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thetartan.org @thetartan April 29, 2013 Volume 107, Issue 26 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 PHI to shut down; students grieve University expands toward Craig Street

Chloe Thompson choice.” Personnel Manager A possible roadblock in the project’s development Attendees of an open is the zoning designation of Town Hall discussed the fate Carnegie Mellon’s various of Craig Street on Wednes- properties. The campus falls day. under an Educational/Medi- Led by Vice President cal/Institutional (EMI) zone, for Campus Affairs Michael which means that the uni- Murphy, the Town Hall in- versity is at much greater lib- formed the audience and erty to do what they like with the Simonds Commission the property. Much of the — which is the group of property in the Craig Street trustees, faculty, and senior area is part of a residential or administrators responsible business zone, which means for new projects and reno- that the university has to vations to Carnegie Mellon work with more restrictions. properties — about the de- Despite these possible velopment plan for Craig constraints, Murphy was ad- Street. The Town Hall also amant that the university has served as a forum for com- no plans to fundamentally munity members to discuss alter Craig Street. “We’re not their own opinions on the talking about changing func- project. tionality, we’re not talking Carnegie Mellon owns about throwing anyone out and leases several proper- of their place,” he said. ties in the Craig Street area, Senior biomedical engi- including the recently ac- neering and materials sci- quired diocesan property ence and engineering double near Central Catholic High major Sohini Bianka Roy School on Fifth Avenue. attended the meeting as a The Institutional Master representative of the under- Plan for Carnegie Mellon graduate Student Senate, outlines the future devel- and discussed the stake of opment of the campus and students in this matter. properties held by the uni- “The goal was essentially Haley Bryant/Staff Photographer versity in the surrounding to have some kind of Tartan The Panther Hollow Inn (“PHI”) announced last week that is was closing, igniting a strong reaction from the Carnegie Mellon student community. Despite initial rumors, it was confirmed that the university did not buy PHI. The future of the Panther Hollow Inn building is still unknown. area. Murphy stressed the pride,” she said. “When you university’s desire to strike walk down to the University a balance between colle- of Pittsburgh’s campus, you Amy Tsien Will Weiner confirmed this students alive.” Within three Master’s student in bio- giate interests and those of see that ‘Go Panthers,’ you Junior Staffwriter statement. days, the petition reached 750 medical engineering Aditi the community: “We have see that pride, and we felt “I got in touch with Vice signatures. Gogineni responded that she to have the right mission, that Craig Street is kind of Panther Hollow Inn — President of Campus Affairs Weiner added, “It’s been an had a strong attachment to the right balance, [so Craig like our own little corridor known among students as Michael Murphy and he con- interesting reaction. I’ve never PHI, saying that “it would nev- Street is] CMU-centric and “PHI” — formally announced firmed with me that CMU did really seen anything except er be the same.” a modern destination of See CRAIG, A3 that it is closing by the end of not buy the bar,” Weiner said. for when the Fence got cut Senior materials science May after 16 years of opera- “Beyond that, I’m really not up a few years ago, where the and biomedical engineer- tion. sure.” whole campus rallied around ing double major Courtney This news met with a great Within hours of the news a cause.” Joe shared this view as well, deal of attention within the recalling her fond memories university community and at PHI and saying that a new from local residents. “[The PHI bar] is a community business “cannot replace what The news of PHI’s closing had happened there.” drew a substantial response object... One of the few unique Staff at PHI stated that from the campus commu- CMU hangout spots.” owner Eugene DePasquale nity, with many students con- was very upset by the closing cerned that this closing was of his bar, and was unavailable an effect of Carnegie Mellon’s —Will Weiner to give any comments regard- desire to develop the area sur- Student Body President ing this announcement. rounding Craig Street. Despite To commemorate the bar, initial speculation that the students began selling PHI T- closing may have been part of of PHI’s closing being shared When asked about their shirts on the Cut the Friday the university’s Master Plan, online, a change.org petition memories of PHI bar, junior after this announcement. Vice President of Campus Af- for keeping PHI open was re- computer science major Dave “It’s a community object,” fairs Michael Murphy released leased, reading, “This is not Cummings and senior chemi- Weiner added, “one of the few a statement stating that it was about the need for alcohol, this cal and biomedical engineer- unique CMU hangout spots.” not the university who had is not about delicious greasy ing double major Emerson Any future plans for the Haley Bryant/Staff Photographer purchased the bar. food, this is about keeping Hum both spoke favorably of Panther Hollow Inn building The future relationship of Craig Street and Carnegie Mellon opened Student body president the love and tradition of CMU its proximity to campus. are still unknown. for discussion at last week’s town hall. The changing faces of Carnegie Mellon: A presidential retrospective Greg hanneman of backgrounds. on constructing the school’s Senior Staffwriter Arthur A. Hamerschlag, physical presence and getting the first president of the Carn- periodic infusions of money When it came time to give egie Technical Schools, was from its founder. a title to his final speech be- appointed with input from “Since [campus architect fore the student body, retiring Andrew Carnegie himself. In Henry] Hornbostel main- Carnegie Tech president John November 1903 — two years tained his offices in New York, C. Warner had a few ideas. before classes began — a com- day-to-day supervision of the “Old presidents never die, mittee from the school visited building projects in Pittsburgh they just lose their faculties,” Carnegie’s home in New York often fell to Hamerschlag, he joked to his audience in De- City and mentioned Hamer- who may have devoted half cember 1964. schlag, already a prominent his time to campus construc- As Jared Cohon, Carnegie organizer in multiple New tion,” professor emeritus of Mellon’s eighth president, York-area trade schools. Ham- history Edwin Fenton wrote in prepares to step down from erschlag’s background as a his 2000 book Carnegie Mellon the position, The Tartan takes trade-school supporter and 1900–2000: A Centennial His- a look back at the history consulting engineer pleased tory. of Carnegie Mellon’s other Carnegie so much, the com- School historian Arthur presidents and the events that mittee reported, “that he Wilson Tarbell, in his own marked their terms. promptly suggested that we 1937 history of the institu- The information for this ar- secure him at once [and] that tion’s early years, said that the ticle was obtained from a com- he be paid a good salary.” first president was not inter- bination of The Tartan’s own Hamerschlag’s appointment ested in academic ceremonies archives, minutes and notes was confirmed the following so much as solving practical from the university’s board of week at a suggested salary of problems as they arose. “He trustees, five published books $8,000 a year, plus a house on was not college trained; in- on Carnegie Mellon history, the school grounds. deed his formal educational and interviews with people in- The Carnegie Technical preparation had been meagre volved in the university’s his- Greg Hanneman/Senior Artist Schools were originally found- beyond belief,” Tarbell wrote. tory and presidential searches. ed to give two- and three-year “In his fundamental make-up The resulting 110-year backgrounds, and approaches over the school’s history. Contrasting approaches vocational educations to Pitts- he was more of an engineer historical picture reflects the inherent in the modern multi- One major undertaking, burgh’s working class. With than an educator.” Carnegie Mellon of today. faceted university. Each leader every 14 years on average, From the start, the execu- his practical background and a As the Carnegie Technical The institution’s presidents faced issues unique to his own was replacing the president tive heads of Carnegie Mellon developing close relationship Schools evolved into the Carn- themselves have embodied time in office, although some himself due to resignation or and its predecessor institu- to Andrew Carnegie, Ham- the contrasting disciplines, debates surfaced repeatedly retirement. tions have come from a variety erschlag focused his tenure See PRESIDENTS, A4 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » April 29, 2013 feature photo news in brief Vera Bradley sale raises money for shelter Researchers develop touch-based technology Recently, Carnegie Mellon require prior calibration; researchers demonstrated WorldKit automatically ad- technology that allows users justs its sensing and image to turn almost any surface projection to the orientation into a touchscreen. of the chosen surface. The system, christened Users can summon many WorldKit, was created by different kinds of interfaces researchers at the Human- from a menu. Ultimately, the Computer Interaction Insti- developers of WorldKit want tute. WorldKit allows some- users to be able to custom de- one to rub most surfaces to sign interfaces with gestures. “paint” a remote control for Although WorldKit cur- his or her television and cre- rently focuses on interacting ate other ad hoc interfaces. with physical surfaces, its Doctoral student in hu- creators hope to make it pos- man computer interaction sible for users to interact with (HCI) Robert Xiao empha- the system in free space. sized that WorldKit does not “We’re only just getting to need the complex project the point where we’re consid- setup of previous, similar ering the larger questions,” technology. Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. stu- “Depth sensors are get- dent in HCI, said in a univer- ting better and projectors just sity press release. keep getting smaller,” Xiao “People have talked about said in a university press re- creating smart environments lease. “We envision an inter- where sensors, displays and active ‘light bulb’ — a min- computers are interwoven,” iaturized device that could Harrison added, noting that be screwed into an ordinary a multitude of applications light fixture and pointed or in home, office, hospitals, moved to wherever an inter- nursing homes, and schools face is needed.” for WorldKit have yet to be The system does not explored.

Robotic paint-stripping system wins award

The Advanced Robotic equipped with a high-power Laser Coating Removal Sys- laser coating remover devel- tem (ARLCRS), developed oped by CTC. by Carnegie Mellon Univer- The robots are part of sity’s National Robotics Engi- a two-year project, during neering Center (NREC) and which they will work to re- Concurrent Technologies move paint from aircrafts at Corporation (CTC) of John- Hill Air Force Base in Utah. stown, Penn., was named a The ARLCRS system elim- gold winner in the materials inates the need for abrasives science category of the 2013 or chemical paint removers, Edison Awards, announced in turn reducing hazardous on April 25 in a ceremony in wastes and emissions. The Chicago. robots ensure accuracy and The ARLCRS uses high- protect human workers from powered lasers mounted on danger. mobile robotic platforms The project is headed by to remove paint and other Tony Stentz — NREC direc- coatings from aircraft. The tor and principal investiga- NREC is developing the sys- tor — and project manager tem for use by the U.S. Air Stuart Lawrence. Force. Six autonomous mo- bile robots are being built by Compiled by NREC, each of which will be Brian Trimboli

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Jonathan Carreon/Contributing Editor Tuesday Wednesday Thursday The sorority Alpha Chi Omega hosted its annual Vera Bradley sale in the University Center, benefitting the Pittsburgh Women’s Shelter of Greater High / Low High / Low High / Low Pittsburgh. The sale is co-sponsored by Cheeks Boutique in Shadyside, and 15 percent of every purchase was donated to the shelter. 71 / 58 71 / 59 67 / 54 Campus Crime & Incident Reports Underage Drinking responded and aided the there were close to 50 under- as the police approached. April 19, 2013 female, who regained con- age persons drinking alco- The officers determined that sciousness. Pittsburgh medics holic beverages inside. The there were close to 50 under- At 3:53 p.m., University were summoned to handle residents of the house, three age persons drinking alco- Police were summoned to transportation to UPMC Pres- Carnegie Mellon students, holic beverages inside. The Donner Hall in reference to a byterian hospital. A citation were charged with providing residents of the house, three Friday Saturday Sunday loud party. Further investiga- for underage drinking was is- alcohol to minors. The male Carnegie Mellon students, High / Low High / Low High / Low tion revealed that seven un- sued by mail. involved in the sexual activity were charged with providing 62 / 49 62 / 49 64 / 54 derage persons had gathered was charged with disorderly alcohol to minors. The male Source: www.weather.com in a room and possessed alco- conduct. involved in the sexual activity holic beverages. All of the al- Underage Drinking/ was charged with disorderly coholic beverages were seized Disorderly Conduct conduct. Corrections & Clarifications and disposed of, and each of April 21, 2013 Underage Drinking/ the seven students were is- Disorderly Conduct At 1:52 a.m., University sued a citation for underage April 21, 2013 Theft If you would like to submit a correction or clarification, drinking. Police were dispatched to as- April 21, 2013 please email The Tartan at [email protected] or sist Pittsburgh Police officers At 1:52 a.m., University Po- [email protected] with your inquiry, as well as the A female student reported at the intersection of Wilkins lice were dispatched to assist date of the issue and the name of the article. We will that someone stole her wallet Underage Drinking Avenue and Wightman Street. Pittsburgh city police officers print the correction or clarification in the next print A Pittsburgh Police officer at the intersection of Wilkins while she attended a party at April 20, 2013 issue and publish it online. observed a couple engaged Avenue and Wightman Street. Sigma Chi fraternity between At 3:05 a.m., a Univer- in sexual activity on the front A Pittsburgh police officer midnight and 3:45 a.m. This sity Police officer on patrol porch of a house where a large observed a couple engaged case is under investigation. observed a female Chatham party was taking place. The in sexual activity on the front University student passed female fled into the house porch of a house where a large out at the first floor entrance as the police approached. party was taking place. The to Wean Hall. CMU EMS The officers determined that female fled into the house student senate meeting minutes Special Allocation: Academic Affairs Campus Life Finance Outreach Enactus Enactus petitioned the The creation of the campus culture. The gallery crawl hosted by After re-evaluating fi- The “Senate With You” Senate for $3,000 to fund “Thrive” wellness course is Additionally, Senate did Senate was not a massive suc- nancial allocations, it was outreach event was de- Project eLuma, a char- still under way, but is cur- not receive a large number cess, due to conflicts with both found that some people and clared a success, with Sen- ity concert to be held dur- rently awaiting approval of responses to the current the 1000plus service event organizations had spent less ate members putting up ing Carnival. This event from Carnegie Mellon’s ad- draft of the “Thrive” sylla- and booth building; however, money than they were al- balloons on the CFA Lawn was specified in the Joint ministration and undergo- bus, but did receive a few of those who did attend said located by the Senate. This despite a downpour of rain. Funding Committee (JFC) ing standard checks and pro- very good quality. they enjoyed the experience. leftover money was added Additionally, the public- budget, but due to some cedures. Senate members were in- Additionally, Senate planned back into the Senate’s bal- ity event “Bring a Friend to confusion the money was Senate has received mon- vited to give additional feed- to give out free coffee and do- ance sheet. Student Senate Senate Day” was also de- never received. Because the ey from the university to help back on the course syllabus nuts during Move-On for Car- is set to end the academic clared successful. Enactus representative was the creation of “Thrive,” and if they wished. nival. year in a financially stable unable to answer some im- has also submitted an appli- position. portant questions, the Sen- cation for a grant that funds ate voted to allocate $0. initiatives striving to impact Compiled by Brent Heard April 29, 2013 « The Tartan thetartan.org/news » A3 Plans for university New SMART IDs to be issued this fall Brian trimboli expansion revealed Assistant News Editor

Students were recently asked to vote on a new design for the Carnegie Mellon stu- dent ID card. Next year, every Carnegie Mellon student, faculty mem- ber, and staff member will re- ceive a new SMART ID card. Those who currently have a sponsored or affiliated ID will not receive a new SMART card, as the technology on the new cards is being used for public transportation ac- cess. Currently, such access is marked by a bus icon on the ID card. The transition to SMART cards comes as a result of a new agreement between the Haley Bryant/Junior Photographer university and Port Authority Vice President for Campus Affairs Michael Murphy presented plans for of Allegheny County (PAT). Carnegie Mellon to expand into the Craig Street and Oakland areas. According to the HUB’s web- site, “SMART cards contain CRAIG, from A1 of the Simonds Commis- a computer chip allowing a sion Don Carter said that the cardholder to simply “tap” street.” Murphy then opened Commission had investigated his or her card on the PAT the floor to the audience, ask- this possibility, but the muse- bus (or incline or T) reader in ing “What is your vision for ums on Craig Street needed order to gain transportation Craig Street?” the space to let their patrons access.” Annette Ko/Art Editor The audience had a wide exit on the weekends. The change in Carnegie Students responded to the new CMU ID card designs with mixed reactions. variety of suggestions, such The audience consisted of Mellon’s agreement with Port as having retailers selling mostly faculty, but all were Authority also resulted in an 600,000 rides per month, by Jordan Wu, an undeclared atic,” she said. Carnegie Mellon merchan- clearly passionate about the increase in the transporta- about 11 percent of PAT’s first-year CFA student. The petition has over a dise, having some Carnival project. tion fee that students pay — total riders, according to the In the petition, Wu wrote hundred signatures and com- events there, or having a vi- Assistant Vice President from $110 to $120, according Post-Gazette. that “after viewing the sub- ments such as “we can do bet- sual connection to the school, for Diversity and Equal Op- to the HUB’s website. Students received emails missions, I believe that the ter than this.” such as painted thistles on portunity Services Everett Other than the change in asking for submissions for designs are not the best that Dickinson also said that sidewalks. Tademy said, “I’m invested in transportation access, the designs for the new ID cards. CMU has to offer us. It is im- she supports the adoption of Murphy said that the cur- the project because Carnegie SMART cards will be used in There has been some contro- plausible to me that CMU, a “really basic design. I don’t rent plan for representation Mellon is invested in it.” the same ways that current versy among students about with our amazing arts and usually look at my ID any- of the university was to keep Director of Facilities Man- ID cards are used, including the three designs being of- design schools, could pro- way.” symbols “subtle yet iconic.” agement Services and profes- access to a student’s Plaid fered as voting options. duce designs such as these. When students return for Another popular idea was sor of civil and environmen- Ca$h, print quota, and on- “[The new designs] are Frankly, I would be embar- the fall semester, they will asking businesses to stay tal engineering Don Coffelt campus residence. not great. There is one that’s rassed showing any of these be able to pick up their new open an hour or two later was invested in the project as The University of Pitts- okay, but other than that the designs to anyone as a repre- SMART cards Sept. 23–27 some nights. a faculty member and a resi- burgh already employs designs could’ve been better,” sentation of our school.” from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at As one attendee pointed dent of the Craig Street area. SMART-card technology, and said Nathan Oh, a first-year Samantha Dickinson, a ju- Andy’s Alcove on the lower out, “[Craig Street is] a place He expressed enthusiasm according to the Pittsburgh information systems major. nior creative writing and lin- level of the University Center. where students could go, but about the project, saying, Post-Gazette, it recently ex- Camilo Estrada, a first- guistics double major, spoke In order to receive a new then the hours would have to “I think the only complicat- tended its agreement with year vocal performance ma- about the effect that the ap- ID card, students must return match their weeks.” ing factor is it’s going to take PAT for another five years. jor, agreed. “I feel like we pearance of the ID card could their old card, or face the The idea of closing down time. Because it’s complex, Carnegie Mellon, Cha- could come up with some- have on some students. standard $25 replacement traffic on Craig Street to cre- and you don’t want to get it tham University, and the thing better.” “I guess people see it as a fee. ate a place for students to wrong.... It would be harder University of Pittsburgh — The controversy over the reflection of themselves, so New undergraduate congregate was also suggest- to fix if we got it wrong than it the three local universities submitted designs offered carrying around something students will receive their ed. Director of the Remaking is to go slowly and make sure that pay the PAT for unlim- even led to an online peti- that they don’t want to repre- SMART cards during Orien- Cities Institute and member we get it right.” ited rides — generate about tion on change.org, written sent them could be problem- tation. A4 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » April 29, 2013 Meeting addresses Scott Hall Past Carnegie Mellon presidents construction, UC renovations made lasting impact on campus PRESIDENTS, from A1 acter-building efforts,” Fen- their physical and mental ton wrote. Projects ranged health, as well as to their egie Institute of Technology in scope from the paving of education. “Your happiness — and control of the institute muddy campus walkways and success will be increased passed to a New York-based to advancing the prowess of if you get something more corporation after Andrew Carnegie Tech’s drama pro- from your college life than Carnegie’s death — Hamer- gram and research capabili- that which is secured in the schlag felt increasingly left ties. Baker himself gave lec- class room and laboratory,” out, according to biographers. tures in French and German he wrote in the Sept. 20, He resigned his presidency at on European speaking tours. 1922, issue of The Tartan. “I the end of June 1922. Within these two contrast- wish it were possible for every Thomas S. Baker, Ham- ing frameworks — down-to- student to take part in some erschlag’s successor as presi- earth practicality and schol- branch of athletics.... I hope dent, was a music critic, schol- arly refinement, science and also that every student will ar, and teacher of German art — the next six presidents have a share in some phase of literature with a Ph.D. from of Carnegie Tech and, later, undergraduate social life.” Johns Hopkins University. Carnegie Mellon University, President Robert Doherty’s He had joined Carnegie Tech set the foundation for the annual report for 1937 put three years earlier as the in- school as it is today. the situation more bluntly: stitute’s secretary, equivalent “There must be less stress; a to vice president. Baker began Issues shared and unique reduction must be made in his term officially as “acting the intensity of scheduled president” from July 1922 un- Some campus issues have work.” til being named president in troubled a number of the uni- As he was retiring as Carn- full the following February. versity’s administrations over egie Tech’s fourth president From the beginning, Bak- the years, no matter the back- at the end of 1964, Warner er’s education was welcomed ground of their presidents. alluded to both the nature by the campus community. One such topic that rose to and the amount of the univer- “The announcement that Dr. prominence this school year sity’s coursework as ongoing Baker has been appointed was criticism of Carnegie Mel- challenges. “We have, I be- president is received with lon’s “stress culture” and accu- lieve, taken the easy way out much satisfaction by alumni sations of insufficient mental of merely increasing our de- Kate Groschner/Photo Editor Ralph Horgan, the university’s associate vice provost of Campus Design and Facility Development, describes and students,” wrote The Tar- health resources being avail- mands upon students without construction projects for Scott Hall and an addition to the University Center last Tuesday. tan’s editors in the Feb. 14, able to those who seek them. changing significantly what 1923 issue. “For he is a man It led to a town-hall meeting we teach or how we teach it,” Lauren Williams not been designated but will “We’re really excited about of learning and also a good hosted by representatives of he said during a lecture. “The Staffwriter possibly hold the ICES Dis- this,” Bassett said. “It will ab- scholar who has devoted his Student Affairs, the provost’s result has been to increase the ruptive Health Technologies solutely transform our pro- life to the advancement of office, and student govern- drudgery of learning without A Town Hall presentation Institute, which will research grams. I’m equally excited adding appreciably to the ex- open to all members of the methods to lower the cost of about the black box theater… citement of learning.” Carnegie Mellon community health care. This is going to create an ap- “There must be less stress; a Other issues facing Carn- was held last Tuesday to dis- Furthermore, Scott Hall propriate, dedicated theater reduction must be made in the egie Mellon’s administrators cuss two major Campus Proj- will contain a café similar space for rehearsals and per- were more tied to a particular ects: the construction of the to Tazza D’Oro in the Gates formances for all our student intensity of scheduled work.” time or place. Sherman and Joyce Bowie Hillman Complex, as well as groups.” H. Guyford Stever, in the Scott Hall and the upcoming conference rooms and study Project manager Andrew —Robert Doherty president’s office 1965–1972, additions to the University areas. Reilly then discussed the presided over a particularly Center. Visuals were then shown timeline of the project, which Carnegie Tech president, 1937 tough period as both Carn- Ralph Horgan, associ- depicting the layout of Scott will be in the design phase egie Tech and American so- ate vice provost of Campus Hall. Unique features of the from May 2013 to February teaching; besides he has a ment. However, 2013 is not ciety changed rapidly in the Design and Facility Develop- building include the green 2014 and under construc- great personality which has the only time that the student late ’60s. Stever’s administra- ment, began the meeting with roof above the clean room, tion from March 2014 to July won him many friends in this body and administrators have tion oversaw Carnegie Tech’s an overview of the two proj- the anchoring of the structure 2015. country and abroad.” discussed problems with the complicated merger with the ects. Dean of the College of on “table legs,” and the use of Reilly said, “We’re going to Baker’s tenure at Carn- community’s well-being. Mellon Institute in 1967, fol- Engineering Jim Garrett then dichroic glass, which changes impact campus.” This project egie Tech marked a halt in From his first greeting to lowed by an era of student discussed the history of the colors when hit by sunlight. will affect areas such as the construction and a shift to students, Baker was encour- Scott Hall building. Additionally, Scott Hall drop-off next to the University “spiritual, cultural, and char- aging students to attend to See PRESIDENTS, A5 The Scott Hall project will have indoor connections Center, the parking garage en- began seven years ago as a to Baker and Porter Halls, trance, and the pool. Another vision of a nanotechnology Hamerschlag Hall, and Wean goal of the University Cen- laboratory. This vision took Hall, and will have a bridge to ter project is to calm Forbes its first step toward reality Roberts Engineering Hall. Avenue. Possibilities include when Carnegie Mellon alum- Attendees of the Town narrowing Forbes Avenue to nus John Bertucci (E ’63, TSB Hall asked questions rang- a two-lane road with turn ’65) provided funding for a ing from building design is- lanes, improving pedestrian feasibility study. Gary Fedder, sues to parking concerns. walkways and bike paths, Carnegie Mellon professor Live construction and traffic and adding additional traffic and director of the Institute updates, as well as a webcam, lights. for Complex Engineered Sys- can be found on the Scott Hall During the question and tems (ICES), then put togeth- website. answer session, some mem- er a proposal for the building, Following the Scott Hall bers of the university com- which at the time did not presentation, Vice Presi- munity offered suggestions receive funding. The univer- dent for Campus Affairs or raised concerns. Mary-Lou sity eventually approached Michael Murphy described Arscott, architect and studio Sherman Scott about possible the upcoming additions and professor at Carnegie Mellon, funding for an energy insti- renovations to the University proposed that the renovations tute, and according to Gar- Center. bring natural light to the base- rett, “Suddenly we had the “Most of you are aware ment floor of the University different pieces, that when that athletics have been a big Center. “I have a point about put together, would allow this issue on campus. This project the basement, which is sorely building to move forward.” couples the commitment to missing daylight…. This is our In addition to the Scott athletics with a similarly im- social life — the shops, the donation, funding has been portant issue for us, which is bank, the post office — these received from sources such a black box theater,” Murphy are the things that everybody as the Eden Hall Foundation and Richard King Mellon Foundation. “One major piece of this is A building design was cre- ated that would incorporate creating a much more positive biomedical engineering, nan- otechnology, and the Scott front to Forbes Avenue. ” Energy Institute. Following Garrett, Fedder spoke regard- —Michael Murphy ing the design and contents of the building. Vice President for Campus Affairs Scott Hall will include a clean room, or nanofabrica- said. has to come across. People are tion facility, that will house “Additionally, there’s this working down there … and equipment used to make elec- notion that we’ve turned our yet they never see the day- tronics and sensors. This room back on Forbes Avenue, be- light. It seems like a key to the will be at the same level as the cause of the loading dock community,” she said. current fourth floor of Wean there…. One major piece of Additionally, fellow ar- Hall. The biomedical engi- this is creating a much more chitect and Carnegie Mellon neering department labs will positive front to Forbes Av- studio professor Hal Hayes be housed on the same level enue.” praised the project, saying, as the clean room; biomedi- This University Center “I think it’s a great program. cal engineering offices will be project is the second step of a All the things that are going located one floor above. Pres- three-phase endeavor to im- in here can really contribute ently, the biomedical engi- prove Carnegie Mellon’s ath- so positively to student re- neering facilities are separate letic facilities; the first phase cruitment and retention, and from the main campus and was the addition of turf to the faculty recruitment and reten- located on the Monongahela soccer field, and the third will tion.” Hayes was concerned, River. be the redevelopment of the however, about the lack of “Having them on campus Skibo Gymnasium. Although adequate dining options in and in proximity to both Wean the design is not yet complete, the University Center. “[One] Hall and Roberts Hall is going an architect for the project has thing I think is missing from to make a huge difference in been selected. Director of Ath- this is that we have no decent research and interactions,” letics Susan Bassett described restaurants where you can Fedder said. the preliminary additions. take parents, or anybody who The Scott Energy Institute Approximately 20,000 wants to go to one of these will be located on the same square feet of the 48,000 performances. That would be level as the Mall, or fifth floor -square-foot addition will be a tremendous asset to cam- of Wean Hall, and will house dedicated to fitness, includ- pus,” said. engineering for power sys- ing two exercise studios, car- According to Reilly, such tems, as well as battery and diovascular, free-weight, and topics have been in discussion solar work. The space in the Cybex equipment, stretching and will be considered during top level of the building has areas, and a spinning studio. the design process. April 29, 2013 « The Tartan thetartan.org/news » A5 Similar themes permeate terms of various past presidents PRESIDENTS, from A4 tee’s early action included draw- ing up a white-paper report on and faculty unrest for a variety of the desired qualities of the univer- Give and take with the NSF reasons. sity’s next president — a step that With the appointment of change. Fred Foy, the chairman Arthur A. “CMU students may go on re- was also carried out in Carnegie Subra Suresh as Carnegie Mel- of Carnegie Mellon’s Board of cord as the first ones ever to throw Mellon’s two previous presiden- lon’s ninth president later this Trustees, impaneled a presi- Hamerschlag marshmallows at a U.S. Senator,” tial searches in 1989 and 1996. year, the director of the Na- dential search committee that read a Tartan article on Jan. 23, The use of a single 17-member tional Science Foundation will met for the first time four days 1903–1922 1970, after a small number of stu- search committee, however, var- become the president of Carn- later. Calling Stever’s resigna- dents disrupted a speech by Sena- ied from previous practices that egie Mellon. Four decades ago, tion a “virtual certainty,” the tor Strom Thurmond (R–S.C.). sometimes used multiple bodies it was the president of Carne- trustees tasked the commit- Other acts of Vietnam-era protest divided into faculty, trustees, stu- gie Mellon who became the di- tee — which included Stever included a ransacking of Carnegie dents, or other groups. rector of the National Science himself as a member — with Mellon’s ROTC office, blocking Despite the difference, Rollett Foundation. soliciting feedback from other access to the Wean Hall construc- said the single committee worked Rumors surfaced during trustees, students, faculty, and tion site in support of minor- well together under leader Jim the fall of 1971 that H. Guy- alumni on “desired qualifica- ity workers, and a student/faculty Rohr, executive chairman of the ford Stever, the university’s top tions and lists of candidates mass meeting opposing required PNC Financial Services Group. official for the past six years, they would like the trustees to Thomas S. courses in the newly organized “Faculty and trustees don’t nor- would soon be U.S. President consider” for the university’s College of Humanities and Social mally mix very much,” Rollett Richard Nixon’s nominee to next president, according to Baker Sciences. said. “There’s a certain element of head the NSF. The Tartan, cit- the trustees’ meeting minutes. “President Stever walked a fine ... getting used to each other.” ing reports in The Boston Globe, Nixon officially nominated 1922–1936 line, defending the right of stu- A new step this time around, ran a front-page article on the Stever to the NSF director’s dents and faculty to free speech gathering input from all of Carn- possibility in its Nov. 4 issue. position on Nov. 15, and Stever while he attempted to explain his egie Mellon’s department heads, “President Stever, because of confirmed in the Nov. 18 Tar- stance to the students who did not was well received and produced his strong professional quali- tan that he would resign and share the views of the protesters,” remarkably consistent results fications and reputation as accept the NSF nomination. Fenton wrote in his Centennial across campus. “That was really an independent Republican, Forty years later, Suresh’s History. interesting,” Rollett said. “There would most likely have little distinction and visibility as Lincoln Wolfenstein, a pro- was a very coherent view of the trouble gaining Congressional head of the NSF helped re- fessor emeritus of physics who university and a pretty coherent approval,” the paper specu- spond to concerns that Carn- Robert E. came to Carnegie Tech in 1948, view of what the issues were.” lated. egie Mellon is a “stealth uni- remembered being at odds with Successfully finding and se- Stever himself was non- versity” — less well-known Doherty President Richard M. Cyert, in of- lecting the right new president is committal. “One doesn’t talk than Harvard or MIT — said fice between 1972 and 1990, over not always a seamless transfer. about such a nomination until professor A.D. “Tony” Rollett, the university’s new Software Cohon’s retirement date of one gets one. When a definite the co-chair of the 2011–12 1936–1950 Engineering Institute and proj- June 30, 2013 — a one-year ex- offer comes, you begin to con- presidential search committee. ects from the U.S. Department of tension beyond his previous term sider it,” he said in the same Suresh’s acceptance of the Defense. — was formally set in August article. presidency is “a little bit of a “I had this saying — we like to 2010, giving university adminis- Behind the scenes, how- boost for us all by itself, that say the university needs money trators almost three years of ad- ever, university officials were somebody as visible as that in order to carry out its function, vance planning time. Even with preparing for a leadership would come here,” Rollett said. and then in contrast I said some- significant lead time, transitions times Cyert seemed to think the have not always been as smooth function of the university was to as hoped. then the dean of Carnegie Mel- of what Carnegie Mellon’s lead- get money,” Wolfenstein said. “So Warner, who served a year as lon’s Graduate School of Indus- ers thought during their times in John C. [Cyert] set up a committee to dis- Carnegie Tech’s vice president in trial Administration, to the post office. cuss this question of freedom on 1949 before being elevated to the effective July 1. “We try to keep everything that Warner campus. Should there be restrict- presidency in 1950, hoped for a Even with the process over, we can that the president’s office ed work going on, so people who similar handoff on his own retire- some members of the board had can give to us,” Williams said, did something couldn’t talk to the ment in the 1960s, according to reservations about the future. even though most materials aren’t 1950–1965 rest of the campus about it? Was biographer Ludwig F. Schaefer. “Some trustees feel that the re- open to the public until 50 years that a bad idea and how to limit In 1961, at the age of 64 — four sponsibilities of running the Uni- after they were produced. “We that?” years before a mandatory retire- versity are now so heavy and var- are in the process of trying to get Though the SEI and the De- ment age — Warner sent a memo ied,” the May 9, 1972, meeting more materials from Mehrabian’s fense Department contracts to the board of trustees outlining minutes noted, “that at the proper time and, especially right now, Dr. stayed, Wolfenstein gave Cy- desired characteristics for his re- time we should consider comple- Cohon’s time.” ert credit for being “forthcom- placement. menting the president with an- A less physical legacy of past ing” and discussing the issues Search committees were set up other top officer whose main job presidents is their effect on the with concerned members of the in 1962 and had drafted desired would be to serve as a kind of ‘out- leaders who replace them. community. criteria for candidates by 1963, side’ president for such matters The personal qualities of a H. Guyford Seventh president Robert but no presidential successor had as fund-raising, public relations, long-term, well-liked president Mehrabian took over in 1990 at been chosen before Warner’s pre- etc.” can become core parts of a succes- Stever a time when Carnegie Mellon’s ferred retirement date of June sor’s job description. rapid transformation into a na- 1964. Presidential legacies Searching for Warner’s succes- 1965–1972 tional research university had Foreshadowing Cohon’s 2012 sor after a 39-year career as a pro- placed increasing strains on the term extension, Warner agreed to With the 201 decision to name fessor, department head, dean, school’s resources, Fenton wrote. remain at Carnegie Tech for up to the Collaborative Innovation Cen- vice president, and president be- In response, Mehrabian created a an extra year. ter after Mehrabian, all of Carn- came a hunt for “a combination of structured administration where Stever, then an MIT professor, egie Mellon’s past presidents are academic and personal qualities data and information were em- was eventually named as the next memorialized with at least one that only a genius with the values pasized — to some extent — over president in October 1964, to take building on the Pittsburgh cam- of a saint and the constitution of personal interactions. over Feb. 1, 1965. pus. They also have a presence on an Olympic athlete could meet,” “Rather than see individual Stever’s own abrupt resigna- the second floor of Hunt Library, Fenton wrote. faculty members of the univer- tion, upon being nominated to where university archivist J. Likewise, Cohon’s 16-year Richard M. sity, he preferred to have them lead the National Science Founda- Dustin Williams manages a collec- tenure at Carnegie Mellon left work through their deans or vice tion, left the university lacking a tion of presidential artifacts. an imprint on the search for his Cyert presidents,” Fenton wrote. “This president for five months. Most of the collection consists replacement. administrative style functioned Without a successor in place, of administrative materials from “Nobody was saying exactly 1972–1990 well, but it offended some faculty the Board of Trustees appointed the president’s office, Williams ‘Get another Jerry,’ because you and staff members who were ac- Edward R. Schatz, Carnegie Mel- said, but there are more personal can’t,” Rollett said of last year’s customed to having direct contact lon’s vice president for Academic items as well, including presiden- input-gathering process, “but nev- with the man in the president’s Affairs, to fill in temporarily from tial correspondence, speeches and ertheless some of those character- chair.” February 1972. Schatz remains papers written by the presidents, istics were very important.” Students expressed similar the university’s only acting presi- and other memorabilia. Suresh, as a materials scientist, opinions in The Tartan when dent who did not continue into a “I was actually just looking at a does, however, share academic commenting in March 1996 on full term to lead the institution. merry Christmas [message] from background with Cohon, an envi- Mehrabian’s suddenly announced The trustees had narrowed the faculty — kind of a nice one — ronmental engineer. resignation. “Maybe we’ll get a their list of permanent candi- that was to Baker, if I remember,” “More than one trustee turned president that we’ll actually see dates down to four by April, but it Williams said. He also singled to me and said, ‘Is it necessary to around,” one complained, while wasn’t until May 9 that the board out presidential correspondence, have a scientist-engineer?’ ” Rol- Robert another rhetorically asked, “How formally recommended Cyert, which gave a more personal sense lett said. “And I said, ‘No.’ ” can I miss someone I’ve never Mehrabian seen?” Campus buildings named for former presidents 1990–1997 Replacing the president From first consideration to final selection, the process of choosing a presidential successor can take a year or more. Cohon, set to step down from office on June 30, will be replaced by current National Science Foun- dation Director and former Dean Hamerschlag Hall Hamerschlag House Baker Hall of MIT’s School of Engineering built 1913; renamed 1965 built 1960 built 1914; renamed 1965 Subra Suresh. Suresh was select- Jared L. ed as president in February after a three-part process, beginning in Cohon the 2011–12 school year with the formation of a search committee and the hiring of a search firm, 1997–2013 followed by a series of meetings to gather input. Formal proceedings of the committee — made up of eight faculty members, eight uni- Doherty Hall Doherty Apartments Warner Hall versity trustees, and one trustee built 1909; renamed 1965 built 1959 built 1966 chair — began in July 2012. A.D. “Tony” Rollett, a professor of materials science and engineer- ing, was the search committee’s co-chair and 2011–12 chair of the Faculty Senate. The overall presi- Subra dential search process, he said, was a combination of what was Suresh done here previously and “what we thought was a good idea any- Stever House Cyert Hall Mehrabian CIC way.” 2013– built 2003; renamed 2008 built 1983 built 2005, renamed 2012 Rollett said that the commit- Photos by Alan Vangpat/Senior Photographer A6 « thetartan.org/scitech The Tartan » April 29, 2013

Phone game helps illiterate Pakistanis find employment Brooke Kuei room” effect, the “drunk chip- Assistant SciTech Editor munk” effect, the “whisper” effect, or background music. A simple telephone game The user then selects one of called Polly hardly seems like a the effects and gives Polly the life-changing technology with number of the friend whom it the potential to aid developing will be sent to. countries. However, Carnegie “A system as simple as Polly Mellon Language Technolo- is easy for people here to use,” gies Institute professor Roni Raza said. “But in develop- Rosenfeld and Ph.D. student ing countries it’s a big chal- Agha Ali Raza’s use of Polly to lenge for people because they help illiterate people in Paki- expect a person on the other stan get in touch with prospec- end of the phone. So how do tive employers does indeed we teach them? One way is to have that potential. develop something so fun that Polly is a simple game in they want to learn it them- which a caller can record a selves.” message, add various funny Polly is this development. It sound effects, and send it to teaches low-skilled and illiter- a friend. The user begins the ate people how to use speech game by calling Polly’s num- interfaces in an entertaining ber. “It’s a missed-call mecha- way. nism,” Raza said. “When you But as fun as it is to send call, Polly doesn’t pick up, but silly messages to friends, that’s instead calls you back so you not all that Polly is capable of don’t have to pay for the call. doing. In Polly’s main menu, This is because the people there is also an option to listen with whom we are working to job postings. “Part of our with are generally poor so team is working in Pakistan,” they are sensitive about the Raza said. “They scan the dai- air-time cost.” ly newspaper and try to find Jonathan Leung/Assistant Photo Editor Next, the user records a advertisements that are suit- Ph.D. student Agha Ali Raza (left) and professor Roni Rosenfeld (right) of the Language Technologies Institute have used the telephone game Polly to message. Polly then plays able for low-skilled workers. help illiterate Pakistanis find suitable employment. back the message with several These are updated every two different sound effects, such as to three days.” Examples of maids, gardeners, and drivers. illiterate individuals the op- each job advertisement has they will continue to expand the “I have to run to the bath- such jobs include positions for This unique feature offers portunity to apply for jobs been listened to around 500 it in the years to come. “We they wouldn’t have heard of times. In addition to job post- will just write down the phone otherwise. Polly also gives the ings, Raza and Rosenfeld are number and give it to some option of forwarding adver- looking into how to incorpo- low-literate people and tell tisement postings to friends. rate surveys and public service them to call it and see what “It’s very hard to reach people announcements into Polly. happens,” Raza said. “That’s who aren’t educated and can’t This way, Polly can both dis- how we launched Polly in the read or write,” Rosenfeld said. seminate and gather informa- first place, and that’s how it “You can’t reach them through tion. Other possible directions took off.” newspapers or through bill- for future expansion include In fact, Raza and Rosenfeld boards. The only way you can giving reports on health, agri- only gave Polly’s number to reach them is by sound — by culture, or weather — things five Pakistanis last May. “We voice.” that people need on an every- haven’t given it to anybody Polly has been an ex- day basis. else. Polly spread by itself,” treme success since it first Polly is currently centered Rosenfeld said. launched last May. Accord- in Pakistan, because that is Polly is a simple game, but ing to a live tracker of Polly where Raza is from, which it exemplifies a concept that online, its overall call volume makes it easy for him to com- has the potential to make a has reached over 160,000 us- municate with the people big difference in the world: ers and job advertisements there. “It’s generally a good using entertainment to reach have been listened to by over idea to have locals working underprivileged populations. 380,000 callers. There are ap- with you who can also under- If Polly spreads throughout proximately 700 job advertise- stand the work you are doing,” the rest of the world as fast as Jonathan Leung/Assistant Photo Editor ments posted in the system; Raza said. They plan to launch it spread through Pakistan, it Polly works by allowing a user to call Polly, leave a message, and give a number to receive the message. this means that, on average, Polly in India next week, and will change millions of lives. Students place fifth in Putnam mathematics competition Desiree Xu this year’s competition, and 30 starting early. was good at math, so compe- strengthen their problem- he said. Business Manager placed in the top 500. Hamil- “I feel that this year, there tition was fun, even though I solving skills. According to the team ton placed in the top 10. weren’t any problems that didn’t learn anything,” he said. Despite their bright atti- members, some of the prob- Though practicing math According to Gu, problems [were] especially out of the or- All members agreed that tude and seemingly impres- lems they ran into included problems may sound dull and that appear in the competition sive results, the team members missing fine details that even repulsive to some, three act as brainteasers because met some obstacles during judges deemed important, students happily put their “they have a different flavor “Coming in fifth was a nice this year’s Putnam. Gu and and not being able to conjure math skills to the test by rep- from math” and they differ Druggan agreed that they did up creative solutions quickly resenting Carnegie Mellon in from problems that a math- surprise, but we hope to do not fair as well in the recent enough. However, the team the William Lowell Putnam ematician typically encoun- Putnam as they did in past remains undeterred in their Competition, one of the most ters. The peculiarity of prob- better next year.” competitions. future math competition pur- prestigious math competitions lems may be what inspired the “Some problems were just suits. After all, competitions in the country. They took fifth three to compete in the first —Albert Gu hard; the solution came out of like the Putnam are meant to place in the competition. place. All three had been com- Sophomore mathematics major nowhere, and it [was] hard to be activites that students like Each participating school peting since high school. come up with,” Gu said. Gu and Druggan accomplish sends a representative three- Carnegie Mellon placed Druggan echoed Gu’s senti- in addition to going to class person team to compete. The among the top five of the na- ments. “Unfortunately, every- and doing homework. school’s ranking is essentially tion’s teams. It is possible the dinary,” Gu said. math contests like the Put- one did poorly on this [year’s “Coming in fifth was a nice the sum of the team members’ team members’ success came Druggan also felt confident nam Competition bring them competition] because the hard surprise, but we hope to do individual places, with lower- from constant practice and going into the competition. “I satisfaction since they help problems were just too hard,” better next year,” Gu said. sum teams ranking higher. The team members — sopho- more mathematics majors Albert Gu and Michael Drug- gan, along with first-year Sci- ence and Humanities Scholar and mathematics major Linus Hamilton — regularly attend the weekly Putnam seminar, taught by assistant professor of mathematical sciences Po- Shen Loh. There, they prepare and practice math problems from topics covered by the un- dergraduate math curriculum including analysis, algebra group theory, combinatorics, and more. The teammates also met for three hours every Sunday and occasionally did problems by themselves to prepare for the Putnam Competition. This year, 4,277 American and Canadian undergradu- ates from 578 institutions par- ticipated in the competition, which was held in December. The students were given six hours to solve 12 complex mathematical problems us- ing a combination of creative thinking and concepts taught in college mathematics cours- es. In total, 138 Carnegie Mel- Desiree Xu/Business Manager lon students participated in Albert Gu (left), Michael Druggan (right), and Linus Hamilton (not pictured) recently represented Carnegie Mellon at the William Lowell Putnam Competition. April 29, 2013 « The Tartan thetartan.org/scitech » A7 Researchers create battery for edible robot pills Sonia Katharani-Khan cally active, edible medical traditional methods of implan- Whitacre, professor of mate- consume, is also meant to be release in the small intestine. Staffwriter devices that can be implanted tation. The device would move rials science and engineering, taken in pill form. “We have We haven’t done this yet, but in a patient’s body. This devel- through one’s gastrointestinal have completed the first step designed a battery that is it’s a potential application.” Robots that track your in- opment would essentially al- (GI) tract like food. Christo- in the process by designing made of simple, biocompatible While there are some tech- ner body’s functions may seem low patients to ingest devices pher Bettinger, assistant pro- edible power sources for such materials that are consumed nological hurdles to overcome, like science fiction, but Carn- such as drug delivery systems fessor of materials science and devices. daily in common diets.... This such as ensuring that the de- egie Mellon researchers are or biosensors in pill form, and engineering and biomedical The battery, designed with is a platform technology that vice is packaged well enough working to create electroni- would be far less invasive than engineering, along with Jay materials that are safe to can serve as a power supply to to withstand the acidic envi- drive active electronics on any ronment of the stomach, the edible medical device,” Bet- team has ensured that the pro- tinger said via email. cess is at least psychologically The devices are designed comfortable and biologically with flexible polymer elec- safe for patients. “We think trodes and a sodium ion elec- there is a big future in edible trochemical cell, which allows devices because most patients the device to be folded into are comfortable with swal- an edible pill that can be con- lowing a pill,” Bettinger said. sumed by the patient. “The Furthermore, the safe and device is simply swallowed biocompatible design of the and follows the normal path device largely reduces the risk of food through the GI tract,” of any negative side effects as Bettinger said. The battery’s it passes through the GI tract. power supply lasts roughly an The development of a safe, hour, and the remnants pass economically efficient power through the patient’s system source has set the founda- as waste within 18–24 hours. tion to begin the development This method makes the bat- and widespread use of edible tery economically efficient. medical devices that perform “This battery is designed targeted functions and offer for one-time use without re- treatments. charging. The idea is to make “The battery that we have them very cheap so that in- developed is just the begin- gesting at one device per day ning. Once you have the would be economically fea- battery technology down — sible,” Bettinger said. which we do — this opens up a The development of this lot of different applications in device is the beginning of an actively powered edible elec- innovation in the way medi- tronics,” Bettinger said. cal procedures are performed. Bettinger and Whitacre “Making batteries that are believe that edible electronic able to power edible devices devices will likely promote enables the integration of additional integration of the medical devices noninvasively device with tissues and biolog- for a variety of potential func- ical matter in the GI tract, ac- tions including sensors, drug cording to their paper. Other delivery systems, etc.,” Bet- applications of their edible pill tinger said. “One example may include monitoring the would be that we can perhaps tissue of the GI tract, and even Courtesy of Christopher Bettinger have a system that can deliver electrical stimulation of these Assistant professor of materials science and engineering and biomedical engineering Christopher Bettinger and professor of materials science and large protein molecules to the tissues for treatment of diges- engineering Jay Whitacre have developed an edible battery device, outlined above, to power robotic biosensors in the human gastrointestinal tract. body by programming their tion disorders. how things work scitech briefs Hookah smoke has Studies show Large HIV vaccine One-way mirrors act as carcinogens and monkeys conform trial study halted carbon monoxide to social norms after poor results Despite the common mis- Researchers at the Univer- Scientists are currently useful surveillance tools halting the largest study of an conception that smoking hoo- sity of St. Andrews in Scotland Nivedita Chopra of the light passes through to mirror. However, if the nail kah is safe, researchers ana- recently noticed a pattern of HIV vaccine, stating that there Staffwriter the other side. and its image are touching lyzing regular hookah smokers fickleness in male monkeys is no way the study would But if one-way mirrors let each other, you should be have identified that using when they emulate the be- show that the vaccine can If you ever find yourself light through and the persons aware that it is likely to be a a hookah three times a day havior of other monkeys. The prevent HIV. The $77 million being interrogated in a room behind it can see you, why one-way mirror and some- exposes one to more carbon researchers observed the be- study, which involved over similar to one found in Law can’t you see them? The lights one may be observing you. monoxide and the carcinogen havior of wild vervet monkeys 2,500 subjects, met its goal and Order, you might won- in the place behind the mir- This technique works because benzene than smoking a half- in South Africa and found for participants a few months der if the mirror in the room ror are dimmed or the room ordinary mirrors have the pack of cigarettes. The study that adult males migrating ago. The study had shown is a one-way mirror, a mirror is simply left dark; in con- back surface silvered, lead- asked 13 healthy volunteers into the group quickly caught that 41 percent of those who that is reflective on one side trast, the room in which the ing to a gap between the nail who smoked both cigarettes on to the social norms of the received the vaccine con- but transparent on the other. mirror is kept is brightly lit. So and its image. One-way mir- and hookah to only smoke group. tracted HIV, compared to 30 Once you know how one-way for the person looking into the rors, on the other hand, have hookah for four days. After They tested social confor- percent that received placebo mirrors work, however, you mirror, a lot of the light falling their front surface silvered, so a week, the volunteers were mity by giving some groups of shots. While these statistics can understand various ways on it from his or her side is re- there is no gap. asked to smoke only ciga- monkeys blue and pink corn. do not prove the vaccine actu- to tell them apart from ordi- flected back, but barely any Another technique in- rettes for a week. On average, In some groups, the blue corn ally increased the risk of con- nary mirrors. light is transmitted from the volves turning the light off on the volunteers smoked hoo- was meant to taste repulsive; tracting HIV, researchers also Let’s first look at how nor- other side. However, a great your side and shining a flash- kah three times a day and had in others, the pink corn was. determined the vaccine failed mal reflective mirrors work. deal of light passes through light at the mirror. This would eleven cigarettes per day. After some time, monkeys in to help. The participants will Basically, a reflective mirror is the glass into the dark cham- reverse the effect of the one- The researchers took urine each group only ate the col- no longer receive any shots, a glass sheet with its back sur- ber on the other side, allow- way mirror, and you should samples and determined that ored corn that was initially although they will continue face silvered. The silvered sur- ing the people there to ob- be able to see through to the the amount of benzene, which considered “good” even when to be monitored for the next face reflects the light that falls serve the activity in front of other side. In an ordinary mir- is linked to leukemia and lung researchers presented both five years, in hopes that the on the mirror. This reflected the mirror. ror, you would just see your cancer, was higher when the colors that tasted the same. study will still glean helpful light creates the perception of This knowledge leads to reflection. users smoked hookah instead When male monkeys moved information regarding a vac- an image behind the mirror. the critical question, “How do Alternatively, you could of cigarettes. Breath tests also to a group that ate a different cine for HIV. One-way mirrors, on the you tell if a mirror is a one-way rap on the mirror with a indicated that volunteers color, however, the research- This study, which used a other hand, have only their mirror?” While there are mul- knuckle. A real mirror, which smoking only hookah had ers noticed that the males weakened cold virus called front surface partially sil- tiple ways to tell them apart, is backed by a wall, will give 2.5 times the amount of car- would eat the same colored ade5 to transport HIV genes vered. This coating is very one simple test is extremely a muffled sound, while a bon monoxide in their breath corn as its new group despite for the vaccine, may halt oth- thin and allows a large effective. Extend your hand one-way mirror will produce than when only smoking ciga- its previous experiences with er HIV research using similar amount of the light falling on toward the mirror, so that a much sharper sound. This rettes. that color. biological methods. the mirror to pass through, your fingernail just touches sharp sound is similar to while reflecting the rest. The the mirror. If you see a small what you hear if you rap your Source: Science News Source: Science Daily Source: NPR reflected light gives the per- space between your nail and knuckle against a pane of ception of an image. The rest its image, it is an ordinary glass, such as a window pane. Einstein’s theory Federal authorities Scientists discover of relativity passes plan to no longer incredibly small toughest test yet protect gray wolves fairyfly insect Einstein’s theory of relativ- Federal authorities from Two scientists have re- ity, which is in opposition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife cently discovered a minuscule the quantum theory of phys- Service plan to drop the gray wasp that is only two times ics, recently passed its tough- wolf from the endangered longer than the width of a hu- est test yet. Scientists have list in the lower 48 states, man hair. The wasp, named been tracking a celestial sys- after 18 years of protection. Tinkerbella nana after the Pe- tem containing a neutron star The species, which had been ter Pan character, is a fairyfly, two times the mass of the sun hunted almost to extinction a type of wasp found across and a white dwarf star. They in the West and has since re- the world that is typically orbit each other every hour bounded, is now a nuisance parasitic. The paper written and a half. Astronomers’ ob- for many ranchers and farm- by the two scientists theorize servations of the system have ers in the western United just how small an insect can remained consistent with the States. Some have continually get. The authors state that theory of relativity. lobbied to remove the wolves a winged insect cannot get The astronomers believed from the endangered list. smaller than 150 microns in that the system, which exhib- The protection of the gray order to fly, which is only 100 ited extreme characteristics, wolves will now be left to the microns smaller than Tinker- would not emit gravitational individual states. California, bella. radiation predicted by Ein- in particular, is considering Despite its incredibly small stein’s theory. However, the imposing its own protections. size, there have been two scientists were able to observe Although the federal authori- insects already discovered the gravitational radiation by ties believe that de-listing the smaller than Tinkerbella. measuring the time of arrival wolves is a success, many con- of radio waves sent from the servationists and scientists Source: Christian Science neutron star over a long pe- are skeptical and frustrated Monitor riod of time. about the decision. Compiled By Michael Setzer/SciTech Editor Source: NewScientist Source: Los Angeles Times Michael Setzer A8 « thetartan.org/forum The Tartan » April 29, 2013

From the Editorial Board letter to the editor JFC responds to editorial about budget remarks Last Monday’s article “Joint cause they are organizations that Funding Committee’s budget re- enable other organizations to suc- marks out of line” questions the cessfully operate. We fund their THISTLES & THORNS professionalism of the JFC in an meals out of the recognition that not unacceptable manner. In addition to do so would lead to decreased ef- to drawing inaccurate conclusions, fectiveness and efficiency for the or- the article fails to recognize the in- ganizations they assist. creased transparency of the budget process. The JFC makes decisions by “The JFC makes considering how best to maximize every student activities fee(SAF) decisions by dollar to improve student life. Our considering how comments on budgets are both jus- At the close of every school year, The on campus issues were a landmark commendable. Lupe Fiasco’s perfor- tified and in line with our mission: best to maximize Tartan reassesses the year’s events. We for communication between stu- mance was a high point of this year’s questioning why previously granted present here a list of the people and dents and faculty. Carnival festivities. repair expenditures continue to be every SAF dollar.” happenings that are worthy of rec- requested, stating resource con- ognition. Thistles go to people and A thorn for a 3 percent tuition A thorn to Pennsylvania’s Voter straints, and noting lack of clarity Consistently, The Tartan has events that had a positive effect on the increase for returning students ID law, which would have dis- in fiscal behavior are all necessary chosen to focus on a so-called lack of campus community and the world at and a 4 percent increase for incom- enfranchised many people during a for responsible allocations. We also transparency rather than the chang- large. Thorns go to those that have ing students for the 2013–14 aca- presidential election were it not for include our metrics for travel and es made to improve transparency. negatively impacted the community. demic year. Carnegie Mellon is an the order of a judge that delayed its food, giving organizations insight Throughout the budget process, the expensive school even without these enactment by a year. into our decisions. Student Body Vice President for Fi- A thistle to departing Univer- increases. AB Concerts’ budget increase nance has made himself available sity President Jared Cohon, for A thistle for recent legislation is another point of contention. As through office hours and informa- his 16 years of unfailing and loyal A thistle to Carnegie Mellon for and hearings regarding gay Carnegie Mellon’s best-known tradi- tion sessions while JFC representa- service to Carnegie Mellon. We at founding the new Scott Insti- marriage and marijuana across the tion, Carnival impacts every student. tives have repeatedly met with their The Tartan wish him a happy retire- tute, devoted to environmental and nation. Legislation concerning mari- Largely funded through Spring Car- groups. During budget review, the ment. sustainable improvements of energy juana included legalization in Colo- nival Committee, Carnival would JFC focuses on past budgets, fiscal use. This new center aims to bring rado and Washington. The Supreme not exist without JFC funding. The audits, and actual spending, so as to A thorn for the recent out- together interdisciplinary collabora- Court heard cases regarding DOMA Carnival concert has an inherently carefully consider every line item. breaks of mass violence. Shoot- tors to tackle world energy and envi- and California’s Proposition 8. These large impact proportional to its cost, Ultimately, the JFC wants to fund ings and other tragedies across the ronmental problems. issues revolve around personal de- and as such, the budget increase for student organizations so that they nation, including those in Boston, cisions, and legislation should be this event complies with the JFC’s can fulfill their mission, while maxi- Mass.; Aurora, Co.; and Newtown, A thorn to Apple and Samsung passed to reflect this freedom. mission. mizing the impact of every dollar we Conn. have taken innocent lives and for their continuing patent The final point was that there allocate. Ideological disagreements disrupted the daily peace that the av- wars. Both companies are innovators A thorn to cyclist Lance Arm- was “favorable treatment of certain regarding our decisions are appre- erage citizen should be afforded. in the technological marketplace. strong, a man who was once a organizations.” It is absurd and inac- ciated — accusations of favoritism They must focus on innovation and star athlete who fell from grace after curate to state that any “exceptions” and unprofessionalism are not. A thistle to Randall Munroe the satisfaction of their customers, facing doping charges by the United made were unprofessional. AB Tech and his webcomic xkcd, which rather than on lawsuits over various States Anti-Doping Agency. received money for food –— as did Divya Krishnan and Niharika Ray recognized that Carnegie Mellon has technologies they have both used in Spring Carnival Committee — be- JFC Representatives the best hash bashers as part of a their products. A thistle to AB Films for using competitive April Fools update. the Bat Signal to announce the A thistle to Student Affairs arrival of Batman films in McCono- leadership perspective A thorn for the U.S. Senate’s and student government for my Auditorium as an exciting inter- inability to pass even the most addressing Carnegie Mellon’s stress lude from studying. mild of gun control measures in the culture, student health, and well- form of background checks, display- being, as well as hosting Town Halls A thorn to Innocence of Mus- President’s cabinet ing more loyalty to gun lobbyists to discuss these issues. lims, the YouTube video whose than to the safety of Americans. terrible production and acting was A thorn for the Hamerschlag surpassed by how deeply offensive searching for applicants A thistle to the Presidential House residents that painted it was to Muslims worldwide, culmi- Hello Tartans, Events and Logistics works with Search Committee for finding the message “McGill, I could use a nating in mass protests. the rest of the task force to make Carnegie Mellon’s next university sandwich...” on the Fence. This mes- One part of Carnegie Mellon’s plans for different events and pro- president, Subra Suresh. Suresh is sage was written in poor taste and A thistle for the Tartan sports Student Government has been a grams, and Campus Coordinator an excellent scientist and adminis- exuded sexism toward the women of teams that had impressive re- President’s cabinet. This cabinet will work as a connection between trator, and he will benefit the univer- McGill House. cords and accomplishments this works with the President and Vice students and the administration sity greatly. year. The football team ended the President to help make different to relay important campus trends. A thistle to student govern- season with a winning record of initiatives come to fruition dur- Meanwhile, Community Coordi- A thorn for Beta Theta Pi for be- ment for increasing their vis- 6–4 while the club roller hockey ing the school year. This year, our nator will work with students on ing at the center of allegations ibility, particularly Student Senate team had a record of 14–0. The cabinet will be split into two differ- campus and the greater Pittsburgh involving the recording and sharing for actively engaging its constituency women’s tennis team placed second ent branches. The branches and the community to form meaningful of sexually explicit recordings. Al- through last semester’s Senate Week. in the UAA Championship Confer- descriptions of their roles are listed connections. Constitutional Adviser though the allegations have not yet ence while both the Frisbee and golf below. will work to make sure that all Stu- been detailed or confirmed, the fact A thorn for the public park- teams excelled in their division. The A Chief of Staff will also be select- dent Government practices are in that both the national fraternity and ing meters on streets within women’s soccer team ranked sixth in ed to oversee and connect these two line with the current constitution the university have suspended the Carnegie Mellon’s campus boundar- the nation and entered the Elite 8 of branches. Members of the cabinet and will be prepared to work on any Carnegie Mellon chapter indicate ies. These meters make parking ex- the NCAA Championship while the should expect to spend 2–4 hours a needed bylaw changes. that there is evidence of serious is- pensive for students who once used men’s team ranked 14. week on cabinet-oriented work, of sues within the fraternity. these spaces to park cheaply while which one of these hours will be a living on campus. A thorn to the playlist at the weekly meeting. Cabinet Advisers A thistle to both the residents Carnegie Mellon Café for play- We hope to have a cabinet full of The second branch will be known of Boston and the Boston Police A thistle to HERB and his cre- ing the same limited list of songs on Carnegie Mellon students who are as the Advisers who will serve as Department for their steadfastness ators for successfully separat- loop throughout the year, and par- passionate and excited about mak- representatives for different large and courage in the face of the recent ing the cookie and cream of an Oreo ticularly for the inclusion of Taylor ing a difference for students on our student groups on campus. These Boston Marathon bombings. — a difficult task for a robot — and Swift’s latest singles. campus. Here’s a basic description advisers will choose their own spe- bringing us one step closer to having of what we’re looking for: cific initiatives to work and focus A thorn for the administration robotic butlers. A thistle for Housing and Din- on. These initiatives should relate to for not updating the campus ing Services for providing stu- the passions of the representatives on the Beta Theta Pi allegations. The A thorn to the Spring Carni- dents on campus with stellar new Cabinet Task Force and the groups of students that they student body deserves to be kept val Committee for removing dining options, such as Worlds of The first of these branches is a represent. The following adviser up to date on matters regarding the Midway Market this year. Midway Flavor and The Pomegranate, which Task Force that will act as the core positions will be available: Greek safety of the campus community. Market was a valuable resources for offers kosher options. The extended group of cabinet representatives advisers, first-year advisers, gradu- smaller organizations to reach out to hours at Entropy+ are also appreci- who work to make sure events run ate student advisers, residential life A thistle to the current Student people enjoying Carnival and to con- ated by students on campus working smoothly and board initiatives are advisers, and athletics advisers. Body President Will Weiner and nect with others in the Carnegie Mel- late into the night. achieved. The following are the po- Have an idea for a position Vice President Meela Dudley. Weiner lon community. sitions that will be available: that we haven’t listed? Let us and Dudley succeeded in engaging A thorn to Pittsburgh mayor Application Engineers will work know! Fill out your application at the student body with their initia- A thistle to AB Concerts for Luke Ravenstahl for allegations to make sure that any technology tinyurl.com/cmucabinet. tives during their time in office, in- quickly finding a replacement of using city funds for personal rea- that is presented by Student Gov- cluding their initiative to register act for Spring Carnival after Ludac- sons and possibly knowing about ernment is working properly, while voters during the 2012 presidential ris unexpectedly cancelled. Their misappropriation of funds by the Public Relations will work to adver- Peter “Batman” Masters election and watch student election ability to find a good replacement — Pittsburgh Police Bureau’s Special tise all Student Government spon- [email protected] debates. Their Town Hall initiatives Lupe Fiasco — in under 48 hours is Events and Finance offices. sored events. Student Body Vice President-elect

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Kate Groschner william park Office: University Center 314 Mail: Photo Editor Asst. Forum Editor Phone: (412) 268-2111 The Tartan Fax: (412) 268-1596 Box 119, UC Suite 103 © 2013 The Tartan, all rights reserved. Web: www.thetartan.org 5000 Forbes Avenue * Denotes executive committee member Library of Congress ISSN: 0890-3107 E-mail: [email protected] Pittsburgh, PA 15213 April 29, 2013 « The Tartan thetartan.org/forum » A9 Racial profiling must be put to an end BSA stuck in the pocket lives of millions, people would be up tion. They need blood donations.” in arms about individual privacy. The media also perpetuates racial of religious benefactors A Saudi Arabian man at the Bos- profiling. Black people who commit ton marathon was tackled to the crimes are immediately labeled as likely pleased that they can count on ground by bystanders because he “criminals,” Muslims who commit keeping one of their main sources satvika neti had been standing too close to where crimes are immediately labeled as of funding and members; they may the bomb went off. He had nothing “terrorists,” but white people who think that this nonsensical discrimi- It’s almost funny now — how to do with the bombing, but was tar- commit crimes are “misunderstood” nation is in keeping with the “mor- quickly the media and the American geted anyway, just for looking Ara- or “psychologically unstable.” For the Justin Mcgown ally straight” tenant of the Scout public suspect people of different bian and being close to the bomb. case of Tsarnaev, the media made it a Law. They have somehow managed colors of committing heinous crimes, He was the only victim admitted to point that terrorism “wasn’t talked The Boy Scouts of America to conflate the word “straight” in the rather than people of their own race. the hospital that had his apartment about” in their home. That wouldn't (BSA), after delaying their decision sense of sexuality with not being a It’s as if every time a terrorist act searched while he was detained have mattered at all if he hadn't been regarding a change to policies ban- dishonest person and, in doing so, like the Boston bombings occurs, at the hospital. Even when he was white. White criminals are always ning gay members, has announced a managed to toss the original mean- people forget the anthrax scare, the cleared of any suspicion, the death portrayed to be more than their new and baffling stance: You can be ing completely out the window. Westboro Baptist Church, and even threats and hate mail continued to crime — white people are seen as gay and a member of the Boy Scouts Once again it is clear that keep- the Ku Klux Klan — all acts of terror come. The same thing happened to people by the media even when they as long as you are under the age of ing Mormon approval is more im- committed by someone not of color. a Muslim student — Sulahaddin Bar- are criminals. People of color are de- 18. This stance means that, if gay, portant to the BSA than the well- All certain people can see anymore houm — who was trying to become based into just their crimes — they you can achieve scouting’s highest being of youth or a sense of fairness are suicide bombers, the planes that an Olympic athlete and was targeted are nothing more than what they do. honor, the rank of Eagle Scout, but and decency. But this move doesn’t crashed into the Twin Towers on for the Boston bombings. He will In essence, a criminal who is of you are banned from becoming an make much sense in the context of September 11, 2001, and that these now forever live under that shadow. color is seen as a representation of adult leader to pass on the valuable Mormonism either, since Mormons incidents were caused by people of a Ironically, the real suspect in cus- that entire race. A white criminal is skills, insights, and knowledge you allow members to be homosexual, different race or nationality. tody is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a young, seen as an exception, an anomaly. have acquired as a scout. This deci- so long as they don’t actually do This racial profiling needs to stop. white, Eastern European man. The media is also incredibly in- sion is an indication that the BSA anything homosexual. If an organi- The public targets and harasses peo- The worst part about all of this vested in keeping a division between is in the pocket of religious institu- zation — one that has prominent ad- ple they suspect to have committed a is that people feel entitled to as- domestic and international terror- tions, including those of the Mor- herents like sci-fi author Orson Scott crime because of their skin color. sume skin color or race about the ism, though most stations are will- mons, Catholics, and Methodists, Card actively fighting against gay Racial profiling is not helpful even suspect because of “what they’ve ing to concede that it is terrorism, no who sponsor almost half of members marriage — can trust adults to deny if the public does catch the crimi- been through” with 9/11. They feel matter who is committing the act of nationwide, according to the BSA. themselves any sexual activity, why nal — it is harmful no matter what. nothing of accusing darker-skinned terror. Terrorism is terrorism, even if It seems as if the BSA would rather in the world can they not be trusted People have argued that racial profil- people of committing these atrocious it occurs domestically. remain there than take a stand for a with leadership of youths? ing is okay because the net effect is crimes because others like them have Not all Muslims are terrorists, and semblance of fairness. Allowing gay youths to join the safety of the American people — done it before, even though the pub- not all Christians are with the West- Clearly, this is an unsatisfactory scouting is a step in the right direc- who cares if one person gets hurt to lic shies away from assuming the boro Baptist Church. People have to solution, particularly for proponents tion, and I am glad to know that the ensure millions of lives? The flaw in same thing about white people. be judged not by race or nationality, of integrating members of the LGBT organization has some sense when it this kind of thinking is that the pub- John Green, author of Looking for but by their actions and character. community into the Boy Scouts. It comes to considering the children. lic is still only targeting people who Alaska, said it best via Twitter after bars gay adults from participation When I previously wrote about this are not white. If a white person was the Boston bombings: “The people of Satvika Neti (sneti@) is a staffwriter completely, which serves no con- issue last October, I mentioned what specifically targeted to ensure the Boston don’t need amateur specula- for The Tartan. ceivable purpose for the BSA and a positive experience scouting was most likely still prevents them from for me and my psychological health. regaining much of the corporate I argued that it is not only negligent sponsorship they have recently lost, but also malicious to bar children such as Intel. The only logic that I with a far greater risk of bullying We should experiment with drug laws can fathom that would lead to this and suicide. does more harm than good. Economist, are less addictive and conclusion is the preposterous be- To be fair, I should be glad that One example that legalization harmful — like ecstasy, marijuana, lief that gay adults are pedophiles the BSA has stopped being directly advocates like to point out is that LSD, and shrooms — are illegal. If — that or they fear the nightmare harmful to a large portion of Amer- both President Obama and former alcohol and tobacco are legal, there scenario of adults with diverse back- ica’s population and is now only President George W. Bush used ille- is no legitimate justification for these grounds indoctrinating children cruelly discriminatory to people in a kyle henson gal drugs. Obama wrote about using less harmful drugs to be illegal. with the poisonous, insidious con- way that is to its own detriment. But cocaine and smoking weed in his au- Finally, it’s quite possible that the cepts of tolerance and acceptance I’m not; this feels like a peace treaty Anyone who has watched writer tobiography, and Bush was allegedly positive effects of drug legalization that have done so much to under- that shouldn’t be signed. I call upon David Simon’s HBO television series arrested for cocaine possession in outlined in The Wire, could happen. mine our society. all fellow scouts to continue decry- The Wire is familiar with the term 1972 but had his father pull strings We could document and discourage The Church of Jesus Christ of ing and protesting this unjust and “Hamsterdam.” Hamsterdam refers to get the arrest expunged from re- drug use. Safe practices could be Latter-Day Saints has come out in fa- illogical stance. to a section of Baltimore where the cords. Both men went on to become promoted and people could discover vor of the proposed plan, saying that sale and consumption of drugs are President. If either were caught and a way out of drug culture. Also, with they support the decision to allow Justin McGown (jmcgown@) is on- legal on the show. jailed, their lives would have radical- drugs out in the open, the Food and gay youth membership. The BSA is line editor for The Tartan. Hamsterdam came about because ly changed. Additionally, Steve Jobs Drug Administration could regu- the drug trade on mainstream street said that his experimentation with late drugs for safety and make sure corners became too disruptive to LSD was “one of the two or three people looking for heroin don’t get everyday citizens. People were mur- most important things” he’d ever rat poison. There are a lot of really dered and taxpayers moved out of done, according to Time magazine. good potential effects to smart drug the city to the neighboring county to I hate to think about what other legalization. avoid violence and drug culture. As potential-filled, otherwise law-abid- Realistically, drugs won’t be legal a result, a rogue cop created Ham- ing citizens drug prohibition has anytime soon, and blanket legaliza- sterdam, comprised of empty row barred from contributing to society. tion of all drugs everywhere would houses where the drug trade is legal Institutionalization should be re- have very immediate, very harmful and regulated for violence. served for those who will negatively consequences. What the government Hamsterdam was incredibly suc- affect society if left free. Drug users can do in the meantime is to elimi- cessful. Street corners were peace- are not a threat to society. Over- nate all federal laws restricting drug ful. Crime decreased by 14 percent in crowded jails, clogged justice sys- possession. Many states already have the district. Groups that distributed tems, and dead law enforcement of- laws making these drugs illegal, so clean needles and condoms set up in ficials are not appropriate sacrifices nothing would immediately change. Hamsterdam and reached people in to prevent people from getting high. Over time, states and cities look- the shadowy underworld of the drug Additionally, according to a study ing to experiment with new ways to trade that were once unreachable. by California State University Bakers- deal with drugs could try different Narcotics Anonymous set up in Ham- field, the size of the undocumented, policies. If they worked, other states sterdam and saw an influx of mem- untaxed black market for drugs in would follow suit. Washington and bers looking to stop drug use. Cops the U.S. is $475 billion. That’s 3 per- Colorado recently legalized mari- even started charging all mid-level cent of our country’s gross domestic juana, but those laws technically dealers a tax in order to continue op- product (GDP). Economists should mean nothing because it’s still fed- erating in Hamsterdam. They used be going crazy for legalization. A 3 erally illegal to possess, use, or sell this tax to buy a basketball hoop for percent GDP bump would bring in marijuana anywhere in the country. the kids of Hamsterdam who were a lot of revenue, especially because These contradictory laws should not no longer needed to help dealers drugs would be subject to additional prevent states from experimenting complete illegal deals. excise taxes like alcohol and tobacco. with legitimate ways to find peace in Obviously this is a TV show, and it Currently, drug legalization in the war on drugs. may not reflect what would happen the U.S. is incredibly unbalanced. Al- if drugs were legalized, but it forces cohol and tobacco attain legal status Kyle Henson (kahenson@) is a staff- one to consider if drug prohibition while drugs that, according to The writer for The Tartan. Braden Kelner/Forum Editor A PERSON’S OPINION Compiled by Justin McGown The Tartan is battening down the hatches for finals. So we asked, How will you prepare for finals?

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“I will be trying to optimize per- “Sitting outside soaking up the “Just trying to start earlier.” “I have clearned out my entire “When I do start studying, I’ll be formance by sleeping earlier and sun.” house so I’ll have a nice relaxing partying in Hunt.” eating healthier.” space to study.” A10 « thetartan.org/sports The Tartan » April 29, 2013 Tennis travels to UAA Conference Championships Women take second place Men place fourth, finish 13–7 Abby Smith On Friday afternoon, the Tartans in Friday’s match Staffwriter team beat the No. 10 Wash- was won by Raschke at No. 6 ington University in St. Louis singles. The Tartans took second to advance to the semifinal Unfortunately, the team place in the UAA Conference round of the UAA Champion- was unable to carry the mo- Championships for the first ship Tournament. After fall- mentum from Friday into Sat- time since 2009 in women’s ing behind 1–0 in doubles urday’s championship game. tennis this weekend, sealing play, the No. 1 pair of Cecil The Tartans lost 9–0 to the an overall record of 12–7. and Pratt came back at 8–4 to No. 3-ranked Emory Univer- The women’s tennis team tie the match at 1–1. Raschke sity Eagles. Although there began their championship and Tsu came back from a were first-set wins in singles run with a 9-0 victory over score of 0-3 to win their sec- play from Martin and Hams- the University of Rochester on ond match of the tournament tra, both lost in the third set Thursday morning, marking and give the Tartans a 2–1 by their opponents. head coach Andrew Girard’s lead with an 8–4 victory. The Tartans now look for- 300th career victory. “The best part of the week- ward to playing in the NCAA The Tartans started the end was having that great Regional Tournament on May match with three wins in doubles and team wins to get 10. “We fought hard in our doubles action as junior Ka- revenge against Wash. U,” Ra- matches and cheered for each tie Cecil and sophomore An- schke said. other among courts,” Raschke gela Pratt won 8–3 at No. 1 Following Tsu’s tough loss said. “We look forward to doubles, sophomore Bryn at No. 4 singles, Cecil won the NCAAs.” Raschke and first-year Brooke Tartans back the lead at 3–2 Hamstra said, “This week- Tsu won 8–1 at No. 2 doubles, with a 6–2, 6–3 win at No. 1 end was really important for File Photo by Jonathan Leung and senior Alex Tapak and singles. us as we approach NCAAs, Sophomore Christian Heaney-Secord beat Eric Halpern from Emory University in the No. 1 singles match on Saturday, but lost to Christopher Krimbill from Case Western Reserve University on Sunday. sophomore Lydia Utkin won Martin was next up in and our second-place finish 8–1 at No. 3 doubles. singles play when she won and win over Emory really Abby Smith Christian Heaney-Secord and preceded by a victory Friday Cecil won her No. 1 singles 7–4, 6–1 at No. 3 singles for showed what we can do when Staffwriter Kumar won their first sets but against the University of Chi- match, followed by a No. 6 her second win of the tour- we work as a team.” fell in the last two sets. cago. Carnegie Mellon began victory by Raschke. First-year nament. With only one more “I would like to see us The 16th-ranked Carnegie Yesterday’s loss was espe- the match sweeping doubles Elizabeth Martin and Tsu point needed for the team vic- carry the team unity we had Mellon men’s tennis team suf- cially tough after a 5–4 loss to play before taking a 4–0 lead each turned in wins at No. 3 tory, Pratt led with a three-set this weekend into Regionals fered a tough 6–3 loss against No. 3 Emory University Eagles as Alla won 6–1, 6–2 at No. 2 singles and No. 4 singles, re- come back win No. 2 singles. and come out with a win,” she Case Western Reserve Uni- just the day before. Yu and singles. spectively. Pratt overcame a 6–0 deficit added. versity on Sunday morning to sophomore Thomas Cooper Alla’s victory was followed The final two singles vic- after the first set to win 6–4 take fourth place in the UAA tied the match at 1–1 with an by a win by Heaney-Secord, tories came from Pratt at No. and 7–5 for the fifth and de- Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Martin Conference Championships. 8-5 win at No. 2 doubles be- who sealed the Tartan’s vic- 2 singles and first-year Abbey ciding match point. and Alex Tapak are staffwriters This makes the Tartans’ re- fore Beisswanger and Kumar tory by winning a three-set Hamstra at No. 5 singles. The final point for the for The Tartan. cord 13–7 for the season. came from behind to win 9–7 match, coming back to win in “We’ve had some tough at No. 3 doubles. 6–2, 6–1 after dropping the losses to deal with this week- Holding a 2–1 lead, the first set 5–7. end, but they’ve been against Tartans fell in singles match- Carnegie Mellon then good teams and we’re looking es at No. 4 and No. 3 to lose sealed the win at No. 3 and ahead now,” first-year Yuvraj the lead before first-year Ab- No. 4 singles. Miller won in Kumar said. hishek Alla won 6-2, 6–2 at with 6–0, 4–6, 6–4 at No. 3 The team received points No. 2 singles. This tied the while Kumar won 7–5, 6–3 at in the match against Case overall score at 3–3. No. 4. Western from the doubles win After Alla’s win, the Eagles Overall, the team remains by sophomore Bryce Beiss- regained the lead with a win positive and looks forward wanger and Kumar, along at No. 5 singles and secured to future matches and new with a win by senior Duke the win with a victory at No. opportunities to improve its Miller at No. 3 singles and a 6 singles. record. No. 6 singles victory by senior “We are still trying to come “We had a good win Jooho Yu. together as a team,” Heaney- against Chicago, which really Although the Tartans led Secord said. “We are close to boosted our confidence into 4–3, the match point came having a breakthrough but Emory,” Kumar said. “I think down to the No. 1 and No. 2 haven’t gotten one yet. We we’re just getting better with singles games, both of which played Emory really tough every match and if we make were heart-wrenching tie- though.” NCAA regionals we’re going breakers. Both sophomore The Tartans’ losses were to come out firing.”

File Photos by Jonathan Leung File Photo by Jonathan Leung The women’s tennis team will next play in the NCAA Regional Tournament on May 10. Sophomore Thomas Cooper and senior Jooho Yu beat Emory University at No. 2 doubles on Saturday. April 29, 2013 « The Tartan thetartan.org/sports » A11 Ultimate team ties for fifth commentary YUK, from A12 end. The runs off the disc, the were up at half-time; we Steelers’ draft picks add youth quick combination throws, just came up a little short,” Carl Glazer the team, so Bell will bring Charlie Batch fill in for Ro- an early lead and never re- and even the long bombs Koorapati said. Staffwriter some much-needed depth. ethlisberger for the fourth linquishing it. Mr. Yuk then were finding their marks this Kane said of this weekend, Bell is a strong running back straight year. Jones can make focused on Millersville Uni- weekend, Kane said. “There was a ton of effort, but The NFL Draft — and the who fits the traditional Pitts- and throw in the book, but he versity, whom it beat 13–7. When playing Pennsylva- any shortcomings came down TV spectacle that it has be- burgh ground-and-pound of- is slow in his release, which Mr. Yuk ended up losing the to lack of depth and not ex- come in recent years — ended fensive style, while also bring- gives defenders a chance to last game of group play with ecuting [in vital moments].” this weekend. The Steelers ing the pass-catching ability close whatever hole he was a score of 11–12 against the “We wanted The loss ended the tourna- came into the draft aimed at to work in the modern pass- trying to throw into. Jones University of Cincinnati. The to be a strong ment and the season for Mr. getting younger members on oriented league. was part of a quarterback teams were evenly matched, Yuk. their offensive line and the Markus Wheaton, a wide class that was largely unim- but the Tartans could not pull contender... Mr. Yuk was proud of its entirety of their defense. The receiver from Oregon State pressive compared to last ahead before the time ran out. season; according to Koorapa- Steelers also had to replenish University, was worthy of the year’s and took a slide in the It was a position Mr. Yuk has and we ti, they went into the season some of the depth at their skill Steelers third-round selec- draft as a result. been in many times; Koorapa- definitely were, wanting to be competitive positions like quarterback, tion. Wheaton has the mea- The Steelers addressed ti said “the team played in a against the best teams in the running back, and wide re- surables to be a starting re- their age at cornerback in the lot of close games all year.” regardless of conference, and they met that ceiver, after losing players to ceiver in the NFL, but doesn’t fifth round by selecting Terry For the last match on Sat- the final place goal. The team also had a both free agency and age. always play like it. Wheaton Hawthorne out of the Uni- urday and all of Sunday, the strong season overall: Mr. Yuk The Steelers’ first-round has great speed, but can be a versity of Illinois at Urbana- tournament’s format became result.” went 24–8 all season and nev- pick, the 17th overall, was little iffy on his route running, Champaign. Hawthorne is a single-elimination bracket, er lost more than two games Jarvis Jones, an outside line- neutralizing most of that ad- a tall, long corner with the with seeding decided by re- in any one tournament. The —Nipunn Koorapati, backer from the University of vantage. He is stepping into speed and the physical attri- sults on Saturday. Carnegie team also improved upon Georgia. Jones does not have big shoes, as Wheaton was butes to be a great player. His Mellon’s 2–1 record meant Team captain particular aspects of its play: the prototypical physical at- drafted to help replace re- on-field performance has not that the team had to win all of Kane explained, “often [Mr. tributes desired in a standard ceiver Mike Wallace, who left lived up to this physical prow- the single-elimination match- Yuk] would start ahead a lot, 3–4 outside linebacker, but for the Miami Dolphins in the ess, though, and his field vi- es to advance to Nationals. nia State University, Carnegie and in the past, prior teams more than makes up for it offseason. sion and instincts leave much Mr. Yuk hit the ground Mellon brought that momen- would not hold on, but this with his speed, strength, and to be desired. Hawthorne can running, winning the first two tum with them and jumped team rallied and got better at quick play recognition. He be frustratingly inconsistent, matches of the single-elimina- out in front early, leading finishing those games off.” was drafted to replace all-pro The Steelers showing flashes of greatness tion tournament against Ship- Penn State 8–6 at halftime; That level of stability is linebacker James Harrision, came into the followed by stretches of being pensburg University (14–12) however, Carnegie Mellon’s something that Kane is look- who was cut as the Steelers out of position and making and Kenyon College (14–10). lead shrank until the team ing forward to building on desperately tried to get under draft aimed at bonehead plays. The team was playing well ended up losing 12–14. “We while cultivating further new the salary cap this offseason. getting younger The Steelers rounded out with high energy all week- played them close, and we talent going into next year. Picking Jones is not with- their draft with sixth-round out risk, though, since he members. picks, Justin Brown, a wide comes with a shaky injury receiver from Oklahoma, and past. Jones started his career Vince Williams, a linebacker with University of South- With the first of their two from Florida State University, ern California, but was not fourth-round picks, the Steel- plus a seventh-round pick, cleared to return to play after ers selected all-pro safety Troy Nicholas Williams, a defen- suffering a neck injury dur- Polamalu’s eventual replace- sive tackle out of Samford ing his first year, prompting ment in Syracuse University University. the transfer to Georgia. Jones safety Shamarko Thomas. Overall, this was a good also lacks some of the pass- Thomas is a physically pun- draft for the Steelers — it rushing technique needed ishing safety, very similar to firmed out the team’s founda- to exceed at the professional Polamalu, but does not yet tion that will hopefully allow level, often quitting on a rush have the instincts and vision them to outperform their 8–8 if it is not initially successful. that made Polamalu great. record from last year. They In the second round, the Thankfully, Thomas will have filled in many of the depth is- Steelers took Le’Veon Bell, a a year or two to spend back- sues on offense and found cur- running back from Michigan ing up Polamalu to learn from rent and future replacements State University. Bell was tak- one of the best. for the aging defense. The en in an attempt to add some The second fourth-round further development of last stability to a backfield that pick was used on quarterback year’s top two picks, guard shuffled through Rashard Ben Roethlisberger’s new David DeCastro and tackle Mendenhall, Issac Redman, backup, quarterback Landry Mike Adams, should aid in

Courtesy of Canute Haroldson and Jonathan Dwyer due to Jones from the University of the transition of the Steelers Carnegie Mellon’s Ultimate team, Mr. Yuk, traveled to the USA Ultimate Ohio Valley Division-I College Region- injury and performance is- Oklahoma. Jones was picked from an aging veteran team to als this weekend and ended up tying for fifth. sues. Only Dwyer is still with to avoid having the aging a youthful, experienced one. A12 « thetartan.org/sports The Tartan » April 29, 2013

Track and field teams finish UAAs on right foot Mr. Yuk Vinay Viswanathan Gino Pilato placed third in 1:52.77, placing him as the 5,000-meter, while senior of 56.72 seconds. First-year Staffwriter the discus with a 43.79-meter 14th-fastest 800-runner this Leila Bouabdellaoui received Brandon Hoane placed sev- throw. season in Division III. ninth in the 3,000-meter stee- enth in the triple jump. attends The men’s and women’s Junior distance runner Senior Ben Nealy and plechase. From the women, Jacque- track and field teams traveled Joshua Newby cited the first-year Marc-Daniel Julien “We had a pretty good line Guevel swept away the to New York City last weekend throwers as one of the key each finished in fifth place showing... maybe this year competition in the hurdles, open to compete in the UAA Cham- components to the Tartans’ in the 400-meter dash and was more of a learning expe- winning the 100-meter event Karthik Nagalingam pionships, hosted by New York success at UAAs, saying, “the 1,500-meter race, respec- rience than anything else,” in 14.43 seconds and the Junior Staffwriter University. The women’s team throwers were clutch today.” tively. Newby said, “the most Bayer said. 400-meter in 1:02.23. Her finished in sixth place of the On the women’s throw- exciting moment for the team Sprinters and jumpers 100-meter performance is The Carnegie Mellon seven teams in competition ing side, senior Sarah Menio was when Marc-Daniel Julien, had a vital role for the team. ninth in the nation, while her men’s Ultimate team, Mr. with 53 points, while the men threw the discus 32.73 meters a first-year, improved by five Sophomore Mike McDermott 400 is fourth; Guevel qualified Yuk, took part in the USA claimed second with 177. for sixth place, and senior Ca- seconds in the 800 yesterday won the high jump in a 1.98 for Nationals during UAAs due Ultimate’s Ohio Valley Di- Throwers from both rissa Iannone won eighth in and a 10-second gain for a PR meter jump. Also winning was to her impressive times. vision-I College Open Re- teams exhibited tremendous the javelin with a performance [personal record] today.” the 4x400-meter relay team Sasha Spalding finished gionals this weekend. The performances at the UAAs. of 28.61 meters. Julien said the UAAs was of first-year Doug O’Connell, sixth in the 200, and Jenna team went 4–2 this tourna- Zachary Erra-Hernandez, The distance team excelled “personally the best track Julien, senior Noel Titus, and Asperslag, who pulled her ment and ended up tied for a junior thrower who is as well. Newby, who placed meet of my year.” Vandenberg. Titus finished hamstring prior to the final fifth after being awarded finishing off a season full of first in the steeplechase and The women’s distance second in both the 100-meter heat in the 100-meter dash, the third seed at the onset new personal records, won fourth in the 5,000-meter run, team faced intense competi- and 200-meter competitions. still walked through the fin- of the tournament. the discus event, throwing said, “everyone performed re- tion from teams including First-year Ben Neiman, ish line to give a point to her Head coach Aaron Kane 44.69 meters. First-year Paul ally well,” elaborating, “Billy NYU and the University of Chi- competing after struggling team. said the team was disap- Hamerski threw 52.36 meters Littlefield scored us a point in cago, but still saw a 37:19.69 with injuries for a portion of “The team overall did real- pointed with the overall in the javelin in a third-place the 10k, and Marc-Daniel [Ju- second-place finish in the the season, placed third in the ly well all around on the field result, having high expec- performance, while junior lien] scored for the 1500-me- 10,000-meter by senior Emily 110-meter hurdles with a per- and on the track,” Julien said. tations of finishing in the Nathan Cheek and David ter.” Wobb. sonal record of 15.72 seconds, Both the men’s and women’s top two. The team took Markowitz added fourth- and Sophomore Tommy Van- Sophomore Halley Bayer and junior Mike Standish teams will travel to Allegheny solace in the fact that the sixth-place performances, denberg won the 800-meter won eighth and junior Elise claimed third in the 400-me- College’s Gator Invitational on loss came against the best respectively, in the javelin. with a season-best time of Hall claimed ninth in the ter hurdles with a season best May 10. schools in the conference. Captain Nipunn Koorapati, a master’s student in electri- cal and computer engineer- ing, said, “[We] wanted to be a strong contender in the region, and we definitely were, regardless of the final place result.” Mr. Yuk had a busy weekend, with six matches over the course of Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, the tournament featured a round robin format, in which teams were split into groups of four and played three matches against the other members in the group. Carnegie Mellon faced Saint Joseph’s University and emerged with a 13–8 victory after pulling out to File Photo by Alan Vangpat File Photo by Alan Vangpat File Photo by Alan Vangpat Both men’s and women’s teams performed well in the track and field events in the UAA Championships at New York University last weekend. See YUK, A11 Gallery Crawl

Best films of 2012–13 Check out this list of the year’s top films for a college student audience • B6

04.29.13 Volume 107, Issue 26 ...this week only 3 Radiolab Jad Abumrad explores the unexpected benefits of tension in his work as a radio co-host. 4 Romeo & Juliet The School of Drama gives the Shakespeare classic a modern twist. 5 Culture show One Night in Beijing captivates its audience with a vibrant display of Chinese culture. 6 Best films This list evaluates the top movies for college students of the 2012–13 academic school year. 7 Television Arrested Development is scheduled to return for its fourth season in late May. 8 Gallery Crawl The Cultural District’s quarterly arts and culture event is enthralling but overwhelming. 10 Garden of Light 8 A new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History showcases dazzling jewelry.

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3 Advice 11 Comics Veteran advice columnist Patrick Hoskins says A riddle, a pie chart, and two original comics goodbye to his readers. — what more could you ask for? 13 Puzzles Don’t wait till August for the solutions; they’ll 7 Dollar Movie be up on our website this week. AB Films presents Students’ Choice weekend with Looper, Zero Dark Thirty, and Mulan. 14 Horoscopes What will you do over the summer without any predictions? 10 Did You Know? Did you know that former Vice President Al 15 Calendar Gore was the 2008 commencement speaker? Check out this week’s calendar for things to do in the last week before final exams.

PUBLISHER Jennifer Coloma EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Josh Smith PILLBOX EDITOR Rachel Cohen Assistant Pillbox Editor Laura Scherb COMICS EDITOR Kairavi Chahal ART EDITOR Annette Ko PHOTO EDITOR Kate Groschner COPY MANAGER Evan Kahn COVER Jonathan Carreon

The Tartan . Box 119 . UC Suite 103 . Carnegie Mellon University . 5000 Forbes Ave . Pittsburgh, PA 15213 . www.thetartan.org . © 2013 The Tartan Abumrad offers a science journalist’s perspective Radiolab co-host describes the tensions that are integral to both discussing science and doing his job

Fighting with your best friend, studying for a challenging During college, Abumrad studied music composition and the intensity of science” to create a meaningful and exam, pulling on a rubber band until it almost snaps — creative reading, dreaming of writing scores for film. But memorable learning experience for listeners. Working all of these things create what we define as tension. But after writing one full score for a feature film, he realized hard to find a balance between science and philosophy, what about a well-told story? According to Radiolab co- that path wasn’t quite right for him. His fascination with wonder and fact, Abumrad acknowledged that stress is host Jad Abumrad, that involves tension, too. the abstractions of science and nature began in his mid- an important part of what he does. “It means I’m doing 20s, and it wasn’t until then that he began to find a place my job,” he said. Abumrad and his co-host Robert Krulwich have spent to combine all of his interests. years developing Radiolab, a popular NPR program Like any other endeavor, Radiolab sometimes has now in its 11th season that has become known for its He started Radiolab with Krulwich in 2005 and has been failures, as Abumrad was quick to point out. There are accessibility in dealing with challenging scientific and filling a gap in science journalism ever since. Listeners times when conflicts can’t be resolved on the show lofty philosophical questions. Abumrad and Krulwich have come to expect a lot from a Radiolab episode; in and when no real answer comes out of an interview. ask real questions and look for real answers that can addition to the compelling content, the show features To Krulwich and Abumrad, however, it’s important to a unique production style. Incorporating music, sound broadcast their failures, because their job is to explore be understood by real people — and they do so in an effects, and raw interview clips — interspersed with the world, and failures are to be expected. entertaining and engaging way. That’s something that live questions from the hosts — creates a natural flow of few can brag about. thought that guides listeners on a mental journey. The lecture was announced just days before, which may have contributed to the low audience turnout. But for Abumrad’s talk on Tuesday, hosted by AB Lectures, In many ways, each episode is like a musical those who were there, Abumrad’s experiences held real was humorous, honest, and inspiring. His story is one of composition, with slower buildup sections and high- value. As his work with Radiolab has made him keenly uncertainty, setbacks — and, well, tension. He embodies intensity crescendos into the meat of the story. Every aware of, we are a “network of sometimes-contradictory some combination of journalist, musician, producer, second of the show is more compelling and engaging thoughts,” and, to Abumrad, that’s okay. What really scientist, and philosopher, but he is none of these things than the second before, seducing the listener, as matters is how we react to the tension. in the traditional sense. The tension in his job is “the Abumrad put it. “It’s kind of slutty,” he joked. kind of tension that lies in the head of someone who’s Perhaps the most difficult part of creating the show, doing something that’s hard to describe,” he said. he noted, is balancing “the stickiness of stories and Allison Cosby | Contributing Editor

Advice for awkward people A departing columnist offers a final blessing to his (two) loyal readers

Dear Patrick, handsome. If you really rely on advice from a college Dear I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I TASTE PEANUT newspaper, you probably have problems that can’t be BUTTER, Is it true? Is this really your last column? Who will addressed in this column. I turn to to solve my existential crises? Who will Relax. There are no giant ants. It’s a dream. You’ll offer pithy solutions to my banal problems? Have a drink in my honor, be okay. I’m aware of the chair I’m sitting in. The Old Patrick Hoskins English changes to ashes in my mouth. I cough them Thanks, up but nothing comes out. The computer stares back at Ire Necessary, Escaping Everyone, Doubtless me. Every time I press a key it lets out a quiet scream. It Yearning Oncoming Unavoidably Dear Patrick, hurts. Every type hurts. The “Q” feels safe. No one hits the Q. I hit the Q. It screams louder than the rest. Where Dear I NEED YOU, I can’t move my body. I look down. My legs are am I? The keys fight back. They press my fingers. jelly. Look up. The clouds are jelly. Everything is (No one’s ever said that to me before.) Take a deep jelly. I’m on a piece of toast. The sky is peanut I cry. I can’t stop. The keys type me. What am I doing? breath. I know it will be hard. I’m not sure what I’ll do butter. The sky is falling. I’m in a sandwich. My Where am I? Someone passed out behind me. The when I can’t bestow my pearls of wisdom to my two bones are the crunch in the peanut butter. I smell guitar stops. My tears are now of joy. The silence is loyal readers. I may have to walk up to people on the delicious. Someone drops the sandwich. I crawl endless. Silence everywhere. I taste the silence. Please street and tell them how to properly live their lives. I’ve away. Giant monsters surround me. Six-legged make noise, any noise. I look down and my fingers done that before, but who knew mothers didn’t want a beasts. Mandibles close around me. I try to are sausages. The keys are the forks of party-goers 22-year-old dude telling them how to raise their kids? scream. I taste peanut butter. Help. at a fancy cocktail party. Poking and prodding. Am I Is it my fault they’re doing it wrong? (Answer: Yes — I cooked already? They’re so hungry. Why is everything should have addressed it in this column.) Thanks, on a skewer? Now they have to spend the whole party I’m Hairless, Avaricious, Voracious Eating Nonstop, walking around with the skewers. I smell delicious. Once I’m gone, you’ll probably try to find some other Ogres Mouth-breathing, Orifices Ultimately Trifle, substitute, going up to other dashing young men you Helplessly Am Noodles, Dying I’m Tastelessly Cut me some slack, it’s my last column, meet and asking them for advice. When I’m gone, Attacked, Somehow Tirelessly Enervated, Please, Patrick Hoskins someone else will be taking over this column — although Eagerly Advise, Need Unusual Tips, Bloodlines that person won’t be as wise as I am, or witty, or Utterly Terminated, Terriers Eagerly Ruminate Need advice? Send queries to [email protected].

art pillbox 04.29.13 3 Romeo & Juliet stays relevant, vibrant School of Drama presents classic in a current context that preserves play’s power

If you’re currently reading this article and don’t know Hagenbuch and senior acting major Grace Rao support was occasionally distracting. At times it drowned out the story of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, you the entire play as the title characters, and each does a the actors or made the production feel a little bit too should probably just stop reading. No? All right, if thou great job at avoiding the usual pitfalls that accompany cinematic. That being said, when it worked (such as the doth persist. The timeless classic tells the story of young the roles (e.g. being whiny, foolish, immature, etc.). use of “What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park at the conclusion lovers Romeo and Juliet whose respective families are Senior acting major Lachlan McKinney takes the role of the first half) it made the play really hit you in the gut. locked in a perpetual feud. Their love goes through of Friar Lawrence and does a lot of great things with it. multiple trials until they finally find peace in committing McKinney expertly swings from providing comic relief Romeo & Juliet is a tough play to do because just about suicide in each other’s arms. to portraying a man helplessly watching everyone’s lives everyone knows how it’s going to end (Shakespeare fall apart, and he does it with all the commitment and even lays it all out in the opening prologue, though Just about everyone has been told this story, so what energy that makes people forget they’re watching an this production leaves those lines for the end). For a makes a production of the play stand out is how the actor pretend to be someone else. production to have any resonance for the audience, the story is told. The School of Drama’s production of Romeo story must be told in a new and exciting way that they & Juliet, directed by voice and speech professor Don The set is minimally decorated but encompasses haven’t seen before. The School of Drama definitely Wadsworth, definitely takes an interesting and relevant multiple levels, allowing the action to occur in numerous found a good way to showcase both the talents of approach to the time-tested tale. places. The actors all inhabit a space that’s closed in its students (everything from acting to set design on three sides by chain-link fence, a set that highlights to lighting) and prove that a play written during the This Romeo & Juliet is set in the modern day, and this the urban environment in which the play is set, as well Elizabethan era can still pack a punch and be relevant setting helps bring forth many of the central themes of as the characters’ feeling of entrapment, both in their today. Romeo & Juliet is a play that perfectly embraces the play. Phone cameras and Facebook statuses figure inability to love each other due to the feud and their what it’s like to be young and in love, and that’s a feeling prominently in the characters’ actions, and costuming inability to change their fate and eventual demise. that anyone can somehow relate to. and music choices firmly establish the play in the present. By setting the 500-year-old tale in the ecstasy- The decision to incorporate modern-day music into fueled, individualistic culture of today’s youth, this the production is an interesting one, but the music Joey Peiser | Junior Staffwriter production conveys the continued resonance of Romeo and Juliet’s story and illustrates why this show will never die.

Romeo and Juliet perfectly capture the rush of being in love and the desire to make that feeling, that one moment in time, last forever despite daunting circumstances. The violence of the play also speaks volumes about the needlessness of the deaths in today’s society, especially since it all occurs amongst youth. Just as with the recent explosion of mass shootings around the country, the youth of Romeo & Juliet die for reasons completely unknown to them, and that makes their drive to fulfill their lives all the more powerful.

As with most School of Drama productions, the acting as a whole is top notch. Senior acting major Brian Morabito takes full advantage of the extroverted Mercutio, turning him into a whiskey-swigging, coke-sniffing loose cannon. Senior acting major Marquis Wood’s Tybalt perfectly complements Morabito by matching that level of energy, but with laser-sharp focus. Senior acting major Alex Spieth’s Nurse kept the audience in stitches throughout with her sharp comic delivery and occasional sips from a flask.

And of course, it wouldn’t be Romeo & Juliet without a Romeo and a Juliet. Senior acting major Adam

Romeo, played by senior acting major Adam Hagenbuch, and Juliet, played by senior acting major Grace Rao, meet at a masquerade ball. Courtesy of Louis Stein

theater 4 pillbox 04.29.13 One Night in Beijing whisks students away ‘The White Serpent’ performance explores ancient Chinese legends, poetry, and song

For students who grew up in more homogenous areas, While this diversity is easily seen walking from class to with their love. The story is punctuated with dance, coming to Carnegie Mellon can be eye opening in many class, each group also has representation on campus song, and music, many of which portray ancient Chinese ways. One of the perks of this community is the diversity through the many organizations that celebrate the traditions. seen on campus. culture with which they identify. The production was engaging throughout. While the One of these organizations, Awareness of Roots in moral of the story could be considered cheesy, the actors Chinese Culture (ARCC), chose to share Chinese culture did not take themselves too seriously, adding humor through its annual show, One Night in Beijing. Directed that supplemented their overall message. Students by ARCC president Victor Dong and One Night in spent large amounts of time preparing for the show, as Beijing coordinator Dennis Liang, this production is one evidenced by the number of props and costumes. that helps students feel connected to Chinese culture. While most of the acts were enjoyable, the standout Because it is the one big event for ARCC each year, performances were those that emphasized aspects of students old and new begin working on the show nearly Chinese culture while fusing them with more modern two months in advance, and they find it extremely qualities. One such performance, “Deep in the Quiet rewarding. First-year undeclared Dietrich College Night,” used fans and interpretive dance to depict student Vira Shao said the reason she joined the an ancient Chinese poem and featured beautiful production was that she felt “out of touch with her roots choreography. and wanted to reconnect.” But arguably the best performance of the night was “A However, the performance is not just rewarding for the Love Before Time,” a song from the movie Crouching performers themselves: The production also compels Tiger, Hidden Dragon. First-year chemical engineering audience members to feel connected to the Chinese and biomedical engineering double major Carrie Qiu had culture, regardless of whether or not they identify with a voice that outshone the rest, and she delivered a lovely it. performance at the end of the show.

This year’s theme was “The White Serpent,” based on One Night in Beijing was a great experience for those the legend of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, who cross the wanting a taste of Chinese tradition. It was satisfying to barriers between the spirit world and the mortal world see a performance in which students are proud of their heritage and are inspired to share it with the rest of the student body. Students perform a dance number with fans as part of Awareness of Roots in Chinese Culture’s One Night in Beijing in Rangos on Saturday night. Diana Pacilio | Junior Staffwriter Courtesy of Dennis Liang

community pillbox 04.29.13 5 A comprehensive movie guide: 2012–13 Take a look back at this school year in film through this thematic, approachable list of movies

This isn’t your typical high-brow list filled with Oscar Sam Rockwell and the incredible Christopher Walken, The Troublemakers nominations or European art films. Let’s face it: Argo was respectively — who run a dog-kidnapping business. far from the best picture of the year and only won Best Little do they know how much trouble they run into Django Unchained Picture because it kissed Hollywood’s butt and featured when they steal the beloved Shih Tzu of a dangerous and the comeback of Ben Affleck and his amazing facial hair. psychotic L.A. mobster named Charlie, played by Woody Quentin Tarantino’s wild Spaghetti Western epic is — as The films listed below are the ones that impacted college Harrelson. The story possesses incredible twists and expected — filled with rich dialogue and spectacular students. They’re actually exciting, and they took us to turns that make the film very dark, yet genuinely funny performances that make it one of the most entertaining another world without leaving us hopeless or depressed within seconds. Walken is pitch-perfect as the delicately pictures of the year. With several stylistic showdowns at the end (*cough* Amour *cough*). In no particular cunning Hans, and Farrell is marvelous as the anxiety- between a vengeful Jamie Foxx as Django and Leonardo order, we present to you some of the best films of the driven character driven into a whirlwind of psychopaths. DiCaprio as Calvin Candie — a southern version of a 2012–13 school year. Together, they make for a truly entertaining picture. young monarch who likes to play sick games — Django Unchained exceeds any other film this year in terms of Facing Morality Without Sentimentality Man vs. Beast, Man as Beast explosive charisma and energy.

Flight Life of Pi Spring Breakers

Don’t let the trailer fool you. While at first glance it may Ang Lee managed to make a seemingly unfilmable book There are going to be expectations when Disney starlets seem like a ridiculous plot centered around Denzel into one of the best films in recent history. The story play wild party girls spending their college spring break Washington commandeering an upside-down airplane, revolves around a teenage Indian boy named Pi who has with a “gangster with a heart of gold” named Alien, Flight presents a very real and very difficult struggle lost everything, including his family, in a shipwreck. Pi played by a James Franco complete with cornrows, over addiction and responsibility. Washington gives a finds himself stranded in the vast nothingness of the tattoos, and grills. While it may seem like an airheaded powerhouse performance as the alcoholic pilot driven to sea with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. A visual excuse for exploiting young actresses, Spring Breakers humility and acceptance over the destructive choices and spiritual masterpiece of cinema, Life of Pi is a rare takes a sudden and dark turn that feels more like a real- that make this film so believable and human. treasure that makes a viewer question not only the life experience than an actual film. Director Harmony journey that Pi faces, but how one should view life itself: Korine creates a splashy, fizzy portrait of a spring break The Sessions Should we focus only on the inevitable dark misfortunes gone too far — yet he infuses it with enough life that it’s of life, or should we convert those misfortunes into a hard not become invested in the girls’ wild journey. Plus, A story about a quadriplegic who vows to lose his beautiful experience of its own? In a way, everyone there is a Britney Spears montage. Enough said. virginity with the help of a sex surrogate, The Sessions has a little bit of Pi in them, which makes this film a is an incredibly beautiful film about living a life magnificent ode to life and how we as human beings unrestrained by fear and paralysis, physical or otherwise. should decide to live it. The Modern Masterpiece John Hawkes provides a miraculously powerful yet accessible portrait of a man who wants to live a normal The Heart Warmers Anna Karenina but fulfilling life — one that not only moves viewers to tears but also inspires them to do the same. Silver Linings Playbook One of the most overlooked films of this year, the newest adaptation of Anna Karenina provides a bizarre The Mind Bender A story about mental disease and about moving on with yet entrancingly beautiful new look for the Tolstoy life, Silver Linings Playbook is a romantic comedy done classic. Joe Wright, director of films such as Pride and Looper right. With Bradley Cooper as an estranged husband Prejudice, Atonement, and Hanna creates a blazing diagnosed with bipolar disorder and Jennifer Lawrence theatricality that enhances the majestic Russian setting Expertly blending futuristic sci-fi with old-school as a sex-crazed but wounded widow, there is plenty as well as the dramatic nature of the story. With Keira gangster movies, Looper follows time-traveling mobsters of homely spark that provides warmth and joy for its Knightley playing the doomed protagonist, she provides who kill victims sent from the future. Rather than getting viewers. In its vulnerable characters lies the relatable a charming and complex portrait that falls in love with bogged down in the mechanics of time travel, Looper core of this film, making it a journey of hope and the seductive Count Vronsky, played by Aaron Taylor instead focuses on thorough character development, acceptance for two seemingly messed-up characters Johnson. The film is gloriously unique with its dream-like allowing for a meaningful and contemplative story arc. who find each other in chaotic circumstances. aura and fabulous performances that uphold the classic novel’s reputation. Seven Psychopaths The Intouchables Hopefully, this will serve as a refreshing guide from the Written and directed by legendary playwright Martin A cultural sensation in its native France, The otherwise redundant lists that overlooked a few films. McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths is a refreshing black Intouchables is a storytelling miracle in which a rich With a wide array of genres and themes, there are many comedy crime film with an all-star cast that delivers quadriplegic named Phillipe befriends a man off the great experiences to be had when watching some of amazing performances and biting wit. The film begins street named Driss and hires him as a caretaker. While the best movies that helped us survive another year as with a seemingly harmless and playful plot around a it seems like an overdone formula, The Intouchables college students. struggling screenwriter named Marty, played by Colin conveys fresh and true feelings of affection and love that Farrell, trying to find the perfect movie. He becomes develop in the strongest human relationships. entangled in a dog kidnapping plot while trying to Andie Park | Junior Staffwriter deal with two men named Billy and Hans — played by Joe Anthony Martinez | Junior Staffwriter

film 6 pillbox 04.29.13 Arrested Development to return next month Nearly a decade later, fourth season of the television comedy will premiere on Netflix

After a seven-year hiatus, the critically acclaimed last episode was filmed, most of the original cast will be television comedy Arrested Development will return with resuming their original roles, including Jason Bateman a new season starting on May 26. The show, originally as Michael Bluth, Portia de Rossi as his sister Lindsay produced by and aired on FOX, was cancelled in 2006 Fünke, Jessica Walter as their mother Lucille Bluth, due to low ratings and a lack of viewers — even though Michael Cera as Michael’s son George Michael Bluth, it won multiple awards, including six Emmys and one David Cross as Lindsay’s husband Tobias Fünke, and Golden Globe. Jeffrey Tambor as the patriarch of the family, George Bluth, Sr. The show also features Ron Howard as the For years, there were rumors that a spin-off movie based voice of the narrator in addition to his role as producer. on the show was being written and produced, Arrested Development has remained off the air and the screen Many of the guest characters featured on the show since 2006. Now, the show is back — but as opposed to are also returning to the now Netflix-exclusive series, airing weekly on FOX, the fourth season will premiere including Liza Minnelli and Ben Stiller. In addition to the solely on Netflix, which will release all 15 episodes returning characters, the show also boasts a Hollywood- simultaneously. hefty playbill for the new season, including guest stars such as Isla Fisher, John Slattery, and Kristen Wiig. Renowned for its tongue-in-cheek attitude toward issues like homosexuality, incest, alcohol, and tax evasion, It’s both surprising and praiseworthy that, after such a but Arrested Development focuses on the drama long break, the show would attract not only such a star- surrounding the Bluth family — drama that they cause studded returning cast but an influx of such well-known and inevitably exacerbate. Sometimes touching and guest stars. Perhaps even more surprising is the amount sometimes just plain weird, the show has one constant: of public attention and hype the show has gained in Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons quirky charm. anticipation of the new season. New memes based on David Cross, who plays Tobias Fünke, is among the the show are circulating and quotes from the show are Arrested Development actors who will resume their Its charm is largely due to the cast of the show, and popping up in conversation: It’s clear that people are original roles on the show. when it was announced that the show would be talking about it. revamped, there were concerns about maintaining this originality. However, despite the six-year gap since the While it had its shortcomings, perhaps the show’s Netflix exclusive series will return with a bang and make absence has made viewers realize how much they the comeback even more exciting than the original missed the quirky Bluth family. Though the show’s past series. main problems have been low viewership and audience ratings, Arrested Development has always received respectable reviews from critics. Hopefully, the new Laura Scherb | Assistant Pillbox Editor

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Looper Zero Dark Thirty Mulan Thursday, May 2 Friday, May 3 Saturday, May 4 7:30 10 7 10 1 8 10 12

In Looper, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis play Last year’s media frenzy surrounding Zero Dark Thirty Take a trip back to your childhood with 1998’s Mulan, the same dude, divided by time travel — one’s the hero, mostly centered around its depiction of torture in the certainly one of the finer Disney musicals of that decade. the other’s the villain. Writer/director Rian Johnson has hunt for Osama bin Laden. It’s unfortunate because, The film, set during China’s Han Dynasty, depicts the an inspiring faith in love — in this case, showing that it while those sequences play like an artsy version of 24, journey of a woman who masquerades as a man in can drive someone to evil. The film’s virtue is in its pure the film is otherwise an extraordinary procedural. Jessica order to join the army and fight against a Hun invasion. strength as both a genre-based product and a vessel Chastain turns in an explosive performance as Maya, a Since it’s a Disney musical, she is required to carry for human observation. Looper has a few interesting CIA agent who spearheaded the bin Laden investigation. along a colorful pair of animals of different species — things to say about time travel, but it has more poignant A series of great supporting performances, a tense and in this case, a dragon and a cricket. Mulan lacks the insights on sacrifice, morality, and fatherhood. It’s forceful screenplay, and a final 50 minutes that will glue memorable songs of The Lion King or Aladdin, but is an intensely interesting picture that will one day be you to your chair make this a political procedural not to markedly improved by a level of visual splendor rarely recognized as a pillar of science fiction. be missed, and one of the best pictures of 2012. achieved in animation. television pillbox 04.29.13 7 Gallery Crawl features film, sculpture, food, vendors, live comedy of the Cultural District Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presents an overwhelming overview of Downtown Pittsburgh in sweeping exhibition that shows off venues and works by a variety of artists and performers

[ by Xiyu Wang | Staffwriter ] The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust held its quarterly Gallery Crawl on Friday. The Gallery Crawl is a grand tour around the galleries, shops, studios, and restaurants of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District and is free and open to the public.

The Gallery Crawl features an eclectic selection of venues, artists, and performers designed to reflect the lushness and variety of Pittsburgh’s flourishing art scene. It includes both professional and amateur works of art and performance, as well as the wares and services of Jonathan Carreon | Contributing Editor independent local vendors and businesses.

With nearly 40 stops to see and even more events to visit, the Gallery Crawl was completely overwhelming. It is impossible to cover all of the events even in four hours. Throughout the night, there were restaurants filled with activity, music filling the streets, and people rushing in and out of venues; it is almost the exact picture you would think of if asked to dream of a city.

The venues that inspired the atmosphere of the night were just as important as the aura of the Gallery Crawl.

There were some truly awe-inspiring works on display. Jonathan Carreon | Contributing Editor For instance, in the Wood Street Galleries, Gregory Barsamian’s exhibition Memento Mori features a dozen mesmerizing Frankenstein of sculpture and film. Based breathing in and out, and human hearts turning into or so fascinating and dark machinations. Using strobe on his dream recordings, Memento Mori features works birds. Jonathan Carreon | Contributing Editor Jonathan Carreon | Contributing Editor lights and spinning kinetic sculptures, Barsamian that are dark, intense, and surreal. There are paper Wood Street Galleries featured an exhibit of sculpture and film titled Memento Mori by Gregory Barsamian. The exhibit concentrated on rotating objects and the way that light is able to create a new creature altogether, a sort of worms writhing around in tiny rooms, paper bags Another incredible exhibit is Tony Tasset’s Magnolias reflected off them. When the light hit the pictures, which featured the artist, correctly, viewers can see a rotoscope animation. for Pittsburgh, an outdoor installation on the corner of Seventh and Penn avenues. Magnolias features a deceptively simple concept that nonetheless manages to workmanship of these local artisans and buy souvenirs. SPACE gallery— partnered with the mentoring program neighboring venue, Harris Theater, played regionally stun: two bronze magnolia trees placed in a landscape Yet another major component of the Gallery Crawl was Strong Women, Strong Girls (which has a branch at made short films shown on a loop. with a few live magnolia trees and some ivy. familiarizing audiences with the local community. Carnegie Mellon) — featured Mean Girls, an exhibit The Gallery Crawl itself required attendees to venture designed to raise awareness of bullying among girls Pittsburgh public school students also put on a number At first sight, it is almost impossible to tell that the into restaurants and buildings all around the Cultural in America and to encourage positive social change. of performances. Between the Trust Arts Education flowering magnolias are indeed fake; each petal of every District and invited exploration into what the city had Another venue, the August Wilson Center for African- Center and August Wilson Center there were student flower had been individually hand-painted and the tree to offer. There were also a number of venues dedicated American Culture, celebrated and honored the vivacity musicals and choir performances, a fashion show, and itself had been cast from a hand-sculpted replica. The to showcasing work from students in schools around and diversity of African-American culture in Pittsburgh. plenty of dance shows. trees, with their fresh, eternally blooming pink flowers Pittsburgh, as well as from local artists and businesses. on dark black boughs, exude an ethereal sense of beauty On perhaps a less sociopolitical note, there were also The Gallery Crawl is a unique opportunity to experience that becomes even stronger the moment you realize the One of the venues that featured the most student work medium-specific venues such as the ToonSeum, which what Pittsburgh has to offer in terms of culture and trees are not real. was the Trust Arts Education Center, which displays features the work of cartoonists and animators. The entertainment. The only complaint it raised was that it the works of Pittsburgh public schools students, grades ToonSeum is part museum and part comic book shop, a is only a one-day event; it would be more successful if it Another highlight of the evening was the Night K–12. There is an undeniable charm in the works of combination that would excite any cartoon aficionado. spanned over two days. During the Gallery Crawl, there Market, a gathering of local Pittsburgh vendors to some of the younger students: a sense of innocence and Featuring political cartoons, Sunday-morning newspaper were many performances that played at the same time, display their wares. There was an incredible variety of imagination, filled with bright colors, smiley faces, and comics, and animated movie stills, the museum takes making it impossible to see the events all in one night. vendors there, selling food, jewelry, beauty products, the occasional sense of great artistic promise. Among visitors on a lovely little trip down memory lane to art, clothing, accessories, and more. The Night Market the older students, there is a more refined sense of rediscover the magic of cartoons and animation and Anyone who lives in Pittsburgh should go see the Gallery was an amazing opportunity to see the creativity and creative expression and a wide variety of subject matter, appreciate the medium in a new light. Crawl at least once. No matter the person, the Gallery ranging from marriage to race to transportation. After a Crawl will have something to please them. But most Top: The Harris Theater featured clips of short films few hours of seeing professional artwork, it was relaxing The evening also featured a number of performances and importantly, it is an integral part of the city experience. that played on a loop all day for the quarterly Gallery to look at the work of these younger artists. musical acts. For instance, the Arcade Comedy Theater, There is a tangible thrill of excitement and grandiosity Crawl. Left: Gregory Barsamian’s exhibit was based which specializes in alternative and improvisational up and down Liberty and Penn avenues, with music and on recordings of his dreams. Other venues were focused on exploring a certain comedy, continually held brief, bite-sized snippets of activity infused in the evening air, as you pass the shops, Jonathan Carreon | Contributing Editor concept or theme in their exhibits. For instance, the improvisational comedy throughout the night. Also, its restaurants, and bars on an art excursion.

feature feature 8 pillbox 04.29.13 pillbox 04.29.13 9 Did you know? Jewelry exhibit sparkles and shines Carnegie Museum of Natural History presents Garden of Light The Tartan reminds students that school spirit means more than just cheering at athletic events. Students Tucked away at the back of the Hillman Hall of environment, evidenced by names such as “The 100 heading home for the Easter holiday years ago Minerals and Gems in the Carnegie Museum of Undersea Garden” and “Big Blue Marble” for her are urged to reach out to graduating Natural History is a small room filled with dazzling jewelry collections. April 3, 1913 seniors from their hometown and jewels and stunning necklaces, bracelets, brooches, promote the advantages of a Carnegie and more. While they look as though they could The previously mentioned turquoise and gold Tech education. belong to royalty, in reality the precious gems in this necklace is part of “The Undersea Garden” room are the works of artist Paula Crevoshay as part collection. Other standouts in the exhibit include The sixth glass door collapsed in Skibo of the Garden of Light exhibit. the “What is Green?” display, consisting of jewelry Gymnasium. As with the previous characterized by gold swirls and intricately carved five broken panes, it is unclear why As one enters the room, a large turquoise and gems in the emerald hue, as well as the water- years50 ago the door appears to have fallen and gold necklace glittering under its display case centric “Big Blue Marble,” which contains jewels shattered. The Tartan suggests that immediately catches the viewer’s eye. Strategically with opal, pearl, and turquoise. Yet another called April 24, 1963 Skibo should hold off on replacing placed at the center of the room, this necklace drew “Winged Partners” pays tribute to its namesake, the door to air out the stench of the several visitors to the exhibit and was unarguably with glimmering brooches in the shapes of gymnasium and spend other funds the main attraction. Nevertheless, the multitude of butterflies and dragonflies. Even for someone mopping up other areas of campus. sparkling artifacts lining the walls could capture the without any interest in brooches, it is impossible attention of jewelry aficionados and those indifferent not to admire the elegance of Crevoshay’s designs. to jewelry alike. The Housing and Dining Office was Those with no inclination toward jewelry should informally accused by two students of Crevoshay, who has been designing jewelry for more not be discouraged from visiting this exhibit. As 25 breaking the dorm room entry policy than 30 years, began doing so as a hobby. After beautiful as the Garden of Light is, it is educational years ago over spring break. One student had a four years of learning ancient metal techniques as well. There is one display of famous diamonds refrigerator unplugged over the break used in India, she launched her career in jewelry from around the world, where the description April 26, 1988 that caused his milk to spoil and stink design. Crevoshay’s workshops currently span the reads, “Many have adorned the crowns of royalty, up the room. U.S. from New Mexico to New York, with additional while others have been lost in the mists of time.” locations in Thailand and Hong Kong. Her pieces Each gemstone has its source location indicated, A newly approved exam policy puts are priced between $5,000 and $250,000, and have and some are even emphasized, such as the more power in the hands of stressed, been compared to those by designers Fabergé and “Tourmalines of Brazil” collection. This enchanting overworked students. Students are not Lalique. The main reason for such steep prices is exhibit takes visitors out of the museum and years10 ago required to take more than one exam her design process: According to Whirl magazine, transports them to, as the name indicates, a garden on the same day, and classes with final each piece is drawn by hand, and contains 18-karat of light. April 21, 2003 exams cannot have a final project due yellow gold intertwined with gemstones that have on the last day of classes, nor can a been sourced from all over the world. class require both a final exam and a Nikita Mishra | Staffwriter project to be due during finals week. Each collection featured in the Garden of Light exhibit is entirely unique from the next, yet The Garden of Light exhibit will be on display at the still unified by the common theme of nature. Carnegie Museum of Natural History through Aug. Former Vice President Al Gore is the Crevoshay draws inspiration from the beauty of the 11. 2008 commencement speaker and plans to talk about green initiatives at 5 the event. With Carnegie Mellon’s hope years ago of training students to better care for April 28, 2008 the environment in innovative ways, Gore seems like an excellent candidate to inspire graduating seniors.

CMU EMS, University Police, and the Pittsburgh Police dealt with myriad underage drinking and drug year1 ago issues over Carnival weekend. A University of Pittsburgh student was April 30, 2012 found unconscious next to Doherty Hall during the Passion Pit Carnival concert, and a Donner resident had to be transported to the hospital after ingesting LSD. Nikita Mishra | Junior Photographer The designs for the stunningly detailed jewelry pieces in the Garden of Light exhibit at the Carnegie Catherine Spence | Staffwriter Museum of Natural History were each hand drawn by artist Paula Crevoshay.

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Sudoku courtesy of Kakuro courtesy of www.KrazyDad.com www.opensky.ca/~jdhildeb/software/sudokugen/ Fill all empty squares using numbers 1 to 9 so the sum of each row equals the clue on its left, and the sum of each column equals the clue at its top. No number may be used in the same row or column more than once.

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puzzles pillbox 04.29.13 13 Horoscopes aries Some of the friends you made this semester will stick with march 21–april 19 you for the rest of your life.

taurus Now is the best time to start a big project since you are april 20–may 20 pumped and ready to take on the world.

gemini Summer break is a well-deserved breather for you, so don’t may 21–june 21 do anything stressful.

cancer Don’t get your hopes up, because chances are, it’s not june 22–july 22 going to happen.

leo If you push too hard, those around you may not appreciate it. july 23–aug. 22 Crossword courtesy of BestCrosswords.com

Across Down You may feel like you are being wise, but carefully consider virgo 1. “See ya!” 1. Fall faller aug. 23–sept. 22 your actions. 6. Wishing won’t make ___ 2. ___ breve 10. Castle ring 3. Tribute 14. Run away with a lover 4. Letter-writer 15. Contest, ethnicity 5. Continues a subscription Don’t give in to temptation. Resist and you will reap bigger 16. “___ quam videri” (North 6. Fit to be tied libra Carolina’s motto) 7. Poi source rewards later. sept. 23–oct. 22 17. Exhausted 8. Biol. or chem. 18. Dry and waterless 9. Legendary king of Thebes 19. Fill to surfeit 10. Subatomic particle 20. Forced high notes 11. Missouri feeder scorpio There will be a lot of struggles this week, but don’t let them 22. Equal-angled shape 12. Mary of “The Maltese Falcon” get the better of you. 24. Affectedly dainty 13. Ages between 13 and 19 oct. 23–nov. 21 25. Starters 21. 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 26. Maximally 23. Oozes 29. A shivering fit —­ often a 25. Meanies precursor to malaria 26. Eastern nanny sagittarius Pay attention to important issues this week, but not any 30. Drudgery 27. Shredded 31. Spring used for timepiece 28. Uris’s “___ 18” nov. 22–dec. 21 more than they deserve. 37. City on the Rhone 29. Actor Quinn 39. Alphabet trio 32. ___ the hole 40. Attack 33. Reiterant 41. Peace of mind 34. Pack ___ (quit) capricorn The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You may 44. Galileo’s birthplace 35. Centrepiece of the human face dec. 22–jan. 19 want to hang out in large groups rather than with just one 45. Bit attachment 36. Growl friend. 46. Frank 38. Narrow groove 48. Pertaining to Mars 42. Shore 52. Comedian Carvey 43. McGregor of “Trainspotting” 53. Places of contest 47. Actually existing aquarius Nature calls, but not in that way. Try to de-stress before 54. Pecuniary 48. Devilfish jan. 20–feb. 18 finals with a nice hike or a fishing trip. 58. Verne captain 49. Staggering 59. Don Juan’s mother 50. Chart anew 61. Eliot’s Marner 51. Govt. security 62. Milk source 52. Group of 12 63. Cupola 54. Office note pisces Don’t forget to look up from the paperwork once in a while. 64. Night noise 55. Sleep like ___ feb. 19–march 20 65. Mont Blanc, par exemple 56. ___ avis 66. Black 57. River of Flanders Kairavi Chahal | Comics Editor 67. Actress Samantha 60. San Francisco’s ___ Hill

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Gaypril: F to eMBody. McConomy Auditorium. 7 p.m. Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic. Carnegie Music Hall, This free event celebrates transgender art, bringing Oakland. 8 p.m. Classifieds transgender visibility, education, and art to campus. The Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic will perform under 1 BEDROOM LARGE CO-OP APARTMENT The event will feature spoken word and hip-hop the baton of Ronald Zollman. The concert will include ON BELLEFIELD AVE. Totally Redone 2013. performances. Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, New Gourmet Kitchen and Bath, wall-to-wall Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, and Maurice Ravel’s Ma carpeting. Inside Parking. Perfect for single TUESDAY4.30.13 mère l’oye. The concert is free for students with Carnegie Mellon ID, and general admission is $5. faculty or couple. $95,000 412-621-7611 Celebration of Education. Rangos Hall. 4:30 p.m. In the annual Celebration of Education, Carnegie Mellon FRIDAY5.3.13 Spacious 2 BR apartment, N. Oakland, recognizes distinguished faculty members for their near Pgh Filmmakers. Remodeled 2011, contributions to the university and their dedication to I’m Feeling Lucky: 2013 Senior Exhibition. laundry, $950+ utilities (water included). Call for teaching. Students are welcome to attend. Miller Gallery. 6 p.m. appt: 412-521-0992. Graduating members of the Bachelor of Fine Arts and MFA First-Year Academic Panel Presentations. BXA programs will present their final works in a new Miller College of Fine Arts 303. 6:30 p.m. Gallery exhibit. The opening reception begins at 6 p.m. First-year Master of Fine Arts candidates will present and a conversation with the artists and faculty will take ONGOING academic research related to their artwork. Tuesday is place 6:30–9 p.m. The reception is free and open to the the first day of presentations and will feature students public. More information and gallery hours can be found Adult Arcade. 707 Penn Gallery. Through May 17. Isla Hansen, Jaewook Lee, and Dakotah Konicek. The at millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu. The new media installation features organically textured second day of presentations will take place on May paintings, large geometric sculptures, robotic lasers, and 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the same location, and will feature Adamson Writing Awards. Adamson Auditorium, disorienting soundscapes. More information and gallery Rafael Canedo, Jingjing Chen, and Lucia Nhamo. The Baker Hall 136. 5:30 p.m. hours can be found at trustarts.org. presentations are free and open to the public, and American poet and fiction writer Victoria Redel will give refreshments will be served. a keynote presentation at this year’s Adamson Writing Feminist and... The Mattress Factory. Through May 26. Awards, which recognize undergraduate student This exhibit features works by six female artists from Twin Tigers. brillobox. 9:30 p.m. excellence in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and nonfiction. around the world, aiming to show that feminism is a Georgia-based rock band Twin Tigers will perform at The keynote presentation is free and open to the public. multivocal, multigenerational, and multicultural movement, brillobox with Imperial Railway and Young Brokaw. Twin not a single-issue set of political beliefs. Tigers’ second LP Death Wish was released at the Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Music Ensemble. beginning of April by Old Flame Records. Kresge Theatre. 8 p.m. What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions, 2007–12. In its final concert of the season, the Contemporary Music Hunt Library, Fifth Floor. Through June 30. WEDNESDAY5.1.13 Ensemble will perform works by Mason Bates, associate The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation presents composition professor Leonardo Balada, and Gavin an exhibition of recent acquisitions to the art department, Gloriana St. Clair Celebration. Posner Center. Bryars under the direction of Daniel Nesta Curtis. The from the early 19th century to the present. 4:30 p.m. concert is free and open to the public. The university will recognize Dean of Libraries Gloriana St. Clair for her 15 years of service to Carnegie Mellon. SATURDAY5.4.13 Compiled by Allison Cosby | Contributing Editor St. Clair will become dean emerita this summer. The reception also opens an exhibition of the Carnegie Mellon Protect-U. 6119 Penn Ave. 10 p.m. READ card and poster series, which features members of Electronic house DJ Protect-U will put on a show with Want your event here? the community with their favorite books. Majeure and Pittsburgh Track Authority (PTA). Email [email protected].

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Kate Groschner | Photo Editor On Sunday, an algorithmic programming contest was held in Gates Hillman Complex. The contest was sponsored by Jump Trading, an international financial technology firm. The first-place winner was awarded an iPad, and the second- and third-place winners were awarded $200 each.

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