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January 7, 2013 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com 1 April 22, 2013 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com 1 Summer, 2013 | The Pitt News | www.pittnews.com 1 Vol. 103 Vol. 103 Vol. 103 Issue 151 Issue 124 Issue 92 83°|64° 41°|32° 34° | 20° @thepittnews pittnews.com @thepittnews pittnews.com @thepittnews pittnews.com Thursday, April 18, 2013 Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Thursday, January 17, 2013 Druids BATTLE OF THE BURGH MAYORAL ELECTION FIFTY SHADES OF GREYHOUNDS VOLLEYBALL SPIN MOVE More Pitt hires State sit on candidates new moves to Allocations join race volleyball privatize Committee Gwenn Barney lottery Assistant News Editor Matt Singer coach Staff Writer In the aftermath of Mayor Luke Ra- Gideon Bradshaw Torie Wytiaz Senior Staff Writer venstahl’s decision to withdraw his Staff Writer election bid for the mayorship, sev- When students discuss the eral potential candidates expressed Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s responsibilities of the Student interest in entering the race. As the Pitt volleyball team prepares offi ce announced on Friday that Government Board, its role in the Yesterday, City Council President for next season, it will do so under the UK-based Camelot Global Ser- allocation of the Student Activities Darlene Harris said she will enter the a new head coach with champion- vices has won a contract to manage Fund is always at the top of the list. race and started passing around her ship experience. the Pennsylvania State Lottery. The Board, responsible for allo- petition to run. To run for mayor in COVER Just one month after leading The corporation has promised cating the $2.3 million that makes Pittsburgh’s democratic primaries, an the volleyball team at Concordia more than $34 billion in profi ts up the Student Activities Fund, has individual must collect 250 signatures University in Irvine, Calif., to an during the 20-year period of the faced signifi cant scrutiny over the from registered and enrolled mem- undefeated season and its fi rst contract. The plan, however, has past week because of its reported bers of the Democratic party who are NAIA championship, Dan Fisher drawn criticism from state legis- association with the Druids, a se- also residents of the city by March 12. joins the Panthers ahead of their President Kayla Chee and Vice President Peter Dimitrion of Panther Hula Club practice choreography lators, who say they were not in- cret society on campus. But in ad- Harris expressed confi dence that she fi rst season as members of the in Posvar Hall before other members arrive. Ragini Grace Gupta | Staff Photographer volved in the process. The Ameri- dition to the six members of the Shadyside resident Daniel Kilkenny (center) and Bloomfi eld native Mark Steger (right) look on as Mark Choi of Greenfi eld reaches out could procure the necessary signa- Sue Mayer, from Greenfi eld, wrangles some greyhounds for the Going Home Greyhounds Inc. booth at the Home and Garden Show at the Atlantic Coast Conference. He re- can Federation of State, County Board who are part of the exclusive to make a catch during a Wednesday evening ultimate frisbee match on Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park. Nathan McIntire | Staff Photographer tures in time. David Lawrence Convention Center. Kenny Ong | Visual Editor places Toby Rens, who spent fi ve and Municipal Employees, the group, the Druids have also been “I’ve worked with fi ve mayors. I years leading the Pitt volleyball Terry Milani a Pitt stalwart union that represents most Penn- well-represented in another sig- feel confi dent that I would be able to MAYORAL ELECTION team before leaving the program sylvania lottery workers, has also nifi cant body on campus — SGB’s Climate change expert advocates more sustainability lead this city,” Harris said. last month and taking a job at Chi- protested the deal, expressing con- Allocations Committee. Former Pennsylvania State Au- cago State University. Former pro athlete honored for 40 years of dedication to University cerns about transparency and their Arguably the most consistently ditor General Jack Wagner also Peduto sees opening in race after Ravenstahl’s exit “[Rens’] contract was not re- job security. active of the eight committees that Parthena Moisiadis such as the New York Times and Na- ple running this country have set can now look back on those events expressed interest in running for attract attention to Peduto’s quest for ic mayor has occupied offi ce for the goal of modernization. newed. It was a personnel decision. Aaron Stier-Cohen distribute and allocate funds. Despite his impressive list of ac- Jay Pagni, a spokesman for the Staff Writer Natalie Daher report to the Board, the Alloca- tional Geographic have cited Romm, up a system that is not sustainable with insight and understanding, it mayor in a statement he released on Staff Writer the mayor’s seat. Peduto launched past 80 years, the primaries on May We’re going to decline further com- Staff Writer “I’m not there to dictate what’s complishments that coincide with a Governor’s Budget Offi ce, said the tions Committee is responsible for and Rolling Stone mentioned him so that your generation will not be was not clear during the time what Saturday. He, too, began collecting his campaign for mayor on Dec. 13, 21 are the major contentious battle Support system ment beyond that,” Pitt athletics going on in an autocratic way,” Mi- busy schedule, Milani says he likes offi ce made the decision to look for evaluating requests for allocations Climate change expert Joseph Romm among the “100 People Who Are able to consume as we consumed,” was actually happening, what was signatures on a petition. Last Tues- When Mayor Luke Ravenstahl de- a move that confi rmed he would step for the mayoral seat. With the com- Earlier on the morning of Raven- spokesman Ted Feeley said. Once upon a time, Big T — or as he lani said. “I need to be knowledge- to visit offi ces throughout the WPU outside management last April in of the Student Activities Fund from delivered an apology to the Pitt com- Changing America” in 2009. he said. going to happen and what individu- day, Wagner told the Pittsburgh clared he was dropping his bid for down from his current position rep- petition slightly eased by Ravenstahl’s stahl’s announcement, Allegheny For Fisher, the opportunity to is better known, Terry Milani — was able in what [people] do so I can help just to see how things are going. response to a report issued by the student organizations looking to munity yesterday afternoon. Romm, a principal deputy assis- Edward Stricker, dean of the als were supposed to do. Tribune-Review that he was con- re-election on March 1, grins, fi st resenting Pittsburgh’s eighth district withdrawal, Peduto currently faces County Executive Rich Fitzgerald coach in the ACC is an honor. a 40th-round draft pick for the St. and facilitate where I can.” “He does his rounds all through- Pennsylvania Senate Budget and use the money for group activities. “From your generation to mine, tant secretary in the U.S. Depart- Honors College, said that educat- Romm said that the DOE used sidering running as an independent pumps and spirited exclamations on city council, a position he has held only City Controller Michael Lamb and State Representative Ed Gainey, “The ACC is and will always be Louis Cardinals. Now, Milani, the The man is generally credited out the Union,” said Michael Nites, Finance Committee. The 13-person committee docu- it’s not pretty what is going to hap- ment of Energy’s Offi ce of Energy ing the community about climate the term “sustainable development” in the general election, rather than warmly welcomed his announcement for 11 years. The eighth district in- for the coveted Democratic candi- D-Allegheny, spoke to the media on a one of the top conferences in the associate director of Student Life with the creation of the current SGB former Allocations Committee Chair According to the report, the ments and discusses requests at pen in the coming decades,” he said. Effi ciency and Renewable Energy change is important because global to describe a method of economic entering the primary, but his plans in the blue-and-gold campaign offi ce cludes the Oakland, Shadyside, Squir- date position in general elections this blustery Penn Avenue, just down the nation,” Fisher said in a press re- and director of Student Volunteer allocations system, the University and current SGB member. “He’ll state’s population aged 60 and a private meeting each week and Pitt’s Honors College holds lec- from 1995 to 1998 and assistant warming is not a subject of universal growth that would take future gen- might have changed. of City Councilman Bill Peduto as the rel Hill, Point Breeze, Bloomfi eld and fall, though several other potential street from Peduto’s offi ce. Flurries lease. “To be a good team in the Outreach , spends his time running Student Organization Certifica- walk in and just be like, ‘Where’s over — which was then around then presents its funding recom- tures each year to educate the Pitt secretary in the same offi ce dur- attention such as other challenges erations into consideration during “I am now looking at running in mayoral candidate’s fi eld organizers Friendship neighborhoods. A few candidates, including City Council stuck to the knee-length pea coats ACC means you are one of the best from offi ce to offi ce — not base to tion program, the Graduate and Mike at?’ Then walk to the back, 17 percent — was projected to mendations to the Board, along community about global warming ing 1997, came to better prepare in the past.