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Student Government Board to support Hillel event

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Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor MCT Campus

Stay Classy, Pittsburgh What not to wear on Halloween

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Nearly 400 students attended the annual screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” presented

by Engineering Student Council. Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Pitt working to attract female engineering doctoral students Anjana Murali Staff Writer After the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) determined Pitt’s Swanson

School of Engineering to be the U.S. university with the highest percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to women in engineering from 2010 to 2011, the school has dropped below the

Controlling the ball focus for Panthers

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top 20 in the last two years.

Gerald Holder, U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering at Swanson, said this year the school

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NEWS

Toilets, lightbulbs and blinds: Students create sustainability plan Lauren Rosenblatt Staff Writer In one week, four Pitt students earned $25,000.

The winners of the 2014 Sustainable Solutions Competition won’t use their wins for books, shoes or food — instead, they’ll buy toilets.

Pitt students made up five teams of three to five people and competed last month to create the most effective plan to make the campus more sustainable.

The winning project received $25,000 to make their plan a reality. The winners, members of the group called “Project Towers,” devised a five-step plan to transform Litchfield Towers into “sustainability central.”

“Project Towers” proposed dualflush toilets — meaning that when the handle is pulled up for liquid waste, less water is used when the toilet flushes — a switch to LED lights from compact

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The winners of the 2014 Sustainable Solutions Competition proposed a five-step plan to improve the Towers Lobby. | TPN File Photo

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SGB announces public support for Holocaust remembrance event Dale Shoemaker Staff Writer

The Student Government Board introduced a resolution Tuesday night that will voice their public support for an interactive art display hosted by Pitt’s Hillel Jewish Student Union.

The display, which will be part of Hillel’s event, Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass, will serve as a Holocaust remembrance for the Pittsburgh community on Nov. 4. It will feature shards of broken glass arranged to spell out a significant word, which Hillel hasn’t yet determined.

Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, refers to Nov. 9, 1938, when Nazi soldiers destroyed the shops and

homes of Jewish people in Germany and Austria, spreading broken glass throughout the streets.

Board member Graeme Meyer said it is important that SGB supports this event and similar events with the public statement.

“Any student organization that’s going to put on an event that involves a large portion of the student population deserves our support,” Meyer said.

The resolution urged students to participate.

“The Board further encourages all students to take part in this creative expression of activism and remembrance,” the resolution stated.

Meyer said he and fellow Board member Benjamin West decided to

write up an official resolution for the event after Elections Chair Lauren Barney, who co-sponsored the resolution, introduced it to them.

“The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy. It’s important to bring light to that, and SGB is the perfect public forum to do that,” Barney said.

The event is a collaboration between Hillel, SGB and the Cross Cultural Leadership Development Center.

Board member Benjamin West said SGB has passed resolutions that may have supported other religious student organizations in the past.

Meyer said SGB is open to publicly supporting other student organizations as well.

“If [other organizations] want us

to voice our public support we can sit down and talk about that,” Meyer said.

The Board tabled the resolution for one week to allow for comments or concerns from the public, and will vote on whether or not to pass it at next Tuesday’s SGB meeting.

“It’s our duty to advocate for the students on campus,” Meyer said. “[Hillel] came to us, and we decided to support them.”

In other action: The board approved Bill 023, which allows SGB to purchase distribution racks for student publications and place them in campus buildings. Applications

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dropped to less than 30 percent of doctoral degrees awarded to women because so many women who graduated in the previous few years haven’t been replaced by new female students.

“We hope to get the numbers back up, but with the Ph.D. studies lasting four to six years, there is a long incubation period before degrees are awarded,” Holder said. “The fact that we had [that statistic for] three years in a row meant that it wasn’t a fluke. It’s definitely a characteristic of the institution.”

Swanson awards roughly 60 Ph.D.s per year, Holder said, and last year they awarded a record high of 72. According to Holder the Ph.D. enrollment has been steadily rising — in the past 15 years, it has increased from 180 to 440 students.

Sanjeev Shroff, chair of the Department of Bioengineering at Swanson, said the bioengineering discipline is often a popular draw for women seeking engineering degrees primarily because of the

wide-ranging opportunities in academia, industry and public policy that exist after finishing the degree.

“The biggest attraction for Pitt’s bioengineering doctoral program is UPMC, the medical enterprise,” Shroff said.

Shroff said when the bioengineering department interviews candidates for the

women engineers such as the Graduate Women in Engineering Network (GWEN), created by engineering professors in the spring of 2014, and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Sixty-five female engineers in New Jersey formed SWE in 1950, and the Pittsburgh section became the first one chartered in 1951, according to

“When you in a big group of guys the conversation, the feel, everything is different than if you were in a big group of girls.”

Chelsea Stowell

graduate program, they pay particular attention to recruiting women and racial minorities.

“We make sure that the infrastructure exists for them to succeed,” Shroff said.

There are multiple groups on campus that provide a support structure for

the group’s website.

Shroff added that the majority of incentive to pursue bioengineering is provided by the discipline itself — it is not specific to Pitt bioengineering.

“Bioengineering is particularly attractive because you are working with human

3 beings and that is a big attraction, in my view, for women ... working with people as opposed to working in a room with computers,” Shroff said.

Chelsea Stowell, a second-year doctoral student in bioengineering, said being a woman in engineering can be challenging because you have to be comfortable with working in a predominantly male field.

“When you are in a big group of guys, the conversation, the feel, everything is different than if you were in a big group of girls,” Stowell said. “Depending on your personality and what you are used to, it can be more of a transition for some people than others.”

Stowell said one of the biggest advantages she had as an undergraduate student was the opportunity to work closely with highly successful and well-respected female professors and graduate students in the engineering program.

“I benefitted a lot from having a lot of other women around to inspire and [be

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a] role model,” Stowell said.

For Nicole Ostrowski, a fifth-year doctoral student in biomedical engineering, joining student organizations was beneficial in terms of providing a support structure and networking.

As an undergraduate female engineering student, Ostrowski became involved in engineering organizations. She was part of Phi Sigma Rho, an engineering sorority, as well as Engineers Without Borders, a national service organization that works on engineering projects to help improve impoverished or devastated areas.

“I think it’s because it sort of speaks to what women like to do,” Ostrowski said.

“We like to help people, make a difference.

It’s not just about the money.”

As a doctoral student, Ostrowski is still involved with Engineers Without Borders and also joined Women in Bio, a citywide networking organization for women in

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CONTEST fluorescent bulbs, water bottle refilling stations in the lobby and shades over windows to reduce cooling costs in the warmer months.

“There were four of us, and we were all brainstorming different ideas, and we all had our own interests and wanted to combine all of these. So we were walking through Towers Lobby and realized it was a very central place in campus and thought it would be a good place to implement all of these things,” Nick Hufnagel, a senior French and urban studies major, said.

The judges, members of PittServes, a branch of the Office of Student Affairs which connects students to community service opportunities, only intended to award one prize. The 11-person panel decided to award a lastminute second place to the “Big Belly Trash Compactors” group. PittServes awarded the “Big Belly” group roughly $10,000 of Student Affairs sustainability funding to purchase three trash compactors for the campus. The group said they are still thinking about where they would like to place the compactors.

“Having a venue for students to come together and share their interdisciplinary skills and craft solutions for campus allows for innovation,” Misti McKeehen, director of PittServes, said.

The “Big Belly” compactors would use solar power to crush the trash within the can once it reaches a certain amount, Miguel Pelino, a member of the “Big Belly Trash Compactors” group, said. “[The compactors] eliminate the need to empty [the trash] multiple times a day, saving a lot of manpower,

conserving fuel with fewer trips to go pick it up, eliminating overflow, reducing carbon footprint, etc.,” Pelino, a senior civil engineering major, said.

“And they’re just so cool.”

Joseph Brown, a sophomore engineering major and another member of the group, said he has high hopes for the effects of the trash compactors once they are placed on campus.

“I hope that people see the trash compactors and think about what they are throwing away, as well as enter the design competition that we are planning on having for the exterior of the trash cans,” Brown said. “Also I hope that their locations will be strategic and reduce the amount of unsightly trash on campus.”

Pelino said right now the trash compactors look similar to something one would find in the mall, but that the group would like to “revamp” them to show their Pitt pride.

The sustainability teams will begin implementing these ideas with Student Affairs and PittServes. PittServes will select a sustainability program coordinator, McKeehen said, which they hope to accomplish by the end of November.

According to McKeehen, the coordinator will work with students, faculty and staff to make sure these ideas become a reality.

“We are searching for someone with excellent sustainability knowledge and experience that can connect with the students to integrate sustainability into all that we do,” McKeehen said.

Plans for next year’s contest are already underway.

“I met a lot of really cool people that were passionate about sustainability. It would be splendid to work with them on other projects, including this one again next year,” Brown said.

“I hope that people see the trash compactors and think about what they are throwing away...”

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to apply for rack space went live on SGB’s website Tuesday night, Board member Benjamin West said.

The Board introduced a resolution to amend the SGB Governing Code. The resolution will add an official procedure for SGB’s public meeting and create a uniform attendance policy, Board President Mike Nites said. Nites said the Board currently follows an unofficial set of rules, and amending the Governing Code would make it official. The resolution will be tabled for one week and the Board will vote on it at next Tuesday’s public meeting.

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ALLOCATIONS Men’s Water Polo: $2,354.00 Caribbean and Latin American Student Association: $1,300.00

Budget Appeals Pitt in Hollywood: $3,518.88 Panther Hurling Club: $5,226.36 Formula SAE: $3,368.22 UPTV-21: $2,325.00

Nursing Student Association: $12,031.09 Student Government Board: $16,005.69 Panther Lacrosse: $7,322.00

New SGB Candidate Announced Lia Petrose Sophomore, Neuroscience and Economics Bridges slate Petrose said she had planned on running for a position on the Student Government Board next year but was unable to because of a scheduling conflict. After resolving the conflict she realized the deadline had passed, so she garnered the 400 required signatures for a late application.

“I served as an Allocations Committee member this year and it turned out to be one of the most rewarding things I have been involved in at Pitt,” Petrose said in an email. “I am excited to be a part of the elections and I hope to further my work as a student representative next semester.”

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the biotechnology field.

Stowell said the mentorship opportunities offered through GWEN are very valuable.

“Your success in a career is often dependent on having a mentor that can guide you and give you advice,” Stowell said. “While some women can do well

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with male mentors, it can be discouraging sometimes to have all your mentors be male all the time. There are just some things women encounter that men don’t because we are in different situations in life.”

Jenny Orie, a freshman engineering student, said there are more men than women in her classes, but it doesn’t intimidate her or deter her from wanting to be an engineer.

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gineering, she said, and it doesn’t bother her because there are other factors to college, such as clubs and residence halls that aren’t male dominated.

Holder said all engineering faculty members are sensitive to diversity issues, and they only hope to improve further.

“Our reputation as a school of engineering has improved dramatically over the last 10 years, and that’s been helpful for attracting a wider spectrum of people,” Holder said.

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OPINIONS

Get creative this Halloween, avoid tired stigmas Halloween can be a stressful time of year — almost as stressful as Christmas, some would argue. Most of us will be rushing anxiously to Goodwill and rummaging through closets in the coming days to find the perfect costume — one that will make people laugh, blush or gasp.

Of course, some of us aren’t as into it. There will always be a “nudist on strike,” or something like that — and that’s fine.

But, there will also always be that other guy who finds an old sombrero from his birthday at Chi-Chi’s and decide to go as a “Mexican.” Or the girl with the pillow under her shirt saying that she is a “teen mom.”

Such costumes are not fine.

These costumes require just about as much cognitive effort as the “nudist on strike,” but they’re different because one plays on tired stereotypes and the other plays on a tired joke.

Such stereotypes and stigmas don’t exist only on Halloween — people deal with the oversimplification of their identities on a daily basis. Earlier this year, Rutgers University conducted a study and found that 22 percent of Hispanic or Latino workers reported experiencing workplace discrimination,

compared to only six percent of whites. At the same time, mainstream media is constantly telling teen moms that success is incompatible with having a baby before the age of 20. In both examples, people are judged simply because they belong to a certain group.

Why should we perpetuate the very stigmas that unfortunately follow these peoples’ real lives by dressing up like the stereotypes?

It’s unfair to make assumptions about people in different societal groups, so, rather than expressing inaccurate generalizations of very real people through your costume, why not express yourself ?

Try being something for Halloween that reflects your own personal tastes and interests. If you like to make people laugh, try a punny costume. Pay homage to your favorite television show and dress up as your favorite character. Or, if you really don’t care about Halloween, be the nudist on strike.

Halloween is a time in which we are free to take on a persona that is not our own, but remember that others deal with discrimination based on stereotypes on a daily basis. Your Halloween costume doesn’t have to highlight that unfortunate fact.

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COLUMN

American media coverage of the Ebola crisis is alarmist, one-sided Thomas Helgerman Columnist

Since the Ebola outbreak began a couple of months ago, the mainstream media has made some facts about the virus abundantly clear.

First, the virus poses a serious threat to several countries in West Africa, particularly Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Second, a more concerted international effort is needed to counter the spread of the disease both within and from afflicted countries.

Third, it has become clear that major U.S. news outlets could not have done a worse job of covering the outbreak.

Coverage thus far has been ex-

cessively alarmist, perhaps best encapsulated when CNN called the virus “The ISIS of Biological Agents.” In the words of Dr. David Sanders, an Ebola virologist interviewed on Fox News’ Hannity, “the fear is spreading faster than the virus will ever spread itself.”

Additionally, news critics have excessively critiqued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the face of the outbreak. While its response to the outbreak has not been perfect, the CDC has not seen the death of an American infected on U.S. soil as of the publication of this article.

Further, reporting has been entirely Western-centric, focusing on the threat Ebola poses to

the US, as opposed to its ongoing toll in West Africa. While infected individuals in the U.S. are victims of the virus, Western media portrays those afflicted in West Africa as mere conduits for spreading the disease to the West and just a number on top of a climbing death toll.

The media’s orientalist coverage has manifested itself in the proliferation of the phrase “I am not a virus,” throughout social media outlets in West Africa.

There has even been a distinct difference between how the media reports on different patients in the U.S. — particularly between the coverage of Thomas

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HELGERMAN Duncan and the two nurses who treated him. In an Oct. 16 article in The Guardian, the U.K. based newspaper claimed that Duncan was dehumanized by U.S. media, while the nurses were considered brave.

It is quite unclear why Ebola has received so much national attention. As others have pointed out, Ebola is not a very deadly disease, mostly because of how difficult it is to transmit.

According to Baylor College of Medicine, “the leading killer due to a single infectious agent is HIV/AIDS, followed by tuberculosis and malaria.” These diseases affect more people in both West Africa and the U.S., yet the media pays little attention.

In fact, the CDC estimates that the seasonal flu takes at least 3,000 American lives every year, yet the oncoming winter usually doesn’t spark a media storm.

Regardless of why the nation seems so focused on preventing Ebola from spreading onto our soil, the fervent media attention will undoubtedly have substantial

consequences. Unfortunately, these consequences have been largely political and will continue to be that way.

Social scientists have conducted numerous studies to determine the impact of the news media on national attitudes.

Overwhelmingly, they have found that while the media is almost entirely inef-

setting.”

This has undeniably been the case for the Ebola outbreak. Further, such a focus has made the disease a wildly political issue. Many Republican politicians are publicly in support of a travel ban on flights from certain West African countries, an idea President Obama has rightly

“Western media portrays those afflicted in West Africa as mere conduits for spreading the disease...” fective at telling people what to think, it is able to tell people what to think about.

For example, even though CNN can’t change anyone’s mind as to what constitutes successful economic policy, the news outlet can convince the nation that the issue is an important voting issue by covering each candidate’s view on the topic during the run-up to an election.

This phenomenon has been called “agenda

dismissed as silly.

Consequently, how each political party responded to the outbreak will certainly be a point of contention during the upcoming 2016 election. While the President will not be able to run again, senators, representatives and governors will criticize each other for their stance on travel bans and the adequacy of the U.S. reaction to Ebola.

Fortunately, the increased attention

9 has forced the Obama administration to take action. Even though Ebola has plagued West Africa for the past couple decades, only now that certain news outlets have turned it into a domestic political issue, has vaccines been seriously pursued by the American government..

And while the media attention may spur the U.S. to provide more assistance to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it is shameful that we can only be convinced to counter an international public health emergency once it becomes a domestic issue.

Few events leave more of a mark on the national memory of a presidency than how the Commander in Chief handled national disasters in office — the legacy of the Bush administration is comprised largely of his response to Hurricane Katrina.

The Obama administration will undoubtedly be remembered for how it responded to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. But, let’s hope we will also be able to recall how it took charge against victims of infectious diseases who hadn’t had the attention of the U.S. national conscious.

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Pitt Script returns for homecoming Joey Niklas Staff Writer Oh what a day Friday, Oct. 24 was — all due to an announcement from Pitt athletics. Based on the Twitter and media reaction, it seemed like Pitt had won the National Championship that Friday. But the announcement was quite different — Pitt would wear formerly-retired script decals on its helmets Saturday. Many people might not find it noteworthy, but I, along with Pitt fans who were around for the old script helmets and uniforms, do.

I found out through a text message from my cousin that Pitt would wear the script logos on its helmets against Georgia Tech the next day. Minutes later, 93.7 The Fan confirmed it.

The way this news came to me was interesting. An hour after hearing the initial news — that the script’s return was just going to be for Saturday — it was reported that athletic director Steve Pederson decided that the script would stay for the rest of the football season and possibly longer.

After all of the years of saying that it’s likely not going to return, why the change now?

If the change to the football logo was in the works for a while now, perhaps there should have been hats with the script on them with the current color scheme.

Pitt fans and alumni immediately tweeted their excitement over the return of the script. It was the kind of news the fan base needed to regain its enthusiasm for the football season.

But when I asked students at the game

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SPORTS

Notebook: Offense works on limiting turnovers with Duke on deck

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Ryan Bertonaschi Senior Staff Writer Last September, Pitt football fans expected a walk in the park when their 1-1 team traveled to Durham, N.C., for the Panthers’ first-ever conference game against what used to be a lowly Duke team.

The Panthers did pull out a 58-55 win over the Blue Devils in a shootout, and, on paper, it ended up being their marquee

win of the season. Duke ended up winning the ACC’s Coastal Division and falling three points shy to Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.

Pitt (4-4, 2-2 ACC) hosts Duke (6-1, 2-1 ACC), which cracked the AP poll this week at No. 24, Saturday afternoon at Heinz Field.

Pitt’s defense surrendered 612 yards of offense to Georgia Tech in a 56-28 loss last weekend, and members of Pitt’s defense

were left baffled by the Yellow Jackets’ triple option.

Pitt head coach Paul Chryst said Monday that Duke’s offense is nothing he hasn’t seen before. Still, Chryst added, “What makes it difficult is that you’re going up against a good offense.”

Duke’s offense lacks star power, but its four-running back system blew by Vir-

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Fan confessional

The struggles of inconsistency

Giovani Bernard is propelling an inconsistent Bengals team this year. | MCT Campus

Imaz Athar Staff Writer I used to be a Cincinnati Bengals fan. Before Steelers supporters hunt me down, let me explain why I stopped being a fan. It happened during the 2005 NFL playoffs.

For much of my early childhood, I lived in a small town in New Mexico, which didn’t have a professional football team, and I didn’t know much about football. Nobody

really talked about football in the area. Kids wanted to shoot a basketball like Kobe Bryant, not throw a football like Peyton Manning, so the sport wasn’t on my mind much.

That changed when I moved to Lexington, Ky. In Lexington, you automatically become a sports fan. Lexington didn’t have an NFL team, so everyone passionately rooted for the closest team: the Cincinnati Bengals.

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CLUB SPORTS

Club sports rundown: Fencing, lacrosse prepare for spring tion, said. “The majority of people who join have no previous experience but bring enthusiasm and a desire to learn the sport.”

The team practices four times a week, alternating between drills and open fencing. The sport and its practices emphasize proper footwork and cardiovascular endurance.

“Good fencers have athleticism, think quickly on their feet and are willing to try whatever works to get a touch,” Nicole Mee, another fencer and engineering major, said. “Fencing is a mental game as well as a physical one, and good fencers think critically about what works and what doesn’t against an opponent.”

But even with all of the hard work and dedication the Pitt fencing team shows within its year-round season, it can still have a little fun.

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Rundown

Pitt men’s lacrosse finished 7-8 last spring season. | Photo courtesy of Pitt Men’s Lacrosse

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Although seasons for fall club sports teams are ending, the spring teams are just getting started. Teams are beginning to recruit new players, develop play strategies and create practice schedules for the upcoming season.

Pitt Fencing Pitt Fencing’s most recent success includes six team members placing eighth or higher in individuals for the three different types of fencing (foil, sabre and épée) and the men’s team foil placing fourth in the Southern Atlantic Conference Championship on Oct. 20 in Swarthmore, Pa. In the USA Collegiate Fencing Conference national tournament, the women’s team épée placed third.

“Our level of fencing has improved since we have grown as a club,” Jen Hess, the president of Pitt Fencing Associa-

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RUNDOWN “Even within the team, there’s a bit of competition between the three types of weapons about which weapon is better,” Jessica Feldman, another fencer with a focus in American sign language, said.

“This usually leads to friendly teasing about bad technique and tip jokes. Although, there are always tip jokes ...”

Pitt Men’s Lacrosse Pitt Men’s Lacrosse is striving to recruit members to make it to the Conference Championship and Nationals this upcoming season. With the loss of so many starting seniors, the team wants new members to fill those positions with fresh talent and help send the team to victory.

The team plays in the CCLA Division 1 East, along with schools like Michigan State, Ohio University and Central Michigan.

Last year, the team finished the seaPitt wore these script decals on its helmets in Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech. | Photo courtesy of Pitt Athletics

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PITT SCRIPT about their thoughts on the return of the script, many didn’t seem to care, and some didn’t even know what the script was.

Growing up in Pittsburgh and watching Pitt games as a child, I remember watching guys like Curtis Martin streak up the sidelines in their mustard yellow and Pittsburgh blue uniforms wearing those script helmets with a matching color scheme.

Maybe I’m showing my age here, but I was roughly 15 when the script was replaced in 1997 by the infamous Dino-Cat logo, and new shades of blue and yellow for the school colors emerged.

Most current Pitt students were no older than five — and some weren’t even born — when Pitt was wearing those old script helmets and old school colors.

Did Pederson wait too long to return to the script? Using the script once or twice a year for four to five seasons could have been the perfect way to reintroduce the design to the students.

Maybe if Pitt went back to the script

during the Dave Wannstedt era, there would have been more enthusiasm for the logo. Then again, perhaps the response among students would have been the same.

Fans and alumni would love to see Pitt go back to its old colors, but I just don’t know how current students would respond to the change in school colors.

Basketball has built its own brand with the “block” logo and current color scheme, and the brand is popular among Pitt students.

Maybe the script for just football — with the current color scheme — is the best compromise between the fans and alumni for both sports.

In the sports world, you should never say never. A change back to the old colors could potentially be coming as well. That change, especially for older Pitt fans who experienced it once already, would carry significant meaning.

But many say it’s the on-field performance that matters most. The nostalgia of the change in logo will only last for so long, and at some point, the team will have to win on a consistent basis or it doesn’t matter what the team is wearing on the field.

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NOTEBOOK ginia in the Blue Devils’ last game with 242 rushing yards. The Blue Devils’ defense allows just 15 points per contest, which ranks fifth nationally.

Pitt’s only chance to top that average is by holding on to the ball better than it did last game. Pitt fumbled the ball seven times against Georgia Tech. The Panthers tied an FBS record for most fumbles in a quarter of play with five fumbles, and the first four came in their first six snaps from kickoff.

Pitt running back James Conner had probably the wildest fumble of them all. In the first quarter, Conner was stripped at the goal line while chugging out what could have been a 74yard touchdown run.

“I guess we can drill it and not let it happen again,” Conner said Monday.

13 son 7-8 and lost during the semifinals.

The biggest game it faces this season comes in April against Michigan State.

The Spartans won against Pitt each of the past three years but only by a few goals. Pitt plans on changing that streak this year.

Of the players that remain, Zack Hindman, the club’s president and defensive starter said, “Our best players are all dedicated and hardworking guys.

I don’t think I’ve ever played with anyone that has as much heart and love for the game as them.”

The team participates in scrimmages and tournaments all fall in preparation for the start of its season in January.

During the spring, the team practices Monday through Thursday around 10 p.m. and does conditioning or morning runs on Friday and Saturday.

Attacker Chris Wetzel said one of the bests parts of being on the team is simple: “scoring [goals].”

“Special crew,” he added about the team as a whole.

Pitt will have to do just that this week during practice, because Duke’s defense has induced 14 turnovers through seven games this season.

Quarterback Chad Voytik was evaluated for injury after leaving the Georgia Tech game in the fourth quarter, and Chryst said Monday that Voytik was “O.K.,” and that he has been practicing with the team this week.

Pitt center Alex Officer airmailed a snap out of Voytik’s reach with 10 minutes to play, and as Voytik chased down the loose ball, Georgia Tech linebacker Kyle Travis collided with Voytik’s upper body and head.

Voytik stood up after the hit and was slow to leave the field. Reserve quarterback Trey Anderson replaced him at that point.

Chryst provided no update on the status of safety Terrish Webb, who suffered an ankle injury against Georgia Tech.

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ATHAR

I was surrounded by people obsessed with the Bengals, so I started to fall in love with the team too. Soon, it became a weekly ritual to watch the Bengals play on Sunday — and man, were they fun to watch.

Their defense intercepted pass after pass, and Carson Palmer threw touchdown after touchdown as Chad Johnson danced in the end zone.

My young, naïve self was certain the 2005 Bengals were going to win the Super Bowl, and I almost cried when the Steelers’ defense blew out Palmer’s knee in the team’s first playoff game in years. Steelers fans may have rejoiced, but I tore off my Chad Johnson jersey and threw it into my closet after the game.

Suddenly, I realized the extremes of being a sports fan: the jubilation that came with rooting for a sports team, along with the

devastating pain of watching losses and injuries.

Last Sunday, I saw that the Bengals beat their division rival, the Ravens, in a close game. In the past, I would have watched the game and felt the adrenaline rush through me as the Bengals won, but now I feel nothing but apathy. Maybe I stopped caring because I haven’t had the time to watch Bengals games. Maybe it’s because

can enjoy the game for what it is, and it’s liberating.

I have to admit, however, that part of me misses rooting for a team. Seeing people walk around on campus wearing their favorite team’s jersey makes me miss being a part of a sports community, and hearing my floormates cheer when Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers destroyed the Colts this past Sunday reminded me of how I felt when my friends and I watched the Bengals beat teams in the mid-2000s.

I’ll always remember the feeling of community and the priceless exhilaration rooting for the Bengals. But the misery that comes with watching your team fail over and over again is unbearable. My fading football fandom has allowed me to enjoy watching the game without experiencing the disappointment I vividly remember.

So my Chad Johnson jersey is going to remain in the back of my closet, and I don’t think I’ll ever pick it back up.

“My Chad Johnson jersey is going to remain in the back of my closet.” my high hopes for the team were crushed in 2005 — and every year since.

However, not having a favorite football team has its advantages. I no longer get irrationally upset, and I haven’t entered that dark place that every fan enters when their favorite team loses. Now, I can root for the underdog, or cheer for Aaron Rodgers’ greatness without feeling envious. I