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MIND, BODY & SOUL FLOOR

After more than a year of student pressure, the University completed a three-month, $1.225 million construction project on the third floor of the William Pitt Union.

Dale Shoemaker Staff Writer

“After listening carefully to what our students said were the best ways to utilize the space, we determined that the needs fell into three main categories.”

Kathy Humphrey, Vice Provost and Dean of Students “I’m so happy I don’t have to go to the Pete right now. I can study, take a break from studying, work out, take a shower, then go back to studying.”

Charisse Pearson-Bey, junior “It’s amazing. It’s the best floor of the Union.

I don’t want people to know about it.”

Lorraine Scott, junior

Facilities include: -Fitness center: cardio room, aerobics room and cycling room -Two private showers -Restooms with basins for foot washing -Reflection room -Stress Free Zone Fitness Center Hours:

Monday-Thursday: 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Friday: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday: 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Stress Free Zone Hours: Monday-Thursday: 1 to 9 p.m.

Friday: 1 to 5 p.m.

For an extended story and multimedia video of the space, visit pittnews.com.

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For Bill: Crowdfunding worth singing about Jesseca Muslin For The Pitt News N Nearly every day, Oakland’s resident gospel ssinger Bill Dorsey takes his sidewalk stage ooutside the Rite Aid on Forbes Avenue with his boom box and walking stick. h But his song isn’t purely for pleasure.

Dorsey, 65, is blind and has been street D performing to earn money for nearly four p decades. d Thousands of Pitt students navigate the busy street daily, and most of them likely b pass Dorsey during their commute. While p many students occasionally give him a few m dollars, Elana Barkowitz wanted to harness d more financial support. m Barkowitz, a 2011 graduate from Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health, started G a fundraising campaign on the crowdfund- Bill Dorsey sings by Rite Aid on Forbes Aving platform, Go Fund Me, in January. Her enue. Zach Schaffer | Senior Staff Photographer in page, titled “For Bill,” aims to raise $1,000 p tto assist with Dorsey’s food expenses. As of a child and has suffered mistreatment at SSept. 1, the page received seven donations, the hands of many different people in his ttotalling $195. lifetime. He added that he’s been arrested “I saw it as an opportunity for Pittsburgh many times because of various altercations rresidents and students alike to come to- and was released from a job in his 20s. ggether to help someone in need — someone “I traveled to Louisville, Ky. to find work, tthey may recognize but may not have had a but records follow you everywhere,” Dorsey cchance to personally meet,” Barkowitz said. said.

Life hasn’t shown Dorsey the same kindAfter failing to regain the job he lost, ness that Barkowtiz is eager to supply. n Dorsey 2 Dorsey said he was sexually abused as

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DORSEY Dorsey turned to singing for profit to afford food and rent — not drugs or alcohol. He said he doesn’t use any substances.

Barkowitz’s campaign for Dorsey was revitalized in July through the photography page of Zach Schaffer, who is also a photographer for The Pitt News. Schaffer posted a portrait of Bill on Facebook in January that gained more than 100,000 views as well as thousands of likes and shares. Barkowitz suggested that they work together on the fundraiser, so Schaffer re-posted his photo with a link to the fundraising page to publicize it.

Dorsey’s portrait and story garnered so much feedback, Schaffer said, because of his subject’s upbeat personality and notoriety in Oakland and around Pittsburgh. Dorsey is also the subject of a 30-minute documentary, called “Street Songs: Pittsburgh Street Singer, Bill Dorsey,” by Craig McTurk, an international documentary director and film editor.

“He sits out there singing beautiful

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Schaffer’s photograph attracted more than 1,200 comments from users, who often noted personal experiences with Dorsey.

“The CVS he sits in front of used to be an Eckerd that I worked at in college. Every cent that he earned, he came into Eckerd and spent on food and other necessary things,” Facebook user Matthew Rahimi posted.

Another Facebook user also recalled memories of Dorsey.

“I remember Bill from when I went to high school in Oakland 20+ years ago. He’s got a big voice and even a bigger heart,” Rich Frollini said.

Schaffer took the photo of Dorsey as part of a ongoing series called “They’re People Too,” through which he photographs downtrodden people on the street around the country along with a short backstory.

Dorsey was born blind. He attended a school for blind children, where he was dismissed or dropped out multiple times

before leaving permanently at the age of 21. Many people want Dorsey to pursue his vocal talent professionally, but he declined. His childhood abuse ignited a fierce distrust of men, and Dorsey didn’t want a male manager.

“Show business is not like what people think it is,” Dorsey said. “I refused show business because I’m a one-man orchestra.”

Dorsey doesn’t mind the stigma attached to panhandling. When he hears someone place money in his cup, he tries to grasp and shake their hand, giving them a thunderous “God bless you.”

“I am not ashamed of singing in the street,” he said.

Despite the slow pace of the page’s donations, which has no deadline, Barkowitz isn’t worried about meeting the $1,000 goal. She and Schaffer will track the campaign’s progress and decide later when to give the money to Dorsey, who isn’t aware of the effort or the funds.

It can be difficult for people, especially students, to donate, Barkowitz said, but every dollar counts.

“If people are able and willing, a donation to Bill will make an impact on his life

today, and it’s exciting to be a part of that,” she said.

Kendra Buffington donated to the page because she was touched by Dorsey’s story.

“The first time I ever heard Bill’s voice, I was honestly almost brought to tears... I was so amazed to see him sitting out there singing as if he had not a care in the world other than to bless others with his music,” said Buffington, a junior majoring in accounting.

If other Pitt students knew Dorsey’s story, Buffington said, they’d be more willing to help.

“Sometimes, it’s easy to ignore something or someone you know so little about,” Buffington said. “But once you learn his background and his struggle, it’s hard to walk past him every day without wanting to do something to help.”

The fundraiser’s purpose is to encourage others to help the man who has achieved a presence before residents and passersby in Oakland.

“I donated because I can,” Buffington said. “Five dollars isn’t nearly as valuable to me as it is to that man, and as long as I have the means to help, I will.”

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OPINIONS Always use protection: Sharing digital information a risk This weekend, a large number of pictures showing nude celebrities were publicly leaked through 4chan. To many who saw the photos on the image-sharing site, it was a very good day. But to others, especially those targeted, it was a major breach of privacy.

This controversy highlights our collective vulnerability in the digital age.

Nothing sent via Snapchat or stored on any device is private. While individuals should have the right to take any pictures they wish with whomever they’d like without being condemned, we can’t be naive.

Hackers aren’t going away. While hackers should face consequences like other criminals, we still must take

steps to protect ourselves from them.

To start, we should routinely change our passwords. Every few months should suffice. Such passwords should not be easy and predictable — after all, the recent celebrity breach was carried out using many of Apple iCloud’s most common passwords. Using numbers, special characters and capital letters is critical to enhancing the security of our accounts.

Additionally, users’ passwords should not be the same across all platforms. This means your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other accounts should not be accessible by the same password. After all, it’s better to have one account hacked than three.

Admittedly, using a different password for every account can get confusing, so using a highly encrypted password manager — such as KeePass, 1Password, LastPass or Dashlane — is essential to account security. It allows the user to store and organize passwords in an environment protected by a master password, which, ideally, is also complex and strong.

If a user is concerned about iCloud specifically, turning off “photostream” can help. This feature automatically uploads new photos and sends them to all iCloud devices associated with your account. By disabling this function, you can prevent photos from automatically appearing unless you manually

send or move them.

Last, never give confidential information away, even to those you consider close to you. If someone asks for personal information over the phone or in an email in an unsolicited manner, you shouldn’t hand it out. This may seem obvious, but a large number of people fall victim to phony calls and emails every day. Do not be one of them.

The unfortunate reality is that private digital information is always at risk of becoming public information.

Be careful and protect your accounts, so that you won’t wake up one day to your private life being viewed by the public eye.

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Skip the dates, find your lifelong mate Bethel Habte Columnist

Cartoon by Sam Lee

One of the most vivid memories I have from my first tour of Pitt is visiting Heinz Chapel, or rather, realizing what Heinz Chapel represented.

As we made our way past the ornate building, my Pathfinder turned to face us and teased that it would be wise to register now for our eventual weddings because of the long wait list the space attracts. Externally, I chuckled. Internally, I cringed.

Entering Pitt as a freshman, I felt so far removed from the idea of adulthood that I couldn’t even fathom the idea of marriage.

But as the year progressed, I learned that, while college isn’t always be the ideal time to find one’s future spouse, it’s just as likely to happen then as during any other

phase of your life. This is an aspect of college life that ordinarily goes unacknowledged. Stable relationships really can develop in college, contrary to the hookup culture often associated with early adulthood.

A 2013 Facebook study compiled user data and found that 28 percent of married graduates attended the same college. Of course, the likelihood of marrying someone you met in college will vary depending on a variety of factors such as the size of the school or the interests and values of its students.

Several of my close friends — from college and home — appear to be on the fast track to marriage.

From what I’ve observed of their relationships, several key factors seem to contribute to the likelihood of marriage.

First, for college students, rela-

tionships are akin to every other novel aspect of college. For many students, the intimate relationships they develop are some of the first they have experienced. Coupled with living on their own for the first time, students’ relationships immediately feel stronger, less restricted and more in their control.

For two of my friends whose relationship developed while at Pitt, it was the first for the both of them.

Still together a year later, they are deliriously in love, inseparable and talk often about the possibility of marriage in the future.

Second, comfort is essential to a strong relationship, and college can easily provide that. By sharing many similar experiences, such as classes, clubs and sporting

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HABTE events, students can grow together in a sincere and natural atmosphere. When you develop a relationship in this kind of environment, you skip much of the pretense of impression-oriented dating and instead can get to know someone for who they are.

My other friends who met at Pitt will tell you that they have only been on

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three “dates,” despite being together for nearly a year. So instead of dressing up, forcing activities or spending a lot of money on fancy dinners, most of their relationship resembles hanging out with a close friend: sporadic meals, late nights spent watching movies and unplanned outings.

The last key aspect to college relationships is the way they begin. It’s not hard to find commonalities in college, and many college events are based around connecting students. Having

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something in common as a basis for your relationship will make the relationship easier to maintain long after the “honeymoon phase” ends. It will also provide you with something to talk about when long breaks between terms inevitably turn your relationship into a long-distance endeavor.

It might be wise to register at Heinz Chapel after all.

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S. Carey talks power of nature, his early days with Bon Iver Shawn Cooke A&E Editor

If you know only one thing about Bon Iver, there’s a good chance it has something to do with the log cabin. Over the band’s transformation from quiet Wisconsin folk project to festival headliner and Kanye West-collaborator, its origin story has taken on mythical proportions.

It’s widely documented that founding member Justin Vernon isolated himself in a log cabin to record their first LP, For Emma, Forever Ago. His drummer, Sean Carey, took a similar approach to try out for the band.

Carey was acquainted with Vernon, since they both went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Carey heard Vernon was looking for live bandmates through mutual friends who played with Vernon on the record. “[Vernon] posted the whole record on MySpace for his friends,” Carey said. “I had

access to all the songs, and I just holed up ence of violins and woodwinds on Bon Iver’s for a couple weeks and learned every drum self-titled 2011 album seems like a natural fit. part and harmony that I could decipher.”

Carey and Vernon are certainly kindred Carey played through some For spirits, but Carey doesn’t necessarEmma songs with Vernon in soundily believe that they have the same check at his first show as Bon Iver approach to songcraft. and was signed on to the band that “There’s just some sort of same night. He’s been with Vernon Wisconsin aesthetic that we’re for the duration of their meteoric both going for, but we’re comrise, but he has also made time pletely different songwriters,” for two solo albums and an EP Carey said. under the moniker “S. Carey.”

While Bon Iver seems to Both projects aim for be on hold for the foreseesweeping, detailed able future, Carey will and gorgeous continue to tour in soundscapes, support of his most with a strong recent LP, Range affinity for the of Light, and he outdoors. Carey plans to release said he’s always a stripped-down been drawn to piano EP someCarey and Vernon strive for the “Wischamber music, time this fall. On consin aesthetic. so the strong presThursday, he’s set to

play Club Cafe as part of a co-headlining tour with Califone.

The Pitt News talked to S. Carey on the phone about the role of nature in his music, some of the more subtle sounds on Light and the profound impact of a documentary he saw in college. Here is a portion of his edited interview.

Q: Were there any songs on Range of Light written or brainstormed outdoors, or was it mostly inside?

A: Oh yeah, totally. Part of my writing process — you know I’ve talked about it really being slow and taking my time — is I’ll go out for a walk or go fishing or something, and I’ll just have a song swirling around in my head for a while. Or driving. I just drive around and listen to a voice memo of me playing a song and think of lyrics that way.

Q: It seems like there are a lot of detailed field-recorded sounds on this record. What

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REVIEW

Gleeson stuns in darkly humorous, thought-provoking ʻCalvaryʼ Ian Flanagan Staff Writer “Calvary” Directed by: John Michael McDonagh Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd Grade: B+

It’s surprising when tragedy and comedy overlap in life, and when movies sucessfuly combine the two, it’s especially alluring. “Calvary” meshes the categories with ease — it’s an ambiguous film in which the humorous and disturbing occur with realistic frequency but never quite flirt with the sensational.

Director John Michael McDonagh carries over many key strengths from his debut in the underrated comic romp, “The Guard.”

Some of these repeated elements include a masterful lead performance from Brendan Gleeson and decidedly Irish sensibilities within the script. It blends mild macabre and melancholy and soaks in droll but underplayed humor.

The film begins with a death threat. Father James (Brendan Gleeson), a good priest and a wearied widower, listens in confusion as someone just inches away during the confession threatens to kill him within a week.

During these seven days, the priest’s kindhearted but suicidal daughter Fiona (Kelly Reilly) visits him, and this is perhaps the only pleasant encounter throughout the film. His professional disapproval of his fellow pastor Father Leary (David Wilmot) also surfaces, and he counsels various strange characters, including Chris O’Dowd, Dylan Moran and Aidan Gillen, within the story’s remote, pic-

turesque Irish town.

Though the film’s title is synonymous with suffering, “Calvary” is far less bleak than it should be. It can be harrowing at times, but “Calvary” is largely an introspective film, as the mystery of the anonymous religious assassin is balanced with heavy existentialist ideas, some of which even stretch beyond the confines of strictly Christian thinking. For instance, what should religious concern be more focused on: sin or virtue? McDonagh’s mature film intertwines black comedy with stern, thought-provoking drama and some deeply inquisitive philosophical exploration.

The result is a strange film that’s as confident in its weirdness and abstraction as much of the Coen Brothers’ output. The film asks tough questions and gives even tougher answers. Every revelation is somber but shrouded in hope.

For all the morose story elements and challenging artsiness, “Calvary’s” warmly funny undertones endure. Gleeson is already equipped with smart timing, and the script lets him show it, mostly during his brilliant interactions with the partially obtuse townspeople. Father James’ discussion with young Milo (Killian Scott) about his possible enlistment with the army is hilarious and insightful. The supporting cast is extraordinary in providing the necessary comic relief, but each character is also so believably flawed that it only makes the film more realistic.

A sparing but powerful score, tender cinematography and the added bonus of stunning Irish landscapes all contribute to the film’s peculiar but irresistible cinematic effect. Hearty, understated and wryly intelligent, “Calvary” is the opposite of what its title suggests — it’s a downright pleasure.

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The Talkbox dissects under-the-radar upcoming fall releases Dan Willis & Shawn Cooke The Pitt News Staff

After a mostly cool summer for new music releases, a whole bunch of artists will be rushing to drop albums in the coming months before they head out on fall tours. Although some of the more high-profile releases — such as new records from Flying Lotus, Foo Fighters, SBTRKT and that Taylor Swift will garner all the attention, there are just as many under the radar picks worth a listen. The Talkbox breaks down a few advance singles from Zammuto, Perfume Genius and Celestial Shore, and they (mostly) agree on the level of anticipation for each of their forthcoming records.

Zammuto — “Io” — new album Anchor, released Sept. 2 Dan: High on the heels of two other official pre-release singles — the overcast, circuital “Great Equator” and the groovy, mercurial “Hegemony” — Zammuto has dropped the most unexpected song of his career, “Io.” In less than three minutes, this

former Books member seamlessly blends outer-space field recordings, clumsy newwave drum machines, fiddle breakdowns and uncharacteristically enthusiastic vocals that border on being Wilson Pickett-esque.

But thanks to the itchy, synthetic groove and socioeconomic undertones that run throughout, it slaloms through its disparate influences with remarkable ease, and the result is both the most madcap and immediately lovable tune to come from the project thus far.

Shawn: I’ll admit it — this my first run in with the Zammuto project — and my only exposure to Nick Zammuto other than The Books’ Thought For Food, so “Io” hit with a considerable impact. It’s a painfully infectious song, and the ’80s kitsch winningly has a much more cheeky presence than artists who faithfully attempt to recreate the decade (see: Twin Shadow). I keep coming back to the refrain, “People say I ain’t got no soul / but who knows, because it seems like an unintentional response to a recent Britt Daniel interview during which he said, in reference to soul, “You just know it when

you hear it. Or when you don’t.” Zammuto seems to decide that he has a little soul by the song’s final refrain, judging by the swap from drum machines to the real thing.

Perfume Genius — “Queen” — new album Too Bright, releases Sept. 23 Shawn: I guess this is who passes as “singer-songwriter” in 2014, but back in my day (before we were born), Michael Hadreas on “Queen” would have been classified as a full-fledged pop star. Then again, if scornful observations such as “No family is safe / When I sashay” can still maintain relevance nowadays, then his chances of pop credibility would have been slim-to-none before Hadreas is set to release a follow-up to our time. The whoosh and massive synth the heartbreaking Put Your Back N 2 It. storm that follow the chorus suggest that he’s aiming for no less than these aspirations earnest about Put Your Back N 2 It, and I think on Too Bright — without compromising the a lot of it had to do with restraint. “Hood” disturbing and pointedly discomforting sub- has all the potency of the most sprawling ject matter he fine tuned on 2012’s Put Your Elton John power ballads, but it’s distilled Back N 2 It. One of those songs worked its down to less than two minutes. And excludway into a Honda TV spot, so the leap won’t ing the rapidly cut five-second climax, its feel unnatural.

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Look for f S. Carey Thursday, Sept. 4th at the Club Cafe in South Side.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

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TALKBOX now-legendary music video had a grand total of four shots. It was a crisp, delicate and shockingly honest album that found the deepest tragedies of the queer experience and exploited them with tear-jerker after tear-jerker, without ever taking the easy route of bombast. This song is just so clumsy and insincere by comparison. It’s not bad, but it just makes me miss the vulnerability of his earlier stuff.

Celestial Shore — “Creation Myth” — new album Enter Ghost, releases Oct. 14 Dan: Abandoning the psych-pop frills of their debut, Celestial Shore’s new track “Creation Myth” sounds at first like a straightahead garage rock tune, until it finally reveals its mathy knots. But before more avid listeners have a chance to crunch the numbers, the song cuts away to an eerily sing-song mantra about evolution. It’s a disorienting and choppy effect, until these two elements superimpose, and the puzzle pieces arrange themselves into a gloriously infectious con-

clusion, overflowing with the clarity of revelation and the gratification of a good plot twist.

A bold move for a lead single, but it pays off.

Shawn: This is definitely a welcome change for Celestial Shore. The steady 4/4 of garage rock clashing with math isn’t a natural fit, yet they pull it off surprisingly well. When both sections collide around the two-minute mark, it feels like one of those goofy mashup videos, but instead you’re stuck trying to figure out just how it could all fit together.

That they keep it trimmed to a tight three minutes is all the more impressive.

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CAREY are some of the more subtle ones that might fly over a listener’s head?

A: I can think of the obvious ones. I mean in “Neverending Fountain,” there’s a beat that starts with a boot walking on snow, which I’m sure you can hear. I’m sure there’s probably something I’m forgetting.

Oh, I thought of one of those [subtle field recordings]. It was Ben’s foot — he was tapping his shoe. He was like sitting cross-legged, and he was drumming on his shoe. It created this crazy bass sound on the song “Fleeting Light.” We were all recording these little percussion layers at the same time. It’s really hard to tell, but it almost sounds like an electronic bass drum. It’s like the outro where it dances on this one chord for a few minutes.

Q: Going back to your first record, All We Grow, the song “Mothers” seems to be this sympathetic plea to either a specific group of youth or youth in general. Would you be willing to shed some light on the heartbreaking imagery in this song?

A: I went to the University in Eau Claire, and they were screening a documentary about third-world coffee. It focused on African coffee. Basically seeing how these people live and work to make coffee that we drink — how frugal they get and they are. How hard their lives are, especially when it’s not fair trade.

And I’m sure that’s totally changed in the last five or six years since that happened. I don’t even know any of the details really, it was just this feeling I had coming back from watching that. I just started writing those lyrics, and I guess it’s just kind of about people in thirdworld countries who have it so much harder than we do in the U.S. But really just looking at them as people and kind of trying to show empathy.

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SPORTS

For Chryst, emphasis on run game Ryan Bertonaschi Senior Staff Writer

Since Pitt football coach Paul Chryst joined the Panthers in 2012, he’s preached to his players many bluecollar expressions, which have become part of the daily locker room dialogue.

One of the most popular phrases among players is “just do your assignment.”

Pitt’s offense did exactly that in Saturday’s 62-0 rout of Delaware — play after play, with short-yardage gain after short-yardage gain. Although we can’t predict much about how a team will perform in weeks two or three from watching an opening blowout against an unworthy opponent, Pitt proved that it can earn points if it meets assignments.

This means a considerably improved offensive line must buy time for plenty of Voytik-to-Boyd connections, and it has to create virtual tributaries, so running backs can bulldoze the open field for consistent yardage.

From the play on Saturday, as well as throughout the summer, Pitt’s corps of running backs is as deep as it’s been in recent history and full of

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promising skill sets.

Chryst’s plan, which he revealed last Monday during his weekly press conference, is for four backs — James Conner, Isaac Bennett, Chris James and Rachid Ibrahim — to share carries, with the majority awarded to starter Conner.

My initial reaction to this announcement: Really, coach? You need four running backs to get the job done this year, with one reserve back in freshman Qadree Ollison, another one sitting out the 2014 season after transferring in Jameel Poteat and three committed backs in the graduating class? Isn’t that a little excessive? Chryst doesn’t think so.

“We’ve got a group that we’ll just kind of bring them along and see where their progress is and our team’s,” Chryst said after the Delaware drudging on Saturday. “Those guys that we plan on playing, we’re going to play them.”

On the flip side of the ball, Pitt’s shorthanded defense held its own Saturday against the Fightin’ Blue Hens’ penniless offense.

Off the field issues were the primary reason for offseason shake-ups at cornerback and safety, and Chryst looked further down the depth chart

for players to fill starting and backup roles in his secondary.

One option that Chryst explored during the summer was to transition Ibrahim to safety. Or, actually, back to safety.

When Ibrahim committed to Pitt in fall 2012, Pitt’s staff reportedly brought him in as an athlete that would likely play safety.

In high school, Ibrahim played running back, setting a school record of 4,835 rushing yards, and after he’d prance into the end zone for six, he’d rejoin his team as a defensive back.

“Yeah, we did think about it,” Chryst said about moving Ibrahim to safety. “We’re deep [at running back] if we stay healthy. If anything happens, we’re not as deep, so right now, we went through the whole spring with him at the running back position. It’s hard to just flip right at mid-stream. So right now, I feel good with where Rachid is at.”

Chryst’s focus is now, and always has been, pounding the rock with a band of running backs.

When he was offensive coordinator at Wisconsin, his Badgers ran the

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Panthers sweep tournament Caitlin Hinsey Staff Writer

Although the Pitt volleyball team may have won all of its games over the weekend, the players know what they need to improve.

Head coach Dan Fisher and the Panthers travelled to Bowling Green, Ohio, on Friday and Saturday to compete in the Hampton Inn Invitational, and they came out as tournament champions — winning

all three matches.

Hitting is one technique the Panthers will focus on during practice this week before they set off for a weekend tournament in Colorado. The final stat sheet for the weekend showed the Panthers had a great hitting percentage of .307, while opponents were held to .102. Junior Jenna Jacobson was excited by the way her teammates were “crushing every ball.” Jacobson added that the pin hitters-the

opposite and outside positionswere “hitting really well” and no matter what that they just “kept swinging.”

But Fisher believes the team can do better.

“Both our left sides did a really nice job. Our middles were solid,” Fisher said. “I thought our right sides were good, not great, so we want to get a little more production

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Pitt football has 13 commits in its 2015 class. Here’s how they and their teams performed last week.

Darrin Hall (running back) — Austintown Fitch High School , Ohio On the way to a 49-14 victory over Warren Harding, Hall ran 16 times for 160 yards and a 35-yard touchdown.

Nick Bowers (tight end) — Kittanning Senior High School, Pa. In a 42-0 victory over Deer Lakes, Bowers caught five passes for 94 yards and a touchdown.

Kevin Givens (linebacker) — Altoona High School, Pa. Altoona defeated Butler 28-10, including a 66-yard pass Givens caught for a touchdown, and Givens was key on defense to limiting Butler.

DaVon Hamilton (defensive tackle) — Pickerington Central High School, Ohio Leading a stout defensive effort, Pickerington Central defeated Goose Creek 14-7.

Malik Henderson (cornerback) — Hallandale High School, Fla. Hallandale romped McArthur 56-6.

Quadree Henderson (wide receiver) — Alexis I. Dupont High School, Del. Dupont did not play this week.

Alex Hornibrook (quarterback) — Malvern Prep, Pa. In a loss to Roman Catholic, Hornibrook passed for 271 yards and four touchdowns.

Kraig Howe (defensive tackle) — Archbishop Alter High School, Ohio Archbishop Alter defeated Fairmont 42-12.

Dane Jackson (cornerback) — Quaker Valley High School, Pa. Quaker Valley defeated Keystone Oaks 25-19. Jackson sat out due to a knee injury.

Sekai Lindsay (running back) — Palm Bay High School, Fla. Palm Bay did not play this week.

Alex Paulina (offensive guard) — Canon-McMillan High School, Pa. Paulina and Canon-McMillan lost to Mt. Lebanon 40-0.

Tony Pilato (offensive tackle) — Hempfield Area Sr.High School, Pa. Pilato and Hempfield were routed 45-19 by Plum.

Tre Tipton (wide receiver) — Apollo Ridge High School, Pa. Tipton led Apollo Ridge to a 42-21 victory over West Shamokin. Tipton accounted for four touchdowns, scoring three and passing for another. He also returned a kickoff for 78 yards.

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ball 28 times in a row in a 2010 game against Michigan. The deflated Wolverines’ defense had no response, and Wisconsin’s Montee Ball led the Badgers’ group of backs for 357 yards on the ground.

Pitt’s corps combined for 409 yards Saturday.

“Each guy has talents and their separate abilities,” Pitt center Artie Rowell said. “But the plays are schemed a certain way, and no matter what the look we get, the ball is designed to go a certain place, and sometimes [on] certain plays, the ball has multiple options to go, so we just try to get those guys to just see all the options, not just one or two.”

As for the young and inexperienced secondary?

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Sophomore Maria Genitsaridi and senior Delaney Clesen were the two Panthers named to the All-Tournament team, and Genitsaridi was also named tournament MVP. Clesen led the Panthers in digs with 32 and tied for the top spot in serving aces with Genitsaridi with each recording six.

According to Fisher, Pitt “won the serving and passing battle” against its opponents.

On their way to becoming tournament champs, the Panthers (3-0, 0-0 ACC) beat Middle Tennessee State, Dayton and Bowling Green. Pitt didn’t drop a set during the tournament, even when they were tested.

than some of his fellow defensive backs. He said they performed better on Saturday than he’d hoped.

“They didn’t play like freshmen, which is awesome to see,” Vinopal said. “Especially Avonte Maddox getting out there. He’s going to be a pretty big part of our defense this year. He’s doing a real good job of preparing and doing his job in being accountable for the defense.”

Several freshmen and sophomores saw the field in the defensive backfield for the Panthers: Cornerbacks Maddox and Ryan Lewis, safeties Pat Amara, Terrish Webb and Jevonte Pitts and the three-tiered talent Reggie Mitchell, who plays safety, cornerback and nickelback.

The youngsters were in part responsible for yielding the fewest yards (57) of any Pitt opponent in close to two decades.

Regardless of opponent, maybe Chryst was correct in his assessment that the defense doesn’t need added help.

The Panthers defeated Middle Tennessee State (1-2) on Friday in nail-biting fashion. All three sets were back and forth battles, during which Pitt pulled away from the Blue Raiders 25-21, 25-19 and 25-21.

Saturday, Pitt faced Dayton (2-1) and began to hit its stride. After winning a 25-21 battle in the first set, Pitt seemed to be in for another test but ultimately won 25-14 in set two. The final set of the match was much easier than the first two, with Pitt never losing the lead and sweeping the Flyers 25-12. Pitt tallied five serving aces compared to the Flyers’ one.

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