good.

Though I was hired back in 2015 to write for the opinions section, more recently, I’ve become the online engagement editor for the newspaper, a role with less writing and more responsibility. But, through all the posting on Facebook and Twitter — words that are viewed far more often and much more carefully than the columns I wrote previously — I still try to sneak in some writing whenever I get a chance.

You’d think that after summarizing entire articles in 140 characters I’d be better at getting to the point. But even after all those tweets and all those columns, when I sat down to write this one, my last one, I still didn’t know what angle to take. Should I rely on humor like I do in about half my columns or should I pretend to know what I’m talking about like I do in all my col-

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umns? Should I reference those long hours of work or should I talk about how I didn’t realize I got paid to write the entire first year I worked for the newspaper? Should I say it’s been strange to watch so many people I never even knew cycle through the office or say that some of the most talented and brightest people I’ve met in college work here?

And as I sat thinking about all these things I could say, a scary thought occurred to me. Through temporary housing, failed friendships, changing career paths and the closing of 7-Eleven, The Pitt News has somehow become the most stable part of my college career.

Since the early days when I fumbled to find my footing in groundbreaking arguments like “feminism is good,” to this morning when I scrambled to read all of today’s articles and schedule them on Facebook and Twitter before my 11 a.m. lecture, my time at The Pitt News has challenged me to grow as a writer, a student and a person.

For starters, I can now properly identify introductory phrases and insert commas accordingly (see beginning of this sentence for reference). I’ve also learned how to maximize productivity by writing columns like this in lectures as professors read directly from PowerPoints they’ve preemptively added to CourseWeb. I’ve learned the best way to be passive aggressive is as an anonymous otter on Google Docs, the best way to react to bad news is with a Ted Cruz sticker on Slack and the best way to feel good about my lack of journalistic capability is by readSee Viens on page 7

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quietly let me share my thoughts.

And, luckily, in the two years since I originally wrote that lede about feminism, I’ve benefited from a staff that would never allow me to become complacent within a style of writing that took my own point of view for granted. Instead, I’ve been repeatedly pushed outside my comfort zone. I’ve been asked to conduct interviews, taught to manage my time and discouraged from using motherly disappointment as a punchline too often. And I’ve become better for it — at least I assure my mom I have.

And even though many of The Pitt News staffers might have a hard time recognizing me on the street, I’d like to believe my behind-the-screen duties and detached Facebook Live voice have paid off for the newspaper the same way sending that incredibly subtle lede to tpnopinions@gmail. com paid off for me.

Either way, I’m going to miss working at The Pitt News. Not just because I’m without job or home for the foreseeable future, but because it really has become such an integral part of my time at Pitt. And I’m not just saying all this because I get paid per character.

Viens, pg. 6 ing one of the student tabloids.

But The Pitt News has also given me opportunities I would never have dreamed of.

I got to profile inspirational acid attack survivors, made the front page of Reddit politics and managed a Twitter account with more than 17,000 followers. But I also got my own cubicle, was forced to memorize my social security number and befriended people who are sexually attracted to horror movie murderers. And through all these occasions, I’ve never encountered an unworthy feat.

Even Thursday night opinions section meetings, which gave me the perfect excuse to continue avoiding my social life, never felt like a burden. Amidst some heated arguments and many other lackluster conversations, I always felt supported in my own opinions.

From 30-second pitches that went something like, “Jill Stein is the worst,” to fully fledged essays with source-linked evidence, a dozen other students — some who agreed and some who respectfully yet violently shook their heads in disapproval —

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Sports column

For the second year in a row, and nearly 10 years to the day since the infamous “13-9” win over West Virginia, a mediocre Pitt football team upset another No. 2 team in the nation.

The victory over Miami marked a satisfying end to a frustrating rebuilding campaign for the Panthers.

Pitt started off the season with a narrow victory against lowly Youngstown State, an FCS squad. The Panthers then went on a three-game losing streak — which included losses to tough nonconference opponents Oklahoma State and Penn State — before rebounding against Rice, a team that’s won one game all season.

More ACC losses followed the Rice matchup in the form of defeats to Syracuse and North Carolina State before Pitt started to find a bit of a groove toward the end of the season.

Following the homecoming loss to NC State Oct. 14, Pitt stepped up its play to push for a

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Right: Forward Yacine Diop, by Thomas Yang SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Pitt Football’s Pitt gobbles rebuilding shows in up wins over final game Thanksgiving break

Kevin Bertha Staff Writer

Left: Quarterback Kenny Pickett, by John Hamilton MANAGING EDITOR

bowl bid. The defense performed better — giving up fewer than 20 points in three out of the last five games — and the Panthers seemed to Brandon Glass and have found their quarterback of the future in first-year Kenny Pickett.

Trent Leonard The noted improvement has come at the end The Pitt News Staff of the season, as Pitt has won three out of their Pitt sports had a lot to be last five games, suffering narrow defeats to thankful for over the holiday North Carolina and Virginia Tech. The vic- break. Aside from turkey and tories culminated with a dominating vic- stuffing, teams saw historic wins tory over the Hurricanes Friday, and conference championship titles on a team that has national the menu. championship While the Pitt men’s basketball team had a s p i r a t i o n s . uneven results on the court, football, volStill, these eas- leyball and women’s basketball brought in a ily avoidable losses bountiful harvest with major successes. against middle-ranked conVolleyball ference teams would have meant The Pitt women’s volleyball team shut out bowl eligibility for Pitt — a nine-year two ACC foes over the weekend, extending consecutive streak the Panthers couldn’t their win streak to nine games and earning maintain. them a share of the ACC title — the first in After the victory against Miami, program history. head coach Pat Narduzzi noted that Pitt (25-6 overall, 18-2 ACC) traveled to the win is a building block for the Blacksburg, Virginia, on Friday to take on future.

Virginia Tech (10-21 overall, 4-16 ACC) for “It gets belief for our kids its first test of the weekend. The Panthers that we can do it at any time,” swept the Hokies in three games, winning by Narduzzi said. “It’s something margins of 25-22, 26-24 and 27-25. we can grow with. I could Sophomore Nika Markovic paced the just go on and on about guys Panther attack with 20 kills, while first-year making plays. Our kids Kayla Lund and redshirt junior Angela Seplayed football.” man led the defensive effort with 12 and 11 The improved defense digs, respectively. played a big part in the The team traveled to Charlottesville for its Panthers’ weekend win, final match of the regular season versus Virholding Miami ginia (7-24 overall, 3-17 ACC) Saturday. The to 232 yards of Panthers ended the season in dominant fashtotal offense ion, sweeping Virginia 25-21, 25-18, 25-19 to and only al- earn their fourth straight shutout. Redshirt lowing 14 sophomore Stephanie Williams led the way See Bertha on page 10 with 15 kills.

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Pitt finished the season tied as ACC champions with Louisville, who also finished 18-2 in the conference.

They also qualified for the 2017 NCAA tournament.

Their first match of the postseason will take place Friday, Dec. 1 as they take on Virginia Commonwealth University in a 5 p.m. matchup in State College, Pennsylvania.

Football Playing the spoiler role for a second straight season, the Panthers pulled off their biggest upset win of the year, conquering the previously undefeated No. 2 Miami Hurricanes 24-14 at Heinz Field.

Marking its second straight year with a late-season victory against a top-three team, Pitt football (5-7 overall, 3-5 ACC) shut down See Weekend Sports on page 10

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Weekend Sports, pg. 9 the Hurricanes’ (10-1 overall, 7-1 ACC) offense en route to Friday’s win.

The Panther defense kept the Hurricane offense off-balance the entire game, and in his first start this season, first-year quarterback Kenny Pickett played well against a top defense — throwing for a touchdown and rushing for two more.

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Men’s Basketball Entering the break, the Pitt men’s basketball was looking to shake off a losing stint. The pair of matchups started off bleak for the Panthers, though.

The squad lost 73-67 to Oklahoma State (41) at the Legends Classic at Barclays Center in a consolation game Tuesday.

The Panthers stayed close to the Cowboys until the final buzzer. First-year forward Shamiel Stevenson lead Pitt in scoring with 16 points as first-year guard Marcus Carr recorded a season-high 10 assists.

Pitt traveled home to the Petersen Events Center Saturday, and found their footing after their loss to OSU with a 80-68 victory over Lehigh (3-3).

The Panthers and Mountain Hawks traded baskets for the majority of the game. Pitt relied on the late-game free throw shooting of senior forward Ryan Luther and senior guard Jonathan Milligan to seal the victory.

The Panthers (2-4) will stay in Pittsburgh to take on High Point (2-3) at the Petersen Events Center Tuesday evening, with tipoff at 7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball The Pitt women’s basketball team started Thanksgiving break on a high note last Tuesday with a 66-46 win over Cincinnati (4-2) at Saint Ursula Academy Gymnasium & Convocation Center.

The Panthers played an explosive second quarter in which they outscored the Bearcats, 25-6, to break the game wide open. Redshirt junior forward Yacine Diop poured in 17 points to lead Pitt in scoring.

Pitt carried its momentum home on Saturday in an 87-47 blowout of Arkansas State (2-3) at the Petersen Events Center.

The Panthers never trailed the Red Wolves over the course of the game. Diop again led Pitt in scoring, dumping in 16 points.

The Panthers (5-1) will stay in Pittsburgh for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge when they take on Wisconsin (3-3) this Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Bertha, pg. 9 points. Pitt found success rushing Miami’s star quarterback Malik Rosier, sacking the redshirt junior four times in the contest.

“We have been getting better every week,” redshirt junior defensive end Dewayne Hendrix, who had a sack and a fumble recovery against Miami, said after the game. “Everything just takes time, but we really started to click in these last three or four games.”

Pickett made his first career start on Senior Day against the Hurricanes and was not fazed by the task of playing against one of the best defenses in the country.

After coming in as a second-stringer in the previous few games, Pickett threw for 193 yards and a touchdown against Miami. The Oakhurst, New Jersey, native also electrified Pitt’s offense with his feet too, rushing for 60 yards and two touchdowns.

“I have a lot of confidence in myself,” Pickett said. “No matter what field I walk on, I feel that I am the best player there. That’s just my mindset.”

Narduzzi was also impressed with Pickett’s performance.

“Kenny Pickett played lights out,” he said.

The consistency and gutsiness Pickett displayed is something Narduzzi has been looking

for from the quarterback spot all season.

Southern California graduate transfer Max Browne won the job out of training camp, only to play inconsistently before suffering a seasonending injury. Redshirt sophomore Ben DiNucci took over midway through the season, only to be marred by more underwhelming play.

Pickett showed the arm strength necessary to succeed as a quarterback against Miami, zipping balls into tight windows for senior wideout Jester Weah multiple times Friday afternoon.

He also showed the toughness that coaches love to have in their starting quarterbacks, taking a big hit on his first touchdown run but still scoring and running over Miami cornerback Malek Young for a first down in the second quarter.

Still, it was an overall disappointing season for the Panthers. They lost a lot of talent from last season’s team — notably two now-NFL players in quarterback Nathan Peterman and running back James Conner — and it showed on the field.

But there are still reasons for Pitt fans to have hope after a mediocre season. Pitt’s defense has massively improved and is only going to get better, and the Panthers have found their man in Pickett.

Building a good college football team is a slow, painful process, but Pitt has taken their first few steps in the right direction this season.

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Refrigerators, ranges, ovens, dishwashers included. A/C. Washer and dryer in basement. On Pitt and CMU shuttle routes. $3600/month + gas and electric. Owner pays water, sewer, and city garbage collection charges.

Please leave message at 412-372-9185.

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**AUGUST 2018: Furnished studios, 1,2,3,4 bedroom apartments. No pets.

Non-smokers preferred. 412-621-0457.

Apartments for rent.

2,3,4, and 5 bedroom apartments available. 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

1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments. $1015 + electric, $1599 + electric respectively.

Available August 1, 2018. Louisa St. 412-441-1211. info@ forbesmanagement. net. www.forbesmanagement.net.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Bedrooom Houses.

August 2018. Bouquet St, Meyran, Semple, Neville, Chesterfield.

412-287-5712.

2-3-4-5-6-7 bedroom apartments and houses available in May and August 2018. Nice, clean, free laundry, includes exterior maintenance, new appliances, spacious, located on Meyran, Bates, Oakland, Semple, Wellsford, Dawson, Juliet.

412-414-9629.

4 BR Home - Semple Street, located near Louisa. Equipped Kitchen, Full Basement. New central air added. Renting for August 2018.

(412) 343-4289 or 412-330-9498.

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.

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 Oakland Ave. - Garden Court Apartments.

Charming 2BR, hardwood floors, free heat. Move in May 1 or Aug. 1, 2018. Call 412-361-2695.

Ward & S. Bouquet Streets - Studio, 1, 2 & 3BR apartments. Free parking.

Move in May 1 or Aug. 1, 2018. Call 412-361-2695

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Squirrel Hill

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1655 Shady Avenue, First Floor Apartment: 3 BR, 2 Full Bath, spacious LR, Office, Enclosed Porch.

Lovely, large, bright apartment steps from the Squirrel Hill shopping district, an easy bus or bike ride to Pitt.

Monthly rent $1750, with about $100 for utilities. Laundry on-site, parking available.

Contact Larry Newman @ 412-421-3720 or lsnsss@verizon.net for a tour.

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Rental Other 2-Three Bedroom townhouses-side by side, take one or both (6 Bedrooms total).

Renovated bathrooms and kitchens. Fully equipped, dishwasher, free washing machine and dryers, etc. Walk to Pitt, CMU and Carlow, two blocks to Magee Hospital. On Pitt shuttle route. $ 1,500/Mo + g&e each.

Available August 2018. (412) 983-0400.

Apartment for rent.

Highland Park area, 3rd floor, 1BR, private entrance, $700/ month +electric.

412-719-0321.

Available now- Student sleeping room, furnished, shared bathroom and kitchen $450 with utilities. call 412-480-4446

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OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Management Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester, to interview & process rental applicants, do internet postings & help staff our action- central office. Part time or full time OK. Starting in January; full time over summer. $13/ hour. Perfect job for current sophomores & juniors, graduating seniors set to enter grad school, returning grad students, and firstyear law students!

Mozart Management 412-682-7003 thane@ mozartrents.com

Services Services Other Cell Phone & Computer Repair. Atlas.

4753 Liberty Avenue Bloomfield, Pittsburgh PA 15224.

412-681-2092.

Exclusive Discounted Business Class Air to Europe and Worldwide. Also, coach fare for US Travel and Worldwide. I have 35 years experience.

Call 412-884-0543 or email me your request joann.uts@gmail.com.

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