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‘Vagina Monologues’ spotlight ASL New Pitt tour celebrates black history Emily Brindley Staff Writer

Mo Deken performed the ASL part of the Hair skit at Saturday night’s ‘Vagina Monologues’ in the William Pitt Union.

See full gallery online. Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Although American Sign Language transformance of “The Vagina Monologues” — an Lianna Rana For The Pitt News lators have interpreted the play in the past, this episodic collection of 18 monologues about year’s production featured the first monologue gender, sexuality and the shared experiences of In its 12th year, Pitt’s version of “The Vagina performed solely in ASL. The show had four women. CWO is donating all proceeds from the Monologues” went silent for the deaf and parperformances this weekend, starting on Thursshow, which was free for Pitt students but $5 for tially deaf. day night. non-students, to New Voices Pittsburgh, an orAbout 200 people gathered in the William According to Abby Meinen, the theater ganization that defends the reproductive rights Pitt Union at 7 p.m. Saturday to watch Pitt’s of women and girls of color.

Campus Women’s Organization’s annual perSee Monologues on page 2

On Martin Luther King Jr.’s first birthday after his assassination, the students who would later form Pitt’s Black Action Society locked themselves in a computer lab.

On Jan. 15, 1969, the group of about 30 black students used a chair to lock themselves up in protest and demand more opportunities for black students on campus and the establishment of an Africana studies department.

Now, after King’s 47th birthday following his death, Pitt organized its first black history tour of campus. On Thursday, students saw the former lab and other landmarks of Pitt’s black history.

The tour details prominent African American alumni and important locations on campus that contributed to the advancement of black students on Pitt’s campus. The tour continues today.

On Thursday, two Pathfinders, seniors Naomi Stoll and Jasee Freeman, began the tour at the Cathedral, then traced through the Union, Towers Lobby, Posvar Hall and Hillman Library. The 16 tour stops included the Center for Race and Social Problems on the 20th floor of the Cathedral, as well as the Ballroom of the Union, where Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the Pitt community in November 1966.

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students dance to protest violence against women Saskia Berrios-Thomas Staff Writer

When Pitt students want to fight an injustice, they usually make signs, march and protest.

But Saturday, they danced.

To raise awareness of the worldwide violence against women, Pitt’s chapter of Amnesty International, an activist organization working to end discrimination, hosted its fourth annual One Billion Rising event 8 p.m. Saturday in the William Pitt Union.

Zisha, a Southeast Asian fusion dance team at Pitt, performed a regional dance routine first, followed by a performance from the student-led African Music and Dance Club.

Pitt’s One Billion Rising event is part of an international movement to raise awareness about violence and assault against women. The movement, which began in

Monologues, pg. 1 producer and a junior studying English, the idea came from Sandra Saba, the ASL director. The monologue is meant to pay tribute to a group of people who often have to deal with inaccessible productions because of a lack of ASL translators, Meinen said.

“The past few years it’s been signed. It’s tough because it’s a huge undertaking in a script to tell so many stories in so many different ways with many people who have different relationships with femininity and their vaginas,” Meinen said.

Three ASL translators filed onto stage to perform the last monologue of the night, “My Revolution Begins in the Body.” Using feet stomping, facial expressions and sign language, three performers told the story of a revolution of acknowledging that how one treats the natural world ties into to how one treats themselves.

Following the ASL monologue, English speaking performers took the stage to tell the same story in spoken words. The entire cast had remained onstage for the duration of the play, sit-

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2012, cites the United Nations statistic that one in three women will be beaten or raped in her lifetime, totaling more than 1 billion women among the current human population of 7 billion.

Corinne Le Lan, president of Pitt’s chapter of Amnesty International, said the event focused on rising and dancing to get people to pay attention to the large number of women violence affects.

“Instead of protesting, we dance,” Le Lan, a senior majoring in political science, said, “to show we can stand up and express ourselves in defiance of the injustices suffered by women.”

Zisha performed in its fusion style, dancing to a montage of six different songs of various ethnicities, including Indian, American and Chinese songs.

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ting in chairs in the background.

To Meinen, the monologues are about people feeling loved in a safe space and having the freedom to be authentic.

“I would say that above everything ‘The Vagina Monologues’ is a show about being proud of yourself and being proud of your body and of your story. It’s a coming together of many different people,” Meinen said.

According to The World Federation of the Deaf, the Deaf community is often left out when there isn’t a bridge connecting them and those who speak English.

Meinen hoped the ASL translators would fill the gap, allowing for more inclusion as an audience, but also open the eyes of non-ASL speakers.

For some audience members, such as Kaitlynn Grimes, a former Pitt student who left as a sophomore, this play was their first experience with ASL performers. She was moved by the interpreters whose gazes were fixed to the signers, focusing both on their hands and their expressive faces.

“I’ve never seen anyone sign during a play before, it’s cool to see how it matches the emotions of

Pitt students danced the night away as part of the national One Billion Rising movement. Look online for a photo gallery. Kate Koenig VISUAL EDITOR the speaking performers,” Grimes said.

“The Vagina Monologues” started in 1996 when Eve Ensler, an American playwright, feminist and activist, compiled monologues from New York City.

Each year, V-Day, an organization working to end violence against women and girls globally, picks a few monologues from Ensler’s compilation. V-Day sends the new manuscript to schools and community organizations that perform the play.

In sign language or spoken aloud, Grimes felt the production was “heart wrenching” and she commented on how shocking it can be that the monologues are all true accounts.

“It was something that everybody should come see,” Grimes said. “It breaks down the taboos about the vagina.”

CWO started rehearsing during the first week of the semester. Since then, the cast and crew met every Friday night for 4 hours to practice the play.

At Pitt, more than 50 women participated in this year’s production.

Although CWO worked to make the show accessible for deaf audience members, director

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Maddy Barber said the play could still be excluding the experience of people in the transgender, pansexual and asexual community.

“We need to start shifting the focus on marginalized groups,” Barber said. “We had this dilemma since we started casting, cisgendered men are not allowed to be in ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ trans men and women are because they either have vaginas or identify as women. It is tricky.”

The CWO is looking for ways to put on supplementary productions and events that highlight other marginalized groups. Barber said she hopes to bring future productions to Pitt that can touch on other important issues.

Although the show is comprised only of monologues, Meinen hopes it will spark a conversation about gender and sexuality that will allow people to be open minded and proud of their bodies, minds and experiences.

“It’s my hope that people walk away finding something in the show that they want to say more on. They say it and then it opens up a space where people can share their stories,” Meinen said. “We put this show on as an invitation, not as the end of what we have to say about these topics.”

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Pathfinders and BAS members led tourgoers through stops in Pitt’s journey for racial equality. Look online for a photo gallery. Kate Koenig VISUAL EDITOR

Coordinators Crystal McCormick Ware and Linda Williams-Moore designed the Hallowed Ground Walking Tour to fit with this year’s Black History Month theme of “Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African-American Memories.”

Among the stops on the tour, Pitt Pathfinders and members of BAS took a handful of students to the former eighth-floor computer lab in the Cathedral of Learning where Pitt’s BAS took a stand, alumni K. Leroy Irvis’ Reading Room and John Woodruff ’s Showcase in Hillman Library.

Irvis, who graduated from Pitt’s Law School in 1954, was the first African-American to serve as a state House speaker. Woodruff was a former Pitt track star and Olympic gold medalist.

Crystal McCormack Ware, one of the coordinators, said 10 people attended the Feb. 4, tour. About the same number attended the Feb. 11, tour.

“I’m really impressed with how the senior administrators and faculty were interested in this,” Ware said. “[It] shows their commitment to diversity, I think.”

The tour’s second stop was on the eighth floor of the Cathedral, which now hosts the provost’s office.

The students were part of Pitt’s BAS, but at the time Pitt did not formally recognize the BAS as an organization. Nearly a year before the sitin, in May 1968, BAS members brought their concerns to then-Chancellor Wesley Posvar.

At this time, the BAS demanded that Pitt recruit more black students and faculty members, recognize the African-American experience in courses and establish a black studies department.

Though the administration initially gave the BAS a positive response, The Pitt News reported a year later that the students still felt their concerns had been glossed over.

During the day of Jan. 15 1969, BAS members walked into classrooms across campus and read a statement saying, “The Black Action Society requests that classes be cancelled in commemoration of this day [Dr. King’s birthday].”

As many as 65 BAS members then went to Posvar’s office and waited for two and a half hours for him to return and speak with them.

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Hallowed Grounds, pg. 3 dents anyone who requested the day off could be officially excused from classes.

According to a Pitt News article from Jan. 16, 1969, Posvar repeated many times that the “‘students were respectful and orderly.’” He said he understood their frustration on not being heard and was “dissatisfied with the progress myself.”

“It’s about time this happened. Now the chancellor will be aware of student demands,”

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one black student, whose name was not reported, said at the time.

Then, between 8 and 9 p.m. on Jan. 15, 1969, the students entered the computer lab.

According to a Jan. 16, 1969, Pitt News article, a young black man stood guard in front of the glass doors and wore a black beret and a leather jacket, the uniform of the Black Panthers.

“To hear about the innovation, I think that that’s something that you don’t really about that often,” Stoll said. “Students did lock themselves in a computer lab, which at the time was huge because there was only one computer lab.”

Pitt called in city and Pitt police to contain the largely peaceful scene and to bar curious onlookers from entering the Cathedral.

“Rather than have the police who were here break down the door or unlock the door, [Posvar] decided to work with the students,” Stoll said.

Within a matter of hours, Chancellor Posvar agreed to the students’ demands, so far as he had the power to do so, and the students left the computer lab 3 a.m. Jan. 16, 1969.

According to Pitt News articles from Jan. 16 and 20, 1969, not all of the students agreed with

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the sit-in.

One student wrote into The Pitt News demanding the administration take “corrective measures” against the students involved in the sit-in. On the wall around the corner from the BAS’ office, unknown individuals spray-painted “BAS Get Out or Death.”

Following the sit-in, the administration established an institution to provide financial aid and scholarship to black students, create a section in the library for black students and recognize Martin Luther King Jr.’.s birthday and the anniversary of the death of Malcolm X as holidays.

Jessica Beaver, a senior Urban Studies and English Literature major and also a Pathfinder, attended Thursday’s tour. Beaver said the tour gave her a chance to educate herself about black history on campus.

“Tours like this are a great first step to recognizing that there is very little in your day to day life that goes on that doesn’t have to do with race,” Beaver said. “I can walk through the Cathedral and see all of these elements of black history.”

Beaver said her one disappointment was that not enough students attended Thursday’s tour. On the Feb. 5 tour, about 10 administrators from various departments walking alongside the Pathfinders.

“I just feel like students really have a tendency not to take advantage of all the things going on around campus and all the opportunities they have to educate themselves,” Beaver said.

“It says something that there were way more administrators there for the first tour than there were Pitt students.”

Today, the momentum the students started at the sit-in led to Pitt’s Africana studies program, which still exists, continues.

“The University is such a huge University and has so much going on that it’s easy for certain things to get lost,” Freeman said. “These are things that I’m just hearing of even though it’s a very big deal.”

Though it may seem like ancient history to today’s Pitt students, Stoll said it’s important to understand the University’s past.

“Clearly, there’s still a lot of progress that needs to be made all around the world and I think it’s important to respect what the University has done,” Stoll said. “But also remember it and cherish it as we move forward.”

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Surrounding the open seat Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most influential and divisive people to ever sit on the bench, died Saturday. True to form, his death has left a wave of controversy in its wake.

While Washington, D.C., begins to tie itself in knots over finding a replacement, Scalia’s death offers an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between regular Americans and our highest court. That relationship is, in a word, terrible. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.

According to a 2012 survey conducted by FindLaw, a popular legal information site operated by Thomson Reuters, only 1 percent of Americans could name all nine Supreme Court justices.

Sixty-six percent could not name a single justice, but of his colleagues, Scalia’s was the name most likely to appear to us in a headline.

Scalia served on the court for nearly three decades after President Ronald Reagan nominated him in 1986. Until his death, he was the longest serving of the current members.

He was also notably the most vocal of the court’s conservative wing, relying on a textualist view of the Constitution to relate cases back to the direct intentions of the founding fathers.

This approach, and the pointed writing and questioning that accompanied it, often earned Scalia the hatred of liberals. His forceful dissents in matters, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage and affirmative action, invited labels like “homophobe” and “racist.” He also supported landmark cases, such as Citizens United v. FEC, which effectively dismantled campaign finance regulations, and Bush v. Gore, which secured the election of George W. Bush. For all of the same reasons, many on the right considered him one of their greatest advocates.

Regardless of political affiliation, the social significance of each case should clearly demonstrate the power of the Supreme Court. The list above barely scratches the surface.

The court’s decisions shape the lifestyles and freedoms of the nation, and understanding their implications is critical to understanding American ethics.

Following Scalia’s death, the court will operate with only eight members until the president nominates a replacement and the Senate confirms them. This leaves the door open to

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tied decisions, in which case the rulings of the lower court stand.

But that is an unacceptable reality considering the court’s upcoming case load.

The highest profile case is President Obama’s immigration plan. If the court upholds it, the executive measure would shield more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. This term, the court will also consider changing the rules for how states and municipalities draw voting districts, allowing state governments to shape them based on the number of eligible voters, rather than total population. This would fundamentally shift how almost all non-federal elections operate.

The court could also change whether public sector unions can charge members for the cost of collective bargaining efforts even if they disagree with the terms. Additionally, there is a controversial Texas law that closed nearly all of the state’s abortion clinics, while another case features religious organizations fighting to be exempt from covering contraceptive health care products.

With high stakes for both parties, this should be a landmark year for the country. Unfortunately, there are threats from congressional Republicans to block any nomination until after the 2016 election in November. These tactics are, at best, irresponsible. At worst, they further undermine the country’s ability to function healthily.

While nothing in the modern United States escapes political influence, justices are meant to rule on legality, not partisan definitions of morality. To constrain their ability to do that because of an election year is indefensible.

As Scalia said at his granddaughter’s high school graduation in 2010, “More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.” In this case, and most others, that means listening to the people. First, we have to give our leaders something to hear.

It’s time that all of us start paying more attention to the one branch of government we don’t elect. Calling on leaders to pass policies is one thing, but it is just as important that the public care about who decides the legality of those laws.

Just because there is no button to push in a booth, doesn’t mean you have no voice or reason to care.

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Defining Feminism not purely up to elders Kirsten Wong Columnist

As our generation takes the torch of feminism, we are sprinting in a new direction.

Last week, prominent feminist icons Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright criticized young female voters for supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In the process, they have created a feminist civil war between generations of women voters.

On Feb. 5, Steinem appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show and stated, “[Women are] going to get more activist as they get older ... And when you’re young, you’re thinking, ‘Where are the boys?’ The boys are with Sanders.” Albright, the first female secretary of state, stoked the controversial discourse a day later, telling a New Hampshire rally for Clinton, “Young women have to support Hillary Clinton ... and just remember, there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”

Both have since backtracked their statements, stating that we may have taken their words out of context and they did not mean to belittle women’s preferences. But the suggestion that young women

must vote for Clinton because of their gender and the bid’s historic potential highlights a generational divide between female voters.

In the New Hampshire primary, 82 percent of younger women aged 18 to 29 years of age who voted picked Sanders. Meanwhile, 56 percent of women over 45 years old voted for Clinton. The trend is not exclusive to women — 85 percent of young voters supported Sanders overall.

Steinem and Albright’s condemnation of young female voters supporting Sanders reduces the feminist cause to uplifting fellow women. In reality, the movement is so much more than that. Feminism is about the political, economic and social equality of all men and women. A symbol for women’s rights is not enough to achieve that.

Steinem and Albright surely know this. But as representatives of a still-necessary movement, others may accept their throwaway remarks as the basis for real political decisions.

Furthermore, Steinem’s accusation is also using a false argument that reinforces blatant sexism by implying that young women base their beSee Wong on page 7

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represent a milestone to others.

Steinem and Albright didn’t create this kind of assumption among women, but as influential leaders, they should be actively dispelling it.

What we need are policies that extensively benefit all women, not just an inspirational figure of hope to speak for us all. Although Clinton’s presidential win would shatter the ultimate glass ceiling for women, we can’t measure the fight for gender equality by the unprecedented accomplishment.

Women’s rights are still under attack, given issues like defunding Planned Parenthood, equal pay for equal work, affordable childcare, paid maternity leave, sexual violence and political and corporate representation.

Several of Sanders’ policies would address these issues more aggressively than Clinton’s. Raising the minimum wage to $15, subsidized child care, free college and universal health care would greatly, and disproportionately, impact women for the better.

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liefs solely on popularity or male agreement. The offensive remarks could even alienate young voters who feel like political leaders are devaluing their earliest political decisions.

Ironically, by pitting younger and older women against each other, she is hurting the feminist cause. When she denounces young women for using their agency to choose instead of blindly following a woman for the sake of female solidarity, she is misleading them about what feminism is truly about.

It’s true that older women have endured far more discrimination. They grew up during the second wave era of fighting for workplace equality, new family roles, reproductive rights, Title IX, sexual liberation — all steep, uphill battles. Their desire to see a woman represent the success of their fight is well understood and justifiable.

But we have come to a point where all candidates in the Democratic race strongly support women’s rights, so we

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Sports Panthers outdo hokies in virginia, 58-49 Logan Hitchcock Staff Writer

The Pitt women’s basketball team has found a home on the road.

The Panthers (11-14, 3-9 ACC), won their third consecutive conference game on the road in Blacksburg, Virginia, Sunday, defeating the Virginia Tech Hokies (15-10, 3-9 ACC) 58-49.

After a few minutes of empty possessions to begin the game, Pitt got on the board when sophomore Yacine Diop connected on a 3-point basket with 7:11 remaining in the first quarter. Diop followed with another basket on the following Panther possession, giving Pitt a 5-4 lead.

Shortly after Diop made her second basket, Pitt extended the lead to 7-4 with a layup from freshman Brenna Wise. Unfortunately for the Panthers, Wise’s field goal would be their last of the quarter before settling for three free throws in the final 5:39 of the first quarter.

The Hokies took advantage of Pitt’s inability to score first quarter, climbing out of the three-point hole and eventually taking the lead on a Hannah Young 3-point basket.

Senior forward Young added a free

throw right before a final basket from Virginia Tech gave the Hokies a four-point lead heading into the second quarter.

Pitt’s offensive struggles carried over into the second quarter, where again it only connected on three field goals in 10 minutes. The team’s first field goal came trailing by six, when Wise again got to the basket and drew a foul, adding the free throw for a conventional 3-point play.

Trailing by three, fellow freshman Kalista Walters brought the Panthers within two with 4:47 remaining in the quarter.

After Walter’s layup though, the Hokies began to pull away, using a 6-0 run to pull ahead by eight points.

Pitt added a triple from junior Fred Potvin and a pair of free throws from Aysia Bugg before the end of the quarter, but it couldn’t get much closer and went into halftime trailing by seven points.

Opening the second half, the Panthers were desperate for some efficient offense early in the third quarter. After an opening possession turnover, the Panthers finally started clicking, connecting on their first five field goal attempts in the second half.

Wise led the charge, adding two of five

Brenna Wise goes up for a shot, she brought in 13 points Sunday afternoon.

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Despite Dixon’s switch, Tar Heels dominate, 85-64

Dan Sostek Sports Editor

At this point, Pitt men’s basketball head coach Jamie Dixon will try anything.

One game after implementing a 3-2 zone in a loss to Miami, Pitt’s head coach shook up his starting lineup, choosing not to start Michael Young — for the first time in the player’s career — and Sterling Smith

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in favor of Rafael Maia and Chris Jones.

Dixon’s shift didn’t work, as the No. 9 North Carolina Tar Heels (21-4. 10-2 ACC) outclassed the Panthers (17-7, 6-6 ACC) in Chapel Hill by a final score of 85-64.

UNC jumped out to a 11-4 lead in the first quarter, getting points in the paint at will. After subbing in Ryan Luther and Cameron Johnson, Dixon finally put Young in the game.

Pitt struggled getting shots off early on, turning the ball over five times in the first seven minutes, including a shot clock violation.

A couple three-point plays by Jamel Artis and James Robinson narrowed the deficit as Pitt trailed 21-14 with 10:14 left in the half.

The Panthers continued to fight — thanks to a strong effort from Young off

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the bench — but a Justin Jackson 3-pointer with just over two minutes left in the half extended UNC’s lead to double digits at 37-27. A Brice Johnson dunk and Marcus Paige three grew the Tar Heels’ lead to 15.

A late jumper by Sheldon Jeter lessened the deficit, but the Panthers headed into the intermission trailing by 13.

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Women’s Hoops, pg. 8 field goals to help Pitt erase a seven-point deficit and tie the game at 30-30 with 6:28 remaining in the third quarter. Following the media timeout, the Hokies stopped the bleeding as Young once again added a jumper to give them the lead.

The lead wouldn’t last for long though, as Pitt forward Stasha Carey added a 3-point play on the following possession to bring the Panthers ahead for the first time since the early minutes of the first quarter.

Pitt’s Potvin would add a pair of free throws before Young once again tied the game with a jumper of her own. Tied at 35, the Panthers finished the final 1:26 of the first quarter on a 6-2 run — using four more free throws and a Carey layup to carry a four-point lead into the game’s final quarter.

Needing to hang on for 10 more minutes, the Panthers clung to their four-point lead, matching Virginia Tech’s score in the first minute of the fourth quarter.

A few possessions later, Stasha Carey followed a steal with a made layup and Fred Potvin again connected from deep with 7:30

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remaining — extending Pitt’s four-point lead.

Pitt held its seven-point lead until the final media timeout of the game with 5:09 remaining. Over the next three minutes though, Virginia Tech carved out a small 6-2 run, forcing head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio to call a timeout with 1:41 remaining.

After the timeout, Pitt battled back to defend its lead when sophomore Aysia Bugg connected on her first basket of the game.

When Pitt earned a defensive stop on the next possession, the Hokies were forced to foul in order to try to get back in the game.

On its next three possessions, Pitt drained two free throws and pulled away from the Hokies for good.

Pitt had four starters finish with double digits in scoring, led by Fred Potvin who poured in 14 points. Brenna Wise finished with 12 points, while Carey and Bugg both had 10 points.

The Panthers will play next on Thursday when they travel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to take on the North Carolina Tar Heels (14-13, 4-8 ACC).

Men’s Hoops, pg. 8 period, Robinson nailed a jumper, marking 1,000 points in his Pitt career. He is the 44th player in program history to reach that mark and is the first player to do so since Talib Zanna reached the mark in 2013-2014.

Later on in the half, Cameron Johnson’s three got Pitt back into it, as the score sat at 48-41 with 14:52 left in the game.

After a quick answer by the Tar Heels, the Panthers had a chance to shrink the lead back to seven with Robinson at the line shooting two free throws. But the senior point guard missed both, and UNC scored five straight, marking a seven-point swing and giving North Carolina a 55-41 advantage.

Pitt had limited opportunities on the line the whole game and struggled when it had the chance, going just 5-14 on the afternoon.

It would not get any prettier for the Panthers after that five-point run, as the Tar Heels relentlessly applied pressure on both ends. They forced 19 Pitt turnovers while outscoring Pitt in the paint 42-22.

Robinson and Young led the Panthers,

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tallying 15 points each. Robinson struggled from the field the entire game, going just 6-19, with a pair of threes coming too late to save the game.

The Tar Heels blanked Pitt sophomore forward Jamel Artis, who lingered in foul trouble throughout the game. He totalled just five points on 2-8 shooting in only 21 minutes of action.

UNC’s put forth a group effort offensively, as five North Carolina players reached double digits in points. Forward Brice Johnson led the way with 19 points, while Marcus Paige and Justin Jackson pitched in with 15 and 14, respectively.

The defeat, which knocks Pitt down to .500 in ACC play for the first time this season, is the team’s fourth loss of the season to a ranked team. With only six games left in regular season play, the Panthers have yet to beat a ranked team..

The Panthers return to the Petersen Events Center after a two-game road stretch Tuesday when they take on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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Wong, pg. 7 Sanders also has a more consistent, longer record of supporting civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights and underprivileged Americans — all of which feminism has adopted over the last few decades.

Voting based on policies and commitment to change is not an insult to older women and the second feminist movement. It is a step toward a political environment that promotes women’s rights — not hinders them.

Millennials are not dismissing all the challenges that women have faced and the hard work they’ve done in order to get where we are at today. Instead, we are embracing the strides they have made and using it in to support all women, not just a single successful one. The fact that gender is not the only basis for voting for or against a candidate is itself a victory.

Our generation is looking at all the

One Billion, pg. 2 Sri Karanam, the dance captain of Zisha and a senior majoring in biology, said the group has performed at One Billion Rising for the past four years and they are committed to speaking up to show that violence against women is a common problem.

“We love what the event stands for,” Karanam said. “We want to bring awareness through dance.”

African Music and Dance Club took the stage next, performing three different dances. “Fume Fume,” a song from Ghana, was upbeat, while “Ekizino,” a Ugandan song used to keep warm in the high mountains by stomping and running, was more intense and fierce.

The African Music and Dance Club invited the audience to participate in the last song, “Gota.” Billy Bohner, the president of the African Music and Dance Club and a senior majoring in psychology and sociology, organized students in pairs and asked that the group stand in a circle for the courtship dance.

Bohner clapped and chanted as he danced with the group of about 25 students

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factors of each candidate and making decisions for ourselves. We must never forget the barriers that women once faced just to be visible in politics. Older feminists opened the door for us and allowed more opportunities for women to succeed in politics. We now have the ability to choose candidates for ourselves.

That being said, when Clinton faces sexist criticism such as being “shrill” or not warm and friendly enough, we should defend her. To the same end, if young women want to focus on policies more than gender solidarity, we should defend that, too.

Only laws and policies will enact tangible change in the long run. Whether a man or a woman enforces those laws as president should not matter. A female president may inspire hope and motivation for many women, but hope is simply not enough to me. For other women, it might be.

Thankfully, that is their choice.

— about half of them members of the audience who had never danced to African music before. He walked students through each step of the dance, showing them the foot patterns, when to clap, when to stomp and when to turn to their partner. The group danced together for most steps, with each pair of randomly assigned partners getting a solo at the end.

Hannah Marshall, a sophomore majoring in psychology and anthropology and a member of Pitt’s chapter of Amnesty International, said the audience participation allowed students to express themselves and show that they care about violence against women.

“This was a really good, inclusive way to talk about such a serious topic,” Marshall said. “We’re having a dialogue about violence against women.”

Eleanora Kaloyeropoulou, the former president of Campus Women’s Organization, which works to empower female Pitt students through discussion and advocacy events, said One Billion Rising is an important part of the women’s rights movement.

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