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April 14, 2016| Issue 143| Volume 106

Trump makes double campaign stop in Pittsburgh

Anti-Trump protesters and Trump supporters rallied Wednesday afternoon at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. Wenhao Wu SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER (TOP RIGHT, LEFT) Eva Fine MULTIMEDIA EDITOR (BOTTOM RIGHT)

Josh Ye and Danni Zhou The Pitt News Staff

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced his plan Wednesday to appeal to student voters in Oakland: “I will offer you jobs.”

In Trump’s first Pittsburgh campaign appearance, Sean Hannity taped his interview with the presidential hopeful for “The Sean Hannity Show” 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Oakland, focusing on his plans for winning the presidential race and subsequent presidency.

In the town-hall style meeting at Soldiers

and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Trump spoke about defeating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and his plans to build a wall between the United States and Mexico to a crowd of about 24,000 supporters and protesters.

While some audience members found his plans inspiring, others came to oppose the candidate.

As hundreds of Trump supporters chanted, “Build a wall,” inside the event, seven students were escorted out after they stood up and yelled, “F*** Donald Trump.”

Hannity didn’t want anyone — including the hundreds of people outside chanting, “Black lives matter,” and holding anti-Trump signs — interrupting the show.

“If you are a protester, you are not getting in,” Hannity, a Fox News host, said at the event. He did not make it clear how security would determine who was protesting.

For the supporters, such as Julie Matali from Butler County, the rally confirmed their positive view of Trump. Matali agreed with Trump’s goals to provide more jobs for Americans, build the wall separating the United

States and Mexico and taking down ISIS. “I actually didn’t decide to vote for him until last month. He’s not part of the establishment, and that’s what I like most about him,” Matali said. “America needs a change. Once he wins, I strongly believe he will make a great president.”

During the show, Trump said his successes have surprised him, but he boasted about the states he originally did not think he had a foothold in but ending up winning anyway, including South Carolina and Florida.

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Hundreds protest trump, For supporters, Trump march from Oakland offers hope to downtown Emily Brindley Staff Writer

Anti-Trump protesters marched from Oakland to Downtown Wednesday evening. Theo Schwarz SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Alexa Bakalarski and Emily Brindley The Pitt News Staff

According to protesters’ signs, Donald Trump is a jagoff.

And, apparently, he killed Dumbledore.

And he hates pierogies.

Accompanied by more confrontational slogans and chants, a group of about 125 protesters marched from Oakland to Downtown Wednesday evening, meeting up with hundreds of other protesters at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. The protesters marched in response to Trump’s first official campaign stops in Pennsylvania.

Along with their signs, the protesters carried the tune of countless chants along Fifth

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Avenue, including, “Donald Trump, go away.

Sexist, racist, anti-gay,” “Black Lives Matter” and “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.” Beginning at about 5 p.m., police shut down Fifth Avenue to accommodate a group of antiTrump protesters marching nearly three miles from Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum to the Convention Center Downtown. After taping a live town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity at 5:30 p.m., Trump hosted a rally at 7 p.m. in the Convention Center.

When they arrived Downtown about 6:15 p.m., protesters converged with Trump supporters waiting to enter the rally at the intersection of 10th and Penn avenues. The protestSee Protest on page 4

Through all of the vitriol and protests Wednesday, Donald Trump’s supporters said they saw something else: an open, honest candidate who is focused on changing the United States.

Mount Washington native Mary Diantonio, 56, said Trump speaks openly about his beliefs.

“I believe that he’s honest, and his values are my values,” Diantonio said.

“You need somebody to actually speak the truth.”

Though Trump’s stances on the economy, foreign policy and establishment politics draw people for different reasons, the idea that Trump can bring the country together and generally improve it binds them together.

While violence and portraits of bigots at Trump’s rallies in other cities have dominated coverage of the events, many who attended the two events in Pittsburgh Wednesday discussed Trump with sincerity.

While hundreds protested and marched against the Republican presidential candidate Wednesday, Trump’s supporters said they came out because they wanted to see for themselves a candidate they said they can believe in.

Though some of his opponents find fault with Trump’s wealth and history as a businessperson , his supporters, like Diantonio, said his past puts him out of reach of bribery, unlike other politicians. Diantonio said Trump’s wealth makes his opposers uncomfortable.

“He is not in everyone’s pocket,” Diantonio said. “He has his own money,

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no one can buy him. He is his own man, and that’s what they’re afraid of.”

Thomas Sailor, of Washington, Pennsylvania, agreed with Diantonio that Trump won’t crumble under establishment pressures.

“He won’t play ball with the establishment,” Sailor, 58, said. “Of all the candidates running, he’s going to be the least of the problems, he’s going to correct all the corruption, and maybe we can finally get this country straightened out.”

Trump’s status as a free-speaking outsider makes him appealing to his supporters, such as Marie Potter from Bellwood, Pennsylvania.

“I like him because he’s a political outsider. He’s not the GOP elite,” Potter, 48, said. “I like that he’s not [politically correct], I like that he speaks his mind, I think we’re a little oversensitized with that.”

Trump’s stance on economic issues and his pledge to make changes to America’s economy also drive some of the enthusiasm behind his support.

“He would bust open the economy like you couldn’t believe,” Sailor said. “If he lowers taxes and lowers the corporate rate, for everyone that’s in business, it would be a boom like you couldn’t believe.”

For Ryan Adzima, an undecided Pitt first year, the benefits of an improved economy would directly affect his future as a small business owner.

“We’ll be able to spend more money, and then more smaller business will be able to start up, and that’s what I’m goSee Supporters on page 4

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Trump, pg. 1 Hannity continuously asked Trump about Clinton, only mentioning the other candidates briefly.

When he asked Trump if Clinton was his biggest competition and how he would beat her if they each got the respective nomination, Trump said he’s confident that she’d be easier to beat than his current Republican rivals.

In response, an audience member stood up and held a shirt that read, “Hillary for Prison 2016” — Trump glanced at the supporter and carried on answering the question.

“I don’t think [Hillary] has the strength or stamina to be president. She’s totally controlled by special interest,” Trump said.

Trump outlined some main goals that he would implement as president: guarantee students will have jobs waiting for them after college, make the United States an energyindependent country “very quickly” and crack down on undocumented immigrants coming from Mexico.

“People who have come into this country — sadly, they have to go. We have no idea who

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they are,” Trump said.

Trump said countries such as China and Mexico are taking advantage of the U.S. economy and that “China is dumping steel all over the place.” He said companies are moving to Mexico, supplanting U.S. jobs.

He got the most reaction from the crowd when he mentioned his infamous proposed wall between the United States and Mexico, and when he promised to defeat ISIS. “Our enemies are open to torture,” Trump said. “What’s wrong with waterboarding them?”

During commercial breaks, Trump supporters filled the aisles, trying to snap pictures of Trump with cellphone cameras and Snapchat filters. A grassroot conservative advocacy group, Make America Great, gifted Trump a “Hillary for Prison 2016” T-shirt. Trump opposers remained silent.

Lauren Hall, a sophomore molecular biology major, attended the event to experience a Trump rally as a black woman, and said the experience confirmed her negative view of Trump supporters.

Hall said the people at the rally supporting Trump seemed misguided, or at least unsure

about why they support Trump.

“I talked to a mother and daughter after the event. They claimed they support Trump because they own a business and Trump is a businessman. They never explained why,” Hall said.

“The reasons of Trump supporters all seem to be very much at the surface level.”

Outside Soldiers and Sailors, supporters and protesters began lining up at about 8 a.m. either to get seats for the show or express their opposition for Trump.

Students began planning protests on Monday afternoon after Trump announced his visit to Pittsburgh. On Tuesday night, Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement Kathy Humphrey sent an email to the Pitt community warning of a group that planned to “openly [carry] firearms in a demonstration of their commitment to the Second Amendment.”

Although no one appeared with firearms, Hannah Gaskill and Kira Melville, two female college students, who chose not to tell The Pitt News what school they go to, showed their bare breasts with heart-shaped tape covering their nipples to combat the anticipated violence with love.

“If they are allowed to tout guns and express

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hate, we are allowed to tout tits and express love and concerns,” Gaskill said.

Melville added, “Which is scarier? My chest or your AK-47?”

Melville and Gaskill said the crowd responded with nasty and derogatory terms, telling them to put clothes on and that they would send their picture to a magazine.

John Kennick, a senior English and ecology major at Pitt and a participant of the Love Trumps Hate campaign that The Fourth Wave and Fossil Free Pitt Coalition organized, said he spent most of the morning sparking conversation with crowd members.

“People are here to express pro-Trump sentiments,” Kennick said, “We are just here to stand for our opinions.”

Sarah Stauffer, a member of Campus Republicans at Washington and Jefferson College, said although she has not made up her mind as to who to vote for and came to the event mainly “for the experience,” she would stay loyal to her party nominee.

“All of his ideas are interesting,” Stauffer said. “I don’t necessarily agree with him. But he’s getting the conversations started at least.”

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Supporters, pg. 2 ing to do when I’m older, own a small business,” Adzima said. “It’ll be able to stimulate the economy, just by putting more money into it and by people spending more money, it’s going to flow around to everyone.”

One Trump supporter has even more personal reasons to back Trump’s plan for economic change.

Vinny McGovern, a Duquesne senior

majoring in law, said a presidential term with either Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, who he said don’t support the coal industry, would be detrimental to his father’s career in the field.

“Having a guy like Trump in [office], that’s going to stop that, and my dad’s going to be able to work again,” McGovern said. “I support him because I know that he’s going to make America a greater place again, and I’m not just saying that because that’s what he has on his hat.”

Nick Eichenlaub, a 23-year-old from

Brookline, said he likes that Trump’s goals focus on America instead of on other countries.

“I like that he puts America first,” Eichenlaub said. “We should put America first more often.”

As for Trump’s “inflammatory comments,” Eichenlaub said the comments reflect Trump’s personal opinion, not his political stance.

“He can have his own opinions as far as abortion, gay marriage, whatever,” Eichenlaub said. “But does he endorse

that for the law? Probably not.”

Nearly all of Trump’s supporters referred to the true change the candidate advocates, as seen his slogan of “Make America Great Again.”

“He literally wants to fix America, and the problems that we have, and I think that’s why he’s going to stand out,” McGovern said.

Protest, pg. 2 ers swarmed the underpass of the Convention Center to approach Trump supporters more directly, ultimately resulting in one Trump supporter on the ground.

When the Trump rally let out at about 8:15 p.m., riot police arrived.

Though the Trump supporters mostly dispersed by 9:30 p.m., protesters sang and rallied until later that night.

After several fights broke out, police arrested at least three people at the rally. Some protesters complained of their eyes burning from pepper spray, but city police did not confirm if they had used the deterrent in any of their arrests.

Sandy Regan, 48, from Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, joined the protesters in their march from Oakland to Downtown because she said Pittsburghers must make it clear they don’t support Trump.

“I think we have to make it clear that we don’t appreciate what [Trump] stands for here,” Regan said. “He’s so sexist and racist and I fear he’s dangerous.”

Mary O’Hara, a Pitt student in her second year of graduate school for social work, said she’s anti-Trump because she doesn’t support fearmongering. “[Trump] looks at people as a business, and we’re not businesses,” O’Hara said. “We’re human beings.”

The march Downtown was a way for the protesters to show their viewpoint and hopefully to make an impact, O’Hara said.

“The only way to get anything done is to voice your opinion,” O’Hara said.

Candi Brooks, a senior at Pitt, had been out since 11 a.m. to show their support for Bernie Sanders amidst the Trump mania.

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Loan forgiveness for Americans with disabilities must continue progress The Obama administration is working to assure student debt doesn’t gridlock any person with a disability.

On Tuesday, the president announced plans to forgive $7.7 billion in federal students loans for nearly 400,000 permanently disabled Americans. By law, Americans with permanent disabilities are eligible for loan forgiveness and always have been eligible.

Although Americans with disabilities have always been eligible for loan forgiveness, the Obama administration took steps four years ago to make the process easier. Those with permanent disabilities were able to use their Social Security designation to apply for the loan discharge, but few took advantage.

Starting next week, borrowers identified in the matching program — which the Social Security Administration created — will begin receiving letters from the government explaining how to receive discharge to ensure all Americans eligible are aware of their options.

This is an essential first step in reaching Americans with disabilities and relieving them of the thousands of dollars of loans that often cause financial strife.

But we can advance this further to ensure no American with disabilities falls through the cracks, and Americans who were eligible but weren’t aware are forgiven of their default.

To ensure the loan relief program is executed as efficiently as possible, the government should reach everyone who is eligible by accounting for the logistical issues. By sending officials skilled in filling out the discharge application and mailing it, we can avoid having Americans with disabilities default on their loans, which the SSA has shown to be a frequent occurrence.

In the agency’s first review, 179,000 of the 387,000 people who were deemed eligible to receive discharges were in default on their loans, putting them at risk of losing their tax refunds and Social Security benefits — benefits borrowers need to survive.

As Persis Yu, the National Consumer Law Center’s student loan borrower assistance project director, told

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the Washington Post, this program is only the first step.

“The administration needs to go further to ensure that no borrower who has a right to student loan relief has their benefits taken,” Yu said.

The 179,000 people who defaulted on their loans because they didn’t know they were eligible for discharges shouldn’t be at risk of losing critical Social Security benefits or tax refunds.

Thousands of Americans with disabilities rely on these Social Security benefits and tax refunds to survive, and the government needs to make sure that they don’t continue paying the price for loans they didn’t have to pay for in the first place.

“Borrowers receiving SSDI need these payments to survive,” Yu said.

Forgiving student loans for people with permanent disabilities does more than just give people a chance to rise above debt. It may cost taxpayers $7.7 billion now, but it could save taxpayers more in the future.

According to a Census Bureau report from 2013, 30 percent of welfare recipients are disabled.

According to the Social Security Administration, every month, the federal government also grants 14 million Americans disability, spending more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined.

If we were to pay off the loans of those who are disabled now, they’re less likely to fall into the vicious cycle of unemployment and poverty that goes along with debt.

Obama’s loan forgiveness plan provides Americans with permanent disabilities the opportunity to pursue the careers they had attended school to pursue with a clean, debt-free slate.

Americans with disabilities have a right to student loan relief, and it’s time to make sure they have access to the benefits they are due.

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Science and media must meet in middle Mariam Shalaby

Columnist We’re fighting a terrible war, and right now, we’re losing.

No, I’m not talking about the war on terrorism, the war on drugs or any human conflict. This enemy of ours isn’t even alive, but it’s ravaging an entire region, mercilessly hurting our children and spreading quickly. It’s making its way through South America, coursing through the veins of a tiny mosquito.

Its name is Zika virus.

Zika virus has only gained media attention this past year, and the media is having a heydey with sensationalist headlines. While the academic microbiology community is surprised with the particle’s behavior, their findings are absent in the mainstream media.

But we can’t expect people to understand the latest developments in medicine and science when we use the same terminology and language as dense medical reports. In order to avoid mass pandemonium, people also need a lesson in the basics of science.

On April 10, the academic journal Science published a report stating, “Zika virus impairs growth in human neurospheres and brain organoids.” To a scientist, that statement is intriguing.

But to anyone who doesn’t un-

derstand the language — or doesn’t spend their time browsing dry, jargon-filled academic journals — that statement may be either boring or panic-inducing.

In layman’s terms, scientists found that the virus specifically targets brain cells and prevents them from growing. And for a filovirus — the family of viruses that Zika is a part of — that’s strange.

Would someone in the general public care to know that? I think so. But how could they fully understand that information without an intimate knowledge of the virus and microbiology? And more importantly, would the reader panic upon reading that information?

The scientific community and general public need stronger communication to increase awareness of this potentially life-changing virus. Even if links are not yet deemed statistically significant, the results are inconclusive or research is still in progress, informing the general public is worth the effort.

Last week, the first case of Zika virus was reported in Allegheny county. It is the 12th case reported in Pennsylvania.

The approach of this virus so close to home is chilling. As the Aedes mosquito doesn’t normally thrive in temperate environments See Shalaby on page 7

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Shalaby, pg. 6 like North America’s, the Zika outbreak has seemed far away.

Many women who have been infected with Zika virus aren’t aware of it. On Wednesday, federal health officials confirmed that Zika virus causes a rare birth defect and other severe fetal abnormalities, the most notable being microcephaly — an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain.

Humans have been battling the various microorganisms with potential health hazards since the dawn of our existence. For centuries now, microbiologists have been researching, experimenting, meticulously documenting and sharing their hypotheses and findings to bolster human defenses against these microscopic foes.

Scientists have struggled to maintain a balance in terms of sharing information. We can either share everything we know and risk causing mass panic, or not give enough information to the citizens for them to make informed decisions.

For example, the next Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro this summer. Citizens need to understand Zika virus — not just read

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a headline about it — and what scientists are learning and what that could mean for their own safety and travel plans.

But simply sharing more information won’t fix the problem. We need an entire cultural revolution.

The media has to bind the scientific community to the public. But people want to read articles they can understand and that are engaging and relevant. We can help reduce this miscommunication by increasing citizens’ knowledge of science and disease and breaking down the barrier set up by scientists’ intimidating language.

To do this, the media needs to stop relaying the same information to viewers and readers repeatedly. They need to worry less about eliciting an emotional response, and more about informing the public about the science behind the latest disease or illness.

Some may argue that increasing public awareness of scientific knowledge could create unwarranted panic or worry without basis. The media is already similarly flawed, however.

News stories are run and rerun again for their fear factors — the potential to make readers scared of, and therefore interested in the story.

Secondly, the mainstream media often publishes scientific news that becomes sensationalized. News outlets splatter words like “revolutionary” and “horrifying” across headlines.

For example, when swine flu was the popular epidemic, headlines would feature “outbreak” in all capital letters. News outlets wrote the articles to cater to readers who can’t understand scientific language.

It isn’t the readers’ faults. Unless we go on to study microbiology or take biochemistry classes in college, knowing the anatomy of a virus isn’t common knowledge, and it’s often difficult to recall that information from our 9th grade biology classes.

Because academics at large use foreignsounding, specialty-specific words to give credibility to their roles as researchers, the public isn’t very interested in putting effort into learning about a field that seems difficult and removed from everyday life.

Right now, the relationship between the media and scientific academia is terrible.

“Serious scientists” do not publicize their findings to the general public for fear of misunderstanding and panic because they know our understanding of science often isn’t comparable

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to theirs, as well as to maintain a separation between academia and the public for the sake of status and pride.

Scientists’ leeriness of the media isn’t unfounded either. In 1998, a physician named Andrew Wakefield published a scientific article claiming that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine causes autism. He held a press conference to publicize his news, and the vaccine usage fell drastically. Measles, which was close to being eradicated, made a huge comeback.

The problem was, Wakefield’s article was a hoax. The media had sensationalized it because they knew that fear sells, and the public — not knowing any better — panicked.

To this day, many parents are still skeptical of vaccinations for fear of their child developing autism, despite this evidence being completely fabricated.

It doesn’t have to be like this. The average citizen should have access to accurate, comprehensive medical information, and the ability to comprehend it.

If we really want to understand the implications of Zika, the media needs to start telling us more about the virus itself.

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Culture

Linklater’s Latest his funniest Yet Ian Flanagan Staff Writer

Not many films that demand seriousness thought have exclamation points in their titles, but “Everybody Wants Some!!” earns that right.

Director Richard Linklater’s spiritual sequel to “Dazed and Confused,” is like a perfected “Animal House.” Though “Everybody Wants Some” depicts the rowdiness of a collegiate baseball team, it offers a wide-eyed yet warm take on the college experience — at times idealizing it.

The film begins as pleasant everyman Jake (Blake Jenner), a first-year pitcher, has just arrived to meet his baseball teammates at an unspecified college.

The 16 players share essentially two frat houses, and the film traces the band of characters, their one-upmanship, sexual conquests and other exploits in the last weekend before school starts.

Recapturing the lived-in nostalgia that made its quasi-predecessor the cult classic it is today, “Everybody Wants Some!!” trades the 1976 setting of “Dazed and Confused” for the start of the next decade. The film takes every opportunity to bask in ’80s youth culture, particularly

Blake Jenner and Glen Powell in “Everybody Wants Some!!”TNS in its shameless pop soundtrack — “Whip It” anyone?

In between the hazing and general debauchery, Linklater also expresses some semi-autobiographical honesty - as he was twenty himself in 1980 - through his extensive cast of no-name wonders.

The crux of the film rests in the strength of Linklater’s written characters

and the 20-somethings who play out this mostly naturalistic, occasionally dreamlike post-adolescent fable. As the events covered by the film span only 72 hours, time controls the plot, which is not unexpected based on Linklater’s past work — such as “Boyhood” and the “Before” trilogy. But his trademark humanist philosophy and humor form a freewheeling

story instead of a sentimental retread.

The film earns its R rating, and then some, for its language alone, which is loaded with profanities. But sex, drugs and alcohol also make the usual rounds on-screen and in dialogue, given the sometimes dangerously-inflated amount See Review on page 10

Warhol welcomes Mali rockers Songhoy Blues

Matt Maielli Staff Writer

Despite escaping violent oppression in the band’s native Mali, Songhoy Blues doesn’t make mournful music.

The Andy Warhol Museum hosted the Mali blues band, Songhoy Blues, Tuesday night as part of its Sound Series, bringing a slice of Mali rock ’n’ roll to the Steel City.

Songhoy Blues has a common set up —

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Nathanael Dembélé on drums, Garba Touré on lead guitar, Oumar Touré on bass and Aliou Touré on vocals and sometimes guitar — but its background is anything other than typical. The band left its northern Mali home in 2012 for the country’s southern capital in Bamako amid growing political unrest between the government and the Islamic terrorist group, Ansar Dine.

Ansar Dine seeks to outlaw alcohol, cig-

arettes and music, which pushed Songhoy Blues to take its music elsewhere, eventually ending up in North America. Songhoy Blues is currently touring to promote its first album, “Music In Exile,” which is how the band landed on the concert stage of the Andy Warhol Museum in the North Side.

After a rousing performance of the band’s speedy guitar-duelling ballad “Ai Tchere Bele,” Aliou stopped dancing to

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bring the mic close. “You love African music, yeah?” Following the crowd’s affirmative woos, Aliou said, “We love you too.”

Ben Harrison, the Warhol’s curator of performing arts, said the band’s genretranscending style epitomizes the Sound Series’ goal — drawing unconventional live performances to Pittsburgh to subvert conventional perceptions of art.

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Warhol, pg. 8 The Warhol performing arts staff, Harrison said, is particularly interested in “hybrid forms that blend influences and blur traditional genre boundaries and explore new territory, such as western blues and R&B and West African melodies and overall sensibility.”

Describing Songhoy Blues as “desert blues” is fine enough, but as its guitars and drums picked up speed and turned the music into a melancholic bouncy blues, the band proved its music transcends setting.

Aliou’s vocals fill out each song, but when all four members sing at once, their sound recalls ancient folk songs. Those vocals over Garba’s guitar licks created a microcosm of the history of blues music, which originated from African folk tradition.

About 20 minutes into the concert, following the dreamy, bass-filled “Wayei,” Aliou noticed the crowd hadn’t started dancing yet.

Aliou noticed this, asking, “So, you can move, yeah? We can all dance together later,” he said.

As a few songs passed, the quaint theater’s once empty aisles began to fill with dancing

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people. Soon enough, more than half of the bodies in the room were dancing in the spaces between seats and wherever they could.

During a lengthy guitar solo on the song “Al Hassidi Terei,” Aliou began to dance himself, spreading his arms like wings and yelling, “Are you ready to fly with me?” His movements morphed into a high-speed chicken dance, as Aliou flapped his bent arms against his torso.

Colter Harper, a University of Pittsburgh graduate and former professor at the University of Ghana, attended the event, and said Pittsburgh’s music scene could stand to be a little more diverse. “[Songhoy Blues] are amazing musicians,” he said. “Pittsburgh does not have enough music from Africa, enough music from Brazil. I’d like to see more of it.”

Though Aliou sings all of Songhoy Blues’ songs in the band’s native Songhay language, each song’s message isn’t lost in translation, thanks to the four piece’s distinctive rhythm and Aliou’s stage presence.

“Music is one of the only things we can share,” Aliou said between songs. “No one ever knows what we say, but you enjoy. That is music.”

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Review, pg. 8 of attention that such indulgences can receive in the average college’s on-campus culture.

The film’s cast is uniformly solid, with each performer taking on a different archetypal role in the team’s social hierarchy. The first years try to fit in — Jake’s high school friend Plummer (comical newcomer Temple Baker) fares well, but the gullible, bulking Brumley (Tanner Kalina) does not.

Meanwhile Jake befriends chatty pseu-

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do-intellectual Finnegan (Glenn Powell) and token stoner Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), while pursuing a romance with theater performer Beverly (Zoey Deutch).

The athletic assembly’s identity adapts to every party they attend, from big-collar disco dancing to cowboy hats and “CottonEyed Joe” to moshing at an underground punk show. Thematically, Linklater touches on tribalism and brotherhood without turning a blind eye to the outdated sexism that comes with the time and place recreated. The objectification of women in the

film is always portrayed from a satirical distance.

Though the film is steeped in an obviously male-centric perspective, Linklater works to make frat guys worthy of empathy through well-drawn, believable characters.

Like the best of Linklater’s work, this film mimics real life, from the sequence of events to the foibles of common speech. At its best, “Everybody Wants Some!!” feels like life truly lived.

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central character — “Everybody Wants Some!!” is easily on par with the quotable delights of “Dazed and Confused.” The film at once shows us that Linklater has lost none of his creative fervor since his experimental early days, while following the sprawling gamble that was “Boyhood” with something resonantly blithe.

For a director who constantly looks to define universalities through intimate narratives, it’s a relief to see that Linklater still knows when to sit back and simply let the good times roll.

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foreign freshmen acing american adjustment Jeremy Tepper

Senior Staff Writer Pitt tennis coach Alex Santos has a simple recruiting philosophy: He wants the best tennis players, regardless of where they come from.

This philosophy took him to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Brazil and Spain to find his recruiting class, which now consists of first-years Natsumi Okamoto, Carina Ma, Gabriela Rezende and Clara Lucas. The four newcomers have combined for a 46-50 record, with Ma being the most successful at 16-10, adjusting to a higher level of competition and a new country.

“A lot of things are happening at the same time. Going away, leaving their parents, their friends,” Santos said. “I think they’ve done a great job adapting

overall.”

Santos’ relationship with each player began with an email or phone call, thanks to international acquaintances he’s made. He and his staff will often receive an email or call from a player or coach, which helps him hone in on specific players.

From there, he’ll make a concerted effort to scout the players as best as he can, a difficult task given the distance.

He tries to see them in person if possible. He traveled internationally to see three of the four players in his firstyear class.

“We are very proactive in making sure we make an educated decision,” Santos said.

Eventually, he brings each player on See Tennis on page 12

Panthers sweep doubleheader against St. Francis Joe Rokicki Staff Writer

After a tough weekend loss against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in which they scored just one run, the Pitt softball team made its bats great again on Wednesday.

The Panthers (26-14) swept Saint Francis University (22-17) in a doubleheader at the Charles L. Cost Center, winning the contests 6-1 and 7-5.

The Panthers took the first game with some help from the long ball, as balls flew over the fence frequently throughout both games.

“Well we have hit a lot of home runs on the

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year, I think we’re just trying to maintain our approach up there,” Pitt head coach Holly Aprile said. “So, it wasn’t anything different than what we’ve been doing, we enjoy playing in this park and we hit a lot of home runs with the short porch.”

The Panther bats fired early with a four-run first inning, thanks to a Giorgiana Zeremenko three-run home run to left field, which scored pitcher Jenna Modic and third baseman Shelby Pickett. Erin Hershman responded with a solo home run, as the Panthers went back-to-back to jump to an early 4-0 lead.

Pickett singled to center with one out in the

second inning to give the Panthers their first baserunner of the inning. McKayla Taylor belted a two-run home run to left center to give the Panthers a 6-0 lead.

Jenna Modic (5-5) recorded two strikeouts, three walks and an earned run through 17 batters and 3.1 innings of work. Modic surrendered a home run in the fourth inning to Saint Francis shortstop Jordan Seneca. Kayla Harris pitched 3.2 scoreless innings and struck out three batters in relief to help close the door.

The second game started rough for the Panthers. Fastball pitcher Sarah Dawson ran into trouble early in the first inning after surrender-

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ing a leadoff single to Saint Francis centerfielder Sierra McKee. Three batters later, Madison Cabell belted a pitch over the left field wall for a home run and a 2-0 Saint Francis lead.

“Sarah’s been battling, she hasn’t pitched in a few weeks,” Aprile said. “I thought she made some good pitches where she jammed some hitters. And there were some pitches left up in the zone and a couple of those got hit out, and that’s just something she’s going to keep adjusting and work on.”

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Tennis, pg. 11 campus for a recruiting visit and gives them a tour in hopes of securing a commitment.

For Rezende, a native of Curitiba, Brazil, she knew Pitt would be her choice once she stepped on campus, picking the Panthers over Brigham Young University and University of Nevada, Reno.

“I came on my official visit and just felt like this was the place,” Rezende said. “I really liked the facilities, the structure.”

Though switching countries seems difficult travel-wise, Santos said that isn’t always the case. Typically, international players travel regularly for tournaments during their pre-college years.

“All of these girls are used to traveling a lot, so they’re like citizens of the world,” Santos said.

For Okamoto, the transition has been especially seamless. In search of higherlevel tennis competition and instruction, she moved from Tokyo to Spain for her last three years of high school. The move afforded her the ability to play matches in surrounding European countries, instead of

just in Tokyo.

“It’s almost natural because I moved before,” Okamoto said.

Of the four, Lucas is the least seasoned traveler, which she said has made the move to the United States tougher for her.

Lucas, who is from Spain, said she knew very little English when she moved to Pittsburgh in the summer. She knew some from preparing for the SATs, but rarely spoke it.

“When I came here nobody spoke Spanish. It was pretty difficult,” Lucas said.

Okamoto moved in earlier to have more time to adjust, and also tries to speak with Lucas in Spanish from what she learned during her own stay in Spain.

On the court, the level of tennis in the ACC is much higher than what any newcomer has experienced. For international players, the gap is smaller, as they’re used to playing in high-level competitions across various countries.

“They came in with regimens that have helped them to adapt faster and better to their conditions,” Santos said.

Still, the jump in play has come as a bit

Kevin Sutton named Pitt’s third assistant Dan Sostek Sports Editor

New Pitt basketball head coach Kevin Stallings finalized his coaching staff Wednesday afternoon, as the school announced the hiring of Kevin Sutton as its third and final assistant coach.

Sutton most recently served as an assistant at Georgetown University from 2013 until this past season. His past stops include George Washington University, James Madison University and Old Dominion University, as well as coaching numerous powerhouse high school teams.

Stallings first met Sutton at one of these high schools, according to a University release.

“I got to know Kevin in 2007-08 when we were recruiting one of his players out of See Tennis on page 13 Montverde Academy,” said Stallings. “He has

a wealth of experience and is an excellent teacher and mentor. Kevin is well connected in the recruiting world particularly at the prep school level and within the ACC footprint.”

Sutton has coached for 27 years and, in addition to coaching at schools, has worked with national teams. He’s served as an assistant for USA Basketball in three separate stints, coaching high school stars from across the nation.

He has also coached at various high school basketball camps countrywide, including the Nike Hoops Jamboree, Nike All-American Camp, Michael Jordan Flight School and the LeBron James Skills Academy.

Stallings said in the release that Sutton’s resumé should speak for itself.

“When you ask people in the profession about Kevin the feedback is extremely positive and flattering,” Stallings said. “I am very excited to have him on our staff.”

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Tennis, pg. 12 of shock for Lucas, as the margin for error is miniscule in matches. “[My opponents] don’t miss one ball.

They are so tough mentally and physically,” Lucas said.

As the season has continued, Santos said the four newcomers have progressed, continuing to adapt and improve their skills.

“They came with their minds open,” Santos said. “They have been improving a lot and competing very well.”

Off the court, they’ve met varying levels of homesickness. Ma, a Hong Kong native, and Rezende both said they miss the food from back home. For Rezende, it’s hard for her to get her Brazilian food fix, and said she’s yet to visit Pittsburgh restaurant Texas de Brazil.

Of course, they miss more than the food, also thinking of their families and pets.

Rezende especially is anxious to see her dog, which she got four days before moving to Pittsburgh, when she goes back to Brazil for the summer.

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Though the longing to go back home has been tough to deal with at times, Rezende said she and her fellow first years have close relationships, which helps ease any creeping homesickness and culture shock.

“We’re kind of going through the same situation, the same difficulties,” Rezende said.

Santos also stresses that he’s always there for his players, a promise he makes to a player’s parents during the recruiting process.

“We are here for them no matter how hard the situation is, the time of the day, the day of the week, it doesn’t matter,” Santos said. “They always feel that they can have someone they can rely on.”

The upperclassmen — three of four of whom are American — have also helped in “showing them the ropes and being there whenever they need them,” Santos said.

In moments when he sees the young and old, the foreign and the local working together, he can’t help but smile.

“That’s pretty cool to see the international players and domestic players helping each other and learning from each other,” Santos said.

Softball, pg. 11 fielder Hayley Norton recorded a one-out double to left field. Two batters later, Cabell launched her second home run of the game over right centerfield to put the Red Flash up 4-0.

Pitt pulled Dawson after two-and-two-thirds innings of work, and Aprile turned to Harris once again.

“I knew I had to get in there and take control and back [Dawson] up and help her out. I knew we were going to win from the start,” Harris said.

Harris pitched 4.1 innings in relief, surrendered one run on six hits and recorded one strikeout in her 14th win of the season.

Harris felt her breaking pitches were effective on the evening.

“My drop ball [was working today]. I threw a lot of those today and my changeup got a couple girls, and the screwball definitely — mainly just to jam them, which I thought happened a lot today.”

While Harris kept the Red Flash batters at bay, the Panthers responded with some instant offense of their own. Modic and Zeremenko planted back-to-back shots to center field and

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left field, respectively, to start the home half of the fourth inning, making the score 5-2 Red Flash.

The Panther comeback was only beginning, as Zeremenko launched her second home run of the game in the fifth inning off an Alexis Bower fastball right over the heart of the plate. Zeremenko’s moon shot to left marked her 15th of the year, tying a single-season school record.

“It feels good, but I mean, I’m not too worried about it. I’m just trying to have good at-bats and [home runs] come with it,” Zeremenko said.

Aprile lauded Zeremenko’s strength.

“She can really drive the ball,” Aprile added.

“That one was in orbit.”

The Panthers trailed 5-4 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning. Right fielder Olivia Gray started the inning with a lead-off single between short and third. But Saint Francis threw Gray out, advancing to second on a sacrifice bunt attempt from catcher Kathryn Duran. Pickett beat out a single to second, which brought up second basemen Maggie Sevilla with two outs.

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