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@thepittnews Vol. 105 Issue 123 Friday, February 27, 2015 Pittnews.com TREE CLIMBING Reverend Lennox Yearwood lived through Hurricane Katrina and lost loved ones to the storm. Even without the devastation of the area, he says, his home state would still be called Cancer Alley, with water runos, smog and pollution causing children to suer from asthma, bronchitis and em- physema. This is the reality that Yearwood and Michael Leon Guerrero are working hard to change. The Global Studies Center hosted the fourth part of a five-part video dialogue series titled “The Culture Against Climate Change” on Thursday afternoon in Posvar Hall. Yearwood and Guerrero both spoke via video call to more than 50 people, in- cluding students, faculty and community members. Yearwood is president of the Hip Hop Caucus, a civil and human rights orga- nization, and Guerrero is interim national coordinator of the Our Power Campaign, a climate justice alliance. The series is sponsored by the Depart- ment of Sociology, the urban studies pro- gram and supported by the Oce of the Provost and the Year of Sustainability. Through their activism, Yearwood and Guerrero seek to create an environmental Students, activists discuss climate change Anjana Murali Staff Writer Grady Martin, a sophomore Geology major, tackles the Trees climbing wall. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer They talked and, later, chanted, but they knew it wasn’t enough. Roughly 200 service workers — includ- ing janitors, security guards, fast food work- ers, students, professors and community members — gathered in the O’Hara Stu- dent Center on Thursday at 5 p.m. to hear a panel of workers and experts discuss wage inequality in Pittsburgh, organizers said. The panel was organized by Pitt, the local 32BJ Service workers demand higher wages at panel Dale Shoemaker Assistant News Editor Climate 3 Wages 2

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Vol. 105Issue 123

Friday, February 27, 2015Pittnews.com

TREE CLIMBING

Reverend Lennox Yearwood lived through Hurricane Katrina and lost loved ones to the storm.

Even without the devastation of the area, he says, his home state would still be called Cancer Alley, with water runo! s, smog and pollution causing children to su! er from asthma, bronchitis and em-physema.

This is the reality that Yearwood and Michael Leon Guerrero are working hard to change.

The Global Studies Center hosted the fourth part of a fi ve-part video dialogue series titled “The Culture Against Climate Change” on Thursday afternoon in Posvar Hall. Yearwood and Guerrero both spoke via video call to more than 50 people, in-cluding students, faculty and community members. Yearwood is president of the Hip Hop Caucus, a civil and human rights orga-nization, and Guerrero is interim national coordinator of the Our Power Campaign, a climate justice alliance.

The series is sponsored by the Depart-ment of Sociology, the urban studies pro-gram and supported by the O" ce of the Provost and the Year of Sustainability.

Through their activism, Yearwood and Guerrero seek to create an environmental

Students, activists discuss climate change

Anjana Murali Staff Writer

Grady Martin, a sophomore Geology major, tackles the Trees climbing wall. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

They talked and, later, chanted, but they knew it wasn’t enough.

Roughly 200 service workers — includ-ing janitors, security guards, fast food work-ers, students, professors and community members — gathered in the O’Hara Stu-dent Center on Thursday at 5 p.m. to hear a

panel of workers and experts discuss wage inequality in Pittsburgh, organizers said. The panel was organized by Pitt, the local 32BJ

Service workers demand higher wages at panelDale Shoemaker

Assistant News Editor

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branch of the Service Employees Interna-tional Union and a local branch of Fight for $15, a national organization.

Organizers hung banners around the sec-ond-fl oor ballroom calling for a minimum wage of $15 per hour, one of which read, “Strike! Better pay for a stronger Pittsburgh.”

University spokesman John Fedele said on Thursday afternoon that the University would not comment on the panel.

Each member of the panel gave their per-sonal perspectives on income inequality. The panel included Stephen Herzenberg, an economist with the Keystone Research Center, Bruce Kraus, Pittsburgh City Council president and representative for Pittsburgh’s third council district, several service work-ers from around the city and Joshua Orange, a junior at Pitt.

Sam Williamson, regional director for the local 32BJ SEIU, which helps organize work-ers union in Pittsburgh, mediated the panel and began with a challenge for the audience.

“Is your future going to be determined

by your skin or where you went to school ... or your inherent worth as a human being?” he asked.

Minimum wage and other underpaid workers, Williamson said, are fi ghting for the minimum wage to be raised to $15 per hour, for better working conditions and for the right to form a union without interfer-ence by employers.

“The only thing throughout American history that has raised wages is unions,” Williamson said.

One-third of Pittsburgh residents live in poverty , according to a 32BJ release af-ter the panel. A recent study by the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board found that nearly half of the new jobs being cre-ated in Pittsburgh will pay less than $14 per hour, the release said. This data is also from “Pittsburgh’s Racial Demographics 2015: Di! erences and Disparities” published by the School of Social Work earlier this year.

Williamson said SEIU is currently helping to unionize security guards around the city. Because of the actions of 32BJ, he said, 400 security guards are currently unionized, and 400 more are expected to unionize by mid-March. There are about 1,000 security

guards in total in Pittsburgh, he said.The panel comes amid contract negotia-

tions between service workers at Pitt and the University. Workers are calling for cheaper health care and a 3.7 percent annual raise.

Before the panel spoke, Orange stood and began to rally the audience.

“I believe!” he called. “I believe that we will win!”

Then, Herzenberg, the fi rst to speak, spoke about the history of wage inequality in America.

“There’s an answer to inequality,” he said, “It’s $15 an hour.”

He discussed the specifi c economics of income inequality and explained that when all workers are paid more, the economy as a whole is better o! .

“Only you can save America from itself,” Herzenberg said.

Lena Germany, who works at a KFC in Wilkinsburg, told a personal story of how she lost custody of her young son . He was taken away from her, she said, because, a few years ago, the state of Pennsylvania deemed her fi nancially unable to support him. She expressed her frustration with working for a low wage.

“I don’t make the paychecks — all I do is work for them. I don’t want to struggle anymore,” Germany said.

She and other fast food workers around Pittsburgh, she said, are planning a strike on April 15.

Aliyya Lee, a cleaner at Pitt and a member of 32BJ, was also on the panel and spoke about how working as part of a union has benefi ted her. She said she is raising two daughters, one of whom is a senior at Pitt Johnstown.

“If I didn’t have this job,” she said, “I wouldn’t have been able to put her through school.”

While she was speaking, she started cry-ing. An audience member called to her and said, “Keep that strength.”

Later, during his speech, Orange ex-plained what a living wage means.

“It simply means that you can live with your wages. It means you don’t have to choose between [paying only] two-thirds of your utilities ... or whether or not you’ll be able to feed your children,” he said.

After the panel, Williamson opened up

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movement that stresses the importance of intersectionality by encouraging mi-norities to be vocal in the climate change conversation.

“Minorities in poor communities bear the brunt of horrible environmental condi-tions,” Yearwood said.

According to Yearwood, the face of the environmental movement has typi-cally been that of the “white, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing hippie.”

The white-dominated face of the move-ment has not only silenced those voices but created a culture of exclusivity that discourages minorities from joining the movement, according to Yearwood.

Yearwood and Guerrero’s e! orts are focused on mobilizing the oppressed voices to join the movement. They aim to create a movement whose demographics more closely refl ect those that are marginalized.

The Hip Hop Caucus released an al-bum called HOME, which features black artists including Elle Varner, Ne-Yo and Crystal Waters. This not only serves as a “soundtrack to the movement,” Yearwood said, but also serves to create a movement that is more attractive to all types of people.

The album, according to Yearwood, was created to use people’s culture to connect them to the climate change conversation.

So far, his e! orts have proven e! ective.Yearwood, along with 500,000 peo-

ple, participated in the People’s Climate March in New York last September. At the forefront of the march were the dis-enfranchised and young voices, he said. This march was crucial in not only the fi ght for more environmental world but also in changing the face of the movement, Year-wood said.

For Guerrero, the march was important because it “opened up political space for victories to happen” and demonstrated “what a movement in the U.S. needs to look like in order to a! ect the climate or any other issue.”

Other wins for the environmental move-ment, he said, include young people’s envi-ronmental support, the recent veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline and the New York coalition that banned fracking.

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the fl oor to the audience.Later, a crowd member asked Kraus

if City Council would support the right to unionize and support Fight for $15.

“You only have to ask,” Kraus replied. This sentiment was echoed by council-

woman Natalia Rudiak, who was also in at-tendance.

Rudiak, who is currently running for city controller, said she co-sponsored a bill that

City Council passed in 2010 to help raise the wages of private sector service workers.

Because of legal hang-ups, though, she said, the law is being enforced, but on an unregulated basis. Because of this, she said, she and other City Council members, includ-ing Kraus, are dedicated to advocating for workers’ rights.

“It’s really powerful when elected o" cials lend their voices,” she said. “We show up.”

Orange said students should care about income inequality because it directly a! ects their lives post-college.

“This is pertinent for us,” he said during

his speech. “It’s hard enough for us to try to fi gure out how to pay o! a loan with $7.25 an hour, so it must be impossible to try to fi gure out to how to get to a better social economic state if you can’t fi gure out how to pay for school in the fi rst place.”

He called on students not to be apathetic and to take action. Taking action, he said, is important because it is the right thing to do.

“This is not our fi ght, but this is all of our war,” he said. “When I say this is important for students to do, I mean it’s quintessential for us as humans to do.”

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OPINIONSCasual Fridays

EDITORIALEDITORIAL

Casket case

Back in December, Johnny Morgan Lowe III’s family was on the receiving end of a wrongly committed six-foot plunder. After a grave error by a crime lab, Lowe’s family mistakenly buried Louie Caldwell during their closed-casket service. On Sad-urday, after the mortifying situation was fi nally sordid out, Lowe’s family buried the right man. Although Georgia Bureau of Investigation o! cials said the agency planned to pay for Lowe’s burial — morgue than they asked for — his family still had some dirty words.

That’s nuts!

Earlier this month, a dog in London su" ered a harsh death by chocolate. After sun rays refl ected o" a Nutella jar ly-ing on a windowsill, the blinds caught on fi re, setting the house ablaze. Upon learning their mis-fortune, the family went hazel-nuts. When asked for comment, the homeowners said that they knew Nutella was pretty fi re , and they wished they’d been more careful with such a hot commodity.

Bus (p)aide

A bus aide from Millville, N.J., was bus-ted last Friday for stealing lunch money and bagged lunches from preschool-ers. Rosa Rios was caught yum-maging through students’ back-packs on surveillance footage.

Rios was charged with robbery, theft and gluttony and is cur-rently being held on $70,000 worth of lunch money for bail. When asked for comment, Rios said she had it in the bag all along — it was like taking candy from a baby.

Chump change

During a house party in a gated Florida community earlier this month, a party-goer had a change of heart for the worse. The suspect stole $18,000 worth of nickels from the premises. The media was anxious to hear the plainti" s’ fi ve cents about the cents-less crime. While there was no word on whether they got their Nick-elsback, it is rumored that the thief has enough funds to book Chad Kroeger for the next house party. Without a reward, there is no incentive for the community to fi nd the culprit.

Cold case

Earlier this week, police in Hanahan, S.C., “arrested” Elsa from Disney’s “Frozen” for bringing a cold spell to the area. During questioning, cops asked Elsa, “Do you wanna build a prison?” She replied, “The jail never bothered me anyway.” Angrily, police told her not to let it go and not to collect $200 — she had to cooperate — or Elsa. The snow queen was released without charges, though, when the main evidence — a frozen fountain — thawed.

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COLUMNCOLUMN

This year, not a single female director or screenwriter was nominated for an Oscar.

Women’s underrepresenta-tion in media is no new tale, though. Women accounted for 4.1 percent of directors, 12.2 percent of writers and 20 per-cent of producers in the top 100 grossing films of 2012, according to Stacy Smith, an associate professor at the Uni-versity of Southern California. Women made up a mere 28.4 percent of the speaking roles in these movies.

A patriarchal society, set up

to demand this inequality in representation, is to blame for the low number of females rep-resented in media. To combat this inequality, it is imperative that directors integrate female roles with substance into their work, such as the 2016 female-directed “Ghostbusters” mov-ie. Kristen Wiig, Melissa Mc-Carthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon will star in the film.

The incentive? It turns out that sexism doesn’t really sell — films that have superficial female roles or exclude women from the screenplay make less money than those that do. By popularizing the use of female leads in film, Hollywood can

combat sexism and see higher returns on investment.

The “Bechdel test” is the tool used by screenwriters and viewers to determine whether there is sufficient gender rep-resentation in a film. The test was popularized in cartoon-ist Alison Bechdel’s 1985 strip titled “The Rule.”

There are three prongs to this test — There must be at least two named female charac-ters, who speak to each other, about something other than men.

Two data sets interplay to show that passing this test

Sexism doesn’t sell: Integrate more meaningful female roles into fi lm

Adrianne Glenn Columnist

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— and effectively integrating women into a film — is more profitable than excluding them.

The first — the official Bechdel test movie list — is run by moviegoers who review films and decide whether they pass the test. Over 5,000 titles have been reviewed thus far. A second analy-sis — from The Numbers, a leading site for box office data — has surveyed the costs of about 4,500 movies.

The intersection between these two analyses, conducted by Walt Hickey for a column on FiveThirtyEight, reveals that the total median gross return on investment for a film that passed the Bechdel test was $2.68 for each dol-lar spent. Conversely, the total median gross return on investment for films that failed was only $2.45 for each dol-lar spent.

Movies that feature more women consistently have higher returns on investment and higher gross profits. So

why don’t we see more of them? “Movies that are female-driven do

not travel,” Krista Smith, West Coast editor of Vanity Fair, told Hickey. Since foreign pre-sales are crucial to pay for the vast majority of films, it is detrimental that investors don’t be-lieve female roles will flourish in the box office.

Despite movies such as “Brides-maids,” which features a hilarious cast of independent women, Hollywood still hasn’t improved in gender representa-tion. Why?

Investors think it is more likely that women will see a male-dominated film than males will attend a “chick flick.” Films comprised solely of women, then, are not often funded. “Bridesmaids” is the needle in the haystack.

There is a cyclical nature to this ab-sence of female figures in the media — we neglect to cast strong females, which perpetuates cultural sexism, and then we continue to believe that we shouldn’t cast female roles.

This is why the cast for the new “Ghostbusters” film is so relevant to

the scope of equality in entertainment. “Ghostbusters” will pass the Bechdel

test, so if it succeeds in the box office, it will send a clear message to anyone who still doubts that doing well eco-nomically is possible with a female-dominated movie.

It’s important to note, though, that simply representing women in the film is not the end of the job. If it were, we might only see bland side characters and tired tropes where women are left out of the main plotline.

For instance, 2014’s “The Lego Mov-ie” showcases this trope. Wyldstyle, the lead female character, is a “master builder” in the movie, meaning she can build anything she needs — even with-out an instruction manual. Still, the male role, Emmet, who is not a master builder, turns out to be “the special” who resolves the conflict in the movie.

This female character can’t solve the societal problem onscreen, because an incompetent male has been chosen for the position. Men’s gender alone pro-pels them into superior ranks. Women do not get to be heroes, even when they

have the exact skill set for it. So, even though “The Lego Movie”

technically passes the Bechdel test, it cannot be given credit for representing women because it does so inadequately.

There are some good examples of present-day adequate representation, though. Dystopias such as “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” feature strong female protagonists and are targeted for a younger demographic, which is especially important given the internal-ization of female inadequacy that can easily take place in younger viewers.

If these endeavours to bring strong female characters to light are success-ful, they will undoubtedly spark further discourse about including more women in future roles. When it becomes clear that female characters actually bring in more revenue, we’re bound to see more women in media. It’s all about money, and sexism doesn’t actually sell.

Adrianne Glenn primarily writes about social and cultural issues for The Pitt News.

Write to Adrianne at [email protected].

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SPORTSWOMEN’S BASKETBALLWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Pitt’s women’s basketball team could not contend with ferocious onslaught of No. 4 Notre Dame’s o! ense Thursday evening, falling to the Fighting Irish 87-59 in South Bend, Ind.

Even after falling into an early 14-4 defi cit, the Panthers (18-10, 8-7 ACC) remained competitive early on in the game, as Brianna Kiesel scored nine of her team’s fi rst 17 points to help Pitt decrease Notre Dame’s lead to 20-17.

That was the closest the Panthers would get to overcoming the Irish (27-2, 14-1 ACC) lead, however, as the hosts closed the half on a 20-10 run, entering halftime with an advantage of 40-27.

Notre Dame continued to thrive in the second half, building on its momentum to begin the period on a 21-5 run, essentially sealing the victory for the Fighting Irish within the fi rst 10 minutes of the fi nal period. Pitt did not diminish the defi cit to anything lower than 23.

Despite the loss, the Panthers were once again led by senior guard Brianna Kiesel.

After being named on Monday as one of 15 fi nalists for the prestigious Nancy Lieberman Award, which is given to the best point guard in the nation, Kiesel exploded for 27 points, three assists and two steals on the evening. She was the only Pitt player to score double fi gures.

No player on Pitt managed more than fi ve rebounds — a mark set by graduate student Monica Wignot, who only managed six points while going 3-12 from the fi eld. The Panthers went dry from beyond the arc, going an abysmal 2 of 16 on 3-point attempts for the contest.

The Fighting Irish received more balanced con-tributions, with fi ve players — forwards Markisha Wright, Taya Reimer and Brianna Turner and guards Jewell Loyd and Lindsay Allen– reaching double fi g-ures . Loyd led the Irish with 16 points, chipping in fi ve assists and three rebounds as well.

Notre Dame outplayed Pitt in nearly every facet of the game, outshooting the Panthers 62.7 percent to 36.4 percent, outrebounding them 41-21 and dishing out 10 more assists than their visitors.

Pitt will have to move past the blowout loss quickly, as the Panthers’ season fi nale is this Sunday against the Clemson Tigers. The contest will serve as senior day for Kiesel, Wignot and Cora McManus. Tip-o! is scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Petersen Events Center.

Panthers steamrolled by No. 4 Irish despite Kiesel!s 27Dan Sostek

Assistant Sports Editor

Brianna Kiesel scored 27 of Pitt’s 59 points in the loss. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

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W O R K I N G - With the recent emergence of Sheldon Jeter as a ca-pable o! ensive weapon, the shifting of Chris Jones into a sixth-man role and the signifi cant decrease in Josh Newkirk’s minutes, there is no reason for Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon to stray from those adjust-ments. Jeter is capable of scoring from anywhere on the court and has earned his 25 to 30 minutes of playing time per game, while Jones has provid-ed what many thought Newkirk would: a guard who can come off the bench to provide a slew of quick points, as he did against Syracuse last weekend, scoring 19 in the Panthers’ 65-61 victory at the Carrier Dome. Newkirk has shown fl ashes of talent, but has seemed to take a step back this year, and Dixon should not feel the need to experiment with him for signifi cant stretches until he displays some consistency.

YOUNG, WILD AND FREE- Michael Young, the Panthers sophomore center, has done everything Pitt could have hoped for

this season in terms of switching positions from power forward to center, switching from a mid-range player to doing almost all of his work in the post. Averaging 13.1 points and 7.3 rebounds a game while seeing his fi eld goal percentage skyrocket from 41.3 percent to 52.6 percent, the Duquesne, Pa., product has been an e" cient presence for Pitt. Still, Pitt needs Young to provide just a little more than his per game averages. Pitt is 10-1 in games that Young scores 15-plus points , and just 3-5 when he scores 10 or fewer. The team needs to go to what worked Tuesday against Bos-ton College: feed Young down low and let him do work in the post.W H A T E V E R ’ S

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FIVE WAYS TO FINISHFIVE WAYS TO FINISH

STRONGSTRONG A! P"## (19-10, 8-7 ACC) en-ters the home-

stretch of the regular sea-son, the team is hoping to avoid any blemishes on its resumé before traveling to Greensboro for the ACC tournament. With a man-ageable remaining three games – at Wake Forest (12-16, 4-11 ACC), against Miami (18-10, 8-7 ACC) at home and at Florida State (15-14, 7-9 ACC) — here is a look at what the Panthers must do to fi nish the regular season with a string of victories .

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Michael Young will be key for the Panthers as the team closes out the regular season. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer

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PRESSURE THE PERIMETER- The Panthers’ perimeter defense has been an Achilles’ heel for the team — primarily in losses, such as their

matchups against Duke and Virginia Tech. Senior guard Cameron Wright, primarily known for his staunch

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fense to ensure that any of their remain-ing opponents cannot consistently hit a shot from beyond the arc to either end a Pitt rally or kickstart one of their own.

IT’S A TRAP- Every single game in the ACC is a challenge, par-ticularly on the road. It doesn’t matter if it’s a top-ranked Duke

team or, as the Panthers learned earlier this year, a last-place Virginia Tech squad. Jamie Dixon must have his team focused on seemingly easy road games,

particularly Sunday’s matchup against Wake Forest. Records can be mislead-ing, as the Demon Deacons have shown promise this season and nearly toppled the No. 2 Virginia Cavaliers a couple of weeks back. The Panthers can’t overlook any opponent, or their March Madness hopes could be dashed quickly.

EFFICIENCY IS EVERY-THING- The Panthers rank 10th in the nation in assists

this season, thanks in part to

Robinson, whose 5.2 assists per game ranks third in the ACC. But even more im-portant than the team’s stellar ball move-ment has been the e! ciency with which it has executed it. The team sports the best assists-to-turnover ratio in the country, as well as averaging the fi fth fewest turn-overs per game of any team. Avoiding giveaways has been key for a Pitt o" ense that, at times, can go stagnant, and it can’t a" ord to squander o" ensive opportuni-ties if it hopes to enter the ACC tourna-ment on a fi ve-game winning streak.

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throughout the year, which perhaps ex-plains Pitt’s inconsistency defending the three. Junior point guard James Robinson has thrived at times, defensively defend-ing elite long-range shooters — notably shutting down UNC’s Marcus Paige — but still hasn’t been a defi nitive stopper. The Panthers will need to play solid team de-

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