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‘I’VE HAD A LOT OF FUN WITHOUT IT’:

consumption’s effect on behavior and said alcohol may be involved in nationwide violence on college campuses.

“So there are also lots of behaviors related to either alcohol consumption or places where people drink and socialize,” Mair said. “So much of the sexual violence, sexual assault and partner violence there is on college campuses, alcohol is there in some sort of way.”

Olivia Studnicki, a junior chemistry major and president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said she is interested in allocating resources on campus for students struggling with addiction. She said SSDP works to promote educational and rehabilitative policy.

“Combating alcohol use disorder among college students should follow a rehabilitation model where students aren’t punished for misuse, but instead given the help they need,” Studnicki said. “Part of giving students the help they need is helping them feel safe and comfortable enough to recognize when there is a problem, and feeling secure enough to reach out.”

Mair said because she is a social epidemiologist, she often thinks about the politics and social characteristics that lead to the disorder.

“There are genetic predispositions to an alcohol use disorder,” Mair said. “That’s not an unimportant bit, but so much of it is situations, circumstances, and contexts that you are in … For example, childhood traumas and adversity are strongly related to current alcohol consumption as an adult. Those aren’t weaknesses of character. Those are circumstances and life events that have placed you at a higher risk.”

DRY JANUARY ENCOURAGES SOBER LIFE AT PITT

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Staff Writer Meg Anderson is considering never drinking again — even after Dry January ends.

“I think for me, I’m considering not drinking at all again after this because I feel really good,” Anderson, a senior finance and information systems major, said.

“I’m saving money and I’ve had a lot of fun without it.”

While alcohol consumption is fairly regular on college campuses, some students will remain sober this month to partake in Dry January, an initiative that invites participants to abstain from alcohol. The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism says around 53% of full-time college students drank alcohol in the past month and estimates 33% of students engaged in binge drinking.

Christina Mair, an associate professor in the department of behavioral and community health sciences, said some of the risks associated with alcohol consumption are not widely known.

“Alcohol is related to lots of cancer incidences,” Mair said. “It’s a really strong risk factor for breast cancer and I don’t think a lot of people understand that … For a long time, there was this idea, especially in the 90s, that having a glass of wine was really good for you. First of all, that is not true. Even setting that aside, it still causes cancer.”

According to the National Cancer Institute, alcohol “Even sporting events are usually drinking atconsumption — particularly binge drinking — can lead mospheres,” Anderson said. “If more people were to higher risks of head and considered role models on neck, liver and breast cancampus or more organizacers. The National Cancer tions and student groups Institute defines binge pushed events and activities drinkers as women who that don’t involve drinking, consume four or more then maybe people wouldn’t drinks and men who confeel as pressured to do it as sume five or more drinks often.” in one sitting.

Mair also said the Mair said lots of peoheightened availability of ple drink the most during alcohol during college could their twenties, adding that play a role in high alcohol a “shocking” number of consumption in younger college students could be people. classified as having an ac“I remember anecdottive alcohol use disorder. ally, as a college student, the A student places a can of alcoholic “It sort of peaks at that measures said that four or seltzer into a fridge. TPN File Photo age,” Mair said. “There are more drinks were considthese interesting consequences, such as those who go on ered binge or heavy drinking,” Mair said. “That’s a lot to develop long-term alcohol use disorders versus those of alcohol consumption. As an adult, I can’t remember who don’t.” the last time I drank that much, but as a college stuAnderson said abstaining from alcohol has been a dent, four drinks was just a normal Thursday night.” personal discipline test, and it would be easier for stuAccording to the National Institute on Alcohol dents to drink less if fewer weekend activities for college Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol may encourage violent students involved alcohol. behavior and aggression. Mair warned about alcohol

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Spring semester is in full swing and winter is well underway, but Pittsburgh is still bustling with plenty of upcoming events. Here is a compilation of arts and entertainment activities to look forward to in February and March.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream In Harlem

In the spirit of Black History Month, Pittsburgh Public Theatre is reimagining this Shakespeare classic to include elements of Black culture and African spiritual traditions. Discounted tickets are available through PittARTS for this production, which runs Feb. 1 to Feb. 19 in the O’Reilly Theatre.

Music On the Edge

This concert series returns on Feb. 11 and Feb. 25, featuring professional musicians performing contemporary pieces for $15 general admission. Ensemble Dal Niente, a Chicago-based chamber ensemble, will perform at The Warhol Theater on Feb 11. If you prefer to stay on campus, musical ensemble No Exit performs in Bellefield Hall on Feb. 25.

August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars”

Comedy meets mystery in August Wilson’s production “Seven Guitars” presented by Pitt Stages. This event is $15 with a student ID and runs from Feb. 17 through Feb. 23 in the Charity Randall Theatre.

Open Mic Night: Black History Month

This open mic night spotlights Black talent and takes place in the Cathedral of Learning’s new Understory space on Feb. 23 from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Performers will address themes including the Black experience, Black joy and resistance.

Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945-1975

The Westmoreland Museum of Art opens a new art installation from Feb. 26 to May 28. The exhibit features modern Native American art, and admission to the museum is free.

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Many Pittsburghers have strong Irish lineage, so the annual St. Paddy’s Day Parade is always grand — this parade will include about 20,000 participants. The route begins on Liberty and 11th Street and continues 1.4 miles through Downtown.

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Annual Pittsburgh Arts & Crafts Spring Fever Festival

Visit the Monroeville Convention Center from March 17 to March 19 for one of the region’s largest arts and crafts events.

Vendors will offer handcrafted jewelry, painting, candles, clothing and more.

Pittsburgh Humanities Festival

The Pittsburgh Cultural District and the Carnegie Mellon Humanities Center are hosting the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival from March 24 to March 26. This event will feature local artists, performers, activists and academics promoting dialogue on various social issues. Location TBD.

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CITY OF ASYLUM PRESENTS ‘KLENICKI MEETS MONK’ EXHIBIT, CONCERT TO ADDRESS MENTAL HEALTH AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA

Nicholas Simila Staff Writer

A frantic saxophone and wild trombone duet onstage, moving their instruments in spiraling motions.

The stage background features an abstract painting that displays a mess of vibrant colors and oblong shapes. Upon closer look, one sees a variety of expressions ranging from anger to joy.

City of Asylum hosted a concert on Sunday featuring jazz music of the late Thelonious Monk accompanied by the abstract paintings of Norman Klenicki in an exhibit titled “Music, Visual Art, & Mental Health: Klenicki Meets Monk.” The event addressed themes such as mental health and the legacy of trauma caused by the Holocaust.

City of Asylum on the North Side is an organization that seeks to provide refuge to artists and writers who faced persecution in their home countries. The organization also hosts a wide array of free-to-attend arts events.

Lisa Parker, who hatched the idea for the “Klenicki Meets Monk,” is the director of Pitt’s center for bioethics and health law. She said the event ties together is-

depression.

Klenicki said his art is a vehicle for expression, an intuitive process that allows him to put himself in each piece. He added that during his manic phases in particular he became extremely productive with his art.

“I worked always intuitively, I felt like a conduit for a universal energy, you know, it’d just come through,” Klenicki said. “In the ’90s… the medicines weren’t great and had side effects so I stopped taking medication. Pretty much, I was on fire. I painted day and night, I produced 300 to 400 paintings.”

Monk displayed similar patterns due to his condition, Parker said.

“Monk had the same experiences as far as we know… You can watch a film with him, and watch his agitation and his animation and excitement as he’s composing and performing,” Parker said.

Alphabet City bookstore on North Avenue in the North Side. TPN File Photo Parker added that by uniting the work of two artists sues surrounding the stigmatization of mental health the legacy of research ethics and bioethics because of with similar lived experiences, the exhibition hopes to as well as intergenerational trauma. the experimentation that occurred,” Parker said. highlight the similarities between those with disorders “The exhibit brings together ethical issues surKlenicki and Monk have both faced challenges and those without. rounding mental health and its treatment … with ethi- caused by bipolar disorder, a condition where one See Klenicki Meets Monk on page 7 cal issues surrounding the Holocaust, which is part of experiences swings between emotions of mania and

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PLEASE DO NOT TALK TO ME

the “blanket guy” became the talk of campus.

It was just a few weeks ago when my roommate A little bit less than a year ago, I was on my was waiting at her bus stop when a random man way to Carnegie Mellon’s campus to pick up a tried to put his arms around her. It has never Valentine’s Day gift. It was super bright out and been 100% safe to be alone. the air wasn’t too chilly — I don’t even think I was wearing a jacket. I was walking along Forbes Avenue next to the Cathedral, truthfully not paying much attention to my surroundings, when all of a sudden I heard multiple cars right next to me start to honk. I looked to my right to see a young man bolting in front of cars driving on Forbes, and before I knew it he was standing right in front of me. I reached into my pocket and realized the pepper spray I’ve never used was gone —- I had forgotten it at my dorm.

Thankfully, the man had stood far enough away from me to keep my racing heart from falling outside of my chest. The only reason he Fikayomi Olagbami | Staff Illustrator ran across Forbes Avenue was to tell me that “I There are many reasons for women to be looked good” and to ask if I was single. When I afraid when walking alone in a big city. So, if you told him no, he simply said okay and quite liter— the person reading this column right now — ally sprinted off in the other direction. want to do something to somewhat quell the fear I didn’t know what to think of the situathat many women face on a daily basis while out tion and after a few moments of standing there living our lives — please do not talk to us. in shock, I carried on with my mission. I went According to statistics from the End Viostraight home after my trip to CMU to tell my lence Against Women organization, one in every roommates what just occurred. We spent the two women feel unsafe walking in a dark, busy night joking about it, and in retrospect, it was and public place.

This data increases to four in a little bit of a goofy situation. But I learned a every five women feeling uneasy when walking valuable lesson that day. And since then, I have alone in a dark open space.

Luckily, Pitt’s camnever left home without my pepper spray. pus after dark is relatively lively.

But as someone While my experience was ultimately outwho lives off campus, the walk from Cathy to my landish and wild, there’s no doubt it could have apartment building is always a little terrifying. gone significantly worse. I was in broad daylight with cars driving beside me, but ultimately I was Even the walks to some of the further dorms on alone on that street without any method to de- the outskirts of campus can make anyone a little fend myself. I was all by myself. Luckily, it wasn’t uneasy.

If walking alone in the place we live already a much worse situation. puts women on edge, you know what makes it If you see a woman walking by herself, at any worse?

Strangers talking to us. time of the day, simply do not interact with her.

Do not, under any circumstance, walk up to It’s one of the easiest tasks, but even the smarta woman who is walking alone by herself. This est of men fail. Women can never be sure if they rule are safe with a stranger. Even if they mean well, should apply to all times of the day, espethat is a risk most of us are not willing to take. cially at night when we are already on edge. If My coldness may hurt your feelings, but I would you are in desperate need of assistance, seek out rather ignore you than trust the wrong stranger a larger group of people. People should actively and be put in a terrible situation I can’t get out try to make each other feel more safe and more of. My safety comes before your feelings. comfortable while out and about living our lives.

I’ve had other odd and even terrifying inThere is already so much to stress and worry teractions with men while walking alone since about.

Fearing that someone might randomly that moment last year. In fact, it was only a few walk up to us and hurt us shouldn’t add to that months ago when the string of sexual assaults list of fears. took place around campus and last year when Senior Staff Columnist

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The unfortunate reality is that we do have to worry in order to keep ourselves safe. Here are some ideas my friends and I do to stay safe while out and about in the city — calling each other on the phone, carrying pepper spray, keeping whistles on us and, if need be, taking SafeRider or calling the Pitt Police to take us home. Until we can trust the world outside of our homes, precautions must be taken in order to keep ourselves safe.

One step that can be taken until then is to stop talking to women who are walking by themselves.

It’s a small and easy step to take on and a standard we should start setting as a society. Women can only protect themselves so much. It is up to others to change so that we can comfortably walk by ourselves and live our lives in peace.

Livia LaMarca mostly writes about American political discourse and pop culture. Write to her at lll60@pitt.edu

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Richie Smiechowski Sports Editor

It’s hard to pinpoint a head coach across the NCAA volleyball landscape who’s found as much success in the transfer portal as Pitt’s very own, Dan Fisher.

Of course, he’s a savant at developing players as well — just look at former players such as Kayla Lund and Chinaza Ndee and current players such as junior setter Rachel Fairbanks and junior libero Emmy Klika. But it’s safe to say that Pitt volleyball doesn’t achieve back-toback Final Fours without their transfer stars.

Fisher’s team was already loaded with All-American talent headed into the 2021 season, but he still saw room for improvement, recruiting Missouri outside hitter Leketor Member-Meneh and Penn State middle blocker Serena Gray. Despite already having impressive resumes going into their first seasons with the Panthers, the two players put together stellar years, each bringing home All-American honors and playing massive roles in Pitt’s first-ever Four run.

Last season, the Panthers looked poised for a rebuilding year after losing program mainstays Lund and Ndee while Member-Meneh moved onto professional volleyball in Italy. But again, he utilized the transfer portal and recruited graduate student right side hitter

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Senior libero Ashley Browske (4) cheers during Pitt volleyball’s game against Louisville on Oct. 23, 2022.

Ethan Shulman | Staff Photographer Courtney Buzzerio and sophomore outside hitter Julianna Dalton.

The two had fantastic years, but Buzzerio in particular was a revelation for the Panthers, earning first-team All-American honors and guiding Pitt to its second consecutive Final Four in her lone season with the team.

While the 2023 season is still months away, the transfer portal is already alive and thriving, with several All-Americans already finding new homes within weeks of the 2022 season’s conclusion.

It’s inevitable in college sports that star players will graduate and teams must find adequate replacements for them — but once again, the Panthers’ losses leave gaping holes in their lineup. It’s once again time for Fisher to address these spots and build a competitive roster.

The reality of winning and having tournament success year-after-year is increased expectations from your fans — for Fisher and Pitt volleyball, those expectations are as lofty as ever. Here’s an analysis of the program’s returners, recruits and areas of need as they progress through the 2023 offseason.

Key Losses While Pitt’s departing players from last season’s team might not seem as impactful as losing Lund, Ndee and Member-Meneh, they might actually have a similar impact on the team.

The most glaring departure is Buzzerio, who needs no further introduction. In her one year with the Panthers she brought pure dominance to the right side of Pitt’s attack. At 6 feet, 5 inches, she was a force, quite simply overpowering opposing blocks and imposing her will on defenses, especially in close games.

Statistically, Buzzerio stood head and shoulders above her teammates attack-wise, recording a team high 461 kills with a remarkable .320 hitting percentage. In terms of both production and presence, replacing her is a near-impossible task.

In the middle, the Panthers suffered two devastating losses in Gray and former middle blocker Chiamaka Nwokolo. The two blockers were mainstays in the lineup, but were most valuable in their leadership abilities.

When the team hit lulls in a match, both Gray and Nwokolo often took the role of vocal leader, boosting their teammates morale when they needed it most.

Last season, Gray had a career year for the Panthers, earning first-team All-American honors and leading

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the team with 131 blocks. In addition to her defensive abilities, she was stellar offensively, recording 248 kills and 26 aces. Nwokolo also reached triple digit blocks, notching

105 on the season.

Losing two first-team All-Americans in one year is both a blessing and a curse — on one hand, it shows that the program is undoubtedly in the upper echelon of college programs, recruiting and developing high-level talent. It shows potential recruits that they will have success and improve as a player at Pitt and under Fisher.

On the other hand, they lost two first-team AllAmericans. Replacing them doesn’t happen overnight.

Returning Players Sure, Pitt lost some of its best players in program history to graduation this year — but that doesn’t mean it lost everything.

Headlining the core of returning players are the setters — Fairbanks and graduate student Alexis Akeo.

Last year, the best passing teams went the furthest in the tournament, and the Panthers were no exception, often playing at their best with two setters in Fisher’s 6-2 system.

Fairbanks is one of the most exciting players in the country — she can play every rotation, setting a hitter on one play and attacking from the right side on the next. Her unpredictability is a weapon for the Panthers, always creating opportunities for her teammates.

Attacking-wise, Pitt returns outside hitters Dalton and senior Valeria Vazquez Gomez. Like Fairbanks, Dalton can do a bit of everything. She’s always playing above the net, frequently blocking and attacking from the left side but also excels defensively in the back row.

Her counterpart Vazquez Gomez had a career year in 2022, earning second-team All-American honors after catching fire late in the season. As of now, she’s the Panthers’ most promising weapon offensively, as she ranked second on the team with 359 kills last year.

The Panthers also return senior outside hitter Cat Flood, who should see an increased role in 2023. Regardless of how much time she spends on the floor, Flood is a weapon on serve, posting 16 aces with a remarkable 1.45 ace-to-error ratio.

Defensively, the Panthers boast rising talent with both junior libero Emmy Klika and sophomore middle

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She was crucial on serve-receive in the postseason and is only getting better.

Jepsen didn’t see much time on the floor due to the talent in front of her at middle blocker, but she has a very high ceiling. She’s physically imposing, standing at 6 feet, 4 inches, and was a top-100 recruit out of high school. Replacing someone like Gray is incredibly difficult — but Jepsen is a potential star in the making.

Recruits and Areas of Need Fisher’s 2023 high school recruiting class is the best in program history. Ranked No. 8 in the country

by PrepVolleyball.com, the Panthers boast four top100 recruits, three of whom are hitters.

Right side hitter Olivia Babcock and outside hitter Torrey Stafford impressed at the Under Armour All-American game, both winning MVP of their respective teams. Stafford is the No. 7 ranked player in the country, and Babcock is ranked No. 35 nationally.

Pitt’s other two recruits are outside hitter Blaire Bayless, who’s the No. 44 ranked recruit, and setter Haiti Tautua’a, who’s ranked No. 66. Bayless also played in the All-American game, and Tautua’a is the No. 1 ranked player in Hawaii.

Fisher’s class is incredibly deep, and while the players might not produce right away, they are a sure sign that the program is still on an upward trajectory.

But looking at the current situation, the Panthers still have several areas of need that they must address in the transfer portal if they want to compete for a national championship this season.

They addressed one of their needs in the portal on Monday, when former Virginia Tech libero/ defensive specialist Logan Mosley announced her commitment to Pitt. The senior has over 1,000 career digs and provides Fisher with much needed depth defensively. At the very least, she will compete with Klika for the starting spot while providing a spark on both sides of the serve-receive.

The team’s biggest current need is at middle blocker. They have Jepsen, and she has incredible potential, but at the very least they need one more established player for depth. Last season, the Panthers had four middle blockers on their roster — they can’t go into this season with just one.

While the incoming recruits provide a huge boost to the offense, an experienced hitter certainly wouldn’t hurt. A piece similar to Buzzerio or Member-Meneh would provide a level of maturity and poise to a very young team that won’t always know how to react in high-pressure situations.

There’s still plenty of offseason left for Fisher and his staff to make their mark on the transfer portal for the third season in a row — if they can add two or three talented players with high-level experience, there’s nothing holding this team back from competing for National Championships next year and beyond.

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Klenicki Meets Monk, pg. 4 “It’s good for others without a mental health condition to know that people with mental health conditions engage in the same sort of creative and intellectual activities,” Parker said. “That makes someone with bipolar disorder much like you and me.”

Klenicki expressed a similar sentiment, stating his hope that art can make mental illness less frightening.

“Making my situation and Monk’s situation public, and relating to the music and the painting, could make it less stigmatized,” Klenicki said.

Klenicki’s website is centered around educating others about mental illness as well as addressing generational trauma.

“The main thing for me is the website because the

website is teaching about the Holocaust, because both of my parents are survivors, as well as mental illness.

I hope that is making people more aware about both things.” Klenicki said.

Thomas Wendt, the drummer for the event, chose to play Monk’s compositions such as “Bright Mississippi” and “Criss-Cross.”

“I let the paintings tell me about what I was going to choose,” Wendt said. “I would look at the paintings and think of one of Monk’s melodies. It added a whole new dimension to [Monk’s] music.”

Klenicki also shared that his parents were Holocaust survivors who experienced the horrors of Auschwitz.

“It’s a miracle that they were even able to have

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family and move on in life. For instance, my mother would wake me up in the night screaming, and would have nightmares about it,” Klenicki said. “My mother actually got grand mal epilepsy because of a beating she took from a German SS guy and that was a constant reminder.”

Despite his struggles, Klenicki persevered and produced work that he is proud of. He said he has access to better medication and now has a better relationship with his mental health.

“I work slower, because I’m not coming from the same place. Now I’m better, medicated, so I’m calmer, so it’s different,” Klenicki said. “I work every day, three or four hours. It’s my therapy, my meditation in a way.”

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Release Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis ACROSS 1 Shed tears 5 Candy __ Saga: match-three game app 10 Fourth-yr. students 13 Org. with a Women’s Rights Project 14 Small cap 15 Split __ soup 16 *Sibling by marriage 18 Old tee, perhaps 19 Can opener 20 “Am __ time?”

21 Bad habit 22 Barnyard bird 23 *Best Picture Oscar winner directed by Barry Jenkins 25 Fictional wolf’s disguise 28 “Get Smart” crime org.

29 *Wee 31 Floats on the wind 35 Pretend 36 Video game princess 39 Early ISP 40 “Such a tragedy” 43 *Lengthy warranty period 46 __ hog 49 Played the lead 50 *Retrace one’s steps 54 Fin. neighbor 55 Mid-month date 56 “__-ching!”

57 Leash 60 __ & Perrins steak sauce 61 Coffee creamer option, or what can precede both parts of the answers to the starred clues 63 Trains that rumble overhead 64 “Murder on the __ Express” 65 “Just teasing ya” 66 Match, in poker 67 Raise a glass (to) 68 Salty expanses

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DOWN 1 Stinging insect 2 Prefix with -plasm 3 Tusked animals 4 Small camping shelter 5 VIP with a corner office, perhaps 6 Mathematical comparison 7 Loosen, as a bra 8 “Burnt” crayon color 9 That woman 10 Parsley piece 11 Get through to 12 Bob who had a recurring role on “Fuller House” 14 Texter’s “Gimme a sec” 17 Music groups 21 Travel document 23 Pencil puzzle with dead ends 24 Fan setting 25 Honor roll figs.

26 Puerto __ 27 “Les __”: musical nickname 30 Shape of some building additions 32 Equal chance

33 Heavy book 34 Iditarod vehicle 37 Floppy __ 38 Toward a boat’s rudder 41 Boats like Noah’s 42 “j” topper 44 Dog-__: folded at the corner 45 “To be honest ... ” 47 Hall of Fame jockey Eddie

48 National flower of Mexico 50 Olympic gymnast Simone 51 “Rolling in the Deep” singer 52 Halt 53 Sidewalk eateries 57 Demo stuff 58 Director Kazan 59 Country mail rtes.

61 Like habanero peppers 62 Picnic pest

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