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Dean lifts Greek-life probation

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policies, but is only a recommendation for universities.

“We can’t have a one-size-fits-all policy,” Shapiro said. “You have to be able to be flexible. You have to be able to be attentive to the needs of the individual campuses and students. And it can’t just be law enforcement coming in and dictating what needs to be done.”

The report is born of a commission that led the roundtable discussions over the past year at Slippery Rock University, Drexel University, Lincoln University, University of Pittsburgh and

At a forum in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room Wednesday night, Dean of Students Kenyon Bonner and coordinator of Pitt fraternity and sorority life Lexie Elliott announced to a group of about 20 members of Pitt’s Greek life that their modified social probation was being lifted.

The probation was first implemented in January after a student was hospitalized following an off-campus Sigma Chi recruitment event and prevented fraternities and sororities from hosting or associating with any alcohol-related events. This was followed by another incident in February, when a dozen more students came forward to police with allegations of hazing against sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.

Bonner announced in April that the modified probation would be lifted once the fall semester started and Pitt finished drafting a thorough community action plan. Pitt intended the plan to keep Greek life safe for students through required training, counseling against hazing and additional safety measures at events with alcohol present. Wednesday

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A student spray-paints the name of an organization they interned at onto a banner at Wednesday’s Career Center Launch Party. Sarah Cutshall|STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

SHAPIRO SPEAKS ABOUT SAFETY Sarah Shearer

tion of voices heard across the state.

Shapiro addressed four major areas in the report — global recommendations, sexual asAttorney General Josh Shapiro wants universault, mental health and drug and alcohol. He sity students to call for help — and also squash the addressed these areas alongside other speakstigma associated with it. ers, including Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, Pitt Shapiro spent the past year having roundtable student activist Sarah Stone, Executive Director discussions across Pennsylvania, sitting across of PA Commission on Asian Pacific American from assault survivors, students and activists to Affairs Tiffany Chang Lawson, Director of the learn how Pennsylvania universities can be safer Pittsburgh Poison Center Michael Lynch and Pitt for students. Pittsburgh community members Title IX coordinator Katie Pope. The report offers came to the William Pitt Union Tuesday to sit at solutions to issues in these areas such as bolstertables of their own while Shapiro presented the ing counseling services and improving Title IX 28th annual campus safety report — a culminaAssistant News Editor

News MAGGIE & STELLA’S NEW HOME ON FIFTH AVE

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When Amazon came to visit Pittsburgh, its representatives took a tour of Oakland and were impressed with the location of one little gift and card shop in particular — Maggie and Stella’s.

The shop recently reopened Aug. 13 on Fifth Avenue in place of the Oakland Bakery and Market, months after an Amazon campus pick-up location moved into its former space on Oakland Avenue. Monica Rattigan, the director of University stores at Pitt, said in an The main products at Maggie and Stella’s include email that Amazon’s excitement baby clothing, home decor and stationery. about the store was one of the Grant Burgman | CONTRIBUTING EDITOR main reasons it moved. and Stella’s] since it was our first time designing “When we had the opportunity to bring Amazon to Oakland, they really a grocery and we really wanted to get it right.”

Meagan Sotirokos, the manager and buyer liked the Maggie and Stella’s space. So we began for Maggie and Stella’s, has worked at the store looking for a new location for Maggie and Stelfor fi ve years. She said it was her intention to dila’s,” Rattigan said. vide the new location into distinct sections.

Inside its new location, Maggie and Stella’s “We have it broken up into a baby section, is divided into different sections of gifts and a home-decor tabletop section, a borrower secnovelty items. There is a table dedicated to Pittstion and then stationery — so cards and boxes burgh merchandise, including a shirt listing the of note cards and journals, ” Sotirokos said. “And City’s most famous bridges and another table then a small men’s section, women’s accessories covered from end to end with candles. In the and a Pittsburgh section. ” corner that once featured a display of donuts is The store itself has been a part of the Oaknow a collection of children’s toys and books. land community for the past 13 years. Even the Rattigan explained that the Oakland Bakery name carries a historical significance at Pitt. left its Fifth Avenue location so that it could be “Maggie and Stella’s” comes from the names of incorporated into the grocery store coming to the fi rst two female students that ever attended Forbes Avenue. She said because the University Pitt, then known as the Western University of is taking its time with the grocery store, Maggie Pennsylvania — Margaret and Stella Stein. The and Stella’s opened before it. sisters went on to graduate from the University “Once we knew we were going to put the with master’s degrees in 1901.

Bakery in the grocery store, that freed up space “The chancellor at the time thought that it for Maggie and Stella’s,” Rattigan said. “The would be a good idea if two sisters come to the concept all came together at the same time, but See Store on page 3 design of the grocery took longer than [Maggie

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Greek Life, pg. 1 night marked the effective lifting of the probation as Bonner announced that the time had come to return responsibility back to the student leaders of the Greek organizations.

“We could play around with this safety blanket for another year, another semester, another couple of months, but that’s all it is,” Bonner said. “At some point, you’re all adults, you’re all leaders, you’re all responsible people — and I think reasonable people — and you have a responsibility to manage your organizations.”

During an interview in the spring, the president of the Pan-Hellenic Fraternity Council, Ellie Foley, said she thought Bonner’s decision to put Greek life on probation was the appropriate decision.

“What happened was scary, no one wants to get that news,” she said. “I think [Bonner] did what he had to … I think it was incredibly appropriate.”

Every member in the audience was given a copy of the community action plan, which Bonner said was written after meetings with the heads of the Interfraternity Council and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

“What we have today and what we released a few weeks ago we believe is a strong plan that was created with everyone involved,” Bonner said.

Christian Baker, the president of Pitt’s Interfraternity Council, said in an interview with The Pitt News in the spring that he and the other heads of Greek life at Pitt met to write a proposal for Bonner’s action plan.

“We talked about positives, the negatives, how we can address those things and assessment,” Baker said.

The action plan outlines a set of initiatives, along with a plan for Greek-life assessment and a “Support and Partnerships” section that lays out protocols for managing Greek life on campus.

The plan states that “at all social events with alcohol, the president and

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risk manager must act as event monitors in addition to one monitor for every 25 people attending.” It also institutes new rules for students that aren’t in a fraternity or sorority but are interested in joining one.

“All students who are interested in fraternity and sorority life are required to attend a Greek 101 session prior to recruitment or intake,” reads the document.

The plan also requires chapters to attend bystander and intervention training and diversity programming. The document lists nine total educational initiatives.

Elliott addressed the crowd briefly to explain the assessment of Greek life organizations that will take place in October. She said Pitt is in the process of hiring three consultants to review Greek life on campus from a third-party perspective.

“It’s not to be viewed as punitive or saying ‘this is where you’re not doing well’ or ‘this is where we’re failing,’ but how we’re gonna get better,” Elliott said.

Elliott also said fraternities and sororities would be more transparent in the future.

“Starting on our website this year we’ll be sharing more information about our chapters. So we’ll be releasing our community grade report, so saying what chapters’ average GPAs are,” she said. “We’ll also be looking into releasing conduct records because we want our potential new members, our aspirants, to be making the best investment.”

The final section of the action plan — “Support and Partnerships” — features nine bullet points highlighting methods of managing and policing Greek organizations. One bullet point says to “develop methods for anonymous reporting of hazing and other concerning behavior and actively promote the various methods of reporting.”

Pitt plans to publicly release the full details of the action plan to the public soon.

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Dickinson College where over 360 people attended from 67 universities. The contents of the safety report came directly from information gathered and topics discussed at these meetings.

“I want to be clear,” Shapiro said. “Our office went there to listen and to learn — not to dictate what these universities need to do.”

University students attended these meetings — an opportunity Sarah Stone, a Pitt senior studying communication and rhetoric, thought was crucial.

“As a student activist, it can often be hard to have your voice heard. But platforms like the roundtables hosted by [Attorney] General Shapiro allow student voices to be heard,” Stone said. “I appreciate that students were welcomed … and recognized as key stakeholders in these safety issues.”

Stone has watched Pitt progress in its awareness and prevention of sexual assault since her first year — adding discussion-based groups on consent, bystander intervention certification programs and online platforms for survivors during her time at the University. Stone serves with several student organizations focused on sexual assault prevention and is a peer educator for multiple health and safety programs at Pitt such as Sexual Assault Facilitation and Educa-

Store, pg. 2 school together so they could take care of each other,” Sotirokos said.

Sotirokos had a lot of time to plan between summer 2017 and the store’s opening at its new location three weeks ago. Multiple dates were chosen then changed before they decided on an August reopening date, she said.

“Eventually we landed on an August opening so that it’d be ready for back-to-school and it’d be brand new to campus and the freshmen and it’d be a great start to fall,” Sotirokos said.

The new location, paired with the timing of its reopening, has attracted far more student interest than before.

“Our focus has always definitely been on incoming visitors and always serving our staff and faculty,” Sotirokos said. “But the traffic patterns I’ve seen over the last two weeks, I’ve definitely seen a large increase in our student traffic, being in proximity to the dorms.”

A few of those student customers, Jasmine Lizardo, a first-year biology major, and Reena Shepard, a first-year neuroscience major, said Maggie and Stella’s is meant for a student crowd.

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“I think [it’s for] maybe young adults, probably like a few years older than us,” Shepard said.

Lizardo said that the store had an obvious bend toward female customers.

“We thought it looked really cute and it’s not too expensive in there,” Lizardo said. “[It’s] definitely [for] girls. There’s a lot of soaps, bath bombs and water bottles.”

One of the things Sotirokos said she plans to focus on at the new location is integrating local artists’ and artisans’ works into the store.

“I knew that I really wanted to focus on handmade and local artisans. I mean, we did do that in the old store some, but I really wanted to make a bigger push to connect with people in the community,” Sotirokos said.

Sotirokos’ first chance to connect with the community at the new location of Maggie and Stella’s will be Sept. 14 when the store hosts its grand reopening.

“We’re gonna have a lot of activities inside the store that are happening — giveaways, raffle baskets, photo booth, some special promotions for that day, some vendors set up to explain a little bit more about their products,” Sotirokos said. “It’s going to be pretty fun.”

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tion (SAFE) and Pitt Agents of Cultural Change (PACC).

Stone, who spoke at Tuesday’s conference in the William Pitt Union, urged Pitt community members to take the safety report seriously.

“Listen to these needs and implement these recommendations so students like me can focus on our education and not have to worry about their safety,” she said.

This report comes 10 and a half months after Pitt student Alina Sheykhet was found dead in her apartment on Cable Street in South Oakland — her ex-boyfriend Matthew Darby is suspected of killing her. Her death was not discussed at Tuesday’s conference, but a response to the circumstances of her passing is already underway.

The Allegheny County district attorney’s office, along with Pitt and UPMC, recently announced the installation of 60 new surveillance cameras around Oakland — Sheykhet’s death was part of the inspiration behind this undertaking.

Sexual assault dominated the conference.

Lawson specifically addressed a proposed special victims unit to work with campus police. Under the initiative, officers in a special unit would train specifically to respond to matters of dating violence, sexual assault, stalking and more.

“The impact of sexual assault is devastating,” Lawson said.

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RMU’s new scholarship: Great first move, but not enough In the past two decades, college tuition at universities has doubled. Robert Morris University just announced a tuition adjustment too, but in the opposite direction — starting in 2019, RMU will match Pitt and Penn State’s in-state tuition for Pennsylvania residents also admitted to those schools, a scholarship of over $15,000 per year.

This “Public Price Match Plus” guarantee may be revolutionary for a small, private college, but it’ll only end up affecting around 20 students per year — so it’s not nearly enough to ensure affordable education for all Pennsylvania residents.

Pennsylvania state schools are in dire need of a tuition reduction — but until that happens, private universities should match the tuition rates of their public counterparts for all in-state students.

Other parts of the United States have already evened out tuition across public universities. The Western Undergraduate Exchange program enables out-of-state students across 16 different states — including California, Arizona and Oregon — to enroll in more than 150 public institutions at 150 percent or less of that college’s in-state tuition.

Because students on the West Coast have more colleges to choose from, universities need to lower their tuition to attract the most talented candidates — colleges in the West Coast cost one-third the price of Pennsylvania’s public schools.

Since many students eventually settle in the same area where they went to college, keeping talented students in Pennsylvania is important to ensure a flourishing job market. Exorbitant college tuition rates only push students out of the state — so it’s no coincidence that Pittsburgh is the 10th worst metropolitan area at keeping college

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graduates, with a retention rate of 50 percent.

New York State provides free tuition to any resident who makes less than $125,000 per year — in exchange, students must work in the state for four years after graduation. And New York City, unlike Pittsburgh, ranks third in the country for retaining college graduates at 74 percent.

“If New York can do it, I can’t see why Pennsylvania can’t,” said Ben McCoy, a cash-strapped junior at Westmoreland County Community College in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania should adopt similar programs to New York and the West Coast to make college more accessible and retain graduates. But most Pennsylvanians attend private universities, so reducing tuition at those institutions could make an even greater impact.

Most private colleges — not just the highly elite ones — have the finances to do this, too.

Rosemont College, a small middle-ofthe-road Catholic school outside Philadelphia, almost halved its tuition price in 2016.

“For us and for our families, the system that most colleges and universities are following of having very high sticker prices and high discounts to go along with it was really getting out of hand,” said Rosemont President Sharon Hirsch.

In response to the price cut, Rosemont saw its applications soar 64 percent — so if RMU wants to improve its enrollment numbers, it should cut tuition unilaterally, not just for 20 students.

Likewise, if Pennsylvania wants a thriving job market and a debt-free population, it should emulate the West Coast’s model — no longer should the state someone grows up in prevent them from going to college.

HARSHER HAZING LAW IS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Maggie Durwald Opinions Editor

At a retreat to South Carolina earlier this year, more than a dozen families affected by hazing deaths met to form the Anti-Hazing Coalition. Their goal was to prevent incidents similar to the ones that stole away their children and siblings from taking away other people’s relatives as well.

For universities and Greek-life organizations around the country, 2017 was a grim year. 74 deaths due to hazing or alcohol have occurred on college campuses since 2000, and last year four pledge members at different schools died due to hazing — one death occurred in Pennsylvania.

The phenomenon garnered national attention, sparking debate over the merits and demerits to even having Greek systems on campuses. These deaths have also shed light on the ambiguity — or lack of — state hazing laws. As a result, courts are necessarily getting tougher on hazing cases, but there is still work to be done to create legislation that appropriately deals with hazing on campuses.

The Anti-Hazing Coalition’s first goal is to pass “Tim’s Law,” legislation that has already passed the Pennsylvania Senate and awaits approval by the House and a signature from Governor Wolf. The law is named after the Penn State University pledge student Timothy Piazza, who died in February 2017 after drinking 18 alcoholic beverages in 82 minutes as part of a hazing ritual

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Tim’s Law would make hazing a felony punishable by up to seven years’ jail time, meaning it would be one of the toughest anti-hazing laws in the country and a much-needed means of deterring and possibly preventing fraternities from engaging in high-risk hazing activities.

As Jim Piazza, father of 19-year-old Timothy Piazza, pointed out at Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s annual leadership conference this year, “good anti-hazing legislation doesn’t hurt anybody.” In fact, it could start a meaningful dialogue between universities and fraternities about the finite consequences of hazing.

But the defendants in Piazza’s case most likely won’t get close to seven years in prison — if they get any at all. Ryan Burke, a former Penn State Beta Theta Pi frat brother, was the first of more than 20 defendants to plead guilty in the case of Piazza’s death. He originally faced counts of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangering of another person because he gave Piazza a handle of vodka as one of the drinks he consumed, but they were ultimately dismissed.

Burke was sentenced on July 31 to three months of house arrest, 27 months of probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine for four counts of hazing and five alcohol-related violations. He received no jail time.

While Burke’s sentence is much lighter than what it could have been — See Hazing on page 5

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Hazing, pg. 4 and what many say it should have been — it’s a stronger response than that of other Pennsylvania hazing deaths.

Everett Glenn was another fraternity member who died after a Kappa Delta Rho party at Lafayette College in 2012. At the on-campus fraternity’s gathering, he binge-drank, fell asleep on his back, vomited and died of cardiac arrest. No frat members were convicted of any crimes — the college only prohibited membership in off-campus fraternities as a result.

Similar stories of a lack of legal action against the orchestrators of hazing abound in both Pennsylvania and schools across the country. Surprisingly, not all states even have hazing laws that equip them to deal with these cases, according to a 2018 examination

by Christopher Keith Ellis of the University of Kentucky.

He found only 44 states have these laws in place and that the definition of what constitutes hazing varies widely.

The populations that can be held responsible and the state’s role in adjudicating hazing cases also differ across the country.

The Pennsylvania House should seek to pass Tim’s Law to discourage

situations similar to the one that led to Piazza’s death and should be willing to work with groups such as the AntiHazing Coalition to more clearly define what hazing is and what the state’s role is in punishing it. Other states should model Tim’s Law to adopt harsher stances against hazing — but to do so, they’ll need the help of activists like the Anti-Hazing Coalition as well as universities.

There also needs to be a dialogue between legislators and universities to discuss definitions of hazing and consequent penalties that appropriately deal with incidents that schools have faced in the past and could face again. This dialogue needs to be communicated to Greek life as well so that the organizations fully understand the heightened consequences that could result in hazing under harsher laws, and so that they have a voice in how their members are being protected.

The progress Pennsylvania is making in reaction to hazing deaths is an important, precedent-setting step in combating this deadly trend, but there’s still more it can do. Hopefully Pennsylvania and other states across the nation will figure this out without having to wait for another hazing death to inspire them to action.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:

ONLINE FRIDAYS Dear readers, My tenure as editor-in-chief of The Pitt News began during a time of change at the paper. Over the summer we underwent a process of rebranding ourselves and focusing on new goals.

Many of these changes are already implemented as part of our transition to a proactive digital-first mindset — one of the first things we did was launch a new website in June with the goal of providing you more comprehensive, immersive stories about the news around us.

To help create this new content we hired a staff of four new editors through a grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation — a digital manager, an audience engagement editor, an online visual editor and a staff development editor. These new positions will en-

able us to write blogs, create podcasts and harness data visualization tools to bring you closer to our stories.

Along with this change, we are eliminating our Friday print edition.

With campus attendance at its lowest on Fridays, few people read the print version of The Pitt News. Eliminating that day of print production allows our new staff of digital editors to fill an online-exclusive Friday edition with exciting multimedia and interactive content. We’ll still publish print and online editions with award-winning news, opinions, sports and culture content Monday through Thursday.

So whether or not you’re on campus tomorrow, check out www.pittnews. com for your daily dose of independent student journalism.

-Christian Snyder, Editor-in-Chief

Jim Piazza speaks about the importance of passing the anti-hazing legislation named after his late son, Timothy Piazza, as his wife Evelyn wraps her arm around him outside of the Centre County Courthouse Friday, March 23, in Bellefonte. Abby Drey |CENTRE DAILY TIMES | TNS

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Culture

’Pitt tonight’ takes on fourth season

Sarah Connor Culture Editor Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and James Corden are some of today’s most recognizable comedians — and that’s all thanks to their late-night talk shows.

Late-night TV is a huge inspiration for many in UPTV, Pitt’s television club, and led to the creation of the University’s own late-night talk show — “Pitt Tonight” — currently hosted by junior communication major Andrew Dow. “Pitt Tonight” kicked off this school year Sunday with the premiere of the show’s fourth season. The recording took place at the Charity Randall Theatre and featured a packed studio audience, an on-stage jazz band — the Allies of the Boulevard — and plenty of

staff members clad in all black taking care of camera movement and furniture on stage.

This massive production was essentially put together in one weekend after the staff returned to campus from summer break. Amongst the busy crew was staff writer and sophomore theatre arts major Alex Dolinger.

“The full staff put this show together in two days, which was hectic since everyone was moving in and everything,” she said. “But it’s exciting and we love working together.”

The big boss of “Pitt Tonight” — executive producer Annabelle Hanflig — described the process of setting up this episode that started long before the full Andrew Dow shares a laugh with Pitt professor, author and former Disney Channel screenwriter Siobhan Vivian. Thomas Yang | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR See Pitt Tonight on page 7

DONALD WARHOLA GALLERY TALKS: ART AND UNCLE ANDY Greg McGettigan For The Pitt News Guests can stop by the Andy Warhol Museum on any given day and wander through rooms occupied by the imaginings of an artist whose work spans across a multitude of mediums. But it’s only on Wednesdays that guests can peer into the personal life of a cultural icon with the help of his nephew.

Donald Warhola’s gallery talk in the museum was supervised by a larger-than-life high school yearbook photo of Andy. Warhola likes to keep things informal and invites guests to ask questions throughout.

Today, Warhola — who graduated from Pitt in the 1980’s with a degree in computer science and business — spends much of his time working with adolescents who have special mental health needs, but he sets aside time to celebrate the life of his uncle.

Warhola shares with museumgoers his memories of Andrew Warhola, the uncle who frequently visited from New York bearing clothes and even celebrity

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anecdotes — only after his nephew asked him things such as what Sylvester Stallone was like. Warhol didn’t brag much about his famous acquaintances.

Guests from both the Steel City and out of town were excited to hear Warhola’s words on his famous uncle. One such guest, California native Bob Kurcz, stopped by on his 15-month tour of North America. “[Warhola] loves to talk and that’s a great thing for what he’s doing here. He answered my questions, so I was grateful,” Kurcz said.

One would be more likely to guess that Warhola was a computer scientist than the nephew of an art mogul. Dressed conservatively in blue jeans and a white button-up, Warhola sports a shaved head — something his uncle refused to have.

The talk ran overtime, as there were many guests eager to pick Warhola’s brain. He happily answered many questions from the curious guests. He’s gotten used to fielding questions since he assumed the role of liaison for the museum and The Andy Warhol Foun-

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dation for the Visual Arts.

“Basically, people really like to hear that information about the human side of Andy Warhol, so I always try to include that — my relationship with my uncle,” Warhola explained.

When asked what some of his favorite art pieces are, Warhola talked about his partiality for his uncle’s later work.

“I believe it got much more personal in the ’80’s. By that time, I believe he felt like ‘I made it. I’ve accomplished what I wanted to as an artist and now I can kind of sit back and just be myself as an artist and not worry about painting this for that person. I’m going to paint what I want to paint,’” Warhola said.

Warhola enjoys engaging in dialogue with the guests. A tourist from Eastern Slovakia, Eva Varga, discussed the significance of Warhol’s work within American society at the time.

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TOP SPOTS TO BEAT THE HEAT Sarah Connor Culture Editor Though every syllabus handed out this week says “Fall Semester,” the weather is not very fall-like at the moment. With high temperatures in the low 90s and humidity making the air feel like soup, most students are looking for an escape from the heat — especially those doomed to live in Oakland’s many old dorms and apartments without the blessing of air-conditioning. We’ve assembled a list of some of the coolest places to hang out until the autumn gales come calling.

Dave and Andy’s Ice Cream There’s no better way to avoid the heat than with an Oakland classic, a homemade ice-cream cone from Dave and Andy’s Homemade Ice Cream. Located on Atwood Street, the parlor is very close to campus and stays open until 10 p.m. — making it great for an evening snack.

So whether students are looking for a social outing or a pit stop after class, Dave and Andy’s — which boasts over 200 rotating flavors of ice cream and hand-rolled waffle cones — is the perfect option for a snack to keep cool. To complement the chilling treat, the shop also offers sufficient air-conditioning.

On-Campus Pools Unfortunately, the Schenley Park pool will close on Labor Day, but thankfully there are other pools in the vicinity for students to take advantage of.

Despite the busy practice schedules of Pitt’s thriving swimming and diving teams, the pools at Bellefield Hall and Trees Hall are open to students who are not club or varsity athletes. Starting Tuesday, Sept. 4, all students are free to use the pool at Bellefield on weekdays from 7 a.m. through 7 p.m. and Saturdays noon through 5 p.m.

The Trees Hall pool, which is home to the Panthers’ varsity swimming and diving teams, is open to anyone with a

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valid Pitt ID Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m through 2:30 p.m. and again from 5 until 9 p.m. Fridays offer the same hours but close at 8 p.m. Trees pool remains open from noon through 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

The Milk Shake Factory Pitt students can avoid the humidity with another favorite Pittsburgh venue for cold, sweet treats. The Milk Shake Factory has two locations and both are a short bus ride from campus. The Downtown location on Fifth Avenue is accessible via any of the 61 or 71 Port Authority buses, while the South Side location on East Carson Street is easily reachable on a 54 bus.

The Milk Shake Factory is obviously known for its decadent milkshakes, but there’s another delight for the tastebuds in its gourmet chocolates and root beer floats. Entering The Milk Shake Factory is like entering a cool, shiny wonderland.

With bright white walls, air-conditioning on full blast and the constant aroma of chocolate syrup, The Milk Shake Factory is a dreamy, frosty location that should be on everyone’s list of places to go to beat the heat til the air cools.

Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain Sure, it is frowned upon by most local law enforcement to enter any of the public fountains, but just take a look at the Mary Schenley Fountain after a class at Frick Fine Arts — it’s irresistible. The water shines as it trickles down into the pool and lucky passersby on these hot days get sprayed by water droplets as the wind blows the constant stream of flowing water.

Legend has it that the student loans of any Pitt student brave enough to jump into the Mary Schenley fountain will disappear and they will be blessed with a 4.0 GPA for the rest of college. So the next time you find yourself out with your friends, bored and sweaty, give it a go — jump on in and cool off just to see if the legend is real.

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Setting up the season four premiere took a few weeks, the senior communication and political science student said. It recorded on the eve of the first day of school, which hadn’t been done before at “Pitt Tonight.”

“I always knew holding the episode before the first day of classes would be a challenge, but I thought that it would be worth it,” she added.

Hanflig plays a large role in the production of “Pitt Tonight,” but she does not act alone. She worked closely with the host of the show to plan out how this season premiere would happen.

“Andrew and I had been talking to department heads all summer, but things really started to shift towards the premiere towards the last few weeks,” she said. “We did Skype calls with every department to figure out exactly how we wanted the show to go, and did pretty frequent check-ins from there on out.”

This hard work and planning paid off once the whole staff made it to campus. On the evening of the premiere, a line of students waited patiently at the door to the Charity Randall Theatre.

The line stemmed all the way back to the stoplight at Schenley Drive Extension.

This long line resulted in a full house, with Hanflig sitting at the front of the studio audience calling for applause when necessary and Dolinger sitting at the back of the crowd running the teleprompter.

After a smooth prelude to the show from Allies of the Boulevard, Dow entered the stage amidst a boom of cheers and applause.

Dow appeared extremely comfortable on stage, rolling jokes off his tongue with ease to incite roars of laughter. The show’s guests for the episode — local comedian Day Bracey and Pitt professor, author and former Disney Channel screenwriter Siobhan Vivian — chatted with Dow and enjoyed his comedic spirit just as much as the audience did.

After the entertaining interviews with the guests, the night was not yet complete. A musical performance was

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necessary to make this taping of “Pitt Tonight” a true late-night episode.

Local band The Lone Pines — an indie folk-rock trio — took the stage to finish out the night. After the upbeat performance, Dow and all the guests of the evening came back out onto the stage for a bow.

For Dow, the season premiere was a new experience, despite this being his second year with the show after succeeding Jesse Irwin.

“Before each episode of [my first season], I went on stage wanting to prove that I was the right choice for ‘Pitt Tonight’ and impress the people I work with,” he said. “Now I feel like I’m making the show I want to watch with my friends.”

He was able to make this change through the confidence he found in successfully hosting the third season of “Pitt Tonight.”

“I think the fact that I’m more confident in my vision helps a lot,” he said.

“All I want to do is make people laugh and the fact that I have such a huge platform to do it is surreal.”

Dow was pleased with his performance, and it seemed as though many in the audience were as well. After the show, Dow left the stage to numerous congratulatory hugs, one of the biggest ones coming from Hanflig, who was equally pleased with how the evening went.

“From a production standpoint, the show was great. It was one of the tightest shows I’ve ever run,” she said.

“I think we had incredible guests, a wonderful script and an audience of over 200 people. I am so proud of what we accomplished, especially considering we pulled it together with only one general meeting beforehand.”

Though the taping of the premiere was a hit, it will be a few more weeks before the episode hits YouTube, where all of the “Pitt Tonight” episodes are posted. Hanflig stated that the editing and posting processes tend to take about two to three weeks. In the meantime, she and the rest of the “Pitt Tonight” staff can reflect on this successful kickoff to the school year.

“We’d been thinking about the premiere all summer, and to see it go off as well as it did was incredible,” Hanflig said.

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Warhola, pg. 6 “I was talking about this with [Warhola]. I can see that his work was really a product of the liberty of the United States. If his parents had stayed back at home, in Eastern Slovakia, this couldn’t have happened. I know, because I come from Eastern Slovakia, that the mentality is very much closed and traditional,” Varga explained.

Varga didn’t know much about Andy Warhol, so she felt obliged to check out the museum while she was in town. Some of her preconceived notions were proven wrong.

“I really liked the picture of his apartment. Seeing that he collected antique stuff, I would have imagined that his apartment would be filled with something new, something modern, but no,” she said.

Donald Warhola was 24 years old when his uncle passed away. Warhola remarked during his talk that Warhol himself seemed to reflect on his trajectory in his final years.

“There’s a work up there now, it’s stitched photos.

It’s intriguing to me because it’s photos of high-end models and Uncle Andy had them sewn together,” he said. “And to me that takes his life full circle. As a child, he probably watched [his mother] sewing, patching his clothes.”

Warhola mused on how his uncle’s life seemed

mirrored in his artwork.

“It’s almost like he’s making a statement. This is where I came from, sewing things together and preserving them, to photographing high-fashion models,” he said. “That was one of the last projects he was working on.”

Though the vast majority of guests never knew Warhol, Warhola understands the relationship guests build with his superstar uncle’s work. He believes Andy Warhol is so memorable because despite the quirks of his art, he presents it to people in a way that allows them to make connections to their own lives.

Donald Warhola, nephew of Andy Warhol, discusses aspects of his uncle’s “Take the Campbell’s life and career at the Andy Warhol Museum Wednesday morning. soup can for example, one Sean Carrol | IMAGE VIA THE ANDY WARHOL MUSUEM his most famous works. can create their own narrative to. It’s almost like he We’ve all had our experiences, good, bad and ugly, presents the object and you complete it with your with Campbell’s soup,” he said. “I know when I was in personal experience.” college, I ate a lot of soup, so it’s artwork that people

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PANTHERS TO MUZZLE GREAT DANES

Pickett will look to wide receivers like junior Aaron Mathews, senior Rafael Araujo-Lopes and Staff Writer redshirt junior Tre Tipton to make up for the losses of Weah and Henderson. On the offensive line, The Pitt football season kicks off this Saturday af2017 All-ACC honorable mention senior offenternoon at Heinz Field as the Panthers face off against sive tackle Alex Bookser will lead the unit, along a less-feared member of both the college football with redshirt senior guards Connor Dintino and universe and animal kingdom — the Albany Great Mike Herndon.

Danes.

Pitt will most likely win this game on the deThe Panthers will start the season like they have fensive side of the ball. The defense returns nine for each of head coach Pat Narduzzi’s four years at starters from a year ago and should perform at a the helm — with a home match against a Football high level — similar to when they held Miami to Championship Subdivision opponent. Both Football just 14 points and 232 total yards in last year’s fiBowl Subdivision and FCS teams are considered Dinale — more consistently this season. vision I, but the two differ in that the FBS uses a bowl While the loss of defensive backs Jordan system and the FCS a more traditional playoff setup, Whitehead and Avonte Maddox to the NFL draft while the level of play is also considered superior in hurts the team, the Panthers have players ready to the FBS. take their place. Defensive backs including junior As an FBS school, Pitt will use this Albany game as preparation for the season ahead — in particular Sophomore Kenny Pickett will enter this season as starting quarterback Damar Hamlin, sophomore Damarri Mathis and redshirt freshman Paris Ford will look to prove the highly anticipated clash with Penn State the fol- at Saturday’s opener against Albany. TPN file photo themselves against the Great Danes. Expect redlowing week. quarterback Vinny Testaverde, will be under center for the Great shirt senior defensive back Dennis Briggs to be While it would seem typical for the Panthers to run up the score for an easy win against an FCS team like the Danes this season. He won a three-way battle to secure the spot, the leader of this young secondary.

The Pitt defense will want to hit Albany at their offensive line.

Great Danes, they’ve had trouble taking care of weaker teams in meaning that he will finally get sufficient playing time in his fifth recent years, especially under Narduzzi. In the past two openers year of eligibility after failing to break through at Miami or Texas The Great Danes’ offensive line produced the least rushing yardage and gave up the second-most sacks in the CAA last season. against FCS Youngstown State, Pitt escaped with a 45-37 win in Tech.

Despite the unimpressive performances that Pitt has exhibit- The Panthers should exploit this weakness with a defensive line the first meeting, then blew a 21-0 lead last year before winning ed recently against FCS opponents, they remain the clear favorite that includes fifth-year players James Folston, Shane Roy and 28-21 in overtime.

Narduzzi has defended these seemingly underachieving in this game. While the Panthers are coming off a disappointing Dewayne Hendrix, as well as promising young players like redperformances by saying the Panthers avoid showing off most of 5-7 season and missed a bowl game for the first time in a decade, shirt sophomores Keyshon Camp and Rashad Weaver, who led their playbook so that it can’t be used to their disadvantage. This they finished strong with an upset of undefeated No. 2 Miami. the line in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks in 2017.

Then-first-year quarterback Kenny Pickett was the star of has been the case in the last two years, as Pitt prepared to go up The linebacking corps of redshirt seniors Elijah Zeise, Quinthe show in that Miami game, throwing for 193 yards and rush- tin Wirginis and Oluwaseun Idowu, along with redshirt junior against Penn State right after.

Albany could potentially cause Pitt trouble like Youngstown ing for 60, totaling three touchdowns in the win. Now the bona linebacker Saleem Brightwell, should also play a large part in the State has done in the past, but it would be a surprise, considering fide starter, Pickett will get the chance to show that game was no Panthers’ experienced defense against Albany. Idowu, the former fluke. the Great Danes are coming off a lackluster 4-7 season. walk-on, was especially exceptional last year as he lead the team Aiding him on the ground will be senior running backs Qa- in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks on his way to a second team One player who will give the Panthers trouble is redshirt junior running back Elijah Ibitokun-Hanks. Ibitokun-Hanks was a dree Ollison and Darrin Hall. Both Ollison and Hall fought back All-ACC selection. star for the Great Danes in 2016. He ran for 1,401 yards — first and forth for the starting position last year, and will likely conIf the Panthers can hold Ibitokun-Hanks to minimal producin the CAA conference and fourth in the FCS — and 16 rushing tinue to do so against Albany and throughout the season. tion on the ground and stop Testaverde from exposing them in Pitt’s main weaknesses on offense will be the lack of experi- the passing game, they should easily win this game. touchdowns. Although he only played one game last year due to ence on the offensive line and at wide receiver. The loss of first a knee injury, fans can expect Ibitokun-Hanks to be a nuisance Narduzzi also said, unlike previous years in which he held team All-ACC offensive tackle Brian O’Neill and second team back his playbook before Penn State, his team won’t be hiding for the Pitt defense come Saturday.

Another crucial factor of Albany’s game plan revolves around All-ACC kickoff returner Quadree Henderson to the draft, as anything against Albany. This will allow Pitt to expand its offense its quarterback — whose name you might recognize. Senior well as leading receiver Jester Weah and offensive guard Alex Of- and dominate its opponent with no restrictions.

Vincent Testaverde, the son of the former Heisman and NFL ficer to graduation, leaves both units in need of players to step up.

Prediction: Pitt-35 Albany-10

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