August 30, 2018 Volume 98 Number 02 THE DUQUESNE DUKE www.duqsm.com PROUDLY SERVING OUR CAMPUS SINCE 1925 DU prof Stevenson Street finally “Anne looks at if reopens for thru traffic Frank of tea slows Lithuania” bone loss discovered Kailey Love Raymond Arke managing editor editor-in-chief What’s the tea, sis? A Duquesne History can often stay buried. University pharmacology professor However, one Duquesne professor plans to find out. is helping uncover the past sur- Dr. Paula Witt-Enderby, rounding one of history’s darkest a professor in the School of moments. From July 11 to 24, Phil- Pharmacy, is leading a study that ip Reeder, dean of the Bayer School will explore the effects of herbal of Natural and Environmental Sci- tea on bone loss, specifically ences, was part of a research group on those with the condition that discovered the grave site of the osteopenia. While it is less severe so-called “Anne Frank of Lithu- than osteoporosis, osteopenia ania,” Matilda Olkin. is similarly characterized as Reeder got involved in the proj- having weak or thinning bones ect to locate Olkin’s grave through a and occurs in both men and research group that he has worked women. Though menopausal with before. and postmenopausal women “I have been part of a research are usually at greater risk of group comprised of geophysicists, thinning bones due to hormonal historians, geographers, geolo- changes, Witt-Enderby’s study gists, and archaeologists and we will include both men and have been working on various proj- women ages 18 and up. ects around the world to use Gabriella DiPietro/News Editor see TEA — page 3 After months of detours, the construction on Stevenson Street, which borders the Duquesne University campus, is now complete. see LITHUANIA — page 2 Mailing Services relocates to Des Places location off of Stevenson Street. to answer questions or offer help Gabriella DiPietro The new entrance to mailing with the mailboxes. All package news editor services also includes a loading distribution will now take dock that is directly accessible to place in the Des Places Mailing The start of the school year the Mail Center for all mail and Services location. means back-to-school shopping, parcel delivery. This is a large Zilcosky believes that the and for many college students, that improvement from the old Rockwell relocation will help the university to shopping is done online. Hall location, according to Bill better serve its students by enabling This year’s Duquesne University Zilcosky, senior director of facility them to run a more efficient mail students should be aware that the services and operations, where an and package operation. Department of Mailing Services elevator was needed for deliveries “Because packages are has recently moved, resulting in and handling all incoming and collected and distributed in the a different pickup location for outgoing mail and parcels. same area, it cuts down on how students’ packages. Previously, mailing services many times we must handle Mailing Services is the central distributed student letters and a package. We can scan them mail facility for the university, where packages to the Student Mail into our system more quickly all internal mail and incoming USPS Center (SMC) in the Towers and notify students that their mail is processed for distribution Living Learning Center for pickup. item is ready for pickup,” said across campus. However, that has slightly changed Zilcosky. “Having these mailing Formerly found in the basement due to the new Des Places location. operations done in the same of Rockwell Hall, the Department The Towers SMC will still be area also permits us to offer of Mailing Services is now located open, but with limited hours. extended window service hours in Room 106 of the ground floor of There, students will be able to for students in an easy-to-access Des Places Living Learning Center. pick up mail from their assigned Gabriella DiPietro/News Editor location.” The new location can be accessed SMC mailbox, and support staff The Des Places location of the DU Mail Center can be accessed directly off During the semester, the new through a recently modified entrance will be available at the window of Stevenson Street. Students must pick up packages at this new location. see MAIL — page 2 opinions features sports a & e Follow us on... Local newspaper Gumberg College football One Dollar changes it up gets creepy preview impresses Filmed locally, this The Post-Gazette Frankenstein Big-time college series looks and feels begins exhibit sparks football finally like Pittsburgh... digitization... conversations... kicking off... @theduquesneduke PAGE 4 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 9 2 THEDUQUESNEDUKE bluff briefs Holocaust grave sites discovered in School of Pharmacy holds White Coat Ceremony The School of Pharmacy held Lithuania by team of researchers its 16th White Coat ceremony on Aug. 26, marking students’ LITHUANIA — from page 1 components; to find Olkin and her entry into the professional family’s grave, locating a mass Jew- pharmacy program. science to write and rewrite histo- ish grave from the Holocaust near The white coats that ry,” he said. “Many of the projects Trakas and to excavate the ruins students received will be worn have involved sites in Israel that of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius during their labratory and are mentioned in the Bible. Over to find the corners of the old syna- experiential studies. the past ten years we have been gogue which was destroyed by Rus- Students also received a working at sites related to the Ho- sians in the 1950s, Reeder said. pharmacy pin after reciting a locaust as well.” He added that they also wanted pledge of professionalism. Olkin was a Lithuanian Jew and to locate the bimah, “the place in The ceremony also featured a college freshman at Vilnius Uni- the synagogue where the Torah, the keynote speaker, DU alumna Laura Mark, vice president versity in 1941 when Nazi Germany holy book of the Jewish religion, of pharmacy at Allegheny invaded the country. was kept,” in the Great Synagogue Health Network. According to Reeder, as the Na- of Vilnius. zis began to gather up Jews and Reeder said the group spent place them in guarded neighbor- the first week of the project in POLICE briefs hoods called ghettos, Olkin left Vil- Vilnius, Lithuania where they did nius and went back to her home to research and excavation at the What’s shakin’ bacon? PB&J be with her family near Rokiskis. Great Synagogue. The other two here to fill you in on the latest When she got to her village, the weeks were spent near Rokiskis, campus crime. Jews were already being removed Lithuania, where Olkin and her On Aug. 23, a framed poster from their homes and made to stay family were buried. There they was stolen from the Alpha Phi in her town’s train station. searched for the Olkin-Jofe burial Delta fraternity wing in Towers. A Reeder explained that Olkin was site, named for the two families second poster was also stolen and Courtesy of Philip Reeder defaced. a poetry major in college and was buried there and at the Trakas known as a “very good poet.” mass burial site. Using ground-penetrating radar, Philip Reeder and his colleagues were able to On Aug. 25, an intoxicated locate and discover the grave sites of the Olkin and Jofe families in Lithuania. student was found in the Towers She also wrote stories and kept a The research team knew rough- lobby. They were referred to the detailed diary. As Jews were being ly where the Olkin burial site was Reeder stressed the importance of petus for more locations we dis- Office of Student Conduct. rounded up, she did not want her thanks to an eyewitness account. science in aiding to the discovery of cover to be memorialized.” Also on Aug. 25, a student’s writings taken, Reeder said. “We had a general idea where to the graves. The research team that discov- earbuds were taken off his table in “She gave [the writings] to the look because, in 1941, where the “It is important proof that sci- ered Olkin’s grave consisted of Hogan Dining Center. priest at the church in her town. family was murdered, a six year old ence can be used to write and Reeder, Professor Harry Jol and On Aug. 26, a student reported The priest hid her writings un- girl watched the execution from a rewrite history. Without using five students from the University that her ex-boyfriend held her by der the altar in the church and nearby farm. This girl, all grown ground penetrating radar, the site of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Richard the arms during an argument that they stayed there for over 50 up, gave an interview in 1994 about of the Olkin-Jofe burial would have took place in the Armstrong tun- Freund, the director of the Maurice years forgotten,” he said. Olkin what happened,” Reeder said. “As never been discovered,” he said. nels. The report was sent to the Greenberg Center for Judaic Stud- Office of Student Conduct. did not survive the war. Reeder part of this interview she drew a Finding these graves adds to the ies at the University of Hartford and Also on Aug. 26, a Vickroy resi- said she and her family were memory map of where the events crucial task of remembering the Susan Cardillo, a film studies pro- dent was found to be in posses- murdered by the Nazis in either took place. We used that map and horrors of the Holocaust. fessor at the University of Hartford.