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T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | February 12, 2019 ­| Volume 109 | Issue 103

RESIDENTS, FACULTY VOICE QUALMS WITH MASTER PLAN

FANNING IN THE NEW YEAR

Emily Wolfe

Assistant News Editor Pitt will unveil the finalized version of its Institutional Master Plan at the end of this week. It includes a plan for more housing, with a net total of 775 new beds and an increase in sustainability efforts.

But some in the Pitt and Oakland communities have questions about what’s been left out of the plan.

At a public meeting at the University Club Monday, some Oakland residents worried the Master Plan will add to what they see as the negative effects of the University and student life on the neighborhood, and representatives of Pitt’s department of music said the plan doesn’t include room on campus for the arts.

At the meeting — the first of four Pitt plans to hold over the next several months — they were given a brief amount of time to voice their concerns. Ron Leibow, senior project manager for Pitt facilities management, who noted this was an “introduction meeting,” focused largely on the presentation of more than 100 Pitt VSA’s fan dance during “Pitt CASA x VSA Lunar: New Year 2019” celebration on Saturday evening. Thomas Yang slides of information about the Master Plan and stated | assistant visual editor the next two meetings would be oriented more toward community feedback.

Over the long-term, Pitt wants to decrease the number of students living in Towers and close Lothrop Hall, opening up a new residence hall near the Chev- Neena Hagen away in Nordy’s Place, vying for one of the most discussed in Monday night’s debate. Moderators ron Science Center, where Eberly Hall currently sits.

Senior Staff Writer powerful student leadership positions on cam- Matt Stalford, head writer and host of the Bully Two weeks ago, Pitt approved a lease for a new In a quiet corner of the William Pitt Union pus — president of Student Government Board. PulPitt, and Christian Snyder, editor-in-chief of student off-campus living option at The Bridge on food court, Taylor Landis hunched over a din“There’s a debate happening right now? I had The Pitt News, asked questions throughout the Forbes, an apartment complex in West Oakland. But ing table with her earbuds in, brow furrowed in no idea,” Landis, a junior rehabilitation science hour-long contest about each candidate’s preit’ll be “sunset” for those apartments after the three- concentration as she scrawled away at her notes. major, said. “But I definitely plan to vote in the scriptions for improving student facilities and year lease is up, Leibow said. administrative policies.

At the same time, Albert Tanjaya and Zechariah election next Tuesday.”

Jim Earle, Pitt’s associate vice chancellor for busi- Brown were squaring off in a debate 50 yards Visibility among the student body was one See Master Plan on page 2 See SGB on page 2 of many issues Tanjaya and Brown, both juniors,

BROWN, TANJAYA DEBATE FOR SGB PRESIDENCY

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The audience size ebbed and flowed throughout the night, peaking at around 40 people. And with voter turnout for the past two elections hovering at just above 5 percent, Tanjaya opened the debate by calling for SGB to take a more active role within the student body.

“First we need to increase visibility for student government across campus,” Tanjaya said.

“Let’s open our office hours and get away from the WPU, go down to Towers lobby, to Market, to Hillman to just be there for the students we represent.”

Brown nodded in agreement and outlined a concrete plan to march out into the field to interact with students. He advocated holding an activity called “Bonding with the Board,” a monthly sit-down where students could air their grievances about Pitt, inquire about administrative policies and pitch solutions to the president and board members.

SGB’s supposed to be a “megaphone to the administration,” Tanjaya said, calling for more transparency between SGB and students to ensure the administration is hearing students’ complaints. And he said communication is especially important for issues like mental health care on campus, where students often don’t know about the resources available to them.

“Students don’t know a lot about the mental health-care facilities that exist on campus,” Tanjaya said. “First we need to educate students about things like the counseling center, then we can identify the improvements we need to make and the money we need to allocate.”

Brown, who serves on the mental health task

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“We need to make working for the University more attractive,” Brown said. “My biggest step would be to allocate more money to hiring so we can actually build the counseling team students need for their mental health.”

Tanjaya and Brown largely agreed on the major issues — neither candidate used any of the three rebuttals they were given before the start of the debate. But one issue that separated the two was the funding process for Pitt clubs.

Currently, when SGB decides to grant a club a certain amount of money, it stays in a bank account under the Student Organization Resource Center, which must also authorize and verify all the club’s purchases. Tanjaya said the process is often riddled with delays and he wants to simplify allocations with SGB and SORC. “I have friends at other schools and they say the process for getting money from student government or the university is pretty straightforward,” Tanjaya said. “Allocations often go straight into [a club’s] bank account.”

Brown, by contrast, has no issue with the allocations committee but he thinks SORC is overly bureaucratic. He also wants to cut down on the middleman, which he said imposes unnecessary regulations on club finances.

“SORC doesn’t allow clubs to use things like Venmo,” Brown said. “We do need to streamline the SORC side, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the SGB Allocations Committee.”

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Master Plan, pg. 1 ness and auxiliary services, said leasing The Bridge, like Pitt’s lease of two floors of the Wyndham Hotel, is intended to be a short-term solution to the shortage of beds on campus.

“Obviously the building on the hillside can’t be up tomorrow,” Earle said. “We do have excess demand for housing, so the lease of The Bridge allows us an interim solution.”

But Mathew Rosenblum, the chair of the music department, expressed concern about what he called a “complete disregard for the arts” in the Master Plan.

“Where the music building currently is, you have student housing. We don’t even have a music department in the future,” he said. “Where’s the arts in this plan?”

Officials acknowledged the lack of a music building in the plan.

“It’s a recognized deficiency and we’re working with the provost’s office on how to deal with that,” Owen Cooks, the assistant vice chancellor for planning, design and construction, said.

Cooks did not say whether the final draft of the plan, which will be released on Friday, will address the issue.

Another Pitt staff member, Christine Berliner, echoed Rosenblum’s concerns. Though she’s an undergraduate adviser in the biology department and not officially affiliated with the music department, Berliner sings in the Pitt Women’s Choral Ensemble.

Only a small minority of the women in the ensemble are from the music department, she said, and she’s worried about the lack of spaces for musical groups in the Master Plan.

“There’s a very strong interest in music and the arts, not just from the arts people,” Berliner said.

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“There is nothing about where those facilities would be reimagined.”

Initially scheduled for Jan. 30, the meeting was pushed to mid-February after frigid temperatures led to the cancellation of events and classes across campus on the original date.

Carlino Giampolo and Marshall Goodwin, who have long advocated for Oakland residents, did most of the questioning on how Pitt’s continued expansion will affect the neighborhood. Giampolo spent last Monday outside Pitt with a bullhorn and a sign that read, among other things, “Why are 5,000 faculty silent while Pitt destroys Oakland,” causing some questions from students.

“I don’t see anywhere in here where you acknowledge the negative impact your institution has had on Oakland’s residential component over the past 40, 50 years,” Goodwin said. “It should have been a premier neighborhood, and it no longer is, and we need acknowledgment, or I can’t believe that you’re sincere about anything other than expansion.”

Leibow said the University is fulfilling the obligations set for it by the City, which include only “mitigating the impact of the developments moving forward.”

Goodwin also suggested the implementation of restrictions that would limit student living to certain areas of Oakland, leaving other areas free from the “noise pollution” and other inconveniences of student neighbors. Some other cities have implemented similar zoning restrictions.

Andrea Boykowycz, another longtime Oakland resident, asked if Pitt would consider opening its shuttle system up to non-students, a possibility Leibow said the University is already exploring.

“The contraposition of the interests of the University and the resident community is longer than my lifetime,” Boykowycz said. “It’s our job to provide constructive feedback.”

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NEW YORK SETS EXAMPLE WITH NEW ABORTION LAW

Delilah Bourque

Senior Staff Columnist The fight for reproductive health for women in the United States has been an uphill battle since 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled women had the right to an abortion. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., recently joined that ongoing fight when he signed legislation on Jan. 22 that stirred major controversy.

New laws in New York now allow for abortions after the 24th week of pregnancy in cases where a medical professional determines that a woman’s life is critically endangered by continuing her pregnancy, or there is significant evidence that the fetus would not be able to survive after birth.

The legislation is a landmark victory in the fight for women’s reproductive health-care rights. More states should pass laws like those in Colorado, Nevada and now New York that protect women’s health and allow women to have agency over their own bodies late in their pregnancies.

The New York law changes who can perform abortions, decriminalizes abortion and offers protections for New York women should Roe v. Wade be overturned, as well as allowing third-trimester abortions in certain cases. The law is fundamentally about protecting women’s rights to health care equality.

“The legislature finds that comprehensive reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion, is a fundamental component of a woman’s health, privacy and equality,” the law reads.

Before Cuomo signed the Reproductive Health Act, only physicians were permitted to perform abortions. Now, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants can become licensed and certified by the state to perform abortions.

This allows women to have expanded access to safe, legal abortions even if they live in areas with a low population, where it may be more difficult to find a physician.

The language of the new law also attempts to protect women who receive third-trimester

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a news conference on Nov. 2, 2017, in New York. Jefferson Siegel | new york daily news/tns abortions from prosecution. New York’s old law criminalized abortions after 24 weeks by having ambiguous language as to what defined a “person,” whereas the new law defines a person as having been born and is alive. This language protects women who need late-term abortions in order to protect their health from being tried for murder.

The Reproductive Health Act goes a step further than providing more safe, legal abortions for women who need them — it also codifies Roe v. Wade by making state law less ambiguous. Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that rules women have a right to an abortion under the 14th Amendment, allows states to put their own stipulations on what circumstances abortions can be performed under after the first trimester. If this ruling were to be overturned, the new New York legislation very clearly still allows for abortions after 24 weeks in the absence of fetal vitality.

Pro-life groups and advocates expressed outrage at the bill’s passing, including President Donald Trump in his State of the Union Address on Feb. 5.

“Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth,” Trump said.

“These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world.”

But the New York law is not about “ripping” completely healthy babies from their mothers.

It’s about protecting the health of women when their lives are at risk, or their babies who would not survive long in the world.

Without laws like these, women’s health can be put in critical danger. In Ireland, a reinvigorated abortion rights movement began when a 31-year-old dentist, Savita Halappanavar, died after doctors denied her an abortion at the 17th week of pregnancy in 2012. Halappanavar, who was beginning to miscarry, suffered organ failure after contracting sepsis due to complications with her pregnancy.

The eighth amendment to the Irish constitution that effectively banned abortion in the country — originally passed in 1983 — was overturned by majority vote on May 25 of last year. Prior to the referendum, thousands of

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Irish women illegally sought abortions either by traveling or buying pills online and risked jail sentences of up to 14 years if caught.

Many pro-life opponents of the bill believe the new laws will allow women to obtain abortions on demand, at any state of pregnancy.

This is simply not true. According to the Center for Disease Control, 98.7 percent of abortions occur before the 20th week of pregnancy.

This number is not likely to increase, as the new New York law mandates these third-trimester abortions should only occur when the fetus or mother is in danger of death, such as in the case of Savita Halappanavar. Allowing more women to receive third-trimester abortions when they need them serves to protect women’s health in a small subset of cases.

The lack of laws across the country allowing women the right to make this decision means obtaining third-trimester treatment is nearly impossible and extremely cost-prohibitive.

One Massachusetts woman, Kate Carson, was forced to spend $20,000 from her parents’ retirement fund to fly to Colorado and get induced and give birth to her baby, who at 35 weeks. The baby was unlikely to survive fullterm birth, and if she did, would live an existence too painful to even sleep. Had Carson not had access to money from her parents, it is likely she would have had to give birth and deprive a child of peace.

“Most babies get to have life and get to have peace, but this baby, I had to choose,” she said in an interview with The Guardian. “I could choose life, with the outside chance of peace or occasional peace, or I could choose certain peace without life. And for me, certain peace without life was the choice I wanted to make.”

New York’s new abortion laws allow women to take control of their own health. Lateterm abortions are only used in the cases of women whose lives are in mortal danger, or to spare the pain of a baby who would not survive after birth. These laws are going to save lives, and other states should pass similar legislation to protect the lives of more women.

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PITT RINGS IN THE LUNAR NEW YEAR

Apoorva Kethidi Staff Writer

Upon entry into the William Pitt Union Assembly Room on Saturday night, more than 200 guests were greeted by a mix of traditional and modern performances in honor of the Lunar New Year. Pitt student Rosa Zhang sang her own rendition of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” while members of the Organization of Chinese Americans and Pitt’s Vietnamese Student Association performed ribbon and fan dances while wearing classical Chinese gowns.

Pitt’s Lunar New Year celebration, hosted this past weekend by Pitt’s Chinese American Students Association and VSA in an event titled “Pitt CASA x VSA: Lunar New Year 2019,” was important to many Chinese and Vietnamese students who are studying abroad, according to junior marketing major and CASA business manager Angeline Peng.

“At Pitt, it’s nice because for the people who are actually from China or international countries and they can’t visit home, we provide this space for celebration,” she said. “The real big idea of New Year is that we spend it with family, so hopefully this gives them a sense of home.”

Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is one of the most well-known Chinese holidays, celebrated by more than a billion people each year. Lunar New Year is defined as the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar, known as the lunisolar calendar, the dates of which indicate both the phase of the moon as well as the time of the solar year.

A lunar month is about two days shorter than a solar month, so in order to “catch up” with the solar calendar, an extra month is inserted every few years. Because of this, the first day of the Lunar New Year falls on a different day of the solar calendar each year. This year, the celebrations began on Feb. 5 and will continue until Feb. 19.

Before the celebration, it is traditional for See New Year on page 5

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The Steel Dragon martial arts group performs a lion dance at Saturday evening’s “Pitt CASA x VSA Lunar: New Year 2019” celebration. Maria Heines | staff photographer

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New Year, pg. 4 people to clean their houses thoroughly and display their New Year’s decorations, such as lanterns and vertical banners with poetic sayings. During the holiday, they often visit relatives and friends, watch traditional performances and launch fireworks. Sometimes people participate in a religious ceremony in honor of heaven, earth, the family’s ancestors and other gods.

Pitt graduate student Yixiao Gao, who is pursuing a master’s degree in information science, agrees that Pitt’s celebrations mean a lot to homesick international students. Gao is from China and is in the United States for school.

“A lot of what we do is similar to what [we] saw [at the event]. Family members usually give performances like sing songs or recite poems,” she said. “The most important part, however, is that all the family members sit together to eat.”

One of the many highlights of the evening was the final performance of the night,

by Pittsburgh’s own Steel Dragon and Lion Dance Team. The performance included a lion dance, a traditional dance that has been a part of Chinese culture for more than 1,000 years.

Performers mimic a lion’s movements while wearing a large lion costume, often fit for multiple people. The dance is intended to bring good fortune and prosperity to guests in the coming year.

One of the biggest aspects of Lunar New Year celebrations is the food. For this event, Golden Palace Buffet catered, featuring dishes such as lo mein, orange chicken and various vegetables.

However, these foods wouldn’t be considered the more authentic or traditional foods usually eaten. CASA President Anna-Li Kaing, a senior biology and psychology major, prefers the traditional foods associated with the holiday.

“There’s usually a huge roasted pig, dumplings and buns as well as noodles. It’s great,” she said.

Foods also vary depending on the region of China one is in during the celebration, which Gao touched on.

“China is a very large country so in different areas they eat different things,” she said.

“For the north part of China, they mainly eat dumplings, while in the south part, they mainly eat rice-based dishes.”

Another tradition during the celebration of the Lunar New Year is the red envelope, usu-

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ally given by the parent to the child as a symbolic gift of future prosperity and fortune for the year. The red of the envelope is significant as the color represents good luck. CASA and VSA paid homage to this by giving everyone a small red envelope to serve as their meal ticket for the evening.

According to Gao, the spectacle of this Lunar New Year celebration can veil the real meaning of the holiday, which symbolizes a new beginning.

“Our hope is that everyone can be happy and lucky throughout the whole year,” Gao said.

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PANTHER SPOTLIGHT: MICKY PHILLIPPI, CASSIDY WALSH, KILEY ROBATIN Tessa Sayers

Assistant Sports Editor With most of the attention on Pitt men’s basketball’s current skid and the recruits who are and aren’t signing with the football team, it’s been easy for the rest of Pitt Athletics to get lost in the dust.

But that isn’t for a lack of talent on the nonrevenue sports teams. The men’s wrestling, women’s basketball and women’s gymnastics teams have all had their ups and downs this season, but they are each anchored by talented players who give them hope for the future of the season and the program.

Micky Phillippi Pitt wrestling ended its three-game losing streak this past weekend with three wins, including one over No. 8 NC State on Saturday. The Panthers (11-3) have had a successful season thus far, mostly to the credit of redshirt freshman Micky Phillippi.

Phillippi, who transferred to Pitt last year from the University of Virginia, is ranked No. 5 in the 133-pound division. In his most recent win, Phillippi won 17-5, improving to 15-2 on the year.

His biggest win of the season came in Pitt’s loss to then-No. 3 Oklahoma State. Phillippi upset the No. 2 wrestler in the 133-pound weight class, Daton Fix. That was Fix’s first career collegiate loss.

Earlier in the season, Phillippi came in second place in his weight division at the 37th Annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational. He earned his first of two losses in the finals to the No. 3 wrestler in his weight class, Rutgers’ Nick Suriano.

Phillippi was named ACC Co-Wrestler of the Week on Dec. 4 of last year for his efforts. He will look to ride his current three-match win streak when Pitt takes on Duke Friday at the Fitzgerald Field House.

Cassidy Walsh The women’s basketball team (9-16, 0-11 ACC) has been struggling, but it’s not due to lack of effort, especially from senior guard Cassidy

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Walsh, who is seeing her highest playing time this season.

After not starting a game the past three years, Walsh is the only player who has started all 25 games so far this season. She is averaging 30.7 minutes per game, a huge jump from 11.8 minutes per game last year. She also leads the team with 768 minutes, 47 minutes more than the next closest player, junior guard Jasmine Whitney, who has 721 total minutes.

Along with her minutes, Walsh’s production has also gone up this season. She has recorded 84 field goals on 267 attempts for a .315 shooting percentage. More than halfway through the season, Walsh more than tripled her 3-pointers from last season, leading the team with 48 so far this year compared to just 15 last year. She is second on the team in points with 239 this season, just behind senior forward Danielle Garven with 257.

Walsh’s best game of the season offensively came on Nov. 9, 2018, against New Orleans when she scored 21 points. Her next best game was in Pitt’s loss to Duke on Feb. 3, when she went 6-17, all 3-pointers, and scored 18 points.

Walsh has also played efficiently on the defensive side. She has had 30 steals, two blocks and 80 defensive rebounds so far this season. She had a season high of eight rebounds on Jan. 24 against Virginia and a season-high six steals against Clemson on Jan. 20.

She has been a ray of hope for the Panthers in a season where they lost two players to injury and are struggling all around. It is no question that her loss will be felt next season.

The Panthers and Walsh will look to end their 11-game losing streak on Thursday at the Petersen Events Center against UNC. Kiley Robatin Last week, first-year Kiley Robatin was named the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Rookie of the Week, becoming the 11th Pitt gymnast in program history to earn the honor.

Prior to being named the rookie of the week, Robatin earned a 9.900 on beam, the highest

First-year Kiley Robatin on beam during the tri-meet against North Carolina and Temple on Feb. 1. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor score on any event for any Pitt gymnast this season. Her score also helped Pitt record the fourthhighest team score on beam in program history with a 49.100 at the tri-meet against North Carolina and Temple on Feb. 1.

Before her 9.900, Robatin’s career high on the balance beam was a 9.875. Her performances also help keep the Panthers as a whole in the spotlight.

Pitt is ranked second in the EAGL in the vault,

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beam and floor categories.

The Panthers are currently 5-5 overall and 1-3 in the EAGL, but Robatin’s early collegiate success is a source of hope and motivation for the Pitt team, which is currently on a three-match losing streak.

Pitt gymnastics’ next meet will be a tri-meet against Ball State and rival West Virginia on Feb. 22.

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