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September 18, 2015 | Issue 25 | Volume 106

T h e i n de p e n d e n t st ude nt ne w spap e r of t he University of Pittsburgh

Students run against sexual assault

Chief on duty

Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay wants to change his force, and he knows just how he’s going to do it.

Dale Shoemaker News Editor

Dorothy Sherman crosses the finish line at the Undy 500: Race Against Sexual Assault. Meghan Sunners | Senior Staff Photographer

Emily Brindley Staff Writer

Forget the dress and heels.

When Devin Dubos got dressed to go out Thursday night, she went straight for a T-shirt and shorts — then put her bra and panties over top.

Instead of joining her friends at a South Oakland party, she lined up

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with more than 70 other Pitt students, also wearing their underwear over their clothes to take a stand against sexual assault.

At Pitt’s Student Government Board’s first-ever Undy 500: Race Against Sexual Assault on Sept. 17, students wore underwear over their clothes to bust the stigma that sexual

violence is tied to what a person wears.

SGB Wellness Committee Chair Jasmine Butler organized the run, which led the group of students down Fifth Avenue and around the Cathedral of Learning.

Dubos, a freshman statistics major, ran in the event not only to raise See Undy 500 on page 4

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To a standing room only crowd in the Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay boldly and unapologetically declared Pittsburgh’s police force is broken.

Since he’s now been on the job for one year as of Sept. 15, McLay has already begun to implement his fixes, drawing the attention of other police departments around the country, like the Madison Police Department in Madison, Wisconsin, where he previously worked. In lecture hall 2017, McLay outlined problems with modern policing, such as the overuse of force, the problems with Pittsburgh’s police — namely a lack of self-accountability — and his plan to change how the Bureau operates. At the first lecture in Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems series of speakers, McLay laid out his plan to educate the city’s police officers and focus on community policing.

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“I recognize that the institution of policing, if it is to be taken seriously, needed to look very carefully at what we do, how we do it, to listen to the community and be responsive to those changes,” McLay said.

McLay said he is committed to diversifying his police force. As it stands, about 17 percent of Pittsburgh’s police officers are black, whereas about 25 percent of Pittsburgh’s citizens are black, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. In May, the Pittsburgh Police settled a $1.6 million lawsuit with the ACLU for discriminatory hiring practices. Of the 530 officers the police hired from 2001 to 2014, only 23 officers were black, the ACLU said.

McLay — who inherited the lawsuit and the mostly white police force when he took the position last year — said the fix must come from within.

“The root cause of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police’s [problems] was a failure of leadership,” McLay said. “We weren’t holding ourselves accountable for outcomes and the ways we do business.”

McLay said this meant Pittsburgh Police wasn’t analyzing how it interacted with citizens and pursued suspected criminals. In other words, the police weren’t asking themselves why they suspected who they were suspecting. Unconscious bias clouded the department.

McLay said unconscious bias with police can lead to police questioning and frequently pursuing people of color because police subconsciously assume those people are criminals.

This creates a “crisis of legitimacy,” according to McLay. During his talk, McLay outlined a pittnews.com

Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay talks about police reform Thursday . Mason Lazarcheff STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

rough schedule for procedural justice training which trains officers to be impartial and to implement fairness and justice and in dispute resolutions. McLay said he hopes to have officers begin training by March. Within the next two years, McLay said every officer will have undergone both procedural justice training and unconscious bias training.

McLay also said he wants to train all officers in crisis intervention so officers can better communicate with homeless and mentally ill citizens.

Since the War on Drugs in the 1990s, aggressive policing created a false narrative about both police and citizens.

Citizens’ narrative of police became, “the cops hate us and mean us harm,” and the police’s narrative of citizens became “the

community hates us and they condone the illegal actions of criminals,” McLay said.

Both are wrong, he said. On the police’s end, their mantra during the War on Drugs in the 1990s caused a false narrative, which was: Get in, get the gun, get the drugs, get the bad guys off the street.

“That brings up some interesting ethical concerns,” McLay said. “Police reform is community reform. It is social-justice reform. And we all must join in.”

Last December, McLay demonstrated what he meant. On New Year’s Eve, McLay was photographed holding a sign that read, “I pledge to challenge racism at work #EndWhiteSilence.” The photo went viral, and when McLay received backlash, he stood firm and didn’t back

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down, said Susan Yohe, chief diversity and inclusion officer at law firm Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, PC, who introduced McLay. “He didn’t go into appeasement mode,” Yohe, whose firm funded the talk, said.

McLay said his bureau has started using crime data to point a “laser focus” on specific neighborhoods, like Homewood, where crime and violence is high, to prevent crime from happening, rather than throwing a blanket over the whole city.

“But we have to be very mindful about the way we go into those areas. Very wellintended efforts to reduce crime and disorder can result in a driving down of See Pitt Police on page 5

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Chancellor, Provost talk plan for Pitt’s future Liz Lepro

Assistant News Editor

University leadership has been cooking up a strategic plan for the next four years at Pitt, and Chancellor Patrick Gallagher says it’s time for everyone to join him in the kitchen.

Gallagher used this kitchen metaphor Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Connolly Ballroom of the Alumni Association to begin an hour-long presentation on the most recent update of “The Plan for Pitt.” The plan is a strategic initiative that aims to coordinate the actions of all the University departments, faculty, students and staff. Gallagher began developing the plan with Provost Patricia Beeson and Vice Provost David DeJong when he took his position last September.

The institutional plan sets up five strategic goals: strengthening communities, building foundational strength, advancing educational excellence, engaging in research impact and embracing diversity and inclusion. Gallagher said The Plan for Pitt will act as a “North Star” to guide all the academic departments and the Pitt community, both in Pittsburgh and internationally.

Beeson said part of meeting the goal of advancing educational excellence is ensuring student success at an individual level. According to Beeson, this goal will focus on making sure that students are getting the most value out of an increasingly expensive college education. “[There’s been] an environment pittnews.com

shift,” Beeson said. “[Students are asking], ‘Is college worth the price we’re paying?’”

An influx of technology and Massively Open Online Classrooms are part of this shifting environment.

In developing the initiative, Beeson, Gallagher and DeJong questioned whether online progress will drive out traditional University education.

According to DeJong, from October 2014 to June 2015, the University executed phase one of the plan — engaging with the Board of Trustees, faculty, staff and students.

DeJong and Kenyon Bonner, the interim dean of students, showed four videos to students from the athletic department, Student Government Board, Fraternity and Sorority Life and multiple other student organizations last fall about technology in the classroom. They were looking for feedback from those students about whether or not Pitt should implement more technology-based educational strategies.

“But students said, ‘You’re not going to screw up the in-class experience, are you?’” DeJong said, which he took as validation for the classroom experience Pitt already offers.

To continue the value of Pitt’s inthe-classroom education, DeJong said part of the institutional plan will include creating a humanities center, responsible for developing teaching strategies and curriculum in the humanities and social sciences departments.

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Undy 500, pg. 1 awareness for sexual assault, but also to support sexual assault victims.

“I think back to the diversity training at the beginning of the year, when they asked who had been a victim of sexual assault,” Dubos said. “There were an alarming number of people who stood up. So I put on my underwear and came out here tonight.”

Before the race, groups of students stood talking in small circles and sometimes breaking into dance as Beyoncé blasted in the background. Though many students wore their underwear over their clothes, SGB didn’t enforce a dress code. One student wore a green sequined dress with bright pink tights.

Another stood in a circle, talking while his shorts sat around his ankles. Groups of two and three grinned into their phones for selfies.

At 10:25 p.m., SGB President Nasreen Harun and Butler called the crowd

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to attention. As Butler described the event to the crowd, cheers went up for the cause of raising sexual assault awareness.

Several campus organizations, including It’s On Us, Planned Parenthood Generation Action, Let’s RAVE and Pittsburgh Action Against Rape attended and supported the Undy 500.

“We wanted to hold an event from the student perspective that gets the word out that sexual assault is never something that someone is ‘asking for,’” Harun said. “And that it’s not something that we tolerate at Pitt.”

In addition to raising general awareness, Harun said the Undy 500 will send the message that anyone can be a victim or perpetrator of sexual assault.

Jason Andrews, a freshman political science major, said this is an important issue for Pitt to address.

“This is a big issue, and coming in as freshmen we heard all of the statistics,” Andrews said. “And they were scary

statistics.”

Deirdre O’Rourke, a former Women’s Studies professor at Pitt, said she hopes the Undy 500 will draw attention to the issues of sexual misconduct on campus.

“It seems like the event will get people talking,” O’Rourke said.“Any gender, or even if you don’t identify in that way, [sexual assault] affects everyone,” O’Rourke said. “[It] is not just a women’s problem.”

O’Rourke said some of the most important aspects of campus-wide sexual assault awareness are bystander response and peer education programs, like Pitt’s Let’s RAVE. O’Rourke also said that in order for any of these programs to be effective, the entire campus has to be on board and dedicated to making real changes.

“It has to be widespread commitment,” O’Rourke said. “Everyone at the University of Pittsburgh has to acknowledge that they’re not going to tol-

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erate sexual assault...Everyone has to be an ally.”

Harun said she sees the Undy 500 as a way to bring Pitt together on the issue.

“We hope the Undy 500 allows more students to see that Pitt is not like other universities,” Harun said. “We are addressing these issues head on in order to make sure students know how to be safe, and what to do in the event that sexual misconduct does occur.”

Although this event focuses on awareness more than prevention, O’Rourke said one of the best ways to aid in preventing sexual assault is to increase awareness.

“I hope the more we talk about it, the less instances there are,” O’Rourke said.

Butler agreed and said she hopes that this event has a positive impact on Pitt’s attitude toward sexual assault.

“We don’t tolerate sexual assault at Pitt,” Butler said. “You’re never to blame, even if you’re wearing your underwear.”

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Pitt Police, pg. 2 the crime rate but also a driving down of community relations,” McLay said.

For Pitt, McLay said not much will change because the Pitt Police already have a good and fair relationship with his bureau.

Since McLay has been in his position, each zone of the police bureau uses Facebook and Twitter to connect with citizens and has begun hosting more community events, such as coffee with a cop, where citizens can chat and share concerns about their community with local police officers at coffee shops. Police have also increased bicycle patrols in Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods.

“The mantra has changed from the ‘police are bad, the police are the problem’ to the ‘we like what you’re doing, but we’re going to hold you accountable,’” McLay said.

After the talk, George Weddington, a sociology graduate student at Pitt, said

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while McLay was transparent about the police’s failures, doing so was a “bottom line expectation.”

“The difficulty is not in pointing out the failures. The difficulty is in making sure the steps to fix the problems are in place,” Weddington said.

While he said he thinks McLay will fix Pittsburgh’s problems, he also wants him to open up a dialogue about power and control.

Penelope Miller, the coordinator of the Center on Race and Social Problems, said she thinks McLay will do just that.

“I feel very optimistic this chief is going to be able to improve community relations,” Miller said.

As an example, Miller said McLay should connect with community members, specifically young black men, to make tangible change, a task she thinks he can accomplish.

“He knows what needs to be done and understands the problems, and he understands the solutions,” she said.

Pitt Plan, pg. 3 for engineers, which DeJong said has been so successful that he wants to take the strength of this practice and apply it elsewhere in the University.

Still, even if a humanities center helps the value of Pitt’s education match its price tag, some students still struggle with the steep cost of Pennsylvania’s most expensive public school. While the Plan aims to maximize value, it does not currently include any specific initiatives for increasing scholarships or financial aid, DeJong said.

Albert Novak, the vice chancellor of the Office of Institutional Advancement, said he is working on increasing student scholarships.

Novak said his office’s next fundraising effort, which is still in the planning stages, is part of The Plan for Pitt. Currently, the expectations for merit-based scholarships are ex-

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tremely high, Novak said.

Novak said his goal is to increase the amount of merit and need-based scholarships Pitt offers, partially by continuing to reach out to alumni through strategies like capital campaigns.

“The largesse of our alumni has helped [current students],” Novak said. “It’s a way for the alumni to give back.”

Beeson said these alumni are part of the “ecosystem” that makes up the worldwide University community.

After the administrators connect with this ecosystem, according to Gallagher, the next step is about making the strategic goals a reality. “[Phase one of The Pitt Plan] identified things like data and info, the ability to embrace diversity and change, that Pitt has better excel at to navigate headwinds,” Gallagher said.

“It’s not the plan for Pat, it’s the plan for Pitt.”

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Casual Fridays A smashing time On Sunday, vandals in Reno, Nevada, hit Angelique Ybarra’s car — with a watermelon. The watermelon smashed through her back windshield and cost her nearly $1,000 in out-of-pocket repairs. The “waterfelons” also hit Ybarra’s car in July, again with minor damage. The juicy case has remained unsolved for several months, but police members from Reno 911 think they are have found new seeds of evidence.

Caught red-handed A Pennsylvania man landed himself in the hospital and then a prison cell after a failed “cut and run.” David Lee brought a knife to his Walmart heist when he removed a Straight Talk Wireless phone from a shelf — but the burglary wasn’t so cut-and-dry. When Lee later attempted to remove the phone from its packaging, he ended up stabbing himself in the arm. Store employees noticed the bloody trail before Lee ran off to a local hospital.

Local staff took a stab at taking care of the wound, but it was so severe that Lee had to be flown to a Pittsburgh hospital. His efforts weren’t entirely fruitless, as he finally got his pittnews.com

one phone call and some time on his prison plan.

This week in Florida Brooksville, Florida, resident Nickole Dykema was struck by the long arm of the law but not before she tried to strike police officers with a machete. Police were called to the Florida home after Dykema’s neighbor complained that Dykema, who apparently has no chill, had slashed her window screen and air conditioner. Once police forced themselves into Dykema’s home, they found more than 3,500 machetes, swords and knives hung up on her walls and arranged around a satanic shrine. After discovering that she was on probation for shoplifting knives from a dollar tree store last year, deputies cut her off from owning weapons and took her into custody.

At least in the criminal system, Dykema has a friend in the cell phone bandit.

Carving the waves On Sept. 5, Todd Sandstrum spilled some pumpkin guts to raise awareness for agriculture. In an act oddly reminiscent of a fall Starbucks commercial, Sandstrum paddled an award-winning 817-pound pumpkin down

the Taunton River in Massachusetts in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record. The stunt actually turned out to be the latest Starbucks commercial — pumpkin spice season is officially here. Todd and his pumpkin are also starring in the new fall classic, “Jack and the giant pumpkin.”

Bright diamond, dim idea Last Thursday, a Chinese woman visiting Bangkok had a rough ending to her trip. That Thursday night, police arrested Jiang Xulian and her male travel companion in Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport when surveillance video from a jewelry fair revealed that the couple had not-so-sparkling personalities. They were accused of switching a fake stone for a $278,000 diamond earlier that day. Police were perplexed when the diamond appeared to have disappeared, until an x-ray revealed the diamond unglamorously habitating in Xulian’s large intestine. The doctor confirmed their suspicions when he successfully removed the diamond on Sunday. The couple learned a valuable lesson — crime leaves a bitter aftertaste, and there are some things pepto bismol can’t solve.

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Empower women, close the gender gap Kirsten Wong

in occupations pursued by different genders. Within these occupations, there is If we can empower also a stark lack of female women to reach their fullrepresentation in leaderest potential in the workship roles. place, then we can work Here at Pitt, comparing toward closing the disprothe number of male and portionate gap that keeps female students studying them from attaining wage in different schools reequality. We can encourflects this disparity. age achievement by motiAmong the 18,757 unvating success. dergraduates, 50.6 percent The fact that white of students are female and women make 78 cents on 49.3 percent of students every dollar a white man are male. makes, Although breakthere are i n g more fedown to For young girls who want male stu64 cents for Af- to enter the STEM field, this d e n t s p u r s u r i c a n makeup is discouraging. ing a deAmerigree, there c a n seems to be a lack of fewomen and 54 cents for male representation in a Hispanic women, accordvariety of majors that lead ing to the U.S. Census Buto higher paying jobs. reau, is not new informaThe Swanson School tion. of Engineering encomAlthough there are passes a student body that many factors that conis 73.4 percent male and tribute to this wage gap, 26.6 percent female. Men such as discrimination also outnumber women in and sparse maternity leave the School of Information policies, it also comes down to the differences See Wong on page 7 For The Pitt News

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Wong, pg. 6 Sciences, with 73.3 percent male students and 26.7 percent female students. The College of Business Administration represents 59.8 percent men and 40.2 percent women.

While engineering, information sciences and business are all highpaying and secure majors in today’s science-driven economy, it is no coincidence that men dominate these fields, given the support and mentorship men have to enter high-paying fields.

Ac c o r d i n g to the Department of Education, the average STEM major makes about $65,000, compared to non-STEM majors who make roughly $48,500.

PayScale, a site that has compiled the world’s largest database of individual salary profiles, determined that the 10 majors with the highest salary potential were STEM majors, including fields like engineering, applied math and statistics. While women make up 48 percent of the labor force in the United States, the American Community Survey of 2009 reported that only 24 percent of women work in STEM fields. For young girls who want to enter the STEM field, this makeup is discouraging. pittnews.com

They have less people to turn to for advice, networking and inspiration.

On the contrary, female students at Pitt dominate the enrollment of other schools that may not offer the same income security, but may offer more flexible work lifestyles to prevent from falling behind in their career after childbirth.

Women make up a significant proportion of the School of Education — 28.6 percent of its students are male and 71.4 percent are fe-

male. The School of Social Work is 13 percent male and 87 percent female. The School of Nursing is 8.7 percent male and 91.3 percent female. The School of Pharmacy is 32.6 percent male and 67.4 percent female. The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is 19.7 percent male and 80.3 percent female.

The average starting salaries for each school varies. Education begins at $37,200, social work at $33,100, health sciences at

new graduate women in engineering network. Pitt hosts a chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.

Pitt’s Medical School hosts a chapter of the Women in Science and Medicine Association. A student group at Pitt, Women in Computer Science, strongly advocates for increased female participation in the computer science profession. These efforts represent only a small sample of the University’s initiatives.

Pitt also recognizes the value of having female Terry Tan STAFF ILLUSTRATOR leaders and role models to empower women to seek higher positions.

Pitt’s Chemistry Department’s Greater Pittsburgh Area Women Chemists Committee is chaired by Michelle Ward, the u n d e r g r a d u at e analytical laboratory coordinator.

By instilling a support system for women similar to the one already in place Hirschman has seen an increase for men in STEM, we can similarof female students in his classes, ly encourage women to seek high despite racial diversity trailing be- achievement in their professional careers. hind.

Shortening the wage gap is a Pitt isn’t oblivious to these statistics. Like many colleges across hefty endeavor — but it’s possible. the country, the University works It’s simply a matter of making sure to encourage female students to that women can stare out in a lecture room and feel the solidarity of pursue STEM fields.

This past April, Pitt hosted the supportive faces staring back.

Women in Medicine and Science Write to Kirsten Wong at Forum. Last year, the Swanson School of Engineering created a kew101@pitt.edu $39,000, nursing at $54,100 and pharmacy at $116,500, according to PayScale.

While there is no simple solution to answer this disparity, there are several places to guide improvement.

Pitt bioengineering professor Alan Hirschman suggested “encouragement at a young age and to keep girls invested in their pursuits” as a response to the lack of female representation in STEM fields.

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third time’s the charm:

pitt looks for revenge in third consecutive rematch to start 2015 season, Narduzzi Era

Iowa’s current starter C.J. Beathard led Iowa in relief against Pitt last year in a 24-20 win. Heather Tennant STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Jeremy Tepper

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Call Pat Narduzzi “the exorcist.”

In his first pair of games, Pitt’s new head football coach has led the Panthers to victories against two ghosts of losses past— Youngstown State and Akron.

On Saturday at 8 p.m. , Pitt (2-0) will attempt to cleanse another demon from its past against Iowa (2-0). pittnews.com

Like Pitt’s first two opponents, Iowa isn’t a mainstay on the Panthers’ schedule. Still, the Hawkeyes beat Pitt twice in 2011 and 2014, in Pitt’s last two meetings with the team. Before that, a 2008 contest ended in a 21-20 Panthers victory.

“I’m anxious to go out there and get the revenge, just like we did last week against Akron,” Junior wide receiver Tyler Boyd said.

Though Narduzzi wasn’t there for those losses, he’s familiar with Iowa through his time as defensive coordinator at Michigan State, playing the Hawkeyes nearly every year as members of the Big Ten. Through these matchups, Narduzzi saw how Iowa’s toughness and physicality stand out.

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mouth, so we got to be ready to smack back,” Narduzzi said.

Part of Iowa’s strength defensively comes in its ability to pressure the quarterback, registering nine sacks this season so far. Defensive linemen Nate Meier and Drew Ott and linebacker Ben Niemann have accumulated two sacks each. The Hawkeyes See Football on page 10

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Pitt Enters acc slate with best start in program history Jeff Carpenter Staff Writer

For Pitt’s women’s soccer team, it’s time to crank the difficulty up from “easy.”

After cruising through its non-conference schedule to the tune of a 6-1-1 record, Pitt’s women’s soccer team now has the privilege of playing against opponents in the toughest conference in collegiate soccer. Currently, the ACC boasts the top three teams in the country: North Carolina, Florida State and Virginia.

And while all three are on Pitt’s schedule this season, the Panthers will first turn their eyes to the North Carolina State Wolfpack for Sunday’s 1 p.m. matchup, hoping to defend a fivegame winning streak.

Head coach Greg Miller said conference play is where the schedule becomes serious.

“It’s a critical game for us, not only the first ACC game, but us going from our non-conference to our conference schedule and the momentum we’ve built,” Miller said. “It’s one of our first real tests.”

Pitt enters conference play relatively unblemished after finishing last year

with a dismal 2-8-0 record against its ACC opponents.

The Wolfpack are a good barometer as the opening game opponent for Pitt.

NC State has struggled the most out of any ACC school in the early going with a 4-4-0 record.

The last time the Panthers and Wolfpack met, Pitt left Raleigh, North Carolina with a 3-0 victory on Oct. 4 last year..

While the Panthers will enter Sunday with a clean slate in the ACC, their early season has set up a few milestones.

Pitt has achieved the program’s record for best start, beating the 1998 team’s 5-2-0 start.

But Pitt could have looked better — the draw versus St. Francis to start the year stands out alongside the overtime loss to Northern Colorado, a small school from the Big Sky Conference.

The Panthers haven’t been burying a torrent of goals into the back of the net, but they’ve been doing it when needed, coming out strong after game breaks and securing early goals.

The team currently sits tied for eighth in the nation in assists per game at 2.88. Forwards of all ages have con-

Taylor Pryce leads Pitt’s offense with 10 points so far this season. Meghan Sunners SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

tributed assists, with sophomore Taylor Pryce, freshman Kaylee Rabatin and senior Roosa Arvas leading the team.

Pitt has also succeeded at keeping the ball out of its own net. Junior goal-

keeper Taylor Francis has four shutouts so far this season, aided by an inexperienced but productive backline.

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Men’s soccer continues search for first ACC win against BC Joe Rokicki Staff Writer

Pitt men’s soccer hasn’t won a conference game since 2011.

Four years and a conference change later, the struggles continued against Wake Forest, and now Pitt will travel to Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on Saturday to take on Bospittnews.com

Boston College, however, poses ton College in search of its first ACC less of a threat. The Eagles currently win since joining in 2013. hold a 3-2 (0-1 ACC) record after The Panthers ran into a gauntlet losing their last two games, includlast weekend against the No. 14 Deing the conference opener in Raleigh mon Deacons. Pitt managed only last Friday. That game was a loss to a single shot on goal against Wake North Carolina State 2-1 in double Forest, recorded by senior forward overtime.

Patrick Dixon. Pitt was unsurprisThat doesn’t mean the game will ingly shut out 4-0.

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be easy. Boston College defeated Pitt 2-1 when the both clubs last played each other on Sept. 14, 2013 at Ambrose Urbanic Center.

Pitt head coach Joe Luxbacher knows the history.

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Football pg. 8 defense allowed a total of 31 points in the first two games.

“They don’t give up the big play,” games,” said Kevin Sherman, Pitt’s wide receivers coach. “You watch them, and they’re a ‘bend but don’t break’ kind of defense in my opinion.”

On the back end, Iowa possesses an experienced secondary, with junior corners Greg Mabin and Desmond King and senior free safety Jordan Lomax.

Offensively, Iowa has scored 31 points in each of its games. The ground attack has been strong, producing 470 yards in total, with 179 coming from LeShun Daniels and 152 from Jordan Canzeri. Junior C.J. Beathard, Iowa’s starting quarterback, has also gotten into the mix, rushing for 103 yards.

Beathard, on top of his strength as a runner, is also an apt passer, completing 61.2 percent of his passes for

426 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. For his 215-yard, threetouchdown performance against Iowa State last week, the Big Ten named Beathard Co-Offensive Player of the Week.

In his years of coaching, Narduzzi said he’s come across many talented quarterbacks, but Beathard is “as good as you’re going to see out there.” That praise is partly due to Beathard’s ability to avoid mistakes.

“The most impressive thing about him is he’s not giving up sacks, he’s not giving up interceptions. He’s protecting the football, and he can make plays with his feet,” Narduzzi said.

Though he’s seen the field in his past two seasons, this is Beathard’s first year as a starter. Similarly, Pitt will likely employ Quarterback Nate Peterman to start Saturday’s game, who is receiving his first taste of significant playing time after transferring from Tennessee. Though Chad Voytik started Pitt’s

two games, Peterman relieved Voytik shortly into both games, not relinquishing the spot against Akron.

Regardless of who starts, Narduzzi is confident in both quarterbacks.

“They both played well at times, and they both have made mistakes at times,” Narduzzi said. “I feel comfortable with either one of them starting for us.”

Narduzzi added that it’s a “feel thing” on who he decides to play at certain spots during games. Despite the change, Narduzzi said he has fairly concrete plans to relieve the starter around the third series.

No matter the quarterback, the offense will try to match the defense’s performance. Pitt defensive coordinator Josh Conklin’s reinvigorated unit is allowing 259 yards per game, good for 20th in the country. The unit has been proficient in providing pressure, registering nine sacks on the season, which is fourth in the nation. Pitt has

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spread those sacks over eight players, with linebacker Nicholas Grigsby leading the team with two.

Though he’s not a large part of the pressure in the backfield, Pitt will likely be without free safety Reggie Mitchell due to an undisclosed injury for the second game in a row. Terrish Webb again will get the start ahead of Mitchell.

In Iowa, Webb and the Panthers will be face their first Power Five opponent and atmosphere. Narduzzi anticipates a raucous crowd in Iowa’s second home game this year at Kinnick Stadium.

“There will probably be as good an atmosphere as you’re going to see on a college gameday,” Narduzzi said.

Faced with a loud, hostile crowd and a formidable opponent, Narduzzi expects to learn a lot about his team from this game.

“This is a big time opponent,” Narduzzi said. “We’re going to find out what we got.”

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