Researchers receive grant for Men’s and Women’s soccer Carnegie Mellon gathers to cardiac device research • A5 defeat NYU • A12 watch a cappella groups • B8 SCITECH SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan October 12, 2015 Volume 110, Issue 7 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Sexual assault and relationship violence survey sheds light on issue LAURA SCHERB the results of that survey were town hall meetings will focus direction of prevention efforts of the Office of Title IX Initia- The results of the survey Publisher released via an email from on “community discussions on campus. tives, in an email to The Tar- were presented in the form of University President Subra about how this information “Students should know tan. “I hope that students, and a 60-page PDF that outlined Last April, 34.4 percent of Suresh and Provost Farnam should further influence our that we did this study to in- everyone, will consider the every step of the study, from the student body on the Pitts- Jahanian. The email not only priorities moving forward.” form our planning and ac- results and then participate in the committee that worked burgh campus of Carnegie included a link to the results Referencing the Oct. 3 email tions. It was designed not just our town hall discussions. I be- to create it to the measures Mellon University participated document, but also a plan for from Dean of Student Affairs to share experiences but to lieve that the only way we will that they took to ensure that in a survey that measured stu- the upcoming town hall meet- Gina Casalegno, the email be action-oriented and guide make headway in reducing the the questions were sensitively dents’ experiences with sexual ings on Oct. 19, 27, and 28 to urged students and faculty to next steps,” said Holly Hippen- incidence of sexual miscon- phrased. Hippensteel said that assault and relationship vio- discuss the findings. participate in these discus- steel, assistant dean of student duct is by working together as lence (SARV). On Thursday, According to the email, the sions in order to help steer the affairs and interim director a community.” See SURVEY, A4 Pulitzer Prize winner Atkinson discusses war Former Senator lectures at CMU YISHAN WANG other words, the widening Junior Staffwriter divergence between the two parties is harming the U.S. “I’m a fighter, and I don’t political system. give up,” former U.S. Senator To improve the political from Maine, Olympia Snowe, system, Snowe called for rec- said at Carnegie Mellon last onciliation — something that Friday. In her speech “What’s she has been fighting for for Gone Wrong in Washington, decades. and Why It Doesn’t Have Moreover, she emphasized To Be This Way,” Snowe ad- the participation of people, dressed the Senate’s dysfunc- saying that politics are too tion and political polariza- dangerous to be left to politi- tion. Nowadays, she said, this cians. She proposed that the polarization makes it more Congress should work on a difficult for the government five-day-a-week basis. She to effectively solve problems. said this five-day workweek Associate Dean of Dietrich would be more efficient com- College, Joseph Devine, mod- pared to the existing (and erated Snowe’s speech. insufficient) two-and-a-half- Snowe also criticized the day workweek. Senate for not living up to Snowe also spoke about what the Founding Fathers her career and early life. envisioned. She points out Snowe’s independence and that the status quo becomes passion for serving others Valene Mezmin/Staff Photographer Organizers of the event “War and the Humanities” stand for a picture: David Shumway, Kiron Skinner, author Rick Atkinson, and Timothy Haggerty. problematic because the elec- stemmed from losing both torate of America is divided, her parents before she was VALENE MEZMIN man invasion of Poland, and were being drafted into the ger finger intact — were now and it is difficult to motivate 10 years old. In 1973, when Assistant News Editor lasted until Sept. 2, 1945 United States Army and Navy,” a thing of the past. “They no officials to look past their Snowe was 26, her first hus- with the surrender of Japan. Atkinson said. Because it was longer examined eyes; they differences and reconcile band and Maine state con- Pulitzer Prize-winning It lasted a total of 2,174 days the ‘40s-era United States, just counted them,” according through bipartisanship. She gressman Peter Snowe was novelist Rick Atkinson spoke and caused over 60 million ca- there was an an initial selective to Atkinson. By the end of the explained that the reasons killed in a car accident. Since at Carnegie Mellon as part of sualties. “That’s 27,600 dead recruitment of young white war in 1945, the U.S. army for this division are deeply she was already dedicated to the Cèilidh Weekend home- every day for six years, 1150 men of good health between had grown to 8.3 million sol- rooted in the evolution of public service, Olympia ran coming celebrations this an hour… .a death every three the ages of 18 and 45. Howev- diers. the government over the last for the open seat, represent- Thursday. Atkinson is the seconds,” Atkinson said. Last er, because of the effects of the It should also be noted three decades, which make ing her hometown of Auburn, author of the Liberation tril- month marked the 70th anni- Depression and the desperate that, as a result of this issue, it no longer viable for the and won. Thus began her 40 ogy, consisting of An Army at versary of the end of the war, need for manpower, the stan- the war also created progress majority of senators and con- years in politics. Dawn, The Day of Battle, and leading many to reflect on the dards for the “ideal soldier” for racial minorities and wom- gresspeople to work across Snowe served in both The Guns at Last Night, which consequences of this histori- had to be lowered. en. During World War I, black the party line. Houses of the Maine Legis- give a narrative history of the cal event and what exactly it “The desperate need for men were seen as incompe- Snowe also said that po- lature. She was re-elected United States’ military role means to the world so many bodies in uniform….led to the tent, subservient, and unfit to litical realignment is funda- in 1974, then moved to the in the liberation of Europe in years later. drafting of what were known fight in the war. At the start mental. “Republicans domi- Maine Senate, represent- World War II. As part of his Before the war, the United as physically imperfect men,” of World War II “fewer than nate the South and much of ing Androscoggin County in talk, Atkinson spoke about States Army was not a domi- Atkinson said. 4,000 blacks served in the the West, while Democrats 1976. Snowe was U.S. Sena- World War II and the informa- nant force on the world stage. The requirement for sol- army,” Atkinson said. By the take the Northeast and many tor from Maine (1995-2013) tion he collected during his With a growing need for man- diers to have 12 of their 32 end of the war, this number West coast states,” Snowe and Representative in the writing process. power, the U.S. grew drastic in teeth intact was now lowered was approaching one million. said, and Republicans have U.S. House of Representatives World War II began on its search for men. “By 1944, to zero. Good vision and hear- become “monolithic and Sept. 1, 1939 with the Ger- 11,000 young men every day ing — even having your trig- See WAR, A3 ideologically intolerant.” In See WASHINGTON, A3 Students learn more about the world of fungi PATRICIA SIlvERIO exhibition stemmed from his curiosity Junior Staffwriter about fungi and desire to understand the importance of these organisms. “The Mysterious Nature of Fungi” This was aided by the willingness to has been on display for three weeks investigate the crucial role that fungi now at the Hunt Institute for Botani- play in our survival by passing along cal Documentation at Carnegie Mellon, nutrients to other plants or accumulat- located on the fifth floor of the Hunt ing debris, and the dangerous proper- Library. The exhibit provides visitors ties they possess that can cause disease with an overview of the small incon- or crop damage. The Institute has been spicuous fungal organisms that can be collecting several images of fungi for found in abundance almost anywhere many months now, and they have come on the planet. According to the exhi- across several fascinating species. The bition’s website, the exhibit addresses cabinet of curiosities in the Hunt In- important issues such as the character- stitute lobby will also display a series istics of these organisms that create de- of lithographs from a limited-edition lirium, their relationship to disease and portfolio by 20th-century American death, their use as wild and cultivated avant-garde composer, writer, and vi- edibles, and the beneficial parasitic re- sual artist John Cage. lationships they have with other organ- Having been recognized in 1969 as isms. The display explains the different the fifth kingdom of organisms, the types of fungi and provides insight into characteristics and properties of fungi common misconceptions like “magic are still largely unknown to larger audi- mushrooms,” or “the cereal killer.” ences and experts alike, with many spe- Lugene Bruno, Curator of Art for cies still undiscovered. By introducing the Hunt Institute, believes that fungi this exhibit to Carnegie Mellon, Lugene “have a strong relationship to so many Bruno hopes to instill a greater respect disciplines, not only their sculptural and interest in the organism in all who structures but also what is going on un- attend.