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The Pitt News The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | April 12, 2018 | Volume 108 | Issue 147

Capel hires two assistant coaches

‘LEGALLY BLONDE’ PG.8

Grant Burgman Sports Editor

Pitt students rehearse for the Musical Theatre Club’s production of “Legally Blonde” Thursday in the Charity Randall Theatre. Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR

Environmental, economic issues merge at lecture Theresa Dickerson For The Pitt News Two student-led campus organizations at Pitt collaborated Wednesday evening, hoping to dispel the myth that advocacy for environment protection and advocacy for jobs are mutually exclusive.

Free the Planet and United Students Against Sweatshops teamed up to bring in Veronica Coptis, the executive director of the Center for Coalfield Justice, to talk about the intersectionality between the economy and the environment.

Coptis is a local native from western Greene County who joined the CCJ as a community member in March 2013.

She grew up near Consol Energy’s Bailey Mine Complex — the largest under-

ground coal mine in the United States — and now lives on the eastern side of Greene County.

“My husband, family and friends have all worked in coal mines,” she said.

Coptis led the event by discussing the work that the CCJ does. The organization originated in 1994 and is known for fighting against underground coal mining — but it is also making strides to become an organization that takes a broader look at rural issues.

A 2015 report by The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health found that there were 22.1 fatalities per 100,000 underground coal miners that year, compared to 22.9 fatalities per 100,000 underground coal miners in 2014.

“We recognized that in rural communities, people aren’t living a single-issue life, so we are working towards intersecting many issues at one time,” she said.

“Environmental justice is still our root, but we have a structure that we can help other people in the community that are dealing with other social justice issues.”

Pitt student groups have addressed similar social justice issues on campus through advocacy work and educating students about environmental legislation.

Varsha Ramasubramanian, a junior social work major, and Ann Deely, a junior urban studies and history major — members of United Students Against Sweatshops and Free the Planet, respectively See Lecture on page 4

Pitt’s new men’s basketball coach Jeff Capel hired his brother, Jason Capel, and Tim O’Toole to be assistants on his staff, according to reports Wednesday.

O’Toole joins Pitt after spending the last two seasons as an associate head coach at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked as an assistant coach at eight different programs over the last 30 years. Before California, O’Toole was an assistant at Stanford from 2014 to 2016, and he spent the 2013-14 season in the same position at Syracuse under Jim Boeheim.

In his only head coaching stint at Fairfield from 1998 to 2006, O’Toole amassed a 112-120 record and made one appearance in the NIT tournament in 2003.

Capel’s brother, Jason, first came to prominence during his college career playing at North Carolina. During his time at Chapel Hill, he averaged at least nine points per game in each of his four seasons. He starred for the Tar Heels in his senior season, averaging 15.6 points and 8.6 rebounds per game.

After spending time playing professionally overseas, Jason Capel spent time as an assistant coach at Appalachian State University during the 2009-2010 season, then as head coach of the program from 2010 to 2014. He hasn’t held a coaching position since Appalachian State, having decided not to renew his contract in 2014.

In his time as head coach at Appalachian State, Jason Capel had a 53-70 record. During his four years with the team, only once it finish the season with a winning record, going 16-15 in 2010-11.

With these two hirings, Jeff Capel now has only one more full-time assistant coaching position to fill on his coaching staff.

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Aminata Kamara: Nursing a desire to lead Alexa Marzina For The Pitt News Before Aminata Kamara graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School — which specialized in STEM — she already knew she wanted to enroll in a four-year nursing program.

In fact, she had her whole life planned out until she turned 21.

“Now that I’m 21, I literally really don’t have any plans anymore,” she said. “[But] I’m making new goals and setting up new things for myself.”

Kamara, a senior at Pitt, is currently enrolled in Pitt’s School of Nursing. She also has significant leadership experience at Pitt as the current president of Delta Sigma Theta, a major African-American sorority, and the former president of the Black Action Society.

Wearing a crisp white nursing uniform after a long shift at clinical — how nursing students gain practical experience — she moves her hands vigorously as she talks about her future, dark ear-length braids swaying around her head.

Kamara credits her parents, immigrants from Sierra Leone involved in the medical field, with inspiring her to study nursing. Despite her fixed plan, she describes her future as one of the ongoing “crises” she has to deal with, like the overwhelming emotion that comes with witnessing the miracle of birth as part of her studies. She speaks quickly and with passion about the activities she is involved in, especially her sorority.

While Kamara is now the president of Pitt’s chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, she didn’t get involved with them until her sophomore year.

Delta Sigma Theta’s main purpose is to “provide assistance and support through established programs in local communities and throughout the world,” according to its website. Those qualities are what drew Kamara to it above Pitt’s other sororities.

“I was like, ‘These people are doing what I want to do, but they do it in a more organized way,’” she said.

The six-person group runs programs rang-

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ing from food drives for the Pitt Pantry to HipHop for HIV — an event that provided musical performances along with HIV and STD testing to combat the stigma of getting tested. Kamara considers her sorority sisters more than capable of handling everything they do in a year.

“These women are literally bosses,” Kamara said. “Whatever they’re doing, they’re going to do it well.”

Lauryn Hood, a junior finance major in Delta Sigma Theta, said Kamara’s leadership strategy focuses on delegation. Hood said Kamara may not be physically at the forefront of things, but she is the one coming up with ideas and making people feel welcome and included.

“If anything is going wrong, I know I can call Ami and I know that she’s going to do what a big sister would do,” Hood said. “In terms of just having a good friend to talk to, Ami is that friend to go to.”

But Kamara didn’t always have those kinds of relationships. In fact, she felt isolated and depressed her first year of college, because she hadn’t found a friend group or a club to jive with yet.

Before committing to Pitt, Kamara attended Pitt’s World of Possibilities program, which brought African-American, Hispanic and Native American students together to learn about opportunities and programs available to minority students.

She appreciated Pitt’s apparent diversity until she got to PittStart and realized that the number of minority students present at World of Possibilities did not accurately represent what the University population actually looked like.

She said she felt tricked.

“I had a crisis at PittStart. I was in Towers lobby like, ‘What the heck, Pitt lied to me,’” she said.

Kamara said growing up in Prince George’s County, Maryland, helped her appreciate and strive for diversity. In high school, she said it wasn’t unusual for a friend group to include people from a variety of different races. Pitt, in comparison, includes cliques definitely based

Aminata Kamara, a senior enrolled in Pitt’s School of Nursing, is the president of Pitt’s chapter of Delta Sigma Theta and the former president of Black Action Society. Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR on race, Kamara said.

She thinks Pitt makes a genuine effort to meet its diversity and inclusion goals, but Pittsburgh itself needs work. Kamara said the concept of “black neighborhoods” being different than “white neighborhoods” is troubling to her, because in her hometown, it’s not like that.

“For African-Americans in Pittsburgh, it’s still a segregated city,” she said. “How can I ask my children to be a pioneer and be the only African-American child in their elementary school if I wasn’t even that?”

After getting over the initial shock of Pitt’s actual demographic makeup, Kamara pledged to find a place where she felt she belonged. During the spring semester of her first year, she joined Black Action Society and finally found her groove.

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her junior year, which she describes as being “one of the best decisions [she] ever made.” She was glad to be both addressing diversity at Pitt and be making friends who felt the same way she did.

“It was my job to ... give programs to campus that were both enjoyable for minorities but also nonminorities,” she said. “And make sure we’re educating people because everyone doesn’t come from the same background.”

To help students not feel as isolated as she did her first year, Kamara participated in the Pitt to You program her junior year. The program sends Pitt students to China to meet with prospective students and give them a firsthand account about what Pitt life is like.

One of her mentees, first-year nursing major Youjia Wang, said Kamara was her first friend at Pitt and helped her settle in when she arrived. Kamara checks in with her mentees at least once a month to make sure they are doing well.

“It is Aminata who always tells me that I don’t have to be so worried about [nursing school] and since she can make it, I can make See Kamara on page 4

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Lecture, pg. 1 — welcomed students at the entrance to the event. While there, they asked attendees to sign the petition against Shell’s Falcon Ethane Pipeline, which would feed Shell’s proposed petrochemical “cracker” plant in Beaver County.

Concerned citizens have criticized the “cracker” plant for its potential to diminish air quality and for not being as sustainable as advertised.

Deely and other students involved in Free the Planet, such as fifth-year mechanical engineering major Gerard Tessier, have spent weeks collecting more than 680 signatures.

“We were outside Hillman Library when a man came up to our table disagreeing with our petition,” Tessier said.

“He went into the library, researched the topic to get more information and ended up signing our petition that day.”

In addition to the petition, students involved in Free the Planet visited a public hearing at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to discuss testimonies of local community members who have and will be affected.

Larisa Mednis, president of Free the Planet and a junior double majoring in sociology and gender, sexuality and women’s studies, saw a need to continue the conversation of environmental protection and other social justice issues, such as job opportunities, affecting similar communities. So, she invited Coptis to Pitt’s campus to speak about the intersectionality of economic and environmental advocacy.

Kamara, pg. 2 it,” Wang said. “Aminata is not only my friend, but also my supporter.”

Kamara tries to show others support not only in her student organizations, but also in her nursing work. The hospital floor she works on is the pulmonary step-down floor, which cares for patients with lung issues.

Kamara, who’s nursing preference is geriatrics, said she tries to remember food that makes each patient happy. If a patient is upset, she often tries to brighten their day by bringing their favorite snacks without them asking. One of Kamara’s favorite patients to work with is an elderly man with schizophrenia who loves the

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“I wanted to have an event that intersected environmental issues with labor issues by collaborating with organizations on and off campus,” Mednis said.

During her speech, Coptis showed a series of videos explaining the politics and history of activism for both economic and environmental justice issues.

She said CCJ is not only an organization that fights for environmental justice, but also one that advocates for alternative tax structures for communities, holds policymakers accountable for their voting records and offers transitional jobs for both unionized and unorganized workers.

“If you’re involved in any of these advocacy communities, you always hear that you have to choose the environment or jobs, not both. But this just isn’t true,” Coptis said.

The CCJ has a long-term goal of involving its members in leadership roles in their communities. Coptis said they are setting up programs to get them to run for positions so they can start being part of the conversation.

“If we don’t have a seat at the table, we are going to continue to have Democrats in office saying they care about environmental decisions, then voting in different ways,” Coptis said.

The event ended with two breakout discussion groups led by members of both USAS and Free the Planet.

“If students want to be politically involved, this is a great way to do that,” Mednis said. “We really try to get out in the community and have many visions of activism for the future.”

way she prepares a cup of tea for him — orange pekoe with five sugars and no lid.

“They’re like, ‘How do you know?’ Because I listen to you,” she said. “We’ve been doing this.

I’m here 12 hours [a day] with you.”

During clinical, also called transitions, students work 12-hour shifts with a mentor nurse and tend to six or seven patients throughout their time there. Though it’s nice to have someone to learn from, Kamara prefers to be the one in charge.

She said she doesn’t have a specific role model in life, because she takes inspiration from everyone around her and then uses that knowledge to help them out.

“I always want people to do better than me,” she said.

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Zuckerberg testimony tells us nothing new about privacy Nearly two-thirds of adults in America use social media today — and for good reason. It provides us with news and information, connects us to our friends and gives us a platform to share tidbits of our lives — but access to such open sites puts our privacy at risk.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of Congress about this very issue Tuesday and Wednesday when he admitted Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm supporting Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, harvested the profiles of at least 87 million Facebook users through an app called “This is your Digital Life.”

Zuckerberg failed to notify the Federal Trade Commision about the security breach, saying he thought Cambridge Analytica had already deleted the information at his request.

But this scandal is nothing new. During the hearing, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., held up a placard showing three previous times Zuckerberg had to apologize for a data breach. And Facebook has come under fire many times for not clearly explaining how the data it collects is used. But Congress’ hours-long grilling sessions didn’t pinpoint problems or offer solutions that might prevent data breaches or illegal data sharing. Following suit, Zuckerberg didn’t seem to know much about regulative policy for tech industries either.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, repeatedly accused Zuckerberg of bias against conservative Facebook pages, saying they’re more likely to be censored than left-leaning ones.

Another Republican, Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, even told Zuckerberg his “user agreement sucks.”

This kind of petty political sparring won’t solve transparency issues for Americans using social media. Instead, lawmakers need to

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ask specific questions about Facebook’s data policy — a policy that every user must agree to when they sign up to use Facebook. “[Data collection] includes information about the websites and apps you visit, your use of our services on those websites and apps, as well as information the developer or publisher of the app or website provides to you or us,” the policy reads.

This kind of policy isn’t unique to Facebook — many other companies, such as Netflix and Spotify, routinely mine data to market people’s information. But allowing an outside corporation like Cambridge Analytica to access Facebook data and exploit it for political gain pushes the boundaries of what is acceptable in online information sharing.

While this particular hearing didn’t help solve Facebook’s privacy issue at all, holding hearings like this one is a real start to forming regulation on online data sharing — and as the internet becomes more important in everyone’s lives, regulation seems unavoidable.

Senators are some of the American people’s highest delegates, so it’s their responsibility to create policy that benefits the American people. If elected officials actually care about protecting the people they represent, they’ll educate themselves about technology and work with tech experts like Zuckerberg to limit data sharing damage.

But smart governmental policy can’t make up for naive social media users. If individuals truly want to protect themselves from data mining, they need to start with their own profiles and restrict the amount of personal info they broadcast to the public by checking their privacy settings — yes, they’ve likely changed since the last time you looked.

ANIME’S GROWTH IN AMERICA ENCOURAGES DIVERSE VIEWPOINTS Thomas Wick Columnist As I stepped into the mysterious pod, ready to pilot a giant robot and fight squadrons of other giant robots, my life felt complete.

My recent gaming experience at Tekko 2018, the 16th annual Pittsburgh Japanese cultural convention, probably wouldn’t have been possible without anime’s current impact on the United States. The gathering — in a city like Pittsburgh, where people of Asian descent make up only 4.4 percent of the population — brought East Asian culture to a group of people who might not have otherwise experienced it.

As a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, I watched a lot of Japanese animation shows such as “Dragon Ball Z,” “Gundam” and “Naruto.” These shows featured strange yet fascinating characters with complex motivations and interesting worlds. The protagonists of these shows faced seemingly impossible odds, and through tenacity and determination they overcame their limits.

The recent rise of anime in the United States is in many ways surprising. In the past, it had a very small following here, with critics labeling it childish or even inappropriate. The English dubbing process, which is the translation and lipsynching of Japanese shows into English, received very little respect, and the shows were sold in expensive VHS tapes at the corners of video stores.

But as it becomes more profitable and popular, anime has proven to be a boon to the diversity of cultural conversation.

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A form of entertainment from another culture is having a positive impact on our culture, which enables our society to break down the borders dividing us and become more diverse and tolerant.

When anime films such as “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” made their way into America in the early ’90s, they influenced — and continue to influence — the themes, designs and narratives of important American films and television shows spanning genres like “The Matrix,” James Cameron’s “Avatar,” “Chronicle,” “Inception” and “Stranger Things.”

Other factors such as Toonami — a programming block that aired anime on Cartoon Network from 1997 to 2008 and on Adult Swim since 2012 — and a better respect for English dubbing from companies like Funimation and helped create a bigger audience for anime in the United States. The growth of the internet helped make anime more accessible for American audiences and led to the creation of Crunchyroll, a streaming service dedicated to anime, and Netflix making its own original anime, such as “The Seven Deadly Sins” and “Devilman Crybaby.”

Today, newer anime series like “Attack on Titan,” “Sword Art Online” and “My Hero Academia” have quickly made their way into our mainstream culture, becoming even more recognizable than some American shows. Back in September of 2012, Crunchyroll had 100,000 subscribers. As of February 2017, that number has increased to one million.

That more people today are talking about shows from Japan than from their See Wick on page 7

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letter to the editor

Keep the Parran name at Pitt We write as relatives of Dr. Thomas Parran, the continuance of whose name on a building at the University’s Graduate School of Public Health is in question and is the subject of an April 6 open letter that appeared in this publication. That letter supported removal of his name.

We oppose its removal.

We credit and thank the University and graduate school administration for addressing the matter thoughtfully, inviting discussion, weighing benefits and burdens.

The graduate school’s March 29 symposium about Parran justly noted his many positive contributions to public health. He was among the founders of the Graduate School of Public Health, the health-related provisions of the Social Security Act, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization and other public health institutions that still underpin our lives and well-being. He was personally courageous in the causes of prolonging the lives and alleviating the suffering of others. At great personal risk at the age of 26 in 1918, he waded into the treat-

ment of poor migrant workers afflicted with epidemics of typhoid fever and what was called the “Spanish influenza,” which killed nearly everybody exposed to it. Later, as health commissioner for New York, he led the way for the improvement of state and county public health offices, which until his time were often treated as political spoils, filled with cronies who were vigorously protected. He also risked his career by persistently and publicly addressing the problem of syphilis at a time when the word was banned, indeed censored, from public discourse. Then, as now, a single wrong word could ruin a public figure. A lone voice, he effected a social paradigm shift.

Being a practical idealist, always far-sighted with the desired end result in mind, Parran not only helped conceive the aforementioned institutions and reforms but also managed the more difficult feat of getting them funded and completed by governmental appropriations and philanthropic bequests. Many of those protesting his name on the graduate school would not be there if not for Parran’s relationship with the children of Andrew Mellon, who had confidence in him and who made the

school possible. He was the first, and many say the last, great surgeon general of the United States. He held the post at the time of greatest need, during the Great Depression and the World War II. In terms of achieving practical benefits for millions of people, he was one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century.

If Parran’s name is removed from the sign outside Parran Hall, his memorial will be found by opening one’s eyes and looking around. One observes vastly increased levels of health and longevity in the general population compared to those of 75 years ago. Parran, however, was never one to rest or be satisfied. He would focus his inexhaustible energies on new diseases that call for attention now, even amid many improvements for which he could claim some credit.

Even if Parran’s name is erased from the graduate school, it can never be erased from who we are and how we came to be.

John C Parran (Class of 1984) and Richard L Kirkpatrick are a grandson and grandnephew, respectively, of Thomas Parran.

Wick, pg. 6 own country is a testament to the appeal of anime in the United States. Celebrities like Michael B. Jordan, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and John Boyega have expressed their love of anime in different ways, including making references in their films, cosplaying as their favorite anime characters or even making fashion choices based off of favorite characters.

“My hair inspo,” Kardashian posted on Instagram of her pink hair, along with a picture of a character from “Darling in the Franxx.”

These people have strong voices in the entertainment industry, and a lot of people listen to them. When Kanye West makes a music video based on “Akira” and calls it the greatest anime film of all time, people are going to pay attention to “Akira” more.

This popularity has consequences outside view counts — watching anime makes us more likely to be racially and culturally aware. A 2014 study by the Munich Personal RePEc Archive showed

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Raka Sarkar | SENIOR STAFF ILLUSTRATOR that Korean adults who watched anime were more tolerant of their Japanese coworkers. This kind of acceptance is an example of the positive effect of anime’s presence abroad, and presumably in the United States, to some extent.

Anime’s influence has extended even to Hollywood, where American producers made a live-action adaptation of

“Ghost in the Shell” last year with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role. The film had many issues — most noticeably its whitewashing — but the fact that Americans were interested enough to make an American adaptation of the film shows that anime’s stories hold a singular power to capture our imaginations.

The movie may have failed financial-

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ly and critically, and Netflix’s live-action “Death Note” didn’t get good reviews, but it’s only a matter of time before studios make a good live-action anime adaptation, which will only further anime’s growth in the United States.

This isn’t just wishful thinking. The rocky state of live-action anime films is reminiscent of the first Marvel movies.

While Marvel movies started out awful, disappointing even the hard-core geeks who were fans of the franchise, they worked their way up into commercial and critical success. The same thing can happen for live-action anime movies. It will be incredible to see what kinds of films producers can make based on anime series.

The passion for anime at last weekend’s Tekko 2018 convention proved it’s possible for anime to become mainstream and create a greater interest in foreign cultures. I look forward to the day when borders stop dividing us and we can start doing the “Naruto run” together.

Thomas primarily writes about visual media and gaming for The Pitt News.

Write to him at tmw79@pitt.edu.

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Musical Theatre Club gears up for

‘Legally Blonde’ Sarah Connor Staff Writer Chloe Torrence circled a group of actors and singers onstage at the Charity Randall Theatre, kicking off her normal weeknight routine.

“Starting tonight, you cannot call ‘line’ anymore,” Torrence said. “We start tech rehearsals soon, so you should know your lines by now.”

The junior theatre arts and music major then started warm-ups for the group. They danced and stretched to Rihanna’s “We Found Love” and shared how they were feeling about rehearsal that evening. Most of the performers were exhausted from the week of rehearsals and ready to go home, while others were excited and motivated.

The group kicked off one of its final rehearsals a week ago for the Musical Theatre Club’s production of “Legally Blonde” — opening Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Charity Randall Theatre under the direction of Torrence.

Torrence took on the responsibility of directing a Musical Theatre Club production after directing other Pitt productions, such as “Roustabout: The Great Circus Train Wreck!” MTC shows receive little to no assistance from Pitt’s theatre arts department and are funded by donations from production audiences and arts advocates. The club does not even charge for tickets.

“With MTC, we don’t have any faculty help.

So not only am I running rehearsals, helping to do all the blocking and all of the character work, I am also helping to build all of the sets,” Torrence said.

Torrence and Brooke Stearns, the show’s vocal director and a sophomore communication and theatre arts student, worked together to make the set building challenge a bit easier.

“We took pieces from other shows that they

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would have thrown away anyhow and made them useful for us,” Torrence said. “The cast has been a great help as well. They are here for four hours every night, and some of them still stay late to help put sets together.”

Stearns said vocally directing “Legally Blonde” has been one of the biggest challenges she has taken on at Pitt, but she has enjoyed the process of seeing the whole show come together after beginning rehearsals in February.

“Everyone in the cast is very enthusiastic, and they have been great to work with, but it has been difficult to get the vocals of a 40-person cast to be cohesive,” Stearns said. “After rehearsing six days per week, I think we have pulled everything together.”

Though Torrence and Stearns have taken on large responsibilities, they’re far from alone in their ventures to create a good show with the cast. There are additional directors, a choreographer, assistant choreographer, a state manager and designers — all student positions.

The show stars Emily Cooper, a junior media and professional communication major, as Elle Woods and first-year marketing major Patrick Meyer as Emmett Forrest.

“Emily is a hard worker and amazing performer,” Stearns said “Her and our Emmett work really well together both on stage and vocally.”

Cooper trades in her wired glasses for a pair of strappy pink high-heeled shoes when she heads to the stage to embody the iconic Elle Woods. The young actress is no stranger to the stage after performing in multiple Pitt productions, such as Pitt Stages shows “Parade” and “Little Shop of Horrors.” She is also a 2015 graduate of the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School as a musical theater major.

Despite her experience on stage, Cooper had

Audiences can watch the Musical Theatre Club’s production of “Legally Blonde” until April 15 in the Charity Randall Theatre.

Thomas Yang | VISUAL EDITOR reservations about taking on the lead role and appearing in every scene of “Legally Blonde.”

“I did a lot of work to prepare for this character. Playing someone so different from me was challenging but also fun,” Cooper said.

She approached the massive personality of Elle Woods by creating a character backstory about Elle’s life growing up and searching through the script’s text for implications about her personality. Self-identifying as a “theater nerd,” Cooper found unlikely parallels between herself and the pink-loving fashionista.

“The thing that I have always related to the most with Elle is that she leads with kindness, always, no matter what she does,” she said. “Elle Woods is a better person than all of us — she spreads so much love, positivity and strength and determination. Why wouldn’t you want to live every day like this girl does?”

Cooper felt it was important to bring some of her own quirkiness into her portrayal of Elle Woods, a character who is often stereotyped as a materialistic, ditzy sorority girl.

“It was very much a shock when I found out

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I was going to play Elle. I was immediately like, ‘OK, how am I going to rectify me being who I am and this character being who she is,’” Cooper said.

Her approach to this juxtaposition of character was to set aside the typical views of Elle and bring a more realistic person to the stage, one with hints of Cooper herself scattered throughout Elle’s character arc.

“She is a human being. You can’t play someone based off of the stereotypes around them,” Cooper said. “If this is Elle Woods and I’m playing Elle Woods, then that means she’s going to have to be a little goofy sometimes.”

As the Pitt Orchestra rehearses the notes to “Whipped Into Shape” with the singers on stage, more and more pink pops up on the sets. Most of Cooper’s costumes feature the show’s signature color, but MTC’s take on this show is not focused on the bright, feminine costumes.

Cooper said the thing she appreciates most while acting in a show run entirely by students is the freedom the cast and crew have to insert their own style and messages. MTC made the story its own by humanizing the characters — showing the entertaining but also meaningful sides of Elle Woods and her Delta Nus. “This show has become so much more than just sorority girls singing,” Cooper said. “It’s pink and fluffy and happy — but it’s also important, and you can be all of those things.”

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‘Isle of Dogs’ delights with animation, disappoints with representation

Vikram Sundar Staff Writer Wes Anderson has once again proven himself to be one of the most visually innovative auteurs in cinema with his latest film, “Isle of Dogs.”

Set in a futuristic Japan, “Isle of Dogs” tells the tale of a headstrong 12-year-old boy named Atari, voiced by Koyu Rankin, who searches for his beloved dog Spots on Trash Island — a rancid quarantine for exiled colonies of dogs.

Kobayashi, the corrupt mayor of the fictional city of Megasaki voiced by Kunichi Nomura, has condemned every dog in Japan to Trash Island in response to an outbreak of “canine flu” and “snout fever,” though it seems he may have ulterior motives. This sparks protest from a meddlesome American foreign exchange student named Tracy Walker, voiced by Greta Gerwig, and oth-

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ers who believe Mayor Kobayashi is treating dogs unfairly.

As Walker rallies the people of Japan against the mayor, Atari befriends five comically frayed dogs — Chief, Rex, King, Boss and Duke — voiced by Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray and Jeff Goldblum, respectively, on his journey to find Spots and prove to the people of Japan that dogs really are man’s best friend.

At first glance, this is a rather depressing story and, in the hands of any other director, it would most likely have translated as such on film. But the movie becomes a whimsically uplifting tale, encapsulated in a slightly unorthodox depiction of Japanese art and architecture.

One of Anderson’s most admirable qualities is his devotion to exploring unconventional aspects of cinematic framing and storytelling.

With his last film, “The Grand Budapest

Hotel,” he impressed audiences and critics alike with his dual framing method, blending live action shots and miniature model shots to achieve a grand, European aesthetic.

His use of stop-motion animation in “Isle of Dogs” is nothing short of brilliant in terms of creativity and technical achievement.

The meticulous details on the character models, such as the hair, fur, blemishes and markings, are impeccable — and accompanied by animation surprisingly fluid for a stop-motion film. Anderson also cleverly works around scenes that would detract from the fluidity of the animation, such as in the fight sequences, which are depicted as smoke clouds shrouding the chaotic fighting of characters.

From a storytelling perspective, the use of stop-motion animation allows for a more varied degree of creative expression in heightening the magical realism of the story.

Tristan Oliver, cinematographer of this film

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and others, such as “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “ParaNorman,” showcases a breadth of stylistic shots, such as the immersive establishing shots of a metropolitan Japan under a hazy night sky or the stunning point-of-view shots of Atari observing the dogs.

The use of physically constructed models in stop-motion animation has an edge over computer generated animation because of its visually 3-D characteristic. Acclaimed director Ridley Scott was able to achieve this effect in “Blade Runner” back in 1982, which is still praised for having more realistic set design than current CGI blockbusters.

Stop-motion animation is a medium of film that is criminally underutilized, and with “Isle of Dogs,” Anderson is able to bring it back into the cinematic limelight — exhibiting the beautiful simplicity of its framing along with the imaginative possibilities it fabricates.

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Review, pg. 9 One potentially problematic aspect of the film is Walker acting as “the American savior” role. Anderson, being the fastidious director he is, threw himself into a corner with his decision to have all of the Japanese characters speak in Japanese, using dogs and accessory characters to

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translate instead of using subtitles.

In doing so, he placed an American character as the leader in a movement exploiting the possible corruption of Japanese government officials, providing an underlying message that only an American could try to resolve Japan’s issues on its behalf.

Though Anderson needed an Englishspeaking character for a role with heavy

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dialogue to maintain the plot’s clarity, it’s still a decision that alters the film’s overall message.

Despite the controversy this film will undeniably have to endure for its lopsided representation of Japanese characters and imaginative cultural portrayal, “Isle of Dogs” is a meticulously crafted film with a timeless story of courage, loyalty and friendship.

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Sports mountaineers maul panthers, 12-1 Michael Nitty Staff Writer

Redshirt senior Caleb Parry (6) hit a foul during Pitt’s 12-1 loss to West Virginia Wednesday night. Thomas Yang |VISUAL EDITOR

Pitt’s bats fell silent on Wednesday as they were unable to score more than one run for the third straight game, losing 12-1 to the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown.

West Virginia’s (15-15) offense found life against Pitt (17-13) in the 195th Backyard Brawl and handed the second straight nonconference to the Panthers.

Pitt head coach Joe Jordano was complimentary of West Virginia’s dominant win.

“Give all the credit to WVU tonight, they did it all,” Jordano said. “They pitched well and they did a tremendous job at the plate. They beat us, bottom line.”

Sophomore center fielder Brandon White lined an RBI triple down the right field line to put West Virginia on the board early in the top of the first inning. White

would proceed to score on an RBI groundout from junior right fielder Darius Hill to give the Mountaineers a 2-0 lead after an inning of play.

Pitt got its first hit of the day with one out in the second inning on an infield single from first-year right fielder Ron Washington Jr. It didn’t lead to any runs, though, as West Virginia turned an unconventional double play. With Washington Jr. attempting to steal, junior designated hitter Caleb Parry popped up in foul territory to the first baseman, who then flipped it to the pitcher on first for the double play.

West Virginia sophomore pitcher Isaiah Kearns found himself in trouble with two on and one out as the Panther lineup turned over. After redshirt junior third baseman Liam Sabino drew a two-out walk to load the bases, Kearns escaped the jam, See Baseball on page 12

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4 predictions for the NHL playoffs Max Sirianni Staff Writer After 82 games, the NHL regular season has officially ended, and the 16 teams that made the playoffs are ready to face off for the Stanley Cup. Playoff hockey is always full of surprises, so here are some attempts at predicting the madness in an intense playoff format that teaches us to expect the unexpected.

Prediction 1: The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals will meet in the second round for the third year in a row, and the Capitals will win In the first round, Pittsburgh should have no problem taking care of Philadelphia — who the Pens swept in four regular-season games and blew out 7-0 in the first playoff game Wednesday. The Capitals will likely move on as well by defeating the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round with superior

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firepower after taking three of four games in their regular season series.

This year, however, it will be Washington advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals instead of Pittsburgh. The Caps finished at the top of the league in points but fell to the Penguins in the second round of the playoffs in both 2016 and 2017.

The weight of the Presidents’ Trophy crown — awarded to the league’s best regular season team — is often heavy, and the Capitals did not perform well under the high expectations. They are not alone though. Only eight of the last 32 Presidents’ Trophy winners went on to win the Stanley Cup. Without the expectation that comes with the Presidents’ Trophy, the Caps are flying under the radar this year, finishing tied for sixth most points in the league. Although they once again won the Metropolitan Division title,

they are no longer favored to win the Stanley Cup, which can actually work in their favor, now that the pressure is off of them.

The Caps and Pens split the season series two games apiece just as they did last year, and the 2017 playoff series between the two was a tight battle, eventually ending in game seven. With fewer expectations, the Capitals might finally be able to outlast the Penguins in a playoff series and end their second-round drought.

Prediction 2: The Wild Card Los Angeles Kings will Eliminate the No. 1 Vegas Golden Knights in the first round The Golden Knights have had a storybook inaugural season, becoming the most successful expansion team in all of pro sports.

But the team hit a few rough spots later in the season, including a sweep by the Kings on back-to-back days in late February.

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When it comes to playoff experience, the Kings have an obvious advantage, having won two Stanley Cups in the past six seasons, while this is the Knights’ first season as a team. While Vegas has a powerful offense, Kings’ star defenseman Drew Doughty and defensive-minded forward Anze Kopitar will be instrumental in shutting down the Knights’ top lines.

The playoffs are not only a physical game, but a mental one as well. The Golden Knights exceeded expectations in the regular season, and people are looking to see that in the playoffs. This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on a new team that has never been in the playoffs as a cohesive unit before, and the veteran Kings can certainly exploit that.

It is also important to note that the Kings won both their first championship as an See Sirianni on page 13

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getting redshirt sophomore shortstop David Yanni to pop out, ending the inning.

The Mountaineers scored another run in the third inning as White stole second and third bases to set up an RBI groundout from redshirt sophomore first baseman Marques Inman.

Kearns continued to breeze through the Panthers lineup, striking out the side in the fourth inning to increase his strikeout total to seven while yielding just two walks and two hits to that point.

West Virginia expanded its lead as it exploded for another three runs in the fourth inning, highlighted by an RBI single for White as he continued his dominant performance against the Panthers.

Pitching with a 6-0 lead, Kearns remained in a rut, ending his day with a scoreless fifth inning and finishing with eight strikeouts, three walks, two hits and no runs allowed.

The Panthers tallied a run in the sixth inning thanks to a solo shot to left field off Liam Sabino (11), a redshirt junior third baseman, drew a two-out walk the bat of Sabino, who has increased his during the Pitt vs. West Virginia baseball game at Penn State University. home-run season total to eight.

Thomas Yang |VISUAL EDITOR

Up 6-1 in the sixth inning, the Mountaineers kept the pressure up, putting together a two-out rally as Hill capped off the inning with a three-run double to extend West Virginia’s lead 9-1.

West Virginia continued to pummel the Panthers’ pitching, tacking on three more runs in the eighth to give the Mountaineers a 12-1 lead, completely burying Pitt.

The Panthers failed to inch any closer as West Virginia came away with a 12-1 blowout win.

Pitt redshirt sophomore Kevin Henriksen took his second loss of the year, pitching three innings and allowing three runs on four hits and a walk to go with two strikeouts. For West Virginia, Kearns records his first win on the season.

The Panthers’ offense has gone cold since its five-game win streak ended April 7. The lineup is in dire need of another power hitter besides Sabino, who leads the team with eight home runs.

The Panthers will have another chance to get their offense going as they host Georgia Tech this weekend for a threegame set beginning this Friday. First pitch is at 6 p.m. at the Charles L. Cost Field.

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Sirianni, pg. 11 eighth seed in 2012 and as a third seed in their division in 2014, showing that they can rise to the occasion in the playoffs to defeat some of the top teams en route to the Stanley Cup. Prediction 3: The Toronto Maple Leafs will upset the Boston Bruins This series will not be short, as it is hard to find an area where one team dominates the other. In the end, don’t be surprised if Toronto emerges victorious, because this matchup is so close that it will come down to which team has the most offensive depth. The Leafs have a slight edge over the Bruins in this department.

Both teams have dangerous first forward line trios. Boston has David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron, all of whom have had over 30 goals this year. Toronto has Zach Hyman, Auston Matthews and William Nylander, a grouping that has also seen remarkable offensive success this season.

The Bruins may have a slightly more effective first line, but the Maple Leafs extend their depth through their next three. With veterans Nazem Kadri (55 points) and Pat-

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The Florida Panthers’ Frank Vatrano (72) is knocked to the ice by the Nashville Predators’ Matt Irwin (52) in the first period on Tuesday, April 3.

Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/TNS rick Marleau (47 points) paired with youngster Mitch Marner (69 points), the Leafs’ second line is fierce as well, and their bottom two lines are not to be ignored.

In addition to the depth, the Maple Leafs have had the edge in recent meetings, winning eight of their past 10 against the Bruins.

Prediction 4: The Nashville Predators

will win the Stanley Cup Yes, this does seem contradictory to what I mentioned earlier — considering the Predators won the Presidents’ Trophy this season and recipients of this trophy don’t always succeed in the playoffs.

The Predators are in a better position than previous Presidents’ Trophy winners,

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though. They enjoyed a run to the finals last year when they were the Cinderella team of the playoffs but lost to the Penguins in the finals. They regrouped this year and came back better than ever with their best season in franchise history — amassing 117 points.

They don’t have a superstar like Alex Ovechkin or Sidney Crosby, but that’s OK. The Preds rely on their powerful defense and offensive depth to win games, as well as the always-reliable Pekka Rinne in net (.927 save percentage). Nashville doesn’t need to rely on the success of a star to carry them in the playoffs and final because they are so well balanced.

A strong defense led by P.K. Subban, Roman Josi and Mattias Ekholm, coupled with Rinne’s superb goaltending, led to Nashville having the second-least goals allowed over the regular season. A well-balanced offense led by Filip Forsberg and Viktor Arvidsson, each with over 60 points, has led Nashville to be one of the top goal-scoring teams in the league.

If the Preds can successfully build on their regular season achievements, they will most definitely have a strong chance of claiming the title that so narrowly eluded them a year ago.

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