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OBAMA TO VISIT PITTSBURGH Lauren Rosenblatt News Editor

President Barack Obama is coming to Pittsburgh this fall to talk about technology and innovation.

The Oct. 13 White House Frontiers Conference, jointly hosted by Pitt, Carnegie Mellon and the White House, will focus on science, technology and innovation, according to a press release from Pitt. WIRED — a magazine focused on trendy technology and its impact — will feature the conference’s topics in its November issue.

President Obama will guest-edit the issue, which will focus on the theme “Frontiers,” according to an article on the publication’s website.

Joe Miksch, a spokesperson for Pitt, said the details of the event are still “very much in the planning stages” and could not say where the conference will be or who else would be attending.

Babs Carryer, Director of Education and Outreach at Pitt’s Innovation Institute, said President Obama understands the importance of innovation and has long promoted it.

Owen Takac, Austin Snyder, Brandon Nerihger, Jake Sauble and Peter O’Hara, all first year floormates from Tower “I believe that Obama’s upcoming visit to C, play with a giant inflatable ball in Schenley Plaza. The ball was brought by City of Play, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that aims to bring “playful projects and events” to the plaza every Tuesday until the end of September. Stephen Pittsburgh is driven by the fact that our great Caruso SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER universities are fostering talent and the innovations of tomorrow which will change the world,” Carryer said.

The conference will focus on five frontiers: personal, local, national, global and interplanheadline this semester’s Fall Fest, an annual free the Bands, which PPC will determine Sept. 9th, etary. The website for the event indicates that Alexa Bakalarski concert on Bigelow Boulevard that will take will kick off the performance at 1 p.m. people can “nominate someone working on Senior Staff Writer In last year’s semester-opening celebration, place on Sept. 17. these frontiers” to attend.

Pitt Program Council is hopping in a hip NAWAS, an electronic R&B-inspired group, PPC hosted Walk the Moon and, later in the The personal frontier is based on health care, direction for this year’s Fall Fest. and Frenship, an electro-pop band, will open year, for Bigelow Bash, B.o.B and X Ambassaparticularly on two initiatives President Obama The Council announced this week that Rae for the duo, and the winner of PPC’s Battle of See Obama on page 4 Sremmurd, a chart-topping hip-hop duo, will See Fall Fest on page 3

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SGB ENTERS NEW YEAR WITH FULL AGENDA At their first meeting, Student Government Board outlined plans to focus on celebrating diversity and improving relationships between students and administration, among other things. | by Emily Brindley and Lauren Rosenblatt | The Pitt News Staff In its first meeting of the new school year, Pitt’s Student Government Board picked up where it left off on the most pressing projects from the spring.

Chief among those were its efforts to improve relations between Oakland’s student majority and the neighborhood’s permanent residents.

On Tuesday night, SGB announced that the former Community Outreach Committee and Governmental Relations Committee, which operated during the last school year, have merged to form a single new committee: the Community and Governmental Relations Committee.

The move rebrands a board-wide effort to bridge neighborhood relations, decrease student run-ins with Pitt police and address issues students have with the homes they rent near campus.

Nicholas Fisher, a junior political science and communication major, will chair the new committee. He said because the chairs of the two former committees worked closely together in the past — particularly to put on events — it was a clear choice to blend the committees into one.

“The committees were tied very closely together,” Fisher said. “Having it all in one place gets you great coordination at events.”

Though the two former committees were moving toward this merger last year, the new

The newly-elected SGB members, Justin Horowitz, Sydney Harper and Natalie Dall introduced themselves to the campus commmunity on Tuesday night. Will Miller SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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MAN ROBS SUBWAY IN NORTH OAKLAND Emily Brindley

approximately 6-foot-2-inches tall. He entered the restaurant at about 9:10 a.m. wearing a navy blue hoodie, a black baseAn unknown man wielding a butchball cap and blue jeans, police said, and er knife robbed a Subway restaurant in demanded cash from the register while North Oakland on Tuesday morning, using the knife to threaten the female emleaving with cash from the store’s register. ployee working.

According to a release from the PittsAlthough the amount of money stolen burgh Police, the suspect is a black man is still undetermined, Subway employee Assistant News Writer

Fall Fest, pg. 1 dors. In 2014, the Council hosted Hoodie Allen at Fall Fest and Timeflies at Bigelow Bash.

This year, PPC is also adding therapy dogs and a section for Pitt Arts, who will be featuring local artists and doing caricatures, as well as a photo-op with a Steelers player. In past years, the event also featured food trucks, but this year, Buzzfeed’s Tasty food truck will be the only one.

Although PPC generally picks the artist, this year it shared responsibility with WPTS Radio, Pitt’s student radio station.

Claire Harshbarger, the station manager for WPTS Radio, said PPC asked the station if they wanted to be involved in Fall Fest after PPC found out WPTS was no longer having a fall show. Instead, WPTS is hosting monthly shows at different venues around the city.

WPTS Radio chose NAWAS as an opener because the group is relatively unknown.

“We’re here to... introduce new music to the student body,” Harshbarger said. “That’s kind of what our mission is: playing artists that aren’t Top 40 or classic rock but are fun to listen to.”

The group NAWAS is based in Nashville, Tennessee, though the members are originally from Louisiana. Influenced by artists such as Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Prince, their songs “Wrong” and “So Low” have been featured on Spotify’s Weekend Buzz, New Mu-

Jacob Engle, who was not at the restaurant at the time of the robbery, said the register typically holds between $100 and $170 at any given time. The man left the restaurant without injuring anyone after the employee opened the register and gave the man cash.

Engle said the restaurant does have an emergency panic button, located near the

sic Friday and Fresh Finds: Hiptronix playlists.

Rae Sremmurd is made up of brothers Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown and Aaquil “Slim Jxmmi” Brown. The duo is from Tupelo, Mississippi where they got their start performing shows in abandoned buildings they used to live in.

Their first single on the records label Ear Drummer Records, “No Flex Zone,” entered Billboard’s Hot 100 and peaked at number 36 on Top 40 in 2014. Its second single, “No Type,” peaked at number 16 on Top 40. Their first album, SremmLife, had a top five debut on Billboard’s Top 200 and a number one debut on Billboard Hip Hop. Friends James Sunderland and Brett Hite make up the Los Angeles band Frenship, which formed in 2013.

Their biggest single, “C apsize,” featuring Emily Warren, peaked at number 20 on the Billboard charts. They plans to release their debut EP “Truce” on September 2nd, just weeks before Fall Fest.

Courtney Ross, special events director for PPC, said she could not comment on how much PPC paid the performers because it was against the performer contracts to do so.

Despite only having one headliner — the number of headliners depends on available funds — Ross said the goal of the Fall Fest committee is to give the event a “festival feel.”

“We tried to get a lot of genres in there,” Ross said. “So even if we didn’t have two headliners, we still had variety.”

cash register, but the woman did not push the button because the robber was standing in front of it.

The suspect fled toward Melwood Avenue after leaving the restaurant, according to the release.

The Pittsburgh Police are asking anyone with information to call 412-3237161.

We’re here to... introduce new music to the student body.

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has announced during his second term. The Precision Medicine Initiative tailors medical research and treatment to individual patients, and the BRAIN Initiative is a research effort to better understand brain functioning and disease processes in cases involving Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

The local frontier will center on communities’ work with infrastructure and data, and the national frontier will address the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. The global frontier is about climate change and the clean energy revolution, and the interplanetary frontier will introduce new space technology, such as sending humans to stay on Mars.

In addition, innovators at the conference will discuss the importance of collaboration across sectors, job creation and equal access to advances made in the five frontiers.

“We at Pitt are very pleased to partner with Carnegie Mellon to host the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, a city developing a reputation as an innovation hub,” Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said in a press release. “This is a welcomed opportunity to bring notice to the city and its commitment to the importance of supporting research and development.”

committee isn’t just a compilation of the old.

The former Community Outreach Committee operated and coordinated Pitt Make a Difference Day in tandem with the Office of PittServes. With the merger, Fisher said the newly formed committee completely gave over the coordination and planning of PMADD to the Office of PittServes.

In leading the committee, Fisher said he hopes to promote more community involvement in the neighborhoods where students live, such as South Oakland. Former Governmental Relations Chair Pat Corelli pushed to form a Student Tenant Association last school year designed to connect students to their nonstudent neighbors and foster relationships with Oakland and South Oakland residents.

Last year, Correlli said the SGB-appointed board members would attend the community group Oakwatch’s meetings. The Association would also serve as a middleman to connect students to city services, including the building inspection office, to address housing and other concerns.

This year, Fisher said though he plans to continue Corelli’s legacy, he’s going to focus more on building relationships among stu-

dents, administrators and campus leaders.

At the Pitt Community Forum on Sept.

22, Fisher said students will pose questions to administrative leaders, police and local elected officials. Among the leaders attending the event are Pitt Police Chief James Loftus, Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay and Pittsburgh City Council President Bruce Kraus.

Students must submit questions ahead of time, Fisher said, and the committee members will choose the questions they believe will lead to the best discussion among students and panel members.

In other news, board member Alyssa Laguerta announced she will be working on an ad hoc diversity committee. She said the committee will make sure SGB stays involved in the discussion of diversity on campus.

“I thought it was part of SGB’s responsibility to engage in this conversation,” she said. “[The committee] will hopefully become a sustainable part within the structure of SGB itself.”

Student groups and Pitt’s administration have called for a focus on diversity and inclusion. Earlier this year, the University announced that the 2016-17 academic year would be the “year of diversity and inclusion.”

Laguerta and the committee are working to create a new publication, called Pitt Voices,

that will “highlight the voices of those who might not always be heard or are underrepresented on campus,” she said.

Although she said the publication is still in the planning stage, it will most likely feature interviews with people passionate about diversity and that showcase the campus community.

Laguerta said the committee is also planning a second human rights conference. Last spring, board member Robert Tessier held the first human rights conference at Pitt to promote campus-wide conversation about human rights. The committee will reach out to local organizations about the possibility of speaking for this year’s conference.

SGB president Natalie Dall, in her first meeting at the helm, said she is working to make sure SGB continues to raise awareness about sexual assault. Her own project this semester is to take a closer look at the University’s policies — such as how it applies the federally mandated Title IX policy — and compare them to other schools. She said she wants to make sure the policies are “up to par.”

“I’m still not sure if I want to change anything. I just want to see how we fall and what we could be doing better,” she said.

No student groups made requests for allocations at Tuesday’s meeting.

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White Lives Matter TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN: A threatens American unity White nationalism has finally gotten the kind of attention it deserves.

On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center declared White Lives Matter — a white nationalist group that calls itself the opponent of the Black Lives Matter movement — a hate group.

According to its website, the group’s goal is to preserve the white race, insisting, “white genocide is a phenomenon where mass third world immigration, integration by force and 24/7 race mixing propaganda are being promoted in all and only white countries to deliberately turn them nonwhite.”

“We do not live by the code of the nonwhites,” said White Lives Matter co-founder Rebecca Barnette in a post on Vk.com.

After the declaration, Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., told The New York Times that the White Lives Matter group is “against integration [and] immigration” and preaches “standard white supremacist stuff.”

The group is a result of a crude social media meme that exploded into something much bigger. It’s only one of several groups gaining momentum from the alt-right politics of this election cycle and the massive support behind Trump’s campaign. There are now 892 active hate groups in the country — nearly 100 have sprouted up since 2014.

That a third party group like the SPLC has to step in and formally label White Lives Matter — one of several misguided “lives mattering” organizations — a hate group highlights how far such groups have skewed the original inclusivity of Black Lives Matter.

The Black Lives Matter movement was intended to display the injustices that people of color face on a daily basis and to fight police brutality. It’s a plea for an inclusive community that respects the safety and livelihood of its citizens and for America to acknowledge that institutional racism is prevalent in the 21st century. Somehow, the movement has become so distorted and misconstrued from

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that idea, people now claim they’ve been victimized by its message.

Unlike All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter — groups concerned specifically with pointing out the importance of other groups of people — the White Lives Matter group bills itself as explicitly oppositional to Black Lives Matter. The co-founder has called on white people to “take action” against the federal government, Jews and African-Americans in posts on the website vk.com.

A group that directly calls for violence against others is without hesitation a hate group. Asking your fellow Americans to fight back against citizens of a certain religion, race or background is domestic terrorism.

This isn’t an internet meme. It isn’t something to joke about. White Lives Matter is a serious threat to the United States and the SPLC has made that clear.

All Lives Matter was a petty response to Black Live Matter that called for the inclusion of all people in a movement meant specifically for an oppressed group of people. Blue Lives Matter was about celebrating the police in a time when they deserved criticism and reform, but White Lives Matter is pointedly hateful. While both of these groups missed the point, White Lives Matter took the message one step further — it is not in any way meant to celebrate or include but instead to divide and threaten.

This election has pushed fringe politics into the mainstream and brought out some of the ugliest voices in the American populous.

The White Lives Matter supporters are those voices. We are now living in a society where idealogues are celebrities, and racist views are billed as “honest.”

As students, we should be fearless in speaking out against this type of hatred. These polarizing views aren’t part of our democracy, and they do not belong in this country. If we stay silent on this topic, we are being complicit with violence.

Hatred now has a namesake — one that should have never existed.

SAGA OF BACKPEDALING Saket Rajprohat Columnist

Has Donald Trump finally reached the turning point in his campaign?

Over the course of the Republican nominee’s campaign, he’s made countless missteps and highly questionable policy decisions — whether it was announcing a ban on Muslim immigration, building a Mexico-funded wall along the United States’ southern border or suggesting the use of nuclear weapons against ISIS. Time and time again, media outlets across the nation have predicated a new era in Trump’s campaign where he will supposedly change his ways. The first possible sign of this impending moment came in March after a violent protest during a Trump rally when Dr. Ben Carson said, “You’re going to see Trump pivoting.”

To my surprise, “pivot” in this case does not refer to the strategic phase of a presidential race where both nominees begin to shift their policies to appeal toward the moderate and independent populous of America. Instead, the Trump pivot has been a continuous trend of attempts to fix the media outrage he creates on a daily basis.

After the Orlando club shooting this past June in which 49 people died, Trump used the attack to advocate for the “good guy with a gun” theory.

“If we had people where the bullets were going in the opposite direction… if some of those wonderful people had guns… that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight folks,” Trump said in a speech following the event.

Despite the cheers of approval this statement received from Trump’s pro-gun audience, three days later, Trump tweeted out a contradictory statement clarifying that by people with guns, he meant “additional guards or employees.” This precarious play on words is a tactic that has allowed Trump to cast a shadow of ambiguity on his platform’s policies.

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The correction was one of Trump’s weekly pivots.

Aside from the fact that there actually was an armed security guard at the club who exchanged gunfire with the attacker, this instance plainly illustrates Trump’s hasty ability to change positions.

His record is dotted with such moves: when he said women should be “punished” for having abortions, when he hesitantly disavowed David Duke, when he claimed Obama founded ISIS and his concerning, cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin.

And late Tuesday night, in a particularly head spinning pivot, when he confirmed that he would meet with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto just hours before an anticipated speech on immigration policy.

According to the New York Times, the Trump pivot is the point in time when Trump intends to become “more presidential” after softening his positions on immigration. By doing so, according to the Times, Trump will move beyond the fear-mongering and scapegoating views he has infamously spewed during this race.

And now that his “immigration pivot” seems to be happening, Trump has finally come to the point in his campaign where public opinion is forcing a change in his principle policy, what Steve Deace, a conservative radio host and one-time Ted Cruz supporter, once called “the last fig leaf of credibility he had left.”

“There could certainly be a softening [in my immigration plan] because we’re not looking to hurt people,” Trump said during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity earlier this month. He recommended that instead of deporting all illegal immigrants, it might be better to have some of them possibly stay and “pay back taxes.”

His new direction basically mirrors the plan Sen. Marco Rubio proposed during the primary season that would provide a legal path to citizenship.

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and the Democratic party but as the result of hard facts and well-developed plans. Whether it was eliminating in-state public college tuition for families making $125,000 or less or increasing her minimum wage goal, Clinton has always been prepared to back up her decisions.

That is not what Trump is doing. It is one

thing to base policies on polls and coherency, but Trump’s off-handed policies are solely based on bigotry and public outcry. Switching his position has been as simple as issuing a clarification Tweet.

Trump does not have — and has never had — any coherent plans on what his policies could possibly mean for the country. His

pivot on immigration is no more than a continuation of duplicity and incoherent statements.

Trump no longer stands on the foundations on which his campaign was built. It won’t be long before his supporters realize that the once-firm ground they previously stood on is giving way.

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Call it a change of heart, call it a slip of the tongue, call it word play. I call it betrayal.

There is no other name for the Trump pivot. Trump insists that he is not flip-flopping on his policies and is simply attempting to find a firm and definitive answer for our nation’s woes, but throughout these past months, the only decision he’s stuck to is maintaining his vitriolic rhetoric — no matter how unfounded it is.

The media has wrongly named Trump’s pivots as a desire to appeal to more moderate and independent voters.

Many say democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has changed her platform as well in order to appeal to a larger demographic.

While working with Sen. Bernie Sanders, she moved further to the left, similar to what Trump is attempting now in order to unite his party and bring in outsiders.

But Hillary Clinton has adapted and changed her policies to better fit the mold of the Democratic Party. After discussion with Bernie Sanders, not only did she begin to support the a $15 minimum wage, she also came to disagree with the standards set for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

When Clinton shifted her policies, she didn’t do so just out of the desire of the public

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PIRATES TEETER TOWARD PLAYOFFS

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Staff Writer Even with injuries, poor play and questionable decision making from the organization, the Pirates have somehow maintained mediocrity in 2016.

Despite their best efforts to end a three-year postseason streak, they may still be a playoff team.

In the first half of the season, the Pirates did a great job swinging bats but struggled with poor pitching from both the starters and relievers. The only exception on the pitching staff was star righthander Gerrit Cole, who kept his ERA under 3.0, and on the offensive side, center fielder Andrew McCutchen –– who was slumping in almost every offensive statistic.

But as the calendar changed from July to August, the narrative completely changed with it.

McCutchen is now starting to play like a five-time All-Star again, and the team solidified its starting rotation with a boost from a wily veteran, a pair of rookies and one under-the-radar trade who has already paid dividends.

Just before the Aug. 1 trade deadline, the Pirates acquired right-hander Ivan Nova from the New York Yankees for a set of players the Pittsburgh club will name later. Three days later, 39-year-old Ryan Vogelsong returned from the 60-day disabled list to join the rotation of Cole, See Pirates on page 8

RUNNERS RANK IN PRESEASON Ashwini Sivaganesh Assistant Sports Editor

New rankings for NCAA cross country released this week placed both Pitt’s men’s and women’s teams in the top 15 in the region.

The women’s team placed sixth, and the men’s team placed 14th in Tuesday’s NCAA Division I Mid-Atlantic Region rankings by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

This is the second consecutive year both teams made the list. The women’s team im-

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proved, having placed 13th last year while the men’s team fell from its 12th place spot last season.

The women’s projections are tied to the strong group of athletes that already make up the team, while the drop in the men’s rank could be a testament to the uncertainty of how the six new freshmen will contribute to the overall program.

The Athletic Department said the women’s rank could be the highest rank in the program’s history — even after the departure of 12 seniors, including Hillary Boxheimer. Boxheimer fin-

ished her senior year 34th overall in the 6K at the 2015 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships with a time of 21:55.4, placing second for Pitt behind sophomore Gillian Schriever, who finished 30th.

Schriever, one of Pitt’s top returning performers from 2015, led the Panthers at the ACC Championships with a 6K time of 21:26.3 and appeared on the All-ACC Academic Team.

Along with teammates senior Dee Dee Adams and redshirt junior Ariel Pastore-Sebring, the trio are expected to lead the pack this year.

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Among the returning runners on the men’s side are senior Chris Montgomery and junior Ryan Hughes, who led the Panthers at the 2015 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship by placing 43rd and 66th, respectively, out of 174 runners in the 10K. In total, 30 female and 12 male athletes will be returning with 14 new names making an appearance on the rosters.

“It’s an exciting way to kick off the season, but we have a long way to go, and anything can See Cross Country on page 10

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Four of the five starters in the rotation now boast an ERA of 3.50 or lower — with the exception of Cole, whose ERA now sits at 3.55. The staff ace was placed on the 15-day disabled list with posterior elbow inflammation after going 0-3 with a 7.06 ERA in his last four starts.

Cole recently went to Los Angeles to visit an orthopedic surgeon after an MRI revealed no ligament damage.

“Right now, we’re taking it one day at a time with [Cole],” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle told the Pittsburgh PostGazette. “We continue to have communication with him.”

Along with the Pirates’ elite offense, this revitalized rotation seemed to be exactly what the team needed to turn its season around. Instead, it’s the offense that has been holding the club back since the All-Star break.

Four key starters — David Freese, Jordy Mercer, Gregory Polanco and Starling Marte — are hitting well below .250 this month, helping to stall the offense.

Meanwhile, McCutchen has begun to regain his MVP form by hitting .311 this month.

“Just taking what they give me .. that’s what it’s all about.” McCutchen told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after driving in three runs on Thursday against the Milwaukee Brewers. “They want to give me a pitch away, I want to hit it over there ... I’m a guy that hits the ball to all parts of the field. That’s starting to show a lot more.”

McCutchen might be starting to find his swing again, but that won’t do the team any good if the rest of the lineup can’t keep up.

Thanks to the team’s streaky play, the past two weeks have been a roller coaster for the Pirates and their fans.

First, the Pirates went on the road Aug. 12 to face the top two teams in the National League West: the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. The club won five out of six games in California and returned home on a four-game winning streak to face the Miami Marlins.

Holding a 5-3 lead in the eighth inning, the Pirates were unable to close

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out the series opener and fell, 6-5, in a thrilling 10-inning battle. The team then struggled to put any offense together in the next two games, getting swept at home and surpassed by Miami in the standings in the process.

After losing this playoff ground, the team proceeded to win five of its next seven games — including the first fourgame sweep in Milwaukee in franchise history — to pull back within a halfgame of the St. Louis Cardinals in the Wild Card race on the back of strong pitching and inconsistent offensive outputs.

This Monday, the Pirates demonstrated their variability in a game for the ages against the Chicago Cubs — who lead the division and had beaten the Pirates nine out of twelve times this season.

Chicago jumped out to an early threerun lead, but the Pirates responded with six runs off Cubs ace Jake Arrieta to go up 6-3. After the bullpen allowed the lead to evaporate to 6-5 in the eighth, the Pirates turned to closer Tony Watson to try to lock it down in the ninth.

Watson promptly served up a gametying homer to Jorge Soler on an 0-2 fastball, sending the game to extra innings.

The teams traded three scoreless innings before the Pirates regained the lead on Josh Harrison sacrifice fly in the top of the 13th inning only to blow that lead — and then the game — on a walk-off single by Miguel Montero in the bottom of the 13th.

And still, after all these ebbs and flows, the club is only one-and-a-half games out of the playoffs as of Monday night.

If the Pirates can withstand the loss of Cole to the DL and extend one of their hot streaks to more than just a few games, they have a legitimate shot to make their fourth straight postseason trip.

After another devastating loss at the hands of the Cubs, though, yet another appearance in the win-or-go-home Wild Card game is the best they can realistically hope for.

Earlier this season, the pitching staff consistently let the offense down. Now, as the calendar slips into September and the season enters the home stretch, the Pirates’ lineup has to hold up their end of the bargain just to get the team back to the do-or-die game they know so well.

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Cross Country, pg. 8 happen,” women’s coach Adam Bray said in a press release Monday. “We have a lot of really great teams in our region, and it is an honor to be able to compete with those teams in the near future.”

All 15 ACC schools made the regional rankings with NC State topping the Southeast region, while 11 men’s teams made appearances from the ACC with Syracuse taking the top spot for the Northeast.

As a team the women’s cross country team came in seventh against 30 other competitors in the NCAA Regional Championship and took ninth in the last ACC Championship. The men took 13th in the last ACC Championship.

With a third of this year’s men’s team consisting of new freshmen talent, men’s coach Bryan Jackson said the team has the potential to climb the ranks.

“This is a preseason poll that’s a reflection of how we finished the 2015 season,” Jackson said in the release. “We have grown from last year and with that, so have our expectations.”

The Panthers’ first races will be Saturday, Sept. 3, at Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park. The women’s 5K race will start at 9 a.m., and the men’s 8K race will start at 9:45 a.m.

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Sophomore Gillian Schriever racing to a successful season end last year. Courtesy of Pitt Athletics

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Remodeled 5 BR house on Dunseith, a quiet residential street. 2 Bathrooms and laundry. No pets. $2200+ utilities. 3 to 5 minute walk to medical/dental school. Call Andrea 412-537-0324.

1 BR house on Cato St. Available Aug. 1st. 1 yr. lease. $470-$600 for students, including utilities and internet. Non - Students pay utilities and internet. No smoking, no pets. Deposit and lease required. 412-657-9025 2 BR, furnished, 2 people. Oakland Ave. $1270 ($635 per person), utilities included. Available August. Contact 412-848-9442.

4 BR Home - Semple Street. Equipped Kitchen, Full Basement. Available immediately. Also renting for May and August 2017.

(412) 343-4289.

Apartments for rent.

Studio, $550 including all utilities. 1BR, $600 + electric. 2BR, $800 including all utilities. Wall-towall, fully equipped.

Immediate.

412-561-7964.

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Newly remodled unit ready for immediate move in. New floors, countertops. Has laundry and central Heat/AC. $700 Utilities included. Call 412-38-LEASE Studios, $600 and up. 1BR-$700, 2BR/2BA-$1,600, 3BR/2BA-$1,8000.

Deluxe Penthouse, 2BR, 2BA, new kitchen, hardwood floors, fireplace, AC, deck, $2,000.

412-683-9300.

HOUSE Southside Flats. 3 BR, 2 1/2 BA, full bath in attic loft, courtyard, large equipped eat-inkitchen, DW, w/w carpeting, new furnace & air, plenty of parking, close transp. Walking distance to Southside shops. $1550/mo.

(412) 403-8518 Point Breeze Apt. Building 0.4 Miles from Bakery Square, 1 BR 1 BA. $800 + elec. 6721 Thomas Blvd. 412-363-0252.

Smokers Wanted.

The University of Pittsburgh’s Alcohol and Smoking Research Laboratory is looking for people to participate in a threepart research project.

To participate, you must: -Currently smoke cigarettes.

-Be 18-55 years old, in good health, and speak fluent English.

-Be willing to fill out questionnaires, and to not smoke before 2 sessions.

Earn $150 for completing this study.

For more information, call 412-6248975.

Sacred Heart Elementary School, located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, is seeking volunteer basketball coaches for the upcoming 2016-2017 basketball season.

Coaches are needed at both the varsity (7th & 8th grades) and junior varsity (5th & 6th grade) levels. For more information or if interested, please contact Amy Volpe at jaisvolpe@gmail.com.

Sacred Heart Elementary School in Shadyside is looking for volunteer Volleyball Coaches and Basketball Coaches for the Varsity and JV Teams for the 201617 Seasons.

Must be at least 18 years of age and have transportation. If interested, please contact Amy Volpe at jaisvolpe@gmail.com or call 412.295.9260

We are currently seeking to hire two contract Admin Clerks/Officer and Sales Representative.

Cheap Fabrics Textiles Ltd required, some experience individual preferably the finance house,strong customer service, a team player, excellent customer service experience preferably. These candidates will be working in Account dept and will be interacting with client, staff and Managers. The work is part-time. send resume to. formostpees@hotmail.com.

Come work where it's Oktoberfest everyday. NOW HIRING: All kitchen staff including Managers at Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh. Apply in person Monday through Friday

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MARKETING/NETWORKING: Gaming company seeking up to 10 motivated students to sign 3,000 players up for early testing on the world’s FIRST EVER INTERACTIVE SPORTS APP. Marketing materials provided.

Earn up to $25/hr. plus bonus opportunities. This is a great and an easy opportunity for leaders of fraternities, groups, and teams.

Email requests to rchristoff010@gmail.com.

Help Wanted: All shifts available.

Full or part time. Apply at 3901 Forbes Ave. Orignial Hot Dog Shop.

Caregivers and babysitters needed.

FT/PT. Earn $25/hour. No experience required. Will train. Call now.

888-366-3244 ext. 102.

Phlebotomy Training Center. www.justphlebotomy.org 2 evening classes weekly, 5 weeks + excellent Clinicals. Call 412-521-7334 Personal, professional masseuse needed. Long term position. 2X/week.

Washington County location. Call 724-223-0939 or 724-229-8868 any time.

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Mattresses, Twin, Full, and Queen size with box spring.

Brand new starting at $100. Call Mike at 412-277-7978.

OWN INSTEAD OF RENTING! House for sale, totally retored, perfect for student dormitory or faculty. 719 S. Aiken Ave., Shadyside. 5 blocks from Pitt. 3 BR, 2 BA, hardwood floors, kitchen with new appliances, fireplace in living room.

2 private parking spaces on site. Call 412-683-9300 or email arpprc@gmail.com for showing.

ADOPT: Happily married well educated couple unable to have baby desires to adopt newborn.

Call Marisol & Steve 800-272-0519. Expenses paid.

PIONEER A LEGACY. Be part of a new beginning. Become a Pilam ReFounding Father. john.palasits@pilambdaphi.org Bring Back the Winstein Panther! http://tinyurl.com/Winstein

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