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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | March 28, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 136

Pitt basketball hires Duke’s Jeff Capel Jordan Mondell Assistant Sports Editor

Actor Justin Baldoni introduces himself at Tuesday’s “An Evening with Justin Baldoni” as a part of Women’s Empowerment week. Chiara Rigaud STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

ACTOR JUSTIN BALDONI TALKS ‘BEING MAN ENOUGH’

Salina Pressimone Assistant News Editor

Justin Baldoni is a self-proclaimed feminist of the 21st century.

The actor — best known for his role on “Jane the Virgin” — said he knows he is a straight, white, privileged man with a platform, but is using that advantage to rewrite history into a new “herstory.”

“We view the world through the men’s gaze,” he said. “But it’s pretty simple and the fact of the matter is there is an issue with masculinity.”

The American actor, director and filmmaker gave a talk building female empowerment through redefining mas-

culinity to a packed crowd — which included his mother — to continue Women’s Empowerment Week Tuesday evening in the William Pitt Union. Pitt Program Council partnered with Pitt FEM to host Baldoni and ushered students in from the standby line as the Assembly Room filled to capacity.

Baldoni began the night by applauding the small handful of men in the room who attended, but recognizing that the lack of a male presence was precisely the larger issue at hand.

“You 15 men are probably the smartest men on campus,” he said. “But how do we make it so that next year there’s 100?”

He said while he advocates for wom-

en’s rights and a change in the growing culture of sexual assault and discrimination, his work is primarily aimed at transforming men into allies in this struggle.

“I’m sure it means something to the women in this room or to other women to see a man be willing to stand up and champion and use his voice so others can be amplified,” he said. “But really my work is for the men because men need to learn how to be that voice.”

Baldoni said he realized in his 20s how his perception of his own masculinity had been constructed, and saw how it affected his and others’ attitudes toward See Baldoni on page 9

Duke assistant coach Jeff Capel has been hired as Pitt’s new head men’s basketball coach, the University announced Tuesday.

Capel has made a deal with the Panthers on a seven-year contract. This hiring ends a long, rumor-filled search for Pitt after former head coach Kevin Stallings’ ousting March 8.

“We are excited to announce Jeff Capel as our head men’s basketball coach at the University of Pittsburgh,” athletic director Heather Lyke said in a press release. “Coach Capel is a high-energy leader committed to being a part of our university and the city of Pittsburgh.”

While at Duke, Capel helped lead the team to five NCAA tournament appearances, including their 2016 National Championship victory. Capel has also established himself as a top recruiter, helping Duke land the No. 1 class in the country in four of the past five seasons with the Blue Devils.

In addition to his position at Duke — which he has held since 2011 — Capel served as head coach at Oklahoma for five seasons, making an Elite Eight run in 2009 with Blake Griffin at the helm of his squad. Prior to Oklahoma, he was also head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University for four seasons, leading the Rams to an NCAA appearance in 2004.

“Mylifelongjourneyaroundthegameofbasketball has taught me to surround yourself with great people that you believe in,” Capel said in the release.

“My meetings with Director of Athletics Heather Lyke and Chancellor [Patrick] Gallagher made a See Capel on page 8

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SGB REVEALS UPDATED FINALS POLICY University

Board member Nihita Manem speaks about this week’s Women’s Empowerment events at Tuesday night’s SGB meeting. Thomas Yang VISUAL EDITOR

Madeline Gavatorta Staff Writer Student Government Board announced changes to finals scheduling at Tuesday’s public meeting that the board hopes will reduce the stress of finals week.

Currently, if a student is scheduled to take three exams on the same calendar day, that student can move one of those exams. But starting next year, a student could reschedule an exam if they have three occurring within 24 hours of each other, even on two different days.

Josh Hanley, the chair of SGB’s Academic Affairs committee, announced the change after it was approved at a meeting with the Provost Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Programs earlier Tuesday.

“It alleviates the stress of stacked finals,” Hanley said. “If a student has a final at 2 [p.m.], a final at 6 [p.m.] for an evening class and another final at 8 a.m. the next morning, we all know what’s going to happen there.

They’re gonna stay up all night studying for that final.”

SGB President Max Kneis spoke to Joe McCarthy, the vice provost for undergraduate

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studies, in December about the change. The change will begin next academic year.

“Really it just adds flexibility for students, which we think is always a good option,” Hanley said. “If it helps students with less stress during final exam week, it’s a net positive for students.”

SGB also discussed TEDx Pitt, which is taking place March 31 in the William Pitt Union. The event, headed by board member Ian Callahan and co-hosted by SGB and Graduate and Professional Student Government, will have five speakers.

The first session is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with speakers Jasiri X, Konstantinos Pelechrinis and Andrew Schwartz. The intermission will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. with musicians in the WPU ballroom and the second session will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. with Satvika Neti and Dan Lockton.

“I think [the speakers] are all really exciting,” Callahan said. “Otherwise we wouldn’t have chosen them.”

This year’s TEDx, the fourth straight year Pitt has organized the TED-affiliated event, will have a theme of “Rethink,” which urges students to talk about issues ranging from

racism to smart cities. Tickets are on sale at Eventbrite for $10, but students will be refunded the full cost when they arrive at the event.

“I hope students get to learn all the different facets that are going on in the community because are all local, Pittsburgh native or from the University, so they all have their own area of focus in the community,” Callahan said.

Board member Nihita Manem announced that before TEDx begins, Gal-a — free to students — will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in Alumni Hall’s Connolly Ballroom. It is a culmination of Women’s Empowerment Week, and will continue discussions on the topic and honor Provost Patricia Beeson, who is stepping down after this academic year.

“We want to honor Provost Beeson for everything and we think this is the perfect time to do it,” Manem said. “She’s a woman in power and has done so much for Pitt.”

Among the other issues discussed, SGB Chair James Oosten of facilities, technology and transportation brought up campus Wi-Fi connectivity. He had a meeting with Computing Services and Systems Development about issue.

Oosten has heard complaints about the Wi-Fi through word of mouth, personal experience and Fix It Pitt — a complaint link on SGB’s website. He said students can send a formal request for Wi-Fi complaints from the University Store on Fifth or online at techforms.pitt.edu and someone from the Student Wireless Access Team will assess the issue.

“It’s the era we live in and we just need to be connected at all times, especially if you’re running late, need to submit an assignment, need to download something,” Oosten said.

Executive Vice President Zuri KentSmith, board member Ciara Barry, wellness chair Maggie Kennedy and communications director Sana Mahmood took excused absences Tuesday. Board member Alex Spenceley and Student Office of Sustainability Director Chelsea Huddleston were absent, unexcused.

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Senate discusses teaching innovations Janine Faust

Assistant News Editor Pitt faculty, staff and administrators gathered Tuesday afternoon to discuss innovation in teaching and making higher education more accessible to all.

About 50 Pitt faculty, staff and administrators attended the University Senate’s 2018 plenary meeting — an annual event held to discuss a pressing topic for each academic year.

Four different speakers presented their own ideas and findings on how to transform teaching practices and make higher education more accessible.

One topic speakers discussed was the benefit of using Open Educational Resources — materials such as textbooks that are in the public domain or can be used with an open license.

Lauren Collister, a scholarly communications librarian and the final speaker, brought up a resolution passed by the Student Government Board in January advocating for greater use of OERs in University courses. It said SGB members would begin working with the University to encourage faculty design and use OERs in their courses.

“I think we can all agree that it is a bad situation when students must either go into additional further debt to pay for books we require them to have, or purposely undercut their own learning by going without them,” Collister said.

OERs can be freely shared among students, she said, and instructors can alter texts to suit their teaching needs. She said the quality of OERs is not affected just because they’re free, and they are often reviewed and evaluated.

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focus and practice it takes to learn and master tricks, it teaches self-discipline and promotes bettering oneself in a way that you don’t accept being who you were yesterday.

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older and younger than him. Often, the older skateboarders became father figures as they skated with younger kids and took care of them.

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the camera. Brandon and Greg often reposts some of these videos to OneUp’s Instagram feed, and the idea of other people watching them skate excites them. It pushes people to do things together, and working closely together to achieve a common goal promotes team-building and encourages leadership development. These are qualities that are invaluable and can transfer to other opportunities that people may explore outside of the skate world.

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The events the shop promotes bring the city together, with unity being their common cause. Some events they’ve done in the past range from Mini Ramp Contests to Hill Bombs to bronze, silver and gold best trick contests.

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Opinions from the editorial board

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Biden Twitter bout signals more brash leadership For those who fear a woman would be too emotional to be president, last Thursday’s Twitter scrap between two men — one currently in that position, one potentially the next in line — might change their minds.

Behaving characteristically like an upset toddler, President Donald Trump called out former Vice President Joe Biden on Twitter with claims that Biden was “weak, both mentally and physically,” and that he could take Biden down “crying all the way.”

This kind of outburst from the self-assuredly masculine president of the United States has become so regrettably common over the course of the past year that it feels almost useless to even discuss why it’s so outrageously wrong. What’s more interesting, however, is the initial incident that brought it on this time.

Biden isn’t known for being delicate with his choice of words, but he seemed to touch a nerve with Trump last Tuesday during a talk with students at the University of Miami when he said he’d “beat the hell out of him” if they both had been in high school. While it might be easy for most Americans to sympathize with such a sentiment, it’s problematic coming from a public figure like Biden for several reasons.

Politics, especially in the United States, have a long history of being a “old boys’ club.” It’s not by coincidence that women, who are roughly half the population, make up less than 20 percent of both chambers of Congress — and there is still a significant degree to which public officials are expected to be masculine and to avoid femininity. And while Biden’s outburst may not

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have been solely responsible for creating this environment, it’s worth asking why we should accept threats like his in the public sphere.

Part of what makes living in the Trump era so constantly terrifying is the threat from the conflict between the oversized egos of our mostly male leaders, who strive to appear as masculine as possible.

Contests of who has the biggest muscles or the largest sexual organs are inherently emotional and unreasonable events, and the men who are involved in them on a national and international scale are unquestionably a present danger to our society.

Of course, that isn’t to say that we shouldn’t allow men to serve at the highest ranks of leadership in the United States — such a point of view is as absurd and overly reductionist as someone who thinks a woman going through menstruation is liable to start a nuclear war. Without a doubt, both Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans have a number of politicians of more than one gender to look to as potential standard-bearers whenever the next general election comes around.

Biden has more than a few qualities that might make him an appealing choice for the Democratic Party in 2020 — among them his edge in rust belt areas like ours where he holds considerable appeal. But when someone like him, who is in strong consideration to challenge Trump for control of the presidency in 2020, publicly announces he wants to beat another politician up, we should begin to wonder if we want to face four more years of size contests.

WOMEN IN STEM INITIATIVES PUSH FLAWED FOCUS Neena Hagen Senior Columnist As a female actuarial mathematics student, you don’t have to tell me that my gender puts me in the minority in my academic field.

T h a t ’s why I’m never surprised when feminist activists point out the gender gap in STEM — what really loses me is how they tell me I should feel about it.

Universities across the country seem determined to jump on the bandwagon — holding their own womenonly networking events and Q&A sessions to combat the supposedly rampant discrimination against women in technical fields.

Eager to take advantage of the special opportunities afforded to me as a woman, I decided to attend two women in STEM events right here in

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Pittsburgh.

The first one — sponsored by Pitt’s chapter of Society of Women Engineers last month — allowed attendees to spend six hours listening to keynote speakers, s o cializing with peers and networking with established employees in engineeringoriented firms.

Among the s p e a k ers at this Abby Katz STAFF ILLUSTRATOR event was Barbara St an i s c i a , w h o s e “pyramid for success” detailed a simple recipe for greatness in STEM fields. The formula included poise, passion and a technical foundation, a formula not only for women, but for any prospective STEM student.

And Robert Morris University’s “Empowering Women in Actuarial Science” event on March 16 featured a panel discussion between four female actuaries See STEM on page 6

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STEM, pg. 5 — Allison Young from Erie Insurance, Tove Stigum from Highmark, Lara Will from New York Life and Diane Keller, who works for Principal.

Both initiatives had good intentions — promoting STEM fields to a women where men outnumber them four to one.

But they unfortunately misdiagnosed the reasons women remain underrepresented in science, and put forward solutions to the problems that miss the mark for women who actually choose to go into STEM. Many involved in organizing events like these suggest we need women in STEM initiatives to make up for the constant discrimination they face in technical fields. These ideas seem to be conventional wisdom, but no panelist at RMU pointed to examples where they faced explicit sexism in their career.

“I’ve been very fortunate to have male colleagues who almost always respect and support me,” Stigum said.

If discrimination truly was a huge barrier to women trying to enter STEM

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fields, surely most panelists would have grueling stories about their victimization at the hands of a patriarchal industry — but the gender gap in STEM being attributed to discrimination is a complete distortion.

A 2016 study from the University of Glasgow that examined Scandinavia, the most progressive region in the world, suggested there are elements to the gender gap in STEM unrelated to women’s opportunity to pursue those fields. This leaves STEM fields much more maledominated in well-developed countries than in countries like Algeria and Indonesia, where nearly half of all engineers are women.

Clearly, women in STEM initiatives aim to remedy a problem that can’t easily be solved. Universities and corporations should aim to acquire talented individuals in the most effective and efficient ways possible, and these programs fail to do that.

But though women don’t struggle as much with discrimination in college or in entry-level STEM positions as some may claim, they do face challenges in

the workforce when trying to navigate a mostly male environment.

Men and women engage with the corporate world differently. Women are more likely to take time off work to raise children, and when they come back they have a hard time readjusting to working life — especially in STEM fields where technological advancement renders many learned skills obsolete in a matter of months.

“As a woman, it’s harder to find a good work-life balance,” Young said. “The same time I got promoted, I was pregnant with my first child.”

Because women make up only a quarter of STEM employees, human resources departments often don’t address these issues, instead leaving women to fend for themselves when dealing with maternity leave or reintegrating themselves into the work environment. Women in science careers also regularly report lower levels of social satisfaction on the job. This is no surprise given that most people predominantly make friends with other members of their own gender.

Women in STEM programs shouldn’t

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put a myopic focus on recruiting candidates who likely won’t join the STEM workforce. Instead, they should aim to support women who currently work in technical fields — many of whom have trouble fitting in with their testosteroneinfused environment.

If feminists actually care about helping women in STEM careers they should stop holding these fruitless diversity initiatives for college-age girls and support women who are struggling in the workforce.

For the many women who have the talent to succeed in the intense, grueling environment that inevitably greets every STEM student, they must not be sucked into the destructive victim mentality that defines so much of the feminist women in STEM movement. Instead, they should heed the example of so many of their successful predecessors — among them, Staniscia.

“Stop being victim[s], and charge ahead with perseverance and patience,” Staniscia said.

Neena primarily writes about politics and local issues for The Pitt News. Write to Neena at nnh7@pitt.edu

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Puccini is a hair salon, but they also offer a free personal health assessment that anyone can take on their website. The assessment was launched in January 2015 by Dr. Lauren Loya, a graduate of Duquesne University. The assessment is based on thousands of medical and scientific studies and uses more than 5,470 algorithms to process the information that you provide to formulate a customized IDHealth Score and IDreport. It asks for personal information in regards to allergies, dietary patterns, lifestyle habits, physical characteristics and medical conditions.

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that will satisfy them. They also make a point to carry only products that are ethically endorsed, so the only brands they carry are Paul Mitchell and Purvana — Paul Mitchell’s products are not animal-tested, and Purvana’s products are organic.

At Puccini, every appointment is a collaborative experience, as the stylist and client have to be flexible working as a team. The stylists are there with the person, hand-in-hand, guiding them through their experience from when they walk in to when they walk out. Often, they both walk away with more than what they came for.

“Hair to me is just the medium and everything, but I think it’s a distraction from really what the business is about, and I think it’s about the relationships,” said Puccini.

They have a diverse clientele, from college students to people in their late 50s. Some have been coming for 40 years, while others stay for a year to four years before moving to different

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Sometimes when someone wants to do something drastic, like cutting their hair short when it’s halfway down their back, it indicates to Puccini that something else is going on in the peripheral. He’s had vulnerable experiences with clients in which they’ve confided personal things in him that they haven’t even told their friends or family. Often, when external stresses occur and they want to do something drastically different to their appearance, it can be a way of them wanting to feel as if they’re in control.

With a lot of clients, their stylists are treated like trusted advisers, and he describes the special relationships he has with his clients as mutual therapy.

“The hair business can kinda serve as a thera-

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peutic relationship and source of life advice, more so than the outcome,” Puccini said. “For us, getting the hair on point is easy. The real challenge is, we’re looking to connect with people on a daily basis, and to make an impact on people’s lives.”

He experiences several interpersonal moments with different people that keep him engaged with his work. Standing on his feet all day and being hunched over a sink can be physically demanding in ways people may not initially realize. Despite that, he’s “committed and bonded to it to the point where [he] can’t walk away from it, almost like family.”

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SOFTBALL FALLS TO OHIO, 6-1

Michael Nitti Staff Writer

Pitt softball (17-12-1) traveled to Athens Wednesday to take on Ohio University (15-12) in a non conference matchup. Pitt baseball was scheduled to take on West Virginia University in the 156th Backyard Brawl in Morgantown, but the game was canceled due to rain.

In Ohio, the Bobcats shut down the Panthers’ offense, winning 6-1 in a quick matchup.

The Panthers got off to a sluggish start, as junior pitcher Taylor Rahach got tagged early for two runs in the first inning. Rahach was removed in the second inning after senior first baseman Mikayla Cooper clobbered her teamleading sixth home run to put Ohio up 4-0.

The offense couldn’t tally any runs in the first three innings as the Bobcats’ senior ace Danielle Stiene mowed down the Panthers, striking out five.

inning after junior second baseman Alexis Solak hit her first home run of the season to cut Ohio’s lead to four.

But the Bobcats reclaimed a five-run lead soon after, as junior third baseman Alex Day slugged her sixth home run of the season, leaving her and Cooper tied for the team lead.

The Panthers were unable to answer. Ohio’s Stiene allowed just one run on one hit with 10 strikeouts and just two walks in what was her 10th win of the season and eighth complete game.

Rahach recorded her third loss of the year after pitching 1 1/3 innings, allowing four runs — three earned — on four hits, one walk and Ohio added its fifth run of the game off of senior pitcher Kayla Harris during no strikeouts. the Panther’s 6-1 loss to the Bobcats. Matt Hawley STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Pitt gets back into ACC play this weekend as Duke visits Pittsburgh for a three-game set Ohio added its fifth run of the game — its junior outfielder Michaela Dorsey drove in her beginning Friday, March 30, at 5 p.m. at Vartfirst run off senior pitcher Kayla Harris — in second run of the game, and 20th of the season. abedian Field.

Pitt finally got on the board in the fourth the bottom half of the third inning as redshirt

STEVENSON, WILSONFRAME PLAN TO STAY

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Assistant Sports Editor Two Pitt men’s basketball players who requested release from the program upon the firing of head coach Kevin Stallings are staying with program after Pitt hired Duke’s Jeff Capel Tuesday.

According to a post on Instagram, first-year guard Shamiel Stevenson has no plans to leave the program, sharing multiple photographs from the season.

“Are you leaving?.... Nah fam mans are staying stillll [sic],” he wrote.

Stevenson scored 95 total points on the season, shooting at above 50 percent and becoming one of the top first-year players on the team.

Reports also say that junior guard Jar-

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ed Wilson-Frame plans to stay with the Panthers for another season. This season, Wilson-Frame averaged 13 points and 3.5 rebounds per game in his first Division I season after transferring from Northwest Florida State.

In total, nine current players and two recruits had requested release from the program. This brings the number down to seven, but as players meet with Capel this week, that number could decrease further.

Capel, currently an assistant coach at Duke, has signed a seven-year deal with the Panthers. His hiring ends a 17-day coaching search after Pitt fired Stallings, who led the Panthers to a winless season in the ACC.

Capel, pg. 1 huge impact in the decision process.”

During his time at Pitt, Stallings went 24-41 overall and won only four conference games during his tenure. The Panthers are also coming off of one of their worst seasons in history, going winless in the ACC, and are facing massive transfer possibilities. Nine players and two recruits requested release from the program after Stallings’ firing, but two key players — first-year guard Shamiel Stevenson and junior guard Jared Wilson-Frame — intend to stay in Oakland after Capel’s hiring.

The future of Duke basketball is also up in the air, as Capel was poised to be successor of current head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“I look forward to building outstanding relationships with the leadership team at Pitt as well as with the numerous individuals who will help shape our program,” Capel said.

Before Tuesday’s announcement, the 19 days since Stallings’ firing saw numerous reports and rumors of coaches meeting with Lyke and her staff.

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Jeff Capel TNS Rhode Island’s Dan Hurley — a favorite who was reported to have met with Pitt for consideration — chose Connecticut last week.

Tom Crean, a former coach at Indiana and ESPN analyst, was another top choice, but he joined up with Georgia shortly after the Bulldogs fired their head coach earlier this month.

Mark Schmidt of St. Bonaventure and Nate Oats of Buffalo had also received interest from the Panthers.

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Baldoni, pg. 1 femininity. He said he had been taught growing up that his identity as a man was defined by his perceived strength, image and use of authority toward both men and women.

“If there was ever a guy that naturally wasn’t like that it was me,” he said. “And yet here I was being socialized thinking that was how I had to be in order to be seen as a man in the world.”

In the Q&A — or “town hall” as Baldoni called it — that followed his talk, he encouraged audience members to ask about whatever was on their minds and hearts.

One audience member who said she worked as a stage manager asked Baldoni about sexual assault in Hollywood and the ways in which the #MeToo movement can work to create an environment for women to be able to let their voices be heard about their experiences.

Baldoni responded by acknowledging that #MeToo is applicable to all industries, and offered hope that the changes spurred by the movement will broker a

stronger relationship of respect between men and women in the workplace.

“This begins the new chapter,” he said. “The pendulum swung so far in one direction — which it needed to — that it shattered the glass ceiling, and now it’s got to come back and we have to figure out what this new balance is.”

Krithika Pennathur — a junior triple-majoring in gender, sexuality and women’s studies, English writing and history — asked about the suppression of women’s voices in sharing stories of assault and discrimination. She appreciated Baldoni’s answer, where he described his own failure when he reacted with skepticism about news of a woman accusing a friend of his of sexual assault.

“I know he was very hesitant about his response, but I thought the example that he gave was really powerful,” she said. “It’s always really interesting for me to hear different perspectives on how people answer that.”

Most of the attendees, including junior environmental studies major Roslynne Ravy, appreciated a male speaker despite the focus of the week on female

empowerment.

“I think it would be very important that they did choose a male because we all know that women care about women’s issues. “It’s different to focus on individual issues with women because we’ve all been through it, but it’s different when men come out and say something.”

Farrell Healy, PPC’s public relations director, said her committee was concerned about hosting a male figure, but it was out of their hands since this was the only date they could book Baldoni for.

“There was definitely hesitation, we weren’t initially planning on having it during WEW week,” Healy said. “But I think it worked out because he spoke a lot about female empowerment and giving the voice back to females.”

Baldoni himself said both genders are vital to uplifting women’s voices and should work as tools to achieving this, not as barriers.

“At the end of the day if you strip away man, woman, human, we all are just trying to be enough,” he said. “It’s not a political fight it’s a human fight.”

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Unfurnished, no pets. $950+ gas and electric. Call 412-492-8173 311 Semple St., two blocks from Forbes Ave. 2BR, living room, updated kitchen with dishwasher and disposal, front porch, basement, back patio,

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• EDUCATIONAL • TRAVEL • HEALTH • PARKING • INSURANCE

carpeted. Must see - clean! $1320/mo plus utilities. Call 412-389-3636.

mjkellyrealty@gmail. com. 412-271-5550. www.mjkellyrealty. com

3BR house on Niagara Street $1000/mo +all utilities. Recently renovated with new windows, wiring, cable installed in all

Secured rooms in a duplex at Cato St. 8/1/18-7/31/19.

S-shuttles. 15min walk. Furnished. $600-$700 includ-

rooms. No pets. On Pitt shuttle route. Near Pittsburgh Playhouse.

Call 412-303-4716.

ing all utilities and wifi. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. 412-259-3223.

4 BR HOME - SEMPLE STREET, LOCATED NEAR LOUISA. EQUIPPED KITCHEN, FULL BASEMENT. NEW CENTRAL AIR ADDED. RENTING FOR AUGUST 2018.

(412) 343-4289 or 412-330-9498.

STUDENT HOUSING. Updated 4, 5 & 6 Bedroom Houses w/ multiple baths. Dishwasher, laundry, some w/ air conditioning and/or parking.

August availability.

412-445-6117.

Apartments for rent.

2, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments available. Some available on Dawson street, Atwood street, and Mckee Place. Newly remodeled. Some have laundry on site.

Minutes from the University. For more info please call Mike at 412-849-8694

Studio & 1 Bedrooms Available Fall 2018. Heat included.

412-261-4620.

Before signing a lease, be aware that no more than 3 unrelated people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Permits, Licensing & Inspections.

412-255-2175.

M.J. Kelly Realty.

Studio, 1, 2, 3 and 4 Bedroom Apartments, Duplexes and Houses.

N. & S. Oakland from $750-$2500.

Various size apartments available in South Oakland.

Newly listed for fall 2018. Call John CR Kelly Realty for details: 412-683-7300 or visit: www.jcrkelly. com Ward & S. Bouquet 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.

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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.

Employment Research Studies 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.

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Employment Other

ing for an individual who is reliable, well organized, and able to multitask. Fluent in Word & Excel. Please send resumes to: coreadmi@pitt.edu

Babysitter needed for Spring semester part

Seasonal Marketing

time and full time

Assistant

for Summer. Close

Shadyside property

to campus. Contact

management firm es-

tbeltz@gmail.com

tablished in 1960

a Post-Gazette Top Workplace, is seeking

needs two Seasonal Marketing Assistants to work with Excel,

caring individuals.

Word and the internet

Caregivers work

from approximately

alongside seniors to

NOW to August;

provide companion-

four days/week from

ship, light housekeep-

9am-6pm. Saturday

ing, personal care ser-

and/or Sunday hours a

vices. Flexible hours

must; some flexibility

available. If interested

in days and hours will

call 412-363-5500

be considered; most

Join KEYS Service

hours will be solitary

Corps, AmeriCorps.

on the computer with

Mentor, tutor, and

no phone work; 40

inspire Pittsburgh area

words per minute

youth. Summer and

and strong computer

fall positions with

skills required; no

bi-weekly stipend and

experience needed &

education award. Full

we will train you at

and part-time. Possi-

our Shadyside office;

ble internship credit.

free parking. $13/hour

Call 412-350-2739.

plus generous season

www.keysser-

end bonus.

vicecorps.org

Mozart Manage-

Our department is

ment 412-682-7003.

seeking a stu-

thane@mozartrents.

dent worker for a

com.

year-round position with an 8:30 am start time 4 days per week.

Schedule can be flexible. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Distributing mail, answering the door and phone, minor lifting of supply boxes, campus deliveries and general office duties as requested. We are look-

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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

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Comfort Keepers,

412-681-4423. mastroice@aol.com

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