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Asian cultural fair spreads diversity

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CAT’S OUT OF THE DRAG

Emma Solak Staff Writer For Shuqi Xiao and other members of the Asian Student Alliance, the term “Asian” refers to many cultures — not just one.

“When people hear Asian, they usually think Chinese,” Xiao, vice president of the Asian Student Alliance said.

To help clear up the stereotype and educate the Pitt community about Asian diversity, the Asian Student Alliance hosted its annual cultural fair on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. in the O’Hara Student Center ballroom. About 100 students from different backgrounds attended the event, which featured performances and cuisine from seven cultural organizations on campus.

After the different groups put on a show where they sang, danced and acted, the attendees moved to the first floor of the O’Hara

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Shake it off: Rainbow Alliance hosts drag show ing services for those living with HIV. The Alliance collected $1,126 by the end of the night, roughly $400 more than last year, according to President Allie McCarthy.

Former Pitt student Dickhersoon, who graduated in 2011, and his fiance, Jackson Nite, who graduated from West Virginia University in 2012, hosted the event.

“Look where my University of Pittsburgh degree got me,” Dickhersoon said, gesturing toward his new metallic blue thong.

The two emcees held nothing back, making jokes about cheating on each other with straight, male audience members and throwing shade at their alma maters, as well as at the audience.

“How many straight people in this crowd?” Dickhersoon asked at the beginning of the night. “Did you get here by mistake, or did your gay best friend bring you here?”

McCarthy and drag show coordinator Brandon Benjamin, a senior, opened the event with introductory remarks and emphasized the importance of the evening’s charity.

Rainbow Alliance invited the performers, including 22-year-old amateur drag

Elizabeth Lepro Staff Writer Wondering what clothes to wear, Dylan Dickhersoon consulted the audience on whether it preferred red or black before he left the stage to slip into something more comfortable.

Ten minutes later after the crowd shouted back “black,” Dickhersoon, a gender performer, returned to the stage in the William Pitt Union ballroom on Friday wearing nothing but a tight, black thong and said, “Aren’t you glad you chose black?”

For the final event of last week’s Pride Week, Rainbow Alliance’s annual spring “celebration of all things queer” and selfexpression, the group hosted its 15th annual Drag Show at 8 p.m. The night featured 10 local drag queens and gender performers, who do not identify as either king or queen, as well as a drag king. The performers danced under stage names and represented the University community and Pittsburgh as a whole. More than 500 students packed into the audience and supported the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force by throwing dollar bills onto the stage.

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FESTIVAL Student Center for traditional food and games.

The Southeast Asian Student Alliance taught students how to play Congkak, a game similar to Mancala, a two-person game where players move stones from one side of a rectangular board to another, trying to get as many as they can into his or her end. The Chinese American Student Association served sweet and sour chicken with rice and offered lessons on how to write words such as “love” and “peace” in Chinese characters.

Xiao, a junior studying biology and finance, said the event served as an opportunity to educate the University community about different Asian cultures.

Zisha, Pitt’s student fusion dance troupe, combined the native dancing styles of the groups to show the differences in each group’s cultural dances.

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The troupe’s set included a mix of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” with traditional Asian music, during which they performed a seamless melange of Bollywood and body rolls. Zisha’s 10 female dancers, dressed in black tank tops and electric blue pants with gold accents, came from different backgrounds and ethnicities.

Zisha attends cultural events not only to see other ethnic traditions, but to show dancing styles different from their own, Sri Karanam, captain of the dance troupe, said.

“I grew up in a dominantly white community,” Karanam, a junior studying biology, said.

“So, this is like my way of traveling.”

Along with the dance performances, the groups also represented their different cultures with live music.

Sophomore neuroscience major Asim Viqar, a member of the Pakistani Student Association, beatboxed while his friend, Will

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queen Tess Trojan — who was adamant in her support of the task force — to participate in the night.

“I know people who have died from AIDS,” Trojan said. “I make a point to get tested every three months.”

Trojan, who has been performing in Pittsburgh as a drag queen for two years, said she found the stage after battling depression and drug addiction.

Her friends convinced her to perform for the first time at a charity event when she was 20 years old, and she said she “threw on the most modest heels, performed and loved it.”

Trojan and the rest of the queens encouraged the audience to “show [them] the money” several times throughout the night.

Students charged the stage with dollar bills between their teeth and tucked money into performers’ dresses and stockings.

While Benjamin used his shirt to wipe away the glow-in-the-dark paint that Dickhersoon spilled on the runway during his performance with Nite, the performers maneuvered around him and the slippery mess in three-inch heels.

The most experienced stage presence in attendance was local favorite Thea Trix, who, at 40 years old, has been performing drag for 21 years and holds 14 drag competition titles.

“Every part of my life focuses around pride,” Trix said, adding that the energy in the ballroom was “off the charts.”

The crowd was particularly raucous during “Lip-Sync for Your Life,” a competition that included five Pitt students the emcees chose from the audience. The participants lip-synched and danced along to Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda,” battling it out for a Rainbow Alliance T-shirt as a prize.

Fuchsia XYZ, who wore a homemade gold-sparkled gown over a black leotard, said she thrives off the crowd’s energy while performing.

“It’s really a vent for self-expression.

Everybody has your attention,” Fuchsia XYZ said. “You sing in the shower, by yourself in front of the mirror, but you can do that here.”

Other performers for the night included Damien Frost, who recently placed 11th in a national pageant, Sugar Sweet, who

the emcees described as their “resident lesbian,” Divauna Diore and Jimmy Danger.

Students lingered in the ballroom and dressing room, where the tables were littered with makeup and wigs, after the performances to take pictures and chat with the performers.

Despite the admiration of many fans in the ballroom that night, Trix said being a gay person has caused her trauma in the past. “[That’s why] every time I perform out there, I hope I touch somebody,” she said.

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FESTIVAL Dang, a sophomore majoring in biology and a member of the Vietnamese Student Association, sang a medley of old pop hits and played guitar.

Viqar said, although there was nothing truly cultural about their performance, it was interesting to have two students from different Asian organizations collaborate.

“Events like this are important to educate

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Alyssa Miranda, a freshman studying nursing, also enjoyed the exposure to other ethnicities.

“I saw traditional dancing that I recognized,” Miranda, Filipino by heritage, said.

“But also, [I saw] performances and stories that taught me about other cultures.”

Viqar said the performances did more than just entertain audiences.

“These events don’t just help spread awareness, but show how each ethnic group on campus works together,” Viqar said.

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EDITORIAL

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OPINIONS

New Greek life policy helps, not hurts

This fall, don’t expect to see new freshmen proudly displaying Greek letters on their dorm room doors.

As of Friday, University officials confirmed that fall rush season will no longer include freshmen. The new policy defers students from pledging until they have completed 12 credits — the equivalent of a full semester.

The underlying purpose of the new rule is to ensure academic prosperity for incoming freshmen. While Greek life requires a 2.5 GPA, Pitt strives for its students to exhibit grades that exceed the minimum. The new 12-credit rule will not only aid students’ academic endeavors, but help students establish a sense of identity before joining a group environment.

According to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the average GPA for fraternity members at Pitt is 3.018, versus 3.067 for all undergraduate males. Sorority members have an average GPA of 3.177 compared to a 3.237 average for all female undergraduates. Clearly, there is some outlier lowering the average Greek GPA. That group is first-semester pledges — freshmen fraternity and sorority members average a 2.785 and 2.945 GPA, respectively.

According to Matthew Richardson, coordinator of fraternity and sorority life, the Greek GPA averages would be above the overall undergraduate average if they didn’t include freshman pledges’ numbers.

This phenomenon is likely due to social pressures from the

pledging process. Joining other University groups as a first-semester freshman does not pose as big of a risk to GPAs, as Richardson said the “formal nature and length of the recruitment process makes Greek life different.”

Not to mention, if a hopeful doesn’t get into the sorority or fraternity of his or her choice, this could set the tone for their college years. It’s better to have a few months to acclimate to a college environment as an individual before taking on the arduous task of committing to a group for the next four years.

While this signals the end of first-semester freshmen pledges, Richardson told The Pitt News that many students supported the policy. A Pitt News article from last Friday detailed that the Interfraternity Council and the Collegiate Panhellenic Association — along with many chapter presidents and general members — supported this measure.

Delaying pledging provides more benefits than just academic success. Students will have more time to research which chapter they’d like to join — or if they’d like to join at all.

In the meantime, Greek life hopefuls can spend their first semester focusing on their studies to cement a solid GPA. As a thriving social environment, Greek life publicly represents the University. As such, there is a high pressure for Pitt to put emphasis on Greek academic achievement. The bid day celebrations can wait — for now.

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COLUMN

Religious freedom laws breed intolerance, discrimination

Brianna Roser For The Pitt News While America’s religious freedom once attracted millions of oppressed immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries, the acceptance that once nourished our country’s diversity is now starving it.

Recent religious freedom laws now protect the rights of companies instead of just individuals.

The movement of personal beliefs into the workplace leads to undue discrimination, though. Lawmakers should not extend religious freedom to companies because it gives private entities the abil-

ity to discriminate for personal reasons, cloaked by a religious excuse. For this reason, religious freedom laws, like Indiana’s 2015 bill, should be subject to judicial review.

The 2015 Indiana bill allows both individuals and private companies to resist a law that goes against their religious beliefs.

In 1968. Maurice Bessinger, a self-proclaimed “hard-working, Christian man,” did not want blacks eating at his six Piggie Park barbecue joints, according to The Atlantic. Bessinger maintained that slavery was God’s will and desegregation was Satan’s work.

While the Supreme Court threw

out the case, noting it was “frivolous,” it may have stood under the new Indiana bill because it states that private companies may resist laws in conflict with their own spiritual convictions .

A person’s religious opinions are his own and usually pose no legal threat to others. But, when privately owned businesses are concerned, the owner’s beliefs affect everyone involved. In 2006, a photography studio in New Mexico refused to shoot a same-sex wedding because of the owner’s religious beliefs. When the couple sued, the studio did not have a law

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ROSER like Indiana’s for defense. Now, with policies protecting private businesses, these cases could rise in number.

Of course, the problem with religious intolerance is ever-present, especially in a time where society blames terrorist attacks on religions, instead of individuals.

But the slew of trendy religious freedom bills are not the solution to this problem.

When laws intended to promote religious inclusion allow for the opposite, instead, it’s clear we must try something different.

Problematic federal cases concerning religious freedom have made headlines over the past year. Most notably, the Supreme Court’s 2014 controversial Hobby Lobby decision allowed privately owned companies to reject national laws if the owner is religiously opposed. Policymakers are taking this decision further and instituting similar laws — like the 2015 Indiana bill — at the state level.

Lawmakers in Indiana are now struggling to fix the public relations mess.

April 6. 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com Their plan is to include a section within the law saying that it does not apply to intolerance against homosexuals. Meaning, a Catholic doctor could not refuse to operate on someone solely because the patient is homosexual. But, the solution

will fail because what satisfies one religion may offend another.

Because of religious freedom laws, individuals who are part of a religious minority could be unfairly forced to adhere to the majority’s beliefs, for example, a

“Lawmakers should not extend religious freedom to companies because it gives private entities the ability to discriminate for personal reasons.” is not so simple. Religious minorities have an equal chance of facing discrimination, but, unfortunately, all groups can not be legally protected in advance with specific sections of legislation In a country with such diverse religious beliefs, it is impossible for government policies to satisfy everyone. Even broad laws meant to uphold religious freedoms

Christian boss denying prayer breaks to a Muslim employee. The worker would have to choose between his or her job and religious needs, whereas the boss would not have to make that choice. The employee could search for a new job, but why should the law force him or her to do so? It is ultimately the boss who is discriminating against the employee. If legislation protects

the boss’s religion, the employee’s should be protected to the same degree.

What many supporters of these “religious freedom” laws overlook is that all Americans can use this policy to their advantage. Supporters might think only of their own beliefs and forget that even those with whom they disagree are protected.

CNN recently interviewed Bill Levin — founder of The First Church of Cannabis — to discuss his argument that the religious freedom bill should allow him to smoke marijuana legally. Of course, many Americans would disagree with Levin’s logic, but the state should protect him under the policy.

We have yet to find a way to protect religious freedom without controversy. One thing is clear, however — owners of private businesses should not discriminate on the basis of religion. Let’s be true to America’s early promise of religious freedom as a matter of liberty, rather than as a method of discrimination.

Brianna Roser writes about social issues, politics and current events for The Pitt News.

Write to Brianna at brr45@pitt.edu.

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SPORTS

BASEBALL

NOTRE DAME SWEEPS PITT IN BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL

Panthers’ offense disappears in three weekend losses not won a weekend series since March 13-15 when it took two of three games from No. 11 North Carolina.

While some children spent their Easter “We’re in a funk right now, and we’ve weekend searching for hidden eggs, got to get out of it,” Pitt head coach Joe Pitt’s baseball team spent the weekend Jordano said. “Right now, it’s frustratsearching for its offense. ing for all of us: my staff, the team, Behind two stellar pitching efforts everybody involved ... I can assure you we’re going to continue to work Jordan Frabisilio provided all of Pitt’s offense with a extremely hard to solo home run in one of Saturday’s games.

Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer try and figure it out.”

Notre Dame (20-10, 6-9 ACC) allowed only one run in each game o f S a t u r d ay ’s d o u b l e h e a d e r, winning the games by scores of 8-1 and 7-1 respectively.

In the first game, Irish freshman Brandon Bielak threw seven innings of shutout ball, striking out seven Panthers in the process.

Pitt’s lone run came when senior second baseman Jordan Frabasilio led off the final inning with a consolation home run over the left from visiting Notre Dame, the Panthers field wall. But, by that point, the Irish (11-19, 4-11 ACC) suffered a weekend had already built an eight-run lead. sweep to the Fighting Irish. The PanThat offensive barrage came in the thers have now lost seven straight Baseball 8 games. Equally dismal, the team has

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King’s solid performance fails to salvage series Dan Sostek Assistant Sports Editor After starting the season with startling success , the once-predatory Panther softball team has become the prey.

The t e a m ’s struggles continued on Saturday when Pitt fell to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Pittsburgh by a score of 3-2, marking its seventh loss in the last eight contests.

The Panthers (25-14, 6-9) sent their best pitcher, senior Savannah Savannah King has a 15-7 record on the season.

King, out to the Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer mound for the final game of the series, of the fifth, the team couldn’t muster hoping to avoid a sweep after losing any offense for the remainder of the both legs of Friday’s doubleheader. game.

Even a solid performance from the staff The Irish’s pitcher, junior Allie ace couldn’t deliver the team a win.

Rhodes, blanked Pitt for the final two King, who sports a 15-7 record on the innings of the contest, surrendering year with a team-leading 69 strikeouts, only one walk in the final frames as found help from her offense . The Pan- she secured the series sweep for Notre thers were the first team to score, and Dame. junior infielder Maggie Sevilla groundDespite the three runs she allowed in ed out in the bottom of the fourth to the top of the fifth, King still turned in score Ashlee Sills. a strong performance , tossing her 13th Pitt’s lead disappeared quickly as complete game of the year, surrenderNotre Dame answered with three runs ing six hits and striking out four, while of its own in the top of the fifth, giving walking just one batter. Even with the the Irish a 3-1 advantage. loss, her coach was pleased with the While the Panthers would narrow team’s performance. the gap to 3-2 following a successful Softball 9 suicide squeeze by Sevilla in the bottom

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BASEBALL second inning, when Notre Dame’s junior shortstop Lane Richards poked a single through the infield, allowing senior right fielder Robert Youngdahl to score.

Pitt sophomore T.J. Zeuch, who has struggled after a strong start this season, allowed a career-high seven runs in five innings.

Jordano spoke bluntly after the losses and said the team’s struggles are beginning to stack on top of each other.

“We’re really struggling in all phases of the game right now,” he said. “I think the offensive struggles are, unfortunately, leaking into our defense.”

In the second game of the day, Notre Dame did not let up on offense, tacking on seven runs and, again, allowing only one to the Panthers.

Pitt’s only run against junior Nick McCarty came in the bottom of the seventh inning when senior left fielder Boo Vazquez hit a sacrifice fly to score

April 6. 2015 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com sophomore designated hitter Nick Yarnall.

By that point the game was already decided, as Notre Dame had gained a 7-0 lead.

perienced a prolonged losing stretch like this in years.

“I’ve been here a long time, and this is one of the most extended slumps that we’ve been in in a long time,” he said.

“I’ve been here a long time, and this is one of the most extended slumps that we’ve been in.”

Joe Jordano Pitt junior Aaron Sandefur picked up his fourth loss of the season, as he surrendered six runs — but only three earned — in five innings.

Jordano, who is in his 17th year as Pitt’s head coach, said he has not ex-

“We just have to be mature enough to understand that we have to go out and battle every at bat.”

In Sunday’s final game of the series, Pitt kept the score close before eventually falling to the same result as the

previous two contests.

Notre Dame struck early, scoring three runs in the first inning highlighted by a home run from senior left fielder Mac Hudgins.

The Panthers responded in the bottom of the frame. Yarnall hit a home run of his own, scoring freshman shortstop Charles LeBlanc.

Pitt’s scoring woes resumed after that first inning in the third game, while Notre Dame chipped in two more runs in the third and seventh innings.

The Irish put the game away in the ninth inning, when freshman designated hitter Jake Shepski hit a single up the middle, scoring two runs and extending Notre Dame’s lead to 7-3.

Pitt junior Marc Berube and senior Hobie Harris split the pitching duties, as each allowed three runs. Berube pitched the first four innings of the third game, and Harris came on in relief for the final five innings.

Pitt next travels to Akron on Tuesday at 3 p.m. for one game before returning home on Wednesday to face Youngstown State at 3 p.m.

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SOFTBALL “I think that we had a great performance from Savannah [King] on the mound, which is something that we also talked about from a physical and mental standpoint,” head coach Holly Aprile said. “I think that was huge, and I thought we did a really good job at the plate overall.”

“We had a great performance from Savannah [King].”

Holly Aprile Pitt still can secure some muchneeded victories this week, as they face a two-game home series against Kent State University on Wednesday at 3 p.m. before traveling to Syracuse University for a weekend three-game set against the Orange.

Aprile said she hoped the losses against Notre Dame will help in these next five games.

“I was proud of our effort and the way we came out today, and I think that’s something we can use going into our series with Kent State and Syracuse next week,” said Aprile. “I think if we can come out with energy and confidence, we’ll have a good series.”

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