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The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | March 27, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 135

MALE VICTIM Students share global empowerment stories FOUND DEAD ON WARD STREET Salina Pressimone and John Hamilton The Pitt News Staff A man was found shot to death on Ward Street Monday afternoon, but it’s unclear where the shooting occured after University of Pittsburgh police deleted a tweet regarding the incident that evening.

City police spokesperson Alicia George said police responded to a report of a body on the 3200 block of Ward Street at approximately 5:33 p.m. A City police investigation is underway, and no arrests have been made yet, George said. City police are also awaiting more information from the medical examiner.

Pitt police tweeted about the incident at 7:16 p.m. but then deleted the tweet before 10 p.m.

Monday.

“The victim of what appears to be a shooting in McKeesport was driven to Ward Street by unknown persons and removed from the vehicle.

Investigation continues,” the tweet said.

Since deleting the tweet, Pitt police issued a crime alert describing the incident without mention of McKeesport or possible suspects.

When The Pitt News asked Pitt police about the deleted tweet and whether the safety of the community had changed as a result, the department referred questions to the University’s media relations department.

The Pitt News then reached out to the media relations department, and University spokesperson Katie Fike said she could not answer any questions until the morning and referred inquiries regarding the incident back to Pitt police.

After another call with Pitt police, The Pitt News was told to bring all inquiries, including the

Pitt students learn a salsa dance at the Who Run the World? event hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Panhellenic Association, Pitt FEM, Pitt Program Council, Pitt Girl Up and the Student Government Board.

Issi Glatts | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR event because we’re so focused on countries and belly dancing lessons.

Zane Crowell Sarah LaBouliere, a junior communica- around the world and womanhood and girlStaff Writer tion and English major, represented Girl Up hood, and we thought, ‘What if we could get As the doors of the William Pitt Union — an organization founded by the United other organizations involved?’” LaBouliere lower lounge opened at 8 p.m., about 150 Nations Foundation to educate and empower said. students poured in to learn about the experiThey succeeded in bringing other groups girls around the world — at one of the tables. ences of women in other countries.

“We have six focus countries and five fo- aimed at global empowerment to participate The event, Who Run the World?, was cus pillars,” LaBouliere said. “Our countries this year, such as Global Ties. part of Pitt’s annual Women’s Empowerment Madhu Mahesh, a junior psychology and include countries like India and Uganda, and Week hosted by Student Government Board. our focus pillars include things like health gender, sexuality and women’s studies major, The week will see several events throughout and Lucy Chiem, a senior psychology major, and education.” the week about women’s empowerment, with LaBouliere got involved with Girl Up in represented Global Ties, which hosts cultural this one focusing on international aspect the spring of 2016 when the Pitt chapter was immersion trips allowing both international of female empowerment. Students visited founded. Girl Up was involved in last year’s and domestic students to visit different locabooths put together by various student orgaWomen’s Empowerment Week, co-sponsor- tions within the United States. Past trip destinizations, such as Pitt Global Ties, Girl Up, ing a film viewing for “Girl Rising,” which nations included Denver, Washington, D.C., the Asian Studies Center and the University follows the stories of girls in countries the and Lancaster.

Center for International Studies — all orga“We do a lot of global and culturally organization is involved in. nizations related to international programs “We knew we wanted to have a bigger aware programming, and they reached out to See Ward on page 3 at Pitt. Participants could also join in on salsa hand this year, and we brainstormed this See Empowerment on page 2

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NAACP discusses overlapping injustices

Remy Samuels Staff Writer Environmental injustice can affect anyone, whether they are an AfricanAmerican with asthma living in the South Side of Chicago or a low-income white family living near a toxic waste plant.

But according to Jacqueline Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, some are more affected than others.

“While race is the number one indicator of environmental [injustices], we also know that racism and sexism and classism are inextricably tied,” Patterson said.

A crowd of about 80 people gathered Monday evening in the Frick Fine Arts auditorium to listen to Patterson speak at the Environmental Justice is Racial Justice is Gender Justice event. The talk was hosted by the Pitt Human Rights Initiative as a way to inform students and

staff how minorities are often targeted when it comes to climate and environmental issues.

Patterson cited the historical context of extracting natural resources and human rights with the country’s history of slavery, saying many people today are still stripped of their basic human rights or “the commons,” which include necessities like air, water, land, food and more.

One of NAACP’s initiatives Patterson is involved in, called Lights Out in the Cold, aims to help those who are at risk of having their utilities disconnected.

“We should all have access to heat and electricity,” Patterson said. “People are literally paying the price of poverty with their lives. People have burned down their houses because of having to use candles.”

Patterson said there have also been incidents of people using generators for electricity but leaving them inside their houses, causing numerous carbon monoxide-related deaths.

This is just one of the many examples of the injustices people who live near polluted and toxic infrastructures have suffered — Patterson said 68 percent of African-Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant. She spoke about Annie Brown, a black woman from North Carolina, who lived near a coalfired power plant and created a list of the health issues her neighbors experienced as a result.

“I went to the North Carolina Environmental Summit to speak there,” Patterson said. “When I put up this picture, someone gasped in audience because [Brown] had passed away six weeks ago herself.”

Patterson also emphasized that gender plays a role in environmental injustice. She cited the existence of “man camps,” energy company-built barracks in North Dakota where dozens of men live. Consequently, Patterson said there’s been a spike in missing Navajo women and human trafficking in these areas.

Empowerment, pg. 1 us to talk about the global and international culture things on campus that can pertain to women.” Mahesh said.

Global Ties also hosts speakers from organizations within Pitt to bring awareness to the cultural opportunities and resources that are available.

“For international students, sometimes they don’t really know where to start for various resources, and so we open the doors to that,” Mahesh said.

Jennie O’Donaghue, a senior urban studies and Spanish major, attended the event as an ambassador for the UCIS, which grants certificates to students who have studied specific regions of the world, including Asia, Africa and Europe. “[They] try to make Pitt students more globally competent, so each of the centers has their own certificate and related concen-

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Lauren Kubeja (left), a junior studying civil engineering, receives a henna tattoo from Insiyah Campwala (right), a senior majoring in biology, at the Indian table during the Who Run the World? event Monday night in the William Pitt Union. Issi Glatts | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR tration that you can do,” she said. “It’s just something that you can add to your major or something like that if you’re interested in

the world.”

O’Donaghue is completing a certificate in Latin American studies. She has

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And crimes against women occur in response to natural disasters, according to Patterson.

“There’s a lot of violence against women after disasters happen,” Patterson said. “It happened after Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Japan.”

Part of the reason why Patterson believes racism, classism, the patriarchy and climate change are interconnected is because the people who are making decisions, like those in Beaver County building an ethane cracker plant, are not part of these communities and are searching for profit. Patterson said there is often a lack of inclusion at important decisionmaking conferences, which leads to a violation of people’s human rights. She spoke from her own experience, when she was one of three black people in a room during a conference.

“We need to rethink how inclusive we’re being. It’s hard to be that voice, but See Injustice on page 3 studied abroad and completed internships through the program. Though she knows most people get involved with the certificate programs early in their college careers, she didn’t join until she was a junior. She has had no problem with the certificate and said some students might not know they’ve even completed one.

“It’s actually pretty common to accidentally complete a certificate,” she said.

The University Center for International Studies was asked to attend the event because of its international theme.

Aubrey Masters, a sophomore studying pre-social work, attended because she is a member of sorority Delta Zeta — which belongs to the Collegiate Panhellenic Association, a Greek life collective that co-sponsors Women’s Empowerment Week.

“Sorority life partners with and promotes the whole event,” Masters said. “My sisters and I are very busy, but we had 40-plus [people] stop by to check it out.”

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Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, advocates for reducing harmful emissions and advancing energy efficiency and clean energy at the Environmental Justice is Racial Justice is Gender Justice event hosted by Unkind Institute in the Frick Fine Arts Building. Sarah Cutshall | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Injustice, pg. 2 it’s important to make people conscious and provide suggestions to have more inclusive conversations,” she said. “I try to get folks to make sure we’re going to an event together to bring more voices to the conversation.”

Ami Fall, a junior political science major, said she enjoyed Patterson’s talk because of her intersectional standpoint, especially since these types of events are often “whitewashed.”

“I appreciated how she highlighted other cities and states that are also dealing with issues like the Flint water crisis, because Flint is not receiving the help it needs by any means,” she said. “People oftentimes don’t think of other cities that need help.”

Ward, pg. 1 safety of the community, back to the department in the morning.

George said she could neither confirm nor comment on what the Pitt police tweeted.

Jack Merlino, a senior communication major, said he saw police officers and a body on the sidewalk when he came back from class Monday afternoon. He could not identify who the individual was.

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Junior environmental studies major Young Sarah Grguras said she was particularly interested in this talk since she works in the Student Office of Sustainability.

“We’re working on the way we approach sustainability and being more intersectional,” Grguras said. “I wouldn’t say that I’m well-versed in these issues, [so] I always like hearing new perspectives.

Patterson wrapped up the talk with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., ending with a message of hope for the audience.

Sprawled across the screen, the quote read, “We have before us a glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — MLK ”

“I saw someone laying on the ground, it sort of took me a second to make out what it was. He was wearing just a red plaid shirt and I think blue jeans,” Merlino said. “I went inside, and when I came back out 15 minutes later I saw they put a sheet over him.”

The University crime alert requested that anyone with information regarding this incident call the Pittsburgh Police Department (Zone 4) at (412) 422-6520 (reference CCR# 18-0056062) or the University of Pittsburgh Police at (412) 6242121 (reference report #18-01240).

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Santorum surrenders to chaos on gun control For most of the participants at antigun violence marches in cities across the country Saturday, there was a broad agreement: Gun laws are currently too lax, and we need to tighten them up to avoid future carnage.

Some people, however, were busy proposing bizarre alternatives to gun control.

On CNN’s “State of the Union” show Sunday, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, R-Pa., suggested students who had participated in gun control rallies the day before would be better off asking themselves “how do I, as an individual, deal with this problem?”

“Those are the kind of things where you can take it internally, and say, [...]

‘Here’s how I’m going to help the situation,’” Santorum said. “Instead of going and protesting and saying, ‘Oh, someone else needs to pass a law to protect me.’”

There’s a lot to unpack from Santorum’s inability to care about more than one issue at once. It should be obvious students can both learn CPR and advocate for gun control laws simultaneously. But what’s more concerning than the ex-lawmaker’s bout of “whataboutism” is the startling extent to which he and others are willing to go to avoid even considering stronger gun laws as a solution to America’s school massacre problem.

The GOP has traditionally seen itself as the party of personal responsibility.

That’s why, on the surface, Santorum’s calls for students to “be responsible and deal with the problems that we have to confront in our lives” don’t seem out of the ordinary. But look again and it’s clear

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just how extreme that line of thought is.

It’s hard to see how Santorum justifies any government at all if he doesn’t think it should be responsible for stopping people from killing other people.

But Santorum is no anarchist — he’s just a garden-variety hypocrite. Just ask him about his position on an unborn fetus’ personal responsibility to avoid being aborted, for example. Along with much of his party’s national leadership, Santorum carefully selects when and where he wants to be principled about the role of government in individuals’ lives. The lives of high school students, in this point of view, are simply not worth the government’s time and effort to protect.

If conservative leaders in government are willing to totally abdicate their responsibility for the people they serve, it seems unlikely that other workable solutions will emerge. A school district in eastern Pennsylvania announced last week it would be arming teachers in classrooms with five-gallon buckets of rocks to toss at intruders in the event of a shooting.

The solution to governmental inaction on gun control comes off as practically prehistoric, speaking volumes about the extent to which Second Amendment fetishism has paralyzed American society. It invites comparisons with a time before humans banded together for the mutual protection of a political body.

A government that does nothing to protect its citizens from violence is just as good as no government at all, and politicians who oppose basic legislative actions to preserve our lives have no place in modern society.

WHAT I LEARNED FROM

CHRIS DAYER

Henry Glitz Opinions Editor The smile on my face didn’t wear off for at least half an hour after the last time I saw Chris Dayer, the week before spring break.

Chris, his girlfriend Amanda and I had met for a late lunch after our classes had ended for the day. I hadn’t seen either in a few weeks, and despite having known him for more than a year, his extraordinary enthusiasm for finding time to spend with friends still took me by surprise.

We weren’t talking about anything uncommonly funny — the typical group chat drama, weird professors we had this semester, our plans for the summer — but grinning was just something you wanted to do after talking to Chris. From my perspective, he seemed to have every reason to be sunny: he was about to graduate at the end of the semester with a degree in chemistry, already accepted to pharmacy school at Temple University, family, friends and roommates who looked up to him and a girlfriend who loved him.

That’s part of the reason why it was so shocking that the next time I heard Chris’s name, it was because he was gone forever. After reading a text message from a friend that felt like a punch to the stomach, feelings of total emptiness gradually gave way to grief and then a burning desire for answers. Where had this come from?

In the days since that awful Friday, I wondered whether I had simply given my friend too little attention to see signs of the end approaching. But as the reality of

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the situation set in, I came to realize an unsatisfying — but undeniable — truth: mental health problems aren’t always visible on the surface, and it can be incredibly difficult to share your struggles with issues that are socially stigmatized.

Far too often, individuals who face mental health issues can’t see their problems as anything other than a burden to the people around them. A person’s beaming personality can become a source of support for the people who know them, like Chris’ did. And people who are generous with their friendships may prefer to act as though everything is normal instead of sharing their struggles with friends and family if they see them as a potential burden for others.

It’s almost impossible to avoid the near-universal stigma of mental health in Western society today. A 2008 study from the University of Calgary found slightly more than one in five respondents held the absurd belief that people suffering from depression were “dangerous.” The fact that such a belief is widespread in our world of otherwise modern medical attitudes should be seen as nothing less than an attack on people with mental illnesses.

Because of archaic social attitudes like these, young people with mental illnesses often voluntarily do not seek help, professional or otherwise. Even among those who receive an official depression diagnosis, data from the National Institute of Mental Health show just half ever receive treatment at all, and a mere 20 percent get medical attention “consistent with current practice guidelines.”

The self-stigma this and other research See Glitz on page 5

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Glitz, pg. 4 reflects can be the source of a vicious cycle for people who experience the symptoms of depression. Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007 found a connection between internalized marginalizing of mental health problems and “diminished self-esteem and self-efficacy.” And feelings like these obviously don’t help the situations of those already suffering from major depression.

Chris was a person who, to me, often seemed not to notice the ways he constantly added to the lives of each and every person around him. Whether it was the thrift store finds he dutifully brought back from other cities to give to friends he thought they’d fit, the bouts of laughter that always made you feel in on the joke or the outpouring of support after his death, everything about Chris was an inerasable sign of the care with which he treated those close to him. Everyone who knew him would be beyond lucky to ever know someone else half as kind.

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Christopher Dayer poses with the Balto statue, a sculpture of a historical sled dog, in New York City’s Central Park. Courtesy of Amanda Nichols If we, as Chris’ friends, family and classmates, want to avoid a loss like this

again, something needs to change about how we deal with depression as a com-

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munity. It’s difficult to accept the passing of someone as supportive and kind as him. It’s even more difficult for me to write about it and more difficult still to talk about the issues surrounding mental illness going forward in the aftermath of his death.

Mental health campaigns from Pitt have long focused on “talking about it,” but that obviously hasn’t happened yet.

Yet it’s precisely the kind of change that needs to happen. We can’t solve a problem we refuse to acknowledge — and mental illness is no exception.

Everyone in the Pitt community is valuable, and everyone deserves to be heard — especially if they’re in need of help and dealing with depression or other mental health problems. If you or someone you know is in crisis or needs resources, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800273-8255, the Pitt Student Counseling Center at (412) 648-7930 or Allegheny County’s Resolve Crisis Hotline at 1 (888) 7-YOU-CAN. Henry is the Opinions Editor of The Pitt News. Write to Henry at hgg7@pitt. edu.

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Cassettes make a comeback in local DIY music scene

Zach Donovan Staff Writer Popular trends tend to reappear every so often — and in the music world, this is especially true. Genres give way to post-genres, subgenres and genre fusion, and popular tropes of the past seem to pop up 20 years later with little explanation.

This trend has taken shape recently in the form of cassette releases from local acts in Pittsburgh, specifically from those who originated alongside the recent rise of the DIY music scene.

Aside from the appeal of nostalgia, the affordability of cassettes is a major appeal to both distributors and music consumers alike.

The way listeners consumed music drastically changed at the advent of the 2010s. With CDs quickly disappearing from stores and shelves, streaming services like Spotify, SoundCloud and Bandcamp took over as the dominant listening platforms. In the cyclical nature of the world, vinyl records made a comeback in a big way.

Big name artists like Metallica, R.E.M. and Vampire Weekend participated in what would come to be known as Record Store Day — a day to celebrate independently owned record stores — starting in 2008. This renaissance led to an increasing emphasis on the DIY spirit and is partially responsible for the popularity of vinyl as not only a way of listening, but as a way to support local businesses.

As vinyl came back in style, it would only seem logical that other retired mediums of music listening would soon bounce back. A handful of record labels founded Cassette Store Day in 2013, with releases from Deerhunter, The Flaming Lips, Haim and more.

Connor Murray, a sophomore marketing and business information systems major, has capitalized on the rising popularity of the cassette tape with his Pittsburgh-based independently run label, Crafted Sounds.

Wanting to participate in the music scene of his native city of Baltimore, but not a musician himself, Murray founded the label on his 18th birthday almost two years ago.

“It was kind of like a birthday present to myself,” Murray said.

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His lack of instructions or guidance drove him to seek counsel from more experienced labels, such as Disposable America and Too Far Gone Records. After reaching out to these labels for advice, Murray embarked on the journey that would result in the creation of Crafted Sounds.

Murray initially had to seek out artists wherever he could find them. Using independent streaming sites like Bandcamp, Murray began to

Crafted Sounds Twitter account — Hartman first reached out to Murray before the pair even arrived at Pitt, and the two became friends through their shared love of music.

Now the front man of DIY pop band Surf Bored, signed under the Crafted Sounds label, Hartman described himself as Murray’s “righthand man,” helping Murray with label decisions.

Hartman said unlike records, the affordability of cassettes makes them more accessible to fans.

Connor Murray, a sophomore marketing and information system major, founded and runs the Pittsburgh-based, independently run label Crafted Sounds. Kyleen Considine | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER build his label entirely of his own volition. After Crafted Sounds relocated to Pittsburgh the following fall, it became easier for the label to find artists.

“At first the label was very sprawled out,” Murray said, “I released with people in Mexico, Tennessee and California.”

After arriving at Pitt, Murray chose to centralize the label around the Pittsburgh scene. He made connections through a few chance encounters with local artists and began to establish his label in Pittsburgh.

Murray met sophomore Ryan Hartman, an applied mathematics major, through the

“The barrier for entry is so low,” Hartman said. “They’re so shareable and they’re cheap, and I think that they still manage to have a cool factor.”

Duquesne graduate Sam Treber, a member of the Crafted Sounds band Short Fictions, met Murray through another form of archaic recording technology.

“We were both at a show at a former venue called Dogfunk,” Treber said. “He was recording the show on a VHS camcorder, and I was recording the show on a handheld tape recorder.”

In spite of the cassette’s popularity and novelty, skeptics — who claim that the return of

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obsolete mediums is nostalgic overkill — have doubted the validity of the cassette as a relevant medium. But for independent artists and small labels like Crafted Sounds, the cassette has been instrumental to their survival.

“Cassette tapes are so much more affordable,” Murray said. “From a logistical standpoint, cassette tapes are one of the easiest ways for artists to get their music on physical media.”

For artists like Surf Bored, the cassette tape has helped to share their sound with others while conveying the “cool factor” mentioned by Hartman.

To more experienced bands like Short Fictions, who have existed since 2015, the cassette has been a welcome alternative to formats like vinyl, which can set bands back thousands of dollars.

“It’s accessible as someone who’s putting out music from a financial standpoint,” Treber said.

“The vinyl was a couple thousand dollars. The cassettes are a hundred dollars, tops, for a case.”

While undeniably cost effective, questions of marketability arise. But both Surf Bored and Short Fictions members testified to the effectiveness of the cassette in terms of sales.

“I see people leaving shows with them all the time,” Hartman said. “There’s enough people that buy them to sustain it.”

After experimenting with releasing music on vinyl and CD formats, Short Fictions has found the most success selling cassettes, quickly selling all of its copies.

“Surprisingly, the fans do buy them just as much, if not more than the records and even the CDs,” Treber said, “We don’t even make CDs anymore.”

Until cassette sales either peter out or increase in popularity, labels like Crafted Sounds will continue to make tapes.

Crafted Sounds will celebrate two years of existence April 13 with an artist showcase at The Mr. Roboto Project. The show will feature performances from Crafted Sounds bands like Short Fictions and Surf Bored, as well as a few others.

“It’s going to be the show of the year, basically,” Treber said.

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Pitt looks overseas for

latest lineman Alex Lehmbeck Staff Writer Although a growing demographic, international college football players are hard to find. According to The Growth of a Game, a Belgian-based company connecting football advocates across Europe, only two active Division I college football players were born in Italy as of 2015. Incoming Pitt commit Habakkuk Baldonado will add to that total next year.

Baldonado, who grew up in Rome, came to the United States to attend Clearwater Academy International in Clearwater, Florida. Although he started playing football much later than most college football prospects, his impressive start has Pitt’s fan base excited for development.

“Anytime you’ve only played one year in the States and only have been in a weight program for one year, your upside is that much higher,” Clearwater head coach Jesse Chinchar told Pittsburgh Sports Now. “He hasn’t even touched his potential yet.”

Listed by 247sports.com as a threestar weak-side defensive end, Baldonado stands at a tall 6 feet 5 inches tall and 230 pounds. He recorded 30.5 sacks in his senior season at Clearwater. He chose Pitt over offers that included Michigan State, Connecticut, Syracuse, Nebraska and Central Florida. Pitt, MSU, and UCF were his final three schools.

“I can say that I’m a rushing WDE,” Baldonado said. “Pass rush is one of my strengths, that’s why I’m the Florida leader in sacks. I will try to bring on the field my attitude and my abilities, and I will like in the beginning to learn everything that I can from the older players.”

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EUROPEAN POWERS GEAR UP FOR UCL QUARTERFINALS

Three main factors resulted in his Stephen Cuddy college decision: coaching, location and Staff Writer academics. He said he has developed American soccer fans don’t have much a close relationship with the Panthers to look forward to this summer, with the coaching staff and loves the City of PittsU.S. Men’s National Team failing to make burgh. this year’s World Cup in Russia. But for “I grew up in a city,” Baldonado said, those still interested in gearing up for the “so I don’t think that I would be able to tournament, the UEFA Champions League live in the middle of nowhere for five should provide great drama and competiyears. Pittsburgh is a beautiful City to tion. live in with a beautiful atmosphere.”

The Champions League announced its The University of Pittsburgh imquarterfinal matchups March 16, highlightpressed Baldonado with its prestigious ed by a contest between English rivals and academic reputation. He was especially a rematch of last year’s final. Each matchup excited about the strength of its mewill feature a home and away match, and the chanical engineering program, through winner will advance on aggregate — or total which he intends to pursue his major. combined goals between the two matches.

Coming off a 5-7 season and looking Bayern Munich vs. Sevilla (To be played forward to a lethal 2018 schedule, the April 3 and April 11) Panthers’ future has some concerned.

Bayern has made it to the quarterfinals Baldonado, though, has confidence the in the Champions League for the ninth year team is trending upward. in a row, and once again it will be one of the “I know that the past season has been favorites to win. tough for Pitt,” he said, “even because Bayern will be without goalkeeper Manof some unlucky events, but from what uel Neuer for both matches this round, but I’ve seen, they’re improving in any field that shouldn’t be a problem. He’s been out and starting from next year thanks to the with a foot injury for the majority of the great coaches. They are gonna start to season, and the team still has an exceptional improve exponentially, and I’m sure that defense, midfield and attack. we will be better every year.”

The Cinderella story of this year’s tourBaldonado is certainly ready for fall nament has been Sevilla, who shocked the 2018 to arrive. He wants to arrive on competition when it moved on in the last campus and get to work: on the gridiron round, beating Manchester United 2-1. It and off. is currently the only team remaining that “I can’t wait to start practicing with stands lower than third in its domestic the team, on the field and in the gym,” league.

Baldonado said. “I’m really looking forSevilla plays in a 4-2-3-1 formation, a ward to being coached by [defensive defensive arrangement that makes it more line] coach [Charlie] Partridge and to difficult for opposing teams to attack down improve as much as I can.” the middle. This will force Bayern to rely on He added, “I can’t wait to move there playing the ball out wide and have its wingand start living the college life, meeting ers and outside backs send crosses in. new people and start this new great exIn Sevilla’s last match, Sevilla center perience.”

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back Clement Lenglet controlled Manchester United star forward Romelu Lukaku.

Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski will be an even tougher challenge to contain — this year he scored 32 goals in 39 games across all competitions.

Lewandowski will likely prove too much for Sevilla, and Bayern should go through with ease to make its fourth semifinal appearance in five years after missing out last season.

Real Madrid vs. Juventus (To be played April 3 and April 11) This rematch of last year’s final should prove to be a highly entertaining matchup, with the winner likely establishing itself as the new favorite in the tournament.

If there is a team to stop Real at the moment, it’s Juventus. Juve is defensively sound, with center back Giorgio Chiellini at the heart of the defense and Gianluigi Buffon in goal, who only allowed three goals in the last 15 games.

Juventus’ forward partnership of Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain is strong in its own right. Higuain will be facing his old club, and both Higuain and Dybala are fighting for a place on Argentina’s World Cup roster. That should provide added motivation for the Argentinean pairing.

Real Madrid, on the other hand, is peaking at the right time. Since the turn of the year, forward Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 21 goals in 13 games across all competitions. As a team, Real has outscored its opponents 13-6 over its last four games.

Combine that output with the leadership of veteran defender Sergio Ramos and the deadly midfield trio of Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Casemiro, and Real Madrid looks primed to win its third straight Champions League final.

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Cuddy, pg. 8 Real Madrid is playing at a high level.

It made short work of Paris Saint Germain — one of Europe’s most expensive teams — in the last round by an aggregate score of 5-2. That momentum should carry over to a similar result against Juventus.

Barcelona vs. AS Roma (To be played April 4 and April 10) This draw could prove interesting, even though the last time these two met Barcelona beat AS Roma by an aggregate score of 7-2 — including a 6-1 win in Barcelona during the 2015-2016 Champions League group stage.

Roma won’t be favored, but it might be able to surprise Barca and the soccer world by stealing a place in the semifinals. Barcelona central midfielder Andres Iniesta is currently out with a hamstring injury, and if Roma can capitalize on Barca’s tired legs and lack of leadership, it might be able to progress.

Barcelona has only won one of its last nine games in Italy — a 3-2 victory over AC Milan in 2011-2012. But this should be the team to reverse the trend. The partner-

This year, the UEFA Championships League quarterfinal matchups will consist of four matchups, each having a home and away match, with the winner advancing. Via Wikimedia Commons ship of central defenders Gerard Pique and Samuel Umtiti has been impeccable in the past few weeks.

Forward Lionel Messi is still producing at an extremely high rate, and the team’s new signings, including midfielder Philippe Coutinho and forward Ousmane Dembele, appear to be working out well.

Even without Iniesta, Barcelona should ad-

vance.

Liverpool vs. Manchester City (To be played April 4 and April 10) Real Madrid and Juventus may be the headliners of the tournament, but this matchup could easily be the most entertaining. Man City has developed a budding rivalry with Liverpool as its profile has risen over the last half decade. Police are

already warning fans and preparing for the rowdy crowd in the first leg.

Liverpool has one of the most potent trios of forwards in all of Europe. Mo Salah currently leads the Premier League in goals, Roberto Firmino is having a career year and Sadio Mane is still a lethal threat.

At its best, Liverpool can beat anybody — but often its defense and goalkeeping hold it back. The addition of central defender Virgil van Dijk has greatly improved its back line, while goalkeeper Loris Karius has lately been performing at a high level, with six clean sheets in his last nine games.

Man City has just one loss in the Premier League on the season, which came against Liverpool. That strong record has come thanks to a dominant offensive side. Man City’s forwards Raheem Sterling, Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Aügero have scorched their domestic opponents this year, combining for 44 goals in the Premier League.

Despite the brilliance of City, Liverpool will move on from this matchup. Liverpool performs very well against top domestic competition and could jump out to an early lead on the aggregate after scoring a home victory.

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