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Researchers study neuron SDC A team defends title, Matt and Kim present new response to morphine • A5 wins Buggy • A12 tunes at concert • B6 SCITECH SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan April 20, 2015 Volume 109, Issue 24 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 DEBORAH CHU firmly. Junior Staffwriter Casalegno described this occasion as “momentous,” This year’s Midway Open- drawing parallels between ing Ceremony for Spring Car- the all-encompassing essence nival paid a bittersweet fare- of Spring Carnival and the in- well to its longstanding place terdisciplinary nature of the on the Morewood Gardens future Tepper Quadrangle. parking lot. It touched on the The Quadrangle is scheduled new Tepper Quadrangle that to be built on the Morewood would take its place, and re- gardens parking lot, making minded us of the philanthro- this occasion also a hand-off. py aspect of Carnival. True “[The Tepper Quadrangle] to Carnegie Mellon tradition, is a new chapter in our cam- the air echoed with the sound pus history that will bring to- of bagpipes as Carnival offi- gether the whole of our cam- cially kicked off. pus … where collaboration People huddled inside will reign,” Casalegno said. the large Alumni Association “It will be a place where inno- Tent on the Morewood Gar- vation will thrive.” dens parking lot while rain As for Midway’s new home drizzled outside. Dean of Stu- on the CFA lawn, Casalegno dent Affairs Gina Casalegno points out that it would be joked that despite last year’s closer to other Carnival ac- announcement that Midway tivities such as Sweepstakes, would not take place at the more commonly known as Morewood Gardens park- Buggy. It would also be locat- ing lot, 2015 would now be ed at a more central location the final year before Midway on campus, situated against moves to the College of Fine a backdrop of the College of Arts Lawn. Fine Arts building and mod- “Spring Carnival at Carn- ernistic Hunt Library, which egie Mellon will always have a home,” Casalegno stated See MIDWAY, A4 Graphic compiled by Anne Sophie Kim /Layout Manager ‘Fight for 15’ protestors call for higher wages Carnival changes to come in 2016 BRIAN TRIMBOLI be on the CFA lawn, and the Editor-in-Chief rides will be on the CFA lawn and the Mall. The Carnival Last weekend’s Spring concert will also take place Carnival, the university’s on the Mall. 101st, was the last one to take Although its likely that the place on the Morewood park- rides will damage the lawn, ing lot. Next year, Carnival “One of the reasons we want will be spread across the Col- to use the CFA Lawn is its du- lege of Fine Arts (CFA) park- rability,” Leonard continued ing lot, the CFA lawn, and the by email. “We expect that Mall. there may be some damage The Morewood parking to the lawn, but all of that lot, currently the site of Mid- is completely unknown and way, will become unusable very weather dependent. We when construction for the plan to use plywood to back upcoming Tepper Quadran- onto the lawn and then use gle breaks ground. Although wood to disperse the weight construction was supposed of the rides so they don’t sink to begin in March, it has been into the ground. However, if pushed back, allowing Carni- this rains, it could get messy.” val to stay on the Morewood Rides will also be set up parking lot this year. close to the sidewalk, Leon- The university announced ard said, to keep as much plans for the Tepper Quad- pedestrian traffic as possible rangle in Nov. 2013 on the off of the grass. “If damage heels of a $67 million dona- does occur, we will most like- tion by alumnus David Tep- ly reseed the lawn, just like per, whose 2003 donation after Orientation. However, of $55 million made him because Commencement is the namesake of the Tep- so close to Carnival, we will per School of Business. Al- have to take extra care to though plans for the Tepper make sure the appearance Justin McGown /Contributing Editor Quadrangle have not been is appropriate for all of our Workers from the surrounding Pittsburgh community joined together with Pittsburgh college students on Wednesday to advocate for higher wages. finalized, the university has families and guests coming to JUSTIN MCGOWN adjunct professors, with the that focuses on producing and talking over the din to his selected an architecture firm campus that weekend,” Leon- Contributing Editor United Food and Commercial socially conscious hip-hop fellow demonstrators. Ellis — Moore Ruble Yudell Archi- ard said. Workers Union Local 23, and with an emphasis on Pitts- said he had been part of the tects & Planners — to design The CFA parking lot and Shortly after a closure for many more. In addition to the burgh’s black community. movement for about a year the expansion. lawn was only one of many the University of Pittsburgh’s and that he was there that The new space is also sup- spaces considered for Car- annual Bigelow Bash, Bigelow day because “It was time for a ported by about $200 million nival, Leonard said. The list Ave. was once again closed to “Pittsburgh is America’s most change.” of the university’s own mon- of potential locations also traffic last Wednesday. This “We want the same thing ey and several smaller alumni included Gesling Stadium, closure wasn’t for a student livable city, so why do we have to Martin Luther King did with donations. It will include a Morewood Avenue, Marga- event; instead a large crowd fight for a living wage?” what he did,” Ellis said. “[It’s] new building for the Tepper ret Morrison Street, Doherty filled the cordoned-off street not just about the 15 and it’s School of Business, a univer- Parking Lot, the East-West and rallied around a pickup not just the union. It’s about sity welcome center, a tech- walkway and Merson Court- truck. Speakers acted as a — Jasiri Oronde Smith, respect, dignity, and the right nology-enhanced learning yard, and the fourth floor makeshift stage. The demon- local activist and emcee to organize.” center for the Eberly Center, of the East Campus Garage. stration was just one of more Elizabeth Massey, who fitness and recreation spaces, Each of these sites, however, than 200 across the country works at a Wendy’s, said part and a 600-seat auditorium. has its disadvantages. The where fast food workers went unions, representatives of nu- “Pittsburgh is America’s of the reason for her presence There are plans to keep turf of Gesling Stadium, for on strike. Their demands were merous places of worship, po- most livable city,” Smith told was to send a reminder. “I’m some space for parking in example, would have to be wages increase to $15 an litical organizations, student the crowd during his set, “so here because if there were the Tepper Quadrangle, but covered, a process that is cost hour, and the formation of a groups, and even the Westing- why do we have to fight for a no me or them, there would since the plans are not final- prohibitive. Additionally, ve- union. The event was called house High School Marching living wage?” not be any easy lunches, no ized it’s unclear whether or hicles over 7 ft. tall cannot “Fight for 15.” Band attended. He also led the crowd in medicine pick up … I’m doing not Carnival Midway will fit drive into the East Campus Members of several local Among those giving several chants and songs, per- this for me and my son, who’s in the new space, according Garage, which would make unions showed solidarity with speeches from the back of forming his single “Don’t let six.” Massey stressed that to Coordinator of Student Ac- move on difficult. the fast food workers. Among the pickup was Jasiri Oronde them get away with murder.” the support the strikers have tivities and advisor to Spring Vice President of Campus the unions present were Smith, who performs as Jasiri Chris Ellis, an employee had has been incredibly wide Carnival Tim Leonard. Next Affairs Michael Murphy, with 32BJ SEIU security guards X. A local activist and emcee, at the McDonald’s on 3708 reaching, coming also from year, Leonard said via email, help from Carnegie Mellon’s and employees of the Univer- Smith was there with 1Hood, Forbes Ave., had a hoarse booths will be in the CFA sity of Pittsburgh, including a local media organization voice from shouting slogans See PROTEST, A4 parking lot, the main tent will See CHANGES, A3 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » April 20, 2015 FEATURE PHOTO NEWS IN BRIEF Students ‘dunk-a-cop’ on midway Researchers question gender representation Three Carnegie Mellon a university news release. scientists — professors of “It is very important that the psychology Roberta Klatzky, new generation of women in Lori Holt, and Marlene Beh- cognitive science, and STEM rmann — recently questioned fields generally, recognizes gender representation in the that their contributions are February 2015 special issue critical.” of Cognition, “The Changing Carnegie Mellon’s own Face of Cognition.” Department of Psychology, Klatzsky, Holt, and Beh- housed in the Dietrich Col- rmann wrote an opinion piece lege for Humanities and So- in Cognition, stating that they cial Sciences, has 26 full-time were “struck by the fact that faculty members, 11 of whom among the 19 authors listed are women. for the 12 articles, only one “The fate of women in sci- female author was present.” ence continues to be prob- “As cognitive scientists, lematic and, although some we know that subtle, even progress has been made, unconscious, biases shape many challenges remain,” decision making.