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T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | March 26, 2019 ­| Volume 109 | Issue 128

PITTSBURGH RESPONDS TO NEW ZEALAND MASSACRE

REMEMBERING ANTWON ROSE

Neena Hagen

Senior Staff Writer Only five months after white supremacist Robert Bowers killed 11 congregants at Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, another gunman fatally shot more than 50 Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand — marking two of the most deadly hate crimes against Jews and Muslims in recent history.

Fawwaz Haq, executive director of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, or ICP, an Islamic educational and community outreach organization based in Oakland, said only the outpouring of support from Pittsburgh’s community could mitigate the pain of Students carry an art memorial to Antwon Rose through downtown Pittsburgh at Monday’s student walkout. Kaycee such a tragedy.

“When I was scrolling through the headlines Orwig | staff photographer Thursday night, all I could feel was disgust,” Haq said. “But that feeling changed to gratitude when I saw how many people came [to the center] the Friday after to pray with us.” in the City, including another protest Downtown arrived at the event. Though some signs were ruThe center’s headquarters, an unassuming Emily Wolfe and one on Pitt’s campus. ined by the rain that fell steadily throughout the brick building on Bigelow Boulevard, usually com- Assistant News Editor Word of the planned walkout spread on march, many clearly bore the same words that mands a crowd of about 500 for Friday prayer, but A group of more than 1,000 turned out MonSunday, largely through social media posts that had been chanted all weekend at rallies across the on March 15, hundreds more showed up — and day for a student-led walkout Downtown in encouraged students at Pittsburgh high schools City. not just Muslims. Haq said members of the Tree protest of the acquittal of former East Pittsburgh and universities to leave class late Monday morn“Three shots in the back,” marchers chanted of Life Synagogue joined the gathering, as well as officer Michael Rosfeld in the shooting of uning and meet at the City-County Building for a as they moved down the streets. “How do you Mayor Bill Peduto’s Chief of Staff Dan Gilman and armed black teenager Antwon Rose. The march march through the City. justify that?” And: “No justice, no peace, no racist See New Zealand on page 2 followed a weekend of protests in other locations See Protests on page 2 Many were still wearing backpacks when they

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dozens of police officers flanking the scene.

“On the surface, we may all seem different,” Haq said of Friday’s congregation. “We have different faiths. But we all just want to have the freedom to worship our god, and that’s what unites us.”

That Friday prayer was only the first of several efforts to uplift Pittsburgh’s Muslim community after the shooting. Hundreds gathered Sunday evening at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall for a vigil honoring the victims of the New Zealand massacre.

Nabeeha Affan, a Muslim Pitt student studying neuroscience who attended the vigil, said the incident brought the hateful act closer to home.

“Hearing the names of the victims being read out, I could picture my dad, my mom and my younger brother,” Affan said. “It’s really easy to read the headlines and feel saddened by what happened, but when you hear about their lives and the families they left behind, you realize this could’ve been us.”

As Tree of Life Synagogue’s Rabbi Jeffrey My-

ers noted at the vigil, Pittsburgh had before suffered tremendous loss at the hands of a white supremacist just a few short months ago.

“When I heard the news [of the Christchurch shootings], it was as though a scab was ripped off my wounds once again,” Myers said. “When you kill human beings, I don’t know what species you belong to that you want to do something like that.”

To support the Muslim community in its time of mourning, Pittsburgh Jewish congregations Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life announced a campaign Saturday called “Worship without Fear,” a fundraiser to help cover security costs at the ICP, which has ramped up police presence in the weeks since the Christchurch massacre.

“We not only condemn and vow to fight against anti-Semitism, we are also dedicated to the eradication of all forms of prejudice, discrimination and hatred directed at others,” Sam Schachner, president of Tree of Life Synagogue, said.

After the Tree of Life shooting, two Muslim organizations, CelebrateMercy and MPower Change, raised $200,000 for the synagogue within 48 hours of the tragedy. Schachner said he wants to pay that effort forward.

“Through this initiative, we are now doing what we inherently know is the right thing, and that is to love thy neighbor and that means stepping up and supporting our Muslim brothers and sisters, just as they have supported us,” Schachner said.

The public can contribute through LaunchGood, a fundraising site, which Haq said will help “protect the adults and children who attend the center everyday.”

Many politicians have also shared their prescriptions for protecting those in minority communities. New Zealand politicians on all sides of the political spectrum agreed to pass sweeping gun reform, banning military-style semi-automatic assault rifles throughout the nation three days after the shooting took place.

“Every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on Friday will be banned in this country … to make our community safer,” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, just before signing the legislation.

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto and several City Council members have tried to pass similar legislation in Pittsburgh, which would include a ban

on military-style assault rifles and bump stocks within City limits. But Peduto hasn’t enjoyed the same success as New Zealand lawmakers — critics say the proposal is “unenforceable and prone to civil rights violations.”

Haq said he doesn’t have the expertise to determine whether Pittsburgh and New Zealand’s gun policies will reduce the number of hate crimes against religious minorities, but he wants government leaders to stop posturing politically and pass laws they believe will actually save lives.

“When you get elected, you’re no longer a politician — you’re a leader for the people you represent,” Haq said. “You have to keep those people safe and encourage them to come together.”

When it comes to unity and good leadership, Haq believes all community leaders and politicians can follow Pittsburgh’s example.

“The way Pittsburgh has taken tragedies like Tree of Life and the Christchurch massacre and used them to strengthen our bonds makes me so proud to call myself a religious leader in this city,” Haq said. “We truly are stronger than hate.”

Maggie Young contributed reporting to this story.

Demonstrators march through downtown Pittsburgh at Monday’s student walkout. Kaycee Orwig | staff photographer

Cummings said. “Students are going to be the future legislators, voters, lawmakers, activists. If we can get enough students, then there can be change.”

Amber Hogan, another Allderdice student, said she helped grow the protest by creating a Snapchat filter promoting it at Allderdice, and that she had also encouraged students from Creative and Performing Arts — CAPA — and the Barack Obama Academy of International Studies to join. She called the Rosfeld verdict “bulls---.”

“This s--- should not happen anymore,” she said. “Like, come on. It is the 21st century. We need to move on from this.”

Bretta Bauerman, an undecided Pitt firstyear, said she came to the march because she believed people of color shouldn’t need to live in fear of being killed by police.

“A lot of people are stuck in this situation where they’re afraid of the police because they’re killing so many people of color,” Bauerman said.

“I don’t think I should be scared for my friends and that they should have to live their lives scared of the police.”

Maggie Young contributed reporting to this story.

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Two of the largest signs, carried by a rotating group of protesters — a banner that read “He was seventeen” and a portrait of Rose, draped in flowers — led the march as it moved through Downtown.

Organizers told protesters to remain in the street to stay safe. The group eventually stopped in front of the Allegheny County Jail, where protesters stood the portrait of Rose on the ground.

Student leaders addressed the crowd.

“I don’t want you to let this die here,” one leader, who did not give her name, said. “I want you to carry on his legacy. How many of you are going to carry Antwon Rose with you?”

The crowd cheered. One, Ben Cummings, a senior at Taylor Allderdice High School, clutched a rain-soaked copy of protesters’ demands. Though Pittsburgh Public Schools students weren’t officially excluded from class to participate in the walkout, Cummings and a friend said some of their teachers had encouraged students to come.

“The case with Antwon Rose hit a little too close to home for a lot of people in Pittsburgh,”

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Opinions

SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS Shooting survivors need more NEED TO DEPLATFORM mental health resources WHITE SUPREMACISTS from the editorial board

As more cities across the United States experience gun violence through mass shootings, there are more survivors and loved ones of victims who need access to resources to help them cope with what they have experienced.

Three people who had survived a mass shooting or whose loved one was killed in a shooting allegedly committed suicide in the past week. These people’s pain didn’t stop in the aftermath of the shootings, and they — as well as all others in their terrible position — deserved access to mental health resources to help them process and grieve what they lost.

Two survivors of the mass shooting last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, apparently committed suicide this past week because of the tragedy they experienced.

Sydney Aiello, a 19-year-old student who graduated from Stoneman Douglas last year, took her own life on March 17. She had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and suffered survivor’s guilt. A second student at Stoneman Douglas, 16 years old, died on Saturday of an apparent suicide, and his death is still under investigation.

Broward County Public Schools, the district that includes Stoneman Douglas, supplied counselors and therapy dogs to students immediately following the shooting. But for a lot of students and teachers, these short-term solutions were not enough and they had to seek help elsewhere.

“We have these documentary film people coming and saying, ‘Oh, the community is coming together,’ and kind of putting a beautiful bow on it,” Parkland Mayor Hunschofsky said. “And there’s a lot of good going on in our community.

But we cannot ignore what else is happening.”

And Parkland isn’t the only community facing this problem.

Police in Newtown, Connecticut, found 49-year-old Jeremy Richman dead of apparent suicide Monday. Newtown was the site of a mass shooting in 2012, in which the gunman shot and killed 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7,

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as well as six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Richman was the father of one of the children killed.

Richman, a neuroscientist, and his wife, Jennifer Hensel, started the Avielle Foundation in honor of their daughter to support research in neuroscience and behavior science, as well as to advocate for community engagement and education on these topics. The foundation gave a statement Monday to the Hartford Courant about the importance of reaching out to others at the same time one takes care of their own mental health.

“Tragically, his death speaks to how insidious and formidable a challenge brain health can be and how critical it is for all of us to seek help for ourselves, our loved ones and anyone who we suspect may be in need.”

Officials have been concerned it would take years for the community to process and feel the full impact of the shooting. Former Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy fears Richman’s apparent suicide and those of two Parkland shooting survivors would lead others to also commit suicide.

“We know it’s a challenge,” Malloy said. “These are long-term issues for people to deal with. The more there are, the more acceptable they seem to be, which of course they’re not. Now is the time for outreach.”

Outreach includes community programs for recognizing and talking to those who might be at risk for suicide, better access to mental health-care providers, lowering the stigma surrounding depression and mental illness and learning to reach out to others about their mental health.

Those affected by Newtown and Parkland are still working through their grief. Their communities need to invest in the time and resources to do so.

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Delilah Bourque

ing the Christchurch shooting.

All this came after Milo was banned permaMilo Yiannopoulos is $2 million in debt. The nently from Twitter in July 2016. Yiannopoulos’ former Breitbart News editor lost a book deal with views are nothing short of extreme, and one thing Simon & Schuster in 2017 after a podcast came to has certainly forced him to face the consequences of light, in which Yiannopoulos defended sexual rela- spreading extremist views: taking away his platform.

Yiannopoulos’ recent misfortunes shows that tionships between adults and 13-year-old children.

When financial backer Matthew Mellon died in deplatforming him works to stop the spread of his Senior Staff Columnist

Eli Savage | contributing editor April of last year and was no longer able to invest, Yiannopoulos was forced to lay off all of the staff at his company, Milo Entertainment Inc., as no one else was willing to support him.

Now, Yiannopoulos has resorted to making Christian rock music and selling his possessions via Instagram. He’s even banned from entering Australia after making comments attacking Islam follow-

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hateful views. Social media companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have already contributed to the reduction in attacks by ISIS on their platforms by taking away the voice of extremists, and we need to step up such actions against white supremacists and bigoted provocateurs.

Read the rest online at Pittnews.com.

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Culture

2019 ‘GREEK SING’ PLEASES PERFORMERS

Amanda Giamalis

For The Pitt News As the lights went down on a packed Fitzgerald Field House Friday night, the air filled with a multitude of chants, cheers and applause. In total, 20 total fraternities and sororities gathered in one place for a night of dancing, singing and friendly competition all in the name of a great cause.

Finishing off Pitt’s Greek Week, “Greek Sing” 2019 brought a large crowd to the field house. The event is held annually as a spirit event for Pitt’s Greek life, but also as a fundraiser for the Children’s Miracle Network.

Each team, a pairing of at least one sorority and fraternity, was formed in October. In the five months between then and performance day, each group was tasked with picking a theme and choreographing nine dances fitting a certain theme — like recreating a movie marathon or episode of the show “Survivor” in dance form — in time for the show. Each dance had to fit in the alloted 11 minutes to qualify.

Pi Kappa Alpha and Tri Delta got meta with “Freaky Friday,” featuring the group hitting a bit of a snag in their “Greek Sing” rehearsals when the guys and girls switched bodies as a punishment for not cooperating with each other, barely pulling it together in time for the big performance. Delta Phi Epsilon, Alpha Epsilon Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon also found themselves victims of a strange transformation during their performance of “Amazing Comics: The Adventures of Greek Sing.” The group danced its way through the story of its mutation into unstoppable supervillians with some OG-Marvel-comic-inspired special effects, including a quick tribute to Stan Lee. It seemed quite a few of the groups had a bit of nostalgia for high school,

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Kappa Delta, Phi Kappa Theta and FIJI’s first-place “The Office” performance at Friday’s “Greek Sing.” Bader Abdulmajeed | staff photographer with Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Pi and Sigma Phi Epsilon showcasing a daring escape from detention for crimes such as dancing on the lunch tables or having too much drip, all the while in their school uniforms. The high school senior-week-inspired performance by Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Pi Lambda Phi, “Road Trip Across America,” featured creative numbers inspired by different landmarks in the United States — and yes, of course, a kick line to “New York, New York” by Frank Sinatra, the trap remix. Even Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Beta Rho

got in on the wild school-days-inspired action, whipping out the school uniforms for their “Senior Skip Day” theme.

The winners among the teams of fraternities and sororities were decided by three judges — Miss Laurel Highlands 2019 Theresa Dickerson, Pitt cheer and dance team coach Theresa Nuzzo and Pitt assistant athletic director Blair Dunkle, who ultimately chose Kappa Delta, Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Kappa Theta’s meme-filled “The Office” performance as the winner. In second place came Delta Zeta and Beta Theta Pi with “Beauty and the Geek,”

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and for third place, Phi Sigma Rho and Pi Kappa Phi with “Movie Marathon.”

For the performers, it was not about winning, however. It was about raising money for the Children’s Miracle Network. The teams raise money for the Miracle Network through sales of tickets and also throughout the night of the event, when money is put in the different fan-favorite jars of the respective teams.

Best friends and brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon Ll’Rae Robinson, Crandall Jones and AJ Jones were among the many fraternity brothers from across all of Pitt’s IFC and NPHC fraternities that stepped up to represent their organizations. The trio agrees that it was the time spent rehearsing that made their Greek Sing experience worthwhile.

“When we started, we didn’t know a single person [from the organizations we worked with], and now we’re super close,” Crandall Jones, a sophomore neuroscience major, said.

According to AJ Jones, the sorority ladies, some with extensive dance or cheer experience, put in most of the choreography work. This year, they all whipped their male counterparts into top-performance shape. This trio particularly recounted how Chi Omega schooled them in the art of dance.

“Before this, I did not even know what a kick-ball change was. We definitely learned some jargon,” AJ Jones, a sophomore undecided major and member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said.

Sometimes, performing for a big crowd can be nerve-racking. However, for the performers at “Greek Sing,” the nerves disappeared as soon as they realized they were having the time of their lives with their close friends.

“When we got out there [on stage], none of us were nervous, we just knew See Greek Sing on page 5

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Greek Sing, pg. 4 we were gonna have such a good time that nothing else mattered at that point,” Robinson, a sophomore finance major, said.

For AJ Jones and his pals, performing at the event was a great way to get them out and doing something they never would have done otherwise.

“Overall it was a really valuable experience, stepping out of your comfort zone and doing something completely

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different,” AJ Jones said.

Tucker Yovetich, a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and sophomore communication major, also danced in Friday night’s performance. For him, the work put in to prepare the performance was definitely worth being able to share the stage with some of his best friends and some new friends as well.

“It was a lot of work and a time commitment but it really paid off in the performance,” Yovetich said. “Getting to know members of other Greek Delta Zeta and Beta Theta Pi’s second place “Beauty and the Geek” perfororganizations was really cool, too.” mance. Bader Abdulmajeed | staff photographer

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Sports

Sweet, sweet victory: A Sweet Sixteen update pittnews.com

NEW BASEBALL, SOFTBALL COACHES GET RUDE AWAKENING

Stephen Thompson

Staff Writer This past summer was one of change for both Pitt softball and baseball. Both programs brought in new head coaches in an attempt to solidify the programs as contenders in conferences that traditionally provide stiff competition. But despite strong foundations to build upon, both coaches have struggled to pick up wins in the opening months of their tenures. Pitt fans will have to be patient if they want to see results.

Jodi Hermanek, formerly the head softball coach at Ohio University, was named to the head position of Pitt’s program in August 2018 after former head coach Holly Aprile left for the same job at Louisville.

Hermanek’s resumé is just as impressive as it is long. In 14 seasons as head coach at Ohio and Southern Utah University, she amassed 397 wins, four conference tournament titles, three regular season conference titles, four NCAA tournament appearances and is the winningest coach in Ohio University history.

Despite a successful four-year run that featured three 30-win seasons, an ACC Coastal division championship and the program’s first NCAA tournament berth, Pitt softball was still struggling to find success in postseason softball. That’s where Hermanek’s experience building a perennial contender at Ohio and Southern Utah was supposed to impact Pitt softball the most.

Hermanek inherited a hungry, veteran-laden squad that, despite losing valuable contributors on offense and on the mound, returned a solid defense and 2018 All ACC selection in senior infielder Olivia Gray.

Entering this season, Hermanek seemingly had all the tools needed to lead Pitt to another successful season. But the Panthers are off to an abysmal 4-25 start, already exceeding their total losses from last season by seven games. The Panthers have suffered injuries to a number of key starters, which has thrown some young and inexperienced players into the fire early.

The Panthers’ pitching staff has taken the brunt of those setbacks. First-year Abby Edwards has had to shoulder much of the load for an undermanned staff. Edwards has already appeared in 18 games this

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season and pitched 58.2 innings, but has struggled.

She currently holds a 5.61 earned run average and has struck out only 14 batters compared to 34 walks.

Defense and pitching are two aspects the Panthers hoped to hang their hat on once again after strong performances from those units in 2018. But the Panthers currently are at the very bottom in the ACC in team ERA and are 10 out of 12 teams in fielding percentage.

In addition to their struggles keeping opposing offenses off the scoreboard, a sluggish offense continues to plague the Panthers through the beginning of conference play. The Panthers currently sit dead

started long before their first game –– they need to find their identity.

The Panthers clearly relied on their pitching and defense to carry an offense that could be inconsistent at times last year. This year, no phase of the Panthers’ game is accounting for or covering another. With a new coaching staff, that’s understandable. Adjusting to new coaches and expectations can be difficult, but for a team with as much returning talent as the Panthers, the sudden decline is somewhat inexplicable.

But with more than a month left, there is still time for Hermanek to turn things around.

As for Pitt baseball, it was left in a more precari-

Softball head coach Jodi Hermanek at Pitt’s 11-9 loss to Ohio University.

Thomas Yang | assistant visual editor last in the conference in batting average, runs scored and on base percentage. And after finishing second in the conference in home runs a year ago, Pitt is currently seventh in that same category.

The bottom line is that what worked for the Panthers in 2018 is not working for them in 2019.

They aren’t hitting for power, nor are they defending or pitching at as high a level as they were when they won a Coastal Division championship a year ago.

Much of those struggles can be attributed to injuries and having to force inexperienced players into new roles, but that ties into another problem that

ous situation than the softball program. After the Panthers fell to Louisville in the ACC tournament and missed out on the NCAA Tournament for the 23rd straight year, head coach Joe Jordano resigned after 21 seasons at the helm.

Former Florida State associate head coach Mike Bell was named Pitt baseball’s fifth all-time head coach by Athletic Director Heather Lyke after a short search that lasted only about three weeks.

Bell brought plenty of high-level experience from some of the nation’s top programs. He has coached teams to the College World Series four

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times, including twice at his last job in Tallahassee, where, in addition to being the associate head coach, he was also the pitching coach for the powerhouse Seminoles.

Bell had to embrace a new challenge when he accepted the job at Pitt. In the last six seasons, Pitt has finished with a winning record. But compared to Florida State’s eight ACC championships and a 43year NCAA Tournament appearance streak, it was clear that Bell was in for a rude awakening.

Baseball has not fared much more fortunately than its counterparts on the softball field in the young season. Pitt’s record currently sits at 7-15 overall and 1-8 in the conference play.

It appears that Bell’s heralded experience as a pitching coach has not yet rubbed off on his staff so far. The Panthers once again occupy the cellar of the conference in ERA, hits allowed and runs allowed.

And like in softball, the Panther offense has struggled. They rank last in home runs and runs scored, and second-to-last in batting average.

For baseball, the source of their struggles are more easily identifiable. The Panthers lost multiple key contributors from their 2018 squad. Infielders Frank Maldonado and Liam Sabino, Pitt’s two biggest offensive contributors from a season ago, were lost to graduation and the draft, respectively. Matt Pidich, 2018 team leader in ERA, was also drafted and signed by the Cincinnati Reds.

Bell, unlike Hermanek, is building his program largely from the ground up and will need time before he can find the kind of success he was accustomed to at Florida State. It will be an adjustment, given where Bell came from, and there is no quick fix. Building Pitt baseball into a successful program requires the kind of player development that takes multiple seasons to yield results.

There is still time for both of these programs to turn things around, but early returns are not promising. Plus, both teams are already in the thick of ACC play, where they will face their most challenging competition. However, while these struggles are concerning, it’s unreasonable to judge any coach on their first season, let alone their first 30 games. Both Hermanek and Bell have impressive resumés, but have found their new jobs to present obstacles that will take time to overcome.

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upon move in. Avail‑ able spring, summer and fall. Contact Sue at 412‑720‑4756.

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Brett/Thames Manor Apts. (Ellsworth & S. Negley Ave.) near CMU and Pitt.

Stu­dio‑One‑Two bed­ room apts. available for immediate move in. On bus line, close to restaurants and shops. *CALL IN FOR SPECIALS!* Contact Jerry at 412‑722‑8546

412‑770‑4419

Shadyside: 1 and

2BR, great location, hardwood floors.

Free heat. Immedi‑ ate occupancy. Call 412‑361‑2695

Shadyside: Studio ($740) or 2 Bedroom ($1190). Quiet, clean, well‑main­tained apartment house.

Great location ‑ in heart of Shady­side!

Fully equipped kitchenette, A/C, laundry, wall‑to‑wall carpeting. Near Pitt shuttle and city busline and shopping.

No pets, no smoking.

Available Aug. 1st.

412‑628‑1686.

Southside A very nice 2BR

apartment is avail­able with a start date of

June 1. Located in a large apartment

building that primar­ily houses university

students, this apart­

ment is updated with skylights, appliances

and it’s own laundry.

Building has a shared courtyard which has a grill and tables for re­laxing outside.

pittnews.com

ing. Rent is $1299/ mo. +utilities. If

inter­ested call Louis

Rental Other Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2019 & sooner. Oak­land, Shadyside, Friend‑ ship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availabil‑ ity online, check out www.forbesmanage­ ment.net, or call 412.441.1211

Employment Employment Other Comfort Keepers, a Post‑Gazette Top Workplace, is seek­ing caring individu­als.

Caregivers work alongside seniors to provide companion­ ship, light housekeep­ ing, personal care ser­ vices. Flexible hours available. If inter­ested call 412‑363‑5500 OFFICE INTERN Shadyside Manage­ ment Company seeks person w/ min 2 yrs. college, for upcom­ing spring semester, to interview & pro­cess rental appli­cants, do internet post‑ ings & help staff our action‑central of­fice.

Either Part time or full time OK now; full time over the summer. $13/hour. Perfect job for sopho­mores & juniors, se­niors

planning to en­ter grad school, re­turning grad students, and first‑year law stu­dents!

Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com SUMMER WORK Shadyside Manage­ ment Company needs full‑time dependable landscapers, painters, and assistant roofers for the summer. Must be at least 18 years old. No experience necessary. $11/hour plus additional atten­ dance bonuses are available, if earned.

Work involves land­ scaping, painting, roofing, and general labor. Perfect sum­ mer job for college students!

Mozart Management phone:412‑682‑7003 email:thane @mozartrents.com Team Scotti (insur­ ance broker for major league baseball) seek­ ing an information technology intern to assist in technical sup‑ port, troubleshoot­ing issues, organiza­tion and maintaining IT resources. Help with upgrading net­work equipment, as­sisting IT and other depart‑ ments with re­ports, tracking hard­ware and software in­ventory and other du­ties as assigned. Ideal candidate would have strong computer skills and a passion to learn. Fa­miliarity with Access is required.

Ability to work in a team en­vironment as well as independently is nec­essary. Contact Dave Webster at dweb­ster@team‑ scotti.com for further informa­tion.

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