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thetartan.org @thetartan January 26, 2015 Volume 109, Issue 14 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 CMU increases tuition by 3.38 percent University revamps Braden Kelner Contributing Editor CMU.edu homepage

The cost of tuition, fees, and room and board is in- creasing by 3.38 percent for the next academic year, an increase that is more than last year’s 2.91 percent increase but less than 2013-14’s in- crease of 3.99 percent for in- coming students. Altogether, next year’s fees will total about $63,240 for undergraduates. Emailing the campus com- munity on Jan. 14, Vice Presi- dent for Campus Affairs Mi- chael Murphy said that tuition for incoming undergraduates and students who enrolled in fall 2013 or 2014 will be set at Eunice Oh/Art Editor $49,610 for the 2015-16 aca- Carnegie Mellon recently updated its homepage, www.cmu.edu, with a demic year, while room and cleaner, more modern look that’s friendly to mobile web browsing. board now cost $7,520 for a Brent Heard strategic priorities Dr. Suresh standard double room and Contributing Editor has spoken about.” $5,310 for a standard first-year The homepage now con- meal plan. Fees factoring into Carnegie Mellon’s offi- tains links to portions of the this total increase include a cial website has received a website devoted to Carnegie $150 transportation fee, which facelift. Mellon’s global presence, as allows students access to Port Visitors to the site’s well as a list of links discuss- Authority of Allegheny County homepage are now greeted ing the university’s strategic services, and a $390 technol- with a redesign that contin- initiatives including the Si- ogy fee, as well as a $250 activ- ues to feature news related mon Initiative, Brain Hub, ity fee and $10 media fee for to the university and links to the new Tepper Quadrangle, undergraduate students. The sections of the website such and others. media fee supports the Col- as research, admissions, and Berneburg called Carn- legiate Readership Program, student life. egie Mellon’s homepage “the which gives students access to However, the new page university’s front door to the The New York Times, Pittsburgh features larger graphics and world,” and explained that Post-Gazette, and USA Today a more modern aesthetic “this is meant to be an interim on campus. Graduate students that allows the user to scroll design.” She explained that will be charged a $206 activity through stories and infor- the university is planning fee without a media fee. mation in a clear hierarchy. many further improvements For 2014-15, tuition cost The university’s website was and updates to portions of incoming students $48,030. last redesigned in 2009, the website, though the de- The 2015-16 tuition cost marks with the new homepage cre- tails of a timeline or specific a 3.29 percent increase from ated by a team within the plans have not yet been made this academic year’s tuition university. public. cost. The activity fee cost $246 Amanda Berneburg, se- Some portions of the web- this year, and next year’s cost nior associate director of site, such as those for admis- is only $4 higher. Meanwhile, online strategy for market- sions and university news, the transportation fee rose $30 ing and communications, still contain pages in the from this year’s $120 fee. The described the goals of the same style as the previous media fee remained the same. redesign process as “a way to homepage design. Berneburg Room and board rose $240 Isabel Bleimeister/Asst. Layout Manager tell the CMU story in a mod- said that the overall website from $7,280 and the meal plan ern way.” Berneburg empha- redesign is an ongoing initia- fee rose $190 from $5,120. in that the percentage of the academic year’s increase increase (3.99 percent) while sized that the new design is tive, and that the news sec- Next year’s increase, as increase was the same for implemented a tiered pric- upperclassmen received a more compatible with mobile tion of the website would be well as the 2014-15 increase, both incoming students and ing in which first-year stu- devices and is also structured the next section to receive a deviated from previous years upperclassmen. The 2013-14 dents were hit with a larger See TUITION, A3 “to touch upon many of the design change. Nominations open for Excellence in Theatre Education Award Justin McGown ing process is carried out by and Sons,” a Best Play nomi- Contributing Editor a panel of judges made up of nee in 2014, was produced by Carnegie Mellon’s faculty, the Wagner. During the ceremony, Last year, Carnegie Mellon American Theatre Wing, The Carnegie Mellon alumni Matt University became the exclu- Broadway League, and other Bomer (CFA, ‘01) and Zachary sive higher education partner organizations prominent in Quinto (CFA, ‘99) announced of the Antoinette Perry Award the world of theatre arts. the award to viewers at home, for Excellence in Theatre. As a The award, according to as well as to the audience. result, the next Tony Awards the Tony Awards website, “People don’t always real- will feature a new category: will recognize educators who ize ... that theatre has to be The Excellence in Theatre Ed- “discover talented students, taught,” Jacquelyn Gutierrez, ucation Award. Nominations nurture them, inspire them, a junior scene design major, for the award are now open, and set them off on a lifelong said. “It’s great we’re recog- and Carnegie Mellon will play journey as theatre supporters nizing that there are people a major role in granting this and professionals.” who do that every day.” award. The partnership was an- Senior acting major Col- The award is granted to nounced last year in a pre- leen Pulawski said that she one current K–12 educator broadcast announcement be- found the new award and or member of an accredited fore the Tony Awards by Dan partnership “really amazing.” theatre organization whose Martin, dean of the College of She also expressed ex- citement about an increase in prominence for Carnegie “There’s never been an Mellon as an institution in educational institution tied to the world of theatre. “There’s never been an educational the Tony Awards before. We’re institution tied to the Tony Awards before. getting a lot of attention.... Non- “We’re getting a lot of at- theatre people are starting to tention; the school is getting widely popular,” Pulawski recognize the name as a place continued. “Non-theatre peo- for musical theatre, sort of like ple are starting to recognize the name as a place for musical Juilliard.” theatre, sort of like Juilliard.” “I had an acting teacher — Colleen Pulawski, senior acting major who inspired me to audition for this school,” Pulawski said when asked if there were any official responsibilities in- Fine Arts, along with Billy Por- past teachers she would nomi- clude, at least in part, the- ter (CFA, ’91) and Paula Wag- nate. “We all had mentors.” atre education. The award is ner (CFA, ’69), who both grad- Alex Wanebo, a first-year unique in that the nomina- uated from Carnegie Mellon acting major, said she also was tions are made by current and and won a Tony in 2013 and glad that the award has open former students regardless received a nomination in 2014, nominations for educators. “I of their own qualifications, respectively. Porter won the had a couple [teachers] who meaning that any theatre award in 2013 for Best Actor really influenced me; I’d love educator in the country could in a Musical for his role as Lola to get them recognized for potentially win. The screen- in Kinky Boots, while “Mothers their work.” Emily Giedzinski/Staff Artist A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » January 26, 2015 feature photo news in brief New board of trustees chair former PNC CEO Students pack winter Activities Fair Former Chairman and news release. Chief Executive Officer Rohr became PNC’s CEO (CEO) of PNC Financial Ser- in 2000 and retired last year. vices Group James Rohr has Rohr will take the place of been elected chairman of Raymond Lane, who became Carnegie Mellon’s board of chairman in 2009, and is a trustees, according to a uni- life trustee of the university. versity press release. Lane, partner emeritus at Rohr joined the board in Menlo Park, Calif.-based ven- 1992. Among his contribu- ture capital firm Kleiner Per- tions to the board, he has kins Caufield & Byers, will re- been vice chairman since main a member of the board 2012, currently chairs the and will continue to serve on board’s nominating and its executive committee, ac- governance committee, and cording to the release. serves on the finance com- “As one of America’s most mittee. He was the finance successful business lead- committee’s vice chair from ers, Jim Rohr has provided 2007–12 and chaired the insightful guidance and ser- search committee that ulti- vice to Carnegie Mellon as a mately selected Subra Suresh member of the board of trust- as Carnegie Mellon’s current ees for 22 years,” President president. Suresh said in the release. Rohr also helped establish About Lane, President the university’s PNC Center Suresh said, “Ray Lane has for Financial Services Innova- been an outstanding and tion within the Tepper School inspiring chairman of the of Business, as well as a PNC board, guiding it effectively Professorship in Finance, during a period of transition according to the university at the university.” Shirley, Neville now graduate student housing

As part of a number of In addition to this changes to this year’s hous- change, the housing selec- ing selection process, Shir- tion process has been moved ley and Neville apartments forward dramatically. The will no longer be available housing portal, where stu- as options for undergradu- dents can select their room ate students for the 2015-16 assignments, will open on academic year. Instead, the Feb. 15. Students looking on-campus locations will be to keep their current rooms open for graduate students. must specify that they are The choice to offer these retaining by Feb. 18, while locations to graduate stu- students participating in dents is part of “an effort to general room selection must create a more concentrated apply by Feb. 26. living experience for gradu- Students living in Greek ate students,” according to houses this year will now Housing Services’s “What’s also be able to participate in New for Room Selection room selection, where previ- 2015” webpage. ously they could not move The website specifies that back on campus. graduate students will apply for these spaces in an ap- Editor’s Note: For more plication separate from the information about Carnegie normal room selection pro- Mellon’s room selection pro- cess, with more information cess and information about about the application com- the university’s housing op- ing soon. tions, look for The Tartan’s Students living in Shirley housing insert in next week’s and Neville Apartments this issue. year are eligible to participate in other phases of the selec- tion process, but cannot retain Compiled by their current apartments. Braden Kelner

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Laura Scherb/Publisher Students filled Wiegand Gymnasium in the Cohon University Center last Wednesday to visit the tables of many different student organizations and activities they could take part in. Activities fairs are hosted twice in each academic year, once during the fall semester and once again in the spring. Campus Crime & Incident Reports 27° / 12° 29° / 21° 36° / 30° Retail Theft Public Drunkenness Disorderly Conduct/Odor Criminal Mischief Friday Saturday Sunday Jan. 16, 2015 Jan. 17, 2015 of Marijuana Jan. 23, 2013 University Police cited a A University Police officer Jan. 18, 2015 University Police were student for attempting to steal on foot patrol noticed a wom- After University Police re- summoned to the lower level eggs from Entropy+. The stu- an who was being assisted ceived a call reporting an odor of the Purnell Center for the dent was seen taking the eggs walking down Forbes Avenue. of marijuana in Shady Oak Arts in reference to a graffiti- and reported to University The woman, a George Wash- Apartments, they investigated damaged painting. The tim- Police. The student is being ington University student the incident and issued a cita- ing of the incident and the charged with a summary of- who was incapable of walking tion for disorderly conduct, perpetrator of the graffiti are fense relating to retail theft. without assistance, was cited seizing all of the related con- unknown. 30° / 8° 28° / 13° 23° / 9° for public drunkenness and traband. Source: www.weather.com given medical aid. Underage Drinking Jan. 17, 2015 Underage Drinking Alcohol Amnesty University Police were Jan. 18, 2015 Jan. 18, 2015 Corrections & Clarifications summoned to the second floor After an RA in Stever House of Hamerschlag House in re- University Police respond- reported an intoxicated stu- If you would like to submit a correction or clarification, sponse to a large party. Offi- ed to both Fairfax Apartments dent on the second floor, Uni- please email The Tartan at [email protected] or cers arrived and issued mul- and Morewood Gardens for versity Police and CMU EMS [email protected] with your inquiry, as well as the tiple citations for underage instances of alcohol amnesty. arrived and provided medical date of the issue and the name of the article. We will drinking, as well as disposing Medical attention was given attention. The student was print the correction or clarification in the next print of all the alcohol on site. None to those in need and no cita- cited for underage drinking. issue and publish it online. of the students required medi- tions were issued. Compiled by cal attention. Brian trimboli student senate meeting minutes Business affairs: Strip/Crawl, news app, Special allocation: Water polo Special allocation: Getting feedback First Lectures Dancers’ Symposium from students Senate reported that its As part of the Collegiate Men’s water polo request- to the requested reimburse- Dancers’ Symposium was al- Student Senate said that it Strip/Crawl event in the Strip Readership Program, USA ed $1,506 for three delayed ment because the costs were located approximately $1,100 wants to hear more from oth- District was a success, with Today is launching a campus flights during their return considered more than Joint to rent The Porch at Schenley ers on campus about initia- approximately 400 people news app with Carnegie Mel- from the Division III National Funding Committee metrics over Carnival for the organiza- tives they want to see. Senate using a chartered bus shuttle lon as a pilot participant. Collegiate Club Champion- would allow. tion’s 25th anniversary. would select student orga- for the event. Marty’s Market, Additionally, The First ship in Maine, in which the nizations recognized by The which was located next to the Lectures series, a lecture se- team placed sixth out of nine Bridge and meet with them to shuttle stop and gave Carn- ries during which seniors teams. The coach’s flight ex- hear their ideas about possi- egie Mellon students a 10 speak about their experienc- penses were not paid for, ble initiatives. Organizations percent discount, saw a $900 es at Carnegie Mellon, will with a rationale that Senate would be contacted before increase in sales, according to occur in February, March, does not pay for non-student meetings so that they have Senate. and April. flights. A reduction was made time to prepare their ideas. Compiled by Braden Kelner January 26, 2015 « The Tartan thetartan.org/news » A3 University announces raised tuition for upcoming academic year TUITION, from A1 proposed costs to Murphy. that we’re doing,” Murphy university came behind Co- organization aimed at teach- an economic value and a non- Murphy then discusses the said, mentioning the Jared L. lumbia University, Sarah Law- ing financial literacy to high economic value, and I think as lower 2.99 percent increase. proposed rates before they Cohon University Center and rence College, Vassar College, school students. “The tuition a nation it’s important that we Similarly tiered increases of are presented to the board of other initiatives to enhance and Trinity College in that or- is not an expense but an in- recognize both.” about 4 percent for first-years trustees. These proposed rates students’ experiences as ex- der. Columbia ranked highest vestment for the next 60 years “On the other hand, I and 3 percent for upperclass- should remain within an in- amples of improvements these on the list with a tuition and of our lives. What seems like a wouldn’t want us to get com- men were also implemented flationary range of around 3 costs help to fund. fees cost of $51,008. considerable increase today, placent about [rising costs],” for 2011-12 and 2012-13. to 3.5 percent for non-tiered According to U.S. News & “We need to look at a much may lead to improved gains in Murphy continued. “And so Costs are largely set by de- years, according to Murphy. World Report, Carnegie Mel- larger picture here,” said the long run.” we need to make sure that partments, such as Housing “What we thought with lon ranked number five for first-year economics major Speaking about rising tu- we’re cutting costs where we and Dining Services for meal the 3.3 percent [tuition in- most expensive private col- Yash Maheshwari via email. ition nationwide, Murphy can cut costs, investing where plans and room and board, crease] ... was that it’s aggres- leges and universities with a Maheshwari is a member of said, “The real question is we need to invest, and mak- who analyze their finan- sive relative to our history, but listed 2014-15 tuition and fees Carnegie Mellon’s chapter of ‘What is the value that you re- ing sure that students have the cial needs and submit their consistent with many things cost of $48,786 on the list. The MoneyThink, a nationwide turn to students?’ And it’s both supports that they need.” Aramark replaces Integrated Service Solutions as cleaning service saying that the committee regarding what items should supervisors to visualize what it “had a lot of input from a lot be cleaned after students leave looks like with students here.” of folks on campus” and gave the building at the end of an As to the causes of these a recommendation, but ul- academic year. difficulties, Gerwig explained timately the final decision In terms of staff which had that “even though the staff has rested with Carnegie Mellon’s been previously hired under been here, they were moved Facilities Management Servic- ISS, employees were rein- around a little bit, and it’s a es, who formally hold the con- terviewed by Aramark, who, different supervisor and dif- tract. Gerwig noted that the Gerwig reports, had to keep ferent equipment,” on which final decision was not made around 60 percent of union staff need to be retrained. based on the bid price alone, personnel. “I think almost all Cooley estimated that instead being evaluated on a of them stayed. I think there there would be “about 90 number of different factors, might have been some who days before we transition which she did not specify. were not rehired; some chose completely,” because the staff The bidding process start- not to be rehired. So, for the is undergoing training on ed during the summer of 2014 most part, they stayed.” the new practices and equip- and the transition began in One Carnegie Mellon ment, in addition to providing early December, with Aramark cleaning services worker, who officially taking over on Jan. 1. chose to remain anonymous, The bidding process took place explained that there was un- last year because the univer- certainty regarding this transi- “It was hard for sity’s contract with ISS was tion process and the status of the supervisors expiring, with ISS re-bidding, their employment when this but not being re-awarded the transition was announced. to visualize contract. This source also stated that Directing of Housing during the interviewing pro- what it looks Services Thomas Cooley ex- cess, workers hired under ISS like with plained that the new provider were put on a 60-day proba- is operating under the name tionary period and were sub- students here.” “Custodial Services,” and de- ject to background checks, scribed that along with this as well as drug and alcohol — Marcia Gerwig, transition the university is screenings. striving to meet newer, higher Gerwig reported that CUC director Emily Giedzinski/Staff Artist cleaning standards. these checks are a common “One huge change that process used during rehiring Brent Heard Inc. (ISS) since 1996, and are Marcia Gerwig, director of housing made is the way that scenarios. cleaning services. He summa- Contributing Editor now being provided under a the Jared L. Cohon University the contract is evaluated,” Gerwig spoke to the tran- rized the effort by saying that contract with Philadelphia- Center, described the decision Cooley explained, noting there sition, remarking that “it was we should expect “cleaning At the beginning of this based Aramark. Aramark has a process saying that “there was would be “quality evaluations kind of a rough start in Janu- more often and to a higher semester, Carnegie Mellon of- janitorial service division that a bidding process and a com- periodically throughout the ary,” something she attributed standard.” ficially switched the company provides cleaning for numer- mittee” which included faculty year” by an independent evalu- to Aramark taking over dur- “Aramark has cleaning ac- providing cleaning services ous locations ranging from and staff. “There were around ator. Cooley also spoke of a ing a period when there were counts at other campuses, but for its buildings. Cleaning ser- office buildings to hospitals, six companies which sent pro- “more detailed process” which no students on campus. “Even we have a very unique envi- vices had been provided by in addition to other academic posals, and three gave presen- has been developed for the uni- though the personnel stayed ronment. It’s been a learning Integrated Service Solutions, institutions. tations,” Gerwig continued, versity’s residential buildings the same, it was hard for the curve,” Gerwig concluded. A4 « thetartan.org/scitech The Tartan » January 26, 2015

Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker solved IEEE game that humans play in poker,” Bowling explained. Fellows “But it’s also the first imper- fect information game [com- named petitively played by humans] to be solved.” Julia Napolitano Imperfect information Staffwriter games, as the name suggests, are those in which the entire In December, three state of the game is not known members of Carnegie Mel- to a player when he makes a lon’s faculty, Alex Waibel decision. While large games and Howie Choset of the such as checkers have already School of Computer Sci- been solved, the perfect in- ence, and Diana Marcu- formation nature of checkers lescu of the Department of makes it much easier to solve Electrical and Computer than games like poker. Engineering, were named In order to solve heads-up 2015 Institute of Electrical limit Texas hold’em, Bowl- and Electronics Engineers ing’s group started Cepheus (IEEE) Fellows. off by having it play against The IEEE is the largest itself randomly. After each professional association for play, it computed how much the advancement of tech- money it could have made if nology. Its core purpose, ac- it had played differently; in cording to the association’s other words, it calculated its website, is to “foster tech- “regret” at each decision point nological innovation and and then updated its strategy excellence for the benefit of Courtesy of Michael Bowling accordingly, getting smarter humanity.” The IEEE Fellow Michael Bowling, a Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science alumnus, helped develop a computer program to solve a version of poker. and smarter with each cycle. is a distinction reserved for This method is called counter- those with extraordinary Brooke Kuei Cepheus, a computer program essentially solved heads-up points — unique possible posi- factual regret minimization. accomplishments in tech- Contributing Editor developed by Carnegie Mellon limit Texas hold’em. tions a player can find himself “If you do that strategy update nological fields, and is con- University School of Comput- This version of poker is a in where he is forced to make in a particular mathematical firmed by the IEEE Board of There’s a new player in er Science alumnus Michael two-player game in which all an action — as opposed to the way, you can prove that its Directors. the world of poker, and he Bowling. According to a pa- bets are a fixe*d size, creating 10161 decision points more Marculescu, professor doesn’t wear a baseball cap or per published in the Jan. 9 a game which is made up of complicated versions of the and associate department sunglasses. This new player is issue of Science, Cepheus has approximately 1014 decision game entail. “It’s the smallest See POKER, A5 head for academic affairs in the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engi- neering, was cited as a Fel- pugwash column low for her contributions to the design and optimization of energy-aware computing Charlie Hebdo sparks freedom of speech debate systems. “Being recognized as an IEEE Fellow is a wonderful confirmation of the contri- butions that my research brought to the field of en- Kathryn McKeough ergy aware and sustainable Staffwriter computing. It truly feels great to be ‘part of the club,’ In the wake of the Charlie the most selective group of Hebdo executions in Paris, scientists and engineers in David Cameron, Prime Min- the electrical and electron- ister of the United Kingdom, ics engineering domain,” announced his intent to crimi- Marculescu said. nalize encrypted messages Marculescu’s research sent over the Internet that regarding energy-aware could not be broken by the computing and computer- government. Cameron’s solu- aided design for non-silicon tion seems drastic to many in- applications aims to achieve ternet users, but he sees it as sustainable computing, and an act of terrorism prevention. the use of that computing Cameron’s actions prompted to achieve sustainability Pugwash members to ques- in renewable energy and tion their views on freedom distribution. of speech and the complicated Her current project, balance between privacy and funded by the National protection. Kyung Min Lee/Staff artist Science Foundation, is the First, Pugwash discussed implementation of an ener- the importance of free speech. freedom of speech is harmful felt like there should be some ist attacks is worth giving up lance in other forms of com- gy-aware computing system Freedom of speech allows to certain people, the benefits way to communicate privately our privacy. Are we willing to munication. Where do we to explore the use of a ray people to express their opin- of people voicing their opinion without someone watching. If let people, like the journalists draw the line about what we approach for hydropower. ions without being persecut- are far more important. we allow the government ac- of Charlie Hebdo, die just so allow government to hear? They hope to have results in ed for their beliefs. It forces Each government is re- cess to every medium of com- we can express our thoughts One member compared hav- the next three to five years. government, companies, and sponsible for maintaining the munication, then we have giv- in private? ing access to all online com- Marculescu is also an other groups of people to re- balance between invading pri- en them absolute power over Next, we explored how munication as being able to ACM Distinguished Sci- flect on their actions. Pugwash vacy and and protecting its cit- what we say. Others argued reading encrypted emails and concluded that even though izens. Most people in Pugwash that the prevention of terror- messages compares to surveil- See FREEDOM, A5 See FELLOWS, A5 scitech briefs High speed NASA explores New technique to Invertebrates found Psychologists Swiss pilots plan cameras capture the dwarf planets contain genetically living deep beneath suggest that seeing to launch solar- the scent of rain Ceres and Pluto modified organisms Antarctic Ice is not remembering powered plane Scientists at the Massachu- The study of dwarf planets Two groups of scientists Earlier this month, re- Two psychologists at Penn Plans for the launch of the setts Institute of Technology may hold well-preserved clues from U.S. research universi- searchers from Whillans State University found that solar-powered plane, Solar believe that they have discov- in learning about the forma- ties have developed a complex Ice Stream Subglacial Ac- memories must be consciously Impulse 2, have recently been ered the process that leads tion of the solar system. Dur- method to ensure the preven- cess Research Drilling (WIS- activated in order for someone released to the public. By early to the earthy smell during ing the coming March, the tion of potential disease and SARD) used a hot water drill to remember even the basic March, Swiss pilots plan to fly a rainfall. Using high-speed Dawn spacecraft will go into ecological destruction caused to cut through half a mile of details of an experience. the Solar Impulse 2 around cameras, the researchers were orbit around the dwarf planet by the escape of genetically ice in west Antarctica. With In a study of 100 under- the globe, leaving from Abu able to study the mechanism Ceres, located in the main as- modified organisms. submersible cameras, the graduate students, volunteers Dhabi and crossing the Pacific of raindrops as they land on a teroid belt between Mars and The researchers modified National Science Foundation- viewed a simple arrangement Ocean as well as the United variety of surfaces, including Jupiter. The spacecraft will the DNA of E. coli, a species sponsored team uncovered of elements, which included States. At night, energy effi- soil. also briefly visit Pluto. of bacteria, by replacing an fish and other invertebrates numbers, letters, or colors. cient batteries and motors will Imaging technology re- A construction of the Na- amino acid that halts protein inhabiting the dark depths They were then asked to recall help keep the plane powered. vealed that a droplet flattens tional Aeronautics and Space construction with a synthetic of the Ross Sea, which has a the location of a particular el- While it is the size of a Boe- after it lands on a surface. Si- Administration, the Dawn amino acid. By interfering temperature of negative two ement. While the participants ing 747, the Solar Impulse 2 multaneously, small bubbles spacecraft is expected to be with the building blocks of degrees Celsius. successfully performed the will only weigh as much as a emerge from the droplet, near enough to Ceres to pro- DNA, researchers were able to This is the first time marine first task several times, they family car, as it is composed which causes the dispersal of duce images of the tiny dwarf cause the bacteria to depend life has been found this close failed when they were given of lightweight carbon fibers. hundreds of aerosol droplets. planet, which is about a third on the synthetic amino acid to the South Pole. It is also the a surprise question, which The cockpit contains thin and In turn, surface materials pres- of the size of Earth’s moon. for survival, even in the event first time the “grounding zone” required identification of the highly effective insulation ent in the rain droplet become Discovered in 1801, Ceres is that the bacterial DNA devel- — the intersection of Antarc- particular element that was foam which has already been distributed within the sur- distinguished for containing ops a single mutation. tic ice, land and sea — has previously located. adapted in household kitch- rounding environment, which an unusually large amount of Despite doubts about the been reached and sampled. Known as “attribute amne- ens. Members of the ambitious may provide the aromatic ele- water, which is not found in need for new methods to Researchers can learn more sia,” the phenomenon occurs project hope to promote the ments of fallen rain. any of its neighbors. Scientists contain these particular ge- about the ice sheets and their when a person uses a piece of usage of solar energy through The study, which was pub- also suspect that Ceres and netically manipulated cells, possible effects on sea rise by information to execute a task, live broadcasts throughout the lished in Nature Communica- former planet, Pluto — now the technique promises many examining sediment from the but then forgets what that in- flight, as well as through talks tions, may explain how certain separated by billions of miles benefits, including defense zone. In addition, researchers formation was at least a sec- to schools, politicians and the ground microbes and chemi- — used to both exist in the against problematic viruses hope to learn how the discov- ond later. The phenomenon media. cals may have come into con- icy Kuiper Belt, where Pluto is that ruin the production of ered sea creatures can survive suggests the selective nature tact with humans. currently located. goods made with bacteria. in such an environment. of the human memory. Source: BBC Business Compiled By Source: Discovery News Source: National Geographic Source: New York Times Source: NBC News Source: Science Daily sharon wu January 26, 2015 « The Tartan thetartan.org/scitech » A5 how things work Understanding the universe with The Theory of Everything Shaojie Bai even back to Dem- be behind arguments. For example, no Staffwriter ocritus’ time. Our the scenes. physics theory is believed to ancestors initially Unfortunate- be completely accurate. In- Everything, in just one tried to come up with ly, GR and stead, theories have been de- theory? the notion of “atoms,” QFT have been veloped as models of certain Four kinds of forces have but not those in Dalton’s proven to be in- natural behaviors that can al- dominated this universe version. People like Dem- compatible with each ways be improved upon and since its birth 1.4 billion ocritus believed everything other. How to reconcile adjusted (consider Newton’s years ago. Gravitational was due to the mechanical them in a better way law and relativity). force, which causes an apple collision between these mi- and whether we will be Furthermore, Godel’s fa- to fall; electromagnetic (EM) croscopic “atoms,” which forced to discard one mous First Incompleteness force, which manifests as EM they never found. But now and prefer another is Theorem states that an axi- fields and light; and strong we know, thanks to Sir Isaac not yet known. omatic system cannot be both and weak nuclear forces, Newton, no contact is even There have also consistent and complete. which are responsible for needed given the law of been other creative and Without a doubt, if TOE the atoms that make up all universal gravitation. promising theories. really exists, it will fail this the elements we know. The In modern age, two First, String Theory test — its consistency guar- combination of these forces, famous theories have describes a world in antees that the “theory of as a result, is the sole source been closer to a TOE which point-like par- everything” is at best a “the- of energy for this universe. than ever: General ticles are really ory of something.” It will not From a photon knocking Relativity (GR) and one-dimension- be compatible with Godel’s a metal sheet to a massive Quantum Field Theory al objects called theorem because TOE will black hole collapsing time (QFT). Albert Einstein, “strings.” These be both complete and consis- space, everything is formed, who initially coined the term strings are be- tent. Stephen Hawking is one moved, and changed. “unified field theory” (an- lieved by some supporter of this criticism. But is there a theory, or other name for TOE), made scientists to os- The answer has, there- an equation — probably no every effort trying to prove cillate and dance fore, always been unknown. longer than your finger — that electromagnetic field in a way that gives particles Despite devoting mountains that incorporates the answer and gravity are nothing but important properties such as of effort, still nobody can to everything? A mystery for two different manifestations mass and charge. give a clear answer regarding thousands of years, this per- of a more fundamental field. Second, Casual Sets does the existence of TOE. What plexing but tempting prob- General Relativity gives fact all its phenomena not aim to be TOE directly, makes the search for TOE lem has inspired innumer- people a brand new geomet- in a macroscopic level. but its importance to QFT meaningful is more than just able physicists to contribute ric way to envisage gravity. However, the puzzle and the standard model of the fame it would bring. This their brilliant ideas. For instance, imagine plac- gets more interesting as particle physics is considered thirst for TOE originates not The Theory of Everything ing a 20-kg lead ball on a soft Planck’s Quantum Theory to be a key for TOE. Its major only from a quest for a higher Eunice Oh (TOE), also named the ulti- mattress, which is then de- enters, which perfectly re- Art Editor principle is that space-time is level of science, but also how mate theory, is a long-sought formed because of the heavy solves all the phenomenon not as continuous as we have human beings want to find a hypothetical method that weight of the lead ball. This taking place in microscopic two great imagined. universal pattern governing strives to link together all that is exactly what happened particle-level physics. pillars of modern physics. Meanwhile, there are also our lives. we know and observe about in time space (mattress), Most of the people to- For anything that we can pos- great mathematicians and Who controls the four this universe. While this may with the presence of colos- day who have taken physics sibly imagine, and for prob- physicists who do not sup- fundamental forces? What seem to be a crazy idea, it sal celestial objects (lead courses, even just at the in- ably every “how things work” port the existence of TOE at makes up the mind of God has been a long process of ball). A remarkable theory, troductory level, have been question, one of relativity all. They cushion this reason- or the creator of everything? exploration which originates GR explains nature and in taught to bow down to these and quantum theory must able criticism with strong The key is in our hands. Texas hold’em poker problem solved pugwash column POKER, From A4 is in drug design. “A problem Freedom of speech in drug design is that the dis- regret has to go to zero over ease that the drug is intended time…and that means its strat- to battle will also adapt to de- and surveillance egy is approaching a perfect velop a resistance to the drug. FREEDOM, from A5 encrypted emails. The gov- strategy,” Bowling said. So here the idea is that we can ernment would then have to Bowling’s group ran Ce- have models of the disease re- hear every conversation we apply for a warrant to gain pheus for two months, during sponse and then we can actu- have with one another. An- access to the information and which time they had 48 hun- ally bundle into the drug some- other suggested that it was could not simply immediately dred central processing units thing that will already hit the almost as bad as reading take it. It was also suggested (CPUs) working on the strat- evolved version,” Sandholm one’s mind. The government that Cameron may be fix- egy, with each CPU processing said. ated on the wrong issue. In- about 6 billion poker hands ev- There is still a lot of prog- stead of limiting free speech, ery second. By the end of this ress to be made in the field of “The Charlie the government should be time, the strategy was statisti- imperfect information games, Hebdo incident focused on protecting free cally indistinguishable from a such as developing artificial speech, which could be more perfect strategy. intelligence that can efficiently has brought to Courtesy of Tuomas Sandholm directly done by protecting So what can we do with an play poker with more than just Tuomas Sandholm is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. controversial journalists and undefeatable poker genius? two players or with no-limit light flaws in our peaceful protesters. Tuomas Sandholm, professor bets. telligence (AAAI) has been on this topic. treatment of free Overall, we agreed that of computer science at Carn- While it will be very diffi- holding annual poker com- These algorithms also have David Cameron’s actions egie Mellon University and a cult to completely solve poker, speech.” petitions since 2006, where various different medical ap- against encrypted online member of Bowling’s Ph.D. computer scientists are getting researchers from around the plications. “One is on the pop- already has access to phones messages are a little extreme. committee while he was a closer to solving other versions world compete with each other ulation level,” Sandholm said. through wire tap and can ac- However, the Charlie Hebdo graduate student, explained of the game. “I think we’re not in various forms of poker and “So think about a pandemic cess written documents using incident has brought to light that poker is not just a game. far off,” Bowling said. “I think discuss their algorithms. coming through and you have a warrant. We must decide flaws in our treatment of “Poker is a benchmark… which as a community we’re a few In the field of cybersecurity, to decide what segments of the how much free reign we are free speech. The next step is we can use to measure progress years away from being able to Sandholm explained how im- population, defined by geogra- going to give the government to find a way to protect law- in the field of solving imperfect exceed the best in the world perfect information algorithms phy or some other aspect of the over our thoughts, comments abiding citizens without op- information games. And the at heads-up no limit Texas can be useful in wireless jam- people, you should vaccinate and communications. pressing them. real applications that we’re tar- hold’em.” ming, when a communicator or quarantine, and when to do Pugwash offered some geting are things like security Sandholm and his students needs to decide when to com- it.” solutions for compromise Student Pugwash is a non- applications, cybersecurity, currently have the best pro- municate and with what power This type of strategy can between privacy and protec- advocacy, educational organi- auctions, negotiations, medi- gram for this harder form of level, and a jammer needs to also be used for sequential tion. One person suggested zation that discusses the impli- cal applications, and so forth.” decide when to jam and with treatment plans, such as for poker and won the Annual a third party, like a telecom- cations of science. This article In fact, the Association for the what power level. He and his patients of HIV. Computer Poker Competition munication company, that summarizes their discussion Advancement of Artificial In- collaborators have published A third medical application in 2014. would be able to access our on free speech. Three members of CMU faculty named 2015 IEEE Fellows FELLOWS, from A4 cations that people cannot. thor of a textbook published The challenges to build these by MIT Press titled “Principles entist, the recipient of a Na- robots draw from many disci- of Robot Motion.” Recently, tional Science Foundation plines, and without the multi- Choset co-founded the com- Faculty Career Award (2000), disciplinary and hard-work- pany Medrobotics, which and the Carnegie Institute ing nature of the Carnegie markets a surgical device with of Technology George Tall- Mellon students, we would a snake-like design in Europe. man Ladd Research Award never have successfully built Waibel, professor of com- (2004). Recently, she was se- these robots and then de- puter science at Carnegie lected as an Executive Leader- ployed them for applications Mellon and the University of ship in Academic Technology including search and rescue, Karlsruhe in Germany, and and Education (ELATE) Fel- archeology, and minimally in- associate director of the Lan- low (2013–14), received an vasive surgery.” guage Technologies Institute Australian Research Council Choset directs the Bioro- at Carnegie Mellon, was cited Future Fellowship (2013-17), botics Laboratory, and spe- as a Fellow for his contribu- and was awarded the ACM/ cializes in snake-like robots tions to neural network-based IEEE Design Automation Ma- that can easily maneuver speech recognition and trans- rie Pistilli Award (2014). through rubble and pipes of lation, and his work with mul- Choset, a professor in the an archaeological site or a timodal interfaces. Robotics Institute, was cited power plant. Waibel directs the inter- as a Fellow for his contribu- Choset co-authored a national center for Advanced tions to the design and control number of papers this past Communication Technologies of highly articulated robots. year, including one that ex- (interACT), a multi-university

Regarding this recogni- amined the movements of lab that develops software for Courtesy of Howie Choset and Diana Marculescu tion, Choset noted the contri- actual sidewinder snakes in speech-to-speech and human- Howie Choset and Diana Marculescu, professors at Carnegie Mellon University, have been named IEEE Fel- butions of his students. “I am order to determine how his machine translation. incredibly grateful for all of robotic snakes could move Waibel was one of the Research Prize for Technical contributions to multilin- in 160 countries that help the hard work and insight my uphill. founders of C-STAR, the in- Communication in 1994, the gual and speech translation make the IEEE a leading au- students have put into mak- In 2002, the MIT Technol- ternational consortium for Allen Newell Award for Re- systems. thority in a wide variety of ing snake robots in my lab,” ogy Review elected Choset speech translation research, search Excellence from Carn- Marculescu, Choset, and technological fields. Choset said. “These robots are as one of its top 100 innova- and served as its chairman egie Mellon in 2002, and the Waibel, by being named 2015 able to thread through tightly tors in the world under 35. In from 1998 to 2000. He was Speech Communication Best IEEE Fellows, have joined over packed spaces to access lo- 2005, Choset was the lead au- awarded the Alcatel SEL Paper Award in 2002 for his 400,000 other IEEE members A6 « thetartan.org/forum The Tartan » January 26, 2015

From the Editorial Board Charlie Hebdo never Safest, healthiest sorority might not be driest An article released this week in frat brothers might be able to on $160 per year due to alcohol-related asked for glorification The New York Times floats the pos- their own turf. While this will not incidents. sibility that if sororities allowed al- eliminate sexual assault entirely, it While it is understandable that Abhishek Tayal non that Charlie Hebdo would mock. cohol into their houses, there may gives more agency to the women, cost is a consideration, there are cer- Junior Staffwriter The massive marches, the hashtag, be a decrease in the occurrence of definitely decreasing the risk. tainly other factors that should play and the sales of Charlie Hebdo’s lat- sexual assault on campuses across Yet sororities have a very long a hand in the decision. A spokes- On Jan. 7 at about 11:30 a.m., est issue are cruelly ironic, in that the nation. tradition of abstaining from alco- person for the National Panhellenic France faced its largest national se- they fly in the face of the very anti- A study funded by the U.S. De- hol use in the house. This is a policy Conference (NPC) said that, despite curity threat in decades. Two violent establishment sentiment that has partment of Justice concluded dictated by the National Panhellenic the benefits, she found it unlikely extremists broke into the offices of traditionally been Charlie Hebdo’s that 25 percent of alcohol or drug- Conference, which serves as the that the policy would “[change] the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo lifeblood. Memorializing the mur- enabled sexual assaults are perpe- governing body for all 26 of anywhere in the near future.” By re- and opened fire on unarmed civil- dered staff of Charlie Hebdo as mar- trated by fraternity members, and the sororities it fusing to consider the change, the ians. amidst proclamations of “Al- tyrs of free speech is to turn them attending a fraternity party makes recognizes NPC is favoring financial lahu akbar,” they rained approxi- into the very kinds of icons that they women 1.4 times more likely to be practicality over the mately 50 shots of gunfire onto the routinely ridiculed. sexually assaulted. The argument in possible benefits that magazine’s staff, killing eleven and Another reason not to glorify favor of allowing sororities to serve may result. The is- injuring seven others. The attack Charlie Hebdo is somewhat more de- alcohol is that changing the venue sue deserves to be was apparently motivated by “blas- pressing and far more practical. One changes the control. considered, as the phemous” images of the Prophet cannot escape the fact that several When women attend parties with sexual welfare and Muhammad that Charlie Hebdo rou- of their issues are deeply offensive to alcohol at fraternity houses, the men safety of members tinely published. massive swathes of people, particu- are in control. They dictate the guest in the long-term In the following weeks, support larly Muslims, to whom any image of list, the drinks, and the exits. The should be more and solidarity for Charlie Hebdo and Muhammad — let alone a blatantly party scene of Greek life is entirely important than France poured in from all quarters. offensive depiction — is sacrile- dependent on the the resources that Within days, #JeSuisCharlie was gious. Some of their covers include a fraternities and the research and retweeted over 5 million times. Vig- bare-naked Prophet Muhammad ly- the choices they insurance may ils and marches were held in cities ing prostrate and Muhammad being make, which cost them. all around the world, from London beheaded by an ISIS fighter. leaves women This plan does, and Amsterdam to Melbourne and If such material resulted in a vio- more vulner- however, place the Perth. A massive unity rally, at- lent attack when their circulation able to sexual onus on the victims tended by approximately 3.7 million was in the thousands, consider what assault. to protect them- people throughout France — includ- might result now that their circula- By giving selves. A more effec- ing 40 world leaders — was cen- tion is in the millions. Giving such women in so- tive plan would be tered in Paris on Jan. 11. Further- material widespread circulation is rorities the priv- geared toward the more, the post-attack “Survivors’ akin to providing ammunition to Al ilege of hosting perpetrators. Fra- Issue” of Charlie Hebdo was bought Qaeda and other peddlers of propa- by nearly 7 million people who ganda and extremism. parties with al- Maegha Singh/Staff Artist ternities need to be cohol, they gain the responsible for pro- wanted to express their support for Although an overwhelming ma- ability to control their environment. nationwide. gramming that educates members the magazine. jority of the world’s Islamic popula- There is also the added advantage Even though sororities benefit on safe behaviors and then institut- Let me be absolutely clear: com- tion is moderate and peace loving, that when women are in charge, they from the policy in terms of lifestyle ing policies that ensure that they plete freedom of speech is one of Charlie Hebdo’s material, far more are less vulnerable and more likely and health, its historical motivations are acting appropriately in high risk modern society’s greatest achieve- than ever before, is angering those to be proactive about sexual assault. are more financial.The New York situations. On top of that, universi- ments, and using violence to sup- on the fringes of the moderates and If something suspicious appears to Times article cites that while the ties also need to take reported cases press this freedom in the name of pushing them towards extremism. be happening, sorority sisters could average sorority member only costs more seriously so that all perpetra- God is unjustifiably, unforgivably On the other side of the fence, in the look out for one another and police about $25-50 per year to insure, tors of sexual assault will face the evil. Stifling controversial ideas political climate left by the wake of the situation more effectively than each fraternity member costs around consequences of their actions. through force is a highly condem- the attacks, Charlie Hebdo’s material nable act that is rightly illegal. That is unwittingly promoting Islamo- said, the glorification of Charlie phobia within Western Europe and Hebdo and its positions, as demon- beyond. Obama’s college plan should set example for CMU strated by the outpour of support According to Radio French In- for the magazine over the past few ternationale, more anti-Muslim in- Predictably, Carnegie Mellon is much to ask, The Tartan asks Carn- overdue. The initial public reaction weeks, sets a dangerous precedent cidents have taken place in France raising its tuition. In an email sent egie Mellon to be more transparent to its unveiling has been overwhelm- and tends to miss the very point that since the Charlie Hebdo attacks than to the campus community on Jan. about the reasoning behind these ingly positive, and it seems the only Charlie Hebdo has tried to make. in all of 2014. In the meanwhile, fol- 14, Vice President for Campus Af- costs. What is our tuition money go- thing that might stop it from happen- Going through Charlie Hebdo’s lowing the publication of the “Sur- fairs Michael Murphy announced ing toward exactly, and why must ing is opposition from the Republi- previous issues, one discovers the vivors’ Issue,” South Asia and the that students entering college in the costs be so high? can Congress. America is desperately magazine’s penchant for taking bru- Middle East have been swept by pro- next academic year will pay a total of Carnegie Mellon is increasingly in need of education reform, and the tally crude aim at all kinds of figures tests against Charlie Hebdo and its about $63,240, an increase of 3.38 expensive at a time when the gov- President’s plan would drastically that societies around the world re- depictions of the Prophet, according percent from the previous year. ernment finally seems to be taking improve the lives of millions of stu- vere. From religious prophets such as to Yahoo News. In a sense, the glori- At last year’s rates, Carnegie Mel- strides to make higher education af- dents and increase education oppor- Jesus and Muhammad, to important fication of Charlie Hebdo has pushed lon ranked fifth most expensive pri- fordable. President Barack Obama tunities across the nation. figures today such as the Pope and both sides further away from each vate university in the United States, has proposed a plan that would pro- As Obama outlined in his State the President of the United States, other than ever before. behind only Columbia University, vide all American students two free of the Union address Tuesday, col- Charlie Hebdo has been equally of- Traditionally, Charlie Hebdo’s Sarah Lawrence College, Vassar Col- years of community college, given lege should be “as free and universal fensive to all. It has reveled in its brand of offensive humor has raised lege, and Trinity College, according they maintain a 2.5 GPA and dem- in America as high school is today.” ability to upset and affront, and gen- questions about our icons that de- to USA Today. Though these other onstrate steady progress toward an The Tartan hopes that this will be erally be a shameless irritant to un- serve to be raised. With the atten- schools will likely also experience associates degree or a transfer to a the first step toward more affordable imaginative, uptight, mainstream tion Charlie Hebdo has gotten since tuition increases, our new tuition four-year university. The federal gov- college education in general. Private, society. This brand of humor, col- the attacks, its societal role has un- raises us to third place by last year’s ernment would pick up 75 percent far-from-free universities such as loquially known as “gouaille” in dergone deep change. Pre-venera- rates. That’s not a bronze medal to be of the costs, with states covering the Carnegie Mellon should take a page France, does not attempt to align tion Charlie Hebdo was a subcultural proud of. rest. from President Obama’s book, and itself with any one particular school symbol of rebellion and impropri- While a leveling off of costs, let Obama’s community college ini- keep his plan in mind when the time of thought. Instead, it attacks any- ety. Post-veneration Charlie Hebdo alone a decrease, is undoubtedly too tiative is revolutionary and long comes to discuss next year’s tuition. one and anything that attempts to strikes more hatred into the world position itself as an exclusive pur- than curiosity. veyor of the truth. U.S. still has much to learn from celebrating MLK The veneration of Charlie Hebdo Abhishek Tayal (atayal@) is a junior This year, Carnegie Mellon stu- CMU’s campus, many students are their apparent lack of interest in civil in western media over the past few staffwriter for The Tartan. dents enjoyed a three-day weekend accepting of differences and able to rights issues. Many postings were, weeks is the very sort of phenome- for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day for have a healthy, open dialogue re- intentionally or not, offensive and the first time in recent years. garding these issues. The adminis- upsetting, highlighting the igno- In August, President Suresh tration’s decision to make this “day rance, hate, and casual racism still emailed students to inform them of off” mean something strengthens present in our community. the change, saying: “I have decided this campus’s commitment to diver- As members of an influential col- to declare MLK Day a university holi- sity and is an indicator of the strides lege community, we need to con- day. This will allow us to honor Dr. that society is making. tinue promoting the acceptance of King, while extending and enriching However, it is important to re- diversity and the celebration of civil the excellent service and community member that this attitude is not in- rights. engagement programs that reflect dicative of society as a whole. In the Our attitudes can influence the our commitment to Dr. King’s dream Pittsburgh community, reactions to attitudes of others, and we can cata- throughout the month of January.” celebrations and protests were less lyze real change in the greater Pitts- The holiday included a wide variety than warm. burgh community. Remembering of diversity based programming, and For example, when protests heroes who fought for equality and The Tartan was excited by many of blocked streets in Oakland last Mon- participating in carefully designed the events that were offered, espe- day, students took to the popular programming are strong first steps, cially the Colors@CMU celebration. anonymous social media app Yik Yak but we must remember to keep our The campus participation was to express their frustrations, linking convictions throughout the year as heartening, and indicates that on the inconvenience of the protests to well. Courtesy of David Monniaux via Wikimedia Commons

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Letter to the editor After CMU, you could Teach for America Tell CMU staff the secret When I think about my time at during college visits to the majority of creating a more equitable system Carnegie Mellon, I think about a of government leaders and actors I for kids like Madison is the answer to transforming college life whirlwind of incredible experiences: watch on TV. Everywhere I turned, that fits. Greek Sing, Spring Carnival, and society told me I could be whatever I know this work will be incred- A second Town Meeting for the cation by a list of required courses, late nights at Razzy. But I also think I chose. ibly challenging and humbling, and I entire university community on and divide the student experience about that gnawing question that al- Meanwhile, too many kids lack will have to push myself harder than Carnegie Mellon’s 2015 strategic into what happens inside and out- ways lurked: What in the world am I the opportunity to imagine a fulfill- I ever have to give my students the plan is scheduled for Jan. 28, 4:30- side of the classroom. From our going to do after I leave here? education they deserve. I will need 6 p.m. at the Posner Center. One of earliest days as an institution, we at Although this question is the to work in close partnership with the our priorities for the discussion is Carnegie Mellon have recognized quickest way to get any senior’s heart “I don’t want a job parents, teachers, and community an exploration of what a “Transfor- the importance of an integrated ap- pounding and palms sweating, I ac- members who have been working to- mative CMU Experience” means for proach that embraces the idea that tually have several ways I could an- that lets me turn wards justice and equity long before students. We encourage Carnegie the whole of the student experience swer it. I could look for a consulting a blind eye to the I arrived. Mellon students — undergrad, mas- is more than the sum of its parts. job in New York, apply to law school, But I don’t want a job that lets ters, and doctoral — to attend this We encourage students to be or take some time off backpacking injustice kids face me turn a blind eye to the injustice meeting and share your perspectives active learners, creative thinkers, through Europe. I have choices. But every day.” kids face every day. I want one that with others who are invested in the real-world problem solvers, and in- the question of what I could do af- holds me accountable for the injus- future of the university. terdisciplinary collaborators. Our ter graduation actually has a second tices that plague our communities We are at an exciting time in his- students pursue unique educational part — what should I do? As I turned ing future for themselves. For stu- — because, although I did not create tory as experts around the world are experiences that combine intellec- each choice over in my head, none of dents growing up in our lowest-in- them, I’d still bear responsibility if I contemplating how higher educa- tual passions and focused study with them felt quite right. come communities, just six percent chose not to address them. tion will reinvent itself in the face applied learning and community en- I grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will graduate from college by the As I become a Teach For America of many new challenges and op- gagement. As we look to the future, a place where Ph.D.’s are easier to time they’re 25. corps member after graduation, I’ll portunities. Institutions are explor- how do we build on this foundation? find than McDonald’s. With both of This statistic in no way reflects be joining a network of more than ing and adopting elements such as There are many initiatives and my parents working as educators for kids’ capabilities — it’s a result of 47,000 people working relentlessly online learning, flipped classrooms, programs across campus that are the the University of Michigan, educa- deeply entrenched systems of op- to make access to opportunity eq- modular micro-courses, collabora- direct product of student ideas and tion had always been a top priority pression that have denied low-in- uitable. Teach For America is a net- tive capstones, residential learning action. What is your idea? We hope for my family. As a kid, I didn’t rec- come kids equal access to opportuni- work of leaders, vastly diverse in commons, entrepreneurial sand- you will take the time and share ognize just how privileged this made ty for decades. I know that I can use background and experience, work- boxes and global engagement part- with us. Please consider coming to me. Yes, I worked hard to get to and my experiences to help kids battling ing across sectors to create change. nerships, just to name a few. What the meeting on Jan. 28. If you can- through college and I faced struggles these odds imagine an ambitious fu- We are all united around the fun- will, or should, the residential col- not make the meeting, visit www. along the way. But I went to a high ture they define for themselves, and damental belief that a quality educa- lege experience of the future look cmu.edu/strategic-plan, where you school where kids were expected to make that future a reality. More im- tion is not a privilege — it is a right. like? As Carnegie Mellon develops can put your thoughts in writing. graduate and we had plenty of ex- portantly, I believe I should. We can fight to ensure all students its own plan for the years to come, Every comment is recorded and tra support and resources to help us I applied to Teach For America be- get to enjoy that right. it is important for us as a commu- considered, because every perspec- plan our next chapters. Whenever I cause I believe that privilege is a re- As you think about what in the nity to affirm the core elements of tive is valued. It’s an exciting time to needed support, I never had to look sponsibility. I didn’t ask for this privi- world you’re going to do after you the Carnegie Mellon student experi- be at Carnegie Mellon, and we look far. lege any more than Madison, a little leave Carnegie Mellon, I hope you’ll ence and determine what makes us forward to imagining the future to- On top of all this, it wasn’t just my girl I encountered during my intern- join us. distinctive, what bold experiments gether with you. family and teachers that encouraged ship in the juvenile court, asked to should be tested, and what expertise me. Examples of successful people bounce around foster homes. When I Molly Shanley is a senior decision sci- we have to offer to advance learning Amy Burkert, Vice Provost for Edu- who look like me were all around, think about what I can and should do ence and international relations and on our campus and beyond. cation and Gina Casalegno, Dean of from the people I saw on campus with my privilege, working to be part politics major. Some campuses define an edu- Student Affairs. Marriage equality gearing up for win, but war must go on

as Alabama did only this Friday. out-of-state. At this point, all signs ples can freely marry. What happens ism didn’t go away with abolition Through all of these develop- point toward a positive on both ques- then? As GLAAD President and CEO and it wasn’t obliterated by the Civil ments, the Supreme Court has main- tions. An anti-marriage equality Sarah Kate Ellis warns: “Even as we Rights Act. Neither did sexism vanish tained a lackadaisical, hands-off atti- ruling would be a logistical night- look forward to the Supreme Court’s with the 19th Amendment or Roe v. tude. It set up the game of dominoes mare for the government, annulling decision, we must also remember Wade. Marriage equality will not end Ariel hoffmaier by repealing DOMA, but up until now thousands of formerly recognized that marriage equality in America is homophobia, and anyone who claims the court has seemed content to sim- marriages and exponentially compli- a benchmark, not a finish line.” otherwise was probably never much Marriage equality is on its final ply let same-marriage bans become cating tax law, as discussed in Slate America likes its progress narra- of an ally in the first place. victory lap. New wins are arriving obsolete one state at a time. The U.S. magazine. tives. We like a good rags-to-riches We must start arming ourselves faster than most Americans are both- Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit Plus, a negative ruling would be tale of overcoming adversity and ar- against the opponents who are com- ering to keep track of them, and the changed the Supreme Court’s think- disastrous for public opinion. The riving at some concrete point of suc- ing: those who will use marriage Supreme Court may finally take a ing. The 6th Circuit broke the prec- majority of Americans are in favor cess. The fight for marriage equality equality to silence activists for all re- stand on the issue once and for all. edent set by all prior circuits by up- of nationwide marriage equality, — state by state, culminating in that maining LGBTQ concerns. Freedom It’s been an eventful year and a holding same-sex marriage bans in and 70 percent of the population is final Supreme Court smackdown — to marry pales a little in comparison half since the Defense of Marriage Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Ten- currently experiencing it, according is a perfect example of the satisfying to the freedom many queer people Act (DOMA) and Proposition 8 were nessee. As such, on Jan. 16 the Su- to The Huffington Post. In plenty of progress narrative. Unfortunately, still lack to openly live their lives repealed in June 2013. Same-sex preme Court announced their inten- ways, we’re already living in a post- the progress narrative is a myth. So- without fear of discrimination, preju- couples have gained the freedom to tion to take on representative cases marriage discrimination world. If the ciety isn’t pushing forward to any set dice, and violence. marry in 23 states, adding to an in- from these states, with a verdict ex- Supreme Court were to avoid strik- point; history is set in its path of one As we celebrate this huge victory, credible total of 36 states, as reported pected in June. ing the final blow, based on the prec- step forward, two steps back, a few we must avoid falling into the prog- by GLAAD. Bans have been declared The Supreme Court will settle edent America has been building for more steps sideways, and probably ress narrative’s trap. It will be better unconstitutional in an additional 10 their stance on two questions. The years, it would be more than a head- even a cha-cha real smooth for good by far to focus on those individuals states, pending appeal. The last four first is whether same-sex couples scratcher; it’d be abject foolishness. measure. who are still in need of change, and strongholds against marriage equal- have the right to marry in all 50 Now, let’s just say that we win. Many legal and social changes are who will continue to be for the fore- ity — Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, states, and the second is whether all June comes, and the United States visible and worthwhile, and many go see- able future. and North Dakota — are 50 states have the ob- becomes the on to improve the lives predictably located ligation to recognize 19th na- of thousands o r Ariel Hoffmaier in rural America. same- sex mar- tion where millions in very (ahoffmai@) is the However, it seems riages licenses is- same-sex real ways. Forum Editor for only a matter of sued legally cou- But rac- The Tartan. time before they cave to the pressure of history,

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super bowl coverage Media-powered Super Bowl frenzy descends on America carl Glazer entertaining football that this breakdown of a non-gameplay year, with as many watching become as much a part of the a close game 21-20, but ul- Senior Staffwriter season has to offer is past us. aspect of the league’s rulebook for the enjoyment of music as game as the football itself. timately that’s not why we What truly makes the Super than many of the fans gave to to hate-watch the performers Millions of dollars are spent care. Sure, one of the nation’s The popularity of the Super Bowl “super” is the surround- their college textbooks, and (the Black Eyed Peas’ techni- on the airtime alone, not ac- northern shoreline commu- Bowl is based on just about ev- ing entertainment. You have has seen the Ideal Gas Law cal malfunctions in 2011) or counting for the production nities will be ecstatic and the erything but the game played sports (and now news) media get more media attention than enjoy the eye-candy effects budget. The big game is the other in a likely drunken rage, on the field. covering and breaking down at any other point in history. and performers while secretly one time people prefer you to but for the vast majority of us, Sure, the game features the every aspect of the Seahawks This may be the only scandal hoping for another wardrobe talk over the program and not we are merely spectators hop- two theoretically “best” teams, and Patriots, arguing about the NFL is enjoying, given it malfunction à la Janet Jack- the ads, as the color commen- ing to be entertained. but as last year’s blowout fea- possible personnel match- has turned the spotlight away son. This year’s combo of Katy tators generally have far less to And while there are no turing the Seattle Seahawks ups; how Seattle’s “Legion of from the league’s many issues Perry and Lenny Kravitz marks offer than an ad from Doritos guarantees that the game and — what we were told Boom,” with shutdown corner with domestic violence, most the second straight year (Bru- or Budweiser. will provide that (conspiracy was — the Denver Broncos Richard Sherman and hard hit- notably surrounding Ray Rice, no Mars and the Red Hot Chili All of the hype for all three theories of Jerry Jones and showed us, the mantra of “any ting safety Earl Thomas both Adrian Peterson and Greg Peppers last year) of a young aspects of the game is pushed the Cowboys fixing the playoff given Sunday” can apply to nursing injuries, can match up Hardy, and the recent report pop star mashing up with a by the media. If you wanted game against the Lions aside), blowouts just as easily as it can against the human wrecking which proved the NFL com- newish rock act to try and ap- to see in-depth breakdowns halftime and the commercials to upsets and comebacks. ball that is New England Patri- missioners’ office of being both pease everyone while thrilling of the match ups of giant Se- will. There is a fairly good ots tight end Rob Gronkowski utterly incompetent in the in- no one. ahawks safety Kam Chancellor If you really want to make chance that this Super Bowl and wide receiver/trick play vestigation and of blatantly ly- The final piece of the Super and Gronkowski, or New Eng- the game matter, Vegas and could be far less entertaining quarterback Julian Edelman; ing to both the owners and the Bowl media megastorm is the land middle linebacker Dont’a the Internet have you covered than the Seahawks’ crazy or if the Seahawks’ lack of a press back in September, in a one thing current society is Hightower and Seattle half- with more prop bets than any come-from-behind overtime fundamental passing attack matter very similar to former working ever so hard to phase back Marshawn “Beast Mode” one reasonable human could victory last week in the NFC can be a benefit against the Pa- Raven Ray Lewis’ deer antler out: commercials. Lynch, and somehow haven’t ever think of (coin toss head Championship Game over the triots’ top corner Darrelle Re- spray controversy before their In the age where everyone found one yet, you just are or tails, length of the national Green Bay Packers or the New vis and former Legion of Boom appearance in the 2012 Su- has a DVR — assuming they not trying hard enough. Same anthem, color of the Gatorade England Patriots coming back member cornerback Brendan per Bowl which masked the even still have cable — Ad goes for “Deflate-gate,” which tossed on the winning coaches from not one, but two 14 point Browner, the strengths of the New Orleans Saints bounty Block is the most-used exten- led all three national news head and movement of the deficits in the divisional round revamped Patriot defense. aftermath. sion, and pirating/streaming broadcasts Thursday evening, stock market the next day just against the Baltimore Ra- These conversations take All of these controversies on demand media is viewed or Lynch’s perpetual fines for to name a few non-game re- vens. Toss those on top of the place as the filler pieces be- and media stories still only as a way to minimize pre- inappropriate celebration/ lated ones). controversy and media circus tween the things that “really” focus on the football aspect cious viewing seconds being lack of media cooperation. We But, really, just sit back, surrounding the Dallas Cow- matter, such as “Deflate-gate,” of the Super Bowl, which, wasted on ads, the Super Bowl haven’t even hit Super Bowl knock back a few beers (or boys’ two playoff games (the a.k.a. “Ball-ghazi.” The ac- while most important, is by has transformed advertising media day, and ESPN has been root beers, depending on age) picked up flag vs the Detroit cusations that New England no means the only reason mil- from nuisance to entertain- all NFL all the time with minor and enjoy the perfect storm of Lions and the clearly — but intentionally deflated their lions of Americans tune in on ment. With hundreds of top inconvenient interruptions for entertainment as created and not technically — caught pass game balls 2 psi below the Superbowl Sunday. The half- ten lists of funniest, most clas- the NBA. developed by the media and against the Packers) and I’m regulated minimum has led to time show is one of the biggest sic, raciest, and worst Super At the end of the day, I the world’s most media-driven willing to bet that the most a more detailed reading and and shortest concerts of the Bowl commercials, they have think the Seahawks will win league.

Sports briefs Swimming & Diving more Machika Kaku put up the Track & Field in the mile run with a time of took fifth and sixth with times In their final home meet top score in the 1 meter diving The Carnegie Mellon 4:28.14, being beaten only by of 11:30.95 and 11:39.65 re- of the season, the Carnegie with a time of 296.10 while men’s and women’s track and a Denison Alumni. spectively. Mellon men’s and women’s the men continued the diving field teams traveled to Deni- The men kept up the dis- The women also took sec- swimming and diving teams woes that have been plaguing son on Saturday to compete tance domination in the dis- ond in the 4x400 meter relay hosted Denison University on them all season. in the Lid–Lifter Invitational. tance relay with the team with first-years Jerilyn James Saturday. Unfortunately, this The rest of the meet was a The men won the event with of seniors Eamon Cullinane and Sarah Cook along with was not a happy end to the severe beating on the Tartans, 111.5 team points, over 20 and Benjamin Walker along sophomores Emily Swanson Tartans’ home season as Deni- with the score only looking more than the runner-up, and with first-years Anirudh Ra- and Ariel Tian combining for son, ranked 2nd in Division III close once Denison began put- the women placed in second makrishnan and Joseph Pick- a time of 4:18.20. In the field men’s swimming and diving ting several of their top teams with 89.5 points, only placing ens winning with a time of events, sophomore Rebecca and 3rd in women’s, outpaced as exhibitions to ensure Carn- behind Division II California 10:56.25 and sophomore Fortner had a second-place Carnegie Mellon in almost ev- egie Mellon got some more University of Pa. Brian Bollens placing second finish in the high jump clear- ery event and took their foot scoring points. The men dominated the in the 3000 meter run with a ing the 1.52 meter bar. off the gas as they cruised to a The Tartans will not 800-meter run, taking five of time of 9:04.90. The Tartans will next com- 170–104 win over the women have much time to lick their the top six spots. Led by win- On the women’s side, they pete Saturday at Case Western and a 174–95 win over the wounds as they face off next ning senior Thomas Vanden- also excelled in the distance Reserve University. men. weekend against University of berg with a time of 1:54.09, runs taking the top three and Each team was able to pick Pittsburgh. the Tartans swept spots 3–6 five of the top six in the 3000 up a lone swimming win, with with junior Marc–Daniel Ju- meter run. Senior Sophie Compiled by junior Kira Singahus grabbing lien, sophomore Owen Norley, Lohman won the event in a Carl glazer the 100 yard backstroke with junior Thomas Mayo–Smith time of 11:10.91, with junior a time of 59.87 for the women and first-year Evan Larrick fin- Kira Ragazzo and first-year and sophomore Brian Walsh ishing with times of 1:58.34, Natalie Smith rounding out getting the men’s sole first 2:00.74, 2:00.91 and 2:01.77, the top three with times of place finished with a 1:52.50 respectively. Sophomore 11:12.96 and 11:17.31, re- finish in the 200 yard butter- Curtis Watro continued the spectively. First-years Aparna fly. On the diving side, sopho- streak with a first place win Alavilli and Rhiannon Farney

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super bowl coverage What to watch for: matchup problems in Super Bowl XLIX zeke rosenberg backers bent their zones heav- cornerback Brandon Browner England’s success with punt pass rush. Lynch could also 6’3” and 195 pounds and 6’1” Sports Editor ily in Kelce’s direction, which has left a gaping hole in New returns and the Seahawks’ have a field day, as New Eng- and 207 pounds respectively. opened up a ton of room for England’s defense on the oth- extraordinary season long dif- land’s pass rush often takes Throw in Seahawks’ safeties Football is always a game the Chiefs running game and er side. The team ranks 17th ficulty with them and field po- itself out of run plays leaving Kam Chancellor, a man who of matchups. In no particular led to a big day from Chiefs in DVOA on passes to second sition could have a huge effect two or three guys in the box. was once described by Sher- order, here are five things that halfback Jamaal Charles. The wide receivers and 27th on in this one. Lynch breaks three man tack- man as a “destroyer of souls,” might swing this year’s Super Seahaws rank 18th in Football defending passes to the left 4. The Patriots do not have les in his sleep. We might be and Earl Thomas, the best Bowl: Outsiders’ DVOA (Defensive side. While the Seahawks are a very versatile front seven. in for another beast quake. coverage safety in the league, 1. The Seahawks have had Value Over Average) against not exactly known for their il- Beyond outside linebacker There’s really nothing the Se- and it could be a long day for a lot of trouble covering tight tight ends and also struggle lustrious wide receiver corps, Dont’a Hightower, everyone in ahawks do that plays into the the Patriots’ wide receivers. ends this year. Two examples with passes in the seams, so wide receiver Jermaine Kearse their defensive front is either a Patriots’ strengths. The factor of the deflated foot- in particular stand out. The New England Patriots’ tight has exploded in recent weeks, run stopper who is too slow to 5. Patriots’ wide receiver balls is not to be discounted first is their utter failure to con- end Rob Gronkowski, a player including the playoffs, and he rush the passer or a pass rush- Brandon LaFell is 6’3” and here either. A solid estimate tain San Diego Chargers’ tight who combines Kelce’s size and occupies a space where the Pa- er who has trouble adjusting 210 pounds. This is margin- says Brady started authorizing end Antonio Gates earlier in strength with Gates’s athleti- triots are very weak. He could to run plays. This is a disaster ally larger than the giant Se- the deflation shortly after the the season. He exploded in the cism, could have yet another have a huge impact on the out- against Seattle’s quarterback ahawks cornerbacks trying to Chiefs embarrassed him on red zone, as he was too quick monster day for the Pats. If the come. Russell Wilson, and halfback cover him. Other than that, the national TV, a moment when and too large a target for the Seahawks choose to collapse 3. New England has a huge Marshawn Lynch. Wilson has Patriots have a tiny wide re- his accuracy bizarrely spiked Seahawks’ linebacking corps, on him, Patriots halfback Le- special teams advantage in an incredible ability to duck ceiver corps by NFL standards. for three months. The foot- and caught three touchdowns Garette Blount might benefit this game, ranking fifth in pass rushers and either throw This could be an issue since balls will likely not be deflated for the day. The second is the the holes they leave. DVOA to Seattle’s 19th. New the ball or make plays with his it decreases the target size this weekend, which could Seahawks’ bizarre schematic 2. While Patriots’ corner- England kicker Stephen Gots- feet. Considering the Patriots’ for Patriots’ quarterback Tom cause a minor decrease in pre- hiccup against the Kansas City back Darelle Revis has been kowski has much more range trouble in coverage, this could Brady to something that is eas- cision, further exaggerating Chiefs. Chiefs’ tight end Travis solid on the right (from the and consistency than his Se- lead to some huge gains, and ily covered by the likes of Se- this issue. Kelce did not collect a ton of offense’s perspective) side ahawks’ counterpart Stephen Wilson will not have to do too ahawks cornerbacks Richard Either way, it should be a stats, but the Seahawks line- of the field, former Seahawk Hauschka. Throw in New much to avoid the Patriots Sherman and Byron Maxwell, close and exciting game.

Courtesy of Jeffrey Beall via Wikimedia Commons Courtesy of Mike Morris via Wikimedia Commons Patriots quarterback Tom Brady walks off the field, pumping his fist triumphantly. Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor, one half of the ‘Legion of Boom,’ enter the huddle Super Bowl Fast Facts CMU basketball teams split carl glazer under six minutes to go, but than three points of breath- Senior Staffwriter didn’t start creating separa- ing room on the scoreboard tion from the Yellowjackets until a layup by sophomore The Super Bowl was created in 1967, when the NFL The Carnegie Mellon until Murphy rattled off 6 center Chris Shkil made the and rival AFL decided to play each other in a “world” men’s and women’s basket- straight free throws and se- Tartan lead 4 and the Tartans championship until the merger in 1970. This game was ball teams took a road trip to nior guard Chandler Caufield pushed it all the way to five initially referred to as a “Super Bowl” by Larry Hunt, Rochester on Friday to contin- hit a three-pointer and two on a three-pointer by senior owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. It may or may not have ue University Athletic Associ- more free throws to push the guard Jasen Blakeny, before been loosely based on the “Super Ball” toy his children ation (UAA) conference play lead to double digits. Junior two Rochester free throws cut were playing with at the time. in a double header against guard Lindsay Poss, freshman the Tartans’ lead to 33–30 go- University of Rochester. forward Zoe Zawisa and Mur- ing into half time. The women kicked off the phy made their free throws as Coming out of half, it was evening trying to shake off the clock wound down to seal more of the same for the first their back-to-back home loss- the victory at 68–57. Murphy five minutes until a series of XLIX es last weekend and took the finished the game with a dou- Tartan turnovers and missed This is the 49th Super Bowl. They are quick lead with an opening ble–double (29 points and 16 shots let the Yellowjackets layup by sophomore center rebounds) to go along with a go on a 14–0 run that Carn- traditionally denoted with Roman Lisa Murphy. Unfortunately, perfect 13–13 from the free egie Mellon could just barely that 2–0 led was the only ad- throw line. recover from. The Tartans numerals vantage the Tartans were go- While the win is certainly fought back and managed ing to get in the opening half. a happy one for the Tartans to cut the deficit to three on They quickly fell in a hole as as it pushes them to 2–2 in three-pointer by junior guard the team was cold on the of- UAA play and 10–4 on the Jason Sebak but a layup and fensive end. The only saving season, there was cause for successful free throw on the grace was Rochester’s simi- concern with Carnegie Mel- and one attempt pushed the lar shooting woes, exacer- lon continuing the shooting lead to 6 and sealed the game January 15, bated by the Tartans’ defense, issues that have plagued them with Carnegie Mellon losing which caused the deficit to throughout conference play, 65–60. never climb to more than 7 having shot under 40% from The loss drops the Tartans and let Tartans go on a run the field in all four games. to 1–3 in UAA play and 10–5 1967 to end the half, culminating The men’s team also came on the season. Sophomore in junior forward Liza Otto’s out with something to prove forward Jack Serbin led the The date of the first Super game tying jump shot with after losing their last game losing effort as the top scorer Bowl 11 seconds left in the half to against New York University and rebounder with 11 points send the teams into the locker on a missed game tying three- and 12 rebounds for another room knotted up at 23–23. pointer as the clock ran down. double double. In the second half, the Coming with a vengeance, the Both Carnegie Mellon teams played to a draw Tartans scored the first three teams played Sunday in At- through the first 14 minutes baskets to jump to an early lanta against Emory and will 111.5 million of the period with the score 6–0 lead. continue their conference tied at 44 apiece going into Unfortunately, Roches- road play next weekend when The average number of viewers on Television the home stretch. The Tar- ter quickly recovered to turn they travel to Washington tans took the lead for good the game into a dog fight University of St. Louis and the with first-year guard Njaire throughout the half with nei- University of Chicago. Mckoy’s jump shot with just ther team able to gain more 2nd Second largest day in the US for food consumption

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Kevin Steinhouse smashes CMU records in rookie season

zeke Rosenberg he has improved by adding yard freestyle record, he has Sports Editor weight training to his rou- qualified for the NCAA B-cut tine, something he had not in that event. He has his eyes “[Swimming is] an outlet done before. He specifically set on the one hundred-yard for all the stresses life brings,” mentioned the use of power freestyle record, which he first-year electrical and com- racks, a device that provides plans on breaking before the puter engineering (ECE) weighted resistance against end of the year. major and swimmer Kevin him swimming. Steinhouse has been an Steinhouse said as we sat in About two weeks before athlete for a long time, join- the Gates Hillman Complex’s meets, he will lower the in- ing a summer league when he Fifth Floor Commons. “[It tensity of his training, allow- was four. However, he was not makes me] a little more calm ing himself to recover and be a competitive swimmer until coming out of practices.” at peak performance for large his sophomore year of high It better: The schedule meets. school. He played soccer and Steinhouse endures as a swim- Steinhouse gives some of basketball, and swimming mer would make most Carn- the credit for his motivation was not his primary high egie Mellon students balk. to his teammates, particularly school sport; that distinction His mornings start at 5:20 senior chemical engineering belonged to water polo. He a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, major Josh Lucheon. plans to join the club water and Friday, when many of us “When it matters most, he polo team after swimming are just putting the finishing steps up,” said Steinhouse. season is over. touches on our homework. He However, it wasn’t always In addition to being a dedicates himself to his sport, that way. In Steinhouse’s swimmer, Steinhouse also however, and it shows. high school, people were has an interest in science. He Steinhouse currently holds mandated to play a sport, so said that early on he knew he the school record for the 50- many who were on the swim wanted to involve math and yard freestyle with a time of team were not competitive science in his studies and set- 20.77 seconds and also has swimmers. tled on engineering. An affin- the Carnegie Mellon men’s “Only about five or six ity for programming pushed swim team’s best time on the people actually wanted to be him toward ECE specifically, year for the 100-yard freestyle there,” he said. and he picked out 15-112 as at 46.33 seconds. Steinhouse He prefers college, where a favorite class. While college knew coming in that he had the depth of talent and enjoy- surprised him with its difficul- come close to these times in ment for swimming makes ty, he claims to be adjusting high school, and made it his the environment more com- well to his new surroundings. goal to surpass them, some- petitive and, in his eyes, more His success in the swimming thing he did just as the swim fun. The appreciation for the pool shows he can adapt well team’s season began. Already teammates around him has to new surroundings. a record holder, Steinhouse also contributed to competi- While first-year students still has much more he wishes tive success, where he par- often struggle amid the tu- to accomplish as both a Carn- ticipated in the 200-yard free- mult of a new home and a egie Mellon student and a style relay that broke another new team, Steinhouse has swimmer. school record at 1:23.50 and truly shone as an athlete. Less Much of Steinhouse’s suc- might send that squad to the than a season into his time cess can be attributed to his NCAA tournament. here at Carnegie Mellon, his training. While he was close Steinhouse’s athletic goals swimming accomplishments to the record times he set are not complete, though. In have likely just scratched the Courtesy of CMU Athletics Department at Carnegie Mellon, he says addition to breaking the 50- surface of his potential. Steinhouse celebrates shortly after breaking CMU 50-yard free record.

Courtesy of CMU Athletics Department Murphy makes space between her and a reaching defender as she attempts a layup. Basketball star Lisa Murphy: a winner on and off the floor andy birla school Coach Michael O’Brien was not enough for Murphy, Junior Staffwriter and the support and love of whose focus still remains on her family. improving as an individual Breaking a school record in Murphy chose to continue and as part of the Tartans. varsity basketball is an accom- her already impressive high It is hardly a surprise, then, plishment that every athlete school career at Carnegie that she draws great inspira- strives for, but one that only Mellon because she felt that tion from Head Coach Jacquie a brilliant few reach. Sopho- “it had all the little puzzle Hullah, who Murphy holds more psychology major Lisa pieces” that she wanted in a in high regard for the coach’s Murphy plays for the women’s school: A good program for ability to facilitate team and basketball team and broke not her major, location in a cool individual development. one or two, but five school re- city, great teammates and a When asked about her cords in her first year. fantastic coaching staff. Mur- daily basketball mindset, she Murphy’s remarkable jour- phy has a multidimensional had this to say: “I just want to ney began in the third grade, personality, and wanted to work hard on the court and when Murphy’s passion for study psychology to pursue support my teammates. I try sports shone through as she her desire of working with to use my agility and finesse joined her House League and children with special needs to trump the opposition, and was involved in a multitude of in a therapeutic setting in am working on other facets of sports. the future. When it came to my game as well.” Unlike most athletes, Mur- basketball, all that mattered Despite brilliant indepen- phy did not have any expecta- to Murphy was being “part dent performances, the Tar- tions from the time she put of a growing, on-the-rise pro- tan girls have not managed into sports; all she wanted gram where [she] could have to hold onto their leads for was to have fun with it — an an impact.” And so began her the last two games. Murphy attribute that she admirably Tartan tale. admitted that she thinks the still holds on to today. Murphy, whose game re- Tartans need to maintain Murphy first grew close to volved around finesse (much their opening communica- basketball as a sport during like her idol Tim Duncan), tion and execution and ac- her first year of high school. had to adjust to the increased knowledged that she wanted It was then that she started pace and physicality of col- to focus more on getting into to admire the beauty of the lege basketball. Nonethe- position, avoiding double sport and the skill it required. less, Murphy came in ready teams and kicking the ball out Despite not being let onto to work hard once again and in time. Murphy’s aims for the her varsity team during her had no expectations from next few games are to help first year, Murphy exhibited all that she put in. Murphy her teammates dictate the her tenacity by practicing started all twenty six games tempo of the game and force harder and building herself in her freshman year and led the opposition to play Tartan as a player until she became the team in points, rebounds basketball. a starter on her varsity team and blocks. She was named It is inspiring to see how in her sophomore year. Since UAA Rookie of the Year and Murphy has grown from a then, she has plowed through made it to the All-UAA First young girl who used to play obstacles and achieved goal Team. She set school records with her elder brother using after goal as she scores point in points scored, field goals the hoop in their backyard to after point on the court. She made, field-goal percent- a college varsity player who Courtesy of CMU Athletics Department attributes much of her success age, free throws made and is a force to be reckoned with Murphy lines up a jump shot over scrambling opposition. to the guidance of her high free throws attempted. This both on and off the court. tales from abroad: sheffield • 4 school of music presents il mondo della luna • 5 MLK jr. writing awards • 6 pillboxthe tartan’s arts and culture magazine volume 109 / issue 14 israel • 8 winter fashion • 10 ...this week only 3 Cupcakes A recipe for strawberry and champagne- infused goodness. 4 Fall Out Boy Get your fill of teenage angst with the new American Beauty/American Pyscho. 5 Opera School of Music’s Il Mondo Della Luna is an entertaining and bizarre space experience. 6 Writing Awards Students speak out at the MLK writing awards. 7 Oscars A review of the controversal nominees for best picture. 8 Israel From the clubs of Tel Aviv to the temples of Jerusalem, a trip to Israel is worthwhile. 10 Fashion 8 It may not be spring yet, but it’s time to freshen up your winter look.

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The Tartan . Box 119 . UC Suite 103 . Carnegie Mellon University . 5000 Forbes Ave . Pittsburgh, PA 15213 . www.thetartan.org . © 2012 The Tartan Festive champagne cupcakes Advice for awkward people Treat your valentine to these strawberry-infused goodies About the “Gap Yah”

For my first cupcakes of the semester, I’d like to Instructions Dear Evan, “Gap Yah” guy as your point look back to winter break, but also look forward to To start, preheat the oven to 350 ºF, and put cupcake I’m in the process of of reference for such an Valentine’s Day. liners in 17 of the spots on a cupcake tray. (I thought applying for masters of important issue. 17 was a crazy number when I read the recipe, but I education programs — I I made these cupcakes for my family’s New Year’s actually had enough batter for exactly 17 cupcakes.) want to teach second He’s not exactly the best Eve party, and they were so delicious and festive. Set aside all dry ingredients in a separate bowl for graders because I role model: Whenever he Champagne is such a classic New Year’s staple, later. This includes the flour, baking powder, baking don’t feel comfortable comes across something but the addition of the strawberry really made the soda, and salt. conversing with people remotely life changing cupcakes brighter, both in color and flavor. Not to my own age — and or breathtaking, he “just brag, but I think they were the most successful For the batter, start by creaming the butter and yesterday I got my first chunders everywhere.” dessert there, even beating out all of the leftover sugar until they’re nice and fluffy, a step made much acceptance! Not to a very The next thing you know, Christmas cookies that everyone brought just to get easier with an electric mixer. Then smell it, because good school, but still. you’ll be pronouncing rid of. it gives off the world’s most heavenly smell. Add the But then I took a day off Peru as “Perah,” calling eggs and vanilla, then stir, scraping the bottom of and watched YouTube global climate change “an With Valentine’s Day just on the horizon, this is the bowl if it looks like the eggs and butter aren’t videos for most of the insignificant truth,” and a great flavor to resurrect. Both strawberries and mixing. Start bringing it all together by adding about day, and I found this one getting arrested by Burmese champagne just scream romance! Making these is one-third of the dry ingredients, followed by half of I had watched back when law enforcement for sure to tell your sweetie how much you love them. the sour cream; alternate adding those amounts to I was a senior, called disturbing the peace. So ditch the roses this year; cupcakes taste so much the bowl until all the dry ingredients are mixed in. “Gap Yah.” It’s a stupid, better. Finally, gently stir in the champagne. Scoop all the annoying video with some Then again, you could cupcakes and bake for about 17 minutes, or until the pretentious guy with an make it your goal to drink Champagne Cupcakes cake feels bouncy when you poke it. unplaced accent talking every kind of liquor known Adapted from “Sprinkle Bakes” about how he traveled to man in a year, sleep on http://www.sprinklebakes.com/2010/12/sparkling- The frosting takes much longer than normal the world and drank a different-smelling couch champagne-cupcakes.html buttercream, so start making it as soon as you put too much and threw up in a different country every the cupcakes in the oven, if not before. Place the everywhere. night, and finally discover 1 stick of butter, room temperature champagne and strawberries into a small pot and the difference between 1 cup of sugar simmer on medium-high heat until they reduce But then I got to thinking: potato seasonings in Eastern 2 eggs down to between two and four tablespoons. It will Why can’t I do that? Why Europe. And then, you share 1 teaspoon of vanilla take a while, so be patient! Depending on how can’t I travel the world those experiences with your 1 3/4 cups of flour small you cut the berries, there still may be some and make an ass of wide-eyed second-grade 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda chunks left, so strain those out. Then, start your myself before I go to grad students. 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder frosting by beating the butter until it’s creamy. Stir school? 1/4 teaspoon of salt in the powdered sugar a little at a time so that you Best night of my life, best 1/2 cup of sour cream don’t make a mess, and finally, add the reduced Ponderously, night of my life, 1 cup of champagne champagne — and that’s it! These look beautiful Longing After Zeitgeist, Evan Kahn when frosted with a star tip and finished with some Yearning Especially for Strawberry Champagne Frosting red sprinkles, but most important of all, serve them Xenophilic Contingencies 1 cup of champagne, rosé if available with love. and Unregulated Smoking 2 sticks of butter, room temperature of Esra 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar Sarah Gutekunst | Operations Manager 1/4 cup of chopped strawberries Dear LAZY EXCUSE,

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So, this whole gap year thing: It’s splendid idea if you want to spend the money and time required, and I’ve heard it’s a helluva deep spiritual journey. But Need advice? Send queries These champagne cupcakes use ingredients and you really shouldn’t use the to [email protected]. materials found in most kitchens. If you love to bake, chances are you can whip these up in no time. Anne-Sophie Kim | Layout Manager food pillbox 01.26.15 3 Music proves a tonic for homesickness Kendrick Lamar, Twiddle, and Eminem ease culture shock an ocean away from home “If you ever get lonely, just go to the record store mine in Pittsburgh, and they go about these routines offered to head back with me, but I implored them to go and visit your friends” — a line from the filmAlmost normally. enjoy their night. Famous, which is a movie you should start watching right now if you haven’t seen it. It’s a quote I’ve always The only thing is that I didn’t yet have a routine — Arriving back to an empty flat, I hooked my phone up counted as one of my favorite unique arrangements there’s hardly been any schoolwork yet, and there’s to the speakers in the kitchen, which before had been of letters and syllables. A beautifully simple way of only so much time you can spend on Netflix before blaring a stream of thumping house songs that my speaking a 10-volume opus entitled “Why I Love you begin to feel like a weird recluse. So to fill much untrained ear could hardly distinguish between, and Music.” of the afternoon free time I took walks around the city, turned “Maggie May” by Rod Stewart up to full volume. exploring the nooks and crannies and seeing what Waltzing around, belting out the lyrics and strumming In the first few days of my journey spending a semester happened when I took a left where I last took a right. I my invisible mandolin in perfect time, I felt like I was at abroad in Sheffield, England, I came to see a deeper spent hours out there, and never once did I feel lonely the most perfect birthday party that anyone could ever meaning to it, specifically to the last three words. or bored, because I had a pocketful of friends with me. have thrown me. I went back and hit the replay button Seeing as I’m a brand-new student who’s only here for three more times. a semester, it’s unlikely I’ll make the kind of friends I Kendrick Lamar told stories while we explored the have in the U.S. Without them, I’ve come to see that shopping districts and peered into stores I had never Okay, perhaps I was pretty drunk. my only connections that come even remotely close heard of before, and Twiddle jammed for 20 minutes on to those across the Atlantic are with the friends in my a cheery tune even though it was drizzling and overcast I’ve taken a lot away from my first week dropped in the headphones. Now I see that the 10-volume opus should on our walk to the Sheffield Cathedral. Pretty Lights middle of a strange sea, but a newfound appreciation really be titled “Why Music Matters to Me.” kept us both grooving along the bars and clubs on for pieces of art I’d already deeply loved is certainly the West Street while I took note of which ones had strict most surprising. Songs that had meant little more than Not to say I’m depressed or regretful — quite the dress codes so I could avoid them. It was a good thing a lovely melody now mean home, and conjure memories contrary — but anyone who’s gone through culture I kept the volume low, because Eminem likely would’ve of friends that I love and miss dearly. shock will tell you the first few days are damn difficult. gotten us kicked out of KFC. Also, English people love Aside from the obvious homesickness and adjusting to KFC. Images of the Colonel outnumber the Golden There’s a long way to go, and I’ve seen enough new ways of eating and (in the U.K.) crossing the street, Arches by a decent margin. PowerPoint slides and been handed enough advice to there is the challenge of breaking into an established know these feelings of homesickness and isolation will social scene. It feels like I’m back in freshman year, It’s not only during the day that music has been the pass. However, I also know that I’ll never forget how but instead of being surrounded by countless other only guy there to hang out with me. One of my first good these songs made me feel at a time when I really freshmen who are experiencing the same bewilderment nights here, I was invited by my flatmates to go to needed it. So far this whole “abroad” thing seems to be and are as eager to form new relationships as I am, the nightclubs. After pre-drinks in our kitchen we leaving a pretty great mark on me. I’m surrounded by upperclassmen, many of whom are took a taxi to the club. Then, when we got there, the about to graduate. They have their friends and their bouncer wouldn’t let me inside. Something about how I routines that they’ve cultivated the same way I have “couldn’t stand up bloody straight.” My flatmates kindly Joey Peiser | Staffwriter Fall Out Boy releases a true American Beauty

I told myself last week that I would not write a review of The album opens with one of my favorites — but let’s And no review of this album would be complete without Fall Out Boy’s new album American Beauty/American be real, they’re all my favorites — “Irresistible,” which mentioning the effective sampling in “Uma Thurman,” Psycho when it dropped on Jan. 16. I’m too biased. sets the tone of the album for something grand, with “Centuries,” and “American Beauty/American Psycho.” horns welcoming Patrick Stump’s wide range of vocals “Uma Thurman” samples 1960s sitcom The Munsters’ “Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy,” from 2003’s and ability to elongate the words “It’s irresistible” into a theme song, “Centuries” samples Suzanne Vega’s Take This to Your Grave was the first song I ever 13-second catchy phrase of an even catchier chorus. “Tom’s Diner,” and “American Beauty/American Psycho” completely memorized in seventh grade. And “Dance, samples Motley Crüe’s “Too Fast for Love.” Okay, Dance,” from 2005’s From Under the Cork Tree, played The band then throws itself into “American Beauty/ admittedly that’s a lot of sampling for one album. But on repeat on my iPod Mini for at least a month. American Psycho” which, when paired with it all works so well that it doesn’t matter, especially in “Novocaine,” give the album its gritty quality. You might “Centuries,” because who else remembers not being Needless to say, I’m a shameless Fall Out Boy fan, and think the band crazy after they threaten you with the able to get “Tom’s Diner” out of their head after they first I couldn’t resist this review. I never thought I’d like lines “If you knew what the blue birds sang at you/ heard it? Same applies to “Centuries.” anything the band put out recently as much as what you would never sing along” in “Novocaine” and an I deem their original music — everything before their admission that they’re American psychos in the song of Of course, this album is still the old Fall Out Boy from hiatus. But American Beauty/American Psycho surprised a similar title. But that’s what makes those songs fun. before the hiatus, to an extent, meaning that it is angsty me, because I like almost every song on it more than and in your face. There’s not much mellow about it, so “Grand Theft Autumn” and “Dance, Dance.” Possibly my favorite song on the album, though, is one if you’re looking for a quiet album, look somewhere else. of the less popular (based on iTunes ratings): “Fourth It’s a little bit beautiful, definitely psycho. And that’s While the album isn’t likely to convert you if you didn’t of July.” The chorus goes like this: “It was the Fourth what makes it some of Fall Out Boy’s best music. like “Sugar, We’re Going Down,” the work on this album of July/You and I were/You and I were fire-fireworks.” is easily Fall Out Boy’s best. It’s diverse, gritty, and out of Simple, right? It’s so simple, and so catchy that when all the mainstream music I listen to, there’s a number of Stump belts it at the top of his lungs, you won’t be able Braden Kelner | Contributing Editor sounds I’ve never heard on a track before. to do anything else but belt it out with him. music 4 pillbox 01.26.15 School of Music’s Il mondo della luna charms audiences Comic timing, musical excellence unite in performance of goofy 18th century opera

This past weekend, students from the School of Music put on a sparkling and hysterical performance of Joseph Haydn’s opera Il mondo della luna. The libretto of the classical opera was written by Carlo Goldoni. The production, which featured the vocal and dramatic talents of Carnegie Mellon vocal performance students, was a ridiculous and enjoyable tale of trickery led by the character of Ecclitico, an astronomer played by master’s student in vocal performance Ricky Marenda. The show had two casts, with each cast performing on alternating days. I attended Friday night’s performance and was hugely impressed by all that I saw. The curtains opened on a dazzling set with golden pillars made up of stacked astronomical signs and a twinkling backdrop of stars. The men’s chorus — consisting of Ecclitico’s students — joined their teacher in singing a song to the moon. Ecclitico told his students that he could easily convince Signor Buonafede, the father of the girl he loves, that there are people alive on the moon. Sure enough, Buonafede, played by senior vocal performance major Kevin O’Hora, gazes through José Lopez | Staff Photographer Ecclitico’s telescope and witnesses what he thinks are Flaminia tries to decide whether or not it is better to remain under her father’s strict rule or to become a wife. people on the moon. In fact, Ecclitico’s students had Ecclitico, decked out in vibrant astronomer garb, then hysterical realization that he had been duped included him been acting out a variety of bizarre scenes, including sang an aria in which he planned to use Ernesto’s money running around the stage and picking up fake stars with a a woman getting dragged away by the nose, behind a to fund a plan to trick the Signor into letting his two surprised expression. screen. Buonafede is convinced, however, and sings a daughters and maidservant marry. Ernesto was gracefully beautiful aria about how perfect life seems on the moon. portrayed by master’s student in music Courtney Each actor displayed impressive vocal power and Elvira. Ecclitico loves Clarice, Ernesto loves Flaminia, precision as well as comic timing, often turning to the and Ernesto’s servant, Cecco, played by junior vocal audience to deliver a sidelong glance or a salty line. performance major Camilo Estrada, is in love with the The set, designed by master’s student in scenic design maidservant Lisetta. The women were charmingly played Caitlin Ayer with assistance from junior design major by junior vocal performance majors Samantha Kronenfeld, Nathan Brown, not only fit each scene of the show but Rachel Doehring, and Shannyn Rinker, respectively. Later allowed for funny interactions with the cast, including in their home, Signor Buonafede’s beautiful daughters a cloud that doubled as a scooter, on which Signor sing a duet about how strict their father is. They resolve Buonafede was pulled around a couple times. that though they will still have to answer to a man when married, marriage is preferable to the way they live The costumes, particularly during the second act, presently. Doehring weighs the options in a humorous showed a huge amount of creativity on the part of and drawn out way as Kronenfeld joins her in their duet. master’s in costume design student Eunjin Lee. Ecclitico drugs Signor and, in a particularly wonderfully Ernesto’s costume on the moon even had stuffed animals staged scene, has his students lift the Signor’s chair on it, which various characters occasionally pet. to convince him that he is flying to the moon. Signor Buonafede and Ecclitico sing a beautiful duet contrasting The show closed back on Earth with a celebration. The their desires. wonderful accompaniment by School of Music students in the pit orchestra under the direction of guest music The second act opened with a moon-like set. The men’s director Christopher Larkin made the opera sound chorus, now dressed in bizarre costumes — one of the incredibly refined and put together. With beautiful men was dressed as a pair of pants, another was on roller sets and costumes and the indisputable vocal talent blades and looked like a shrub — pretended to be people displayed by the cast, Haydn’s wonderful comic opera of the moon. Stars were suspended from the ceiling as was given light and life that won’t soon be forgotten. Signor Buonafede took in the majesty of the moon through song. Throughout the second act, Ecclitico, with the help Lula Beresford-Banker | Pillbox Editor of Cecco and Ernesto, tricked Signor Buonafede to let his daughters marry each man in turn. Cecco, playing the José Lopez | Staff Photographer part of the emperor of the moon, rode in on a large golden Cecco, Ecclitico, and Ernesto have a wonderful dancing duck chariot set-piece. Signor Buonafede’s moment as they hatch a plan to trick Signor Buonafede.

opera pillbox 01.26.15 5 Winners of writing contest inspire community MLK Jr. Writing Awards recipients share their complex and moving experiences involving race

“Like my grandmothers, I refuse to be the ink that gives Selma,” the poem lamented about recent events in the white page a meaning,” wrote Allderdice High Ferguson and New York. “2015 feels like 1965.” School senior Amma Ababio. Following the performances, the winners commenced On the other side of the racial divide, “I sob because I reading from their work, moving from college poetry can’t let the world treat everyone / as it will treat me,” to college prose categories. In third-place “Fair and wrote Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School Lovely,” junior psychology and creative writing double student Isaac Monroe in his second-place poem, “I Have major Michelle Mathew spoke about discrimination it Hard (That’s a Lie).” against darker skin in her native India. In second-place “On Language,” first-year undeclared Dietrich College Creative writing senior Michael Mingo described student Ellie Liu described losing her native Mandarin clandestine racism in a homogeneous town in first-place and watching her mother’s “attempts at accent- poem “Rural Vandalism.” In her second-place poem eradication.” “To Lebanon,” junior psychology and French double major Siriana Abboud reflected on the memory of her Junior chemistry and creative writing double major native country: “You, my land, have raised me.” In Sophie Zucker took to the podium last to read from her his third-place poem, first-year creative and technical first place-winning essay, “The Washing.” Her hook, a writing double major Joshua Brown wrangled with a description of a chemically extreme hair-straightening different brand of difference and discrimination, writing, process called the Blowout — of which her mother is a “When I was born, I came out swinging, / Prepared to devotee — seems, at surface level, unrelated to issues beat back the savage stinging / Of this world’s brutal of race. The connection is subtle but significant, and preoccupation / With my private passions.” becomes more overt as the piece goes on.

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, students, faculty, “It’s about how hair is racialized,” Zucker said in Kevin Zheng | Asst. Photo Editor families, and community members convened in an interview. “Straight hair is seen as professional Junior pyscholorgy and creative writing double major Michelle Rangos Ballroom for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and socially acceptable; curly hair is seen as deviant.” Mathew won third-place in the college prose division. Writing Awards, an annual event launched by Thomas Because it’s associated with people of color, curly hair Stockham Baker University Professor of English is construed as exotic and low class — prompting many hair? It’s not because it’s cheap or easy.’ ” Jim Daniels in 1999, which encourages both local black women to straighten, weave, or otherwise alter college and high school students to write about their their hair, from a “desire to emulate whiteness.” With the most emotionally resonant piece appropriately experiences of racial discrimination or difference saved for last, first-place high school prose winner in memory of Dr. King, according to the call for Zucker said she started researching the natural hair Ababio took the stage. Though her voice was firm, submissions. First, second, and third place awards movement in earnest during her senior year of high Ababio apologized in advance for her emotional delivery, were given in four categories: college prose, high school school, when one of her friends decided to go natural — and told the audience about her incredible struggle prose, college poetry, and high school poetry. and when Zucker herself was “trying to write about my being thrust into American racial beauty standards as a identity in a more nuanced way.” While simultaneously young Ghanaian immigrant. Not only written word was featured at the ceremony: learning about antisemitism and modern-day Judaism, The event launched with powerful musical Zucker watched Chris Rock’s documentary Good Hair Ababio choked and came to tears while reading from performances by students in the School of Drama, and read Malcolm X’s autobiographical descriptions of her work. “I was disgusted by the coarseness of my hair, whose vocal talent, it seems, we so rarely get to hear. hair straightening in the African American community. the hand-me-down clothes I wore, and especially the Their performances ranged from spirited to somber, color of my skin,” wrote Ababio, who resorted to harsh from a pounding rendition of black spiritual anthem “ ‘We’re all just trying to look whiter,’ ” Zucker quoted skin lightening formula and baby powder in an attempt “Down by the Riverside” to a sobering spoken word her mother in her essay. “...‘Why do you think black to whiten her skin. At this point in the reading, Ababio poem that held the audience rapt: “This feels a lot like women get weaves? Why do you think I straighten my paused in earnest distress.

“It’s okay, baby,” a woman called from the audience.

As Ababio left the podium to the loudest applause yet, Daniels took the mic to propose they end the night in song. A single School of Drama student came to the stage to sing from the black national anthem, a ringing rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” It was slowed and powerful for its lack of instrumental company, and after the last belted note hit the ceiling, a few moments passed before anyone spoke.

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Kevin Zheng | Asst. Photo Editor Editor’s Note: Joshua Brown is a junior staffwriter for Students in the School of Drama enchanted the audience with renditions of spiritual anthems and haunting spoken word poems. The Tartan. community 6 pillbox 01.26.15 Oscar nominees announced amid criticism Boyhood, The Imitation Game, and Birdman are promising candidates for Best Picture win

The Academy announced this year’s nominees on Jan. Screenplay (Richard Linklater), Best Supporting Actor Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Innocence) 15, instantly provoking a slew of criticism. Some of it (Ethan Hawke), and Best Supporting Actress (Patricia was the usual complaints about snubs — I, personally, Arquette). Although the film’s star, Coltrane, wasn’t Birdman is just about as meta as it gets. In the movie, think that The Lego Movie deserved a nomination for nominated for Best Actor, Arquette’s and Hawke’s Riggan Thompson (Michael Keaton) plays a washed up Best Animated Feature Film — but most focused on the nominations were well-deserved. Arquette played actor famous for his role as Birdman (Keaton himself fact that the nominees are dramatically whitewashed. Mason’s mother, tough and loving through a string of played Batman in 1989). Thompson tries to make broken, alcohol-soaked marriages. Boyhood’s long-term himself relevant by writing, directing, and starring in All of the nominees for Best Actor are white, including filming is more than a gimmick — the movie is real in a a Broadway play based on Raymond Carver’s What Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Steve Carrell way that movies rarely are. We Talk About When We Talk about Love, fighting (Foxcatcher), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation against an egocentric lead actor (Edward Norton), his Game), Michael Keaton (Birdman), and Eddie Redmayne The Imitation Game daughter (Emma Stone), and his own mind. Birdman (The Theory of Everything). All of the nominated is one long camera shot, earning it a nomination for directors, with the exception of Birdman’s Alejandro The Imitation Game is about Alan Turing (Benedict Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), which it will G. Iñárritu, who is a native Mexican, are white males, Cumberbatch), a closeted genius who cracks the surely win. Birdman was also nominated for Best Actor leaving out Angelina Jolie (Unbroken) and Ava DuVernay Germans’ enigma code during World War II and helps (Michael Keaton), Best Supporting Actor (Edward (Selma), who would’ve made history as the first African- turn the tide in favor of the Allies. The film secured Norton), Best Supporting Actress (Emma Stone), Best American woman nominated for Directing. A year after an impressive list of nominations, including those Director (Alejandro G. Iñárritu), Best Sound Editing 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture and right after Selma, for Directing (Morten Tyldum), Best Actor (Benedict (Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock), Best Sound a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr., was released, it’s Cumberbatch), Best Supporting Actress (Keira Mixing (Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas disheartening to see such a lack of diversity. Knightley), Film Editing (William Goldenberg), Original Varga), and Best Original Screenplay (Alejandro G. Score (Alexandre Desplat), Adapted Screenplay (Graham Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & While I can’t write about every movie, here, in order, are Moore) and Production Design (Maria Djurkovic and Armando Bo). Birdman offers a sobering commentary my top three picks for Best Picture: Tatiana Macdonald). Although doubtlessly some of on show business and Hollywood alike, highlighted by the history is smudged — would we expect any less of Keaton and Stone’s standout performances. Boyhood Hollywood? — The Imitation Game tells an important and emotional story, carrying the weight of Turing’s Boyhood was notable right off the bat for its unique chemical castration and subsequent suicide when his Brian Trimboli | Editor-in-Chief filming technique: director Richard Linklater, instead of homosexuality was discovered after the war. Benedict using different actors for the same character at different Cumberbatch was a good choice for Turing; he’s used to ages, filmedBoyhood over the course of 12 years, playing the aloof genius after his role in BBC’s Sherlock. following the life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from age 5 In The Imitation Game Cumberbatch is more human to 18. Boyhood was rightfully nominated for Directing, than ever, although the film’s Oscar-bait central quote as well as Film Editing (Sandra Adair), Original (“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine”) felt a little heavy-handed.

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Boyhood is a drama chronicling one boy’s path to adulthood. The film is notable The Theory of Everything is a film about Dr. Stephen Hawking based on the book for its unprecedented filming process ­­— filming the same actors intermittently over Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen written by his ex-wife. The movie includes the course of twelve years. The result is a comprehensive examination of Mason Stephen Hawking’s quest to discover a universal equation explaining the behavior of Evans’ journey through the pains and joys of childhood and adolescence. Directed the universe, his struggles with motor neuron disease, and his loving and complicated by Richard Linklater and a big favorite this award season, Boyhood is a must-see for relationship with his wife Jane. This film is for a lover of biopics who is interested in the those wishing to witness cinematic history. many different facets of this genius’s life.

film pillbox 01.26.15 7 There were no more than a few cars driving around, mountains was like taking a trip to Narnia. Everything Israel is a worthy, stimulating destination and everything seemed quiet, as if life was on hold. It was green and lush and beautifully ancient. We saw was early afternoon on Friday, and Shabbat, the Jewish temples that have been around for longer than most day of rest, was beginning. We held our own traditional modern civilizations. We saw abandoned mine fields that Ten day trip to the Middle East is an adventure that everyone should undertake in life Shabbat service to welcome the Sabbath, as many overlooked Syria and watched a rainbow peek out from families do not only in Israel, but across the world. From behind the clouds. There were cows laying the middle Friday night to Saturday evening, no work is done. Cars of the road, and it was as if no other human had ever by Laura Scherb | Publisher stay quiet, businesses close, and the streets are silent. stepped upon the grass but for the ones who had laid the [ ] But in Tel Aviv, which is generally acknowledged as mines. Every so often, going on a trip is exactly what you need. Jerusalem’s hip, younger sibling of a city, Shabbat isn’t Voyaging to a new place opens your eyes to the potential as strict. Sure, people still stay in and have a family It seemed impossible that there wasn’t peace in such a that the world holds and reminds you to embrace dinner, but then they go out afterwards and celebrate beautiful, quiet place. It was chilling to realize that the adventure once again. in one of the millions of bars that lines the streets of the world was such a scary, fragile place, but then I looked bouncing city. We joined them the first night, fighting jet around me at all of the people I was with and everyone There was a moment over winter break when I lag and a language barrier to start the nightlife off strong. I have the privilege of going to school with here at was standing at the Western Wall in the Old City of Carnegie Mellon, and I felt safer. Jerusalem. I was surrounded by people of all ages, I ended up at a small bratwurst/beer shop with a few religions, and nationalities. We were all together in one of the students on the trip, sipping our drinks as we Next, we ascended into Jerusalem. As we were driving moment, and it didn’t matter who was praying in what watched the city stroll by. The rain had (mostly) cleared to Jerusalem, I saw little houses that looked just as old language, or if you were crying tears of joy or sorrow, or by then, so we decided to meander down to the beach as the temples and columns of the Old City. It got me if you believed that there was someone receiving the to dip our toes into a new ocean. It wasn’t until I looked thinking how even though we were visiting all of the prayer or not. There were differences, but they didn’t up at the full moon above the crashing waves of the historical landmarks that are well known, there are divide us. They made us stronger. Mediterranean that it hit me: I was in Israel. I was little places around the world that contain so much halfway around the world, and I was about to have history and significance that we might not know about Laura Scherb | Publisher It was a poignant, dazzling moment, and it was when I the adventure of a lifetime. I wasn’t quite sure how to today. It was overwhelming to consider how sacred and realized that my trip to Israel was going to be more than process all of that, so I pushed it to the back of my mind important nearly every street and house could be. Capernaum is known as ‘the town where Jesus just a vacation. and jumped in the ocean. In case you were wondering, taught’ and contains many historical and religious jeans do not take salt water well. The second day that we were there, Jerusalem got nearly sights. four inches of snow, one of the largest snowfalls in recent The next leg of the trip took us to a kibbutz in Northern history there. The next morning was our tour of the Israel on the Sea of Galilee. I was expecting the North to historical, holy sights in the city. To see them covered greeted with the purest beauty I have ever seen. I could be a lull between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but I couldn’t in snow was a breathtaking experience. I thought that barely look away from the gleaming sun reflecting off have been more wrong. Walking out into the beautiful the snow would be an inconvenience, but instead I was of the snow to concentrate on internalizing the day’s Laura Scherb | Publisher itinerary. It was perfect. The beaches of Tel Aviv, which are a year-long travel destination, were deserted in the face of the unusually cold All in all, my trip to Israel was a whirlwind of people, winter weather that the Israel Uncovered groups experienced. amazing sights, incredible food, and once-in-a- lifetime experiences. It’s impossible to sum up in one conversation, let alone one article. I can’t point out I was lucky enough to spend ten incredible days in of the necessary information in one week’s time. I was my favorite thing that we saw or the most powerful Israel as a part of The David Project’s Israel Uncovered just going to have to go for it. experience I had there. I can only say that I wouldn’t trip. The David Project is a young, fresh organization trade it for the world, and that if you ever have the dedicated to taking campus leaders to discover their The trip itself was the most exhausting ten days I’ve chance to see the Holy Land in person, to miss it would own Israel. There’s no dodging issues or questions. experienced in my life, and I have never enjoyed be a tragedy. There’s no sugarcoating and no bias. It’s just anything more. From the moment we woke up in the straight-up information: tours of historical sights, talks morning until we finally stumbled to bed at 3 or 4 a.m., from important people, and time set aside for you to we were talking, learning, seeing, doing, experiencing, explore by yourself so that you can draw the best, most surprising, eating, drinking, hating, and loving. There Now for comprehensive, informed opinion possible. was so much packed into every hour that it felt like every day was a year and a half. There’s no possible way to Valentine’s Day! In the days preceding the trip, I struggled with how to write about everything that happened or even all of the prepare. Friends that had been on the trip previously things we saw and felt: There’s simply too much. told me that I was in for the trip of a lifetime. How do you get ready to experience a once-in-a-lifetime experience? From the modern, pulsing clubs that dot the city of Tel Can you? I settled for simply skimming a few Wikipedia Aviv to the silent snowfall that blanketed the Holy City, articles and Facebook stalking the other thirty students every stop along the way was fraught with complexity who were going to be on the trip. The more I read, the and significance. There was never a place where I felt more I realized that there was no hope for me to learn all nothing.

Tel Aviv has a bustling night life, even during the When we arrived in Tel Aviv, the sky was overcast and small raindrops were cautiously peppering the sidewalks Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. The city is known as Laura Scherb | Publisher the easy-going yet high energy opposite of Jerusalem. and cars. I felt like I hadn’t even left Pittsburgh, until we started driving through the city to get to our hotel, Laura Scherb | Publisher which was a block away from the Mediterranean Sea. The hills above Tel Aviv overlook nearly all of Israel and its borders. From the settlements in the hills, you can see city skylines and the quiet suburbs.

feature feature 8 pillbox 01.26.15 pillbox 01.26.15 9 Change up your repetitive winter look Tips for staying comfy, warm, and fashion forward through the long Pittsburgh winter

Tired of repeating the same outfits? It’s about that These tops look like basic sweatshirts, making them stores. While this pattern never really goes out of style, time of year again when you feel as if you’ve been slightly more difficult to style since people wearing It’s been showing a lot more often than I’m used to. What wearing the same sweater every day with the same them run the risk of looking as though they are not put makes the stripe pattern so great is that it’s so versatile, pair of black leggings, and this pattern can quickly get together. However, I think these can look nice with a but it still makes you look as if you put some effort into boring. Though this might be the most comfortable pair of dark blue jeans and short black boots. Since these your outfit. Due to their versatility, I don’t have much option, there are other clothing items you can try out sweatshirts tend to be available only in dull colors, I advice on how to style stripes, since they can usually be that are comfortable but still unique and stylish. Here would throw a scarf in a jewel tone or with an interesting worn with anything. I do, however, recommend that if are a couple of fashion trends for the winter to help you pattern on top. you’re going to be wearing stripes, don’t the striped item through the season. of clothing with any other pattern, since mixing patterns A style that I’ve been seeing in stores often is the cutout- doesn’t go well for anyone. One style I’ve been seeing in stores and on campus shoulder look, which is exactly what it sounds like. — and this is quite unexpected, since it’s generally Although this style has existed for quite a while now, it A trend that I’m still unsure about, though I’ve still considered unflattering — is the turtleneck or cowl neck seems to have become even more popular lately. From been seeing it everywhere, is the cropped shirt style. sweater. These types of sweaters are not commonly sweaters to nice blouses, to even dresses, the cutout- I was used to seeing crop tops being worn over the worn by people our age, but as of late they’ve grown shoulder look appears in several types of clothing items. summer, but something new to me was seeing cropped in popularity. The turtleneck sweaters that have This, like the turtleneck or cowl neck sweater, is another sweaters in stores. The idea of a cropped sweater seems appeared in clothing stores are different from tighter, way to take a simple outfit and make it unique. Instead unexpected, since cropping a sweater seems to defeat less appealing sweaters. These are instead larger and of wearing the same plain old sweater that everyone else the purpose of a sweater. However, I think that pairing chunkier, and could make for an interesting look with has in some type of variation, give the cutout-shoulder the cropped sweater with either high-waisted jeans or a some leggings and boots. They are also mostly available sweater a try in order to make a statement. These high-waisted circle skirt and tights could make for a nice in neutral colors and earth tones, which are flattering will look good with anything — jeans or leggings — outfit. So if you think you’ve exhausted all your options on most people. Not to mention, these sweaters will depending on the length. In order to make the outfit look for clothing, and are tired of the pieces in your closet, definitely provide an adequate level of comfort, allowing more feminine, I would put on a necklace to complete remember that just one of these statement pieces for this you to be simultaneously stylish and comfortable. the look. winter can create a new look.

Speaking of comfort, this season seems to be centered Stripes have seemingly been very trendy for the winter, on that theme, with soft pullovers styled like sweatshirts. as I’ve been seeing a lot of striped shirts and sweaters in Nikita Mishra | Staffwriter

Braden Kelner | Contributing Editor Braden Kelner | Contributing Editor Comfort and warmth are hugely important during these cold times, so accessories like hats and scarves can make a fun part of any outfit. Cowl neck sweaters are a great way to jazz up a “normal”look. fashion 10 pillbox 01.26.15 Captain Tepper by Nehemiah Russell

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99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger aries This week spice up your music track with some upbeat march 21–april 19 punk rock by Goldfinger.

All The Time by Bahamas taurus Sometimes you just need a relaxing electric guitar to april 20–may 20 smooth out any troubles in your day.

Ride to Freedom by SBTRKT gemini This one-man band mixes digital devices and instruments may 21–june 21 to create interesting indie pop mixtures.

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Bloom by Paper Kites Across own virgo This is a great song to listen to if you’re ever walking home D aug. 23–sept. 22 1. Not fem. 1. Clublike weapon alone. 5. ___ Romeo 2. Met highlight 9. Movie critic Roger 3. River to the Moselle 14. Sea east of the Caspian 4. Photo of a raindrop on a rose petal, e.g. Never Fade by Jack Johnson 15. Sphere 5. Soak up libra Do you have a special person in mind? This is the song for 16. Word with panel or energy 6. Christine of “Chicago Hope” sept. 23–oct. 22 you. 17. So long! 7. Stomach, Asian, or Hong Kong 18. Closed 8. Choir member 19. Ragu competitor 9. ___ de corps 20. Hearing distance 10. Soup made with beets Climb to Sakteng by Imogen Heap 22. Person who rows 11. K-6 scorpio Spread this beautiful calming song to bring a smiles to 24. Strange and mysterious 12. Hindu music oct. 23–nov. 21 others. 26. Rocker Ocasek 13. 1982 Disney film 27. District adjacent to a city 21. Unit of frequency 30. Northward movement 23. Chilean pianist Claudio 35. Blow one’s top 25. Incessant Royals by Lorde 36. Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay 27. Earthquake sagittarius A classic easy-to-listen-to song by Lorde that should be a 37. Implement 28. Liquid waste component nov. 22–dec. 21 part of everyone’s soundtrack. 38. Proverb ending? 29. Papal seal 39. Devoted 31. ___ about (approximately) 42. Code-breaking org. 32. Ancient Greek colony 43. WWII battle site 33. Snooped (around) Keep On Moving On by Andy Burrows 45. Affirm 34. Stare angrily capricorn Add Andy Burrows for some songs for more electric rock 46. Bendable twig, usually of a 36. Gutter locale dec. 22–jan. 19 music. willow tree 40. Makes 48. Gauges 41. A bit, colloquially 50. Area with coin-operated games 44. Like the tiny mouth of a sponge 51. MSNBC rival 47. King’s staff aquarius Back to Home by Tristan Prettyman 52. Pan-fry 49. Except if Listen to this positive warm song for those sad days. 54. Sudden inclination to act 50. Gold coin of ancient Rome jan. 20–feb. 18 58. Fur hunter 53. Book of maps 62. Bobby of the Black Panthers 54. Brit’s exclamation 63. Author ___ Stanley Gardner 55. Trifling 65. Ripped 56. Graph prefix Pieces by Red pisces 66. Hand woven wall hanging 57. Slippery swimmers Pieces is an alternative rock song for warm, sunny 67. Hawaiian outdoor feast 59. Tent stick feb. 19–march 20 afternoons. 68. Dash 60. Historical chapters 69. A long time 61. 1996 Tony-winning musical 70. Cong. meeting 64. Regret Maryyann Landlord | Comics Editor 71. Take five horoscopes 14pillbox 01.26.15 Tuesday 1.27.15 Ongoing Julian Oliver + Danja Vasiliev. Kresge Theatre. 5 p.m. My Fair Lady. The O’Reilly Theatre. Through Feb. 22. Classifieds Lecture by Berlin-based artists presented by the Frank- The classic musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. Oliver and Vasiliev Pygmalion tells the story of the transformation of Eliza To Hire. Looking for quiet, responsible grad focus on software art, augmented reality, creative Doolittle from Cockney flower girl to fine lady. Directed by student or upper classman for night time hacking, data forensics, computer networking, virtual Ted Pappas. Inn Keeper duties at Bed and Breakfast. architecture, artistic game-development, information Compensation would include rent free living visualization and open-source software development Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals. at The Mansion at Maple Heights Bed and practices in art and activism. Carnegie Museum of Art. Through March 2. Breakfast in Shadyside. Compensation also This retrospective collection examines and celebrates includes free utilities and internet. Must be Friday 1.30.15 the groundbreaking and rule-bending Pittsburgh available to work after 6 p.m. must have 2 photographer’s life and work. Admission to the Carnegie references. if interested, please email info@ Fungus. Altar Bar. 9 p.m. Museum of Art is free with a valid Carnegie Mellon Western PA-based Fungus covers the Grateful Dead in student ID. mansionmapleheights.com addition to original songs. Red Lion Reggae in support. Tickets are from $5 to $7. Must be 21 or older. The Little Mermaid. The Byham Theatre. Through Feb. 1. The live stage version of the classic Disney film. Follow Compiled by Kate Groschner and Rachel Cohen | Saturday 1.31.15 Ariel, the daughter of Triton King of the Sea, as she leaves Contributing Editors her underwater kingdom to follow her true love. Jayke Orvis. Mr. Smalls Theatre. 8 p.m. Want your event here? The Jakobs Ferry Stragglers, Shelf Life String Band, and Opening Email [email protected] Lone Wolf Club in support. Tickets are $10. Sketch to Structure. Carnegie Museum of Art. Through Pig Destroyer. Altar Bar. 8 p.m. Aug. 17. The Virginia-based trio offers up confrontational, This exhibition in the Heinz Architectural Center explores incendiary grindcore. Full of Hell, Cloud Rat, Purge in the process of an architect’s initial concept to client support. Tickets are from $18 to $20. presentation. Featuring a number of sketches by Locran O’Herlihy and Richard Neutra as well as watercolors by Steven Holl.

Some Day is Now: The Art of Corita Kent. The Andy Warhol Museum. Through April 19. Covering over 30 years of Corita Kent’s posters, murals, and signature serigraphs, Some Day is Now is the first major museum show to survey Kent’s career.

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Joe Fake | Photo Staff Abhinav Gautam | Photo Editor The Black Graduate Student Organization, SPIRIT, the Office of Admission, and Student Affairs hosted “Rise” the Mic: MLK Spoken Word Late Night Saturday in Rangos Hall. Featured performers included local high school students from the Arts Greenhouse initiative and Corey Sattler from Heinz College.

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