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Students inspired to move at TEDx event

John Fetterman, mayor of Braddock, told students his story which led him to fight social injustice. Will Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ical practices.

Erin Hare “I am here to start a revolution in health care, Staff Writer and the time is now,” Harling said. “It’s time to When Kerry Harling got sick of organizing change how we give a pill for every ill.” her pills in daily containers each week, she deHarling’ s talk was during the last of Saturcided to nix medication altogether. day’s TEDx University of Pittsburgh event, a sixHarling suffered from countless illnesses speaker series that drew about 300 students and before realizing she could fix her body with community members from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. an alternative form of medicine that focuses in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room. The on individualized treatment, called Aryuveda. event centered on one unifying theme: “Move.”

The treatment consists of lifestyle changes and Student Government Board member Jacky dietary restrictions, based on holistic medical Chen booked Harling, along with five other lopractices, such as yoga and breathing exercises, cal professionals in politics, medicine and city to heal patients. planning: Janera Solomon, executive director of Though she maintained through a TEDx Kelly Strayhorn Theatre; Christopher Seymour, talk Saturday that she is not a doctor, Harling professor of critical care and emergency medisaid she healed her illnesses through Aryuveda cine at UPMC; Raymond Gastil, director of city and now wants to turn the health care industry planning for Pittsburgh; John Fetterman, mayor as a whole away from pills and toward conof Braddock; and Michael Boninger, professor scious, healthy lifestyles. As an Ayurvedic pracand chair of physical medicine at UPMC. titioner at UPMC Center for Integrative MediChen said the event, which aimed to showcine, Harling said she has the resources to make case succinct and interesting talks similar to the serious change.

TED Talk live events and podcasts, centered Her talk, part of Pitt’s second annual TEDx on the theme “Move” to draw attention to how event, focused on Harling’s personal experiences bodies move, what moves individuals and how with Aryuveda and Holistic Highway, an online

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TEDx, pg. 2 Pittsburgh is moving forward. The talks ranged from tales of battling social inequality to traditional and alternative medicine to city planning.

Each presenter spoke in front of the backdrop of a map of Oakland crisscrossed with the routes students reported walking the most and representative of the “flow of ideas across campus,” according to Chen.

In her presentation, Harling focused on the internal flow of ideas through meditation and yoga.

According to Harling, scientists have shown that the benefits of meditation and yoga outweigh the benefits of sleep education and medication for insomnia sufferers, which plagues one in two American adults. Medical practitioners, Harling said, should incorporate these findings into their treatment.

“Can you imagine the benefits of seeing a doctor that understands that time in nature is what calms the central nervous system?” Harling said. “That understands that too much visual stimulation hypersensitizes our children, and understands that stillness in every day is what calms and rejuvenates us?”

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Despite the encouraging imagery, some student attendees were hesitant to place meditation above pharmaceuticals.

Ariel Epouhe, a junior neuroscience and psychology double major, said Harling’s ideology breaches acceptability when it comes to dealing with ailments.

“It seemed like a good idea, definitely, an alternative to modern medicine,” Epouhe said, but also said Harling overstated the effectiveness of her approach.

Epouhe heard about the TEDx event through word of mouth as well as Facebook. Epouhe turned out for the excitement of seeing a TED talk, with its strong reputation and notability, live in person.

Kicking off the second and last section of three talks, John Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock and candidate for Pat Toomey’s seat in the U.S. Senate, spoke about what moved him to fight social injustice.

According to Fetterman, Braddock is the poorest community in Allegheny County.

“I am working to close this gap, working against inequality, working against this disparity that exists in this society,” Fetterman said. “It’s now the [home of the] last steel mill, which is a

really remarkable thing to say. It’d be like going to San Francisco and saying this is the last software company,” Fetterman said.

Rather than focusing on his work in Braddock, Fetterman’s talk told the story of what moved him to pursue a path of fighting social injustice. Twenty-three years ago, he said, his best friend died suddenly in a car accident.

“It moved me to consider my own mortality.

It moved me to consider, ‘John, you could wake up tomorrow morning and not know that you only had 20 minutes to live,’” Fetterman said.

He decided that something good had to come from the tragedy. So he joined Big Brothers Big Sisters, a mentorship program for underprivileged children.

Fetterman mentored an 8-year-old boy named Nick, whose parents would die of AIDS before his ninth birthday. Nick moved Fetterman to reconsider his whole life trajectory.

“The random lottery of birth that gave me a cushy life, that gave me two graduate degrees and no student loan debt,” Fetterman said. “The same random lottery that made him an AIDS orphan before his ninth birthday. Something has to be Kerry Harling, UPMC employee, preached the benefits of meditation done.” over medication. Will Miller STAFF See TEDx on page 4 PHOTOGRAPHER

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Pitt ranked 29th among best large employers Lauren Rosenblatt Assistant News Editor

Based on employee responses, Forbes Media has ranked Pitt among the country’s top large employers.

Pitt ranked 29th overall of 500 companies included in the country’s top large employers in a survey of employee satisfaction from Forbes Media and Statista, an online statistics company. The companies surveyed more than 30,000 workers at companies with more than 5,000 employees about their feelings toward their employers and if they would recommend the employer to someone else.

Pitt, which employs 13,000 people across all five campuses, according to the University of Pittsburgh Fact Book 2016, ranked third among universities in the country. Massachusetts Institute of Tech-

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nology and Duke University ranked above Pitt as first and second, respectively.

Pitt was the only Pennsylvania school included in the rankings and was ranked first among 15 Pennsylvania employers, including Penn Medicine, PPG Industries, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Wawa.

Nationally, Marathon Petroleum, a transportation and fuel corporation, took the top spot with Google in second place.

Ronald Frisch, vice chancellor of human resources, said in a release he was not surprised Pitt employees rated their employer among one of the best large companies.

“The University of Pittsburgh has a fantastic heritage, built on a foundation of dedicated staff and faculty who every day share their pride and passion to serve a community of leaders,” Frisch said.

While Fetterman’s speech focused on action toward patching social injustice, Christopher Seymour, professor of critical care and emergency medicine at University of Pittsburgh Medical School, presented on diagnosing sepsis in the emergency room.

“Sepsis is the condition that kills most people in the hospital, but only 5 or 10 percent of people randomly surveyed have even heard of the word,” Seymour said.

Sepsis is the body’s response to infection where it injures its own tissues and organs. However, sepsis diagnosis suffers from what Seymour calls “the platypus problem.”

A platypus is a creature that defies classification, Seymour said, and falls squarely between the classes of birds and mammals — a phenomenon that plagues the field of medicine, as well.

He said, often medical patients show symptoms that show two potential diagnoses: sepsis, or a nonlife-threatening infection. The platypus problem ensues — doctors don’t know how to treat something they can’t accurately or easily classify, which, in this case, is sepsis.

“How are we going to move sepsis forward?”

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Seymour said. In a massively collaborative effort involving 170 hospitals across two countries, Seymour and his colleagues developed a system for quickly and accurately identifying sepsis.

Seymour said some have called this project one of the largest clinical research studies in the field to date.

They identified just three features — altered mental state, elevated respiratory rate and low blood pressure — that can identify 75 percent of patients who die from sepsis.

“Oftentimes we trade simple things that are quick and easy and low-cost for accurate things,” Seymour said.

There is still a platypus problem in diagnosing sepsis, Seymour said, and accurate diagnosis must go beyond vital signs, but as time is of the essence, identifying septic patients early is critical for saving lives.

Chen said after the event, he was happy to find the five months of planning that he and his team put into TEDx was worth it.

“Overall all of the speakers had interesting ideas and ideas worth spreading,” Chen said.

“Hopefully students walked away with a different perspective and will be inspired to do something.”

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Opinions

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from the editorial board

GOP candidates should attack sexism, not wives Republican presidential candidates have decided to trade the debate stage for social media’s spotlight.

Last week, an anti-Trump SuperPAC called Make America Awesome began circulating an ad featuring a nude photo of Melania Trump. The picture served as a cover for British GQ in 2000 and shows Melania Trump laying naked on a bed of furs, handcuffed to a leather suitcase — all of which was shot on Donald Trump’s private jet. The ad tells viewers, “Meet Melania Trump.

Your Next First Lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”

In response, Donald Trump began blaming the Cruz campaign for approving the ad, even claiming that the campaign had purchased and distributed the GQ photo.

Trump has continued tweeting threats to release embarrassing information about Cruz’s wife, Heidi, which he repeated on ABC’s “This Week.” Cruz responded by denying involvement in the initial ad and accusing Trump of having no boundaries to his attacks.

The Republican primary is devolving into a high school Twitter battle. There is no longer a core policy difference — on ISIS, immigration or otherwise — dominating the Republican primary. Worse, the responses to these pointless attacks completely overlook why they are actually so terrible. There is no mention of slut-shaming or sexism, even though they are clearly visible. If Cruz or Donald Trump truly wanted to make this fight worth something, instead of attacking each other further, they should have just called these attacks out for what they are: reminders of how Republicans have betrayed women.

Political attacks on the family of a candidate are nothing new. Both liberals and conservatives publicly mocked a teenage Chelsea Clinton for her appearance, and in 2004, Cindy McCain suffered through baseless accusations of drug addiction. Even Bernie Sanders’ wife, Jane, has been the target of attacks that she doesn’t look like a “typical First Lady.”

But sexuality in particular has plagued presidential spouses as far back as Andrew Jackson’s wife, Rachel. It

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continues today, with Hillary Clinton facing demands to atone for her husband’s alleged sexual impropriety, even though Bill is not the candidate this cycle.

The initial ad attacking Melania Trump is a textbook case of slut-shaming. Accentuating her sexuality and forwarding her own modeling career in no way disqualifies her from serving as First Lady. That doesn’t mean the attacks won’t work, but it shouldn’t be happening at all. And the two people capable of ending it — Donald Trump and Cruz — are in no position to speak up for the people they have so intensely alienated.

Had Donald Trump attacked the ad based on its evident sexism instead of delving into petty threats of retaliation, he might have received his first positive news coverage all year. But doing so would both contradict his hostile campaign approach and place him in an awkward position, as he has consistently been sexist himself.

Whether he was accusing Megyn Kelly of being mean due to menstruation or mocking Rosie O’Donnell’s weight, Donald Trump’s record with women is appalling.

Cruz rejects that employers should have to provide paid family leave, denies that women still face a gap in wages and is staunchly pro-life. Taking the moral high ground on the treatment of women would seem equally out of line with his campaign platform thus far.

But the candidates owe it to the women they hope to serve to call out the sexism infecting this election. The race should be based on policy, not gender politics. On both areas, the sides are failing to show why they are better than the other. Defending women from baseless, sexist attacks is not a partisan issue — it’s just part of being a decent person. Taking the lead is an opportunity to show that women still have a place in the Republican party, not a risk.

That the campaigns seem to think their only possible response is to go on offense speaks to how out of touch the GOP is with women.

American women deserve better than Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Evidently, so do their wives.

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Trump makes us blind to cruz Amber Montgomery For The Pitt News

statements and support for extreme Christian beliefs.

If Trump is unacceptable because of the racial and religious bigotry his ideas invite, Cruz’s own support for bigoted rhetoric should be equally alarming. Cruz has rallied a pack of very passionate — and very prejudiced — endorsers behind him. But the problem isn’t just that these people support him, it’s that Cruz readily associates himself with them.

One of his followers is Mike Bickle, the minister leader of the International House of Prayer, an evangelical megachurch that launches missionary projects in Uganda to preach the evils of homosexuality. Bickle donates money to churches and organizations in Uganda with explicitly anti-gay agendas, praising the Ugandan government for “The Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014” — better known as the “Kill the Gays Bill.”

Bickle has also openly stated his belief that Jews will be exterminated if they don’t embrace Jesus and that homosexuality “opens the door to the demonic realm.” Cruz has wholeheartedly embraced Bickle’s support, saying he is grateful for his “dedication to call a generation of young people to prayer and spiritual connection.”

Does anyone know what’s up with Ted Cruz?

When we’re all so occupied complaining about Donald Trump, it’s hard to tell. Everyone from Fox News to MSNBC to John Oliver can’t get enough of the business mogul.

A Trump presidency would be terrifying, damaging and probably laughable. But while he is unpredictable, he isn’t a completely unreasonable ideologue.

He doesn’t stand fast to many hard-line ideological convictions and is a negotiator by trade. I could see him cutting a deal on health care or climate change, even just to say he did.

Meanwhile Ted Cruz, the Republican closest to Trump in the polls, is as strict a zealot as they come and he’s been holding fast to his radically conservative positions throughout the campaign.

But media personalities and voters desperate for an alternative to the billionaire are not paying attention to Cruz. We’re not giving him as much public scrutiny as he deserves. And it’s time we start.

There has been just as much questionable rhetoric surrounding Cruz and his campaign as there has been for Trump’s. Its message includes extreme, and often outright violent, anti-gay See Montgomery on page 7

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letter to the editor Dear Editor, As both a proud Pitt alumnus and someone who has long followed our state funding, I was disappointed by The Pitt News editorial regarding Gov. Tom Wolf ’s decision to let the budget and Pitt’s appropriation become law.

The editorial completely ignores the fight Pitt advocates have been waging over the last decade to maintain the state support Pitt deserves as one of the commonwealth’s top academic and research institutions.

Just five years ago, Pitt advocates

weren’t asking legislators to be #WithPitt but begging the General Assembly to #KeepPittPublic.

Here’s why: In 2011, Gov. Tom Corbett also faced a deficit and, to close the gap, proposed cutting Pitt’s state funding in half. Yes, you read that right — a 50 percent reduction. After months of work by students and advocates, the legislature relented a bit but still cut Pitt’s funding by about 21 percent — $40,000,000 — instead of finding new revenue.

For the first time, this year was dif-

ferent. Gov. Wolf proposed fully restoring cuts to Pitt over two years. Republicans rejected this, but ultimately did give Pitt a small increase.

Gov. Wolf has showed time and again his commitment to Pitt and Pennsylvania’s other world-class higher education institutions. Indeed, the first University leader who met with Gov. Wolf in 2015 after his inauguration was Chancellor Patrick Gallagher.

Don’t fall into the trap of seeking to avoid difficult choices as Harrisburg has done for decades. Pitt students should

stand with Gov. Wolf and call for the legislature to fix the deficit and invest more in higher education.

Because, if any Pitt supporter thinks that the legislature won’t consider cutting Pitt again in order to avoid the task of finding sustainable revenue to close Pennsylvania’s $2 billion deficit — think again. History, unfortunately, tends to repeat itself.

J.J. Abbott Deputy Press Secretary for Gov. Tom Wolf Pitt Class of 2009

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The day before the conference, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Cruz if he thought it would be appropriate to attend such an event, citing Cruz’s complaints about “liberal intolerance.”

Tapper wondered if it was hypocritical to support such “conservative intolerance.”

Sen. Cruz effectively dodged the question, claiming he knew nothing about Swanson’s record. But Cruz’s father and political influence, Rafael Cruz, was one of the head speakers at the event. Obviously the ideological gap between the Cruz family and Swanson is not especially massive.

Former Republican candidates Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee joined Cruz at Swanson’s conference, but Right Wing Watch reported that there was a fourth Republican hopeful who had committed to attend and later withdrew after a simple Google search revealed the nature of Swanson’s beliefs.

Either Cruz was comfortable enough to appear or his staff failed to do basic research into who the candidate supports. But neither backing of these ideas or careless social association are acceptable in a president.

Cruz did admit his attendance at the conference was a mistake in late February — four months after the fact.

Even if Cruz knew nothing of the pastor’s radical views before taking the stage, this doesn’t let him entirely off the hook. Politicians can’t embrace the personal values of endorsers and pretend their accompanying statements never happened. Republicans happily reminded President Obama of that

when they attacked Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

David Barton, president of Cruz’s Super PAC fundraiser, Keep the Promise, has spoken in defense of Cruz saying, “Unless the candidate himself personally associates himself and makes that a part of what he does, the guilt by association is ridiculous. Where do you stop and at what level do you call association?”

To me, it’s fair to call something an “association” when a presidential candidate continually presents himself around people and speeches that argue for radical, violent ideas and action.

Sure, Cruz isn’t preaching the hatred himself. It’s true that Cruz isn’t openly endorsing gay genocide. While he personally doesn’t believe in gay marriage, he says he’s simply a federalist — preferring to leave it up the states.

But these arguments are presented at his own events and in his name, and he says nothing about the speakers beyond praising supposed strong faith and character. This is no better than Trump supporters rallying behind xenophobia at his events, but Cruz’s supporters brush it off as part of defending the Constitution.

All of the candidates have some questionable endorsements — Trump has former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and a host of other white supremacists supporting him. The larger problem here is that few people seem to be critiquing Cruz in a comprehensive way like they do other candidates.

Cruz is able to sit back and avoid the intense scrutiny that would normally weaken and deflate his campaign.

Rachel Maddow did some brief coverage of the Swanson event on MSNBC, as did CNN’s Jake Tapper — but other than that there’s been nothing more than a smattering of blogs and online articles.

And where is the GOP on this? Cruz has hoped that the Evangelical vote will win him the nomination, but his campaign’s radical rhetoric should have many questioning Cruz’s ability to capture moderate Republicans in a general election.

It works two-fold. The media isn’t reporting on Cruz in this way because no one is pressuring them to, and nobody knows a lot about it because nobody’s talking about it in the news.

They’re all too busy with the cornucopia of sound bites that is Donald Trump.

It’s easy to view Cruz as the more favorable option than Trump, especially considering the information the media gives us about the two. In a normal election, Cruz would be handling a large amount of heat that he’s simply not getting this year because of Trump.

Republicans are stuck playing the “lesser of two evils” game in this election. That they have to make a choice doesn’t mean one option is actually better than the other. Trump seems terrible, but Cruz is just as dangerous.

If we’re going to criticize bigots as serious candidates, we might as well be fair to all of them.

Joining Bickle is Phil Robertson, the reality TV star from A&E’s “Duck Dynasty.” He’s been known in the past for his ignorant and bigoted takes on homosexuality and race. He had previously denied the struggles of blacks in the Jim Crow South saying, “I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person ... They were happy, no one was singing the blues.”

Robertson opened a Cruz rally in Iowa in early February by calling marriage equality ‘‘evil,’’ ‘‘wicked’’ and ‘‘sinful,’’ saying, “They want us to swallow it ... We need to run this bunch out of Washington, D.C. We need to rid the earth of them. Get them out of there.”

Cruz took the stage shortly after without commenting on Robertson’s speech but did take the time to praise his values. “What a voice Phil has to speak out for the love of Jesus. What a joyful, cheerful, voice of truth,” Cruz said.

In a similar situation in November, Cruz attended a National Religious Liberties Conference hosted by Kevin Swanson, a Christian pastor with a history of being radically antigay.

Swanson gave a passionate speech at the conference in which he railed against “Harry Potter” and “How to Train Your Dragon” for their homosexual messages. Swanson also advocated for all homosexuals in America to face the death penalty — after they’ve been given time to repent, of course.

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Sports

Stallings hire draws ire from Pitt fan base

Dan Sostek Sports Editor

John Enright has been a Pitt fan through and through.

He started watching Pitt football at the age of 10 in the 1970s. He cherished Pitt’s basketball teams, starting with the 1978-1979 team, and eventually went on to cover the squad for this very paper in 1989.

Enright has been a season ticket holder for Pitt basketball games ever since the Petersen Events Center opened in 2002.

But with the announcement that Pitt has hired Kevin Stallings as the program’s next head coach to replace Jamie Dixon, the Panthers likely can’t count on his patronship anymore.

While two friends tried to convince Enright that he was being rash, he, like many others, took to Twitter to voice their displeasure with Stallings’ hiring by pledging to not renew his tickets for the upcoming season.

Enright tweeted, “@PittChancellor You lost a lot of loyal Pitt basketball fans today...shame on your AD...you just lost 4 season tickets from me. #H2P.” While Enright admits his tweet was “reactionary,” he leans toward keeping his word.

“I am seriously thinking about maybe not renewing this year coming up,” Enright said. “I

Pitt announced the hire of former Sunday afternoon. TNS want to see what direction the program takes.”

The hiring of Stallings “mystified” Enright, who said the coach didn’t fit any mold Pitt was looking for.

“I thought that they needed to make a logical good hire,” Enright said. “And some programs would try to make the sexy hire to win the press conference and re-energize the fanbase, and they didn’t do either thing. It’s not a sexy hire, it’s not a logical hire.”

Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings Like Enright, 33-year-old Pitt alum Marty Jordanhazy also tweeted out in protest of Stallings’ hire. But unlike Enright, Jordanhazy is much more steadfast in his decision not to renew his season tickets.

“It definitely feels like a slap in a face,” Jordanhazy, who has held season tickets since graduating from Pitt Law School in 2007, said. “Since I went to Pitt, I went to every home game.”

Much of the frustration comes from the fact

that Stallings sports a losing record in SEC play in his 17-year tenure at Vanderbilt. But one of his former players and Austin Peay State University assistant coach Julian Terrell, vouched for his former mentor.

“He adapts to everyone’s different personality. He grows players by being a mentor-slashfather figure to them,” Terrell said. “He’s got a great relationship with all his players. He wants the best out of everybody. So he expects that.

He’ll let you know that from day one that he expects the best.”

Terrell, who played for Vanderbilt from 2002-2006 and served as the Commodores’ director of video operations from 2013 to 2015, also defended Stallings’ character.

That attribute most notably came into question when, on a nationally televised game, viewers could hear Stallings scream at guard Wade Baldwin, “I’m going to f***ing kill you!,” after his guard clapped in University of Tennessee players’ faces following a win.

Stallings apologized for the incident, and Baldwin tweeted out after the game that he was not offended by his coach’s actions. According to Terrell, he believes the incident was actually beneficial.

“He’s not the first person to let that happen, See Fans on page 9

Pitt hires stallings as new head coach Dan Sostek Sports Editor

Sunday morning, the Easter Bunny didn’t bring eggs or candy to the Pitt community. Instead, it brought a coach.

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed various reports, officially announcing the hiring of Vanderbilt’s Kevin Stallings as the program’s new head basketball coach.

Stallings has served as the head coach for

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the Commodores for the past 17 seasons, compiling a 332-220 record. Before Vanderbilt, he served as the head coach at Illinois State from 1993-1999.

In a release, the 55-year-old coach heaped praise on his new city, while counting his blessings for the opportunity.

“Pitt has a tremendous basketball tradition, and I am looking forward to building on the excellent foundation that is in place on the court and in the classroom,” Stalling said. “The city of

Pittsburgh is outstanding and I have a great deal of respect for the people that make it such a special place. I look forward to seeing their support along with that of the Oakland Zoo next season at the Petersen Events Center.”

Stallings will replace Jamie Dixon, who left Pitt for his alma mater TCU after a 13-year run as head coach.

After noting that the two share the same goal of getting Pitt to the Final Four, Athletic Director Scott Barnes lauded Stallings’ track

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record.

“Kevin has a successful track record recruiting the ACC footprint and beyond, and is one of the best coaches in the country at building an offense around his talent,” Barnes said in the release. “He plays a fun, up-tempo style that players love and fans will enjoy. Kevin runs his program with impeccable character and has a high care factor and connection with his See Hire on page 9

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Fans, pg. 8 he’s not going to be the last person. It was one incident,” Terrell said. “Their relationship probably got stronger after that happened. Wade was a guy that, if you’ve got a problem with him, you’ve gotta tell him straight up.”

Terrell said he doesn’t think the incident should deter any players from committing to play for Stallings at Pitt.

Terrell wasn’t the only person to come out and defend the Stallings hire. ESPN’s Seth Greenberg, former Pitt and current Mississippi State head coach Ben Howland, CBS’ Doug Gottlieb and various former Vanderbilt players — including Baldwin — also tweeted their support.

Still, those positive vibes won’t mend fences so easily with fans like Enright or Jordanhazy. Both seem troubled by the entire process of the hire.

“After this I literally have no faith in him. As this was going on people were saying how bad of hire this is,” Jordanhazy said. “It’s not just Pitt fans, but national writers. I don’t know how you can mess up on something so much.”

Enright was more concerned by a particular quote Barnes uttered at his press conference announcing former head coach Jamie Dixon’s departure.

When discussing how prepared an administrator should be for a search like the one that was

Hire, pg. 8 student-athletes.”

Stallings is a Purdue alum, and was an assistant coach there from 1982-1988, as well as at Kansas from 1988-1993.

Pitt’s new coach went to work quickly, as Stallings offered a scholarship to Paul VI Catholic High School of Fairfax, Virginia, point guard Aaron Thompson, according to Thompson’s Twitter account. Stallings had previously offered Thompson while at Vanderbilt.

Thompson is a teammate of Pitt signee Corey Manigault, who told The Pitt News that he was waiting to see who the Panthers hired at head coach before determining whether or not he would ask to be released.

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about to commence, Barnes said that, “If you’re an AD worth your salt, you better have a list [of potential head coaches] in your pocket.”

After Stallings’ hire, Enright is worried when looking back at the statement.

“I don’t know what frightens me more,” Enright said. “If Kevin Stallings was one of those names, or if Kevin Stallings was not one of those names.”

Even with Pitt fans voicing these concerns, Terrell has confidence that Stallings will succeed at Pitt, citing that Stallings is the winningest coach in Vanderbilt history.

“He’ll come in there and he’ll change things, he’ll run the program the way he wants to,” Terrell said. “I think it’ll be for the better.”

Still, the Pitt fan base will want to see proof.

Both Enright and Jordanhazy have said they want to see Stallings compile a significant amount of wins before considering buying into him.

Jordanhazy even said that, while he’ll still pay attention to Pitt basketball, he’ll likely watch the Jamie Dixon-led TCU team more.

He admits that one person will be pleased with his surrendering of his season tickets.

“My wife’s pretty pumped,” Jordanhazy said.

“Because I won’t be wasting as much time going to Pitt basketball games and spending money on it.”

Jeremy Tepper contributed reporting.

Stallings also has some prior history with a current Pitt player. Pitt forward and Beaver County native Sheldon Jeter signed with Stallings and Vanderbilt out of high school, but decided to transfer after his freshman year, hoping to go closer to home.

But Stallings blocked Jeter’s attempt to transfer to Pitt, forcing him to play at Polk State College for a season before eventually becoming a Panther.

Stallings inherits a team that went 21-12 this season, losing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Wisconsin.

Barnes will officially introduce Stallings at a press conference at the Petersen Events Center Monday at 2:30 p.m.

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I Rentals & Sublet N D E X -NORTH OAKLAND -SOUTH OAKLAND -SHADYSIDE -SQUIRREL HILL -SOUTHSIDE -NORTHSIDE -BLOOMFIELD -ROOMMATES -OTHER

3 bedroom apartment. $1450 (utilities included). 704 Enfield St. 5 bedroom house. $2200 + utilties. 35 Enfield St. Call 412-969-2790.

Very large estate located 1/2 block from Ruskin Hall. Offering a 2nd & 3rd floor with a semi-private entrance with 6 BR, 3 BA, large kitchen, common lounge great for studying or entertaining guests. Lots of closets, original restored hardwood floors, partially furnished. Free limited parking. Free laundry room included. Free internet. $700 per person. Can divide each floor into 3 BR each.

No lease required but rental term available for duration of school year. E-mail felafelman@gmail.com. ****************** Large 6 bedroom house for rent. Fall occupancy.

Atwood Street.

Close to campus.

Please call Gary at 412-807-8058 1,2,3,5,6, & 8 bedroom houses. August & May 2016.

Bouquet, Atwood, Ward & Dawson.

Please call 412-287-5712.

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**Large efficiences, 1 & 2 bedroom apartments available for August 2016. Clean, walking distance to campus. Great location. $575-$630$900-$1100. Utilities included. No pets/ smoking or parties. 412-882-7568. +++5 bedroom, 2 full baths, huge house, nicely updated, shuttle across street, washer/dryer, $2595+, August 1, photos www.tinyurl.com/pittnewsad4 coolapartments@gmail.com 724-935-2663 1-7 BR apartment/house for rent. Dishwasher, washer/dryer, shuttlebus near property. Also for rent, one 5 BR house in Shadyside. Near CMU & Pitt bus.

Call 412-609-4340.

2 bedroom. 343 McKee Place. $1200 (heat included).

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom house. 3201 Niagra St. $1200. A/C, dishwasher, washer and dryer.

1 bedroom. 365 Ophelia St. $550+ electric.

Call 412-969-2790.

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2-3 bedroom apartments for rent located on Atwood St, Dawson St, and McKee Place. For more information or to schedule a viewing, please call 412-849-8694.

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2529 Allequippa Street Apartment Available For Rent

By Trees Hall beginning August 1st--$1200 2 Bedrooms w/ Central air + BHK--Please call 412-721-8888 if interested.

310 Semple Street, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. $1500 for 2 person occupancy, $1600 for 3 person occupancy including gas, water, and electric. Very close to campus. Off street parking available. 412-559-6073. marknath12@gmail.com

3104 Niagara Street 6 Bedroom House Available for Rent for $2500--BHK--no utilities but includes central air--Please call 412-721-8888 if interested.

311-1/2 Semple St. 2BR Unfurnished Apartment. For fall 2016 occupancy.

Kitchen, bath, living room, basement, front porch, back patio. 2 blocks from Forbes Ave. Dishwasher, disposal.

New gas range. New bathroom. Ceramic floor. New vanity and fixtures. Must see. $1200/month+utilities. Call 412-681-3636. PM 412-389-3636.

Available 8/1, 1 BR/1 Bath, 5 min. walk to Cathedral, A/C, hardwood floors, newly renovated, starting at $995+, 412.441.1211

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3303 Niagara Street 3 Bedroom House Available for Rent for $1400--BHK--no utilities included-Please call 412-721-8888 if interested.

3444 WARD ST. Studio, 1-2-3 BR apartments available Aug. 1, 2016. Free parking, free heating. Call 412-361-2695. No evening calls please.

361 McKee Pl. 4BR + 2BA. $1650 +all utilities. Available May 1.

53 Bates St. 3 BR 2BA. $1300+ all utilities. W/D A/C. Remodeled. Avaiable now.

51 Bates St. 2 BR apartment. $900+ all utilities. Remodeled.

W/D and A/C. Available May. 51 Bates St. 3 BR apartment. $1200+ all utilities. W/D and A/C. Available August.

3142 Bates St. 4 BR single house. W/D. $1400+ all utilities.

Available August 1.

Call 412-721-1308 4 BR townhouses, Semple St., available May 1st 2016.

Equipped kitchen, full basement.

412-343-4289. Call after 5:00 pm.

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Available 8/1, 3 BR/1 Bath, less than 1 mile to campus, updated, Dishwasher and AC, starting at $1325+, 412.441.1211

Available 8/1, 4 br/2bath, Less than 1 mile to campus, Split Level, Updated, Central A/C, $2420+, 412.441.1211 Brand new 2BR apartment in central Oakland for $1800 per month. Apartment has A/C, stainless steel appliances, washer/dryer in unit, spacious living room & bedrooms, heated bathroom floor, hardwood floors and more! Call 412.682.7622 or email sarah@robbrealestate.com for more info on this gorgeous apartment for FALL 2016.

Large 1-2-3 BR apartments available August 1st. 3450 Ward Street. 312 and 314 South Bouquet Street.

Free parking. Minutes to campus. Cat friendly. Call 412-977-0111.

M.J. Kelly Realty Studio, 1, 2, 3, & 4 Bedroom Apartments, Duplexes, Houses. $750-$2400. mjkellyrealty@gmail.com. 412-271-5550, mjkellyrealty.com Newly Updated 4bedroom, 1-bath townhouse. Laundry in basement. $1600+ Utilities. Call 412-292-1860

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Nice 4 bedroom, 1 bathroom, plus study.

Located close to Pitt campus and Schenley Park. Brand new kitchen and hardwood floors. Free washer and dryer included. $1850+ utilities. Available August 1, 2016. Call Peggy at 724-877-7761.

South Oakland Duplex. 4 bedroom 2 baths. Central air, dishwasher, washer and dryer. Available August 1.

(412)915-0856.

Studio and 1 Bedrooms. 216 Coltart.

Parking. Available Aug. 2016. Starting at $665. Free heat.

Greve RealEstate.

412-261-4620.

Updated 1BR apartment within walking distance to Pitt for $775 per month.

Apartment has A/C, plenty of storage, spacious living room, eat-in kitchen, lots of character and is located on Atwood Street! Call 412.682.7622 or email sarah@robbrealestate.com for more info on this amazing apartment for FALL 2016.

3 & 5 bedroom. May 2016. Sarah St. Large bedroom, new kitchen, air conditioning, washer & dryer, dishwasher, large deck. 412-287-5712.

4909 Center Ave. Updated 1 BR with new kitchen, dishwasher & hardwood floors.

Laundry, storage and parking available.

Close to Pitt & shopping district. Available now and for August. 412-720-4756.

Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unrelated people can share a single unit.

Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Permits, Licensing & Inspections.

412-255-2175.

Real estate advertising in The Pitt News is subject to the Fair Housing Act. The Pitt News will not knowingly accept advertising for real estate which violates the law. To complain of discrimination, call HUD at 1-800-6699777 or email fheo_webmanager@hud.gov. For the hearing impaired, please call TTY 1800-927-9275.

Studios, 1, 2, & 3 Bedroom apartments available August 2016 & sooner. Oakland, Shadyside, Friendship, Squirrel Hill, Highland Park, Point Breeze. Photos & current availability online, check out www.forbesmanagement.net, or call 412.441.1211

SMOKERS NEEDED! Researchers at UPMC are looking to enroll healthy adult cigarette smokers ages 18-65. This research is examining the influence of brief uses of FDA-approved nicotine patch or nicotine nasal spray on mood and behavior. The study involves a brief physical exam and five sessions lasting two hours each. Eligible participants who complete all sessions will receive up to $250, or $20 per hour. This is NOT a treatment study. For more information, call 412-246-5396 or visit www.SmokingStudies.pitt.edu

Caregivers and babysitters needed.

FT/PT. Earn $25/hour. No experience required. Will train. Call now.

888-366-3244 ext. 102.

Come work where it’s Oktoberfest every day. Now hiring for all positions at Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh.

Apply in person Monday through Friday.

Rolling Fields Golf Club in Murraysville.

Multiple positions available immeduately. Including bartenders, beverage cart, and pro shop assistant. Contact proshop@rollingfieldsgolf.com or 724-335-7522.

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Seasonal Work: Shadyside Management Company needs full-time dependable landscapers, painters, and assistant roofers for the summer.

Must be at least 18 years old. No experience necessary. $10/hour.

Mozart Management, 412-682-7003. Email: thane@mozartrents.com.

Email SpringSpike2016@gmail.com to play and find out more. Donate at https://www.gofundme.com/SpringSpike2016 Victim of sexual violence? Gilmary has a Christian retreat for you. Visit gilmarycenter.org for details.

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SUMMER HELP NEEDED, Ice company close to campus. Weekends necessary. Production/driving/maintenance positions available. Good pay, part-time/full time. Contact Mastro Ice Company 412-681-4423. mastroice@aol.com

Join us in remembering the late George Daly by playing in the Spring Spike Volleyball Tournament on April 3rd!

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