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Home, sweet zone: City officials crack down on overcrowding

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Pitt to host George Washington after missing NCAA Tournament Chris Puzia Sports Editor For the second time in Jamie Dixon’s 12 years as Pitt’s head men’s basketball coach, the Panthers will not compete in the NCAA Tournament.

Pitt will, however, play in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), beginning with a game on Tuesday at 7 p.m., according to the NIT Selection Show announcement on Sunday.

The Panthers (19-14, 8-10 ACC), who drew a No. 4 seed for the tournament, will face George Washington University in the tournament’s opening round at the Petersen Events Center .

Pitt last missed the NCAA Tournament field in 2012, when it finished 22-17 (4-12 ACC) and went on to win the College Basketball Invitational Tournament.

Sophomore forwards Jamel Artis and Michael Young will continue to l e a d the

Panthers in the NIT. They averaged 13.8 and 13.5 points per game, respectively, during the season. Young also led the team with 7.3 rebounds per game.

Pitt slid off the tournament bubble at the end of the season when it lost its final three regular season games at Wake Forest, against Miami and at Florida State. It then lost its first ACC Tournament game to

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Liz Lepro Staff Writer Kenneth Ward, Brian Sugarmann and two other roommates have lived comfortably in a four-bedroom apartment on McKee Place for the past two years.

No one sleeps on the floor, the furniture and belongings aren’t crammed up next to each other. Nothing has fallen into disrepair.

“I think you’ll actually be

surprised how spacious it is,” Ward said.

Yet, by Pittsburgh law, their apartment is overcrowded. The landlord could face legal penalties for allowing more than three people to reside there, and, if caught, the students would need to find a new place to live.

Like many Pitt students who call the southern-central Oakland home, Sugarmann and Ward violate a Pittsburgh zoning code that caps the number

o f u n r e - lated residents in a unit at three.

While Pitt does not keep records on the number of students living off campus, spokesman John Fedele said 7,688 Pitt students live on campus this year while the University of Pittsburgh Fact Book 2015 lists that 17, 694 full-time students attend the University. Therefore, an estimated 10,006 students, or about 57

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OVERCROWDING percent, live off campus where zoning codes may affect them. However, the latter number also includes commuter students who may live with relatives.

As part of its 2025 plan, the Oakland Planning and Development Corporation (OPDC) created a code enforcement task force called Oakwatch to eliminate over-occupancy in Oakland.

Over-occupancy, which is implicit in the definition of a “family” in Pittsburgh city code, can lead to increased trash accumulation, violation of fire and safety codes and limited parking spaces, among other issues, according to Oakwatch and OPDC directors.

“There are communities around the country that used enforcement of existing building and zoning codes to help improve quality of life in neighborhoods that were feeling some adverse pressures of being around a growing college campus,” Oakwatch co-chair Geof Becker, who helped form the coali-

March 16, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com tion in 2012, said.

The recent focus on the city’s zoning codes come as part of Mayor Bill Peduto’s plan to improve Pittsburgh housing. Peduto established the Department of Permits, Licenses and In-

Becker’s research in graduate school from 2006 at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College examined a case study of one block of Ophelia Street in South Oakland, where he found four out of 21 units in violation of single-family dwelling

“I wanted to have a more social living arrangement and live in a fun environment.”

Madelynn Cullings spections in December, and Magisterial District Judge Eugene Ricciardi, who presides over cases for Oakland, South Side and Arlington, praised his efforts for putting the spotlight on the code.

codes. Eight years later, the Oakland Property Progress Report, which the OPDC released for April 2014, lists seven over-occupied units , with four overcrowded units discovered after

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Landlords often give student renters caught living in violation of code the boot, but only after a sufficient period of time to find a new place. The University assures students that it will help them find accommodations if they are displaced due to overcrowding, according to Fedele.

Seeking lower rent and a house full of friends, fear of displacement doesn’t scare off some students from living with more than two of their friends.

Madelynn Cullings, a sophomore history, history of art and architecture and Italian major, signed a lease on a building owned by John C.R. Kelly Realty in January with two other roommates, though four people will live in the apartment.

“I wanted to have a more social living arrangement and live in a fun environment,” Cullings said.

A property manager at John C.R. Kelly Realty, who would not provide his name and said that all correspondence

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OVERCROWDING must go through him, declined any comment regarding student renters.

Pittsburgh city officials’ increased interest in Oakwatch’s initiatives have been the bite behind the OPDC’s bark, according to Ricciardi.

From late 2013 to the end of 2014, Ricciardi fined landlords $200,000 to $650,000 if he found them violating

March 16, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com codes. Ricciardi said he is unbiased in the courtroom, but added that these hefty fines are fair, as landlords continue to break the code and puts their tenants’ safety at risk.

“Professionals have put together the Pittsburgh code for a reason. That’s why I get very upset with landlords,” Ricciardi said. “All [students are] trying to do is find decent housing and get good grades. Landlords are only looking for one thing: profit.”

Yet, that decent housing has to come

at the right price. Ward and Sugarmann currently pay $514 a month each, which makes the total rent $2,056 per month, not including costs for gas and electric.

Becker said he couldn’t imagine students paying much more than Ward and Sugarmann to live in a South Oakland home.

“No one is going to rent a single family home for $2,800 a month, not in Oakland,” Becker said, explaining that if a student is paying $500 a month or more for housing and is living with

more than two other students, the landlord is making an illegal and exorbitant profit.

Jeff Rotter, treasurer of RRG McKee Inc, the company that owns Ward’s and Sugarmann’s building, wouldn’t comment on whether he was aware of specific code violations on his properties, but added that the renters made the decision themselves to live with three or more unrelated persons in their unit.

“I’m not saying it’s right or wrong,” Rotter said. “It’s just that any students living three or more people in an apartment are doing so because they want to.”

Other property managers and students question why these same laws don’t apply to the University.

One of Pitt’s apartment-style residence halls, Bouquet Gardens, sprouted up directly in the center of Oakland, but unrelated students in Bouquet live four to a unit with no legal implications.

“It just doesn’t seem right if Carlow, CMU and Pitt can do it,” property manager for M.J. Kelly Realty, Mike Kelly, said. “How can you restrict students from living around the University?”

Fedele said the University follows educational and medical codes, not residential ones. He also said the City of Pittsburgh and local Oakland neighborhood groups supported the number of students allowed to live in units at Bouquet Gardens, which opened in 1999, because it would “ease housing overcrowding in the area.”

The University’s Office of Community and Governmental Relations (CGR) works to educate students about the code before they sign a lease, Fedele said.

CGR offers a “Student Guide to Campus Life” which offers information on codes and regulations, including a section on page two titled, “Three is Company — Four’s a Crowd!”

The section includes information notifying students that they can contact the Department of Off-Campus Living or the Student Government Board Attorney, as well as ask their landlords to see a copy of the occupancy permit on a house or apartment.

Regardless, many students still seem

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EDITORIAL

OPINIONS

Learn from the flag, donʼt hide it

At the University of California, Irvine, the U.S. flag has recently waved in a storm of controversy.

On March 5, six members of the Associated Students legislative council passed a ban on the posting of any flags in the University’s student government suite, including the U.S. flag. The move followed debate erupting from the removal of a U.S. flag from a wall in the suite’s common area. According to USA Today, the members insisted that the flag has flown in times of “colonialism and imperialism,” and warned that students or citizens could interpret freedom of speech in an inclusive environment as hate speech. UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman called the ban, which a higher committee later vetoed, “outrageous and indefensible.”

Dr. Gillman is exactly right.

Regardless of one’s views toward the history of the United States, or any other nation, flags are a reminder of where we came from, where we are and where we aim to go. Yes, the U.S. flag has indeed flown in times of “colonialism and imperialism.” But it has also been flown in times of peace, economic prosperity, civil rights progress and political enfranchisement.

Making an environment “inclusive” does not mean accepting ignorance and censoring anything that one could possibly deem offensive. Citi-

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zens realize political, social and economic progress when they are honest and open about the flaws and successes of the past so that, tomorrow, we can experience fewer of the former and more of the latter.

The ban also infringes upon the rights of non-American students wishing to honor their heritage. Real inclusion does not mean banning the potentially offensive, but rather learning about the multitude of international influences that have shaped our country. The ban on flags of any nationality is a disgrace to real discourse and dialogue on diversity.

Now, one could argue that students should be free from governmental influence during their formative college years.

Students should of course be able to think freely and openly about their world, but the placement of the U.S. flag in a publically-funded school. is not an obstacle to free thought, nor is it effective in curbing actual injustice and oppression.

A truly inclusive academic and social environment should aim to promote, rather than censor, signs of national identity. Whether we look to the U.S. flag or any other, it’s time to stop running away from failures and triumphs of the past.

Instead, let us discuss them in an environment where we, as college students and educated global citizens, can finally realize open and honest political discourse.

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Rebecca Peters Columnist The 2016 presidential election will dramatically delight as the Bush and Clinton dynasties battle for the throne and attempt to socially and politically execute anyone who stands in the way.

Despite efforts from the Bush and Clinton teams, other candidates do exist for your choosing, and looking past emails or hanging chads could help you decide who is most capable of presiding over this great nation. But let’s be real, the true benefits do not come from what you can do by voting, but what voting can do for you.

1. Voting increases the

value of your high school and college diplomas.

Education is key in helping voters make informed decisions at the polls. According to College Board, a higher level of education makes you more likely to vote. According to College Board, 29 percent of people 1824 with a high school diploma voted in the 2012 Presidential election, compared to 63 percent of bachelor degree holders.

So for those of you currently in college and on your way to graduation, congratulations.

You’re more likely to vote. But should you? With the new job, you will be stressing and figuring out relationships and living arrangements. Is it in your

best interest to spend hours researching each candidate and make the time to get to the polls? Yes, it is. If you decide not to vote, what was the point of that introductory American politics class you took to fulfill a general education requirement?

You cannot let that knowledge go to waste. You need to live up to your family’s expectations by pretending you are using your education and still voting exactly as they want you to.

2. Your presence will become more important in your high-class friend group.

According to a study completed by political scientists

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PETERS Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page, economic elites vote more. Therefore, policies adopted or struck down by the government better reflect the elite’s preferences. Average citizens, regardless of whether they represent the majority, will never get what they want. What this means is that all of your friends who are highly invested in the politics of this nation will regard your presence as more important and influential, but only if you agree with them and say the exact same things they do. Like with public policy, attempting to change the status quo will only result in failure, so save face and conform in order to become everything you wish you were.

3. You will learn to love Hillary.

Despite her recent e-mail controversy, Hillary Clinton is not as bad as your uncultured, shallow mind thinks she is. Even though she has not yet declared herself a candidate, it is still wise to make sure everyone knows how much

March 16, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com you adore her. And for good reason—she is a real stickler for maintaining congruent policy preferences, so much so that when the winds of marijuana legalization and gay marriage changed course, she went right with them, re-evaluating her stances on both at the convenient times of June and July 2014—decisions that I am sure had nothing to do with increasing her potential voter audience. I’m sure she truly believes in these ideas. If elected, she will make the most of your vote and become the first, best and worst female president yet.

4. Loving Hillary will mean hating Jeb. But in all honesty, he isn’t even that great of a guy. While managing to receive a nomination from the Republican party as well as handling criticism for being a little too liberal on immigration, some

seem to have forgotten the worst thing about the man: His name! He’s a Bush!

If you know anything about politics, you know how detrimental a family name can be to a candidate. Having the same last name as someone obviously forces your every action to mirror theirs in intent and consequence.

Voting in the 2016 election will allow you to finally exemplify your openness to real change and support for the minority.

5. Your elected official will respect your efforts by keeping all promises.

Looking past the interests of the economic elites who buy your representative’s votes, know that your opinions, your needs and your wants are very important to your representative. Making sure to follow every account of your preferred candidate’s policy platform will prove worthy of your time because, after

Voting increases the value of your high school and college diplomas

they get elected into office, they will in no way change their platform. Promises to change immigration policy and provide health care reform on social media, during debates and at press conferences are all legally binding. The honest and unbiased media are actually responsible for holding representatives, including the president, accountable, while those who voted can sit back, relax and take approval surveys online to make their happiness — or unhappiness — as clear as possible.

The 2016 presidential election is still a political lifetime away, but I wanted to make sure you all knew how to plan accordingly to ensure proper success.

Make sure that, when talking politics, you refrain from talking completely honestly about what you believe in so as not to offend your closest friends. They would never look past an opposing belief if they were your true friend anyway.

So pay attention and register to vote.

It just might make a difference.

Rebecca Peters writes satirical and political columns for The Pitt News.

Write to Rebecca at rcp30@pitt.edu.

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BASEBALL

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Extra inning win highlights series victory over No. 11 UNC Mark Powell Staff Writer

Pitt’s baseball team re-entered conference play to take two out of three games against perennial ACC contender No. 11 North Carolina over the weekend.

The Panthers entered the series after sweeping a two-game set against Niagara in their first home games of the year on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The series opener featured a juicy pitching matchup, with sophomore and ACC Pitcher of the Week T.J. Zeuch facing off against North Carolina’s sophomore Zac Gallen. Zeuch was coming off of an outstanding start against Virginia, in which he pitched eight innings of shut-out ball and recorded his second win of the season.

The Tar Heels scored three runs in the third inning and Pitt head coach Joe Jordano pulled Zeuch after four innings of work. Gallen fared even worse against the Panther lineup, giving up eight runs, all earned in just under four innings.

Pitt broke the game open in the fourth inning thanks to good base-running and plate discipline. Senior second baseman Jordan Frabasilio hit a solo home run in the inning, his fifth of the year.

Freshman shortstop Charles LeBlanc led the Panthers offensively with five runs batted in. Three of those RBIs came on a three-run single in the seventh inning, giving Pitt some much-needed insurance runs.

Sophomore Matt Pidich came on in relief to pick up his second save of the year and secure Pitt’s second win against a ranked team this season.

Unfortunately for Pitt, the offensive explosion didn’t carry over to Saturday’s game. The Panthers could only scratch across one run in the second game of the series against the Tar Heels, falling 3-1.

Both pitchers matched each other frame for frame, with junior Aaron Sandefur allowing only two runs in just over five innings of work. His Tar Heel counterpart, J.B. Bukauskas, earned his third win of the

Pitt won two of three games against No. 11 North Carolina behind strong pitching performances from T.J. Zeuch and Marc Berube. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

season, throwing six strong innings and allowing only one run. Sandefur’s effort led to his second loss of the year.

Redshirt freshman outfielder Frank Maldonado carried Pitt offensively, as he extended his hitting streak to nine games with a single in the second inning, plating the team’s only run.

The teams were tied at one in a close game until the sixth inning, when junior outfielder Skye Bolt hit a sacrifice fly,giving the Tar Heels a 2-1 lead. Bolt also hit a home run in the ninth to extend the North Carolina lead before senior reliever Trevor Kelley picked up his first save of the season.

Sunday’s rubber match of the series was even closer than Saturday’s affair, as the teams went to extra innings to decide the

game — and series — winner.

The Panthers got an impressive start from junior pitcher Marc Berube, who went seven strong and gave up only one run in his last inning of work. North Carolina pitcher Trent Thornton matched Berube through five innings, giving up only one run.

After giving up the lead in the top of the seventh, Pitt regained the advantage in the bottom of the frame when junior Ron Sherman hit a sacrifice fly, plating Maldonado.

But the Panthers couldn’t hold the lead in the ninth as Pidich and senior Nick Parnell struggled with their pitch control, allowing base runners to advance without putting the ball in play.

Similarly, Pitt took advantage of North Carolina’s inaccuracy to win the game in the 10th. After singling up the middle, Sherman advanced to second on a passed ball and eventually scored on a two-out hit by LeBlanc.

“I thought it was a very gutsy performance by our entire squad,” Jordano said in a release. “We knew we were going to have to play good, hard, solid baseball this weekend.”

The win improves Pitt to 8-9 on the year and evens its record in conference play. Perhaps more importantly, the Panthers protected their home-field advantage, as they are 4-1 at Cost Field so far this season.

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With its NCAA Tournament hopes dashed, Pitt looks to Tuesday’s matchup with George Washington University for some postseason success. Here are the fast facts on GW:

Matchup History: PITT 17 GW 9 Last Matchup: Pitt won on 2/27/82

This year...

21-12 overall 10-8 in the A-10

Leading scorer: Patricio Garino (12.4 PPG) Best win: Wichita State (Dec. 25) Worst loss: Duquesne (Feb. 11) FROM PAGE 1

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North Carolina State, which earned a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Pitt last won on Feb. 24 against Boston College at home.

While the team has become accustomed to NCAA Tournament berths,it still struggled to find success there recently. Last year, Pitt lost to No. 1 seed Florida 61-45 in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

Pitt last played in the NIT in 2001, when it lost in the second round to Mississippi State, 66-61. The Panthers have a combined 6-8 record in eight total NIT appearances.

George Washington University has made four NIT appearances in program history, but lost in the first round each time. Its last appearance came in 2004, when it lost to Virginia 79-66.

George Washington University head

coach Mike Lonergan, who holds a 46-45 career record, led the Colonials to the NCAA Tournament last season. As a No. 9 seed, the team lost to No. 8 Memphis in the round of 64.

Patricio Garino will lead George Washington (21-12, 10-8 A-10). The junior guard/forward averages 12.4 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. The Colonials finished sixth in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

George Washington’s signature win of the season came on Dec. 25 against thenNo. 11 Wichita State, 60-54.

A stretch in which GW lost six of seven games hampered the Colonials’ NCAA Tournament chances. The only win during that stretch was a 65-64 overtime victory over Dayton on Feb. 6.

The team started the season well, however, beginning 12-3 before dropping several conference games.

The game tips off at 7 p.m. If Pitt wins, the Panthers will face the winner of Temple and Bucknell in a potential inter-state battle.

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OVERCROWDING to be in the dark about over-occupancy and its enforcement.

Sugarmann said found out he was violating a code after overhearing a conversation in class about how police and officials were getting tough on overcrowding.

Sugarmann was thinking of convenience, not zoning codes when he chose

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his apartment.

“Money was a factor, but [my roommates and I] were friends freshmen and sophomore year,” he said. “We figured living together would save us some money compared to on our own, and it would be better than living with strangers.”

Zoning Administrator Corey Layman said the city has always enforced the code and landlords who break the rule usually do so by limiting three of the four people to sign a lease.

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“It’s like speeding,” Layman said, regarding code violations. “Everybody drives over the speed limit, but you’re still speeding.”

For now, diversity is the talk of the town among these neighborhood cooperative groups.

“A healthy community is one that has a variety of ages, backgrounds, incomes [and] points of view,” Wanda Wilson, executive director of the OPDC said.

But according to Wilson, it is neither Oakwatch’s nor the OPDC’s job to make

people aware of city code.

“The law is the law, and it’s the responsibility of property owners [to make themselves aware],” Wilson said City Solicitor Celia Liss said property owners are finding out the cost of violating that law, as the city’s zoning code limits a maximum fine of $1,000 per day for each day the code is violated.

“If we want to encourage compliance with our zoning code, property owners must see that it is very expensive to violate the law,” Liss said.

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