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As a full-time student and ballerina, balance is an essential part of Annie Martin’s life. hen Annie Martin got out of bed at 5:30 one morning this past December, she could barely walk on her right ankle. This wasn’t completely abnormal — she often wakes up sore from the previous day’s eight hours of ballet training.

But unlike most other aches and pains, this one didn’t go away — and it could not have come at a worse time. She was in the middle of a five-week stretch of performing “The Nutcracker” with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s professional company and held a spot as one of the few students included in the show.

Everyday she would wake up barely able to walk, knowing she needed to fool an audience into thinking nothing was wrong that evening. Martin managed to perform for three straight weeks with a steady dose of Advil, ice and mental bargaining with her body, only later discovering she had a shattered bone in her ankle.

“I’m a slightly strange person so I talk to body parts that are hurting, so pretty much I’d be making a deal with my ankle,” Martin said. “‘Just get me through finale, and it will be okay.’”

The surgery to remove the shattered bone in her ankle after these three weeks of performances added yet more stress to Martin’s already hectic life.

“With any surgery there’s always the possibility that something can go wrong, and especially with a dancer and an ankle sur-

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gery,” Martin said. “You never really know.”

As a member of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s graduate academy — an unpaid group of dancers training to become professionals — Martin is on the precipice of joining a professional company.

Beginning with a technique class every morning around 9 a.m., Martin dons a pair of sweatpants as she fluidly stretches her legs and back on barre. Learning different sets of movements in mere seconds, Martin perfectly mimics them without a hiccup — she is in her own world.

Martin glides through a series of contortions to stretch her entire body, unphased by changes in music or the instructor analyzing her technique from an arms length away. When the barre is moved aside, Martin sheds her sweats in favor of her dancing tights as the class ratchets up its intensity.

Martin starts to kick and jump around the room — constantly teetering on the fine line between seemingly chaotic movement and beauty.

Her demeanor remains unchanged no matter the movement. The angles she makes with her legs and arms remain crisp while her feet constantly remain in alignment — making these movements seem natural even though they are anything but.

With no more than a 30-second break

between sequences, Martin continues these breakneck sequences until the instructor, mercifully, permits a break. Allowing herself to finally break her composure, Martin takes a seat, breathlessly panting and in a full sweat.

This is just the warm-up.

Martin’s profession requires peak physical ability, and any setback can put her behind the national competition of dancers looking to land a full-time spot with a professional dance company.

Yet, she describes her situation coming back from injury with a certain levity. Instead of viewing this injury as a potential blow to aspirations she’s held half of her life, she’s just thankful to be back in time for the company’s upcoming show.

But this sort of mentality isn’t surprising after meeting Martin. Her passion for ballet supersedes any fears or anxiety she may have about her future.

It’s what brought her to dance at the age of 8. Martin couldn’t stop dancing after seeing a rendition of “The Nutcracker” at the local ballet of in her hometown of Lubbock, Texas.

Traveling to train in different cities every summer by the time she was 12, Martin came to Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s summer program at the age of 16 with the recom-

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mendation of an older dancer from Lubbock. Excelling in the program, she received an offer to take part in their training program during her senior year of high school.

At the end of her senior year, Pitt offered her a full scholarship and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre offered her a position in the graduate academy It was the perfect opportunity to gain an education and stay with a great ballet company.

Martin’s mom, Christina Ashby-Martin, said they specifically looked for ballet companies with nice universities nearby — making Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre an obvious choice.

“The cards fell the right way, and we could not have asked for a better combination,” Ashby-Martin said.

Martin is now a junior English major at Pitt on the fiction writing track and has nearly completed her degree. She’s managed to maintain full-time status by taking only evening and online classes for the past three years.

To most, franticly driving over to Pitt to take classes almost every evening after 8 to 10 hours of grueling physical activity may seem like a burden — definitely not enjoyable. Fellow dancers in the program, like Martin’s friend Allie O’Quinn, don’t underSee Martin on page 4

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HOPEFUL

H E A LI N G Story by Grant Burgman | Photos by Thomas Yang

Dr. Antoine Douaihy is hooked on helping others recover from addiction, but that wasn’t always his plan.

Dr. Antoine Douaihy didn’t think he would end up working as an addiction psychiatrist when he was growing up in Lebanon and France. He wanted to be a classical ballet dancer.

Douaihy discovered his passion for dancing when he was 9 years old — and he thought he would pursue it as a career throughout much of his childhood.

His passions have motivated him since he was a young ballet dancer in France — during his time at a local dance studio in Syracuse, New York, when he came to America and still to this day.

He’s maintained his slight, athletic build from his dancing days. He sees a connection between his time as a dancer and his current professional life.

“To me, dancing was a way to express myself … to be more in touch with who I am,” Douaihy said. “This is where the

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similarity is probably the common denominator.”

In both dancing and medicine, Douaihy values the connections that he can make with people, whether they’re colleagues, patients or audience members.

“It’s very much similar when it comes to being in this place when I’m connecting with patients,” he said. “So in a sense, when you’re really dancing, you’re on the stage, you’re connecting with people.

You’re affecting people on some level.”

Douaihy is now, among other things, the senior academic director for addiction medicine services at UPMC. He found his interest in addiction medicine during his psychiatry residency at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in the ‘90s.

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Martin, pg. 2 stand how she maintains this schedule.

“I’m not nearly as amazing as Annie is and I can’t keep up with her,” O’Quinn said.

“Annie is crazy in a good way.”

Martin considers her fiction writing major an escape, another form of self-expression aside from her dancing. She even started writing a science fiction novel exploring what it means to be human after writing the first 50 pages in a writing class last semester.

“I like the possibility to explore things that could happen or that might happen, especially the way that science fiction can comment on issues now,” Martin said about science fiction writing.

With a wry smile, Martin did admit that her schedule does get the best of her on occasion. After waking up between 5 and 6 a.m., she does homework, dances from 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., then heads straight to class until 8:30 p.m.

She’s excelled with this rigorous schedule for three years because self expression is her guide — Martin is drawn toward activities where she can represent a part of

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herself.

As Martin nears the end of her college career, she is fully aware of the challenging job prospects in ballet. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre didn’t hire any new dancers last summer, and even with an opening, Martin will need to prove herself the best among her peers and dancers all over the country to land a job.

Yet Martin has a positive attitude and is open to the idea of exploring modern dancing options around the City next year.

“I am primarily a classically trained dancer, but I enjoy doing modern stuff,” Martin said. “We’re playing it by ear right now.”

This unwavering drive to continue dancing is partially because of her passion for it, but Martin also realizes that she has a short window to seriously pursue dancing.

Her mother’s dance career was cut short by injury after she graduated from college.

Martin’s an artist who found her passion when she was just 8 years old, and as long as she can keep dancing, nothing can get in her way.

“In the arts, if you don’t find it inside yourself ... then you’re not really an artist,” AshbyMartin said. “For her, it is internal.”

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Douaihy, pg. 3 with patients with mood disorders. It wasn’t until one of his mentors, Dr. Eugene Tinelli, suggested he take a job at a veteran’s hospital that he became interested in the field of addiction.

Tinelli suggested Douaihy do a rotation on the addiction floor of the VA hospital in his first year to explore his options. Wary of working with addiction patients, Douaihy cautiously took the chance.

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“I went with preconceived notions.

Is it going to be rewarding working with that population? Do these people change?” Douaihy said. “From there it was kind of an instant chemistry. Working with that population helped me a lot to debunk my own preconceived notions.”

It was there that Douaihy discovered motivational interviewing after Tinelli gave him a book on the topic.

Motivational interviewing is a therapeutic technique that helps patients find internal motivation to change their be-

haviors. Douaihy uses this in place of confrontational approaches like interventions.

“Motivational interviewing has been the foundation of my career,” Douaihy said. “It has become like a way of living, because I believe in what I’m doing and how I’m doing it.”

Douaihy’s interest in motivational interviewing led him to eventually coedit a similar book on the technique, designed for medical trainees, in 2014.

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ily accept their behaviors, but you accept the person and you believe in their ability to change.”

Douaihy found this more empathetic approach useful in working with patients struggling with addiction. He values the trust that his patients have in him, so he was reluctant to share specific stories.

“These are people who struggled, who tried very hard to change their lives and are stuck in a vicious cycle,” Douaihy said.

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UNMASKING HIS

TRUTH Story by Brandon Glass | Photos by Elise Lavallee

You know Ian Troost from his protest on the sidelines of Heinz Field, but did you know he also makes a delicious bacon pasta dish?

You may have seen Ian Troost without even knowing it. It’s possible he was a passing thought or a source of lingering ire. It all depends on your opinion of mustaches, mascots and kneeling during the national anthem.

He was the tall skinny guy with the little brown caterpillar named Jerry perched on his upper lip. Jerry has since perished due to a Super Bowl bet.

During the 2016-2017 school year, the senior marketing major was Roc, jumping around in the Oakland Zoo or Panther Pitt. Before that, in Utah, he was Griff the Griffin.

And last fall you may have seen him suited up in a Pitt jersey and kneeling during the national anthem.

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Though his recent life is anything but normal, his grew up in standard small-town America.

“Honestly, I don’t think I could have had a better childhood,” Troost said. “I got very lucky growing up.”

Troost is well acquainted with the idyllic beaches and lush green scenery of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Basking in the summer sun and wrapped in hometown comfort, Troost knew Portsmouth had its problems. He just didn’t — or couldn’t — grasp the larger context.

“You kind of get set in your community’s ways and thinking,” Troost said. “You see the problems your community has, which are all very valid problems and legitimate problems, but you may See Troost on page 7

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Troost, pg. 6 not no n ot see problems on a larger scale.”

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He decided that Westminster College in Utah H was w as the best place for him to continue his passsions. io on He wanted to ski Utah’s slopes and hike mountains, explore the metropolitan downiits ts m ttown tow own of Salt Lake City and meet a wider variety off p people. o e He did all of that, but he also opened his perH to a wider spectrum of social problems sspective pec ones he’d only heard of and — institutionalized in n comprehend the depth of — including ccouldn’t co oul and gender bias. iimmigration mm ““I’m sitting there like a naive kid, and I’m like, ‘‘Well, Wel I’ve never heard of these problems before,’ sso o like li — not that I was delegitimizing them — yyou yo ou just don’t understand how serious or how indepth d ept they go,” Troost said. ep As a first-year student, he kept it low-key, A

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playing soccer and meeting new friends like Matt Warne.

“He’s very reliable. He lives in Pittsburgh now, but he still is a best friend to me,” Warne said.

Troost decided in his sophomore year he wanted to get involved in the community around him. This is when Troost had what he calls an “aha” moment. He was elected student body president of clubs at the Associated Students of Westminster, a group that oversees the operations of over 50 clubs on campus.

While running an organization, playing soccer and growing as a person in Utah, he also met his true love — mascoting.

“I was like, ‘Why not?’ and I ended up falling in love with it and realizing how much of a subculture it is — meeting other mascots, pro mascots and stuff like that,” he said.

Then, he had an idea. He wanted to kick again, and he was also a good mascot. What if he could combine the two? He sent out tapes of himself kicking to schools like Carnegie Mellon and Pitt — but most weren’t interested. He then emailed cheerleading coaches about becoming the new mascot. His plan was to build a connection with members of athletic departments and parlay the connections into a spot on the football team.

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Giving a voice, Lending an ear Even when she’s amplifying the stories of others, Krithika Pennathur always has time to listen.

Story by Sarah Shearer | Photos by Sarah Cutshall Krithika Pennathur has a story to tell, but it’s not about her.

Pennathur, a Pitt junior, may spend her days speaking at events or leading advocacy workshops in clubs on campus — but over coffee you’ll have her undivided attention and the feeling that she has all the time in the world.

“You can just write at the top of my profile, ‘Krithika just likes to listen,”’ she said. “‘That’s all she likes to do.’”

From a young age, Pennathur could tell she wasn’t like the kids she grew up with. Whether taking ballet, jazz and tap classes at South Side Dance or sitting with her nose in a book at Winchester Thurston School, Pennathur had a vague but sure feeling of unbelonging — and a feeling that she wasn’t the only one who felt that way.

She developed a love for books, though hardly any of them were written by or about women who looked like her — a petite Indian girl with a wild mane of dark hair flowing down to her waist.

“I was very much attuned to other

cultures not being represented and other sexualities not represented in literature,” Pennathur said. “Or they’re misrepresented.”

But in college at Pitt — where she’s majoring in gender, sexuality and women’s studies, along with English writing and history — Pennathur decided to make her voice heard. With the birth of her club, Pitt Unmuted, she’s created a space for her voice — and a lot of other ones, too.

Pennathur set Unmuted in motion with a Facebook post last summer to gauge Pitt students’ interest in the club.

The focus would be wide — sexual assault, relationship abuse, issues in the judicial system and other current events — and the club would allow for discussion

“Survivors don’t owe you their stories”

nection to the cause,” said the support she received for the idea overwhelmed her.

“That huge response [on Facebook] showed that people needed this,” she and education on these topics as well as said.

The club has held regular meetings offer an online platform for both male and female assault survivors to share since the beginning of the 2017-18 school year with the support of Unmuted’s factheir stories.

Pennathur, who has a “personal con- ulty adviser, Laura Stamm, but only be-

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came officially Pitt affiliated in January.

Jacqueline Souza, Pennathur’s good friend and Unmuted’s vice president, said members are thankful for the club because they don’t see the University providing the kind of support for assault victims that they need.

Pennathur agrees, citing the death of Pitt junior Alina Sheykhet in October as See Pennathur on page 11

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Douaihy, pg. 5 He said it was those patients who really solidified his interest in the field of addiction psychology.

“I got hooked on that kind of work,” Douaihy said with a laugh, acknowledging the irony.

After finishing his term at Syracuse in 1996, Douaihy did addiction work out of a private practice that he set up in Ogdensburg, New York, for a few years. But it wasn’t long before he wanted something more.

Inspired by his mentors at Syracuse, he wanted to find work in academia, initially planning on heading to the West Coast.

But when things didn’t work out after an interview for a job in San Francisco, Douaihy found himself in Pittsburgh.

“I ended up interviewing here, in a way, by default,” Douaihy said. “I never thought I was going to end up in Pittsburgh for 18 years.”

Since arriving on campus in 2000, his passions are divided between clinical research and training and mentoring medical students. One of his former mentees, Alexandra Sansosti, a third-year medical student, worked with Douaihy last July and August.

Even though Sansosti plans to make a career in general surgery — not addiction psychiatry like Douaihy — she found Douaihy to be a valuable teacher and guide.

“He is the most loyal, dedicated mentor that I have ever encountered. I am talking in my entire educational career,” Sansosti said.

She remembered one patient in particular from her rotation last summer who had been admitted to rehab several times in the last few years. Douaihy stuck with her when others were ready to give up.

Another physician told Sansosti that they didn’t know if the patient could be helped since she was so self-destructive. “[Douaihy] had said to me, ‘Alexandra, this is the population that we work with. This is not out of the ordinary. And if you give up on these people, they’ll never trust the medical system. And they’ll never come back. And that’s when you lose people. That’s when drug addiction becomes deadly,’” Sansosti said.

Douaihy was able to keep the patient on the floor until she was ready to enter

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inpatient rehab, an experience Sansosti described as “eye-opening.”

Cecilia Fichter-DeSando, the prevention manager for addiction medicine services at UPMC, says Douaihy is similarly compassionate and encouraging with his colleagues.

Fichter-DeSando and Douaihy were part of a team looking to help pass the Pennsylvania Clean Indoor Air Act — a law that prohibits smoking in a public place or workplace — in 2008. She said Douaihy was vital to getting the law passed and helped keep her encouraged throughout.

“I just said, ‘When is this going to happen?’ and he said, ‘Cele, this is a culture change, and culture change happens slowly — and we’re going to do this if we keep working at it together,’” Fichter-DeSando said.

According to Fichter-DeSando, he researched and sent articles to other professionals in the field for months explaining the benefit of smoke-free public places.

The research he found showed that people recovered from illness and addiction quicker if there were smoke-free spaces available to them.

“He’s not autocratic,” Fichter-DeSando said. “Even though he firmly believes what would be best, he wants you to come to your own decision.”

Douaihy’s line of work has come to the forefront of both local and national conversations as western Pennsylvania and the United States as a whole have found themselves enwrapped in an opioid addiction crisis.

In Pennsylvania, 38 out of every 100,000 deaths during 2016 was due to overdose — the fourth highest total in the nation, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Douaihy has seen the effects of the opioid epidemic firsthand in his clinical work.

“This has to be a collective responsibility. That’s not just really the physicians that are prescribing … that’s not going to work. Everybody has a responsibility — communities have a responsibility,” Douaihy said.

He wants the public to look at the victims of the crisis in the same way that he looks at his patients and students.

“It’s about human beings that are suffering,” he said. “All this work revolves around empathy.”

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Troost, pg.7 “And I wanted to be the mascot anyway — if football didn’t work out, that was,” Troost said. “I love mascoting more than anything.

Actually, it worked out really, really well.”

Troost moved to Pittsburgh and cemented his place among a rotating crew of Rocs, just waiting for his shot at the football team.

Among his top mascot moments was being at Clemson in 2016, when Pitt scored the upset.

“Being Roc was one of the most unbelievable experiences,” he said.

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After his time as Roc, he decided to try for a walk-on spot on the Pitt football team. Troost made the team in the spring of 2017, but wasn’t sure if he would remain on the team after that season. But when he came back after the summer to prepare for the 2017 season, he saw his nameplate on a locker.

Though Troost went to every practice, he didn’t play a single minute of the season. But that was okay with him — while he wanted to play, he was happy with helping the team in any way. He enjoyed his time with the team, but missed having the time to spend with

friends and realized he wasn’t quite happy with football anymore. After going back and forth, he decided he was leaving the team in November.

His interests aren’t limited to the athletic realm, though. He’s written a couple sketches for University of Pittsburgh Television and plays the ukulele — poorly — but it’s cooking that really excites him.

“They’re not necessarily traditional enchiladas, but my chicken enchiladas are pretty freakin’ good,” Troost said. “Or I make a really, really good pasta dish that has a bacon-chicken-onion cream sauce, which is

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actually probably my best dish.”

Cooking gives him free reign to try obscure combinations — and to flex his proverbial creative muscles.

But he can also quickly switch conversation topics from his favorite dish to his most influential activist.

His adviser at Utah, Oliver Anderson, opened his eyes to race and identity issues.

Anderson challenged him on his biases, sometimes at Troost’s behest. Troost didn’t always see why a person’s preferred identity was such an issue, and Anderson would catch him and explain it.

“He did such a good job explaining things to me, helping me break out of this role of heteronormativity. I really owe a lot to him for that,” he said, his tone almost reverential.

Anderson recalled Troost’s interest openness to learn and his quest to learn “all sides of a topic.”

“Ian has always been a grower,” he said.

“As soon as he learned something new or overcame a challenge, he set his goals onto the next big thing.”

Troost admitted that when he was a senior in high school, he likely would have disagreed with Colin Kaepernick’s decision to kneel during the anthem, coming from a family with military backgrounds. So when Troost knelt during the national anthem in protest of police brutality in October, he tried to make his stance explicitly clear.

He didn’t care what strangers on the internet thought but worried friends and family would think his actions on Heinz Field were an attention grab. But it wasn’t — it was an attempt to build a conversation, to add another voice, however small, to the chorus.

“It definitely stressed me out a little bit. I would find myself not thinking about school or not focusing on school, but doing more research or responding to people — not necessarily negative comments, just having conversations with people — which is really important,” Troost said.

Occasionally, someone will read the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s article on Troost kneeling and send some hate his way on Twitter, but that doesn’t bother him much.

Only his close friends’ opinions matter to him, and only if they’re willing to hear him out — because he’s more than willing to hear them out.

“My biggest thing is, I don’t really care what other people think about me,” Troost said. “If you want to have your opinion, you have your opinion — it’s that simple. Because I clearly have mine.”

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Pennathur, pg.8 one case in which Pitt neglected to directly address the incident and issues like intimate partner violence.

“It was a really big blow to students,” she said. “Upsetting is an understatement.”

This is the kind of silence Pennathur and the members of Unmuted combat every time they meet, validating those who haven’t felt they could voice their experiences and uplifting those who feel isolated.

“It’s so hard,” she said, “because survivors don’t owe you their stories, but they deserve a place where, if they want to share their story, they should be able to.”

The club isn’t only for survivors, though. Pitt senior English and economics major Matthew Walker, who has three friends who have experienced assault and partner violence, attends the club as a way to support them.

“It’s definitely a place of healing,” Walker said.

Pennathur aims to make each meeting as interactive as possible, engaging members to brainstorm ways they can uplift women and other marginalized groups.

She calls on club members by name with a warm familiarity as she writes their input on a whiteboard.

Though Pennathur founded the club and is its president, she prefers to stay in the background.

“It’s really led by the people who are in the club, the people that continue to share their stories,” she said. “I don’t impose a certain vision for the club except for it to serve as an intersectional platform.”

Pennathur hesitates to bring any kind of focus herself. For the first time in an hour-long conversation, she is short for words when asked to talk about a time she’d uplifted someone else.

“This is difficult for me,” she said, “because as you probably notice, I’m not the kind to want to talk about myself.”

Though Pennathur would rather listen to others than share about her own experiences, her friends can confirm what anyone would guess from meeting her — she speaks to inspire.

“We became friends on Facebook before real life, and she’d always like every single comment and post I made on Facebook,” Khusbu Patel, a Pitt sophomore and neuroscience and psychology major, said.

Patel describes Pennathur as one of her

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best friends. “She’s very supportive ... definitely my number one hype woman.”

“I could write an essay on her,” Souza said. “I’m constantly amazed at how tireless she is. She spreads herself so thin, but you don’t see the negatives that come along with that.”

Souza isn’t the only one to notice how involved Pennathur is. In addition to serving as Unmuted’s president, she is the volunteer coordinator for Pitt Girl Up, an international women’s rights advocacy group, serves on the board for Pitt Color TV, a startup organization at Pitt which

serves as a platform for people of color, and is involved with Pitt’s South Asian Student Association. Pennathur is also a part of the sexual assault prevention month task force.

It’s a heavy workload, one Pennathur said her parents were initially worried about her taking on.

“My dad thinks [my work with Unmuted] is I’m like doing the job of three people,” she said. Her mother, Revathi Pennathur, said that though she was concerned about her daughter’s workload, she always encourages her to take a few hours

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to rest.

“That’s my big thing with her,” Revathi said.

So, what does a woman with three majors, two minors, a certificate and countless extracurricular involvements do to relax?

“I try new dessert places and coffee places,” Pennathur said. “I’ll just go into different places and try their desserts.”

But don’t ask Pennathur for a favorite sweets shop recommendation — she’ll direct you to her own kitchen, saying her mother’s recipes are some of her favorites.

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412-261-4620.

Various size apartments available in South Oakland.

Newly listed for fall 2018. Call John CR Kelly Realty for de-

Streets - Studio, 1, 2 & 3BR apartments. Free parking.

Move in May 1 or Aug. 1, 2018. Call 412-361-2695

Southside SOUTHSIDE FLATS 1, 2,and 3 BR houses and apartments, some with AC. Call Mike 412-708-1695.

Rental Other 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 houses available. August 2018. South Oakland: Bouquet St, Lawn St, Ward St. North Oakland: Bigelow, & Craig St. Call 412-287-5712.

Newly renovated, fully furnished 4 & 5 BR, 2 -1/2 BA houses for students.

Located near Pitt Dental School and Carlow University. Utilities are included in the rent. Laundry services available in the house.

Rent $600-$695.

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412-656-5693. Available now till July 31st 2018 and August 1st 2018 till July 2019.

ship, light housekeeping, personal care services. Flexible hours available. If interested call 412-363-5500

Employment

Great summer job!!!

WAITER/WAITRESS, DISHWASHER/COOK: 20hr/wk, great working environment. Cafe Sam, 5242 Baum Blvd.

Apply Monday-Friday 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Participants Wanted for Paid Psychology Research Participants wanted for an alcohol research study at Carnegie Mellon University To be eligible for this study, you must: •Be 21-25 yrs. old and own a smartphone •Drink alcohol at least weekly •Be able to show valid photo ID •Be willing to consume alcohol You may earn up to $365 for your participation in this multi-session study.

For more information, call The Behavioral Health Research Lab (412-268-3029) Note: Unfortunately, our lab is not wheelchair accessible.

Employment Other Babysitter needed for Spring semester part time and full time for Summer. Close to campus. Contact tbeltz@gmail.com Comfort Keepers, a Post-Gazette Top Workplace, is seeking caring individuals.

Caregivers work alongside seniors to provide companion-

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Join KEYS Service Corps, AmeriCorps.

Mentor, tutor, and inspire Pittsburgh area youth. Summer and fall positions with bi-weekly stipend and education award. Full and part-time. Possible internship credit.

Call 412-350-2739. www.keysservicecorps.org Seasonal Marketing Assistant Shadyside property management firm established in 1960 needs two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Excel, Word and the internet from approximately NOW to August; four days/week from 9am-6pm. Saturday and/or Sunday hours a must; some flexibility in days and hours will be considered; most hours will be solitary on the computer with no phone work; 40 words per minute and strong computer skills required; no experience needed & we will train you at our Shadyside office; free parking. $13/hour plus generous season end bonus.

Mozart Management 412-682-7003. thane@mozartrents. com.

TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR SUMMER, Ice company close to campus.

Some weekend work available. Production/ driving/maintenance positions available.

Good pay, part-time/ full time. Contact Mastro Ice Company 412-681-4423. mastroice@aol.com

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