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Monday, September 8, 2014

Sorority recruitment gets a new home Emma Solak For The Pitt News

Four teams, 50,000 balloons. Students from local universities participated in a water balloon fight on Saturday in support of Team Tassy, an organization that helps families in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010. Jeff Ahearn | Staff Photographer

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Board elects two new Allocations members Abbey Reighard Senior Staff Writer

The Student Government selected two students to fill the empty seats left on the Allocations Committee.

Student Government Board President Mike Nites, Allocations Committee Chair Nasreen Harun and Allocations Commit-

tee Vice Chair Robyn Weiner appointed two freshmen, Max Kneis and Seth Erlanger, to fill two vacant positions on the Allocations Committee.

Kneis and Erlanger will attend the committee’s private meetings on Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. and deliberate the requests made by student groups asking for money from the Student Activities Fund.

The Board chose from 35 candidates who applied for the positions. After Nites, Harun and Weiner reviewed the candidates’ applications, they selected 12 finalists to advance to private interviews.

The interviews began Sunday at 6:15 p.m., and Harun said each of the inter-

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Pitt’s sorority recruitment usually means meeting new friends — sometimes too many.

In an effort to improve safety and create a more personal experience for interested students, the University moved Greek rush week events out of Amos and Bruce Halls into other buildings, such as the William Pitt Union, the University Club and the O’Hara Student Center, Matthew R. Richardson, the coordinator of fraternity and sorority life at Pitt, said. Amos and Bruce Halls will still be used exclusively for the final two rounds of recruitment.

During recruitment in past years, sororities would open their suites in Amos and Bruce Halls and speak with interested students there. Recruitment involves a meet-and-greet with sorority members, sharing personal information with one another and, oftentimes, free food or craft sessions.

The number of women rushing has increased in recent years, Richardson said, so the University realized that having too many people in small spaces, such as the suites in Amos and Bruce Halls, posed a safety concern.

Also, in moving the first rounds of recruitment to the weekend, Richardson said the College Panhellenic Association hoped to ensure

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Move it or lose it: Towing and tickets dwindle savings Aaron Sier-Cohen Staff Writer When Joe Mangiarelli saw that his car had been towed, he guessed it might have been because the Parking Authority officer had a quota to fill.

“When it comes to towing, it’s usually at the officer’s discretion,” Shannon Leshen, Pittsburgh city police community relations officer, said. “There are no quotas for towing or any traffic stops. That’s one of the biggest misconceptions out there; I blame TV.” Mangiarelli, a senior majoring in administration of justice, paid more than $400 last February for the traffic citation, towing and overnight housing at the impound lot.

“Added together, that was all my money for the month,” Mangiarelli said.

Mangiarelli said he parked in an illegal spot on Atwood Street because snow on the ground hid the handicapped mark on pavement.

He said he asked his law professor what to do about the citation.

“He said unless I had pictures, fighting

The Pittsburgh Parking Authority issued more than 16,400 tickets in the first six months of 2014. | MCT Campus

it wouldn’t be worth my time,” Mangiarelli said.

The Pittsburgh Parking Authority handed out more than 16,400 metered tickets

in Oakland in the first six months of 2014, according to a Parking Authority official report. That number doesn’t include all the cars towed out of Oakland — one of the

summer when tensions heightened between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian political organization, resulting in ground and air attacks from both sides and ending with military and civilian deaths.

For Meital Rosenberg, the tension over the summer increased her involvement with spreading awareness and knowledge about Israel.

“Before, if you were Jewish and didn’t really affiliate with Israel, it wasn’t unusual because it wasn’t really on your radar,” said Rosenberg, a sophomore economics and political science major. “But now, people assume that you know about it or have some opinion about it.”

Rosenberg is the head of the political sect of Panthers for Israel, a club founded in 2013 that aims to promote education and awareness about Israel politically and culturally.

According to Rosenberg, the club members want to “give people more than just what you read about in the headlines.”

“We want to make it more personal,” she

said.

Panthers for Israel remodeled itself this year. Last year, the group was two separate entities, one for cultural awareness headed by Amy Richman and one for political action, led

by Rosenberg. This summer, Rosenberg and Richman collaborated to create the single Panthers for Israel club that exists now. Rosenberg said that neither of them had the ability to run the group on their own, so it made more sense to come together as one group.

Although they will be working together, the two leaders also have separate responsibilities.

Richman, a sophomore global management major, is responsible for facilitating on-campus cultural events to connect Israel with students.

Rosenberg said the group has a lot of events planned for the future, including a possible hookah night, Israeli dancing and Israel trivia.

But Rosenberg also wants to host events with other organizations on campus.

“I hope to do collaborative events with dif-

most costly violations a driver can incur.

Parking can be tough for students who don’t want to pay a meter, but officials say there is more behind parking tickets than most people think.

“If you’re in some streets that are so tight, medical personnel can’t get through there,” Leshen said. “You’re a safety problem.”

Most of the time, Leshen said, police call for a tow truck because of a complaint.

“Basically, we are reactive rather than proactive,” she said. “We don’t have the staff to patrol looking to tow cars.”

According to Leshen, police use their best judgment when it comes to calling a truck or just leaving a ticket.

Longtime South Oakland resident Vince Diulus, 61, said he has watched a lot of students park illegally in the past 20 years.

“I see both sides,” he said. “You can’t just park anywhere, but the University is getting bigger every year, and there’s no room. I’ve seen cars parked wherever they’ll fit.”

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Student group aims to educate on Israel, welcomes all Lauren Rosenblatt Staff Writer

Panthers for Israel, a student organization that aims to educate students about Israel, hopes to spread awareness by spreading hummus.

The group, which held a hummus and falafel meet and greet last week, hosted a seminar on Sunday — led by Gregg Roman — discussing the events of the summer in Israel and the Gaza Strip. Fifteen people attended the event in the William Pitt Union.

“I am not here to talk about politics or different positions, or whatever you want to call it. I am here to focus on the facts,” Roman said in an introduction to the discussion, which began at 7 p.m. and lasted until 8:30 p.m.

Roman is the community relations counsel director for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and has held similar seminars at 60 different college campuses from New York to Georgia.

Roman summarized the events of this

ferent groups to educate people with what’s going on, and [I hope to]interact with people that aren’t Jewish — people that only see what’s given in the headlines,” Rosenberg said.

For Dana Sufrin, a junior business major, the group has already become like family. Sufrin has attended every event.

“It was nice to have a bit of Israeli culture after being gone for the summer,” Sufrin said.

“It felt like home.”

Richman said the student body seems interested in getting involved with Israel.

“We would love to have more people get involved, Jewish or not Jewish, pro-Israel or pro-peace. We welcome you with open arms,” she said.

Rosenberg agreed that everyone is welcome.

“We are supportive of different views and different opinions,” Rosenberg said. “We try to leave politics at the door, and instead talk about why this is important to us as individuals and as Americans.”

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PARKING Diulus has a no-parking zone just outside his house on Bates Street, and he said he thinks people should be allowed to park in at least a portion of the yellow curb; drivers often do anyway, despite the risk of getting ticketed.

“I kind of feel sorry for them,” he said.

“They’re not blocking anybody.”

Pitt police can also tow cars if necessary. According to Guy Johnson, Pitt police community relations officer, the Pitt police received 60 calls for tow trucks between January and September this year.

“From time to time, we get [calls from] shuttle bus drivers [because] they can’t make the turn,” Johnson said. “Most of our towing is based on posted no-parking or based on an event.”

According to Johnson, the University can buy a variance to set up a temporary noparking zone. For football games, Bigelow Bash and some PittStart events, drivers have 24 hours to move their vehicles before the cars get towed, Johnson said.

With changing meter practices, Johnson said some of those towings may go up.

“The thing about these new kiosks is you can pay elsewhere,” he said. “You should at least check your car every 24 hours.”

To avoid getting towed, Mangiarelli said he was very careful about when he used his car and gave up a legal parking spot.

“I used to drive a Buick LeSabre, and that thing was huge,” Mangiarelli said. “I am in ROTC, and I had to walk across campus with a 50-pound bag. I still did everything I could to not use my car.”

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SGB views lasted about 15 minutes.

Harun, Nites and Weiner gave the candidates a mock allocations request to review for five minutes before the interviews. During the interview, the three asked the candidates how they would handle the request and what decisions they would make concerning the request.

Harun, Nites and Weiner spent about an hour deliberating before they agreed on Kneis and Erlanger, according to Harun.

Matthew R. Richardson, Greek life coordinator, said recruitment numbers are up from past years. Zach Schaffer | Senior Staff Photographer

that the women rushing had enough time to sleep and focus on their studies during the course of the school week.

Dorothy Hayes, president of Chi Omega, said this has been a growing issue for sororities.

“The more people who join, the more people who advocate for rushing,” said Hayes, a junior studying chemistry and finance.

Emelia DiBello, marketing chair for Chi Omega and a junior studying marketing and finance, said she was excited about the

changes.

“When you would go through it [in the past], it would just be hot and sweaty,” DiBello said. “None of the girls looked happy.”

Hayes also said part of the change of location was to pursue a “no frills” recruitment.

In previous years, many sororites decorated their suites with the aim of attracting new members. This year, the goal was to prevent girls from choosing a sorority based off the superficial details of how its suite looks.

“We want a girl to like a sorority because of the girl she’s talking to, their attitude and the things they have in common,” Hayes said.

“It’s a win-win for everyone because it’ll be safer and lead to better matching.”

Hayes said the sororities that will succeed

the most in this new setting will be the ones that don’t change their recruiting approach because of the change.

“It’s just a change of scene,” she said.

Hayes said students interested in rushing should judge each sorority based on merit and not the appearance of their room, which were randomly assigned.

Kamila Rak, a freshman on the pre-physical therapy track at Pitt, plans on rushing a sorority and said she was eager to participate in the back to basics-style recruitment.

“Girls see a nice room and think, ‘Ooh, I want to live here!’ but that’s not what’s important,” Rak said. “It’s about the sorority.

I want to get to know a lot of girls and feel comfortable in my new home.”

Harun said the two “demonstrated a lot of knowledge of the Allocations Manual.”

“They definitely proved that they are ready to jump into the role,” Harun said.

Nites and Weiner agreed.

“The interviews showed us that [Kneis and Erlanger] took the time to familiarize themselves with the allocations process,” Weiner said. “I could really tell that these two knew their stuff.”

The pair will replace the two Allocations Committee members Ashley McCray and Michele Buono, who recently resigned.

Harun asked McCray to resign from her position on the committee last Wednesday

because McCray’s class schedule conflicted with the weekly meeting time. Former committee member Buono resigned on Aug. 15 to pursue a co-op with Volvo.

Erlanger, a finance major, said he read the Allocations Manual multiple times to prepare for his interview.

“I marked [the Manual] up like a literary novel,” Erlanger said.

Erlanger said he plans to continue on with Student Government after he serves on the Committee, adding that Allocations is currently his main focus.

Kneis, who plans to major in finance and accouting, said he’s optimistic about his new position and hopes to be

a fair judge and honest liaison to student groups.

“I definitely plan to seek a position again on the committee in the spring term,” Kneis said. “[I] look forward to working with SGB over the next four years.”

Nites said he thinks Kneis, Erlanger and the other new arrivals to the Board this semester will bring a “fresh perspective” to Student Government.

“We’re disappointed to see some of the previous people have to go,” Nites said.

“But, at the same time, we’re extremely excited to welcome in the new members and work with great new people.”

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EDITORIAL

OPINIONS

Universal preschool: Great idea, but who will teach it?

This Sunday’s episode of NBC’s “Meet the Press” brought a little bit of Pittsburgh to its viewers.

During a four-minute interview on the popular news program, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto brought his city’s ambitions to national attention. The main topic of discussion: education.

In the interview, Peduto spoke of a national interest in “universal education for 4-year-olds,” purporting that the country would benefit from the creation of a public system for preschool education. If given the chance, Peduto said Pittsburgh could “run with the ball” towards being one of the cities to lead the way with this new policy.

Peduto is already lobbying for federal funds for preschool education — he named a 20-member panel last month to secure grants. But it’s “not about political bickering,” according to Peduto. “Washington has to un-

derstand it’s about getting the job done,” the mayor said, suggesting The White House and Congress must compromise for Pittsburgh and, eventually, the nation, to reach this goal.

The overall goal — universal preschool education — is admirable, as it has the potential to bring benefits. After all, science has supported the old saying that the brain being similar to a sponge in our youth. Effective education during this sensitive time of life is essential as it sets the tone for one’s entire educational career.

But that’s the unanswered question: how do we effectively educate young kids?

It’s one thing to push for universal access to preschool education, and it is obviously a necessary first step. But what exactly this education will entail is an entirely different issue.

First, we must look at our instructors to understand how we can achieve effective and

productive preschool education.

Currently, education and training requirements for preschool teachers vary state to state but, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, preschool teachers possess anything from a high school diploma to an associate’s degree. If we want to integrate preschools into universal, public education, we will have to regulate it as such. That means teaching requirements will inevitably change to include higher degrees as a prerequisite.

Seeing that most fresh-faced teachers cannot find steady jobs without having prior teaching experience, integrating preschools into the public education system may be an appropriate starting point. Instead of job searching, new teachers can gain experience by teaching preschoolers while they are still excited about entering the education field.

So similar to Teach for America, prospective teachers can go into preschool education

directly after graduation to gain hands on experience.

This is important, because children at the preschool level should grow to be excited about learning — something they can gain from a young teacher with the sufficient energy and motivation. Those going into education must then learn how to work with children and, more specifically, how to encourage excitement in students for discovering new knowledge, whether it is related to science, math or the English language. And, hopefully, this excitement will follow students all the way to high school and college.

Now that the discussion on the importance of preschool education is rolling, we must seriously consider how \ to execute this new policy. The answer lies in not necessarily how we will teach preschoolers but how we will teach the teachers.

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COLUMN

Enough is enough

Treat abortion as a medical issue before discussing it Bethel Habte Columnist I grew up in a Christian household and learned early on that abortion was a subject best treated matter-of-factly — it’s simply immoral. But skirting around talk about abortion obstructs the path to possible solutions.

Still, politicians and preachers alike have traditionally treated abortion similarly: conforming to moral absolutes rather than to intellectual debate.

This paradigm might change soon, starting in Texas.

Let’s set the scene starting on Aug. 29 in Austin, Texas, where U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel struck down a new law

that would have required abortion clinics to meet standards typical of hospital surgical centers — mainly in the form of building, equipment and staffing requirements.

At first, the law in question seemed fair enough — hopefully, hospitals should hold to a high standard any surgery I might unfortunately need. But consider first the law’s original intent.

If the proposed law had passed, the renovations would have come with a hefty price tag — one that would have resulted in the closing of a vast number of abortion clinics, ultimately costing women’s healthcare far more in reduced acces-

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HABTE sibility than could be gained in remote health benefits.

While the proposed law illustrates great setbacks in the way we approach abortions, it does, at least, make an interesting progression by insinuating that abortion clinics be treated similarly to medical centers — certainly an idea contested by some.

For the sake of a woman’s rights to health and freedom of choice, I concur.

Let’s treat them similarly.

Currently, abortion clinics are disenfranchised and disconnected from the rest of the medical network — despite the legalization of abortion in 1973.

Several years after its legalization, the Hyde Amendment — enacted in 1977 — ended the allocation of federal funding for abortions outside of absolute necessity. As a result, women receiving funding through Medicaid are limited when it comes to abortions, with funding available only for cases of rape, incest or

life-saving necessity.

Not to mention that by 2005, an alarming 87 percent of U.S. counties had yet to allow for an abortion clinic to be available to their citizens. While abortion training is available to all ob/gyn

like hospital bans, pressure from others in the medical setting and unwarranted malpractice suits.

As a result, hospitals provide only four percent of abortions, leaving private clinics to provide nearly 95 percent of the

“Still, politicians and preachers alike have traditionally treated abortion similarly: conforming to moral absolutes rather than to intellectual debate..” residents, only about half of all residency programs provide routine training — training is only offered in an elective or opt-in manner.

A Time article in 2013 also found that a number of factors that aim to discourage doctors from providing abortions still exist. These factors include variables

remainder.

Regardless, new laws are consistently enacted by state legislatures that refuse to take these limitations into account.

Yeakel, who struck down the recent proposal requiring abortion clinics to meet surgical center standards, attempted to do the same a year ago to a law that

7 required doctors who work at abortion clinics to maintain admitting privileges — the ability to admit patients for emergency treatment — at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinic.

That provision resulted in the number of abortion clinics in Texas falling from 41 to 19 in 2012, as it refused to acknowledge the limited number of clinics that were within a 30 mile radius of a hospital as well as the limited number of hospitals that would offer admitting privileges to doctors performing abortions.

When it comes to the abortion debate, the issue rests not with imploring that abortion clinics meet medical standards but rather acknowledging that they are simply not within the means to do so.

Our aim should be to integrate abortion clinics within the medical community, providing them with the same funding, insurance coverage and backing as that of other facilities that perform surgical procedures.

After all, abortion is very much a reality of our culture — not simply a church myth.

Write Bethel at beh56@pitt.edu.

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SPORTS

FOOTBALL

Just two weeks in, offensive line deals with injury woes Jasper Wilson Sports Editor

The Pitt men’s soccer team split two games on its road trip to Virginia this weekend, falling to the College of William and Mary, while defeating Longwood University on a late goal.

The Panthers disappointed in their first road contest of the year against William and Mary. They lost 4-0 and were never able to establish an offensive identity because of the increased defensive pressure by the Tribe.

Both senior Chris Albiston and sophomore Reilly Maw scored two goals for the Tribe in their blowout win. Pitt goalkeeper Dan Lynd made four saves in an attempt to limit the damage but could not overcome several defensive miscues in front of him, as well as impressive individual efforts from the two William and Mary standouts.

While the score-line indicates a one-sided affair, the Panthers were only outshot 11-9 and played their possession-based style for much of the game. Pitt’s midfield became complacent and slow late in the second half,

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Panthers split pair of weekend games in Philadelphia Kevin Wheeler Staff Writer

The Pitt women’s soccer team went into its road trip this past weekend with hopes of winning both of its games against Villanova University and La Salle University. It returns home on Monday having accomplished half of that goal.

The Panthers (4-3) defeated the Villanova Wildcats 2-1 on Friday but couldn’t keep their momentum against a physical La Salle team on Sunday, suffering a 1-0 defeat to the Explorers.

Villanova showed the Panthers a different look than they have been used to in their early

games this season. The Wildcats played soft defensively, giving Pitt a lot of room to work with when they were controlling the ball. Having more room to work on offense is usually a good thing, but, in this case, head coach Greg Miller wouldn’t agree.

“It gave us too much time on the ball and too much time to make decisions,” Miller said.

“We don’t function well that way ... We get away from playing fast, moving and sharing the ball and building. You try to solve things as an individual instead of finding your teammates.”

The Panthers had plenty of opportunities to score against Villanova, recording 18

shots, as opposed to 15 for the Wildcats. The game was scoreless for the first 70 minutes, until junior midfielder Roosa Arvas was able to put a Hanna Hannesdottir pass into the back of the net for the Panthers, giving them a 1-0 advantage.

Pitt became complacent with the lead. Just seven minutes later, Villanova junior Renee Hart put a score on the board for the Wildcats, tying the game at one.

Arvas wasn’t done for Pitt, however. In the 79th minute, she made her presence known once again.

“Taylor Francis, [Pitt’s] goalkeeper, found Siobhan [McDonough] and just kind of threw

it out to her in the middle of the field, and Villanova was asleep,” Miller recounted. “Then Siobhan found Roosa [Arvas] at midfield, and their goalkeeper was playing off of her line quite a bit, so Roosa just picked her head up and put a shot over her head from 40 yards out.”

Pitt went up 2-1 at that point and never looked back.

While it took Pitt time to break through, it wasn’t the Wildcats’ defense that caused them problems.

“When [the Wildcats] got the ball, they

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Freshman midfielder Hanna Hannesdottir had an assist in Pitt’s win over Villanova on Friday. Jeff Ahearn | Staff Photographer

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would just hit it as far down the field as they could,” senior captain and defender Jackie Poucel said. “That threw us off a bit because, if we lost the ball, it was immediately back down our throats again.”

Nevertheless, Pitt’s tallies at the end of regulation were the difference in the game against Villanova, and the Panthers were able to pin down a win before facing the La Salle Explorers on Sunday.

After one day of rest, Pitt headed into the

matchup with La Salle seeking a second win in three days. But the Explorers had other ideas.

La Salle brought an approach to the game that was night and day compared to what the Panthers faced two days earlier against Villanova. Poucel recognized that Pitt was “facing adversity that some of the girls weren’t used to, especially the physicality of the game.”

“Their pressure prevented us from keeping the ball as much as we usually can, and we panicked,” Poucel said. “I don’t know if it was the inexperience that hit us [Sunday] or what exactly happened, but we have to get back to the drawing board and address it.”

Once again, Pitt’s biggest issue proved to be

its youth and inexperience. Unfortunately, for Miller and his Panthers, that’s the one problem they can’t fix with hard work and practice.

“We didn’t do a good job from the onset of matching their intensity, and I think that was the difference in the game,” Miller said. “[La Salle] was very persistent with their pressure, and eventually were able to get a goal out of how they play and just kept applying the pressure from there.”

La Salle found scoring opportunities throughout the contest, while Pitt struggled to find breathing room on offense due to the

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FOOTBALL however, as the team realized the game was out of reach.

With another game in just a few days, the Panthers (2-1) had to focus on the positives of their offensive attack in the outing, rather than the negative score-line, as they traveled cross-state to take on Longwood.

After a physically draining game against William and Mary, the Panthers bounced

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“The team rebounded well. We talked a lot yesterday and made a good plan for this game,” head coach Joe Luxbacher said Sunday in a press release. “[Despite] playing two days after a bad result for us, it’s a good day for the team.”

Pitt thought they had scored earlier in the game, when in the 10th minute, sophomore Stephane Pierre headed home a free kick. But the play was called back, as he was offsides.

Despite being outshot 10-8, Pitt stole the win, using 17 players in the process. The Panthers were forced to use nearly their entire roster on the road trip due to the close proximity of the games over the weekend.

Sophomore Braden Horton got his first start of the season in goal, in place of Lynd, making three saves for his second career shutout.

With the win, the Panthers have already surpassed their win total from last year’s campaign.

The victory was Pitt’s first on the road

since 2011 and should be a confidence boost before the first conference game of the season at the University of North Carolina, which is ranked 13th in the country.

The Tar Heels will pose a more difficult challenge than the Panthers have had all year. Pitt will have to increase discipline in the midfield by making precise passes and avoiding unnecessary turnovers. If they do not, UNC has the offensive talent and firepower to take quick advantage on the counter-attack.

The Panthers will take the field in Chapel Hill at 7 p.m. on Friday. The game will be televised live on ESPN3.

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WOMEN’S hard-nosed Explorer defense. The home team doubled up Pitt on shots, 15-8, and had the advantage in shots on goal as well, 8-3.

In the 65th minute, La Salle sophomore defender and midfielder Danielle Marx put a header into the Pitt goal off of a pass from senior forward Kelsey Haycook, putting the Explorers up 1-0.

One goal was all La Salle would need, as they would close out the game and earn a shutout victory over the Panthers.

Pitt will now shift its focus to Virginia Commonwealth University, who comes into Ambrose Urbanic Field on Friday.

Pitt freshman midfielder Ashley Moreira knows that she and her teammates have a lot of work to do, and they will begin training again on Monday.

“I think we should be working on keeping possession as a team, being more aggressive in practice and ultimately just working hard,” Moreira said. “We need to raise our work ethic in practice, so we will do the same in games.”

Although the Panthers got out-muscled on Sunday, the team is still trying to win games.

Pitt comes out of this weekend with a 4-3 overall record with another two weeks before their first in-conference matchup with Duke. There is plenty of time for Miller and his staff to get players to execute more efficiently. His message after Friday’s game may have been a bit premature, due to the fact that they came up with a loss on Sunday, but it holds merit nonetheless.

“I said, ‘You guys are just finding ways to win games, and that’s huge’,” Miller said. “We’ll work through the soccer part, but at the end of the day, knowing how to win is very, very important.”