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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com |September 18, 2017 | Volume 108 | Issue 26

PROTESTERS CITY OF BUILDING BRIDGES ADDRESS BABY ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Amanda Finney and Remy Samuels For The Pitt News

“Cruelty is Not Entertainment,” was the protesters’ creed.

It was printed, along with the slogan “Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium Enslaves and Kills,” on the signs the protesters held as they stood outside the front entrance of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.

Protesters gathered outside of the Pittsburgh Zoo Saturday morning to protest the zoo’s past animal welfare offenses — specifically the recent death of a baby elephant, which protesters argue was avoidable.

Tiffany Parker, 35, from Lawrenceville, is an animal welfare advocate who attended Thomas Riccardi (right), on the pre dental track, plays Nabil Feliachi during the Pittsburgh Chess League team tourthe protest. She previously traveled to South- nament. Wenhao Wu |ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR east Asia to volunteer at elephant sanctuaries.

Parker argues that the zoo removed the baby elephant from the mom too early, causing her declining health. tween Roberto Clemente Memorial Park and Oklahoma State game.

“The mother had a calf previous to this Jesse Madden Tailgate Guys, founded in 2009 by Auburn the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. baby and she also rejected this one and it died For The Pitt News “With the view, you can see Downtown, University alumni Michael Otwell and Parker shortly after birth. And the zoo knew this and Peng Su’s first time tailgating at a Pitt game they bred her anyways,” Parker said. “And so consisted of the usual tailgate staples — Kan- you can see the mountains, you can see the Duffey, is a company that partners with universities to provide tailgating materials and Point State Park fountain,” he said. they knew the risks.”

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In a press conference Aug. 30, Barbara But he found his favorite part about the preAnd as of the 2017 Panther football season, Baker, CEO of the Pittsburgh Zoo, said the game tradition was the view he and his fellow student — was one of 500 Pitt faculty, students elephant’s low birth weight and teething chal- tailgaters had from their position on the Great and Panthers fans who gathered Saturday to it counts Pitt among its group of partners.

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Kings and Queens captivate audience

Pitt Rainbow Alliance and the Office of First Year Experience hosted Panther Drag Show in the William Pitt Union Friday night.

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runway extended out from the William Pitt Union assembly room stage, lined with rainbowcolored Christmas lights and framed by chairs on either side.

It was a setup fit for kings and queens — drag kings and queens, that is.

The Office of First Year Experience and Pitt Rainbow Alliance presented Panther Drag, a show filled with drag performances and audience participation, Friday evening.

Audience members filled the seats long before the show began, and even after organizers brought in dozens of extra chairs to compensate for the lack of space, nearly 50 people were still escorted out.

Kayla Bradley — the master of ceremonies for the night and communications director for Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance — took the stage first, pumping up the crowd and instructing everyone to scream, “Yas, queen!”

Bradley debunked some common misconceptions in drag, saying it’s not only men who perform in drag and that not all men who do drag are gay.

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Bradley said a drag show is an exaggerated artistic performance of gender norms which range from “extreme masculinity to extreme femininity.”

Madison Scull, a junior at Pitt and a triple communications, sociology, and gender, sexualities and women’s studies major, became Anne T. Christ when she got on stage.

Scull said she always thought drag was something she couldn’t do as a cisgendered female. But in the end she told herself, “Who cares, why not do it?”

“I don’t care what your gender is, like how you identify, you should just go for it. There are so many people that believe that drag is essentially a predominantly white cisgender gay man world, and it’s just not,” Scull said.

“Drag is so expansive.”

Scull continues to perform in drag out of her love for it, but she has encountered people who hold the views that Bradley mentioned — such as only men can be drag queens. She said this view seems patriarchal to her.

“Sometimes in the broader drag community, as a female drag queen, people can ... not be so nice,” Scull said. “I’ve had all the comments like, ‘Oh you’re not a real drag

queen,’ ‘You shouldn’t even be here,’ and I’m like ‘Why? What we’re doing is the same art form.’”

After Scull, a drag queen introduced as the Death-Dropping Diva — also known as Alexa Killer — emerged. The audience erupted in cheers and claps after she executed each death drop — a type of dance move in which the performer falls flat on their back from a standing position with one leg extended in front and one leg bent behind.

Peter Crouch took to the stage not as a drag queen, but as the drag king, Dick Hillman. Crouch — a former president of Rainbow Alliance and a senior global management and supply chain management double major — likes the fun of playing a different character and interacting with the audience.

Panther Drag Show wasn’t Crouch’s first drag performance — he’s previously performed in two shows.

“It’s fun to experiment with gender identity and gender expression,” Crouch said.

Scull — who grew up doing theater — also performed in drag prior to Friday’s performance, but she began last spring. Scull said it was a nice surprise to have so much

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support from the Pitt community.

“The more I do it, the more I just absolutely fall in love with it,” Scull said. “Anytime that I can go out and do drag I want to do it.”

For Alex Schnackenberg — known on stage as Amneeja Schnackenmuff — performing feels like blacking out. The grad student in the gender, sexualities and women’s studies department has worked as a professional drag queen for the past three years.

Schnackenberg said you can say things in drag that you wouldn’t normally be able to say as yourself and likes performing for that reason.

“It’s nice to be pretty and political,” Schnackenberg said. “You can do a lot of satire with drag.”

Amneeja, the queen with bright blue heels and maroon-lined lips, lip-synced a remixed version of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” which included bits of a 2010 viral YouTube video of a frustrated girl screaming because she is unable to hit the notes in the song.

“It’s a drag show, anything can happen,” Amneeja said. “As long as it can be done in seven-inch heels.”

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lenges were to blame for her death. Baker paused periodically as she tearfully informed the audience of the situation.

“You know, she was a feisty calf, and she had a lot of fight, so we searched high and low to try and figure out why she’s not gaining weight,” Baker said. “She should be gaining weight.”

While the recent passing served to catalyze protester frustration, Leila Sleiman of Northside, leader of the animal welfare group Justice for Animals, emphasized that protesters were discontent with the Pittsburgh Zoo’s actions as a whole.

“Some zoos have better standards, and the Pittsburgh Zoo just absolutely does not.

It’s not a secret. And that’s on them,” Sleiman said.

Sleiman presented an extensive list of grievances, including the zoo’s loss of their Association of Zoos and Aquariums accreditation in 2015 for refusing to comply with new safety standards that separate keepers and elephants. Past controversies she cited also include the death of a toddler who fell into an exhibit and was killed by wild dogs in 2012.

Fellow protester and Pitt senior Rosemary

Starting in July, four different packages became available for Pitt fans to purchase. Options range from the varsity package — a 10’ x 10’ tent, five tailgate chairs and a 6’ table — to the club package, which comes equipped with a 20’ x 20’ tent, 20 chairs, three tables and a television. They all include the option to have food catered from local restaurants. At Pitt, options include South Side BBQ Company, Moe’s Southwest Grill and Burgatory.

Protesters pose with signs outside of the Pittsburgh Zoo. Remy Samuels | FOR THE PITT NEWS Geraghty, a political science and communications double major, also argued that the Pittsburgh Zoo’s treatment of its animals is inadequate. Geraghty said she believes zoo-goers often overlook the problems animals face in zoos and said “injustices and cruelty” are occurring.

“I think that people should be making informed choices about the types of entertainment they go to consume,” Geraghty said.

For those seeking change, both Geraghty and Sleiman suggested taking action by writing to the zoo and demanding answers from their representatives, especially Baker. Parker

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argued that people have a duty to advocate for those who have no voice.

“I would never take my kids to the zoo,” Parker said. “I would rather have them see these animals in their natural habitats than standing on concrete with a fence around them for their whole lives.”

Parker said zoos tend to focus more on business, putting care of the animals last.

Rather than helping animals, Parker said she believes profit is the zoo’s top priority.

“The zoo should put more time and money into the animals they already have and make it more of a sanctuary style than a ‘come

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one, come all’ circus-type area,” Parker said.

While many were protesting the recent animal deaths at the Pittsburgh Zoo, other attendees were against the concept of captivity in general. Sleiman said animals are restricted, even enslaved, in zoos and that zoos prevent animals from leading natural lives in their appropriate habitats.

“Animals in captivity are going out of fashion,” Sleiman said. “There are sanctuaries and rehab facilities where they can live out their days without being gawked at by field trips.”

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Recognize the consequences of comedy On the sidelines at the football game between Pitt and Oklahoma State this weekend, a female Pitt fan likely had little idea she would be one of the highlights from the game on social media. But that’s exactly what happened.

A clip of Gianna Rockoff, a sophomore psychology major at Pitt, taking part in a race as a “hopper” on a bouncy ball aired on ESPN’s coverage of the game, with the network’s announcer remarking, “I should probably end by saying that and not add anything else that I am perhaps thinking.”

The bizarre commentary in the clip was later picked up on Twitter by user Dave Portnoy, founder of sports blogging website Barstool Sports. With an added comment from Portnoy suggesting that the ESPN commentator was sexually fantasizing about Rockoff, the tweet collected more than 150 retweets and 1,300 likes — and dozens of disgusting replies — by Sunday night. The tweet’s popularity prompted Rockoff to respond, tweeting “Well I was literally sexualized on ESPN today so that’s cool.”

An ESPN spokesperson told The Pitt News that the commentator, Zubin Mehenti, did not intend to make a sexual remark and was simply commenting on the absurdity of the activity in general. Later, it was discovered that Mehenti wasn’t aware what video his commentary would accompany. ESPN said Mehenti wanted to talk with Rockoff to make sure she understood what he meant, but that didn’t stop the tasteless “jokes” from Twitter.

And Portnoy’s joke isn’t the only notable instance of humor about a questionable subject matter here at Pitt in the past few weeks — including tactless trash talk involving the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State.

While all topics should, ideally, be open for comedic approaches, those making offensive jokes should remember the human consequences of their humor. By and large, what

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we’ve seen in the past few weeks hasn’t seemed to stay conscious of that.

Twitter is a monolithic social force in 2017, and it’s obvious that offensive content on the site is always going to exist. But given how close to home these particular jokes hit, the point of view that jokes like Portnoy’s have no real world impact is clearly wrong.

There’s no way around it — someone outside of the Pitt community exposed a student here to the overtly sexual attention of hundreds of strangers on the internet without her consent. And though it might not always be as visible to us as it is this time, thoughtlessly provocative humor is often abusive to someone else — or anyone who’s endured sexual assault.

The rash of signs around Oakland last weekend referencing Joe Paterno’s role in Penn State’s child sex scandal provide another illustration of edgy “humor” that ends up becoming hurtful. It would be one thing if the makers of “Joe Pa Knew” signs were doing so in an attempt to draw attention to the plight of children who are victims of sexual abuse. It’s entirely different to use those victims as cheap pawns in an attempt to make a sports rival look bad.

Talking up signs that do this as “savage,” as an article from The Tab did, is not only in poor taste — it’s irresponsible and abusive.

All of this isn’t to say that there isn’t or shouldn’t be a place for controversial comedy.

Divisive comedian Joan Rivers described the value of provocative humor as a means for people to be able to acknowledge and look at some of the most taboo issues in our society.

Comedy can be a powerful tool to shine light on issues that people aren’t willing to look at otherwise. But the examples of pointless, “edgy” humor we’ve seen in the past few weeks redirect jokes to target the victims of abuse, not perpetrators. And that’s no laughing matter.

DON’T COUNT OUT CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS Henry Glitz

Opinions Editor With a mix of fear, anger and sheer disbelief, I watched the television screen in my friends’ apartment as CNN’s correspondent tapped an interactive map in November, coloring Pennsylvania red.

Last fall’s presidential election came as a shock to many, but for me the blow came when my home state cast its electoral votes for the Republican candidate. I still can’t say that I’ve made the mental leap to thinking of Pennsylvania as a red state.

That’s not the case for Jason Altmire. The former Democratic member of the House of Representatives for Pennsylvania’s previous Fourth Congressional District says he saw the local political shift coming.

“You lived in western Pennsylvania and you saw it, you were right in the middle of it,” Altmire said. “I think anyone could have seen that the message Trump was putting forth was gonna resonate with these people.”

Autopsies of presidential electoral defeats are abundant — and Altmire certainly isn’t the first to emphasize southwestern Pennsylvania as a key factor in Hillary Clinton’s loss. But his upcoming book, “Dead Center,” offers a rare perspective on what happened with coal-country Democrats from someone who represented them, even if the fixes he proposes might not always go far enough.

Altmire’s congressional career spanned three terms and six years, from 2007 to 2013. During that time, he developed a reputation as a “centrist”

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and the second-most conservative Democrat in the House — something of which he’s intensely proud. After surviving the Tea Party surge in the 2010 midterm elections, he was forced out when redistricting pitted him against fellow Democrat Mark Critz, formerly of the 12th District.

Perhaps not surprisingly, then, gerrymandering is one of the issues Altmire said he addresses in his new book, set for release Oct. 3. His former district is now among the most gerrymandered in Pennsylvania — one of the worst states in the country. Altmire’s focus on the voting rules isn’t just limited to redistricting reform, though. He talked at length about tweaking primary and voting rules to get more people to vote — something he claimed would benefit centrists like himself.

“If you alter the primary structure, [candidates] have to appeal to voters across the spectrum,” he said. “If you have an extreme message, you’re gonna lose. In California, extremist candidates have moderated their views since they’ve changed their rules.”

Those changes in California came after a 2010 referendum, changing the state’s primary structure so that all candidates appeared on a single list instead of being segregated by party. All voters choose from the single list, and the two candidates who receive the highest votes move on to a general election.

While there’s some merit to Altmire’s focus on procedural changes, it’s questionable that a switch See Glitz on page 5

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Glitz, pg. 4 on the rules used in primaries would be enough to ensure a Democratic political resurgence, since even the current ones favor Republicans nationally, despite Democrats consistently winning more votes.

But California’s fix isn’t necessarily foolproof — the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times noted last year that the state’s “jungle primary” system also favored Republicans, who typically split their vote between fewer candidates than Democrats.

Altmire doesn’t totally limit himself to a focus on voting rules, though. His most convincing argument comes as a plea to more liberal Democrats in cities and on college campuses. He said they need to recognize both the similarities and differences between their views and those of more conservative Democrats in counties around the city.

“Unlike a lot of parts of the country, you’ve seen a lot of people from traditionally Democratic families, they’ve switched parties,” he said.

“That isn’t the case in western PA, including the district I used to represent. If you can give them a Democrat who they’re comfortable with they’ll vote Democratic. But you have to have candidates who match their values.”

Altmire called out Democratic leadership and the party’s progressive wing for consolidat-

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left-leaning candidate in his place.

It’s possible to include both progressive city dwellers and the more conservative population surrounding Pittsburgh in a Democratic coalition without abandoning our values. The way to do that doesn’t lie with suppressing moderate or progressive points of view, but with being vocal about your own to ensure that your voice is heard.

Altmire also suggests the answer to winning back conservative and moderate Democrats in the region doesn’t lie in deception. The former congressman recalled meeting with former Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., at his congressional orientation.

“A lot of people get elected once by accident, but nobody has ever been reelected by accident,” Altmire recalled Borrow saying. “You can fool them once, but once you get to Washington you have to have a record that matches the values of the people at home.”

When it comes to political coalitions and making compromises, there aren’t many easy Jason Altmire former U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania’s former fourth outcomes. Altmire’s new book doesn’t necessarily district. via Wikimedia Commons have all the answers — he doesn’t know just what a Democratic Party reinstated in power would ing ideologically to the point that conservatives in of current U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., look like. But at least he knows how we might get represents an example of this urge to push ideo- there. the caucus no longer felt welcome.

“The leadership moved too far to the left and logical unity on the Democratic side. Manchin, “If you’re on the far left, you have a decision [moderates] got pushed out. Those folks have one of the most conservative Democrats in the to make. Do you wanna win back the Congress?”

Senate, regularly receives threats from progres- he asked. “If you wanna fall on your sword, you’re been purged.”

To some extent, he’s right. The treatment sives who want to unseat him and run a more gonna end up with a Republican Congress.”

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PITT NEEDS A CHANGE IN DEFENSE, OR ELSE THEY’RE DOOMED

Coach Pat Narduzzi did not make the correct adjustments to Pitt’s de- Oklahoma State’s wide receiver, Marcela Ateman (3), scored a touchdown fense during its game against OSU on Saturday to the delight of several OSU fans.

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Oklahoma State made history in its matchup against Pitt on Saturday. Not only was it Pitt’s worst loss at Heinz Field, but — for the first time in 12 years — an FBS team had four different receivers rack up at least 100 yards each in the same game.

The Panthers on the field aren’t the only ones to blame for this atrocious loss, though.

Defensive Coordinator Josh Conklin and head coach Pat Narduzzi should take just as much — if not more — of the blame for Pitt’s horrendous defensive performance that cost them the game.

In his two career games versus Pitt, star Oklahoma State quarterback Mason Rudolph threw for 1,037 yards and seven touchdowns.

Four hundred ninety-seven of those yards and a whopping five touchdowns happened during a single half against the Panthers Saturday.

While Rudolph is one of the best quarterbacks in the country, Pitt looked wholly unprepared for the Cowboys’ air raid offense.

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Oklahoma State was able to find a lot of success throwing in between the safeties. Rudolph could often find wide open receivers deep over the center of Heinz Field, including two touchdowns to junior receiver Jalen McClesky.

But Narduzzi and Conklin made no adjustments.

Pitt also played man coverage throughout most of the contest, and the gulf in talent was massive. Across the board, Oklahoma State’s receivers were more athletic and stronger than Pitt’s defensive backs.

Jalen McCleskey was able to speed past Pitt safeties for two of his three touchdowns.

Six-foot-four receiver Marcell Ateman was a dominating physical presence which 6-foot cornerback Dane Jackson struggled to deal with. Ateman bullied Jackson for four catches, 109 yards and a touchdown in the contest.

Playing man coverage hurt Pitt in defender versus receiver matchups on the outside, too. But, again, Pitt made no adjustments to account for the mismatches, and Narduzzi’s defense was burned for 572 passing yards.

Pitt decided to take a chance playing man in the secondary, hoping the pass rush would

be able to get to Rudolph and disrupt his timing. This strategy didn’t work, as Pitt recorded only one sack on the day and clearly didn’t disrupt Rudolph.

It’s not like Oklahoma State was a complete surprise, either. After all, Pitt did travel to Stillwater last year to face the Cowboys in a matchup which they lost 45-38. Rudolph torched the Panthers last year as well, to the tune of 540 yards — an Oklahoma State school record.

So how did Narduzzi’s squad look completely unprepared for the Cowboys this season? Pitt knew what they were getting in Oklahoma State, and still did nothing different schematically in comparison to last year to account for the Cowboys’ explosive offense.

The lack of adjustment is frustrating for what looks to be the start of a long, disappointing season. Panthers cornerbacks have been beaten repeatedly in man-to-man coverage, even against Youngstown State. They simply aren’t strong enough or fast enough to match up man-to-man with talented receivers.

Pitt’s coaches don’t seem to see this obvious fact. Narduzzi and Conklin continue

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to stick to their system, even when it is not working.

Narduzzi came to Pitt with the reputation of being a defensive genius — writer Zac Ellis of Sports Illustrated said in 2014 that his hiring “means at least one thing for the Panthers’ future: good defense.” If Narduzzi wants to regain that reputation, he needs to make changes to Pitt’s defense, and fast.

Though the Panthers’ offense led them to a respectable season last year, the defense was near the bottom of the FBS — allowing 466 yards per game. This year — with their offense not on par with last year’s — Narduzzi’s refusal to change his defense will lead to a disappointing and frustrating season.

Zone coverage may ease some of the pressure on Pitt’s cornerbacks. Star junior safety Jordan Whitehead’s return from suspension next week should help cut down on deep balls over the middle. Something needs to be done about the pass rush as well, as Pitt only has three sacks on the season so far.

The defensive changes that need to be made are clear to Pitt fans — let’s see if Narduzzi and Conklin will recognize these issues or remain stubborn.

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