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THE OAKLANDER BRINGS LUXURY HOTEL OPTION TO OAKLAND Maggie Young Staff Writer

Students learn basic music notation and handbell technique in the Center for Creativity with the University of Pittsburgh Handbell Ensemble on Sunday. Hannah Heisler | staff photographer

Competitive PDoG strategies included incentives, reimbursement

Emily Wolfe

Assistant News Editor Pitt Men’s Glee Club, which won $2,500 for bringing in the secondhighest number of donations among student groups on Thursday’s third annual Pitt Day of Giving, allegedly encouraged its members to make donations in exchange for discounts on club expenses and, in some cases, full reimbursement.

The Glee Club received 1,030 gifts from 112 donors Thursday, an average of nine gifts per donor. And many of PDoG’s other most competitive stu-

dent groups seem to have asked donors for multiple low-value gifts to boost the number of total gifts as well. Thirteen student organizations averaged more than one gift per donor, and the four organizations that finished high enough to receive a cash prize averaged more than three gifts per donor.

PDoG challenges Pitt affiliates and student groups to raise as much money as possible in their organizations’ names. But one prize category challenges clubs to accrue the most individual gifts — not the most money raised total — and one person can go

through the process repeatedly, making $5 donations that register as individual gifts.

On Twitter, Pitt Club Tennis encouraged supporters of the club to donate multiple times in $5 increments.

Club Tennis, which took the top spot with 200 more gifts than the Men’s Glee Club, averaged more than 19 gifts per donor — it took in 1,230 gifts from 64 donors.

Screenshots obtained by The Pitt News show that Glee Club leadership distributed a survey to members of the See PDoG on page 2

Oakland residents and visitors can now stay at a luxe hotel or dine at its restaurant — both after taking the elevator to the 10th floor.

Oakland’s newest hotel, The Oaklander, opened last Thursday, and its lobby and restaurant, Spirits and Tales, are located on the 10th floor. The hotel includes 167 guest rooms and five event spaces in addition to the restaurant.

A night at The Oaklander costs $200 for either a single king-sized bed or two queen beds. Corner rooms cost $289 per night for either a single king or two queens. According to Jackie Gillespie, the hotel’s director of sales, the lobby and restaurant are on the 10th floor to give all of the hotel’s visitors access to a view of the neighborhood’s popular sights, such as the Cathedral of Learning and Schenley Park.

“The space is on the 10th floor because I think it would’ve been tragic to have this location and not bring these views of Oakland to everyone,” Gillespie said. “Everything [in Oakland] is kind of elevated, so it made sense to have an elevated lobby and an elevated restaurant space, and our event space is also up here on 10. So this way, everyone gets to enjoy the best views rather than there just being 10th floor guest rooms and a penthouse.”

Gillespie said this feature of the hotel may make it sound somewhat elitist, but she thinks The Oaklander avoids that. Spirits and Tales is open to guests and non-guests alike.

“We’re a luxurious hotel without being stuffy, we’re very approachable. It’s elevated, it’s luxe without the stuffy luxury that you kind of think of sometimes with the boutique hotels,” Gillespie said.

The hotel is part of Marriott’s Autograph collection. Currently consisting of 106 hotels, the collection designs no two buildings the same, Gillespie said.

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club, asking if they would be willing to pay for expenses like the group’s fall retreat and banquet by donating to Pitt Day of Giving. If a club member paid with this method, the banquet would cost them $15 instead of its usual $18, and the retreat would cost $35 instead of $42.

The club also offered an additional $5 toward students’ international tour funds for every $25 that members donated on PDoG. Last year’s international tour cost each student about $600, according to one student who

went last year, and this year’s is expected to cost closer to $1,500. That student provided the information and screenshots on the condition of anonymity.

On at least one occasion, Jacob Harwas, the club’s president, apparently asked club officers to donate with the understanding that they would receive reimbursement for their gift. In a Facebook group message for the Glee Club’s appointed officers, Harwas asked Thursday night if there were any volunteers who would donate $100 in exchange for cash reimbursement. At least one other officer appeared to agree to the

reimbursement plan.

In a phone call Thursday night, Harwas denied offering to reimburse donations.

“I would definitely say that the Glee Club has never told people that they were going to get directly reimbursed because of whatever payments they made towards Pitt Day of Giving,” Harwas said.

Patrick Healy, who served as the club’s business manager last year, said the club began encouraging members to pay for these expenses in $5 increments last year when it won the $10,000 top prize, though he said the club did not offer to reimburse

members at that time.

No other club is known to have offered reimbursements to people who donate.

When asked Thursday night if any of these procedures would violate the competition’s rules, a representative who answered the phone for PDoG said the allegations were serious and would require investigation, but that PDoG could not offer an official comment at that time.

PDoG did not respond to requests for further comment before publication.

Christian Snyder and Jon Moss contributed reporting to this story.

Hotel, pg. 1 This collection offers boutique locations, meaning something smaller but more upscale than a normal full-service hotel.

According to Rabikar Chatterjee, associate dean of the Katz School of Business, Oakland is in need of a hotel like this. The presence of boutique hotels like this are increasing, including places like Mansions on Fifth in Shadyside and Kimpton Hotel Monaco Downtown.

“Oakland — and in particular, Pitt and CMU — definitely needs a high quality hotel that promises to provide a more upscale experience for guests than do existing facilities in the neighborhood. Both universities have missed the presence of a luxury hotel for their important visitors,” Chatterjee said in an email.

While this is something new for the Oakland community, Chaterjee said he doesn’t see the presence of a luxurious hotel having a negative impact on long-term Oakland residents.

“I see the impact of the hotel on long-term Oakland residents as relatively minor but positive,” Chaterjee said in an email. “The hotel alone will not contribute to an influx of an affluent population to Oakland leading to ‘gentrification’ — a dynamic that is often of justifiable concern to long-term residents of a community because of its impact [on] housing prices and the cost of living.”

The Oaklander reflects the neighborhood’s personality in terms of its design, according to Ami Kahalekulu, the hotel’s interior designer. The lobby is black and white with gold finishings, and Spirits and Tales is also black and white with blue and orange

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Oakland’s newest hotel, The Oaklander, opened on Thursday, Feb. 28. Hannah Heisler | staff photographer undertones. The Oaklander’s style is inspired by the culture and industrious history of the Oakland community, Kahalekulu said.

“Oakland has a strong pulse and energy tempered with a historic foundation. We wanted to tap into this feeling of ‘a forward-thinking institution yet someplace comfortable.’ The goal has been to create a timeless space, that doesn’t speak to a time period or theme or fad but, rather, the strength and integrity that is Pittsburgh,” Kahalekulu said in a press release.

Gillespie said the company was driven to put a boutique hotel in Oakland due to its traction from the active medical and academic communities located in the neighborhood.

“Somebody who’s looking for more of an upscale

hotel experience or boutique experience, rather than having to go Downtown to one of the more highend hotels down there, now they can stay right here in Oakland,” Gillespie said.

Chatterjee said Oakland is its own kind of destination. Although people may have previously been traveling Downtown for this kind of hotel experience, visitors should want to stay in Oakland because of all the community has to offer, like the universities and museums.

“I believe [The Oaklander] will be great in terms of raising [Oakland’s] visibility, stimulating the local economy and generating new business opportunities,” Chaterjee said in an email. “In addition, I hope that its presence will prompt other hotels in Oakland

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to raise their game. Certainly, Pitt will benefit significantly from its presence.”

Emily Smith, a senior psychology major, works full-time at The Oaklander as a front desk agent while also being a part-time student at Pitt. Smith said she has enjoyed working at the hotel, and the luxury The Oaklander is giving to the neighborhood is helping transform the community into something more modern and professional.

“I think Oakland is turning a corner,” Smith said.

“It’s like a new Oakland is coming, because there’s just so much new things happening. I think something high-end like this is a good start to that change.

We’re bringing in business professionals, doctors. It’s just giving a new classier vibe to Oakland.”

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AMERICAN EDUCATION SYSTEM SHOULD DISTANCE ITSELF FROM GRADES

Kelly Loftus

Staff Columnist From the very start of their educations, kids are led to believe that some of them are good at learning and some of them are bad at learning.

Years in school repeatedly reaffirm this rhetoric, and learning rapidly devolves into a competition that has winners and losers. In the American school system, all students are not created equal, and we’re reminded of it every single day.

The purpose behind grades is to determine how much a student has learned. The caveat is that a number or letter can’t effectively do this — it’s nearly impossible to quantify learning objectively. Most schools simply test memorization and recitation, which are not substantial indicators of understanding. I believe in educative structure. I believe in academic integrity. But I also believe that somewhere, we went wrong. We, as a society, need to reevaluate our current system of grading in order to institute something more just and constructive.

Grades can have a cripplingly negative effect on students’ emotional well-being, namely because so many of us have been conditioned to use them as a metric of self-worth. I have a friend who spent 12 years excelling academically, but when she went to college, she didn’t see the same results. She went from being at the top of her class to struggling just to get a passing grade. And it shattered her.

“I’ve had good grades my entire life,” she told me. “I don’t know who I am without them.”

She felt as though her identity as a “good student” was gone, and, as a result, her selfesteem plunged. Her parents were so worried about her mental state that they came very close to pulling her out of school — all because of a tiny number with a decimal point next to the letters “GPA.”

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NPR conducted a Facebook survey in 2013 that focused on stress and teenagers.

Students responded by detailing the sacrifices they made to get the grades they wanted: the overwhelming amount of time they were forced to dedicate to schoolwork, the pressure they felt to stay at the top of their class and the symptoms of mental illness they had begun to experience as a result.

A decline in mental health is one of the most critical indicators of the toxicity in our current education system. A 2015 NYU study revealed that 49 percent of the high school participants suffered from abnormally high levels of daily stress due to grades, homework and preparing for college. Twenty-six percent of participants displayed signs of clinical depression.

Students are quite literally crying out for help. Schools are meant to provide safe learning environments, not pose a threat to mental health. These are children and young adults whose minds are at a critical stage in development. They shouldn’t be so overwrought with stress that they are unable to complete assignments or even attend school. When the brain is vulnerable, the body is too. Students should be able to concentrate on taking care of themselves, not forced to indulge in self-torture.

In an article for Educational Leadership magazine, national lecturer on education and human behavior Alfie Kohn summarized the three conclusions about grades he has reached through his research from students in elementary school through college. He found that grades make students less interested in learning, grades cultivate a preference for choices requiring the least amount of effort and grades lower the caliber of students’ thinking. “[The] more students are led to focus on how well they’re doing, the less engaged they tend to be with what they’re doing,” Kohn writes.

Kohn suggests that teachers use “narrative

assessments or conferences” as opposed to letter and number grades. This way, a student’s progress can be evaluated on a qualitative scale rather than a quantitative one.

Academia is based on performance, and when it comes to performance goals, there are two types: performance-approach goals, in which a student seeks to achieve competence, and performance-avoidance goals, in which a student seeks to avoid incompetence. The Journal of Educational Psychology conducted an experiment in 2011 that found students anticipating graded feedback were more likely to adopt performance-avoidance goals, while students who were not subjected to grades were more likely to adopt performance-approach goals. In other words, grades appear to motivate students to avoid doing their worst, as opposed to doing their best.

Our culture approaches education under the false assumption that all minds work alike, but not everyone thinks the same way, and not everyone learns the same way. Given that different students require different timelines for discussion and different methods of teaching, the ways we assess a student’s understanding of a topic should differ too, depending on that particular student.

Not only does this phenomenon reinforce the negative thinking that accompanies poor grades, but it prevents a large portion of students from experiencing healthy failure. This is why my friend had such trouble adjusting to college academics — she didn’t know how to cope with low grades because she had never gotten them. For so long, she had been able to achieve the standards she set for herself, so when the difficulty of her college classes prevented her from continuing to reach those same standards, she was unable to accept what she considered a lower level of performance.

I’ve heard stories (and have my own) of all-night study sessions fueled by caffeine and self-loathing. I’ve seen students cry at test re-

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Eli Savage | contributing editor sults, use stimulant drugs like Adderall in order to get more work done, abuse substances as a means of dealing with stress, cheat on assignments and forget to eat. Some students might even consider suicide — suicide is the second leading cause of death for Americans ages 10 to 34.

The list goes on. These are not side effects of learning — they are side effects of grading.

Education shouldn’t be a psychological burden, and it doesn’t make any sense for it to be.

Something as abstract as knowledge can’t be placed within the confines of a single letter or number.

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CARDINALS CRUSH PITT MEN’S SWIMMING, BASEBALL ON SENIOR DAY, 67-40 CARRY WEEKEND SPORTS

Dominic Campbell

Staff Writer Following a win against Wake Forest in its last game to earn its second ACC win, the Pitt women’s basketball team faced a tall order on Sunday’s senior night — the No. 3 Louisville Cardinals. The Cardinals cruised to a win over the Panthers in their last home game of the season, 67-40.

The loss concludes the regular season, giving the Panthers an 11-19 overall and 2-14 ACC record while the Cardinals finished 27-2 overall and 14-2 in the ACC. Pitt finishes 14th out of 15 ACC teams in its first year under head coach Lance White — the same placement as last year’s team under his predecessor, Suzie McConnell-Serio.

Despite the loss, White believes that the Panthers improved from their last meeting with Louisville on Jan. 27.

“I still think from the first time we played them to now, the growth in our basketball team is huge,” White said. “You can’t

tell it by some of the numbers, but we’re a different basketball team than we were one month ago, two months ago, and that’s what I wanted. I wanted it to be about growth and our kids have come to work everyday and challenged each other and challenged me as their coach to keep finding ways to get better, and so for that I’m extremely honored and humbled.”

White also mentioned the role the seniors played throughout the season in helping him acclimate to a new environment.

“For what they have done for this program and for me this year and for buying into somebody new and they didn’t know,” White said. “I really tip my hat to them.”

Louisville quickly gained a 9-2 lead early on in the game, prompting White to take a timeout with 6:40 remaining in the first quarter. Senior forward Sam Fuehring was instrumental for the Cardinals, knocking

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Sophomore Jaala Henry (22) scored her season high 3-point field goals on Sunday’s game against Louisville. The Panthers lost their final home game 67-40. Kaycee Orwig | staff photographer

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In a busy weekend for Pitt athletics, the baseball team stood out among the competition with three wins in four games at the Russmatt Central Florida Invitational. Further up the East Coast, the men’s swimming team improved upon its 2018 finish in the ACC Championships, while the softball team continued its struggles in Missouri.

Swimming and diving snatch records at ACC championships The men’s swimming and diving team finished its ACC competition this weekend at the 2019 ACC Swimming and Diving Championships at the Greensboro Aquatic Center with a ninth-place team finish and seven individual top-10 finishers. The Panthers surpassed their 2018 10th-place finish by 184 points.

The top individual performance for Pitt came from sophomore Blaise Vera, the only sophomore to advance to the championship final. Vera claimed a silver metal in the 100yard freestyle — the first top-two individual ACC championship performance in Pitt men’s swimming history — with a time of 42.37.

Junior Samy Helmbacher had three top10 finishes, including a bronze medal in the 400-yard individual medley and a ninthplace finish in the 200-yard breaststroke, netting a school record with a time of 1:55.34.

Other top-10 finishes of the weekend include junior Eben Vorster finishing 10th in the 200-yard butterfly and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Vera, Helmbacher, Vorster and senior Brian Lovasik in sixth.

“I’m extremely proud of this team,” Pitt head coach John Hargis said. “From Blaise and Samy raising the standard of expectation for the entire program to the seniors pouring their hearts and souls into leading this team and showing all of the younger guys how to compete, we’re

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moving in the right direction.”

The Panthers will participate in the Last Chance Meet Sunday in Columbus, Ohio.

Women’s tennis remains winless in conference play Pitt women’s tennis dropped to 4-7 on the season and 0-5 in the ACC Friday against No. 19 Miami at the Oxford Athletic Club in Wexford.

Ranked No. 99 individually, sophomore Claudia Bartolome defeated junior Daniella Roldan, 6-4, 6-8, 10-5. First-year Mariona Perez Noguera also managed to squeeze out a victory over first-year Carla Girbau, 3-6, 6-4, 10-4. Pitt also scored a doubles win with Bartolome and senior Gabriela Rezende defeating Daniella Roldan and Daevenia Achong, 5-4.

The team continued its losing streak Sunday against No. 15 Florida State. Senior Natsumi Okamoto notched the only win for the Panthers in singles competition, defeating sophomore Ariana Rahmanparast, 1-6, 6-4, 10-7. The Panthers didn’t fare much better in doubles competition, with only one pair edging out the Seminoles. Rezende and Bartolome beat Rahmanparast and first-year Carla Touly, 4-3.

The team travels to Boca Raton, Florida, March 15 to take on Florida Atlantic University.

Baseball Pitt baseball had a successful weekend at the Russmatt Central Florida Invitational at in Kissimmee, Florida, earning three wins before falling 4-3 to Central Michigan Sunday. The Panthers had a shaky first day against Hofstra, with their only run coming as an eighth-inning RBI double from redshirt junior David Yanni. Head coach Mike Bell attributed the victory to sound pitching and defensive efforts.

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Basketball, pg. 6 down a 3-pointer and a mid-range jumper.

Pitt only managed a fast-break layup from senior guard Cassidy Walsh during the run.

The Panthers took control following the timeout, countering with an 11-6 run that closed the gap to two at the start of the second quarter. Sophomore center Cara Judkins scored four points in the paint, Walsh hit from the 3-point range and both senior forward Danielle Garven and junior guard Jasmine Whitney hit jumpers to make the score 15-13.

Pitt shot a decent 6-13 from the field and 1-3 from 3-point range in the first quarter, while Louisville shot just 7-21 from the field, including an abysmal 1-9 on 3-pointers. The Cardinals won the rebounding battle 12-8, which included five rebounds from junior forward Bionca Dunham.

The second quarter began evenly, as both Judkins and Garven scored layups for the Panthers while sophomore guard Dana Evans made a jumper, Kylee Shook made a layup and Fuehring made a foul shot for the Cardinals, keeping them in the lead at 20-17 with 7:07 left before halftime.

Louisville then exploded with a 12-1 run to effectively end any chance of a Pitt comeback. Junior guard Jazmine Jones’ play on the offensive end was crucial as she scored six points on three layups, with both Asia Durr and Evans also contributing 3-pointers. A free throw from Judkins with 40 seconds remaining ended a six-minute Pitt scoring drought, and the Panthers ended the half down 32-18.

The Panthers struggled to make shots in the second quarter, scoring only five points and shooting 2-12 from the field.

Pitt outrebounded Louisville 10-9 in the quarter but Louisville earned more steals, taking the ball six times to Pitt’s zero.

Louisville continued its effective play in the third quarter, opening on a 10-3 run that consisted of five layups from five different Cardinal players — Fuehring, Dunham, Durr, Jones and Shook. Walsh made another 3-pointer — the only move Pitt could muster during the run.

Pitt then went on a 9-2 run of its own. Whitney made two free throws and a jumper, Judkins scored down low and Walsh made her third 3-pointer of the game to make the score 44-30 with 1:12

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remaining in the quarter.

The Cardinals got a 3-pointer from Evans and a jumper from Arica Carter to get the lead up to 19 going into the fourth quarter. They improved their shooting again in the third quarter, going 8-14 from the field. The Panthers still shot poorly, going 4-12 from the field but managing 2-4 from 3-point range.

Trailing 49-30, Pitt started the fourth quarter on a respectable 7-4 run. The Panthers got an and-one conversion from Garven, a jumper from Whitney and a layup from senior forward Kauai Bradley.

But the Cardinals couldn’t be outscored in any quarter and responded with a 14-3 run to win by a comfortable 27 points. Durr helped Louisville pull away in the fourth, scoring eight straight points on a 3-pointer, plus an and-one layup and another layup. Meanwhile, Pitt could only get a jumper from Garven and a free throw from sophomore forward Jaala Henry during the run.

Durr finished with a team-high of 17 points and White wasn’t surprised, saying that she is one of the best players in the ACC he has seen in his over 15 years of being in the conference.

“Her mindset is so good,” he said.

“She just works so hard to be able to make hard shots that so few players want to spend the time that it takes to be that good. She works for everything that she gets. She is the first one in the gym, she’s the last one to leave and that’s a testament to who she is.”

In her last game at the Petersen Events Center, Walsh — a Pittsburgh native — talked about her personal growth and the program’s culture shift under White.

“I think this year, being my last year, it has been a grind every single day and a lot of excitement throughout every single day,” Walsh said. “Coach White and his staff, the energy they have brought every single game and every single day in practice, no matter the time of day, has been so consistent. I think the energy has been phenomenal. No matter if we are down 20, down 40 or up five, coach has made us be consistent and with a great mindset.”

With the regular season over, the Panthers now look to the first round of the ACC tournament this Wednesday as the No. 14 seed. They’ll take on No. 11 seed Duke at 6:30 p.m. in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Available Now! 2‑bedroom fully fur­nished house, Air Conditioned for $1,200 plus utilities on North Avenue, Millvale. Need Secu­ rity Deposit and Credit Check. Please call: 412‑315‑8024.

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. time or 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 full time OK starting now; full time over the summer. $13/ hour. Perfect job for sophomores & ju­niors, seniors plan­ ning to enter grad school, returning grad students, and first‑year law stu­dents!

Mozart Management 412‑682‑7003 thane@mozartrents.­ com Overnight caregiver for young man with cerebral palsy in Squirrel Hill. 9 PM‑8:­30 AM. Flex‑ ible days available, 1‑2 days a week.

No experience with cerebral palsy needed, just responsi­ble and compassion­ate person to check on him if he gets up during the night. Pay $16 per hour. Please inquire 412‑889‑8934 Personal, profes­sional masseuse needed.

Long term position.

2X/week. Washington County location. Call 724‑223‑0939 or 724‑229‑8868 any time.

Services Educational The Phlebotomy Training Center www. justphlebotomy.org 2 evening classes weekly, 5 weeks + excellent Clinicals.

Call 412‑521‑7334.

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