Students Held on $1 Million Bond for Break-In Economics and Social and Deci- Lance Tape Opening an Unsecured Wanted to Check out Their Seats
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Volume 101, Issue 9 Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper Since 1906 November 6, 2006 Students held on $1 million bond for break-in economics and social and deci- lance tape opening an unsecured wanted to check out their seats. police, the county sheriff, and the SUV. by Brittany McCandless sion sciences, for attempting to door. They later said they were the FBI. Bomb-sniffing dogs also Harper said there was no evi- News Editor scale a fence at the stadium’s After the two walked around filming a music video and wanted searched the stadium and found dence the pair had been drink- Gate 5 about 2 a.m. yesterday the stadium with a folding to shoot the last scene on the no explosives. ing, and police found no signs of Two Carnegie Mellon students morning. chair, security officers appre- field. Police then searched the sil- alcohol in the car. were arrested early yesterday The two are now being held hended them as they returned to Because of a recent threat to ver Lexus SUV the students were Police also searched both stu- morning as they tried to break on $1 million straight bond each Gate 5. Durvasula was standing NFL stadiums, Pittsburgh police driving. They found a video cam- dents’ on-campus residences in into Heinz Field hours before a after being arraigned in front of on the chair, trying to climb the took the break-in seriously. era and tripod before towing the Morewood Gardens and Doherty Steelers game at the stadium. District Magistrate Gene Riccardi fence. At a press conference yester- car. Apartments. Police arrested Sudeep Paul, last night. When apprehended, the pair day, Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate According to KDKA-TV news, Friends of the two have not a senior in business administra- Heinz Field security officers said they were students who had Harper said police called in the a police affidavit later noted two received any information about tion and economics, and Anand told Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV news tickets to Sunday’s Steelers game Joint Terrorism Task Force, made different dogs responded posi- Shankar Durvasula, a junior in that they saw the men on surveil- against the Denver Broncos and up of the city, county, and state tively for hits of explosives inside See HEINZ, page A3 Students bring tech support to third world sulting in the Global Community by James Tetlow (TCGC), an elective course that Staffwriter sends university students abroad for 10 weeks as technology con- Technology is everywhere sultants with government minis- — from fl at-screen TVs to one tries and nonprofi t organizations of the Robotics Club’s new- in developing communities. est mobots. But for developing “They didn’t have power half communities around the world, the time, sometimes no water, technology can be much harder and tuberculosis was a big prob- to fi nd. That is why robotics pro- lem,” said Conrad Woodring, a fessor Bernardine Dias founded recent graduate who went to the TechBridgeWorld, an organiza- island of Ebeye in the Marshall tion devoted to the implementa- Islands as part of the course. tion of technological solutions Woodring and his partner, for developing communities. Daniel Dvinov, worked as techni- “To me, it is about empow- cal consultants for the Bureau of ering students and children Kwajalein Atoll Health Care Ser- around the world,” Dias said. vices, helping to manage a satel- “I love those ‘ah-ha’ moments lite program. Woodring said one when their eyes light up.” of the hardest part of the course Dias, who grew up in Sri was getting used to the local pace Lanka and came to the U.S. for of life. college, founded the program in “The culture moved so much 2004. slower,” he said. “People have a The initiative began the pre- different way of learning things, vious fall as a single class for and it was tough learning the cul- students interested in bringing tural boundaries.” technology to underdeveloped Other students in the program nations. It was fi rst taught by were involved with organizations Dias and Rahul Tongia, a senior in areas such as Palau, Chile, and systems scientist in computer Sri Lanka. Their duties ranged science and engineering and from teaching hospital techni- public policy. The class is now cians in Palau basic computer titled Technology for Develop- skills to writing an informational ing Communities and has been brochure in English for a non- Alan Gerber/Photo Staff joined by several other classes profi t organization in Sri Lanka. MBA student John Centeno said his analytical thinking skills helped him win $6000 in a poker tournament he recently attended in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. and an independent study pro- “The project is very tough, very gram for graduate students. challenging,” said Bridget Lewis, Dias still teaches the class. a senior in human-computer in- Student wins in poker tournament “It’s about helping organiza- teraction and physics. “There tions with implementing new were times when I wanted to go technology planning,” said Joe home, and others when I was Mertz, TechBridgeWorld’s as- like, ‘This is amazing!’ ” $6000 in a poker tournament. The event was hosted by “Minimally, we want to ex- sociate director and a professor Lewis and her partner, Mingi by Claire Morgenstern Centeno, a second-year MBA Susquehanna International pose [students] to how we in computer science and public Kim, worked as business consul- Assistant News Editor and economics student in the Group (SIG), a leading trading make decisions,” Simkin said. policy. Tepper School of Business, and and fi nancial services fi rm, at the “Poker players need to make Mertz directs Technical Con- See TECHBRIDGE, page A3 MBA student John Centeno’s his roommate Brian Cole com- company’s headquarters in Bala expert decisions out of un- mid-semester break was not peted in a Texas hold ’em tour- Cynwyd, Pa. certainty and allocate capital much of a break. nament along with 81 students The event was a way to recruit based on those uncertainties.” TechBridgeWorld: Outreach Locations He applied his analytical think- from other top colleges and uni- top talent, explained SIG assis- Centeno, co-founder of Tep- Colombia USA Haiti Ghana India China Marshall Islands ing skills, decision-making abili- versities throughout the country. tant director Todd Simkin, while per’s graduate poker club, and ties, and his knowledge of trad- Cole is also an MBA student in the showing students in the fi eld how ing and allocating capital to win Tepper School. the company operates. See POKER, page A5 Leadership Profile: Jamie Moroco of losing loved ones anymore. by Rachita Chandra “I have since realized through Staffwriter my work at Magee that a cure for cancer will never exist,” she Rho Lambda, a leadership and said. “But ... there is much work honor society for sorority women, to be done.” Peru Chile Sri Lanka Palau Micronesia Cook Islands features individuals in a Women’s Moroco currently works in a Leadership Series based on their lab at the Hillman Cancer Cen- David Kjos/Assistant Art Editor contributions to campus life and ter, one of the largest networks their achievements as role models for cancer care in the country. in the Carnegie Mellon and greater She researches genes and their International Festival is a Pittsburgh communities. Jamie targets relating to cancer. Moroco is the organization’s cur- “I love working there because rent honoree. I get to do experiments all day, prescription for success Moroco, a senior biological and I know that as small as my science major, volunteers at a lo- contribution may seem right ens of cultures with over 40 cam- cal hospital performing cancer now, I know it will do some by Michael R. Fitzgerald pus events. research and has led her sorority good and be worth it in the long Staffwriter Emily Half, associate dean of through the process of becoming a run,” Moroco said. Student Affairs, said the festival nationally affi liated organization. In addition to performing Last week, Carnegie Mellon’s takes a full year to plan. The orga- When she’s not in class, Moroco cancer research, Moroco is University Center was turned into nizing committee starts soliciting volunteers in the Magee-Womens president of Alpha Chi Omega, a world of international explora- topics for the annual November Hospital breast cancer clinical re- the sorority previously called tion—with a free lunch included. festival in the previous Decem- search program. When her uncle Zeta Psi Sigma. Last spring, she Running from Thursday to Sat- ber. was diagnosed with cancer a few helped Zeta, which used to be urday, the 16th annual Interna- The keynote speaker was Rich- years ago, she decided she wanted the university’s only indepen- tional Festival “Body, Mind, and ard Heinzl, founder of the inter- Jiaqi Tan/Photo Staff to research the disease so people Spirit: Prescriptions for Global Jamie Moroco is this month’s featured leader. didn’t have to go through the pain See PROFILE, page A3 Health” exposed students to doz- See FESTIVAL, page A5 www.thetartan.org A2 THE TARTAN • NOVEMBER 6, 2006 Weather Executive Privilege TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Hi: 53 Hi: 59 Hi: 59 Hi: 63 Hi: 62 New event policy a Lo: 49 Lo: 52 Lo: 46 Lo: 60 Lo: 49 Page plus for students Crime 2 Bradford Yankiver &Incident Theft police arrival, the actor ap- I bumped into former student body October 28, 2006 peared to be gone. president Tom Sabram last week. As at 7:16 p.m. we caught up, I mentioned that this year has felt more subdued than past Suspicious Person years.