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Tim Gunn “makes it work” Monday night at William Pitt Union. Heather Tennant| Staff Photographer

Even though Tim Gunn has penned three books with a fourth on the way, he didn’t recommend trying it to the audience at Pitt Monday night.

“If you have written a book — hats off to you, if you’re thinking about it — don’t,” Gunn said.

Gunn said this in jest and went on to explain how writing a book was quite an arduous process for him and required a great amount of collaboration.

Borrowing from the title of his sec-ond book, the Pitt Program Council lecture, dubbed “Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Lessons for Making It Work,” was originally thought to include insight on the fashion industry and awareness about LGBT, depression and suicide is-sues. But Gunn mostly stuck to his book of the same title and his experiences in the fashion industry.

Lindsy Steinberger, the lecture direc-tor of PPC, said they “get a broad basis about what they’re going to talk about” from research before the event.

Pitt Program Council estimates that

Gunning for gold: Tim

Gunn visits campus

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GUEST SPEAKERGUEST SPEAKER

For the second consecutive year, the candidates running for Student Govern-ment Board member positions have an easy election season ahead of them.

There are only nine candidates run-ning for the eight Board member posi-

tions and three candidates running for president in this year’s election. The low turnout is reminiscent of last year’s election, when 10 students competed for the Board seats, while the presi-dential candidate — current President Mike Nites — ran unopposed.

Current Board member Graeme Meyer, Wasi Mohamed and Andrew

Stefanick are running for the presi-dential seat.

Allocations Committee Chair Nas-reen Harun, current Board member Megan Murphy and Everett Green, a sophomore majoring in finance, make up the 87’s slate.

SGB election candidates announcedAbbey Reighard

Senior Staff Writer

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STUDENT GOVERNMENTSTUDENT GOVERNMENT

More than just a galleryMore than just a galleryPenn X Roup provides space for art, clothing, Penn X Roup provides space for art, clothing,

shoes and moreshoes and more

Chryst’s notebookChryst’s notebookYoung players exceed expectationsYoung players exceed expectations

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Presidential CandidatesGraeme Meyer

Wasiulluh (Wasi) MohamedAndrew Stefanick

Board CandidatesJacky Chen

Jade DiamondNatalie Dall

Everett GreenJohn (Jack) Heidecker

Nasreen HarunMeghan Murphy

Jessica SnyderMatthew Sykes

Slate Color KeyBridges = Green

87’s = GoldPitt United = Red

Independent Candidates = Blue

Mohamed, a senior studying chemistry, history and philosophy of science, neuroscience, philoso-phy and religious studies, formed the Bridges slate with Matt Skyes, a junior majoring in industrial engineering, and Natalie Dall, a sophomore ma-joring in molecular biology.

Stefanick, a senior accounting and economics major, is running on the Pitt United slate with Jessica Snyder, a junior majoring in resources management and accounting, and Jack Heidecker, a sophomore majoring in German and political science. Stefanick interviewed for a position on the Board twice when the Board was seeking ap-plicants to fill vacancies.

The remaining three candidates — Meyer, Jade Diamond and Jacky Chen — will run indepen-dently.

According to the Elections Code, candidates can run with up to three people per slate. However, independent candidates can affiliate themselves with a slate, which is what Meyer will be doing with the 87’s.

The 87’s and Meyer came up with 87 initiatives they hope to pursue as Board members.

Harun said the members of 87’s top priorities

for Board include taking full advantage of their terms, which will be an academic year and a half because of the recently passed referendum to change SGB’s term to follow the academic year instead of the fiscal year.

Harun said one of the 87’s initiatives will in-clude restructuring SGB.

Stefanick said the members of Pitt United also intend to affiliate themselves with independent Board candidate Diamond, a junior majoring in communication and information sciences.

Chen, a junior majoring in neuroscience and psychology, is also running as an independent candidate.

Chen said his top initiatives include promoting cultural awareness through campus-wide events, increasing the number of electrical outlets in Hill-man Library and making the OMET survey results available to students.

Mohamed said some of his slate’s initiatives include restructuring Student Government so it’s more inclusive to students, increasing student involvement in the academic process so students have more of a voice in what classes are offered and a focus on campus safety.

Elections Committee Chair, Lauren Barney, said the lack of competition with nine board mem-bers running for eight positions is not a cause for concern.

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485 students attended the lecture in the William Pitt Union Assembly Room.

Gunn fans are most likely familiar with his popular catch phrase, “make it work,” which first caught on when he was still working as an educator at Parsons. Gunn elaborated on this well-known philosophy during the lecture.

Gunn said that “making it work” teaches you that you can’t just aban-don things that are not going well and makes you work with what you have. According to Gunn, this strengthens you and your quality of work.

He began as an educator and inno-vator for the reinvention of the design curriculum at Parsons in Manhattan, but Gunn is better known for his men-toring role on Lifetime’s “Project Run-way.”

Gunn thoroughly engaged with the audience and provided a word of advice

for almost every story he told.When first starting his book, “Gunn’s

Golden Rules,” Gunn was writing from the perspective of an “irked New York-er” surrounded by people who couldn’t tear themselves away from technology. But the main idea soon turned into a collection of personal stories and an-ecdotes.

Gunn is a firm believer that you should truly “own” who you are — one of the very first things that he said was “know where you come from.”

He “doesn’t care what you wear as long as you take responsibility for it,” because we are perceived by our appear-ance, and he feels that it’s important to be aware of appearance when going out in public.

Gunn is not huge on trends for that reason — he doesn’t like having the authority to tell people what or what not to wear and he doesn’t. He said that he is often cynical about them, because they vary so much, but he also likes the shifts, because it gives people

the freedom to wear what they want.He said that it’s OK to be whatever

you want, but just “don’t be an axe mur-derer.”

During the Q&A portion of Gunn’s lecture, an audience member asked him to elaborate on his support of PETA and the Humane Society, along with his distaste of fur in the fashion industry.

Gunn sees no reason to wear fur, but he also has a problem with faux fur as well. He said that he prefers imita-tion fur and animal skins to not only be fake but also to look fake. He believes that we should be environmentally and ethically responsible, and he jokingly finished his statement by saying, “If you want to wear it, kill it.”

Gunn was highly receptive to student questions, and he even offered students who went up to the mics an opportunity for selfies and hugs onstage.

Pitt junior Mary Brooke Umhau said that she “loves Tim Gunn because he’s approachable, honest and a great men-tor.”

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OPINIONSEgg freezing refl ects

lack of parental leave

EDITORIALEDITORIAL

Freezing eggs — could this be the solution to workplace equality?

C o m p a n i e s f r o m Facebook to Apple to Citigroup have begun to cover the cost of egg freezing. According to Time Magazine, this process would surgically “preserve healthy eggs on ice” until they’re ready to become parents, at which point they begin the process of in vitro fertilization.

This is a step in the right direction, as women will have less pressure to leave their careers early and risk falling off the leadership ladder, thus increasing life planning flexibility.

But even more pressing is the reality it reflects. Regardless of when it is taken, time away from work creates a bump in one’s career path. This is the central issue that employers must address.

The United States lags behind among the devel-oped world in providing paid parental leave. In fact, according to the Huffington Post, “When Australia passed a paren-tal leave law in 2010, it left the U.S. as the only industrialized nation not to mandate paid leave for

mothers of newborns.” In the U.S., new mothers are guaranteed their jobs for 12 weeks following the child’s birth. However, this is without pay and exemptions remain for small companies.

Furthermore, child raising should not be the mother ’s sole re-sponsibility. Federal laws should protect both mothers and fathers from losing pay for assisting one another following a newborn’s early days. It is the federal government’s responsibility to set pol-icy that promotes the general welfare. Allow-ing parents time to raise their own children would promote family stability, most importantly bene-fiting the child while not obstructing career pros-pects for the mother.

Nature cannot be changed. Women who want to both bear chil-dren and climb the career ladder will inevitably meet conflict. But this conflict can be mini-mized if women are af-forded better assistance and job security.

Every developed na-tion has realized this. It’s time for the United States to as well.

More than 3,000 highlighter yellow-emblazoned students em-barked on buses Saturday to plant trees, clean trash and generally “make a di! erence” in the Pitts-burgh area. Pitt Make a Di! erence Day demonstrates our campus’ admirable commitment to the community, but it also demon-strates everything lacking in the University’s notion of “service.”

Criticizing PMADD is like crit-icizing the ALS Ice-Bucket Chal-lenge — it’s usually accompanied by ample eye-rolling and minimal sympathy. I’m not claiming that PMADD is bad for the community. I’m certainly not claiming that the students “making the di! erence” in PMADD do so with unadmira-ble intentions. But, I am claiming that students and universities can do better, and that begins with a

better defi nition of service. Service has become a catchall

for volunteering and public en-gagement administration at the university level. One need only look to this fall’s Student Volun-teer Outreach absorption into ‘PittServes’ — to note the prev-alence and appeal of the word.

Since the mid-1980s, uni-versities have scrambled to in-corporate “Service-Learning” within students’ curricular and extracurricular activities. Uni-versities have seen a particularly pronounced increase in students’ services in the past few years. Ac-cording to statistics compiled by Campus Compact from its 1,100 member universities, including Pitt, universities saw the number of students participating in “com-munity work” climb from roughly 30 to 45 percent, with a $4 billion total increase in the value of the service to the community.

No sensible person could deny that this considerable increase deserves praise. Universities ac-curately recognize that students can and should learn to apply their classroom-taught skills to assist nonprofi ts and community organizations that address so-cial problems. More important, however, is that it can expose students to systemic social ills from which they are otherwise sheltered within the confi nes of campus life.

Exposure, however, is only the fi rst step to correcting social in-equities. For university “service” projects, though, it is usually the last.

“Service” at its best can force students to confront problems close to campus. Service does not, however, solve those prob-lems. No matter how many hours

PMADD: Let’s serve for more than one day

Simon Brown Columnist

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students commit to cleaning up South Oakland, trash will remain on the streets until students seriously consider how their presence in the neighborhood af-fects quality of life for longtime resi-dents, homeowners and businesses. No matter how many college students tutor low-income high schoolers to prepare for the SAT, that demographic will still

be underrepresented at universities as long as their classes are inadequately funded and their teachers inadequately prepared and supported.

These problems result from deep-seated cultural attitudes and public poli-cies, and we as students cannot satisfac-torily address those problems if we do not begin to understand how to change the causes. That understanding, however, takes serious work — far more than six hours on a Saturday.

Universities are the ideal institutions

to motivate this intellectual work born of community work. Getting the proverbial dirt under the nails through service, such as PMADD, should begin a process of re-fl ection and research into the roots of the problems that service, as it is construed now, can only address on the surface.

Students should walk away from the trees they planted with not only well-de-served satisfaction but also some deserv-ing questions. Why do under-resourced communities rely on college students to plant their trees, while students enjoy the

trees on campus without having to give them a second thought? What organiza-tions should be responsible for plant-ing the trees in those neighborhoods? Who can I vote for to make sure trees get planted where they need to be?

Motivating these questions ought be the central concern of university-run service departments and student-run community outreach. Until then, stu-dents’ work will only make a di" erence for a day.

Write to Simon at spb40@pitt.edu

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Don’t let the name fool you — Penn X Roup Gallery is much more than just a place to look at artwork.

The space located at 5450 Penn Ave., between Garfi eld and East Liberty, does display and sell artwork. However, it’s also a clothing retailer, a shoe refurbishment center and a music venue.

“I’ve had people say that this is an ‘incubator space,’” said Nico Hartkopf, a 2010 graduate from Carnegie Mellon University and managing architect of the

gallery. “But we’re not here to help indi-vidual things grow and then leave, we’re here to help each other grow and at the same time, be a part of a community.”

About a year after Hartkopf graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture, he leased the space for a refurbished mod-ern furniture store — 54/50 Modern. He boarded up the windows, made renova-tions — fi xed rotted fl oorboards, replaced broken windows — and then reopened.

The response was tepid.Hartkopf was frustrated. He wanted

the community to appreciate that he was

taking a dilapidated storefront and mak-ing it into something useful.

“As an architecture person, sometimes you get so focused on architecture that you want to believe everyone cares about it the way you do,” Hartkopf said.

He realized the way to engage people is through the programming in an archi-tectural space. The average person doesn’t care about what a building looks like as much as what actually occurs within it, such as musical performances, social events and unusual, creative businesses.

That was how clothing company, Daily

Bread, and shoe company, Refresh PGH, got involved.

Daily Bread is co-owned by Alex Ava-kian, who knew Hartkopf in high school. It’s a clothing company based in Pitts-burgh that began as an Internet blog in 2009. Now, it has a huge local following — including an Instagram account with nearly 9,000 followers.

Daily Bread specializes in printed shirts and vintage fabric hats. The compa-ny’s hats create a rainbow of textures and

Pen n X Roup G a l l e r y mo r e ‘incub a t o r sp a ce’ t h a n a r t g a l l e r yKathy Zhao Staff Writer

Daily Bread and Refresh PGH are two businesses that occupy Penn X Roup. Christine Lim | Staff Photographer

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FEATUREFEATUREARTS and ENTERTAINMENT

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What Gaslight Anthem lacked in individu-ality Friday night at Stage AE, it painfully made up with an overactive light show and an arduously long 26-song set.

It was the end to the band’s fall U.S. tour, roughly one year after the group visited Pittsburgh to play at Mr. Small’s. The band has since claimed more popularity, and it managed to sell out the show, along with openers Cory Branan and Against Me!, who both played considerably better than the headlining act.

Branan, a singer/songwriter from Mis-sissippi, sounded somewhere between a piss-drunk trucker, a homegrown choirboy and a Seattle anarchist.

It was delightful and original. Yet, he might not agree with the former descrip-tion.

Branan told the audience that he asked Gaslight Anthem if they knew he is “not really punk, right?” when they asked him to join their tour.

However Branan wants to describe him-self, Rolling Stone already graced him with an epithet in “10 New Country Artists You Need To Know: Fall 2014.” He’s also aging smoothly into his rougher punk/country/folk sound . At age 39, Branan’s voice now allows for some snarl and rasp with its tenor notes, which adds a raw power that his ear-lier performances in the 2000’s lacked.

He varied Friday between upbeat lust songs such as “Prettiest Waitress in Mem-phis” and lonely lines such as “While she sleeps, I trace the places that your tattoos used to be.” He delivered these emotions through with intensity that threatened to snap his guitar strings.

Against Me! front woman Lau-ra Jane Grace de-scribes herself in her Twitter bio as a “True Tran Soul Rebel,” a title she asserted Friday. Grace dedicated the band’s perfor-mance of the 2014 album’s title track, “Transgender Dys-phoria Blues,” to a fan who was fi red after coming out as transgender.

“Everyone de-serves the right to live and be treated like a human,” Grace said.

Grace, for-merly Tom Gabel, revealed she was transgender in 2012. Her wife, band and fanbase enthusiastically embraced her transition. Grace now tours in the body she feels at home and speaks publicly about transgender issues, specifi -cally in the music community.

Against Me! played six of the 15 songs from Transgender Dysphoria Blues, the album inspired by Grace’s transition. But the band opened with a classic: “Pints of Guinness Make You Strong” from their 2001 EP, Against ME! Is Reinventing Axl Rose.

Although you couldn’t see Grace’s face for the majority of the show because of

her fl owing, ev-er-growing and sweat-drenched locks, you could o c c a s i o n a l l y catch a Cheshire Cat-grin under-neath. The audi-ence mirrored it, particularly when the band got down to “Thrash Unreal,” the climax in its high-energy set. Guitarist James Bowman was grasshopper-like, high-kick-ing and doing split jumps at every appropri-ate drumbeat. Grace, who is known for close fan interaction, seemed a little restrained but was still passion-

ate in the larger venue. Like Gaslight Anthem, Against Me!

began its U.S. tour in Pittsburgh last year and ended it on Friday. Its next stop is the United Kingdom, as the group begins a separate international leg.

Branan and Against Me! had the crowd amped up aplenty by the time Gaslight Anthem began. This made it all the more confusing to why the band pumped its bass levels through the roof and brought as much lights as your average EDM show.

The New Jersey boys are doing well for

themselves these days and shouldn’t need to hide behind these distractions. The band’s latest album, Get Hurt, debuted at No. 2 on BillBoard’s Top Rock Albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan, despite a couple of negative reviews.

When band member Alex Rosamilia wasn’t on keyboard, there were sometimes four guitarists on stage, all usually in great sync. Despite the e! ort, the songs melded into one another. Besides a few moments of almost funny banter, the band seemed scripted and glued to their spots on stage.

The band members dug out some depth later on in their set and took risks by cover-ing Pittsburgh indie artist Matthew Ryan’s “I Can’t Steal You.” They closed their encore with The Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” a nice touch that went over well but not as well as the crowd’s reaction to their well-known tracks “45” and “The ’59 Sound.”

One cover, “Sultans of Swing” was a strong attempt at fi rst that fi zzled out af-ter a few seconds, because the band had to stop and reconsider how to play it before launching into its own track, “Too Much Blood,” from its 2012 album, Handwritten.

It was an odd slip into incoordination, as the band was tightly synchronized the rest of the night. Additionally, the group had apt control with slowing things down in its songs to allow them to dramatically pick things up.

Gaslight Anthem’s fans happily con-sumed the slip-up and the rest of the show. Judging by the crowd’s enthusiasm through-out the night, it won’t be long until Gaslight Anthem returns to sell out a Pittsburgh venue once again. Let’s hope the next show trades the strobe lights for light hearted-ness and the 26-song melt for a focus on indescribable moments.

Against Me! and Branan hog the spotlight from GaslightDanielle Fox

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Laura Jane Grace blends activism with high-energy punk. Harrison Kaminsky | Asst. News Editor

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cartoon pipe-smokers. Each snapback or camper hat is tagged with a wooden or cotton logo that says, “Daily Bread: Quality Cottons & Vintage Fabrics Est. 2009 Pittsburgh, PA,” ensuring that buyers display their Pittsburgh pride while wearing them. The hats can run anywhere from $25 to $125.

However, Nigel Calvimontes, chief

operating officer, wouldn’t label what Daily Bread does as only retail business. He said it’s “facilitating a community and a culture of like-minded businesses and individuals who all wanted to support the arts and the city.” Daily Bread is more about a scene or attitude — one that integrates modern art with hip-hop and electronic music into a creative, party atmosphere.

Refresh PGH became affiliated after its partners — Baldwin Dawkins, Neil

Tucker and Sean Devine — spotted the building during a meeting at Common-place Voluto Coffee across the street.

Refresh PGH is a company that spe-cializes in sneaker consignment, refur-bishment and customization. Tucker, the artist behind all sneaker customization at Refresh PGH, turns out sneakers in fluorescent tones and vibrant themes, from bright, shiny red to Pittsburgh black and gold.

“It’s always a tour when people come

in,” Tucker said, motioning to the door-way that leads to the rest of the gallery from the Refresh PGH portion. “Cus-tomers always ask, ‘Can we go in there?’ and then we show them around and they check out the rest of the space too.”

Like Daily Bread, Refresh PGH has built a large following of Pittsburgh resi-dents and students using social media outlets such as Twitter and Instagram.

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Pitt saves ‘Fury’ from being unbearable. MCT Campus

“Fury”Directed by: David Ayer

Starring: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LaBeouf

Grade: C+If you needed more proof that the war genre has been done to death, here’s

“Fury,” a handsomely made, decently acted and robustly entertaining WWII film that lacks any sort of originality and has almost nothing new to offer to the exhausted genre.

Known for his gritty, masculine a c t i o n m o v i e s (ranging from the respectable “End of Watch” to this year’s S c hwa r z e n e g g e r dud “Sabotage”), writer and director David Ayer — his hit-and-miss résu-mé aside — recre-ates, with grubby authenticity, a viv-idly grim depiction of World War II and injects the expected adrenaline into the full-blooded combat

scenes. But he is less recognized for his subtlety, the lack of which robs “Fury” of any palpable emotional substance.

Taking place at the tail end of the war, “Fury” follows unsympathetic ser-geant Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) and his reliable tank crew — the religious Boyd “Bible” Swan (Shia LaBeouf ), the quiet Trini ‘Gordo’ Garcia (Michael Peña) and the rambunctious Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis ( Jon Bern-thal). After losing a soldier in a previous battle, rookie Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman) is thrust into Collier’s com-mand as the Americans begin the final effort to push through Nazi Germany in order to end the war.

Though perhaps we haven’t seen tank warfare onscreen specifically, the film’s script is half-baked and teeming with clichés, both in its profanely pre-dictable narrative to its recycled dia-

!Fury" rips every page out of WWII playbook, but still entertainsIan Flanagan Staff Writer

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Calvimontes said multiple Pitt football players have come to Refresh PGH to get their sneakers cleaned.

When Daily Bread moved into the gal-lery in 2013, Hartkopf tore out the front walls for two sections of the building, replacing them with architecturally sal-vaged glass windows.

He said it kept the neighborhood

involved with the change — residents weren’t walking by boarded-up windows that one day would disappear and reveal a store. They could walk in while the work was going on, ask what was happening and see the renovations. Daily Bread also kept its followers updated with every paint job and wooden decal addition via Instagram.

The businesses have also attracted would-be customers during the monthly Penn Avenue Arts District’s First Friday Gallery Crawl. Penn X Roup usually hosts

a DJ or musical artist, so visitors can stay to listen to some new music, buy a hat or some sneakers and, most importantly, socialize with the other Pittsburgh resi-dents inside the gallery.

Hartkopf leases rather than owns the Penn X Roup space, but he does own two more properties on Penn Avenue. He said it will be more than a year or so until the new properties will be functional spaces.

“Penn X Roup Gallery is a result of me graduating from the School of Architec-ture and,” Hartkopf paused, “ ... life.”

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logue. It’s all painfully oversimplified.Yet, what is not in black-and-white is

the film’s stance on war. It begins with what seems to be a clearly anti-war mes-sage based on the realistically gruesome violence that almost feels like it’s try-ing to be shocking — the opening shot features Pitt’s character stabbing an unsuspecting S.S. soldier in the face. Seriously. But then the glorified final showdown between our outnumbered protagonists and hundreds of Nazis appears to venerate just the opposite. It’s surprisingly difficult to guess if the group’s repetition of the line “the best job I ever had” just before the excite-ment of the climactic carnage is sup-posed to convey irony or the contrary.

Perhaps all the thematic confusion is based on how we connect with Lerman’s character — the scrawny, untested youth who, like us, is unfamiliar with his violent surroundings. The charac-ter is pathetically written, however, his unbelievable arc taking him from mor-ally challenged weakling to Nazi-killing prodigy in a matter of a few days. Ler-man, a fine young actor, tries his best, but he can’t salvage anything real from his robotically written role.

It ’s Pitt ’s performance as the no-nonsense commander that saves “Fury” from being unbearably trite. Under-neath the disillusion of war, his heart of gold has long been hardened, easily making him the film’s most interesting character, and the supporting cast is commendable as well.

Also, despite the film’s tendency for battles and explosions, the second act of “Fury” is perhaps its strongest due to the intimate’s 20-minute pause in which Don and Norman take rest inside a German house with two women. Dis-quietingly meditative and containing dialogue miles better than anything else in the film, this peaceful sequence is the best moment in “Fury.”

Confidently directed and sleekly produced, it’s hard to call “Fury” a bad film — but, at least for the war genre, rehashing well-worn ideas is a futile effort no matter how reasonably enter-taining the results may be.

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SPORTS

Regardless of its win and loss total, a foot-ball team can only grow over the course of a season.

Players begin to master a coach’s sys-tem and, by January, they’ve learned more about their personal tendencies, as well as those of their teammates’.

A team with more underclassmen than any other in Division I this year, Pitt has epitomized this mind-set. When redshirt junior center Artie Rowell went down with a season-ending knee injury, red-shirt freshman Alex O! cer slid into his place. When freshman cornerback Avonte Maddox went down with a shoulder injury against Akron, head coach Paul Chryst thrust a true freshman, Pat Amara, into the cornerback spot, where Amara has recorded an interception.

But, Chryst said, “[We didn’t want] to come in at the beginning of this year and use youth as an excuse.”

So far, the Panthers haven’t. Running back James Conner and receiver Tyler Boyd, both sophomores, are in the dis-cussion for All-ACC honors. Additionally,

freshman defensive end Rori Blair leads all Panthers in tackles for loss (3.5) and is tied for the team lead in sacks (3).

“We’ve got guys who have played their fi rst [career] snaps this fall. They’re over 250, 300 snaps. I hope we never stop grow-ing, never stop learning,” Chryst said.

Pitt (4-3, 2-1 ACC) hosts Georgia Tech (5-2, 2-2 ACC) Saturday in its 2014 home-coming game at Heinz Field. Georgia Tech runs a renowned triple option o" ense. Without maximum discipline from its defensive line and linebackers to avoid confusion from fakes, Pitt defenders could fi nd themselves tackling the wrong person.

However, Pitt brings tenure and expe-rience to one key position heading into the matchup.

Two fi fth-year outside linebackers, quarterback convert Anthony Gonzalez and Todd Thomas, fi nished 2013 as Pitt’s third and fourth-leading tacklers. They line up on either side of sophomore middle linebacker Matt Galambos. And redshirt junior Nicholas Grigsby plays his own posi-tion, “Freeze” linebacker, during passing situations.

Pitt lost 21-10 to the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta last season behind Georgia Tech’s

274 rushing yards, and if it weren’t for Aaron Donald’s 11 solo tackles, including six tackles for loss, Pitt would’ve likely been blown out. Navy, which uses a similar triple-option playbook, narrowly defeated Pitt a week prior behind 220 ground yards.

“We weren’t flawless by any means against ei-ther one of them, Navy or Georgia Tech,” Chryst said. “[Gonzalez] and [Thomas] played last year. [Grigsby]

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Considering how the Pitt men’s soccer team’s season has gone so far, the team’s last game, which ended in a scoreless tie,would be con-sidered a positive result.

After a tie on the road against Virginia Tech, Pitt will try to put together another impressive performance at home, this time against a non-conference opponent.

In a battle of Panthers, Pitt will take on High Point (6-5-1, 3-1-0 Big South) in its fi nal non-conference game of the season.

In its last outing, Pitt outplayed ACC oppo-nent Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, registering more than 20 shots on goal and nearly putting itself ahead for the team’s fi rst conference victory of the season.

However, the Panthers could not put the ball in the back of the net for the third straight game. The lack of scoring is a matter of quality rather than quantity. While Pitt has put itself in position to score in the last several games, it has not converted in the fi nal third of the fi eld.

“We dominated the game ... we had 21 shots and 17 corner kicks,” head coach Joe Luxbacher said. “Their keeper made some big saves, and we did miss some or shot balls right into the keeper.”

Pitt has had moderate success against

teams that failed to make the NCAA tourna-ment last year. Overall, the team has gone 3-3-2 outside of the ACC, compared to its 0-4-2 record in conference.

Two of Pitt’s non-conference victories came early in the season against Longwood and Presbyterian. More concerning for Lux-bacher and the Panthers, is that their record in their last fi ve games is 0-4-1.

While they got o" to a fast start this season, this year is quickly beginning to resemble the last, in which the Panthers faded down the stretch.

High Point could provide a challenge to the struggling Panthers, as it has a respectable record out of the Big South conference. Their only non-conference loss came against West Virginia, which this season is a higher caliber team than Pitt.

Defensively, Pitt will have to stifl e High Point’s attacking forward Mamadee Nye-pon, who has already tallied nine goals and 19 points on the season.

Pitt’s defense has been solid in the last few games, despite the absence of senior defender Julian Dickenson. If the Panthers continue to be as dominant in their own half as they have in recent games, stopping Nyepon and the rest of High Point’s attack could create more

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possession for Pitt to manufacture more of-fensive opportunities.

“The main thing is we didn’t take a lot of chances and we were very clean in the back,” redshirt junior defender Ryan Myers said of the team’s performance against Virginia Tech. “We didn’t really get countered much that whole game … it allowed our backs to push forward and we didn’t really have too much to worry about defensively except long balls.”

O! ensively, Pitt has more problems to fi x. Kody Palmer and David Price split time for High Point in net, and they could add to Pitt’s o! ensive problems Wednesday.

Both Pitt senior forward Dan Prete and Luxbacher stated that the o! ensive problem hasn’t been the number of opportunities but the accuracy of the shots. Still, both were con-fi dent that they could break through against High Point.

“I think it’s just a matter of focus at this point,” Prete said. “We’ve gotten a lot of chanc-es, and our team has actually played really well recently. I think it’s just a matter of getting to get over the hump and then we’ll be good.”

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played quite a bit last year, so guys are seeing it. But each year is a new year … [Georgia Tech] will have some things we’ll see that I would anticipate we didn’t see last year.”

Saturday’s game could have signifi cant ramifi cations in the ACC Coastal Division, as Pitt is tied with Duke and Virginia for fi rst place in the division, with Georgia Tech not far behind.

Pitt players and coaches still said that they will take a weekly approach to the remainder of the season, but the fi rst-place team in the division will probably play No. 2 Florida State in the ACC Championship Game.

“I’m not going to lie, I think about it,” senior defensive end David Durham said. “I know Coach Chryst wants to stay in the now, but I think that gives you energy for the next game.”

The winner of the ACC Championship is awarded a spot in the Orange Bowl.

“We’re never out of it,” junior defensive tackle Darryl Render added.

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The ACC recognized three Pitt football players for their performances in Thurs-day’s home game against Virginia Tech.

Senior tackle T.J. Clemmings was named the conference’s Co-Offensive Lineman of the Week, sophomore cor-nerback Reggie Mitchell was picked as Defensive Back of the Week and red-shirt freshman punter Ryan Winslow was given Specialist of the Week.

The ACC has now recognized Clem-mings twice this season for the honors, as the first time came in Pitt’s Sept. 5 victory over Boston College. Clemmings was part of an offensive line Thursday that allowed Pitt to rush for over 200 yards as a team. He shared this week’s honors with Duke center Matt Skura

and Florida State guard Tre’ Jackson.Mitchell, a transfer from Wisconsin,

had a game-high 10 tackles and forced two fumbles in the game. He also had an interception in the end zone that was called back because of a penalty.

Winslow punted seven times in the game, including two punts downed within Virginia Tech’s five-yard line. He matched his career long with a 50-yard punt.

Pitt plays next on Saturday at home against Georgia Tech at 3:30 p.m.

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