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After providing Pitt students with hot beverages for slightly more than a year, Peet’s Co! ee & Tea has gone cold.

After assessing co! ee shop loca-tions in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsyl-vania, Peet’s will be closing locations in those states in order to “focus on our top performing markets,” ac-cording to spokesperson Amy Lester.

Peet’s Oakland location on Forbes Avenue is among those to shut its doors after replacing its Oakland cor-ner co! ee shop predecessor, Caribou Co! ee — which closed on Sept. 9, 2013 — in October 2013.

Peet’s started an “aggressive U.S.

expansion” in summer 2013, Lester said in a release last month. Since that time, Peet’s locations in areas like Chicago and Washington, D.C., have had incredible growth, accord-ing to Lester.

Even so, Peet’s will be closing all its locations in three states — six in Ohio, two in Michigan and three in Pennsylvania. Lester said the shops in those three areas have “not per-formed to our expectations.”

The Peet’s locations in Pennsylva-nia — all three in Pittsburgh — were located in Oakland, South Side and at the Waterworks Mall.

Je! Inman, a professor at Pitt’s Katz Graduate School of Business , said a company like Peet’s probably has specifi c performance criteria that

it compares to the average sales at other stores.

“If these new [store locations] were way below that fi gure, they may have fi gured it was easier to close up and do better somewhere else,” In-man said.

While Inman said 18 months of sales might not indicate what a store location could make in sales in the long-term future, he added that it would make sense for Peet’s to close its stores in areas that fall below the average sales in the fi rst year at its other locations.

Peet’s, which is based in Em-eryville, Calif., has more than 170 locations in California and more than

Peet’s Oakland location closes, among others

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Actress and transgender rights activist Laverne Cox will speak at Pitt this spring, according to Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance.

Cox, best known for her role as hairdresser Sophia Burset in the Netfl ix series “Orange Is The New Black,” will speak to students on March 30 at 7 p.m.

Cox’s talk will kick o! Pride Week, which is from March 30 to April 3, according to Rainbow Alliance’s vice president Michael O’Brien. Other slated events, O’Brien said, will address gender, pride and sexuality.

The title of Cox’s talk is “Ain’t I a Woman: My Journey to Woman-hood” and will explore “how the intersections of race, class and gender uniquely a! ect the lives of trans women of color,” according to the Keppler Speakers Bureau website.

Born in Mobile, Ala., and iden-tifi ed at birth as male, Cox now speaks at universities around the country as a transgender rights activist. She speaks to empower individuals to move beyond gen-der expectations and live more au-thentically. She was also recently

named one of Out Magazine’s “Out 100,” one of the country’s top 50 transgender icons by The Hu" ng-ton Post and one of MetroSource Magazine’s “55 People We Love.”

Erin Cullen, business manager of Rainbow Alliance, is helping to organize the event. Cullen worked with students and administrators to bring Cox to Pitt for “about a year and a half,” she said. Tran-sexuality is an “important topic,” she said, one that “needs to be discussed.”

“Representation of transexual students is something that is lack-ing [at Pitt],” she said.

This idea of transgender em-powerment that Cox is a propo-nent of comes at a key time for Pitt.

In 2012, The Pitt News re-ported that Seamus Johnston, a former Pitt student, and Tricia Dougherty, former president of the Rainbow Alliance, fi led com-plaints against Pitt to the Pitts-burgh Commission of Human Relations that Johnston had been discriminated against because of his sex. The complaints were fi led because Johnston, who was identifi ed at birth as a woman but

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220 locations in the United States. “At the end of the day, it’s about the dollar

sales,” Inman said.Sam Watson, a junior majoring in English

literature, said he only went to Caribou Co! ee once, because he usually got his co! ee from Market Central or the on-campus co! ee carts. Watson added that he frequented Peet’s a few times a week this past summer.

“I liked the atmosphere of the store,” Wat-son said, adding that he also liked that the em-

ployees “didn’t have to wear uniforms.”Watson said he also preferred Peet’s for

the variety of the roasts — dark, medium and light — and he liked that he could sample the co! ees before purchasing a cup.

Watson said he was surprised when he heard the company would be closing its Penn-sylvania locations. He said despite the two cof-fee shops that closed at the Forbes location, he would like to see another co! ee shop or diner move into the location.

“A lot of students are looking for things like craft beer and organic food,” Watson said. “I think [the location] could be a restaurant or co! ee shop, like a mom and pop type.”

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identifi es as a man, was expelled from Pitt Johnstown for his continued use of the men’s locker room.

To fund the event, Cullen said Rainbow Alliance received grants from both the of-fi ce of Cross Cultural and Learning Devel-opment and the University of Pittsburgh Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program, as well as allocations from Stu-dent Government Board.

Cox will speak in the seventh fl oor au-

ditorium of Alumni Hall. The auditorium seats up to 700 people, and Cox is expected to “fi ll the place,” according to Rainbow Alliance president Allie McCarthy.

Cox is the fi rst high-profi le speaker Rainbow Alliance has hosted, McCarthy said, and she hopes Cox’s talk will expand the organization’s infl uence on campus and foster a larger dialogue.

“We’re trying to expand the organiza-tion to get bigger events and reach more students,” she said. “The community doesn’t know a lot about trans issues. La-verne Cox is a big name. People will come and learn about [those] issues.”

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OPINIONSTransgender identity:

Let!s end the confusion

EDITORIALEDITORIAL

Imagine coming across a very feminine person with long blond hair and a pencil skirt. Then, they introduce themselves as Larry. In many cases, there is some level of confusion associated with a gen-der identity that does not match the fi rst name.

Thankfully, more resources have become available in recent years to transgender people who encounter such confusion in Pittsburgh. The Name Change Project, an e! ort to provide free legal aid to transgender individu-als seeking to alter their name, came to Pittsburgh in late 2013. The project’s director said its arrival stemmed from a “very strong demand for services,” ac-cording to an article published Monday in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Since the program’s arrival, 19 name changes have been completed, with 17 more in process and 23 on a waiting list.

Individuals who change their names to match their gender identity receive less negative feedback from others. It makes their lives easier and allows them to enjoy the benefi ts of personal freedom in sexual identity.

Nonprofi t organizations like The Name Change Project play a role in Pittsburgh’s reception as gay- and transgender-friendly. According to the Human Rights Campaign’s 2014 municipal equality index (MEI), Pitts-burgh is the second-most LGBTQ friendly city in the state, behind Philadelphia.

This is certainly progress in a positive, accepting direction.

That being said, this spring, notable transgender activist La-verne Cox will visit the University, thanks to Pitt’s Rainbow Alliance. Cox is known for her role as So-phia Burset, an incarcerated hair-dresser, in Netfl ix’s “Orange Is The New Black.”

Her visit in March falls during Pitt’s Pride Week, an LGBTQ cel-ebration that takes places from March 30 to April 3. She will speak, from her own perspective, on the struggles and successes of the transgender community.

Cox’s visit to Pitt is one vehicle through which we can learn about the greater community of trans-gender people within and outside of Pittsburgh. Our generation is becoming increasingly vocal and interested in sharing the chal-lenges that come with sexual identities that haven’t been fully integrated into society.

Cox’s presence on a popular television show has brought more attention to her own “Journey to Womanhood” — a path that is shared by people in our own city.

Her visit has the potential to be a step toward equality for sexual minorities, which we, as a society, have yet to fully accom-plish. She allows us to enter into a dialogue about genderqueer people that we may not have had before.

Through public fi gures like Laverne Cox and organizations like The Name Change Project, students on college campuses, like Pitt, may have less confusion when encountering transgender peers.

COLUMNCOLUMN

The tides are changing: America is fed up with the U.S. justice system after the courts’ refusal to indict Darren Wilson and Daniel Pan-taleo, coupled with authoritative responses to Ferguson protests. This unrest originates from the unreliability and inequality within the legal system, not just the notion of institutional discrimination, as many believe.

The change is partially because of the recent popularity of a true crime podcast , “Serial,” by the cre-ators of the popular NPR show “This American Life.” “This American Life” is an international, hourlong radio show that airs weekly journal-istic nonfi ction stories

In “Serial,” Sarah Koenig dives into the intricacies of a 1999 murder case. In this case, Adnan Syed was sentenced to life in prison for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Both Syed and Lee were only 17 at the time.

Koenig gets to the bottom of the case’s inconsistencies: The entire case sentence relied upon the fl imsy and problematic testimony of a sin-gle witness, not to mention a lack of forensic or tangible evidence.

Jay Wilds, the case’s key witness, testifi ed multiple times, delivering inconsistencies . Each time, his story di! ered as he altered crucial ele-ments, such as the time frame.

The success of “Serial” comes as no surprise. It features professional and intriguing storytelling and a nonfi ction investigation featuring violent crimes tends to garner mass attention.

However, the sheer extent and

rapid rate of this popularity were unprecedented and wholly unex-pected.

“Serial” has become the top pod-cast in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada and hit the top 10 in Germany, South Africa and India. It is also the fi rst podcast to reach 5 million down-loads, and Apple regards it as the most popular podcast in the world.

It is entirely probable that the program’s success originates from the preexisting disappointment with the American justice system regarding the Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. These shootings occurred between August and December and the podcast aired between October and December.

Confi rmation bias inclines peo-ple to accept messages compatible with their preconceived notions of the world. Having frequent exam-ples of cruelty in the justice system could cause a person to cling to a podcast refl ecting the same idea.

It’s important to realize, though, that this is not exactly the same is-sue. The shootings refl ect the court’s unwillingness to prosecute those who deserved it. “Serial” examines the court’s readiness to prosecute without proving the killer was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

In considering the Ferguson conversation, this shows that al-though the shooting and related events in Ferguson were clearly entangled with race, the discon-tent with the justice system does not stop there.

Negative attitudes toward the justice system are no longer solely about racial inequality and the way white Americans are often unjustly found innocent. Citizens are also

concerned with the integrity of the institution as a whole.

“Serial” listeners on Reddit re-peatedly illustrate that people are far less interested in race when it comes to this case. The discourse boils down to the idea that the jus-tice system is not about justice or truth, but actually just about who can argue and present their case the best.

This principle is entangled with race issues, though, considering that white Americans make con-siderably more than most racial minorities and, simply put, good lawyers are expensive.

However, despite Syed being a Pakistani Muslim and Lee being Ko-rean, racial and religious discrimi-nation are more or less left out of the argument in “Serial.” Koenig men-tions race only to understand the behaviors of individuals involved in the case in an attempt to fully understand the events of the day Lee was killed. But when it comes to the potential of discrimination during Syed’s trial, Koenig o! ers almost no insight.

Presumably, people consider that the key witness was black and won in court. They assume that must mean no discrimination took place. However, discrimina-tion is evident at multiple points in the podcast, but Koenig fails to mention this.

For example, the jury found countless stereotypically religious motives for Lee’s murder. These are based on honor or shame and would likely have been left out of the discourse if he was, for example, a white Christian.

“Serial” podcast: Where is the discrimination discourse?

Adrianne Glenn Columnist

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The tagline for “Unbroken” reads “Survival, Resilience, Redemption.” This should tell you everything you need to know about what direc-tor Angelina Jolie hoped to achieve.

Longing for an Oscar isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Many in Hollywood see it as the crown-ing achievement — the pinnacle of a success-ful career in fi lm. Most of the fi lms that come out this time of year do so because someone involved with its production thought it would be Oscar-worthy. And, despite the fact that the question “Which fi lm was the year’s best?” is invariably a matter of opinion, the Academy typically does a good job at pinpointing some of the year’s best o! erings.

It has become abundantly clear, however,

that over the Academy Awards’ 86-year history, the Academy has an a" nity for a certain type of picture. Though the subject may vary, voters most defi nitely favor big-budgeted fi lms with familiar, easily decipherable plots and themes that champion the human will to endure even under the harshest of circumstances. With those cinematic champions grabbing gold, the voters then eschew the more esoteric fi lms that experiment with style and explore more exotic themes.

One of the Academy’s favorite genres is the historical drama, a genre that generally provides it with the qualities it desires in a fi lm — a fact the makers of “Unbroken” were un-doubtedly cognizant of. But, while “Unbroken” may share the same genre, high production values and talent both behind and in front of the camera with past Best Picture winners like “Schindler’s List,” “The King’s Speech” and “12 Years a Slave,” the similarities end there.

The fi lm starts out well enough, opening with a gorgeous shot of the sky as planes slowly and majestically emerge from the clouds. The following sequence is tense and thrilling with action that resembles other war fi lms like “Sav-

ing Private Ryan” and the recent “Lone Survi-vor” in its stirring, chaotic execution.

Unfortunately, the rest of the fi lm never lives up to the promise of its opening shots. Instead, Jolie launches us on a redundant and, at times, insu! erable journey through the wartime im-prisonment of American Olympic runner and bombardier Louie Zamperini. After his crew’s plane crashes in the Pacifi c Ocean, Louie and two other survivors endure nearly a month at sea only then to be captured and imprisoned by the Japanese.

There is a brilliant story of “survival, resil-ience and redemption” in here somewhere, but, rather than fully capitalizing on it, Jolie establishes a weak correlation between Zam-perini’s will to compete and his will to survive and wallops us with two hours of unbearable torture — which was unbearable to withstand, I’m sure, but almost as unbearable to watch. The su! ering of an American POW permeates the fi nal two hours, and we become more familiar with Zamperini’s battered and bruised face than we do with the man behind it.

If the action on screen fails to pique your in-terest, you can at least enjoy how beautiful it all

is. The always-reliable cinematographer Roger Deakins (known best for his work with the fi lm’s acclaimed writers, Joel and Ethan Coen) should earn his 12th Oscar nod — his work in “Unbroken” is brilliant. Jack O’Connell, who plays Zamperini, also manages to do the best he can with the thin character he has been o! ered. It’s a feverishly intense performance, and we feel his sorrow and pain even if we still don’t know who Zamperini really is by the fi lm’s end.

Unfortunately, neither of these qualities is good enough to redeem what is eventually a tedious and unrewarding enterprise. We are so exhausted by the end of Zamperini’s journey that the scene in which he is reunited with his family, a typically emotional cinematic setup , barely manages to conjure up any compassion.

Similarly, the fi lmmakers appear so blinded by the sight of Oscar gold that they forgot what makes these fi lms work. We see the “survival,” but where is the “resilience” or the “redemp-tion,” and what reason are we given to believe another prisoner wouldn’t survive similar cir-cumstances?

Unfortunately, no Oscar-worthy fi lm ac-companies the Oscar-worthy tagline.

Jolie’s ‘Unbroken’ begs for Oscars, but is an unbearable torture-festDylan Galper Staff Writer

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It is impossible to feel contempt for LCD Soundsystem. No matter what your opin-ion is of frontman James Murphy’s three-albums-and-done dance-punk collective, you still aren’t going to roll your eyes at an upfront and razor-sharp song like “Losing My Edge.”

That’s because, at a time when every post-punk revivalist and New Sincerity hand wa-ver was trying to convince you that they were cool (I’m looking at you, Conor Oberst) , LCD Soundsystem couldn’t even convince them-selves that they were cool. Over their decade-long existence, they crafted an identity out of reluctance, anxiety and compromise, which all but razed the barrier dividing audience and performer.

Delightfully apathetic toward the time , but, with 35 years of experience, James Mur-phy became the anti-rockstar we all wanted:

someone with a keen ear, a faith in dance-fl oor transcendentalism and a lack of faith in pretty much everything else.

Now he’s moved on. LCD is no more. But on the 10th anniversary of their self-titled debut’s release, it’s worth taking a look back to the band’s humble beginnings.

On Nov. 8, 2004, LCD Soundsystem re-leased “Movement,” the fi rst single from their debut. Here, buzzsaw synths and 808 claps bash out a proto-punk stomp while Murphy shames the lack of critical think-ing among modern rock bands (“It’s like a movement without the bother of all of the meaning!”). Yet he goes to no length to ex-clude himself (“It’s like a fat guy in a T-shirt doing all the singing!”).

His voice is phlegmy and occasionally dips into rock a! ectation. One moment, however, always strikes me as exceedingly sincere: during the climax of his squawk-ing anti-guitar solo, he can be heard faintly o! -mic saying “Here’s the change! Ba-ba-ba-

ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.” He comes across desperate to impress and fails to do so. His earnest attempt to salvage a so-far-terrible solo only sends the song into further disarray. Thirty seconds later, an unceremonious decele-rando arrives with the band increasingly unsure of why they’re playing.

This is how LCD Soundsystem works: they don’t express sentiments so much as concerns, and the songs resolve once the ambivalence has been sufficiently ren-dered, even if that takes 10-plus minutes. On “Yeah,” it’s the clash between rage and apathy. On “On Repeat,” it’s between faith and faithlessness. On “Too Much Love,” it’s between a culture and its past.

Its albums grew less caustic and more delightfully self-defeating as time passed. Yet LCD Soundsystem was still a necessary record, which ushered in new music of pos-ing questions — of disciplined confl ict reso-lution. To be original or to re-hash the work of one’s idols? To be funny or to be serious?

To go for the listeners’ hips or their brains? James Murphy refused to ally himself

with any belief or approach. He represented his dilemma instead of putting faith in either side and ended up with a band that we, a population obsessed with transparency, wanted. Just listen to their debut single, which ends with Murphy rattling o! a list of his major infl uences, including This Heat, Scott Walker and more than 20 others. Little did he know, Murphy and LCD Soundsystem would become the blueprint for many of his DFA labelmates and even the most recent Arcade Fire record.

But LCD Soundsystem was also the band we didn’t realize we needed, which encour-aged us not to defi ne ourselves by our opin-ions, but rather by the obstacles that prevent us from forming them and the compromises we ultimately make. Later, the music became more personal and delicate, but fi rst they had to fi gure if what they were doing was worth it in the fi rst place.

Time Capsule: LCD Soundsystem!s eponymous debut turns 10Dan Willis

Staff Writer

MUSICMUSIC


SPORTS

As the Pittsburgh Panthers men’s basket-ball team readies for its second consecu-tive ACC road game to begin conference play, starting forward Jamel Artis knows that the team needs to play with an in-creased sense of urgency.

“When you play on the road, you’ve got to play with more energy,” Artis said. “You’ve got to play with more intensity. You’ve got to execute that much better than when you’re at home.”

That knowledge didn’t help Pitt in its fi rst road ACC game on Saturday, as the team lost to North Carolina State Univer-sity 68-50. After briefl y holding an early 6-1 lead, the NC State Wolfpack gained the lead and never relinquished it en route to handing Pitt its fourth loss this year.

“I thought we should have been up more,” Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon said of the initial lead. “It seemed that we came out ready to go and executing well. Then, it seemed to get away from us.”

Now the Panthers (10-4, 0-1 ACC) travel again on Tuesday — this time, they face the Boston College Eagles (7-5, 0-1 ACC) at 9 p.m.

Boston College lost its only conference game so far by 85-62 to Duke on Satur-day. Before traveling to Durham, N.C., the Eagles had won four out of their last fi ve games, with the lone loss during that span coming by four points to USC.

A focus on execution will be crucial, Artis said, if Pitt wants to even its confer-ence record.

“We’ve just gotta pay more attention to detail and sustain our energy, our inten-sity and our focus throughout the whole game,” the sophomore forward said.

Artis led Pitt in scoring with 13 points on Saturday and ranks third on the team this season with 9.5 points per game, as well as placing second on the team with 5.1 rebounds per game.

Dixon said his team will have to be

smarter with the ball for the rest of the season, especially concerning how and when they choose to take shots.

“Shot selection and impatience — that was a big part of it,” Dixon said. “We had nine shots blocked [against North Caro-lina State]. Those are generally not good shots, and that’s a pretty good indicator.”

He added that poor shots impact other parts of the game, too.

“When you don’t take good shots, gen-erally you’re not going to get a good of-fensive rebounding opportunity,” he said.

Junior Olivier Hanlan leads the Eagles with 16 points per game and 4.2 assists per game. Pitt struggled in the paint on

Saturday and will try to attack the boards this game, as Boston College ranks 243rd in the country in rebounding with 33.4 rebounds per game.

Sophomore forward Michael Young said North Carolina State’s defense last game presented a challenge for the Pan-thers that the team will try to correct moving forward.

“If I caught the ball anywhere near the paint, they were [double-teaming] me,” said Young, who scored 10 points and grabbed nine rebounds on Saturday. “From the opening tip until the end of the game, they were doubling me, so [scor-ing] was going to be kind of hard for me.”

Dixon repeated the message that Artis gave after the loss, also telling his team that “we’re a better team than what we played.”

“[Boston College] is our emphasis go-ing forward. We can’t dwell on this game,” he said. “We didn’t play to our capabilities, and we’re extremely disappointed in that.”

Part of that disappointment came from Pitt’s defense in the game, an aspect that has been somewhat unsatisfactory at the start of the season , with the Panthers ranking 68th in the nation in points per game allowed, despite a relatively weak non-conference schedule.

“The defense has always got to be there. That’s what we’re striving for,” Dixon said. “That’s got to be the constant.”

So far this season, the Panthers are allowing 61.1 points per game, ranking 68th in the country.

Pitt may have an opportunity to im-prove that ranking against a Boston Col-lege team that only ranks 195th in the country in scoring, including the 62-point performance against Duke.

Pitt also has a vastly di! erent roster from BC, in terms of age proportions. Boston College has eight seniors on its roster compared to three for Pitt, though only Pitt guard Cameron Wright starts out of that group.

Boston College head coach Jim Chris-tian said those experienced players help the team perform, especially graduate students Aaron Brown and Dimitri Batten.

“They’ve had a positive infl uence on everybody,” Christian said. “They’ve brought a toughness to our basketball team. They’ve done a great job, when they fi rst got here, of getting together with the guys and getting to know them.”

With only one true freshman on the team — Idy Diallo — Christian will have to revamp the roster once this season ends.

Before that, the Eagles will face the Panthers on Tuesday night. Tip-o! is scheduled for 9 p.m.

Pitt looks to rebound against BC in second straight road gameChris Puzia Sports Editor

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Jamel Artis and the Panthers look to improve on an 18-point loss to NC State on Saturday in their conference opener. Alyson Derrick | Staff Photographer

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