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FACULTY, STAFF HONOR PHARM SCHOOL DEAN Lauren Rosenblatt Assistant News Editor

Gary Haberle spent his career managing money for the School of Pharmacy — but he spent his life sharing his own wealth with those around him.

Haberle, assistant dean for business and finance for Pitt’s School of Pharmacy, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 30. He was 77. Haberle continued working until Friday, Jan. 23, when he was hospitalized for an acute illness.

“If I could sum it up, he was probably the kindest, most giving person I have ever come across,” Kellie Mitchell, director of finance and administration for Pitt’s pharmacy school, said. “He constantly gave ... [he] was an advocate for the staff, a role model and mentor and would always go above and beyond.”

Before becoming a dean at Pitt, Haberle was a student. He graduated in 1966 with a degree in business administration. He worked in the Research Accounting Office before moving to the School of Pharmacy.

Three members of the University Dance Ensemble practice a routine Tuesday night in Trees Hall Dance Studio. John Hamilton | Staff Photographer

BONNER INTERVIEWS FOR DEAN OF STUDENTS Dale Shoemaker News Editor

Ever since he was a college student in the ‘90s, Kenyon Bonner said he’s chased one goal: be a dean of students.

A little more than a year ago, he reached that goal. When Chancellor Patrick Gallagher appointed former Vice Provost and Dean of Students Kathy Humphrey to senior vice chancellor and chief of staff in January 2015, Provost Patricia Beeson chose Bonner to temporarily fill the vacancy.

Now, Bonner is competing for the permanent position as Pitt wraps up its nationwide See Pharmacy on page 5 search.

The University is considering four finalists for the dean of students position, and began public interviews this week, starting with Bonner Tuesday afternoon in the University Club.

Pitt’s search committee for the position will host the other three public interviews with Joanne Vogel from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, William Stackman from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Cara Appel-Silbaugh from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta today through Friday.

The committee, made up of administrators, faculty and student representatives, will

make its official recommendation to Beeson and Gallagher sometime next week, according to Juan Manfredi, head of the search committee. Manfredi said the search committee has “no public opinion” of the candidates and declined to comment on Bonner’s interview.

During his interview, Bonner outlined his plans to improve Pitt’s Outside of the Classroom Curriculum program, make Pitt more diverse and inclusive and fight sexual assault.

With easy confidence, Bonner made his case for why he should keep his job.

“I’m very competitive, I’m very engaged. I have to dial down my competitiveness — my See Bonner on page 3

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STUDY LINKS SOCIAL MEDIA, SLEEP TROUBLES Josh Ye

Staff Writer With fewer and fewer hours until she has to be up and studying, Emily Jones often lies awake in bed, scrolling through her phone instead of counting sheep.

“Sometimes, when I have trouble falling asleep, instead of reading a book or something to make myself tired, I go on social media,” Jones, a sophomore pre-pharmacy student at Pitt, said.

But a new Pitt study has linked young people’s late-night social media sessions to sleep disturbance.

While the study does not claim frequent social media use causes sleep disturbance, Pitt health researchers, Jessica Levenson,

Ariel Shensa, Jaime Sidani, Jason Colditz and Brian Primack, found a relationship between social media use and sleep troubles.

The study, published online in Preventive Medicine in January, sampled 1,788 U.S. adults ages 19 through 32 and found consistent, substantial and progressive associations between social media use and sleep disturbance.

Researchers looked at social media usage data from the Pew Internet Research Questionnaire and sleep disturbance data from the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System sleep disturbance measure. The data examined how See Social Media on page 4

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SGB CALLS FOR STATE TO PASS BUDGET

Lauren Wilson Staff Writer

More than seven months after Pennsylvania legislators missed their deadline to pass a budget, Pitt Student Government is saying the University has waited long enough.

At its public meeting Tuesday, Board Member Jack Heidecker and Governmental Relations Chair Pat Corelli introduced a resolution urging Pennsylvania state lawmakers to pass a state budget. Board members will vote on the resolution at next week’s meeting.

Heidecker said it is important to pass the resolution in order to show lawmakers that students care about Pitt’s budget.

“By not making our voice heard, it would indicate that students don’t care, while in fact it’s the opposite,” he said. “[The budget impasse] is creating an environment of insecurity at Pitt.”

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Heidecker said his concern about the University’s funding gave him the idea for a resolution a few weeks ago.

“As long as they don’t pass a budget, they can’t out l ay f u n d s to Pitt,” Corelli said. “Every day they can’t do that, it costs Pitt more money.”

Pennsylvania legislators have debated the budget for the current fiscal year since June 2015. This means state and state-affiliated schools, including Pitt, have yet to receive state

funding for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

Pitt’s Board of Trustees made this year’s budget based on the $147 million it received for the 2014-15 year, which Chancellor Patrick Gallagher c a l l e d a risky move at the Board meeting in January.

After a Pennsy lvania Association of StateRelated Schools meeting Saturday where student governments at the schools discussed the state budget impasse, students from Pitt, Temple University and Penn

[The budget impasse] is creating an environment of insecurity at Pitt.

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State decided to draft resolutions calling on the state to pass a budget.

According to Heidecker, the Board plans to pass this resolution in solidarity with Penn State and Temple’s similar resolutions. Penn State’s Undergraduate Association did not respond to messages seeking comment left on their office voicemail or their group Facebook page Tuesday night.

Aron Cowen-Luehrmann, director of government affairs at for Temple Student Government, confirmed the governing group was drafting a resolution similar to Pitt’s.

Lincoln University belongs to the Association but couldn’t attend the meeting.

Lisa Walters, chief of staff to Pennsylvania Senator Bob Mensch, who heads the state’s Legislative Budget and Finance Committee, said the senator wouldn’t See SGB on page 5

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Bonner, pg. 1 old basketball days come back,” Bonner said. “I want us to be the best in the country, and I don’t think that’s unreasonable.”

Bonner started at Pitt in 2004 where he worked as the assistant director of Residence Life. Before his appointment as interim vice provost and dean of students, Bonner worked for seven years as Associate Dean of Students and for 11 years as the Director of Student Life.

Pitt tasks the vice provost and dean of students with integrating student life and academics and leading Pitt’s Division of Student Affairs, which incorporates Student life, Residence Life, Pitt’s health and counseling services, Pitt’s career development and placement programs and intramural sports, among several other offices. The dean oversees a staff of about 200 people.

As the interim dean, Bonner also oversees the Outside of the Classroom Curriculum program, which he said Tuesday was essential to students’ success. Bonner, now 43, told the Pitt students, faculty and staff that if he can continue in his position, he would prioritize increasing student participation in the OCC. “We need to make it more seamless. Students are participating in things we think they should be, but we have to show it makes a difference,” he said.

To help new students, Bonner said he plans to continue working with Pitt’s admissions office to coordinate the education Pitt sells to students with what they experience on campus.

“I think that’s a good partnership in making sure that the message we’re giving students is what we’re able to deliver,” Bonner said.

For Kannu Sahni, Pitt’s director of community relations, said he wasn’t comfortable giving an opinion on Bonner because he hadn’t met all of the candidates yet, but said he cares about who gets the position.

“How do you bring out the best for [students], how do we make them better people?”

Sahni said. “That’s what I’m looking for in a dean. I hope [Bonner] is a candidate that shines, but we have to meet all of the candidates.”

Bonner also discussed a holistic vision for students at Pitt that included making campus more diverse and inclusive, evaluating education on sexual violence and addressing students’ mental health needs.

More conversations on Pitt’s gender-neutral housing options — which it intends to implement this fall — and its gender-neutral bathroom policy, Bonner said, can help make campus more inclusive.

Though Pitt announced the move online, the University never issued a formal press release about designating Ruskin Hall as genderneutral in the fall of 2016.

Bonner said the timing of this announce-

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ment was not ideal because it came after firstyear convocation, but that he can still work to inform students of the change.

“The incoming class will know that we have gender-neutral housing. Students are registering for housing now, they know it now,” Bonner said. “There are opportunities ahead of us to make sure everyone is aware.”

Troy Salvatore, a senior civil engineering major and one of two students who attended the meeting, said Bonner seemed like a promising candidate.

“I liked the distinction he drew between diversity and inclusion, as the two ideas are often coupled and therefore conflated,” Salvatore said. “His recognition and promotion of new gender-neutral and other inclusive policies was promising.”

Over the last several months, Bonner has demonstrated that communicating — especially one-on-one — with students is a priority. Throughout the fall, Bonner attended a number of student-hosted forums to discuss students’ involvement in Pitt’s strategic plan — Gallagher’s long-term plan for the University’s development and partnerships. Bonner also sat down with groups of students after they complained Pitt wasn’t taking in enough student input on the strategic plan.

“We don’t always agree, but we have that discourse,” Bonner said. “I support students, but I also challenge them because they’re not always right.”

But when it comes to sexual assault on campus, Bonner said it’s non-negotiable: Even one assault is too many and his office can do more to teach and engage students. He highlighted Haven, Pitt’s mandatory program for first-year students about consent and bystander intervention. But Bonner said the lessons of the program don’t stretch throughout the school year.

“Haven communicates a lot. It says this is important,” Bonner said. “[But] we have to figure out how to have ongoing training.”

Bonner also highlighted his care for students and their well-being. He said he wanted to continue to work with Pitt’s mental health counselors to make sure the University is doing all that it can for students — including making counseling more available.

“I’ll go out on a limb. If you ask deans of students what keeps them up at night, it’s mental health. It keeps me up at night,” he said.

From his professors and advisers at Washington and Jefferson College to the dean he worked under as a graduate student while at Kent State University, Bonner said he wants to help students the way others have helped him.

“No one does this for the money,” he said.

“Sometimes you see the fruits of your labors.

Sometimes a student will send you a note. You have to know in your heart that the long hours, the weekends, the late nights on campus are worth it.”

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Social Media, pg. 2 often young adults used social media, and for how long.

Those who spend more than 61 minutes on social media or have more than 30 visits per week have a greater chance of experiencing sleep disturbance than others, according to the study, which the National Institutes of Health funded.

Researchers asked the 1,788 person sample how often they go and how much time they spend on the 11 most popular social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest, Vine and LinkedIn. According to the study, participants averaged 61 minutes on social media every day and 30 visits every week.

To assess sleep disturbance, the study used four items from the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, a measurement system the NIH runs, which assessed p r o b lems with sleep, difficulty falling asleep, whether sleep was refreshing and sleep quality over the past week.

Levenson warned against drawing a causal relationship between social media use and sleep disturbance.

“This study is not designed to determine whether social media use contributes to sleep disturbance or whether sleep disturbance contributes to social media use. It just shows that there is an association,” Levenson, the lead author and a postdoctoral researcher from the Department of Psychiatry, said.

“This is a very introductory analysis related to [the relationship between social media use and sleep quality],” Brian Primack, assistant vice chancellor for research on health and society at Pitt and a senior author on the study, said.

But, Primack speculated, the study suggested that social media use may also directly cause disturbed sleep. Primack said too

much time on social media may lead to less sleep for users. Users are also emotionally, cognitively and physiologically aroused by social media, which leads to trouble in falling asleep. And, lastly, Primack said bright electronic light may disturb sleep quality.

“Devices emit blue lights. And blue side of the spectrum is early morning light, and it signals to parts of our brain that it’s time to wake up,” Primack said.

Primack also said people who struggle to fall asleep, such as Jones, tend to try, give up and then go back to social media.

“It could be a vicious cycle in which we have a society so full of stimulation. Everything gets so quiet at night, and sometimes people get anxiety at that time. One way to try to relieve that anxiety is by going back to that stimulation,” Primack said.

Primack said people go on social media to feel less alone, but one of the long-term health consequences for constant stimulation could be disturbed and insufficient sleep.

Levenson said the study will be beneficial because most American adults are not getting enough sleep. According to a 2013 Gallup poll, 40 percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep per night on weeknights, which is less than the recommended amount by the Centers for Disease Control.

Hannah Brown, a first-year rehabilitation science major, said she experiences sleeplessness herself several times per week.

“Sometimes I want to go to bed, but then I end up going on social media. Then I end up spending a couple hours on it,” Brown said.

Primack said though the results of this study may seem obvious to some, they enable researchers to look at more subtleties in future studies.

“The next step is really to drill down more and understand more deeply about what specific context of social media or types of social media might be more concerning than others,” Primack said.

It could be a vicious cycle in which we have a society so full of stimulation.

-Brian Primack, researcher

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Pharmacy, pg. 1 According to Mitchell, in his 50 years at Pitt, Haberle loaned students his own money to help cover tuition or living expenses. For the staff, Haberle never forgot provide holiday dinners and birthday presents.

About 10 years ago, Haberle started the Haberle Staff Appreciation Award to help children of staff with tuition.

Years earlier, the School of Pharmacy established the Gary Haberle Endowment Fund, to which Haberle regularly contributed to help “deserving students,” according to a release.

Patricia Kroboth, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said Haberle’s generosity extended to staff, faculty and students.

In his position, Haberle divided his time among managing finances, mending issues with the payroll and assisting students with scholarships.

Kroboth said Haberle would meet potential pharmacy students in the Litchfield Towers lobby, accompanying them to their interviews and calming their

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nerves as they walked.

“A lot of these things are private interactions, the way he would encourage students to do well,” Kroboth said.

“When alums come back and they say, ‘I’ve got to see Gary because he changed my life,’ that’s pretty powerful.”

The School of Pharmacy, which Kroboth said is still coping with the loss, has not began to search for Haberle’s successor.

“As the dean, it takes a team [to run this program], and he was the captain of a terrific team of staff,” Kroboth said.

“He helped to create the culture that was very congenial and collaborative.”

To promote the Gary Haberle Endowment Fund, the family is requesting those who wish to give gifts instead donate to the scholarship.

The family will welcome friends today at the Lanigan Funeral Home from 2 to 8 p.m. According to a release, the family will hold a Catholic Funeral Mass at Heinz Chapel on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m.

SGB, pg. 2 comment on the resolution until SGB sent him a copy. Mensch has previously rejected Gov. Tom Wolf ’s budget proposals.

After the Board votes on the resolution next week, SGB will make the resolution available to lawmakers.

“Lawmakers may not realize that basically the school is not getting at least $148 million that Pitt needs to run properly,” he said. “As it gets closer and closer to end of fiscal year, we really want lawmakers to understand the effect this has on students.”

According to Corelli, the state government suspended the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency grant, the state’s grants to low income students, as a result of the impasse.

“The University has stepped up and fronted cash for the grants,” he said. “The University now grants $10 million a semester, and that money is used to cover what the state should be giving to students.”

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should pay attention to this resolution because the budget directly affects tuition costs.

“Pitt is different from a lot of other state schools,” he said. “In-state tuition is lower because of the money it gets from the state. Without that money, we put [the low cost] in jeopardy.”

In other action, Judicial Committee member David Moffa resigned his post this week.

According to Judicial Committee Chair Kyle Hoch, Moffa said he was resigning to focus on graduate school applications and did not want to burden the committee by not being fully committed.

Hoch said he will not seek a replacement this late in the semester.

Allocations: Panther Judo Club requested $5,673.81 for a competition. The Board approved $448 and denied $5,225.81.

University of Pittsburgh HOSA requested $3,936.60 for a conference. The Board approved $2,929.60 and denied $1,008.

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Students wasted chance to address administrators Go to a Dean’s Hour and you’ll find students lined up across the Union lobby for free popcorn and nachos.

But when the Dean’s job is on the line, only two students showed up.

Interim Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner is one of four people under consideration for the full-time role, a position that would put him in charge of the non-academic experience at Pitt. That includes student affairs, residence life, the Outside the Classroom Curriculum, student mentoring and first-year programs.

The University announced that it would hold public interviews with the candidates so students could weigh in on who represents their interests to the rest of the school’s administration. But other than our reporter and Student Government Board President Nasreen Harun, who also serves on the selection committee responsible, only one student bothered to show up.

This lack of student engagement is deeply hypocritical. For all the rallies and protests we see on campus claiming that the University doesn’t care about us, very few people seem to care about the platforms that it does provide. Pitt is offering students a chance to decide who represents them, making this potentially the most important platform of all.

Ignorance is not an excuse — Pitt sent students a Campus Connection text message about the event two hours before Bonner’s interview began, and The Pitt News reported on the interview schedule in Tuesday’s paper.

We set high expectations for the University because we pay a lot of money to

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go here. We trust that it will keep us safe and provide us with the stepping stones to great futures. But this is a two-way street. Students cannot criticize an institution’s management and then decide that an opportunity to speak up isn’t worth their time.

A job interview that features public Q&A time is not the ideal mode for communicating our interests, but it is a start.

Only by showing that we are able and — most importantly — willing to provide constructive insight can students hope to earn a seat at the decision table.

Student activism is important, but it only goes so far. Demonstrations attract curious eyes, but we need listeners. We had them Tuesday, and we wasted it.

At its core, this isn’t even necessarily about who gets the job — it’s about who makes the call.

At the conclusion of Bonner’s interview, attendees had the option to fill out evaluation forms about what they thought of the candidate. These forms will go directly into the hands of Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, who will make the final decision on who gets the position. This is an opportunity for Pitt students to take an active role in the direction of our University and speak directly to its leadership about what matters to us.

There are three more candidate interviews this week, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, all at the same time and place — 1:30 p.m., in the University Club Library.

If your school matters to you more than a cheap snack, we’ll see you there.

Criminal records shouldn’t decide futures Kirsten Wong Columnist

Students across the country are waiting on acceptance letters from their dream schools. For some of them, that future hinges on a question about their past.

“Have you ever been charged with or convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to a crime other than a minor traffic offense, or are there any criminal charges now pending against you?”

Colleges and universities ask these questions on application forms seemingly to protect their campuses’ moral compass.

But this goes against their overall commitment of providing education; a student’s admission to higher education is critical for escaping a cycle of poverty and crime.

Potentially rejecting them because they were once caught up by those cycles only deepens the problem. If higher education wants to break this hopeless and broken cycle, questions about criminal history should not be part of the admissions process.

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percent of the responding colleges collect criminal justice information, and 55 percent of them consider it in their admissions process.

The Common Application, which more than 600 colleges use, also asks applicants whether they have been convicted of a crime or faced serious disciplinary action in school. Pitt does not ask about criminal history in its undergraduate applications, but some graduate programs do require it. Additionally, those convicted of a federal or state crime cannot receive federal assistance.

The 2009 study also reported, though, that the 38 percent of responding schools that do not collect or use criminal justice information do not report less safe campuses. It is unclear, then, what these policies actually offer other than an additional obstacle for the underprivileged.

Additionally, these questions hurt people even if they are innocent.

The FBI estimated that more than the past 20 years, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, resulting in 77.7 million indiSee Wong on page 7

It is unclear... what these policies offer other than an additional obstacle.

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Wong, pg. 6 viduals in its criminal database — or nearly one out of every three American adults. These arrests may have never led to a conviction for a serious crime, but countless students would have to check yes despite the system’s inherent flaws.

Having a criminal record could deter people from getting an education, financial aid, a job or a housing loan — the foundations of a new life.

Some schools, like many community colleges, accept everyone who applies.

These policies are admirable, but with no financial aid, accessing even these schools is prohibitively difficult. For many of these people, there is a total lack of financial infrastructure.

The alternative to denying access to these essential opportunities can be another filled jail cell. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a study of prisoners from 2005 to 2010 revealed that 76.6 percent of released prisoners were arrested again within five years.

The high recidivism rates only strengthen the mass incarceration rates that make the United States responsible for nearly 22 percent of the world’s prison population. These questions also unfairly block minority students, as people of color are disproportionately convicted for crimes at nearly six times the rate of whites.

These systemic injustices are also targeting the nation’s youth well before college applications are in sight.

The school-to-prison pipeline is a national trend where schools’ zero-tolerance policies force children into juvenile justice systems. These rules lead to suspensions and harsh disciplinary action for any infraction the school deems worthy.

Although schools have justified the strict enforcements with increased safety efforts, it ironically puts students even more at risk by keeping them home or out in the streets when they could be learning in a controlled environment.

Students of color are most vulnerable to these push-out movements — many

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having histories of poverty, abuse and neglect. Last year, PBS cited a SuspensionStories study which reported that 40 percent of students expelled from U.S. schools each year are black, and 70 percent of students involved in “in-school” arrests or referred to law enforcement are black or Latino.

Such alarming statistics put minori-

ties at a severe disadvantage when universities request records about past disciplinary actions. If a university rejects

trend reflects society’s prioritization of criminalization over education.

Instead of looking to our prisons as the only avenue of rehabilitating criminals, we need education to fill the role. We must give them the chance to transition into society and obtain education, jobs, voting rights, expungements and a fair opportunity to reestablish themselves.

A false sense of security doesn’t justify real, lifelong consequences.

This trend reflects society’s prioritization of criminalization over education. these students based on those answers, it can cause a minor offense to have dramatic consequences later in life. This

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SENIOR GYMNASTS STEPPING OFF THE MAT Zoë Hannah

Contributing Editor Dipping her feet into a bowl of chalk and dusting off the excess, Miya Dotson stared down her current source of frustration — a four-foot-high balance beam — for the third time that afternoon.

With her teammates shouting “P-I-T-T” behind her, Dotson took off, leapt onto the springboard, tucked her body and flipped forward.

This time, she stuck the mount — her bare toes clenching the edges of the beam. Seniors Lindsay Offutt, Tiara Chadran and Lisa Soto shouted their teammate’s name as Dotson doled out high-fives, marking the end of an hour-long skill practice Tuesday in Trees Hall.

Between training for their last eight East Atlantic Gymnastics League meets and looking forward to the Pitt-hosted regional championships March 19, the four competing seniors haven’t had much time to reflect on the end of their gymnastics careers. Though the gymnasts have dedicated their lives, and 20 hours out of every week to the sport, none of them plan to graduate to the Olympic or national teams.

Now, they face an entirely new kind of pressure — the pressure to build a career outside of gymnastics.

“Gymnasts a lot of times are characterized as control freaks or perfectionists, right?”

Dotson said. “So to not have that stability or that sense of [thinking] you know what’s going to happen, or how you’re going to be, or who you’re going to be, that is very scary.”

After winning first place against the University of New Hampshire Jan. 23, Pitt’s gymnastics team is perfecting its routines before another meet Saturday in North Carolina.

Miya Dotson flips during gymnastics practice Tuesday night.

At a weekly practice, head coach Debbie Nikki Moriello | Senior Staff Photographer

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Yohman reflected on Offutt, Chadran and Soto’s first season at Pitt as the girls practiced layouts and punch fronts on the floor. Yohman said she knew they were natural leaders when they traveled to the NCAA regional championships April 2013.

“They have carried the load — when they were freshmen, when they were sophomores, when they were juniors and when they were seniors,” Yohman said. “This group of kids has been the meat of my team for four years.”

Dotson, an all-around gymnast with a 38.950 record, joined Pitt gymnastics after two years at Western Michigan University.

After quickly bonding with the team, Dotson said she’ll miss their comfort when she moves to Seattle after graduation, where she accepted a job at Nordstrom Headquarters.

Though she’s anxious to get settled in Seattle and start her three-year rotational program to become a financial analyst, Dotson said she won’t rush through her final months at Pitt.

“I’m just trying to take in my last moments here,” Dotson said. “I think I have to take my confidence with me, but really be open-minded and just kind of embrace whatever comes next.”

The University offers optional post-grad training, such as the Cathy and John Pelusi Life Skills Program, but no amount of preparation can prevent uncertainty in life after Pitt.

Offutt, an all-around competitor, said she’s reluctant to leave behind a sport she’s spent her life perfecting. She plans to attend law school and become a sports agent after graduation.

“Not having gymnastics is going to be weird,” Offutt, EAGL Gymnast of the Week, said. “I’d like to coach part-time just to stay with it, but at the same time, every coach I’ve See Gymnastics on page 9

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Gymnastics, pg. 8 spoken to said that that’s what they started doing, and then they got stuck coaching.”

Yohman said each girl’s absence will affect the team differently — for Offutt, who has an all-around record of 39.225, it’s scores and her leadership.

Soto, the team’s co-captain and an allaround competitor, has brought a hardline work ethic to the floor every day, Yohman said.

Soto, who has an all-around record of 38.425, said being a Pitt gymnast taught her how to speak up.

“Coming from freshman year, I’ve grown a lot,” Soto, who plans to go into forensic analysis, said. “I’ve grown to be more confident with my opinions, and people seem to take them in.”

Soto and Chadran work as liaisons between coaches and gymnasts to maintain a balance between an entertaining team and one that consistently exceeds expectations.

Soto said the co-captains meet out of the gym to brainstorm ways to improve the team, where, according to Chadran, they don’t always agree — but that makes problem-solving easier.

According to Yohman, the captains are leaders by example, but each in their own way. “[Soto] just comes in and gets to work,” Yohman said. “[Chadran] is like a shoulder to lean on.”

Chadran, an uneven bars and floor competitor, with a vault record of 9.550 and an uneven bars record of 9.700, is waiting for responses from fellowship programs she’s applied to in other cities. She plans to work with children with intellectual disabilities and go to graduate school.

“I just have a passion for working with peo-

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ple in need,” Chadran, who travels to Haiti to do service work every summer, said. “I have a heart for children with disabilities.”

She said the scariest part of graduation is leaving a regimen with set goals for an uncertain future.

“Once I figure everything out, I feel like I’ll be comfortable,” Chadran said. “But in the meantime, I don’t know what opportunities are going to be there. That’s kinda scary.”

Yohman said she’ll miss Chadran’s caring and compassionate attitude when she graduates in the spring, but with Dotson, it’s her enthusiasm.

Dotson said her gymnastics career taught her the work ethic, discipline and time management she’ll need at her new job.

“Some of the things I’ve been doing in gymnastics and been doing my whole life, I’m gonna continue to do,” Dotson said. “I want to take those principles and those habits I’ve developed that have served me well and continue them in the future.”

Despite the seniors’ varying career paths, they all said the same thing about their team — it built a bond through tough losses and lasting support.

“I would by no means define our senior class as a clique or a group that just stays to themselves,” Dotson said.

For Yohman, new leaders will need to step up when Offutt, Soto, Chadran and Dotson graduate and leave the team. She said their absence will ripple through the other classes.

“This is a really strong, a really motivated, a really close senior class,” Yohman said.

“They’ve been the leaders. There are going to be big shoes to fill.”

The team competes in North Carolina Feb. 6 and hosts the EAGL Championships March 19.

NARDUZZI TO DRINK FOR PINK Elizabeth Lepro

Assistant Sports Editor Students will get their chance to drink and snap selfies with Pitt head football coach Pat Narduzzi this month — just don’t ask him about his game strategy.

On Feb. 25, the Oakland Business Improvement District and the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, are hosting the seventh annual Drink for Pink event to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Pittsburgh. Narduzzi will mingle with guests at Peter’s from 5 to 7 p.m.

Local celebrities, including Pitt Community and Governmental Relations Chair John Wilds, Allegheny County Chief Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Senator Jay Costa, will make guest appearances at Andy’s Wine Bar at the Fairmont Hotel downtown and Peter’s Pub in Oakland.

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Some of the Burgh’s best will serve up pink cocktails at the event, which the Dollar Bank is sponsoring,, and their tips will go to the Susan G. Komen Pittsburgh Foundation.

Last year, both of the bars raised $7,000 for the Susan G. Komen Pittsburgh office, according to OBID spokesperson Jonathan Winkler.

“We’ll be trying to break that record this year,” Winkler said, adding that he expects a full house at both bars.

Narduzzi also made a surprise guest appearance at Peter’s last year.

According to Pitt Executive Associate Athletic Director for Media Relations E.J. Borghetti, Narduzzi won’t bartend, but you’ll find him hanging out in the crowd.

“He will be on hand at the event to socialize and interact with the evening’s attendees for what is obviously a great, important cause,” Borghetti said.

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