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Zuckerberg Visits CMU on Tour Research suggests smart Penn State needs to ‘clean ArtHang group promotes government regulation house’ after sexual abuse student artwork around fosters innovation • A5 scandal • A7 campus • B9 SCITECH FORUM PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan November 14, 2011 Volume 106, Issue 12 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Zuckerberg visits CMU on tour JACKSON LANE “We beat them,” joked As- egie Mellon tens of thou- memes ... and I just really like Senior Staffwriter sociate Dean of the School sands of dollars each year. Facebook,’ ” he explained. of Computer Science Mark Yet, over 90 percent of the During the event, Zuck- Mark Zuckerberg, the Stehlik, who moderated campus doesn’t have any erberg frequently stated that founder and CEO of Face- Zuckerberg’s talk. chance to hear Mark Zucker- the future of Facebook and book, spoke to and answered Although Facebook em- berg speak while he’s on our social media would be the questions from approximate- ployees had requested that campus,” read the website’s application of the consumer ly 900 Carnegie Mellon stu- description. “Not offering all knowledge gathered by social dents on Tuesday in Wiegand members of the campus com- media to other industries. Gym at the University Center. “The students munity the opportunity to “We’re just starting to get The students in atten- watch the talk isn’t right.” to a place where everyone dance were mostly from the at Carnegie At the event, Stehlik fi rst has these advanced smart- School of Computer Science Mellon who asked Zuckerberg some ques- phones, and we recently just and the department of elec- tions about Facebook’s his- got to a place where you can trical and computer engi- have come tory with Carnegie Mellon assume that everyone has a neering; however, his talk to Facebook and recruiting, and then he Facebook or Twitter account was later uploaded to the opened the fl oor to pre-se- internet via an unauthorized are among lected student questions from See ZUCKERBERG, A3 live-stream video for all to the audience. see. our most “Most of the questions Carnegie Mellon was one productive were about Facebook, and if of three universities that a question vaguely touched Zuckerberg chose to visit on people.” on Zuckerberg’s personal this trip. The other two were life, he would bring it back Harvard University and the —Mark Zuckerberg to Facebook somehow,” said Massachusetts Institute of junior electrical and com- Technology. Facebook founder puter engineering major Alex “When we organized this and CEO Klarfeld, who was in the au- trip to go see a few colleges, dience during the speech, af- Carnegie Mellon was at the ter the event. top of the list,” Zuckerberg the event be held behind “When Zuckerberg was explained at his talk. “The closed doors, a member of asked what his favorite web- students at Carnegie Mellon the audience posted a video site other than Facebook who have come to Facebook recording of the event on the was, and his favorite internet are among our most produc- now-offl ine website ipaytu- meme, his responses were tive people.... I don’t know ition.com. along the lines of, ‘I don’t what you do to them.” “You and I both pay Carn- really know any internet Mark Zuckerberg answers questions at a press meeting prior to his recruitment talk on Tuesday. Celia Ludwinski/Operations Manager Fair mixes ice cream, jobs Byron, Kelly share politics BRENT HEARD dents, and she encouraged I learned was directly appli- MADELYN GLYMOUR Staffwriter those interested in getting a cable.” Assistant News Editor summer internship to make However, he recalled the Internships and free ice an appointment with their ca- internship search process Former Congresswomen cream: a combination for reer consultant. with a decidedly less favor- Beverly Byron (D–Md.) and students to enjoy on Tuesday As students entered the able tone. “Finding an intern- Sue Kelly (R–N.Y.) visited evening at the Career and room, they were greeted with ship is not easy,” Pipstein said, Carnegie Mellon last week as Professional Development a bag of candy and fl yers from calling the process “demoral- part of the Congress to Cam- Center’s “Internships: The In- the career center. Every in- izing at times.” He described pus program. side Scoop.” ternship had its own table, all how Lockheed Martin had Byron and Kelly spoke Held in the University of which were organized al- fl own him out to Texas for with a group of about two Center’s Rangos Hall, the phabetically, giving the event an interview, promised to get dozen Carnegie Mellon and self-described “ice cream so- an appearance similar to that back to him promptly, and local high school students cial and internship fair” gave of miniature TOC. never did. Pripstein’s advice about the side of elected of- attendees the opportunity to Some of the most notable for students searching for fi ce that they say voters do not converse with current Carn- names included the Smithso- an internship for the coming understand. egie Mellon students who nian, SpaceX, Thermofi sher summer was, “Start searching Kelly, whose house was held internship positions last Scientifi c, Highmark, Gold- early and get as many applica- damaged by the recent storms summer. man Sachs, Microsoft, and tions in as you can.” along the East Coast, spent Renée Starek, the Mellon Apple. These words were echoed the fi rst several minutes of College of Science career con- Eric Pripstein, a senior ma- by Celete Kato, a senior deci- her interview with The Tartan sultant and assistant director terials science and engineer- sion science and international on the phone trying to deal of the Career and Professional ing major, spoke of his expe- relations and politics major. with a furnace which had ex- Development Center, said rience working for Northrop Kato interned for Com- ploded. that the program began three Grumman, a defense contrac- mand Consulting Group, a se- “Stuff like that happens to years ago, with an MCS stu- tor, the previous summer. curity consulting agency that you in Congress, and no one dent who wanted to share her “The guy who was reading my works with government agen- stops to think about it,” Kelly internship experience with résumé asked about the tools cies such as the Secret Service said. “Furnaces blow up. Air- other students. they had and whether I could and border protection. Her planes get canceled. Fami- Starek stated that the use them,” Pripstein said. work at Command Consulting lies have babies, dogs die, all event “shows the broad range Thinking back to his educa- kinds of things that you think of options” available to stu- tion, he found that “the stuff See INTERNSHIP, A3 of as your normal path of life, and if you’re in Washington, D.C., what are you going to do?” “The people in Washing- ton operate in a bubble. The press in Washington operates in a bubble. They don’t real- ize that we’re people with the same problems that every- body else has,” Kelly added. However, according to By- ron, people in Congress help each other out. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons She told a story about the Former Congresswomen Beverly Byron (top) and Sue Kelly (bottom) time when her son was to discussed their experiences in the House of Representatives. be commissioned in the Air Force in Texas, but to attend other despite the fact that she “We were all friends. And the ceremony, she would and Dellums differ ideologi- I don’t see those friendships have had to miss a vote on a cally. developing today within the budget. Representative Ron “Those are the kind of two-party system, which is Dellums (D–N.C.) prolonged things that members do for unfortunate,” Byron said. debate on an unrelated bill each other,” Byron said. “How “The art of negotiation for a day so that Byron could can you explain that to a con- isn’t dead,” Kelly explained. visit her son without missing stituent? They don’t under- “It’s just at a stalemate right the vote. In return, a year and stand.” now because of the enormous a half later, Byron convinced Byron and Kelly said that push from the radical wings of the House Republicans to cut the reason Congress fi nds it both parties.” short debate and call a vote so hard to get anything done is Byron and Kelly, self-pro- Dellums could attend his son’s because cooperation between claimed moderates, still ar- wedding. ideologically diverse repre- Photo Illustration by Celia Ludwinski/Operations Manager They did this for each sentatives is on the decline. See CONGRESSWOMEN, A3 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » November 14, 2011 Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Diaspora co-founder, dead at 22 Statistically PATRICK GAGE KELLEY began to spread around the October email from the team, Many publications claimed Publisher tech community.” described the network as a that the high response to the Zhitomirskiy was one of place “where you’ll have to- project may have been in re- Diaspora co-founder Ilya the four students at New York tal control over your privacy, sponse to the privacy-invasive Speaking Zhitomirskiy has passed away University who launched the identity, and data.” environment created by Face- Gerald “Jerry” Sandusky — a former assistant foot- at the age of 22. highly successful Diaspora Begun as a Kickstarter proj- book. ball coach at Penn State University — was arrested and TechCrunch broke the news project. ect with a goal of $10,000, the The cause of his death has charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of young Sunday, reporting that “word The project, as stated in an project raised over $200,000.
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