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Pitt names SHARE coordinator

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December 4, 2015 | Issue 75 | Volume 106

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After a month-and-a-half-long search, Student Affairs has installed a new coordinator for its Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education office.

Michele Welker, who took over 47 days after former coordinator Mary Koch Ruiz retired on Sept. 30, will head the SHARE office. Welker started in the position Nov. 16, Student Affairs said in a release Wednesday.

Before Welker accepted the position, Student Affairs conducted a search, and Koch Ruiz stayed in her position part-time. Koch Ruiz still maintains a private psychology practice in Squirrel Hill.

Welker will also work on the university’s Sexual Assault Task Force, a group of administrative leaders Pitt formed in May 2014 to combat sexual violence on campus. Welker will work closely with Pitt’s Title IX coordinator, Katie Pope, in leading the university’s efforts to prevent and respond to sexual misconduct, the release said.

At Pitt, the SHARE office serves as the catch-all resource for any student who is a victim of sexual violence and employs a staff of trained counselors.

As a counselor and social worker, Welker previously served as the family services coSee SHARE on page 3

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Marijuana decriminalization vote pending Chidi Nwakpuda Staff Writer

Pittsburgh City Council will consider decriminalizing marijuana in Pittsburgh later this month, possibly giving residents the gift of lesser charges for future drug violations.

On Dec. 21, City Council will vote on a proposed city ordinance that would direct

police to confiscate drugs and issue a $100 fine to individuals caught with fewer than 30 grams of marijuana rather than issue a misdemeanor that would linger on the person’s record.

Before the official vote, City Council will hold a public hearing on Dec. 15, and a preliminary vote the following day to gauge interest on the bill.

City councilman R. Daniel Lavelle, who represents Perry South, the Hill District, the Northside, Uptown, Downtown and Oakland, introduced the legislation Nov. 17, “to help protect Pittsburghers from unnecessary criminal charges.”

In a release, Lavelle said the Philadelphia City Council’s decision to pass a See Decriminalization on page 4

The Male Brain on Porn Casey Schmauder Staff Writer

William Struthers left the rat race of rodent research and started studying the brains of male porn addicts in 2004, delivering his findings to students Thursday night in the William Pitt Union.

Struthers, a psychology professor at Wheaton College in Illinois, was initially an animal researcher, studying rodents’ neurology and sexual behavior. When he began teaching at Wheaton in 1999, he realized that students were more interested in the sexual behavior of humans than of rats. After multiple students approached him privately about being “addicted” to pornography in 2004, Struthers changed paths.

“A number of male students visited my office and asked me why they were compulsively viewing pornography,” Struthers said. “That got me into the research. My students brought the problem

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to me, and I’m looking into it.”

Off the Hook, a Pitt student organization that promotes love and fidelity in relationships over the college hookup culture, hosted Struthers Thursday night in the O’Hara Student Center to talk about the injustices of pornography. About 150 students listened to Struthers’ research on the neurological effects of compulsive porn watching.

According to Struthers, viewing sexually explicit images is correlated with partaking in “risky” sex acts and drug use, and it also negatively affects a male’s ability to detect nonverbal nonconsent cues.

Struthers said men who watch pornography often experience decreased self-confidence, increased desire for social isolation and diminishment of the basal ganglia in the brain, which affects impulse control and individual learning.

Instead of individual learning or

Dr. William Struthers spoke to students Thursday about how the male brain reacts to pornography. Jeff Ahearn ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR pornography learn through sexual learning through experience, pornog“scripts” instead of through practice with raphy activates mirror neurons which a consenting partner. allow people to learn things simply by seeing and not doing. Men who watch See Porn Talk on page 3

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SHARE, pg. 1 ordinator and office manager for Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh, a local non-profit organization that assists low-income homeowners with critical home repairs.

Welker has also completed nearly 80 volunteer training hours with the Pittsburgh Action Against Rape.

Welker holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a certificate in women’s studies from Ohio University, and she also earned a master’s degree in social work with a specialization in women’s studies from Ohio State University. She is also a licensed independent social worker.

Kenyon Bonner, interim vice provost and dean of students, said Welker’s experience and passion make her right for the job, according to the release. Previously, Welker has served as a clinician at the St. Vincent Family Center in Columbus, Ohio, providing counseling services for parents of children enrolled in the agency’s pre-school partialhospitalization program, the release said.

She also worked as a clinical social worker for North Central Mental Health Services in Columbus, and as a case manager for the women’s shelter CHOICES for Victims of Domestic Violence.

Starting with a letter from Chancellor Patrick Gallagher in February this year, Pitt has increased its efforts to fight sexual violence on campus. In September, Pitt released the results of its campus-wide sexual assault survey with the Association of American Universities.

According to the survey’s data, 21 percent of women respondents said they had experienced nonconsensual touching or penetration during their time at Pitt. Of the men who responded, 6.1 percent said they had experienced nonconsensual sexual contact.

Welker said, at Pitt, her overarching goal is to help victims of sexual violence heal and move forward with their lives. “‘Information is power’ is truly my personal mantra,” Welker said in the release.

“I’m looking forward to helping our students acquire the information they need through programs, such as bystander intervention training, so that they can be as safe as possible on this campus.”

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Porn Talk, pg. 2 Struthers published his research in the Journal of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity and Enrichment in 2011 and has since published a book titled, “Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain.”

Jacque Faylo, president of Off the Hook, requested that Struthers come to Pitt after hearing him speak at Princeton University about pornography over the summer.

Off the Hook hosts talks that challenge hook-up culture and create spaces for students to speak openly about sex.

“We have noticed that hook-up culture is a problem, and it promotes problematic things like rape culture and issues with sense of self,” Faylo, a senior chemistry and religious studies major, said. “So, we bring in prominent speakers from diverse areas, and they each give their own arguments and evidence for sexual ethics.”

Reed Frey, founder of Off the Hook and a senior politics, philosophy and religious studies major, said Struthers shared his intellectual process with the students, while keeping things comical.

“It was backed up with a lot of heavy research, and he had a good critical thinking mind,” Frey said. “He shared the limitations of his research while also being confident in the claims backed by his research.”

Julie Beaulieu, a visiting lecturer in the GSWS department, said the issue of pornography is not so clear-cut.

“There are a range of different kinds of pornography, including feminist pornography, queer pornography, womancentric pornography,” Beaulieu said. “We tend to only think of one kind and that’s the objectifying, perhaps violent, perhaps misogynistic kind.”

Beaulieu said pornography can be reaffirming for women who are in communities that tell them to suppress or deny their desires. If pornography is negative toward women, Beaulieu said it is only represent-

ing the attitudes of our culture, which is the larger problem.

Struthers is still in the process of researching pornography’s effects on female brains, but said women were more aware of context, while men rely more on visual cues. Therefore, pornography attracts

Pornography ... has also created a culture where sexual exploitation is available all around.

raphy morphs and stimulates the brain,” Henkels said. “It wasn’t just opinionbased. We know tobacco is bad for you because of facts, and these are facts on how pornography is bad for you.”

Despite the complicated science and touchy subject matter, Struthers kept the talk lighthearted, imitating the way a Victoria’s Secret model struts “solicitously,” as he described how our culture commodifies sex, putting risque commercials on TV and Cosmo magazines in grocery store check-out lines.

He ended the discussion by addressing sexual ethics, and said if students took one thing away from the talk, it should be that pornography does harm, and the question of consent is just the cusp of those harms.

“Pornography is not just something that some people view, but it has also created a culture where sexual exploitation is available all around, free online, in the movies that people watch,” Struthers said. “It creates not just a culture of people viewing pornography but a culture of things being pornified.”

-William Struthers, researcher fewer female viewers.

Joseph Henkels, a senior public service major, said he enjoyed the talk more than others he had attended on pornography because of its scientific approach.

“It was good to look at how pornog-

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Decriminalization, pg. 1 similar decriminalization bill last October inspired the legislation.

Patrick Nightingale, a criminal defense attorney and executive director of Pitts-

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burgh’s chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, said decriminalizing marijuana cuts defendants some financial slack, especially those who opt for a plea bargain, as they will not have to go through the same legal process that follows an arrest.

“They still have to be fingerprinted, ap-

pear for court — most likely are hiring a lawyer — and they pay up to a $300 fine, plus [approximately] $130 in court costs, and then they are well advised to have their record expunged, which costs $100 in filing fees,” Nightingale said.

Racial disparities in the number of arrests for marijuana possession also prompted Lavelle’s call for change.

According to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union, police are 3.73 times more likely to arrest black people for marijuana possession than white people, despite

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the fact that marijuana is used about equally among blacks and whites in the United States.

In Pennsylvania, the report showed police were 5.19 times more likely to arrest black people for marijuana possession than white people.

Sara Rose, staff attorney for ACLU of Pittsburgh, said by virtue of being charged for a criminal offense, a state-recognized minor offense can have a substantial impact.

“Most of the people who are charged for marijuana end up being offered a plea to lead to a summary offense,” Rose said. “But you’re still pleading guilty to a drug possession offense which can then impact all kinds of benefits that people are eligible for.”

Robert Nyatt, the chair for the Ohio chapter of Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana, a national volunteer organization, said he is wary of the decriminalization of marijuana because the current possibility of punishment discourages people from using the drug.

“Two things come into play when it comes to decriminalization — keeping it illegal provides a deterrent and legalizing it removes the idea that there is harm and that it is a bad thing to do,” Nyatt said.

Nyatt’s main concern is that the lack of restrictions will amplify the medical risks of marijuana.

“The more people that use it, the more people become addicted,” Nyatt said.

Ohio also has a decriminalization law, a good strategy according to Nyatt because the law still puts restrictions on those people who possess marijuana but focuses on punishing those in possession of higher amounts — which Nyatt assumes means they are selling the drug — more harshly.

After years of witnessing the current legislation’s damages, Aggie Brose, deputy director of Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, said the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation has been fighting for action against the criminalization of marijuana at the local and state-level for many years.

“I got young men in my neighborhood now that are probably in their thirties who made a bad decision when they were young,” Aggie said. “Smoked a joint, got caught, got a record, and they are unemployed, and some of them are homeless.”

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Casual Fridays Cellfie President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, just gave Bilgin Ciftci nearly three months to defend one of the world’s hardest legal claims: Is Gollum a bad character? The trial, which is adjourned until Feb. 23, began when Ciftci caught Erdogan on his bad side after juxtaposing pictures of Erdogan and Gollum on social media. Erdogan has determined that Ciftci shall not pass on two years in prison for insulting a state official. But the decision is based on whether a committee made up of psychologists and movie experts decide that Gollum is a precious character, or a dead ringer for a villain. We’re a bit suspicious of Ciftci’s good intentions. After all, one does not simply use a picture of Gollum when discussing a president.

Irregularly shaped bulges On Tuesday, Canadian border control officials were shell shocked to find 51 live turtles taped to Kai Xu’s body. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward snapped when she realized that Xu was exporting the turtles from the United States and smuggling them into China to sell at a higher price. Apparently a summer 2014 bust didn’t slow Xu’s criminal crawl — but he’ll probably feel boxed-in in the cell officials have waiting for him. In his defense, Xu just wanted to join the turtle club. For future exporting excursions, we recommend that Xu ditch his sweats for some cargo pants.

Yolked up On Monday, deputies scrambled Jennifer Terry’s plans when they arrested her for an Aug. 20, mother-daughter venture. The egg-citing event consisted

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of Terry driving her daughter and several teens around Weber County, Utah, as they threw eggs at various properties.

Homeowners weren’t quite as eggstatic, citing several thousand dollars in damages. Terry confessed to the eggings, and wasn’t yolking when she said, “She simply did not care,” in a criminal report. While she may have given college students an excuse to not care about finals, Terry is hoping the case blows over-easy.

Haunted in South Dakota This Christmas, give your sweetheart what they’ve never wanted — a whole South Dakota town. Swett, South Dakota is currently selling for $250,000 — a dream come true for anyone who’s ever wanted to be a mayor, police chief, and, well, everything else. First things first — buy the property, then change the name.

The sole home in the town is reputably haunted, though we were unable to reach someone to confirm whether Swett was a ghost town, or just another town in South Dakota. So has it always been your dream to move to South Dakota? Probably not.

But is the deal too good to pass up?

Kanye for railroad conductor Once Mark Kilner’s petition to rename the Canterbury West railway station to the Kanye West Station went viral, the movement got harder, better, faster, stronger. Though Kilner registered the petition a little late, he’s managed to accumulate more than 1,000 signatures.

The movement may be FourFiveSeconds from transforming the station — people are pleading for officials to not be heartless. Regardless, Kilner is not planning on giving up on his beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy.

GEOGRAPHIC LITERACY IS AN EDUCATIONAL MUST Henry Glitz Columnist

To craft functional foreign policy, we need to have a basic appreciation of the world outside the United States.

Can someone let retired neurosurgeon and 2016 Republican presidential contender Ben Carson know about this requirement?

Carson committed a series of foreign policy gaffes that exposed a severely limited understanding of international realities . At the Nov. 10, GOP primary debate, Carson claimed, “Chinese are there,” in reference to Syria, despite the White House officials and the Chinese government saying otherwise. In a radio interview in March with conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt, Carson also couldn’t recognize the three former-Soviet Baltic states as members of NATO. Carson’s fumbles aren’t an individual shortcoming— they stem from a culture of geographic neglect. Americans have a long-standing reputation for being oblivious to the world outside their own borders.

But this dearth of geographical knowledge isn’t just embarrassing, it hinders how the United States interacts with foreign nations.

Political outsiders like Carson do not possess extensive formal training on foreign relations — if an outsider wins the upcoming presidential election, their limited geographic knowledge will color foreign policy negotiations.

In a political climate where interna-

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tional relations lead, we need education focused on the interconnectivity of the world. But this goes beyond being able to identify a country on a map.

It’s understandable that a retired neurosurgeon might not know the international landscape as a career politician.

But when that candidate currently has 18.8 percent of Republicans’ support in national polls, according to Real Clear Politics , the lack of concern for geographic literacy becomes a threat to effective foreign policy.

Geographic illiteracy in the general population supports rash foreign policy decisions from our political elite — people are more easily swayed when they have limited knowledge on the subject.

In April 2013, Pew Research Center found that 45 percent of Americans that were surveyed supported United States-led intervention in the growing conflict in Syria, despite only 18 percent of all respondents claiming to follow news from the country “very closely.”

Ignorance about the rest of the world isn’t limited to the Middle East, either.

The 2014 Ebola outbreak was limited largely to Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and a few other West African nations. Nevertheless, tourism in countries thousands of miles removed, like Kenya and South Africa, suffered significantly lower numbers of visitors because of lingering fear after the outbreak , according to Heidi Vogt of the See Glitz on page 6

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Glitz, pg. 5 Wall Street Journal.

Federal education policy sustains this disregard for geographic literary in politics.

According to Penn State professor Roger Downs, curriculums increasingly heavy in math and reading can result in low levels of proficiency in geography.

Downs released a statement with the U.S. Department of Education’s 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress Report Card , stating that as “classroom time becomes an even more precious and scarce commodity, geography, with subjects such as history and the arts, is losing out in the zero-sum game that results from highstakes testing.”

This loss is already beginning to show festering results.

A 2013 Pew Research Center survey asked subjects to identify a shaded country on a map of the Middle East.

Only half of the respondents correctly

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Victor Gonzalez STAFF ILLUSTRATOR identified the country as Syria. Almost 20 percent of the respondents identified it as Turkey — the United States ally, NATO member and EU applicant to Syria’s north — while another 15 percent had no answer.

The survey also found that younger people scored lower than older people on tests of political knowledge. Only 46 percent of those younger than 30 correctly identified John Kerry as a

nominee for secretary of state. Younger people were also less likely to identify Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, and John Boehner, who was then serving as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Solving the problem of low geographic literacy will be more complex and yield greater benefits than simply teaching Americans where to point to on a map, but it still starts by teaching Ameri-

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cans to be spatially aware of the world around them.

Not everyone is going to wind up forging foreign relations deals, but geographic literacy will beam a spotlight on everyone’s political and cultural awareness.

Henry primarily writes on government and domestic policy for The Pitt News.

Write Henry at hgg7@pitt.edu.

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Jamie Dixon has not lost a City Game as Pitt’s head coach.

Wenhao Wu STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER in 2000, Pitt has reeled off 14 consecuJeremy Tepper tive wins against the Dukes and holds an Senior Staff Writer overall 52-31 series lead. As Duquesne (6On the outside, the yearly Pitt1) prepares to face off against Pitt (4-1) at Duquesne basketball series — dubbed the the Consol Energy Center at 4 p.m FriCity Game — seems to have all the qualiday, Duquesne guard Micah Mason said ties of a legitimate rivalry. this could be the year the Dukes break the They’ve played each other since 1932, streak. the two programs are in close vicinity — “This is the most confidence we’ve had just down the street from each other — going into a Pitt game, for sure,” Mason and the matchups are often intense and said. physical.

Duquesne fuels itself with a fastYet, there’s one thing missing from the paced, high-scoring offense, averaging series recently: competitive final scores.

Since Duquesne last won the game

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Men’s Basketball, pg. 7 86.7 points per game, good for 21st in the country. The Dukes have climbed at a rapid pace, making 51.4 percent of their shots, while also knocking down 10.9 threes a game, the eighth best in the country.

Pitt will try to match Duquesne with an offense that pushes the ball more these days under head coach Jamie Dixon. Though not quite as proficient as Duquesne, Pitt has averaged 83.2 points per game on 47.9 percent shooting.

Between the two high-scoring squads, Duquesne head coach Jim Ferry doesn’t expect this game to be a defensive slugfest.

“This is going to be an up and down game,” Ferry said.

Despite the similar offensive productivity, Duquesne guard Derrick Colter said his team has an advantage in speed.

“We’ve got a lot of speed and quickness, more than [the Panthers]. They’re slower than us,” Colter said. “We can push the tempo on them a lot, especially in transition.”

Due in part because of his high-tempo

offense, Ferry said this is Duquesne’s best chance at beating Pitt simply because it’s his best team. Dixon has mixed feelings about Pitt’s offense so far — he’s happy with the productivity but disappointed with its accompanying mindset.

“At the end of the day, we can’t be a team that relies on making shots,” Dixon said.

Though D i x o n p r i d e s himself on strong play in both categories, Pitt has been inconsistent in defense and rebounding this season.

Pitt has out-rebounded its competition by 6.6 rebounds a game, 66th in the country. Defensively, Pitt ranks 119th in points surrendered, allowing 69 points per game. Dixon is very matter of fact about

his team’s need to improve in both facets.

“The rebounding is a concern, the defense is the concern,” Dixon said. “The understanding, the sense of urgency is not where it needs to be to be a really, really good team.”

Defensively, Pitt will focus on containing Duquesne’s backcourt of Colter and Mason.

Colter’s averaged 19.9 points per game with 2.7 threes, while Mason’s put up 16.9 points and 3.6 threes a game.

Ferry provided a different prognostication when scouting Pitt. Duquesne has a shorter team than Pitt, as the Dukes play in the less competitive Atlantic 10, as opposed to the ACC. While Pitt has 10 players that are 6-foot-6 or taller, Duquesne has six players of such stature.

“We can’t be a team that relies on making shots.”

-Jamie Dixon, coach

That size, Ferry said, can give his team some troubles.

“It’s going to be a challenge to score on them with their size and their length,” Ferry said.

Though Pitt might stand tall over Duquesne, Purdue’s frontcourt dwarfed the Panthers in size, which helped lead the Boilermakers to a 72-59 win on Tuesday.

When scouting for a game, Ferry said he watches his team’s previous game against the opponent, as well as three of the opponent’s games on the current season.

While he watched the Purdue game, Ferry sees little benefit in applying Purdue’s strategies — which relied on its size — in preparing for Pitt.

“That Purdue game’s not going to help me that much because we don’t have monsters like they do up front,” Ferry said.

But as long as Duquesne succeeds defensively and on the boards, Ferry said his team could pull off the upset.

“If we can defend and rebound with these guys, we’ll give ourselves a chance to win the game,” Ferry said.

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Pitt hoops drops decisive Big Ten/ACC matchup Chris Puzia

Assistant Sports Editor The Big Ten has not been kind to Suzie McConnell-Serio this week.

After two wins against teams in the conference during her first season as Pitt’s women’s basketball coach last year, Michigan became the second straight Big Ten team to hand her Panthers a loss this season, following No. 6 Maryland on Nov. 28.

Despite a season-best effort from Yacine Diop, Pitt (4-3) fell on the road to Michigan (7-0) Thursday night, 8245, in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

Last year, the Panthers hosted and easily dispatched the Wolverines, 8564, and in the 2014 Big Ten/ACC Challenge, Pitt matched up with Ohio State and won, 78-74.

Pitt dug itself an early hole with sloppy play, turning the ball over five times in the first six minutes of

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the game, leading to eight Michigan points.

The Wolverines continued to attack inside — its first seven field goals all came in the paint.

Pitt hung around in the first quarter despite the early mistakes. The team cut its turnovers and used jumpers from Diop and freshman forward Kalista Walters to stay within five points in the first quarter. But Diop and sophomore forward Stasha Carey each picked up two early first-quarter fouls, limiting McConnell-Serio’s rotation.

Michigan immediately capitalized , attacking the paint and getting out in transition quickly.

Diop, who averaged 9.7 points per game entering Thursday, finished with a game and career-high 26 points on an efficient 12-15 shooting against Michigan.

After a close first period, though,

Michigan gained big separation, opening up a 19-point second-quarter lead, thanks to a 9-0 run to start the quarter and key baskets from sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty, who finished with 24 points.

Pitt continued to turn the ball over in the first half, with Diop responsible for five of the team’s first 11 giveaways. Though she scored a game-high 15 first-half points on a perfect 7-7 shooting, her turnovers and two fouls hurt the team.

Michigan’s opportunistic combination of offensive rebounds and takeaways led to 26 points off of 24 Pitt turnovers in the game. The Panthers trailed behind the entire game.

Michigan’s balanced offensive onslaught gave it a decisive 46-24 halftime lead, and it never looked back.

In the second half, Michigan opened that advantage up to a game-

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high 37 points, as Flaherty took over.

Meanwhile, the Panthers continued to struggle with ball control, turning the ball over four times in a scoreless fourminute span late in the third quarter.

Behind Diop, no Panther scored more than four points, which came from Walters.

After a slow start from 3-point range, the Wolverines heated up and finished shooting 56 percent from long range.

Pitt sputtered after scoring 13 points in the first quarter, its highest output of the game. Michigan’s lowest scoring quarter by contrast was the last, with 18. The Panthers did not score for the final 4 minutes, 28 seconds of the game.

Pitt has now lost three of its last four games and will return to the Petersen Events Center on Sunday for a 3 p.m. matchup against Holy Cross.

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Call 412-595-7682 or email: daquilantes@yahoo.com

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3BR apartment available for Spring semester. Central air, dishwasher, great location and discounted price.

412-915-0856 4 BR townhouse, Semple St., available May 1st & August 1st, 2016. Equipped kitchen, full basement. 412-343-4289.

Call after 5:00 pm.

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

Apartments for rent beginning August 2016. A/C, dishwasher, washer/dryer.

412-915-0856

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

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

412-983-0400 Clean, Newly Remodeled Houses and Apartments.

1-9 Bedrooms. Call 412-680-4244 or email s.cusick@comcast.net www.superiorpropertiesgroup.com.

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House for RentJuliet Street.

Available January 2016.

Big 3-bedroom, 2story house 1.5 bath, fully-equipped eatin kitchen/appliances/new refrigerator, living, dining room, 2 porches, full basement, laundry/ storage, parking on premises, super clean, move-in condition. Near universities/hospitals/bus. $1700+.

John CR Kelly Realty has 1-2-3-4 bedroom studio apartments available for rent for Fall 2016. Call 412683-7300 to make an appointment today!

Large 1-2-3 BR apartments available August 1st. 3450 Ward Street. 312 and 314 South Bouquet Street.

Free parking. Minutes to campus. Cat friendly. Call 412977-0111.

R INSERTIONS 1X 2X 3X 4X 5X 6X ADDITIONAL A 1-15 WORDS $6.30 $11.90 $17.30 $22.00 $27.00 $30.20 $5.00 T 16-30 WORDS $7.50 $14.20 $20.00 $25.00 $29.10 $32.30 $5.40 E S DEADLINE: TWO BUSINESS DAYS PRIOR BY 3 PM | EMAIL: ADVERTISING@PITTNEWS.COM | PHONE: 412.648.7978 (EACH ADDITIONAL WORD: $0.10)

Renovated Large Three Bedroom Townhome for Rent.

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

Various 3&4 bedroom apartments on Bates, Atwood, Semple & Meyran Streets. Starting from $1,675- $2,600. Now renting for Fall 2016.

Call John CR Kelly Realty. 412-683-7300.

Various 2-bedroom apartments on Meyran, Halket, Fifth, Ward & Bates Streets. Starting from $995-$1,675. Available in August 2016.

Call John CR Kelly Realty. 412-683-7300.

Various 1-bedroom apartments on Meyran, Pier & Ward Streets. Starting from $675-$795. Available August 2016. Call John CR Kelly Realty. 412-682-7300

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

1,2,3,5,6,7, & 8 bedroom houses. August & May 2016.

Bouquet, Atwood, Meyran, Ward. Call 412-287-5712.

Personal, professional masseuse needed. Long term position. 2X/week.

Washington County location. Call 724-223-0939 or 724229-8868 any time.

Pager: 888-200-8220

ATTENTION OCCASIONAL SMOKERS! UPMC seeks healthy adults ages 18-65 who occasionally smoke cigarettes.

This research is examining how smokers respond to cigarettes that are low in nicotine.

There are up to seven sessions lasting about three hours each. Research participants completing the study will be compensated up to $60 per session, or $20 per hour. For more information, call 412-246-5393 or visit www.SmokingStudies.pitt.edu

Looking for male sublet for spring semester. 367 Atwood St. Apt 1. $600/month. Washer/Dryer. Parking spot available. Clean and quiet roommate.

Please call Patrick at 412-780-6777.

Nice 6BR house available Aug. 1, 2016.

Laundry on site. To make an appointment call 412-812-9382.

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College or graduate school students needed to work with elementary school children in a fun, structured after school program in the South Hills. $11-$13 per hour, flexible hours, must have own transportation. Email resume or letter of interest to jhroberts66@comcast.net

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

MOZART MANAGEMENT www.mozartrents .com 412-682-7003

OFFFICE INTERN Shadyside Management Company seeks person w/ min 3 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester, to interview & process rental applications, do internet postings & help staff our action-central office. Part time or full time OK starting January 2; full time in summer. $12/hour.

Perfect job for graduating seniors set to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first-year law students!

Mozart Management 412.682.7003. thane@mozartrents.com

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

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