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WHO’S NEXT?

?After four resignations, the Student Government Board will appoint a new member

Tuesday for the remainder of its 2014 term. See page 2.

Penn State snubs Pitt for most-respected Pa. university See page 12

Pitt switches to high-definition TV See page 10

Want to fix the Ivy League? Stop talking about it See page 25

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Pitt’s Student Government Board suf-fered a bit of summertime sadness this break after Board member Ryan Orr became the fourth member to resign in the 2014 term.

The Board announced on Aug. 21 that Orr resigned from his position because he transferred to University of Virginia this semester and is no longer a Pitt stu-dent. His replacement will be a familiar face, President Mike Nites said. Instead of reopening the application process, the Board decided during a July meeting that it will choose from four of the six finalists from previous public interviews that followed resignations.

Nites said finalists Genevieve Sand-

ers, Andrew Colaizzi, Meghan Murphy and Macy McCollum expressed interest in reapplying and will have brief, private conversations with the Board before its first public meeting on Tuesday. The Board will announce the replacement at the meeting.

“I don’t want it to be some formal interview process because we have al-ready done that [with the six applicants] already,” Nites said. “Some of them twice already.”

Orr’s time on SGB was brief, as he joined in April, filling one of two open seats after former Board members Ellie Tsatsos and Brandon Benjamin resigned. He is the fourth member to resign this term, following Tsatsos, Benjamin and another former Board member Jake Radziwon. Orr’s resignation was effec-

tive July 1.His decision to apply to the University

of Virginia, Orr said, was “spur of the moment,” and he submitted his UVA application three days before the uni-versity’s March 1 deadline. UVA denied Orr’s first application when he applied to be a freshman, and Orr said he was curious to see if he would get accepted after having completed a semester at Pitt. Orr was previously vice chair of the Academic Affairs committee and hadn’t heard back from UVA yet when he ap-plied to join SGB in April.

“I didn’t think I was going to get in [to UVA], and I wasn’t committed to going if I did get in,” Orr said. “So when the op-portunity came up for me possibility be on the Board , I took it because I loved my work on SGB and was really enthusiastic

about being further involved.”“It was very unfortunate that I had

to leave them, especially this year with previous instances with people resign-ing,” Orr said. “I felt really bad because I loved everyone on the Board.”

Orr said he was still working on his projects — publishing OMETs, creating a scholarship database and an upperclass-men scholarship — after his resignation, and he has passed all of his contacts and materials over to Nites. Nites said he and the Academic Affairs committee will continue to work on the projects.

In addition to losing a Board member, SGB also said goodbye over the summer to Academic Affairs Committee chair Robert Sica and Allocations Committee

Danielle Fox Assistant News Editor

STUDENT GOVERNMENTSTUDENT GOVERNMENT

Never underestimate the power of a Pitt woman and a Pitt education.

Mary Ellen Callahan, keynote speak-er of Pitt’s 94th annual Lantern Night, spoke to the women of the new fresh-man class and advised them to always remember their value and the value of their university.

Hundreds of members of the Pitt community gathered at Heinz Chapel for the Lantern Night ceremony on Sunday, including faculty, staff, senior university leaders, students and family members.

Julia Shepard, the Alumna Host of Lantern Night, said the ceremony is a “joint effort between alumni and stu-dents.”

The annual ceremony was instated in 1920, only days after the 19th amend-

Lantern Night: Pitt’s oldest tradition illuminates Heinz ChapelNerine Sivagnanam

Staff Writer

Four out the door: Board to fi ll another vacant seat

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Lantern 18 Pitt’s freshmen women attended Lantern Night on Sunday to celebrate their initiation at Pitt. Subhana Chaudhri | Staff Photographer

NEWS

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Pitt students rushed up Cardiac Hill to the Peterson Events Center this week-end, though basketball season hasn’t yet started.

Students fi lled the Peterson Events Center Sunday afternoon to sign up for email lists and join organizations at the Activities Fair, which rounded o! fresh-men orientation week. The annual fair invites all students — especially fi rst-year students — to gather information on groups they may want to join.

Student involvement is the cornerstone of the fair, which highlights opportunities in clubs, academic departments and work study jobs.

“We’re really just trying to get people involved in something extracurricular,” said Gina Scozzaro, business manager of the Student Organization Resource Center.

Students prepare for new year at annual Activities FairConor McAteer

For The Pitt News

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Freshman Jerry Taylor practices for Pitt’s crew team with a teammate cheering him on behind. Heather Tennant | Staff PhotographerFair 14


College students may not be known for their fat wallets, but that doesn’t make their money any less valuable. Oakland is home to a multitude of bank branches, but with 10 PNC ATM locations and a special agreement be-tween the University and the bank, other competitors are outnumbered on Pitt ’s campus.

Michael Abriola, senior vice presi-dent of Eureka Bank on Forbes Avenue, said college students, like any other consumer group, should have many options to choose from when picking a bank.

“At Eureka Bank, we feel that stu-dents should have options when they choose a bank to use during their col-

lege years,” Abriola said. “The exclu-sive agreement between Pitt and PNC that links a PNC Bank account to the student’s ID makes it difficult for other local banks to compete for the college student market.”

The University has a banking servic-es agreement with PNC for faculty and students, according to Ken Service, vice chancellor of communications. The main benefits of the agreement are the multiple ATM locations on campus, the branch office inside Nordenberg Hall and the option for students to link their bank accounts to their Pan-ther Cards, which they can use as ATM cards at no extra cost. Service said Pitt receives annual funding from PNC as a part of the agreement but did not

PNC Bank dominates campus with exclusive Pitt deal

Nerine Sivagnanam Staff Writer

PNC Bank has 10 ATM locations on Pitt’s campus. | Cristina Holtzer

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disclose the amount because the Uni-versity signs a new contract with PNC each year . The funding, Service said, is not dependent on how much students use PNC or their ATMs.

With Pitt’s link to PNC, other banks in the area may struggle to get as much business from college students.

PNC has ATMs in Nordenberg Hall, Litchfield Towers, Bruce Hall, the Wil-liam Pitt Union, the Peterson Events Center, Sutherland Hall, Lothrop Hall, the Public Safety Building, the Biomedical Science Tower, Benedum Hall, and the Cathedral of Learning. No other bank operates this many ATMs on Pitt ’s campus, though Dollar Bank and Citizens bank each have one on campus

“It is a completely voluntary pro-gram that is offered to our faculty, staff and students as a convenience and basically provides good benefits to them,” Service said.

PNC Bank spokesperson Marcey Zwiebel said active students don’t have to pay fees to open a student account with PNC or have a minimum balance requirement for six years. These rules apply to any student looking to open a PNC account, not just Pitt students.

Although executives claim the agreement makes it more difficult to attract college students, Eureka and other Oakland banks still have services dedicated to college students.

These services, according to em-ployees from other Oakland banks, are almost identical to those of PNC bank, except for the ATM locations and Panther Card link.

“We do have a small customer base comprised of college students,” Ab-riola said. “At Eureka Bank, students can open a free checking account with us and have the convenience of free online banking, free mobile banking, free online bill pay, as well as our free Popmoney (person-to-person pay-ments) service.”

Other banks in the Oakland area in-clude First Niagara Bank, Dollar Bank

and First National Bank. Thomas Fontana, senior vice presi-

dent and regional sales manager of retail banking at First Niagara, said First Niagara also offers free checking as well as an ATM card for students that can be used at any machine with no transaction fee.

Dollar Bank also has a student banking program, said Kelly McBroom, the bank’s Oakland branch officer. The program is similar to PNC’s — no mini-mum account balance or monthly fees. Students who open accounts with Dol-lar Bank also receive a $50 bonus.

First National Bank also has its own account program for students called First National Bank-University (FNB-U), said the bank’s regional executive Alan Bicker. The program offers no-fee checking accounts, two free foreign ATM uses per month, a customized student debit card, free online, mobile and monthly Popmoney transactions, which allows users to send each other money digitally

“A Savers Goal CD can be tied to the checking to help save for the future,

and we also work with Sallie Mae to offer the Smart Option Student Loan program, all through FNB,” he said.

Students who open FNB-U accounts are entered to win $5,000 cash to help pay for tuition, Bicker said, and the bank also plans to offer a credit card for students to help them “gain a credit history prior to graduation.”

Joining Dollar Bank and First Na-tional Bank both include the small bonus of a $50 reward — a benefit that Eureka, First Niagara and PNC do not offer.

McBroom said Dollar Bank still has a relationship with Pitt despite Pitt ’s more formal link to PNC.

“We have a great relationship with the University of Pittsburgh that gets us in front of many students. Our branch is located in the heart of the Oakland campus with an ATM on Fifth Avenue, as well as an ATM at the Pe-tersen Event Center,” McBroom said.

Though Dollar Bank sponsors both the men’s and women’s basketball

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Sunday Night Football will be coming to you in high definition this semester.

Over the summer, Pitt switched the cable provided by Comcast from stan-dard definition to high definition. Pitt spokesman John Fedele said in an email that the University made the change because “most students now have HD-capable televisions, and this upgrade will allow them to use this capability to its fullest.”

Students with televisions made be-fore 2007 may have to purchase a digital adapter to have access to cable, accord-ing to a housing services FAQ page re-leased in July. Students can purchase adapters at technology stores like Best Buy or RadioShack. Prices could range from $37 to $140, the housing services website said.

The change, which went into effect Aug. 10, affects all the residence halls and Pitt-affiliated apartments, and Comcast will continue to provide the service. Students will not be required to pay any more than they have in the past for standard definition cable. Cable is included in the fees that students pay for room and board at Pitt.

According to an FAQ page released

by Pitt housing, students need to re-program the televisions in their dorm rooms before taking advantage of the high definition service

Claire Plack, a junior psychology major, said she likes the change so far.

“You can really see the difference,” Plack said. “The picture is a lot crisper.”

A University housing services survey showed that while students use cable, it’s rare. Of the 2,000 students polled, 60 percent said they use their laptop to watch their favorite TV shows, and 88 percent watch streaming video regu-larly. Most students use other online streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus for their entertain-ment purposes, which contributes to the less frequent use of cable.

Dena Hillison, a junior communica-tions major and resident assistant, said she never had a TV in her dorm room when she was an underclassman, but knows students will enjoy the higher quality service.

“Almost every room seemed to have a TV [but] people often use the lounge TVs, I think, more than their own,” Hillison said. “For big events like the Oscars, Superbowl [or] “The Bachelor” finale I definitely saw them used more. I’m sure they [students] appreciate bet-ter quality.”

High-defi nition cable service now available in

on-campus housing Kat Prosachik

For The Pitt News


Pennsylvania residents have something to say — Pitt isn’t all that great. Not compared to Penn State, at least.

This summer, a Harper Polling survey found Pennsylvanians respect Penn State University the most when compared to other Pennsylvania universities. The survey asked participants of an Inter-active Voice Response (IVR) automated telephone survey which university they respect the most in the state. Partici-pants chose from Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon, Indiana University of Pennsyl-vania, Penn State, Temple, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh and Villanova. Pitt ranked fifth out of the eight universities.

“The purpose of the poll is purely for the interest of our Pennsylvania read-ers,” the company’s President Brock Mc-

Pa. residents respect PSU over Pitt, CMU, UPenn Raechelle Landers

Staff Writer

People from certain regions of the state voted differently. Overall, Pitt came in fi fth place as most respected. | Harper PollingPenn State 22


The fair drew 350 organizations out of the more than 400 clubs registered with SORC and Scozzaro estimated that between 5,000 and 7,000 students at-tended.

“I usually order about 5,000 maps and we ran out within the fi rst hour,” she said.

Although a variety of clubs registered, Scozzaro noticed a spike in service-relat-ed organizations, with about 60 di! erent clubs present.

Among groups attending was Panthers Take Back the Tap, a group dedicated to reducing the use of bottled water, specifi -cally on campus usage of bottled water. .

“[Tap water] is healthier for you, there’s no environmental impact [from] it,” said Take Back the Tap vice president Nick Johnson , a sophomore and mechani-cal engineering major.. “What we try to emphasize to people is that this is just one issue that we’re really trying to make an impact on instead of trying to dabble

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and win a lot of di" erent other things.”The fair is important for the recruit-

ment process of Panthers Take Back the Tap, which Johnson said prides itself on closeness between members.

It’s also a chance for new groups to get exposure — a draw for members of the Pitt Computer Science Club, which formed over the summer.

“We’ve at least gotten 50 people today and hopefully more,” the club’s founder Joel Roggeman, a junior computer science major, said. “We’ve been posting a lot of stu" on Facebook groups and advertising as much as we can online, but for all the new freshmen that are coming in, having a table available to just talk to them and give them our spiel in person brings in a lot more members than just posting things.”

Although the activities fair was open to all students, the majority of those who attended were incoming freshmen.

Freshman Erika Muren said that she went to the activities fair because she was already interested in joining student organizations before she came to Pitt. At the fair, Muren signed up for various sports teams, religious organizations and academic-related clubs.

“It was really nice because the clubs were laid out really well where you could get around and see everything,” she said. “I liked how they had a whole bunch of di" erent clubs that you could go visit.”

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member Michele Buono.Buono, a member of the Allocations

Committee, resigned to accept a co-op with Volvo Construction Equipment in Shippensburg, Pa., for the fall semester. Buono said she plans to reapply for the position next year.

Buono’s co-op was originally set for the summer, allowing her to remain on the committee, but she said the company moved it to the fall.

“The decision wasn’t based on what the committee was doing or anything like that. It was based off what the co-op was and what was best for me in terms of my life,” Buono said.

Like Buono, Sica also chose to focus on his future career.

Sica said he resigned to focus his energy on activities more directly rel-evant to his professional goals. Aca-demic Affairs vice chair Alyse Johnson will become chair for the remainder of the term, according to the committee’s

bylaws. Nites delayed releasing the informa-

tion to press to wait for the other two resignations following Orr’s , he said, es-pecially since SGB is not in session dur-ing the summer. SGB did not update its website’s contact information — which lists Benjamin, Sica Tsatsos — at the time of publication. Additionally, SGB didn’t post the news on its social media accounts.

“It was a matter of one came after another,” Nites said. “I’ll accept respon-sibility for [not posting about the res-ignations]. It just sort of happened. If people are unhappy about it, I’d be happy to talk to them.”

Nites also said he was waiting for the Board to decide if it should replace Orr at all or leave the seat open for the re-mainder of the term.

Going forward, Nites said SGB has to make its own expectations clear and convey to applicants that their future plans are something they should already have considered when applying for a leadership position at the University.

“We do make it clear that once you

become a part of SGB, SGB comes first, and if something else has to come first, and you can’t reconcile that, then you are going to have to make a choice or don’t apply,” Nites said. “In Michele’s case and Ryan’s case, they didn’t really know that this was going to come up so it’s sort of out of their control.”

Board member Ben West, who was appointed with Ryan Orr, said although the resignations are unfortunate, career and academic decisions come first.

“All of them have very good reasons for dropping out,” West said. “SGB will get through it. We will appoint another person and not worry too much about it.”

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ment passed and granted women the right to vote. Lantern Night is Pitt’s oldest tradition.

Chancellor Patrick Gallagher said the ceremony marks an “initiation.”

“[Not only] to your academic career here at Pitt but also a celebration of pio-neers who paved the way before you,” Gallagher said.

Gallagher experienced his first Lan-tern Night on Sunday, on his 24th day on the job as chancellor.

He spoke about the growing popu-larity of the ceremony and noted how the Chapel could not contain the high number of people in attendance.

Those who didn’t find space in the building watched the simulcast of the ceremony on the lawn of Heinz Chapel.

“Your lantern is a symbol of inspi-ration as you pursue your academic endeavors, no matter what they might be,” Shepard said. “It represents the light of learning.”

Divya Patel, a freshman majoring in pre-pharmacy, said she attended for the social aspect.

“We thought it would be a cool expe-rience as freshmen to meet other fresh-

men girls,” Patel said. Meghan Browning, a freshman ma-

joring in pre-pharmacy, said she did not know exactly what the tradition represents but still attended.

“It seems like a really cool tradition and I want to be a part of it,” Brown-ing said.

Megan Vogt, a freshman majoring in business, said she thinks Lantern Night signifies “the passing on of education each year.”

At the end of the ceremony, the lights were lowered and each student raised her newly lit lantern. All in attendance then filed out of Heinz Chapel and into the Cathedral of Learning for the re-ception.

Many “flame bearers” — women who attended Pitt and have daughters in the class of 2018 — then rejoined with their daughters after the ceremony.

“I’m a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and we pass the light of learning on to the next generation of young women at Pitt,” said Katherine Willey Wolfe, whose daughter, Sarah, is a member of the new freshman class at Pitt.

Callahan left the students with pow-erful words.

“You’re a student for a few years but an alum forever,” she said.

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pittpoliceblotter Thursday, Aug. 7

12:43 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation to a non-affiliate for disorderly conduct for a small amount of marijua-na on the 3900 block of Forbes Avenue The incident was cleared.

9:20 p.m. — Pitt police issued a ci-tation to a non-affiliate for a city or-dinance violation. The incident was cleared.

11:27 p.m. — Pitt police issued a ci-tation to a non-affiliate for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. The incident was cleared.

Friday, Aug. 8

8:11 a.m. — Pitt police issued a war-rant arrest to a non-affiliate in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. The incident

was cleared.

Saturday, Aug. 9

12:48 a.m. — Pitt police issued a physical arrest to a non-affiliate for theft of a phone. The incident was cleared.

2:33 a.m. — Pitt police cited a non-affiliate for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct at Magee-Womens Hospital. It was also determined that he had an outstanding arrest warrant. The incident was cleared.

10:57 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation to a non-affiliate for public drunkenness on the 100 block of North Bouquet Street. The individual was transported to WPIC and the incident was cleared.

11:31 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation to a non-affiliate for public drunkenness in the Q Lot near Sennott Square and Oakland Avenue. The inci-dent was cleared.

Sunday, Aug. 10

2:08 a.m. — Pitt police issued a ci-tation to a non-affiliate for disorderly conduct. The incident was cleared.

11:50 a.m. — Pitt police issued a summons arrest to a non-affiliate for possession of narcotics and parapher-nalia. The incident was cleared.

Monday, Aug. 11

12:05 a.m. — A Pitt police officer took an institutional vandalism report after a custodian found graffiti in an elevator in the Cathedral of Learning.

The investigation is pending.

4:30 a.m. — A Pitt police officer took a theft report at UPMC Presby-terian Hospital. The investigation is pending.

1:01 a.m. — A campus security au-thority reported the following sex of-fenses on Aug. 8, 2014:

1. A victim reported that sometime in 2013 at an unknown off-campus lo-cation she was sexually assaulted. The victim did not notify the police or file a report. The incident was cleared.

Tuesday, Aug. 12

12:48 p.m. — Pitt police assisted City police and UPMC security with trying

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to identify a possible homicide suspect. The incident was cleared.

2:49 p.m. — Pitt police obtained an arrest warrant for a non-affiliate for ag-gravated assault in WPIC. The incident was cleared.

7:19 p.m. — Pitt police assisted UPMC Presbyterian Security with a pos-sible terroristic threat that was made between two patients. The incident was cleared.

Wednesday, Aug. 13

3:56 a.m. — Pitt police issued a citation to a non-affiliate for defiant trespass in Parran Hall. The incident was cleared.

10:04 a.m. — An individual reported a stylus for his tablet was missing in

Posvar Hall. The investigation is pend-ing.

7:00 p.m. — Pitt police arrested a non-affiliate for terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and public drunk-enness in the N Lot near Frick Fine Arts.

Friday, Aug. 15

12:07 p.m. — A Pitt police officer took a report for a simple assault be-tween the 100 and 300 blocks of At-wood Street. The investigation is pend-ing.

11:56 p.m. — Pitt police made a sum-mons arrest of a non-affiliate for pos-session of a small amount of marijuana on the 4000 block of Forbes Avenue. The incident was cleared.

Saturday, Aug. 16

1:02 a.m. — Pitt police issued a cita-tion for disorderly conduct to a non-af-filiate between the 100 and 300 blocks of Oakland Avenue. The incident was cleared.

1:59 a.m. — Pitt police issued a cita-tion to a student for disorderly conduct on the 200 block of Meyran Avenue. The incident was cleared.

2:11 a.m. — Pitt police issued a cita-tion to a student for underage drinking between the 100 and 300 blocks of Oak-land Avenue. The incident was cleared.

2:47 a.m. — Pitt police made a sum-mons arrest of a non-affiliate for false reports to law enforcement in the Mu-nicipal Courts Building. The incident was cleared.

4:15 p.m. — Pitt police received a report from an individual who said their bike was stolen from their front porch between the 100 and 300 blocks of Atwood Street. The investigation is pending.

9:27 p.m. — Pitt police made a physi-cal arrest of a non-affiliate at Mercy Hospital for resisting arrest, defiant trespass and disorderly conduct. The incident was cleared.

11:18 p.m. — Pitt police made a physical arrest of a non-affiliate on Melwood and Centre avenues for ter-roristic threats and disorderly conduct. The incident was cleared.

Sunday, Aug. 17

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10:02 p.m. — Pitt police assisted City police with a theft of a purse on the 3600 block of Forbes Avenue. The actor was located and taken into custody. The incident was cleared.

11:33 p.m. — Pitt police issued two citations for underage drinking and public drunkenness to a non-affiliate on Louisa Street and York Way. The incident was cleared.

Monday, Aug. 18

1:34 a.m. — Pitt police made a sum-mons arrest of a non-affiliate for pos-session of a small amount of marijuana at Forbes and Bellefield avenues. The incident was cleared.

4:53 a.m. — Pitt police issued a ci-tation to a non-affiliate for marijuana and disorderly conduct at the Cathedral

of Learning. The incident was cleared.

9:44 p.m. — Pitt police made a sum-mons arrest of a non-affiliate for selling alcohol to a minor and disorderly con-duct between the 100 and 300 blocks of Atwood Street. A citation to a student was issued for underage drinking. The incident was cleared.

Tuesday, Aug. 19

1:41 a.m. — Pitt police made a sum-mons arrest of a student on Bates Street and Meyran Avenue for possession of a small amount of marijuana. The inci-dent was cleared.

1:13 p.m. — Pitt police responded to an individual’s report of a theft of merchandise from the bookstore. The investigation is pending.

1:47 p.m. — A campus security au-thority at the Petersen Sports Complex reported to Pitt police that an indi-vidual was physically assaulted at an unknown location. The victim has not contacted police or filed a report. The incident was cleared.

11:22 p.m. — Pitt police issued a citation to a student at the Theta Chi fraternity house for underage drinking. The incident was cleared.

Wednesday, Aug. 20

12:06 a.m. — Pitt Police issued a citation to a student on Semple Street for underage drinking. The incident was cleared.

12:41 a.m. — Pitt police issued a cita-tion to a student on the 3900 block of Forbes Avenue for underage drinking.

The incident was cleared.

12:49 a.m. — Pitt police issued a citation to a student in Litchfield Tower B for marijuana and disorderly conduct. The incident was cleared.

1:10 a.m. — Pitt police issued a ci-tation to a student in Nordenberg Hall for underage drinking. The incident was cleared.

1:44 a.m. — Pitt police issued a ci-tation to a student in Nordenberg Hall for underage drinking. The incident was cleared.

8:22 a.m. — Pitt police responded to a report from an individual in Magee-Womens Hospital who said an unknown person harassed and threatened him.

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Cleary said in an email. Of the 568 people surveyed statewide,

24 percent said Penn State was the most respected university, while only 7 per-cent selected Pitt, which This puts Pitt behind the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University, both with 17 percent, and Temple University with 14 percent.

Despite the school’s recent scandals, PSU still persevered by a significant mar-gin as the most respected Pennsylvania university, according to state residents.

Aakash Sudhakar, a freshman at Pitt majoring in bioengineering, said he can empathize with Penn State supporters.

“I get what people are thinking [re-garding] the Sandusky incident. The pressure of the situation helps people inherently sympathize with the school,” Sudhakar said.

Dora Holliday, a 1992 PSU alumna , said loyalty plays a major role in Penn State’s respectability.

“I think as a whole, PSU alumni love the campus, the education and the town and, yes, Joe Paterno and PSU football,” Holliday said in an email. “[But] there was far more to PSU than Joe Paterno football.”

According to Pitt’s 2009 Econom-ic Impact report, nearly 151,000 Pitt graduates live and work in Pennsylva-nia, while Penn State’s 2009 Economic Impact report states that there are more than 250,000 PSU alumni living in the state. Alexandra Szczupak, a senior at Pitt majoring in political science, said the large number of Penn State students and alumni likely played a role in the survey.

According to Penn State’s admis-sions website, the university has roughly 35,000 undergraduate students, while Pitt’s website reports about 17,000 un-dergraduate students, roughly half of Penn State’s enrollment.

Because of this gap, Szczupak said, there are likely to be more networking opportunities at Penn State, along with a high sense of pride and enduring tra-ditions.

“People are die hard fans when they are Penn State fans,” Szczupak said.

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teams, they do not have the same type of agreement with Pitt that PNC does, and students cannot link their Panther Cards to any other accounts but PNC.

Breanna Donate, a sophomore ma-joring in psychology, said she chose PNC because of its convenient loca-tions on campus.

“I’m not really aware of many of the

advantages of choosing PNC as a Pitt student, but I know of the link between the two,” Donate said.

Students should be completely in-formed of all their banking options, Bicker said, before making a decision.

“They are not obligated to bank somewhere due to the on-campus ATM network or accounts tied in with the student campus ID cards,” Bicker said. “It ’s not necessarily about competing. It is more about educating students about all of their financial options.”

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SGB: Overcoming resignations will require transparency, proactive Board

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As summer vacation winds down and students look forward to a fresh line-up of classes, Pitt ’s Student Govern-ment Board faces its own set of new beginnings, but perhaps not with the same amount of enthusiasm.

On Thursday, SGB announced the resignations of Board member Ryan Orr, Allocations Committee member Michele Buono and Academic Affairs chair Robert Sica.

Orr, who filled one of the two vacant seats after former Board members Ellie Tsatsos and Brandon Benjamin resigned earlier this year, is the fourth member to step down during the 2014 term. His resigna-tion perpetuates the cycle of inconsis-tency and turnover that has plagued this particular Board. Moreover, the turnover — unprecedented in recent years — inevitably inhibits the ample completion of members’ projects de-signed to benefit the student body.

But the 2014 Board’s final semester

doesn’t have to be an ineffective one. In fact, the lessons to be learned from this term’s chain of resignations set the remaining members up to leave a lasting mark on the future of SGB. The essential question — perhaps an obvious one — the Board should answer: How can the Board reignite the student body’s interest in SGB?

Only 10 students ran for SGB in the 2013 election, and almost a third of the original members have since resigned. SGB is clearly failing to not only garner student enthusiasm, but also failing to maintain it among its members.

The problem is rooted in a lack of transparency. At the time of pub-lication, SGB’s official website lists contact information for Tsatsos and Benjamin, even though both resigned last March. And although Orr offi-cially resigned on July 1, SGB waited until Aug. 21 to publicly announce the news.

These issues can be repaired. SGB should update its website to reflect its current composition, utilize so-cial media when important events — like resignations — occur and issue timely press releases. Such changes are simple, reasonable steps SGB can take to enhance its transparency.

But there still remains the long-term issue of maintaining openness and being met with trust and opti-mism from the student body.

When Tsatsos resigned in March, she said she thought SGB was an or-ganization that would help her posi-tively affect the student body. But af-ter joining, she “realized the amount of politics that come with the job.”

The internal workings and pro-cesses of SGB should be clear to those running for positions on the Board. With an upcoming election, the Board must maintain consistency and re-store the enthusiasm to attract others to run for SGB. By reaching out to stu-

dent groups, current Board members can speak of their positive experienc-es with SGB, what they were able to achieve during their time in office and how they were able to achieve them.

A proactive approach will leave the Board with a positive legacy and inspire future candidates to run with a motivation that will hopefully last into their term simply because they will know what to expect — at least idealistically speaking.

Just because four members of this Board have resigned since the begin-ning of the 2014 term does not mean their last semester has to be an un-productive one. It ’s up to the current members and how they carry out their remaining months.

Hopefully, they will be successful and we will see a high turnout for November’s election — reflected by enthusiastic candidates and an opti-mistic student body.


Americans hold strong feelings about a whole range of athletic divisions, conferences and leagues. None of these sources, however, engender discussion quite as earnest as the Ivy League. This may be because most Americans don’t realize that their membership in this association is actually all the “Ancient Eight” universities have in common.

The actual term “Ivy League” has entered our national discourse as a synonym for scholarly achievement. William Deresiewicz’s recently pub-lished and widely read article “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League” played into this cultural fixation by lambasting Ivy League universities for failing their historic obligation to “teach you to think.”

The fundamental problem lies not in

Ivy League curricula or administration, but in the undue attention Americans pay to these few, arbitrary institutions. If we want a real change in educational

practice, we should examine the places that educate most of our young people: community colleges and state univer-sities.

As a member of one of these under-funded and undiscussed institutions, I observe that the problems Deresie-wicz identifies with the Ivy League are

not too far from those of their public counterparts.

In his articles and new book, Dere-siewicz criticizes the Ivy Leagues for

their unimaginative criteria for admis-sion and their cultural and academic emphasis on careerism. He recalls his own time on the Yale admissions board, closely scrutinizing the extra-curriculars and service trips of each hopeful candidate. Quoting Ezra Klein, a former columnist and blogger for the Washington Post, Deresiewicz cites the high proportion of Ivy graduates work-ing in high-turnover positions on Wall Street as proof that these universities produce “kids who have ample mental horsepower, an incredible work ethic and no idea what to do next.”

Deresiewicz’s critique is well-placed and timely. The priority on career placement within our universities sti-fles student creativity, critical thinking and the self-transformation tradition-ally associated with a collegiate liberal

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“By focusing our energy on reforming these few universities, we are only inflating this already

overvalued brand.”


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The United States has a black Supreme Court justice, a half-black president and many successful black businessmen, but liberals are still constantly harping on race. Apparently, they are unaware that our modern society — where the black unemployment rate is twice as high as the white, and blacks are six times more likely to be incarcerated than whites — has transcended race. The shooting of an unarmed teenager by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., is a perfect example of how liberals are constantly exacerbating

racial tensions where they do not exist. First of all, it is ridiculous that a

community, regardless of race, is en-raged that an unarmed man was shot six times at a distance. According to Missouri state law, a regular citizen is allowed to use force to “avoid an immi-nent public or private injury.” I’m sure a police officer is perfectly justified in shooting someone as he flees because he was provoked, even allegedly punched particularly hard. After all, the victim, Michael Brown, was allegedly caught on video stealing cigars and would have caused massive damage with them if he had not been stopped. The police officer was not aware that Brown was a suspect in the robbery, but Brown might have committed a petty misdemeanor as hei-

nous as felonies that have traditionally merited the death penalty.

That being said, the most annoying part is the attention drawn to the fact that Michael Brown was black, while the police officer, Darren Wilson, is white. It has been a whole 50 years since the Civil Rights movement, and it’s not like rac-ism is deeply rooted in an American cul-ture that held blacks as slaves, banned Chinese immigrants and considered the Irish subhuman.

Ferguson is 67 percent black, and a grand total of three out of its 53 police officers are also black. But that is sim-

ply a coincidence. Besides, reasonable people don’t resent it when those in positions of authority don’t appear to represent them. It is only crazy people like the founding fathers who ran around protesting and shouting slogans like “no taxation without representation.”

Even if in the unlikely case where race is a factor, why doesn’t black-on-black crime attract the attention that the Ferguson case has? According to a 2007 Bureau of Justice report, 93 per-cent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks, but the killing of a black teenager by a white cop makes national news. It is almost as if the police are held to a higher standard than criminal

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“There are lots of explanations why police in Illinois are twice as likely to search your car if you are black than if you are white that have nothing to do

with race.”


Like most Americans who have realized they will someday die alone and cold in an unfeeling world, I like to watch sports.

Singing along with a rare Buffalo Sabres goal horn or white knuckling through a save by David Robertson are ir-replicable thrills. But, lately, the actions of players off the field of play and the subsequent “punishments” they receive from league leadership, have caused me some disillusionment — enough to make me think that mine and others’ love for sports fuels the problem.

Take the recent events involving Baltimore Ravens running back, Ray Rice. As publicized by security camera footage, Rice struck his then-fiancee unconscious in an Atlantic City casino in February. He pleaded not guilty to assault charges and was suspended by

the NFL for two games and fined three games’ pay.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote a letter to Rice in response to his actions saying, “The league is an entity that depends on integrity and in the con-fidence of the public and we simply can-not tolerate conduct that endangers oth-ers or reflects negatively on our game. This is particularly true with respect to domestic violence and other forms of violence against women.”

A look at the NFL’s decisions regard-ing player suspensions reveals that the organization punishes victimless crimes more severely than physical assaults.

I first looked up Daryl Washington, a tough All-Pro linebacker for the Ari-zona Cardinals who was a key part of their 10-6 season last year. The NFL an-nounced in early April that it was ban-ning him for the whole year for mari-juana use, as it was his second violation. To me, he felt like the perfect example.

Unlike Josh Gordon — a Cleveland Browns wide receiver facing a year-long ban due to a DUI but still technically a second-time violator of league policy — Washington was engaging in a victimless crime by smoking pot in his own room, not endangering someone else behind the wheel. When I did a little digging for more information, I found out he had been charged with assault in early 2013 for pushing his girlfriend — an altercation that broke her collarbone.

The incident occurred right after the league announced his first suspension for marijuana use, and Washington plead guilty and received a year’s probation. The NFL said the causes for Washing-ton’s suspensions were violations of NFL drug policies. If the assault had played any part in the suspension, the league would have mentioned a violation of their player conduct policy. They did not.

I moved on to Fred Davis, a tight end for the Washington Redskins. Davis was

banned from four games for marijuana use — his only violation. But he, as well, had two separate assault charges against him. The the NFL has since suspended him indefinitely — but not for the as-sault charge. In fact, it was for a separate charge of driving under the influence.

The NFL does a half-decent job of policing its numbers. According to FiveThirtyEight.com, the NFL had a lower rate of arrest for every crime, relative to the national average, with an NFL player’s chance of being arrested at 13 percent of the national average. But for violent crimes , players stand at 55 percent of the national average, the highest percentage of any crime by 10 percentage points. But for an organiza-tion that “depends on the integrity and in the confidence of the public,” these are not ideal numbers.

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The price of a clean conscious: Why you should boycott the NFLStephen Caruso

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arts education. There is something unsettling about his critique, though: Why does this only pose a problem for the Ivy Leagues?

There lies a not-so-subtle impli-cation in Deresiewicz’s critique that the Ivy Leagues shouldn’t be career-focused because the less-prestigious universities should be. He cannot re-sign himself of the elitist Ivy-culture, even when he criticizes it.

He laments the lost Ivy culture, which produced critically-minded social reformers. He maintains the American preoccupation with these universities because they have histori-cally educated the movers and shakers of the country. When the education at these institutions starts to appear deficient, it engenders a special sense of cultural urgency directed at recre-ating them.

This and like-minded criticisms of ‘elite education’ have a ring of circu-

larity to them. We should be particu-larly concerned about the education at prestigious private colleges because our culture has always been particu-larly concerned about them, they say. Even when they don’t teach the most talented students and don’t provide the best education, they still carry a special weight because everyone thinks that they do.

By focusing our energy on reform-ing these few universities, we are only inflating this already overvalued brand. In fact, our national preoccupa-tion with these “best universities in the world” masks the dismally underper-forming pedagogy at the community colleges and state universities that educate the vast majority of Ameri-can students. As Kevin Carey recently wrote in The New York Times, we say “we have the best universities in the world” not to mean that we have the best overall higher education system, but that some of the best universities are located within our borders.

Deresiewicz’s advice for students thinking about attending the Ivys be-

comes quite telling. He says bluntly, “Transfer to a public university” be-cause “the education is often imper-sonal but the student body is usually genuinely diverse in terms of socio-economic background, with all of the invaluable experiential learning that implies.”

As a student at one of those “still very good” public universities, this allows me to say two things. First, that “impersonal education” is not an un-fortunate sidenote but the defining characteristic of an underfunded and ineffective system of public higher education and needs to be forcefully addressed by state and federal legis-lators . We should be reconsidering how that education can become more personal, transformative and critical, rather than resigning ourselves to an uncreative pedagogy and “experiential learning.”

If Deresiewicz is concerned about Ivy League students not feeling suffi-ciently challenged in their seminars,

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gangs and are supposed to be impartial. This is absolute nonsense, though. It is unfair to expect police officers to stop stereotyping black men as criminals and look for things like suspicious behavior, which takes a lot more work.

Ultimately, the biggest problem with Ferguson is that it contradicts the real-ity of our completely colorblind society where being a minority is, if anything, an advantage. Growing up in suburbia, I was never discriminated against be-cause of race, so, logically no one in the entire United States has been negatively affected by the color of their skin. News stories like Ferguson always result in statistics that emphasize racial inequal-ity and ignore our good intentions.

There are lots of explanations why police in Illinois are twice as likely to search your car if you are black than if you are white that have nothing to do

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defensive end Greg Hardy of the Caro-lina Panthers, recently found guilty of assaulting and threatening to kill his girlfriend. Public outcry against Hardy has given the NFL consternation enough that the organization may increase sus-pensions for those charged with assault, starting with Hardy. Hopefully more pub-lic pressure can forge a tipping point for the league to make the changes necessary to come down on domestic assault and serve as a catalyst for change, much like public pressure did for de-segregation in Major League Baseball in the ’40s, the ideal of sports and society that all leagues chase.

We, as the consumers, control what the NFL will do and have to initiate the public pressure. We buy tickets and jer-seys, soak in hours of ads for trucks and beer and make the NFL the juggernaut it is. So if fans decide to take action, the

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then he should consider a 400-person introductory lecture at a state school or community college before making any recommendations.

Second, state universities still do not represent the racial or socioeco-nomic makeup of our nation. The sug-gestion that overwhelmingly wealthy prospective-Ivy-Leaguers come to

public schools on some sort of “Grand Tour” of marginalized demographics makes little sense and obscures the deficiencies of these educational in-stitutions that typically do serve low-income students.

Deresiewicz and other critics of elite education provide incisive and sobering insight, but their insight is needed most urgently elsewhere. They would do well to redirect their attention, and the nation’s, to less Ivy-strewn walls.

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with race. When the liberal media gives such excessive coverage to inter-racial incidents, it only perpetuates the myth that a lot of the times people judge you superficially when they don’t know you.

I urge you not to fall for this liberal deception, which only serves to push their policy of victimhood and collec-tivism. Instead, think of all the times a

black man is portrayed positively in a movie or that one time your friend got a scholarship because he was a minority. These incidents are far more represen-tative of the reality of our post-racial society. This is especially important if you are white, because liberals will try to induce you to feel guilty with their insidious statistics and overly emotional testimonials of those who have experi-enced racism.

Stand strong and remember: the best way to be colorblind is to be blind.

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league will have to listen. I know it’s hard to do. The NFL is

quite the spectacle. These are men in peak physical condition (except offen-sive linemen) , competing to literally dominate their opposition by out-hitting, out-running and out-throwing them. But know there are substitutes.

If you will miss the raw display of ath-leticism, then soccer or basketball should fill in nicely. If the violence is what you crave, watch a boxing match or any pro-fessional hockey game. Or if you just like the sentimentality of sitting down and enjoying some sports with friends and family, why not baseball? You still get to take in a competition and you don’t need to feel you are rewarding an organization for covering up brain injuries.

Boycott the league. This doesn’t have to be a cold turkey situation. Keep a fan-tasy football team, because we all know “Cry Me a Rivers” is too good of a name to pass up. Maybe watch a Sunday night game or two. But don’t buy a new jersey, NFL Sunday Ticket or any of the ridicu-lous merchandise.

If everyone tried to pay even the slightest bit less attention to the NFL, both in their mind and with their wal-let, the owners would notice. We could see some change then, not only on as-sault suspensions, but concussion issues, locker room issues and the near-constant NFL coverage on ESPN (anyone heard of the MLB pennant race?).

As I write this last paragraph, I just took my C.J. Spiller jersey from my “to pack” pile and hung it back in my closet. I hope some of you will join me.

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In a hard-fought, defensive battle, the Pitt women’s soccer team fell to Duquesne on a sudden-death goal — the only score of the match — after 104 minutes of play.

The shutout loss moved the Panthers’ record to 1-1. It was their second game of the Steel City Classic, a four-team tournament that took place this week-end at Ambrose Urbanic Field on upper campus. They defeated the University of Akron 3-0 on Friday night. Despite Sunday’s defeat, since all four teams finished with .500 records, Pitt won the tournament by virtue of its plus-two goal differential.

Pitt head coach Greg Miller said the late goal by Duquesne’s Caroline Lacy was a result of an initial mistake.

“We did a poor job of clearing the ball, so the ball came in off the initial free kick,” Miller said. “Then they got another chance, sprayed the ball out wide, and then it was a 55-45 ball for

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The Pitt men’s soccer team ended its preseason on a high note, beating Duquesne in their final scrimmage.

The 2-0 win on Sunday was the Pan-thers’ second victory in a row before their regular season opener, having beaten California University (Pa.) 3-0 last Wednesday after losing to Saint Francis (Pa.) 2-0 on Aug. 17.

“This was our most solid 90-minute performance of the preseason,” head coach Joe Luxbacher said. “It was a good

result.”Although Duquesne is only two miles

from Pitt’s campus, this was only the 10th time the two programs have met, with the Panthers winning eight of the 10 games. They last met during the reg-ular season in 2012, a game Pitt won 2-1.

Freshman forward Kevin Angulo’s play highlighted the first half of the 2014 meeting. Angulo scored the first goals of his college career during the 33rd and 34th minutes of the game.

Angulo’s first tally came on an unas-sisted breakaway after he outran two Duquesne defenders through the center

of the field, while the second was set up by an impressive cross from freshman forward Hamish Law.

“I came into the preseason trying to work hard, so it was great,” Angulo said. “They were great balls from the midfielders.”

For the second consecutive game, the Panthers went with a 4-3-3 formation — four defenders, three midfielders and three forwards — to control the flow of the game.

As a team, Pitt outshot Duquesne 6-1 in the first half, continuing the of-fensive dominance they showed in their

previous scrimmage against Cal U and a far cry from their stagnant play against Saint Francis.

“It was important we got off to a good start, because Duquesne is a solid team,” Luxbacher said.

The two goals in the first half were the only ones the Panthers scored in the first 45 minutes of play this preseason.

The second half was more of the same for the Panthers, as they won the possession battle and gave Duquesne little chance to get back into the game.

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When Indiana Pacers star Paul George broke his right leg during a USA Basket-ball scrimmage in Las Vegas at the be-ginning of the month, one of the most popular reactions by sports fans was that it’s too risky to send top players to the upcoming FIBA World Cup in Spain.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver dis-agreed.

“Injuries can happen any place at any time. The experiences our players have enjoyed by participating in their national teams, however, are ones that are unique and special in almost every other way,” Silver said in an interview with ESPN.com.

Indeed, according to The New York Times, George’s setback was the fi rst major injury to a! ict a USA Basketball player while on international duty since

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The offensive opportunities were lim-ited for both teams, as Pitt was content with their lead. However, Luxbacher warned that sitting on leads would be dangerous against ACC competition.

Goalkeepers Dan Lynd and Braden Horton combined for their second con-secutive clean sheet and the defense looked confident under pressure in the rare chances the Dukes had at goal.

“The coaching staff stressed com-munication in practice this offseason,” Lynd, a junior, said. “Any time you can get two clean sheets against two good teams, you have to be confident.”

Duquesne had very few chances throughout the game, as the Panthers were able to outshoot them 9-3.

While the Panthers struggled last season, their defense was a strength. With the return of multiple starters, experience in the back line will benefit

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1992 — the fi rst Olympics where profes-sional players could participate. Over the last two decades, the United States has won the 24-team World Cup — formerly known as the “World Championships” — twice, fi nishing third two other times and sixth in 2002.

George, who will likely miss all of the 2014-2015 NBA season, was realistic about his situation.

“Freak accidents happen,” he said. “USA Basketball doesn’t deserve any criti-cism from this.”

Still, top players passing on the World Cup makes some sense for other, better reasons.

When evaluating this topic, the fi rst question is, what do they have to gain from participating?

With the Olympics already established as the sport’s top international competi-tion — the competition top players won’t skip — the FIBA World Cup in its current form has little purpose. Sure, it has twice

as many teams as the Olympics — four years is a long time to go without mean-ingful international competition — and whoever wins it automatically qualifi es for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio, but nothing sets it apart from the Olympics in a good way.

Only two of the 12 American players who went to London in 2012 — Anthony Davis and James Harden — will make the transatlantic trip this time.

But just saying that top players from America or anywhere else shouldn’t play in this event doesn’t solve the issue, nor is it necessarily correct.

The FIBA World Cup needs fi xing to become respectable.

The current schedule is problematic. Taking place in Spain from Aug. 30 to Sept. 14, presumably to give players time to recharge from their pro seasons as well as to avoid competing with soccer’s World Cup for interest, the tournament leaves a small window between its conclu-sion and the start of NBA training camps start at the end of September. Plus, the regular season starts a month after that. The NBA Finals end in mid-June and the

soccer World Cup runs from early June to early July.

There’s a way to make these events fi t better in between the almost year-long timeframe of pro basketball. : Men’s bas-ketball at the Olympics should take after how the men’s soccer competition works there — as an under-23 event with teams free to choose up to three overage excep-tions. This change would free the World Cup to become what its name suggests it is, instead of being the equivalent of an American airport that calls itself “in-ternational” because it o! ers fl ights to Canada — a descriptor that’s technically true but not consistent with the common perception of ‘international.’

FIBA, basketball’s international gov-erning body, could then move the event to a year without a blockbuster global summer sporting event each cycle, say 2015 or 2017.

As a result, the Olympics would be a showcase for the basketball’s young adult stars, something that’s needed. The closest thing that exists now is the NBA’s rookie vs. sophomore game during All-Star Weekend, a glorifi ed pickup game

at its best. FIBA championships go from the U-19 age group right to the normal national team.

And the game’s best wouldn’t have to worry about tiring themselves out by competing in a second tier event.

American superstar and reigning NBA MVP Kevin Durant withdrew his name from consideration for the fi nal roster on Aug. 7, which was announced on Aug. 23, after George’s injury.

“This was an extremely di" cult deci-sion, as I take great pride in representing our country,” Durant said in a statement . “I know that I owe it to my USA Basketball teammates to be totally invested in the experience. After going through train-ing camp with USAB, I realized I could not fulfi ll my responsibilities to the team from both a time and energy standpoint.

Durant was a member of the Olympic gold medal-winning squad in 2012.

“I need to take a step back and take some time away, both mentally and physi-cally, in order to prepare for the upcoming

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them and our goalkeeper was late.”From a statistical standpoint, Pitt

was the superior team, outshooting the Dukes 15-6 and registering more shots on goal, 7-4.

Despite Pitt’s offensive advantage, the team failed to put away any of its chances — a failure that evenutally de-cided the game.

After regulation ended scoreless, the game went to golden goal extra time with neither team able to break the deadlock in the first 10-minute period.

“We missed some opportunities that I thought we should have capital-ized on,” Miller said. “We were only dangerous a handful of times, so we, as a team, need to be dangerous more consistently.”

Besides that, the team also struggled to adjust to Duquesne’s compact style of defense.

“We were presented with something

we hadn’t faced yet and that was a team sitting in a little bit and we struggled with that,” Miller said.

On top of that, one of Pitt’s three seniors, co-captain Jackie Poucel, was injured and taken out in the 63rd min-ute of the game.

“Jackie going down maybe rattled us a bit. And when you rattle a young team, they either respond [well] or they don’t,” Miller said.

Miller didn’t know the particulars of the injury, though he said he expects Poucel to tough her way through it.

“The good news is she had all feel-ing in her lower extremities. She got her bell rung a bit, but she’s a tough kid and we expect her to push through this,” he said.

With time, Miller sees his team ad-justing to game plans and unforeseen circumstances more consistently.

“We didn’t problem solve enough on the field. That comes with experience and we haven’t worked though some of those things in practice,” he said.

With a starting lineup consisting of six freshmen and two sophomores,

some initial growing pains are expect-ed. Freshman midfielder Shaina Ashou-ri believes these problems will cease as she and her teammates continue to adjust to each other’s playing style.

“We’ve learned a lot [already]. It’s hard because none of us knew each oth-er and the way we play,” Ashouri said.

She, along with classmate Taylor Pryce and junior Roosa Arvas were the main providers on offense for Pitt. Ashouri registered two shots on goal in 80 minutes of play, while Arvas and Pryce recorded two combined in 72 and 81 minutes, respectively.

By winning the tournament, Pitt ends an six-year run without a regular-season tournament title. In 2008, they defeated Temple and Central Arkansas in the Owl Eyes Classic .

Pitt will return to Ambrose Urbanic Field on Wednesday when they face off against Robert Morris University, a familiar opponent to Miller and his staff. The Colonials also took part in the Steel City Classic.

“We got an opportunity to see them twice [this year], so we feel like we have

a pretty good idea how they’re going to play,” Miller said.

RMU played Akron in its second game of the tournament before Pitt and Duquesne kicked off.

Miller hopes the team’s valuable game experience will help his young team adjust more consistently in-game and improve them for the upcoming game and remaining season.

“It’s a good learning experience for us, especially early on, and hopefully we can regroup and move forward,” Miller said.

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NBA season,” he said. If the NBA regular season was, say, 50 games instead of the current 82, which is entirely too long any-way, players would have enough time after the end of the World Cup to rest up for the season ahead. And it would be done without having to resort to the abrupt pe-riods that exist in soccer — “international breaks” for qualifi ers and friendlies — or hockey with its two-week Olympic break.

“At this point, I don’t anticipate a major shift in the NBA’s participation in international competitions,” Silver said. “It seems clear, however, that this will be a topic at our next NBA competition committee meeting in September and our board of governors’ meeting in October and, of course, we will continue to evalu-ate the pros and cons of participating in international tournaments.”

Some owners, like Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks, have made their opposi-tion to the idea of players taking part in international competition clear.

“For some sports the Olympics are very, very important. For basketball, it’s meaningless. It’s not that they’re not decent games,” Cuban said in 2012. “All things being equal, it’s fun to watch us play Argentina and Spain but it would be just as fun if they were 21 and under.”

According to the ESPN.com story, Cu-ban’s answer to the international basket-ball dilemma is a quadrennial competition just for NBA players. This idea wouldn’t work. The only countries that would be able to fi eld a team of fi ve using players who were on NBA opening night rosters last year are the U.S., Canada, France and Spain. London 2012 bronze medal-ist Russia couldn’t take part, nor could other traditional powers like Argentina and Lithuania.

As a result, I don’t know how appeal-ing Cuban’s dream scenario would be to a global audience. It also would be even less able to claim that it was the actual world championship. Instead, it’d just be another pointless international com-petition.

The FIBA World Cup will continue to be just that too, unless changes are made.

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them this season.Although the competition level is not

as high during preseason scrimmages, the Panthers’ offensive outbursts ap-pear promising. But for a team that went 1-11-4 last season, the focus is on the games to come.

“All this is nice,” Luxbacher said. “But next week is when it counts.”

The Panthers will open the regular season at home against the Presbyte-rian College Blue Hose of the Big South conference on Aug. 30.

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