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American Authors, food trucks headline Bigelow Bash Alex Leighton Staff Writer Three weeks after the official beginning of spring, students sang, danced and ate on Bigelow Boulevard, ringing in the first spell of warm weather.

About 500 people on Saturday attended Bigelow Bash, Pitt Program Council’s free annual spring concert, according to Pitt Police officer Guy Johnson. The festivities between 2:30 and 7 p.m. featured rock band American Authors and local food trucks. New England-based synth-rock band Magic Man and PPC Battle of the Bands winner O’Hara opened for American Authors.

“We’ve been on the road for two years straight, and we’re taking a break,” said Zac Barnett, American Authors’ lead singer. “But we made an exception today. We Meghan Sunners | Senior Staff Photographer

wanted to spend Saturday with you.

Although the Bash is primarily a music festival, many crowd members convened to fill their stomachs.

“Nobody would be here until much later if it wasn’t for the food trucks,” said Steven Abriola, a senior majoring in biology. “By far, it’s made a difference.”

The food trucks, which replaced the face painting and photo booth activities of past years, packed the bottom half of the Boulevard for most of the afternoon.

PPC members stamped students’ hands and provided them with enough tickets for a sample of food from each of the 11 trucks.

The food trucks included Burgh Bites, which features Italian, new American and barbecue, the Pittsburgh

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Local leaders spread ideas at Pittʼs TEDx Mark Pesto Staff Writer

up restaurant. The restaurant, which unites Pittsburgh’s Latino population through community-based events, S h e r r y-To r r e s said, helped her along the path to taking initiative in her own life.

“The story that I’m going to tell you is the story of my journey toward self-authorization,” Sherry-Torres, who received her master’s degree in social work from Pitt, said.

Sherry-Torres said the biggest barrier to creating change in the world is waiting for permission.

“I look to everyone else, and I say, ‘Your own

self-authorization will inspire others to Restaurant Owner be self-authorized,’” she said.

The event concluded with a talk from Peter Salk, son of polio-vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk and vice president and scientific director of the Jonas Salk Foundation.

Salk’s talk explored the potential future of the human population, based on his father’s belief that the universe is based on “one underlying, unifying field of existence.”

“We are a product of the process of evolution, but we have become part of the process itself,” Salk said.

Alex Ashraf, a public health master’s student at Pitt, specifically came to the event to hear Salk speak.

“I’m definitely a fan of Dr. Salk,” Ashraf said. “He’s idolized [in the School of Public Health].”

Syed Kaleem, a sophomore health services major, attended the event because of the reputation TED conferences have gained. As of 2013, independent organizers, like Pitt, had hosted more than 5,000 TEDx events, according to TED’s website. University of Southern California hosted the first TEDx event in 2009.

“I saw the Facebook event,” Kaleem said. “I’ve seen TED before, and I was very excited to see that it was coming to Pitt.”

In addition to Fry, Sherry-Torres and Salk, the 250 attendees listened to talks

by La’Tasha D. Mayes, a candidate for Pittsburgh City Council, Saik-Kia Goh, a consultant and bioengineering Ph.D. candidate at Pitt and David Harris, a Pitt law professor and leading authority on racial profiling in law enforcement.

Choudhuri said he wanted prolific speakers that would engage with the audience for the first event.

“We need to know how our environment is changing and how we are changing our environment,” Choudhuri said.

BOBBY FRY,

Shape yourself, so you’re ready when the world gives you opportunities.

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Even after graduating college with a 2.6 GPA, Bobby Fry landed a job on Wall Street with the help of his roommate’s father.

“Shape yourself, so you’re ready when the world gives you opportunities,” said Fry, a Pittsburgh native and owner of Bar Marco, a restaurant in the Strip District.

Fry spoke about teamwork and work ethic at Pitt’s inaugural TEDx event, T E D xUn i ve r s i tyofPittsburgh, which featured Fry and five other speakers, including academics and other local business leaders, in the William Pitt Union from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday. Pitt graduate student Ravi Choudhuri organized the event, which — like other TEDx events — was independently organized and aimed to capture the spirit of official TED conferences. At these conferences, experts in different fields discuss ideas in science, culture and the arts.

The event’s brochure called it “a local, self-organized talk that aims [to] bring people together to share a TEDlike experience.”

The event’s theme, “Reformation in the Face of Assimilation,” unified talks by six visiting speakers on subjects from business and science to philosophy and cultural identity.

Fry narrated his transition from Wall Street to the restaurant business.

“I wanted to build and create something with myself and with a team,” Fry said, referring to the lack of teamwork he perceived while working on Wall Street.

Now at Bar Marco, Fry and his staff have adopted a no-gratuity policy for servers.

“I’m not afraid to die on the treadmill,” Fry said in his talk, echoing a quote from actor Will Smith. “I will not be outworked.”

Fry also made frequent references to a quote from Abraham Lincoln about

preparation and perseverance.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe,” he said.

Fry compares his work ethic to the axe — once sharpened, it can chop down any obstacle in his path.

Tara Sherry-Torres, who spoke after Fry, talked about the experience of founding Cafe con Leche, a Pittsburghb a s e d pop-

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BIGELOW Pierogi Truck, Franktuary and PGH Crepes.

Big Poppa’s Home Cooking, which served chicken and ribs, South Side BBQ Company, Oh My Grill, which featured grilled cheese, and Saucy Mamas Italian Food Truck were among the carts with the longest lines of customers.

Kim Nguyen, the Pitt Program Council’s special events director, said the council searched for Pittsburgh-based trucks to include at Bigelow Bash.

“I wanted this to be local, to bring more to the students,” said Nguyen, a senior majoring in marketing and business information systems.

While enjoying the free food, large crowds surrounding the stage sung along with the bands. Not all students were standing, however — many preferred to lie on the lawn outside the William Pitt Union or sit on the Cathedral steps.

The bands’ volume alerted people

Zac Barrett of American Authors sang to a crowd of 500 Pitt students Saturday.

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even at a distance from the Boulevard of the event.

Max Ungar, a Duquesne student who

was in Oakland, said he stopped by to see what the fuss was about, and he decided to stick around for the whole

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“It seemed like a cool place to hang out,” Ungar said. “I don’t usually go to concerts. They cost a lot of money.”

Shawn Cassidy, PPC’s arts and film director, said the food trucks may become a permanent fixture of Bigelow Bash.

“Seeing how successful it is, there’s no reason [for them] not to,” Cassidy, a junior majoring in film studies and business, said before the headliners took the stage. “This is a big crowd for the openers.”

O’Hara, a local band of Pitt students, opened the festivities. The selfdescribed “feel-good indie alternative” band earned its spot in the limelight after winning PPC’s Battle of the Bands competition on March 18.

“It’s incredible to be on stage, to hear people sing back to you,” Garrett Grube, the band’s drummer, said after their set.

Boston synth-rock band Magic Man performed next, going through a set of energetic songs. Their cover of Jimmy

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BIGELOW Eat World’s “The Middle” sparked a mass sing-along.

“It’s spring time, baby!” yelled the band’s lead singer Alex Caplow.

American Authors played a set featuring their hits, including “Believer” and “Oh, What a Life.” They also played an

April 13, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com unreleased song, titled “Nothing Else,” that will appear on their next album, which is unannounced.

The band ended the evening with its radio hit, “Best Day of My Life,” modifying the lyrics at the very end to include a “Go Pitt” chant.

Sing-alongs and romantic offers spotted the show, as hands raised immediately after American Authors lead singer Zac Barnett posed a question.

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EDITORIAL

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OPINIONS

Private gains and social returns not mutually exclusive

The career that a student chooses to pursue following college should, of course, be a personal choice.

However, economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan feels uncomfortable when his students choose to seek finance positions, according to a recent article in The New York Times’ “The Upshot.”

We agree with Mullainathan’s reasoning and believe that students should take social returns into consideration and enter a profession for which they are best suited, in terms of both talent and passion, rather than opting for the most profitable route.

At Harvard, a considerable number of students pursue careers in finance. In 2014, about 20 percent of students overall and 50 percent of economics majors went into finance.

But students should realize that profit and social good can coincide. They can pursue professions they are passionate about, have lucrative careers and still have a significant impact on society.

Mullainathan reasoned that finance may not be the best use of an individual’s personal talents, going on to describe the discrepancy between private and social returns.

He writes, “Every profession produces both private returns — the fruits of labor that a person enjoys — and

social returns — those that society enjoys.”

Students should seek careers out of passion and talent.

When this is the case, they can leverage their work to bolster societal growth, rather than simply accumulating private wealth.

An individual who goes into finance, or a similar career for monetary pursuits, may incur a great deal of private gains but does not necessarily produce a great societal output.

Mullainathan cites a paper written by economists Kevin M. Murphy and Robert W. Vishny, of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Andrei Shleifer at Harvard University, that describes the negative effects of a phenomenon they term “rent-seeking” have on economic growth.

Rent-seeking occurs when individuals simply transfer wealth, as opposed to making a concerted effort to create wealth.

This tends to occur when students pursue careers simply out of monetary desires.

Mullainathan sums up his discomfort toward his students’ career choices with this statement: “I hope they realize that they have the potential to do great good and not simply make money.”

It’s a realization that we, as students, should keep in mind when considering our postcollege careers.

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Hillary Clinton: Don’t give her a free pass

Patricia Scott For The Pitt News Hillary Clinton, a well-educated and politically established woman, used her personal, private email account to conduct federal business within one of the highest offices held in the United States. This secrecy should have completely obliterated Clinton’s chances of running for president.

However, it has not, as she officially announced her candidacy on Sunday, turning ongoing media coverage of her potential run into distributions of her campaign video. As the media stirs with the possibility of a fe-

male president, voters should not prioritize electing a woman, regardless of her actions, for office above holding government officials to high standards.

The public cannot conduct an independent review of Clinton’s personal email account because she has refused to turn over her server. Her advisors selected which emails to turn over for review by the federal government.

The investigation into Clinton’s emails and the discovery of the use of her personal email came last month as a result of the federal investigation of facts surrounding her involvement in the Benghazi scandal. Missing emails still cloud the facts of

that day.

In addition to using a private email server for conducting government business, the Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars in contributions from foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, while she held office as the nation’s top diplomat.

Conflict of interest? Probably.

Foundation officials have acknowledged that they did not follow the process required by the State Department Ethics Office when accepting certain donations. One donation from the Algerian government was

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SCOTT accepted during a time when Algeria was spending heavily to lobby the State Department on human rights issues. The foundation did not announce the donations, but The Wall Street Journal discovered them during a search of donations of more than $50,000 on the foundation’s online database.

Regardless of party affiliation, politics or gender, Clinton’s actions are unjustifiable.

She is a public figure and should adhere to the more finely combed expectation of her position.

The 2005 State Department policy on “sensitive but unclassified information” explains that government employees should conduct “normal day-to-day operations” through the State Department’s official email system.

What many people do not realize is that Clinton was not just using a Gmail or Yahoo account. She used her own email server equipment, not a commercial

April 13, 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com Internet service provider. This allowed her to keep all records of her email account solely in her possession. There is no cloud holding her emails, no service provider — such as Google — that can be subpoenaed and no way that anyone will know if she has deleted emails from the server.

The media and the public are not treating Clinton with the scrutiny that the situation deserves simply because she is on the path to becoming our first female president.

Clinton acknowledged that every federal government official should turn over emails sent through a personal account and that she has taken “unprecedented steps” to turn over her work emails.

Her delayed recovery of the emails has also raised questions about who is responsible for gathering them.

Rachel Maddow has blamed the State

Department for not first collecting the emails, rather than putting the responsibility on Clinton, though she’s a government official and presidential candidate who should be conscious of transparency now more than ever.

During a discussion on “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on March 11, Rachel Maddow said, “The media noise and static and nonsense around her is so loud, it’s very hard to have effective reporting that people might actually care about, about what she’d be like as a national leader.”

The story surrounding Clinton’s use of a private email server is a preview of her performance as a national leader.

Voting for her simply because it’s “time for a female president” is a mistake.

Her actions suggest that she’s willing to evade the rules as she ignored them for

Casting a vote for Hillary is not “casting a vote for women,” it is a blatant disregard of her incompetency.

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four whole years as Secretary of State.

Should we elect a woman who accepted charitable donations from foreign governments while holding the highestranking appointed position that’s concerned with foreign affairs? Absolutely not.

Those who are “ready for Hillary” need to take an objective look at the situation. Otherwise, the scandals won’t just last as long as a news cycle — they will last 4 years.

As a female, I want to see a woman rise to the highest-ranking office in the United States. Women are excelling in national, state and local politics across the country.

But voting for a woman because of her gender is not empowering — it’s the opposite. It does not bring her accomplishments to the stage, but rather attributes her womanhood to her success.

Casting a vote for Hillary is not “casting a vote for women,” it is a blatant disregard of her incompetency. The presidency is meant for the most qualified, trustworthy and capable candidate, which is not Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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T.J. Zeuch gem sparks 2-1 series win over Wake Forest Stephen Caruso Contributing Editor

Following a game in which he set career worsts in earned runs and hits, Pitt sophomore pitcher T.J. Zeuch needed confidence.

“After the last two weeks, any pitcher [is] going to have his confidence shaken,” said Zeuch, who went 0-2 with a 12.00 ERA and 2.56 WHIP in his last two starts.

Carrying a three-game losing streak into the game, and with ACC wins leader Matt Pirro on the mound for Wake Forest (22-16, 9-9 ACC), change did not seem likely.

But the Panthers (14-20, 6-12 ACC) rode a complete game from Zeuch on Friday to a 8-3 win and 2-1 series win over the Demon Deacons at Charles L. Cost Field.

With runners on second and third base, no outs and Wake Forest’s most dangerous hitter at the plate, it looked like Zeuch was in for another rough start on Friday.

But a dribbler by sophomore first baseman Will Craig, Wake Forest’s leader in RBIs and candidate for the Golden Spikes Award — awarded to the best player in college baseball — showed Zeuch was not going down easy.

“As I kept going, [with Wake Forest] barely hitting the ball, hitting toppers, striking out, it added to my confidence” Zeuch said. “All week, I worked on speeding [my pitching] up a little bit so everything is in sync. And then today I threw that first inning, and it really showed.”

After allowing one more run on a groundout in the top of the first inning, Zeuch’s teammates rallied for three runs in the bottom of the first, including the first career home run by freshman shortstop Charles LeBlanc. After that hit, Pitt would not trail again in the game.

Sophomore Nick Yarnall, playing as the designated hitter, keyed Pitt’s hitting, going 2-2 with two walks, a run scored and an RBI on a triple in the first

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inning.

“We were set, first pitch, ready to swing,” Yarnall said.

For Wake Forest, Pirro struggled with his command, walking five and hitting one player, leading to a 5-3 Pitt lead after five innings.

While Pirro struggled, Zeuch only became stronger as the game continued.

“When a pitcher is confident, it’s real hard to hit him,” he said.

The game stayed tight into the bottom of the eighth, when Pitt struck for three

runs — two with two outs — which made Pitt head coach Joe Jordano’s decision to keep Zeuch in the game easy. Zeuch completed the game to set a new career high in innings pitched while striking out seven players.

“It was a really solid win for us. We swung the bats well, we played really well defensively and obviously T.J. pitched a great game,” Jordano said.

After Friday’s strong start to the conference series, Pitt dropped Saturday’s contest 12-4, using eight bullpen arms

to attempt to stop the bleeding. Yarnall continued his hot hitting by going 2-4 with a double and an RBI. “I was just trying to see the ball up, and anything inside, until I got two strikes, so if it was away, I’d lay off the balls in the dirt, just try to see the ball up, and put a good swing on it,” Yarnall said.

With Sunday’s game deciding the series, Pitt came out strong, taking a 4-0 lead in the first inning, led by a bases-

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Panthers trounce Orange in record-setting weekend Chris Puzia Sports Editor

McKayla Taylor drove in 17 runs in a three game road sweep of Syracuse.

Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

Anybody looking at the box score from one of Pitt and Syracuse’s Saturday games might have thought the teams played a surprise game of spring football, as Pitt won 22-7.

But the sport in question was softball, as the Panthers (29-14, 9-9 ACC) used an offensive surge to sweep the weekend road series from the Orange (15-22, 1-10 ACC), punctuated by Saturday’s 22-run outburst.

Pitt won the first game of the weekend 8-6 for its 400th program win, and the Panthers continued their success with Sunday’s final matchup of 10-7. The offensive performance set new single-season program records for hits (254), doubles (68) and RBIs (229).

“It’s a nice milestone for the program,” Pitt head coach Holly Aprile said in a re-

lease. “We were on fire offensively, and I attribute that to our ability to be focused in the moment and by having a great plan and a great approach as a group.”

In the first game, Pitt gained an early lead when freshman McKayla Taylor hit a three-run double in the first inning. But the Panthers surrendered five runs between the fifth and sixth innings, which allowed Syracuse to make the game close.

In the fifth inning, Syracuse’s senior outfielder Mary Dombrowski hit a threerun home run to center field to make the score 7-5 Pitt.

The Panthers added an insurance run in the seventh inning in response when junior catcher Kathryn Duran hit a single to drive Taylor home.

In the next game of Saturday’s doubleheader, Pitt did not allow Syracuse to catch up. Taylor again sparked the Panthers early, hitting a three-run homer in the first inning to give Pitt a lead it would hold all game. By the bottom of the third, when Syracuse scored its first run, Pitt already led 12-0.

Pitt scored five more runs in the fourth inning, with sophomore Kaitlin Manuel hitting a double to center field to score senior outfielder Carly Thea and redshirt junior Maggie Sevilla.

Syracuse added four runs in the last inning of the game, but by that point, Pitt had gained an insurmountable lead.

Despite allowing seven runs in five innings, senior Alexa Larkin picked up the win as her team scored early in the game.

“McKayla Taylor had an amazing day, while Kait Manuel and Kathryn Duran weren’t far behind,” Aprile said. “It was just a tremendous team effort.”

In the third game of the series, Pitt continued its strong offensive weekend by tallying 10 runs to sweep the Orange.

Taylor hit another three-run home run in the fourth inning on Sunday to bring Pitt ahead 3-1. Redshirt junior Shelby Pickett hit a solo home run one inning later.

The Panthers pulled away with a threerun seventh inning when Pickett singled

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SOFTBALL up the middle to drive two runs in.

Senior Savannah King pitched five innings on Sunday and allowed five runs.

The Panthers have now won four straight games after losing seven of their previous eight.

The team next plays on Saturday, when it returns to Pittsburgh for a weekend series against Virginia Tech. The first pitch of Saturday’s game is at 1 p.m.

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BASEBALL clearing triple from redshirt freshman right fielder Frank Maldonado.

While Wake Forest brought the game to 4-3 in the fourth inning, senior outfielder Boo Vazquez responded with a three-run homer to give Pitt a commanding 7-3 lead. The Panthers would go on to win the game 8-4.

With the win, Pitt won its first ACC series since March 13-15 against No. 11 North Carolina, which it won 2-1. Following that, it was 1-8 in conference play against Duke, North Carolina State and Notre Dame.

“When you are able to save your bullpen and get a couple of insurance runs late with a couple of two-out hits ... something that we haven’t been doing, that’s really the way we play baseball,” Jordano said. “That’s Pitt baseball.”

The Panthers play Kent State at home on Tuesday before traveling south to Tallahassee, Fla., to play Florida State in another conference series. The first pitch of Tuesday’s game is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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