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PA Primaries: A student’s guide

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Assistant News Editor Pennsylvania’s finally joining in on the 2016 presidential election — 281 delegates will be up for grabs in the primaries April 26.

Pennsylvania voters will be able to cast their ballots for president, Senate and Congress nominations for the Republican, Democratic and Independent parties. In preparation, voters must register by March 28, according to the Allegheny County Elections Division.

Pennsylvania runs a closed primary: According to VotesPA, with a closed primary, voters in Pennsylvania must be registered as Republicans or Democrats in order to vote and may only vote within their registered party. People registered as Independents will only be allowed to vote on the proposed amendments to the Pennsylvania Constitution, which seek to change how the state disciplines its justices and judges.

Excluding potential dropouts, this year’s Republican presidential ballot consists of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

The Democratic presidential ballot consists of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Jill

First year Eddy Guo adjusts a microphone during “Generation XYZ,” a WPTS Radio show on EDM, electronic and indie pop music. Wenhao Wu SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Wolf relents on state budget, Pitt to get $143M Dale Shoemaker News Editor

If Gov. Tom Wolf keeps his promise to do nothing, Pitt is set to receive the $143 million in state funding legislators promised in just four days.

After a press conference Wednesday, Wolf issued a statement saying he would not sign his name to veto the See Voters on page 2 current state budget bill sitting on his

desk, allowing the funding measure to become law on Monday. If Wolf takes no action on it for 10 consecutive days while the legislature is in session, the bill will become law.

Along with the 2015-2016 state budget, which was due in June, four additional appropriation bills — which will allocate funds to Pitt, Penn State and the other state-related universities

— will become law unless Wolf vetoes them.

With its funding measure in place, Pitt will receive about $143 million — about 15 percent of its yearly budget — from the state. This allocation represents a nearly 5 percent increase in state funding from last year, but is about $4 million less than Pitt

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Voters, pg. 1 Stein, who ran for the presidency for the Green Party in 2012, is running on the Green Party’s presidential ballot, and Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico, is running for the Libertarian Party.

Additionally, Democrats Janis Brooks and Mike Doyle are running for positions as U.S. representatives for Pennsylvania’s District 14, which includes Pittsburgh and surrounding neighborhoods.

Democrats John Fetterman, Katie McGinty, Joe Sestak and Joseph Vodvarka are running for U.S. Senate, along with Republicans Pat Toomey and Everett Stern.

The primary elections will determine each party’s nomination for representative and senator as well as president.

Voters can register or change parties online or through the mail: Voters interested in registering, changing their names or addresses or changing their party affiliations can do so online at www.register.votesPA.com. Registering to vote requires a driver’s license or PennDOT ID card, social security card and, for those making changes to their registry, a voter registration number. The site also has print applications available, which voters must send into the county voter registration office by March 28.

Voters who are registered in a municipality other than Pittsburgh, but who want to vote here, must submit an absentee ballot application one week before the elections. The application for an absentee ballot, which can be found at PA.gov, must be received — postmarks do not count, according to the application — by the local

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county of board elections by 5 p.m. April 19.

Polling places are located in multiple Pitt buildings: Residents of University buildings located in the quad — Amos Hall, Holland Hall, Brackenridge Hall, Litchfield Towers and McCormick Hall — can vote at the William Pitt Union. Those who live on upper campus and in Lothrop Hall can vote in Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum. Ruskin Hall residents can vote at St. Paul’s Synod Hall auditorium on North Dithridge Street. Bouquet Gardens residents can vote in the Posvar Hall lobby.

All of these locations are wheelchair accessible.

Students who live in South Oakland, North Oakland, Shadyside or other neighborhoods within the city must check their polling location by entering their address with the municipality of Pittsburgh at Allegheny.pa.us.

Primary elections determine each party’s presidential nomination: Pennsylvania has 210 Democratic delegates and 71 Republican delegates. Candidates win their party’s nomination when they secure a simple majority of delegate votes — the same applies for each state individually.

Candidates win delegates based on the number of primary votes they receive, so each vote in the primary helps the parties determine who wins the state, and thus who wins the party nomination.

Parties will announce their nominations at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 18, and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25.

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In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher thanked Wolf and other state lawmakers for restoring the University’s funding.

“Today is a huge step toward the beginning of a return to normalcy for the budget process in Pennsylvania,” Gallagher said in the statement. “We remain committed to strengthening our partnership with the state.”

Wolf ’s a n nouncem e n t came less than 24 hours after Pitt students, f a c u l t y, staff and alumni retur ne d from a day of lobbying legislators in Harrisburg. With the effort, Pitt’s representatives urged Wolf to enact the budget and the other appropriation bills.

Last week, though, it seemed unlikely the governor would do so. Wolf ’s announcement Wednesday was a reversal of his indication a week ago that he would veto the budget.

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Wednesday, Wolf lamented that the Republican-backed budget was out of balance and would leave the state with an additional $300 million deficit on top of the existing $2 billion deficit.

On Wednesday, despite maintaining his position on the budget’s imbalances, he said he would let the measure pass.

“Let’s be clear: The math in this budget does not work,” Wolf said in the statement. “We must face this reality this year and balance our budget with real, sustainable revenues.”

For Pitt students, restored state funding alleviates worries of a tuition increase, Student Governm e n t B o a r d P r e s i d e nt Nasreen H a r u n said in an email.

Though Pitt never officially said it would raise tuition, in a referendum passed in February, SGB warned of a potential increase and called on state lawmakers to pass a budget. Temple spokesperson Raymond Betzner said last week that the school would have to “very seriously consider” raising student tuition if the impasse continued

“We were able to go to the state and say, ‘Listen, this is what the impasse is doing.’”

-Pat Corelli, govt. relations chair

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Budget, pg. 2 into the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

Pitt’s most tangible struggle during the impasse was dipping into reserve funds to cover the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency grant program, which doles out $10 million per semester to students who demonstrate financial need.

Harun said SGB would wait to release an official statement about the state budget until it becomes law Monday.

Harun and Pat Corelli, SGB governmental relations committee chair, said SGB’s efforts to get in touch with lawmakers and ask them to pass a budget paid off. Student governments at other state-related universities — Penn State, Temple and Lincoln Universities — passed similar referendums around the same time as SGB. “I think everything SGB has done is a piece in the larger puzzle,” Corelli said, referring to the budget’s passing. “There was no one magical thing.”

But, Corelli said, students talking with lawmakers at Tuesday’s Pitt Day in Harrisburg definitely didn’t hurt.

“It’s really powerful when you go to your state representative’s office and say, ‘I live in your district, in-state tuition has let me go to school,’” Corelli said.

“We were able to go to the state and say, ‘Listen, this is what the impasse is doing.’”

Currently, Pitt’s in-state tuition is $17,292 and its out-of-state tuition is $26,058.

Paul Supowitz, Pitt’s vice chancellor for community and governmental relations, said Pitt Day in Harrisburg “helped push things over the top.”

“We owe a lot of thanks to students, alumni, faculty and staff,” Supowitz said.

“This sets the stage for [legislators] to be able to work on [next year’s budget].”

Supowitz said he hopes for a timely budget for the next fiscal year, but knows all the time spent on this year’s budget took legislators’ focus away from next year.

“It’s next to impossible to cobble

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things together for the next year [while they’re still trying to get this year’s budget together],” Supowitz said.

Also uncertain are the salaries of Pitt’s senior administrators, including Gallagher. Earlier in March, University Times reported Pitt would freeze the salaries of Gallagher and six other top administrators until the end of the budget impasse.

Pitt spokesperson Ken Service said Wednesday that the pay freezes have “not yet been addressed” since the im-

passe ended.

All across campus, though, both students and administrators felt tangible relief, according to both Supowitz and Corelli. Corelli said state legislators must prevent a similar impasse this year and should find a sustainable model to balance the budget and fund education.

“You don’t want to celebrate something that never should have happened,” Corelli said. “[But] at this point, we’re mostly relieved.”

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Trump a catastrophe for conservatism

from the editorial board

Wolf must not repeat inaction next fiscal year Pennsylvania schools and social service agencies can finally take a sigh of relief.

After nine months of nonexistent cooperation among the Republican House, Senate and Gov. Tom Wolf, the Pennsylvania budget that has caused schools and clinics to shut down or rely on loans and reserve funds is finally set to pass this Sunday.

And no, it wasn’t because Republicans and Wolf finally agreed to the budget’s contents.

The budget they’ve been fighting over for more than half a year will finally pass without a signature from Wolf, whose inaction is causing the budget to be even further delayed until Sunday when it could’ve very well passed today with his signature. The budget isn’t even balanced, and it’s clear Wolf is begrudgingly throwing in the towel and acquiescing.

Wolf’s inaction has cost Pennsylvanians their jobs, caused services such as domestic abuse shelters to cut corners and pushed Pitt to briefly dip into its reserves.

To avoid another budget crisis, Wolf can’t wait around assuming he’ll win in a budget fight against a Republican-controlled House and Senate. Rather, he needs to understand the political climate in Harrisburg and remember who he’s answering to — Pennsylvanians.

When it’s time to pass next year’s budget, Pennsylvanians can’t afford politicians in Harrisburg recreating the same antics we’ve seen for months. Wolf must consider the welfare and immediate concerns of his state over party politics if he wants to avoid a budget impasse 2.0 next fiscal year.

Yesterday, the governor’s release highlighted the “looming crisis” that will come from this budget.

“This will allow for funding to go out to

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schools and other services in the short term,” Wolf said, “but we still face enormous problems that this budget does not even pretend to address.”

The Republican-penned package delivers a $200 million boost to public school aid, half of what Wolf had originally wanted, and a five percent increase for state-subsidized universities.

Yes, the Republican’s budget may have not been ideal and will leave Pennsylvania with a $2 billion deficit because it isn’t balanced, according to his administration’s calculations.

But there was a time and place to have that argument, and that was in July 2015, not March 2016, when schools like East Allegheny High School were worrying about being able to pay their teachers next week.

Both Wolf and Republicans will have to resume budget discussions for the fiscal year starting July 1, and Republicans are already steadfast in not initiating any tax increases.

“We must face this reality this year and balance our budget with real, sustainable revenues,” Wolf said.

For the sake of Pennsylvanians, our governor needs to assume the leadership position voters delegated to him. This means Wolf needs to take into account the circumstances he’s up against — a Republican House and Senate reluctant to spend, and one that has proven hard to budge.

Facing reality this year means putting his constituency first and negotiating responsibly with his opposition.

Hopefully, after this debacle, our governor realizes that inaction is just as — if not more — dangerous than action.

Terry Tan STAFF ILLUSTRATOR

Arnaud Armstrong Columnist

Making America great again starts with principled conservatives, and ends with Donald Trump.

Our country has faced a shrinking middle class, skyrocketing debt and an international standing that has been bastardized. We feel continuously let down by our representatives to the point that we have internalized the notion that there can’t possibly be someone else to serve the people.

With this in mind, it’s easy to understand why outliers, such as Trump, thrive.

As Americans have tried — and failed — to find solutions by casting their votes every four years, we have directed our growing anger, quite rightly, at our countless failed leaders in Wash-

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ington.

Trump has exploited these conditions brilliantly, and he has wielded his newfound powers of populism and nationalism with a kind of skill and boldness that many Americans have never experienced before in their lifetimes. Promises of building a wall funded by Mexico, ending all Muslim immigration, taking China to task and shaking up the political establishment have imbued many Americans with populist and nationalist fervor and stirred them to action.

Trump’s forte seems to be his uncanny ability to tap into the real and legitimate fears and frustrations of the nation that very few politicians have managed to grasp.

Unfortunately, my praise for him ends here — at a point between articulating the fears and See Armstrong on page 5

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Armstrong, pg. 4 frustrations of a nation, and something far more dangerous.

Despite masterfully listing the many unsolved problems that have disillusioned his supporters, Trump has done little else. It is true that he offers things that some will call solutions, but they nearly always range from the incomprehensibly vague, “I want to get rid of Obamacare and get you something great” to the comically absurd, “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will have Mexico pay for that wall.”

But do Trump’s supporters really believe that “something great” is a legitimate health care plan?

Of course not. And this gets to the heart of the problem and the thing that makes Trump dangerous — his supporters aren’t usually interested in his ideology or policy when they decide to support him, they’re interested in Trump. In other words, they have decided that the only solution to the problems plaguing our country is Trump.

Anyone else is an obstacle — a member of “the establishment.”

As a man who, like many in Trump’s party, sees conservatism as the only way to reverse the downward slide our country is in, I am profoundly disturbed by this line of thinking.

Yes, it is true that our representatives who were hired to reverse the tide of leftist policies have failed at every step. From failing to defund the Affordable Care Act to blocking the president’s executive amnesty, our leaders have done an exceptional job of doing nothing. Our mistake, however, comes not from trying to compel our political leaders to act, but from taking our eyes off the real enemy.

As conservatives, we see one threat as exceeding all others — that is the rising tide of government. Additionally, we understand that the constitution was specifically designed to prevent this, and that it is our powerful tool in doing so.

This is what makes American conservatism so different as compared to the “conservatives” the media tells us exist in Europe and other parts of the world. The Constitution and the great thinkers behind it serve as the building block for American conservatism, a building block that is absent in every other country.

With very few exceptions, conservatives outside the United States lack any meaningful guiding ideology regarding the protection of the rights of the individual and the diffusion of power away from the top. At the end of the day,

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the political parties and leaders of both the right and the left in almost all the world are united in seeking a single goal power. It is for this reason that when we imagine the far right in an American context, we are likely to think of libertarians, while if we do so in a European context we are likely to think of fascists or other authoritarian ideologies.

The left, unfortunately, does not change in the same way — progressivism and socialism mean more or less the same thing in America as they do in other parts of the world.

The reason for this tangent is very simple — Trump represents a complete departure from what actually made American conservatism so great. As Trump picks up supporters and trudges toward the nomination, he increasingly threatens to redefine the conservative movement in a way that disfigures it beyond recognition.

By placing one man and his bloated ego ahead of the future of the conservative movement, we are putting him ahead of the future of our country as well. It is not because some states allow people to buy a Whopper with food stamps that America is exceptional, nor is it because the Catholic schools and hospitals are required to help subsidize contraceptives for employees.

America is exceptional because it continues to retain, at least to a significant degree, its founding principles — principles that only the American conservative movement has successfully protected.

Trump will not do the same. His populist brand of conservatism embraces the use of tariffs and trade barriers to protect manufacturing jobs, wasteful subsidies to support failing industries and entitlements. Additionally, Trump advocates surveilling mosques, going “tougher than waterboarding” and, of course, making Mexico pay for a wall and deporting all illegal immigrants.

These are not the proposals of someone who will build on the legacies of Goldwater, Buckley and Reagan. These proposals are better suited to the likes of George Wallace, Marine Le Pen and Vladimir Putin.

For conservatives, the solution to Trump is simple. We must prevent him from becoming the Republican Party’s nominee. If this does not happen, Trump will dramatically grow his influence over the conservative movement and turn it into something unrecognizable.

For the sake of our movement, we have no choice but to stump the Trump.

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Culture

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sojourning exhibit shares LGBTq+ journeys Jack Shelly Staff Writer

A new exhibit is flipping the script on LGBTQ+ awareness — letters and photos of encouragement will come not from the accepted, but from the accepting.

The exhibit, titled “Acceptance Journeys Pittsburgh,” is on display around campus, with two to four narratives stopping in Posvar Hall, Parran Hall and O’Hara Student Center now through the first week of April. The exhibit holds a collection of photographs and short personal stories of love from straight Pittsburghers of all ages — siblings, friends and parents — written to an LGBTQ+ person. A team from the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health collected each participant’s stories, which are set on easels next to the author and subject’s photograph, in order to address LGBTQ+ stigma.

The exhibit is an offshoot of “Acceptance Stories Milwaukee,” which was a similar campaign the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diverse and Resilient — a community organization — and the University of Wisconsin-Madison launched in 2011. Organizations in St. Louis and Cleveland have also launched sister programs.

The idea of a Pittsburgh version first came to fruition in 2014, when a team from the School of Public Health began conducting focus groups and launched a billboard and social media campaign in the city to gather stories from individuals who wanted to share their acceptance and love for members of the LGBTQ+ community.

“We did a lot of work to determine how ready Pittsburgh was for this con-

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“Acceptance Journeys Pittsburgh” is setting up throughout campus through April 7. John Hamilton STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER versation,” said Sarah Krier, the director of the Acceptance Journeys program.

In conjunction with the Universitywide Year of the Humanities initiative, “Acceptance Journeys” will conclude by holding panel discussion in the Cathedral of Learning 11:30 a.m. April 7. It will include Pitt faculty involved in the project, as well as representatives from the “Acceptance Journeys” program within Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health. “Acceptance Journeys” experts from many different fields, including journalism, psychology, anthropology and women’s studies, will speak in the

panel.

The event’s press release states that LGBTQ+ stigma is especially high for young black men, putting them at an increased risk of HIV and community isolation. Krier said this year’s “Acceptance Journeys’” focus “is on sharing photos and stories of acceptance, primarily of LGBT people of color, and their friends and family. By disseminating these stories throughout the community, we’re countering stigma and normalizing acceptance.”

Marcus Robinson, president of Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance, said people of color

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tend to be underrepresented in LGBTQ+ efforts reducing stigma.

“So many LGBTQIA groups suffer from a lack of people of color attending their events, and in order to say you are really representing the community you need to ensure that all identities are being included and respected,” Robinson, who is a gay black man, said. “Personally, I’ve just also felt that many LGBTQIA groups could make a better effort to diversify, as it can be alienating to be the only person of color.”

Krier said young gay black men often feel left out of larger LGBTQ+ social movements.

“One thing that’s come up in focus groups is that they often don’t see themselves represented in campaigns to address stigma,” she said.

While making an effort to target minorities specifically, “Acceptance Journeys” vignettes often contain pieces of advice for other straight people who may be struggling to accept a gay or transgender friend or family member.

“It takes a lot to stand up,” Krier said.

“And our campaign is different in that we are collecting stories from families and friends, the non-LGBT person.”

One “Acceptance Journeys” contributor named Michelle, who described her relationship with her gay brother Michael, wrote, “It’s a personal question that you have to ask yourself. “If you love a person, if you’re friends with a person, if you cherish a person, then those labels shouldn’t matter.”

Another contributor, Luis, who spoke of his gay brother’s premature death in a car accident, wrote, “If someone comes out, whether it’s a friend or a relative, we have to not only be openSee Acceptance on page 7

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Acceptance, pg. 6 minded, but also understanding. We have to see the person as a whole, without judgement. We have to give encouragement, love, affection.”

Krier said it was often difficult to gather stories from straight-identifying men, possibly due to increased pressure on men to validate their heterosexuality.

“If you’re a straight-identifying man and you’re out and visible about a friendship with a gay identifying man, that may

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call your sexuality into question,” she said.

Many of the pieces in the exhibit also address the conflict between deep-held religious views and accepting an LGBTQ+ child or sibling. They do so in a largely non-controversial way, avoiding the stickiness of religious views on homosexuality, and instead focusing on loving and accepting LGBTQ+ individuals for who they are.

One participant, Nadine, wrote about her gay son Brandon, telling of her de-

cision to “let God do the judging. Until that time, I’m here to love and to draw people to a loving God.” In another story from Rev. Kelly, she describes her close relationship with a gay congregation member, Gary, and his involvement in her son’s life.

“It’s so important to for me that Gary is in my child’s life,” she wrote. “Not only do I want my son to experience difference, I want him to understand there is no stigma.”

Each story is displayed alongside a

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photograph of the individuals sharing their story, typically taken in a familiar setting for the participants. The exhibit is accompanied with an online gallery at Pittsburgh’s “Acceptance Journeys” website.

“The journey is very real, and the struggle to accept is very real. We are hoping that in these stories people see themselves,” Krier said. “This is Pittsburgh. These are the people that you know and work and live with. This is about bringing the message home.”

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Editorial Policies TCU introduced Jamie Dixon as its newest head coach Tuesday after 13 seasons with Pitt. Courtesy of Mac Engel For the first time in at least four years, Dan Sostek and maybe longer, Dixon will finally feel Sports Editor — deservedly — appreciated.

At Texas Christian University’s press While TCU appears to be a step down conference-pep rally hybrid introducing from Pitt program-wise — Dixon’s PanJamie Dixon as its next head basketball thers won more conference games in coach, the school’s chancellor dusted off 2015-2016 than TCU had during former an old fact about the new hire. coach Trent Johnson’s entire tenure — the It was one that Pitt fans have heard job makes up for that in terms of job sebroadcasters use as a talking point for the curity, his relationship with the athletic past 13 years. director and, most importantly, the zeal.

“But what you really don’t know about Fan appreciation shouldn’t be a reqour new coach is that this is the first coach uisite for a coach to stay at a job, by any we will ever hire who is a card-carrying means. Earning $3 million a year, a coach member of the Screen Actors Guild,” TCU can expect harsh criticism and negativity Chancellor Victor Boschini said. when he or she doesn’t meet lofty goals, While this might have been the hunand Dixon has admitted as much. dredth time Panther fans have heard that But having that divided fanbase still tidbit about their former coach, it was can’t be easy, and after years of deliverprobably the first that the Horned Frogs ing handfuls of wins to the University of faithful had learned about it — and it was exciting.

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Dixon, pg. 8 Pittsburgh, a contingent of people started questioning Dixon for not winning the big game.

After every loss to a top team, blame Dixon.

After every time a top-tier recruit chose a different school, blame Dixon.

After every time Pitt was underseeded in an NCAA tournament, blame Dixon.

And blaming Dixon was the fans’ right.

He could have made a few personnel tweaks. He could have recruited better and in different areas. He could have scheduled some tougher non-conference opponents.

As the highest-paid state employee in Pennsylvania, it was acceptable to hold him to a higher standard.

But even a huge salary didn’t diminish Dixon’s right to seek out a place that appreciated a coach of his stature more than Pitt did. With a new administration in place that didn’t hire Dixon, new Pitt Athletic Director Scott Barnes might not have met the surliness surrounding Dixon’s standing as head coach with an overwhelming

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sentiment of loyalty. It was smart to get out before the fan frustration warmed his seat.

And that frustration came during seasons that TCU would kill for. While these past five campaigns — the biggest source of fans souring on Dixon — haven’t been barnburners, many programs would bend over backward for the 112-63 record he compiled over that span. His 45-45 mark during conference play in two of the toughest leagues in the country was more than respectable.

Instead, Dixon — and Ben Howland, his predecessor, to an extent — set high standards, inconceivably high standards.

Going 31-5 in your first season as a head coach like Dixon did in 2003-2004 doesn’t happen by accident. It also doesn’t happen every year, but that was inconceivable to a portion of the fanbase.

Plus, in Dixon’s final year, Pitt fans fell in love with the new guy on campus, the promising, outgoing and often-tweeting new football coach, Pat Narduzzi.

And while Narduzzi undoubtedly jolted the football program with some muchSee Dixon on page 10

kayla harris surging in sophomore season Kaitlin Cassidy For The Pitt News

Kayla Harris has one mission: Attack from the very first pitch.

She’s unrelenting on every batter. She dares them to swing at the pitches she whirls their way.

Harris is focused.

She’s focused on becoming a leader this season. Since former ace Savannah King graduated last spring, Harris, a sophomore from Chesapeake, Virginia, is determined to fill her role and take the Pitt softball team back to both the ACC and NCAA postseason, after finishing 32-22 last season.

“Even actually over the summer, I was thinking, Savannah’s gone, we have a freshman coming in, we have a senior now who is a transfer,” Harris said, “and then we have me.”

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Sarah Dawson, a standout freshman pitcher, said if Harris is trying to make herself into a role model, she’s succeeding.

“She’s definitely a great mentor for me,” Dawson said. “[Since] the first day I came in here, she’s been the person I go to if I have a question.”

Dawson, who pitched Pitt’s first perfect game in program history last month, said Harris helped her in a previous game, when she was having a rough day on the mound.

“Kayla was there to help me figure out my thoughts and help me get myself together,” Dawson said. “[Harris] understands the position you’re in because she knows the work and the time we put in and the mentality we have to have. She absolutely helps me through my bad days, and I help her through hers. And we’re just there for each other.”

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Dixon, pg. 9 needed life, it was odd to see the undwindling support the first-year coach received after an 8-4 season against fairly docile competition, compared to the lack of backing Dixon had, despite his track record.

Now, Dixon is the fresh face, the newcomer in Fort Worth, Texas, the one creating the buzz — not losing it.

With Pitt’s coaching search already off to a bizarre start after Arizona coach Sean Miller spurned the Panthers, anti-Dixonites in Pittsburgh might soon learn that replicating any semblance of past success Dixon had won’t be as easy as it was in their fantasies.

As for TCU, they don’t need 30-win seasons. The program has been through the ringer, and they’ll take any sniff of success.

There’s a reason that their entire department celebrated the hire as if they won a conference championship.

They know they have a really good Kayla Harris hasn’t suffered a sophocoach. And he’s got a SAG card. more slump in 2016. John Hamilton I think they’ll take it.

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Harris, who plans to major in sports medicine or athletic training, works to limit her rough days by improving her technique with her pitching coach, Lauren Cognigni. Lately, she has focused on intimidating batters from very first pitch she throws.

“I am anticipating [that Harris is going] to get better as the season goes on,” Cognigni said. “I hope to see her continue to make adjustments every day.”

It would be difficult for Harris to pitch much better than she already has this year. In 18 appearances thus far, she sports a 2.12 ERA and 61 strikeouts in 89.1 innings pitched.

Cognigni described Harris’ pitching style as more laid-back, not fretting over mistakes.

She also noted that since last season, Harris has gained a clearer perspective of her role on the team. After a rough day on the mound, Harris is able to move past the off game and continue to make necessary adjustments.

“My pitching coach always tells me to attack,” Harris said. “That’s kind of like our keyword, is to ‘attack.’”

This “attack” mentality, to Harris, means accomplishing the first-pitch strike and relentlessly going after the batter, as she dares them to swing at one of her pitches.

Fellow teammate Maggie Sevilla, an infielder, said Harris has not only improved from last season, but that the pitcher is continuing to improve week to week. “[Harris] has become more commanding on the mound,” Sevilla said. “We remind her, ‘Hey Kayla, you’re a boss. Be a boss out there.’”

The ACC might still view Pitt as an underdog within the league, but Harris’ goal for this year is to show that last season was no mistake, like she’ll try to do when she takes the mound against North Carolina 4 p.m. March 25.

“We have a whole new confidence,” Harris said. “I feel like we are a team to beat because of the statement we made last year.”

Despite the challenging task ahead of her, Harris doesn’t mind the pressure. In fact, high stakes or when the bases are loaded are when Harris performs at her best.

“I think that pressure lights a fire in me,” Harris said. “Like, ‘You know what? This is my game now. Come play my game with me,’ basically.”

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