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Volume 100, Issue 19 Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper since 1906 27 February 2006 Quad to see a double comeback the fraternity quad last Monday. tions. Made up of 30 fi rst-year stu- The DU brothers see things a lit- by Patrick Pettibon Kappa Sigma and Delta Upsilon dents from eight countries, Global tle differently. “We’ve been in that Junior Staffwriter & have fulfi lled the requirements for Studies House brings together house since they built it,” said An- Jaisen Bell return set out by Student Affairs people from different cultures to drew Melichar, DU president and Junior Staffwriter and the University Committee on form a close-knit community. The a junior in music composition. Discipline, respectively. house also has plans for a booth at “It’s traditionally been our house, Despite getting kicked off The return will eliminate Forbes this year’s Spring Carnival. and I think we deserve it.” campus over the past two years, House and the newly renovated “It’s the best dorm on campus,” According to Steve Williams, Kappa Sigma and Delta Upsilon Global Studies house as fi rst-year said Gicheru Mwariri, a fi rst year vice president of DU, each (DU) fraternities are returning to housing options. biology student and Global Stud- brother has performed 50 hours the quad next year with a pleas- ies resident. of community service, completed ant surprise: millions of dollars of Changes on the quad But some students at Global AlcoholEDU training, attended renovations to their houses. Studies House do not think DU a one day alcohol training semi- Jennifer Church, interim dean When DU left, Global Studies deserves to get their house back. nar, and hasn’t got into any more of Student Affairs, decided to al- House occupied the building after “They destroyed it,” Mwariri Justin Brown/Photo Staff low the two fraternities back on it received $1.1 million in renova- said. See GREEK, page A4 Applicants Talking sex with Dr. Ruth on the rise Spike in number of applications leaves University hopeful by Andrew Peters Staffwriter Dorm rooms in the Donner Dungeon, Schatz blocks, and the chance to meet Condom Man are becoming more valuable commodities as competition for admittance to Carnegie Mellon grows steadily. On February 17, the Univer- sity announced that applications are up 20 percent from last school year, with nearly 19,000 applicants competing for 1360 spots in next year’s incoming class. According to a February 1 re- port by the Offi ce of Admission, every school in Carnegie Mellon saw an increase in applicants this year. The Tepper School of Business experienced the larg- est application increase, up 28 percent from last year, followed closely by the Mellon College of Science with a 24 percent in- Jiaqi Tan/Photo Staff crease. Dr. Ruth Westheimer addressed an audience in McConomy Auditorium yesterday morning as part of the 2006 MOSAIC conference on gender issues. Westheimer shared her life experiences. In addition, applications to the Information Systems pro- gram increased by 31.6 percent. Annual MOSAIC conference celebrates ‘Milestones’ See APPLICATION, page A3 This year’s event was designed women’s issues to gender issues gram by sharing the milestones in Research in New York. Upon earn- by Claire Morgenstern to to appeal to a more diverse au- to reach more groups on campus. her own life. Born into an Ortho- ing a masters degree in sociology, Staffwriter dience by offering programs with “People don’t just want the dox Jewish family in Germany, Westheimer worked in public Trustees a gender-related spin on a wider same old second-wave femi- she was sent to a school in Swit- health at Columbia University. “The more we talk, the less we variety of topics — from female nist rhetoric,” Steinberg said. zerland as a child to escape the But it was a job at a New will have problems,” said famed activism to social security, diet- “We want to focus on issues that Holocaust. York Planned Parenthood that approve sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer ing, dating, drama, health care, haven’t been addressed before After she lived on a kibbutz in launched her interest in sex. in the keynote address that kicked and the Great Depression. that affect a larger proportion of Palestine, taught kindergarten in “[I thought] there is something off the 2006 MOSAIC conference “[The conference’s goal was] the campus community.” Jerusalem, trained to be a sniper drastically wrong with these peo- tuition hike yesterday. Though referring to to get people thinking about This year’s theme was “Mile- in what is now the Israeli Defense ple. All they talk about is sex,” she sexual problems, her advice can gender as it applies to our lives,” stones” to commemorate the 10th Force, and earned a degree in recalled. “They don’t talk about be applied to all the topics that said Becca Steinberg, a senior anniversary of MOSAIC and the psychology in Paris, she came to literature, or research — not even by Michael R. Fitzgerald Carnegie Mellon’s annual gender technical writing major and gen- 100th anniversary of Margaret the United States on a scholar- the weather. After 48 hours I Staffwriter issues conference brought to the der issues intern. The conference Morrison Carnegie College. ship for European immigrants forefront. changed its focus last year from Westheimer began the pro- from the New School for Social See MOSAIC, page A3 With tuition offi cially rising next fall and federal fi nancial aid programs facing cutbacks, Carnegie Mellon students may feel an increased tug on their Leadership Profile: Anne DiGiovanni wallets from the higher learning community. hands. “Being a second semester responsibilities has not been easy. According to a Carnegie Mel- by Laura Palotie senior is awesome,” she said. “I “This semester has been hard lon press release, the university Staffwriter have nothing to do.” for me personally because I’m Board of Trustees authorized The concept of nothing to not in the driver’s seat anymore,” a tiered tuition increase on Rho Lambda, a leadership and do is relative, of course. While DiGiovanni said. In Alpha Chi February 17. Returning students honor society for sorority women, DiGiovanni has fi nished her law Omega this transition has been will pay 4.4 percent more will feature individuals in a new school applications and has con- particularly challenging. “Since for tuition next fall — a total of Women’s Leadership Series based cluded her term as president of Al- I’m not president, I’m not in the $33,050. Incoming fi rst-years on their contributions to cam- pha Chi Omega’s (previously Zeta loop anymore.” will pay a tuition eight percent pus life and their achievements Psi Sigma), she continues to hold Last semester Zeta Psi Sigma higher than the current, or a to- as leaders and role models in the position of Greek Sing chair, entered the process of transform- tal of $34,180. the Carnegie Mellon and greater take a full load of classes, serve ing itself from a local sorority to a Room and board are up $267 Pittsburgh communities. Anne in the Greek Task Force, work as national organization, and in the (a 4.9 percent increase) and DiGiovanni is the organization’s a peer tutor with Academic De- past month decided on Alpha Chi $106 (a 2.8 percent increase), fi rst honoree for the series. velopment, and intern with the Omega. As the president of her so- respectively. During her eighth semester at Women and Girls Foundation of rority and Panhellenic president “There is a sticker-shock issue,” Carnegie Mellon, Anne DiGiovanni Southwest Pennsylvania. the previous year, DiGiovanni said University President Jared is battling with an unfamiliar feel- Though enjoying this break was one of the ringleaders in the L. Cohon. “The major concern Justin Brown/Assistant Photo Editor ing; as a second semester senior, from stress, she also admits that decision to become national. She she suddenly has free time on her handing over many of her previous See TUITION, page A3 Anne DiGiovanni is the fi rst honoree of the Women’s Leadership Series. See PROFILE, page A4 www.thetartan.org A2 THE TARTAN • FEBRUARY 27, 2006 Weather Executive Privilege TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Hi 39 Hi 48 Hi 54 Hi 38 Hi 43 Lo 33 Lo 47 Lo 34 Lo 28 Lo 35 Page Bradford Yankiver Over the weekend, 127 student Crime organizations submitted budget re- 2 quests totaling $1.3 million. With only Incident around $950,000 to distribute, the & Joint Funding Committee (JFC) will Public Drunkenness attempted to defraud him of soon begin the work of trimming about 18 February 2006 money through an eBay pur- 26 percent from the organizations’ at 00:56 chase. The case was turned requests. over to the FBI’s Pittsburgh What JFC does is clear: It decides Campus Police responded fi eld offi ce for further investi- who gets what. How they decide, on the to a student needing medical gation. The incident occurred other hand, is not so clear. treatment due to intoxication off campus. The best way to learn about JFC’s outside the University Center. decision-making is to consider the in- When police responded to the Burglary — Forcible Entry formation its members don’t take into scene, one of the student’s 22 February 2006 account as they allocate the funds. friends began to interfere with at 15:10 Most surprisingly, JFC does not take police assistance. Police issued into account how much money goes the friend a citation for public A complainant called Cam- toward different types of activities.