Architect Mack Scogin Tackles Gates Complex from the Inside out on the Record: Jennifer Church
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PIPER10/06 Issue Welcome to The Piper! Architect Mack Scogin Tackles Gates Complex Just to set the record straight, this isn’t a publica- tion about bagpipes or bagpipers. We might include the occasional story about the university’s From the Inside Out rich piping tradition, but we won’t be all bagpipes, all the time. That’s not what we’re here for. n Bruce Gerson Instead, The Piper will be a new source for official Carnegie Mellon news. Published each It’s a good thing Mack Scogin is a prob- month (we’ll take brief vacations in December, lem solver. How else could he design June and July), this newspaper will be dedicated one of the largest structures on campus to telling the stories that make Carnegie Mellon an in one of the most challenging sites at educational institution like no other. We’ll include Carnegie Mellon, while meeting the re- stories about the research that has propelled us quirements of its future inhabitants and to the top of the national rankings, and we’ll also gaining the approval of the university’s feature pieces on the people who make that re- Design Review Committee? Putting a search happen, the students we all support, and the events and activities that make this university square peg in a round hole wouldn’t be a vibrant place to live, work and learn. totally accurate in describing the feat, The Piper also aims to strengthen the but it’s pretty darn close. connection between Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh Scogin, co-principal of the Atlanta- campus and its programs around the world. As based, award-winning Mack Scogin A FOUR - STORY STRU C TURE WILL SIT OFF F ORBES A VENUE BETWEEN C YERT the university expands and becomes an institute Merrill Elam architectural firm, is ac- AND H AMBURG H ALLS AND WILL C ONNE C T FROM ALL LEVELS TO A SEVEN - STORY , for global learning, it’s important for people in MULTIFA C ETED BUILDING NESTLED BETWEEN T H E P URNELL C ENTER , D O H ERTY , customed to solving problems. “One of Pittsburgh to know what their peers in Silicon N EWELL - S IMON AND S MIT H H ALLS , AND T H E C OLLABORATIVE I NNOVATION C ENTER . the things that distinguishes our firm is Valley, Qatar or Australia are doing. We hope to bridge that information gap with The Piper by that generally when people have a big shaped like a trapezoid will sit 180 be surrounded by enough green space running stories that will help us all remember that challenge on their plates, they come to feet off Forbes Avenue between Cyert — about 120,000 square feet — to regardless of our location, we all share in the rich us,” he said in a southern drawl. and Hamburg halls. Research will be rival the Cut. Landscape architecture firm Carnegie Mellon tradition. That big challenge for Carnegie the theme for this yet-unnamed build- Michael van Valkenburgh Associates, Our first issue contains something for every- Mellon is the new $88.6 million Gates ing, which will connect from all four part of the Scogin team, has designed a one — a newsy feature on campus construction, Complex for Computer Science, made levels to a seven-story, multifaceted “greenscape” that will include a winter a fun Q&A with Dean of Student Affairs Jennifer possible with a $20 million lead gift companion building called the Gates garden, tree groves, rain garden, patio, Church, recaps of Homecoming and Reunion from the Bill & Melinda Gates Founda- Center, which will be nestled between benches, pedestrian bridges, walkways Weekend, a little bit of Carnegie Mellon lore and International Dispatches from Qatar, Japan and tion. The complex will consist of two the Purnell Center for the Arts, Doherty, and pathways. It will even have a volley- Australia. We hope you like what you see. buildings, totaling 210,000 square feet, Newell-Simon and Smith halls, and the ball court. A green roof on the east side And we hope you’ll keep reading. and a 150-space underground parking Collaborative Innovation Center. of the Gates Center will be visible from garage on the western part of campus. A The two facilities will encompass the Cut. four-story, 50,000 square-foot structure 5.6 acres of the West Campus and will C ONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN On the Record: Jennifer Church n Jenni King working with community standards Carnegie Mellon really was the only in- — which is an area that I have experi- stitution that I was considering because I Jennifer Church took the helm as dean ence in — and so I applied for the was really impressed with the institution of student affairs at Carnegie Mellon position. Right timing, right place, and and the caliber of students. this past April after more than a decade luckily everything came together. C ONTINUED ON PAGE EIG H T in various student life positions at the university. The Piper caught up with Church earlier this month to learn more about her take on Carnegie Mellon students, why she loves her job and what she likes to do when and if she has free time. You might be surprised by some of her answers. What attracted you to a career at Carnegie Mellon? I was actually beginning doctoral work at Pitt in 1995 and decided I also wanted to continue working. There was an J ENNIFER C H UR ch opportunity in the student life office O N E The Tartan Turns 100 n Brittany McCandless, Tartan Reporter T H E T ARTAN H AS ch RONI C LED T H E After dedicating itself to reporting on paper’s first office was PIPER UNIVERSITY ’ S local and campus news, Carnegie in Porter Hall, the only 10/06 Issue H ISTORY SIN C E ITS Mellon’s student newspaper is making building on campus FIRST ISSUE APPEARED P U bl I S H E R headlines of its own: The Tartan is when The Tartan was IN O C TOBER 1 9 0 6 . Teresa Thomas turning 100. founded, then it moved E DITOR Since its first issue in October to the south mezza- Im A G E C ou R T E S Y O F Bruce Gerson T HE CARNEGIE MELL O N 1906, The Tartan has chronicled the nine of the College UNI V ER S I T Y A R C HI V E S M ANAGING E DITOR university’s history in its pages. From of Fine Arts. The Susie Cribbs the merger between Carnegie Tech and paper relocated to past this fall, its writers, W RIT E R S the Mellon Institute, to the students who the Carnegie Union editors and managers are Jenni King Adam Lazarus attacked Strom Thurmond with marsh- building, formerly the focused on keeping the Brittany McCandless Jonathan Potts mallows during his campus appearance, Andrew Mellon mansion and paper current with the rapid Byron Spice The Tartan has covered it all. now the location of Doherty Apartments. technological advances going on in For its editors, managers, writers The Tartan’s fourth office was in Skibo the newspaper industry today. 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