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The independent student newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com |September 26, 2017 | Volume 108 | Issue 32

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HEALTHY U FAIR

TRAFFIC SIGNALS GET SMART Sarah Frumpkin For The Pitt News

Bob Susini, a 1994 Pitt graduate and his therapy dog Della volunteer at Pitt Student Affair’s Healthy U Fair.

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The Pitt News Staff Standing among students petting therapy dogs and getting flu shots, Student Government President Max Kneis thanked the CVS Health Foundation and the American Cancer Society for giving the University of Pittsburgh a $20,000 check for one of the University’s health initiatives — curbing tobacco use at Pitt.

“Student Government Board encourages students to commit to the practice of good self-care, and we must all work to prevent unhealthy personal habits that could hinder the advancement of ourselves and others,” Kneis said.

Kneis spoke at Pitt’s seventh annual Healthy U Fair, held on the William Pitt Union’s lawn from

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday. More than 40 organizations attended, including the Student Academy of Audiology — whose table included information about how students can take better care of their hearing — and the Magee-Womens Hospital, which featured information about various types of birth control.

Kneis opened his speech by encouraging students to take full advantage of the Year of Healthy U and explore the eight dimensions of wellness Pitt is promoting, such as financial wellness and spiritual wellness.

“As busy college students, it’s easy to forget to focus on our own well-being,” Kneis said. “I hope the initiatives and events that take place this year remind us to do just that.

And then he announced that Pitt is continuing to look into becoming a tobacco-free campus.

“SGB looks forward to working with the Breathe Easy Committee on continuing to explore the possibility of becoming a tobacco-free campus,” he said.

Marian Vanek — Pitt’s interim director of the Wellness Center — said the University was pleased to receive a grant from the CVS Health Foundation earlier this week to support the Breathe Easy Committee’s work toward reducing tobacco use at Pitt. CVS Chief Operating Officer Larry Merlo serves on Pitt’s Board of Trustees.

“Our Breathe Easy Committee has worked for the past two years to inform the University community about the benefits of Pitt becoming a tobacco-free campus, and this financial support will enable us to continue our educational efforts,” See Healthy U on page 2

With the dozens of traffic lights and congestion, driving in Oakland can be frustrating and stressful.

But every so often, you can time it perfectly and breeze down Forbes or Fifth Avenue, passing through a string of green lights.

Stephen Smith, director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory at CMU, developed technology that could make that breezy drive a lot less rare — but some worry it might come at the expense of pedestrian convenience.

The technology — called Scalable Urban Traffic Control, or Surtrac — works by combining traffic light control with predictive traffic technology. It prevents drivers from getting stuck at a light with no traffic passing through from the cross street, easing congestion.

And with its ability to read and adapt to existing traffic conditions, its producers say it will drastically reduce lengthy travel times and vehicle emissions.

The City of Pittsburgh and PennDOT are investing $30 million to install these adaptive traffic signals in 150 intersections around the City, in addition to the 50 signals currently in operation. By 2019 or 2020, nearly 200 intersections — a third of Pittsburgh — will have smart signals installed, Smith said.

Smith played a major role in developing this technology. He and his team received funding in 2009 from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation to brainstorm ways to improve Pittsburgh’s traffic problems and See Smart Signals on page 2

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she said in a press release.

The Breathe Easy Pitt campaign began in fall 2015. Co-chaired by Vanek and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health Donald Burke, it is composed of students, faculty and staff.

Pitt’s undergraduate and graduate student governments have been working with student leaders on the Student Health Advisory Board to garner support for the campaign.

“We have a shared vision that, ultimately, we want to help young people either refrain from using tobacco products that cause great harm or stop using tobacco products through cessation programs,” Vanek said in the release.

Kneis said in an email Monday night that the University applied for the grant in the spring and was one of 127 schools selected to receive funding. Student Health will hold the funds, but a team of students and staff — including representatives from SGB’s Wellness Committee — will decide how they are spent.

“The funds will be used for educational

Smart Signals, pg. 1 implement solutions.

“I think it’s a tremendous, important problem to work on,” Smith said. “Everyone has an opinion about traffic. You can talk about it to anyone.”

Smith’s team at CMU pilot tested the technology at nine intersections in East Liberty in June 2012, performing physical drive-through experiments using their cell phones to track their travel times before and after they went in. They received additional funding from the Heinz Endowments because of the pilot program’s success, Smith said.

“The pilot test turned out really well,” Smith said. “We got great results — 25 percent reduction in travel time, vehicles were stopping 30 percent less times, and when they were stopping, 40 percent less time.”

Assuming the expansion goes as planned, this technology will expand through Oakland, helping to ease congestions that commonly infect its entering and exiting roads — namely Bates, Forbes

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events and surveying the campus about smoking habits and gathering input about an eventually smoke- or tobacco-free policy,” Kneis said.

SGB worked closely with Student Health and the Graduate and Professional Student Government in applying for the grant, Kneis said, passing a resolution last spring and including a letter of support in the application. They also teamed up to send a preliminary survey to gauge opinions of smoking on campus last spring.

“The grant gives us an opportunity to conduct further education and research,” Kneis said.

“No timeline has been set for implementing any sort of ban.”

Kneis said it is premature to talk about addressing any backlash that may arise from a tobacco ban.

“One of the goals of this grant is to better understand how the campus feels about tobacco usage, so we can enter into a dialogue where all views can be discussed,” he said.

Kneis also said he thought the Healthy U Fair was successful in helping students learn how to improve their overall health while also being enand Fifth.

Currently drivers can make every light traveling down Forbes or Fifth if they time it correctly and go at the right speed. But Smith pointed out that when it’s congested “traffic suffers.” The smart light technology would help that, he said.

“It will be adjustable to whatever the actual traffic is on the road, so it should be noticeably better,” he said.

While many are enthusiastic about shorter drives, some are skeptical about its effect on pedestrians and cyclists, and Smith is aware of these concerns.

He said safe intersection-crossing for people with disabilities is the top priority in fixing the traffic problem. He and his colleagues recently contracted with the Federal Highway Administration to build a prototype mobile phone adapted to talk with the intersection and provide these phones to pedestrians with a disability. The team is set to test this technology next June or July.

“The phone will know the speed of the owner, then the signal determines how much green time that person needs,” he

Medical students help a Healthy U fair attendee with an intubation simulation.

Elise Lavallee |CONTRIBUTING EDITOR tertaining.

“Today’s Healthy U Fair was the best I’ve ever been able to attend,” he said. “Students I interacted with all seemed to enjoy themselves.”

Some students, such as first-year computer science major Anvay Buch, came to the fair for practical purposes.

“I had the flu earlier this semester so my

friend told me about the free shots here,” Buch said.

Others, such as first-year biology major Sasha Geyfman arrived to partake in some of the fair’s lighter attractions, such as games and refreshments.

“I’m just here for the free condoms and dogs,” Geyfman said.

said.

Although the team is currently developing a solution to pedestrian concerns, Todd Derr, a member and volunteer for the organization BikePGH, remains skeptical from his personal experience with existing Surtrac traffic lights. He said pressing the walk button doesn’t seem to speed up the light change for pedestrians.

“Sensors aren’t necessarily going to fix [the problem] unless they change something else about their system,” Derr said.

Because the technology works to speed up travel by adjusting to existing traffic, small side streets might get green lights less often, assuming it’s a busy time for a street like Fifth Avenue. Though this would speed up drive times, a pedestrian would have to press a walk button and wait for the system to give them a walk signal.

“I think, from my observation, the practical effect of this just encourages people to jaywalk,” Derr said.

Colleen Hutzel, a Pitt junior and social work major, said she thinks the Surtrac system’s promise to make travel times faster and reduce emissions will have positive

impacts for our health and our environment. But as a student who walks to class, she said she thinks Surtrac could negatively affect pedestrian students.

“From my place, it takes 15 minutes to get to campus, assuming I’m walking fast.

Crossing Fifth and Forbes will make my walking commute longer,” Hutzel said.

Despite what Hutzel and Derr feel are shortcomings, Surtrac technology has been anticipated by many, including Evan Ivosevic, a communications major who commutes from McKees Rocks.

“I’ve been waiting on this tech since high school, which was five years ago,” Ivosevic said.

Taking into account concerns from different groups, Smith said his team is working to ensure Surtrac meets the needs of everybody.

“Our technology is pretty unique in its ability to do this multi-mode optimization — by mode I just mean pedestrians, bicycles, busses, cars — giving each of them attention and considering them along with the particular constraints that each have,” Smith said.

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Opinions column

GOOD GAMING JOURNALISM NEEDS KNOW-HOW

Thomas Wick Columnist

As I watched the video game character move back and forth on the screen, struggling and failing to make a simple jump, I couldn’t help but cringe. I was shocked to discover the identity of the player grappling with a game tutorial with so much difficulty was an “experienced” gaming journalist.

Video game commentator and reviewer Dean Takahashi uploaded a 26-minute video to YouTube last month intended to act as a demo of the upcoming Xbox One and PC exclusive game, “Cuphead.” While many critics have reported that this game is difficult, Takahashi struggled to make basic jumps that would take even an inexperienced gamer no time at all to overcome.

Takahashi faced significant criticism on social media for the flub. Fellow gaming journalist Ian Miles Cheong posted two and a half minutes of Takahashi failing at the tutorial, tweeting, “Game journalists are incredibly bad at video games. It’s painful to watch this.

How do they think they’re qualified to write about video games?”

There’s a basic level of player skill that’s needed just to be competent enough to write about video games. In the same way food critics are expected to be literate in food, a games journalist must be literate in gaming.

This means understanding how games work and having the skills to play them. And far from helping the reputation of journalism — gaming or otherwise — Takahashi’s response offered a concerning defense of subpar work.

In a VentureBeat article responding to his critics, Takahashi addressed Cheong, claiming his criticism was “political propaganda

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for the disenfranchised gamers, the sort who went from Gamergate to the alt-right and elected Donald Trump as president.”

Takahashi’s reaction to his detractors wasn’t to apologize, but rather to explicitly defend his gaming mediocrity.

“We can make tutorials even easier than the one that I failed at so miserably,” he wrote.

To be fair, many of the comments on Takahashi’s video demo were extreme — including threats of violence. But regardless of your views on Trump, it’s unacceptable for a journalist to use the president as a diversion from a lack of skill. The only thing that shifting blame elsewhere does is allow the fundamental problem, a lack of quality journalism, to go unresolved.

Someone unskilled at video games shouldn’t be writing about them. A sports journalist who doesn’t know what a quarterback is or the rules of a game they’re covering shouldn’t be writing about sports.

A film critic who doesn’t understand basic film terminology should be writing about something else. And because gaming is interactive, a writer who can’t seriously interact with the medium shouldn’t be spouting their opinions.

Games journalists should be able to display at least an average level of competence related to games in order to have credibility in their field. This doesn’t mean that all games journalists need to be ESports champions or experts in every single genre, in the same way that a sports journalist isn’t expected to be a professional player. But they should be able to play games at a reasonable difficulty level in order to convey the game’s design and quality to other potential players.

paign, particuImagine if Garrett Aguilar | STAFF ILLUSTRATOR larly on Trump’s Takahashi had involvement in the Iraq reviewed the criticalWar. ly acclaimed “Dark Souls,” but When a panel of reporters on CNN poncouldn’t beat the first boss of the game and wrote off the game as being “too hard” for dered if Trump seizing oil in the Iraq War gamers. Simply because of his incompetence, could be considered a war crime, Barbara many would be misinformed of the proper Starr stated that viewers should look up the answer for themselves. Journalists shouldn’t experience “Dark Souls” provides.

Challenge is something we should en- ask viewers to spend hours researching the courage because it makes achievement more Geneva Convention because they weren’t rewarding. We don’t want game journalists prepared.

Defending your inability to do your job like Takahashi take away that sense of acwill not help you improve in that field. A car complishment.

This may not seem like that big of a prob- reviewer without eyesight or a license can’t lem, but if this quality of commentary starts use that as an excuse for their inability to reto become a trend, then people are going to view a car, as game critic Totalbiscuit pointed stop taking video game journalists seriously out in response to the Takahashi debacle.

Making mistakes is a part of life, but makat all. If they can’t do their job then that valuable coverage will be lost. In the same way, if ing excuses halts progress. professionals in other fields of journalism acThomas primarily writes about visual mecept mediocrity, they’ll lose their credibility.

Samantha Bee, the host of TBS’s “Full dia and gaming for The Pitt News.

Write to Thomas at tmw79@pitt.edu.

Frontal”, pointed out last September that political journalists failed to adequately fact check in covering the presidential cam-

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from the editorial board

St. Louis police endanger freedom of press Conventional wisdom proposes that it’s difficult to truly care about an issue until that issue affects you personally. For journalists in St. Louis, the controversy surrounding police brutality in America is coming to that point.

In the light of protests during the past week and a half, local, national and student media have descended on epicenters of unrest in the city to cover the story. After a jury acquitted Jason Stockley — a former St. Louis police officer who fatally shot black motorist Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011 — protests began, and many turned violent.

As with past protests — like those that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 — coverage of this month’s violence is essential. And the reputation police in the St. Louis area gained for using extreme tactics in 2014 makes coverage of

incidents of police brutality particularly relevant.

It’s both confusing and outrageous, then, that police chose to extend their abuses to the press during the course of this month’s protests. St. Louis City Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole even bragged to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his officers “owned tonight” on an evening last week when his department arrested 121 individuals at a downtown protest.

Among those the department arrested were journalists from Getty and the Post-Dispatch, not to mention an undercover member of their own force.

In a complaint to the city’s police, the Post-Dispatch noted that its reporter was arrested with “unneeded and inappropriate force,” causing serious injury to his legs and back. The paper also suggested police had potentially violated the jour-

nalist’s Fourth Amendment rights by reviewing the contents of his phone.

The city’s police department has already attracted a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union in response to what it calls “excessive force and the use of chemical agents without warning.” But perhaps even more disturbing is the police’s treatment of student journalists at the scene of the protests.

Davis Winborne and Ellie Cherryhomes — two student reporters from the University of Missouri — were in St. Louis last weekend to cover the city’s protests. They had press credentials and clear markings as members of the press, present to make a record of events for the general public. But police and SWAT members corralled the students and other journalists in among demonstrators.

Winborn said he was hit with a rubber

bullet and choked after a police officer ripped off his helmet back, cutting off his air supply. Police only released the group of detained journalists later in the night after a freelance photographer persuaded the police to let them go.

The charges that members of the press have levied against St. Louis’ police in the past few weeks have been horrifying. Law enforcement are in a tough position trying to police these violent protests, but they’re doing themselves no favors harming and detaining those trying to document the events.

Incidents like these show how extensive police abuse of power is in the United States, and should remind people from every part of society how immediate the issue is for groups in our country — like minority communities in St. Louis.

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Culture

ANDREW DOW USHERS IN

NEW ERA FOR ‘PITT TONIGHT’ Luke Stambaugh Staff Writer

“The bread here is incredible — you have to try some,” new Pitt Tonight host Andrew Dow said as he threw dinner rolls at the audience of the Charity Randall Theatre Sunday.

Dow pretended he was on a date with the crowd at the season three premiere of “Pitt Tonight,” Pitt’s student-run late night show. Kicking off the episode with a monologue, Dow introduced himself as “Pitt Tonight’s” first gay host — or, as he jokingly corrected himself, “openly gay host.”

Despite the joke at his expense, former host Jesse Irwin’s reaction to the show was nothing but positive. And as the founder of “Pitt Tonight,” he was confident that this episode was a good sign of what’s to come.

“Andrew did exactly what everyone hoped he would do — everyone knew that he would go into this hosting a TV show zero times. He has [now] hosted one, and he will be twice as good next time he does it,” Irwin said.

Sitting on a comfortable-looking tan couch, Dow calmly interviewed new Student Government Board members Nihita Manem and Zuri Kent-Smith about the Towers Patio protests last Monday and how students can utilize SGB’s services.

Dow then played a game called “Which Sandwich” with Sid Ali — known as Frenchi to Oakland residents who frequent his deli — giving him the choice between two increasingly ridiculous kinds of sandwiches to decide a winner.

Flipping through the cards, Dow seemed to have been reading some of them for the first time, cracking a smile before reading them aloud to a confused Frenchi.

Head Writer Shannon Kelly, a senior at Pitt majoring in fiction writing, said there were a lot of last-minute changes, and that this episode in particular was more of a test run to see how the writers’ jokes would sound coming from Dow’s voice.

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Irwin’s past two seasons. This episode featured one-time sidekick Elisa Ogot, one of Dow’s fellow Ruckus members.

Ruckus, a Pitt improv group, is where Dow picked up a lot of his comedic skills. And because of this, his voice as a comedian differs entirely from Irwin, who drew most of his inspiration from Jimmy Fallon and Conan O’Brien.

But besides the difference in sidekicks and individual comedy style, the premiere served as a reminder that even though faces are changing, the show still has the same format and conventions.

Associate producer Sonia Panic — a sophomore civil engineering major — said there was Andrew Dow, host of ‘Pitt Tonight,’ throws bread during a comedy bit. a sense of nostalgia in the premiere being the Thomas Yang | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER last chance to be the “new people.” Going forward, she said, the current staff will be mentors to those trying to get more involved in television and film production on campus.

Echoing Panic, new executive producer Annabelle Hanflig pointed to “Pitt Tonight” as an important organization in spreading awareness to students, especially new students. The entertainment industry is a viable career option, she said, and there is no better time to start than college.

“We are a student organization. We do not have help from faculty in producing this show every month, so it is up to us to make sure it is good,” Hanflig said. “We have to make the show Student Government Board members Nihita Manem and Zuri Kent-Smith the best that it can be because honestly, for those joke with Dow. Thomas Yang | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER who want to make a career out of this, we kind “Andrew is an improviser and does not have “You could definitely tell that he was nervous a lot of experience reading other people’s jokes,” up there, but I think anyone would be,” Enick of serve as that beacon.”

Popular Pitt band Pinstripe Sunny perKelly said. “But I think that as he gets more used said. “I’m excited to see him come into his own.” formed a short set of two songs before “Pitt Toto reading jokes, and as his voice becomes a largThe premiere was also the last episode of night” host Andrew Dow emerged from backer presence in the writers’ room, things will get a “Pitt Tonight” before applications are due for stage to formally end his first show. lot more out there — a little weirder.” new staff. There was a common sentiment “I cannot believe how fast it was — it felt like Zac Enick — a Pitt senior French and Italian among the organization’s current members that I was up there for fi ve minutes,” Dow said after major — attended the show and enjoyed it, but things are going to change moving forward. the show.

“It was one of the most amazing things agreed “Pitt Tonight” was still finding its voice The format of this season stars a different I’ve ever done, and it felt wonderful.” with a new host. sidekick each episode, which is a change from

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Sports

HENDERSON NAMED ACC SPECIALIST SIXTH TIME

Wide receiver Quadree Henderson runs onto the field during first 2017 home game. Anna Bongardino | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR

Mackenzie Rodrigues Sports Editor

Quadree Henderson was named the ACC Specialist of the Week following his standout performance this weekend against Georgia Tech — his sixth time receiving the honor in his Pitt career.

This is the first time this season the junior wide receiver received the weekly specialist honor.

Henderson had an 80-yard punt return touchdown in Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech — one of only two team touchdowns. Although the Panthers ultimately lost the game, Henderson’s return marked the team’s longest since Jay Jones’ 84-yard return in 1993.

As a high school athlete, he was rated the No. 21 all-purpose back by 247Sports. Henderson graduated from Alexis I. du Pont High School in Wilmington, Delaware, and was rated a top overall prospect in Delaware, according to ESPN. In his first season at Pitt, Henderson led the Panthers with 504 kickoff return yards on 18 attempts. His play took off in his second season at

Pitt, earning him the title of ACC Specialist of the Week five times in 2016 for his performances against Syracuse, Penn State, Virginia, Miami and Duke.

Henderson accumulated 2,083 all-purpose yards for his sophomore season. He ranks second on Pitt’s leaderboard, only behind tailback Tony Dorsett with 2,217 yards in his 1976 season. His 2016 season earned him Consensus First Team All-American status.

Henderson was also selected as an Associated Press preseason All-American player for 2017. So far this year, he’s had the team’s longest reception with a 74-yard catch in the game against Oklahoma State.

With eight games remaining — seven of those being against ACC teams — in regular season play, Henderson still has time to accumulate more recognition as an all-purpose player. He could even break double digits with his ACC Specialist of the Week titles.

His next chance to stand out is in the team’s matchup against Rice on Saturday, Sept. 30, at noon.

NARDUZZI’S PRESS CONFERENCE LEAVES QUESTIONS

David Leftwich Senior Staff Writer

After three straight losses, head coach Pat Narduzzi isn’t panicking — he’s focusing on improving the Panthers football team’s execution.

In a press conference with the media on Monday, Narduzzi addressed some of the team’s issues executing plays against Georgia Tech in last week’s game and looked ahead to this week’s matchup against Rice.

One question from last week still lingers — who will be the Panthers’ go-to quarterback?

Narduzzi made a change in the lineup and started Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech with redshirt sophomore Ben DiNucci at quarterback.

Even though DiNucci’s presence sparked some early offensive momentum, he was pulled midgame in favor of redshirt senior Max Browne, ultimately leaving the starting job up for grabs.

Narduzzi addressed this issue early on in the press conference, saying the team would evaluate DiNucci and Browne as the week progressed and then make a decision.

“Obviously Ben can make plays with his feet and he scrambles around and does a lot of things,”

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of the plays they are currently running than add more creative plays. He even hinted that the playbook will shrink next week.

“So more is not always better. It’s the quality of what you have in,” Narduzzi said. “You may even see the game planning go slimmer so we can get good at what we’re doing. That’s how I’d like to do it.”

Overall, after examining the entire team’s progress this season, Narduzzi is frustrated with the team’s pace of improvement.

“That’s probably the most disappointing thing,” Narduzzi said. “Watching the improvement week to week is not as much as you’d like to see.”

Improvement is necessary, especially with Head Coach Pat Narduzzi pumps up players before the Penn State game.

Wenhao Wu | ASSISTANT VISUAL EDITOR the weekend’s game approaching. While they are not a part of a Power Five conference and Narduzzi said. “But he’s still got a lot of room for pass game and decisions in the run game. They’re are 1-3 on the season, Narduzzi refuses to unimprovement, as does Max.” both big things,” Narduzzi said. derestimate the Rice Owls and is only focused Not only did the quarterbacks struggle during Aside from an offense that only produced one on winning instead of giving more players game Saturday’s loss, but the running backs and wide touchdown Saturday, the conservative playcalling experience. receivers also did not perform to their potential. contributed to the Panthers’ offensive struggles.

“We are going to play the guys that help us “It was our worst performance rushing the Addressing this argument, Narduzzi said he win the football game,” Narduzzi said. “All I’m ball, and I’ve talked about making decisions in the would rather focus on improving the execution worried about is a win.”

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