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Meet Chris Cox, Market Central’s new head chef.

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PPC ANNOUNCES BIGELOW BASH HEADLINERS Lauren Rosenblatt Assistant News Editor

This spring, two headlining artists will claim the street and the stage at Bigelow Bash.

On Thursday at 11 p.m., Pitt Program Council announced Bigelow Bash, the annual outdoor spring concert, will feature two headliners — X Ambassadors, an alternative rock band, and B.o.B., a hip hop artist — in hopes of connecting with more Pitt students. In addition to the music, there will be food trucks and other activities at the event.

Last year, the event featured American Kenyon Bonner, vice provost and dean of students, addressed students Thursday night during a student-organized Authors, an American rock band. The an- safe space event. The event followed Milo Yiannopoulos’ lecture Monday night. Will Miller | Staff Photographer nual concert is in the early afternoon on Saturday, April 16, and Shawn Cassidy, special events director, said PPC has not deter“It doesn’t mean I’m getting kicked out,” resentatives of Campus Women’s OrganiDale Shoemaker mined the exact time.

News Editor Meinen said. “It just means I’m going to zation and Rainbow Alliance, respectively, Cassidy said PPC decided to cancel the take a backseat in this discussion. I can’t along with the Black Action Society, hosted Just because Abby Meinen and Marcus annual indoor spring show, which featured speak for someone else’s experiences.”

Pitt’s fi rst formal “safe space” event Th ursLupe Fiasco last year. Cassidy said the can- Robinson are different people with different That, Meinen said, was a key part of a day in the William Pitt Union Assembly cellation of the indoor show did not influ- experiences, that doesn’t mean they can’t safe space, which is any place where people Room. ence the decision to have two headliners at talk about sensitive and controversial topics can discuss ideas and experiences without Th ursday’s event served as a place together.

Bigelow Bash. feeling disrespected or in danger. where about 100 students could share their But when they do, Meinen said, they Cassidy said PPC had several reasons to According to the Safe Space Network, thoughts, feelings and experiences in recancel the indoor spring show but did not need to respect each other — something a website dedicated to promoting respectsponse to the lecture Yiannopoulos, a condisclose the reasons. According to Cassidy, she didn’t see at Milo Yiannopoulos’ talk on ful discussion, a safe space is “a place where servative writer and provocateur, gave in the decision to hold an indoor concert next campus Monday night. [a person] can relax and be able to fully the same room.

There, she said, she saw students harass year is up to that year’s executive board. express, without fear of being made to feel Meinen said just because she isn’t a perand put down other students for their opinuncomfortable, unwelcome, or unsafe,” on son of color doesn’t mean there isn’t a space Find the full story online at ions and identities. for her in a discussion about people of color.

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STUDENTS SPEAK AT ‘SAFE SPACE’

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News LISTS, MEETINGS AND 40,000 MEALS Alexa Bakalarski Staff Writer

Mid-morning Wednesday, Chris Cox looked down at one of his three notepads.

He knew he had to fill and send out two or three large food orders, with the help of a few student workers. And write the Food Committee meeting menu. And meet with his three sous — French for “under” — chefs to figure out scheduling before spring break.

He also knew he had to figure out what he wanted to order for the Friday before the break and the Sunday dinner after.

“This is like my brain on paper,” Cox said.

That day, he also had three meetings, including a weekly marketing meeting and a meeting with Pitt’s food recovery group — a student organization that helps reduce food waste — at 4 p.m. But he puts those notes in different notepads than his day-to-day ones.

“Nothing ever really stops here,” he said.

With his manager duties, Cox goes through a notebook a week, and only spends about four to five hours a week cooking in Market Central, Pitt’s main dining hall.

Pitt hired Cox, a Pennsylvania-born and Pittsburgh-trained chef, as Market Central’s new head chef in January. Cox runs the kitchen, organizes ingredients, manages more than 60 Sodexo cooks in the back kitchen, meets with Student Government Board and caters to students’ individual dietary needs. As he transitions into the role full time, he shares the duties with the former head chef, Corey Hawk, who is now working on opening his own business.

Together, they are working to increase the amount of locally grown food and help students and staff make healthier choices, and still serve 40,000 meals a week.

When Hawk briefly stops in the office Wednesday, March 2, the two discuss upcoming events and ordering around spring break and Hawk offers to lead Cox through the steps he took to close Market for spring break in previous years.

For Cox, the five minutes spent with Hawk replace three hours discussing the same topics in meetings.

Cox walks fast, too, as he moves through the back kitchen to check on the icing he’s mixing, which he usually doesn’t do. Today, though, he offered to lend a hand.

While Cox scoops and scrapes the icing out of the mixing bowl, a glob of it falls on his black trousers. He tries not to get stains on his clothes before going to meetings, but that can be tough to avoid even as an executive chef.

Cox, 33, dedicated his life to creating food.

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He grew up in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts in Downtown Pittsburgh in 2005.

He worked at Giant Eagle’s Market District in Shadyside for two years before cooking at Casbah Mediterranean Kitchen & Wine Bar, Bistecca Steakhouse & Wine Bar and Luke Wholey’s Wild Alaskan Grille.

Cox sees similarities between his experience working at higher-end restaurants and Market, such as one-on-one training with cooks while making recipes from scratch.

“Having a product at the end of the day that I’m proud of and can stand behind is a goal of mine,” Cox said.

At Market, Cox’s favorite meal is stir fry from 360 Degrees drenched in sriracha. At home, he likes to cook Asian and Italian food, occasionally practicing upcoming recipes for Market.

With hopes of someday starting his own business, Cox received a bachelor’s in business administration from Pitt in 2012. After he graduated, he worked for Aldi as the district manager where he learned about the food industry on a larger scale. Then, before coming to Market Central, Cox spent two years as the executive chef for Pitt’s University Club. Hawk said he and others at Market Central are looking to Cox to apply his background to serve better food to students and meet their needs.

As Cox takes over the new role, Abdou Cole, resident district manager of Sodexo, said Sodexo plans for him to increase interaction and feedback between students and employees.

“Compared to the past when the executive chef spent the majority of his/her time in the kitchen, today’s Market Central chef has come out of the kitchen along with the food to the front of students,” Cole said in an email. “Chris and Corey’s role is now more interactive with a face-to-face customer service approach.”

Cox and Hawk meet with different student organizations — including the Vegan Collective, the Gluten Free Awareness League and the Real Food Challenge initiative — to improve Market’s service and sustainability.

“I’d say about 15 to 20 percent [of the executive chef’s job] is direct interaction, but 90 percent of the time, you have the students’ needs in the forefront of the work that happens every day,” Hawk said.

Market staff also meets with students biweekly at Friday Food Committee meetings in the William Pitt Union where students tell administration what they would like to see, from sustainability initiatives and gluten-free breakfast options to increasing the availability

Courtesy of Abdou Cole of seltzer water.

Food Committee co-chair and Student Government Board member Jacky Chen said he’s looking forward to working with Cox throughout the semester with the Food Committee.

“Right away, I could see he’s really enthusiastic,” Chen said. “He’s just someone who seems like he wants to help these students as much as he can.”

According to Cole, student comments at Food Committee meetings led to about 60 changes in the fall semester and more than 100 in 2015. These changes included extending night hours at campus dining facilities and adding more vegan and vegetarian options to menus.

“The feedback we get is really important because that kind of drives the menu choices, the ingredient choices and just a lot of the deci-

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sions that are made in the back of the house,” Cox said. “It’s based on what students tell us. We really try to deliver.”

As the Student Government Board’s Food Committee has shown, Pitt students care about eating healthy food, starting sustainability initiatives and setting up farmer’s markets on campus.

“Food is becoming part of the student body,” Hawk said. ‘We are really looking forward to enhancing that process and ... continue to find those opportunities where we can really make a difference with the food we serve.”

While juggling meal plans weeks in advance and meeting students’ needs, Cox said it is also fun to be creative while still adhering to the demands of ordering in bulk.

“It’s kind of like putting together a puzzle,” Cox said. “You have the pieces, and you’ve got to figure out how to make it fit.”

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PITT ADDS NEW ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE MAJOR Lianna Rana

For The Pitt News Pitt students can now study the environment through the lens of human influence on the earth.

Starting this semester, students can officially declare environmental science as their major after the Department of Geology and Environmental Science announced the new major in a release Feb. 17. The program, which is replacing the current environmental geology major over the next four years, will offer a course load focused on research and application of environmental issues.

According to Department of Geology and Environmental Science adviser Mark Collins, about a dozen students have declared the major this semester.

The Department of Geology and Environmental Science now offers three options for students: environmental geology, environmental studies and environmental science.

According to Collins, the environmental geology major will remain as is for students who are already declared. Over the next four years, there will be a transition period where students can graduate with a BS in environmental geology but can no longer declare.

The environmental science major will have a similar focus to the environmental geology program, but will address both

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the physical entity and nature of the earth as well as how humans have affected the earth and its environment. The environmental science major encompasses policy and legal issues related to the environment.

“Environmental Science provides a solid background for both career and academic goals,” Collins said. “All students take classes in geology, chemistry, ecology, statistics — from there, each major allows students to take classes that best suit their intent, whether that leads to field work, consulting, working in industry or policy or education or graduate work.”

Environmental geology and environmental science both take a scientific approach to understanding aspects of the planet, but environmental science takes the discipline one step further by focusing on the impacts that people have on the environment, according to the Department of Geology and Environmental Science website. The department made the switch based on student interest in the subject.

Students who graduate with a degree in environmental science enter career paths involving research with a focus on environmental issues and how they affect people socially and in terms of public health.

Students with this major often go on to work for a branch of the government, a nonprofit or a private sector company, according to the Department of Geology and Environmental Science website.

TNS First-year Chelsea Huddleston plans to declare the environmental science major, hoping to pursue a career in green design and sustainable infrastructure. She first learned about the major on a PantherConnect Orientation Retreat — a retreat for incoming students — a few days before move-in day at Pitt this fall semester.

“When school started, I really wanted to get involved with the SGB Environmental Committee and PittServes Green Team,” Huddleston said. “Through networking with that community, it felt like the right place to be and a lot of people recommended checking out the depart-

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ment because it felt like a good fit to me.”

To complete the major, students must take the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences general education requirements and 30 credits of courses that range from biology and chemistry to geology and environmental management.

Charles Jones, an adviser in the Department of Geology and Environmental Science, emphasized the wide range of classes that the department put together.

Although the new major did not create any new classes, it offers a more comprehensive range of classes than the EnvironSee Major on page 4

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Safe Spaces, pg. 1 account of their personal identity or experiences.

Yiannopoulos, who the Pitt College Republicans invited to speak on campus Monday night, gave a lecture on his views of freedom of speech, which included controversial comments about women, people of color and members of the LBGT+ community.

The campus-wide outcry and debate that followed Monday’s event raised questions about whether or not Yiannopoulos’ lecture was free speech or hate speech, what role Pitt should or should not play when controversial speakers like Yiannopoulos come to campus and if Student Government Board’s “viewpoint neutral” stance on partially funding the talk was appropriate.

At the event Thursday, Meinen and Robinson briefed students about safe spaces with presentations before breaking them up into small groups to discuss Monday’s talk. They designated the groups safe spaces, where students could talk without feeling invalidated or attacked.

Because the event’s organizers deemed it a safe space for students, The Pitt News agreed not to quote or take photos of stu-

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dents who spoke in the small discussion groups or shared their feelings or experiences within the safe space.

For Robinson, Monday’s talk showed Pitt wasn’t protecting its students.

“As someone who is queer and black, it’s hard enough not seeing yourself reflected in this University,” Robinson said.

Robinson said students who attended Yiannopoulos’ talk felt abandoned afterward and didn’t know where to turn. He said Pitt should have arranged to have counselors available to students.

“We went there and were left on our own after. There was a failure on that front, there was no follow-up,” he said.

At Thursday’s event, Kenyon Bonner, vice provost and dean of students, and Steve Anderson, associate dean of students and director of residence life, made counselors and Student Affairs staff available to students who wanted to talk with them after the event.

As part of the dialogue, Meinen stressed that safe spaces are meant to do what they say — keep students safe.

“Safe spaces aren’t just set up to protect people’s feelings,” Meinen said. “That’s important, of course, but they’re meant to protect people’s physical, emotional and mental

well-being.”

For Bonner, events like Thursday’s are important because they promote dialogue on campus.

To the questions about neutrality, Bonner said though SGB was legally bound to be “viewpoint neutral” when it allocated money to student groups, Pitt as an institution is not.

“The University is not neutral as to who we are and what we do. We are very serious about diversity and inclusion,” Bonner said.

“We’re not where we want to be, but we know where we want to be. No one can come to this community and change who we are.”

Addressing the students after the large group discussion, Bonner acknowledged that controversial speakers were likely to come to campus again, but students should now be better prepared to deal with them because they know how to react and start a dialogue.

Calling on SGB to reverse its neutral allocations process is unproductive, Bonner said.

“To react in a way that undos what our country was based on, isn’t the right way to react,” he said. “All of the voices in this room have the same power as the one who was here Monday, maybe more so.”

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Major, pg. 3 mental Geology program by focusing on more subjects.

The expectation is that students who are already enrolled in the environmental studies program will continue and finish their degree, but he expects students who are interested in the environmental geology major will switch to environmental science.

“I think that we might get some [environmental studies majors], but oftentimes environmental studies majors pick that major because they’re interested in law and policy and nonprofit advocacy, so I think they will be comfortable staying there,” Jones said.

Advisers in the program are not yet sure how many students will declare the major this spring, but several students expressed interest in the program during Pitt’s Majors and Minors Expo in October.

Through the major, Huddleston has had more opportunities to get involved with classes and clubs aligned with her interests in sustainability.

“I think Pitt has a long way to go to have our campus embrace a green mindset, but the new major shows a forward momentum,” Huddleston said.

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Casual Fridays Mad hair day A Japanese man who holds 3,300 patents has created something that easily trumps the rest of his work. Yoshiro Nakamatsu announced the “Guard Wig” during a press conference Saturday. The wigs are modeled after presidential candidate Donald Trump and features metal plating with a cord coiled inside. Users can hold the cord and fling the rest of the wig at anyone who needs toupee for a crime. It is rumored that the only effective defense is an $8 billion wall, but the wig does not protect customers from hosting racist, sexist ideas in their heads.

Should’ve ducked A murder most fowl has struck the English village of Sandon, Essex. For the past 11 years, a goose has occupied the town pond and was so beloved by the villagers that it appeared on the town’s welcome sign. But that came to an end on Sunday, when two men allegedly killed the goose in a drive-by shooting during the middle of the day. It is unclear how the goose became caught up in this web of crime, but community members have said the animal was known to stick its neck out for neighbors. The village will remember the goose fondly for the fun times it pooped on lawns, stole bread and wandered into oncoming traffic.

Pinned for a sweet What would you do for an Oreo? A four-year-old Australian boy was pinned for a sweet when he reached his arm down under a vending machine door and got caught by an anti-theft mechanism. This was apparently the boy’s first

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time seeing a vending machine,and he was enticed by the sweet, suspended treats. The boy was stuck in the machine for six hours after attempts to cut the machine open made him cry so hysterically that authorities had to stop. It is unclear whether the child ever got his snack or if the vending machine will face criminal charges.

Hot pink wheels Police in San Jacinto County, Texas, arrested David Schumaker for credit card theft on Wednesday, concluding a dangerous 10 mph chase. Law enforcement was tipped off when someone reported a grown man driving a pink, toy car version of a Cadillac Escalade down the street. Schumaker was on his way to refill the juicee juice in his car’s battery when police realized that he was wanted for stealing a woman’s credit card. There’s no word on whether he had to provide license and registration or if the name his mother lovingly wrote on his bagged lunch that morning was sufficient.

911 Horn While taking photos with children during a birthday party, a pony dressed as a unicorn did the only rational thing: run away as fast as possible. The mystical animal, named Juliet, led police on a four-hour chase through the suburbs of Fresno, California, before helicopters found her by using a helicopter with infrared cameras. “I was standing with the CHP at the time and a call came over the radio that said the unicorn is in custody,” Juliet’s owner told KMPH News.

Luckily, no silver blood was shed during the incident.

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OSCARS’ DIVERSITY RESPONSE NOT A JOKE Natasha Taylor Columnist

It pained me to watch Stacey Dash’s introduction as the new “director of minority outreach” at the Oscars.

“I cannot wait to help my people out,” Dash declared. “Happy Black History Month!” She then walked offstage while the room remained awkwardly silent.

Dash’s uncomfortable joke and host Chris Rock’s provocative monologue made light of the racial controversies surrounding the Oscars. But they didn’t reflect what the Academy of Motion Picture

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Arts and Sciences is now doing to confront those problems. While the changes it is making to its nominating system should’ve happened long ago, people should champion — not mock — them.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone enter and leave a stage as quickly as she did. I can still hear Dash’s awkward giggle, her fleeting attempt to defuse some of the tension. The conservative Fox News contributor made it clear that she’s unaffected by all of the public disapproval she’s received lately.

Dash wrote in a recent blog post, “I See Oscars on page 7

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Oscars, pg. 6 would rather be a free thinking, black than a cookie cutter black who thinks — and votes — just like all my friends.”

She assumes that black people dislike her because she’s “not black enough,” but I have a feeling it has something to do with her January interview on Fox & Friends.

During that interview, she explained the need to abolish Black History Month, the BET network and the NAACP Image Awards.

Dash attacked essentially all of the mediums that actually celebrate black people for the work they’ve contributed to culture and the world.

The backlash Dash has received is equally, if not more, furious than that facing the Oscars itself.

People started posting the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag to point out the actors and movies who clearly qualified for a nomination in the past, but got pushed to the back of the line. They had a right to, because this was the second year in a row that the Oscar’s 20 acting awards have had zero minority nominees.

The lack of nominee diversity is no sur-

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prise when looking at the Oscars’ nomination stats. From 1927 to 2012, a whopping 7 percent of Best Actor award winners were minorities. Halle Berry remains the only woman of color who has won the Best Actress award since doing so 14 years ago.

The choices for nominees trace back to the people who vote for them, the Academy voting members. It’s interesting to note that the lack of diversity could be related to the fact that most voters come from very similar backgrounds.

According to a 2012 investigation by the Los Angeles Times, 93 percent of the Academy’s voting members were white.

Black filmmakers and actors made up just 2 percent of the membership. The group was about 77 percent male and also had a median age of 62 years old. The people deciding artistic recognition are predominantly old, white men.

This increases the likelihood of candidates resonating with voters based on identification, which then leads to a pattern of picking the same types of nominees. Those nominees are usually white and usually male — just like the voters.

To back away from these horrifying trends, Academy President Cheryl Boone

Isaacs announced via Twitter that “The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership.”

Isaacs also pointed out that she recognizes these changes aren’t happening as fast as people would like. She agreed that the Academy must “do more, and better and more quickly.” Their efforts alone are reassuring.

One of the most important new changes limits members’ voting eligibility to 10 years. Memberships extend another 10 years if the person remains active in film throughout the previous term. Lifetime voting will be available to Oscar winners, nominees and members who complete three of the 10-year terms. New members will join the Academy’s committees and board of governors with the goal of diversifying their leadership.

All of these changes and several others are keys to its pledge of doubling the number of minority and female members in the next four years.

Despite the unnecessarily awkward moment during this year’s ceremony, courtesy of Dash, the Academy is taking a progressive approach to its lack of diversity.

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Yes, these opportunities are long overdue, seeing that these changes are coming after the 88th annual Academy Awards Ceremony. But most of the nominees, and those who picked them, didn’t see this as a pressing issue for quite a while.

Why would they? Many of them probably haven’t been in the position of consistently losing out on opportunities because of the way they look. It took thousands of shouts, both in the industry and in everyday life, for them to address the injustices of the system. What matters most is how the Academy moves forward.

This new call for change will hopefully lead the Academy Awards and the rest of Hollywood in the right direction. As long as these potential policies stick, the movie industry will begin to recognize all impressive talents, regardless of race.

The simple fact that an institution has pledged to change is a good sign. If all goes as planned, these changes could truly offer more opportunities to many minorities.

The Academy can keep its new “employee” — we’ll settle for it delivering on its promises.

Write to Natasha at nat38@pitt.edu.

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PANTHERS’ SEASON ENDS IN BLOWOUT Dan Sostek Sports Editor

One game after Pitt earned its first ACC tournament win by sticking it to the Tar Heels, the No. 21 Miami Hurricanes blew the Panthers away.

After a rough second quarter, Pitt fell hard in the second round of the ACC Tournament, losing to the Hurricanes 77-55 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The loss in all likelihood ends Pitt’s season, as its subpar record won’t likely earn it any postseason berths.

The Panthers got on the board first, as Yacine Diop fired a pass into the paint to Stasha Carey, who laid it in to give Pitt a 2-0 lead.

Miami would knot it up on the next

Stasha Carey struggles againt a Miami opponent in Greensboro on Wednesday. Courtesy of Grant Halverson

possession, and the teams traded baskets for the next few possessions, as a couple jumpers by Diop kept Pitt even with the Hurricanes at six.

A gliding layup by Carey gave Pitt an early 8-6 lead, but Miami went on an 8-0 run, giving the Hurricanes a twopossession advantage in the first quarter.

The Panthers ended the quarter only making one of their final seven shots and suffering a scoring drought of more than two minutes. But thanks to some strong defense during that span in which it forced three turnovers, Pitt only trailed 18-12 at the first break.

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VOLLEYBALL DUO REVELING IN FINAL YEAR

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For the Pitt News Lexi Surunis and Emily Correia were playing volleyball together long before they became Panthers.

But their partnership appeared destined to end, after a communication miscue following a tryout for Pitt’s club volleyball squad in September.

A typo in an email announcing the team’s roster mistakenly omitted Surunis’ number and almost cut the duo’s now decade-long relationship short four years too early.

“It almost was super awkward,” Surunis said.

But when Correia attended her first practice, she noticed the team was down an outside hitter, Surunis’ position.. Surunis got back on the court with Correia, and fastforward four years, the seniors are now facing the real end to the 10 years they’ve spent as teammates.

Surunis, a humanities major, and Correia, an anthropology major, first played at In-

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dependence Middle School before advancing together to the Bethel Park High School volleyball team. The two seniors are now copresidents of the Women’s Club Volleyball team at Pitt, a self-funded club that features two 11-player A and B sub-teams.

Their friendship has helped them manage responsibilities on and off the court.

“It’s easier to communicate [with a friend] — there’s no awkwardness or boundary. If something needs to be done, I can just text her,” Surunis said.

But a president’s job is never done. From making travel plans to acquiring the volleyballs for practice, Correia and Surunis said managing these tasks is much easier with a friend beside you.

“There’s a lot of stuff that you have to plan way in advance,” Correia said. “If one person can’t go [to practice] that day, the other person can.”

As Correia often works on logistics — booking the practice court and setting up tournaments — she attributes the team’s positive vibes to Surunis’ personality.

“We’re very different people,” Surunis said. “[Correia] is very good at getting the official technical stuff done that has to do with the financial side. Sometimes I’ll forget to do something, and she picks up the slack.”

The two complement each other well, with Correia identifying Surunis as the talker of the two. “[Surunis is] a lot more personable than I am and a lot more outgoing,” Correia said.

Led by the duo, the team is coming off a successful tournament last weekend at the UNC Women’s Club Volleyball National Ranking Tournament in Chapel Hill. It beat No. 8 UNC and placed third out of 20 teams.

This success is at least partially due to the team being so synced up, according to Surunis and Correia.. Their relationship has set the tone for the rest of the team’s emphasis on amiability.

“Our team this year especially has been so tight-knit. That comes across on the court. Volleyball is one of those sports where you need to be a team unit to be successful,” Surunis said. “That can apply to

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anything in life.”

When Surunis and Correia began playing volleyball together in seventh grade, they barely knew each other, but their consistent passion for the sport strengthened their friendship as they transitioned from middle school acquaintances to first-year roommates.

Last year, when acting president Vanessa Trombetta approached Surunis with the opportunity to run for club president, she thought she’d be more effective with Corriea as her co-president. The pair was allowed to run as a duo.

“Now, we’re closer than we’ve ever been,” Surunis said. “It’s really cool that they let us work as a team.”

Sophomore Danielle Wall said the pair’s leadership has helped the team bond and develop chemistry.

“The team this year is much more cohesive. There isn’t a barrier between grades.

We’re like one big team. I definitely think that’s changed [from last year],” Wall said.

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Basketball, pg. 8

Volleyball, pg. 8 The club practices from four to five hours a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays, but the time that Surunis and Correia spend thinking about the team filters into their everyday lives.

While they were watching the Super Bowl with friends, Surunis and Corriea were designing jerseys. No matter where they are, they’re thinking about the club.

“We’ll be in South Side and having a conversation about volleyball. It’s sickening,” Correia said.

They find it difficult to leave volleyball on the court with a team to organize.

“It’ll be like three in the morning and I’ll get a text about volleyball,” Correia said.

Surunis and Correia aren’t looking forward to giving up their favorite pastime, and are yearning to find a way to keep manning the net.

With graduation looming in the distance, they attempted to find an alternate place to play, scoping out a community center one summer day two years ago. Unfortunately, they were the only people under 50 there.

They’ll return to Pitt next year to play in the alumni tournament together, a casual get-together of former players hosted by the team.

With her playing career coming to a close, Surunis hopes to coach eventually.

“If I can’t play, I want to be on the sidelines. Sometimes even now I get carried away with how much I talk to the team,” Surunis said.

If she were to return to Pitt, Surunis wouldn’t be the first player to return in a coaching role. Gabie Barlow, the coach for the A team, graduated in 2012 and played with Surunis and Corriea in her senior season.

“When the opportunity came around to come full circle and coach them, I jumped on it,” Barlow said. “[Surunis and Correia] are great to work with and they keep me in the loop about what’s going on. It’s been awesome this year.”

Surunis and Correia’s final goal is to bring the team to Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky.

The National Tournament for Collegiate Club Volleyball is the largest collegiate tournament of all club sports, hosting 180 teams last year.

This year, according to the pair, there are 60 more teams than the tournament expected, and Surunis and Corriea are nervously waiting to find out if their team earns a berth.

The team will compete at Penn State on March 19. Until then, the duo plans to soak in every last moment on the court.

“I’ll be very sad when it’s over,” Correia said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”

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in the second quarter, driving to the basket and converting on a layup to give the Hurricanes a 20-12 advantage.

But, with the shot clock at two, Pitt gained some momentum, as Aysia Bugg banked in a three from the inbound to decrease the Miami advantage to five.

Pitt would get as close as three after Bugg converted another jumper, but the Hurricanes went on a 7-0 run to extend their lead to double-figures, as the Panthers trailed 27-17.

That advantage grew to 38-19, as Pitt simply failed to find any open shots.

The team only made three of its final 14 shots of the quarter, and nearly went the last five minutes of the period without a field goal until Brenna Wise arced a jumper in with four seconds remaining in the half.

Pitt clawed back, going on an 11-5 run to start the third, cutting the Miami lead to 13.

But Jessica Thomas drained a three to end that run, serving as an early dagger.

A three by Adrienne Motley gave Miami its first 20-point advantage. They

finished the third quarter leading Pitt 57-40.

Pitt fought to chip away at the Hurricane lead, decreasing the advantage to as little as 11. But Miami’s skill and experience proved insurmountable for the young Panther team.

The Hurricanes busted the game open toward the end of the game, finishing the contest on a 9-0 run, ending the game with a 22-point lead.

Wise and Diop led Pitt offensively, both tallying 17 points. Wise hauled in six boards, while Diop tallied three rebounds and three assists.

Motley and Keyona Hayes proved too much to handle for Pitt, though, as the duo put up 19 and 18 points, respectively. Miami had five players total in double figures.

With the Panthers’ season likely over, head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio’s team will finish the year at 13-18 on the season.

With nine of the 12 players on the roster freshmen or sophomores, the team will feature many familiar faces next season, including its entire starting lineup.

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