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T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | June 26, 2019 ­| Volume 110 | Issue 7

NEW POLICY INCREASES SUPPORT FOR FINANCIAL AID

I’M A STEAMROLLER, BABY

Janine Faust Editor-in-Chief

At a public meeting in Posvar Hall Monday morning, Pitt’s Investment Committee approved a new spending policy that increases the amount of University funding directly supporting financial aid.

For fiscal year 2020, the increase will result in an additional $7.5 million in financial aid for students across each of Pitt’s five campuses, according to Pitt spokesperson Kevin Zwick. The money will support Pitt Success, which includes financial aid initiatives such as the Pitt Success Pell Match.

The Investment Committee, which is part of Pitt’s Board of Trustees and presided over by Board member Ed Grefenstette, oversees the Consolidated Endowment Fund. The CEF is an investment pool comprised of thousands of individual endowment funds with a variety of designated purposes and restrictions, including quasiendowments, whose principal balance is not required to be maintained pursuant to a donor restriction.

The $7.5 million set to come in FY 2020 comes from the University’s Operating Funds Quasi-Endowment. The new spending policy increases the distribution rate from this quasi-endowment fund from 4.25% to 4.75% for FY 2020.

The committee said in the record of its public meeting on Monday that as a staterelated institution, the University must search for sources of funding beyond the state government to ensure it has enough resources to operate without “unduly escalating tuition.”

Steamrollers move down Forbes Avenue during the repaving of Oakland’s roads on Saturday. Thomas Yang | visual editor

CITY TO START PLANNING PROCESS IN OAKLAND Jon Moss

News Editor Oakland might look a bit different in a few years, but it will all be according to the plan.

The Department of City Planning announced Monday it will begin a two-year process to create a 10-year neighborhood plan for North, Central, South and West Oakland. The process has recently been used for other Pittsburgh neighborhoods, including Uptown, Homewood and Hazelwood.

In response to the rise in development activity along Forbes and Fifth avenues, the City said discussions with community leaders made it clear that Oakland needs to have a shared plan for how to

sustainably develop the neighborhood.

The planning process will focus on four main areas: community, development, mobility and infrastructure.

The City expects the plan to be finalized and adopted in about two years, during the spring and summer of 2021. If adopted by the City Planning Commission, the plan will become official City policy and direct public and private investment in Oakland.

The first step in the planning process is to create a steering committee of 20 to 30 community representatives to manage the process. The City said the committee will meet for the first time as a group in October and then form a series of action teams to tackle specific issues. A list

of steering committee members was not immediately available online, and Derek Dauphin, the project’s manager, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The City will hold a series of open houses in Oakland to introduce community members to the planning process, beginning this week at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. Workshops will take place Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 to 8 p.m. to teach residents the basics of urban design.

Additional workshops, featuring topics such as planning and building regulations, mobility and transit, parks and the environment, and energy efficiency, will take place throughout July and August.

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HOUSE PASSES PITT FUNDING BILL, 167-34

JULY BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING: WHAT TO EXPECT

Jon Moss

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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed Pitt’s annual funding bill by a vote of 167 to 34 late Tuesday evening. The University will receive a funding increase of 2%, or $3,471,000, compared to last year, bringing the total to $154,853,000.

The bill was amended late Monday by state House Republicans in an effort to prevent the University from using state funding for fetal tissue research. The bill, which now heads to the state Senate, said Commonwealth appropriations can only be used for costs incurred through “instruction for graduate and undergraduate students,” as well as costs from “providing student-related services and community outreach services, consistent with existing laws of this Commonwealth.”

Pitt, through its status as a state-related University, receives an annual appropriation from the Commonwealth to offset some tuition costs for in-state students and for rural education programs. The University requested a 6.5% increase in funding for the upcoming year, and it is unclear how Pitt will resolve the multi-million dollar hole in its budget since it received less than it asked for.

Kevin Zwick, a Pitt spokesperson, said Pitt is “grateful” for the appropriation and looks forward to working with the state Senate as the bill moves toward being signed into law.

“We’re grateful to the House for their support that will aid our efforts to provide access to a high-quality education to Pennsylvania students,” Zwick said in an email late Tuesday evening. “The new language is consistent with the authorizing statute that made Pitt a state-related university. It simply describes how this funding is and has always been used.”

The policy follows in the footsteps of

Pitt’s Board of Trustees will hold its second meeting of 2019 Friday, providing an update on University affairs to the community. The Board is responsible for all key decisions at the University, including creating the annual budget and setting tuition prices. The board will meet Friday at 10:30 a.m. in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room. As the meeting approaches, here are some of the topics the Board might discuss: Tuition State legislators passed an annual funding bill for Pitt late Tuesday evening, but lingering questions remain about tuition prices for the fall semester.

Pitt initially requested a 6.5% increase in Commonwealth funding, to be paired with a 3% tuition hike for in-state students and a 5% hike for out-of-state students. State legislators allocated a 2% increase in funding, and it is unclear how Pitt will resolve the multi-million dollar hole in its budget since it received less than it asked for.

Divestment In recent years, Pitt has been under pressure from student groups to divest its endowment from fossil fuel investments. According to The Guardian, part of Pitt’s endowment as of November 2017 was invested in EnCap Energy Capital Fund IX-C, a Cayman Islands hedge fund, which was revealed in the Paradise Papers scandal last year.

But divestment is gaining traction with other area investment funds — Mayor Bill Peduto announced on June 5 he would like the City to divest its pension fund from fossil fuel, firearms and for-profit prison companies.

In a letter to the Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund, the seven-member board which controls the fund and on which the Mayor sits, Peduto said the City has a history of using “both moral and financial authority.”

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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed Pitt’s annual funding bill. image via wikimedia commons President Donald Trump’s actions earlier this month to limit federally-funded fetal tissue research. The federal Department of Health and Human Services announced on June 5 it would cancel a research contract with the University of California, San Francisco which involved human fetal tissue from elective abortions.

Scientists say fetal tissue is critical for some research studies which can positively impact millions of people, while anti-abortion activists have long argued against the practice.

Mike Straub, a spokesperson for House Republicans, said Monday the bloc considered fetal tissue research a violation of the Commonwealth’s Abortion Control Act, which outlaws the use of Commonwealth funding for abortions.

Straub said Tuesday the amendment ensures taxpayer money is never used in a way that may violate state law.

“The overwhelming passage of the bill and the increase in funding shows the commitment among our members to support the University of Pittsburgh and all higher education in our Commonwealth,” Straub said.

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“The City’s leadership as a socially responsible investor has helped to advance just causes and helped to lead to formative social change,” Peduto said. “A similar time is upon us to act and provide leadership.”

Pitt’s Fossil Free Coalition, the main activist group pushing for divestment, sent a letter on April 3 to Chancellor Patrick Gallagher requesting he provide an update about the University’s work towards divestment.

In an April 10 response to the letter, the chancellor said Pitt is taking a multi-pronged approach to dealing with how to invest the University’s endowment.

Gallagher said the University’s main investment strategy is set by the investment committee from the Board of Trustees. But Gallagher added that, separately, the University Office of Finance is working on an environment, social and governance policy which would be incorporated into the process of selecting funds and managers for the endowment. Gallagher also said he viewed the report that the Socially Responsible Investment Committee is working on, which he described as “forthcoming,” as a “key” resource in developing the ESG policy.

Master Plan Pitt released a finalized version of its Campus Master Plan in February, which provides a 20- to 30-year roadmap for the University.

The plan includes major renovations and expansions to existing facilities as well as the construction of several new academic and housing buildings, all to be completed within 20 to 30 years.

Included in the plan is new student housing, as well as an O’Hara Street student recreation center to be built on the current site of a parking garage and Pitt’s Learning Research and Development Center. At a February town hall, some community members, and the chair of Pitt’s music department, voiced concerns about the uncertain future of University’s historic Music Building, located at the corner of Fifth and Bellefield avenues.

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A LEFTIST PUSH WON’T HELP DEMOCRATS

Michael J. Clifford For The Pitt News

The first of a dozen debates among candidates for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination will take place tonight in Miami. Coming just eight days after President Donald Trump announced his own re-election campaign at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, this marks the true beginning of primary season, as well as an opportunity for voters to see which candidates can survive on a national stage. More to the point, it will be a competition to find out which, if any, of these 20 candidates are fit to replace Trump.

The shock that resonated across the nation, both among supporters and opponents, at the startling upset of Hillary Clinton in the last presidential election has not yet worn off.

Owing to that, the party as a whole — voters, intellectuals and most importantly, candidates — are as focused on unseating the president in 2020 as they are to any of the other, highly specific goals in the party’s platform, which include universal health care, nationwide gun control and a radical environmental plan as litmus tests rather than a set of general principles by which to abide.

Some polls suggesting high popularity of socialism and many other progressive policies might tempt some to conclude that the party is making a permanent leftward surge. It’s true that surveys show a non-trivial share of Americans supporting many of these ideas, but as the popularity of their leading champion, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), has fallen, there is still room for a moderate to take the nomination and defeat Trump with swing voters, who seem to support moderation as a whole, even if some ideas poll well.

Still, the shift to the left is something to be taken seriously, and a few candidates, in-

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cluding former Maryland Congressman and 2020 hopeful John Delaney, have seen this firsthand. Most recently in the early days of June, Delaney argued that alternatives to the “Medicare for All” single-payer health care policy supported by many Democratic lawmakers are worth considering — a statement met with a torrent of boos from the crowd at the California Democratic Convention.

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, another recent entrant to the race, received similar treatment for his remark that “socialism is not the answer.”

It merits asking whether former Vice President Joe Biden, as of now the lead candidate, will evade the same type of criticism of his history as a moderate, even as he has changed his views in one day on multiple occasions to win over voters. His push for climate action, unsurprisingly, mirrored that taken during the Obama administration — being mostly, and somewhat vaguely, based on incentives for private industry to increase clean energy usage.

His plan now, though, appears to be only a less intense version of the Green New Deal, a far-left plan to cut U.S. CO2 emissions to net-zero by 2030, which Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic noted was formed, sometimes to the word, around demands by activists.

Whether Biden’s about-faces will prove popular is something only time will tell, but it is not effective policy. Looking to radical solutions as a first resort runs the risk of failing to achieve meaningful change at all.

The dogmatic acceptance of leftist rhetoric, if not substance, into the party’s messaging might risk alienating moderates and giving the upper hand to the GOP — no stranger to internal battles itself. Republican victories to take the House by storm in 2010 were largely driven by the ultra-conservative Tea Party, a faction which received as much

opposition from moderates as Democratic centrists today. That charge, led by groups such as Justice Democrats, seeks to shift the party’s ideological makeup to the left.

Bernie Sanders disagrees that this philosophy is not popular. He instead believes “socialism” is an insult from Republicans looking to discredit his agenda, which, he says, achieves “political and economic freedom in every community,” among other things, making it immensely more palatable than it would be on its own.

Unfortunately, banal statements like this often confuse people with little understanding of the proposals and leave the issue muddied. A survey last year noting strong support for the ideas in the Green New Deal, for instance, found that 82% of voters had heard “nothing at all” about the plan.

This labeling attracts even the ire of those further down the left end of the spectrum, with Democratic Socialists of America clarifying that they do oppose capitalism and do not see a role for it at all in an ideal society.

“If we use the standard definition, democratic socialists don’t support capitalism: They want workers to control the means of production. In social democracies, by contrast, the economy continues to operate ‘on terms that are set by the capitalist class … Our ultimate goal really is for working people to run our society and run our workplaces and our economies.’”

There is no proposal among progressives in general for abolishing private property rights and moving to a planned economy (a relief to many), but critics even fear that a political environment that is too hostile to business would be a move too far away even from the Nordic model that many progressives support, which combines private enterprise and markets with a welfare state and is, in some respects, more market-friendly than

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America.

While it is certain that tonight’s debate will find much common ground between viewpoints, the traditional, constitutional role of the federal government as a protector, rather than a provider, of rights is one that will come under increasing scrutiny, with Bernie Sanders’ recent proposal for an “Economic Bill of Rights” causing strong reactions on both sides. These criticisms engender visceral images of the 1930s — some invoking the 1936 Soviet Constitution and those who, like Sanders, believe his vision only picks up where FDR left off 80 years ago with the New Deal.

Nevertheless, these debates will also allow each of these candidates to showcase their views on where the United States as a nation should orient itself, ideologically speaking, as some believe this model of a welfare state combined with mostly free markets (which is, to belabor the point, a hallmark of Nordic political economy) is insufficient. Candidates will suggest a range of solutions, from “progressive capitalism” that brings business under tighter supervision, to a newly-minted smorgasbord of state guarantees without consideration of financial costs.

Whichever way one feels about these issues — not least of which is the Trump presidency — the experience of the Tea Party, which rode to the forefront of politics for a very short time, only to be replaced

by Trump, is a cautionary tale: unwavering radicalism, warranted or not, breeds populism. The Tea Party’s demands for small government, cuts to federal spending and debt and preservation of traditional values never materialized. Failing to recognize that and instead building a platform on platitudes and “this time is different” optimism will spell a similar death for the far left. The DNC would be wise to reject them.

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THIRD THURSDAY: BLOCK PARTY EVENT CONNECTS WILKINSBURG ARTISTS Isabella Colaianni For The Pitt News

A usual visit to a museum might include viewing famous paintings, standing feet away from casts of ancient sculptures and maybe visiting the gift shop on the way out. What’s not usually expected is the sound of steelpan drums playing “Hey Jude” in the hallway while other museumgoers sketch portraits alongside a local artist. While not common at most museums during the day, unconventional experiences like these occur one night every month at the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Third Thursday events.

The Hall of Sculpture at the Carnegie Museum of Art was lined with interactive art tables presided over by local Wilkinsburg artists on Thursday for the adultsonly Third Thursday: Block Party event.

From 8 to 10 p.m., attendees were able to grab a drink from the Great Lakes Brewing Co. table, speak with local artists and even create some of their own artwork such as graffiti sketches, still life fruit drawings and screen printed bags. This fresh take on the museum experience is one that Laura Zorch McDermit hopes will bring a younger and diversified audience to the museum.

As the CMOA’s manager of social engagement, McDermit has spent almost four years in charge of what she calls the museum’s “Department of Fun.” As the only person in this department, her job is to plan and coordinate Third Thursdays, after-hours parties, 21+ parties and wellness programs.

McDermit said that Third Thursdays are just one way that the CMOA is attempting to bring in a diversified audience and make the museum experience more memorable for visitors. Her fear for the CMOA — and for museums everywhere — is that if they don’t adapt and come up

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with new events that cater to younger audiences, they won’t stay relevant.

“It was part of a strategic planning process to start thinking about how we can engage with new audiences,” McDermit said.

“I think our audiences are getting older, so the idea is to get everybody interested again and living their life at the museum and having a different perspective on what you can do here.”

Third Thursdays, which launched in January 2016, always have a theme for the night. Other Third Thursday themes in the past have included a silent disco, a dance party with Hot Mass and a wedding giveaway with more than 600 attendees. This was the first theme based on a neighborhood. The idea came from the mayor of Wilkinsburg herself, Marita Garrett, who attended a Third Thursday late last year and talked with McDermit about planning a neighborhood party to celebrate the art and community of Wilkinsburg.

Haylee Ebersole and Kyrie Bushaw, two artists who co-own a print shop in Wilkinsburg called Meshwork Press, were in attendance at the Block Party to teach attendees about screen printing. They brought 150 blank tote bags and 100 posters onto which people could print a famous Albert Einstein quote, “Be a voice not an echo.”

Their table was one of the most popular of the night, running out of bags and posters more than a half-hour before the event was over.

Ebersole said the quote’s inspiration came from the community work she does with children from the Wilkinsburg Youth Project. She feels that the ease and accessibility of the screen printing medium makes kids excited about it — even the kids who don’t feel like they have any artistic skills.

“I work with a group of youth every week and they’re the ones who suggested we do this quote. The significance of it is

Museumgoers at the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Third Thursday event.

Isabella Colaianni | fror the pitt news to have a voice and make sure that you’re heard,” Ebersole said. “Screen printing is really exciting working with youth because anybody can do it and you don’t necessarily have to be an incredible artist to make something interesting with screen print.”

Another artist in attendance was Valerie Herrero, who has spent six years with the CMOA as the program manager for its offsite Art at the Market program. The program operates in Wilkinsburg, East Liberty, Carrick and Swissvale and serves as an opportunity for people of all ages in the neighborhood to take part in creative projects based around fruits and vegetables.

For this Third Thursday, Herrero brought her community activities into the CMOA, giving visitors a taste of her farmer’s market-inspired program by organizing still life food drawing sessions and a collaborative strawberry vine project. “[People] are drawing a strawberry and writing what they love about their community and then adding it. The idea is that strawberries grow in these clusters on a vine, just like people,” Herrero said. “We

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don’t grow by ourselves — we grow in a community with others.”

As an artist and educator, Herrero appreciated how interactive the event was for attendees and noted that even people who were not confident in their art skills were able to participate and make something.

“There doesn’t need to be a boundary — we can be at the museum and we’re exploring artworks in our collection and also exploring art that’s happening right now outside in your community, so I like that we’re mixing that space,” Herrero said.

“Even with the strawberry thing, for people who are like, ‘Oh, I can’t draw,’ I’m like, ‘Well, good thing strawberries come in all shapes and sizes.’”

One of those boundary-breaking artists is Damon Solomon, a local portrait artist whose work was also displayed at the event. At Solomon’s table, visitors viewed his numerous portraits of Mac Miller, Freddie Mercury and other celebrities who have inspired him, and were also able to sketch a portrait with him if they wanted to. Solomon firmly believes that anyone See Third Thursday on page 5

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Third Thursday, pg. 4 can do art if they’re really motivated to.

“The only difference between somebody who can’t do this and somebody who does this is that they just haven’t tried to put the hours in,” Solomon said. “I really think it’s in everybody.”

While his portraits come off as advanced and unique in their fingerprint design, Solomon is still fairly new to the art scene. He shared not only his art with those who were interested, but his story as

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an artist as well. An art major in college, he knew he wouldn’t be able to pursue art fully as a career until his kids were out of school. However, with the recent graduation of his last kid, a shoulder injury that prohibited him from working and the introduction of the perfect muse, everything fell into place for Solomon to work on his art full-time and really develop as an artist.

“I found myself with the right person that turned that switch back on and my life changed a lot. All the stories about having a muse and somebody that turns on that

desire — it’s real,” Solomon said. “I wanted to do the things that I found difficult, the things that scared the s*** out of me. These [portraits] that you see are the people that move my compass and my life — this is my way of paying homage to them.”

This celebration of art and overall theme of inclusivity was present at Solomon’s table and every other table as artists and visitors talked about, created and appreciated art and community together in a unified space. The event was one step in the right direction towards fulfilling the hope that McDermit has for

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the CMOA and for people’s experiences of museums.

“We’re trying to create a very welcoming and inclusive space for people to come and hopefully make a memory and think about the museum in a slightly different way that keeps them coming back and keeps them excited about this institution that should be your museum, the community’s museum,” McDermit said. “We’re really trying to open it up to people and it shouldn’t be an intimidating place. Often museums are, and if you’re like, ‘Well, I don’t know much about art,’ it’s okay.”

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RECRUITING ROUNDUP: A WEALTH OF TALENTED FOOTBALL COMMITS TO THE PANTHERS

Tyler Moran Staff Writer

The Panthers had their best day in a while on Saturday, when six football recruits committed to Pitt’s football program. In total, 13 recruits have decided over the past two weekends that, indeed, “Pitt is it.” It hasn’t been all roses and sunshine for the school, though. Pitt lost out on its final basketball recruit, ending the finalization of the class of 2019 on a sour note.

Football The Panthers have accumulated a vast amount of recruits in the past 10 days. Don’t let the large number fool you — so far, the Panthers’ class of 2020 has both quantity and quality.

The class of 2020 is currently ranked 23rd in the country, ahead of rivals like Penn State, Texas and USC. Five of these 13 recruits are from the state of Florida. Pitt has built a pipeline for recruits from Florida over the past few years, with Panthers like Daniel Carter, Rashad Weaver and V’Lique Carter all hailing from the Keystone State. Florida is rich with talent, and Pitt continuing to get recruits from there is a huge positive for the program. Weaver and V’Lique have earned their keep for Pitt already, and Daniel is soon to earn his too.

Let’s start with those six recruits that committed on Saturday. The first of two four-star recruits Pitt landed on that day was wide receiver Aydin Henningham. He visited the school on Thursday and chose Pitt over the likes of Ohio State, Florida and Auburn.

Henningham brings two big assets with him to the program — his size and his location.

Standing at 6-foot-1, he’ll be a red zone threat for the team in the future. Pitt has had talented receivers, but blending talent with size is what it needs in its offense.

Then there’s his home state. Henningham comes from Deerfield Beach, Florida, and landing a Floridian four-star commit will help Pitt

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Pitt football’s class of 2020 is currently ranked 23rd in the country. Thomas Yang | visual editor build up that pipeline. quarterback in the future and hopefully will help handy on the offensive side of the ball, since the In fact, Pitt landed another four-star from lure other local talents to the school.

Panthers need a wide receiver more than a cordown south — safety Jahvante Royal also hails Along with Hayes, Timothy Brown is anoth- nerback at the moment, but that’s not to say that from Florida. Royal is a 6-foot-3 safety who er three-star defensive end that will be coming to Addison couldn’t play the latter one day. turned down offers from Florida State, Ohio Pittsburgh in 2020. Brown isn’t as highly ranked The last Saturday commitment, three-star State and Penn State. as Hayes, but local schools Florida and Florida player AJ Roberts, is the tenth-ranked outside Safety will be necessary for the team fol- State had expressed interest in the Palm Beach linebacker in New York. Roberts will provide lowing the departure of starting defensive back Gardens native. the Panthers with defensive depth and could Damar Hamlin at the end of this season, so RoyBrown strengthens the Florida pipeline, give the Panthers a future in with New York-area al is a huge acquisition for Pitt. Royal will likely and he has a knack for causing quarterbacks to talent. become the starting safety as a true freshman for throw poorly that will also help contribute to the In addition to its Saturday gets, Pitt was able the Panthers come the 2020-21 season. team’s success when his time comes. to snag a pair of dynamic, three-star running After struggling to win top local recruits, Pitt Jordan Addison, a three-star wide receiver backs in Israel Abanikanda and Henry Parrish. has managed to land hometown product Dayon with some serious speed, committed to Pitt over Both players are undersized for the position, but Hayes. The three-star defensive end visited the Notre Dame, Syracuse and Virginia. Addison is have blazing speed to make up for their small school four times, so it’s no big surprise he chose 6-foot and quite versatile. His ability to lineup statures.

Pitt. at either wide receiver or cornerback will grant Although Abanikanda is listed as an athlete, Hayes, ranked as the third-best defensive him more opportunities to see the field in the his primary position is running back. He is from end in the state, is an enormous get for the pro- future.

Brooklyn, New York, so he and Roberts can help gram. He will be able to rush the opposing team’s These opportunities will likely come in See Roundup on page 7

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Roundup, pg. 6 lure more prospects from the state to come to Pittsburgh. And Miamian Parrish might help build a trend of Florida running backs committing to the Panthers in the future.

Three-star defensive end Emmanuel Belgrave, also a Miami native, chose Pitt over Nebraska and Wake Forest. He provides quality depth at defensive end, but his size would suit him better at outside linebacker.

Building onto their future linebacker core, the Panthers landed three-star athlete Solomon

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DeShields. DeShields primarily plays outside linebacker, but could slide to the inside without an issue. Top schools like West Virginia, Michigan State and Oregon all missed out on DeShields’ talent. Fun fact — he attended the same high school as two-time AL MVP Mike Trout.

This extra long football segment of recruiting roundup ends with Pitt’s newly-landed trio of three-star defensive back recruits — Bangally Kamara, Hunter Sellers and Tee Denson. The former two players named are safeties while the latter two are from the state of Georgia.

Kamara visited Pittsburgh twice and chose

the Panthers over schools such as Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State. Standing at 6-foot-2, he’s standard safety size. Kamara’s size will translate into solid on-field production in the future.

Standing at 6-foot, Sellers is better suited to play free safety or even cornerback than he is for the safety position. Sellers held offers from programs like Michigan State and Wisconsin, so switching from either position shouldn’t be a problem for him.

Finally, there’s Denson, a lockdown cornerback that will be able to match up with the opposition’s best wide receiver and prevent them

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from having a breakout game.

Men’s basketball The basketball side of recruiting’s class of 2019 yielded a disappointing conclusion this week. The Panthers failed to land three-star power forward Josaphat Bilau, their final target for the current class. Bilau ended up committing to Wichita State over Nevada, West Virginia and Wake Forest.

Pitt’s men’s basketball class of 2019 comes to a close ranked 50th in the country. This is down from last year’s 32nd ranking, but hopefully the Panthers will continue to climb up the rankings from here on out as the program develops.

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