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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | January 23, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 95

Faculty show support for unionization

PITT DEMS AND LIBS DEBATE HEALTH CARE Sid Lingala Staff Writer

Paul Johnson, a faculty union organizer and Pitt communication professor, gives information about the union’s progress to about 50 people in the William Pitt Union Ballroom. John Hamilton | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Madelina Gavatorta Staff Writer

Jennifer Lee, a senior English lecturer at Pitt for the last two decades, said it was luck and allies in the tenure faculty that got her the job she currently holds — and she remembers realizing how privileged she was compared to faculty who don’t have those benefits.

“My very good friend and colleague — who I worked with almost that whole 20 years, who did the same work that I did — had trouble getting promoted, had trouble rising to the same rank that I am even though we had done exactly the same work,” Lee said.

Lee spoke about her experiences at the faculty union’s Card Campaign Kickoff Monday, which took place from noon to 1 p.m. in the William Pitt Union Ballroom. Assistant professor Paul Johnson of the communication department said the union initiative was born in August 2015, a few months after the grad

students had started organizing, and has since advanced.

“We don’t end up where we end up necessarily solely based on our talents and merit.

There’s a lot of fortune and a lot of chance that goes into it,” Johnson said. “Unionization seems like a good way to help make sure that everybody deserves a good, reliable, steadypaying job.”

Card signing was important to get a sense of how much support the group has. If the faculty union gets 30 percent of the approximately 4,000 full- and part-time faculty across all five of Pitt’s campuses’ support, it can hold an election to vote on the union. If it gets 50 percent, then Pitt has the chance to voluntarily recognize them as a union. The union has one year to get enough votes.

As part of the effort to gain more support, doctoral candidate Beth Shaaban of Pitt’s epidemiology department, adjunct lecturer Carl Redwood in the School of Social Work and

Pitt Progressives co-chair Sean Bailey, a sophomore computer science and philosophy major, all joined Lee in speaking at the event.

The event was intended to rally faculty support and resulted in approximately 65 signed union authorization cards, according to the Academic Workers Association of the United Steelworkers.

“I also have lots of friends and colleagues — who have doctoral degrees, who are extremely talented teachers and are wonderful people — and they struggle to make ends meet in the economy of higher education,” Johnson said.

If the union gets enough votes in the yearlong time frame, then faculty can send letters of support for the union to Harrisburg.

“Our slogan is that ‘the University works because we do.’ But this slogan undersells things a bit,” Johnson said during his speech.

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Char Goldbach recounted leaving school early one semester because she could not get proper health care for her depression.

“There are millions of Americans like me who suffer from depression and don’t get the care they deserve,” Goldbach said. “I am not afraid to share my story because I want people to be aware of the shortcomings of the current health care system.”

Goldbach, a senior majoring in political science and communication, represented the Pitt Democrats opposite the Pitt Libertarians at the Healthcare Debate hosted by Pitt Health Occupations Students of America Monday night in the William Pitt Union.

Pranav Murthy, president of Pitt HOSA and a junior majoring in biology and economics, said the debate was a follow-up to an event last year, regarding President Donald Trump’s policies on universal health care, to see how views have changed since his inauguration.

“As young voters, we hear a lot of things from the news that may not be true or that we don’t understand,” Murthy said. “It is important that we learn about the health care system in an engaging form of a debate.”

The event started with the presentation of the debate’s resolution, “The United States government should ensure that all Americans receive adequate health care,” followed by the Pitt Democrats’ affirmation and the Pitt Libertarians’ repudiation of the resolution. The Pitt Democrats then presented their argument for universal health care.

Grace Dubois, a first year majoring in political science and biology also representing the Pitt Democrats, began her side’s case by describing See Debate on page 2

“The University is because we are. The University does not exist without students who pay their tuition and expect their teachers to be well-compensated, competent and to know well in advance of each semester which classes they will be teaching.”

The event also gave attendees — approximately 80 total — the chance to text “PITTFAC” to 47486. After sending in a name and email, the texter could then suggest improvements based on their experiences at Pitt about current faculty pay and working conditions.

Organizers were already in agreement with some suggestions and complaints, such as job security, transparency and better pay, which were common themes among the speeches.

Assistant English professor Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder said unionizing can help promote better planning in the classroom and in personal life.

“Job security is important, because if you can imagine getting a call in August and knowing that you have classes or that the classes you thought you had you don’t have anymore, how are you supposed to plan for your family, your future?” Rodriguez Fielder said.

The University did not comment regarding whether or not it will voluntarily recog-

Debate, pg. 1 how adequate health care is a human right and how patients are victims of the current system.

“The U.S. Declaration of Independence described life, liberty and happiness as rights, but liberty and happiness is impossible without life,” Dubois said. “Patients should be able to choose their doctors. In our current health care system, doctors can reject patients without insurance.”

Dubois also illustrated the economic benefits of adopting a universal health care system and the need to prioritize human life over profit.

“A universal health care system can save the U.S. over a half trillion dollars by cutting down on administrative waste and switching over to patient-oriented care,” Dubois said. “Lawmakers cannot ignore the human cost of a profit-oriented system.”

In the Libertarians’ cross-examination of the Democrats’ argument, Cameron Hallihan, a sophomore majoring in neuroscience representing the Libertarians, criticized the plan to fund a universal health care system’s model.

“How would you propose to fund this system?” Hallihan inquired. “Paying for this system through taxes is nothing like paying a road tax.”

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nize the union if the vote gets to 50 percent.

In a similar situation, the University spoke out against the unionization efforts of Pitt graduate students, saying they would negatively affect relationships between the University and graduate students.

Shaaban, who is a part of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, spoke in support of a faculty union, drawing from her work with the upcoming grad union.

“Today, Pitt faculty, those of us on the Graduate Student Organizing Committee affirm your inherent value and worth as human beings — not just as surplus value generators for your administration,” Shaaban said.

Along with student support, Pitt Progressives also helped organize the event. Bailey said they got involved when USW Tamara Lefcowitz spoke with them about collaborating with the union, and Pitt Progressives fully supports the unionization efforts. While the event focused on faculty, Bailey said it is important for faculty and students to show support for each other to achieve similar goals.

“In faculty and grad student organizing and organizing people who teach that, it’s really important to have undergraduate solidarity,” Bailey said. “We’re not going to give in or agree with the propaganda, and we support the union.”

Hallihan went on to illustrate other countries’ universal health care systems’ inability to provide quality care compared to America’s free market system. He cited insufficient supplies and the United States’ pre-existing low hospital death rate as reasons to avoid universal health care. Hallihan also portrayed the hardships of funding universal health care.

“You can’t just tax the rich to pay for this system. If you tax the rich 100 percent, it would only cover half of the cost of the plan,” Hallihan said.

“Taxes will go up on everyone.”

After cross-examining the Libertarians’ argument, the Democrats entered into their rebuttal and emphasized the government’s responsibility to provide for the American people’s health.

Goldbach explained how her firsthand experience made her realize the wait time for receiving care can seem like forever. Dubois also pointed out how, though most Americans favor universal health care, companies are prioritized over individuals.

The debate ended with the Libertarians’ rebuttal. Phil Saggese, a sophomore political science major, described how people from other countries preferred America’s current health care See Debate on page 6

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Op-Ed

A conservative reflects on Trump’s first year Marlo Safi | Op-Ed Contributor

During my tenure as assistant opinions editor for The Pitt News in 2016, I wrote a scathing column about Milo Yiannopoulos’ visit to Pitt after the College Republicans hosted him.

I was on the verge of apoplexy in this tirade — I was livid that this loud-mouthed charlatan who resembled Liberace in his bombast could just prance onto the stages of hundreds of college campuses across the country and co-opt conservatism to appeal to the politically weary.

Yiannopoulos — who referred to now-President Donald Trump as “daddy” and described him as the savior America needed to smash the establishment — is unabashed in his polemic, making odious claims deprecating Islam, feminists and Black Lives Matter, often met with thunderous applause, but also protest.

I was 19 at the time of Yiannopoulos’ visit, and while he was uncouth, I thought his iconoclasm was necessary. Were Americans becoming “snowflakes?” Were Yiannopoulos’ criticisms of the liberal elite that neglected working-class Americans fair? I grappled with both questions, all while supporting his right to ask them, no matter in what coarse fashion he chose. I gave him credit where I thought it was due.

Fast forward to November 2016 when Trump won the presidential election. The answers to the previous questions, in the eyes of a great deal of American voters, were “yes” and “certainly, yes.” Unlike most pundits and politicians, Yiannopoulos and Trump reached these aggrieved people. The “deplorables” wanted the change they had been promised for the past eight years, and the boisterous TV star was the key to achieving it.

And I began to sympathize. Trump brought little dignity to the most prized office in our government, and I predicted his presidency would be rife with political pageantry — which was a fair prediction, as his crude tweeting habit has demonstrated over and over. Yiannopoulos’ and Trump’s fan bases were simply fed up with the status quo, I used to tell myself. Their supporters don’t have malicious intentions — they just want someone to disrupt the system and force

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Republican leadership to grow a collective spine.

This logic followed me to the Trump era of 2017 as I became president of Pitt College Republicans, but it’s slowly disintegrated before me since then.

It’s been one year since Trump assumed office. While there has been much success, including tax reform and the appointment of pro-life

Virginia, were “Trump/Pence” campaign signs.

After a white nationalist rally to end refugee resettlement in Tennessee, a spokesperson for the Council on American-Islamic Relations notes the state has experienced a rise in antiMuslim bigotry since the election. People with alt-right sympathies would attend Pitt College Republicans meetings as if that would be the

Courtesy of Marlo Safi Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, I witnessed the GOP morph into something I wasn’t comfortable with.

Whether Trump intended to make crude and bigoted behavior a normality or not, this became a reality. Amid the Confederate battle flags and anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic banners at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville,

one location where such beliefs would be in good company — and if they expressed these sympathies, we’d often kick them out.

Before Trump initiated the immigration ban on six Muslim-majority countries, I visited my family in Syria — one of the banned countries — in October. I had the opportunity to meet my younger cousins who were born after my last

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visit before the civil war began. They barraged me with questions about America, and one of the questions I was asked perturbed me: “Why does your president hate us?”

I was never one to allow emotion to direct my political beliefs — as conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” I agree. My cousin could have also asked why Barack Obama, who dropped more than 26,171 bombs on seven majorityMuslim countries including Syria, hates him.

Yet I was compelled to do some soul-searching. The difference here is, I would’ve held Obama accountable for his deed. And this past year has been a lesson in humility — whether I like it or not, trying to harmonize my conservative values with this presidency is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

I don’t fit into the GOP in 2018. Republicans called me an elitist when I insisted that perhaps conservative student groups should reject the likes of Turning Point USA, and instead read conservative stalwarts such as Roger Scruton or Edmund Burke. Republicans called me a RINO — Republican in name only — for distancing myself in 2018 from the GOP and the College Republicans chapter that I served in for over three years due to discomfort with the hypocrisy within the party.

If I’m an elitist RINO, so be it.

I’m 21 now, and will soon graduate from college. In the time between when Trump proved himself a serious contender for president and now, my outlook has changed. I realized the world that I’m soon entering harbors many people that I share a party affiliation with but who are despicable human beings. Republicans love to laud Judeo-Christian values, so let’s start criticizing Trump for talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Through a prolonged identity evolution catalyzed by the 2016 election, I learned distancing myself from a party and its politicians severs my allegiance to it, allowing me to focus on principle. And America could use a good dose of it in the coming years.

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Culture

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PITT PLAYWRIGHTS COMPETE IN FESTIVAL

Caroline Bourque and Shahum Ajmal The Pitt News Staff

Onstage, two actors sparred, bickered and gestured toward an imaginary hole in the floor as a willing audience played along — bringing to life a story from the mind of a fellow Pitt student.

At the third annual Playwriting Festival, hosted by the Pitt Performance Collaborative, three students had the chance to see their original written works read and staged in front of an audience of about 40 people. The event took place in the Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning Jan. 21 from 6-9 p.m.

The first staged reading of the night — “A Hole Halfway to China in our Suburban Backyard” — written by Pitt student and senior English writing and theater arts major Jessica Simpson, explored the troubles and anxieties of long-term marriage and how those involved learn to cope and grow in the face of a perceptibly stale relationship.

According to Nico Bernstein, chair of the PC and senior theatre arts and natural sciences major, the event organizers began advertising for this year’s festival in playwriting classes last semester and sent out emails to the English, history, writing and theater departments during a three-month span before the Dec. 28 deadline.

A panel of three judges from within the theatre arts department — grad student Courtney Colligan and faculty members Sara Thiel and Dennis Schebetta — anonymously read the submissions and narrowed their nine choices down to three finalists, providing notes and feedback for all who submitted their work.

“The PC exists as a club to fill in the gaps of opportunities we have here at Pitt,” Bernstein said. “There are very few opportunities to get out your playwriting experience or to have it judged in a more formal and competitive style, rather than just taking a class.”

Three different directors and 10 actors collaborated to produce the staged readings — recruited through Facebook and simple word-ofmouth throughout the theater department at Pitt, according to Bernstein. The PC allowed for

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“I’ve always enjoyed writing about writing, and I wanted to see what would happen if there were significant interludes of poetry and poetic language put into a piece of theater,” Walker said.

“Sort of in conversation with more naturalistic scenes.”

Walker said she hoped the audience understood that despite her acknowledgment of the fallibility of language, artists should continue to create and fight the urge to lean toward solipsism.

“It was really wonderful to be part of an event that sort of prioritized creativity and community the way that this one did,” she said.

For first-place winner Punturi, the festival was not his first endeavor in playwriting, though it was the first time he had seen his work in a staged performance.

As part of the third annual Playwriting Festival, Pitt students showcased “Seeing actors bringing life to characters I three original plays in the Cathedral of Learning Jan. 21. had written — it felt kind of magical,” he said.

Courtesy of Allen Howard/HDIC Productions Punturi’s play, titled “Waiting Room,” portrays the interactions between two siblings as they sit in a hospital waiting room, anxious to see their ailing grandmother. Uncertainty weighs heavily on the situation as well as within each character, though endearing jibes and a steady alliance keeps the characters afloat among the cynical characters who come across them.

-Jacob Punturi Punturi found inspiration for his work after Referring to the importance of providing this spending an extended amount of time in a waitone week of rehearsal for the performers, accepting slight edits and rewrites from each playwright kind of opportunity for student playwrights at ing room for his own grandmother at the start Pitt, Bernstein said playwrights should see how of the last fall semester. He dedicated “Waiting before the night of the festival.

Bernstein oversaw the planning process of their written work translates to the stage.

Room” to her at the festival — she was in atten“Theater starts on paper and moves into the dance — with a brief “for Nora” during the play’s the festival with the help of PC vice president Rachel Lipton — booking the performance space physical, actual stage,” he said. “For a lot of peo- introduction, a nod to her nickname. ple, it’s the first time they’ve gotten to take that and finding actors and directors.

“My grandma asked me afterwards if that’s “There’s no single part of theater that’s the step.” what I meant,” he said. “I was like yeah, of course, Peri Walker, a junior English literature and it was 100 percent for you.” most important,” he said. “Everybody has to do theater arts double major, wrote “Anna is a Poet” their job for the show to actually go on.”

Puntari said his main playwriting influences The PC received funding from Outside the — which earned her second place at the festival include Samuel Beckett and Sam Shepard, referClassroom Curriculum to pay the playwrights — during her first playwriting class at Pitt, taken encing the profundity of simple language and refor their work — the prize money for the three last semester. lationships that are equal parts familiar and emo“It was so exciting to see the piece stand on its tionally moving — elements that come across finalists was $200, $100 and $50 from first to third place, respectively. The first place winner — own sort of outside my head,” she said. clearly in his own work.

“Anna is a Poet” follows the inner struggle of senior nonfiction writing and sociology major “There’s so much going on all the time in Jacob Punturi, for his play “Waiting Room” — the title character, who grapples with the realiza- these weird situations,” he said. “I hope [the auwas offered the additional prize of having their tion that communication and self-expression, dience] took away that there’s some kind of huplay performed in a full-scale production next especially in poetry, may never come through as mor and ways to be positive and make it through purely to its recipient as the writer intends. semester. what seems to be an impossible situation.”

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Seeing actors bringing life to characters I had written — it felt kind of .

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Sports

...or should he go?

KE VIN STALLINGS:

SHOULD HE STAY...

Pitt men’s basketball head coach Kevin Stallings has led the Panthers on their worst season this year since 2000. John Hamilton | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

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Trent Leonard Staff Witer

The Pitt men’s basketball team, under head coach Kevin Stallings, is currently 8-12 overall, with an 0-7 record in the ACC. That puts the Panthers in the basement of the conference.

To make matters worse, they’ve struggled to keep games close — all seven ACC losses have been decided by 14 points or more.

So, with one of the worst seasons in Pitt basketball history underway, the popular question becomes: who is to blame?

For most Pitt fans, the answer is simple — Stallings. The default scapegoat for any struggling sports team, at any level, is the head coach. In Stallings’ case, the program’s instantaneous downturn after the departure of longtime head coach Jamie Dixon — who guided the Panthers to an NCAA tournament appearance in 11 of his 13 seasons — looks particularly bad.

To provide some background, the Panthers went 16-17 overall and 4-14 in the ACC last year in Stallings’ inaugural season as head coach. In the off-season, Pitt lost four seniors to graduation, as well as five players who decided to transfer. That left Stallings with just two experienced returning players — seniors

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Ryan Luther and Jonathan Milligan — entering this season.

And now, with one-and-a-half poor seasons to show in his time at Pitt, people are calling for Stallings to lose his job — which is absolutely ridiculous.

What more do fans expect from someone whom they’ve given such little support?

Stallings was met with lukewarm reception from the moment his name was announced as head coach — as though we were expecting Coach K to leave Duke and come coach the Panthers. Apparently, Stallings didn’t come from an alluring enough program, or his resumé wasn’t impressive enough for Pitt fans.

Stallings built up a solid reputation during his 17-season stint at Vanderbilt. He left as the Commodores winningest head coach, having guided eight seasons of more than 20 wins and accumulated a 471-300 all-time record between his time at Vanderbilt and Illinois State. He’s been to nine NCAA tournaments and has coached 10 NBA players. Pitt fans like to question his decisions as though he’s a rookie, but he’s been at this for a long time.

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Colin Martin Staff Writer

Currently winless in conference play this season and 4-21 overall in the ACC during his time at Pitt, Kevin Stallings has done little to establish Pitt or himself in the ACC. In two years, Stallings has coached the Panthers to a 55-point loss at home against Louisville and a 35-point loss on national television at Duke. His most famous moment to date is an incident in which he yelled at an opposing fan in the midst of a 26-point defeat.

That is Stallings’ head coaching career at Pitt summed up.

According to an SBNation poll going on right now, about 65 percent said Pitt will finish the season winless in the ACC, while 29 percent said the Panthers will win one game in conference play. An optimistic group of 6 percent thinks the team will win more than one game in the ACC. The Panthers have been underdogs in every single conference game this season except for a home game against fellow ACC bottom-dweller Georgia Tech. The

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Panthers couldn’t even muster a victory in their easiest game of the year, falling to the Yellow Jackets 69-54.

Conference losses like that have become common since Pitt athletic director Scott Barnes hired Stallings to replace longtime head coach Jamie Dixon. The decision was criticized as a step backward because of Stallings’ limited success at Vanderbilt and penchant for stirring up controversy with his players.

Stallings had previously coached the University of Vanderbilt Commodores, going 332-220 overall, but only 138-142 in the SEC during 17 seasons. This included one SEC tournament championship between 2011 and 2012.

Simply put, Stallings was a below-average head coach in a conference that is considerably weaker than the ACC. The SEC only had five teams in the NCAA tournament last year, compared to nine teams from the ACC. Nonetheless, Stallings became the head coach of a team with its top six returning players, including two — Michael Young and Jamel Artis — that both See Martin on page 6

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Martin, pg. 5 signed two-way contracts in the NBA this year, which allow players to play in the G league and spend up to 45 days with an NBA team.

Even with substantial talent on the roster, the 2016-2017 season was a disappointment for the Panthers. The team only won four games in the ACC, with signature wins coming against two ranked teams — Virginia and Florida State.

The Panthers continued to disappoint off the court, with five players deciding to leave the program following the end of the season. The most notable departure was star guard Cameron Johnson.

Johnson dealt with many issues while transferring. After graduating early from Pitt, Johnson had two more seasons of NCAA eligibility. Pitt and Stallings, however, tried to force Johnson to sit out a season if he chose to transfer to a fellow ACC school.

The program’s behavior during Johnson’s exit received scrutiny from national media including ESPN’s Jay Bilas, who blasted Pitt for restricting Johnson’s transfer.

Johnson eventually transferred to the University of North Carolina without losing any eligibility. This year he averages 11.7 points and 5.1 rebounds per game for the No. 10 Tar Heels.

Pitt’s struggles undoubtedly come, on some level, from its young roster — a result of Stallings’ inability to keep veteran players with the team.

Stallings has also failed to replace that outgoing talent with promising

Debate, pg. 2 system and that the universal health care system is not feasible.

“There are countless Canadians seeking superior health care in the U.S.,” said Saggese.

“When you create a health care system, you can’t have low prices, quality and accessibility. You can only choose two of the three.”

Following the Libertarians’ rebuttal, audience members were permitted to ask the debaters questions. One audience member asked the Libertarians about whether health care should be considered a right. Saggese replied proper care could not be available to everyone.

“It would be great for everyone to have rights,

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young recruits. He was known for getting top recruits at Vanderbilt and was supposed to make an impact with the players he would bring in. So far, Stallings has failed to bring in serious talent. Last year’s recruiting class featured no recruits above a three-star rating, and their inconsistent play on the court proves it.

According to ESPN, Pitt has one player signed for the 2018 recruiting class — Bryce Golden, a four-star power forward from Maryland. Golden is a solid recruit for Pitt, but the program should have more than one recruit signed this late into the recruiting process.

Other teams at the bottom of the ACC have been far more active in recruiting.

Georgia Tech currently has three fourstar recruits signed, NC State has four four-star recruits signed and Wake Forest has signed three four-star recruits and one five-star recruit.

Stallings’ recruiting prowess in the SEC has not translated to the ACC. Recruiting was supposed to separate him from Dixon and get Pitt the talent it needs to progress.

Stallings joined a team with an experienced competitive roster. He was supposed to add to what the program had.

There was not supposed to be a rebuild, yet here we are.

It is time for Pitt to call it quits on “the Stallings experiment” and fire him at the end of the season. He has done nothing to build the program up — if anything, he’s set the program back years. The University should look to hire a new coach — preferably someone who is young and will stick around to build the program.

Leonard, pg. 5 Stallings’ critics blame him for the erosion of the coach-team relationship that led to last off-season’s mass exodus of underclassmen transfers. But the fact is, turnover happens. Players like to play for the coach who recruited them, which, for many of those players, was Dixon.

Now, coaching a team mostly composed of first years and junior college transfers, Stallings is routinely booed at home games when his name is announced. While this seems like an outward sign of negativity towards Stallings, in reality, it represents the real, underlying feeling of most Pitt fans: bitterness over Dixon’s departure.

Pitt fans became spoiled during Dixon’s tenure. They forgot what it was like to face adversity in the regular season.

They took NCAA tournament appearances for granted. Now, in his absence, they’re taking their frustration out on Stallings because he hasn’t been able to immediately live up to the example set by his predecessor.

I would encourage Pitt fans to take a step back from the “fire Stallings” mentality, at least for now. One year does not represent a trend. Even two years does not represent a trend. For as experienced of a coach as Stallings is, he ought to be afforded a rebuilding period, some time to implement his own system using his own recruits.

The Panthers may not win another game all season. But Pitt fans should take solace in the fact that the team can only get better from here. With a core group of first-year players — such as Marcus Carr, Shamiel Stevenson, Parker Stewart and Khameron Davis — earning at least 22 minutes per game in the nation’s premiere basketball conference, it’s only a matter of time before the program begins to trend upward once again.

And if players continue to exit the program each off-season and Stallings’ teams continue to lose games for the next couple years, Pitt fans have every right to demand a change in coaching.

But for now, Pitt fans need to give Stallings time to rebuild the program and move forward.

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but it is not possible,” Saggese said. “It is important to have the best care, for the most people, for the best price.”

Andrew Liu, a senior majoring in biology and anthropology who attended the event, said the debate reminded him of the entertaining debates he was part of in high school. He said the debate didn’t sway his thoughts, though.

“I learned that wait lines are a big issue,” Liu said. “As a person leaning left, however, my position on the issue is largely unchanged.”

No winner was picked for the debate, but Murthy thinks it’s better that way.

“There are two sides to this debate and neither side is entirely right,” Murthy said. “You need to compromise.”

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or garage, newly remodeled throughout. Kitchen w/ Dishwasher, Granite countertop & more!

Located on Morewood Avenue, 15 minute walk to Pitt/ CMU, Walnut Street.

5 minutes to UPMC Shadyside, West Penn Hospital. One block to Buses, hospital/ Pitt/CMU shuttles and many restaurants.

Available August 1st, 2018. No Pets. $1195+ g/e. Call Jason at 412-922-2141.

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Squirrel Hill 3 bedroom/1 bath townhouse on Murray Avenue across from Starbucks. $1295+utilities.

Washer/dryer, granite countertops, off-street parking, dishwasher, backyard, and covered front porch. Available August 1st. Call 724-309-4193.

January 23, 2018

Employment Employment Other Comfort Keepers, a Post-Gazette Top Workplace, is seeking caring individuals.

Caregivers work alongside seniors to provide companionship, light housekeeping, personal care services. Flexible hours available. If interested call 412-363-5500

education award. Full and part-time. Possible internship credit.

Call 412-350-2739. www.keysservicecorps.org

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Office and retail job in North Oakland Mon-Sat 8-5 pm. $12/ hr. 313 North Craig St. Contact (412) 621-7215 for more information.

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Seasonal Marketing Assistant Shadyside property management firm established in 1960 needs two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Excel, Word and the internet from approximately NOW to August; four days/week from 9am-6pm. Saturday and/or Sunday hours a must; some flexibility in days and hours will be considered; most hours will be solitary on the computer with no phone work; 40 words per minute and strong computer skills required; no experience needed & we will train you at our Shadyside office; free parking. $13/hour plus generous season end bonus.

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

OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Management Company seeks person w/min 2 yrs.

Delivery Driver job in North Oakland.

Mon-Sat 8-5 pm. $12/ hr. 313 North Craig St. Contact (412) 621-7215 for more information.

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Join KEYS Service Corps, AmeriCorps.

Mentor, tutor, and inspire Pittsburgh area youth. Summer and fall positions with bi-weekly stipend and

time. AVAILABLE

ing spring semester to interview & process rental applicants, do internet postings & help staff our action-central office.

Part-time or full NOW; full time over summer. $13/hour.

Perfect job for current sophomores & juniors, graduating seniors set to enter grad

students, and first-year law students!

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

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Employment Other Top Student Sales Person Wanted Why work minimum wage in a restaurant?

Sell Advok8 student coaching service to your peers. Can make up to $1,200 per month, and you can become a Advok8 Student:Client as a benefit. Better GPA, Less Anxiety, Higher Scholastic Success with Advok8 ‌ AND get paid!!

Prefer Juniors and Sophomores. Must have great people and social skills. 100% Commission. Training provided. Call 724-544-1490 for interview, or email steveaday@gmail. com. Provide letter of interest after looking at www.advok8.life.

Services Parking GARAGE PARKING available in the heart of Oakland. Protect your car while parked.

Only $80/month! Call 412-692-1770.

Notices Adoption ADOPTION: Loving, stable family hopes for one more blessing to join us in our adventures! Please call Heather/Chris 1 (800) 444-3089

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