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Hilarity in the Heymann Nick Mullen Staff Writer

Pittsburgh natives and visitors alike hammed out at the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival over the weekend, bringing extra comic relief to Student Orientation week.

The second annual Pittsburgh Comedy Festival took place on campus last Thursday, Aug. 27 through Saturday, Aug. 29. Pitt’s Henry Heymann Theatre, home to the Pitt Musical Theatre Club and Pittsburgh improv group Ruckus, housed notable stand-up comedians such as Todd Glass and Aubrey Plaza, as well as smaller, homegrown improv troupes like Pittsburgh’s own Friendly Neighborhood Improv and Primary Colours, from Dallas.

In the spirit of being on a college campus, attendees paid to see and learn about comedy through the festival’s didactic workshops designed to sharpen improv and general comedy writing skills.

Jenna Simmons, the festival’s Events Director and a Pitt Theatre Arts alum, said the Comedy Festival, put on by Comedy Arts Pittsburgh (CAP), exists to showcase

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Pittsburgh’s large and growing comedy scene. According to the festival’s website, its goal is to both engage and expand Pittsburgh’s comedy fan base.

“With three improv theatres and 12 weekly stand-up open mics in the city, there is a large audience for comedy already,” Simmons said.

“The goal of the festival is to combine interests, show those fans acts that they haven’t gone to see, as well as appeal to a first time comedygoer to show them all the magic that Pittsburgh has to offer.”

Plaza, famous for her role as the sarcastic intern April Ludgate on “Parks and Recreation,” performed with her improv comedy troupe Bombardo Friday night. The all-female comedy group formed in New York City in 2006, and has gained popularity for its “weird” and “psychedelic” style, according to the group’s website.

Glass, known for his stand-up and work on “Last Comic Standing”

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Pitt feels the Bern Kelechi Urama Staff Writer

To raise support for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, Alex Austin and other grassroots activists “Bern’d up” Pittsburgh on Aug. 29 for “Chalk the Block,” an event where students advertise Sanders’ campaign platforms on Oakland sidewalks.

Other Pittsburgh residents have also been moved to action by Sanders’ ambitious campaign. In Pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton already has a strong lead, Sanders’ supporters have been busy organizing rallies and marches to increase momentum for his campaign.

Pitt students are no exception.

Austin, a senior majoring in natural sciences, created a “Pitt Students for Bernie Sanders 2016” Facebook page that has more than 400 likes. Austin also founded a club for Sanders’ supporters to meet offline. Its first gathering at the William Pitt Union drew more than 100 people.

“I’ve never been politically active before in my life,” Austin said. “But Bernie makes you feel like you have to get involved.”

In a separate event, a group of more than 100 people, ranging in age from 19 to 65, carried “Bernie 2016” signs from Squirrel Hill to Oakland and handed out campaign leaflets in a public show of support for Sanders.

In contrast, Clinton’s supporters have been noticeably absent from Pittsburgh’s streets, and there is no equivalent Facebook group for Clinton at Pitt. Despite the lack of publicity, she still leads by a significant margin in the polls.

Advocating for Sanders in a second Facebook group, Joshua Sickels, the creator of the “Pittsburgh For Bernie Sanders 2016” Facebook page and a volunteer campaign organizer, arranged the march on Saturday.

“Pittsburgh for Bernie” also holds a weekly event called “Table the Parks,” where they set up campaign tables in Schenley Park, Frick Park, Allegheny Commons, South Side Park and Point State Park to speak to people about Sanders’ platforms and register people to vote. The Facebook page for “Table See Election on page 5

Peoplesoft now portable In a tech-savvy generation, Peoplesoft needed an upgrade.

In July, Pitt released a mobile app for PeopleSoft, a previously webonly platform for students to access class information, academic progress and schedule classes. According to spokesman John Fedele, Pitt part-

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Students chalked Oakland’s sidewalks to support Bernie Sanders.

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nered in early 2015 with HighPoint Mobile to develop the app.

“PeopleSoft is one of our most heavily-used and critical enterprise systems,” Fedele said. “We wanted to deliver to students, faculty and advisors a mobile-friendly, fast and easy way to navigate the core self-service

functionalities of the PeopleSoft Information System, from any device.”

Pitt PS Mobile lets students see their class and exam schedules, grades, holds on their account and to-do lists. Students can also use the app to register, add or drop classes.

Faculty can view their class roster,

teaching schedule and class grades, while advisers can use the app to see their students’ information.

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Don’t Fear the Fine

Nikki Moriello VISUAL EDITOR

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Will Matthews pays thousands of dollars to attend Pitt, but he did not expect to owe another $1,000 to Hillman Library.

Matthews, a senior psychology and communications major, checked out seven books in spring 2014 to do research for a communications project.

He forgot to return the books before leaving for the summer, but wrote off his overdue notices until the University hit him with a $1,000 bill for “lost” books.

“I was freaked out,” said Matthews, who ended up only having to pay a tenth of his fines.

Though Hillman Library often sends large bills to students for overdue books, it rarely makes students pay the full amount, said Caroline Hopper,

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Hillman Library’s Information Center desk manager. Pitt’s fines are high, Hopper said, “to encourage the prompt return of borrowed materials” so others can use the books students might have accidentally tucked away while moving into a new apartment or cleaning their rooms.

When students receive a large bill, Hopper said

they return the “lost” item almost immediately.

The library dissolves the lost fee and the processing fee, and all students owe is the accumulated sum of daily fines, according to the University Library System website.

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Correction: In a story published Aug. 31, titled “Pitt gets Wifi upgrade,” The Pitt News reported that Pitt’s Computing Services and Systems Development updated Pitt’s wireless Internet in response to complaints from the Student Technology Focus Group.

This is not true. While students on social media, such as reddit.com, have complained about slow Internet speeds, Pitt was not directly responding to potential complaints from students in the focus group.

The Pitt News also reported that Pitt connected to the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network, also known as PennREN, this summer.

Pitt already had a connection to PennREN. This summer’s project was only an upgrade of that connectivity to 10 gigabits per second.

The Pitt News regrets these errors.

Election, pg. 2 the Parks” showed that more than 60 people attended the event.

The Vermont Senator’s decades-long commitment to socialized health care, women’s issues and ending racial injustice energized Sickels.

“I started ‘Pittsburgh for Bernie Sanders’ the day he announced his candidacy,” Sickels said. “It was a no-brainer for me.”

Sanders became an official politician in 1941 when he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont. but had swam in political activist circles before than, marching on Washington, DC with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963.

Despite the fact that Sanders has drawn more than 100,000 people to his rallies this summer, Sickels said the media has purposefully ignored Sanders’ campaign. Sickels and Austin both said the majority of people they meet are unfamiliar with Sanders’ policies and achievements.

“There’s essentially a media blackout on [Sanders’ campaign],” Sickels said.

“The media wants to see Hillary win the nomination.”

To promote Sanders, Austin and his Pitt group plan to get students involved in a national “Million Student March” event planned for Nov. 12, 2015, though he has not finalized any details. Sanders urged college students to march on Washington, DC to advocate for free tuition, a major part of his platform. pittnews.com

Henry Prine of Sanders’ official campaign through “College Students for Bernie” said Sanders will visit Pittsburgh sometime this fall. Neither Clinton nor Sanders’ campaigns could be reached in time for publication.

Aside from a July fundraiser in the wealthy Pittsburgh suburb, Fox Chapel, the Clinton campaign has paid little attention to Pennsylvania. Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, released an official campaign strategy memo earlier this summer, noting Pennsylvania as a key swing state. The strategy also assumes Clinton will win Pennsylvania, and has her focusing her energy on other swing states Iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Nevada.

Although Clinton is confident, an Aug. 20 Quinnipiac University Poll showed that, since March, Clinton’s lead in Pennsylvania dropped from 48 percent to 45 percent in March, according to Quinnipiac.

Because of her lead in the polls and funding, analysts like Woon have said Clinton won’t have to put up much of a fight against Sanders in a primary race.

Clinton’s $68 million campaign dwarfs the $15 million Sanders has managed to raise.

“This points to a sure-fire victory for Clinton,” Woon said. “At this stage, all indications point to Clinton having the nomination locked up.”

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GOP inconsistent with Pope, Christian ideals The pope has accepted the U.S. Congress’ cordial invitation to speak to the legislature on Sept.

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Many of the politicians Pope Francis will address — particularly the Republicans — claim to be devout Christians.

They’ve gone as far as to formulate their positions on certain political issues based on how they think God would respond to them.

However, these same members of Congress will most likely disagree with what the Pope will say during his address.

The Republican platform has been increasingly at odds with that of the man who is technically supposed to be the official translator of the word of God. For starters, many Republicans argue that being gay is a negative lifestyle choice, like “drinking” or “swearing,” as former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential nominee Mike Huckabee so compared it to. Pope Franpittnews.com

cis, on the other hand, famously said in 2013, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge?”

To be clear, the Pope does not endorse samesex marriage, but he is not nearly as hostile toward the idea of homosexuality as some Republicans — former Republican Senator and presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, a Roman Catholic, once compared homosexuality to bestiality, for instance.

On the issues of climate change, Pope Francis’ stances differ much more dramatically from Republicans’. He has urged the world to do more to combat climate change to protect the Earth that “has been given to us.” Meanwhile, 43 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning U.S. adults believe there is “no solid evidence” that the Earth is getting warmer, according to Pew Research Center.

However, Pope Francis has been extremely

outspoken on the phenomenon of economic inequality as well. On the argument for free market capitalism, Pope Francis wrote in a papal position, “[The] opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”

The “opinion” he is attacking is one that virtually all Republicans hold — that the private sector of the economy is a selfregulating and beneficial force.

This inconsistent relationship between the platforms of Republican representatives and the Pope himself should be cause for alarm for Americans who vote Republican based on their spirituality.

Yes, the Pope is technically the leader of the Catholic Church and not necessarily of all Christians, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t representa-

tive of general Christian interest. After all, Francis garnered a 74 percent favorability rating amongst white mainline Protestants this past year, according to Pew Research Center.

The majority of all Protestants still identify as Republican, and a large chunk of Catholics, 49 percent, do as well.

This contradicts their support for a pope who is on the opposite side of the ideological spectrum.

Clearly, the Republican platform is not nearly as “Christian” as some of its representatives will have you believe. It lacks the institutional, Biblical and moral grounding that the Pope has, making it not nearly as legitimate.

This will be made clear during Pope Francis’ address on Sept. 24.

Though it probably won’t change the convictions of Republican members of Congress, hopefully it will convince Christian voters to abandon a party that falsely represents them.

Don’t let shootings become the norm, focus more on victims

Mariam Shalaby For The Pitt News

“Shooting,” exclaims the headline, sprawled big and wide across the top of the page.

I should be sad, but I feel nothing.

Nothing but annoyed. I no longer get a wave of shock or a sense of fear, nor do I wonder how such a thing could happen so close to home. Shootings seem normal.

In psychology, desensitization occurs when actions are so frequently repeated that they no longer evoke an emotional response. Since mass shootings have become so common, our brains are finding them unimportant, and emotional responses to them unnecessary. But the truth is that human lives are undoubtedly relevant, and there is a great need for more emotional responses to them.

For the sake of the memories of the victims and their families and friends, we cannot allow shootings to become commonplace in American society.

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Shalaby, pg. 7 have been days in that timespan. And for each shooting, there’s about one news report.

The lives lost and tragedies gone by blur into each other. Because of sheer number, news reports depersonalize and decharacterize the victims. More air time is given to the shooter than to the victims themselves — for instance, a simple Google News search will reveal 62,300 results for Charleston, South Carolina shooter Dylann Roof. But the combined results for the individual searches of each of his victims’ names is about half of all of Roof’s, at about 30,000 results. News reports tend to distill the individual victims to a mere body count.

The press gives context to the shootings, but often these explanations feel like excuses. CNN mentions a parking dispute as a possible cause of the February shooting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. On an August shooting in Salinas, California, an

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article in the local news, KSBW, described the incident as “purely domestic violence.”

We shouldn’t explain away the victims of homicide. Rather, we should treat their deaths as serious and sordid. Theorizing on the motivation of the act brews sympathy for the perpetrator, not the victims, so dwelling there achieves little.

Our aptitude to respond emotionally isn’t the only thing that plays a role in the future of gun violence in America. But it makes us human and humanly motivated to make positive change when we are disturbed. It plays too key a role in promoting progress for us to overlook it.

Unless we revive our emotional sensitivity to shootings, those who are violence-inclined will be only more free to shoot others in the future. It’s a classic phenomenon — something distasteful evolves into something regular, and because society acknowledges its normality, that something proliferates. That’s fine when we’re talking about relatively harmless things like wearing pajamas in public,

but when we’re talking about taking human lives, it’s scary.

When a collective society makes “no big deal” about any sort of action, it adopts a casual attitude toward the violence. It becomes that much easier for members of society to perform that action repeatedly. If we allow this to occur, mass shootings won’t only “feel normal” to see in the news, but they will truly become commonplace, if they aren’t already.

The press focuses on the shooters, not the victims. We can’t allow this to continue to happen if we want to prevent the victims from fading into the backdrop — we cannot regard their daily gunwounds and deaths as facts of life in America. They should always be framed as tragedies.

So, we need to encourage the press to publish more on the victims of these incidents, and resensitize ourselves emotionally to them.

To do so, we should remind ourselves of the value of each individual life involved. When we’re tired of hearing

about yet another shooting, we should tell ourselves that the targets could have been someone we love, or even ourselves.

Then, we need to distinguish between the plethora of incidents, victims and criminals. We must not let them blur together. Because it’s easy to support those like us, we need to force ourselves to sympathize with Americans whose backgrounds are unlike our own.

This way, I think we can recover our ability to respond emotionally. We can dig ourselves out of this vicious cycle and prevent more American lives from being shot, hurt and lost.

The next time I see another shooting in the news, I want to feel something. I want to have to swallow back tears, to feel faint with shock and feel my stomach nearly convulse out of sheer disgust. It will take time — perhaps a long time — for us to react that way again, but it’s necessary if we want to save lives.

Mariam is a contributing opinions writer.

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Scream no more

Legendary horror movie director Wes Craven dies at 76 Ian Flanagan Staff Writer

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Horror movie fans, lament: the boogeyman has died. Wes Craven, the man who made a living making you check under the bed at night, died Sunday from brain cancer. The pioneering director behind horror classics like “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Scream” and “The Hills Have Eyes” was 76 years old.

His Baptist childhood in Cleveland, Ohio was far removed from his film career, which began after he graduated Johns Hopkins University with a master’s in philosophy and writing. Before he was a horror king, Craven was a professor of English at Westminster College and taught humanities at Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. He got his first stint in the film industry as Jack Trainor CONTRIBUTING EDITOR a sound editor in New York City after his teaching stint at Clarkson University. He found more profitable work later as a pornography director, and worked his way up to his first feature films “The Last House on the Left,” which was released in 1972, and “The Hills Have Eyes” in 1977.

Both films were commercially successful, and both spawned cult followings and remakes produced by Craven himself in 2009 and 2006, respectively.

Perhaps Craven’s

most popular contributions to cinema were “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984) and “Scream” (1996), in which Craven’s master craftsmanship made him a household name.

The “Scream” franchise refurbished the weary state of horror in the late ‘90s, using selfawareness and balanced horror-comedy to create something unique and lastingly iconic. The film would produce three sequels, the latest of which was released just four years ago, and inspired an adapted show on MTV, which is renewed for a second season.

Even some of Craven’s sequels were well received, usually the ones in which he had a heavier hand, such as “Scream 2” (1997) and Freddy Krueger’s return in 1994’s “New Nightmare.” Both of these films altered the industry’s expectations of horror sequels in both decades by becoming critical successes — an impressive accomplishment for any franchise, especially in a genre as notorious for flops as horror.

Craven’s original “A Nightmare On Elm Street” would spawn an enormously iconic character in the razor-glove-wearing Freddy Krueger. It also rivaled the “Friday the 13th” franchise, arguably the most iconic horror franchise in the nineties, establishing the popularity of slasher films during that decade. Not only that, but it would also launch the career of Johnny Depp, whose first major role was in “Nightmare.”

The film franchise alone has nine entries, yet it would cause the same predictable horror clichés Craven would hope to separate from his work with his directorial stamp on Kevin WilRead the rest online at Pittnews.com.

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Pittsburgh native Todd Glass (above) headlined the festival along with Aubrey Plaza (left) Nikki Moriello VISUAL EDITOR

Comedy Festival, pg. 1 and “Tosh.0,” spewed satire of the banality of growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs in a contrastingly explosive and passionate fashion.

The festival also included a diverse lineup of improv groups from all across the country, including one from Dallas called Primary Colours, who coach pittnews.com

Tyler Via said loved the atmosphere of Henry Heymann Theater.

“The stage is very intimate,” Via said. “There’s something about this old university. It evokes something.”

Primary Colours comedian Ashley Bright said improv comedy is growing — not only in popularity, but artistically as well. The festival’s debut last year was “the first of its kind in Western Pennsylvania” according to its website.

“There’s a push [for improv comedians] to make it further,” Bright said.

“More people are seeing improv as the way to get to the next level, but it’s also becoming its own unique artistic destination.”

Bright also performed Saturday night with the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival All-Stars, a medley of the festival’s best talent that hailed from both Pitts-

burgh and other cities. As the festival’s finale, the audience-chosen theme of tornadoes led to a two-part act: first was simply conversations about tornadoes. Then, a fast-paced whirlwind of skits followed that included recurring themes of penises (including a trio of brothers named Scrotum, Balls and Dick), God as a whiny best friend and an artist of post-tornado debris.

Pittsburgh native Jeff Konkle also performed stand-up Saturday night following the Pittsburgh comedian/ magician and Robert Morris University graduate Lee Terbosic. Konkle harped on Pittsburgh sports and their fans — specifically “that one dude at every game who’s always telling people to ‘get up!’ and ‘let’s go!’” Terbosic’s act emphasized magic but was still undeniably funny. It ended with Terbosic performing the legendary Houdini straitjacket escape, while simultaneously entertaining the female assistant he plucked from the audience with sexual bondage jokes.

Terbosic was debaucherous, but he couldn’t touch the vulgarly honest co-

median Emma Arnold, who performed on Friday. Arnold, who draws her material from childhood experiences of orthodox hippy parents and living in a teepee, said comedians should challenge audiences’ comfort zones with vulgar humor.

“I think that it’s important for comedians to be ‘edgy’ — on the edge of social norms and boundaries, testing those limits and theories and pointing out the places where society has fallen short or is just plain wrong,” Arnold said.

The Comedy Festival plans to return to the city again next year, with new headliners and comics. A judging board picks the festival’s acts each year in order to show different facets of the improv art form and best represent Pittsburgh.

“Pittsburgh is a warm and friendly city,” Simmons said. “The festival tries to mirror that energy and create an intimate comedy-going experience ...

The comedy scene here is growing so fast that it warranted a weekend-long festival.”

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Depth Chart, pg. 12 After a long offseason, the Pitt football team released its twodeep depth chart Monday morning. The information, which lists the starters and backups for the Panthers’ season opener against Youngstown State on Saturday, elicits plenty of intrigue and speculation.

The following is a position-byposition breakdown of the listings.

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terman will only see the field in blowouts.

Wide Receivers Noticeably missing from the two-deep for the team’s first game is star receiver Tyler Boyd, who is suspended for the first game following a summer DUI arrest. Taking his place is sophomore Zach Challingsworth, trailed by freshman Quadree Henderson on the depth chart. On the other side is Dontez Ford, with Elijah Zeise behind him.

Ford has separated himself on the other side of Boyd in the coaching staff ’s eyes, though Zeise will likely see the field throughout the season after impressing coaches during camp.

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Offensive Line To no surprise, Adam Bisnowaty and Dorian Johnson will anchor the left side of the line at tackle and guard, respectively.

At center, Alex Officer and Artie Rowell are listed as co-starters, but with Rowell’s experience, he will likely start, while Officer will slide over to the right guard spot.

Alex Bookser is listed as the starting right guard, though will probably move over to right tackle, where converted tight end Brian O’Neill is listed as the starter.

Running Backs

Unsurprisingly, the reigning ACC Player of the Year James Conner will be the starter.

Conner will take the majority of the carries, while Chris James, Qadree Ollison and Darrin Hall — listed in that order after him — will split the rest of the reps. That order could change as the season progresses, but James will likely be the number two for the whole season.

Defensive Line The Panthers list Ejuan Price and Shakir Soto as the starters at the end spots, though that will change after Rori Blair returns from his one-game suspension and claims a spot. Depth on the line after those three is sparse, with a See Depth Chart on page 14

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On the inside, an injury has kept Darryl Render from the twodeep, though Narduzzi said Render might play week one. While it is unknown when he will return to the field, when he does, he will be the starting three technique defensive tackle. In the meantime, the depth chart lists Khaynin MosleySmith as co-starter at the position with Michigan State transfer Mark Scarpinato. Tyrique Jarrett is the starting nose tackle this week, but it wouldn’t be shocking for him and Mosley-Smith to split time there when Render comes back.

Linebackers Nicholas Grigsby has held the starting linebacker starting job from spring practice and that hasn’t

changed, with limited depth behind him. No one has challenged Matt Galambos, too much at the inside mike linebacker spot and will take most of the snaps at that position, with Quintin Wirginis coming in occasionally. The money outside linebacker is the only spot among linebackers where there’s competition, as Bam Bradley and Mike Caprara have gone back and forth in training camp and are thus both listed as starters. Bradley is more physically talented, while Caprara seems to have a better grasp on the scheme. Both will play a lot regardless, Caprara especially, as he’s capable of playing all three spots.

Cornerbacks Lafayette Pitts and Avonte Maddox were starters for much of last year and they will once again line up opposite each other this season.

After Pitts and Maddox, there’s a serious lack of depth, with freshmen Phillipie Motley and Dennis Briggs sitting behind Pitts’ corner spot and Ryan Lewis behind Maddox’s.

All three are unproven, though the coaches have spoken highly of Briggs, who moved from running back to corner in the spring.

Safeties Reggie Mitchell is one of the coaching staff ’s favorites, constantly earning praise during training camp. He will return as the starting free safety with Terrish Webb backing him up. Strong safety is up in air, with Pitt listing Pat Amara and highly-touted freshman Jordan Whitehead as co-starters and placing Jevonte Pitts third on the depth chart. Strong safety was one of the most competitive battles throughout camp with all three playing

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Work involves assisting very active 81 year old man with personal care and inhome and pool exercises. Great opportunity for medical and rehab science students. Contact Mike 412-901-4307, felafelman@gmail.com

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4-5 bedroom apartments. Central Air. Dishwasher. Available now.

412-302-9616.

1 & 2 BR APARTMENTS AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY ON BATES ST. Close to campus, on bus line. Clean, living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and porch. Call 412422-9734 or 412-780-8909.

1-2-3-5-6 bedroom houses, 2 baths. Bouquet, and Atwood Lawn & Ophelia.

Available Now & August. Please call 412-287-5712.

2 BR, furnished, sharing for 3 people. Oakland Ave. $1250 ($625 per person), utilities included.

Available in August.

Contact 412-848-9442.

Large efficiency apartment. Great location on Oakland Avenue. Available immediately. Call 412-877-6555 2 bedroom apartment, fully-equipped kitchen, washer/dryer, tiled bathroom and kitchenette, wall-to-wall carpeting, third floor private entrance. Parking available. $800+ all utilities. 412-5801612 or 814-786-9504.

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Squirrel Hill family looking for a babysitter from 3:456, M-F (may be earlier on Fri) for 10 & 8 yr old girls. Petfriendly. Reliable driver. Help with homework, light house work and driving to activities. $15/hr.

412-901-7485

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 412-624-8975.

DOG walker needed for our 3yr old dog, preferably daily between 11-1. crosano51@ hotmail.com

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Sacred Heart School in Shadyside is looking for volunteer basketball coaches.

Clearances will be required. If interested, please contact

Michele Cromer at mcromer@gtnlaw.com or 412-901-4268.

Hosts/Food Runners– SoHo, a full service restaurant & bar located on the North Shore is seeking Hosts/Hostesses & Food Runners to join our team. Full and/or part time positions available for both daytime and evening shifts. No experience necessary. Please apply in person at 203 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 or via email at manager@sohopittsburgh.com Rehab/personal care assistant needed to help man in North Oakland with daily activities and therapies at home and in pool. Great opportunity for medical, nursing, and health and rehabilitation students.

Good pay. Part-time/full-time available.

Contact Mike 412901-4307, felafelman@gmail.com

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Do you ever feel like the only skill you've truly mastered in college is researching and writing papers?

Servers/Bartenders –

Why not make the most of your student strengths by getting paid to use them? A Pitt faculty member is currently seeking a research assistant for ongoing hourly work.

If you excel at researching, coordinating, and creating written projects, particularly in scientific subjects, then email your resume to the appropriate party.

Shore is seeking

The specifics of the Research Assistant position are as follows: 1: Searching online databases for specific, academic literature.

2: Accessing Reference Libraries.

3: Assisting with the preparation of manuscripts.

4: Assisting with the preparation of grants.

5: Flexible, parttime hours.

6: Project management and strong editing skills preferred.

7: Must have solid writing skills and some familiarity with scientific writing, although strong writers in any academic discipline are encouraged to apply.

Please email resume and contact information to mros@pitt.edu

SoHo, a full service restaurant & bar located on the North

Servers & Bartenders

to join our team. Full and/or part time positions available for

both daytime and/or

evening shifts. Experience preferred.

Please apply in person at 203 Federal

Street, Pittsburgh, PA

15212, or via email at manager@sohopittsburgh.com

Uncle Sam’s Submarines, Pitts-

burgh’s best little sandwich joint is

looking for fun-lov-

ing and hard-working people to work

at our Oakland location. Applications

for full or part-time

positions are now being accepted at 210

Oakland Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213.

Sofa, beautiful condition, seats 4, $100.00. Close to Campus. Call Al or Ursula at 412-682-5624.

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