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BREAST CANCER PITT STAGES PRESENTS ‘WOYZECK’ RESEARCHERS CONTINUE INNOVATING

Sid Lingala Staff Writer

For Dr. Steffi Oesterreich and her husband, Dr. Adrian Lee, patients’ supportive reactions to new technologies in breast cancer research make the hard work worth it.

“I think people are super excited. Advocates love research because they realize you only make progress through research.

I mean, that’s where saving lives comes from,” Oesterreich said.

About $600 million a year is donated to breast cancer research in the United States from sources such as the National Institute of Health and $50 million a year from charitable foundations like the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, according to Lee. A large portion of this money goes toward advancements in breast cancer technology, something that Pitt researchers, including Oesterreich and Lee, focus on.

Oesterreich, the co-director of UPMC’s Women’s Cancer Research Center and vice chair of the Integrated Systems Biology Program, and Lee, the director of the Institute of Precision Medicine and a professor of pharmacology and chemical biology, See Researchers on page 2

Franz Woyzeck (Kyle Corbin) comes to terms with himself after killing his wife Marie (Cheyanne Neuenschwander), laid behind him, in “Woyzeck,” directed by Christopher Staley, at the The Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre Wednesday evening. Bader Abdulmajeed| staff photographer

PITT COACHES PREPARE TO PINK THE PETE FOR THE FIRST TIME Dominic Campbell Staff Writer

Pitt’s women’s basketball team will play its 12th annual Pink the Petersen game, a game dedicated to breast cancer survivors, Sunday against Miami. The game holds special meaning every year for the coaches, players and survivors, but this year it hits especially close to home for head

coach Lance White, who dealt with the impacts of breast cancer firsthand while he was coaching at Florida State.

“You know, I think, anymore, I think it’s hard for anyone not to have been touched in some ways,” White said. “Obviously, you know, we’ve had really special players whose parents have passed away from the disease. One at Florida State whose mom, we went through the whole

process with her. It’s such a horrific disease … just dealing with our players, ’cause all of our players have someone they’ve been touched by as well through this and so we just want to be a part and help as much as we can.”

Pink the Petersen is a game that highlights breast cancer survivors, with donations and a portion of each ticket going to the Susan G. KoSee Pink on page 13

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WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON ILLUMINATES INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

Erica Guthrie

Senior Staff Writer Indigenous languages rank among the world’s most culturally intimate forms of communication, with about 90 percent spoken by less than 100,000 people. A few dozen people gathered on Pitt’s campus Friday afternoon hoping to preserve them through one of the world’s most widely accessible sources of information: Wikipedia.

Dozens of amateur and professional linguists filled the Robert Henderson Language Media Center in the Cathedral of Learning Wednesday afternoon to participate in an “Indigenous Languages Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.”

At the edit-a-thon, which was sponsored by the Humanities Department and the Honors College, participants learned how to edit ar-

ticles on the online encyclopedia to help fill the online information gap in respect to indigenous languages.

The event was co-coordinated by Lauren Collister, the director of the Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, and Na-Rae Han, a lecturer in the department of linguistics and the director of the Robert Henderson Language Media Center. About 40 people attended the event, Han said, including students, staff and employees of the Pittsburgh-based language learning app Duolingo.

Collister said the event was designed to teach editing skills to brand-new, linguistically knowledgeable Wikipedia editors and let them utilize what they learned on real articles.

“Specifically, we’re doing this one for the United Nations Year of Indigenous Lan-

guages, because there’s a lot of information on Wikipedia about indigenous languages, but not all of it is complete, not all of it is good and not all of it is well-sourced,” Collister said.

Half of the earth’s 6,700 languages will be extinct by the end of the 21st century, new research suggests, most of them indigenous.

These findings drove the United Nations to declare 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages. Since the commencement on Jan. 28, multiple events have been coordinated in efforts to preserve information on these at-risk languages.

Collister, an experienced Wikipedia editor, started the event with a presentation on basic Wikipedia editing skills, such as how to create references. After the introduction to editing, participants began to edit real Wiki-

Researchers, pg. 1 have a combined lab that focuses on aspects of breast cancer such as metastasis, the spread of tumors to other parts of the body. Their lab also focuses on resistance to hormonal therapies and tumor evolution.

Lee said breast cancer research is a field that welcomes the use of cutting-edge technology since previous developments in targeted therapies have been beneficial. “[Breast cancer has] led the charge in targeted therapies,” Lee said. “So it’s a very rich area for innovative science.”

Dr. Rohit Bhargava, a pathologist at UPMC who specializes in breast surgical pathology, said the need for advanced technology in this field is exhibited by the prevalence of breast cancer. He also said therapeutic advances in the field would follow advances in diagnostics of breast cancer.

“Breast cancer is very common. It’s one of the most common cancers identified in females,” Bhargava said. “For every single breast cancer that we diagnose, we iden-

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Magee-Womens Research Institute is the largest independent women’s research institute in the country with a focus on women’s health.

Knox Coulter| staff photographer

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pedia pages regarding indigenous languages.

After Collister hosted a similar event in January with the Linguistic Society of America, inspiration struck her to bring the edita-thon to Pittsburgh. She said the edit-a-thon would allow student linguists to use their knowledge to give others better access to accurate information.

“We decided at that event to do some local ones in various places around the country and North America,” Collister said. “Since I was one of the co-hosts of that event, it was logical to do one in Pittsburgh, where I am. Na-Rae Han, who’s the director of the language media center, offered to do it here since we’ve got all of the computers and we have a lot of linguists and interested populations here.”

See Edit-a-Thon on page 3 tify the receptor expression on each breast cancer and the therapy is directed based on the results of those receptors.”

Dr. Adam Brufsky agrees that the diagnostic aspect of breast cancer is one that has faced a lot of obstacles because of the need for methods to detect breast cancer in its earlier stages. Brufsky, a professor of medicine at Pitt and the medical director of the Magee Women’s Cancer Program, said recent advancements in imaging allow for breast cancer to be diagnosed as accurately as possible so that treatment can be the most effective.

“We have computer-aided technology to help figure out if lesions are there.

There is something called tomosynthesis, which is a 3D mammogram. We have breast MRI. And we have a lot of other stuff coming down the pike,” Brufsky said.

According to Brufsky, another obstacle that clinicians and researchers face is determining whether a breast cancer patient needs chemotherapy. Given that chemotherapy has many harmful side effects and is expensive, Brufsky said new tests See Researchers on page 4

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Edit-a-Thon, pg. 2 Some students, like Anastasia Wass, came to the edit-a-thon from Carnegie Mellon University. Wass, a sophomore studying German language and psychology, comes from a household that speaks four languages — English, Spanish, Quechuan and Hungarian. She edited pages about the Quechuan languages, a group of languages native to the Andes region in South America.

“I’m interested in indigenous languages and I saw this on my friend’s Facebook page and I thought this was something cool to go to, and maybe something I could contribute to,” Wass said.

Laura Fink, a senior majoring in religious studies and minoring in Irish, decided to participate because she wanted to help clarify misconceptions about the status of the Irish language.

“For decades now at least, there’s been this idea that Irish language is dying, it’s one or two generations away from being completely gone,” Fink said.

“But there’s been a response by urban Irish speakers, young Irish speakers, that know it’s not really the case. The popularity of Irish is growing, so I really liked the idea of coming in and changing that dialogue.”

Now that she knows how to edit Wikipedia

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2019 has been declared the Year of Indigenous Languages by the United Nations. photo via en.iyil2019.org articles, Fink said she will probably continue to do so in order to help revitalize the image of the Irish language.

“I would like to keep editing,” Fink said. “I think the information that’s out there makes a difference in the way that a language is preserved and in my studies I’ve become really passionate about the Irish language.”

After hearing about work Duolingo did with indigenous languages — the app has launched

courses that teach users Hawaiian and Navajo — the event coordinators reached out and invited Duolingo employees to the edit-a-thon. Research scientist Will Monroe was one such employee who came to edit language articles.

“I’ve worked with a few endangered language communities in the past, before and after grad school,” Monroe said. “Wikipedia is definitely one of the easiest ways for somebody to find out about a language. One pretty

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clear benefit would just be that people who are interested, but might not have access to a library or might not be taking a class in the language can find out about it just by searching for it on Wikipedia.”

Anthony Verardi, a first-year grad student studying applied linguistics, works in the Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center as a teaching assistant for a course on Quechuan language. At the event, he edited the Wikipedia page on indigenous languages because he noticed some biased wording.

“It feels like a good use of my time as a linguist,” he said. “I don’t like this assumption that indigenous languages are these ancient, leviathan things that are somehow extreme.

Sometimes they’re something that’s actually relatively new, or just as old as anything else.”

Han emphasized the importance of indigenous languages as an element of indigenous cultures.

“Languages are a window into a culture, and as linguists, we are really sad when a language gets lost because then the whole semantic space surrounding that language gets lost. These aspects are really difficult to translate into different languages,” Han said.

“When a language gets lost, some part of humanity gets lost.”

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Researchers, pg. 2 analyze genetic expression to determine which patients should get treatment.

“Basically, we’ve worked out that if you have a certain pattern of RNA expression, you have a high chance of occurrence. So we compared it to people’s survivals at 10 years,” Brufsky said. “We can tell if you have a certain pattern of expression of various RNAs, you’ll be at higher risk of occurrence … Those are people who’ll get chemotherapy.”

Lee said the study of the mechanism

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of action and pathology of the cancer is equally as important as studies of diagnoses. Before more advanced cell culturing techniques were developed, cancer cells intended for research would come from frozen tissue isolated from patients many years ago. Lee said this past approach wasn’t effective for certain tests.

“You can’t do [single-cell sequencing] on frozen tissue once it’s frozen,” Lee said, referring to a technique that allows for more detail when analyzing gene expression. “Frozen tissue is a snapshot in

time. You can’t treat it with drugs. You can’t really do much with it.”

In order to better simulate freshly obtained cancer cells, Oesterreich said she and Lee are using two new methods of tissue culturing to study cancer in their lab: explants and organoid culturing.

According to Lee, these techniques sustain newly harvested cancer cells longer for researchers to analyze. These new methods of culturing cancer cells create a realistic model of tumors in their native environments, allowing breast cancer researchers to more accurately se-

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quence the types of cells in a tumor or test the effects of a drug on cancer cells.

“If we can grow the tissues, we can study how it evolves over time,” Lee said.

“If you want to give the cells a drug, you can see what happens a day or three days later. Once it’s frozen, you can’t.”

Oesterreich said another technique, liquid biopsies, can minimize the need to obtain cancerous cells through surgically invasive procedures. Liquid biopsies use fresh blood samples to test for cancer cells. According to Lee, this approach is becoming more popular because biological supercomputing is able to detect even the smallest traces of DNA or other biomolecules of interest in a small sample of blood obtained from the prick of a finger.

“It’s great that you can look at how the tumor reacts to the cancer therapy and that you don’t need to do biopsy of the bone or the liver or the lung. You can just take a few drops of blood cells,” Oesterreich said.

While medical innovations have transformed the way researchers analyze cancer cells, growth in social media has accelerated the communication of new information between scientists. Lee said Facebook and Twitter, in addition to search engines such as PubMed that scour databases of scientific journals, allow him and other researchers to get notifications and quickly access new and critical research publications.

“When I started, there was no PubMed. There was no easy way to get information. We’d have to walk to the library,” Lee said. “Now most of the people in the lab get their information from Twitter. All of the journals have great Twitter feeds and they tweet out good papers.”

Despite the rapid rate of information transfer and technological developments in research, Bhargava said it’s important to sort through the exciting technologies and determine what is most beneficial to patients.

“We are at a position where we have to judge each test and each new technology because not all advances will be beneficial,” Bhargava said. “We … have to decide what kind of tests have the best clinical evidence, which should be used versus others, which should be further improved before they can be incorporated into clinical testing.”

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from the editorial board

Air quality concerns require stronger action While the rise in temperatures this past weekend from last week’s cold snap was cause for celebration for those in the Pittsburgh area, many smartphones warned us of a potentially dangerous side to the good weather.

Code Orange air quality alerts like the one sent out on Saturday mean that people with heart and lung diseases, children and the elderly may be affected by the worsened air quality. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued another Code Orange action day Monday, and had issued several more on top of that in January.

This weekend’s air quality concerns were a product of the major shift in temperatures. A warm air mass sitting above a cold air mass creates what’s called an inversion, which traps the cold air underneath the warm air. Unhealthy air quality results from pollutants becoming trapped in the cold air.

The number of air quality alerts issued lately is cause for great concern. It feels as if we’re sliding backwards with our air quality, and this is something we absolutely can’t allow to happen.

The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research stands as a constant reminder of just how bad Pittsburgh once let its air pollution get. Over two decades, starting in the 1940s, newer, cleaner industries moved into the area and the surfaces of buildings were cleaned but one side of the Mellon Institute’s 62 columns was left untouched. The blackened limestone acts as a reminder of Pittsburgh’s dirty history with air quality.

That history continues to this day. Last year, a Dec. 24 fire at North America’s largest coke plant, U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, damaged gas dispatch stations so that amounts of sulfur dioxide past the federal standards were released into the air. There have been nine more instances of sulfur dioxide exceedance in the Mon Valley since the fire, including one this

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Monday at U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Steel Mill in Braddock.

Allegheny County Health Department officials said Wednesday that enforcement action against U.S. Steel could happen in one to three months and would include fines and conditions on permits on top of existing quarterly enforcement actions. But Jim Kelly, the deputy director for environmental health, said the company has had trouble complying with mitigation strategies.

“I had to personally tell U.S. Steel that they needed to start working with the community,” he said.

The recent problems with sulfur emissions beg the question of how further enforcement actions can truly stop exceedances, and how to deal with the possibility of more air quality warnings in the future caused by changes in weather patterns. Inversions are common in cold-weather climates like Pittsburgh, and a 2016 Utah Climate Center study says they may get “three times worse” in valley areas.

Democratic lawmakers from the Mon Valley, health department officials, U.S. Steel representatives, union leaders and health advocates are holding a hearing today to discuss the situation, although state Sen. Jim Brewster of McKeesport doesn’t think the meeting will generate any legislation to solve the air quality problem.

“I think it’s procedure, you gotta have agreements between U.S. Steel, the Allegheny County Health Department, local elected officials, state elected officials, the Allegheny County emergency management director,” he said Wednesday. “Those are the things we hope to leave with tomorrow, that those things get fixed.”

But if more regulations are all they come up with to fix things, it’s likely we can expect more of the same. More drastic pressure from local officials is needed in order to combat the cycle of excess emissions and inversions.

ONLINE PETITIONS: NOT ALWAYS A USEFUL FORM OF ACTIVISM

Julia Kreutzer Staff Columnist

While I typically groan at the sound of an early morning notification, waking up to the E.M.S. Alert for cancelled classes last Wednesday elicited quite a different reaction. I was ecstatic, not only because I was able to avoid my algebra class at the crack of dawn, but because I knew I had contributed to a revolutionary feat: getting a snow day at Pitt.

9,665 of my closest friends at Pitt and I saved ourselves from frostbite, hypothermia and slipping down the Chevron steps by signing an online petition urging the University to cancel classes due to extreme weather.

This is just one example in a wave of petitions and other means of student demands for action. While a snow day seems a welcomed result of these petitions, making decisions based on a few thousand online signatures has much larger implications — students overestimate their influence and go above those with authority.

Primarily, these petitions mislead students into believing that simply taking a minute to type their name on Change.org will make tangible change in the University. On Jan. 30, for example, many students believed their petition was incredibly influential in University officials’ decision to cancel classes.

But in a shocking turn of events, the next petition encouraging Pitt to also cancel classes on Jan. 31 did not accomplish its goal, despite gaining 5,374 signatures.

Both Wednesday and Thursday saw subzero temperatures. Both petitions gained thousands of signatures. Neighboring schools like Carnegie Mellon cancelled classes on both days. The only difference

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was the action by people with the authority to actually take action.

While I take extreme pride in knowing my e-signature bolstered such a movement, it’s more likely the Student Government Board’s influence, designed to advocate for students, was more effective.

SGB President Maggie Kennedy heroically emailed administrators after several students raised concerns at their meeting.

The next morning, classes were cancelled.

Joe Miksch, a representative of the University, explained what contributed to their decision — which did not include the petition.

“The University takes many factors into consideration when making determinations related to our campus operations, chief among them is supporting a safe learning and work environment for our community,” he said. “Other factors include information from students, faculty and staff, access to and around campus, public transit status, immediate and projected weather conditions and more. Conversations with our campus community have prompted us to reassess whether or not our current policy is well-understood by everyone and meets our community’s diverse needs.”

The impassioned students signing these petitions truly believe they are affecting change. But petitions often elicit a form of confirmation bias coupled with a virtual mob mentality. Students heard their beliefs echoed by thousands and gained an unrealistic view that everyone on campus agreed with them. While many would argue a vast majority of the students supported the petition’s message, opinions of students without authority See Kreutzer on page 6

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Kreutzer, pg. 5 don’t really make a difference.

All of this isn’t to say our voices have no power at all. But we need to point them in the direction of those with authority to make a tangible change. For example, students can directly advocate for themselves by speaking at an SGB meeting.

President Maggie Kennedy articulated that students’ input matters to the board and was a definitive factor in her decision to email administrators.

“To hear from a student during one of the open floors that this is something he and other students are concerned about affirmed to us that this is a widespread issue,” Kennedy said.

The polar vortex petition was rather harmless and in the end, students lucked out with a day off to try to keep warm.

But this is not the case for all studentdriven attempts to effect change in the University.

In early December, dozens of students signed a petition raising concerns over biology professor Craig Peebles, contributing to a new lecturer being assigned for the course this semester. Students were rightfully frustrated with class averages of 47 percent and 49 percent on their first and second exams, rendering two-thirds of the class ineligible to pass. For another section of Biological Sciences 1000, taught by Professor John Rosenberg, the mean score was 30.5 percent higher than that of Peebles’ section.

There is a clear problem with these inconsistencies. Students have the right to raise concerns, but they must do so through the correct channels if they wish to have any sort of impact. Taking matters into their own hands sets the precedent that evading the system in a mob mentality is an effective strategy. These petitions not only wrongfully demonstrate that evading procedure is effective, but mislead students into believing they’re effecting change. Signing a petition is not exercising their civic duty to right wrongs, but rather an excuse to avoid putting in the actual effort to begin a possibly time-consuming process.

Not all petitions fall into this pattern of misinformed activism, but it is important to recognize the key difference between petitions that have worked and those that won’t. Activists used a petition

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to overturn a Boy Scouts policy excluding openly gay members and leaders in 2012 by petitioning companies that supported the Scouts. This pressure led the Scouts to accept LGBT individuals the following year.

A 2003 petition signed by 1.3 million Californians resulted in a recall election for governor of the Golden State, leading to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election.

While these petitions were incredibly successful, an important differentiation between these and those surfacing at the University is that America is a democracy, and Pitt is not.

The line between justified activism and bandwagon anger is blurred, but when aiming to influence the career of a professor of four decades, airing on the side of caution is key.

For academic disputes, the Dietrich School website details a step-by-step procedure for students to follow in order to raise concerns — and it doesn’t include Change.org. After contacting the instructor, a student should then approach the department chair, followed by meeting with the assistant dean if needed. The assistant dean is then responsible for investigating the incident and taking necessary action.

Students contacted Valerie Oke, assistant chair of the department of biological sciences, after the first exam. But per the Dietrich website, their next step should have been meeting with associate dean John Twyning, to whom the petition was addressed. A simple meeting would likely have been more effective than a public, online petition.

Decisions like these should not be taken lightly. The more students attempt to bypass the system, the less likely it is that these situations can be assessed by figures of authority in an unbiased and adequate manner. When we allow the opinion of the masses to dictate tangible change, we inhibit the process specifically aimed to yield the most effective result.

Yes, it should be the goal of the University to educate students in an effective, enjoyable and safe manner. Students should be able to speak up when these conditions aren’t met. Yet there is a reason we have thousands of faculty members in positions of authority. They have the experience and knowledge to handle situations effectively and, frankly, a mob of thousands of angry students does not.

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Culture

PITT STUDENT TAKES THE STAGE IN PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTION OF ‘THE TEMPEST’

Victoria Pfefferle Gillot Senior Staff Writer

Not many students get the chance to follow their dreams while they are still in school, especially if it’s in the performing arts. However, Julia De Avilez Rocha, senior English literature and theatre arts student, got a start in pursuing this dream at Pittsburgh Public Theater with her role as Ceres in “The Tempest.”

“I’ve always been involved [with acting] in some way since I was a kid,” Rocha said.

“My brother did acting in high school and he was the president of the high school troupe at the time. I was around 6 or 7 years old and I would go to their Saturday workshops and hang out with everyone. I thought it was the coolest thing.”

Rocha enjoyed just playing and having fun as a kid, which she feels is important to keep in touch with.

“I think actually part of the journey is going back to the playful pretending and the fun of it,” she said. “I hope not a lot has changed.”

This adaptation of “The Tempest” — directed by Marya Sea Kaminski — is unique, as it features an all-female cast along with a recontextualized story. The play opens with Prospero (Tamara Tunie) as a woman in a contemporary Pittsburgh hospital fighting late-stage breast cancer. In Kaminski’s version of the play, Prospero suffers betrayal from her family abandoning her during her illness. In her feverish dreams, Prospero and the audience are transported from Pittsburgh to a magical island where the classic Shakespeare story unfolds.

Rocha described the audition process that got her in the show as random and extremely unlikely, where actors both in and outside of the Actor’s Equity Association, a labor union for theatrical performers, could audition.

“Marya Sea Kaminski, who’s the new artistic director at The Public, came in last April to get a scope of the actors in the area,” Rocha

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Julia De Avilez Rocha (middle, far right), a senior English literature and theatre arts student, plays Ceres in a modern adaptation of “The Tempest.” She acts alongside Tamara Tunie (center) as Prospero, a woman in a contemporary Pittsburgh hospital fighting late-stage breast cancer. courtesy of matt polk | pittsburgh public theater said. “So she had this master two- or three-day audition where equity actors could sign up, and non-equity actors such as myself could also sign up for a slot on the last day.”

Rocha went in at the last minute and performed two monologues for Kaminski, and that earned her a general workshop callback.

“From there, she kept calling me back for shows they were doing for the season and I booked ‘The Tempest.’ But she thought that I had graduated,” Rocha said with a laugh. “So I’ve been having to juggle things oddly.”

Against all odds, Rocha managed to work out rehearsing and being a student.

“I’m doing independent studies. The theatre department at Pitt is helping me out and I’m doing this show for credit,” Rocha said.

In addition, she is doing an advised research paper and working for the Pitt shows as a costume coordinator.

“But I’m only really a part-time student

right now, otherwise that would be impossible since rehearsals are from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. — basically the whole day,” Rocha said.

This schedule is tough, but the theatre arts department at Pitt — headed by department chair Annmarie Duggan — does attempt to be flexible with students with opportunities outside the classroom and help them with aligning the opportunities to their education.

“If you’re a theatre major, we are definitely gonna make sure you know how the industry works and how you can get involved and go toward making a living in the industry,” Duggan said.

Professional theater experience, like Rocha’s, whether it be during the year or through a summer program, is a great opportunity to get a foothold in the industry, Duggan explained.

“It is invaluable, really,” Duggan said.

“When you think about it, Julia’s there working every day with experienced actresses, so of

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course we want to support that. And if there’s a way to make that happen without hurting her time toward her degree we will look at that.”

Rehearsals for “The Tempest” started on New Year’s Day — still winter break for students — but Rocha was not deterred.

“It was literally so magical because it was the first thing that all of us were doing for that year, for 2019,” Rocha said. “It was such a pleasant start to the year. And everything Marya was talking about in terms of theater and having a whole cast that’s all female and the premise for the show was just so in line with everything I’m in line with, so it felt like this is where I’m supposed to be.”

Rocha’s castmate Janelle Velasquez, who plays the sprite Ariel, also enjoyed the all-female cast and the new take on the show.

“It’s a reimagining that is focused on something that I think all women have been hugely impacted by — breast cancer — whether it be firsthand or someone they might know,” Velasquez said.

She also admired Rocha’s youth and dedicated playfulness in her acting.

“Julia is such a bright light and a ball of energy. It is so fun to watch her play on stage, and you know, being in this industry for a while you forget how to play,” she said. “And [Julia] just goes for it and it’s so much fun to watch. She has so much energy and it’s very infectious.”

Velasquez said Rocha’s dedication to her craft as an actress can be seen on the daily, in rehearsals and during performances alike.

“I catch myself glancing at her throughout the play and she just has this face that is grinning,” Velasquez said. “You know that she is constantly thinking or listening to the play and having these responses, these very genuine real responses to the play, but as her character. She’s done all of her work. It’s so much fun to watch.”

Rocha and Velasquez will play in “The Tempest” at Pittsburgh Public Theater (O’Reilly Theater) through Feb. 24.

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review

PITT STAGES TAKES SPRING SEMESTER

BY STORM WITH ‘WOYZECK’

Tamara Alchoufete For The Pitt News

Tragedy is a common trope in the world of drama. It usually starts with a person of importance and favor slowly declining until all they have is lost. One is not used to seeing a working-class protagonist in a tragedy who begins a story with little to nothing. But “Woyzeck” is anything but your typical fall from grace tragedy, and the protagonist shows he is capable of falling even lower.

The German play “Woyzeck” — written by German dramatist Georg Buchner in the late 1800s — is a tragedy, but with a slight twist. It is not epic like “Hamlet” or “Medea.” It follows a normal man, working hard to provide for himself and his family.

Because of this quirk, “Woyzeck” is known as a working-class tragedy.

Tragedy met insanity to create the chaotic atmosphere that was the Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre on the opening night of “Woyzeck.” Buchner based his work on the horrific true story of murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck, who pleaded insanity after killing his wife in 1824. Woyzeck’s case unveiled the curtain on mental illness, among a host of other societal controversies.

Buchner died early at the age of 24 before he could finish his work. Playwrights have been adapting it ever since. Writer and translator Nicholas Rudall adapted the version of the play utilized by Pitt performers during the production Wednesday night. In the notes from the director, Christopher Staley, a second-year doctoral student, he inquires the audience to question “the actuality of the stories we tell ourselves.”

Woyzeck — played by every actor in the production at some point during the show — is a soldier stationed in a small German town, living with his mischievous and lustful wife, Marie (Cheyanne Neuenschwander).

The couple has a tough time in the community since Marie and the child were never blessed by the church because the child was born out of wedlock. Woyzeck is soon able

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Kyle Corbin as Franz Woyzeck, surrounded by doctors as they attempt to calm him down after losing his temper planning to kill his partner Marie, in “Lab 3: Woyzeck,” directed by Christopher Staley, at the Studio Theatre Wednesday evening. Bader Abdulmajeed| staff photographer to earn money for himself and his family by working basic jobs for the Captain (Jenna Teplitzky) while also taking part in medical experiments and studies for the local doctors (Luke Pomrenke, Diane Brunke).

The doctors force everyone not to go to the bathroom, as natural human function requires, and put them in a stressed atmosphere where they are worked until ultimate exhaustion. Woyzeck seems to be the one affected most by these conditions and it puts everyone around him in danger until the climax of the story where he slits his wife’s throat. The twists and turns of the play, as

well as Woyzeck’s spiral into insanity, will have the audience wondering if the murder was cold-blooded or out of his undeniable madness.

All actors had their time to shine through portraying the psychotic stage of Woyzeck’s mind, the intense environment of the militant village and internal conflicts that caused a heinous crime to occur. It was a flurry of emotions for those watching. The audience found humor in Alex Dolinger — a staff writer for The Pitt News culture desk — whose drunken soldier role carelessly played the guitar, sang and

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wobbled across the stage.

The audience also found terror in the show, as they gasped along with Woyzeck’s daughter (Diane Burke), who shrieked at the sight of Woyzeck during a telling of frightening stories. A portion of the play that resulted in a rupture of applause was when the narrator (Jahir Christian) completely owned the theater with a wig and a feather boa after an empowering duet with Marie about their fallout with the male species.

After finding out his wife was cheating on him with a horse — if you watch it, you’ll understand — Woyzeck spirals further downward. Unlike the nonfictional story the play embodies, Woyzeck is not beheaded for his crimes after being denied his plea of insanity. He is instead crushed by the weight of chattering voices in his mind.

There is no dramatic fall or heroic “Romeo and Juliet”-style suicide scene.

Woyzeck simply falls to the ground. It is implied to the audience that his own insanity has killed him. Woyzeck fell to the ground, silently and in an instant.

After a few moments of him lying on the stage, the audience erupted into applause, which soon turned into a standing ovation.

“Woyzeck” was an intricate production that called for the utmost professionalism of the actors and it was delivered with effortless skill. Some scenes — particularly those involving horses — could create a cringey facial expression in the viewers. Other times, the audience couldn’t help but laugh. Most importantly, the show took on the tough concept of severe mental illness with grace, a true nod to the performers. This production of “Woyzeck” has done the brilliant mind of Buchner justice amid the insanity and gnashing of teeth.

“Wozyeck” runs from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10 at the Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning.

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TAKE 5: SUPER BOWL, SUPER BOWL AND MORE SUPER BOWL

The Pitt News Staff The Super Bowl may be over, but that doesn’t mean Pitt News writers are done talking about it.

Tom Brady is 42 years old, and his time may have finally come — don’t be surprised if you don’t see him hoisting another Lombardi Trophy in the future. As for the Rams, they show promise, but their time hasn’t come yet. Offensive-minded teams need a strong defense before they can count on yearly trips to the Super Bowl. Lucky for all of them, the new Alliance of American Football is giving hope for football’s future.

Going to voicemail The world saw the New England Patriots defeat the Los Angeles Rams Sunday 13-3 in a lackluster Super Bowl LIII. This was the lowest scoring Super Bowl in NFL history, an outcome that no one predicted. Super Bowl LIII was also Tom Brady and the Patriots’ sixth Lombardi Trophy in franchise history, joining the Pittsburgh Steelers at the top of the Lombardi Trophy food chain, each with six rings of their own.

The Patriot team that Brady just led to a Super Bowl victory was arguably one of the weakest teams he has ever played with. That’s not to say that his team was bad, but Brady is just used to having a better cast around him. He continues to prove all the doubters wrong and just keeps winning.

With potential retirements looming from star tight end Rob Gronkowski and safety Devin McCourty, next year’s Patriots squad will be even weaker than this season’s. That, along with Father Time catching up to Tom Brady, means Super Bowl LIII will be Brady’s last Lombardi Trophy of his Hall-ofFame career.

-Tyler Moran Rams won’t be going to the Super Bowl again anytime soon The Los Angeles Rams fell to the New England Patriots dynasty 13-3 in Super Bowl LIII in the Rams’ first appearance under head coach Sean McVay. It appears the Rams themselves may be a dynasty in the making, boasting a young coach in

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McVay and solid talent across the board, from quarterback Jared Goff to running back Todd Gurley to defensive tackle Aaron Donald.

But don’t expect to see them back in the big game next year –– or even for a few years.

There are plenty of NFC teams waiting to take down the Rams. The Saints fell victim to the Minnesota Miracle last season and a brutal missed passinterference call this season. The Bears are a young team with a solid defense and a smart coach in Matt Nagy. The Eagles have shown they can do it, and teams like the Seahawks and Falcons always have a shot.

Fans have seen this before in past NFC teams that have looked like they were bound for multiple Super Bowl runs in a row. Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton looked unstoppable in 2016, his MVP year, and so did Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan alongside a prolific Falcons offense.

The 2018 Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles, fell victim to injuries and a Super Bowl hangover this season.

The Rams could very well follow the path of teams like the Colts, Steelers and Broncos and make two appearances in three to four years. But a host of problems always seem to plague teams after losing the Super Bowl, and you should expect a brief hiatus before Goff and company get another shot at a ring.

-Nick Carlisano Offense doesn’t win games Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay was the darling of the 2018 NFL season. The 33-year-old prodigy captivated fans across the country with his offensive brilliance and boyish charm, while leading the Rams to a 13-3 record and an appearance in Super Bowl LIII. His meteoric rise has made it every team’s primary objective to find the next McVay. While the Rams boasted the second-best scoring offense in the league, they ran into an absolute buzz saw against the Patriots in the big game. New England held them to just three points on the day, constantly confusing quarterback Jared Goff and allowing only 62 yards rushing. A mix of zone coverage and intricate blitz packages brought an offense that

was explosive all season to its knees.

Yes, offense makes the headlines and sells the tickets, but time and time again great defenses have trumped elite offenses. In 2014, Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos possessed the NFL’s No. 1 offense.

They were shellacked by the Seattle Seahawks’ top defense 43-8. Two seasons later, the Broncos avenged the loss with a drubbing of the Carolina Panthers and their league-leading offense in a 24-10 victory.

Between 2000 and 2014, the league’s best defense won the Super Bowl five times. The NFL’s top offense hoisted the Lombardi Trophy just once during that same span.

If great defensive units regularly trounce flashy offenses, why are teams seemingly only pursuing offensive minds with hopes that they will be the next McVay? The Miami Dolphins were one of the few teams to hire a defensive head coach in former Patriots coordinator Brian Flores. Flores served as New England’s defensive play caller and was one of the architects of the scheme that shut down McVay’s Rams.

If the mantra “defense wins championship” really does ring true, then the Miami Dolphins are ahead of the curve. The rest of the league would be wise to follow.

-Cale Berger Super Bowl MVP* With 10 receptions on 12 targets for 141 yards, Julian Edelman was well-deserving of the Super Bowl MVP award as he played a crucial part in New England’s victory in Super Bowl LIII. In fact, Edelman’s postseason contributions have been consistently remarkable. Only the legendary former wide receiver Jerry Rice has more receptions and yards than Edelman’s 115 and 1,412, respectively, in the playoffs.

Edelman’s role as a constant target for Tom Brady and his essential contributions to the Patriots’ last three championships led many to begin wondering whether the shifty slot receiver, drafted as a quarterback in the seventh round out of Kent State, could possibly be bound for the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, when he shaves his beard and hangs up his cleats.

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But Edelman should not have been on the field for the Patriots on Super Bowl Sunday. He should not have been able to play in the two games the Patriots played to get there. And he should certainly not be enshrined among the game’s legends in Canton.

Because in case you had forgotten, Edelman was suspended for the first four games of this season for a violation of the NFL’s policy against performanceenhancing drugs.

In baseball, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and many others had as much success, if not even more, in their sport than Edelman has enjoyed. But they are tainted by their steroid use, continually rejected from enshrinement in baseball’s hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York.

The MLB has a rule under its PED policy that any player who is suspended for a positive test is banned from participation in the postseason. Perhaps it’s time for the NFL to enact a similar restriction. Until then, Edelman’s postseason accomplishments and Super Bowl MVP award will always come with an asterisk.

-Ben Bobeck The AAF, the unofficial developmental league for the NFL With the NFL season coming to an end, football fans are desperately searching for a new source of entertainment during the offseason. Enter the Alliance of American Football, with rosters filled with NFL hopefuls and former NFL players looking for a second chance.

Getting underway this Saturday with eight teams, the rosters feature former NFL players such as Christian Hackenberg and Zac Stacy, as well as all-time great Mike Singletary coaching the Memphis Express.

Why does this matter to the NFL? The answer is quite simple — the AAF can provide the NFL with a talent pipeline unlike anything it has ever seen before. It’s also a way for players to put their skills on film before entering the NFL. Most NFL teams are only currently able to evaluate new players with a tryout, which is far from replicating the actual pressure and situations of a professional football game. With AAF tape to refer to, NFL executives will have an easier time evaluating the talent of players who have been out of the league for a while.

The AAF has potential to succeed due to its focus on football and access to high-character players. Both the NFL and the AAF only stand to succeed from a strong inaugural season by the AAF. -Andrew Kelly

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Pink, pg. 1 men Foundation. At each Pink the Petersen game, breast cancer survivors who attend the game are recognized for their battle during halftime.

White has spent many years coaching women’s basketball, including 10 years at Texas Tech and 15 years at Florida State. He has participated in events like this for breast cancer before, most notably the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, also known as Play4Kay. Play4Kay is a foundation that began after the death of famous NC State head coach, Kay

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Yow, who fought breast cancer off and on from 1987 until her death in 2009. Many women’s basketball teams, including the Panthers, have specific games dedicated to the foundation. The Panthers’ 2019 Play4Kay game will take place on Mar. 3 at home against Louisville.

For White, this season has been a trying time as a first-year head coach. The team hasn’t won an ACC game yet and the team’s best player, redshirt senior guard Aysia Bugg, has been out for most of the season due to blood clots.

Despite the tough season, White is excited to take on the game this Sunday against Miami, especially with the importance of having so many

breast cancer survivors in the crowd.

“Well, I think the major thing for us is that as a team, is to know that there are things that are bigger than us,” White said. “I think this event shows us people are battling far worse things than the opponents that we have in the ACC … they’re dealing with life and death. For us, it’s a chance for our kids and everybody to know that there’s a lot more things more important than our daily battles.”

White is not the only coach to have dealt with this disease firsthand on this staff. Associate head coach Terri Mitchell has had her fair share of experience with breast cancer over the years as a

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person and a coach.

Mitchell has been involved with basketball, and breast cancer initiatives, for a long time. She played at Duquesne University in the Bluff during the late 1980s, spending 23 years coaching at Marquette University in Milwaukee and then as a special assistant at Arizona State University.

During her time as a coach, she participated in breast cancer awareness events.

“We helped locally in Milwaukee,” Mitchell said. “People got mammograms that couldn’t afford them and at the same time we helped the national organization, Play4Kay. So we used the See Pink on page 14

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First-year guard, Jahsyni Knight (0), feels the Pink the Petersen game is a good chance to empower women and bring awareness to breast cancer. Bader Abdulmajeed| staff photographer venue, but did the same thing. It’s something that most women’s basketball programs do and I love the commitment here at Pitt to do what they’re doing and we just want to continue to make this bigger and better every year.”

Just like White, Mitchell shares the same sentiments about the game and how it shows the team there are things bigger than basketball.

She is also thrilled to use the Pete as a venue to highlight breast cancer survivors.

When she was a player at Duquesne, Mitchell said they never had an event like this at all, so she has always been willing to help when it comes to special games like this.

“I think that’s the great growth of women’s basketball,” Mitchell said. “Back then in the ’80s, it was more just about basketball. Now, we’ve aligned ourselves with great causes and have used … our platform to bring awareness, and so that’s what I absolutely love.”

Mitchell has watched two people close to her deal with the disease, which is why this

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game and the Play4Kay game are so important and close to her.

“My aunt, my mom’s sister, has battled it twice,” Mitchell said. “So it’s something that’s just watching her in the battle and seeing her in process to beat it once and then for it to come back and to have to fight again.”

This Pink the Petersen game features Pitt (914 overall, 0-9 ACC) and No. 25 Miami (195 overall, 7-2 ACC). The Panthers, who are winless in conference play, are looking for any way to get a win, especially in front of much bigger crowd.

First-year guard Jahsyni Knight wants to get a win on a night she feels empowers her as both a woman and a women’s basketball player.

“To me, it’s very powerful, like just being able to represent women who are going through these types of issues,” Knight said.

“Just excited to play for them and represent breast cancer awareness.”

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