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The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | February 22, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 117

CHARGES AGAINST VA NURSE DROPPED

PITT LOSES TO WAKE FOREST, PG. 8

Mackenzie Rodrigues News Editor

Players and coaches react after Jared Wilson-Frame misses a dunk that would’ve put the Panthers down two points with 10 seconds left against Wake Forest. Pitt lost, extending its losing streak to 16. Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR

PROFESSOR LECTURES ABOUT BLACK PITTSBURGH Katie Gingrich

moment in Pittsburgh’s racial history. About 30 people, including students, faculty and comLarry Glasco — a Pitt history professor who munity members, attended Glasco’s installment mainly teaches about race, caste and the African- in the University Library System’s Black History American experience in Pittsburgh — said he Month celebration series — a lecture called “The rarely gets to speak on topics that go beyond “un- Best of Times: Black Pittsburgh During WWII.” He began the lecture by addressing the preinterrupted discrimination and oppression.”

But during a lecture Wednesday afternoon, World War II culture of racial fragmentation and he had the chance to focus on a more positive segregation, both in Pittsburgh and nationally, even though the United States has always prided For The Pitt News

itself on being a melting pot for immigrants.

“America had always had that image, but when they talked about the land of equality or the melting pot, it was really a white melting pot,” Glasco said. “People of color were not really a part of that melting pot, not part of that aspect of democracy.”

But, he said, this changed with World War See Lecture on page 3

A magisterial judge Wednesday dropped charges against Paul May, a nurse at the Veteran Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Oakland who was accused of spying into upper campus dorms.

May, 56, was charged Nov. 6 with loitering and prowling, invasion of privacy and possessing instruments of a crime. All charges have been dropped, court documents show.

District attorney spokesperson Mike Manko said Magisterial District Judge James Hanley Jr dropped the charges because there were no victims, the Tribune Review reported.

“At this time, we would have no plans to re-file the charges based on the magistrate’s ruling that we failed to produce any actual victims,” he told the Tribune Review.

According to a Pitt police crime alert, May was caught spying into upper campus dormitories from the garage. The University released a statement in November saying it was working with VA police on the investigation.

The VA arrested May in the hospital garage and said in November it was taking steps to fire him. May is no longer employed by the VA.

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Q&A

Elizabeth Mahoney revisits Mister Rogers’ archive Janine Faust Assistant News Editor The iconic children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” turned 50 Monday. The show, which was broadcast from 1968 to 2001, was filmed in Pittsburgh and hosted by the late Fred Rogers. In honor of the show’s 50th anniversary, assistant news editor Janine Faust sat down with Elizabeth Mahoney, former head of Pitt’s now-dissolved Information Sciences Library, about the show itself and her work with the Rogers archive the library kept for more than 20 years.

Faust: I’m excited to be here talking to someone who was so involved with the archives.

Mahoney: Can I tell you what’s what before you get too excited?

We had the “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” archives in what was once the Information Sciences Library. It was called the Rogers Archive, and it was part of a collection in a room called the Elizabeth Nesbitt Room. In the early ’80s, some agreements were made between Family Communications Inc. — the company that oversaw the production of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” — and the University to house his archives here, to respond to reference questions, to catalog the program and generally make it accessible to the public. So, the materials came. The work did not finish until 2006 or 2007. Over time, from 1984 onward, I can’t even tell you the number of people who touched these videotapes, watched these shows, assigned these records. I would be wrong if I didn’t mention two people — grad student Perry Recker and Laurel Povazan Scholnick, who’s now a library specialist at Langley Hall. In addition to the videotapes of all the programs in black-andwhite as well as in color, we had puppets, we had scripts, we had fan mail, we had books related to the show.

We had tons of people sending postal mail, then email, calling on the phone and coming to visit the collection — people who wanted to use the collection because they remembered

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Josie Carey and Fred Rogers, staff members at WQED, Pittsburgh’s educational television station, explain the makings of a children’s show to station visitors W.J. Bass (seated) and W.C. Richardson.

Courtesy of Detre Library and Archives Division, Heinz History Center when their mom was on the show.

On the academic side, it was used by people in psychology, in dental school, in education who would come and look through it.

A number of people who wrote books about Mister Rogers would come and look at the materials.

Schools change, so when they decided to close the Information Sciences Library in 2011, parts of our library were sent to Hillman, to storage, to special collections. But one of the hardest decisions was what to do with the things in the Elizabeth Nesbitt room.

When Mr. Rogers passed, he endowed a building at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, his hometown — the Fred M. Rogers Center. It became clear we needed to move our materials there and bring the archives together. If you’re a scholar, don’t you want to go to just one place?

Faust: How often do people ask to inter-

view you about the Rogers Archive?

Mahoney: Well, with the 50th anniversary, NPR and now you. In the past, when the collection was here, we had phone calls all the time. When he died, we had a number of people who called. I always pushed other people forward to answer questions. It was a great opportunity, though. Mister Rogers was different from Captain Kangaroo or Howdy Doody, because he put his energy toward making sure his show was developmentally appropriate for the three- or four-year-old. Did you watch it when you were younger?

Faust: Yeah, I did.

Mahoney: What do you recall most about the show?

Faust: Uh, him entering the room and taking his outside shoes off and putting his indoor shoes on. That, and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

Mahoney: King Friday and Prince Tues-

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day and Queen Sara. And that mentioning of the shoes is critical. It wasn’t a shtick. Prior to Mister Rogers, other people did similar things.

The difference was that Mister Rogers brought together the information he gained by talking and working with child psychologist Margaret McFarland and incorporated an appreciation for the arts. Local people like Joe Negri, who’s a famous jazz musician, to Yo-Yo Ma — Rogers had these people come on the show as friends in the Neighborhood.

Faust: What kind of impact do you think this show has had on American culture?

Mahoney: A significant impact. So many people will talk about how they learned how to parent from it. People would sing those songs — “What do you do when you’re mad about something?” They would use Mister Rogers as a mechanism to talk to their children. The people that came to see us, either they had been on the show or their family members had been on the show. They were so emotionally invested in the show — in what he gave them.

He had an identified audience, and asked how we could talk about death, fire, scary things, the dark — these were all topics that he covered. Did it have an impact? Yes. His sweater is in the Smithsonian, for heaven’s sake.

Faust: What did you like most about your time overseeing the archive?

Mahoney: The best part was just the variety of questions. We had so many reference questions coming from so many different sorts of folks. One minute you’re answering an email, telling someone you’re so excited because you found the episode that her grandmother was in — and then you turn around and someone is saying they’re doing some research on the impact of television on children.

Meeting Mister Rogers or Mr. McFeely might be what some others would say, and you know, that was great, but at the time I was so intent on the work. What needed to happen, what programs needed to be cataloged.

Faust: What do you feel you learned from being able to work with the material?

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Lecture, pg. 1 II. He described how the war shifted America’s racial relations because of a decrease in innate discrimination toward black businesses and the war’s focus on the racist politics of Europe at that time.

“America portrayed itself in distinction to that, as a land of equality,” Glasco said. “The result of this was — for the first time in American history, it became the patriotic thing to be for racial justice.”

The war also left black Americans who enlisted in the military with renewed vigor in the domestic fight for civil rights, and their military service helped change white people’s perceptions of people of color in the United States, according to Glasco.

Crystal McCormick Ware, the coordinator of diversity and inclusion initiatives for University Library Services and the supervisor of the ULS-sponsored Black History Month events, reflected on this point after the lecture. She said many soldiers returning to America questioned the segregation and lack of civil rights they still faced.

“It was a time of prosperity for America.

African-Americans also prospered, even though they might have been segregated,” she said. “[World War II] set the starting point for African-Americans to start to empower themselves.”

Glasco highlighted the rich culture that existed in 1950s Pittsburgh as black Americans saw more opportunities and previously segregated communities that were finally integrated.

He presented a collection of pictures from Charles “Teenie” Harris, an accomplished African-American photographer during this era in Pittsburgh, to show the day-to-day routines of

Q&A, pg. 2 Mahoney: When I began working with the collection, I came with no understanding of Mister Rogers, no understanding how important he was to Pittsburgh as a whole. After years of viewing the programs and seeing what went into the program and the part of Pittsburgh that he highlighted and what he brought to the City, I came to appreciate that he was a spokesperson for the City.

We used to have people come to us and think there actually was a “neighborhood” somewhere in Pittsburgh. Maybe the thing that I took away from it most was an appreciation for the depth of the

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residents.

Harris’ photographs focused primarily on communities in the Hill District and Oakland.

Glasco pointed out the monthly parades sponsored by various businesses or clubs, the integrated Boy Scouts groups and the thriving black businesses. Glasco displayed photographs of black soldiers in the 1940s posing in front of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall.

Faye Leibowitz, a ULS librarian and longtime Pittsburgh resident, said that she enjoyed Glasco’s articulate lecture, especially because of the personal connection she has to Pittsburgh during World War II. “My father actually grew up in the Hill District, so it was really interesting to learn some of the details about what his experience probably was,” she said.

Leibowitz’s family was part of Pittsburgh’s vibrant Jewish community, a group Glasco said acted as allies to black businesses during this period.

Through the lecture, Leibowitz was able to affirm what her father had told her about the communal and positive spirit of postwar Pittsburgh and was comforted by Glasco’s themes of black success and integration.

“All these things gave blacks hope. They could see that things were changing and there was the feeling that they were continually moving in the right direction,” Glasco said. “No one curled up in a corner ... It’s remarkable how successful they were in those days.”

The ULS Black History Month celebration will continue next Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. in the Thornburgh Room of Hillman Library, where Pitt’s African American Alumni Council will discuss the formation of the Black Action Society in 1968 and the history of the AfricanAmerican experience at the University. scholarship and research that went into the show. He made it look easy, but it was so much.

Faust: What was the most valuable thing the show taught people overall?

Mahoney: So much of what he did embraced the concept of civility. We need to be friends with our neighbors.

We need to have compassion for, we need to understand people who are different from us, we need to be kind to our parents. A lot of his songs, like “What do you do with the mad that you feel” had to do with how to behave civilly in the world. Not a media specialist, not a child psychologist, but in my view it’s the civility that overwhelmingly ran throughout all of his programming.

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Opinions

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Lamb misses the mark on gun issues

from the editorial board

After shooting, student walkouts lead the way Florida’s state legislature disappointed gun control advocates Monday when it declined to consider a ban on the assault weapon used in last week’s high school massacre in Parkland, Florida.

But for students, both in the state and around the country, that wasn’t the end of the story.

From Minnesota to California, high school students walked out of schools Wednesday to commemorate last week’s shooting, which resulted in 17 deaths.

In Pittsburgh, students gathered Downtown during the day with signs demanding “Gun Control Now.” And in Florida, students who survived the shooting demonstrated in the state capital to call out lawmakers who voted against increased regulations on the AR-15 gun used to kill their classmates.

If the students’ agenda isn’t succeeding in the halls of state government, it’s at least been able to hold the national news media’s attention for a full seven days — which is saying something, given the industry’s notoriously short attention span. Emma Gonzales, a senior at the Florida high school, went viral after giving a speech calling on legislators to do better. A CNN-hosted town hall last night kept the conversation going. And even though it wasn’t much, President Donald Trump began to push this week for some modest gun regulations, including a proposed ban on bump stocks — an attachment that allows semi-automatic guns to fire like automatic ones.

It’s easy to get discouraged in the face of overwhelming government inaction in addressing America’s gun violence problem. This is especially true when politicians like Sen. Marco Rubio, R-

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Fla., advance absurd arguments against gun control measures that amount to giving up on passing any laws at all because some people will still break them.

While the progress made so far is sorely inadequate, keeping the pressure up is essential — and protests like yesterday’s walkouts are a big part of that.

Of course, one of the main strengths of the student protests is the moral position of the people protesting. The students in Florida have the distinction, for better or worse, of having gone through a tragedy of almost unprecedented proportions. Their voices speak from a place of direct experience and come with a kind of authority that’s not easily to resist.

Yet some, including Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, have taken issue with the very authenticity that makes recent demonstrations so powerful. Metcalfe, a Republican who represents the area around Cranberry Township to the north of Pittsburgh, insinuated in a Facebook post yesterday that the students demonstrating outside Florida’s legislature were actors.

“The hypocrisy of the left struck me,” Metcalfe wrote. “They expect lawmakers to listen to the policy advice of 18 year old and younger ‘students’ who are advocating for gun control.”

It’s telling that a Republican in elected office — even one with an awful history like Metcalfe — would resort to a style of argument pioneered by conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones in order to try to discredit Wednesday’s protests. If opponents of gun control can’t muster anything better, this could be an opening for real progress toward more sensible gun policy in America.

Participants in the 2018 Women’s March hold up signs supporting Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s 18th district.

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Jeremy Wang Columnist Southwestern Pennsylvania loves its guns. And for many Democrats outside Pittsburgh’s City limits, that part of the region’s culture has become a stumbling block to winning public office.

Throughout his campaign, Conor Lamb — the Democratic candidate for March’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district — has maintained a trend of vagueness on gun policy. Lamb occupies a rare position in which he can help shift the national debate on gun violence in a positive direction, but he has so far seemed unwilling to do so.

In an interview with the New York Post after securing the Democrats’ nomination in December, Lamb said he’s “pro-Second Amendment,” but added that we “need to have the conversation” about gun regulation — a statement that’s essentially meaningless

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in signaling gun policies he might support.

His first TV ad, released last month, showed him shooting an AR-15 at an outdoor range with the narrator saying Lamb, a military veteran, “still loves to shoot” — an equally empty statement.

In the aftermath of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Lamb claimed that new gun laws are not the answer to mass shootings. But he declined to provide specific solutions, scoring a hat trick in disappointing ambiguities.

“What I think it’s going to take is people in Congress who are willing to do more than just talk, who are willing to actually work together and stay late, if it requires that,” Lamb said at a campaign event in Carnegie last Friday. “Do some things that would really produce change.”

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Wang, pg. 4 to talk about guns but never actually initiating that conversation. His opposition to bans on high-capacity magazines or assault weapons doesn’t add anything to the debate if he doesn’t bring up evidence supporting his position or volunteer effective alternatives.

It wouldn’t be hard for Lamb to find that evidence. A 2004 evaluation from the Justice Department looking at the decade-long federal assault weapons ban concluded that “should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.” A 2016 Utah State University study on federal and state assault weapon bans found that these laws are not linked to reduced likelihood of the use of assault weapons in mass shootings. The best ballpark estimate on a sustained long-term high capacity magazine ban put the optimistic reduction on gun violence at just 1 percent — a disproportionately low return on the immense political cost required to pass such a regulation.

Lamb, a competitive Democratic candidate running with the nation’s eyes on him in a strongly red district, has an opportunity to break out of the tired script on gun control that establishment Democrats and Republicans have followed for nearly 30 years.

He clearly understands the need to play a balancing act to avoid the ire of gun owners, but he can still champion policies that wouldn’t jeopardize his candidacy while delivering effective solutions to gun violence.

He could easily talk about suicide prevention initiatives that partner public health officials with gun rights advocates, working to reduce the stigma for at-risk gun owners to reach out for help. Suicides comprise two-thirds of the roughly 30,000 firearm deaths in America, and existing research already suggests that this approach is more receptive and effective than standard public health messages in encouraging suicidal gun owners to seek help.

Laws disarming individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders are linked with 22 percent reductions in firearm intimate partner homicides. If Lamb wants to address domestic violence, he should follow the lead of lawmakers in South Carolina, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, Oregon and Washington state who have worked with gun rights advocates to

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curtail the gun rights of domestic abusers.

Gun violence restraining orders can also be issued against individuals suspected of planning mass shootings by allowing law enforcement to temporarily disarm violent individuals after a court hearing, preserving due process while promoting public safety.

The intense focus on mental health in the aftermath of shootings misses the point — existing research consistently notes that signs of diagnosable acute mental illnesses are absent across the majority of perpetrators. Instead, these are overwhelmingly angry and disturbed young men who desire fame and hint at their intentions beforehand.

Gun violence restraining orders can grant family and friends the tools they need to prevent a tragedy in the critical period when a potential shooter signals their plans.

Most recently, conservatives and gun rights advocates, including veteran and National Review writer David French, have championed GVROs as a worthwhile policy to pursue.

Firearm homicides clustered in urban minority communities exponentially dwarf the death toll from mass shootings but rarely receive the kind of national attention they deserve, revealing a troubling racial disparity in reporting on gun violence. If Lamb wanted to tackle the bulk of firearm homicides, he could promote focused deterrence strategies — an approach that has earned the rare “effective” rating by the National Institute of Justice.

These data-driven strategies directly address the social contexts behind violent crime while implementing the latest in criminology research, which confirms that a small and predictable network of frequent repeat offenders commits the overwhelming majority of gun crime. By approaching these networks directly and giving them options outside of incarceration, American communities have a better shot at reducing the toll of gun violence.

Effective gun violence prevention strategies don’t always require controversial gun restrictions, and the gun laws aimed at domestic violence hold promise for Lamb to work with his Republican colleagues to reduce violence. If Lamb thinks the solution to gun violence can be reached by “people in Congress who are willing to do more than just talk,” he can start by talking about it himself.

Jeremy primarily writes on gun policy and violent crime for The Pitt News. Write to Jeremy at jiw115@pitt.edu.

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Culture

HOMELESS IDENTITIES ON DISPLAY AT 'WALK ON BY' EXHIBIT

Renee Rosensteel’s photos of homeless people are part of the “Walk on By” exhibit currently being shown in the Falk Library.

Courtesy of Jennifer Saffron “It’s an exchange and an assertion that in curating the traveling exhibit is to inspire from that day would become part of the art Shahum Ajmal though someone may be experiencing people to reach out to homeless individuals exhibit titled “Walk On By” — currently Staff Writer on display second floor of Pitt’s Scaife Hall with a simple greeting, forging a path for poverty, they still have agency and selfRenee Rosensteel passed the same determination,” Saffron said. “The portraits through the end of February. Sponsored by activism through simple connection. homeless man in downtown Pittsburgh “The message they are hoping to convey reflect this. The subjects in the photographs Northside Common Ministries, the exhibit multiple times before she could no longer contains mixed media works that aim to tell is that through interaction with our broth- are looking right at the viewer, and many of avoid his attention-seeking gestures and dethe individual stories of homeless people in ers and sisters experiencing homelessness, them are laughing and smiling.” cided to stop and introduce herself.

Each of Saffron’s portraits is named after we can open a wider dialogue which hopethe area.

“I knew he was part of the scene down The exhibit is portrayed on two walls fully will lead to real concrete efforts to its subject, emphasizing the importance of there,” Rosensteel said. “I was tired. I’d just on the second floor of Falk Library in the end homelessness in our area,” Poliziani, a a homeless individual’s identity — a detail had enough, and I was just being human at often ignored by passersby. shape of an “L,” showcasing posters, pic- 57-year-old Greenfield resident, that point.”

“These are not anonymous folks. They said. tures, videos, illustrations and comics. The The homeless man gestured to his knee Jen Saffron, a local photographer and are people with stories and ideas of their 11 participating artists examined and docu— a butterfly had landed there. He wanted mented the everyday lives of homeless peo- former adjunct professor in film studies own, despite their current situations,” Safher to take a photo, noticing her camera ple to create their work — focusing on the and English at Pitt, has been with working fron said. equipment.

Working in the documentary format, on the exhibit since its conception, utilizlack of visibility many of them face.

Rosensteel said she felt guilty when she Rosensteel said she’s aware that when ing her background as founding director of Saffron said she attempts to bring social told the homeless man she had nothing to approaching strangers, safety is something the Pitt Arts program and director of com- justice issues to the forefront of her work, give him — not even a dime. To her surto keep in mind. The risks she is willing to munications for the Greater Pittsburgh Arts often setting them in the context of the prise, the man then reached out and handed community by displaying them in public take and the situations she perceives as dan- Council. her a dime instead, which she accepted and The 48-year-old Northside resident set spaces, such as libraries. This allows her art gerous may be different from someone else, thanked him for. but it is important to be open to the con- up a portrait studio in a conference room at to be seen and discussed by fellow artists, “That dime is my humility. We all see NSCM, where she shot 12 black-and-white community leaders, students and educators nection regardless. the same kinds of things, we have different “Stretch your comfort zone a little bit,” portraits of people in the shelter — now dis- who may confront critical issues like homeneeds, we have different times that we feel lessness. she said. “It’s okay to sort of follow your in- played in the exhibit. broken and are able to uplift each other at “The whole purpose of the exhibition Saffron said she and the participants first stincts on things, because things get comdifferent times,” Rosensteel said. “But we sat down so they could tell her their stories is to raise awareness about the human plicated out there.” are all one family and one humanity.”

Jay Poliziani, the director of NSCM and of what brought them to this moment and Rosensteel’s photograph of the butterfly See Walk on By on page 7 co-curator of the exhibit, said his purpose share their goals and ideas for the future.

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Walk on By, pg. 6 condition, so bringing it into an environment with so much humanity — the public library — is perfect,” Saffron said.

The idea to have the exhibit travel through local libraries came from Polizini, who said the educational setting would promote the type of discussion they intended to create.

As co-curator, Polanzi was also responsible for reaching out to willing artists who had previously been employees and volunteers for NSCM or other homeless shelters in Pittsburgh.

Poliziani said the artists were excited to share their work from the moment the exhibit was in its beginning stages. “Walk On By” has been traveling through multiple local libraries since Spring 2017, beginning at the Future Tenant Gallery Downtown.

“Like any other segment of the population, individuals experiencing homelessness have a wide variety of life stories resulting in a wide variety of wants and needs,” Poliziani said. “The one thing they all share is the same as the one thing we each share — the desire to be acknowledged and respected.”

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Tyler the Creator concert review at pittnews.com

Tyler, the Creator performs “Foreword” off his most recent album “Flower Boy” Tuesday night at Stage AE. Elise Lavallee | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

“Tyler, the Creator — leading member of hip-hop collective Odd Future — brought his trademark irreverent humor and love for his fans to Stage AE in Pittsburgh Tuesday night.”

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Sports Demon Deacons dunk on Pitt, 63-57 Trent Leonard Staff Writer In a game where neither team led by more than seven points, the Pitt men’s basketball team battled fellow ACC bottom-dweller Wake Forest Wednesday but couldn’t convert enough opportunities down the stretch and suffered its 16th straight loss, 63-57.

A home game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (11-17 overall, 4-12 ACC) seemed to be the Panthers’ (8-21 overall, 0-16 ACC) best opportunity left in the season to get a victory. But Pitt continued its poor shooting, making just 37 percent of its field goals and routinely experienced long lapses between baskets.

“I thought the difference in the game was they played like they had some expe-

rience,” head coach Kevin Stallings said.

“We didn’t play with enough discipline to win this game.”

Both teams struggled to make baskets in the game’s opening minutes. Pitt led 14-10 after 10 minutes of action, thanks in large part to Wake Forest shooting 5-for-17 from the field over that span.

The Panthers found themselves in a rut with three minutes left in the half after their opponent mounted a 6-0 run and took a 25-20 lead. But 3-pointers from junior forward Jared Wilson-Frame and first-year guard Parker Stewart on consecutive possessions put an end to the scoring drought and gave Pitt a 2827 lead at halftime.

The first-half scoring effort for the Panthers was a balanced one — Stewart

led the team in points with six at the break, while Wilson-Frame and firstyear guard Marcus Carr chipped in five each. No player on either team recorded double-digit points — Wake Forest’s 7-foot-1-inch junior Doral Moore came closest with nine.

The Panthers started the second half with a disastrous five-minute scoring drought while their opponent scored seven points to take a 34-28 lead. Firstyear forward Shamiel Stevenson finally got Pitt back on track with a 3-pointer, and redshirt senior guard Jonathan Milligan followed suit with a three of his own on the ensuing possession to tie the game at 34.

The two teams traded baskets over the next few possessions with Stewart

cutting Pitt’s deficit to two points, 44-42, on a 3-pointer with eight minutes left in the game.

The Panthers once again hit a wall on offense, making just one of their next 10 field goals and trailing 51-44 with 3:43 remaining.

But Pitt kept the game within reach, and the Panthers once again knocked down timely 3-pointers — this time from Wilson-Frame and first-year center Terrell Brown — which cut the deficit back down to just three points, 57-54, with one minute left to play.

Wake Forest knocked down their free throws when Pitt began to foul, giving them a 61-57 lead with 15 seconds left — the Panthers absolutely needed a basket See Basketball on page 9

Take Five

Mets, mock drafts, Mark Cuban The Pitt News Staff With the NBA and NHL seasons passing their midway point and the MLB season on the brink, there are plenty of stories to sift through for fans of all interests. The Pitt News sports staff is here to round up the best ones of the week.

Put Me in Coach Tim Tebow is a former professional quarterback with the Denver Broncos and a Heisman and National Championship winner at Florida. But more recently, he’s been trying to hack it as a baseball player.

Tebow signed with the New York Mets organization on a minor league contract in September 2016 and played in the Arizona Fall League. He played 126 games and only accumulated 97 hits with a .226 average and 126 strikeouts at the single-A level last season.

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Sandy Alderson, general manager for the Mets, said recently that Tebow will play in the majors at some point, in what seems like nothing more than a way to use Tebow as a pawn to make money. Tebow hasn’t shown anything that would translate into major league success and, at 30 years old, there isn’t much time left for him to improve to be a decent MLB player.

This isn’t Tebow bashing, but a criticism of the Mets organization for being more focused on a celebrity player than it is at actually trying to put together a winning team.

Maybe Tebow does become a great baseball player, but as of right now, no one should consider him major league talent whatsoever.

— Dom Campbell, Staff Writer Missed the Mark Sports Illustrated released an article Tuesday highlighting allegations of sexual misconduct in the Dallas Mavericks orga-

nization. The article detailed obscene behaviors from employees at all levels of the organization, with the accusations against former CEO Terdema Ussery being among the worst.

Ussery engaged in behaviors that made other coworkers feel unsafe, SI reported. Employees — both male and female — cited the culture of the office as their reason for departure. Complaints were filed to head of human resources Buddy Pittman, who was also accused of engaging in behaviors of a similar nature.

The misbehavior SI reported was clearly shocking, lewd and appalling. But the part of it that is really eye-opening was Mark Cuban’s response. Cuban is one of the most involved owners in the NBA, yet he claims to be oblivious to the misbehavior that took place. How could he have known so little about what was going on in his franchise? —

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Stephen Cuddy, Staff Writer Brown and Out With the NFL combine taking place next week, new mock drafts and scouting reports are coming out daily. Recently, ESPN’s Mel Kiper came out with his official Mock Draft 2.0. His mock draft had the Browns taking Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen No. 1 overall and then Alabama defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick with the No. 4 pick.

Let’s hope the Browns don’t believe in all the hype around Josh Allen like Kiper does. Allen is a tall quarterback from a small school that didn’t have much competition — and when he played against good teams, he did not play well. But, he can throw a ball very far and accurately from his knees!

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Basketball, pg. 8 to keep the game alive.

Wilson-Frame received an inbound pass and beat the opposing defense down the court for what should have been an easy basket. But instead of laying it in, Wilson-Frame went for a dunk — and missed.

The ball rattled out, sucking the air right out of the Petersen Events Center crowd as the fans promptly began to exit the stadium.

Wake Forest knocked down its last two free throws leading to a final score of 63-57.

Wilson-Frame and Carr finished as Pitt’s leading scorers with 11 points each, shooting a combined 8-for-23 from the field.

The path to an ACC victory will become more difficult in the men’s team’s next game — a home matchup against No. 1 Virginia Saturday at 4 p.m.

“I want the young guys to continue to grow and learn,” Milligan said of Pitt’s opportunity to pull off an upset Saturday.

“And if we get a win out of that, that’ll be a blessing.”

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Take Five, pg. 8 in the 40-yard dash, bench press and other drills. The combine can boost or hurt a player’s stock greatly. If Allen performs well, the Browns may be enticed to take him, which may not be in their best interest.

— Colin Martin, Staff Writer Sooners or Later If you spend any amount of time watching college basketball on ESPN, you wouldn’t know it, but the Oklahoma Sooners are struggling. Losers of six straight and eight of their last ten, Oklahoma is a team in a spiral. But first-year guard Trae Young and his game-breaking shooting — vaguely reminiscent of Steph Curry — is the key to ESPN’s cold, ratings-hungry heart.

The network’s insistence on highlighting a team that’s barely tournament-worthy serves Young no favors and makes him the villain in many eyes. It’s manipulative — and ESPN does receive a fair share of blame for it.

Yet, it’s probably the best thing that’s Jared Wilson-Frame (0), junior guard happened to college basketball this year. In and forward, missed a dunk with 10 a season bereft of stars and the traditional seconds left in Pitt’s loss to Wake For- blue-blood dominance, the watchful eyes — est Wednesday night. spiteful or not — are eyes nonetheless.

Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR — Brandon Glass, Staff Writer

February 22, 2018

Rough Draft The NBA held its annual All-Star game in Los Angeles Sunday. For the first time in the league’s history, the game was not between the eastern and western conference AllStars, but instead between two teams drafted by the leading All-Star vote-getters — Cleveland’s Lebron James and Golden State’s Stephen Curry.

The new format proved successful as Sunday’s contest was one of the most competitive All-Star games in recent memory.

The only way the game would’ve been better is if fans could have actually seen the two teams get drafted. The actual player selections weren’t televised, robbing fans of the opportunity to see a pickup game in its truest sense among the world’s best players. A televised draft also gives fans the opportunity to see who would be picked last and undoubtedly feel the need to prove themself in the following game.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said after the game that next year’s All-Star draft is likely to be televised. That’s great, because if there is one thing NBA fans love more than competitive basketball, it’s petty drama between the world’s best players.

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