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After a year of student pressure, Pitt will require its apparel licensees to sign a legal document agreeing not to manufacture products in unsafe working environments.

The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh aims to prevent accidents like the collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory in April 2013. The accord promotes a garment industry “in which no worker needs to fear fi res, building collapses, or other accidents that could be prevented with reasonable health and safety measures.” More than 1,000 work-ers died in the collapse of the factory at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, a country with signifi cantly unsafe factories.

“[The accord] has certain mechanisms that force com-panies to fi nance the repair and upkeep of their factories and also empowers employees by allowing them to form unions,” said Dolly Prabhu , president of Pitt’s Americans for Informed Democracy (AID).

The University sent a letter to its licensees on Friday, Aug. 22, according to vice chan-cellor of communications Ken Service. If Pitt’s partners do not sign the accord, Service said “they will no longer do business with Pitt.”

The University looked over the conditions of the accord, Service said, and agreed that it was time to sign the document and force those who produce Pitt products to do the same. Licensees will have until Oct. 1 to sign the accord, according to an AID release last week, but Service said he wasn’t aware of a specifi c deadline for licensees to sign the accord by.

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eral times last year to urge Pitt o! cials to sign the accord. The No Sweat: Pitt Coalition Against Sweatshops is a conglomerate of Pitt student groups who work together to ban sweatshops worldwide. In April, students from the coalition staged a successful die-in on the William Pitt Union Lawn , during which they lied down to make their bod-ies represent those who died in the factory collapse.

Last year, Pitt AID invited Reba Sikder, a survivor of the Bangladeshi factory collapse, to speak at Pitt about her experiences. For one AID member, Sikder’s speech was an impetus to get more involved in supporting workers’ rights issues.

“The entire story was very heartbreak-

ing,” said Mihir Mulloth, a junior chemistry and neuroscience major. “She was only 18 years old. Many of us are applying to college at 18 and she was watching people she’s worked with for months or years just die in front of her.”

After two semesters of dropping o" baked goods, letters and petitions with more than 160 student signatures, the students from Pitt AID met with administration in April.

“We were told the review of the Accord was going in a positive direction, but no more than that,” Prabhu said of the meeting.

While AID members were initially frus-trated with the lack of indication that the administration had read or received their petitions and letters, former AID president Erin Shields said negotiations advanced after the students made it clear that student interest was high.

Last August , the University signed on with the Worker Rights Consortium, an organization that fi ghts for labor rights in factories worldwide. The Worker Rights Consortium drafted the accord in conjunc-tion with many other organizations in re-sponse to the 2013 factory collapse.

“We worked very hard to get them to sign on to that,” said Shield, a senior history and political science major. “They’re trust-ing this organization to make these recom-mendations that will ultimately ensure that their apparel doesn’t come at the expense of workers around the world.”

To continue their student activism, Prabhu said the next step for AID will be to continue monitoring the Worker Rights Consortium and “making sure Pitt is doing as much as possible to ensure the ethical production of Pitt apparel.”

“For instance, we are also promoting

the sale of Alta Gracia brand clothing at the University Store, because it is produced in a living wage factory,” Prabhu said.

Throughout the negotiations , Shields and the other AID members learned how the administration works, boosting her hopes that “this cooperation can extend to other student groups as well.” Shields said she “briefl y and informally” met with dean of students Kathy Humphrey to discuss a pos-sible labor rights committee at Pitt, but that the group hasn’t really had a chance to con-vene and talk about what comes next after the University signed the accord.

“Us pushing for the accord is part of the larger mission that Pitt stands by the Worker Rights Consortium and makes decision that are both smart and ethical, and using our power as students in order to infl uence that,” Shields said.

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Some hikers require heavy gear and extensive preparation, but with Urban Hikers, you can hit the trail with only a cup of joe and curiosity for Pittsburgh culture.

In 2003, a group of Pittsburghers be-gan leading organized hikes to explore different neighborhoods of the city. As a cohort, they call themselves “Urban Hike,” and their mission is to uncover lesser known features of Pittsburgh’s communities. .

Emily Keebler, a long-term volunteer for the urban hiking community, said it is unclear how the name originated.

“It feels kind of silly trying to explain it and not sound patronizing,” Keebler said. “People think it’s going hiking in an urban area, but it’s not. Though we love to hit green space, we mainly walk on and explore the city streets.”

Once a month, the Urban Hike com-munity embarks on open hikes that usually draw about 40 to 60 people between 25 to 45 years old.

Journeys usually begin in front of a bakery or coffee shop, so the hikers can pick up a cup of coffee or a dough-nut before they begin their trek. From there, the group walks around the city, typically three to five miles, exploring restaurants, churches, shops, museums and parks.

Urban Hike’s members determine the route ahead of time, usually inspired by one member stumbling upon a café or spotting some interesting architecture he or she wanted to learn more about. From there, they call local shop or res-taurant owners, asking them if they would be willing to speak to the group. Though the main goal of the hikes is to get some exercise, the group still makes pit stops to learn about Pittsburgh.

“We make a point of stressing to people that it’s very casual and infor-mal, [and] that it’s a free service being offered to the public,” Keebler said. “We want people to get exercise, so we don’t stop on every corner. But there are some things you just can’t pass up without learning more.”

Keebler said Brian Maloney, a college

student living in Pittsburgh at the time, founded Urban Hike as a way to teach Pittsburgh residents about their home.

A main draw to Pitt for senior Philip Sweet was the chance to explore the city, and he frequently ventures off to roam around other parts of town, espe-cially the North Shore. Like the Urban Hikers , Sweet opts for local delis and cafés on his trips, and often stumbles upon places he did not know existed, like a guitar shop or farmer’s market. Sweet said he may not be an official “Urban Hiker”, but he appreciates the group’s mission.

“I would love to join the Urban Hike community,” said Sweet, a molecular biology major. “There are lots of things going on in the city that don’t reach the student population, and so much of it wants student involvement. Students should be interested in these things.”

Katherine Anderson, vice president of the Pitt Outdoors Club , said the club hopes to get involved in the trend.

Though the club typically partici-pates in more “traditional” hiking, An-derson, a junior studio art major, said

members are open to local outdoors activities, too. The club has also started pairing up with Venture Outdoors, a nonprofit organization that provides services such as kayaks trips down the rivers of Pittsburgh.

Besides dressing for the weather and travelling equipped with water, Urban Hikers should bring intrigue about new places.

“Whatever happens, happens,” Keebler said. “We hit the city steps and see what we can find out about.”

Take an urban hike, venture to parts unknownEmma Solak

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OPINIONSWith perseverance,

student activism triggers results

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Students often do not realize the power they have to bring change to campus. Two stu-dent organizations at Pitt have shown that student activism can work when paired with perseverance.

On Friday, Pitt signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh . Accord-ing to a release, the accord re-quires “regular factory safety inspections, fi nancial account-ability on behalf of companies for necessary factory repairs and gives workers the rights to form unions and refuse to enter a building they fi nd un-safe without the risk of losing their jobs.”

This move will ideally pres-sure Pitt’s apparel licensees to follow the practices within the accord. Licensees that fail to abide by the accord may face termination or the loss of their University license.

Pitt’s announcement comes after long-term e! orts by No Sweat: Pitt Coalition Against Sweatshops and Americans for Informed Democracy (AID) — student groups that remained committed to their cause since April 2013. Their primary vehicles were peti-tions and protests, including last April’s “die-in” in the Ca-thedral of Learning.

Besides this humanitarian undertaking, students have spearheaded other e! orts that fueled change at the adminis-trative level.

Last spring, the University saw a vast reduction in plastic bag at campus dining facilities as a result of the “bring your own bag ” campaign led by stu-dents with a vision for a more sustainable campus. Once the University implemented the policy, students were re-stricted to a semester quota of 15 plastic bags. Exceeding this limit could be met with a 25 cent charge per additional bag. The policy has e! ectively decreased plastic bag usage on campus.

Peaceful, committed stu-dent activism and a willingness to cooperate have the power to change longstanding conven-tions. No Sweat, AID and the many environmental groups on campus have proven that even campaigns initially met with little interest can succeed — and without hostility.

Activist success relies more upon collaboration and mu-tual understanding between student groups and Univer-sity administrators. As the new school year commences, students should avoid the fall into lethargy and apathy and instead remember the recent victories of their peers.

With patience and com-mitment, students can make a di! erence on campus. Hope-fully, students can replicate the magnitude of such accomplish-ments in coming semesters.

As the new year begins, students will again be exposed to minds that assert the dangers and evils of capitalism. These thinkers have every right to put forth such beliefs — that is what America is all about. But be weary of such cynicism. Instead, try thinking of the world’s predominant eco-nomic system in both a personal and rational manner. Then you will understand its true value.

As an American, I am incred-ibly fortunate to live in a nation whose economic tradition cen-ters around capitalism. It has made this nation prosperous and provided me with oppor-tunities unrealized in centrally planned economies — a thriv-ing free market in which I am free to use my earned money as I wish, enroll in the university I wish to attend and lead the life I wish to lead — unburdened by the dictates of inefficient and ineffective central planning. All of this stems from the economic freedom and choice that capital-ism, not socialism or Marxism, provides.

In a speech on Nov. 11, 1947, Sir Winston Churchill reminded the UK’s House of Commons that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried.” In a similar fashion, capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.

Capitalism is no different from anything else in this world. It is imperfect because imperfect men created it. Humans are not

perfect, nor are they capable of perfection. Avarice and greed are not unique to capitalism. They were present in the USSR, and they will be present in any man-made system.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, free market systems have been implemented in numerous former Soviet States. Perhaps nowhere better illustrates capi-talism’s success in post-Iron Cur-tain Europe than in the country of Estonia.

On Oct. 21, 1992, Mart Laar became Prime Minister of the newly independent nation. He was only 32 years old. Upon en-tering office, Laar’s economic knowledge consisted of one book: 20th century free market economist Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose, a personal state-ment advocating for the immense value of economic freedom.

The young prime minister was so impressed that he im-plemented many of Friedman’s ideas, such as free markets and free trade. Rather than borrow-ing huge amounts of money from international institutions, Es-tonia sought to attract foreign investment. The most northern Baltic nation prioritized real, natural growth over shallow, artificial growth. Because of this, Estonia successfully tran-sitioned from a poverty-stricken nation with a planned economy to a flourishing capitalist society. In fact, by the latter half of the 1990s, Estonia received more foreign investment per capita than any other central or eastern European country. Therefore, because of free markets and

private investment — not central planning and public intervention — new workplaces formed, old factories were reconstructed and new knowledge and technology were acquired, making Estonia authentically modern and in-creasingly competitive.

In 1992, Estonia’s GDP per capita (in dollars) was $2,823. In only 20 years, GDP per capita increased dramatically, totaling $17,041 in 2012.

Leaving Estonia and enter-ing China, one will find more corroboration for the case for economic freedom.

Globally, capitalism is re-sponsible for lifting nearly one billion individuals out of poverty in the past 20 years alone. China is responsible for three-fourths of this achievement. Moreover, extreme poverty is disappearing. Between 1981 and 2010, China elevated 680 million people out of poverty and reduced its ex-treme poverty rate from 84 per-cent in 1980 to 10 percent today.

Like Estonia, China has expe-rienced great economic liberal-ization leading to a vast influx of foreign investment — producing remarkable domestic growth and opportunity.

As evidently displayed in practice, nations that have fo-cused on economic freedom, such as Estonia and China, have significantly grown and devel-oped. Regimes that focus purely on abstract and utopian ideol-ogy, as those of Soviet Russia and Maoist China did, fail to provide true progress and sustainability.

As Friedman once said, “A

Capitalism: The worst economic system, except for all the others

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society that puts equality before free-dom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”

Government initiatives alone can-not solely bring about equality. Equality must also derive from those governed. If the governed are not granted freedom, no one can be equal — for equality stems

from freedom — and not the other way around.

There is no question that capitalist societies produce inequalities. A system based on freedom of choice with reward based on merit is bound to yield differ-ent results in different circumstances. It is this very quality that reflects capital-ism’s natural effectiveness and practi-cality. It is the freedom to choose that makes us human. It is the profit incen-tive that drives us to work our hardest.

It is our inherent and distinct ability to reason as individuals, not as collectives, that makes us truly free.

As Winston Churchill once said, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the un-equal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

I will take the former over the latter any day. I have made my choice. You are free to make yours.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The vibrant painted leaves on the exte-rior of the Mad Mex in Oakland demand your full attention, but they don’t reveal the scope of the project that brought them to life.

Oakland’s newest mural — designed by Lucas Stock — is a part of Moving the Lives

of Kids Community Mural Project’s (MLK Project) summer slate of murals, which also includes large-scale artwork in Squir-rel Hill, Northside and the Hill District.

MLK Project was founded in 2002 by Kyle Holbrook, a Pittsburgh native and an Art Institute of Pittsburgh graduate . Its mission is simple: to provide youth from all backgrounds an opportunity to do positive community work while learning the basic

fundamentals of art.The murals are primarily designed by

professional muralists, but they’re largely painted by the kids who, in some cases, also contribute design concepts. For the most recent summer program, the youth participants were granted a $1000 stipend from MLK Project .

While the organization is based in Pitts-burgh, its artwork isn’t limited to west-

ern Pennsylvania. The organization has worked on murals in 15 cities, including locations in Miami, Uganda and Portugal.

Matthew James, MLK’s publicist for the current crop of murals, stressed that, despite its Pittsburgh roots, the organi-zation is equally committed to making a di! erence in any mural site in the world.

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The Gaslight Anthem embrace the heartbreak on their fi fth LP.

Gru! , grating vocals mixed with trills, fi nesse, melodious ri! s and smooth chords certainly seems like a counterproductive and illogical combination.

Except it’s the formula molded by New Jersey pseu-do-punks The Gaslight Anthem on their new album Get Hurt. The guitars, bass and drums provide an almost delicate backdrop to the deadened and harsh tones of vocalist Brian Fallon. This scenario shouldn’t work, but since the guitars carry the melody — rather than Fallon — this new approach functions extremely well.

Since its 2006 conception, The Gaslight Anthem has resisted any distinct genre classifi cation. They somehow work a little bit of punk rock masochism, a little bit of Pearl Jam, a little bit of indie-alternative and a lot of Springsteen into almost every track.

Strangely, the contrast between excellent band

instrumentation and Fallon’s guttural singing,which degenerates with each new release, makes their fi fth full-length album a commendable e! ort that doesn’t di! er much from their consistent past releases. Despite this, it’s probably the weakest of their discography, but that isn’t meant to be a deterrent. Rather, because it’s more of what’s expected, it carries The Gaslight Anthem’s trend forward into already-established ter-ritory.

The main di! erence from previous albums is that they slowed down the pace in some places. For in-stance, the title track begins with a minimalist, lethar-gic verse, full of Fallon’s croaking lyrics. It’s an area of momentous quietude amid a rock album. This crawling verse then merges into a full chorus that manages to catch your attention with its straight up symphonic beats. The guitars and bass hit hard when they hit, but they’re missed when not in play.

“Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” is aptly titled for its brash and thundering nature and stands out by far as the best . The song embraces The Gaslight Anthem’s hard rock and punk roots and ultimately delivers some epic

! e Gaslight Anthem favors reliable consistency on ‘Get Hurt’Stephanie Roman

Staff Writer

Although the box o" ce receipts may not agree, this was the most vital summer for big Hollywood pictures over the past decade.

There were no Avengers, no Batmen, no Pixar characters and no Katnisses to save the day in summer 2014. But luckily, it was also free of the boom-or-bust urgency of years past.

At the present time, only one movie has a chance of passing the light milestone of $300 million domestic. “Guardians of the Galaxy” was a box o" ce surprise on nearly all accounts. The brand was barely recognizable outside of comic die-hards, and it banked on Chris Pratt as a leading man, which, combined with the success of “The Lego Movie,” seems to be an easy argument to get behind — well, at least from a fi nancial standpoint.

But Marvel’s hardly an underdog, so the success of “Guardians” o! ers little consola-tion for the underwhelming performances

of “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and to a lesser degree, “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which were consensus picks to be the top grossers of the summer. Franchise fatigue was un-surprising for the robot romp and critical punching bag , but “Dragon” and “X-Men” were expected to capitalize on an explod-ing young audience and a revitalized fan base for the merged-universe geek fantasy, respectively. That didn’t quite pan out.

If “Guardians” fails to top $300 mil-lion, it will be the fi rst summer without a release reaching the mark since 2001. Even the highest grosser from that sum-mer (“Shrek,” $267 million) would have reached $385 million, when adjusted for infl ation. Reaching $300 million used to be something for the record books, but in an era in which tentpoles can earn nearly $200 million in a single weekend, we shrug at a fi nal fi gure around the three-century mark .

Even though this summer was without a bona fi de hit, it was also mostly devoid of major fl ops. Aside from the horrifying

debut of “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” this past weekend ($6.8 million on a $70 mil-lion budget), there hasn’t been anything like the devastating bombs of 2013 that infamously included “The Lone Ranger,” “After Earth” and “R.I.P.D.” None of those tankers matched their mammoth $100-200 million budgets domestically, even though “Lone Ranger” and “After Earth” narrowly earned them back worldwide — not accounting for marketing costs.

Although this summer might seem rather risk-averse compared to last year’s, it’s just as easy to imagine a situation in which a few of the stunners could have been dead in the water. Without the universal acclaim for “Guardians,” or even a recep-tion on par with “Thor: The Dark World,” we could be looking at the lowest-grossing Marvel picture to date. Aside from Ange-lina Jolie’s return as a top-billed superstar, “Malefi cent” had a marketing campaign and trailers that were nearly indistinguish-able from Disney’s past live-action fantasy retellings . And, there was absolutely no

reason to believe that another live-action “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” would have been a late-summer hit of its caliber, but the marketplace was just empty enough for it to work.

Years from now, the movie to best rep-resent the summer 2014 anomaly won’t be the breakout “Guardians,” or even the stunning “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” but what was perhaps the riskiest blockbuster of them all, starring one of our riskiest current star properties — “Edge of Tomorrow.”

Even though we’re nearly a decade re-moved from his PR nightmares, Tom Cruise isn’t an easy sell. The past several years seemed to hint at a huge Cruise comeback, including a killer, gasp-inducing turn in “Tropic Thunder” and his return to globe-trotting box o" ce dominance in “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.” Following “Ghost Protocol,” Cruise took a few steps back with the unfortunate run of “Rock of

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“It’s really all about focusing on the youth there, in that community, and em-powering them to be a force for positive change in their community,” James said.

One of the recently completed murals pays homage to one of Pittsburgh’s most well-known and empowering artists — playwright August Wilson . Located in the Hill District, which was the childhood home for both Wilson and Holbrook’s maternal families, the mural illustrates Wilson’s life before winning Pulitzer Prizes, along with some of his most acclaimed plays.

Holbrook taught the kids about many of Wilson’s plays , and the kids contributed to the design, after some additional research on their own.

“Each selected their favorite play. So when it’s all said and done, there’s going to be 10 di! erent renditions of the 10 favorite plays,” Holbrook said.

The idea to also feature Wilson’s work instead of simply his life came from Sala Udin, one of his personal friends and a co-founder of the August Wilson Center. But Udin also provided some unique per-spective to Wilson’s life before he was a beloved playwright.

“He just gave me some insight to [Wil-son] as a child — him growing up,” Hol-brook said. “He also had a real insight from seeing him before he made it, before his fi rst play and then after he was on Broad-way.”

Wilson’s tribute began Aug. 8 and is still in progress. “Ghost Whisperer” star and

Pittsburgh native David Conrad also joined Holbrook to talk to the kids and kick o! production of the mural. But Conrad isn’t the only celebrity connection involved with MLK’s latest project.

Roberto “Max” Maxwell designed the Northside mural, which was completed Aug. 15, and has also designed tattoos for Pittsburgh’s most famous rap exports — Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller. He’s worked on numerous mural projects in the past, but this is Maxwell’s fi rst project with MLK Murals.

The Northside mural features an evoca-tive mosaic that contrasts positive activi-ties that lead to success with the negative outcomes associated with destructive in-fl uences. One of the prominent images is a man behind bars, but surrounding him are positive deterrents that were generated by the youth participants.

“They came up with the ideas from pa-per drawings — it’s their actual work on the wall,” Maxwell said.

He designed and painted the larger images, which make up a majority of the mural’s upper half, but the kids’ work gives it a baseline from the message’s targeted audience — Pittsburgh’s youth.

Maxwell hopes the mural can encour-age positive decisions, evoking the legacy of the activist who shares his initials with MLK Murals.

“It’s something that Martin Luther King Jr. [advocated for] a while ago, which was breaking a cycle,” Maxwell said. “At some point you have to break that cycle — or that’s where you end up.”

thrash to an otherwise pretty tame record. It’ll probably remind you of “Stay Lucky” from 2010’s American Slang.

A little bit of sadness mixed with rock ‘n’ roll, Get Hurt surreptitiously alludes to The Gaslight Anthem’s forefathers on the deluxe edition’s bonus tracks. “Sweet Morphine” draws from The Rolling Stones and a little song of theirs called “Sister Morphine,” while another track, “Halloween,” borrows the name of a well-known Misfi ts jam. No, it’s not a cover, and it doesn’t even sound remotely like that hell-raising thriller. But the homage wasn’t made mistakenly.

Another tribute — “Helter Skeleton” — fl irts with pop swing, making it an easily approachable tune for those unfamiliar with the band and some of its more melan-cholic work, such as the succeeding track, “Underneath the Ground,” which is notably morbid in its death imagery.

Get Hurt is a must-listen for every punk or indie rock fan, whether tyro or afi cio-nado. It follows a pretty consistent for-mula. By no means does this album break the mold The Gaslight Anthem created for themselves,but despite any lack of imagi-nation , it’s a satisfying listen. Though Get Hurt might seem disappointing for being more of the same, you can’t blame the art-ists for sticking to a formula that works.

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MOVIESFROM PAGE 7

Ages,” “Jack Reacher” and “Oblivion.”When the fi rst promos came out for

“Edge of Tomorrow,” it had “fl op of the summer” written all over it. Cries of “looks just like ‘Oblivion’” fl ooded the Internet, and it seemed destined to be another speed-bump in Cruise’s streak of duds. And yet, despite the tepid and on-the-nose “Live Die Repeat” (which will soon be the movie’s o! -cial home video title) marketing campaign, “Edge” ended up being the summer’s best major release.

The catchy tagline wasn’t advertising some derivative and overly serious sci-fi “Groundhog Day” gimmick, but a wick-edly smart plotting technique that made for a breezy and often hilarious recycling of Cruise . Director Doug Liman keeps things loose and never lets the repetition grow stale, tapping into Cage’s (Cruise) frustra-tion with needing to explain mankind’s dire situation every time he gains an extra life.

Much like the “Live Die Repeat” tag-line suggested, “Edge” didn’t die easily at the box o! ce. Despite starting out with an underwhelming $28.7 million from the fi rst weekend, it has more than tripled its haul and will have crossed $100 million domestic by the time this story is published. That’s more than “Oblivion” earned, and it even turned a profi t worldwide, earning an additional $264 million overseas.

Without a superhero in tow, “Edge” is a rare case that defi es the frontloaded blockbuster phenomenon, and its leggy run shouldn’t just serve as a testament to its quality, but it also supports the idea that studios shouldn’t be afraid to take a chance on something that isn’t necessarily a guar-anteed hit.

‘Edge of Tomorrow’ was the best, unexpected hit of the summer.

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This school year marks the fi rst time I’ve ever participated in fantasy sports. I’m a football fan, sure, but I’ve never gotten into the NFL enough to pay attention to every single game. In fact, I’ve always found fantasy sports a little bit contradictory, especially for people who are die-hard fans of a certain team. For ex-ample, it’s impossible for a Pittsburgher to be totally in favor of a Steelers win if they start the Ravens defense. But, much like war and taxes, being a broke college student changes a man, and throwing away $10 in hopes of winning $100 now seems like a good invest-ment — this is why the casino loves me. So here I sit, concentrating half on writing this and half on checking Yahoo!’s fantasy sports page for updates that don’t even exist yet.

You could call my fi rst fantasy draft experi-ence an entertaining one. The league, titled WardFest after the name of the block party my housemates and I have dreamt about starting on our street, includes 10 fans: myself, my roommates and a few other friends. Most of the members of the group are knowledgeable football fans, and the rest of us know enough to get by. Hopefully.

The group is comprised of four divisions: Three are knowledgeable football minds who take fantasy football seriously, four are fairly knowledgeable football fans who don’t take fantasy football seriously, one is a semi-knowledgeable football fan who could name-drop each team’s stars and one or two other random trivia facts (this is me) and two just play because everybody else is playing.

The fi rst and second rounds of the draft went in accordance with what everybody says the fi rst and second rounds of fantasy drafts usually look like: The top running backs and wide receivers go early, followed by a handful of quarterbacks. I fought the lifelong Penn State fan inside of me (I know, I know, light your torches and grab your pitchforks) and refrained from drafting American hero Matt McGloin, instead using my fi rst round pick on Calvin Johnson. Judging by the middle fi ngers I received from a friend drafting immediately

after me, I think it was a good decision. Pick-ing up Drew Brees was my next move, another one I’m confi dent about.

And that was when the draft went to hell.Recognizing that Johnny Manziel might

not even play, let alone start, one roommate took Johnny Manziel in the fi fth round just to make another roommate angry. Then, the in-jured draftees came: Wes Welker wasn’t a bad person to pick up because NFL team doctors don’t believe the hype about “three concus-sions in nine months being a bad thing” and “serious brain damage from repeated blunt force trauma.” Somebody drafted Sam Brad-ford not knowing that Sam Bradford had torn his ACL just hours earlier. How he missed the countless SportsCenter updates is beyond me.

Next were the suspended players: Josh Gordon happened. Matt Prater, the Broncos’ kicker suspended for drinking a few beers, happened. Ray Rice happened. I’m pretty sure that if Justin Blackmon was available to be drafted, he would’ve been drafted. Fortunately for my idiotic friends, the multiple-time of-fender of the league’s drug policy wasn’t even listed as a draftable player. Still, we could’ve made an entire team of guys who can’t play until at least Week 3.

One of the better moments of the night involved the entire group laughing at one per-son for drafting the Dallas Cowboy’s defense, which was the worst defense in the league last year. Then the Cowboys lost their top three players – DeMarcus Ware to free agency, Sean Lee to a torn ACL, and Orlando Scandrick to drug policy suspension. He has since dropped the defense and picked up a running back instead. Apparently this is okay.

I really don’t understand fantasy football.But the best moment came in the fi nal

round. While most of us were scrambling to fi nd decent bench players or a second defense, one league participant went scrolling to the bottom of Yahoo!’s best available list for a cer-tain somebody with whom he shares a name. For his sake, I won’t say his actual name. I’ll only tell you that he spent a few years at Penn State before transferring to Delaware and is now a backup for the Dolphins who will more than likely never see the fi eld.

The draft was a lot of fun. I spent a lot of time laughing at friends who drafted injured and suspended players, guys who would never see the fi eld and guys who have the same name as the person who drafted him. But fun time is over. I have $10 invested in this league, and that’s an alarmingly large investment consid-ering the contents of my bank account.

Since I wasn’t a huge proponent of fantasy sports before and since joining only encour-aged my slight growing gambling addiction, I felt it necessary to fi nd some good in the whole

thing. Here’s what I managed to come up with: Checking for fantasy updates on Yahoo! has drastically cut into my Twitter time, which can only be healthy for a social media addict like myself.

Whatever works, right?Only time and luck can make the deci-

sions for my fantasy football team, because I sure as hell don’t know what I’m doing. And if WardFest ever pans out, I’ll be sure to let everybody know.

A fi rst-time fantasy football player’s draft experienceAlex Wise

For The Pitt News

One of the columnist’s friends picked Sam Bradford (throwing) in their fantasy draft hours after the St. Louis Rams quarterback had injured his ACL. MCT Campus

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A football coach’s worst enemy is turn-overs, both on the field and off. This offseason, Pitt head football coach Paul Chryst faced the latter type often, los-ing a large number of key players to graduation.

Heading into the 2014 season, Chryst and the Panthers are without the dominant force of All-American de-fensive lineman Aaron Donald, as well as the big, strong-armed presence of quarterback Tom Savage and the sure-handed, ultra-reliable receiver Devin Street. Throw in the losses of defensive backs Jason Hendricks and K’Waun Wil-liams and linebacker Shane Gordon, and there are countless questions that will serve as the X factors for Pitt’s suc-cess in their second season in the ACC.

What can Chryst get out of Chad

Voytik?Chad Voytik, the redshirt sopho-

more starting quarterback for the Pan-thers, has received some comparisons to another former protégé of Paul Chryst, Super Bowl champion Russell Wilson. Both short in stature (Wilson at 5’11” and Voytik at 6’1”) and mobile, the two seem to have similar skill sets. If Voytik can come even marginally close to replicating the success Wilson had in his one year under Chryst at Wisconsin in 2011 — throwing 33 touchdowns and only four interceptions — the Panthers could be surprise contenders in the ACC Coastal division. If he struggles or gets injured, without a viable backup to take his place, the Panthers will sput-ter mightily.

How can Pitt replace Aaron Don-ald’s production?

Over the last two years, Aaron Don- ald was the epitome of consistent pro-

ductivity on a defense known for its inconsistency. The defensive tackle took home four major national awards in 2013, including the Chuck Bednarik Award, given to the nation’s top defen-sive player. He also collected 11 sacks and 28.5 tackles for loss in 2013. Pitt will face difficulty replacing that level of dominance, and it will simply be impossible to do so with just one play-er. Instead, the Panthers will rely on a group of defensive linemen to make up for Donald’s departure. The team will count on junior Darryl Render and sophomores Shakir Soto and Tyrique Jarrett to give defensive coordinator Matt House productive snaps. If the three can simply hold their own, that’s a plus for the Panthers.

How will the defensive backfield shape up?

Pitt’s defensive backs struggled for a good portion of 2013, unable to adjust to the elite size and speed of some of the ACC’s top flight wide receivers. Losing Williams and Hendricks — the Pan-thers’ two most consistent defensive backs last year — as well as promising sophomore Titus Howard to a year-long suspension,will only complicate mat-ters further. Redshirt junior Lafayette Pitts, after a promising 2012 season, was inconsistent in 2013, and will need to dramatically improve his play this season as the team’s number one cor-nerback. Senior safety Ray Vinopal came on late in 2013 and will serve as the defensive captain in 2014. Besides those two, the rest of the defensive

backfield is full of relatively unknown commodities, with the remaining play-ers all sophomores or freshmen. Some newcomers like Wisconsin transfer Reggie Mitchell and freshman Avon-te Maddox figure to make impacts at corner after their impressive perfor-mances at training camp. Sophomore Terrish Webb will start at strong safety and classmate Ryan Lewis will back up Mitchell. But without a single proven defensive back, the Panthers could po-tentially be involved in many offensive shootouts this season.

Will playing two ways help or hin-der James Conner?

Pitt’s biggest surprise in 2013 was running back James Conner, a con-verted defensive end who would end up serving as Pitt’s most dangerous and intimidating running back, includ-ing a stellar performance in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl against Bowling Green, where he ran for 229 yards in Pitt’s 30-27 victory. This season, the Panthers’ coaching staff plans to play Conner at defensive end as well. While Conner played a few snaps here and there last season, it will be intriguing to see whether this will limit his usage on offense, particularly with heralded incoming freshman Chris James being added to the mix at running back. If Conner can contribute even a dash of the spark he provided to Pitt’s offense in 2013 to the defense in 2014, and still maintain his contribution level on of-fense, he’ll be one of the most impor-tant and exciting players in the ACC.

With season approaching, a few Pitt football storylines to trackDan Sostek Staff Writer

Starting quarterback Chad Voytik practices. Sheldon Satenstein | Assistant Visual Editor

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