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Forum starts search for next business school dean Dale Shoemaker Staff Writer

A forum Tuesday opened the search for a new dean of Pitt’s College of Business Administration and Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

The current dean, John Delaney, announced mid-September that he will step down from his position because he believes organizations need new leadership to stay innovative.

Delaney will remain in his position until the University finds a successor.

Former Chancellor Mark Nordenberg heads the search committee that will select candidates for Issac Beachy, sous chef at Conflict Kitchen, prepares chicken shawarma. Conflict Kitchen reopened Nov. 11 the position. The Board of Trustafter it received threats because of its current Palestinian food menu. Zach Schaffer | Senior Staff Photographer ees and Provost will make the final appointment based on suggestions “We [the art designer and the production from the committee. The committee, selected by the Board of Trustdesigner] are a kernel of the creative process... ees and Provost, heard comments A main character can take up to a year and a from current University faculty, half to develop.” staff and alumni associated with the business school.

Nordenberg, who now serves as the chairman of the Institute of Politics, said the committee Schuster, a Pixar production designer, visited Pitt on Tuesday plans to have a new dean by next at an event hosted by the Engineering Student Council. He has summer. worked on films, including “WALL-E” and “Cars.”

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a very vast net, both in terms of identifying candidates and in terms of receiving the thoughtful perspectives of those within the University community,” Nordenberg said.

The University hired Witt/Kieffer, a higher education search firm, to help recruit candidates for the committee to review. John Thornburgh, a representative from Witt/ Kieffer, attended the forum.

Thornburgh said the firm specializes in finding job candidates for higher education and academic medicine positions. Witt/Kieffer, based in Oak Brook, Ill., previously worked with the University in 2012 to recruit William M. Carter, Jr. as the dean of Pitt’s School of Law. “We’re comfortable in this arena,” he said. “I’ve got a good feel for this campus’ culture.”

Nordenberg said the forum was meant to be “a listening session for the members of the selection committee.”

Committee members include David Denis, Andrew Stephen, John Harry Evans III and Vanitha Swaminithan, as well as all professors at the Katz Graduate School and Laurie J. Kirsch, vice provost

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

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Board looks to change club sports’ allocations funding

Pitt students gave feedback last night on an upcoming Student Government bill that would change the Board allocations funding to club sports..

The Board introduced a bill in its next-to-last public meeting on Tuesday in Nordy’s Place that would establish a ratio of SGB funds in proportion to the money that club sports have in its Student Organization Resource Center account.

Pitt has 25 to 30 club sports teams, and currently the SGB Allocations Manual doesn’t offer express guidelines on the funding they may receive from allocations beyond one allocations cap. According to Section 3.05 of the Allocations Manual, SGB may approve no more than $5,000 per year to each club sport for competition use. The bill would expand upon allocations specifications related to club sports.

For the first $5,000 in any sport’s SORC survey at the end of September to club sports account, the ratio is 1:2. This means that for teams that asked how much money the club every $2 a club has, SGB can provide $1 from sports teams had available to contribute, the allocations. amount of their annual dues and how much they Any amount in have received from excess of $5,000 that SGB in recent years. a club sport has is Nites and Reslink Catholic Newman subject to a 1:3 ratio. then compared the Club: $1,596.00 Meaning, for every $3 numbers to determine a club sport has, SGB what the ratio should can provide $1 in fundbe. Twenty-two teams Pittsburgh Club Baseing from allocations. responded to the surball: $1,600.00 The money that vey. Four out of the 22 SGB could provide to teams that responded club sports teams according to the bill has new have more than 50 members, and two teams maximum caps. Any team that has 50 students had exactly 50. or fewer cannot receive more than $10,000 in Additionally, club sports have the option to a given year, and a team that has 51 students or “opt-out” of the policy — some students, the more could receive a maximum of $15,000. SGB bill said, may not generate enough money to President Mike Nites said he and Nick Reslink, “justify allowing SGB to determine how many an Allocation Committee member, sent out a deposits were made into the student group’s

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bank account.” Those who opt out would receive no more than $1,000 in annual funding.

The Board will table the bill, which Nites said is subject to corrections, until its final public meeting on Dec. 2. The Board will vote on the bill on Dec. 2. If the Board passes the bill, it will modify the Allocations Manual to reflect the new policy.

“We will continue to have meetings over the next couple weeks to finalize some of the details and make adjustments,” Nites said. “What I read tonight is what we’re introducing, and again, this is subject to amendments ... This is in no way final.”

Students Ashley McCray and Larissa Bohn expressed opinions during open floor, suggesting changes that the Board should make to the bill.

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for faculty development.

Kerry Soso, a second-year graduate student in the Katz school, and Courtney Slack, a junior marketing major, are also a part of the search committee.

Thornburgh met with Pitt administrators last week and will publish an advertisement for the position online and in the Chronicle of Higher Education next week.

Slack said she is looking for a dean with a high level of energy for the position.

“CBA is expanding at such a high rate,” she said. “The new slogan is, ‘from the classroom, to the state, to the world,’ so that requires a high level of energy and a high level of involvement.”

Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek announced the rankings of the best full-time Master of Business Administration Programs in the United States. Pitt’s Katz Graduate School was ranked 35th out of 209 after being unranked in 2012. The Katz School lost to Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, ranked 10th, but beat Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, ranked 40th.

At the forum, the search committee sat together in front of a single microphone at a long table in the William Pitt Union Ballroom. From noon to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, members of the University community voiced their opinions. The committee responded to comments from the community at points throughout the forum.

Bill Friday, the president of the Business Alumni Association, said he was “a bit concerned” the alumni association was not included in the search committee and said the move was “a bit unprecedented.”

“Our hope is that it was a bit of an oversight,” Friday said. “It’s difficult not having a voice for the next dean. We would like to ask of you to consider someone from our board to be represented.”

Nordenberg, who mediated the forum, said the search committee was not responsible for selecting its own members.

“No one sitting at this table has any appointing authority,” he said. “We were all selected individually to participate in the search. I’ve heard your message, and we’ll take it back with us.”

McCray, a senior chemical engineering major, expressed concern that the cuts would negatively affect some club sports. She pointed to the Panther Equestrian Club, which may require more funding than others. McCray resigned from the Allocations Committee in September because of a conflicting schedule.

McCray said while “having fiscal responsibility is good,” the Board should “keep in mind

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the ratio of functionality” that club sports teams might have, as certain groups may require more funding to operate because of more expensive supplies or materials.

Nites said he met with two or three leaders from club sports teams on Nov. 5 and 20 or 30 team members on Nov. 18. He said he will email the bill to representatives from the club sports teams on Tuesday after the meeting.

Larissa Bohn, a member of the women’s club lacrosse team, said the bill needs “a lot of work.”

“I thought at the meeting we had two weeks ago, a large majority of club sports weren’t on

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In other action: A nominating task force named Allocations Committee member Nick Reslink as next year’s Allocations Committee Chair. The task force included outgoing Allocations Chair Nasreen Harun, outgoing Vice Chair Robyn Weiner, president-elect Graeme Meyer, outgoing Business Manager Abby Zurschmit and outgoing president Nites. Nites said the Board will formally appoint Reslink on Dec. 2.

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EDITORIAL

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OPINIONS

The ʻnormʼ of sexting and its real impacts

Texting, and its more suggestive counterpart “sexting,” are both associated with the millenial generation. Young people are both technologically savvy and sexually active. It was only a matter of time until the two merged.

In fact, the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC conducted a new study and found that sexting is officially a “norm” among teens — 30 percent of teens who participated in the study said they were sexted by someone in the past three months.

Upon first glance, this seems innocent enough and is not all that surprising. But upon further analysis, the study reveals that among the same teens, 33 percent of young women reported being asked unprompted to text photographs of themselves, while 18 percent of young men reported the same.

According to the study, this means that two in five teens have experienced cyberdating abuse in the past three months.

Yet, despite the apparent danger, the trend has gone largely unnoticed by schools, and sexual education has been slow to catch up.

Of course, it doesn’t help that popular culture reflects a belief that cyberdating abuse is harmless or even funny.

For example, the website TinderLines displays sexually explicit messages that men had solicited to women, and users then judge them to determine “The best, the worst and the funniest” messages. Some of them involve punny invitations to have sex, while others are more explicit.

People think the site is hilarious because the messages displayed are

so overtly ridiculous, but why is it a “norm” among millenials?

Maybe it’s because sending such messages from behind a computer screen lacks the personal element that would otherwise make such comments damnable.

Approaching someone at a bar and opening a conversation with, “Wanna have sex?” isn’t exactly socially acceptable. Yet, when the same question appears online, it’s almost expected.

Because Internet messages lack accountability, they also seem less dangerous or real. But according to the Children’s Hospital study, the norm of cyber sexting can bleed into real life. In fact, the research revealed that teens involved with cyberdating abuse are more likely to experience sexual abuse in the real world.

To prevent this overlap of cyber sexual abuse and physical sexual abuse, teens must realize that the two are not different. Sexual assault is damaging no matter how you present it — the psychological implications exist whether or not it occurs in cyberspace.

When experienced, sexual assault can follow a person for the rest of his or her life. So, schools should change to accommodate this modern phenomenon and include the realities of the cyber world into their sexual education classes. If all schools teach students proper Internet conduct and safety, perhaps they can curb abusive sexting and, subsequently, lessen the psychological impacts.

Consent isn’t limited to faceto-face interactions, and it’s about time we incorporated it into social media.

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THE TALBERT REPORT

Free speech: Censorship is preferable to conflict

Eli Talbert Columnist In the past couple of weeks, controversy over serving Palestinian food has embroiled Conflict Kitchen.

Some pro-Israeli groups say the takeout restaurant in Schenley Plaza displays advocacy via food wrappers for the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This debate culminated last week when the restaurant closed down in response to a death threat.

While death threats are never warranted, this incident clearly demonstrates why we need more censorship to ensure that all speech is politically correct and offends no one. If one group, or even one person, is sufficiently outraged, their hurt feelings outweigh any

supposed positive benefits of open political discourse.

Therefore, Conflict Kitchen should recognize that it is far more beneficial to promote peaceful censorship than free and dangerous discussion.

Why else would organizations such as B’nai Brith be so outraged?

This group was so mad that it called for Heinz Endowments — who awarded Conflict Kitchen a $50,000 grant, in April 2013 — to commit “a public disavowal” of Conflict Kitchen. By giving Palestinians a voice, admittedly a small one that is limited to food wrappers, Conflict Kitchen committed an unfortunate crime. It’s appalling to include text on the wrapper “taken directly from interviews [Conflict Kitchen] conducted with Palestin-

ians living in both Palestine and the United States.” If we allow people to say whatever they want without heavily editing and censoring them, where will this country end up?

Conflict Kitchen not only allowed Palestinians to freely relate their experiences in their interviews, but some Palestinians also used this opportunity to criticize Israeli policy. Sure, in the United States, we tend to tolerate free speech, but the interviews technically didn’t take place in the United States, so they shouldn’t count.

Besides, even if Palestinians have valid reasons to criticize Israel, there are far more important issues, like whether or not Palestine is technically a country in conflict

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Claiming the United States is in conflict with Palestine because it has donated nearly $121 billion over the years to Israel — mostly in military aid, according to a Congressional Research Service report — is ridiculous. Sure, Israel uses that money for military operations and/or self-defense, but just because the United States continues to give Israel aid and was one of the countries to vote against giving Palestine observer status in the United

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Nations doesn’t really mean we are in conflict with it. It simply means the United States isn’t Palestine’s biggest fan — something completely different.

That is all water under the bridge though, at least compared to the sin Conflict Kitchen has committed by not including an Israeli perspective to counter Palestinian statements.

Jon Rubin, Co-director of Conflict Kitchen, said this is in part because Israelis, “have plenty of other formats to [tell their narrative].”

But do they really? I don’t see any restaurants handing out pro-Israeli wrappers. And

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if you know anything about America, it’s the fact that we form all of our beliefs based off of food packaging. Heck, without McDonald’s constantly telling us that we’re “lovin’ it,” no one would ever buy their food. Some might say that in other forms of news media, especially television, there is a pro-Israeli bias, but that pales in comparison to the proPalestinian bias in the crucial medium of the food wrapper. Conflict Kitchen doesn’t even have the decency to pretend it’s “fair and balanced” like Fox News.

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SPORTS

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Recovering Uchebo hopes to return to form

Thriving freshmen have Pitt looking to future

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Chris Puzia Sports Editor The first act of Pitt’s two-part competition with Niagara ended with the Pitt men’s basketball team trouncing the Purple Eagles 78-45 on Friday. Not to be outdone, the women’s team also beat Niagara on Monday, 70-54.

But the latter result was less of a foregone conclusion than the men’s game was — especially after head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio’s group lost its season opener to Princeton.

For a Pitt team that went 11-20 and 3-13 in ACC play last year, this year might raise even more questions for the group, most notably in how the freshmen will adjust to collegiate play. That might make or break Pitt’s 2014-2015 season.

Only six Pitt players were on the court for more than 20 minutes Monday night, and only senior point guard Brianna Kiesel played more than 30 minutes.

Depth might be a big question for the team heading into conference play later in the season, and McConnell-Serio will lean on her freshmen as the year goes on.

One freshman has already shown that she can handle the adjustment.

Forward Stasha Carey scored 17 points and grabbed 16 rebounds against Niagara, both team highs. The offense seemed to be tailored to go through her at different points in the game, and while the night was not perfect by any means, McConnell-Serio must have been encouraged by the Cleveland native’s play.

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This is the second installment of a twopart story on Pitt basketball player Joe Uchebo. The first installment appeared in the Nov. 18 edition of The Pitt News.

Trust would also be paramount in Pitt center Joe Uchebo making an optimal recovery. He’d have to trust his right knee, something he wasn’t doing after testing it out in non-contact drills at Chipola College.

“He was visibly favoring that [left] leg and not confident, so it never got past that one day,” Uchebo’s junior college head coach Patrick Blake said.

From a broad standpoint, Pitt men’s basketball trainer Tim Beltz’s plans and goals for Uchebo were simple. If he could convince Uchebo to trust his right knee again, the brunt of Beltz’s work would be done.

“Making sure from a muscular standpoint that they have bilateral symmetry is always a paramount goal,” Beltz said. “Making sure from a health standpoint, they don’t favor one side versus another side, that’s always going to be part of the process.”

To get there, the pain in his right knee had to subside enough for him to stop favoring his left leg.

“It’s trying to find a pain free range of motion. With any surgical procedure, the objective from a performance standpoint is getting in a position where things aren’t painful,” Beltz said.

Uchebo arrived at Pitt in June 2013, and after evaluating him, Beltz and the rest of Pitt’s staff developed a rehabilitation plan to strengthen the surrounding structures of his knee and develop a pain free range of motion. Beltz used terminal knee extensions and isometrics, among other exercises, to do so.

From June to November, Uchebo went to rehab two or three times a day, starting at 6 a.m. The schedule was hectic, alternating between Beltz and

Uchebo (50) has started the first two games of the season for Pitt. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

Pitt’s athletic trainer Tony Salesi for rehab sessions and fitting in classes and tutoring in between.

“It was tough. Some people would quit, but I kept on pushing,” Uchebo said.

Following the initial six months, he stopped having to attend rehab as fre-

quently each day. His knee was healthy enough for him to play sparse minutes for Pitt in the 2013-14 season, and his first appearance was against Maryland on Jan. 6, logging 23 minutes of playing time on the year (including postsea-

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W HOOPS Guards Yacine Diop and Aysia Bugg combined for 20 points as well, and both were on the court for just more than half of Monday’s game. Equally impressive were the two freshmen who only had one turnover apiece against the Purple Eagles.

As one of the most experienced players on Pitt’s roster entering the season, Kiesel was expected to carry the offensive burden coming into the season. But she shot 0-for-8 from the field Monday, and the team still managed to score 70 points.

“That’s what makes a team special, when players can step up and contribute the way this team did,” the second-year head coach said after Monday’s win. “Every team is going to target [Kiesel] right from the beginning of the game. And I think as the year progresses, they’ll have to respect other players as well.”

But Carey is not the only newcomer to establish herself early in the season and help supplant Kiesel’s lack of scoring against Niagara.

Freshmen like Aysia Bugg are providing reasons for optimism surrounding the future of Pitt women’s basketball. Meghan Sunners | Staff Photographer

Graduate-student forward Monica Wignot, playing her first collegiate basketball season, scored 12 points and

grabbed eight rebounds in 29 minutes on Monday, second most to Kiesel in the latter category.

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She tallied seven points and eight rebounds in Pitt’s season opener against Princeton, and she helps bolster the team’s size, as redshirt sophomore center Marvadene “Bubbles” Anderson went down with another season-ending injury.

Wignot and Carey filled the center and forward roles on Monday with senior center Cora McManus chipping in 18 minutes off the bench.

For Pitt to improve in McConnellSerio’s second season, the newcomers will have to step up and contribute big minutes for a shallow Pitt team. However, while the team doesn’t want to look too far ahead, McConnell-Serio signed the No. 31 recruiting class for the 2015-2016 season.

With some talented freshmen currently on the roster, and even more potential talent on the horizon, Pitt’s best years may be in a couple seasons rather than in the current one.

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M HOOPS son). But he was far from full health, still visibly favoring his right leg, which was hindering his running and jumping.

“It was tough, but I don’t have to show it. But now it’s really different, there’s less pain,” Uchebo said.

Despite the benefits of the rehab, Uchebo can’t play basketball like he did before the injury.

November 19, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com “If I’m on the right side on the post trying to muscle people, they try to block that place. To spin around, that knee, it doesn’t let me do all that stuff, it’s kind of tough. So I have to finish up on the same side where the defense is getting me. If my knee was OK, I would just spin, and it’s a dunk right there,” Uchebo said.

There’s also the mental aspect, because it’s hard for Uchebo to trust his pre-injury abilities when the knee still hurts.

“I have to watch how I jump. Sometimes when they pass me the ball, when I’m trying to go up and somebody’s coming, I have to be kind of scared due to my knee. But I’m still going to finish up,” Uchebo said. “Yeah, I’m still thinking about my knee because it still hurts.

But that is not going to take anything out of me.”

Uchebo’s doctor said the pain is something he’ll have to deal with. He tries to focus away from his knee when he’s playing.

“The more I’m thinking about my knee, the more it’s taking my game away. I have to focus on the game, not trying to focus on the pain, so I won’t feel it that much,” he said.

Despite the pain and other limitations, Uchebo has made significant strides. Though not yet 100 percent, he’s getting closer to running without a hitch or favoring the knee. Also, he’s been able to make a substantial increase in the amount of pressure he can put on the knee, especially in weightlifting.

Uchebo trimmed down since arriving in Oakland, losing 40 to 50 pounds since he got to Pitt, with most of it coming off after last season. After the injury, he put on some unnecessary weight and had to lose it, especially to put less pressure on his knee.

“Ideally, you want to put the least amount of stress as you can on the body in a sport like basketball, where it’s an up and down game and it’s a game that involves a high level of fitness,” Beltz said. “So obviously, the leaner and lighter you can be, the more durable your body can be.”

Recent results have been encouraging. He dominated the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am summer league, averaging 20.2 points and 20 rebounds per game in the regular season and was Pitt’s best center in its four-game summer tour in the Bahamas, averaging 7.5 points and 12.5 rebounds per game.

Both performances helped earn him a spot in the Panthers’ starting five.

“It’s giving me hope. I keep pushing,” Uchebo said. “The Bahamas and summer league, it’s giving me an idea how the game is going to be, how it’s going to look like during the season.”

If Uchebo wants to return to his preinjury form, Beltz said, he’ll need to continue to rehab daily, strengthening and pushing the surrounding structures of his knee, Still, Uchebo is happy to be in his current position, feeling indebted to Pitt for having faith in his abilities.

Now, Uchebo is ready to give back to the Pitt staff.

“They gave me a great chance, now it’s time for me to return the favor,” he said.