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Pittsburgh law schools pass the bar Emma Solak Staff Writer

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Spice Island to undergo temporary menu change Harrison Kaminsky Assistant News Editor The Pacific food hub planted among Atwood’s sea of pizza shops — Spice Island Tea House — will appear in a new form starting Friday.

The head chef Hai Jing Leong will

be recovering from foot surgery, and owner Ron Lee said he doesn’t want to follow the current menu without the craft of Leong . In the meantime, the Oakland restaurant on Atwood Street is temporarily serving classic street foods of Southeast Asia under the name Hawker Stand until late 2014 or early

2015.

“He is very instrumental in cooking many of the dishes here,” Lee said. “A lot of the food is made to order, and it possesses a certain skill that we can’t duplicate.”

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Pittsburgh’s universities continue to push out top law talent rising above the swarms of other students vying to add “juris doctor” to their title.

While coming from a school with a plush ranking on the list helps, Pittsburgh’s legal experts and recruiters say applicants must bring personality, leadership skills and experience working or interacting with professionals in the field.

After a dismal drop from spot 69 to 91 in 2013, Pitt law school hoisted itself back up 10 spots to No. 81 in this year’s U.S. News and World Report Rankings, released last March. Similarly successful, Duquesne leapt from No. 144 in 2013 — its debut on the list — to No. 121 this year.

Laurie Lenigan, a legal professional, and Kenneth Gormley, dean and professor of law at Duquesne University, also believe Pitt’s and Duquesne’s law schools and students benefit from their urban locations.

“Because of our close proximity to downtown Pittsburgh — it is literally only a five-minute walk from our campus

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to the courthouses, to corporate offices and to law firms — we are able to give our students individual, personal attention that is impossible at most other law schools,” Gormley said.

Lenigan, director of legal recruiting for Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, a national law firm with an office in Pittsburgh, said the opportunity to work directly with lawyers is something future employers will be looking for.

Her best advice for a student wanting to pursue law is to shadow other lawyers.

“Lawyers like to have students ask to shadow or just grab coffee,” Lenigan said. “They become mentors.”

Alexandra Linsenmeyer, director of admissions at Pitt’s School of Law, said Pitt offers clinical opportunities through which students can represent clients under the supervision of an experienced practitioner. She also said that when looking at law schools, ap-

November 6, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com plicants should consider location.

“Ultimately, our goal is to bring together a group of students that not only will be successful as they learn from our incredible faculty, but also find value in collaborating with fellow students who may bring something different and unique to the discussion,” Linsenmeyer said.

Anthony Balouris, a second-year law student at Pitt, also felt Pitt’s urban location would benefit his law career.

“I wanted to go to school in a city because I felt that there would be more opportunities to work during the school year at different firms or the courthouse,” Balouris said.

Balouris is looking forward to the spring, when he will work in the Elder Law Clinic, a program in which Pitt Law students offer free legal services to low-income adults.

At the clinic, he will get to draft wills and work directly with clients.

“From what I’ve heard about be-

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Job Rates for Law School Grads Blue: Number of graduates Blue Red: Number of graduates with full time/long term jobs Green: Number of graduates with jobs

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ing a lawyer, it’s all about actually doing the work,” Balouris said. “I’ve always heard that law school doesn’t actually teach you how to be a lawyer, but rather how to think like one. I’m looking forward to getting out there and actually starting to practice law.”

Lenigan said the law school that a job applicant attended is certainly something future employers look at, but the other parts of the resume pull just as much weight.

“Aside from transcripts, we look at prior experience and see if that translates well into a position at the firm.

We look at the whole package,” Lenigan said.

According to Lenigan, when hiring new lawyers, she looks for people who are open, direct and engage in conversation. The interview process isn’t standardized but is instead unstructured to let individual personalities shine.

Gormley also said future lawyers’ personalities play a big part in their success.

Gormley said it’s important to recruit students who want to be lawyers “for the right reasons,” like wanting to contribute to society and help other citizens, which allows them to have enthusiasm for their work.

When looking at law school applicants, Gormley looks for people with the drive and discipline to become the next leaders of the legal world.

“To me, LSAT scores and GPA are only a part of the picture. I’m more interested in whether students have leadership qualities that will allow them to not only succeed in law school, but to go on and become the leaders in our society and profession,” Gormley said.

According to Spice Island’s website, a working menu for the new-concept restaurant will be available soon online.

“We’re trying something a little bit different,” Lee said. “Years and years ago, we did this, a menu inspired by the street foods of Southeast Asia, before street foods became trendy.”

A message to customers about Le-

ong’s leave of absence sits in the restaurant on poster board with colored pens for customers to write their well wishes for his recovery.

“For the past 16 years, he has been the bedrock of our operation,” the poster reads. “No matter what your favorite dish, he is instrumental in making it consistently delicious. We are incredibly fortunate to have him.”

Hawker Stand’s menu will offer some dishes that are already well-known by customers including Popiah, a Singa-

3 porean spring roll, noodle dishes, curry dishes and samosas.

“We’re just working around the fact that we won’t be able to have many of the dishes that we normally do, so we’re bringing in some new ones,” Lee said.

“The first couple of days, we’ll just be getting our feet back on the ground.”

Lee said plans to renovate and redecorate the restaurant for the opening of Hawker Stand are under wraps.

“You’ll see,” Lee said.

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EDITORIAL

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OPINIONS

Mr. Webster, don’t be a jagoff Whether you’ve heard Pittsburgh Dad say it or a passerby on the street, the term “jagoff ” is a Pittsburgh tradition. If you haven’t heard this word, you may be soon reading it in the dictionary.

According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the creator of the website yajagoff.com has started a petition to get the uniquely Pittsburgh-ese word recognized

by Webster’s Dictionary.

As petition developer John Chamberlin, 51, from Kennedy Township, mentions in the Trib’s report, “If hashtag, selfie and tweep (all words added to the latest version) deserve inclusion, so does jagoff.”

Chamberlin is not alone in thinking this. He has recruited the help of Mayor Bill Peduto. The mayor has been enthusiastic in his support for the petition: “It definitely deserves to be in the dictionary ... A jagoff is a beloved word, and Pittsburghers deserve to have it enshrined by Mr. Webster.”

Peduto also provided an official definition: “A term of endearment that is expressed by Pittsburghers to those that poke at us.

Derived from the legendary jagger bush, it is not a dirty term or derogatory term,

but a way for ’Burghers to let somebody know that you’re really getting under their skin.”

If this inspiring effort doesn’t get you excited, perhaps another collaboration will. According to the Trib, Chamberlin has recruited Pittsburgh’s 3 Guys Optical Center to join the fight.

The center will make a $1 donation per signature to the Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation.

According to its website, PEMF.net, the foundation was created in 1985 to “fund educational and research projects, primarily initiated by The Center for Emergency Medicine.” In more than 30 years, more than 175 research grants have been provided to researchers by the nonprofit organization.

Emergency medicine research is integral to the region’s and country ’s healthcare system. Those concerned about public welfare and medical innovation must support Chamberlin’s measure. Regional pride and medical research are two areas for which Pittsburgh and its universities should be proud. Let us continue this trend.

So don’t be a jagoff, and sign the petition!

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Science and humanities more similar than many think Jess Craig Columnist

At first, it was hard to accept that I possessed two completely different passions — it was as if I was diagnosing myself with split personality disorder.

Throughout college, people have always responded to my microbiology and writing dual degree with something along the lines of: “Oh, what an odd combination! Which one are you going to go into?”

I always wanted to respond that the two subjects aren’t all that different and that I wanted to be both scientist and writer. But science and the humanities remain at a standoff in the context of our larger society.

But think about it: Successful patrons of the sciences and humanities are characteristically similar.

Determination, curiosity, a strong

will to look at things the way no one else does and the ability to overcome common failure centers on the study of humans.

Science — encompassing chemistry, physics, biology, math and engineering — is generally taken as the “harder,” more prestigious field. The humanities — language, history, classics, philosophy, writing and art — are stereotypically and, as my parents are always telling me, are the skill-less, unemployable, dispensable, waste-of-money majors reserved for those who see college as a four-year vacation rather than a step towards a career and financial independence.

For two and a half years, I have been on the frontline of the war between the sciences and the humanities. At first it seemed easier to try and pick one. But what I have found is that the two complement each other

exceedingly well.

The creativity that drives scientific research and discovery, also fuels artistic production. It is much easier to align creativity with artistic expression — the two are simply synonymous. However, many people who are foreign to scientific research might not know that creativity drives discovery.

As an undergraduate research assistant at UPMC traumatic brain injury lab, I have seen firsthand that research requires you to look at the problem from a different angle than anybody has done before. Science in the real world isn’t simply about reading complex textbooks and knowing difficult mathematical formulas. Most of the time, researchers find themselves without a textbook, without a formula, without even a

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CRAIG return on a Google search, as they push the boundaries of what we already know.

Artists do the same thing. They create books, paintings and poems that explore aspects of human life in novel ways.

The dichotomous standoff between the fields comes from a misunderstanding of the overlapping values of the sciences and humanities.

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There is a contemporary and somewhat romantic notion of what an artist does or what an artist is. Is he or she a bundle of talent who bleeds on a canvas or sits down at a computer and composes a novel? Art is recognized for its product, but it is actually more about the process.

Science, on the other hand, seems to be constantly stuck in the process, such as the constant research required to move toward cures and knowledge. Science disrupts itself and refutes itself, and somehow that is okay.

But the non-science world expects products

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— a cure for cancer or a vaccine for Ebola. In science, products don’t come in the same way as they do in art.

Take for example the golden ratio that drives STEM fields. Phidias, a Greek sculptor, discovered and investigated it, while renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci popularized it. Take, for another example, the discovery of DNA, the genetic material that makes human life possible. James Watson and Francis Crick abandoned the microscopes and the lab bench and cut out paper blocks, fitting them together until they recognized a uniform and

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consistent shape that we scientists now know as the double helix.

It is commonly believed that very few people exist at the crossroads between science and the humanities. Art people often fear the seemingly unabashed complexity of science. Science people often fear the abstract, open-ended subjectivity of art and creation.

What neither realize is how similar the other is, and more importantly, how much the human race could achieve if the two branches finally collided with one another.

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ARTS and ENTERTAINMENT Hannibal Buress talks ʻcomedic jokes,ʼ writing for television Mahita Gajanan Managing Editor An interview with Hannibal Buress is an intimidating prospect — after all, he eviscerated an article published by The Daily Eastern News in 2009 during a Comedy Central stand-up special in 2012. In the special, Buress mocked the piece for racist undertones and for describing his humor as “comedic jokes.”

Interviews with college newspapers are “a little mentally taxing” for Buress, who is stopping at the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall in Munhall, Pa., this Sunday on a tour spanning the U.S. “But I try to remember that comedy is not real work, so I do what has to be done,” Buress said of the constant press coverage.

You might know Buress from his stand-up routines, which he started performing while attending Southern Illinois University Carbondale, his Buress comes to Munhall this Sunday. Photo credit to Constance Kostrevski co-hosting gig on Adult Swim’s “The Eric Andre Show” or his role as the affable Lincoln on Comedy

Central’s “Broad City,” in which he plays an easygoing pediatric dentist who has romantic feelings for Ilana Wexler (Ilana Glazer), one of the leading characters.

His involvement with television seems to be a product of keeping good friends — Buress said Glazer and co-creator Abbi Jacobson asked him to join the “Broad City” pilot after working with him in New York City comedy circles.

Buress spoke with The Pitt News over the phone about his joke styles, his work in New York City and stint as a homeless guy on NBC’s “30 Rock.”

The Pitt News: You started performing stand-up during college. Was that type of atmosphere encouraging?

Hannibal Buress: Starting in college was different from if I started right away in a big city. There were issues that I was able to touch on just from being a college student ... dealing with professors, security, cafeteria

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‘Interstellar’ a stunning spectacle of the highest order Mason Lazarcheff Staff Writer

“Interstellar” Directed by: Christopher Nolan Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain Grade: A Every year, there’s a movie or two that set the Internet ablaze, with fans clamoring for every detail they can find. “The Avengers” of 2012 and the upcoming “Star Wars” reboot come to mind, as Christopher Nolan’s latest, “Interstellar,” came close to those levels. Luckily, it was deserving of the anticipation.

“Interstellar” takes place in the near future on a dying Earth ravaged by disease. It follows a farmer named Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), who has experience in engineering and piloting. He is selected to find alternate planets that can sustain life through a newly formed wormhole near Saturn. But he’s conflicted between saving the human race and staying with his family. Eventually,

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Cooper makes the difficult decision to go on the expedition without knowing if he’ll ever return.

All of the actors and actresses performed exceptionally well, in a large ensemble that included McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck and Michael Caine. McConaughey, whose career has been rolling with recent success from “Dallas Buyers Club” and “True Detective,” continues

his brilliant acting streak. Cooper’s conflict between family and humanity makes him a great character and elevates the taxing nature of his decision.

Nolan seems to be concerned with the conflict between science and religion. Amelia (Hathaway) is a part of both worlds — professionally, she is a scientist, but personally, she believes that some higher power was the cause of the wormhole that seemingly appeared out

of nowhere. Amelia’s ability to balance the two characteristics makes her one of the more interesting characters in the film.

Every scene in “Interstellar” was an eyepopping visual spectacle. Space was portrayed similarly to last year’s “Gravity,” in that there was nothing but a silent, empty abyss, and planets such as Earth and Saturn looked almost identical to what you would see from satellite images. Hans Zimmer’s score further enhanced the beauty of all these images. The music adds an element of suspense when traveling away from Earth, mystery when navigating through the wormhole and excitement with time-constraining situations.

When the film concludes, the audience is left to wonder what messages Nolan was trying to convey. It’s possible that Nolan wanted to suggest that we aren’t ready to perform such a journey today — or that we should only do so during desperate times. In a way, this is partly frustrating and rewarding. We want to know the true message, but at the same time, it’s nice to analyze the film and decide for ourselves, which is what one should expect when it comes to the open-ended nature of Nolan’s films.

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Chad Stokes brought energy, career-spanning set to Mr. Smallʼs Andrew Fishman Staff Writer Midway through his set at Mr. Small’s Theater in Millvale, Pa., Chad Stokes asked a question that solidified why he loves Pittsburgh.

“Where else could you play to a crowd like this on a Monday night but Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?”

Stokes is one of the lead singers and founding members of popular genreproof group Dispatch, as well as the head of his side project, State Radio, a slightly more standard alternative-rock band with politically driven lyrics. But this current tour, which started Nov. 1 in Massachusetts, is promoting his second solo album, The Horse Comanche, which is due out in February.

The night began with opening act Ark Life, a Colorado-based folk rock group led by Jesse Elliott, an out-oftowner with his own Pittsburgh connections. Elliott is a former student and longtime friend of John Lyne, a Pitt

professor of communication whom I met by chance in the crowd. Lyne taught and mentored Elliott while he was at the University of Iowa.

Ark Life played a 45-minute opening set that featured songs from their first album, The Dream of You and Me, as well as one cover — John Prine’s “Sweet Revenge.” Most of their original songs featured lyrics about love (“I need your love to get me through this”) and almost constant “ooos” and “ahhhs” by the three female background vocalists — who also played keys, electric guitar and bass.

The crowd Stokes referred to couldn’t have been more than 300 people (a Mr. Small’s representative estimated 250), but his electric energy made it seem like the show could have been at Consol Energy Center. Stokes set this tone early, opening with the first track of his new album, “Pine Needle Tea,” that features haunting harmonies over fast-paced noodling on acoustic guitar.

The rest of the concert featured a variety of songs from the new album and older solo songs, along with a few Dispatch and State Radio tunes worked into the mix — the latter of which seemed to please the crowd the most. One of the highlights included a performance of Dispatch’s most well-known song, “The General.” Known for its lyrically fast verses, longtime fans often pride themselves on knowing all the lyrics.

Stokes continued his performance with songs driven by politically charged lyrics more typical of State Radio. The new album’s fifth track, “Our Lives Our Time,” refers to the United States as the “United States of discrimination,” mirroring his earlier ideology with State Radio.

Similarly, he played one of State Radio’s more popular songs, “Camilo,” in the middle of the set. The liberal anthem is a response to the human rights controversy surrounding Camilo Me-

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STOKES jia, a Nicaraguan-born U.S. Army officer who was charged with desertion after not returning to Iraq after his first six-month tour. He was then sentenced to one year in prison. His imprisonment outraged many, including human rights group Amnesty International, who declared Mejia a “prisoner of conscience” — a tag applied to anyone who has been imprisoned for the non-violent expression of their beliefs. The situation angered Stokes as well, and it prompted him to write the lyrics, “From another land’s war torn corners / To a prison cell in my own / Punish me for not taking your orders / But don’t lock me up for not leaving my home.”

Stokes allowed for some light moments by sharing an anecdote about playing in Mr. Small’s earlier in his career. He explained that nights after a show in the one-time church, the band would go on stage and jam in the middle of the night with no one else around. “It was really scary ’cause of all the priest

November 6, 2014 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com stuff on the walls,” Stokes chuckled. He also implied that it was the bedroom upstairs in Mr. Small’s where his twoyear-old daughter was conceived.

Stokes and his band put on an extremely entertaining show that featured a lot of audience involvement — at some points he let us sing entire verses. There was plenty of energy and a dialed-in frontman who spent much of the show with his eyes closed, feeling the music through his veins and vocal chords.

Stokes also enjoyed interacting with the relatively small crowd, chatting with them between songs.

Stokes’ final song, after over an hourand-a-half, 13-song set and two encore songs, was another classic Dispatch tune, “Elias.” After time spent living and teaching in Zimbabwe, Stokes wrote the song and also developed a charity, The Elias Fund, which helps give opportunities to Zimbabwean youth through community development and education.

As the liberal humanitarian musician sang the final “la la las” of “Elias” while strumming his acoustic guitar, Mr. Small’s was euphoric.

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HANNIBAL food. I wouldn’t call it cheating, but it was easier stuff that I could go into starting out.

What I knew was just being a college student.

I didn’t have any life experiences beyond that.

TPN: How much of “The Eric Andre Show” is structured with scripts and how much is improvised? “Broad City?”

HB: The bits are structured and the segments are structured, and a lot of time we improvise within that structure. Sometimes we’ll riff for 30 minutes and pick stuff out. It’s only an 11-minute show, and a lot of stuff is edited, and some of it doesn’t see the light of day at all. [“Broad City”] is mostly scripted, and there are some improvised moments.

TPN: You wrote for both “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live.” When did these jobs come about for you?

HB: I moved to New York City in 2008. I moved there because there are more opportunities [there] in comedy. I wanted ... to get better at comedy. I moved to New York for the chance to do those things. “SNL” popped up ... I did a stand-up set on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and was hired by “SNL” after

that. Then, I moved to write for “30 Rock.”

TPN: I loved your role on “30 Rock” (Buress played a recurring role as homeless man while he worked as a writer for the show).

How’d that come about?

HB: During the table reads, you’d have your main roles and sometimes you’d have guest roles that weren’t cast yet, so when we had roles that weren’t cast yet, writers would read them out. So there was the homeless man who says, “Get a room! Whatever that is.” And they were deciding who should do it, and they were thinking about casting, so Robert Carlock (“30 Rock” producer) said, “have Hannibal do it.” I thought it was a one-time thing, but the writers included it again as a joke.

TPN: Sometimes, your jokes tend to lean on the meta side, like the one with the “power of threes.” Do you like doing that? What do you do to maintain a balance?

HB: I think it’s funny to joke about comedy sometimes, but I don’t lean on that much, but I make it quick. I like making those jokes, but it’s more like a joke for me. I do a lot of things in my set that’s more for me ... I’ll add a few lines that get laughs, and even if they don’t, I’ll keep saying them.

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SPORTS

Early basketball rankings analyzed heavily, mean little Alex Wise Staff Writer The Associated Press released its (meaningless) preseason Top-25 poll on Friday. Top to bottom, the poll seems logically ordered, but there are a number of things that stand out at the top of the rankings.

Once again, Kentucky’s No. 1 ranking indicates that America believes in the John Calipari method: Promise each of the nation’s top recruits pre-conditional acceptance to NBA superstardom in exchange for one year of service in the college ranks, and pray to God that the kids can ride their collective talent to the Final Four in April. Sadly, this has worked three of the last four years. Hilariously, it didn’t work in 2013, when the Wildcats lost to Robert Morris in the opening round of the National Invitation Tournament.

If it wasn’t evident, I don’t like Calipari’s coaching style. I prefer watching teams that know how to work as a unit and watching players that can operate within a system. The next two teams in the AP’s rankings, Arizona and Wisconsin, fit that description.

Arizona coach Sean Miller, known in western Pennsylvania as the guy who made the pass to Jerome Lane a second before his backboard-shattering dunk, won’t give a re-

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cruit the light of day if he can’t defend and get out in transition. Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan won’t extend a scholarship offer to a recruit unless he grew up baling hay on a Midwest farm and learned to play the game by shooting a tetherball into an old milk bucket nailed to a barn wall.

Just kidding ... I think.

Both Arizona and Wisconsin have had consistent success in recent years, due in large part to players believing in a system rather

than believing they’ve acquired a one-way ticket to a substantial paycheck. For this reason — and because they’ll be flat-out good — I think Arizona and Wisconsin will both appear in the Final Four this year, while Kentucky will be left out. And now that I’ve made my prediction, Murphy’s Law kicks into effect, meaning Kentucky will go undefeated en route to a national championship while Arizona and Wisconsin finish below .500 or something awful like that.

Next in the preseason AP poll is Duke, college basketball’s equivalent to the flu — everyone hates it, but it comes around every year.

Duke’s resilience is aided by the fact — “fact,” aka embellishment — that Mike Krzyzewski could turn a group of unathletic third graders into a formidable squad. There’s no doubt that the Blue Devils will compete in the new-look ACC, but a stiff conference schedule that includes North Carolina, Syracuse, Virginia and Louisville will make things difficult.

Kansas rounds out the top five in the AP poll. But nobody really cares about Kansas until February, so I’ll leave them as they are.

Finally, for the sake of relevance, I feel obligated to address Pitt fans, especially the faction that’s been whining about the Panthers’ exclusion from the top 25 since the poll’s release. I know it stings. It’s truly a prestigious honor to be named a top-25 team before anybody plays a single game, which is why it’s probably best that we as fans just throw in the towel now. It’s an unavoidable fact that, at the end of the season, good records and quality wins don’t mean anything compared to preseason poll position.

As the old saying goes: “It’s not about whether you win or lose, but about what people think of you before you play the game.”

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The program clearly has the right woman for the job in Suzie McConnell-Serio, but the Panthers will continue to rebuild in 2014-2015. With a litany of injuries, most notably redshirt sophomore center Marvadene “Bubbles” Anderson and junior Brittany Gordon, the Panthers will lack depth throughout the season. Still, with a highly-touted freshman class coming in, fans should still be excited for the trio of Yacine Diop, Stasha Carey and Aysia Bugg, as well as former Pitt volleyball player Monica Wignot joining the team in her final year of academic eligibility.

Prediction: 11-18 Breakout player: Yacine Diop

Chris Puzia, Sports Editor One of the women’s team’s primary goals should be to not finish as one of the bottom three teams in the ACC this year. Last season, the team went 3-13 in conference play, and head coach Suzie McConnell-Serio could face even bigger problems with the extreme lack of depth on the team. After the first eight to 10 games, it will be interesting to see how the fatigue and wear and tear of the schedule affects the team. With some promising freshmen being forced into additional playing time, look for McConnell-Serio to mix up her lineups — as much as she can with so few players, that is — to find the optimal lineup heading into ACC play.

Prediction: 10-19 Breakout player: Monica Wignot

Logan Hitchcock, Staff Writer

With the abundance of home games and the influx of fresh, young talent, the Panthers will build on their record in the second season under head coach McConnell-Serio. Brianna Kiesel will take control of as many games as she can, but the lack of depth and experience will keep the team from breaking the .500 mark.

Prediction: 13-16 Breakout player: Fred Potvin Fred Potvin could potentially take a leap this season for the Panthers. Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

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Today’s difficulty level: Medium Puzzles by Dailysodoku.com

The Pitt News Crossword, 11/6/2014

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ACROSS 1 Amin portrayed in “The Last King of Scotland” 4 Arabic “son of” 7 Took out 13 __ race 14 Lingerie tops 16 Turkey feature 17 Leave in a huff 19 Necessitate 20 “Evil Woman” rock gp.

21 Lode loads 23 Jalapeño topper 24 Chignon, e.g.

25 Book keeper?

27 Ultimate authorities 29 “Have some!”

30 Seattle-to-Reno dir.

31 Stains on a record 32 One who woke up on the wrong side of the bed, say 34 Steak topper 40 Neighborhood sale caveat 41 Dishonorable fellow 43 Blissful sounds 46 Cherry core 47 Damaged 48 Deep-fried carnival treat 52 One, to Goethe 53 Deceit 54 “Are we __ not?”: “Is it a date?”

55 Puerto Rico hrs.

56 TaylorMade parent 58 Virtual storage area, and a hint to words that start 17-, 25-, 34and 48-Across 61 “Fighting” college team 62 “Born Free” lioness 63 Word after common or case 64 Starts over 65 Pink Floyd guitarist Barrett 66 New Haven student

11/19/14

By C.C. Burnikel

DOWN 1 Govt. org. that may freeze assets 2 Desert fruit tree 3 “See?!”

4 “Big Blue” 5 Coop groups 6 Tiny Pacific republic 7 Ma that baas 8 Go off on 9 Place to stick rarely used stuff 10 Celery pieces 11 Fails to pronounce 12 Knock out, as a character 15 Fr. holy women 18 Dove bars?

22 Cooks, as dim sum dumplings 24 iPad-to-PC port 26 Ring punches 28 __Kosh B’Gosh 32 Store with a Kirkland Signature brand 33 Many a Louis 35 One way to travel

Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

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36 Letters in an APB 37 Beyond belief 38 Lingerie top 39 Ultimate 42 Vogue VIPs 43 Intense romance 44 Steeplechase feature 45 Escargots 46 One fussy about minor details

11/19/14

47 Charge against Galileo 49 Film with a minimal costume budget?

50 Put in a chip 51 JCPenney rival 57 Paris, to Nicky 59 Dishonorable fellow 60 MADD focus