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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | January 30, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 100

Opioid memorial brings DICKMAN attention to epidemic DISCUSSES

SEXUAL ASSAULT

Rose Luder Staff Writer

Mayor Bill Peduto (left) speaks with Michelle Lynam and her daughter Kimberly Lawther (right), as former Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg greets other guests behind them. Chiara Rigaud | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER States. The exhibit is part of the council’s Stop Everyday Killers campaign, an initiative aimed at raising awareness and The Pitt News Staff educating the public about the risks inCovered in 22,000 small white pills, volved in opioid use. each engraved with the face of an opioid The opioid memorial is free and open overdose victim, the opioid memorial to the public Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, from 10 stood behind Monday afternoon’s speaka.m. to 9 p.m. each day. It will also be ers. Their solemn voices drifted out to an open Friday, Feb. 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 audience who sat listening in silence for p.m. the many young lives lost.

Pittsburgh is the first stop on the meThe press event marked the beginmorial’s nationwide tour, coming shortly ning of the “Prescribed to Death” opioid after Gov. Tom Wolf declared a state of memorial hosted by the National Safety emergency for the opioid epidemic in Council, a nonprofit organization proPennsylvania Jan. 10. The exhibit first moting health and safety in the United launched in Chicago in November 2017,

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and will make stops in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., following its display at Pitt.

Deborah A.P. Hersman, President and CEO of the NSC, opened the event by addressing the urgent purpose of the opioid memorial right now.

“We’re here today because it is impossible to turn on the news and not hear another story about the opioid epidemic in our country,” Hersman said.

She cited a 2017 report from the Drug Enforcement Administration Philadelphia Division and the University of Pittsburgh to bring quantitative data to her emotional plea. Of the more than 4,600 See Memorial on page 2

Student members of Pitt Athletics and the Pitt community filled the seventh floor auditorium of Alumni Hall Monday night to listen to a talk about sexual assault prevention on campus.

The conversation was led by counselor, educator and self-described “sexologist” Kimberly Dickman. Her visit to Pitt was one of several trips to college campuses meant to educate students about consent, healthy relationships and sexual assault prevention. Dickman, who currently serves as the sexual assault program analyst for the U.S. Air Force, delayed her trip — originally scheduled for November — because her responsibilities as a member of the government. She greeted her audience with an apology.

“I said ‘Sir, it’s Pitt,’ and he said, ‘Sorry, it’s Congress,’” Dickman said about the disappointment she felt after her boss told her to delay her trip.

To loosen up the crowd before a serious discussion about sexual assault, Dickman engaged everyone with a roll call. She instructed the audience to respond to statements that fit them by shouting “Oh, yeah.”

As Dickman listed different student organizations, students rowdily shouted, “Oh, yeah.” But then Dickman connected the roll call to the subject at hand.

“The reason I do this roll call is because your voice on this topic makes a difference,” Dickman said.

For the rest of the talk, Dickman presented information about sexual assault in a lecture-like format. She highlighted how infrequently survivors report sexual assault, using the metaphor of an iceberg to indicate that only the tip of the See Assault on page 2

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iceberg represented the reported assaults.

According to a National Sexual Violence Resource Center report, one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college, but more than 90 percent of these incidents go unreported.

“For some of you, you might be a survivor of violence, or someone very close to you, and you might never know,” Dickman said.

To illustrate why people would not want to report an assault, Dickman told the audience to partner up and describe their last consensual sexual experiences in detail. Hearing the audience’s confusion, she stopped the exercise.

“We’re not gonna do this exercise,” Dickman said. “I want you to think about the awkwardness and discomfort that you felt. And that was with me asking about your last sexual experience with consent. Now imagine that it’s not consensual.”

While she stressed the importance of being an open ear to victims of sexual assault, she also talked about the importance of sexual assault prevention by understanding consent. “[Consent] is kind of like ordering pizza. For

Pitt students and athletes head to Alumni Hall Monday night to attend an educational program with sexual assault prevention expert Kimberly Dickman of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Christian Snyder | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR those of you who are athletes, a lot of time we talk about bases and sex,” Dickman said. “It’s a dangerous analogy to use because there is competition, there is how far can you go, and there is who wins. But pizza is a conversation. Do you want ... sausage? Mushrooms?”

While Dickman told the audience to ask for explicit consent, she had a more nuanced opinion about consent and alcohol.

“Most people will train children and say zero drinks — it’s not ok to drink and have sex,” Dickman said. “But I’m here to say you can have drunk sex, and if we’re living in a world of sexual shame, a lot of people feel like they need alcohol to have sex.”

Emily Horner, a junior psychology student on the women’s volleyball team, said Dickman’s position on alcohol was unusual, but relevant to

Memorial, pg. 1 drug overdose deaths in Pennsylvania in 2016, 85 percent were the result of opioid overdoses.

Hersman then described how these statistics have put Pennsylvania at fourth in the nation for opioid overdose fatalities. The issue has become even more prevalent among college-aged students, with overdose deaths doubling in the last decade.

“These numbers are shocking,” Hersman said. “But while the numbers tell a tremendous story, and are important, they don’t tell the whole story.”

She cautioned attendees about the dangers of opioid ignorance as major part of that story. The NSC’s study asked participants if they had taken an opioid medication in the past three years. Initially, 27 percent answered yes, but when they heard medication brand names, 35 percent answered yes.

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The dots on the memorial are pills with faces on their surfaces to represent the ones lost to drug overdose. John Hamilton | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR “Americans still don’t understand the risks associated with opioid prescription,” Hersman said.

Mayor Bill Peduto also spoke about his concerns for the City regarding the issue. He emphasized the crisis should

be addressed as a health emergency rather than a criminal outcry.

“People are struggling. They don’t need the added burden of being outcasts, and they certainly don’t need a criminal action approach to be able to

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college campuses.

“That’s just so important. Like how much is too much when drinking?” she said. “You can’t judge somebody’s level, so you can’t understand if they are comfortable in [a sexual] situation because you don’t know them, and you don’t know what their tolerance is.”

Maddy Cavell, a junior also studying psychology, agreed giving consent when alcohol is involved can be a tricky issue. As the risk manager of the Tri Delta sorority, Cavell was concerned with making sure that people in her sorority felt comfortable talking about their experiences with sex.

“The biggest thing I took away from it was just taking the time to tell somebody that, like, if this ever happens to you, I want you to talk to me because I’m here for you and I support you,” Cavell said.

Dickman ended her speech by inspiring the audience to act within their sororities, frats or teams to combat sexual assault.

“We can’t do this without you,” Dickman said. “We can’t stop sexual assault without you. It doesn’t have to be an hour and a half presentation, it’s one comment that you make.”

solve it,” Peduto said.

Former Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg pointed out the progress groups in the county health and human services have made, and the committed community members at Pitt and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center working to end the epidemic.

“The extent to which good people can mobilize to deal with this problem is very imperative,” Nordenberg said. “The lack of progress, on the other hand, can be inspiration for everyone who cares about making progress on this problem.”

He said he is hopeful the NSC will bring the national problem to the forefront and humanize the overdose victims.

“As the exhibit says itself, behind every statistic is a face, a person and a story,” Nordenberg said.

Janine Faust, Madeline Gavatorta and John Hamilton contributed reporting.

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Supervised sites won’t solve PA’s heroin problem A proposal that would have been absurd only 10 years ago almost seemed to make sense this week when officials in Philadelphia suggested drastic measures to combat the growing opioid abuse epidemic afflicting the city — and the entire country.

Philadelphia Public Health Commissioner Thomas Farley announced a plan last week to introduce city-sanctioned safe havens for heroin users to consume drugs under the supervision of volunteer medical professionals. These volunteers would administer antidotes, if needed, to users who overdose at the sites.

“We know from other centers that they save lives,” Farley said at a press conference last Wednesday.

In a city like Philadelphia, where total deaths from opioid overdoses last year hovered around 1,200 — four times the murder rate — providing addicts with ostensibly safe spaces to use heroin seems like a sensible last resort for communities desperate to end the crisis. But while it may be understandable where the idea is coming from, spaces for supervised heroin use are likely to do more harm than good for the epidemic’s victims.

Jonathan Caulkins, a drug policy expert and professor of operations research and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, acknowledges that supervised injection sites for heroin addicts have gotten mostly positive results so far. Academic research has so far focused on programs in cities like Vancouver and Amsterdam that have already implemented them. Vancouver, for example, hasn’t seen a single death from overdose at any of its sites since beginning its program in 2003. But he says that isn’t the full picture.

“There isn’t documentation of the ef-

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fects on the larger drug use ecosystem,” Caulkins said in an email interview. “Do people with access to [supervised injection sites] have longer drug using careers, or shorter? Not clear.”

Even if the overall effect is positive for individual users, Caulkins said he is skeptical that enough addicts would actually go to the facilities to make them worth the political fight. Uncertainty surrounds both the legal viability of the sites themselves — which would still be illegal under state and federal law — as well as the problems that might arise if someone who got high at a city-sanctioned site committed a crime elsewhere.

“When you do the math, it wouldn’t take a very large adverse indirect effect to swamp the positive effects,” Caulkins said.

“If there is a political fight over [supervised injection sites] that sucks up most of the reform energy, it might distract from energy put into other actions.”

Ultimately, it’s hard to see Philadelphia’s proposal as much more than an act of desperation. Supervised sites wouldn’t do anything to address the root causes of opioid addiction, like painkiller overprescription or chronic economic malaise. And while it’s of vital importance to save as many people currently addicted to heroin and other opiates as possible, that goal would be much better served with increased funding to government programs providing medical attention to current users and real rehabilitation to former users. “[Supervised injection sites] will only make a small dent in a gigantic problem,” Caulkin said. “We shouldn’t mistake [them] for a solution, if by solution we mean an intervention sufficient to make the problem go away.”

Hold Greek Life to a higher standard

Liam McFadden | STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

Neena Hagen Columnist

From Penn State to Florida State, colleges across the country have been joining an everlengthening list of schools with recent high-profile fraternity fatalities tarnishing their records.

And just last week, Pitt nearly joined that list, too.

A member of the Sigma Chi fraternity chapter on campus was hospitalized after consuming excessive amounts of alcohol at a party. Fortunately, he’s safe now.

In light of this debacle, Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner put all fraternities and sororities on social probation, banning the presence of alcohol at any Greek event for an unknown period — a mostly inconsequential slap on the wrist consid-

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ering the gravity of the situation.

“This is a sobering reminder of the importance of examining the culture of our campus and our collective and individual roles in defining who you are and who you ought to be as a fraternity and sorority community,” he said in a letter to Pitt’s Greek community last week. “I look forward to our discussions.”

It seems we often rely on incidents like this to spark any serious discussion of all the ways Greek life undermines the goals of higher education. Pitt and other universities should work to promote diversity and inclusion, encourage critical thinking and prepare students for the working life after college.

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Hagen, pg. 3 But even a cursory look into the stunt-driven, habitual blowout party culture typical of Greek life shatters any delusion that universities are achieving these goals. A mere glimpse should be enough to alarm universities across the country.

As an executive member of an actuarial professional development fraternity — Gamma Iota Sigma — I recognize the unfairness of painting all Greek life with the same brush. While many frats and sororities exist primarily for superficial social purposes, there are still those whose focus is on engaging in community service and contributing to charity. Likewise, the organization I help run devotes itself to corporate outreach and membership development — rather than parties and contests of who can give themselves alcohol poisoning the fastest.

Yet many fraternity-related “accidents” appear inextricably linked with fraternity culture itself — a majority of hazing deaths are connected to the organizations, with others related to marching bands and sports teams. The death toll for this kind of recklessness has remained in the hundreds since the beginning of Greek organizations, with binge drinking seemingly encoded in Greek life DNA. According to a 2001 study from Harvard University, undergraduates involved in

a fraternity or sorority were more than twice as likely to report “frequent” binge drinking than their unaffiliated peers.

Given that binge drinking severely hampers judgement, it’s no wonder fraternity members are over three times more likely than the average college student to commit sexually aggressive acts, according to a 2005 study from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. On the other hand, women who are members of sororities are nearly 75 percent more likely to be sexually assaulted, according to the same study. This has devastating implications not just for students involved in Greek life, but for the safety of women on campus as a whole.

Why, then, has so little action been taken to address these issues? The answer is abundantly clear: money. According to research from Laura Hamilton, associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Merced, alumni donors who were in fraternities as undergraduates hold a disproportionate amount of influence over colleges’ donation schemes.

“A lot of alumni are really beholden to their Greek organization,” Hamilton told the online magazine Alternet in a 2015 interview. “So you might also lose donation dollars if you decide to get rid of these organizations.”

As long as they’re in the pockets of the ad-

ministrators, it will be difficult — but not impossible — to eliminate Greek life’s negative effects from campus. All it takes, as proven by the universities who have succeeded, is the prioritization of integrity and student safety above their own greed.

After an investigation provoked by Delta Kappa Epsilon in 1988, Middlebury College, for example, did away with Greek life altogether. The frat had hanged a brutally beaten female mannequin, soaked in blood-red paint and covered in sexually explicit slurs, off the balcony of its house that May. Sexual assault had been rampant in the frat — this display was a disgusting show of the members’ pride in their despicable acts, and, thankfully, the tipping point for the college. By 1990, Middlebury had issued an ultimatum to Greek life organizations on its campus, requiring them to either go coed or close their doors.

The incident at Pitt’s chapter of Sigma Chi was severe enough to warrant the kind of scrutiny that led to the abolishment of Greek life at Middlebury. Even though the frat scene at Pitt — with only about nine percent of students participating in Greek life — isn’t as influential as most other large public schools, the influence that it does exact on the University can often be negative.

And while there may be less extreme solutions than removing Greek organizations from the University’s social life altogether, frats and sororities can’t be trusted not to continue dangerous, abusive behaviors off campus. That much should be obvious from the response among Pitt’s Greek life groups that the temporary ban on alcohol at frat parties was an overreaction to last weekend’s incident at Sigma Chi. Given Middlebury’s success, banning fraternities and sororities on our campus would certainly reduce rates of binge drinking and sexual assault. But let’s not say we’re setting naming standards for our clubs — let’s say we’re setting behavioral standards. Instead of a blanket abolition of frats — which would unfairly include the eradication of various honors and community service societies — we must drastically raise our standards for their behavior or remove them entirely.

And if Greek organizations can’t conform to these stricter — albeit basic — standards of behavior, we have an obligation to the welfare of our school to end them. If they can’t improve, they have no place at an institution of learning.

Neena primarily writes about politics and local issues for The Pitt News. Write to Neena at nnh7@ pitt.edu.

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Culture2 Birds with 1 brush:

‘Birds and Botany’ blends awareness, art

Emma Maurice Staff Writer

Just inside Phipps Conservatory, Ashley Cecil has created the illusion of Springtime in the midst of a harsh Pittsburgh winter — blooming flowers and songbirds rest on bright yellow backdrops along the walls of the Welcome Center, greeting visitors as they escape the cold. Artist and illustrator Ashley Cecil’s latest series of paintings are currently on display in the Welcome Center of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens’ in an installation titled ‘Birds and Botany Cecil found inspiration for her most recent artwork and illustrations after arriving in Pittsburgh back in 2011 — and taking full advantage of the local prevalence of natural science museums and institutions.

“Having institutions like Phipps, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the National Aviary all in my backyard,” Cecil said. “That’s when the series that I’m currently working on really developed, when I started blending this newfound love of pattern with painting the flora and fauna.”

Coming out of her six-month residency with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Cecil — a 37-year-old Highland Park resident with a studio in Homewood — has recently joined with Phipps to display her body of work in an exhibit currently on view at Phipps titled “Birds and Botany.”

The background of Cecil’s mixed-media works on paper features the Pennsylvania keystone symbol and the state flower, the mountain laurel. In the foreground are various bird species rendered in oil paint.

During her residency, Cecil had focused her work around a local research project — BirdSafe Pittsburgh — in which scientists from a host of institutions research ways to mitigate the issue of birds colliding with architectural glass surfaces.

“Birds see the reflection of the sky or a tree and think they’re just going to fly toward it,” Cecil said, “only to find out that it’s a glass surface ... putting a lot of pressure and strain on wild bird populations.”

Working closely with the staff of the Carnegie

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Ashley Cecil, a Homewood-based artist and illustrator, credits the local Pittsburgh natural science museums and institutions with the inspiration for flora and fauna patterns in her most recent works.

Courtesy of Elizabeth Craig Museum of Natural History — and more specifically with Matthew Webb, the BirdSafe Pittsburgh coordinator — Cecil learned during how to accurately paint six different bird species that are most affected by window collisions.

“One of the things that I always run into when I tell people about what I do here at the museum is that most people don’t know about the issue of the window collisions,” Webb said. “They don’t know the extent to which it’s responsible for so many bird deaths.”

Within the beauty of Cecil’s works lies an important objective — to bring awareness to the issue of bird window collisions and offer a solution.

“A lot of people are familiar with the idea of a bird hitting a window — they may have in fact seen one hit themselves — but they don’t realize that that one bird is one of nearly a billion that died that year from hitting a window,” Webb said.

According to the American Bird Conservancy, up to a billion birds die each year from glass collisions in the United States alone. BirdSafe has an online interactive data map specific to Pittsburgh, which shows the recorded number of birds that died from collisions in several areas around the City over the course of a few years.

This year, BirdSafe will work toward having a few buildings in Pittsburgh treat their windows to prevent bird collisions, according to Webb. This would allow the project to study how effective treating windows is at decreasing bird collision deaths.

According to Jordyn Melino, Phipps’ exhibition coordinator, feedback has been favorable.

Visitors and staff love “how bright and colorful some of the original works are,” Melino said.

“The thing that I love about Ashley’s work

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is that it’s not just artwork that you can hang on your walls. It goes beyond that — it can become a directly applicable window cling that can do what she set out to do, which was to help the cause,” Melino said.

Cecil explained that her window film — used to cover windows in decorative patterns to prevent bird collisions — is on display in the exhibit and sold in the gift shop. It is something that anyone can buy for commercial or residential properties to help mitigate the problem.

“I like the fact that her artwork translates into something that is applicable, and I think that’s a nice representation for our gallery, and for Phipps, to put something like that on display,” Melino said.

Cecil said the strong connection between birds and ecology is what Phipps valued in her exhibit. Birds disperse seeds eat insects that are harmful to plants and pollinate plants — demonstrating the close tie between flora and fauna.

“We have a really good working relationship with Ashley Cecil, and we wanted to continue to support her,” Melino said. “She’s sold work in our galleries and in our gift shop before, so we wanted to give her an opportunity to exhibit some more work over the wintertime.”

Cecil will be an artist-in-residence at Phipps in the fall of 2018, with the purpose of communicating the ecological research done at Phipps through her art.

“We thought exhibiting the work that she just completed with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History would be a great lead into our residency that we’ll have with her again this year,” Melino said.

After viewing her exhibition, Cecil hopes that visitors leave with a deeper love for nature and the connection it has with a multitude of other types of biodiversity. She said she wants her audience to feel a newfound responsibility of caring for and protecting birds and plants.

“I think that we are good stewards of things that we love, so if you can deepen someone’s appreciation for a bird species or a plant,” Cecil said, “we hope that the result is then that people are better stewards of those creatures.”

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Shahum Ajmal and Elizabeth Donnelly The Pitt News Staff

Students on a budget can ditch Market Central for the week and try out a new restaurant on Forbes or Fifth Avenue for a discounted price instead.

Oakland Restaurant Week — which takes place from Monday, Jan. 29, to Saturday, Feb. 3 — is hosted and funded by the Oakland Business Improvement District twice each year with the help of Sustainable Pittsburgh.

This week’s event hosts six days of $6 lunches at a total of 19 participating restaurants — including popular campus spots like Thai Hana, Hello Bistro, Noodles & Company, Prince of India and Sorrento’s Pizza.

David Pirozzi, OBID marketing and communications intern, was responsible for recruiting participating restaurants in Oakland by visiting them in person and explaining how the event would function.

“A lot of these guys are veterans, so they know what’s up,” Pirozzi said. “For the new stores, I’ll walk in and be like ‘Hey I’m with OBID, we’re doing this thing called Restaurant Week.’ I explain the lowdown.”

OBID has organized Restaurant Week in Oakland for several years, according to Pirozzi, though more recently the organization has been striving to make it effective for both restaurants and retail stores — encouraging traffic throughout the entire Oakland community.

Customers eating at the various restaurants will have the opportunity to enter to win free lunch for a month. At each participating location, the purchase of a $6 meal item earns the customer a card — once filled out, this card requires customers to go to designated drop-off retail locations in hopes of winning grab-bag prizes.

“Last time, T-Mobile donated bluetooth headphones. The Pitt bookstore donated a cookbook,” Pirozzi said. “It really varies depending on what store.”

Rebecca Bykoski, Sustainable Pittsburgh

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Restaurant program manager, has worked with OBID through a community partnership to create a wide variety of compatible restaurants using environmental practices that benefit the community.

“We are really focused on accelerating the practice and policy of sustainability throughout southwestern Pennsylvania,” Bykoski said. “So we don’t just focus on Pittsburgh, we focus more on the Pittsburgh region.”

Sustainable Pittsburgh works with businesses to implement programs that promote sustainability — recently expanding their focus to communities like Oakland with the help of OBID. “[OBID] really help us to get these restaurants involved with the program to help improve what they’re doing, to recognize them in the Oakland community and help improve sustainability of Oakland overall through their restaurant industry,” Bykoski said.

According to Bykoski, one of these programs included the themed kickoff of Oakland Restaurant Week as ‘Meatless Monday’ — the result of a collective collaboration between Lotsa Stone Fired Pizza, Top ShabuShabu & Lounge and Stack’d Oakland.

Michael McDermott, a junior pre-pharmacy student at Pitt, took advantage of the discounted lunch deal at Noodles and Company, ordering the penne rosa with a side Thai chicken soup.

“It’s nice to have a more affordable lunch, and it gives me a reason to not have to make food at home,” McDermott said.

While McDermott said he typically dines out for lunch several times a week, Raaj Yaadhav, another patron of Oakland Restaurant Week, said he made the journey from CMU solely because of the $6 lunches. Yaadhav, who is currently working on his master’s degree in computer science, ordered the veggie Pizza at Lotsa.

“Since it’s cheaper, it makes me want to eat out more,” Yaadhav said. “[Restaurant Week] lets you try other restaurants you wouldn’t normally try.”

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Randy Bates feels welcome at Pitt

Colin Martin Staff Writer

When Josh Conklin left the Pitt football program to become the head coach at Wofford, Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi had to find someone to replace the long-standing assistant — and quickly. Narduzzi called on an old friend to fill the position.

Randy Bates was officially introduced as Pitt’s new defensive coordinator at a press conference Friday, Jan. 19. Before that, he spent the last 12 seasons as the linebackers coach at Northwestern.

“Besides the last 12 years at Northwestern, and playing against each other about every year at Northwestern, Randy and I go back to when he was at Louisiana Tech and I was at Northern Illinois,” Narduzzi said.

The two continued their relationship as coaches in the Big Ten, with Bates at Northwestern and Narduzzi at Michigan State.

Narduzzi also said he would call Bates earlier in his career to discuss the games each coach had the upcoming week.

“He’s always been a guy that I’ve leaned on, talked to through the years ... just a guy that we trusted,” Narduzzi said. “And the thing that always impressed me is in the details ... maybe on Sunday night we would have a conversation about somebody, and the things he was interested in game plan with his staff [were] the same I was interested in.”

Bates’ hiring comes on the heels of a season that saw the Panthers finish 69th overall in the country in total defense, a statistic that measures the average yards per game a team gives up. With Bates’ pedigree as a defensive coach, finishing last year at Northwestern ranked 34th in total defense, the Panthers will be looking to improve on their underwhelming 2017 campaign.

While Bates isn’t from Pittsburgh, he grew up close to the City in Zanesville, Ohio — just two hours from Pittsburgh by car. He spoke highly of the city, mentioning that he and his parents would make trips to

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Pitt’s new defensive coordinator, Randy Bates, speaks at his first press conference since arriving at Pitt from Northwestern. John Hamilton | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Pittsburgh when he was young.

“Pittsburgh was a destination as a kid to come to the museums,” Bates said. “We would come over to Pittsburgh and go Downtown and go to Macy’s and all the stores Downtown.”

In a Jan. 19 interview with the PostGazette, Bates said he would collect Iron City beer cans during those childhood trips to Pittsburgh. He remembers getting autographs from former Pittsburgh Pirates legends like Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente.

But it wasn’t just the city that attracted Bates. At Northwestern, Bates worked under head coach Pat Fitzgerald, who worked as a defensive coach before taking over Northwestern’s head coaching position 2006.

Like Fitzgerald, Narduzzi comes from a

defensive background, which was important to Bates when he made his move to Pitt.

“Probably the most exciting thing about this is that I have another defensive coach,” Bates said. “To have another defensive coach as the head coach, as I’ve had the last 12 years… lends us to have an outstanding defense and an outstanding team,” Bates inherits a defense that will return nine of its 11 starters from last season, as junior defensive back Jordan Whitehead and senior defensive back Avonte Maddox go to the NFL Draft later this spring.

In his first year at Pitt, Bates will have to make improvements across the board to match the legacy he leaves behind in Chicago.

Northwestern finished ninth in the country in rush defense last season — only allowing an average 108 yards per game

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with Bates in charge of the linebackers. Pitt was 41st in the country, with an average of 142 yards per game allowed.

Along with its stout run defense, Northwestern was great in high-pressure situations, finishing 10th in red zone defense efficiency. Pitt, in comparison, finished 21st in the country.

Bates will also inherit 10 new defensive recruits for the 2018 season, including John Morgan, a three-star defensive end from Dematha Catholic in Hyattsville, Maryland.

And Bates said he is looking forward to working with players like Morgan — at the press conference, he seemed ready to fully immerse himself in Pitt football.

“The staff is experienced, and I think I’ll fit in with the guys.” Bates said. “I look at the players this morning and I get even more excited.”

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Available August 2018. 412-600-4219. jwquinn@mac.com Numerous 1 & 2 bedroom apartments located throughout South Oakland. Starting from $760-$1,395.

Available August 2018. Call John CR Kelly Realty.

412-683-7300. Visit: www.jcrkelly.com Ward & S. Bouquet Streets - Studio, 1, 2 & 3BR apartments. Free parking.

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

Shadyside 1 bedroom luxury apartment. 2 apartments available in a beautiful brick home with private entry, private laundry,

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off-street parking 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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vices. Flexible hours available. If interested call 412-363-5500 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 education award. Full and part-time. Possible internship credit.

Call 412-350-2739. www.keysservicecorps.org 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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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. AVAILABLE NOW; full time over summer. $13/hour.

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

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

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

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

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

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Large 5 Bedroom.

Mckee & Louisa. 2 bathrooms, free laundry, gas included. One block from Forbes.

Available August 2018. 412-600-4219. jwquinn@mac.com M.J. Kelly Realty.

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