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NO, REALLY: CROSSWALK COMING TO FORBES

HAPPY ELECTION DAY

Joanna Li

News Editor

Frontier’s presidential candidate Albert Tanjaya (from left), 19Forward’s board candidate Lynn Dang, board candidate Aman Reddy and Impact’s presidential candidate Zechariah Brown. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor

GUIDE TO TODAY’S SGB ELECTION Emily Wolfe

Assistant News Editor Today, Pitt undergraduate students vote for next year’s Student Government Board. Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on elections.pitt.edu, and winners will be announced later tonight. The eight board candidates who win the most votes will be elected to the board and serve under the winning presidential candidate for the 2019-20 school year.

As an editorial board, The Pitt News chose not to endorse specific candidates for any elections this year, including for SGB — read more about our reasons why in a November editorial. But we still sat down with each slate to hear about their plans, policies and priorities.

Frontier Albert Tanjaya, one of two candidates for the president’s spot, joins Eric Macadangdang, Victoria Tappan and Anais Peterson on the Frontier slate.

Tanjaya wants to “rebrand” SGB, bringing it closer to the students, he said.

He talked about holding some of SGB’s regular office hours in public spaces, keeping communication open with The Pitt News and holding “fireside chats” on WPTS to talk about what the board is doing.

“Introducing ourselves to freshmen and sophomores, saying, ‘Hey, here’s what we do, we’re always up on the eighth floor,’ and just being that personable person you want your representative

to be,” Tanjaya said, describing his plan for SGB outreach.

Macadangdang, the current chair of SGB’s Wellness Committee, said student wellness, physical and mental, would stay his priority as a board member. He wants to address complaints students have had about the Counseling Center, working with the new director, Jay Darr, to improve cultural diversity issues and long wait times at the center. He said he also hopes to make menstrual products available around campus for free.

Neither Tappan nor Peterson have SGB experience, but Tappan, who has worked with homeless youth, said she wants to address the needs of lowerSee SGB on page 1

Walk, don’t run, to your next class at David Lawrence Hall.

Over this past weekend, construction began on the sidewalks parallel to Forbes Avenue near the sky bridge. This progresses the effort from Pitt to create a crosswalk on Forbes outside of David Lawrence Hall.

According to Officer Guy Johnson, the community relations officer of the University of Pittsburgh Police Department, the effort has been ongoing for five years.

“We expect everybody to obey the traffic,” Johnson said. “They’ve been crossing illegally for many years. We had to do something to make it safe for them. Rather than enforcement, we thought we’d do something to make the area safe.”

Discussion of the project began during a University Senate Community Relations Committee meeting on Nov. 20, 2018. According to an article written by the University Times, the crosswalk was expected to be done last December.

“The new crossing between the Forbes Avenue exit of Schenley Quad and David L. Lawrence Hall is on track to be done in December, reported John Wilds, assistant vice chancellor for community relations in the Office of Community and Governmental Relations,” the story said.

The efforts come in a long line of past attempts to keep students from crossing Forbes Avenue in the general area. Residence-hall students received email alerts in 2014, warning students of stricter surveillance of the practice. At that time, the idea of a crosswalk was not a feasible option.

As of now, the project has been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, but Johnson said there is still uncertainty as to when the crosswalk will be operative.

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income students by creating a lowercost meal plan.

Tappan, a member of the Tri Sigma sorority, said she also wants the board to work to improve Greek life’s image on campus.

Peterson said she wants to create a comment period that would let members of the community voice opinions at public Board of Trustees meetings, and improve gender-neutral bathrooms for LGBTQ+ students on campus.

Peterson has a history of activism and is a member of the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition, work she said she hopes to further as a board member.

Impact Presidential candidate Zechariah Brown is running with Caroline Unger, Ashima Agarwal and Scott Glaser on the Impact slate.

Brown, too, is focused on making SGB more available and accessible to students, specifically through “Bonding with the Board” events that would give students a more open setting to chat with the board.

He also wants to continue an ongoing SGB initiative and make Pitt’s alcohol amnesty policy more comprehensive.

“A lot of students are put in a predicament where they’re in a setting that they shouldn’t be and they end up in trouble with the University, and that could stop them from going on study abroad or participating in other areas of student life,” he said.

Unger said she hopes to continue work she began this year as the chair of SGB’s Facilities, Technology and Transportation Committee to advance campus safety. She wants to combine the two campus safety alert systems — the Emergency Notification System and Crime Alerts — for efficiency reasons.

Unger also has a plan to create a free and reduced meal plan for food-insecure students.

Agarwal, who currently serves on the Allocations Committee, wants to create

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“It’s really easy to feel lost in the midst of 19,000 other kids,” Agarwal said. “I want to make our campus feel a bit more intimate by connecting underclassmen and upperclassmen through formalized peer mentorship programs.”

Her other initiatives include the creation of a central calendar where clubs could post events, the implementation of compost bins around campus and a

Elsie Hillman Civic Forum, where he realized Oakland rents were disproportionately high.

Glaser acknowledged that the creation of a union would be a multi-year endeavor, but said he’s running to “expose the problem” and lay groundwork for a solution.

19Forward The three candidates of 19Forward are proud that they don’t resemble the average SGB slate. Lynn Dang and Sean Steinle, first-year students who joined

Candidates in the 2019 SGB election are running on a myriad of issues affecting students. Graphic by Daniel Walsh | staff graphic artist collaboration with the Career Center that would connect students to alumni in their academic fields.

Glaser, another outsider, has a big project in mind — the creation of a tenants’ union through the University that would eventually lower rent for students. The idea was born through Glaser’s research as an honors scholar at the

SGB during their first semester, have joined outsider sophomore Cedric Humphrey on a campaign that’s emphasized the fact that they aren’t SGB “insiders.”

“I don’t think the only thing that makes you qualified to run for SGB is experience within SGB,” Humphrey said. “If you’re a student who is active

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on this campus and sees this vision for what they can do — I think I’m capable to enact change. SGB shouldn’t be closed off.”

That’s one thing Humphrey said he’d improve as a board member — SGB transparency, specifically when it comes to allocations. He said many clubs on campus don’t know how much money is available to them.

Steinle said he wants to pursue “datadriven” solutions by polling students to determine what their own policy priorities are, with the help of a group of “people that are smarter than me” from the statistics department. He also wants to change restrictions that prevent clubs from collecting money via Venmo — something he said many of the clubs the slate met with are interested in.

Dang said she would address the issues that first-years specifically face, encouraging adapting to college in a healthy way through the distribution of information on sex education and proper nutrition.

Aman Reddy The only candidate running without a slate, Reddy noted that as a microbiology major, he’s also one of just two candidates majoring in the natural sciences — the other is Agarwal, a biology and psychology double major. He’s foregone a social media campaign to focus on campaigning in the science buildings, handing out coffee in the mornings and addressing classes.

Reddy, who has no SGB experience, wants to improve resources for science students and efficiency on campus, he said. Though he struggled to detail specific initiatives, he suggested that campus shuttle routes could be made more efficient, such as by eliminating the crosswalk on Bigelow between the William Pitt Union and the Cathedral of Learning. He also indicated an interest in making Sodexo food offerings more nutritious and Forbes Street Market more affordable, and improving SGB’s overall visibility to students.

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PA IS MISGUIDEDLY TRYING TO MAKE VIDEO GAMES A TAXABLE SIN

from the editorial board

Don’t forget to vote in SGB election It’s that time of year again — election day. Today from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Pitt undergraduate students will be able to cast their votes to elect the nine members of the 2019-20 Student Government Board.

Hyperlocal elections like the SGB election are often the ones constituents know the least about, but they can often have the most significant, immediate impact. The people we vote for will influence our lives as students in numerous ways, so it’s important to vote for candidates who will best represent us.

The president and board members of SGB are in charge of distributing money to Pitt clubs and creating programs and services for students. So if you’re involved in a student organization or care where the $80 activity fee you pay goes, you have a stake in today’s election.

SGB also interacts with the University administration on the behalf of students. The most recent example of this was a few weeks ago during the polar vortex, when current SGB President Maggie Kennedy emailed administrators to urge them to cancel classes for the sake of students’ safety. If you don’t want to have to go to classes in subzero temperatures, you might want to vote for the candidates you think will take the initiative to communicate with administrators about student concerns.

Candidates this year are running on a variety of platforms that affect different areas of student life. Presidential candidate Albert Tanjaya plans on making SGB more visible to the student body and transparent in its operations.

Another presidential candidate, Zechariah Brown, also wants to improve SGB’s visibility, as well as change Pitt’s alcohol

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medical amnesty policy to encourage more students to call for medical help when there is an emergency with drugs or alcohol.

Board candidates are running on the idea of making Pitt more sustainable, improving mental and physical health, creating more affordable meal plans, implementing a peer mentorship program and creating a tenants’ union for students living off-campus in Oakland, among others. If any of these platforms are important to you, you can vote on them today to make them a Board priority.

As important as participation is, voter turnout for SGB elections is typically low. According to Elections Committee Chair Katie McLaughlin, 3,357 students of about 18,000 eligible students — about 18 percent of the student body — voted in last year’s SGB election. The year before that, during the 2016 election, only 2,665 students voted. If you don’t want less than a fifth of the student body determining who is in charge of decisions that affect you and the rest of the student population, find time before 8 p.m. today to vote.

A positive to smaller-scale elections like this one, as compared to state or national elections, is that if voters have any questions about candidates and what they stand for, it’s easy to ask around.

Ask friends and classmates or get in contact with the candidates themselves, who are most likely happy to answer any questions about their platforms.

The agenda of next year’s Student Government Board, as well as much of the student experience, is in the hands of voters. Remember to exercise that right today.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, suffered a school shooting that took the lives of 17 people about one year ago. In response, President Donald Trump decided it would be best to examine the role video games play in causing gun violence, rather than other possible, likelier causes such as gun control and mental health.

Politicians have been trying to pin the blame for school shootings on violent video games for years, even though it’s a dated concept. Some legislators in the Pennsyl-

particularly school shootings.

“From Colorado to Connecticut to most recently in Parkland, Florida, students have experienced unthinkable actions by peers in a place that should promote learning and enrichment, safety and protection,” Quinn said in a September memo. “One factor that may be contributing to the rise in and intensity of school violence is the material kids see and act out in video games.”

The money from this tax will go into a Digital Protection for School Safety Account, which will be used to improve school safety in Pennsylvania schools. But

Daniel Walsh | staff illustrator vania House of Representatives seem to believe video games contribute to school shootings. Not only are they trying to unfairly villainize video games, which has been done by many others, but they are also violating one of the most basic constitutional rights: the freedom of speech.

Pennsylvania legislators introduced House Bill No. 109, a 10-percent sin tax — something that is meant for products such as alcohol and tobacco — on maturerated games at retail on Jan. 28. The representative behind this bill is Christopher B. Quinn, a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who claims that violent video games are encouraging all kinds of acts of violence,

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what Quinn doesn’t realize is just how ludicrous the entire bill is.

I wrote a column about a year ago about politicians blaming violent video games for mass shootings and found there are plenty of studies proving there is no link between violent video games and criminal behavior.

The American Psychological Association found that while video games do increase aggression levels, there is still no link between video games and criminal behavior. The University of Missouri proved that people with autism spectrum disorder didn’t act violently as a result of playing video games, which some claimed caused See Video Games on page 4

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FRICK FINE ARTS DEBUTS ‘AFRICANS IN INDIA’ EXHIBIT

Maya Best Staff Writer

Clad in a regal white gown and holding a red sword, 17th-century Ethiopian military leader Malik Ambar is painted on a green canvas now sitting in the Frick Fine Arts building. His image is centered in the frame and occupying all of the space.

His history and legacy as an African elite in India was unknown and forgotten until very recently.

This painting is one of many featured in the exhibition “Africans in India” that recently arrived at Pitt’s University Art Gallery in the Frick Fine Arts building. The exhibit opened on Friday in celebration of Black History Month and the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), with a reception and introductory talk by guest speakers, including psychiatrist and author Dr. Kenneth X. Robbins, University of North Carolina at Greensboro historian Dr. Omar H. Ali and University of Chicago doctoral candidate Jazmin Graves.

The exhibition was originally curated by Robbins and historian Sylviane Diouf for the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and is on loan to Pitt until March 21, with a closing reception and film screening on March 18. It features paintings and text that showcase the histories of various African elites in India who rose from the ranks of slaves and had a large impact on the art and politics of the country.

Africans first arrived in India beginning in the fifth century as soldiers, sailors, merchants and slaves. Many of their descendants still live in India today as members of the Siddi minority.

The exhibition works to highlight an otherwise forgotten and erased history, giving recognition to the many African elites and Indians of African descent and their contributions to India.

“It’s really great to have it be at a university that sort of gives it the gravitas and the legitimacy that it deserves and for students and people in the community to be able to access it,” Ali, the first speaker of the evening, said. “It’s a wonderful teaching opportunity.”

Ali is a professor of comparative African Dias-

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pora history and the dean of the Lloyd International Honors College at UNC Greensboro. His most recent book, “Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean,” is a biography of Ambar.

Ambar was an emblematic example of the African presence in India and the connections between Africa and India.

Ambar was captured as a slave in Ethiopia, educated by his master in Baghdad and then brought to India, where he rose to the rank of a general and ruler of a Southern Indian principality. He represents one of many African slaves who were to rise through the military slave system to an elite position of high official rank. The exhibition features two paintings of Ambar.

Ali stressed the importance of recognizing the amount of work that went into producing the traveling “Africans in India” exhibition, based on scholarship by experts in the field. The content is grounded in primary sources and material culture such as paintings, coins, architecture and manuscripts.

The African Heritage Nationality Room, one of the sponsors of the exhibition, has helped publicize the exhibition in the Pittsburgh community.

Graves, whose research at the University of Chicago focuses on the African-Indian Sufi tradition in West Africa, spoke after Ali. She focused on the power of images, specifically how it is the material media, architecture and artwork left behind by African elites that provides access to their history and legacies.

“It’s important to understand that the legacy of African elites is one that’s tangible, not only in the monuments, the artworks, the literature, the coins, but also in the Indians of African descent who are here today,” Graves said.

She described the “jaali,” or window lattice, found in the western wall of African elite Sidi Saiyyid’s 16th-century mosque in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, a state in India. A photograph of this jaali is featured in the exhibition.

There is a plaque near this mosque that reads, “This mosque was built in 1572-1573 by Siddi Sahid, an Abyssinian from Yemen.” It is through

The “Africans in India” exhibition is open at Pitt until March 22. Knox Coulter | staff photographer these artifacts that tangible proof can be seen of the stories of the formerly enslaved Africans rising to positions of power in India.

“You see these enlarged images of all the African elites of India and that leaves a visual impression,” Graves said. “So just the fact that it’s easily accessible and it’s just so visible is really something that’s going to be impactful.”

Leslie Rose, a University of Pittsburgh Hot Metal Bridge Fellow in art history who curated the exhibition “Movements,” adjacent to “Africans in India,” found the exhibit to be impressionable and important.

“I think projects like this bring attention to a history that’s untold,” Rose said. “What I was trying to do was draw connections that people might not have heard about or learned in history, and thinking about how that works in terms of the expressions and representations of black people across the globe.”

The third speaker, Robbins, a psychiatrist who has written a number of books about Africans and Jews in India such as “African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat,” was the original co-curator of the exhibition. His interest in the African diaspora in

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India was sparked by his hobby of collecting paintings, when he discovered the presence of Africans in paintings from the 17th to the 19th centuries, as well as ancient Ethiopian coins in India.

Robbins discussed the images of Africans on coins in Bengal, a region of India. It was difficult to identify the Africans in paintings or other artifacts because skin color alone was not enough of a determining factor. The clothing — and more importantly, the names — of these people gave more of a clue to their African identity. If they were called Habshis, they were of African descent, because this was a local name for Abyssinians or Ethiopians.

He concluded his discussion by talking about the educational purpose of the exhibit as a whole and the hope it gives him.

“The idea is to create a collection that any scholar who comes to this exhibit will find things that they didn’t know about,” said Robbins. “It will lead them in a new direction.”

The gallery at Frick Fine Arts is open on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with extended hours on Thursdays up to 7 p.m. It is closed on weekends. “Africans in India” will be on display through March 21.

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Video Games, pg. 3 the Sandy Hook shooting.

Lynda Cruz, adoptive mother of the Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, told mental health investigators that her son had suffered from ADHD, autism and depression. Officials said he “had a ‘very disturbing’ social media presence and had been expelled from school.”

There is no definitive idea as to what causes school shootings, but according to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, school shootings are typically the result of “suicidal thoughts, despair and anger — plus access to guns.” It’s never been a direct result of playing violent video games.

If it were, there’d be a lot more shootings going on, considering that more than 90 percent of American children play video games, and 90 percent of video games rated E10+ contain violence.

This would be the first time video games have been regulated by the government, but not the first time they’ve come under fire. Back in 1992, the video game “Mortal Kombat” sparked controversy for its excessive violence, particularly in the manner players execute their opponents

by taking off their heads or ripping out their hearts, followed by consuming the leaking blood. This over-the-top violence would become one of the franchise’s major selling points, but to the government this was a major concern because it was corrupting young children’s minds.

To fix the problem, the ESRB rating system was implemented, which is used to assign age ratings to various video games so parents are more informed of the graphic content that their children would see if they played the game. Apparently that simple safeguard is not enough for Pennsylvania legislators — they have to start demanding extra money be forked over if people want to play a certain game.

This bill also is a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. The Supreme Court ruled that video games were protected under it in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in June 2011, when California tried to pass a law banning the sale of violent video games to minors. Justice Antonin Scalia brought up other forms of violent speech protected under the First Amendment, such as literary works “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” and “Lord of the Flies,” which are accessible to

minors.

The violence expressed in these books is the same kind of violence that California was trying to ban, meaning it would be wrong to ban video games for expressing the same thing.

“Like the protected books, plays and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas — and even social messages — through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player’s interaction with the virtual world),” Scalia wrote in his decision.

“That suffices to confer First Amendment protection.”

After Quinn proposed the bill, the Entertainment Software Association released a statement about this constitutional violation.

“The U.S. Supreme Court made clear in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association & Entertainment Software Association that video games are entitled to the full protection of the Constitution, and that efforts, like Pennsylvania’s, to single out video games based on their content will be struck down,” the statement reads.

Republican lawmakers like Quinn tend to point to anything but guns when shootings happen. The sin tax on video games seems like a way to address gun violence without actually addressing the real problem. In doing so, it not only unfairly targets video games but also violates the constitutional right of freedom of speech.

Placing a tax on video games will in no way stop a young person with violent intentions, whether they play mature video games or not, from deciding to get their hands on a dangerous weapon and opening fire in a public space.

The solution to fixing gun violence is complex. But school shootings happen because someone has a gun and uses that gun to commit violent acts, so a step in the right direction would be keeping guns away from dangerous people, such as having stricter background checks, without violating the Second Amendment. Creating a healthy and safe school environment by decreasing isolation and closing the gaps in mental health services are also good steps to prevent more school shootings.

Regardless of what the solution is, blaming video games does nothing.

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MARCH MADNESS PREDICTIONS Nick Carlisano Staff Writer

Every year around the end of February, sports fans start to count down the days until the NCAA Tournament, the insane competition that crowns the champion of college basketball. Appropriately dubbed “March Madness,” the tournament is one of the most exciting events in sports and is known for its buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories and ridiculous individual performances.

Some teams are a lock for the tournament and are expected to advance far into the big dance, while others will have to fight and scrape for every single win to get an invitation to the ball.

Here is a guide to a few powerhouse teams favored to win it all, as well as potential Cinderella stories and players to keep an eye on.

Favorites Duke: The Blue Devils have a shot to win almost every year and this year is no different. This year’s Duke squad somehow seems more unstoppable than ever, led by the talented first-year trio of Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett and Cam Reddish. Duke has already beaten fellow top-five team and ACC rival Virginia twice. But if you really want to know how good the Blue Devils are, ask Louisville –– the Cardinals were up 23 with 10 minutes to go last week until Duke came storming back for the 71-69 win.

Gonzaga: It would be absurd not to include a top-five team that dealt Duke one of its two losses this season. Junior forward Killian Tillie is likely out for the regular season with a foot injury, but fellow junior forwards Brandon Clarke and Rui Hachimura can shoulder the load. With a strong defense and the nation’s top offense, head coach Mark Few and the Zags have a shot to make it back to the title game for the

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second time in three years after last year’s Sweet 16 exit.

Tennessee: Head coach Rick Barnes led the Vols to 19 straight wins, including a victory against Gonzaga, before falling to fellow SEC powerhouse Kentucky, 86-69, on Saturday.

Senior guard Admiral Schofield is a potential All-American averaging 16.7 points per game. He and the rest of his

were one of the last undefeated teams in the country before three conference losses, including a tough one at the hands of a below-average Penn State team. Michigan is one of the best defensive teams in the country, only behind Virginia in total defense. Respective sophomore and senior guards Jordan Poole and Charles Matthews make for an impressive backcourt, averaging more than nine points a

The Duke men’s basketball team huddles during January’s matchup with Pitt. Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor team will look for vengeance after last year’s tournament defeat at the hands of Cinderella-story Loyola Chicago.

Tennessee boasts experience, high assist numbers and a top-10 free-throw percentage, but will need to step up its defense if it hopes to avoid an upset.

Michigan: John Beilein’s Wolverines

game each with solid rebounding numbers, too. Although getting to the title game two years in a row is a tall task and statistically unlikely, the Wolverines always seem to have a shot under Beilein’s tutelage.

Virginia: No true college basketball fan will ever forget the moment a No. 16

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seed finally took down the No. 1 seed for the first time –– and neither will head coach Tony Bennett and Virginia, the team that allowed it to happen when UMBC beat them 74-54. Like all of Bennett’s teams, this year’s Hoos are built on suffocating defense, allowing only 54 points a game, the best in the nation.

Virginia’s trio of guards –– Kyle Guy, De’Andre Hunter and Ty Jerome –– can all score in a variety of ways. Virginia’s fate will hinge on its performance and health. Hunter did not play in the team’s opening-round loss last year.

Cinderellas Buffalo: This isn’t a typical Cinderella pick, as the Bulls have ranked in the top 25 for much of the year and knocked off No. 3 seed Arizona in the tournament last year. The Bulls start three seniors and rotate in two more with forward Nick Perkins and point guard Dontay Caruthers. Two of the three players are averaging double-digit points, along with senior forward CJ Massinburg. Buffalo is eyeing its fourth bid in five years and teams with experience like the Bulls are always a good bet to make some noise.

South Dakota State: Back-to-back Summit conference player of the year Mike Daum leads the Jackrabbits squad that gave Ohio State a close game in the first round of the tournament last year. And for the second year in a row, SDS is once again in position to win its conference. Although the Jackrabbits don’t have the experience of a team like Buffalo, Daum scored 27 points in the tournament game last year –– a few good performances from him could propel his team to the later rounds.

Players to Watch Zion Williamson: The likely first overall pick in this summer’s NBA draft See Madness on page 7

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Madness, pg. 6 will be the player everyone is watching in the big dance. The high school phenom has continued to shine as a firstyear at Duke, averaging 22.4 pointsper-game and 9.2 rebounds in one of the nation’s toughest conferences. His season thus far has been a highlight reel of insane dunks, shots and blocks.

He’ll get the chance to continue to show off in March on college basketball’s biggest stage.

Ja Morant: The Murray State sophomore has become a star in his sophomore season, and many see him going right behind Williamson in the draft.

Averaging 24.3 points and 10.2 assists a game, Morant has led Murray State to a 21-4 record and first place in the Ohio Valley conference. Although Murray State isn’t a lock to make the dance without a victory in its conference tournament, last year’s inclusion of an average Oklahoma team to give Trae Young a chance to shine provides a glimpse at Morant and the Racers’ fate.

Carsen Edwards: The junior Purdue guard isn’t a household name like Williamson or a top-three pick like Morant, but the kid can play ball.

He’s averaging 24.4 points on a Purdue team that has looked like it can beat anyone in the country at its best.

Edwards poured in a season-high 40 points against a good Texas team and 38 in a narrow overtime win against Penn State. The junior also contributed 30 points in Purdue’s Sweet 16 loss to Texas Tech last year. This year, his play could lead the Boilermakers to an even deeper run.

Markus Howard: Marquette’s Howard truly burst onto the scene with a ridiculous 53 points in an overtime win against Creighton, but he had been putting up big numbers way before that.

The junior guard had eight 30-point games this year. He has also shown he can get it done against stiff competition, scoring 45 points twice against top-25 teams Kansas State and Buffalo.

Howard has his Golden Eagles poised to grab a 3-4 seed, depending on if they can lock up the Big East or not. If it can win its conference, Howard also has Marquette at the top of the list of teams no one wants to play.

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412‑271‑5550 3444 Ward St. ‑ Stu­ dio and 1bedroom apartments. Free

Classifieds

For sale

• AUTO • BIKES • BOOKS • MERCHANDISE • FURNITURE • REAL ESTATE • PETS

heating, free park­ing.

Available May & August 2019 move‑in.

Call 412‑361‑2695 Apartments for rent. 2 and 3 bedroom apart‑ ments available. Some available on Dawson Street, At­wood Street, and Mc­kee Place.

Newly re­modeled.

Some have laundry on site. Min­utes from the Univer­sity. For more info please call Mike at 412‑849‑8694 Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unre­lated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Per­mits, Licensing & In­spections.

412‑255‑2175.

Brand new remod‑ eled spacious duplex.

5BR, 2BA, second and third floors.

Laundry room in apartment. $3000 +utilities. Call 412‑871‑5657 M.J. Kelly Realty.

Studio, 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bedroom Apart­ments, Duplexes and Houses.

N. & S. Oakland from $750‑$2500. mjkellyrealty@gmail.­ com. 412‑271‑5550. www.mjkellyrealty.­ com Newly Updated 4‑bedroom, 2‑bath townhouse. Laun‑ dry & new bath in base­ment. $2000+

notices

services

• EDUCATIONAL • TRAVEL • HEALTH • PARKING • INSURANCE

• ADOPTION • EVENTS • LOST AND FOUND • STUDENT GROUPS • WANTED • OTHER

Utili­ties. Call 412‑292‑1860

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Now Renting Fall 2019! Various Two BR units in South Oakland, Bates, Coltart, Edith, Halket Place, Ward Street; rent starting from $975‑$1410 Contact: John C.R. Kelly 412‑683‑7300 www.jcrkelly.com info@kellyrealtyinc.­ com Now Renting for Fall 2019 One Bedrooms located conveniently throughout South Oakland Rents Starting at: $740‑$825 Contact: John C.R. Kelly Office: 412‑683‑7300 Email: info@kellyre­ altyinc.com Website: www.­ jcrkelly.com Oakland near Magee Hospital. 1,2,3 BR available immedi­ ately. Long or short term lease, furnished or unfurnished. By the week, month or semester. Available for April or May also.

Call 814‑403‑2798 or 412‑881‑1881.

2X

3X

4X

$6.30

$11.90

$17.30

$22.00

$7.50

$14.20

$20.00

5X $27.00

$25.00

$29.10

6X $30.20 $32.30

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Deadline:

Two business days prior by 3pm | Email: advertising@pittnews.com | Phone: 412.648.7978

ate occupancy. Call 412‑361‑2695

North/South Oakland Houses and Apart­ ments with Laundry and Central Air. Call or text 412‑38‑Lease

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Rental Other Fall Rentals ‑ 1 bed­ room apartments very close to campus, well maintained, 24 hour laundry, secured buildings. Rates start­ ing at $775 with some utilities in­cluded.

Call us today at 412‑682‑7622 Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2019 & sooner. Oak­land, Shadyside, Friend‑ ship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availabil‑ ity online, check out www.forbesmanage­ ment.net, or call 412.441.1211

part‑time personal assis­tant. Must be person­able, friendly and have great communi­cation skills.

Must have a good com­puter skill Hours are 20‑30Hrs Weekly.

Salary is $25.50/hr. applicant apply to jobinquiries820@ g­mail.com Medical and Heart Care, Students Welcome, 155 N. Craig Street, Dean Kross, MD, 412‑687‑7666 OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage­

ment Company seeks

& ju­niors, seniors

plan­ning to enter grad school, returning grad

students, and first‑year law stu­dents!

Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003

Available Now!

com

fur­nished house,

thane@mozartrents.­ Personal, profes­sional masseuse needed.

Long term position.

2X/week. Washington County location. Call 724‑223‑0939 or 724‑229‑8868 any time.

our action‑central

Wanted Baristas and counterhelp‑ experi­ enced only. New restaurant on 352 At­ wood St. in Oakland.

Competitive wages, flexible hours, full or part time. Email atwoodcommon­s@ hotmail.com

Employment Other

full time OK starting

For Sale

over the summer.

Busy executive indi­vidual seeking

$13/hour. Perfect

Real Estate

job for sophomores

August “Best Value”

Employment

person w/ min 2 yrs.

college, for upcom­ing spring semester, to

interview & pro­cess rental appli­cants, do internet post‑

ings & help staff

of­fice. Part time or

in January; full time

Few remaining, Fur­ nished 2‑bedroom apartments in South Oakland. Call/ text Tim TMK Properties 412‑491‑1330. Visit our website www.­ tmkrentals.com 2‑bedroom fully

Air Conditioned for $1,200 plus utilities on North Avenue, Mellville. Need

Secu­rity Deposit and Credit Check. Please call: 412‑315‑8024.

Services Educational The Phlebotomy Training Center

www.

justphlebotomy.org 2 evening classes

weekly, 5 weeks +

excellent Clinicals.

Call 412‑521‑7334.

Shadyside Shadyside: 1 and 2BR, great location, hardwood floors.

Free heat. Immedi‑

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