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PITTSBURGHERS, SANDERS TWO RALLY AGAINST GOP BILL BURGLARIES HIT OAKLAND RESIDENCY John Hamilton Editor in Chief

The crowd boos as Sen. Bernie Sanders criticizes the GOP healthcare bill John Hamilton EDITOR IN CHIEF Sen. Pat Toomey — to vote no on what Sanders Lexi Kennell called a “barbaric and immoral piece of legislaContributing Editor If the 1,600 people at Saturday’s health care tion.”

“Let me be as clear as I can be — this sorally take Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ advice, called health care bill that passed in the House Republican senators’ phone lines will be busy last month, is the most anti-working class piece all week. of legislation passed by the House of RepresenThe former presidential candidate, along tatives in the modern history of this country,” with several other speakers, told the ralliers Sanders told the crowd at the convention cento urge senators — specifically Pennsylvania

Pitt police issued a crime alert Tuesday after responding to two burglaries at the same residence on consecutive days.

The burglaries occurred in the 3600 block of Bates Street — one Monday at approximately 3 p.m. and the second Tuesday at 2:13 a.m., according to the alert.

In Monday’s burglary, a suspect forcibly entered through the front door and took a television. A resident in the same home awoke Tuesday to an unknown male in his room, again appearing to enter through the front door. The suspect then fled without appearing to take anything, according to the alert.

The alert described the suspect in the at the Convention Center Saturday second burglary as a “black male, 6’0”to 6’2”, muscular build, wearing a dark ter ballroom. “And the [Senate] bill — in some hoodie, dark pants, carrying a black backrespects — is even worse.” pack.”

The Don’t Take Our Health Care rally — “Anyone having information regarding put on by MoveOn.org, One PA, Keystone this incident should call the Pittsburgh Progress and Planned Parenthood Pennsylva- Police Department (Zone 4) at 412-422nia Advocates — was organized in an attempt 6520 (reference CCR #118306 or CCR to stop the Republican effort to repeal the Af- #118655) or the University of Pittsburgh fordable Care Act. Police at 412-624-2121 (Reference report See Sanders Rally on page 2 #17-02283),” the alert said.

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SOME PSU AUDIT CONCERNS APPLY TO PITT

Janine Faust Senior Staff Writer The Pennsylvania auditor general harshly criticized Penn State after a recent audit, raising some concerns that apply to other staterelated universities, including Pitt.

In his 112-page audit report, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale cited several issues including skyrocketing tuition, a lack of transparency, a decrease in in-state enrollment and an oversized board of trustees.

In a news release, DePasquale criticized PSU’s in-state tuition increase — 535 percent in the past 30 years.

“Simply put, expenses are out of control,” DePasquale said. “Penn State must create a tuition task force that includes board members with a focus on identifying and lowering costs that are driving tuition into the stratosphere.”

According to the U.S. Department of Education, Penn State’s main campus had the third highest tuition of any U.S. public fouryear school in the 2014-2015 academic year at $17,502. Pitt’s main campus was ranked first at $17,772.

In addition to rising tuition, DePasquale raised concerns about a lack of transparency among state-related Universities, saying the Right-to-Know Law — which state-related Universities are largely exempt from —

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should fully apply to all the schools, including Pitt.

“As a recipient of a significant amount of taxpayer dollars... it is high time the General Assembly made Penn State and all state-related related universities subject to the provisions of ... the Right-to-Know Law,” he said in a press conference Thursday. “And I strongly urge — because I have to watch my mouth on how I say this — all these institutions to stop lobbying the General Assembly against this.”

University spokesperson Joe Miksch did not comment on DePasquale’s Right-toKnow Law or tuition concerns.

Apart from transparency, much of his report focused on in-state enrollment, noting a 12 percent in-state student decrease at Penn State since 1990, while out-of-state enrollment almost doubled.

“Penn State appears to be part of a growing national trend among public research institutions that give preference to nonresident students as a means of increasing tuition revenue,” DePasquale said. “In essence then, a university can get a ‘better bang for the buck’ by increasing the number of its nonresident students.”

Pitt’s out-of-state enrollment has increased in the past decade, shrinking the proportion of in-state students. However, unlike Penn State, Pitt’s number of in-state students

hasn’t decreased significantly.

The number of in-state undergraduates at Pitt’s main campus has remained about the same — 12,743 in 2006 and 12,423 in 2016, according to Pitt’s factbooks. However the percentage is substantially lower due to increased total enrollment — 32 percent were in-state in 2006, compared to 17 last year.

Miksch said that Pitt’s national reputation and a jump in overall enrollment explain why out-of-state enrollment has risen.

“Over the past decade, the number of undergraduate applications we received from out-of-state has nearly quadrupled. The number of applications from Pennsylvania residents has also increased [by 50 percent],” Miksch said, adding that the increase in outof-state enrollment has occurred during a overall enrollment increase.

The auditor general also stated in the release that the PSU board of trustees had grown quite large, having gained four voting and two non-voting members since November 2012. He called for the General Assembly to cut the size of the board of trustees for all state-related institutes of higher education.

According to the 2011 Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges Survey, boards of public schools range from a low of five to a high of 36 — the number of voting members on Pitt’s board.

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Sanders Rally, pg. 1 Sanders mounted the stage at 8 p.m. after speakers from advocacy groups told personal stories and urged the audience to call Toomey to oppose the Senate’s draft of the bill. Toomey is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Health Care and helped with the drafting process of the bill.

“What we are here tonight to say — as clearly as we can — is that we will not allow 23 million Americans to be thrown off of their health insurance they currently have in order to give over $500 billion in tax breaks to the top 2 percent, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies and to other multi-national corporations,” Sanders said.

Sanders said that the U.S. is the only major country that does not guarantee health care as a right and that the proposed bill is nothing more than a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy.

“In America, we’re not supposed to take from the children, the elderly and the sick to give tax breaks to billionaires,” Sanders said.

Speakers before Sanders started chants with the crowd of about 1,600 people, such as “vote him out,” “lives are on the line,” “people not profits” and even a chant of “Turtle” when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was mentioned — a joke originating from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

Laura Thomas, an Indiana, Pennsylvania, resident, said she developed cancer from the effects of the terror attacks on 9/11. Thomas said her husband suffered from respiratory See Sanders Rally on page 3

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Sanders Rally, pg. 2 restraints after the attack as well, and was uninsured until the passage of the Affordable Care Act because his respiratory problems were considered to be a pre-existing condition.

“If they repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with this joke — this jumped up joke — to benefit the wealthy, my husband will once again be uninsured,” Thomas said.

Thomas said that the health care bill proposed by the Senate last week is a travesty and that Sanders did a good job bringing the issues to light at the rally.

“He raised all of the cogent points that he always raises, with passion in an incredibly timely fashion, for a state represented by Pat Toomey,” Thomas said.

Senate Republicans divulged their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act last Thursday after drafting the bill in secret.

The draft includes deep cuts to Medicaid and repeals the insurance mandate that existed under Obamacare. It will offer tax cuts to help pay for insurance, but critics point out that the majority of the cuts go to the wealthy.

McConnell delayed the Senate vote until after the July 4 recess following several Repub-

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lican Senators saying they would not support the bill.

Jeff Warner, 25, graduated from Pitt in December and said that he absolutely opposes the Republican health care bill.

Warner said that the health care bill the GOP proposes is “unspeakably evil” and thinks single payer health care is a better alternative. K.C. Carney, 65, graduated from Pitt in the 1980s and agrees that single payer health care is the ideal option for America.

“I am not personally worried about [losing health insurance]. It’s provided by my employer — I pay, you know, I pay into it, but I get it from my employer,” Carney said. “It’s about everybody — the rest of citizenry needs to be helped, the sick and dying.”

Although Warner is not worried about losing his own health care, he thinks that health care should be a right and that every American should be entitled to receiving medical attention — a major point of Sanders’ speech.

“The bill would bring the number of uninsured people in our country to over 50 million people. This is almost beyond belief — it is unconscionable,” Sanders said. “Everyone knows that the Affordable Care Act is far from perfect. Our job now is to improve it, not destroy it.”

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YOUNG VOTERS: LEAD BY EXAMPLE TO FIGHT NATIONALISM

Christian Snyder Opinions Editor

“I mean, I voted, but why does it matter?

London will never listen.”

When I asked my new Scottish friend about the United Kingdom’s recent election, he responded with pure ambivalence. He truly cares about the issues at hand, but he, like many other Scots, has long struggled with misrepresentation in government.

And this feeling isn’t just isolated to Scotland.

Through my time studying abroad so far, I’ve come to the realization that me and my peers’ disgust toward politics isn’t uniquely American.

The world is faced with the rising force of farright populism, and while it may seem scary, we can look forward to the world that will be led by today’s young people.

And particularly, Americans today are more Scottish than they might think. To understand why — why Scottish attitudes toward England and the looming question of Brexit are analogous to young Americans’ feelings about the recent election — a bit of Scottish history is necessary.

The Kingdoms of England and Scotland have long struggled to find balance in their relationship, and fought a series of bloody wars from the 1300s to the late 1500s. This continued until 1603, when King James VI of Scotland became also King James I of England in the Union of the Crowns, a symbolic and strategic joining of the two kingdoms. It took until 1997 for Scotland to achieve home rule from England.

But home rule doesn’t mean full independence, and in 2011 Scotland finally voted on an independence referendum led by the Scottish National Party — and it failed. This made Scotland the first and only nation to reject an offer of independence from another.

Today, the threat of Brexit makes many Scots — a majority of whom voted to stay in the European Union in 2016 — rethink their votes against independence. People I’ve spoken with

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while abroad have voiced serious complaints that their voices simply don’t matter, and seem resigned to the fact that England will continue to rule them without concern.

And it’s this that strikes a chord with me. I, and so many people that I know, went out on Nov. 8 and cast our ballots for Hillary Clinton, and did so confidently. We didn’t believe Donald Trump could win office. We tried to make our voices heard — 55 percent of us voters age 18-29 voted for Clinton — but we were drown out by

The new far-right nationalists don’t seem to believe that cultural cooperation can result in benefits for all, or that membership in wider international organizations or treaties is worth their time — a scary thought for the average Scotsman, or young American.

But we can learn from each other, I think.

Over 70 percent of voters age 16-24 voted to remain in the EU in 2016, and young voters overwhelmingly supported Scottish independence in 2014. And while votes for independence may

Jordan Mondell CONTRIBUTING EDITOR party politics and international interference into our election.

And much like Scotland, young America is now faced with leadership that they can’t affect and the growing shift of political debate from conservative vs. liberal to nationalist vs. globalist. The U.K.’s exit from the EU is eerily similar to Trump’s campaign calls for a border wall, institution of travel bans and exit from the Paris climate agreements — each of these things symbolizes nationalization.

seem nationalist, they in fact are votes in favor of self-determination, a clearly globalist point of view. These voters are the ones that would fight for other countries’ independences and freedoms, and would vehemently stand against the greedy.

The scariest part about nationalism, or isolationism, is that to be against your country is to be alone, isolated. It’s why revolutions are so difficult to start, and why it feels like our young voices are so hard to make heard. We are yelling amid the

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crowd of an entire nation, but are met only with assertions that our president will make America great again.

We are not alone though. America, Germany, Holland, France and the United Kingdom are among the many nations faced with the newest wave of populist international politics. This seems frightening at first — more and more countries are showing isolationist tendencies and grappling with issues of adequate representation for their populations.

But in fact, there’s something comforting about all of it. What would be truly terrifying would be if young Americans were the only young demographic terrified of the threat of populism. But in Scotland and the broader United Kingdom, young voters mirrored their American counterparts in the fight against populism over the past few years, and similar trends are shown around the rest of Europe.

Of course, that’s not a comfort today, nor is it a comfort tomorrow.

It’s a comfort in the long run. Young people may feel slighted or alone up against their entire countries, where naturally older voters hold the power. But we are never alone.

Try as they may, politicians cannot take away from us the world we have at our fingertips, and try as they may, older generations cannot live forever. Soon, young people all around the world will be the ones with power, and hopefully we will be able to change a system that never favored us. This may be idealistic, but I hope that we can learn from the way our voices are ignored and change that oppressive system for the better.

Amid our own turbulent politics, a lot of Americans might not know why Brexit is so important, and I’m sure few of my peers know the details of Holland’s latest election. But these are more important than ever. If we want to continue building a more global, more cooperative world, we have to be invested in the things that affect us all, not just the nationalist view of what affects our fellow citizens. We must do what our elected officials cannot, and lead by example — one of the few things in our control.

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from the editorial board

Toomey is either misinformed or lying – and it will hurt Pennsylvanians Regardless of what Sen. Pat Toomey may say, the new Senate health care bill does cut federal spending to Medicaid, and does so in a significant way.

Medicaid is a federal program designed to provide health insurance to those who otherwise cannot afford it, and as of April 2017 nearly 75 million Americans were enrolled in the program. Currently, the program and those enrolled in it are at risk.

When the Affordable Care Act came into law, it greatly expanded Medicaid, both the number of people that the program covers and what is covered by the program. But both the GOP House and Senate bills as they stand would make significant cuts to a crucial program in our nation’s social safety net as compared to the current law.

However, Toomey is insistent that Medicaid isn’t facing any cuts, explaining his point of view in a CBS interview Sunday.

“I have to strongly disagree with the characterization that we’re somehow ending the Medicaid expansion, in fact, quite the contrary,” he said. “We’re going to continue that eligibility. No one loses coverage.”

However, directly contradicting the Pennsylvania Republican, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports that by 2026, Medicaid will face a 26 percent cut compared to the current law with 22 million Americans losing coverage under the bill.

So either Toomey was lying or he’s just doesn’t understand the bill he helped write.

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This cut comes from the federal match rate — the amount of funding the government will provide for newly eligible Medicaid recipients. The ACA provided a match rate at 90 percent or above, but the House bill would decrease the match rate back to the preObamacare rate of below 60 percent, and the Senate bill would have a similar effect.

But it’s not just people currently on Medicaid that need the program — new recipients are just as desperate for affordable health care, and slashing future federal match rates would leave 49 million Americans uninsured by 2026.

Toomey may claim that because spending doesn’t decrease, there aren’t “cuts.” But the CBO, and millions that would lose coverage if this bill is passed, disagree. The bill cuts coverage, it’s that simple. What Toomey and other Republican lawmakers fail to realize is that, amid rising costs of health care, cuts to proposed expansions have very real impacts on the lives of millions of Americans.

And when millions of American lives are at stake, nobody really cares about budget semantics. It’s time for those in Washington to provide health care to back up the boastful attitude in the GOP that Obamacare is broken. And here in Pennsylvania, it’s time for Toomey to come clean — either he’s ignorant to the how this will affect the lives of his constituents, or he just thinks tax cuts for the wealthy are more important.

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Culture Photo courtesy of Dave Pirozzi

SLICE OF LIFE:

DAVE PIROZZI’S MUSIC MAKES WAVES AT PITT

by Jack Mulligan, for The Pitt News

While most artists draw inspiration from love and heartbreak, Pitt student and musician Dave Pirozzi finds inspiration in seemingly strange places — video games, cartoons and the changing of seasons.

“I really have this weird obsession with fall,” Pirozzi said. “For my future writing with Pinstripe Sunny, I am actually gearing the instrumentals to sound very autumnal.”

Pinstripe Sunny — a band of his own creation — is one of three successful musical outfits around campus Pirozzi is involved with. He also brings his talents to the Jack Stauber-fronted Zaki and Small Fries — Pirozzi’s collaboration with AllegrA, otherwise known as Allegra Eidinger.

“They’re all so weirdly different,” he said of his musical projects.

Relatively new to the Pitt music scene, Pirozzi — a rising senior majoring in media and communication — has placed himself as one of the most interesting and prolific musicians on campus. He is able to weave inspirations from his own life into hazy and alluring tunes, as well as bend any genre to his personal style.

Pirozzi encompasses the diverse spirit of the DIY music scene at Pitt. His jazz-influenced style and playful dadaist lyrics bring excitement to the events of day-to-day life. A multi-talented singer, guitarist and composer, Pirozzi brings his wide range of talents to every one of his musical projects.

He’s almost never caught doing something that isn’t related to music. When he is not writing music of his own, you could find Pirozzi at music events around Pittsburgh and at his

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friends’ house shows in Oakland.

“Essentially my free time is dedicated to writing music,” Pirozzi said.

Each band encompasses a different genre and involves different instruments — Zaki is rock while Pinstripe Sunny and Small Fries are more jazz-influenced and sparse.

Pirozzi’s career in music began in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, with his close musical counterpart and lifelong friend Sam Becht. The two met through their assigned seats in elementary school.

“I met him in the third grade,” Becht said.

“It’s always been really easy to work with him.”

The first Pinstripe Sunny record — “Bossa Loser” — was recorded in the span of nine days to amass material for a gig Becht had booked for Pirozzi in Philadelphia last year.

When it came to performing “Bossa Loser” live, Pirozzi enlisted a band which would go forth as the permanent lineup for Pinstripe Sunny. The current five piece set is comprised of Pirozzi, Mark Stinley on drums, Hsuan Chang on keyboards, Sam Nigh on bass and David Galinsky on guitar. “[The gig] was two weeks after Sam told me about it, so I kind of locked myself in my guest bedroom and just recorded and recorded,” Pirozzi said.

Pirozzi pulls his influence from indie artists such as Mac DeMarco, King Krule and Lamp.

He describes his music as “dreamy” and says he finds inspiration in the seemingly mundane tasks of daily life.

Because Pirozzi draws inspiration from so many strange places when writing music for

Pinstripe Sunny, the crowd at one of his band’s shows ranges from kids from the Pittsburgh DIY scene — a community of bands who record their own music — to close friends of Pirozzi and his bandmates. All gather to hear the trippy bedroom-pop stylings found on “Bossa Loser.”

“Out of all the bands and all the crowds, Pinstripe Sunny definitely gets the weirdest crowd,” Pirozzi said.

Pinstripe Sunny played at Mr. Small’s Theater on May 19, just a few days before DeMarco — a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter — played on the same stage.

“I sometimes look at the ticket and see “Mr. Smalls — Pinstripe Sunny” and I have my other ticket [...] “Mr. Smalls — Mac DeMarco,” and I’m just like, ‘Holy moly. We warmed up the stage for Mac DeMarco,’” Pirozzi said.

What sets Pirozzi apart from other musicians is his interest in bringing together seemingly incongruous production and lyrics — he is able to apply his jazz-influenced style to any project or collaboration he has in mind.

Indigo Baloch, 23, is a close friend of Pirozzi and said he pulls inspiration from a lot of unique places.

“I think the best thing about Dave as a musician is that he is just always really interested in trying new things,” said Baloch.

Baloch said that Pirozzi is always really invested in his collaborations and Pirozzi has nothing but praise for his collaborators. He is set to continue his work as a guitarist and songwriter with Zaki — another Pitt band previously profiled via lead singer Jack Stauber. Zaki is a collaboration between Pirozzi, Stauber, Stephen

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Kraus and Jesse Descutner.

“When I work with these guys and I see how they hone their craft with their instruments, it’s disgusting,” Pirozzi said. “Everybody brings something to the table.”

Pirozzi has also teamed up with well-known Pitt musician Eidinger on their jazz-pop project Small Fries. What started with Pirozzi offering Eidinger some leftover fries after one of her house show sets blossomed into two Small Fries EPs. The outfit released their sophomore EP “Side Order” on June 8.

“I feel like we are always on the same page musically. And it’s really natural to collaborate with him, unlike any collaboration I’ve had before,” Eidinger said.

In addition to Pirozzi’s collaboration with AllegrA, Pinstripe Sunny also plays shows where AllegrA is on the line-up — the two artists performed at Oakland’s Digital Plaza on April 29.

Gearing up for his favorite season and last semester at Pitt, Pirozzi has a lot planned for the future. He and the other members of Zaki are currently working on the band’s debut album in addition to his continuing work with Pinstripe Sunny.

The spirit of Pirozzi’s music lies in his ability to capture the minutiae of life and make it exciting — he can write about an everyday event and turn it into a destination as opposed to merely a journey.

“If I am walking from point A to point B, I want to make my song about the walk. I don’t want to make it about what I’ll do when I get to point B,” Pirozzi said. “I want it to sound like a slice of life, but in music.”

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WOLK FLEURY: GREAT GOALIE, BETTER PERSON WINS USA JUNIOR 5K

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Ryan Zimba Sports Editor

Even though the Pitt track and field season ended two weeks ago, some of the team’s best runners continued to compete this past weekend at the United States Track and Field Outdoor Championships, including freshman Nick Wolk, who won the junior 5000m championship with a time of 14:26.54.

Recent graduate and All-American sprinter Desmond Palmer was also at the meet, finishing 14th in the semifinal round of the 400m hurdles with a time of 50.48.

The accomplishment is just the most recent in a long list for Wolk, who was named the ACC Men’s Cross Country Freshman of the Week in the fall, going on to place 50th in the ACC Championships. In the 2016-17 indoor season, he ran the team’s best time in the 3000m at the Penn Marc-Andre Fleury is headed west after being drafted by the newly formed Vegas Golden Knights in last week’s State National Open, finishing at 8:15.69.

But to him, this weekend’s race ranks above NHL Expansion Draft. Nuccio DiNuzzo TNS most — if not all — of those achievements. looking at things from a team perspective. a backup.

Fleury was the team’ s longest-tenured Ryan Zimba “This is probably one of my best races or “You know, [Murray starting is] fine,” Fleury player — competing in his first game in 2003.

Sports Editor biggest titles that I’ve ever had,” Wolk said. “It’s It’s hard to believe Marc-Andre Fleury — the Throughout his 14 years in Pittsburgh, he was a told ESPN at the time. “I haven’t played in a definitely given me a lot of confidence as we go month now, and what’ s important is us winning. fi erce competitor, team player and, most imporPenguins’ backup goalie — could mean so much towards the future.”

Matty’ s given us a chance.

He’ s been in there.

I’ll tantly, a role model for the team’ s young fans. to a team and its city.

Wolk won the race by less than a second, beatstay ready, I’ll encourage him ...

I’ll try my best to While those qualities were always visible, they But when veteran goaltender Fleury was ing out Oklahoma State’s Alec Haines and unatcontribute whatever I’m doing just to help us win. ” were on full display over the last 14 months, starttaken by the newly formed Vegas Golden Knights This year, his attitude was largely the same as tached runner Daniel Schaffer down the stretch. in last week’s NHL Expansion Draft, there was ing at the beginning of last year’s playoffs when “I knew everyone else in the race was hurthe split time with Murray amidst trade rumors rookie Matt Murray overtook him as the team’ s an outpouring of support and gratitude from the ing,” Wolk said. “With about a lap to go, I could and the looming possibility of the aforemenstarter.

And even though he didn’t know it at people of Pittsburgh. hear them breathing heavy, so I figured I had a Even though this has long been expected, the time, it was the first event in a long sequence tioned expansion draft. In the playoffs, he was good shot. With one lap to go, I took the lead and unexpectedly thrust into the starting role for the which led him to Vegas. fans were saddened to see Fleury leave. Last week trusted my kick to get me the win.” fi rst two rounds before Murray took over in the Th is situation had to be hard for him, as it — before the draft — at an autograph session at Despite the championship, this wasn’t Wolk’s Eastern Conference Finals against the Ottawa would be for any athlete forced out of their role Dick’s Sporting Goods in Cranberry, Pennsylvapersonal record in the event. In April, he ran a Senators.

Again, there were no complaints from and onto the bench.

But it wasn’t the fact that he nia, people were lined up 12 hours prior to the was on the bench that made this moment stick Fleury, who sat on the bench as Murray led the 14:16.12 in the Virginia Challenge, finishing 27th event, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. overall. He said this race was a bit of a slower one, team to another Stanley Cup. So, why all the fanfare for a player who frankly out. Rather, it was how he handled it. with no one willing to surge and take a lead. As a Th e team’ s post-game celebration was the Fleury was one of Murray’ s biggest supportwouldn’t have made much of an impact going result, the run wasn’t his fastest, but he’s still more perfect summary of his last 14 months with the ers during the team’ s run to the 2016 Stanley Cup forward?

See Fleury on page 9 See Wolk on page 9 championship.

He never complained, instead Well, first off, the Penguins lost a lot more than

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Fleury, pg. 8 Penguins. As he approached the end of his lap with the Cup, he turned and handed it off to Murray, patting him on the back and passing the torch in the process.

“I got [the Cup] ahead of some of the older guys, and that’s because Flower handed it to me, and I have to say that’s one of the most special moments of my life,” Murray said after the game.

The way in which Fleury handled his difficult situation was different from what many other socalled role models would’ve done. Today, many athletes achieve this status solely because of their talent. It doesn’t matter what they do in the locker room or outside the game.

How many athletes over the years have demanded a trade from a certain team? How many football or basketball players have complained they don’t get the ball enough to make them happy?

The answer: Too many to list here, particularly in the NBA, where stars often complain they don’t get the ball down the stretch of a close game.

One such player is eight-time All-Star Dwight Howard, who has complained multiple times over the years with several organizations.

In 2012, the 6-foot-11 center demanded a

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trade from the Orlando Magic and drew attention to the team’s unwillingness to rely upon him down the stretch.

“I do want the ball more in the fourth quarter,” Howard said to Fox Sports after beating the Milwaukee Bucks 99-94. “I want to become a closer. The only way you get there is by getting the ball and have coach have the confidence in giving me the ball.”

Howard got his trade, going to the Los Angeles Lakers for one year before arriving in Houston to play for the Rockets. But he was displeased there as well, saying in an interview with ESPN he was “disinterested” at times because he felt his “role was being reduced.”

Howard’s situation isn’t uncommon, either.

The most recent example occurred just last week, as New York Mets infielder Asdrubal Cabrera asked to be traded after being moved from shortstop to second base.

These players complain, and they’re still starting on a regular basis. Imagine if they were put in Fleury’s situation, moved to the bench in favor of a much less experienced player. It would be much more dramatic, and yet, Fleury maintained supporting Murray throughout the Penguins’ process.

After this season ended, the veteran goaltender’s fate was all but sealed. He was headed to Las

Vegas, and he knew it. Still, he wasn’t done giving to Pittsburgh.

A few days before the draft, Fleury opened a brand-new playground at the Sto-Ken-Rox Boys and Girls Club in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

Fleury helped fund the project and also donated supplies and hockey equipment.

And just hours after the draft, he made time to organize a street hockey event for the kids in his new town, attempting to endear himself to his new city.

Allowing Vegas to take Fleury was clearly the right move for the future of the team, however Pittsburgh lost one of its best role models for young fans. Sure, there are others — Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen and Steelers rookie James Conner to name a few — who have inspired the city, but none have been here longer or made as much of an impact as Fleury.

It will be odd to see him don a different black and gold uniform next season, but the city of Pittsburgh will always be behind him.

In a letter titled “Thank You, Pittsburgh” for The Players Tribune, Fleury said he didn’t know how it would feel returning to PPG Paints Arena Feb. 6. But he should receive nothing less than a standing ovation from the fans, and I have no doubt they’ll give it to him.

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Wolk, pg. 8 than pleased with the result.

Plus, with the performance, Wolk qualified for the 2017 Pan American Junior Championships held in Lima, Peru from July 21-23. It will be Wolk’s first time traveling outside the country — let alone competing internationally.

He will represent the United States at the meet, a change from last week, when he wore the blue and gold of Pitt. “[Representing the United States] is a dream come true, for sure,” Wolk said. “I’ve always wanted to represent the U.S.A. and try to compete against the best in the world for them and see what I can do out there.”

Looking to the fall, Wolk is trying to stay focused on the cross country season, where he’ll go up against older, more experienced runners.

He has his goals outlined, saying he wants to be named to the first team All-ACC and qualify for the NCAA Championships.

“Honestly, cross country season will have a little better competition,” Wolk said. “The ACC is definitely extremely competitive and the NCAA is still a great challenge. Maybe it’s not as exciting — I don’t get to travel to Peru — but I’m still racing some of the best in the world at the collegiate level.”

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