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BONNER DISCUSSES GREEK LIFE CHANGES John Hamilton Managing Editor

conduct allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, but Burke began using the term in 2006.

“Standing up for something I knew was wrong solidified my understanding for these issues of sexual assault,” Burke said.

Attorney Jennifer Price started the evening by introducing Burke’s background and the development of the #MeToo movement. Price also mentioned the importance of bringing more awareness to the issue of sexual assault, especially

Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner said Tuesday that he will lift the Greek life social probation after what he considers “meaningful progress” is made in improving the safety of fraternities and sororities at Pitt.

In an interview with The Pitt News, Bonner discussed the response to a Jan. 18 offcampus recruitment event held by Sigma Chi that led to a student being hospitalized for excessive drinking. The incident led Bonner to place Sigma Chi on interim suspension and all of Greek life on modified social probation, banning them from serving alcohol at events.

Bonner wrote a letter to the Pitt community last week saying Pitt police found no evidence of criminal hazing and police are not pressing charges. But Tuesday he said Sigma Chi and the fraternity’s members will still go through Pitt’s conduct process. City police are also actively investigating the incident.

“Under our Student Code of Conduct process, there are a host of other policy violations that could be applied to this situation, including hazing,” he said. “I’m not going to speculate at this point as to what the conduct process will do, that’s what the conduct office is for.”

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Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, discusses female empowerment and preventing sexual harassment at Calvary Episcopal Church Tuesday night. Christian Snyder MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

#MeToo founder advocates for community change Briana Canady

“The solution is listening to the people who’ve had experience, not making more hashtags,” Tarana Burke remembers the first day she Burke said.

Burke, a civil rights activist and community saw “Me Too” used on Twitter — Oct. 15, 2017, when actress Alyssa Milano used the phrase in organizer, stopped by Pittsburgh Tuesday night response to the sexual assault allegations against while traveling around the country to speak about what the movement means to her. producer Harvey Weinstein.

At the event hosted by PublicSource, about Burke, who is known as the first person to use the now-popular phrase, is a supporter of 1,000 people gathered in the Calvary Episcopal the #MeToo movement on social media, but she Church on Shady Avenue to listen to Burke disdoesn’t want people to see the viral slogan as a so- cuss how the movement came about and how it has affected other people. The #MeToo movelution to the problem. ment spread on social media after sexual misFor The Pitt News

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SGB updates on provost search Madeline Gavatorta Staff Writer At Student Government Board’s weekly meeting Tuesday, Senior Vice Chancellor of Research Rob Rutenbar said the provost search committee involves no smoke or bunkers.

“The search committee I am chairing is not decisional. And what that means is that we don’t all go retreat to the Cathedral, go in the bunker, go in the basement, burn white or black smoke and then come out and anoint the Provost,” Rutenbar said. “We work to get the pool down to something manageable so that [Chancellor Patrick Gallagher] can make the call.”

Provost Patricia Beeson announced her decision step down in November, leaving a vacancy Pitt must fill for the upcoming academic year.

Rutenbar said the committee will evaluate and interview a pool of 20-50 applicants and recruits in the coming months to find the next provost by June. He also attended to hear what SGB and the meeting’s attendees wanted to see in the next provost.

Board member Alex Spenceley said the next provost should be aware that Pitt has diversity and inclusion issues. He went on to say Pitt does not have a diverse student population and that there needs to be increased awareness of the different backgrounds and pronouns students use.

“I believe if you have a deeper understand-

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ing ... what influences could have played a part in their life that might not have played a part in yours, that’s going to definitely play a positive role in your life,” Spenceley said.

After Rutenbar spoke, SGB passed a resolution regarding the Pitt Titusville campus, written

by SGB President Max Kneis and Academic Affairs Chair Joshua Hanley. Pitt’s Board of Trustees publicly proposed two main options Jan. 29 for the financially struggling branch campus — closure or repurpose.

Closure would allow all current students to finish out their degrees and then the campus would close. Repurpose — which SGB is in favor of — would renovate the campus into an education and training hub, which would be owned by a third-party and include Pitt, a community college, a career center and other educational institutions as tenants.

“I think this is a more interesting and exciting option. It allows Pitt to really be an innovator in a field I don’t think many universities are at when it comes to providing associate degrees or job training,” Kneis said. “I think a lot of people would agree, and I certainly agree, that a four-year degree is not for everyone and it’s not the type of education everyone needs.”

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“On stage, she provides words of empowerment that lift up more voices and enable survivors of all races, genders and classes to know that they are not alone, and to offer a place of comfort and healing for those who have experienced trauma,” Price said.

Burke walked on stage minutes later to begin her speech on her life story and her purpose for starting the movement. She started by talking about her first experience meeting someone who was a victim of sexual assault.

At a youth camp Burke worked at in the summer of 1997, she met a young girl whom she calls Heaven who told Burke she was sexually assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend. Burke, a survivor of sexual violence herself, said she couldn’t bear the personal pain of consoling this girl, in whom Burke saw a lot of herself.

This incident, as well as others, led her to find Just Be Inc. — an organization that supports the health and wellness for young female minorities. On the organization’s website, she says she still thinks of the way she redirected Heaven to another counselor rather than simply saying “me too.”

“The reason why I’m traveling around the country and having these conversations is because I think that people have read so many things on social media, but very rarely do we get to hear from the person directly what their story is and what this work is about,” Burke said.

Throughout her speech, Burke focused on how community organizing can help curb sexual assault and violence. She said she realized there

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was community organizing around “every other issue,” but not sexual violence.

“This is a community, Pittsburgh,” Burke said. “You deserve to be protected. Policies protect people, that is how you heal a community.”

Members of the audience then had the opportunity to ask Burke questions after her speech.

One audience member asked how to keep the conversation going on the issue of sexual assault.

Burke said to “not be afraid to speak up.”

“We can’t be guided and validated by the media because we are in a time where we can create our own media,” she said. “So we need to make use of that to better our communities.”

Andrea O’Leary, 29, from Upper St. Clair, attended the night’s event and said she felt comforted by Burke’s speech.

“It’s nice to feel like it’s not a ‘my issue,’ it’s an everybody issue,” O’Leary said.

Some attendees, such as second-year medical student Jymirah Morris, wanted to take the opportunity to hear from the woman who created the #MeToo movement. For Revathy Pillai, a sophomore neuroscience and anthropology major, the night was about inspiring change.

“People who are very closed-minded can change and gain that capacity to hear everyone’s stories and make a difference that needs to be made,” Pillai said.

Moving forward, Burke sees college campuses across the country as the place where change can continue to happen.

“There are all these young people who are really active and can use this moment to get more active on their campus,” Burke said. “So that’s what I’ve been seeing — a lot of activity in that college-age group that just really makes me hopeful.”

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Wolf’s budget is progressive, but needs Democratic congress to pass Gov. Tom Wolf unveiled the fourth yearly budget of his term Tuesday — and unlike his previous three, we might actually see it fully passed before the end of the year thanks to the 2018 midterm elections.

The 2018-19 budget is notably progressive — Wolf is calling to raise both funding for public schools and the minimum wage. But until November midterm election results introduce the possibility of a more Democratic Congress, some of his propositions seem unlikely to pass in the currently Republican-run legislature.

Not all of Wolf’s budget is doomed to face a gridlock in a GOP-heavy Congress, though — his proposal to increase funding for job training should receive bipartisan support. But other budget components are likely to meet more difficulty.

It’s no secret that Wolf’s calls for a higher minimum wage and a natural gas tax are largely Democratic goals, so it appears that, at least until midterm elections, this year’s budget will see some major changes to pass through the state legislature.

Wolf proposes to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $12 — a move that, according to his administration, would save the state upwards of $100 million in social and human services costs. That money could be put to use in other areas like education, which is exactly what Wolf appears to be planning.

He’s proposing an increased $100 million in public school funding, but just $15 million for state-owned universities — hardly enough to alleviate students from the crippling debt that comes with earning a college degree.

And for Pitt and other state-related schools, don’t hold your breath for increased funding any time soon. Wolf has once again flat-funded state-related universities, which means Pitt funding will rest at its current $144.2 million.

Even if Wolf’s higher education funding

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falls short, he’s still avoided a major controversy that’s plagued his previous budgets — personal income tax increases.

Wolf’s possibly appealing to the election year by avoiding a personal income tax hike, and is instead shifting tax increases over to natural gas drilling, another hallmark Democratic proposition.

But Republicans shouldn’t be so quick to deny the gas tax. It’d raise an estimated $250 million, according to the Wolf administration, and make good use of Pennsylvania’s ample supply of natural gases.

Living in Allegheny County, home to only 63 natural gas wells, it can be easy to minimize the role natural gas drilling has on the community and commonwealth. But simply looking at a map of wells in Pennsylvania shows how integral this natural gas is to the state’s livelihood and ability to employ Pennsylvanians.

In places like Bradford County, boasting just over 1,000 wells, drilling is crucial to their economic climate. It just makes sense to tax the natural gas industry over hiking personal income taxes, and Wolf recognizes that.

Although Wolf ’s history with his previous three budgets is an exhausting tale of legislative deadlock and indecision, this year’s budget could have a different ending — even if it doesn’t come by the July 1 deadline.

This November’s midterm elections could usher in a new Democratic influence in Congress — the kind of influence needed to fully pass a budget like Wolf’s.

Eighty-eight percent of readers surveyed in a Post-Gazette survey say Wolf’s budget will not get passed as is — and they’re probably right. But if Democrats mobilize and vote in November’s election, where every seat in the House of Representatives and half the Senate seats are up for grabs, a budget like this may be the Commonwealth’s reality in 2019.

OPIOID MEMORIAL ETCHES ABUSE INTO PUBLIC EYE Charlotte Couch For The Pitt News At “Prescribed to Death,” an opioid memorial in the William Pitt Union, a steady flow of people moved through the room in a respectful silence. People saw a large, black wall dotted with small white pills, and a screen with a number in the thousands growing higher by the second.

The memorial made it clear that both patients and physicians are responsible for starting, and now ending, the opioid epidemic.

Everyone involved in the epidemic shoulders part of the blame, and it’s now both parties’ duty to keep the numbers on the screen from growing.

Further inside, more aspects of the memorial came into focus — the number on the screen represented each person who had died from opioid abuse, and each small white dot on the wall bore an engraving of the face of someone ravaged by opioid addiction, a permanent rendering of a personal memory.

Visitors to the memorial received a “warn me” label to apply to their insurance cards, alerting physicians to tell them if they prescribe them opioids and inform the of what non-addictive alternatives are available. According to a National Safety Council poll, 99 percent of physicians prescribe opioids for a longer period of time than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends — and most of them aren’t even aware of alternate options for treating acute pain.

Looking more closely at the main feature of the memorial, wall displaying 22,000 white pills, it was easy to distinguish the faces on each pill. One showed the smooth, feminine features of a young woman. Another sketched the receding hairline of an older man.

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This wall is a stark reminder that real people become victims of an awful disease, immortalizing the faces of those behind the number — 22,000, the estimated number of people who died in the opioid crisis last year.

On a TV screen attached nearby, visitors could watch a demonstration of the machine as it carves a new face every 24 minutes — symbolizing how often Americans die from opioid overdose.

Yet doctors continue to prescribe medication that has consistently proven to be both highly addictive and a gateway to lethal drugs like heroin. Not only that, but it’s problematic for patients to be unaware of the addictive and lethal effects of their medications.

Legislators in Maine proposed a bill last year requiring doctors to inform patients of opioids’ addictiveness when they are prescribed, and here in Pittsburgh, nurse practitioner Melissa Jones devotes her days to informing doctors of opioid prescriptions’ riskiness.

“It was in doctors’ offices where the epidemic began,” The Associated Press wrote in an article about Jones’ work, “and it’s in doctors’ offices where it must be fought.”

It’s this kind of action that will begin to make real change in the opioid crisis.

The medical advisor of the National Safety Council, the nonprofit public service organization which created the memorial, recognized the tragic consequences of opioid use.

“Opioids do not kill pain. They kill people,” Dr. Donald Teater, NSC’s medical advisor, said. “Doctors are well-intentioned ... [but] we need more education and training if we want to treat pain most effectively.”

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Doctors and public health experts should encourage patients to educate themselves on whether certain pain medications are highly addictive. This knowledge will then empower people to advocate for pain management plans that don’t require opioids.

Continuing through the memorial, sobering messages were written across the walls reminding visitors how easy it is to become addicted to opioids. Prescription bottles sat inside glass medical cabinets attached to the memorial’s walls.

“Unfortunately, 33% of painkiller users don’t know they’re taking opioids,” one cabinet read. Another says they aren’t any more effective than over-thecounter medications for acute pain relief.

This was all news to me — and as I continued to walk through the memorial, I realized how ignorant I was regarding the whole situation.

It is clear that more conversations, such as the one the memorial has successfully started on campus, must occur

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The Prescribed to Death memorial displays tablets with faces engraved on their surfaces representing victims of opioid overdose.

John Hamilton MANAGING EDITOR across the country. I’m sure I’m not the only one who walked into the memorial uninformed about the reality of the opioid epidemic — being unaware of the facts will only perpetuate the criminalization and misunderstanding of addicts.

Perhaps one of the most alarming elements of the opioid epidemic is that

you can become addicted to opioids after simply seeking treatment for knee pain. Your physician, the one who is supposed to heal you, ends up implicit in the beginning of your addiction.

Of course, most physicians aren’t out to sabotage their patients. But more medical schools need to address proper

pain management and addiction prevention. In fact, the White House asked medical schools to pledge to expand their educational programs on opioid prescription according to CDC guidelines back in 2016.

For physicians already in the field, Dr. Theodore Parran has been teaching a remedial course for those who have been identified as overprescribers by licensing boards. While these are good first steps, the rest of the country must follow suit.

Patients need to understand how opioids affect the body as well as the risk of addiction in order to alert their physicians if they fear they’re becoming addicted. There are resources available for them to do so, like the CDC opioid fact sheet for patients which informs them of the risk and side effects of opioid use, as well as what one should do if they are prescribed opioids.

This, in turn, will help nurture a healthier and more trusting patientphysician relationship — rendering education as a driving force for change.

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QBs don’t need to be elite Colin Martin Staff Writer Baltimore Ravens long-snapper Morgan Cox ordered a bundle of 15 shirts for Ravens players to wear in August of 2016. On each shirt was the face of their quarterback, Joe Flacco, and a single word — “elite.”

The shirts were a half-serious answer to the ongoing question of whether Flacco is an elite quarterback. That question became a popular topic of debate when Flacco, who was previously fairly average throughout his career, led the Ravens to a Super Bowl title in 2013.

It’s a question that has been asked of quarterbacks before Flacco. It’s become ritual for sports talk shows to debate if a quarterback has reached the vaunted elite status immediately after winning a Super Bowl, as if that’s the only way a quarterback could hope to win one.

The Philadelphia Eagles’ 41-33 victory over the New England Patriots in the 2018 Super Bowl last Sunday stands as proof this isn’t the case.

The Eagles won because of Nick Foles’ stellar playing. The 29-year-old journeyman quarterback took over the starting job from NFL MVP candidate Carson Wentz in December after Wentz went down with a torn ACL. Foles was great for the Eagles, winning the Super Bowl MVP after throwing for 373 yards and scoring four total touchdowns in the game. This doesn’t make Foles elite — he just had a great playoff run.

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PANTHER SPOTLIGHT Jon Shaiken

much of the first half, he was Pitt’s only source of offense, scoring 13 out of the There have been a number of standout team’s 20 first-half points.

Wilson-Frame will try to lead Pitt to seasons for winter sports at Pitt — for betits first conference victory this season as ter and for worse.

For the track, field and women’s ten- they travel to South Carolina to play No. nis teams, sustained individual success has 16 Clemson, Thursday at 7 p.m.

Nick Wolk Sophomore distance runner Nick Wolk once again proved his value to the Pitt track and field team last Saturday. He bested a 27-year-old program record in the men’s 3000m with a 8:07.09 time at the Meyo Invitational at Notre Dame. His time shattered the previous mark—set by Keith Dowling in 1991—by more than two secThomas Yang onds.

VISUAL EDITOR Wolk, who hails from McMurray, has been a star for the Panthers in both track and field and cross country this year, post-

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winter season. Wolk and the Pitt track and field team now look ahead to the Kent State Qualifier this upcoming weekend. It will be Pitt’s final meet before the ACC Indoor Championships.

Callie Frey The Pitt women’s tennis team is per-

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been the story of their strong seasons. As for the struggling men’s basketball team, a junior college transfer has been one of the few positives in a lost season.

Jared Wilson-Frame The Pitt men’s basketball team is having a disappointing season, but if there has been one bright spot for the team, it has been junior guard/forward Jared WilsonFrame.

The junior transfer, who spent his first two years of college at Northwest Florida State College, has made a big impact over the last few games. In his last four, he averaged 18 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.

In the Panthers’ close loss against Syracuse on Jan. 27, the Hartford, Connecticut, native had a double-double with 22 points and 13 rebounds as well as three steals. For

forming well in the early stages of its season with a record of 3-1. Part of its success is due to senior Callie Frey, who improved to 4-0 with a win in straight sets over her opponent during Pitt’s loss against VCU this past Saturday at home.

Frey has also starred in doubles play.

She and her partner, first-year Camila Moreno, hold a perfect record at 3-0 in doubles matches. They defeated Bowling Green 5-2 Friday to earn their third win.

Their match against VCU was left unfinished with the set tied 5-5, robbing them of a chance at 4-0.

The Panthers and Frey have a busy weekend ahead of them, as they are set to host Eastern Michigan Saturday at 2 p.m. before their ACC home opener against Louisville Sunday at 2 p.m.

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NICK WOLK ing Pitt’s best time at the ACC Cross Country Championships 8K in the fall. He also helped the team to 10th place at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional in November — its best finish in over a decade.

His success has carried over into the

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QB, pg. 5 The list of non-elite quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl is long. Here is a list of some Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks who started the big game: Jeff Hostetler, Mark Rypien, Trent Dilfer, Brad Johnson and, after beating the New England Patriots Sunday, Foles.

A majority of those guys could walk down Forbes Avenue and no one would recognize them at all, yet they’re all Super Bowl champions.

Being an elite quarterback and winning a Super Bowl are not correlated. Teams have won with elite quarterbacks and with quarterbacks who just played well when it mattered.

Of course it helps to have an elite quarterback running the show for your team, but it isn’t necessary. Foles may have led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl victory, but not because he is better than Tom Brady — Foles’ team simply played better on Sunday.

The Eagles were led by great coaching and a great defense that ranked fourth in total defense — a stat that measures the average yards per game a defense gives up — in the regular season.

Foles played great in the playoffs, leading a Philadelphia offense that put up 38 points in the NFC title game and 41 points in the Super Bowl.

He got hot at the right time. Perhaps that’s what it takes to win a Super Bowl — not an elite quar-

Bonner, pg. 1 For now, Bonner said, members of Sigma Chi are still permitted to live in their upper campus house, but the status of the house could change depending on sanctions.

Bonner and Summer Rothrock — the director of the Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development — spent much of the interview discussing the culture of Greek life at Pitt, and the progress they want to see students make to improve it.

But Bonner gave few details on what would constitute “meaningful progress” to lift the probation.

“The extent to which the students can pull together and talk about what they need to do to move forward, and to become a better community, stronger community, healthier community,” he said, “to the extent that they can get that done ... the modified social probation will be lifted.”

Bonner said he tasked student leaders in the Greek community — from Pitt’s Collegiate Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity

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terback, just one who plays well enough when it matters. Even still, it isn’t just the quarterback’s job to win the Super Bowl.

Philadelphia’s defense came up big, forcing Brady to fumble and subsequently lose the game.

It was head coach Doug Pederson who changed the playbook to make it more simple and comfortable for Foles to succeed after Wentz went down.

Both the 2000 Baltimore Ravens and 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers were in similar positions when they won their Super Bowls. Baltimore relied on Dilfer in the 2001 Super Bowl along with their top-ranked defense.

The Buccaneers won the 2003 Super Bowl with the top-ranked defense and Brad Johnson as the starting quarterback. Who’s that again? A quarterback who has been sacked 251 times — nearly a hundred more times than the 165 career touchdown passes he threw.

The Ravens won another Super Bowl with Flacco when they had just 12th ranked total defense during the 2012 season. In the case of that Ravens team, it was a great month of playoff football from Flacco — similar to the one that Foles just had — that fueled their Super Bowl run.

Not every Super Bowl winning team has to have an “elite” quarterback. The Super Bowl is won by the best team. Sometimes that team is led by an elite quarterback, but sometimes it’s led by a great defense or a quarterback who was just Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council — to come up with both a short- and long-term plan to ensure student safety and change the overall culture. After Bonner met with students Friday, he said they agreed there was more work to do, but he was encouraged with the start.

“The short term is really about what we can do in the immediate future to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. And reduce risk, which is something we’ve always been concerned with,” he said.

He said he had a productive discussion with the three student presidents Friday about “strategies, policies, procedures and practices” to consider for the short-term plan, borrowing some ideas from other universities. Rothrock added that one idea they discussed was “pre-education sessions,” where students who are rushing a fraternity or sorority must attend a session prior to receiving a bid. She also said they talked about employing a buddy system and limiting events with alcohol.

Fraternities and sororities have a “unique position on many college campus-

good at the right time.

This isn’t specific to just the NFL. College teams have won national titles with quarterbacks who aren’t ever heard of again once leaving college. Do the names Ken Dorsey, Craig Kenzel or Matt Mauck sound familiar? They were the starting quarterbacks when Miami, Ohio State and LSU, respectively won their national titles in the early 2000s.

Mind you, the 2001 Miami team has the reputation as one of the best college defenses

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles lifts up the Vince Lombardi trophy after leading his team to a 41-33 victory over the New England Patriots in the 2018 Super Bowl on Sunday. Jerry Holt TNS es” as the only organizations that can hold social events with alcohol, Bonner said.

“That’s not a right,” he said. “That’s a privilege extended to these organizations.”

In an email after the interview, spokesperson Joe Miksch added that Greek organizations at Pitt are insured by their national organizations, a factor in the University allowing them to serve alcohol.

“Over the years, several fraternities and sororities have lost this privilege due to violations of our Student Code of Conduct,” Miksch said. “Revoking this privilege is always an option.”

The long-term plan for Pitt’s Greek organizations, Bonner said, is to change the culture of drinking on campus. Bonner encouraged Greek leaders to reach out to other chapters and national headquarters to come up with strategies they think could work at Pitt.

“How do you raise awareness about alcohol?” he said. “How do you raise awareness about how to drink responsibly? How do you make sure that students are aware of our policies and procedures?”

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ever and the 2003 LSU team was ranked No. 1 in total defense.

The 2003 LSU Tigers were also coached by none other than current Alabama head coach Nick Saban, who is tied with Bear Bryant with six national titles for the most all-time.

Saban has continued to prove that having an “elite” quarterback isn’t necessary to win during his time at Alabama. Greg McElroy, A.J. McCarron, Jake Coker and Tua Tagovailoa have been Saban’s title-winning quarterbacks. None of them went on to lead successful NFL careers.

Tagovailoa was a true first-year who had only played in blowout victories, yet he came in to replace the starter at the beginning of the third quarter during last year’s national title game. He ended up throwing for three touchdowns, including the game winner in overtime.

Foles has now etched his name into a long list of extremely average Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks. He benefited from a great defense, just as Dilfer and Johnson did, and he played a great month of football when it counted, like Flacco.

None of these players are elite, but they’re all Super Bowl champions — sometimes you have one and not the other. Sometimes a quarterback can just be good enough.

The Eagles won the Super Bowl as a full-team effort, not by any “elite” individual setting records for passing. They beat the guy who did that — Tom Brady.

Pitt already has policies — like banning alcohol at recruitment events — that should help avoid incidents like what happened at the Sigma Chi event, Bonner said.

Pitt has hosted programs to “ensure student safety and make students aware about the risk of alcohol,” he said, along with antihazing and sexual misconduct programs.

He said a concrete action the administration took after the student hospitalization was the probation and suspension, which brought “attention to this as being an issue on our campus. [It’s] something that’s so important that we need to take a time-out to do some reflection.”

The probation was intended to be a pause to reflect on the Greek community and ensure no other student was at risk, Bonner said.

“What is it about the culture — at least on college campuses and more particularly in fraternities and sororities — where this has become a common occurrence on many college campuses?” Bonner said.

Ashwini Sivaganesh and Mackenzie Rodrigues contributed reporting.

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Squirrel Hill Stunning 2, 3 and 5 bedroom duplexes on tree lined residential streets. Available Summer 2018. Features may include hardwood, granite, porch, A/C, parking, laundry. Near buses, shopping and restaurants! 412-441-1400 The best studio, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments in town- for the best prices! Close to buses, shopping and great restaurants.

Renting for Summer 2018 move in. Call today! 412-441-1400

Employment Research Studies Participants Wanted for Paid Psychology Research Participants wanted for an alcohol research study at Carnegie Mellon University

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

For more information, call The Behavioral Health Research Lab (412-268-3029) Note: Unfortunately, our lab is not wheelchair accessible.

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provide companionship, light housekeeping, personal care services. Flexible hours available. If interested call 412-363-5500 Guardian Angel Ambulance is actively seeking EMTs and Medics. Immediate openings. Flexible schedules. Apply in person 700 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin or email guardianangelambulance@msn. com. 412-462-1400

OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Management Company seeks person w/min 2 yrs. college, for upcoming spring semester to interview & process rental applicants, do internet postings & help staff our action-central office.

Part-time or full time. AVAILABLE NOW; full time over summer. $13/hour.

Perfect job for current sophomores & juniors, graduating se-

niors set to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first-year law students!

Mozart Management 412-682-7003 thane@ mozartrents.com Seasonal Marketing Assistant Shadyside property management firm established in 1960 needs two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Excel, Word and the internet from approximately NOW to August; four days/week from 9am-6pm. Saturday and/or Sunday hours a must; some flexibility in days and hours will be considered; most hours will be solitary on the computer with no phone work; 40 words per minute and strong computer skills required; no experience needed & we will train you at our Shadyside office; free parking. $13/hour plus generous season end bonus.

Mozart Management 412-682-7003. thane@mozartrents. com

Services Parking GARAGE PARKING available in the heart of Oakland. Protect your car while parked.

Only $80/month! Call 412-692-1770.

Services Other Phlebotomy Training Centerwww. justphlebotomy.org 2 evening classes weekly, 5 weeks + excellent Clinicals.

Call 412-521-7334.

Notices Adoption Endless love, travel, music & dance all await your precious baby.

Dedicated teacher yearns to be stay at home mom.

Expenses paid.

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To be eligible for this study, you must: •Be 21-25 yrs. old and own a smartphone •Drink alcohol at least weekly •Be able to show valid photo ID •Be willing to consume alcohol You may earn up to $365 for your participation in this multi-session study.

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