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Q&A: Aurora Sharrard on sustainability

Brian Salvato Staff Writer

Pitt is going green — slowly but surely.

The University’s plan to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and increase the use of renewable energy is a long one, spanning to 2030, but it’s one that students help propel forward every time they recycle a can or compost their food waste.

Dr. Aurora Sharrard, the director of sustainability at Pitt, plays a key role in the development of this plan — The Pitt News sat down with her to discuss the specifics of its progress.

The Pitt News: Who are you and how did you get involved with Pitt sustainability?

Aurora Sharrard: So I’m a civil engineer by training. I came to Pittsburgh in 2003 and got my master’s and Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon in civil and environmental engineering. Penn State senior cornerback Amani Oruwariye (21) intercepts a touchdown pass to redshirt junior wide receiver Tre I was really interested in the construction of Tipton (5). Thomas Yang | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR green buildings that were coming up right around that time and I got lucky right out of grad school with a job with Green Building Alliance as its research manager … I’ve long collaborated with Pitt’s staff and faculty on a Trent Leonard Penn State quickly flashed its offensive Nittany Lions to run away with the game in number of sustainability things. GBA and I Sports Editor an embarrassing second half. The final score, prowess, with senior quarterback Trace Mcactually weighed in on Pitt’s sustainability plan 51-6, marked the largest differential in the ri- Sorley finding junior tight end Jonathan HolOn a night that included constant rain, as it was coming into fruition. And when the valry since Penn State beat Pitt 65-9 in 1968. land for a 22-yard gain on the Nittany Lions’ chilly temperatures and a persistent wind, director position got posted, I applied for it.

“I want to apologize to Pitt nation,” head second play. Just two plays later, first-year the Pitt football team put up a performance TPN: Could you give a summary of Pitt’s coach Pat Narduzzi said. “That was not Pitt wideout KJ Hamler took a handoff 32 yards to match with the miserable weather Satursustainability plan? down the left sideline for the first touchdown football.” day.

AS: So there’s a University sustainabilPitt’s offense began the game by doing of the game, putting Penn State up 7-0.

The Panthers’ rushing attack kept them ity committee that was reconvened in 2016.

Now facing a touchdown deficit, the something it did just twice last week against within one score during the opening half, but There’s a cross-functional representation of Albany — they punted, after gaining six Panthers returned to their week-one form an unsightly 14 penalties and repeated speSee Sustainability on page 2 cial teams mistakes allowed the Penn State yards on three plays.

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Penn State pummels Pitt, 51-6

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staff, faculty and students, so there’s lots of different stakeholders on that. So they took about a year and half, two years, and created the plan with a consulting firm named BuroHappold and did a lot of work to really engage the campus … They conducted interviews and did surveys — all sorts of things really — trying to get where Pitt’s stakeholders wanted to be in term of sustainability and that’s where the plan came to be.

And the sort of “magic diagram” of the plan is this.

TPN: What started pushing Pitt to realize it needed to put a plan in place?

AS: There’s a nice little timeline that sort of tracks it back to 1990 when they signed on to a declaration that said they should incorporate environmental thinking into a lot of the academic and curriculum side of things. I’m co-located with the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation which was founded in 2003, and is really focused on sustainability within the School of Engineering. The Mascaro Center has grown to be a University-wide center for [sustainability] in the past 15 years.

TPN: So would you say that ties into Pitt’s role in Pittsburgh and what they’re doing around the region? How impor-

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tant are they as a role model?

AS: Everything Pitt does is tremendously important in Pittsburgh. It’s not just a word in our name. We are a large employer in the region, we are a large part of the neighborhood which is the third largest downtown in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania … So the impact of making decisions both on campus and off campus with collaborations and partnerships is incredibly important to the region … And there are a lot of stakeholders in the region who have been advancing sustainability for at least 25 years, some of them way longer. It does not happen in a silo.

TPN: I know this is a long-term plan that was created with a long-term lens, but this year are there any initiatives in place that ensure long-term success?

AS: So there’s a Student Office of Sustainability. They’re the coordinating umbrella for more than 20 student organizations that are affiliated with them and who reflect different pieces of the sustainability puzzle … They’re heavily engaged with composting on campus and they green-certify events that are put on by faculty, staff and students to help people compost from events. There’s a group based on food recovery and food security concerns on and off campus.

TPN: Would you suggest that as a good way for your run-

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of-the-mill student to get involved with sustainability, or are there things they could do to be more sustainable?

AS: Yeah, definitely. I think there are lots of things students can do to get started. So one, recycling is a very easy thing …

It’s single stream, we make it easy, so participating in that accurately is easy. Composting when it’s available is great. In the dorms, there are basic things like turning lights off, unplugging things that aren’t being used … whether you’re walking or biking, jumping on the shuttle or bus instead of Ubering around.

TPN: Are there hardships with sustainability? Do students have to compromise comfort, or what type of effort do they have to put in to be sustainable? This is described as a longterm investment, so what goes into that investment that might not be as glamorous as the results?

AS: There are a lot of things that go into the balance of sustainability that aren’t glamorous. There are hard conversations to be had globally about balancing economics, environment and equity that not everybody is always happy about the answers for. The challenge and opportunity of sustainability is making that happen for current and future generations.

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COUNTERPOINT:

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APPOINT KAVANAUGH

Hayden Timmins Columnist

Headline: Point-Counterpoint: Appoint Kavanaugh After Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court in June, there was plenty of speculation as to who President Donald Trump would appoint to fill the position. After weeks of deliberation, he selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the job.

Kavanaugh was met with hundreds of protesters for four days straight. But upon closer inspection, there are very few — if any — substantial arguments against Kavanaugh, and it’s frankly baffling why there are so many people who adamantly oppose him.

Kavanaugh would make an excellent Supreme Court justice. In an era where the legislative branch delegates superfluous amounts of power to the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh strictly opposes this.

It’s not the Supreme Court’s job to create new laws and precedents unrelated to how a law should be ruled — this is the job of the legislative branch. The judicial branch, which was designed to be the least powerful of the three branches, should only rule on existing laws.

This stance is reflected in Kavanaugh’s opinions and rulings. It’s clear he strongly falls back onto written law, which is exactly what he was appointed to do.

Kavanaugh ruled against net neutrality in 2017, finding that it violated internet service providers’ free speech rights, and against gun laws because they clearly violated the Second Amendment. He also wrote an opinion against the individual mandate in 2007 from the Affordable Care Act because a monetary fine severely restricts free trade — it does not satisfy the Taxing Clause and the “necessary and proper” clause. He wrote in favor of Emily’s List — an organization that promotes abortion rights and supports pro-choice female Democratic candidates — in 2009 because restrictions

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against them violated their First Amendment rights to fundraise.

A topic many are concerned about, should Kavanaugh be appointed, is his stance on Roe v. Wade. During the hearing, Kavanaugh stated under oath that he believes Roe v. Wade is an “important precedent.” But in an email brought up during the hearing on Wednesday, Kavanaugh wrote something many questioned.

“I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since the court can always overrule its precedent,” he wrote.

Yet with hundreds of thousands of released documents — more than were released for the past five judicial nominees combined — this single email cannot possibly account for his entire view on abortion, especially when he stated under oath in the hearing that he believes that Roe v. Wade is settled law.

“Senator, I said that it’s settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court, entitled the respect under principles ‘stare decisis,’” Kavanaugh said during the hearing. “And one of the important things to keep in mind about Roe v. Wade is that it has been reaffirmed many times over the past 45 years.”

Senators also asked questions of presidential power during the hearing, specifically by Sen. Chris Coons, arguing that Kavanaugh would allow Trump to pardon himself in the Muller case should there be evidence against him. Although Kavanaugh doesn’t appear to support the ability to prosecute a sitting president, this is unimportant since a president can be prosecuted after they are impeached.

The procedure is normally to file a motion for impeachment in the House of Representatives, and then to prosecute the president after he is removed from office, thereby not having to prosecute a sitting president. None of the last three presidents under federal investigation were prosecuted while they were in office. InSee Point on page 4

DON’T APPOINT KAVANAUGH Delilah Bourque Columnist Headline: Point-Counterpoint: Don’t appoint Kavanaugh When former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy retired in July, President Donald Trump had the opportunity to lock down a strong conservative base of five justices — and to do so, he chose Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

No one truly knows where Kavanaugh stands on issues that have historically broken party lines, like abortion and health care — a troubling sign, considering his record as a U.S. circuit judge and his behavior during his confirmation hearings.

Both show he is a liar who does not follow the precedent of courts before him — which will be disastrous for the American people, especially women.

Any senate confirmation hearings for a new Supreme Court judge will be brutal. Typically, over a period of four to five days, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary grills justice nominees to determine what their personal beliefs and track record mean for the American public.

Then, senators cast their vote to either confirm or deny a nominee.

Kavanaugh’s hearings were unusual to say the least. For most Supreme Court nominees, most or all documents — emails, memos and publications — are released to members of the Senate well in advance.

But during the Kavanaugh hearings an additional 42,000 documents regarding the nominee were released the night of Sept. 3 — hours before hearings commenced. And many of Kavanaugh’s documents weren’t released to the public because doing so would have violated the executive privilege of George W. Bush, for whom Kavanaugh served as assistant and White House Staff Secretary.

Democratic senators decided they had enough of the secrecy. Sens. Bob Casey, Corey Booker and Mazie Hirono released thousands of Kavanaugh’s emails and other documents on

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Sept. 6 that they believed the public had a right to view.

One of those emails caught Kavanaugh in an outright lie when Sen. Patrick Leahy asked whether Kavanaugh had contact with former Republican senate aide Manuel Miranda, who in 2004 was accused of stealing documents from Democratic members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary — including Leahy.

In his hearing on Wednesday, Kavanaugh told Leahy he had not received files from Miranda — but in one 2003 email with the subject line “Spying,” Kavanaugh describes having a “mole on the left” who revealed to him details of campaign donation funds set up by pro-choice advocacy groups.

Kavanaugh outright lied to Leahy on Wednesday, and then faced his lie on Thursday after the documents were leaked. This is not the only time Kavanaugh lied about his contact with Miranda while under oath. In two separate hearings for his position on circuit courts, one in 2004 and another in 2006, he denied having contact with Miranda.

When pressed about the new details surrounding his contact with Miranda, Kavanaugh claimed he thought Miranda was receiving information from Democratic aide friends of his, not stealing files. Leahy didn’t buy it.

“I was born at night but not last night,” Leahy said.

Dishonesty like this could have disastrous impacts, particularly for women’s health. Kavanaugh joins four notably conservative justices whom many women’s rights advocates say are dangerously open to reinterpreting Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized elective abortion in 1973.

In an email Booker (D-N.J.) released on Sept.

6, Kavanaugh wrote to a pro-life advocacy group that he was “not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its See Counterpoint on page 4

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Point, pg. 3 stead, Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson were impeached, and Richard Nixon resigned under pressure.

Yet the most damaging claim made during the hearings is that Kavanaugh lied under oath.

These claims sparked outrage, with many calling for his impeachment.

There are two specific instances where senators claimed he lied. The first is that Kavanaugh claimed he was not involved in vetting Judge William Pryor before he was nominated to the 11th Circuit in 2005. But in emails leaked during this past week, it seems that Kavanaugh was actually involved in the vetting process.

However, upon closer inspection of these emails, there is absolutely no evidence suggesting that Kavanaugh was personally involved in the vetting process at all. He was BCC’d in an email about a meeting regarding Pryor, and when he was asked about how the interview went with Pryor, he responded “call me.” There is nothing to suggest that he was involved, and until there is evidence that during this call Kavanaugh admitted to being personally involved in the vetting process, we can’t immediately jump to conclusions.

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Counterpoint, pg. 3 precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so.”

Republican senators, like Dan Sullivan of Alaska, want to take Kavanaugh’s word that he now believes Roe is settled law — but he’s already proven himself a liar.

Kavanaugh has used precedent time and time again to warp the law to fit his political beliefs. These beliefs include restricting women’s access to abortion, as evidenced by his use of precedent to argue against providing abortion services. This will mean disastrous consequences for American women if he is confirmed.

Kavanaugh sat on the court that ruled on the high-profile abortion rights case Azar v. Garzan, in which Jane Doe, an undocumented minor immigrant, sought an abortion — forcing her into a months-long battle against the Trump administration. The ruling states that Doe had the right to an abortion in the United States.

Kavanaugh wrote in his dissent that forcing her to return to her home country, where elective abortion is illegal, or forcing her to find a sponsor in the United States, a process that oftentimes takes months, would not be causing undue burden.

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The second allegation of potential perjury comes from the fact that Kavanaugh seems to have knowledge about stolen documents. Manuel Miranda hacked into the emails of several Democrat senators in 2000 and downloaded documents in an attempt to get information related to their strategies on judicial nominations.

These documents were sent to Kavanaugh in 2003 via email.

Kavanaugh made a statement under oath in 2006 claiming that he had no knowledge that these documents were stolen. And that is still true. At no point in the emails does Miranda suggest that these emails were stolen from Democrats’ emails. There are many other ways that documents can be released legally, and Kavanaugh repeatedly says that he assumed that they were given to him legally.

The lack of coherent arguments against Kavanaugh is why there were 212 arrests for disrupting the first four days of the hearing. People are fed these unsubstantiated lies about Kavanaugh, so they protest and grandstand instead of having civil discourse because they are told to by representatives of their own party.

It is essential to the continuation of democracy to form an opinion based on the information given to us, not the other way around.

Write to Hayden at hwt3@pitt.edu. tential for disastrous consequences for women.

If Kavanaugh’s anti-abortion and anti-Roe views were not enough, where other judges would accept precedents of the court before them that further the common good, Kavanaugh would surely break them — which is why he’s even worse.

Without access to safe and readily available abortion services, many women are more likely to resort to home abortions — which often are deadly. Unsafe abortion practices are responsible for at least 4.7 percent of maternal deaths worldwide each year, and if the Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade, that number would likely increase. Stopping abortion access does not stop abortion, but makes it more likely for women to turn to unsafe, potentially deadly means.

Republican leaders believe presenting Kavanaugh as following strict adherence to precedent will make him an easy pill for citizens to swallow.

However, he has shown himself to be not only a liar who will say anything to secure his position on the court, but also someone who has been willing to change “precedent” to suit his own anti-abortion beliefs in the past. Confirming Kavanaugh would be a mistake that senators who vote for him will pay dearly for in the midterm elections this November.

Write to Delilah at dgb22@pitt.edu.

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SELF-SABOTAGE: PANTHERS TO BLAME FOR LOSS Trent Leonard Sports Editor The Pitt football team put forth a pitiful effort in Saturday night’s 51-6 blowout loss to in-state rival Penn State, a game hyped up to be a “Keystone clash” between two fairly equal teams. Instead of rising to the occasion, the Panthers faded in the second half, allowing 37 unanswered points as most home fans filtered out of the stadium by the end of the third quarter.

By the end of the game, Panther fans everywhere were left staring at the final score wondering just how it happened. It didn’t seem possible that Pitt could suffer a loss so lopsided, at home, on national television, in front of a sellout crowd as Panther greats Dan Marino and Tony Dorsett watched from nearby. But they did, and here are some of the biggest takeaways from Saturday’s game.

Special teams were a major issue Kicking. Punting. Holding. Returning.

Every aspect of special teams — you name it, the Panthers messed it up against Penn State.

First-year punter Kirk Christodoulou drew the ire of Pitt fans after making multiple errors. In his job as field goal holder, he mishandled the long snap on the extra point attempt following Pitt’s first touchdown, allowing Penn State to maintain its 7-6 lead.

Christodoulou again seemed to bobble the snap on a 35-yard field goal attempt in the second quarter, getting the ball down just in time for sophomore Alex Kessman’s kick, which sailed wide right. But his slippery hands really cost the Panthers just before halftime, when he dropped the snap during a punt attempt at the 35-yard line with just one minute remaining. That gave the Nittany Lions prime field position to score quickly, and they did just that to take a 14-6 lead.

Facing a crucial fourth-and-3 situation from the Penn State 4-yard line in the second quarter, it appeared head coach Pat Narduzzi officially lost hope in either Christodoulou’s ability to hold the ball or Kessman’s ability to kick it. He elected to go for the touchdown —

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and failed — instead of taking the easy field goal, which would have given Pitt a 9-6 lead.

When he was able to catch the snaps, Christodoulou still hurt the team with his inability to punt the ball deep. The Pitt offense often found itself pinned within its own 5-yard line — largely thanks to Christodoulou’s short punts, which averaged just 33.7 yards on the night. It may have been cold and rainy, but 33.7 yards just doesn’t cut it for a Division I punter.

Those punts gave the Penn State offense a short field to work with all night, and for all the efforts of the Pitt defense, it’s simply too easy to score when your team only needs to drive 40 yards. The Panthers’ entire punt unit also deserves some blame for allowing senior DeAndre Thompkins to take a punt return 39 yards back for a touchdown in the third quarter.

The Panthers couldn’t stop committing penalties Penn State committed four penalties for 45 yards. Pitt committed 14 for 116 yards.

“I’ve never seen so many penalties in one game,” Narduzzi — who has been coaching football since 1990 — said afterwards.

It wasn’t just the sheer mass of penalties that hurt the Panthers, but the critical times when they came. Early in the third quarter, trailing just 14-6, Pitt stuffed Penn State on a third-and-10 attempt at their own 27-yard line, forcing what would have likely been a punt. But redshirt sophomore defensive lineman Patrick Jones II was flagged for roughing the passer — a 15-yard penalty, giving Penn State the ball at the 11-yard line. Quarterback Trace McSorley punched it in three plays later, giving the Nittany Lions a 21-6 lead.

Pitt senior Colin Jonov was flagged for an illegal block on the ensuing kick return, marching the ball back to Pitt’s own 8-yard line. A first-down false start on sophomore tight end Tyler Sear backed it up to the 4. On second down, Pickett rolled out and threw an incomplete pass — but senior lineman Stefano Millin was flagged for holding in the end

Redshirt senior running back Qadree Ollison (30) completed Pitt’s only successful touchdown at the Panther’s 51-6 loss to Penn State Saturday evening. Anna Bongardino | VISUAL EDITOR zone, awarding Penn State a two-point safety to go up 23-6.

Those two possessions alone provided a nine-point swing — and an immeasurable momentum change — in Penn State’s favor, and it was the sole result of self-inflicted errors from the Panthers. That was the point when the Panther Pitt began to empty out of the stadium.

Pickett isn’t immortal after all Up to this point in his career, sophomore quarterback Kenny Pickett had done nothing to derail his steadily growing hype train.

As a true freshman last season, Pickett impressed in his first significant action at Virginia Tech, taking over for Ben DiNucci and completing 15 of 23 passes for an admirable 242 yards, despite an interception.

He earned his first start the following week against unbeaten No. 2 Miami — and proceeded to score all three Panther touchdowns in the massive upset.

Last week against Albany, Pickett did everything you’d expect against a weaker FCS opponent. He completed 16 of 22 passes — including a perfect 13 for 13 in the first half — and accounted for three more touchdowns.

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But the Pickett hype train came crashing to a halt against Penn State Saturday night.

Pickett couldn’t get anything going against the Nittany Lions’ defense, often choosing to run when faced with pressure. He completed one of his five first-quarter passes, and that lone completion went for zero yards. When Pickett finally mustered the courage to take a deep shot at the end zone, it resulted in a Penn State interception toward the end of the first quarter.

The coaching staff seemed to lose confidence in their star quarterback after that, and instead chose to run the entire offense through Qadree Ollison, who amassed 119 yards on 21 carries. Pickett finished the game with nine completions — on just 18 attempts — for 55 yards and an interception.

The all-encompassing stat of the night may have been that Pitt had over twice as many penalty yards, 114, as passing yards, 55.

It’s not the end of the world However ugly it may have been, this loss won’t count against what matters most — Pitt’s conference record. The Panthers will look to put this showing in the past when they host their first ACC game against Georgia Tech Saturday.

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Recap, pg. 1 on drive number two. First-year receiver Shocky Jacques-Louis provided the Pitt offense with stellar field position on the first play by rushing 38 yards to the opposing 37yard line. From there, the Panthers steadily drove downfield until senior running back Qadree Ollison punched it in from 13 yards out.

But for the second straight week, sophomore kicker Alex Kessman and the fieldgoal unit struggled on the extra point. A muffed snap broke up the point after, allowing Penn State to maintain a 7-6 lead.

“We didn’t do anything right. Missed extra points, missed field goals,” Narduzzi said.

“Obviously had a holder issue with injury.”

The Panthers would get the ball back on their own 27-yard line, and proceeded to show off the same rushing power that racked up 238 yards in the first week. Pitt drove 42 yards — all on the ground — on nine plays down to the Penn State 31-yard line. Instead of sticking to the rushing attack, Pickett took a risk and bombed a deep pass attempt to junior receiver Tre Tipton.

Nittany Lions senior cornerback Amani Oruwariye made Pickett pay the price, picking off the pass at the one-yard line.

Later in the half, Pitt redshirt senior linebacker Quintin Wirginis leveled first-year running back Ricky Slade with a forceful hit, causing a fumble which redshirt sophomore defensive end Rashad Weaver recovered.

Ollison rattled off four straight carries to the PSU eight-yard line, but the offense eventually faced a fourth-and-3 situation from the four-yard line. Typical strategy would favor kicking the easy field goal, but redshirt freshman holder Jake Scarton suffered a previous injury that left the Panthers’ field goal unit scrambling.

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Narduzzi elected to go for the touchdown with the Panthers’ bread-and-butter play call — a rush to Ollison.

This time the Nittany Lion defense was ready, and stuffed Ollison in the backfield.

What could have potentially been a 9-7 lead remained a 7-6 deficit for the Panthers.

“We asked to go for it, as an offense,” Ollison said. “And we didn’t get it. So that’s on us.”

With one minute remaining in the half,

better,” Ollison said. “We just gotta come out with more energy.”

In the second half, McSorley and the Penn State offense carried out a modest drive to the Pitt 27-yard line before facing a third-and-10 attempt, which the Pitt defense appeared to stifle. However, the Panthers’ Achilles’ heel of the night — penalties — was struck once more, as redshirt sophomore defensive lineman Patrick Jones II was flagged for roughing the passer, giving the

Redshirt senior wide receiver Rafael Araujo-Lopes (82) fumbles the ball after receiving a Penn State punt. Thomas Yang | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR the special teams unit committed another crucial error when redshirt freshman punter Kirk Christodoulou fumbled the snap and got sacked, allowing the Penn State offense to take over with elite field position.

The Nittany Lions made quick work of the Panther defense, as junior running back Miles Sanders ran for 21 yards and McSorley hit Hamler wide open in the middle of the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown on the very next play, giving Penn State a 14-6 lead heading into the half.

“It’s frustrating. We just gotta execute

Nittany Lions a fresh set of downs on the Pitt 11-yard line.

Sanders picked up seven yards, and McSorley finished the job by rushing for a fouryard touchdown to increase Penn State’s lead, 21-6.

On Pitt’s next drive, the Panther offense appeared to forget which way they were supposed to go.

First, an illegal blocking penalty on senior defensive back Colin Jonov negated the kick return and gave Pitt the ball on their own eight-yard line. Then a false start

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on sophomore tight end Tyler Sear backed the ball up to Pitt’s own four-yard line. Ollison rushed for negative three yards on first down, putting the Panthers on their own one-yard line. Finally, a holding penalty in the end zone on senior lineman Stefano Millin gave Penn State a two-point safety, a 23-6 lead and total control over momentum.

“You can’t shoot yourself in the foot. It’s as simple as that,” Wirginis said afterward.

“We just have to eliminate those self-inflicted wounds.”

The next score came when PSU senior punt returner DeAndre Thompkins took a punt all the way back for a 39-yard touchdown, giving the Nittany Lions a 30-6 lead with 28 seconds left in the quarter and essentially putting an end to any hopes of a Pitt victory.

In that decisive third quarter, the Panthers accumulated negative two total yards and committed seven penalties for 41 yards.

The Nittany Lions added three more fourth-quarter touchdowns for good measure — an 11-yard pass to first-year Mac Hippenhammer, a four-yard rush by senior running back Mark Allen and a 34-yard pass to junior Brandon Polk — to secure the 51-6 blowout victory.

For the game, the Panthers earned 300 total offensive yards — just 90 fewer than their opponent. Pickett had the first subpar start of his young career, completing nine of 18 passes for 55 yards and an interception.

Pitt’s 14 team penalties negated a total of 116 yards. Ollison was the team’s lone bright spot, finishing with 21 carries for 119 yards and a touchdown.

“You gotta move on,” Pickett said. “Flush it and move on. Twenty-four-hour rule, no matter if you win or lose.”

Pitt will look to move on next Saturday in its first ACC game versus Georgia Tech.

Kickoff is set for 12:30 p.m. at Heinz Field.

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