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e-NABLE printing provides Women’s basketball team Deadpool is insane in the versatile prosthetics • A6 defeats Emory • A14 best way possible • B5 SCITECH SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan The Tartan February 22, 2016 Volume 110, Issue 18 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Initiative Naimark delves into the roles played by Murphy of Kurt the four horsemen in ethnic cleansing calls for Giessler health lives on reform DANA KIM DEBORAH CHU Junior Staffwriter Assistant News Editor The Kurt Giessler Foun- This past week at Heinz dation for Youth Achieve- College, U.S. Representa- ment is an organization that tive Tim Murphy of the supports young scholars be- 18th congressional dis- tween the ages of 12 and 20 trict of Pennsylvania spoke and allows them to pursue about his recent bill, the their educational interests Helping Families in Mental through the provision of Health Crisis Act of 2015. grants. The grants are used Describing the alarming towards funding self-direct- state of mental health is- ed educational projects that sues in America today, can take on a myriad of dif- Murphy demonstrated that ferent educational foci that our current laws are inade- include, but are not limited quate in terms of providing to, undertakings of an in- a solution. ventive, entrepreneurial, Currently, Murphy is or charitable nature. The the only practicing mental catch: none of the projects health professional in elect- can be school related and ed government and one of must be strictly indepen- only a handful in govern- dent of any influence from ment with a background in the classroom. healthcare. He pointed out Kurt Giessler, a Carnegie Theodore Teichman /Staff Photographer that 60 million Americans Mellon alumnus, is remem- Norman Naimark was the latest speaker for the war and humanities series. He focused not only on war but, also on the Four Horsemen in his lecture. a year are diagnosed with bered as an outstanding some type of mental illness, and influential individual JAMES WHEATON Naimark reminded the history, but part and parcel.” the Khmer Rouge, and the ranging from very mild and who impacted those around Junior Staffwriter audience of a striking image, He reminded the audience of atrocities committed by Mao transient cases to severe him through his zest for life one that many have heard of Joshua and the battle of Jeri- Zedong in his Great Leap For- disorders like schizophre- and optimism. Giessler was Last Thursday, Carnegie before: the four horsemen of cho, where Joshua prevented ward. As with almost any mass nia, bipolar disorder, and born in 1980 in Plymouth, Mellon University hosted Nor- the apocalypse. Harbingers the city of Jericho from being killing, applying the title of major depression. Of the Massachusetts. Early on in man Naimark, the Robert and of doom and biblical repre- built again at the cost of the genocide has been met with approximately 10 million his life, he faced multiple Florence McDonnell Professor sentations of the worst things children of the people from contention among most of people with severe mental medical complications that of Eastern European Studies at to happen to the human race, Jericho, effectively an an- these examples. Naimark is illness, around four mil- caused him to receive re- Stanford University, to discuss the four horsemen (War, Con- cient genocide. While we may of the opinion that although lion do not get treatment, constructive heart surgery his opinions on the definitions quest, Famine, and Death) think of genocide being solely some of these have not been or even recognize that they as well as two double lung of war and genocide. Titled all take part in the cause of linked to the twentieth cen- recognized, they are genocides have mental illness. transplants in 2001 and “Horses of the Apocalypse,” genocide. Naimark’s main ar- tury, people have continuously due to their attempt at exter- Emphasizing that se- 2007. Despite the physical his lecture addressed various gument was that where War attempted to annihilate their mination of a race of people. vere mental illness is a drawbacks he experienced brutal acts of murder and ex- goes, genocide follows near af- enemies completely since the In the case of the Ukrainian brain disorder and “not an due to his medical issues, plained why he believed they ter. The two are closely linked, beginning of time — and, ac- genocide, many ignore it be- attitude,” Murphy spoke Giessler applied himself in did or did not qualify as geno- so closely that it is very rare to cording to Naimark, will prob- cause it wasn’t a direct killing. about misguided views on all other ways possible and cide. find an example of genocide ably continue to do so in the It is harder to pinpoint starva- the causes of mental illness developed a fervent pas- Norman Naimark is consid- that does not take place dur- future. tion as an active form of killing that were thought to be sion towards his education. ered one of the leading experts ing a time of war. These four Naimark next discussed a people, yet it causes death just true not too long ago, such Giessler “knew his days of today when it comes to the horsemen are the embodi- type of genocide that is often as surely as the gas chambers as blaming schizophrenia were numbered and, rather topic of genocide and ethnic ment of the greatest fears of overlooked in his discussion of of Auschwitz. on the “schizophrenogenic than cower from his fate, he cleansing. He was invited to mankind and, as Naimark mass murders based on race, a Norman Naimark next mother” or autism on “re- extended himself as much Carnegie Mellon as part of the remarked, even today “the type of violence that Naimark showed why genocide is often frigerator parents.” Despite as possible,” remarked his series of lectures on war and four horsemen haunt modern has christened “communist found within wars. Perhaps the fact that we’ve now re- good friend, Phi Kappa The- the humanities, an effort by man.” genocide.” Examples of com- the most influential part of alized how baseless these ta fraternity brother and or- Carnegie Mellon to promote Although the term geno- munist genocide include the war is that “war habituates claims are through the ganizer of the Kurt Giessler discussion on the atrocities of cide has only been defined starvation of the Ukrainians people to killing.” When acts discovery of genetic mark- Memorial, Igino Cafiero war and their effects on the fairly recently, Naimark said by the Soviet regime under of violence are a part of ones ers, Murphy said that “a lot world today. that “genocide is not a side Josef Stalin, the Cambodian of what we’ve been doing See GIESSLER, A3 To begin his lecture, phenomenon of human genocide led by Pol Pot and See WAR, A3 in the mental health field hasn’t really changed much for the last century or so.” To illustrate his point, Murphy referred to the Memorang educational startup proves helpful 19th century American activist Dorothea Dix. Dix sympathized with the bru- as study aid for students in higher education tal treatment and imprison- ment of numerous mentally KRISHNA RAO content with a subscription pull through, and to do what ill people, and subsequent- Staffwriter plan. it takes.” In his case, Cohen ly created America’s first “Students in higher educa- had to learn to program from psychiatric hospitals. Ini- Ask a doctor when he tion need the most help,” said scratch. “Learning new skills” tially serving as places of or she reached the break- Yermie Cohen, the CEO of the is all part of the process, he rest where the mentally ill ing point in life, and chances San Francisco-based startup. said. could get better, psychi- are the response you’ll get is Cohen co-founded the com- To say that his efforts have atric hospitals “became “medical school.” Memorizing pany in 2013, and holds bach- been successful would be an places where we dumped large quantities of information elor’s degrees in biology and understatement. Memorang people [when] we didn’t can sometimes be an insur- mechanical engineering from has scaled massively in the want to see them,” Murphy mountable hurdle for students MIT. While in medical school last few years, with paying said. “We’d send people to in a number of fields. Often at UCLA, Yermie struggled subscribers in sixty countries the ‘funny farm,’ the ‘loony times, online resources focus with the switch from problem- and users having collectively bin,’ the ‘cuckoo’s nest.’” on teaching elementary topics solving in college to memo- answered 30 million ques- As World War II ensued and cannot accommodate the rization. He faced the same tions. Already, about one in and doctors and nurses learning strategies required challenge that confronts many three medical students use were called away to the for higher education. Luck- students at institutions of Memorang to study for the fight, psychiatric hospitals ily, some bright minds in the higher learning: study tools MCATs, the U.S. Medical Li- employed many people online-education sphere are designed to work for high censing Exam (USMLE), and who had minimal training, working to create innovative school tests were simply inef- board exams. while becoming more and solutions to this problem. fective. While many of the students more packed. “Institutions Carnegie Mellon alumna Sensing the need for a ser- are in medical studies, the that were there perhaps to Tria Chang (Professional Writ- vice to fulfill this niche, he ap- website also caters to other house originally a few hun- ing & Communication Design, proached fellow MIT graduate types of standardized tests, dred, became the homes of 2007) currently works as the George Courtsunis to create such as the GRE, and is work- a few thousand,” Murphy Director of Content at Memo- Memorang.

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