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Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper Since 1906 100th Anniversary www.thetartan.org Media Kit 2006-2007 CONNECTING YOUR BUSINESS TO OUR COMMUNITY The UniversitySnapshot Every year, Carnegie Mellon students spend over • 9,734 undergraduate and $24.4 million on everything from food and drinks to graduate students. electronics and entertainment. Let The Tartan help direct more of that money into your business. • 4,470 faculty and staff. • Undergraduates earn At 100 years old, The Tartan is among the top $1,684 per year through eight weekly broadsheet newspapers at any four-year campus jobs. college in the nation. • In our Fall 2005 market research study, students The Tartan is Carnegie Mellon’s only student-run reported spending an av- print news source, and it’s in the hands of thousands erage of $2,510 annually every week. Students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, on food, drinks, clothing, and entertainment. That’s and residents of the greater Oakland, Squirrel Hill, over $24.4 million every and Shadyside areas are all among our readership. year. The Tartan is the best way to market your products • 25% of students are mem- bers of Greek organiza- and services to the Carnegie Mellon community. tions. With our continued commitment to focused news • 271 student organizations coverage, cutting-edge science and technology are active on campus. stories, informed editorials, and late-breaking Tartan sports, The Tartan provides your link to the Carnegie Mellon community like none other. 2 ConnectingWith Our Community The Tartan Print Edition Should celebrities be Swimming team For the ultimate superheroes? gets second, third at rush, jump out of a INSIDE > A9 home meet A12 plane B8 This year, The Tartan has won two prestigious Wpmvnf!211-!Jttvf!21 Dbsofhjf!NfmmpoÖt!Tuvefou!Ofxtqbqfs!tjodf!2:17 8!Opwfncfs!3116 national awards for general excellence from the Positive Career Center polling puts time on After hosting one of the your side first deliberative polls in by Ben Hackett Pittsburgh, CMU plans Staffwriter Recent increases in campus recruiting one for students efforts and on-campus interviews have prompted some universities’ career cen- Associated Collegiate Press. ters to enact job offer policies. Although by Claire Morgenstern Carnegie Mellon currently lacks a policy Junior Staffwriter that places minimum expiration times on “exploding” job offers, the Career Center On Saturday, October 29, a random sam- might soon enact one, as well. pling of 100 Allegheny County residents dis- Schools across the country have put cussed and deliberated health-care issues policies in place that ensure that students along with thousands across the country as have a fair amount of time between inter- part of the first-ever nationwide Delibera- viewing with companies and accepting tion Week. The success of Saturday’s poll their job offers. The Offer Policy from the opens the doors for a student and commu- University of Pennsylvania, for example, nity poll on campus November 19. acknowledges that “exploding offers and This Saturday’s event was organized bonuses put enormous pressure on ... stu- by PBS’s initiative By The People. It was dents to make a decision before they have headed by the Southwestern Program for completed the interviewing process.” Deliberative Democracy, a partnership be- Policies like Penn’s try to alleviate some tween Carnegie Mellon and the Carnegie of the pressures on students and keep Library of Pittsburgh. professional standards elevated. If stu- The topic at hand was particularly rel- dents are pressured to accept an offer too With 6,000 copies per week at 54 distribution evant to Pittsburgh, a national leader in early, the policy states, the university has health care and a city whose population WHERE ARE THE SHOTS? a harder time ensuring that students stay would be drastically affected by possible with their choices. state budget cuts and reduction of Medicaid In September, it seemed like CMU would have enough flu shots The University of Pennsylvania requires funds. Participants debated care and insur- that job offers that come from summer in- ance costs, health care for the elderly, tort for students this season. Now we face another shortage. ternships give the students until November reform, Medicare and Medicaid, and the to respond. In addition, Penn requires that impact of advances in treatment. 500 to high-risk individuals only.” any fall offers provide a minimum of three “Deliberation” in this sense was a discus- by Steven Spurgeon As a virus, the strain of influenza commonly con- weeks’ response time. sion between community members on local Staffwriter tracted by humans mutates often. That means that At Harvard, too, career consultants “are and national issues. The goal was to create each year drug makers have to manufacture new concerned about the effect of these [mar- thoughtful resolutions for difficult com- The avian “bird” flu spreading through Asia and strains of vaccine to combat the virus. In some cases, keting approaches] on our students, on munity choices. After filling out an initial Europe has started to worry scientists and politicians, these strains prove difficult to create or are harmful to- the educational process, and on the image points, The Tartan reaches a diverse audience from who are becoming increasingly concerned about the ward humans — which happened last year when Chi- of corporate recruiting at our university.” See POLLING, page A5 virus’s possible effects on human health. More imme- ron Pharmaceuticals’ vaccine failed trials of the Food The Harvard Job Offer Policy places em- diate, however, is the nationwide struggle to meet the and Drug Administration (FDA). phasis on continued professionalism and demand for standard flu inoculations, and as Health This year, production continues to lag. Roche, a seeks to protect students from extraneous Staff Council Services at CMU begins its annual flu vaccination pro- Swiss-based maker of the vaccine Tamiflu, a medica- pressures. gram, it too is feeling the increased burden of a pos- tion which mitigates the effects of the flu, has with- Harvard requires employers to give stu- sible pandemic. held manufacturing instructions from other corpora- dents until mid-December for job offers to hold “Cans Standard influenza vaccinations at CMU and medi- tions, ignoring pleas from the U.S. and the European resulting from a summer internship. It also cal centers around the United States are already at Union to do so. requires that all fall job offers give students a low this year, the Associated Press reported. Anita Forbes magazine reported, however, that mounting until February to respond. These policies Across the Cut” Barkin, the director of Health Services, said the Uni- pressure has forced the company to make some con- aim to aid students in making “effective versity is beginning to experience the effects of the cessions. After a recent meeting with the EU Health decisions” concerning their employment shortage, despite earlier assurances that CMU would Commission, Roche announced plans to license its in- options. by Nicole Barley have a full supply of the vaccine. structions to a limited number of other companies and Carnegie Mellon currently has no such the Carnegie Mellon campus to its surrounding Staffwriter “We have received only a fraction of our order,” Bar- governments. It will still take some time to manufac- policy concerning employment accep- kin said. “Other clinics, schools, and even the Allegh- ture the drug, and such delays could be costly. tance, but it is looking to fill that void. A typical food can is six inches long. Do eny County Health Department have not received full For students here at CMU, the shortage of flu vac- Recently, the Undergraduate Student Sen- you know the distance from Forbes Avenue shipments.” cines necessitates waiting lists. “We offered the vac- ate’s Academic Affairs committee sat down to the Cut in cans of soup? The situation is nothing new, though. Last year, cine to high risk individuals first. We have another with Career Center staff, including Direc- Staff Council hopes to find out tomorrow problems with vaccine production meant that CMU 75 shots available and expect to receive another ship- tor Paul Fowler, Judith Carr Mancuso, and as part of Cans Across the Cut, a new ad- ended up with a shortage. “Normally, we administer ment of vaccine within the month. At that time, we Maureen May. Student perspectives on job dition to organization’s annual sponsored 1200 to 1300 shots,” Barkin said. “Last year we gave will contact persons who... have registered for a shot food drive. In an effort to garner more supplies for Image by J.T. Trollman, Robert Kaminski, and Matt Siegel See FLU, page A3 See OFFERS, page A5 the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank — and to encourage greater student involvement — Staff Council members are community. sponsoring this new program in partner- ship with their annual fall project. This University to remove minors from diplomas this spring Tuesday, students can gather to place cans scripts will list all information on aca- According to Nair, she and Director minors for all students under the previ- in a line across the Cut, with the goal of by Brittany McCandless demic achievements, including minors. of Enrollment Services John Papinchak ous catalog. As a result, they grandfa- making the chain reach from the Fence all Assistant News Editor “The diploma is evidence of some- started looking seriously into the matter thered the act for two years, until the the way to Forbes Avenue. one’s getting a degree — BS, MS, etc. It of removing minors about eight years first students coming under the new Now in its 12th year, the food drive has Starting next semester, graduating is not a record of all accomplishments,” ago, and focused on it particularly dur- catalog graduate — the class of 2006.