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GALLAGHER’S SENIOR YEAR: State funding, unions, #MeToo

By Ashwini Sivaganesh and Christian Snyder Photo by Christian Snyder t this weekend’s graduation, Chancellor Patrick Gallagher will send off the first group of seniors he also witnessed start their first days of classes at Pitt four years ago.

Like most of the graduating class, Gallagher’s fourth year was a busy one. The Pitt News talked with the chancellor last week about his recent decisions and opinions on the past year, from state funding concerns to graduate student unionization efforts.

Looking back on this year, Gallagher said he is proud of the way the University community addressed both local and national issues. He said the national environment at the beginning of the year was one of “tension — a lot of it aimed at university campuses.”

Whether it was sitting down with student leaders to talk about what Pitt should do in wake of events in Charlottesville, to ongoing discussions about renaming Parran Hall, he said the way Pitt responded to these controversies could be “a model for others.”

“I’m really proud of how the University has done what universities do best — not shy away from the issues but to engage with them openly and with some intellectual honesty,” Gallagher said.

He also admitted there are some things he would change — like his decision to not address the Pitt community about former student Alina Sheykhet, who was found dead in her apartment in October. Police arrested her ex-boyfriend, Mat-

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thew Darby, against whom Sheykhet had filed a restraining order in September. The University answered questions from the media, but Gallagher said it didn’t feel appropriate to use the death to talk about issues like partner violence — a decision some students criticized him for.

But he noted Sheykhet’s death can still affect the conversation about partner violence, citing a bill in the state legislature known as Alina’s Law that Pitt’s Student Government Board supported. The bill would allow judges to order defendants in restraining order cases to wear electronic monitoring devices if the defendant poses a substantial risk of violating their restraining order.

“I think the lesson I took away from it is there are a lot of ways to have a dialogue and learn and improve from tragedy,” Gallagher said. “I just hope the degree to which we cared about this isn’t measured by whether I wrote a separate statement to the community rather than the sum total of everything we were trying to do.”

Among other controversial actions his administration made this year is opposing graduate students’ efforts to unionize. The outgoing provost, Patricia Beeson, released a statement July 27 on behalf of University administration saying she has “serious concerns that a graduate student union would not be in the best interests of either our students or the broader University.”

Since then, the graduate students collected cards and are ready to host an election, which the University has an-

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nounced they will try to refute with the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. Organizers are also trying to unionize Pitt faculty, with faculty signing the first union cards in January.

“For the faculty situation, my view is that there’s a process for this and at the end we’ll have a debate and there will be a vote and people will decide whether it’s more in their interest or not to be represented through a labor union,” Gallagher said. “The case of the graduate students is a little bit different.

In my mind, the difference is that some of the work-related activities we’re talking about are part of the academic requirements.”

Though a similar situation happened with the graduate students at Penn State, and the PLRB ruled in favor of the graduate students unionizing, Gallagher defended Pitt’s decision to take this case to the PLRB and get its ruling on the particular situation.

“If [the PLRB] decides yes, then we’ll go through the discussions and then you’re back to where we are with the faculty. If they decide this is different in some way, then we’ll act accordingly,” Gallagher said.

The University also faced uncertainty this year when the state government’s delayed budget threatened Pitt’s funding — a scenario Gallagher has seen several times in his tenure.

While Gallagher said he thinks it won’t be an issue next year with the governor election underway, he thinks a delay will See Gallagher on page 19

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DIGRESS FROM STRESS: PGH’S SLICES OF SERENITY It’s no secret that finals week can be a stressful time for students, but there are many places Pitt students can go for relief — both on and off campus. With these study break destinations, students can try to focus their mental energy on staying calm and relaxing. | By Elizabeth Donnelly, Staff Writer

Phipps Conservatory Oakland

The large greenhouse and gardens at Phipps Conservatory feature a wide variety of beautiful plants and artwork during every season of the year. Phipps is currently featuring a Tropical Forest Cuba exhibit, featuring the flora of Cuban forests, carvings of native Cuban birds and a replica of a Cuban pharmacy where visitors can learn about traditional medicine.

Along with the Tropical Forest Cuba exhibit, the Butterfly Forest opened Saturday at Phipps, where visitors can view many different species of butterflies alongside a sound installation. Students earn free admission with a valid Pitt ID at Phipps, located at 1 Schenley Drive and open every day from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours on Fridays until 10 p.m.

Stress Free Zone William Pitt Union (Oakland)

Throughout the school year, the Stress Free Zone offers scheduled classes and workshops, but students can also go to walk-in hours instead.

Some of the options available to walk-in students are yoga and meditation, light therapy and mindfulness audio stations.

The Stress Free Zone also provides materials to educate students about mind and body stress reduction techniques, and can be found on the third floor of the WPU. During finals week, it’s open Monday to Wednesday, with walk-in hours from 1 to 9 p.m.

Colony Cafe Downtown

The therapy dogs at the Cathedral may be popular, but another option for animal-loving students is the Colony Cafe, which features a dual cafe and cat loft. Visitors can purchase food in the cafe and bring it to the loft where they can enjoy a meal or play with the cats. Since only a certain number of people can be in the loft at one time, the peaceful atmosphere is never too crowded.

There are two main options visitors can choose from when buying tickets — the one-hour “Cat Loft Visit” package for $8, or the three-hour “Co-Working with Cats” package for $20 or $15 with a student ID. It is recommended visitors buy tickets online in advance because of the limited space and popularity of the cafe. The cost of each package goes directly toward caring for the cats who live there until they are adopted.

Colony Cafe is located at 1125 Penn Ave. and is open Tuesday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., with the cat loft open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 8 p.m. for the “Cat Loft Visit” package, and Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. for the “Co-Working with Cats” package.

Center for Creativity The University Store (Oakland)

This spot offers Pitt students a variety of art materials to express themselves and relax by focusing more on the creative process.

Some key features include whiteboard desks — which are great for studying or doodling — 3-D pens, a painting station, musical instruments, a knitting station and computers equipped with Adobe Creative Cloud software.

The Center for Creativity will be having “Late Night Study Break” hours from 8 p.m. to midnight on Monday through Wednesday during finals week in addition to their regular hours.

While the center is usually a quiet space where students can work on creative projects, in the coming week it will be “a study-free zone” during the late night hours, where music and conversation will be allowed and encouraged. Regular hours will remain study-friendly throughout the week.

Located in the basement of The University Store on Fifth, the Center for Creativity is regularly open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday from 9 a.m. to midnight, Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Candle Lab Lawrenceville

Aromatherapy can be helpful in times of stress and The Candle Lab is the perfect place to practice this. Customers at The Candle Lab get an immersive experience in creating special scents to put into candles, body sprays and room sprays.

Customers can choose from more than 120 fragrances to combine into their product — from typical floral and fruity scents to scents like bacon and Santa’s pipe. Cost varies with each product, ranging from $16 to $32. Once the scent is chosen and poured into the customer’s product of choice, they can design their own label to attach to it.

The Candle Lab is located at 4409 Butler St. and open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

Games N’ At South Side

If you aren’t very artistically inclined, Games N’ At has you covered as an activity to blow off steam. This establishment offers multiple old arcade games — many from the 1980s — along with pool tables, air hockey tables and duckpin bowling. Friday nights are college nights, when those with a valid student ID get unlimited playing time for $10 from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Games N’ At is also BYOB. Games N’ At is located at 2010 Josephine St. and is open Thursdays from 4 p.m. to midnight, Fridays from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturdays from noon to 1 a.m. and Sundays from noon to 8 p.m.

Paint Monkey The Waterfront

Painting is a great way to express yourself, but not everyone has the artistic ability to create their own masterpiece from scratch. Paint Monkey helps customers with this issue by providing a variety of pre-sketched canvases all ready to be painted over.

Paint Monkey offers a diverse set of designs from flowers and animals to Pitt-themed canvases, like the Cathedral of Learning and the school logo. It is also BYOB, so participants over 21 can crack open a drink while painting their stress away.

While Paint Monkey is often reserved for parties and group events, there are walk-in hours at The Waterfront location at 146 West Bridge St. from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

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THE INNOVATION INSTITUTE The Big Idea Center for Student Entrepreneurs Andrew Tindall There’s big news coming from Pitt’s Innovation Institute: a new center for student entrepreneurs is set to open soon. We spoke with Babs Carryer, director of education and outreach at the Innovation Institute about what this means for student entrepreneurship at Pitt.

If your question isn’t answered, check online— we’ve posted a longer version at the Pitt News website.

Q. What is the Big Idea Center?

A. Great question. The Big Idea Center is a University-run center for student entrepreneurs. Funded with an initial seed gift of $2 million from Bob Randall, who also brought us the Randall Family Big Idea Competition, the new Center will include a space for students to work together on creating business plans, and will also host idea pitch competitions and other events.

Q. What’s the motivation for starting this Center? How will it be different from the Innovation Institute itself?

A. The Big Idea Center will operate within the Innovation Institute, so the two organizations won’t be in any kind of competition. But as to the reason for starting a space like this, it’s so that we can focus more clearly on student innovation and entrepreneurship. The Innovation Institute works with everyone throughout the University, from students to faculty; the hope is that through the Big Idea Center we can give the students a space just for them.

Q. Let’s talk about the space. This will be a physical location for student entrepreneurs to work?

A. That’s right. Right now we’re working on renovating a section of the Gardner Steel Conference Center. It’ll be about 1,000 square feet. There’s enough space that students should be able to work in small groups, workshop ideas, get advisement from mentors and entre-

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preneurs in residence.

Q. The Gardner Steel Conference Center…

That’s the building on the corner of O’Hara and Thackeray, right? Across the street from Benedum.

A. That’s right. It currently houses the Academic Resource Center and the Innovation Institute. The new space is in the basement level, and it’ll be accessible right from the sidewalk of O’Hara Street.

Q. Can we get a bit more background for the genesis of the Big Idea Center?

A. Well, first of all, we’d like to thank Bob Randall for the seed money. He’s been tremendously generous towards the Innovation Institute. Really towards students and young entrepreneurs in general. Student entrepreneurship has been growing at the University, so we’re trying to meet that demand with more

opportunities for students to get hands on experience at taking and idea and growing it. That’s a skill that can be applied to whatever direction a student follows after leaving the University.

Whether you go to work in a startup or small business, a Fortune 500 company, or even a nonprofit, having the experience of taking the seed of an idea and developing it into a product or service that is valued by others will help set you apart from the crowd and lead to success.

Q. What are some of the programs and activities that will be part of the Big Idea Center A. The Big Idea Center will incorporate many of the programs that have been developed at the Innovation Institute for student entrepreneurs over the past few years. We sponsor a freshman Living Learning Community focused in innovation and entrepreneurship. Each semester we host a weekend startup-athon event

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that culminates with an idea pitch competition.

As mentioned, the Randall Family Big Idea Competition is every February and March and is the region’s largest student idea competition with $100,000 in prizes. Right now 10 teams that competed in Randall are beginning the Blast Furnace idea accelerator with the goal of launching a startup this summer. We also have corps of Entrepreneurs in Residence who are available to mentor students through regular office hours. We will also be working with the departments across the university to fuse entrepreneurship into the curriculum, such as at Swanson School of Engineering, where entrepreneurship and product design is offered as a certificate program for all undergraduate students. Over time we will develop new programming, but we are off to a great start for the Big Idea Center.

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EVERYONE HAS A R IGHT TO SELF- CAR E

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School in New York currently writing a book about the history of American fitness culture, says self-care often had to make up for the shortcomings of the medical system at the time. “[It was a] claiming [of ] aut on omy over the body as a political act against institutional, technocratic, very racist and sexist medi. cine,” Mehlman Petrzela told Slate’s Aisha Harris in an April 2017 interview.

Since them, the mainstream market economy has largely commercialized the idea. If you flip through the most recent issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, you’ll see dozens of advertisements and articles encouraging women to “treat themselves” and buy the latest “it” bag, newest makeup or sex toy.

Advertisers target the magazine at privileged women — the largest demographic for Cosmopolitan is women between ages 18 and 34, with 62 percent of readers having attended college. And the models used in the ads to sell these products reflect that demographic — the magazine regularly uses white models as exemplars of taste and what is acceptable.

Clearly, brands and their advertisers fail to acknowledge the history of selfcare, using it instead for financial gain and only marketing it to a select group of privileged people. If the media contin-

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ues to associate self-care with expensive products or activities, people who cannot afford such a lifestyle or feel stigma attached to the term will continue to be excluded.

We should see self-care as something useful to everyone.

It doesn’t have to cost money — in fact, what is relaxing to one person may not be to the next, and selfcare can be as simple as taking a few moments for yourself.

Since we live in such a fastpaced society focused on productivity, the term is often associated with the “weak,” and we need to change that definition. Everyone deserves to take time for themselves, for the good of their well-being.

The commercialization of self-care has made people see it as only one type of thing, when there are different definitions for everyone. Nobody should be ashamed to relax, and self-care doesn’t always have to come in the form of luxury.

This finals week, recognize the origin of self-care and the communities it came from, and then do something for yourself, even if just for a few minutes. It can make a world of a difference.

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SGB REFLECTS, LOOKS AHEAD Madeline Gavatorta Staff Writer

As Student Government Board’s incoming president last year, Max Kneis said he wanted to improve collaboration and engagement with SGB. Now as outgoing president one year later, Kneis said the number of applications for SGB positions shows how he’s achieved this.

“I think we continue to have more students involved with our committees than we have in the past. Nothing that we had that was open to applicants went uncontested,” Kneis said. “And I’m excited to see how our committees will engage you and more students next year.”

SGB, a student governing board of nine elected positions and several ad hoc and standing committees, meets publicly every week to discuss current student affairs and address community concerns. The board gets its power from the $80 student activity fee each semester, which it allocates to Pitt clubs and organizations. This year the board allocated $862,854.39 of about $900,000. SGB also passed bills that changed SGB’s internal structure and resolutions to push the University or government toward certain

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2017-2018 Student Government Board In Kneis’ time as president, SGB took stances on major issues including defending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and pushing elected officials to approve the Pennsylvania state budget.

Looking back on the school year, Kneis said one of his favorite events was a phone banking event SGB held for students to call elected officials and urge them to pass a state budget in October. SGB organized it in less than 48 business hours, and students made more than 300 calls over the course of three days.

“The legislators heard directly from the people most impacted by their decision, which are the students, and put some added pressure on them to act and drew some great publicity towards the whole issue of the state not funding the higher education institutions,” Kneis said.

SGB also pressed lawmakers to take action regarding current medical amnesty laws. It passed a resolution calling on the Pennsylvania legislature to increase protection for those experiencing an alcoholic crisis. Under current

Under President Max Kneis, SGB has covered major issues from medical amnesty to offering alternatives to the rising costs of textbooks. Thomas Yang VISUAL EDITOR

Pennsylvania law, if an underaged person is but the subject in need is not.

Due to recent incidents in Pennsylvania, experiencing an alcohol-related medical emergency and someone calls for them to get help, such as alleged hazing in the Pitt sorority Alpha the caller is immune from legal consequences See SGB on page 20

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EXPERT TALKS TIPS TO STAY FIT FOR FINALS

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Students hardly have time to work out during the semester, but finding time for physical activity becomes even more of a hassle when finals roll around. Putting time in to study for finals may take precedent this week, but there are plenty of benefits to finding ways to work in a quick run or workout to relieve stress and keep active.

Matthew Darnell — the director of the Wellness and Human Performance graduate program and assistant professor in the department of sports medicine and nutrition — spoke with The Pitt News about how exercise and physical wellness can help lower stress and relax students during finals week.

The Pitt News: What are some of the effects of exercise that benefit those that are stressed?

Matthew Darnell: There’s a handful of benefits of exercise as far as it goes for stress.

First and foremost, it just kind of helps to take your mind off of things. When you’re out working out and sweating hard, you can focus on something other than what’s been

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on your mind and what’s been stressing you out all day long. Especially if you’re really working really hard, it gets your heart rate up. Second, physical activity and exercise [have] acute and subacute benefits and some of those include helping lower heart rate, so it helps with decreasing your blood pressure.

And thirdly, exercise also releases endorphins, which are those feel-good things in your brain that come out after you exercise.

TPN: What are good, short workouts that students can do if they don’t think they have to time to get a good lift or do cardio?

MD: Anything they can find time to do. It doesn’t matter what form of exercise it is, just anything. So if that’s getting up and going for a walk for 15 minutes, if it’s taking a break and climbing the stairs in the building that they’re at, even stepping away from the desk that they’re sitting at and doing basic, simple stretches. If it’s yoga, if it’s anything that they will do or can do, it has benefits.

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Q&A, pg. 10 ing for a bike ride. Any basic simple stretches, you know that you can take yourself through a seven- or eight-minute stretching routine or longer. You can look those up on YouTube or online — that can be beneficial as well. Like I said, any physical activity or any type of movement that you can do will be beneficial. Even going outside and playing catch, throwing a football, baseball or frisbee — anything like that is going to be beneficial.

TPN: Would you say that there are exercises that you would suggest not doing?

MD: No. Most people don’t get enough physical activity. There probably aren’t many things I’d suggest they don’t do. I would say don’t do anything new, it might not be a good time to. If you’ve never lifted weights before, it’s probably not a good time to pick up weight lifting, especially lifting heavy, because you might be sore afterward. Really, any type of exercise is going to be good.

TPN: What would be a good amount of exercise during finals week?

MD: If you’re used to being physically active throughout the year, then you need to continue that during finals week. There’s time to get physical activity and exercise. So it’s just kind of how you plan your schedule and a lot of times when people are productive. If you maintain your normal fitness routine throughout finals week — just because, again, it will help clear your mind — it’ll make you feel better. You’ll be able to focus more during the time that you are studying than if you are not. So the majority of days of the week — three to five days ... 30 minutes a session.

TPN: Are there any foods that can relax you well over finals week?

MD: During finals week, students should be still focusing on eating a well-balanced diet. They should be focused on whole grains, lots of fruits and vegetables, lean meats and protein sources. Those are all going to be beneficial for health, and a lot times when people are stressed, they eat a lot of carbohydrates and junk food that really create fatigue and drops in their blood sugar.

It’s different than what we’ve normally been eating. It creates this low grading system like inflammation — things that we don’t want during finals week when we’re the most stressed. So, like I said, focus on a balanced diet, fruits and vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins. Don’t eat a lot of processed foods and include some low-fat dairy.

I like tea. I like to recommend tea for students w h e n studying.

It gives you a little bit of caffeine instead of giving you big doses of it. There’s also some research that shows that tea has a more tangible benefit to it than straight coffee or other caffeine sources. So, it’s got more of a focused energy to it than the jitteriness of straight caffeine, coffee or other sources.

TPN: If you aren’t able to exercise because you are injured, what are ways you could stay physically well or just healthy in general?

MD: I think it always depends on the injury. You know, if you have a lower body injury, then you can do upper body exercises.

If you have an upper body injury, then you can walk and complete lower body-focused activities … So I would just recommend being adaptive, to be creative, to find ways to still get some sort of physical activity in, even with the injury. Something that can be very therapeutic is just a 30-minute walk with your friend, just to get your mind off something, or even by yourself on a nice day.

“There’s time to get physical activity and exercise. So it’s just kind of how you plan your schedule and a lot of times when people are productive.”

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PREPARE, DON’T DESPAIR : PITT STUDENTS NEED READING DAYS Neena Hagen Columnist

its massive workload and high pressure environment — spreads finals out over two weeks, giving its students two week-

If you’re a Pitt student, looking at your school’s academic calendar is never fun.

Your eyes scan the page filled with dates, head hung in despair as you realize Pitt has perhaps the skimpiest breaks of any university out there — including finals preparation, offering students one measly reading day.

Falling in line with its theme of cramming semesters into as tiny a window as possible, Pitt offers students very few opportunities to catch up on their studies, instead throwing them into finals only three days after their last day of class. And many students would rightly argue that Saturday should not count as a Universitysanctioned study day, since very few students have class on the weekends anyway. ends and an additional weekday to study Even our next-door neighbor, Carnfor exams. egie Mellon University — notorious for Plenty of other elite universities offer

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reading periods too, with the best of them all — Harvard, Princeton and Yale — giving their students a full week to finish pa-

Thomas Yang VISUAL EDITOR pers, study for exams and relax before the most stressful week of the semester.

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year at Princeton, jumping right into finals without additional study time would leave material from her classes completely jumbled together.

“Reading period is really useful for me because I can focus on each test individually without having to worry about other classwork,” she said.

If the most elite students in the country need a reading period to perform well on their finals, surely Pitt students would benefit from the same.

Having a reading period at Pitt might mean extending Pitt’s current school year, which currently ends in late April. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Because Pitt lets out for the summer about two weeks earlier than the average school, students supposedly have an advantage when applying for internships because they can start working earlier. But most summer internships begin in midSee Hagen on page 15

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Hagen, pg. 14 to late May — and most large companies won’t adjust their regimented schedule to cater to one or two students who happen to finish school early. So instead of getting a head start on other interns by starting work early, most Pitt students must sit idly for a couple weeks as they wait to begin internships — weeks that would be much better spent relaxing and studying before finals.

While finishing school in April benefits study abroad students — the longer summer gives them more flexibility to participate in summer programs — Pitt shouldn’t build their academic calendar around 17 percent of the student body just to avoid extending the school year.

In fact, including a reading period before finals wouldn’t necessarily involve a significant change to the academic calendar. The beauty of reading periods is that they’re extremely flexible in length — which vary across universities.

The Daily Pennsylvanian — the University of Pennsylvania’s student newspaper — published a 2016 article where students decried UPenn’s two-day reading period, which is short compared to many other universities.

While two days might sound skimpy to students at other universities, it would make a big difference to students at Pitt — and shutting down class the Thursday and Friday before finals weeks wouldn’t drastically affect the school calendar, either.

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evident — cramming all studying into a small weekend window is an extremely ineffective way of absorbing information.

Students need time to relax and prepare thoroughly if they want to perform well on final exams. And even if they do manage to perform well after cramming, that comes at the expense of their mental and physical well-being. Allowing students flexible schedules gives them the ability to manage their time and study without struggling through a full week of classes.

A reading period is not only about academic preparation, either. Filling an entire week — or even a few days — purely with schoolwork would be drollery. De-stressing is proven to help exam performance, and students can use their extra time exploring Oakland, relaxing with friends or doing other recreational or leisurely activities.

Regardless of how long students think Pitt’s reading period should be, they should be unsatisfied with the with the near non-existent one we have now — especially since many other schools give students up to a week of extra study time.

Universities aren’t just places for learning, they’re institutions of sustainable learning — administrators need to ensure their policies aren’t contributing to unhealthily high stress levels among students. And they could take a major step toward ensuring that by adding a reading period before finals.

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

Universities aren’t just places for learning, they’re institutions of sustainable learning.

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TPN SAYS ‘SO LONG’ TO SENIOR EDITORS Amanda Reed, Online Engagement Editor I met Amanda the spring semester of my first year as a news writer.

I’d already been around since September, but she wasn’t one of my editors until that January. I remember being a bit nervous having to work with an entirely new editor halfway through the year — but looking back, I am so glad I got to meet her that early and work with her since.

Amanda is incredible. She’s a powerhouse as a journalist. Besides helping me whip my drafts into shape as a news editor last year, she has since served as TPN’s staff developer and as our social media manager. On top of doing all that, she’s still somehow found time to write stories, both for TPN and other publications. She’s also taken the time to help others in their own quests to be journalists, including me (Amanda, thanks again for editing my resumé and cover letter).

Her talent is immense — her legendary feature on the campus crows is one of my favorites.

I envy her optimism, creativity and drive, and I appreciate how she always has time for everyone who has a question or needs a favor. We can always count on her to make us laugh or have a suggestion for a story or project.

I have no doubt she’s going to succeed as a journalist. On one hand, I wish she could hang around a little longer, but on the other I’m excited to see her go out in the world. Amanda, I hope you find success chasing your dreams — if I’m really lucky, maybe I’ll get to work with you again in the future.

-Janine Faust, Assistant News Editor

Henry Glitz, Opinions Editor I met Henry at the beginning of this school year when I joined The Pitt News as a timid columnist in the opinions section — and somehow, I got to spend the spring semester sitting at the desk beside his as assistant opinions editor.

Though I was reluctant to take the position, I can’t imagine having a first editor experience with someone other than Henry.

I credit his lighthearted nature with keeping

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us sane this semester — working at a newspaper is serious work, but serious work also comes with serious fun. I’ll never forget our bar-hopping escapade around Oakland — for research purposes, obviously — to write that point-counterpoint.

He’s also almost solely responsible for assuring me that my editorials and columns aren’t trash, even when I’m convinced they are.

Henry truly has some of the best opinions around, and our section of the paper wouldn’t be nearly what it is — a family — without the care he takes with each writer. Don’t forget us too quickly in California, Henry, and definitely don’t forget your daily African proverb — be a neighbor to a human being, not to a fence.

Henry might have won the “Most Eager to Leave The Pitt News” superlative, but I know that, at least for me and the rest of the opinions section, we’re going to miss him next year a whole lot.

-Sarah Shearer, Assistant Opinions Editor

Rachel Glasser, Assistant Layout Editor When I took over the news desk for the spring semester, I had no idea what I was getting into.

I honestly blame Rachel for that, because she made it look so easy. But that’s just how Rachel is.

She takes whatever is thrown her way and handles it with a whole lot of grace and always a bit of humor.

In her time at the paper, Rachel has gone from writer to news editor to assistant layout editor. She has written about everything from the University Counseling Center to a grand piano in the William Pitt Union.

She has also gone from being a co-worker to one of my best friends. While struggling with the news desk, I knew I could walk into the production room or send her a text at any time, and she would always have words of encouragement.

When I was struggling with friendship or relationship issues, she always made enough time for a quick chat and a hug. She’s now on the short list of people allowed to hug me.

I know everyone in the office will miss hearing her animated storytelling and seeing her infectious smile. But she’s off to another country for another adventure, and I know we can’t wait to hear those stories when she comes back.

-Mackenzie Rodrigues, News Editor

John Hamilton, Managing Editor John and I have followed similar paths while working at The Pitt News. We went from photographers to editors and were both considered for the managing editor position — the position he now holds as my boss. For the record, I passed it up, but just because I knew he would be so fantastic at it.

Jokes aside, John really is a treasure. He’s incredibly headstrong in his opinions when it comes to edits, visuals and other general news goings-on — and he is also the single most hardworking person I know. His borderline obsession with journalism is annoying at times (all the time?), but I have never met a person more dedicated to his craft.

Okay, maybe Van Gogh — because of the whole ear thing — but we’ve never met.

Anyway, working with John has been a fantastic experience. I will never forget him consoling me in the stairwell when I was sad, going on Primanti’s chili runs between reads and fighting about whether or not there should be a comma after that clause. Yes, John, there should be!

I will take this last moment to disclose the fact that John and I have been dating for almost two years now, thanks to The Pitt News.

You’ll do great things, John. I’m sure of it.

-Jordan Mondell, Assistant Sports Editor

Kyleen Pickering, Copy Chief O copy chief, my copy chief. Kyleen was the first person I met at copy desk when I started as a copy editor in the spring of last year, and she introduced me to Slack and Trello, sat with me through my painstakingly slow first reads on stories and imbued the desk with enthusiasm for and dedication to the job. Wednesday and Thursday nights that semester became a time for work but also for friendship — rattling off evergrowing to-do lists, cursing Merriam-Webster and exchanging tales about Russia and missing newsstands.

When I found out that I would be her assistant copy chief this year, my primary qualm

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— aside from a terrible case of imposter syndrome — was that I would no longer work the same nights as her. We still saw each other during production for special editions, though, and during the unforgettable first week of the fall semester. We worked every night together that week as we assembled our staff.

While the steep learning curve felt like someone had dropped us onto a treadmill set at the fastest speed, she brought the levity and support necessary to not only get us through the week, but make it enjoyable. She won the “Most Likely to Corrupt a Junior Member of Copy Desk With Copy Desk Pride” superlative, and I couldn’t agree more. But her kindness and incredible work ethic also make her other superlative, “Most Employable After Graduation,” undeniably true, and I can’t wait to see where she goes.

-Kim Rooney, Assistant Copy Chief

Ashwini Sivaganesh, Editor-in-Chief I tried to quit The Pitt News three times, and the only reason I’m still here is Ash. The only reason I stayed, became an editor and will be back next year is because the third and final time I tried to quit, Ash sat me down for a half hour and told me every reason I should stay until I said I would.

I’ll never be able to thank Ash enough for what she did for me that day and every day since, and if you ask anybody else that has either worked with or for Ash, they will have a story just like mine.

That’s who Ash is. She is incredibly generous with her time, talent and energy for the people she cares about and she cares so deeply about all of the people lucky enough to work with and for her.

It’s what makes Ash such a great leader.

You see how hard she works and can’t help but want to do the same. You want to do all you can for Ash because you know she’ll always do the same for you.

Every day I come to work at the paper, I’m thankful that Ash didn’t let me quit. If she had, I wouldn’t have gotten the chance to work for the greatest leader I’ve ever known and one of the best friends I’ve ever had.

-Grant Burgman, Sports Editor

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Gallagher, pg. 3 likely happen again in the future. He said being financially stable and in high demand allows the schools to face “this uncertainty from a position of strength.”

“Sometimes people want us to make an argument that the reason for state funding is that we would be in financial distress without it — in other words, it’s like welfare. They want us to be destitute before the state supplies funding,” he said. “That would be crazy, because the argument then would be I’m going to run the University into the ground until there’s no resources and then ask for a bailout from the state. I think that would be irresponsible.”

Gallagher thinks it would be “crazy” for Pennsylvania to stop funding its four staterelated institutions — Pitt, Penn State, Lincoln and Temple.

“I mean, these are your flagship universities for the state, and the only consequence of failing to support them is a brain drain … So why would a state want to do that?” he said.

“Whether that’s happened in a crisis year or just a slow, not-keeping-up-with-inflation year, the reality is I don’t see enough consensus to turn that around.”

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Gallagher also discussed an issue that has come to define the year for everyone, not just college students — the #MeToo movement, a widespread sharing of stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault that has toppled figures in Hollywood, politics and media.

Pitt found itself in the middle of the movement when a former communication professor published a blog post in December detailing years of mistreatment by male coworkers and a department-wide culture that tolerated sexual harassment and inappropriate relationships. Since then, Pitt opened a Title IX investigation into the department and the dean of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences said the department continues to undervalue women.

Gallagher said as the country’s tide shifted, the University’s perspective changed as well, shifting away from just aiming sexual assault education toward students.

“I remember early on people were trying to say, ‘Our kids have gone crazy!’ and that wasn’t the issue. This was a societal problem,” he said. “And of course what we realized is that we’re not immune from that — we’re part of it. Issues about faculty, staff and others have been the more recent focal point.”

Gallagher also discussed Pitt’s role in the

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher discusses the renaming of Parran Hall at February’s Senate Council meeting. Sarah Cutshall STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER City, citing the community’s expectation that the University encourages equitable growth.

“We’re a city of communities, of neighborhoods, and if the existing Pittsburgh can’t participate in that new economy and they just get pushed out of the way, that is an ugly form of transformation,” he said.

He said Pitt has been given a “real gift” in

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that the City has welcomed the school “with open arms.”

“Just think about what that means from a student perspective to get out and be involved in some groundbreaking stuff and to gain that experience and put that classroom part to work in some ways,” he said. “So that’s pretty cool.”

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Kappa Alpha, the Pennsylvania State Senate unanimously passed a bill April 18 making hazing a felony. Kneis noted that there’s a provision in the bill that touches on medical amnesty, but only with hazing.

“But it’s a step in the right direction, and as people are having these conversations, as that bill goes through the house, as that bill gets marked up,” he said.

SGB also spearheaded efforts to expand open educational resources, such as PDF textbooks at Pitt. A resolution, introduced in January, called for the University to prioritize cutting textbooks costs in the coming years.

Executive Vice President Zuri Kent-Smith held three drives in October 2017 inviting students to sign letters of support for DACA, which were then sent to elected officials. He also held the immigrant-focused Human Rights Conference and served as a member of the SGB’s Committee for Diversity and Inclusion, which SGB made a permanent standing committee this year.

Vice President and Chief of Finance Maddie Guido — who also served on the Diversity and Inclusion Committee — worked on an allocations how-to video, a comprehensive student organization manual and Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week.

“I think to have the discussion of sexual and reproductive health is extremely, extremely important,” Guido said. “We want to make sure students are really comfortable asking questions and seeking out seeking out sexual resources.”

Guido invited the Pitt community to join this conversation and organized the University’s second annual Women’s Empowerment Week in March. The initiative brought together Pitt community members and student leaders to promote female empowerment and discuss an intersectional approach to gender rights and equality.

Krish Patel, SGB’s vice president and chief of cabinet, worked on advising for pre-health students and helped with Sustainability Week. “[Sustainability] touches each and every person and every field of work,” Patel said in an email. “There is always a way to improve a concept or technique and make it more efficient and sustainable.”

SGB also hosted a Campus Master Plan meeting and made the Rave Guardian app — which allows users to share their location with a friend or guardian when they feel in danger — available to students.

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In addition, SGB pushed Pitt to change the finals week rescheduling rule for next school year. Under current rules, Pitt says that if a student has three finals in the same day, they may reschedule one. With the change for next year, if three finals are within 24 hours of each other, a student may reschedule one.

2018-2019 Student Government Board SGB President-elect Maggie Kennedy — the current SGB wellness chair — campaigned with the Horizon slate. The slate advocated for expanding the Dietrich school requirement that students complete one course promoting diversity to all other schools. It also wants to improve the campus shuttle system and revamp new student orientation to focus on signs of unhealthy relationships and rape culture.

“Things like jokes or comments that really perpetuate dangerous gender roles and make people feel objectified or dehumanized in any way definitely contribute to a larger culture of violence,” Kennedy said.

Jahari Mercer, executive vice presidentelect, said Kennedy is confident and holds true to her principles. He campaigned on a platform of expanding wellness resources during midterms and diversity and inclusion information.

“It’s all about education. It takes time, but the main thing is just kind of explaining to people that there are people that are different,” Mercer said.

Jessa Chong, the current community and government relations chair and next vice president and chief of cabinet, campaigned with the Horizon slate to improve Pitt’s relationship with outside communities and to expand and advertise Career Development and Placement Assistance resources.

Cory Stillman, current allocations committee chair and upcoming vice president and chief of finance, campaigned for the creation of an LGBTQ+ center, a better understanding of the allocations process among student groups, an increase in research and career opportunities in the arts and a food delivery system for students.

“As the [allocations committee] chair, I worked to more consistently communicate dates and deadlines relevant to the Allocations process, and I hope to find more creative ways to promote it next year as the chief of finance,” Stillman said in an email.

Kneis said he is excited to see what next year’s board will do and accomplish — and Kennedy agreed.

“This year has been super busy but super rewarding at the same time,” Kennedy said.

“I think it all went well and how I hoped it would, and I’m really excited for the incoming board.”

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Mentor, tutor, and inspire Pittsburgh area youth. Summer and fall positions with bi-weekly stipend and education award. Full and part-time. Possible internship credit.

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ing mail, answering the door and phone, minor lifting of supply boxes, campus deliveries and general office duties as requested. We are looking for an individual who is reliable, well organized, and able to multitask. Fluent in Word & Excel. Please send resumes to: coreadmi@pitt.edu Restore Victorian home. Painting, yardwork, etc. Shadyside, Fox Chapel. Student preferred. $12/ hour. 412-963-9889. georgebsg@cs.com.

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