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Tell me your secrets: Frank Warren visits Pitt Pitt launches

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Frank Warren, creator of PostSecret, spoke to more than 300 students Monday night. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

Jessica Iacullo Staff Writer People send Frank Warren their secrets, and then he spills them to everyone.

Roughly 330 students listened to Warren, creator of PostSecret, speak in the William Pitt Union on Tuesday night about his vision for the project and some of his own secrets. Warren created PostSecret in 2004 as a global collection of anonymous secrets.

The event was hosted by Active Minds, a national nonprofit that promotes conversation about mental health. The club collaborated with Project HEAL, Hillel, Rainbow Alliance and Eye to Eye to bring Warren to Pitt.

It all started with 3,000 personalized postcards, blank on one side, with directions on how and where to send a secret on the other.

On the postcards, the return address was Warren’s home address. In the early

stages of PostSecret, he received so many postcards that his mail carrier told him he should supersize his mailbox.

While working on PostSecret, Warren realized he wasn’t acknowledging some of his own secrets. so he now shares secrets about himself to his audiences.

“Sharing secrets can save lives,” he says.

Some of the secrets on the postcards were

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Pitt’s Global Public Health Brigades has turned to crowdfunding and selling dates with its members to raise money for a trip to Honduras this summer.

“We’re still relatively unknown,” said Alex LaMonaca, a molecular biology and neuroscience double major. “Crowdfunding is definitely more profitable than other events.

It gets our name out there.”

The Office of Institutional Advancement launched the new crowdfunding platform, EngagePitt, and started pilot campaigns for eight groups — seven by students and one by faculty — in December. The office opened the platform fully on Feb. 19, according to University spokeswoman Cara Masset.

Several groups, including Pitt’s Rowing Club, have already reached their goals, according to a release. According to Masset, the University launched EngagePitt to allow student and faculty groups “to showcase their research and outreach programming to the Pitt community as well as to their expanding networks of family, friends, and colleagues.”

Whether or not a club reaches its goal, it still receives all of the money raised, according to a University press release.

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“Having Frank come and speak influences people to not hold back their secrets,”” Caterina Pa secrets Pagano, a sophomore civil and environmental engineering major, said. “It creates a safe environment, which is important for students to know exists.”

Warren invited students to share their own secrets at the end of the event.

audience. Warren gave the secrets personal commentary.

Many students shared secrets about their battles with suicide attempts and eating disorders, and then thanked their friends in the audience for helping them to overcome those challenges challenges.

“All people have secrets that they are afraid to share,” said Zazula, a senior marketing and English major. “Just because you might battle depression, anxiety or a multitude of other things doesn’t mean you should hide in shame.”

Brown professor visits Pitt, speaks about racial disparities Alex Leighton For The Pitt News Despite the Hollywood allure of some black actors and musicians, not much has changed for the black community since the Civil Rights Movement, according to Tricia Rose.

Black History Month “celebrates the Civil Rights Movement as a past movement ... a total victory,” Rose said. “[But] outcomes are much more similar to the 1960s than they are different.”

As part of Pitt’s celebrations of Black History Month, Rose spoke to roughly 60 attendees in Alumni Hall on Monday about recognizing and combating racism. Her talk, titled “Fighting Racism in a Color-Blind Era,” draws on her expertise as an author of four books about aspects of black culture — such as female sexuality, music and youth — and a professor of Africana studies and the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.

The National Society of Black Engineers and Premedical Organization for Medical Students sponsored the event.

Studies have shown that racial disparities still exist in the city and around the country.

According to a 2015 study on demographics by Pitt’s School of Social Work, 33 percent of Pittsburgh’s black population live in poverty, while 24.2 percent of the national black population fall below the poverty line.

The study also found that blacks make up 39 percent of the United States prison population, compared to 35 percent whites and 21 percent Hispanics.

With the rise of social media, such disparities have come to a more visible stage.

In particular, social media sites have the power to illuminate issues like police brutality, Rose said.

Around the country, hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #IfTheyGunnedMeDown and #ICantBreathe, followed judicial decisions late last year on the recent deaths

of black men. The two prominent policerelated deaths spawning protest nationwide were of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last August and 43-year-old Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., last July.

“Youthful activism has reached a tremendous high point,” Rose said.

Social media can stimulate discussion about racism, Rose said, as mainstream media have a tendency to gloss over these issues.

She said mainstream media tend to focus on the successes of black celebrities, such as musician Jay-Z and basketball player LeBron James, instead of addressing struggles affecting the black community, like poverty and racial disparities.

Rose said that policies such as New York City’s “stop, question and frisk” policy, which began in 2002, has “harassed a whole generation,” prompting nods from many of the audience members. It’s a strategy that allows officers to stop and search individuals whom

they suspect may be carrying weapons.

Rose added that she often jokes with her students at Brown, a predominantly white demographic, about how crime can be overlooked because of privilege among certain groups of people.

“Structural racism is not only about the past,” Rose said. “It has not gotten better.

In some cases, it’s gotten worse.”

Rose cited a study, released in 2005, from Princeton University’s Department of Sociology that found racial disparities in the job market. In the study, employers called back or offered jobs to 13 white subjects with criminal records and only 10 black subjects with no criminal records.

Brandon Small, a junior majoring in microbiology and fiction writing, helped organize the event with POMS and NSBE and found this statistic deeply troubling.

“I try to stay out of trouble,” Small said. “[The statistic] makes me wonder why I’m trying to do good things.”

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funding campaign raised $1,505 — 30 percent of its original $5,000 goal — between Jan. 7 and Feb. 23 from 20 donors.

The funds raised, LaMonaca said, will assist in sending brigadiers to help fix houses that were destroyed in the wake of Hurricane Mitch in 1998. It costs $780 to send one brigadier to Honduras for seven days.

Global Public Health Brigades was one of the pilot campaigns, starting its process in October and shifting its initial plan to seek grants for the trip, LaMonaca said.

Pitt’s turn to virtual campaigns follows the University of Virginia, which became the first ACC school to launch one in 2013 after partnering with USEED. On EngagePitt, donors donate funds online as “gifts” to Pitt, making them tax-free.

Like its counterparts, anyone can donate or monitor a campaign’s progress on the site. Unlike similar platforms, EngagePitt doesn’t charge users a fee or take a portion of the donations. Additionally, the majority of crowdfund donors come from a founder’s ACROSS 1 Biting 8 Pulley wheel 14 Beyond enthusiastic 16 __ arch: blood vessel section 17 Pennsylvania athletes 19 “Charlotte’s Web” monogram 20 Like dreamers, often 21 Word of suspicion, to Tweety 22 Steering aids 24 __ moment 26 Langley-based org.

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After a campaign is complete, the University deposits funds into either a Student Organization Resource Center (SORC) account for a student campaign or the appropriate departmental account for a faculty campaign. Masset said she doesn’t anticipate students using the site more than once an academic year.

Though she did not say how much the project cost the University, Masset said the Office of Institutional Advancement began the project last spring in collaboration with several University offices, including Student Affairs and CSSD. In addition to Global Public Health Brigades, Pitt’s Society of Women Engineers, the Black Action Society and Pitt’s Men’s Glee Club all have active campaigns.

Currently, the Glee Club is closest to reaching its goal, as the club needs only $225 more to reach $6,000 in the next 44 days.

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The Office of Institutional Advancement said it is encouraged by the success of the campaigns so far.

Like other crowdfunding platforms, such as GoFundMe and KickStarter, EngagePitt campaigns include donor gifts, or items donors receive based on their level of giving.

The Men’s Glee Club, for example, is offering donors who give $500 or more an all-access season pass that includes two tickets to all of their concerts for an entire year. So far, one donor has given this amount, according to the donations page.

To launch a campaign, interested groups must first submit an online application, including a compelling pitch and promotion plan, Masset said. Videos by the group are also encouraged. Global Public Health Brigades did not include a video with their campaign, but the Men’s Glee Club did. In it, they show footage of a past concert and announcement of their upcoming tour of Italy for their 125th anniversary.

The process of setting up an EngagePitt campaign can take from two to four months for a typical four to eight week campaign, Masset said, so that groups can “effectively

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Pitt wanted to launch its own crowdfunding platform, Masset said, because of crowdfunding’s growing popularity and interest expressed by students and faculty.

“We hope that, through the site, donors can connect with and support projects and causes at Pitt that they might not have known about otherwise,” Masset said in an email SGB President Graeme Meyer said since EngagePitt’s launch, SGB has recommended several student groups use it for funding SGB is not able to provide. He said he sees SGB allocations and EngagePitt able to coexist because SGB is only able to fund about 55 percent of annual requests. Meyer said EngagePitt allows student groups to “share responsibility,” one of SGB’s philosophies for allocations funding.

“Shared responsibility means that student groups are not relying on funding from us to put on their entire program, but rather they rely on our funding for a portion of their programing. By using EngagePitt, student groups will be able to generate the additional funds they require,” Meyer said.

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EDITORIAL

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OPINIONS

Racial understanding starts at an early age

Yes, white privilege exists, and racial injustice continues. We, as a society, can combat this injustice by teaching young students to productively learn about each other’s own racial and class differences with an open mind.

A growing number of New York City private schools emphasize inclusive racial and social diversity. According to The New York Times, private school diversity initiatives in the past were focused on helping minority students adjust to the majority white culture.

Now, a growing initiative among New York private schools is to include white students as part of racial dialogue and understanding, teaching them the meaning and repercussions of their privilege. Classes involve all students, and are aimed at developing understanding between all groups.

For instance, students discuss identity, privilege and power in today’s world.

Additionally, white students at New York private schools have started white affinity groups through which they tackle issues of white privilege, often in all-white settings. These groups deviate from a tradition of white student reliance on their minority peers to teach them about minority struggles.

Today’s students cannot control the past, but they can help shape the future. White students should learn the realities of white privilege, but guilt should not drive the lesson plans.

Instead, teachers should focus on building bridges between culture and race in schools. As educa-

tion consultant Derrick Gay notes in The New York Times, “raising students to live in a bubble — a white bubble, a black bubble, a Latino bubble, whatever type of bubble you want to call it — is not to your benefit in a global society.”

Discourse can openly flourish when fostered by schools. In the age of loosening LBGTQ barriers and #BlackLivesMatter marches, young students approach situations with more malleable mindsets than older generations might.

Teachers can play a key role in shaping a more open and just society in which harmony, rather than hostility, transcends racial lines.

A specific way for students to recognize racial and cultural understanding is to apply history to current events on a regular basis.

Students can learn about the Underground Railroad, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez, but what can students really take away from such lessons if they don’t apply past progress to the present?

Students of all races must understand that struggles continue, but progress can and must also continue.

Racial discourse cannot end in the classroom or editorial section.

We must continue the dialogue, but resentment and cynicism do not belong in elementary classrooms. With positive and productive race discussions beginning early on in education, we can continue to make progress in racial and cultural understanding, therefore achieving true racial acceptance not only in our classrooms, but in our society as a whole.

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The pros and cons of pulling an all-nighter

Anna Tomani For The Pitt News We’ve all heard it before, “Sleep, good grades, social life — pick any two.”

When we choose the last two options, good grades and a social life, late nights and all-nighters accompany our decision. The thought of working through dawn can be a scary and stressful idea, but there comes a certain point in the night when you have to either tough it out and finish your work or get a few hours of sleep. Before you decide on the all-nighter, there are several factors to consider.

The most important question: Do you have an exam tomorrow (tomorrow being the day that starts at midnight during your all-nighter)?

If the answer is “yes,” you should probably hit the sheets.

Studies have shown that sleeping helps us process, store and retain what we learn, according to the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School.

After learning certain tasks, participants in the study performed their tasks better after more sleep rather than after more wakeful practice. Basically, people performed better after getting some sleep and starting

fresh.

So, if you’re cramming for an exam, get some sleep — even if it’s only a few hours, you’ll at least retain some of what you crammed, as opposed to staying up all night trying to learn everything and remembering nothing.

Sleep deprivation also affects your concentration and “working memory,” according to researchers at the University of Turku in Finland.

Now, the argument could be made that, on account of this “sleep-processes-information” revelation, one should never pull

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TOMANI an all-nighter at all. A student will lose or waste all the work and studying done during the night because of lack of sleep, which brings me to my next point.

What does your schedule for tomorrow look like? Do you go 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. without any breaks, or does your schedule allow room for napping? When your exhaustion hits you like a brick wall, you’ll be incapacitated. That’s when a nap will come in handy.

Naps of approximately 90 minutes will give the greatest boost in energy, according to Helpguide.org, because your body will awake off a full sleep cycle. At this point, your body and brain will be “close to wakefulness.”

If during the night you find yourself falling asleep while sitting straight up in your chair, 10-20 minute naps will give you a boost of energy and heighten your alertness for two to two and a half hours, according to a 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal. Then, get some work done

without constantly thinking of sleep.

If your long day leaves no time for a nap until 5 p.m. without skipping a class, you should avoid pulling an all-nighter. Napping late in the afternoon or falling into a deep sleep — napping more than 20 minutes and less than 90 can put you at risk for a deep sleep — can throw off your circadian rhythm and prevent you from falling asleep later that night. Whenever possible, save some of your work or studying for a night when you can savor time for a nap the next day. For tonight, just focus on your high-priority assignments.

Sometimes, you can’t afford to be so picky about when you pull an all-nighter.

If you must stay up all night, but have a long day tomorrow, caffeine can certainly help. Caffeine blocks the chemical adenosine, which binds to adenosine receptors in the brain. Adenosine causes you to get

drowsy and sleepy, and inhibiting it helps you to fight off fatigue and sluggishness.

CVS and Rite Aid sell ginseng and vitamin B12 supplements, which can also give you a surge of energy, but it’s important to do your own research and maybe even talk with your doctor or pharmacist before taking them. Some people may have sensitivities to these supplements, you can take too many, even though they are sold over the counter.

According to Livestrong.com, ginseng helps to prevent adrenal fatigue. This is especially important because the adrenal gland regulates hormone function that handles all types of stress: physical, emotional and physiological.

Excessive stress can cause adrenal fatigue. It makes sense — if you’re always stressed, and your body is trying to keep up production of this hormone, it’s bound

Whenever possible, save some of your work or studying for a night when you can savor time for a nap the next day.

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5 to fall a bit behind in production. Additionally, if you’re pulling an all-nighter, it’s probably safe to say you’re at least a little bit stressed.

Again, according to Webmd.com, vitamin B12 has been proven to give energy boosts, but there is no evidence that those who already ingest sufficient amounts of the vitamin receive the same energy boost.

I think that vitamin B12 works better than ginseng, but, then again, maybe I’m not getting enough naturally.

If you pull an all-nighter, here are a few things to keep in mind. Pretty much everyone’s been there. We’ve all felt the pain of heavy eyelids and a throbbing headache from lack of sleep.

As much as you might feel like death, you’re not dying, and you’ll get through it. Plus, if you pull an all-nighter somewhere like Hillman Library, you’ll realize you’re far from alone in your all-nighter struggles. And, of course, there’s the underrated perk of getting to watch the sun rise behind Cathy.

Anna Tomani primarily writes about college and social issues for The Pitt News.

Write to Anna at aet29@pitt.edu.

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COLUMN

SPORTS

Strong RPI gives Pitt basketball reason for March optimism Chris Puzia Sports Editor

Turn on ESPN in March, and one thing is sure: there will be more talk of “bubbles” than in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.

“The bubble”refers to teams that are either just inside or just outside of the NCAA Tournament, and it drives some fans crazy hearing whether their team is or is not “on the bubble.”

Pitt is precariously perched on top of the bubble this year, and, for that reason, it merits looking at both arguments of whether the Panthers should or should not play in this year’s March Madness.

The main case in favor of Pitt playing comes down to another term that fans hear constantly: RPI. RPI, or Ratings Percentage Index, calculates a team’s record on the road differently than at home or at a neutral site.

A road win, for example, counts as 1.4 wins, whereas a home win only counts as 0.6 wins — conversely, a road loss counts as 0.6 losses and a home loss counts as 1.4 losses. Neutral site wins and losses still just count as one.

RPI also accounts for opponents’ winning percentages, so a tougher schedule and more road wins benefit teams trying to squeeze their way into the tournament.

Though the NCAA selection committee takes other factors into account — like conference tournament performance, quality wins, bad losses and strength of schedule — the NCAA typically holds RPI as a benchmark for team performance.

Still, the rating isn’t a steadfast guide to a team’s tournament chances. Pitt’s RPI, as of Monday, sits at 36th in the country. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi currently has the team in his “next four out” category for his bracket projections, expecting Pitt (18-10, 7-7 ACC) will barely miss the tournament.

The quality of RPI does bode well for its chances historically, as a team from a Power 5 conference with an RPI better than 40 has never missed the NCAA Tournament. With

Despite some bad losses, Jamie Dixon and the Panthers boast a solid RPI. Meghan Sunners | Staff Photographer

four more winnable games on the schedule, head coach Jamie Dixon can bump that season win total up to 22 entering the ACC Tournament.

Add that to quality wins over No. 15 North Carolina and No. 9 Notre Dame, as well as a season sweep over still-decent Syracuse, and

Pitt has a solid case for tournament inclusion.

So why is there even a question of Pitt missing out?

It comes down to bad losses.

Despite some recent success, the Panthers will still have a difficult time overcoming losses to Hawaii (18-11), Virginia Tech (10-17) and

Clemson (15-12). Then, consider that none of Pitt’s remaining games come against quality opponents, and it appears that the team has little to gain, RPI-wise, but everything to lose come selection time.

A home win over Boston College tonight, with its 1-13 conference record, would do almost nothing in terms of RPI change, but a loss would be devastating for Pitt’s tournament chances. Fans may not typically be afraid of the struggling Eagles, but any slip-up by the Panthers would represent a serious misstep on an already tenuous path to the tournament.

Pitt’s best opponent in its final four games is Miami, which Lunardi also slotted in his “next four out” slot.

The team also has only a 2-6 record against top-50 RPI teams, and it has a loss to Virginia Tech, which has the 223rd-best RPI. Pitt’s 2-7 road record doesn’t help either.

CBS bracketologist Jerry Palm said that the Panthers “really need a quality win away from home, but that will have to come in the conference tournament.”

The team’s two remaining home games are against Wake Forest and Florida State, neither of which is projected to make the tournament.

Palm still lists the Panthers in his “work to do” section, meaning, like Lunardi, he has them on the outside looking in — though, for Palm, Pitt is first on the “first four out.”

In that case, fans often root just as much for similarly situated teams to lose as they do for their own team to win. Bad losses by other bubble teams, such as Stanford, Texas A&M, Temple and North Carolina State, would likely vault Pitt over them.

The team’s destiny is still unclear. If Pitt loses any of its final four games, it may be hard to make a legitimate case to put the Panthers on the sunny side of that bubble. Winning a few games in the ACC Tournament against a quality opponent — on a neutral site, as well — will seriously help their cause.

Either way, Panther fans should get used to that “bubble” talk, because it probably won’t cease until Selection Sunday.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Kiesel named finalist for Nancy Lieberman Award Dan Sostek Assistant Sports Editor

Although the Pitt women’s basketball team still doesn’t know its postseason destination, the team received some good news Monday in the form of an individual accolade.

Senior guard Brianna Kiesel has been named one of 15 finalists for the 2015 Nancy Lieberman Award. The nomination recognizes her sizable contributions to the team’s impressive turnaround this 2014-2015 season, .

The award, a trophy named after the retired Naismith Hall of Famer who starred at Old Dominion, recognizes the top point guard in the nation, as decided on by a panel of sportswriters from across the country. Previous winners include Skylar Diggins, Odyssey Sims, Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, all of whom eventually played in the WNBA. “These 15 candidates exhibit floor lead-

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ership, playmaking and ball-handling skills similar to those of Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman,” said John Doleva, President and CEO of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in a release “We are pleased to be recognizing them for their commitment to the game.”

Kiesel currently ranks first in the ACC in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.5), fourth in points per game (18.3) and second in assists (4.7), steals (2.31) and free throw percentage (86.4 percent).

Last Thursday, she became the player with the sixth-most career points in program history. She needs 47 points to move past Marcedes Walker, who scored 1,870 career points, for fifth place..

The voters will narrow the pool to five in mid-March, and the announcement of the winner will come during the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Awards Show in Tampa, Fla., during the Women’s Final Four.

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