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GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AFFECTS RESEARCHERS

MEET & GREEK

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Three members of Gamma Sigma host a table at a Pre-Professional Greek Activities Fair hosted by Sigma Phi Sigma Pi on Tuesday night. The event allowed students to meet Greek organizations before the organizations’ recruitment weeks. Levko Karmazyn | staff photographer

SGB LOOKS AHEAD TO ELECTIONS, EMPOWERMENT Neena Hagen Staff Writer

Pitt’s Student Government Board returned Tuesday for a shorter-than-usual meeting, where board members previewed their planned projects for the spring semester before unanimously passing a bill that reforms the SGB election process.

The election is approaching quickly. The board’s Elections Committee released candidacy packets Monday, which are due Jan. 22 for the Feb. 19 election. The packets, which contain information for prospective board candidates, can be picked up in SGB’s office on the eighth floor of the William Pitt Union.

“We had 11 or 12 people run for board last year,” Katie McLaughlin, who chairs the committee, said. “This year we’re hoping to at least

match that number.”

The bill passed Tuesday night includes several updates to SGB’s election code that could help make that dream a reality. The bill lowers the financial commitment candidates must make to run for president and other board positions by reducing the deposit fee from $100 to $50. The bill also includes measures to reimburse campaign expenses for candidates.

“We wanted to tweak a few things to make it more accessible for everyone to run,” McLaughlin said. “Running a campaign is actually a really big financial burden.”

The board aims to simplify the voting process as well, unveiling a special url for voting in this year’s elections — elections.pitt.edu — instead of my.pitt.edu, which voters used in previous years.

President Maggie Kennedy hopes to follow up the success of SGB’s November Pitt Women’s Leadership Experience with a strong Women’s Empowerment Week, an annual event for the board which will take place sometime in March.

“We have a committee with a ton of different women from different organizations on campus,” Kennedy said. “We’re hoping to meet this week to begin planning and determine who our speakers are gonna be.”

Several task forces are in the works as well.

Among them was one that could help diversify cuisines at Pitt’s dining halls. Board members Zechariah Brown and Albert Tanjaya, who organized last semester’s Eat and Greet events, have several more planned for the spring. The See SGB on page 2

The U.S. government shut down on Dec. 22, and research production at Pitt and other universities may slow down because of it.

Some projects funded by certain federal research departments — including the National Science Foundation, NASA, the EPA and the FDA — are at risk, as these organizations are dealing with rapidly shrinking budgets that can’t be refilled until the shutdown ends.

The U.S. is 18 days into the current shutdown, nearing the record 21-day shutdown during Bill Clinton’s presidency in the mid’90s. The current shutdown is happening because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign off on any budget that does not include $5 billion in funding for a border wall, money that House Democrats refuse to provide. Recently, Trump said the shutdown could last “months or even years” if his requested funds are not included in the budget.

The shutdown could spell trouble for future research projects. Pitt received more than $16 million in research grants for 82 projects from the National Science Foundation in 2018. There are projects in STEM departments funded by NASA. Without many federal departments properly funded, new projects may be put on the back burner for a while.

But University officials are not concerned about any possible lack of funding. In an email statement, Rob Rutenbar, the senior vice chancellor for research at Pitt, said that most research is unaffected by the shutdown.

“The National Institutes of Health, the See Shutdown on page 2

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University’s largest source of federal dollars, remains funded, so we are not seeing an impact on that end,” Rutenbar said.

Although the NSF is closed, the shutdown has predominantly occurred during winter break, when faculty are taking more time off, he said, mitigating the impact.

“The shutdown started around the time the University was on winter break,” Rutenbar said. “So as we are now gearing up in the new semester, we’ll continue [to] monitor and evaluate any additional and future impacts of the shutdown.”

According to the NSF, current research is minimally affected by the government shutdown. As long as funds have already been awarded, the research projects can continue. Researchers can still submit annual and final reports — they just won’t be reviewed until the government reopens.

But there are consequences for researchers applying for new grants. While researchers can still submit applications online, they won’t be processed until the government reopens, and no new funding opportunities will be posted on the website. Panels to review new applications will be cancelled and rescheduled to a future time.

This is something Jason Shoemaker, a professor of chemi-

cal engineering in the Swanson School of Engineering, encountered. He was scheduled to be on a review panel for an NSF grant application, but it was cancelled due to the shutdown.

“Given the suddenness of the shutdown, NSF is in a ‘wait and see’ period,” Shoemaker said in an email. “With the close still ongoing, we are unsure as to when the review will occur.”

Though this has had little impact on Shoemaker, he said it could have detrimental effects on the lab applying for the grant.

“This is far more important to the individuals who applied to the program,” he said. “Any major delay, say months as [has] been threatened, would prevent funding of labs that are providing critical knowledge infrastructure to the U.S.” This may happen to Mike MacFerrin, a postdoctoral researcher in glaciology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He applied for NSF funding last summer for a project investigating the hydrology of high-elevation regions of Greenland, requiring fieldwork in Greenland.

He said that he’s expecting to hear back about funding this month, but that a prolonged government shutdown could completely prevent him from completing his work.

“It’s a pretty tight turnaround as it is, finding out [about] funding in January to go up to the ice sheet in April,” he said.

“If we wait another month and then find out in late February that the funding is coming through, we may not have time then to get things ready in time for a field campaign in the spring.”

Not only does the government shutdown impact his work, he said, but it also affects his personal life.

“My position is what they call ‘soft money.’ I’m only funded for work,” MacFerrin said. “Part of my salary later this year would come from that project. Part of it’s my own anxiety, wanting to know if I’m going to be paid by this project or not.”

MacFerrin said he has cause for concern, as there’s precedent for government shutdowns affecting scientific research.

“In 2013, the shutdown happened around October,” he said. “That was right around the time a number of field campaigns were heading down to Antarctica, and it was really throwing a lot of wrenches in that work.”

The 2013 shutdown ended 16 days after it started and soon funded the departments that grant research money to universities. While researchers are hopeful that the current one will end soon, many remain frustrated with the situation. “[The NSF] are hoping to get things up [and] running ASAP once they are funded, but, until then, no science will be reviewed,” Shoemaker said. “And, more importantly, no science will be funded.”

SGB, pg. 1 Eat and Greets offer students a chance to provide feedback on Sodexo’s food selection in the various dining halls on campus and each feature a free meal with a specific theme.

“When the Eat and Greets involve a certain culture’s cuisine, we want to make sure they’re being accurate and culturally competent, and that extends to what food Market and the Perch actually put out,” Kennedy said.

Board member Cole Dunn discussed his plans for another task force that aims to partner with companies to sponsor exams for graduate school. This initiative, he said, would substantially lift the financial burden for lower-income students applying to grad school.

“The secondary testing for schools — MCATs, LSATs — is expensive,” Dunn said. “We’re trying to bridge the gap between rich and poor students by offering subsidies.”

Eric Macadangdang, wellness committee chair, hopes to move ahead with the committee’s plan for a smoke- and tobacco-free campus. The initiative began in the School of Public Health, Macadangdang said. He and Brown worked together last semester to move the project forward, drafting a policy that would ban tobacco use on campus.

“We have a survey that went out, pretty good support from the undergrad population,” Macadangdang said. “We’re gonna present it to the University Senate and hopefully it’ll get passed before the semester ends.”

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MISSIONARY TRAINING ENDANGERS Trump’s border security the OTHER CULTURES wrong answer to real problems from the editorial board

Kim Rooney

President Donald Trump’s first prime-time address from the Oval Office was his opportunity to make a case for his border security plan. Instead, it highlighted just how little Trump understood the problems he hoped a border wall would fix — economic costs, crime and drug trafficking — and how desperate he is to blame Democrats for the government shutdown.

“The federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only,” he said. “Because Democrats will not fund border security.”

But this is far from an accurate assessment of the shutdown. During negotiations aimed at avoiding a shutdown, Democrats offered to approve $1.3 billion to fund surveillance measures and fortified fencing directed at border security. Approval for funding was withheld for Trump’s border wall.

The one individual who has welcomed responsibility for sparking shutdown was Trump himself when he met with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in December.

“I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down,” Trump said. “I’m not going to blame you for it.”

Trump then moved to misrepresent the effects illegal immigration has on employment, claiming it “drives down jobs and wages.” But employers frequently point to a shortage of immigrant labor as responsible for driving up costs — a tight labor market has made it difficult for industries to employ lowskilled immigrant labor to keep down costs. Studies have also concluded that whatever strain illegal immigration puts on public services is readily made

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up for by taxes paid by immigrants. Undocumented immigrants filed nearly 4.4 million income tax returns in 2015, paying up to $23.6 billion in income taxes.

Trump also said his border wall would help address drug trafficking and the opioid crisis. Not only does he misunderstand these problems, his prescription wouldn’t help either.

Illegal drugs that make their way into the United States from Mexico typically enter through legal ports of entry like airports and rail stations. Likewise, the fentanyl fueling America’s opioid crisis doesn’t usually go through unsecured portions of our southern border.

Instead, the fentanyl enters through packages mailed from China or by smugglers driving through border checkpoints. A border wall that secures vast stretches of desert addresses none of these narcotics trafficking techniques.

Trump frequently exaggerates and misrepresents, and he was no different during his prime-time address. He pointed to the number of immigrants with criminal records arrested by ICE, but he neglected to mention that many were guilty of immigration-related offenses rather than violent crimes.

This continues Trump’s habit of exaggerating the threat posed by immigrants who statistically commit crime at lower rates than those born in America.

Trump’s willingness to place livelihoods, solutions and truth on the line for a game of chicken is dangerous to the safety of immigrants and Americans alike. Trump used last night’s primetime address to merely double down on the collision course.

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When preparing to visit an island in the Andaman Sea, one might focus on travel logistics or which bathing suit to pack. But John Chau’s preparation to go to North Sentinel Island was founded on teachings that assume the island’s inhabitants are neglected people who need to know that the Creator God exists.

These beliefs, taught to some missionaries before they go abroad, are part of a larger pattern of dehumanizing people of other cultures, treating them and their religions as less legitimate and harming the people missionaries are trying to help.

Missionary work has a long history of colonialism and paternalism. Recent missionary work has shifted to focus on humanitarian efforts rather than just conversion, but Chau’s death on North Sentinel Island has called secular and missionary attention to the dubious ethics of missionary work.

Chau violated the chosen isolation of the Sentinelese and broke Indian laws protecting their choice. His repeated attempts at contact ultimately led to his death around Nov. 16 after several nonfatal attempts by the Sentinelese to drive him away.

But his actions were preceded by dehumanizing missionary training that encourages harmful ways of thinking about and approaching people of other cultures.

North Sentinel Island was relatively obscure before Chau’s visit. Its inhabitants are among the estimated 100 uncontacted tribes in an increasingly globalizing world and they have protected their isolation with attacks on visitors stretching back to the 19th century. While there have been a few successful attempts at contact, experts discourage people from traveling there.

Despite these warnings, Chau wanted to bring Christianity to the Sentinelese for years. He learned of them in high school through the Joshua Project, a Christian nonprofit that researches populations with the fewest Christians to encourage churchplanting movements and conversions. The project’s description of the Sentinelese includes limited information on their housing and diets, as well as

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their “need to know that the Creator God exists, and that He loves them and paid the price for their sins,” which prompted Chau’s interest in the group.

The goal of the worldwide spread of Christianity is driven by the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, in which Jesus tells his followers to “go and make disciples of all nations … and teac[h] them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

This passage, referred to as the Great Commission, makes missionary work worth the risk in the hopes of converting others and saving their eternal souls.

Before traveling to North Sentinel Island, Chau completed training at All Nations, an organization whose name and mission is based on the Gospel of Matthew excerpt. It aims to spread Christianity to the “neglected peoples of the Earth.” As part of the training, Chau was dropped off in a remote location in Kansas and had to engage missionaries dressed in thrift-store clothes who approached with fake spears and spoke gibberish.

To Chau’s credit, he also studied linguistics and became an emergency medical technician. Yet the bootcamp training in which he participated puts some of the worst assumptions about missionaries on display.

Having people imitate a different language by speaking gibberish shows disrespect for the systems of organization that languages have. Equating other languages as disorganized nonsense vocalizations ignores the potential to communicate by paying attention to patterns of communication.

The clothing, when coupled with the gibberish, leads to the assumption that target populations are impenetrably foreign. It may seem harmless, but it fails to lay the groundwork for understanding other cultures, which requires an acknowledgement of an internal logic within their beliefs. In the context of training Westerners to interact with people of non-Western cultures, the costumes reinforce the othering and dehumanization of those groups.

The use of spears obscures the purpose of the weapons and fails to adequately prepare missionaries for how other cultures may actually react to See Missionaries on page 4

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Missionaries, pg. 3 their presence. Instead, the violence seems random and not an effect of different backgrounds and histories of violence and self-defense.

But knowing and understanding a group’s past is vital to understanding what shaped their ways of behavior and thought. In the case of the Sentinelese, they are known for their violent history with outsiders, but it may be rooted in their interactions with colonial Britain in 1880, when six Sentinelese were kidnapped, two of whom died in British captivity. They also tend to use bows and arrows, rather than spears, when interacting with outsiders.

Treating other beliefs as less legitimate is condescending to other cultures but is a central part of the legacy of Western colonization. Christianity existed long before European countries began colonizing Asia, Africa and the Americas, but the effects of the believed superiority were harmful and have had lasting impacts on how people, cultures and nations interact today.

Even if missionaries believe that other religions are false or misguided, a basic respect for other beliefs is necessary to engage with people in a way that minimizes harm. But the belief that all ethnic groups need Christianity

is grounded in religious prejudice and a sense of superiority that precludes full understanding and empathy for others.

Some nations such as India and Iran make their rejection of Christianity and distrust of missionaries clear. But even those who do not make Christianity explicitly illegal should still be allowed to reject Christianity and the presence of missionaries, especially given its history of destroying other cultures.

Spreading Christianity to people of other cultures and religions should be balanced with the importance of respecting others’ religious autonomy, especially for less-practiced religions and cultures. Whether people want to accept or even be introduced to Christianity should be their choice, and if a group of people makes it clear that they do not want to be converted, missionaries should respect that choice.

But if missionaries are still determined to convert, then concurrent goals should be understanding and empathy for other groups so that potential converts are more likely to listen and understand in turn. This requires missionaries to respect the histories of other peoples and to see their languages as more than gibberish. Failure to do so would only reinforce dehumanizing attitudes toward other cultures.

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The Pitt men’s basketball team began its conference schedule this past Saturday by hosting perennial powerhouse North Carolina, currently ranked No. 12 in the nation. A sellout crowd flocked to the Petersen Events Center hoping to see David take down Goliath, but it wasn’t meant to be — UNC eventually overwhelmed the young Panthers with slick shooting and smothering defense, blowing them out 85-60.

The Panthers impressively maneuvered through their non-conference schedule with a 10-3 record, with two of those losses coming by just one point. But Saturday’s game was a harsh reminder that Pitt plays in the ACC — the nation’s toughest basketball conference, with six of its 15 teams ranked in the top 15 of the AP poll.

On the bright side, if the Panthers win just one of their next 17 games, it will be an improvement over last season, when they went winless in conference play for the first time ever. With a crop of young talent and a capable head coach in Jeff Capel, it’s likely that they will win a handful of games. Let’s break down the Panthers’ remaining ACC schedule based on difficulty, frequency and likeliness to beat each opponent.

No. 1 Duke — One home matchup Jan. 22.

Last year’s Pitt team drew the unfortunate assignment of playing Duke twice.

They predictably lost each matchup by margins of 87-52 and 81-54, respectively.

This year, the Panthers dodged a bullet by drawing the Blue Devils just once. You can chalk this game up as a Pitt loss — the only questions will be by how much and to what degree of embarrassment.

Duke boasts a nearly unstoppable trio of first-year talent, as Coach K managed to snag the nation’s first-, second- and fifth-

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First-year guard Trey McGowens (2) drives in for a layup against Virginia Military Institute during Pitt’s 94-55 victory Nov. 9, 2018. Bader Abdulmajeed | staff photographer ranked prospects. There’s do-it-all guard RJ wuka getting bullied by Williamson in the sity of Maryland-Baltimore County, which Barrett, already the ACC’s leading scorer at paint. The best Pitt can hope for is to slow became the first No. 16 seed to ever beat a 22.9 points per game. There’s sharpshooter down the pace, minimize the deficit and not No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament when Cam Reddish, whose size and shooting abil- get put on the wrong side of a Williamson it shockingly took down the Cavaliers last March. ity make him an ideal NBA prospect. And highlight reel.

But this year’s Virginia team is a year No. 4 Virginia — One away matchup then there’s the 6-foot-7, 285-pound wreckolder, with junior veterans Kyle Guy, Ty Jeing ball Zion Williamson, who has been March 2.

Once again, the Panthers luck out by rome and Braxton Key hungrier than ever in the national spotlight since early high having to face one of the ACC’s toughest after last year’s embarrassing tournament school for his prodigious dunking ability.

The Pete will likely sell out once again, opponents just once. The Cavaliers are an exit. They also boast an athletic playmakwith fans hoping to catch a glimpse of these undefeated 13-0 so far, but their toughness er in 6-foot-7 redshirt sophomore guard three superstars on their one-year college lies in their strategy rather than their athlet- De’Andre Hunter. This combination of extour before making their way to successful icism. Head coach Tony Bennett is known perience and talent will make it all but imNBA careers. The undersized Panthers will for implementing a gritty system that typi- possible for the scrappy — but often sloppy be mismatched across the board, whether cally leads the NCAA in total defense and — Panthers to pull off an upset. it’s 6-foot-3 first-year guard Trey McGow- ranks toward the bottom in pace.

Find the full story online at Virginia has proven that they can lose to ens matching up with the 6-foot-7 Barrett, or 225-pound junior center Kene Chuk- anyone on any given day — just ask Univer-

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