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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | September 14, 2016 | Volume 107 | Issue 25

SGB, BUSINESS SCHOOL TO TEACH FINANCE Leo Dorman Staff Writer

Student Government Board member Max Kneis is teaming up with students from the business school to bring financial literacy to Pitt students.

Kneis has been working for several weeks with Evan Turman, president of Alpha Kappa Psi, the business fraternity, and other organizations within the business school to organize a financial literacy conference.

The conference will bring professionals from the business and finance worlds to teach students about how to manage their money while in college and after they graduate.

The goal of the conference, which will be on Oct. 21, is to improve financial literacy, both in learning basics — such as how to handle debt and what credit means — as well as more extensive knowledge for after graduation, like how to understand a contract that a company offers a first-time employee.

Since the average business student already has some understanding of finance, organizers are capping the number of spots available for students in the business school. The conference will have 200 total spots available, which Turman hopes will include students from many different backgrounds. Less than half of the spots will be for students in the business school.

“A lot of people say ‘I don’t like math or taxes. I don’t want to know about it,’” Kneis said.

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PITT STARTS SEARCH FOR FIRST SCI DEAN David Robinson For The Pitt News

Pitt wants its new School of Computing and Information to be as quick to adapt as the latest software update — beginning with its search for a dean.

A search committee to find a dean for the new school met with about 30 Pitt community members, including faculty, staff and students, Tuesday afternoon. The open forum in Alumni Hall’s seventh floor auditorium was the first time the search committee met with See SGB on page 4 the public.

During the back and forth of the forum, discussion favored a dean with an ability to establish interdisciplinary connections while also maintaining an understanding of classes and coursework to prepare students for the competitiveness of the job market.

Attendees also wanted the dean to have a balance between their ability to form connections outside SCI and academic capital to take risk and allow the school to grow under their leadership.

“As part of the search, we want to hear from everybody,” Laura Winters, assistant to

the provost for special projects and coordinator of the forum, said. “There are a lot of stakeholders in this process, and this is an opportunity to hear from as many as we can.”

The school is a merger of the School of Information Sciences and the computer science department, which Pitt announced last spring. The new school will consist of three departments: computer science, information and network systems and information culture and data stewardship.

There are 12 search committee members, See Forum on page 3

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STUDENTS ELECT RESIDENCE HALL COUNCIL Macey Zaffina

For The Pitt News In total, Pitt has about 6,200 students living in residence halls on campus. In a show of small-scale democracy, those students chose 99 of their peers to lead them through the year.

On Tuesday night, the Resident Student Association held their annual Hall Council elections, where each student living in a residence hall gets a chance to vote on student leaders for their respective building. Each hall elects nine members to help organize events and facilitate collaboration among hall residents.

The voting period closed Tuesday night, but RSA will announce the official results Wednesday afternoon through an email to the individual residence halls.

While most halls have their own council, the residence halls in the quad as well as Sutherland East and West have a combined council.

The Hall Council is responsible for building a collaborative community in each residence hall as well as Pitt’s residence hall community as a whole through arranging programs and events and addressing issues that residents propose. Each respective Hall Council will be responsible for organizing annual programs such as the Lothrop Challenge, Spring Carnival, Pie your RSA and the R.A. fundraiser.

The elected positions include president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, programming chair, public relations chair, civic engagement chair, advocacy chair and recognition chair, which highlights students who make the residence halls a more positive place.

Newly elected council member Reagan Harper, who was chosen for the public relations chair for Panther Hall, said she plans to focus her efforts on connecting residents with varying majors. Harper, a sophomore anthropology major, joined RSA last year as a floor representative for Tower B but wanted to get more involved this year.

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“The Engineering LLC is in Panther [Hall], and those students would have different schedules from students in Dietrich’s School or the College of Business,” Harper said in an email.

“Programs that appeal to all students can offer an opportunity that some students just might not have to meet each other.”

For Greg Brown, the resident director and Hall Council advisor for Nordenberg Hall, Hall Council offers students a chance to interact with Pitt administration because they have the most access to administration members responsible for accommodating Pitt students that live on-campus.

In an email, Brown encouraged new Hall Council members to take advantage of their positions because, “very few students have access to Student Affairs staff in the way that Hall Council members do.”

Caroline Seifert, a junior literature and political science major, served as Holland Hall’s vice president during the 2014-15 academic year. In her role, she assisted with programs that her Hall Council organized, such as the campus-wide event hosted in the “haunted” tunnels below Holland Hall, known as Haunted Holland.

Her drive to become involved in the Hall Council her first year at Pitt stemmed from her belief that, “what you learn outside the classroom is just as much, if not more in some cases, important than the learning that goes on in lectures.”

“It was the first step I took to growing as a leader, and I do not think I would be where I am today without my wonderful Holland Hall Council,” Seifert said about her previous Hall Council term.

Jahari Mercer, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering who served as advocacy chair for Forbes Hall’s Hall Council during the 2015-16 academic year, said he focused on improving engineering student’s residence life through expanding hydration stations See Residence on page 5

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Forum, pg. 1 including the committee’s chair, professor and Associate Chair of the Biology Department Nathan Urban. The committee includes a mix of administration, faculty from the departments of computer science and School of Information Sciences as well as one professor from the School of Medicine and a computer science student.

That student, Ritwik Gupta, said SCI will break from the usually-strict creation guidelines for a new school.

“What happens when you form new schools is you follow rigid rules,” Gupta said.

“Here’s how the school’s formed, here’s how it’s structured, here’s the scope of the school and here’s what you do. And whenever that happens, you limit yourself.”

The major points of discussion were SCI’s ability to offer new integration across Pitt’s schools, its opportunity for Pitt’s growth as a computer science powerhouse and an initiative to increase Pitt’s impact of its technological contributions with both students and the world.

Already, Pitt has collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to create the Pitts-

burgh Health Data Alliance to collect health data for improving health care. Additionally, Pitt has partnered with the city and Allegheny County to open the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center — which publishes city and county datasets online — in October 2015.

The still-existing CS and SIS departments at Pitt are developing a plan proposal for what SCI is intended to be, which the provost and the chancellor will need to approve before execution begins.

Ron Larsen, the current School of Information Sciences dean, is hopeful the proposal process will finish in October with implementation occurring from then until the school accepts students next fall. The committee is at the beginning of its search and will compile a list of three to six candidates over the coming months, holding interviews afterwards.

“The hope with the new school is that it makes [SCI] the center of gravity,” Alexandros Labrinidis, an associate computer science professor who attended Tuesday’s panel, said. “And other people that aren’t computer scientists are affiliated.”

Talk of the need for SCI to integrate Pitt’s computer science capabilities across all aspects of its departments and the need for

growth within the department arose consistently during the discussion.

Alex Jones, an associate professor of electrical engineering and director of computer engineering at Pitt, said the new school should be a sign for Pitt to invest in computing more.

“The demand by students to get computing degrees is clearly there,” Jones said. “It should be a cyclic thing, bring in more students, then more faculty. Getting an excellent student through our program who can then go on to be an ambassador of Pitt to the world is a much more long term thing.”

SCI’s integration with Pitt’s other schools was a key point of discussion throughout the open forum.

Gupta, the undergraduate committee member, said SCI can bridge gaps across the schools.

“Instead of where the School of Arts and Sciences has to communicate with the School of Medicine about some computing project, SCI can be that conduit where those projects seamlessly meet,” Gupta said. “That’s the type of structure that needs to be built around the school. The dean needs to be the one to … make it a fluid entity rather than a rigid entity.”

The search committee for the SCI dean met with the public on Tuesday afternoon. Edward Major STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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SGB, pg. 1 “But you can’t be ignorant about it — you have to pay your rent.”

The conference comes after months of planning, with discussions beginning last spring. After Turman realized financial literacy was an issue, Alpha Kappa Psi hosted a speaker for members to begin discussing financial literacy. The positive response convinced him to propose a wider scale event, which Turman and Kneis worked on alongside Associate Dean of the Katz Graduate School of Business Audrey Murrell.

The conference will host several speakers from the business field, including Dean Owrey, chief financial officer for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Enterprises and Information Services Division, and Vic Bovalino, executive vice president of finance and operations at Surefire Restaurants Group. All the speakers bring real world experience, which Kneis and Turman hope will add to the value of the conference.

The Business School will pay for the daylong conference, which includes breakfast and lunch for attendees.

“What it came down to was relevance for students,” Turman said.

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Pitt required incoming students to complete a financial education module, GradReady, for the first time this year. The module taught students about student loans, credit and debt.

Turman and Kneis both want the conference to become an annual event at Pitt. This spring, Turman hopes to host other speakers for smaller events for students to delve deeper into topics of financial literacy. The goal of this year’s conference is merely to get the conversation started.

In other news, the Board expanded plans for a Women’s Empowerment Week, which it announced at last week’s meeting.

Board members Alyssa Laguerta and Sydney Harper are collaborating on creating an organization dedicated to empowering women through a mentorship program. As of right now, they are setting it up as a task force under SGB. Laguerta is unsure how the club will take shape in the future and whether it will remain under SGB or become its own entity.

Right now, Harper and Laguerta are working with Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement, Chief of Staff Kathy Humphrey on drafting a constitution and attracting members.

The women’s empowerment group will take the form of a mentoring institution with older

sgb allocations The model united nations club requested two supplemental allocations for $2,498.20 and $4,126.02. the board approved $2,454 and denied $43.75 and approved $2,520.27 and denied $1,605.75 respectively. The allocations will be used to attend a security council simulation at yale. the panther swim club requested $1,917.50. the board approved $1,625.00 and denied $292.50. the allocation will be used for transportation and lodging at a swim meet needed for qualification for nationals. pitt off the hook requested $1,265.00. the board denied the request in full. the allocation was to be used for a leadership seminar.

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SGB, pg. 4 members helping guide first-year students and sophomores. Although it is primarily geared as a women’s group, Laguerta hopes it will be able to work with any other student organizations interested in empowerment as well.

“It’s all about collaboration,” Laguerta said.

“We want to build solidarity.”

Ultimately, the group hopes to foster relationships among women at Pitt while helping them transition through school and into the workplace. Laguerta wants the group to encourage more women leaders to work together.

“We want to connect women leaders and empower other women to lead,” Laguerta said.

“It will hopefully showcase strong women in the workforce.”

Also at Tuesday’s meeting, Board President Natalie Dall announced that student leaders from other state-affiliated schools will visit Pitt on Sept. 30 for the weekend as part of the Pennsylvania Association of State-Affiliated Students, an organization that brings student leaders together from the four state-affiliated schools in Pennsylvania. Penn State, Lincoln, Temple and Pitt will each send four representatives to discuss common issues on their campuses, such as sexual assault and mental health, and how each school deals with such concerns.

“It’ll be really good to see how other schools

are handling similar issues,” Dall said. “We can brainstorm solutions together.”

PASS used to be an annual meeting in the early 2000s but stopped in 2001. Last year, the program started again when the schools met at Penn State University.

Dall will represent Pitt with board members Rohit Anand and Arlind Karpuzi as well as Governmental Relations Chair Nick Fisher.

“It will be a great chance to network with other student leaders,” Dall said.

At Tuesday’s meeting, SGB also appointed eight new members and one alternate to the elections committee.

Residence, pg. 2 from only one in the building to one on every floor.

Mercer hopes the new 2016-17 Hall Council incorporates new programs and improves the Hall Council’s efficiency.

“I would love to see the Hall Council put on programs to address issue of diversity and inclusion,” Mercer said in an email. “I also would like to see them find unique ways to save money while still producing quality programming.”

As the new Hall Councils begin their yearlong term, Seifert recommends that new members focus on productive communication.

To help with this, the RSA executive board, a six-member board that oversees the Hall Council and the RSA, plans to organize leadership development workshops and will address communication issues at their monthly Town Hall meetings, according to Ian Snyder, president of the RSA executive board.

The newly elected Hall Council members will also attend the Sept. 18 executive board’s leadership retreat at Benedum Hall to kick off their training and year-long term. Elections for executive board positions are in March, and the terms run from May to May each year.

Snyder, a junior political science major, said the Hall Council is a fundamental part of the Pitt community because many executive board initiatives are heavily supported by Hall Council’s efforts.

“In many ways, [the Hall Council] are the backbone of the organization, and their participation and ideas shape the impact we have on a campus-wide level each year,” Snyder said.

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PAT funding crisis emphasizes MUSIC FESTIVAL CULTURE need for alternatives After 15 years, we still cannot escape the harrowing aftermath of 9/11.

On September 11, 2001, the United States lost 2,977 men, women and children in the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The terrorist attack forever changed our country and the state of national security.

Yesterday’s 15-year anniversary gave us the chance to pause and reflect on how we want to remember the victims who were killed. It gave us the opportunity to celebrate the servicepeople who bravely helped the survivors to safety and to consider how the attacks affected our unity as a country.

Furthermore, it served as an opportunity to assess the state of our continued engagement overseas and to acknowledge the way we handled and continue to handle the most prolific attack on American soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

But judging by yesterday’s news coverage of 9/11, we as a country failed to properly commemorate the ones who were truly impacted by the historic event.

In the midst of a New York ceremony for the anniversary of 9/11, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton fainted and later announced she had been diagnosed with pneumonia. Online, calls for Clinton — and Republican nominee Donald Trump — to release detailed medical records drowned out tributes to 9/11 victims and survivors.

Yes, Clinton’s health scare is breaking news. But her pneumonia diagnosis is unrelated to the 9/11 memorial she was attending. The circus of this year’s election cycle twisted what was supposed to be a tribute to a tragic moment in American history into an opportunity to once again fuel the wildfire that is this presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, MSNBC broadcasted the

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gruesome 3 ½ hour footage of Sept. 11, 2001 on the Today show as it has done every year since the attack. The footage shows the live coverage of smoke encompassing the World Trade Center, families frantically running for help and a city in dark chaos after multiple terrorist attacks.

The annual tradition is marketed as a recognition of 9/11 that serves as a reminder of the tragedy. But let’s be honest, it’s a ratings grab. People will tune in, like rubberneckers passing a car crash on the highway, to watch the day’s terrifying events unfold. How can the haunting images of wounded citizens and a broken city on the screen benefit those who witnessed and lived through the event?

Victims, survivors and relatives can easily be devastated by the coverage that can bring back traumatizing flashbacks. Younger generations who have not lived to see the attacks should watch the footage — it is a historical event, after all — but the benefits end there and people young enough to not remember Sept. 11 are certainly not the Today show’s target audience.

On Sunday, the media chose ratings over responsibility.

If we want to remind people what the country was like during and after 9/11, we should be focusing on the victims’ and survivors’ stories. We should be restoring humanity in a country that has used the event to divide, politicize and weaken its people.

Since we only spend one day a year honoring the people who died that day, it is our responsibility to do so the right way.

Next year, we should emphasize the firefighters, police, servicepeople, victims, survivors and families that all took part in healing our nation at its most vulnerable.

Let’s give our attention to 9/11 victims with grace and integrity — not political distractions and shock value.

PUSHES PROFITS OVER MUSIC Julia Aldrich Columnist

Whenever you hear about music festivals, an image of a beautiful sunset over a mountainous valley, a horizon speckled with lights, a ferris wheel and happy people dancing around to Daft Punk comes to mind.

And to fulfill those visions, popular music festivals like Coachella, Bonnaroo and Firefly come around every year to offer what seems to be a wonderful escape from the confines of everyday life.

The tone during today’s biggest music festivals, though, is anything but an escape. In my experience, thousands of intoxicated people packed into one space in 90-degree heat with not enough access to food and water is more like a three to four day hell-fest than anything from the dreamy Woodstock era of music festivals.

Of course, not all music festivals are made the same, and as someone who loves the feeling of being a part of one, I’ve found myself gravitating away

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from these larger, more commercialized festivals.

To my dismay, my experiences at several festivals have been a stark contrast to the magical music festival imagery depicted by others. The expectations I had of spending multiple days listening to my favorite bands and enjoying the music in a free-spirited, communal atmosphere was far from the reality of the music festival ideal.

Accompanied by a $300+ price tag, these big name music festivals have transitioned from being a fun getaway to something like a brand utilized to profit off of what was once an enriching experience.

Of course, after breaking the bank on tickets and supplies, you have to worry about your “festival style.” This spring, several popular online clothing stores had their own “festival” line.

Stores such as Forever 21 and H&M cashed in on the fad, and people, unsurprisingly, bought into it.

My experience at several festivals have been a stark contrast to the magical music festival imagery depicted by others.

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Aldrich, pg. 6 Every April, celebrity-based magazines seem to be plastered with what the celebs are wearing to Coachella, such as Elite Daily’s recent article, “Kendall Jenner And Gigi Hadid Just Changed The Game For Festival Style.” This type of coverage exacerbates the feeling that big name music festivals have become an overblown fashion trend.

In addition to being a sweaty, intoxicated fashion show, music festivals have given way to a certain elitist aura. Celebrities, models and other millionaire socialites — ahem, Vanessa Hudgens — love music festivals. Their flawless poses in their Instagram posts are quite the contrast from the reality that the rest of us “general admission” ticket holders have to face. Because of these celebrities’ media influence, the image of music festivals is becoming a glamorous event to show off the size of your wallet, almost alienating the people going specifically to enjoy the music, art and company.

Even general admission and normal camping is unaffordable for the average attendee. Tickets are almost always over $300, food and drink prices are inflated and there are sponsors almost everywhere.

Adding up the costs of a ticket, camping expenses, supplies and food, my friends and I always spend an absurd amount of money.

If I wanted to fork over that much money for an unfulfilled experience not worth half of that amount, I would’ve signed up for Trump University.

Take Burning Man, the exact premise of which was to escape the realities of society, has transformed into a ground for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to show off.

The annual art festival located in Nevada originated as a gathering of thousands of people working together to build a man-made civilization has become more of a Silicon Valley networking event. Although, maybe members of Congress should look towards the festival next year as a venue for congressional fundraising.

Of course, not all music festivals are corporate enterprises out to destroy the music experience. In fact, this past May

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Raka Sarkar STAFF ILLUSTRATOR I attended a festival in Bradley, California. At this festival, which was less well-

Firefly, where it felt more like a means of profit.

Musical festivals are becoming a glamorous event to show off the size of your wallet known and commercialized, I felt more in tune with the music and art compared to

What’s ironic about big name festivals is that, despite all of these negativities,

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they’re becoming increasingly popular.

Perhaps it’s the culture — we convince ourselves that because everyone else loves being jam packed into sweaty crowds with minimal water, it must be the best experience imaginable. But the thing is, it really isn’t that great of an experience.

Although I can’t speak for the masses, I find myself particularly disdainful of these larger festivals. As someone who’s been to their fair share of fests, I’m certain that big name fests just aren’t worth the money and safety risk. Whether you choose to invest in a ticket, however, is up to you.

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Sports BASKETBALL COMMITS ROLL IN Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

The Pitt women’s basketball team received a verbal commitment on Monday from Angelique Rodriguez, a 6-foot shooting guard from Capital Prep Magnet High School in Hartford, Connecticut, who averaged 16.5 points per game last season. Rodriguez announced her decision on Monday via Twitter.

As a junior, Rodriguez led Capital Prep to a 25-4 record including a perfect 15-0 mark in league play while also averaging 5.3 rebounds, 1.8 assists and one steal per game. She tallied eight points, eight rebounds and a block in Capital Prep’s 51-48 win over previously undefeated New London High School in the CIAC Class L Girls Basketball State Championship.

Rodriguez’s commitment comes as recruits for both the women’s and men’s teams begin to trickle in ahead of the 2016-17 season.

Earlier this month, on Sept. 4, Pitt’s men’s basketball team received its second verbal commitment in the 2017 class –– this one from power forward Terrell Brown.

Brown is a 6-foot-9 power forward from Tilton High School in Tilton, New Hampshire, and a three-star prospect, according to Rivals. He joins Pitt over offers from Purdue, DePaul and San Jose State.

Brown joins 6-foot-2 point guard Aaron Thompson –– another three-star recruit according to Rivals –– in Kevin Stallings’ first full recruiting class as head coach.

A native of Fairfax, Virginia, Thompson chose the Panthers in May over several offers from Power Five schools, including Georgia Tech, Miami, Nebraska, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech and defending national champion Villanova.

Barring any transfers, Pitt still has three open scholarships available for the 2017 men’s basketball recruiting class.

Although they can make verbal commitments, recruits in the 2017 class still have almost seven months to change their mind and switch schools. They can officially sign National Letters of Intent on April 12, 2017.

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Le’Veon Bell (26) will serve a three-game suspension at the start of the 2016 season for missing a drug test. TNS

NO BELL, NO BRYANT, NO PROBLEM Steve Rotstein Sports Editor

As a national audience witnessed Monday night, rumors of the 2016 Pittsburgh Steelers’ demise were greatly exaggerated.

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger shined, and Antonio Brown further staked his claim as the best wide receiver in the NFL with a pair of touchdown catches in the Steelers’ 38-16 seasonopening win against the Washington Redskins.

But tailback DeAngelo Williams was the catalyst for the offense.

The 33-year-old steamrolled his way to a league-best 143 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 28 carries against the Redskins, who by the fourth quarter looked like they didn’t even want to try tackling him anymore.

Even with All-Pro running back Le’Veon Bell serving a three-game suspension for missing a drug test and ultra-dangerous wide receiver Mar-

tavis Bryant serving a season-long suspension for again violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, the Steelers moved the ball at will against the reigning NFC East champions.

In an ever-changing league that saw only two players rush for over 100 yards in week one, the Steelers have two proven backs capable of blowing past that number no matter which one is playing.

When Bell and Bryant were issued their suspensions, pundits openly questioned whether the Steelers’ offense could withstand the losses. Anyone who watched the team play last year, though, knew there was no reason to panic.

In case anyone forgot, the Steelers played the first two games of last season without Bell and played the first four without Bryant. Bell served a two-game suspension related to his 2014 arrest on DUI and marijuana possession charges, and Bryant was issued a four-game suspension for a failed drug test.

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Things turned out just fine, as the Steelers finished 10-6 as the fourth-highest scoring offense in the NFL, even without the missing pieces.

To offset the losses, the Steelers added Williams in free agency before the start of last season.

Not many teams wanted to take a chance on the then-32-year-old running back, which is usually the position in the NFL with the shortest career expectancy. No other players take more hits or absorb more punishment.

But the Steelers took a gamble and signed Williams to a two year, $4 million contract –– which in hindsight looks like a huge bargain, even for a backup.

The veteran back had spent the first nine years of his career with the Carolina Panthers, racking up 6,846 yards and 46 touchdowns on an impressive 4.8 yards per carry. Most teams probably assumed his best days were behind him, but he has never played better than he has in Pittsburgh.

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PANTHERS SUBDUED BY COLONIALS, 2-0 Ashwini Sivaganesh Assistant Sports Editor

The Pitt men’s soccer team travelled to Moon, Pennsylvania, in search of a win after losing its first conference game lost to Louisville but instead fell in a 2-0 shutout to Robert Morris.

The Panthers (1-3-1) took the upper hand in the beginning of the match by keeping the ball near the Colonials’ goal, but Robert Morris (2-3-0) used some of Pitt’s defensive blunders to put away two goals by the game’s end.

Pitt’s defense jumped on the ball when it immediately threatened the goal box but had difficulty closing holes on the field that opened up occasions for the Colonials to strike from a distance.

Robert Morris took the initial possession driving the ball into Pitt territory, but the Panthers’ defense quickly cleared the ball to the other side of the field.

Both teams seemed to spend a few minutes dancing along the midfield line, but the Panthers soon recovered the ball as the Colonial offense seemed unusually apprehensive.

Junior forward Roosevelt Angulo took charge for Pitt and created multiple scoring opportunities but couldn’t finish.

Junior Roosevelt Angulo (17) led Pitt’s offense in the first half.

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In the 10th minute, Angulo attempted Pitt’s first shot on goal after streaking down left field past a defender, but Robert Morris goalie Winter Fondi was prepared for the ball and made the swift save.

Angulo continued to challenge the Colonials’ goalie, almost putting away a header from a free kick in the 13th minute, then striking the ball wide left in the 14th minute, which Fondi barely got a touch on.

Shortly after, first-year forward Josh Coan received the first corner kick for Pitt, but the ball didn’t stay in the box for long before Robert Morris cleared it out.

The Colonials seemed to be struggling but started to gain momentum after a few substitutions in the 20th minute. Then, they pushed on offense.

After a pair of corner kicks foiled by Pitt’s defense, Robert Morris midfielder Jake Cooper saw an opening in the 35th minute to strike the ball from 18 feet out right past Pitt’s defenders and redshirt freshman goalkeeper Mikal Outcalt.

The ball soared into in the right side of the net for the first goal of the game.

Coan tried to get Pitt on the scoreboard after two corner kicks, but the half concluded with the Colonials taking the See Soccer on page 10

PANTHERS OF THE WEEK Sophomore runner Gillian Schriever continued her dominant start to her second year at the Tommy Evans Invitational on Friday in Akron, Ohio. The women’s cross country standout led the pack and secured Pitt’s first individual win this season as well as the first individual win of her college career.

Schriever ran a 17:53.3 in the 5K — less than a second away from her personal best.

She also set the track record at Silver Creek Metro Park, since it was the first race held at

the track.

The Tuckerton, New Jersey, native is expected to lead the Panthers as she did during her debut season last year. Schriever was Pitt’s top finisher in the 6K at last year’s ACC Championship and NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship where she posted times of 21:26.3 and 21:51.0, respectively.

Schriever and the women’s cross country team will compete next on Saturday at the St. Vincent Invitational in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at 10:45 a.m.

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Redshirt sophomore George Aston proved his abilities go beyond just blocking in Pitt’s rivalry game against Penn State last Saturday.

The fullback rushed for 14 rushing yards and two touchdowns in the first half of the game on only four carries, allowing the Panthers to solidify a lead and eventually beat out the Nittany Lions, 42-39.

Initially a walk-on at Pitt before receiving a scholarship, Aston played in all 13 games last year and started four of them. He scored two touchdowns last year, both in Pitt’s 45-34 win against Louisville.

Aston’s next game with the Panthers will be against first-time opponent Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN.

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Pitt runner Nick Wolk was named the ACC Men’s Cross Country Freshman of the Week after an impressive showing at last weekend’s Tommy Evans Invitational in Akron, Ohio.

Wolk has quickly established himself as one of Pitt’s most valuable assets after posting a time of 20:23.1 in the 6.4K. He finished fourth overall and third on the team behind Panthers junior Aaron Lauer and redshirt senior Michael Runco — helping the men’s team take first at the event.

This was the second race of Pitt’s 2016 season and Wolk’s collegiate career. A native of McMurray, Pennsylvania, Wolk finished his first race at the Duquesne Duals in third place overall and first for the Panthers with a time of 26:23.4 in the 8K.

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Williams finished the season with 907 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns in place of Bell, who played in only six games after returning from suspension and suffering a torn ACL in week nine.

By the close of the regular season, the Steelers were in position to defeat the eventual Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos and advance to the AFC Championship Game until third-string running back Fitzgerald Toussaint’s fumble gave

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With the second half return, both teams did not hold back on offense. The ball hit almost every corner of the field before sophomore forward Zac Sherman chipped the ball right over Outcalt’s head and into the goal during the 55th minute.

After Robert Morris took the 2-0 lead, the Panthers struggled to keep the ball out of the Colonials’ grasp. The game continued with several pinball-effect plays near

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“Nick has competed very well early in the cross country season,” Pitt men’s head coach Bryan Jackson said in a press release. “It is exciting for him to get this recognition. I know he has big goals for this fall, for this year and for his college career.”

The young Panther is one of eight first-year runners on the men’s team this season and was the first member in the program’s history to garner the ACC Freshman of the Week honor. The last Pitt men’s cross country runner to receive a weekly recognition from the ACC was senior Cullen Davis, who was named ACC performer of the week on Sept. 9, 2014.

Wolk and the men’s team will compete next at the Roy Griak Invitational in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, Sept. 24. The 8K race is set to begin at 1:20 p.m. the Broncos a chance to drive down for a gamewinning score.

When Williams went down with a leg injury in week 17 last year, the Steelers’ title hopes took a serious hit. But without both Bell and Williams, they were still able to go on the road and knock off the Cincinnati Bengals in the Wild Card Round before pushing the Broncos to the brink in the Divisional Round.

If both Williams and Bell can stay healthy this year, the team will have an abundance of riches at running back. If they only have one or the other, they will still possess the scariest offense in the entire league.

Now, if Bryant can get his act together and come back from his suspension to rejoin the team next year, it might be time to start rewriting the record books.

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both goal boxes, but none of the plays converted to points on the scoreboard.

Pitt outshot Robert Morris, 12-9, and took five shots on goal to the Colonials’ four with Outcalt making four crucial saves. But the Panthers couldn’t find a goal, and Robert Morris took the decided shutout win in the 33rd matchup between the teams.

The Panthers will travel to Chapel Hill to play No. 3 North Carolina in their second conference game of the season on Friday, Sept. 16, at 7:30 p.m.

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