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LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

Kameron Sanzo is getting her bachelor’s degree in English literature in just one cal-endar year.

Sanzo, who graduated with a degree in engineering from Pitt in 2011, is now back for round two as a second-degree student in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

“I thought to myself, I’m still pretty young, and I was fortunate to have had a scholarship the fi rst time, so I fi gured maybe I’ll go back,” said Sanzo, 26.

Students pursuing a second degree through Pitt continue on their same tran-script, according to the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, as well as adding to their previously established GPA. These students can apply up to 90 applicable general educa-tion credits to their second degree, if they also complete a minimum of 30 new credits.

Sanzo was originally interested in the sciences because she enjoyed “the specula-tive nature and learning about the world,”

she said. After she graduated, Sanzo worked in the aerospace industry designing aircraft parts, but found herself missing an element of humanity. She decided to return to school to pursue a deeper education for herself.

This past May, Sanzo started back at Pitt. The application process as a second degree student posed no problems, ac-cording to Sanzo. All she had to do was fi ll out a form and pay a small fee. Since she already completed a degree at Pitt, most of Sanzo’s general education credits were already complete, so she plans to graduate this April with a bachelor of arts degree.

Coming back to Pitt includes all the perks of being a student. Sanzo can ride Port Authority buses and access museums for free, just like all other undergraduates. She also has a print quota, the option of having a meal plan and access to Student Health.

The majority of undergraduates at Pitt are between the ages of 18 and 24, but Sanzo

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has had no problems making friends. The only di! erence is she doesn’t really hang out with anyone from her classes, because she lives o! -campus as a commuter.

Sanzo, unlike most of her peers who work as engineers at various companies like Rolls Royce and Westinghouse, doesn’t have a job. Sanzo, who goes to school full-time, said she has enough money that she saved up from working over the summer to cover her rent and groceries. However, this time around, she’s paying for her tuition with student loans.

“It’s crazy. I didn’t appreciate, before I started working full-time, how much variability there is in my schedule. Ev-ery day is di! erent,” said Sazno. “I have all this time to study and do other stu! .”

Sara Mercer, who graduated from Pitt in 1974 with a degree in philoso-phy, is also back to school again — but not to pursue a de-gree.

Mercer has taken two classes, a his-tory course on World War II and a geology course, in which she is currently enrolled, through the Osher Lifelong Learning In-stitute at Pitt.

Adults ages 50 and older can audit two undergraduate courses and take as many courses through the Osher program as they would like for an annual fee of $225, accord-ing to Jennifer Engel, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. By auditing a class, the student and professor agree on the level of participation required from the student. Currently, more than 1,100 members are enrolled in the Osher pro-

gram, Engel said.Mercer, who works as an estate lawyer

in Pittsburgh, is trying to “slow down” her professional life but still keep her mind active.

“I’ve always loved school,” said Mercer. “It’s terrifi c to be able to come back and take stu! I didn’t take before, purely for pleasure.”

As part of her geology class this semes-ter, Mercer leaves the o" ce on Tuesday and Thursday mornings to attend a 50-minute lecture. She doesn’t have to go to recitation or take exams, but she said she does try to keep up with the reading.

Mercer said the biggest change from when she was an undergraduate student at Pitt is the price. For her, a semester of tu-

ition only cost $900 for an in-state stu-dent, compared to the almost $17,000 it now costs. She also said students are required to participate more and that classes are taught on a wider variety of media, such as videos and PowerPoint presen-tations.

“In my geology class, we can print

out the pictures and questions with space to write next to it,” said Mercer, who has access to the class CourseWeb page. “That wasn’t available back then, because comput-ers were just getting started.”

Mercer said her experiences with Pitt’s current undergraduate students have been very pleasant, and she is enjoying being back at school.

“When you’re in college you’re so focused on what you’re studying, there’s no time to branch out,” said Mercer. “And once you graduate you’re so busy with life. Once you slow down, there’s time to investigate, and it’s fascinating.”

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“It’s terrific to be able to come back

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OPINIONSCasual Fridays

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The meowing dead

A few weeks ago, one cat from Tampa, Fla., proved that it was truly bad to the bone. Owner Ellis Hutson discovered the ultimate cat-astrophe — his beloved cat, Bart, sti! and cold after being hit by a car, resting on the road in a pool of blood. Hutson buried the cat, assum-ing it was one cat scratch that couldn’t be fi xed. Nine lives and fi ve days later, Bart clawed out of its pet semetery and scam-pered over to Hutson’s neigh-bor’s house. While a bit dishev-eled and facing the prospect of losing an eye, Bart is feline a little better and is expected to make a full recovery.

From boat to throat

Spongebob, normally re-siding in a pineapple under the sea, took a vacation to the warm depths of a child’s tra-chea this week. A 16-month-old Saudi Arabian child swallowed his sister’s Spongebob pendant and made a visit to the hospital. Ghofran Ageely, his doctor, was “not ready” for what he saw in the X-rays. Spongebob, in full detail with his tongue sticking out, was captured in the black and white image. The child will stick to a strict diet of Krabby Patties from now on.

How to eat fried worms

Last Sunday, a British wom-an saved her daughter from a slimy surprise. The culprit: a

chicken McNugget — com-plete with one pink worm. Nikki Sanders bought the Mc-Maggot Unhappy Meal for her 4-year-old daughter, but ended up eating it herself when the child wasn’t hungry. A bit of an optimist, Sanders was glad to have gotten some extra protein.

Head, shoulders, knees and coke

On Monday afternoon, a drug suspect from Delaware thought he was a leg ahead of the competition. But 39-year-old Marlow Holmes was arrest-ed during a police stop when the K-9 unit sni! ed out a bone that seemed out of place. The kicker — Holmes was conceal-ing over 28 grams of cocaine in his prosthetic leg. Although he didn’t have any joints, he was still arrested, and bail was set at $81,000.

Barbecue bandit

On Wednesday, a burglar took the ultimate brisk-et and stole over $4,000 worth of ribs, chicken, wings and fries from Jerome Brown Barbecue in Jacksonville, Fla . Although it seems he’s quite a pig, inves-tigators believe the haul was for a Super Bowl party this weekend. The suspect seemed to be winging it, though, since he was caught on surveillance. Authorities are still looking for the beef thief. Hopefully his cooking will smoke any com-petition.

COLUMNCOLUMN

So, you didn’t land that internship at Children’s Hospital. Or, maybe, you just didn’t have the right qualifi ca-tions for that prestigious internship with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. You applied for a cushy work-study job at Hillman, but, instead, some-one else is getting paid to sit behind a desk and do homework.

Don’t fret. Many underclassmen don’t land their ideal internships or work-study jobs that directly re-late to their prospective fi elds. That doesn’t mean you should sit around, jobless, in the meantime — even if you can a! ord it.

Instead, you should work in pizza. Yes, pizza.

Why? The pizza industry — and the food industry in general — is a subtle indicator of life beyond edu-cation, or life as an adult. Working a less-than-glamorous job refl ects the challenges recent grads face in the fi rst few years after graduating, including fruitless job hunts, pay disparities and a lack of necessary “people skills.” Most importantly, minimum-wage work exposes a sad reality — not all in the workplace are treated equally, as we’d like to believe. Women, in particular, are subject to workplace inequality.

In short, there are more com-monalities between grunt-work jobs and careers than we might acknowledge.

The infl ux of Hogwarts letters that Harry Potter received had nothing on the paper storm I was unleashing on local businesses prior to fi nding my fi rst pizza gig. I put out what felt like dozens of applications.

To my dismay, no one called back for months. Surprisingly, this is not an anomaly.

Just as 16-year-olds with no work experience struggle to fi nd minimum-wage jobs, college grads struggle to fi nd careers after gradu-ation. According to government data analysis conducted by The Associated Press in 2012, about 1.5 million, or 53.6 percent, of bach-elor’s degree holders under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed.

Just as college grads must labori-ously seek jobs and subsequently interview for them, so must the minimum-wage workers. It’s not just research labs or newspapers that will ask you cliché questions about what your greatest fl aw is or what your skills are — pizza shops do, too. Consider these interviews necessary practice. Being comfort-able sitting across the desk from a superior and selling yourself is an invaluable quality.

Interview skills are just a part of a larger pool of interpersonal skills, though.

When I finally got hired by Sbarro pizza in a local mall, my boss nearly fi red me. Although I was intelligent, I was backward shy. I’d hide in the corner by the cash register and only make eye contact with customers when absolutely necessary.

Of course, I eventually picked up on workplace behavior and ex-pectations — although with delay. After I learned to be vocal, I asked my boss to teach me managerial skills, alongside cashiering. I was employee of the month fi ve times and was o! ered a management po-sition at 18. This was the fi rst step

in my journey to becoming a writer, I just didn’t realize it yet.

Having “people skills” is invalu-able — not only in pizza, but also in white-collar jobs. A 2009 study on 348 IT managers revealed that “interpersonal skills” were among the most important “soft skills” employees can possess. It makes sense — what is the use of “hard skills,” such as the ability to inter-pret data, if you can’t present your fi ndings to peers?

In developing my skillset, I came across complicated barriers — typically ones that intersected with gender.

On one occasion, after fi nally becoming a manager and expecting proper recognition, I was disgrun-tled to learn that titles meant noth-ing, unless that title was “male.”

On a typical workday last year, a tall, chocolate-brown man ap-proached the counter.

“Hi, how are you, sir? Is there anything I can get for you today?” I asked, eagerly.

He looked at me with wide eyes, released a bit of air and sco! ed.

Shaking his head and laughing, he said, “Sweetie, I’m a dominant male.”

Confused, now, I raised an eye-brow.

“So that,” he continued with emphasis, “means I only want to speak to a manager.”

“Oh of course, I’m a manager.”“No, I want to speak to another

man,” he said, pointing to my co-worker.

My years of experience were somehow inadequate because I had been blessed with two X chro-

Workin’ for the doughWhy minimum wage work spices up your skill set

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mosomes. Somehow this customer equated “manager” with “male” in a way I still don’t want to comprehend.

Seem far-fetched? Think again.Despite legislation against workplace dis-

crimination, professional women often face not only sexual harassment in the workplace, but gendered standards in hiring, promotion and salary. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, on average, women make 81 cents to the whole male dollar.

Similarly, many fi elds — mine prospec-

tively is journalism — are male-dominated. Approximately 37 percent of writers are fe-male as of 2012, according to Women’s Media Center.

At my second pizza job with Vocelli Pizza, I am one of two female employees. I thor-oughly enjoy working with the majority of the men, but I notice that they expect me to answer the phones while they fi ll out pa-perwork. When I lift something heavy, they want to take it from me. Would they assume another man is great at communicating just because of his gender? Would they take a 50-pound bag of fl our out of another man’s hands? Although they are great people, I don’t appreciate the assumption that a woman is

dainty or destined for a communications position.

Adapting to gender expectations in the pizza industry has prepared me for the inevi-table “othering” I will face in a professional setting. I believe it’s better to enter a fi eld with expectations rather than to blindly stumble through. When I eventually do become a pro-fessional writer, I will bring these lessons along with me.

Of course, pizza shops aren’t the only setting for unemployed college students to learn about the often-harsh realities of the real world. Any participation in the food in-dustry will equally ba# e, irritate, astound and educate you.

Participation in the minimum-wage food industry can help prepare college students — especially underclassmen — with broad skills and knowledge that can be applied in almost any fi eld. By developing general skills, students will be better prepared for the inter-views that matter when they are upperclass-men applying for internships and careers.

So, rather than spending your evenings frivolously, dedicate a few hours at a local pizza shop — there’s more to learn than how to make a delicious pie.

Courtney Linder is the Assistant Opinions Editor of The Pitt News and primarily writes on social issues.

Write to Courtney at [email protected].

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SPORTSWOMEN’S BASKETBALLWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

The Pitt women’s basketball team has battled teams to the fi nal buzzer all sea-son long, often leaving their eventual fate undecided until the fi nal minutes.

Thursday night was a di! erent story for the Panthers, who trailed for all but little more than a minute of their game against No. 17 Duke.

Coming o! a close win at home against Boston College, the Lady Panthers (13-7, 3-4 ACC) traveled to Durham, N.C., look-ing to create a winning streak, only to be thumped by the Blue Devils (15-6, 6-2 ACC) at Cameron Indoor Stadium by a score of 62-45.

The contest started slowly for the Pan-thers. After a few early Pitt turnovers and easy baskets by the Blue Devils, Pitt was lucky to fi nd itself only down by three points, as Brianna Kiesel knocked down her fi rst basket of the game — a 3-point

fi eld goal to cut the lead to 8-5 in favor of Duke.

Five minutes in, it appeared that the Panthers caught a major break when Duke center Elizabeth Williams, a three-time All-American and reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year, picked up her second foul and was taken out to avoid even more foul trouble.

But even without the defensive pres-ence of Williams on the court, the Panthers weren’t able to get anything going o! en-sively, and Duke continued to get points in the paint to widen its lead.

Led by Oderah Chidom and Azura Ste-vens, the Blue Devils forced coach Suzie McConnell-Serio to call a timeout with 12:04 remaining in the half, as a Stevens jumper put the Blue Devils on top by 11 points.

With Williams still on the bench, Pitt had its chance to climb back into the game. The Panthers kept Duke scoreless for six straight possessions and more than three

whole minutes, but they were completely unsuccessful o! ensively, only mustering one Kiesel basket before Duke’s Rebecca Greenwell snapped Duke’s scoreless streak and hit a 3-point jumper to increase the lead and diminish the Panthers hopes at ever getting back into the game.

Pitt, which attempted 29 3-pointers in the game, connected on two of their seven makes during the fi nal minutes of the fi rst half but continued to yield easy buckets to Duke and found themselves down by 16 points as the fi rst half concluded.

Looking to improve on its abysmal 27.6 percent shooting in the fi rst half, Pitt start-ed the second half with a lot of intensity, forcing four straight Duke turnovers.

But the Panthers couldn’t seem to fi nd the bottom of the basket, missing shots and squandering an opportunity to chip away at the Duke lead, coming away with only one point on a Kiesel free throw dur-ing Duke’s scoreless span.

Kiesel was one of the lone bright spots

for the Pitt team on the night. The senior fi nished with 13 points on 5-14 from the fi eld, pitching in three assists and three steals.

One of Kiesel’s three steals came as she fl ashed her quick hands and robbed Duke’s Ka’lia Johnson, but Kiesel was un-able to convert the turnover into points as Johnson hustled after her and blocked her shot from behind.

While Pitt was plagued o! ensively, the team thrived on the defensive front, creating turnovers and containing Duke’s best player, Elizabeth Williams, who was coming o! of a 33-point, 10-rebound, four-block performance against UNC.

While Williams didn’t make a di! erence o! ensively, she made her mark on the de-fensive end, fi nishing with a pair of steals and three blocks, including a monster swat on Pitt’s Cora McManus, sending the ball into the crowd and eliciting a large roar from the Cameron Crazies.

Poor shooting Pitt!s detriment in 62-45 road loss to DukeLogan Hitchcock

Staff Writer

Sept. 5 - Youngstown State

Sept. 12 - at Akron

Sept. 19 - at Iowa

Oct. 3 - at Virginia Tech

Oct. 10 - Virginia

Oct. 17 - at Georgia Tech

Oct. 24 - at Syracuse

Oct. 29 - North Carolina

Nov. 7 - Notre Dame

Nov. 14 - at Duke

Nov. 21 - Louisville

Nov. 27 - Miami

Pitt’s 2015 schedule fi lled with familiar faces

With the ACC’s reveal of football sched-ules for 2015, one thing appears clear: The Pitt Panthers will have to get used

to hotels and hostile crowds early on next season.

Five of the Panthers’ first seven games will be on the road, including a Sept. 19 game at the University of Iowa as the second part of a home-and-home series that the teams created.

As was known prior to the an-nouncement, Pat Narduzzi’s fi rst game as Pitt’s head coach will come on Sept. 5 at home against Youngstown State. The two teams also played in the season opener for both teams in 2012, which Youngstown State won 31-17.

“This has been a really energizing month at Pitt, and the announcement

of our upcoming schedule is one more reason to be excited,” Narduzzi said in a release.

Pitt, which fi nished each of its last four seasons with a 6-6 record, also has a Thursday night game scheduled against North Carolina on Oct. 29.

For the third straight year — every year Pitt has played in the ACC — Pitt and Miami will play against each other in their fi nal regular season games on Nov. 27.

After not playing last season for the fi rst time since 2007, Pitt and Notre Dame will renew their series in 2015 when they meet in Pittsburgh on Nov. 7.

Chris Puzia Sports Editor

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