Morewood Live-In Mentor Arrested for Invasion of Privacy Pizza + Politics

HCII lecture touts benefits Season win for men’s School of Drama premieres of online courses • A5 basketball first since ’09• A12 Maids, The Wiz • B10 FORUM SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan February 23, 2015 Volume 109, Issue 18 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Morewood live-in mentor arrested for invasion of privacy LAURA SCHERB mentor on the sixth floor of email from their resident as- explained the timeline of the University police then en- and Student Life to success- Publisher the first-year dormitory, was sistant saying that “this [floor incident investigation. listed the help of forensics fully identify three of the men expelled last semester af- meeting] was not just a typical University police opened specialists at the Pennsylva- whose images were captured On Thursday morning, ter students accused him of start of semester floor meet- an investigation after the ac- nia State Police crime lab. The on video,” the letter says. “The ex-Carnegie Mellon student holding his cell phone above ing. In last nights [sic] meet- cusations were made, accord- specialists analyzed data from remaining eight video clips in- Daniel Jorge was arrested on the showers they occupied. ing we talked about a very ing to the letter. Jorge’s access electronic devices confiscated clude images of torsos, waists, invasion of privacy charges for The first accusations came in serious incident that occurred to Morewood E-Tower was from Jorge. The analysis re- legs, and/or feet that do not allegedly taking photos and early September, according to last semester on our floor.” revoked the day he admitted vealed videos of eleven men. enable the viewer to ascertain videos of fellow Morewood E- WPXI.com. According to the email, to the crime. He was perma- “Among these, three vid- the identity of the person in Tower residents in the shower At the beginning of this se- the floor meeting addressed nently removed from campus eos include partial or full im- the video.” and bathrooms. mester, residents on the sixth the incident. Students were the day after and will not be ages from the neck up that Jorge, who was a live-in floor of E-Tower received an then handed a letter which returning. positioned University Police See ARREST, A4 Suresh Pizza + Politics event sparks debate SCS: fills open You’re positions in...or not. BRIAN TRIMBOLI BRIAN TRIMBOLI Editor-in-Chief Editor-in-Chief The university recently Carnegie Mellon joined announced two new faculty the likes of the Massachu- appointments: Farnam Jah- setts Institute of Technol- anian as university provost, ogy (MIT) and Johns Hop- effective at the end of the kins University last Monday academic year, and Steve when about 800 applicants Kloehn as vice president for to the school’s master’s in marketing and communica- computer science program tions, effective April 7. were informed via email Farnam Jahanian be- that they had been accept- gan his career at Carnegie ed, only to find out seven Mellon last year as the vice hours later in another email president for research, that the acceptances were a where he, according to a mistake. campus-wide email sent out Monday afternoon, many applicants received an email with “CMU Ad- “[Jahanian] missions Decision” in the subject line that told them, has garnered “Congratulations on your praise for his acceptance into the Master of Science program in Com- vision, work puter Science at Carnegie Mellon. You are one of the ethic, and select few, less than 9% of the more than 1200 appli- passion for cants, that we are inviting. what CMU is We’re convinced this is the right place for you. Wel- and what we come to Carnegie Mellon!” The email continues aspire to be.” with a list of “bragging points” that applicants Subra Suresh could take advantage of, such as Carnegie Mellon’s University President number one ranking in the field of computer science by U.S. News & World Report. from university President Seven hours later, ap- Subra Suresh, “garnered plicants received a second uncommon praise inter- email: “Earlier this morn- nally and externally for his ing, we mistakenly sent vision, work ethic, and pas- you an offer of admission sion for what Carnegie Mel- to Carnegie Mellon’s MS in lon is and what we aspire to CS program. This was an be.” Kruti Koppolu/Junior Photographer error on our part. While we Before he came to Carn- certainly appreciate your Above: Evan Wineland, junior information systems major and Senate chair, welcomes students and faculty to Pizza + Politics, an event hosted by egie Mellon, Jahanian Senate to actively change the political apathy often found on CMU’s campus. Below: Students discuss world issues. interest in our program, we worked at the National regret that we are unable Science Foundation Direc- to offer you admission this torate for Computer and RACHEL COHEN ual Violence Prevention Jess year.” This email, sent by Information Science and Contributing Editor Klein, adjunct professor Colin Frank Pfenning, president’s Engineering (CISE), con- Clarke, and Teaching Profes- professor of computer sci- trolling a $900 million bud- On a campus widely consid- sor of Political Science and ence and department head, get and leading research on ered to be apolitical, a Student International Relations Silvia asked that recipients ac- cyber infrastructure. Prior Senate initiative sought to Borzutzky. knowledged that they got to his work at the founda- start politically charged con- the second email. tion, Jahanian was the Ed- versation and disagreement Some mistakenly ac- ward S. Davidson collegiate with the first iteration of Pizza “We’ve always cepted applicants had al- professor at the Univer- + Politics on Wednesday. sought to ready made plans in the sity of Michigan, where he The event, which garnered seven hours between the served as chair for Comput- 177 responses out of nearly engage students two emails; Ben Leibowitz er Science and Engineering 1,300 invites on Facebook, .... It can be went out to dinner with his from 2007 to 2011, and as filled two-thirds of the round- parents and called his rela- director of the Software tables in Rangos 3, with each as simple as a tives before he found out Systems Laboratory from table designated a student or about the miscommunica- 1997 to 2000. Jahanian faculty facilitator to engage conversation.” tion. earned his master’s degree and mediate participant dis- “It was brutal. I didn’t and a Ph.D. in Computer cussion with guided ques- Evan Wineland get much sleep last night,” Science from the University tions, and a box of pizza. Leibowitz said to the Asso- of Texas at Austin. Facilitators included ad- junior informations ciated Press. “Now I have to Jahanian is replacing the junct professor Mary Jo Mill- systems major and clean up the mess. I’m call- Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz er, Assistant Dean of Student Senate chair ing all my relatives, I’m go- Distinguished Professor of Affairs Renee Camerlengo, ing, ‘I’m sorry it’s not hap- Life Sciences and Interim junior chemical engineering pening.’ ” Provost Nathan Urban. major Michael Wesley Booker The topic of the event In December, almost “Nathan is a distin- II, junior history major Ashley was “The Right to be Offen- 300 applicants to Johns guished academic who has Hopkins University under- Sobhani, junior psychology sive: What can we take away Kruti Koppolu/Junior Photographer had success throughout his and French double major Si- from Charlie Hebdo and The went a similar emotional tenure at the university, and riana Abboud, Senate Chair Interview?” and discussion rollercoaster when they his taking on this role was a and junior information sys- launched right away and response as a threat to that makes them seem weak.” were informed of their ac- clear indication of his great tems major Evan Wineland, lasted the full hour, with each expression. Conversation also focused ceptance only to find out a dedication to this commu- senior global studies major table taking a different track “These regimes survive on on the attack at Charlie Hebdo. few hours later that it was a nity,” Suresh wrote in his Julia Constantine, Assistant in group conversation. keeping tight control on their Facilitator Abboud posed the mistake. MIT made a com- email. Director of Student Life Da- Students pondered Sony’s image,” said junior economics question, when making an prable mistake a year ago; vid Chickering, Coordinator The Interview as an example of and statistics major Guillermo See ADMINISTRATION, A4 of Gender Programs and Sex- free speech and North Korea’s Marce-Santurio. “This movie See POLITICS, A3 See ERROR, A3 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » February 23, 2015 FEATURE PHOTO NEWS IN BRIEF American Heart Association gives CMU grant Students celebrate diversity of SCS The American Heart As- spend ten weeks working sociation has given a grant to with Carnegie Mellon fac- the department of biomedical ulty on a project that applies engineering to found a pro- biomedical engineering to gram in which undergradu- cardiovascular research, in ate students will be trained to addition to shadowing clini- apply their knowledge of the cians at Allegheny General field to developing technolo- Hospital for one day every gies for clinical cardiovascu- two weeks. lar medicine. Director of the cardiovas- Many of the existing car- cular MRI program at Allegh- diovascular programs are at eny General Hospital Robert schools with medical schools. Biederman said in the press The Carnegie Mellon pro- release, “Many of our young gram will focus on the ap- students that spend the sum- plication of engineering and mer with us go on to medical technology to this field. school and become indepen- “The hope is that this dent clinicians trained with initial experience will lead unique understandings of students on a career path in how to perform and interpret biomedical engineering,” medical research.” said Keith Cook, associate “In order for students to professor of biomedical en- be effective researchers in gineering who is co-leading this area, the students should the initiative, in a university understand cardiovascular press release.

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