3 13 2018

Page 1

The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | March 13, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 125

MISTERWIVES GET JIGGY WITH IT TO HEADLINE

BIGELOW BASH Salina Pressimone Assistant News Editor Pitt Program Council announced Bigelow Bash, Pitt’s annual spring concert, will feature MisterWives as the headliner band April 14. PPC tweeted the news Monday afternoon, about a month after it sealed the contract with the help of an outside agency. Zach Linn, special events director, said PPC began the process of finding a band for the spring concert following the Fall Fest back in October. The special events committee, a group of 30 students, considered logistics such as the budget the University provided them with and available dates that worked with Pitt’s calendar when evaluating options for acts. “We always start off with some bands that aren’t available and then we just keep working through our list until we find one that works, and MisterWives was very close to the top of our list on that,” Linn said. While there were contract negotiations and price limitations, Linn said the committee still prioritized the student See Bands on page 2

Yizhu Gu (right), a CMU alumna, instructs CMU student Steven Rich (left) during a swing dance practice hosted by the Panther Swing Dance Club in the William Pitt Union Monday night. Issi Glatts | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR

Students ‘break in’ to security engineering at Pitt Thompson Wymard For The Pitt News Marc Tobias has been picking locks since he was 15. One of his first experiences in the trade came when he went into a local locksmith in Denver and asked to pick the store’s toughest lock as a challenge. After initially being dismissed, the store gave him the lock and said he would never

be able to pick it. “Well, about 30 seconds later I said, ‘Excuse me, I asked for a difficult lock to open, because this one I just opened,’” he said. Now, with his expanded understanding of security — having written seven books on crime and lock picking and being a security columnist for Forbes Magazine — he’s looking to teach Pitt students what he knows.

Tobias, his partner Tobias Bluzmanis and Security Labs — their company, which works with clockmakers to test their locks on anything from safes to gun locks — are joining up with the Swanson School of Engineering to open the new Pitt Security Engineering Lab. The lab offers students a space to work with locks provided by Security Lab’s clients — including major See Security on page 2


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.