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The Pitt NewsApril 8, 2016 | Issue 139 | Volume 106

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Soundarya Bhaskar performs a dance at the eighth annual Cultural Ka-boom hosted by Zeta Sigma Chi Thursday night in the William Pitt Union. Jordan Mondell STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Kevin Stallings talks team, ACC

An arsenal of weapons lies across six tables in Curtis Smith’s self-defense class — not that you’d know it if you looked.

At ! rst glance, a cell phone, some pens and other everyday items sit on the table, all seem-ingly harmless. But when Smith starts talking, everything comes together.

" e cell phone is a taser. " e pens: blades that bring a whole new meaning to their “! ne point” classi! cation.

“" is cruci! x has a blade within,” Smith said, picking up the Christian symbol and # icking out a knife. “Praise the lord.”

Around 4:15 p.m. every Wednesday, Smith, a Pitt police o$ cer for 36 years and a self-defense instructor at Pitt, instructs his students on self-defense strikes, blocks and other maneuvers. At this week’s class, he called his students over to lecture on concealed weaponry.

Before he summoned them to the weapon-! lled tables to inspect the dangerous facades,

See Curtis Smith on page 2

New Pitt basketball head coach Kevin Stallings knows how to get to three places in Oakland.

He knows how to get to the Wyndham Hotel. He knows how to get to his o$ ce.

And, recently, he learned how to get to the Panera Bread on Forbes Avenue.

Stallings, along with longtime assistant coach Tom Richardson, ventured down to campus — although Stallings was under the impression that he was Downtown — to eat at the bistro chain. A% er parking, the out-

of-town duo spotted a young woman and struck up a conversation, asking for the best way to get to the restaurant from their spot.

As the woman directed the coaches to the restaurant on the chilly night, Stallings noticed that their guide had a Pitt sweat-shirt on.

“I didn’t even notice that in the begin-ning,” Stallings said.

Stallings went on to ask if she was a stu-dent at Pitt, if she liked it here and if she was a sports fan. She answered yes on all three accounts. He then got more speci! c, asking

See Stallings on page 8

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his students were grappling, learning how to reverse various holds. Curtis coached two students through a wrestle, one locking their leg around their partner’s neck and the other with their back squished into the mat on the ! oor.

“You’ve got to get your leg at a 90-degree angle be-hind that upper cervical region … behind that neck,” Curtis told two students entangled on the mat.

Smith, 62, has taught self-defense classes at Pitt for about 40 years. Just four years a" er he started his instructor career, he decided to join the force to help keep the city a safe place.

Students sign up for his one-credit martial arts classes such as self-defense, budo and kickboxing. Smith said he’d like to see self-defense classes be-come a general education requirement at Pitt because knowing how to protect oneself is a skill everyone should have.

“# e number one killer event that will keep you in harm’s way? Denial,” Smith said. “[People say] ‘It can’t happen to me.’ But it can happen to you.”

Smith is right to warn his students to be wary. Behind alcohol violations, burglaries and sexual violence are the two most common crimes on Pitt’s campus, according the Fall 2015 Annual Security and

Fire Safety Report. In 2014, the Pitt police reported 220 the" s and 63 total assaults. And according to the 2015 Association of American Universities Campus Climate survey, 21 percent of women and 6.2 percent of men at Pitt said they’ve experienced sexual vio-lence on campus.

Smith, though, can’t teach Pitt’s student body to protect itself all on his own.

Kevin Sciullo, a 2015 Pitt graduate and Smith’s assistant and protege, demonstrated transitions on students in front of the class.

Sciullo, who also instructs Pitt’s East West Martial Arts Club, said he met Smith at a national martial arts tournament, and he quickly learned that Smith’s in-struction style is one of the best he’s ever experienced because of his willingness to go beyond a sti$ , disci-plined master-student relationship.

“# e way I teach is based on emulating [Smith],” Sciullo said. “A lot of instructors are really formal … [Smith] takes a hands-on approach. It’s almost a coach mindset … and he’s always open to expand his mind, even at this age.”

Smith said remaining humble and getting to know each student on a personal level are both es-sential to being a good teacher.

“Skillful practitioners [of martial arts] and skill-

Curtis Smith, pg. 1

See Curtis Smith on page 3


German language app wins challenge

A! er seeing countless " rst-year stu-dents waste their dining hall swipes — and others who wished they had some — two former Resident Assistants hit their laptops.

Asim Viqar and Shil Patel designed Swipes — an app that facilitates sharing meal swipes and allows students to tip one another for the service — for Pitt’s second annual Mobile App Challenge.

“We see a supply and demand there between students who have swipes to of-fer and those who are looking for swipes,” Viqar, a junior neuroscience student, said.

Based on student votes, Viqar and Patel’s app won second place in Pitt’s second annu-al Pitt Mobile App Challenge on # ursday, while a German language learning app that lets users practice on the go, called Verblitz, took " rst place.

Nearly 300 student app developers, en-trepreneurs and tech enthusiasts " lled the William Pitt Union Assembly Room from noon to 2 p.m. at Computing Services and Systems Development’s Pitt Mobile App Challenge Award Ceremony. All 15 teams presented their apps at tables throughout the room, each falling into one of three cat-egories: ideas, mockups and prototypes.

# e Challenge, which began taking sub-missions in November 2015, gives students the chance to win prizes for their projects. During the ceremony, CSSD announced " ve app idea winners, three app mockup winners and two prototype winners.

Robert Burger, a junior information science major, won last year’s competition with an app to connect users with event info. And this year, he took home the grand prize for his prototype of Verblitz. # e app,

Josh YeStaff Writer

ful teachers are two di$ erent things,” Smith said. “Teaching is a di$ erent art form … If you’re a great leader, you’re also a great listener. You have to have an open and conscientious mind … You have to be good at reading people.”

For him, paying attention to each individual student makes for a more relaxed and e$ ective learning environment.

Smith’s lifetime accomplishments in the " eld of martial arts are extensive. He is retired from competition today, but for decades he fought in tournaments every weekend. He has hundreds of awards to show for it.

Yet with all the time he’s dedicated to perfect-ing his skills, he’s still found time for love. Smith married his wife, who is a teacher, 37 years ago, and they have four children.

“Your wife [should be] your best friend,” Smith said. “You’ve got to be lucky to " nd the right person at the right time in your life.”

# ese days, as he spends more time with his family and less time competing, Smith stays in tune with his martial arts side by partnering with organizations like the Professional Karate Com-mission to host the annual Ultimate Force Martial

Arts Tournament, where students and other mar-tial artists compete in matches on Pitt’s campus.

Kerry McCans, a sophomore pre-med student and member of Smith’s Wednesday class, said she never took a formal self-defense class before she signed up at her friend’s recommendation.

She said Smith’s real-life experience as a Pitt police o% cer makes his self-defense class all the more engaging.

“[Smith] mixes seriousness with being enter-taining and funny,” McCans said. “# is class is awesome. I love it ... You learn valuable skills and get some good stress relief.”

# ough martial arts is a sport, its meaning runs far deeper for its avid practitioners than the physical aspect alone, according to Smith.

“When you really start to learn martial arts,” Smith said, “your training becomes in" nite. # ere’s the physical stage, the metaphysical stage, the mental stage. You gain an understanding of time and distance. When you focus on an op-ponent, you’re looking to and through that op-ponent.”

As for what he does with his downtime — when he’s not teaching classes or on duty as a po-lice o% cer — Smith laughs.

“I train.”

Curtis Smith, pg. 2

See App on page 5


Doctors, professors consider the humanities in health care

! erapists aren’t the only medical profes-sionals who should know how to talk about feelings.

According to Amy Kennedy, an internal medicine resident in Pittsburgh, compas-sion is a skill all doctors need in order to best serve their patients.

“By using stories, we have a better way to empathize with our patients and improve patient-physician satisfaction,” Kennedy ex-plained.

Along with students and faculty, Kenne-dy and 31 other researchers met for the Hu-manities in Health conference ! ursday to analyze the role the humanities have in med-ical science. Pitt’s Department of Linguistics, Department of Family Medicine and Depart-ment of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Repro-ductive Services hosted the conference from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the University Club.

Ranging from athletic coaches preventing dating violence to Iranian research ethics, the conference allowed researchers to showcase their methods and present theses on the idea that humanities alongside medical practices humanize patients and doctors alike.

Kennedy showcased her presentation of a set of narrative essays by medical residents, which brought a human aspect to the pa-tients at the Birmingham Free Clinic. Part of the Salvation Army, the clinic is the only free clinic in Pittsburgh for uninsured people.

She said the essays, part of a practice she called “narrative medicine,” develop stronger relationships between doctors and patients.

“Listening to stories, re" ecting on stories, [doctors] re" ecting on each other’s stories,” Kennedy said. “Ultimately, we hope to get the patients involved in helping edit [the nar-ratives].”

For William Hasek, a postdoctoral fellow at Washington & Je# erson College studying psychology who presented at the conference,

humanities and medicine converge through cognitive assessment manuals — scripts doctors are required to follow when assess-ing patients’ general intelligence, nonverbal intelligence, attention, memory and motor function.

He said the manual that contains those scripts falls short because it restricts doctors from knowing how to react when patients say unexpected, emotion-driven things that don’t $ t into the outline.

“! e issue is the manual doesn’t give you any guidance on how to respond, and some-times you have to violate the script in order to manage those feelings,” Hasek said.

! e study Hasek presented consisted of his observations of medical professionals ad-ministering cognitive assessments. He took note each time they broke the script, why they did so and how they dealt with the situ-ation free form.

When one of his patients began talking about discovering his deceased wife’s body, Hasek said, he realized the manual’s guidance didn’t help him deal with the man’s emotions.

“On the one hand, I want to be empathic. He’s telling me something painful and I want to be supportive, but at the same time, we do have to get the test done,” Hasek said. “Situa-tions like these can lead to patients doubting their medical professionals, which can result in bad decision making when it comes to ac-cepting treatment.”

Hasek’s research began building an an-swer to this problem, he said, but there’s still a long way to go before the issue is resolved.

For Erica Hom, a senior studying linguis-tics and Russian, the conference wasn’t just about the research. ! e biggest takeaway for her, she said, was the prospect of getting a job.

“I am looking for ways I can use my de-gree and what I’ve learned in a university set-ting for my career,” Hom said. “I really want

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to go into child care or nonpro! t work. [One presentation] I went to was about how we can restructure how we teach children about gender. I think that’s important to know for someone who wants to work with children.”

Hom said the conference gave her insight into how humanities degrees can be put to good use in nontraditional ! elds, like medi-cine.

At her job, Hom said she volunteered with a 50-year-old woman who wanted to have a

second child, but her doctor told her it was likely too risky, and she cried for weeks over it.

Hom said the woman’s story helped her realize that if the doctor had been trained in how to handle emotional situations, perhaps they could’ve helped her work through her disappointed emotions.

“[" at] lack of understanding how anoth-er person is going to take this information is something that also a# ects their health,” Hom said. “It a# ects their mental health — which is important.”

Humanities, pg. 4

which o# ers users lists of German words and audio samples that help with learning, won Burger $2,000 in Amazon credit.

Burger, who is currently planning a trip to Germany, said he designed the app as a way for him to study the language before he le$ .

“I see this as a stepping stone which al-lows me to do other things,” Burger said. His next project, he said, is making a documen-tary about Syrian refugees.

" ough his app might not be the most powerful prototype in the competition, Burger said, he won because he was persis-tent in marketing his app and getting people to vote for him.

He said he lobbied for his app in Hillman Library and Towers Lobby, asking students to vote on the spot.

“It is more important for me to get votes and win the App Challenge than it is to have a very beautiful ! nal products which might not have the votes necessary to win,” Burger said. “I am here to win the Pitt Mobile App Challenge.”

He said is not yet sure what he will do with the prize money.

For Viqar and Patel, the challenge was a lesson in app development — and simplicity.

“Anyone with a computer can develop an app,” Viqar said.

He said the challenge encouraged him to continue designing mobile apps— he and Patel will independently launch their app on the App Store by the end of the summer.

App, pg. 3

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Stumping Donald Trump, will require Pennsyl-vania Republicans’ help.

As the nominating process for the GOP lurches into its third month, the potential of a so-called brokered convention continues to loom large. ! at scenario has increasingly become the anti-Trump movement’s last hope of denying the Republican front-runner and mogul the simple majority of del-egates needed to win the nomination at the Republi-can National Convention this summer.

And the 71 delegates at stake in the Keystone State’s April 26 Republican primary can do more than just set back the reality TV star’s pursuit of a majority. ! ey’re exactly the type of Rust Belt votes Ohio Gov. John Kasich can win from Trump and are crucial to ensuring a brokered convention, where no one candidate can win by delegate total alone.

What makes Pennsylvania’s position so interest-ing has a lot to do with the voter base that Trump typically attracts. ! e coalition that handed him landslide victories in deep south primaries, such as Alabama and Georgia, has also delivered surprising wins in traditionally blue states, such as Massachu-setts and Illinois. Chalk this up to Trump’s remark-able ability to rally support among blue collar and working class white voters, particularly on issues surrounding immigration and international trade.

Demographics in Pennsylvania seem to bode well for Trump. Historically manufacturing-cen-tered, urban areas like Pittsburgh and Scranton ap-pear to be prime Trump territory. Unusually high levels of voters switching their party registration in the state also seems to back Trump’s frequent claim that large numbers of disenchanted Democrats will allow him to “win us the election and win it easily.”

Fortunately for so-called “establishment” Re-publicans, the state is much more salvageable than it might seem at " rst. A landslide win for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in similar Rust Belt state Wisconsin

showed that Trump doesn’t hold a monopoly on ap-pealing to working-class white voters.

In light of Cruz’s Wisconsin victory and over-whelming advantage in western states, many — including Trump himself — have called for Kasich to drop out of the contest because he’s supposedly siphoning votes from the other two candidates.

But if the GOP’s goal is to deny Trump a major-ity of delegates, Kasich is vital to competing in the remaining northeastern contests. And the Ohio governor is particularly well-situated to win over the Keystone State’s 17 winner-take-all, pledged statewide delegates and a sizeable portion of its un-pledged delegates.

Vital to winning our state’s Republican primary are good performances in the two main centers of population: Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Kasich’s tendency to do better in areas where voters are gen-erally less conservative and better educated doesn’t bode well for his ability to compete in the rural cen-ter of the state. Deep red counties similar to those between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia were the back-bone of Cruz’s electoral strategy in many of the states he’s already won. It’s not hard to see Trump winning these areas, either.

Fortunately, there’s a completely di# erent story in the more in$ uential vote from Pennsylvania’s urban corners. According to pollster G. Terry Madonna, moderate, educated and relatively wealthy Repub-licans hailing from Philadelphia’s suburbs are likely Kasich’s key demographic.

! is seems to be exactly the kind of GOP pri-mary voter the Ohio governor is gaining support from. According to a Franklin & Marshall College poll released March 24, Kasich virtually doubled his share of support among likely primary voters in Pennsylvania from 15 to 30 percent.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s departure from the race a% er losing the March 15 primary in his home state likely played a role in consolidating the

See Glitz on page 7

Henry GlitzColumnist

Surprisingly good vibrationsAuthorities in Halberstadt, Germany,

uncovered an especially illicit ring at a ca-sino Wednesday. A% er receiving reports of a trash can making a humming noise and shaking, police and " re" ghters evacuated the casino and searched the building for potential bombs. Fortunately, all they found between the craps and poker tables was a vibrating penis ring. ! e story has received a lot of buzz, despite the lack of explosion. O& cials say that how the penis ring truly got there in the " rst place remains unclear, but ! e Pitt News investigative team is willing to o# er a fairly solid guess.

Uber fast, bro A Philadelphia Uber driver suddenly

went from fast asleep to extremely furious late Tuesday night. Corey Robinson picked up Juan R. Carlos, who asked to be driven nearly 300 miles north, to Herkimer, New York. When Robinson became tired, he asked his passenger to take over the wheel while he napped. Police spotted the vehicle driving at 86 mph near the New York bor-der, but when they attempted to stop it, Car-los refused to ly% the pedal. A% er waking up, Robinson asked Carlos why they were going so fast. Carlos replied that they were being chased by the police, leading to an argu-ment that ended when the car crashed into a guardrail. ! is is likely the highest pro" le surge end in company history.

Unfortunate Name Derails Institu-tion’s Educational Strategy

Last week, George Mason University an-nounced that it was changing the name of its law school to honor late Supreme Court Jus-tice Antonin Scalia. ! e school was slated to o& cially be named Antonin Scalia School of Law. Shortly a% er the announcement, Twit-ter did what it does best: " nd something to

mock. Social media users began pointing out that the name shortened to ASSoL, a joke that ! e Pitt News is not able to explain for decency reasons. In response, the Uni-versity has quietly tweaked the o& cial name to ! e Antonin Scalia School of Law. ! ere is still no word from experts on which name better encapsulates the Justice’s legacy.

What crappy displaysMore than culture is in the air at Britain’s

newest museum. Instead of works by Jack-son Poolack or Pooblo Picasso, ! e National Poo Museum features 20 di# erent kinds of feces from species that include elk, lion and human babies. Other exhibits feature vari-eties of toilets, and visitors can pop a squat for some poop-related educational sessions. According to visitors, the gi% shop chocolate bars are simply poo good poo be true. Mu-seum representatives are optimistic about the museum’s success but should probably expect a small dropping in attendance once summer arrives.

Greasy tuneFor the last 30 years, Wa' e House has

had a plan to drum up business: releasing music under its own record label. Wa' e Records has released countless classic songs, such as 1996’s “! ere Are Raisins In My Toast” by Danny Jones and “! ey’re Cook-ing Up My Order” by Alfreda Gerald in 2006. It recently added another: “Color Me Gone” by Kaitlyn Bergeron. Leaked track-lists for Wa' e House’s mixtape obtained by ! e Pitt News revealed upcoming singles “What’syrup In Here?” and “Let Eggo” performed by some well-known faces. In related news, Canadian rock masters Nick-elback are rumored to be a front for Outback Steakhouse. ! e Pitt News will continue its coverage when more information becomes available.


suburban vote he had been splitting with Kasich. And this surge in suburban unity has placed Ka-sich within the margin of error for surpassing Trump, who sat at 33 percent in the Franklin & Marshall poll.

! is leaves Pittsburgh and the rest of south-western Pennsylvania in the position of being the potential kingmaker — at least for the allocation of statewide delegates. ! ere are more than a few reasons to believe Kasich might have an easier time beating Trump here than Cruz would.

! e Ohio governor’s 13-point victory in his home state’s March 15 primary over Trump was thanks in large part to the “favorite son” e" ect. But there’s no reason to believe Kasich, a native of McKees Rocks, wouldn’t enjoy a similar — albeit somewhat smaller — bump in local polls.

Trump’s key constituency — blue-collar, work-ing-class whites — is indeed a considerable portion of Pittsburgh’s electorate, even as educational and health-related industries continue to become rela-tively more important for the region. But another vital part of Trump’s appeal is related to voters’ frus-tration with a lack of economic opportunity. With Pittsburgh ranking among the top metropolitan areas in the country for blue-collar job production, workers here simply don’t have as much reason to be riled up by the nationalist rhetoric Trump spe-cializes in.

! e Pittsburgh area may simply be too heavily Democratic-leaning to choose Cruz over Trump. ! e Texas Senator’s primary dominance in deeply Republican areas is mirrored by a general inability to corral the vote in more liberal areas.

! e very real possibility of a Kasich victory in Pennsylvania makes an outright delegate majority for Trump at the Republican Convention in Cleve-land that much less likely. Even without a brokered convention, the state’s 54 unbound delegates will hold a considerable amount of power.

In any case, the conclusion is clear: Pennsylva-nia Republicans need to recognize the incredible level of importance that our choice of candidate entails. If anti-Trump votes can coalesce around Kasich here, the likelihood of a brokered conven-tion increases dramatically and a Trump victory for the nomination becomes far less certain.

But if Pennsylvania Republicans don’t present a united front against him, the GOP could end up telling Trump a message we don’t usually associate with him:

“You’re hired.”

Glitz, pg. 6


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Kevin Stallings is currently in the process of getting to know his new roster at Pitt in his fi rst weeks as coach. TNS

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“Yes, I go all the time,” the girl said. “I love going to the basketball games.”

Stallings extended his hand and intro-duced himself, which is when the stranger realized who she was talking to.

“It was great, because she had a pride about going to school here,” Stallings said. “You could tell she was a serious fan, she comes [to games.] ! at was probably just my most enjoyable experience, running into somebody that loves Pitt basketball and probably other sports here.”

He’s using that experience as a learning experience for future interactions.

“I’m going to say hello to every student I can % nd,” Stallings said. “And every time I do, every one of them, I ask, ‘Do you come to the games?’ Hopefully we’ll get that Zoo % lled up.”

Stallings has more than half a year until he’ll debut in front of the Oakland Zoo at the Petersen Events Center. But, until then, he has recruiting and workouts to keep him busy. Pitt’s newest head basketball coach sat

down with ! e Pitt News to talk about his plans for the new gig.

TPN: What is the moving process like for a head coach?

KS: I’m in a hotel right now. At some point I suppose I’ll venture out and try to % nd neighborhoods. But my wife will have to be here before I do that. ! at’s her area of exper-tise. I just do this and try to be a good father. I imagine she’ll be up here before too awfully long. But we have recruiting to do and work-outs to do and a semester to % nish up aca-demically and things like that. So those are all taking priority right now over the move and trying to % gure out where I might live.

TPN: Can you con% rm that you’ve hired Tom Richardson and Jeremy Ballard as assis-tant coaches on your sta$ ?

KS: Tom and Jeremy are hired, they sure are. Jeremy should be here today, and Tom’s already here. I have one more assistant to hire, and getting close on that, and I’m hop-ing to have that done within the — well I’ll say within the next few days, to give myself


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TPN: How important was it to retain all three recruits in terms of winning over the fan base, since that was e! ectively your " rst public move as head coach?

KS: Well, I think the " rst reason that it was important was because it was important for our team and our program next year and beyond, hopefully. But yeah, I think that the combination of keeping the present players and keeping those signees was signi" cant for symbolic reasons maybe, as you mentioned, because people can feel comfortable and get excited. And I hope people are excited. Be-cause I think those kids can hopefully be good players and be good additions to what we already have, which is a good team.

TPN: We’ve seen some brief footage of your " rst few team workouts. Have you been able to work out your team’s strengths, and have any players stuck out to you?

KS: No, I wouldn’t say I’m there yet. I’ve been able to work out losing most of my voice. Certainly I think that the seniors have been real solid. Mike [Young] and Jamel [Ar-

tis] and Sheldon [Jeter] and Chris [Jones] . I’ve been impressed with all of them at times, I really have. Ro[zelle Nix] has had a hurt wrist, so he hasn’t been able to work out with us. But of the eight scholarship guys that have been working out, I can see all eight of them being in the rotations. # ey’re all good enough to be in the rotation. Now whether they’ll be one of the best eight or nine, I don’t know about that. I’m real comfortable with that group right now.

TPN: Do you think there’s going to be an adjustment period, especially with the se-niors, going from playing for Jamie Dixon to playing for you?

KS: I think there will be a lot of adjust-ments, and I think that’s the case any time a new coach takes over. I think that certainly my way will be di! erent than Jamie’s way of doing things. # at certainly doesn’t make my way better. I am the way I am and coach the way I coach, and I know every coach is that way. Yes, there will be some adjustments in tempo, hopefully, and all of that. But as coaches, I think it’s also the same. You’re try-ing to do the same thing. On o! ense, you’re trying to get good shots and get the ball in the

right places. On defense, you’re trying to de-crease the quality of shots of your opponents. And honestly, that’s what the game comes down to. It’s the quality of my shot versus the quality of your shot. And hopefully over the course of time, our players understand that and probably do understand that, honestly. But there may be some adjustments.

TPN: Tom Richardson has been your right-hand man for a long time. Do you feel you guys complement each other well?

KS: We’ve been together for 19 years, interrupted by a four-year span when he be-came the head coach at Illinois State when I le$ . Tom is real steady. He’s right here ev-ery day. I’m a little bit more emotional and maybe excitable, but we do complement each other — or he complements me. I don’t know if I complement him, and maybe that’s all that matters. But he complements me be-cause he is extraordinarily patient, extraor-dinarily even-keeled. # e players always are completely comfortable with him. # e best thing probably about Tom is when I’m gone, whether I’m out on the road recruiting or I’m gone for whatever reason, I know that ev-erything is going to be OK here because he

knows the drill. He knows what’s supposed to happen. He knows what’s good in my eyes and what’s unacceptable in my eyes, and he executes it very professionally and very ef-" ciently.

TPN: # ere were rumors that some coaches shied away from the Pitt job and the challenges of the ACC. Is that what attracted you to the job?

KS: I doubt if anybody that’s competitive shied away from the job. I would hope no-body shied away from the job because of the competition. But that’s what attracted me to it. # ese [opposing ACC coaches] are icons in our business, some of the best that have ever coached in our sport. And so it won’t be easy, but why wouldn’t you want to compete against those guys? So that’s just something that — maybe it runs in the family — it’s why my son [professional baseball player Jacob Stallings] wanted to play at one of the two best programs in college baseball. Maybe that apple didn’t fall too far from the tree, because that’s what excites me. I guess it’s why I can’t sleep at night, but it’s also why I’m excited to wake up in the morning. It’s a little intimidat-ing, I’m not going to lie, but it’s exciting.


slide rules are necessary addition to mlb Some things in Major League Baseball are

inevitable, despite the adage that “you can’t predict baseball.”

For example, the San Francisco Giants — winners of even-year World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014 — began their undeniable slog to another championship run with a 12-3 rout over the Milwaukee Brewers Monday.

Comparable to the Giants’ guaranteed every-other-year success, though, is early-season squabbling over league rule changes or exceptions to said rules. Even when managers have no case to win or the umpires have no ability to reverse a call, they will argue and ex-tend the length of games to make a point.

! e Toronto Blue Jays were upset about a late call Tuesday that likely cost them a chance at winning because of a recent rule change. ! e new “Chase Utley Rule” regarding im-proper slides took e" ect this year, and even though it has player safety in mind, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons took exception.

Down a run with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, the Tampa Bay Rays appeared to botch an inning-ending double play with a poor throw. But Rays manager Kevin Cash challenged the call, arguing that Jose Bautista interfered with the play while sliding into sec-ond base.

Cash’s challenge held up, the call reversed and the Rays won a# er replay showed Bautista reaching out and grabbing the defender’s leg from under him while he was trying to make a throw.

“Are we trying to turn the game into a joke?” Gibbons said a# er the game. “[! e call] was $ at out embarrassing. ! at cost us an op-portunity to win a Major League game. Was that the intent?”

Another similar call occurred the same day in a Braves-Nationals game when Nick Markakis slid wide of the bag to break up a play.

While players and coaches may be upset, this new rule change should be fresh in their minds.

! e league implemented the new slide rules in the o" season, named for Utley a# er he injured Mets’ Ruben Tejada in blatant dis-regard for sliding into the base. Umpires made clear it would be a point of emphasis moving forward.

MLB rule 6.01(i) calls for a “bona % de” slide attempt, where the runner “is able and at-tempts to remain on the base … a# er comple-tion of the slide.” In addition to grabbing the thrower’s foot Monday , Bautista far overslid the base while attempting to do so, e" ectively breaking two rules in one play.

Gibbons may be upset his team lost, but he should think back to last season, when Tejada and the Pirates’ Jung Ho Kang su" ered serious injuries because of poor and insincere sliding.

I am all for managers arguing calls to de-fend their players — I miss the days of Lou Piniella earning ejections and subsequently kicking dirt on the umpire to really solidify his case .

But when player safety is involved, manag-ers need to bite their tongues and remember which side they’re on. It isn’t hypothetical anymore: Kang missed the playo" s and then couldn’t help the Pirates try to advance to the NLDS because Chris Coghlan decimated his knee in a takeout slide. To the Cubs, rules were rules and there was no wrongdoing.

Chris PuziaContributing Editor

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