Volume 102, Issue 2 Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper Since 1906 August 27, 2007 Campus gets a Security scare: new look by Cecilia Westbrook Staffwriter

Summer is the season of construction on campus. In the three months between graduation and Orientation, the staff of Campus Design and Facilities Development (CDFD) was hard at work completing a long list of con- struction projects while the campus was less populated. University buildings on According to its website, CDFD is “responsible for managing the construc- tion of new buildings and renovation of major projects lockdown after bomb threat throughout the planning, design, and construction phases.” Coordinating its project delivery with other university service groups, CDFD constructs projects on behalf of the specifi c users and for the campus in gen- eral. Most of the work has to be done in three months of the year. “We have to get it all done his black lab, Riggs, who is with faculty and staff) via investigation, while students and faculty by Claire Morgenstern “highly trained in explosive cell phone with up-to-date and a second about 20, mainly graduate are gone for the summer,” News Editor detection,” a fellow sergeant information in the event of an at 8 p.m. con- students and faculty, who said Ralph Horgan, associate said. emergency. The fi rst update, fi rming that the had been evacuated from vice provost of CDFD. Carnegie Mellon received During this time, campus sent at 3:15 p.m., reported investigation was Doherty Hall. Students will notice that an anonymous bomb threat security personnel escorted that the bomb threat had been complete and the The group gathered outside the front steps of Doherty from an undisclosed party evacuees two at a time back received. buildings had been reopened. the building’s south entrance Hall underwent major reno- vation to incorporate a new via e-mail last Friday after- into the buildings to retrieve The second update, at about Those students who signed while a university security wheelchair ramp, and the noon that made reference to their belongings. The uni- 3:45 p.m., stated that both up for AlertNow received the guard secured the doors. track in Gesling Stadium has Doherty Hall and the Mellon versity originally planned buildings had been evacu- messages; those that didn’t Kumar and Ram said that been completely replaced. Institute. Carnegie Mellon to close both buildings until ated, were in the process of were left in the dark. they were informed of the “It looks just like the old University Police with the noon on Saturday, but later being investigated, and would “I’m not aware of it, at threat when a staff member track, but it’s much higher Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, anticipated only a 30-minute re-open in approximately 30 least,” said Mamar Kumar, a came to knock on the doors of quality,” said Bob Reppe, di- University of Pittsburgh Po- wait before those evacuated minutes. second-year graduate student their offi ces and told them to rector of design at CDFD. lice, and Port Authority Police would be let back inside. At The third and fi nal up- in chemical engineering, of exit the building. The build- Next door to the track, responded to the threat by about 4:15 p.m., the buildings date at 4:15 p.m. announced the AlertNow system. ing’s alarm was also sounded construction on the Tartans Pavilion is underway. The immediately evacuating both reopened. that both buildings had been He stood with second-year to warn occupants of the Pavilion will be a dining area buildings and conducting a The university remained checked and cleared and were Ph.D. student in chemical danger. featuring garage-door style thorough investigation. in contact with the campus now open. engineering, Sree Ram, who University Police and the windows that can be opened Among investigators were community via AlertNow, the Offi cial Communications had also never heard of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Po- to convert it into an outdoor David Nams of the Univer- system recently implemented also sent two e-mails, one at system. lice could not be reached for space. CDFD is coordinating sity of Pittsburgh Police and to contact students (along 5:30 p.m. that announced the They were two of a crowd of comment. with Housing and Dining on that project, which is slated Liz Schwartz/Managing Editor for completion by Homecom- ing, in late October. Students might also notice Students contribute to city’s diversity the new study rooms being built in both Engineering burgh population. the past 10 years and much of and Science and Hunt librar- by Sabrina Porter Comcast, one of Pittsburgh’s this is due our diverse student, ies. CDFD is coordinating Assistant News Editor largest cable companies, does faculty, and staff populations construction of these rooms not yet offer programming in around the community.” for the University Libraries. As another semester begins Spanish, which residents ar- Pittsburgh’s increased diver- They are slated for comple- and demographics shift on gue is necessary to encourage sity is evident in the changing tion on September 6. And, campus, the city of Pittsburgh more Hispanics to settle in nature of university organiza- if you’re studying in Hunt also celebrated the changing Pittsburgh. tions, museum exhibits, stores, and want to take a quick diversity of its residents with While demographics may be venues, and restaurants. nap, check out the new nap the first annual DiverseC- changing for the better, inte- A decade ago, Pittsburgh pod that the library admin- ITY symposium and festival. gration remains key. was a more homogeneous town istration has installed in the The four-day event, held Au- “I’d like to walk the streets with only a handful of Asian Maggie Murph Café. gust 16–19, filled the streets of Pittsburgh seeing all kinds restaurants. Today, with the Although not one of of downtown Pittsburgh with of people mixed up. I’d like to abundance of Asian-American CDFD’s projects, another ma- inspirational lecturers, soul hear all kinds of music at our students at the neighborhood jor project underway is the guitarists, Latin rock bands, clubs and lounges. That is why colleges, this number has University Libraries’ reclas- and Jamaican reggae stars. I took the initiative and cre- grown to include Malaysian, sifi cation of holds from the The symposium, which took ated Global Beats,” said Carla Chinese, Japanese, and Thai Dewey Decimal to the Library place on August 16 and 17, Lein-inger, a young Pittsburgh restaurants. of Congress system in both featured discussion sessions, resident who hosts a weekly Carnaval, a new exhibit at Engineering and Science and networking receptions, and Brazilian Radio Hour on the Carnegie Museum of Natu- Hunt libraries. The reclas- a panel of CEOs from UPMC, WRCT, Carnegie Mellon’s radio ral History, celebrates carnival sifi cation will continue into Vivisimo, GlaxoSmithKline station, and created a website celebrations from all around the fall semester, according Consumer Healthcare, and called arrepia.com to promote the world. to the library website, and other companies. Brazilian culture. “Being primarily a steel city students may expect to have The festival culminated in Global Beats is a cultural in the past and lacking an in- some diffi culty fi nding books performances from gospel, dance party held the last Sat- ternational airport, Pittsburgh until the process is complete. blues, Latin, and Jamaican art- urday of every month at AVA on is not a destination frequented The movement and expan- ists in an effort to celebrate, Highland Avenue. by internationals,” said Dhruv sion of Entropy, Carnegie promote, and encourage di- “There has got to be a bet- Mathur, junior information Mellon’s convenience store, versity throughout greater ter way of working together,” systems and business major began just last week and Pittsburgh. Leininger said. “I see too many and Mayur president, “but is will be completed sometime The demographics of Pitts- special groups out there work- slowly being recognized for its this semester, according to burgh’s residents have shifted ing alone.” hidden charm through the mul- Horgan. in the past few years. The diversity of Carnegie titudes of students who call it The new facility, called In the past 10 years, the Mellon’s campus community home for at least four years of Entropy Plus, will be located number of African-American has had a direct effect on Pitts- their lives.” in the old lounge next to Sí residents has increased by 16 burgh’s culture integration, In addition to Carnegie Mel- Señor on the fi rst fl oor of the percent. The number of His- said University President Jared lon, Pittsburgh is also home to University Center. As well panic residents has increased Cohon. the University of Pittsburgh, as having 50 percent more by 11 percent; however, with “I think diversity is one of Duquesne University, Car- J.W. Ramp/Assistant Photo Editor space than the old Entropy, only about 12,000 such resi- Pittsburgh’s greatest chal- low University, Robert Morris Students from more than 100 different countries attended Carnegie Mellon Entropy Plus will have new dents, Hispanics make up less lenges,” Cohon said. “It has over the 2006–2007 academic year, according to Institutional Research & than 1 percent of the Pitts- made remarkable progress in See DIVERSITY, page A3 Analysis. These demographics have affected Pittsburgh’s cultural offerings. See CAMPUS, page A4 www.thetartan.org A2 THE TARTAN • AUGUST 27, 2007 Weather Lecture Preview

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Outreach is year’s Hi: 89 Hi: 88 Hi: 75 Hi: 75 Hi: 79 Page Lo: 66 Lo:68 Lo: 61 Lo: 61 Lo: 64 first lecture topic by Claire Morgenstern Crime News Editor Incident Title: University Lecture Series — 2 Mike Woodard & The Basics: Mike Woodard, a Disorderly Conduct at 2:10 a.m. founder of Jubilee House Community, August 15, 2007 Inc., will speak about the Center for at 10:41 a.m. A student reported that his Development in Central America. The wallet had been stolen from Jubilee House Community is a service A male was caught stealing the University Center. The ministry that provides shelter, food, a university employee’s wallet wallet was left unattended. and medical treatment for the poor and while the employee was in her homeless. offi ce. The actor fl ed the scene. Fire Alarm The group’s current focus is on The employee chased the actor August 22, 2007 providing these services to communi- to a bus stop, where she called at 11:11 p.m. ties in Central America, particularly police. The actor was appre- Nicaragua. hended by University Police A fi re alarm was set off The lecture is part of the University and admitted to the theft. in Scobell House. The Pitts- Lecture Series. burgh Bureau of Fire arrived When: Monday, September 10, Fire Alarm and found no signs of smoke. 4:30 p.m. August 16, 2007 Firefi ghters determined that Where: Adamson Wing (Baker Hall at 1:10 p.m. a student had mistakenly acti- 136A) vated the alarm. A fi re alarm was set off in Title: Center for the Arts in Society Margaret Morrison Carnegie Suspicious Vehicle Research Forum Hall. The Pittsburgh Bureau of August 23, 2007 The Basics: Hilary Robinson, the Fire arrived on the scene and at 1:54 a.m. J.W. Ramp/Assistant Photo Editor Stanley and Marcia Gumberg Dean of found that dust from construc- (Hint: It’s not TBA) the College of Fine Arts and author tion in the area had gotten University Police received a of Reading Art, Reading Irigaray, will caught in the detector and report of a suspicious vehicle discuss the work of Luce Irigaray, a cel- caused the alarm to sound. by university housing near First-year students wait en masse to eat dinner after the convocation ceremony on Thursday night. Convocation officially inducts the first-years into the university community. The ceremony includes ebrated feminist theorist in philosophy, Margaret Morrison Street. gender, linguistics, and psychoanaly- Noise Complaint University Police removed the spirited cheers from each academic college and the sound of Carnegie Mellon’s traditional bagpipes to show the Scottish Tartan pride. After the dinner, students boarded buses for the Clippership sis. Robinson hopes to expose a wider August 20, 2007 vehicle from the area. cruise. audience to Irigaray’s work through a at 12:29 a.m. clear explanation of the theorist’s main Fire Alarm ideas. Students complained of ex- August 23, 2007 The lecture is sponsored by the cessive noise coming from the at 2:53 a.m. Center for Arts in Society. fraternity quadrangle. Univer- When: Tuesday, September 18, sity Police arrived on the scene A fi re alarm sounded at the 4:30 p.m. and advised the members of Kappa Delta Rho house. Uni- StatisticallySpeaking Where: Hunt Library, Fine and Rare fraternities in the area to quiet versity Police arrived on scene Book Room (fourth floor) down. and checked and cleared the Today, we expect college to follow high school like we expect “Not area. much” to follow “What’s up?” Yet, for most of American history, people Title: University Lecture Series — Fire Alarm Journeys Series August 20, 2007 Theft haven’t been vying for B.A. or B.S. degrees. While not all Americans The Basics: Randy Pausch, profes- at 11:07 a.m. August 23, 2007 attend post-secondary schools, college attendance has increased sor of human-computer interaction at 1:40 p.m. tremendously over the last two generations. In addition, more women and co-founder of Carnegie Mellon’s The fi re alarm sounded Entertainment Technology Center, will at McGill House. University A student reported that his are earning degrees than men. speak about the everyday joys and chal- Police arrived on scene and belongings had been stolen lenges of his job. found no signs of smoke. The from his tent by the Fence. The Percentage of the population 25 years and older Pausch’s work specializes in alarm was reset. tent had been left unattended. with a bachelor’s degree or higher in 1940: 4.6 human-computer interaction, virtual reality, entertainment technology, and Theft Compiled by introductory computer programming. August 21, 2007 Sabrina Porter Percentage of high school grads who went to college This is the first lecture in the (two- or four-year) immediately after high school in “Journeys Series,” in conjunction with 1972: 49 the University Lecture Series. Corrections When: Tuesday, September 18, & 4:30 p.m. Clarifi cations Percentage of high school grads who went to college Where: Adamson Wing (Baker Hall If you would like to submit (two- or four-year) immediately after high school in 136A) a correction or clarification,ion, 2005: please e-mail The Tartan 69 Title: SCS Distinguished Lecture at [email protected] or Series — Kai-Fu Lee [email protected] with Percentage of undergraduates in 1970 who were The Basics: Kai-Fu Lee, vice president of Google, will discuss the engineering, your inquiry, as well as female: the date of the issue and 42 product development, and public af- the name of the article. We fairs initiatives he designed to help will print the correctionction Percentage of undergraduates in 2000 who were develop Google’s operations in China. Lee graduated from Carnegie Mellon or clarification in thee next female: print issue and publish it 56 with a Ph.D. in computer science. From online. Compiled by 1988 to 1990, Lee served as an as- Sources: nces.ed.gov, www.census.gov Steven Weinberg sistant professor at Carnegie Mellon, during which he developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. He joined Google in 2005. Students and faculty experience benefits of innovation The lecture is part of the School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series. EnergyPod installed in Hunt Von Ahn named one of world’s top innova- When: Thursday, September 20, 4 p.m. Library tors under 35 Where: McConomy Auditorium, University Center

This summer, an EnergyPod by a Carnegie Mellon alum- Assistant computer science uses CAPTCHAs to prevent The reCAPTCHA program Title: University Lecture Series — was installed in Hunt Library nus, Arshad Chowdhury. His professor Luis von Ahn was re- spammers from using automated pairs an unknown scanned David Harvey across from the Maggie Murph goal was to make it easier for cently named one of the top programs to obtain users’ word with a known word. The Basics: David Harvey, a professor café. The pod, created by workers to take naps during 35 innovators under the age of e-mail addresses. Users must enter both of the Technology Review in the Ph.D. program in anthropology MetroNaps, allows for undis- the workday. Naps are an ef- 35 by maga- CAPTCHAs show distorted words correctly in order to ac- at the CUNY Graduate Center in New turbed napping. fective method of boosting zine. words in a picture, and users cess the site. York City, will speak about his work. The pod’s basic design is morale and creativity, and Von Ahn was selected from must correctly decipher the Thousands of websites Harvey specializes in issues regard- spherical on the outside, but they help to promote memory a pool of over 300 nominees to word in order to complete reg- have already begun to use ing urbanization, environment, politi- contains a lounging chair with retention. receive the honor. He was cho- istrations and gain access to this system, and millions of cal economy, and advanced capitalist ample space for leg resting in- EnergyPod design from sen for his contributions to the websites. previously undecipherable countries. side. The design allows for a MetroNaps is currently in use field of human computation. Von Ahn’s new project, called words in books have been The lecture is co-sponsored by the darkened environment for the by students, workers, and doc- A pioneer of CAPTCHA tech- reCAPTCHAs, is attempting to identified. English department and the Humanities sleeper. The pod also contains tors worldwide. nology, von Ahn has taken new use CAPTCHAs to help in the pro- Von Ahn is also the inventor Center. It is part of the University speakers, but the music played strides with the technology. cess of digitizing books. Lines of of the ESP game, a multiplayer Lecture Series. is not heard by passersby, and CAPTCHAs are used by many text from old books unable to be game used to help properly tag When: Thursday, September 20, the design effectively silences websites during registration properly deciphered by optical Google photos. 4:30 p.m. outside noise so the sleeper can to ensure that humans, not character recognition programs Where: Adamson Wing (Baker Hall have a peaceful rest. computers, are attempting to are scanned, distorted, and used Compiled by 136A) MetroNaps was co-founded register. Yahoo!, for example, as CAPTCHAs. Amanda Cole

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Also: Also: Also: Also: How Things Work: Holograms “Minimum” wage Changes to the sports community Dorm decor Allergy season hits Factory farming October predictions for MLB New restaurants THE TARTAN • AUGUST 27, 2007 A3 William Brown, biological sciences, dies at 62 Students have positive of the Mellon College of Sci- in the department of biological was always very supportive and ence, to members of the campus sciences. “He didn’t ever see allowed students the freedom effect on city’s diversity community. that there wasn’t a challenge he and luxury to explore.” Brown came to Carnegie couldn’t take on.” Brown spent the spring 2007 DIVERSITY, from A1 highly in its gay, lesbian, bisex- Mellon in 1973 as an assistant Brown also extended a hand semester as a visiting professor on ual, and transgender (GLBT) professor of biological sciences. further beyond the classroom, the Qatar campus, teaching a hy- University, Chatham Univer- and international populations. For the next several decades, taking a part in the department’s brid biology course he developed sity, and Point Park Univer- The university was recently he divided his time between murder mystery dinner, a fi xture to integrate online multimedia sity, all of which host students named one of the top 100 teaching undergraduate courses since 1997, and playing Santa at into the traditional classroom from different cultures and schools for GLBT students by like Modern Biology, mentor- the annual Christmas party. lecture setting. backgrounds. the Advocate Guide for LGBT ing graduate students in his lab, “He was involved in what- Prior to his accident, Brown The Diversity Advisory Students. ALLIES and cmuOUT, and playing key roles in the de- ever we were doing,” said Jared had planned to return to Qatar for Council, started by Cohon two student organizations that velopment of interdisciplinary Wenger, who graduated in 2006 three years as special assistant to in 2000, is the main policy- promote GLBT advocacy, have initiatives like the Bachelor of with a degree in biological sci- Chuck Thorpe, dean of Carnegie making body on diversity at gained a significant presence Courtesy of Rebecca Bollinger Humanities and Arts program, ences and is currently pursuing Mellon University in Qatar. Carnegie Mellon. The Council on campus. Science and Humanities Schol- a Ph.D. in genetics at Stanford “Bill does live on because he’s concluded that the university Carnegie Mellon’s interna- by Claire Morgenstern ars program, and the Master of University. touched so many people that community has come a long tional population, about 26 News Editor Biotechnology and Management Wenger recalled how Brown there are no limits to the impact way in diversification but that percent of the overall student program. lent students his own backyard that he’s going to have,” Burkert each strength comes with its body, has led to the develop- William Brown, a member Brown served as acting head so they could build the BioSAC said. “He’s taught us a lot of very weaknesses, according to the ment of many ethnically and of Carnegie Mellon’s depart- of the biological sciences depart- booth for Carnival, a tradition important lessons, not just about group’s 2006 Annual Report. culturally oriented groups on ment of biological sciences for ment from 1993 to 1995 and begun in 2005. He also routinely science, but about education and The report also stated that campus. 34 years and an innovator who department head from 1995 to took students up to his family’s about dealing with people and over the past 10 years, the Mayur, an Indian organiza- was involved with some of the 2000. In 2004, he was awarded cabin in Irwin, Pa. being a leader and a doer.” number of women in senior tion, has grown to be one of the university’s most well-known in- Carnegie Mellon’s Robert Doh- Former graduate student Chris- Brown is survived by his wife, staff positions and board of biggest on campus for both In- terdisciplinary initiatives, died erty Award, which recognizes tine Wang was one of Brown’s Linda, and sons Kevin and Eric. trustees positions has risen 20 dian and non-Indian students. Sunday, July 15, at UPMC Pres- faculty members who contribute advisees on a thesis project that Eric is a graduate of Carnegie and 15 percent, respectively, Its Diwali celebration, held byterian in Oakland. He was 62. signifi cantly to the development involved using microorganisms Mellon’s Entertainment Technol- while the number of female during Spring Carnival, is one The cause of death was com- of educational programs. in river sediment to clean up con- ogy Center. students in the undergraduate of many events it sponsors for plications from brain surgery “[Brown] had an energy you taminants in the water. A private funeral was held in population has increased only students throughout the year. following an accident, accord- couldn’t even imagine,” said Amy “I think he’s the best thesis Brown’s honor on July 20 at Sixth about 5 percent. “Looking at student organiza- ing to an e-mail message sent Burkert, associate department adviser and mentor any student Presbyterian Church in Squirrel This number may be affected tions as a whole, organizations by Richard McCullough, dean head for undergraduate affairs could ask for,” Wang said. “He Hill. A campus memorial service by Carnegie Mellon’s focus on really started to lay the foun- the technical and scientific dation to have this year be a fields, areas of study not typi- landmark in their history,” said Campus mourns loss of ChemE professor Gary Powers cally favored by women. Adi Jain, junior electrical and Over the same 10-year computer engineering major analysis made him a leader in the with each other inside and out- intelligence techniques. He also period, the population of and former Mayur president. industry throughout his tenure side of the classroom. co-authored Process Synthesis, Asian-American undergradu- CMU Fusion, created last at Carnegie Mellon. With under- Powers received a bachelor’s the fi rst textbook in this subject. ate students has remained year, integrated ethnic and graduate and graduate students degree in chemical engineering Outside of the classroom, Pow- high at above 20 percent, cultural groups and put on a in his lab, he created experiments from the University of Michigan ers was vice president of Design while the Hispanic and successful two-act show last that emphasized aspects of pro- in 1967. He attended the Univer- Sciences, Inc., an engineering African-American enrollment spring featuring a capella cess safety and environmental sity of Wisconsin for his Ph.D. in fi rm that provides quantitative rates remain low, at about 5 singing, African music, break risk analysis, which prompted chemical engineering. Powers risk assessment services to the percent each. dancing, and other talents. many of the students to become spent two years at the Massachu- process industries. Carnegie Mellon’s endow- Campus Idol, a univer- entrepreneurs, according to a setts Institute of Technology as an Powers is survived by his wife ment may have something to sity-wide talent show and university press release issued associate professor before joining Susan; his children Ben, Nate, do with this consistently low competition, was another cul- July 26. Powers was also a ma- the Carnegie Mellon faculty. Alex, Katie, Libby, and Becky; minority enrollment. tural showcase last spring that jor player in Carnegie Mellon’s Powers was a multiple re- fi ve grandchildren; and a brother Its endowment of about $1 displayed the diversification Center for Advanced Process cipient of the Kun Li Award for and sister. billion is remarkably lower of our campus community, Decision-Making. excellence, awarded annually to A memorial service in Powers’s than its peer institutions. The featuring songs and dances Courtesy of the ChemE department At the beginning of each se- an outstanding chemical engi- honor was held on July 28 at Uni- University of Pittsburgh beats from many of the different cul- mester, Powers would sit with neering professor by that year’s tarian Universalist Church of the out Carnegie Mellon by $1 tures represented at Carnegie by Alexander Dileonardo Polaroid photographs of the stu- graduating senior class. In 2005, North Hills in Franklin Park. billion, while schools in the Mellon. Staffwriter dents in his classes, trying to he received the Walton-Miller A campus memorial, organized Ivy League have endowments However, Cohon insists, di- memorize each name and face, Award from the American In- by the department of chemical superior by upwards of $30 versification on campus is an Gary Powers, a professor of his daughter Becky Musial re- stitute of Chemical Engineers engineering, will be held in the billion. ongoing project. chemical engineering and a called in an article published by for his work in process risk as- fall. “No matter what we intend, “Diversity is not all about member of the Carnegie Mellon the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on sessment. As a Ph.D. student at Donations may be sent to the our financial aid packages to numbers, but rather the way faculty since 1974, died of a heart July 27. Musial added that Powers the University of Wisconsin, in Gary J. Powers Scholarship Fund, these typically higher-need we behave as a community,” attack on July 23 at his home in cherished his relationships with a joint effort with colleagues, he c/o Toni McIltrot, Department of groups just cannot compare Cohon said. “We have not yet Sewickley, Pa. He was 61. faculty and students, and that developed AIDS, a program for Chemical Engineering, Carnegie with some of our peer institu- reached our ideal state of di- Powers’s expertise in process he encouraged students to work the automatic synthesis of pro- Mellon University, Pittsburgh, tions,” said Cohon. versity. However, we are much systems engineering and safety together and form relationships cess fl ow sheets using artifi cial Pa., 15222-5488. Carnegie Mellon also rates closer than only 10 years ago.” A4 THE TARTAN • AUGUST 27, 2007 Summer construction means changes for buildings on campus this fall

CAMPUS, from A4 Some of the CDFD’s other ma- state-of-the-art technology and also received a fabrication labo- Hall, which will continue for at and new seating arrangements jor projects were less visible to will cost over $1 million each. ratory with state-of-the-art least another year, according to to accommodate different study features such as an organic food students. Classrooms all over When complete, classes and architectural design equipment. Horgan. styles, such as a laptop-friendly area. campus received updated in- presentations fi lmed in the stu- Renovation on a number of the In addition to the CDFD, Com- lounge area and a set of booths Some students in campus structional technology. Posner dios will broadcast to remote laboratories in the Mellon Insti- puting Services has been at work for group study, according to housing get to enjoy newly reno- Hall, home to the Tepper School locations such as Greece, Portu- tute are nearing completion, and changing and improving the Computing Services’s newslet- vated living areas. Two of the of Business, received space reno- gal and Japan. some area already in use. computer clusters on campus. ter. The cluster will be open houses on the fraternity quad — vations on all fl oors. “These have been pretty major In addition, the CDFD is work- The largest changes have for student use sometime in Pi Kappa Theta and Kappa Delta University personnel also ren- renovations,” said Reppe. “It’s ing on several long term projects. been to the West Wing cluster, September. Rho — were completely gutted ovated the basement of Posner essentially like building a TV The Gates Center for Computer which has been redesigned and Computing Services has also and redone. In addition, the Hall in preparation for the in- studio in the basement.” Science is the most expensive is now called the West Wing col- converted the Apple Orchard in Margaret Morrison Apartments stallation of a distance-learning This summer, Margaret Mor- project, and is slated for comple- laborative cluster. The cluster’s the basement of Hunt Library underwent extensive renova- studio. A similar studio will also rison Carnegie Hall received a tion in 2009. Other large projects interior seating space has been to a Windows cluster. The Macs tions including new cabinetry, be constructed inside the uni- new biodiesel generator for use include the renovation of the reconfi gured. It will now con- have been moved to the cluster new bathrooms, and updated versity’s building at 4616 Henry by the Intelligent Workspace on third fl oor of Hamerschlag Hall tain a kiosk-like “stop-in” area in Wean 5201/5203, which will wiring and lighting fi xtures. St. Both studios will incorporate its roof. The building’s basement and the renovation of Doherty for quick access to computers be open 24 hours a day.

Science& Technology A6 THE TARTAN August 27, 2007 Researchers study mechanism of HIV infection SciTechBriefs

can then undergo fusion with the Hackers target by Hanadie Yousef membrane and infect it. Monster.com Staffwriter The Nagle lab was able to study the intermediate stage of Carnegie Mellon biophysi- viral infection of a hydrated lipid Last Friday, career website cists Stephanie Tristram-Nagle bilayer by using novel research Monster.com released the de- and John Nagle have uncovered techniques and data analysis. tails of a recent attack on the details as to what allows HIV to “Another method to study vi- site by hackers. The attack af- infect immune T-cells. ruses and how they infect cells is fected more than 1.3 million of According to an article pub- to look at the protein-membrane the site’s users, most of whom lished in Biophysical Journal, interaction via protein crystal- were located in the U.S. “HIV-1 Fusion Peptide Decreases lography,” said Tristram-Nagle. The hackers used hijacked Bending Energy, Promotes “This, however, focuses on pre- personal computers in combi- Curved Fusion Intermediates,” fusion and post-fusion states of nation with servers in Ukraine data from this research will aid viral infection. Our lab was able to execute their attack. Mon- in computer simulations of HIV to use a novel technique to probe ster became aware of the attack infection and will help further the intermediate fusion state.” on Friday, August 17, and was drug discovery. Researchers developed a able to shut down the servers in Enveloped viruses, which de- method to validate and perform Ukraine four days later. velop outer layers from their host data analysis on the structure and The attack targeted users’ cells, infect cells by fusing with properties of fully hydrated lipids. personal information, and Mon- the cells’ membranes and insert- This type of analysis was critical ster reported that the hackers ing their genetic contents into the in their discovery of how FP-23 in- retrieved information including cells, essentially turning them teracts with the membrane. names, addresses, phone num- into virus-producing factories. In “It is important to determine bers, and e-mail addresses. order for HIV to infect immune the structure and interactions of T-cells and deliver its RNA con- fully hydrated, fl uid-phase lipid Source: BBC News

Nagle’s lab discovered a short stretch VR induces out-of- of the gp41 protein that decreases the body experiences energy needed to bend a cell membrane, Scientists are now able to in- making it easier for the HIV to infect the duce out-of-body experiences through the use of virtual real- cell. ity equipment, according to a J.W. Ramp/Assistant Photo Editor new study published in the Au- Above: The Nagle lab developed a novel technique to determine the structure of fully hydrated lipid bilayers. gust 24 edition of Science. tents, it must fuse its viral enve- bilayers, because they are the un- Below: HIV infects a T-cell by lowering the cell’s energy barriers with fusion peptide 23. The feeling of belonging to a lope with the T-cell membrane. derlying component of all plant body is linked to multiple sen- More specifi cally, HIV lowers and animal cell membranes,” sory streams. Under normal the energy barriers of T-cell mem- Tristram-Nagle said. “Differ- circumstances, these streams branes to curve the membranes ent lipids have different areas function harmoniously. and allow a pore to form. The and thicknesses as well as dif- Sometimes these sensory protein gp41, which is located on ferent material properties, and streams report confl icting in- the viral envelope, enables HIV these differences turn out to be formation. In these situations, to penetrate the membrane. essential for membrane protein the brain is forced to make a According to a Carnegie Mel- function. ” decision, which may result in an lon press release, the Nagle lab Researchers pioneered a out-of-body experience. discovered that a short stretch of method of data analysis that In one experiment, subjects the gp41 protein, known as fusion involves applying theory from viewed projections of their own peptide 23 (FP-23), decreases liquid crystal literature to the bodies through virtual-reality the energy needed to bend a cell lipid membrane. The shape of a goggles. The scientists stroked membrane, making it easier for cellular membrane, represented the subjects’ backs with sticks, the HIV to infect the cell. by the fl uid mosaic membrane so the subjects felt their own A cell’s lipid membrane is nor- model, is very similar to that of a backs being stroked while also mally highly resistant to bending. liquid crystal. watching a stick stroke the pro- Researchers used diffuse X-ray “Our lab pioneered the use of jection before them. Subjects scattering data from Cornell Uni- liquid crystal theory to correct reported feeling as if they were versity’s CHESS synchrotron to the X-ray scattering intensity col- drifting out of their bodies and measure the bending modulus of lected from fully hydrated lipids into the projected bodies. a lipid bilayer and found that FP- and determine a structure from 23 causes the bending modulus this kind of data,” said Tristram- Source: The New York Times to decrease. Nagle. “Without the correction, According to the article in the X-ray data are weakened due Biophysical Journal, a smaller to thermal undulations in fully Martian soil may bending modulus lessens the hydrated lipid membranes and free energy barriers that must the structures are not able to have supported life be overcome to pass through a cell membrane. The HIV particle See INFECTION, page A7 Courtesy of Medscape German scientist Joop Hout- kooper found evidence of life on Mars through the analysis of soil brought back from the planet in 1976. How Things Work: Holograms Signs in the soil indicate that the subfreezing Martian climate Michael M. Whiston simply passes through the hologram un- may have once supported mi- altered, while other light refl ects off the crobial life (microorganisms) From security emblems to magazine fi lm or diffracts through slits. made of hydrogen peroxide and ads, holograms produce vibrant, 3- This process of refl ection and diffrac- water. One experiment showed D images through the diffraction and tion produces a light pattern with the that 0.1 percent of Martian soil refl ection of light. same properties as the object beam (be- may be composed of former mi- Depending on the viewer’s line of sight, fore it merged with the reference beam). croorganisms. holograms display different angles or col- This light beam forms a virtual image of Houtkooper said that 0.1 per- ors of the same image, or different images the object that is located in back of the cent is “not a small amount,” altogether. hologram but in front of the viewer. and the percentage is similar There are two types of holograms: re- The hologram can then be embossed to the biomass percentages in fl ection and transmission holograms. A by transferring the interference pattern some Antarctic permafrost. refl ection hologram produces an image onto plastic and shiny foil. Embossed ho- Houtkooper’s conclusions that can be observed in normal light, lograms are commonly seen in ads or on support the theory Earth may whereas a transmission hologram pro- credit cards. have “seeded” life on Mars, or duces an image that is observable only Besides being used as eye-catching vice versa, when an event such with laser light. decorations, holograms have a number of as a meteor crash transported At the bare minimum, creating a ho- practical applications. life between the planets. logram requires a laser, an object, and In the medical fi eld, experts have com- holographic fi lm. bined holography with various medical Source: CNN To create a transmission hologram, la- instruments to produce high-resolution ser light is shined through a beam splitter pictures of the body. — a series of mirrors and prisms. The X-rays, for instance, can be used to take New Jersey teen beam splitter creates two beams of light pictures of body parts. An X-ray laser is unlocks iPhone — the object and reference beams. shot at an X-ray mirror, which is specially The object and reference laser beams made with silicon and molybdenum to re- then each pass through a diverging lens, fl ect the laser beam. The sample is then George Hotz, a fi rst-year at the causing each beam to widen in diameter. hit by the laser beam, thereby creating Rochester Institute of Technol- After passing through the diverging the object beam. ogy, successfully unlocked an iPhone by using a soldering iron lens, the object beam refl ects off a mirror David Kjos/Art Editor Endoscopic holography is used for a and onto the object. Once the light meets similar purpose: to take pictures of cavi- and manipulating the software. the object, the intensity (amplitude) of another. Interference is the combination up darker in the hologram, while lower- ties within body organs. An endoscope is He spent approximately 500 the object beam changes because some of of laser beams that results in a new light intensity regions of light appear lighter. a device that uses light to see the inside of hours on the project — his en- the light is absorbed by the object. pattern. Depending on how closely their These differences in light value are body organs. The pictures are high-reso- tire summer vacation. The object beam’s angle of refl ection wave structures overlap, the light can be called interference fringes. Different am- lution and require no contact with the The iPhone is normally com- off the object is the same as the angle at amplifi ed (constructive interference) or plitudes of light create different levels of body organs. patible with only AT&T, and which it fi rst encountered the object. Be- de-amplifi ed (destructive interference). contrast between these regions. Holograms are also used as security unlocking the phone means lift- cause the object’s surface is not perfectly Holographic fi lm is coated with a mix- After development, the hologram is emblems. In particular, they are placed ing the AT&T carrier restriction. smooth, the light is refl ected in many dif- ture of silver halide. Once the object and usually bleached to make it transparent, on CDs, software, and expensive clothing With Hotz’s method, the iPhone ferent directions. reference beams reach the fi lm, this mix- and then it is ready to be viewed. When to validate their legitimacy. can work with T-Mobile. Unlike the object beam, the reference ture preserves the phase and amplitude viewed correctly, the hologram produces If you want to experience holography beam does not refl ect off the object. differences between the reference and a virtual image of the object. fi rst-hand, you can purchase a Litiholo Source: The Washington Post Rather, it travels directly from the diverg- object light beams. To view a transmission hologram, a la- Hologram kit from Liti Holographics and ing lens to the holographic fi lm. The fi nal step in the creation process ser beam is fi rst shined through the front try it yourself (www.litiholo.com). The kit Once the object and reference beams is development. During development, of the hologram, where the interference includes a laser, an object, and fi lm, and Compiled by reach the fi lm, they interfere with one higher-intensity regions of light show fringes are located. Some of this light the creation process takes only minutes. Sarah Mogin THE TARTAN • AUGUST 27, 2007 A7 Close-up on allergies: Immune system fi ghts foreign particles HIV targets to how a lock fi ts into a key. Once laxis, or anaphylactic shock. desensitizes the body and can inducing foods. This is exempli- by Cecilia Westbrook antibodies have been formed for Anaphylaxis is a life-threat- cause allergy symptoms to de- fi ed by increasing use of peanuts membrane Staffwriter a molecule — now called an an- ening condition and requires crease or even disappear. by the food industry, which has tigen — the body can recognize immediate medical attention. Incidence of allergic reaction been correlated with increasing INFECTION, from A6 It’s summertime, and for that molecule forever. Antigens There are a number of treat- has been increasing all over the allergy rates. many people with allergies, that that cause allergic responses are ments for allergies. Avoiding the world. The American Academy On the other hand, according be determined.” X-ray scatter- means an itchy nose, watery called allergens. allergen is always the best way of Allergy, Asthma & Immu- to a 2006 article in The Boston ing data was used to calculate eyes, sneezing, and congestion The antibodies produced by to prevent a reaction, but avoid- nology estimates that 40 to 50 Globe, a recent study found that the bending modulus of the that aren’t problems during the B cells move through the ance is not always possible. million Americans have aller- peanut allergies are much less membrane and validate its sig- other seasons. blood stream and attach to the In the case of mild reac- gies of some form. prevalent in countries where nifi cance. An allergy is an abnormal surface of two kinds of immune tions, such as hay fever, Of particular concern to the children are fed a diet heavy The preparation of the hy- immune system response to a cells: mast cells and basophils. an antihistamine can be health care community has been in peanuts. This indicates that drated lipid samples, known substance that would other- Mast cells are found in connec- taken. Antihistamines block the steady rise of food allergies, feeding children peanuts may as the rock-and-roll procedure, wise be harmless to the body. tive tissue all over the body, and histamine’s ability to cause un- which can be life-threatening. actually protect them from de- was also pioneered by Tris- People can be allergic to almost basophils circulate in the blood pleasant symptoms of allergies. According to a 2006 article in veloping an allergy to them. tram-Nagle. It involves putting anything to which the body is stream. Over-the-counter antihista- the Journal of the European Mo- In fact, early exposure to hydrated lipids — which are exposed, from food and medi- Both types of cells play an mines such as Benadryl can be lecular Biology Consortium, the an environmental toxin may similar to those found in a cell cations to pets and household important role in the infl am- taken for short-term allergies, number of hospital admissions be a protective factor in many membrane — on silicon wafers, chemicals. matory response, which is one such as mosquito bites, but they for food allergies has increased kinds of allergies. For example, using them, and then hydrating Hay fever, or seasonal rhinitis, of the ways the body protects it- should not be taken long-term 500 percent in the U.K. since according to a recent NIAID- them in a humidity chamber. is one of the most common sea- self against invading pathogens because they can cause drowsi- 1990. funded research study, children Researchers from the Nagle sonal allergies. and foreign molecules. Unfortu- ness. The rise in food allergies who are exposed to household lab said that they will continue to Hay fever is an allergic response nately, this response can also be Prescription antihistamines seems to be due in part to greater pets in the fi rst years of life are work on how HIV proteins affect to pollen particles in the air. Part triggered during an allergic re- such as Claritin and Allegra, use of certain kinds of allergy- much less likely to develop aller- the cell membrane. Currently, of the reason that people with action to a harmless substance. on the other hand, don’t cause gies of all kinds. they are studying the pretrans- hay fever experience watery Mast cells and basophils drowsiness and can be taken There are multiple factors membrane section of the gp41 eyes and sneezing during the contain pockets of immune- for longer time periods. that may be involved in the protein, an important cholesterol summer is that pollen is more mediating chemicals, such In addition, people with onset of allergies. Ac- recognition site. The HIV mem- common in the summer air. as histamine, that act in the severe allergies may ben- cording to the National brane is 80 percent cholesterol, Ragweed pollen, for instance, body to produce an infl am- efi t from immunotherapy. Jewish Medical and which Tristram-Nagle hypoth- can be found in air samples 2 matory response. As soon as Immunotherapy consists of a Research Center, esizes could be important if the miles out to sea and 400 feet the antibodies on these cells series of allergy shots con- developing an cholesterol is involved in the high in the air, according to the recognize the antigen, the cells taining dilute concentra- allergy likely in- change of gp41 during HIV in- National Institute of Allergy and release these chemicals into the tions of the allergen, volves genetic, fection of the T-cell. Infectious Diseases (NIAID). blood stream and surrounding given over a period environmental, “I have been working with a Also, people can be allergic to tissue. of time from a and immune sys- CMU undergrad for about one many different kinds of pollen, Once released, these chemi- few months to a tem factors. year, Alex Greenwood — now which is why some people suf- cals cause a person’s allergic few years. This a graduate student at Cornell fer seasonal rhinitis at different response, which typically in- treatment — to characterize interaction times of year. cludes a runny nose, itchy eyes of the CRAC motif peptide with The allergic response occurs and throat, and congestion. Al- lipid/cholesterol mixtures, and when the body’s immune system lergic responses can also include this work is nearing comple- accidentally interprets a harm- hives (itchy red bumps or welts) tion,” she said. less substance as a threat to the on the skin, nausea, and vomit- The fusion peptide research body. It begins when B cells in ing (in food allergies). was carried out over the course the body’s immune system en- In some people, certain of fi ve years. John Nagle and counter a particular substance antigens can cause severe Stephanie Tristram-Nagle have and respond by creating anti- systemic reactions, includ- worked together since 1982. The Nagles won the Avanti bodies against that substance. ing swelling of appendages, File Photo Antibodies are large, Y- sudden drops in blood pres- Award at the Biophysical Soci- shaped proteins that can fi ght sure, and constriction of ety in 2003 for their novel ap- infection by recognizing a cer- the airways. This allergic proach to analyzing X-ray data tain foreign molecule, similarly condition is called anaphy- of hydrated lipids. Forum A8 THE TARTAN August 27, 2007 FromTheEditorialBoard State law allows students to be paid less than minimum wage weekly activist meetings, and daily track practices, all the while putting himself through school, what happens when he can only fi nd work at a sand- Jessica Thurston wich shop, and gets paid below mini- mum wage? Minimum wage. It’s the dreaded topic The absurdity of this rule makes it that makes employers’ toes curl, employ- necessary to point out several of its ees’ tempers fl are, and labor bureaus’ obvious counterarguments. First, high payrolls soar. We all want to avoid the school and college students, particu- idea of the dreaded minimum wage: larly the latter, tend to be smarter and Employees want to avoid being paid the more effi cient at tasks associated with least amount possible under law; em- retail or eatery work than are most ployers want to avoid dealing with said other workers. I realize that an obvious low-paid, disgruntled employees. But counterargument to this assertion is what does it say when employees are that students should be working some- paid lower than low — below minimum where where their skills may be bet- wage? ter utilized, such as secretarial work. In Pennsylvania, according to the The problem with this idea is that most Bureau of Labor Law Compliance’s “Min- students do not have options outside imum Wage Law Summary,” employees of more labor-intensive work, such as can legally be paid below minimum retail shops or eateries, due to other (of- wage. Well, not just any employees: ten education-related) time constraints. This exception to the law applies spe- Students can’t work nine-to-fi ve jobs be- cifi cally to employees-in-training, cause of classes and other educational employees that work somewhere where commitments. there are 10 or less full-time workers, After acknowledging these coun- and — that’s right — high school and terarguments, it seems like the law David Kjos/Art Editor college students. allowing students to be paid below The employees-in-training rule minimum wage is nothing more than a specifi es that the employee-in-training way for the state to please employers by Student IDs are a free pass to Pittsburgh culture can be paid $5.85 as long as they are un- allowing them to cut costs. As much as der 20 years of age, and only for the fi rst it is important for there to be a healthy The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently But all of that means nothing, un- nient price of zero dollars. Not bad for an 60 days of employment. One problem relationship between the state and its reported that the Carnegie Museum of less you take advantage of the free all-evening event; you may be surprised with this rule, however, is that there businesses, what about maintaining a Natural History will raise prices of ad- opportunities. Students should use their at the number of art galleries located seems to be no way to check if an em- healthy relationship between the state mission upward of 80 percent when it ID cards for more than just bus rides to downtown. All it takes is a quick hop on ployer is actually training an employee and employees? opens its new dinosaur exhibit, “Dino- Squirrel Hill and Plaid Ca$h. a downtown-headed bus (free with your for these fi rst 60 days, or whether he or Where does employee satisfaction saurs in Their Time,” this November. If you think you can’t take time from ID, of course). she is just taking advantage of this ex- factor in to the minimum wage law? This price increase means visitors will a rigorous academic schedule, take into For anyone who thought Pittsburgh ception to the law. If employees are told that they are not have to shell out an additional fi ve bucks account that visiting these places is as was just a smog-fi lled city where the to see the exhibit, touted as the world’s much of an educational experience as decomposing skeletons of steel mills third-largest collection of dinosaur any lecture. Phipps Conservatory, the loom in the skyline, think again. While bones in new, more accurate, poses. Mattress Factory, Carnegie Museum of the mills may be as aged as the dinosaur If employees are told that they are not But don’t pull out your wallets just Art — all for zilch, zero, zip dollars. fossils in the Carnegie, Pittsburgh has a yet, Carnegie Mellon students. A simple Gallery crawls are held at least once vibrant array of cultural activities, all worth even minimum wage, why should swipe of your university ID card will each season, where students and the at your fi ngertips. And, at the risk of grant you free access to the collection, general public can hop from gallery to repeating ourselves, it’s just a swipe of they stay faithful to the company? along with various other cultural sites. gallery downtown — all for the conve- your ID away. Take advantage of it.

The 10-or-less rule also seems worth even minimum wage, why should Emergency Alert serves campus responsibly convoluted. Are employers allowed to they stay faithful to the company? One pay their employees below minimum worker at Camille’s Sidewalk Café fran- In the last few years, the United A voluntary program, the Emergency The university’s emergency plan has wage if there are 10 or less full-time chise, at the corner of Fifth Avenue States has been rocked by a number of Alert sends an automated voice mes- been in place for a few years, but Emer- workers at the venue because the com- and South Craig Street, echoed the ru- enormous tragedies. Of these tragedies sage to a valid phone number of your gency Alert is the fi rst part of the system pany is then, in theory, unable to make mors that the newly opened venue has — especially Katrina and the Virginia choice in the case of urgent news or an to actively alert students, instead of just as great a profi t as a larger venue? On a high turnover rate of employees due Tech massacre — many deaths and inju- emergency situation. Using cell phones faculty and staff. It’s hard to believe the fl ip side of this exception, if there to low wages. “I’ve only been working ries could have been prevented through to communicate important news to that students — who are the university are fewer workers, couldn’t an employer here three days and I’ve heard a lot of better communication. students is popular: the University of — were left out of the plan for so long, pay them more money rather than less stories already,” said a junior at the Uni- Just days after 32 people were killed Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Slippery Rock, and sad that it took an event like the Vir- money? versity of Pittsburgh, explaining that at Virginia Tech, the safety of our own and Indiana University of Pennsylvania gina Tech massacre to spark change, but What is truly vile about these several workers had quit after being students was virtually ignored when a — all Pittsburgh- or greater-Pittsburgh- great that the university was both quick exceptions to the Pennsylvania state paid less than $7 an hour. While this bomb scare on campus property went area schools — have enacted similar to learn from it and quick to invoke the minimum wage law is the fact that high is allowed according to the minimum unannounced to the students. methods of emergency contact, and over appropriate change; perhaps even better school and college students — who wage law exceptions, is it ethical? A Given that our university is as vul- 3400 Carnegie Mellon students have al- is that so many students see the value in typically work minimum wage jobs representative from the Starbucks Cus- nerable to serious incident as any other ready signed up for the program. the program. The system also seems to — can legally be paid only 85 percent tomer Relations regional offi ce, when university, we are glad the administra- Other preventative actions taken on be working well — students who signed of the minimum wage. That is, students asked if any of the store’s branches tion has considered the events like the campuses include an instant lockdown up for the program were alerted of the can legally be paid about $6.08, which pay below minimum wage, responded massacre in Virginia, and acted on them. of all buildings, which is not on Carnegie bomb threat on Doherty Hall and Mel- is $1.07 less than minimum wage. with a fi rm “Absolutely not,” explain- Seven days before the fi ndings of the Mellon’s agenda. While some may hope lon Institute this past Friday. Why is it legitimate for hard-working ing that the company always pays at or fi rst offi cial internal report on the shoot- for more conservative measures, we’re We encourage everyone to partici- students, who are often taking on a job above minimum wage as part of their ings at Tech, the Carnegie Mellon Emer- glad to have the assurance of protection pate; visit my.cmu.edu/site/main/page. in addition to a full-time education, to competitive compensation package. gency Alert service was announced. without the big brother feeling. alert. be cheated out of an entire one-seventh While I know that this situation is not of their deserved hourly rates? wholly comparable to a franchise store Allowing employers to pay college like Camille’s, the moral is: Starbucks and high school students 85 percent of knows that low-paid employees will go If you build it, will they come? the set minimum wage essentially just elsewhere, and will give the company allows the minimum wage to be lowered a bad reputation — which Camille’s is With last year’s football team unde- big screen TVs, and glass garage doors – that it’s a fun, active, and worthwhile overall. While Pennsylvania should be rapidly acquiring. feated in regular season play and the a sort of California Pizza Kitchen meets place to be. Hopefully, the Pavilion will commended for raising minimum wage So the moral of the story is just that: men’s soccer bringing home the ECAC ESPN Zone meets Coffee Tree Roasters. craft a routine around getting food, to $7.15 this past July, enforcing this ex- maintaining morals. Despite it being South Championship, we can be sure Now, simply putting a restaurant next watching sports, and having fun. ception to that law seems to be taking a legal to pay below minimum wage, do- that the lack of attendance at campus to the football fi eld is not going to be a If taking the time to sit in the stands giant step backwards. ing so is indecent, particularly to col- sporting events has little to do with team hard and fast solution to our ongoing and watch a game is unappealing or This exception assumes that high lege students. Instead, students should performance. Now that we have won struggle with apathy. As the old adage just too unfamiliar, perhaps watching school and college students are not be paid at or above minimum wage to the battle against other college sports goes, you can lead a horse to wood-fi red the game while also eating dinner and fi nancially independent and are not increase productivity and employee teams, we have to start fi ghting the pizza, but you can’t make him take pride catching up on some reading will feel supporting themselves. While being morale, and, most importantly, to be battle here at home against ingrained in the football team. What the new facil- more like good old Carnegie Mellon fi nancially independent is probably able to support themselves and their routines and general disinterest. ity has the potential to do, however, is multitasking. Once the routine has de- less likely for high school than college lifestyles. Housing and Dining’s answer to this fi ll in the most basic piece of the puzzle: veloped, we might fi nd we have some students, many college students take epic problem is the Tartans Pavilion, a getting more students in the stadium real grassroots interest in Carnegie Mel- out loans in their names to pay tuition, Jessica Thurston (jthursto@) is the as- new dining facility located between the during games. lon sports on our hands. Maybe then we rent and living expenses, or split other sistant editor of Forum. She’s a junior Gesling Stadium and West Wing and The biggest hurdle is convincing can give Notre Dame a call and tell them college costs with their parents. When BHA student studying professional writ- Resnick residence halls. The Pavilion students who would not normally be we’re ready to reopen that vintage, 1938 a sophomore political science major ing and urban design, with a minor in will include a wood-fi red pizza oven, anywhere near Gesling on a Friday night can of whoop-ass. is busy balancing a full course load, Hispanic studies.

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Business Manager Office: University Center 314 Mail: PATRICK GAGE KELLY, TARUN BHAN, Phone: (412) 268-2111 The Tartan / Box 1017 Sci. & Tech. Editor Asst. Personnel Manager Fax: (412) 268-1596 Carnegie Mellon University MICHAEL M. WHISTON, ANEEB QURESHI, Web: www.thetartan.org Pittsburgh, PA 15289-1017 E-mail: [email protected] THE TARTAN • AUGUST 27, 2007 A9 Carnegie Mellon makes the switch to cage-free eggs for on-campus meals follows the lead of more than 150 be able to spread her wings, even ics of Eating. “There is no scale of egg-laying chickens. SALA own values of animal welfare and other colleges and universities in if she were alone. Battery cages with which to compare 24 hours disbanded when its founding other issues simply should not be the last few years, including Case have been banned in numer- of animal suffering and 10 cents president, Eric Jonas, left Carn- supported. Carnegie Mellon stu- Michael Croland Western, Tufts, Georgetown, ous European countries and will … other than the scale of human egie Mellon in 2004. Sustainable dents, faculty, and staff can rest Dartmouth, and Harvard. Super- be phased out in the European conscience.” Students’s efforts to promote easy knowing that their campus Conditions for egg-laying chick- market chains Whole Foods and Union by 2012. It’s up to individuals to ques- local, organic, and humanely egg consumption doesn’t contrib- ens and other animals raised in Wild Oats only sell cage-free eggs, As cruel as battery cages are, tion whether it’s worth 24 hours produced food have included a ute to the worst animal abuse. factory farms are hardly reminis- and some major companies — in- the egg industry has other dirty of all that suffering just for a sin- partial focus on eggs as well. Nevertheless, this news should cent of “Old MacDonald’s Farm”. cluding Burger King and Ben & secrets too. Baby chicks typically gle egg. At an institutional level, “It is encouraging to see Carn- serve as a wake-up call about con- Factory-farmed animals are typi- Jerry’s—are working to phase out have their sensitive beaks seared since Dining Services isn’t about egie Mellon take this crucial, suming animal products. cally confi ned to tiny spaces in their use of eggs from chickens in off so that they won’t peck each to stop using eggs, it’s wonderful compassionate step toward rec- The best way to stop supporting unnatural conditions and sub- battery cages. other to death under stressful that Carnegie Mellon and many ognizing that animals deserve cruelty to animals raised for food jected to the mutilation of their About 95 percent of egg-lay- conditions. Chickens are often other schools and companies are our respect and consideration,” is by not consuming animal prod- body parts without any painkill- ing chickens in this country are starved for a period of seven to 14 saying “No!” to battery cages. says Jonas. “While the best way ucts. Thanks to Dining’s other ers. While anyone who purchases confi ned to battery cages, which days in order to induce an extra Dining’s decision to switch to to help animals is to stop sup- innovations this semester—new animal products that come from are stacked on top of each other egg-laying cycle. These practices cage-free eggs didn’t come out porting the egg industry, which vegetarian and vegan options at such industrialized farms should so that excrement from the birds aren’t humane, but for birds, it is of left fi eld. Students and activ- egregiously abuses animals in so Skibo and an all-vegetarian eat- explore more humane eating op- on top falls on the animals below. better to be subjected to them and ists have urged Dining to switch many ways, it is comforting to ery called Evgefstos — eating tions, Carnegie Mellon’s Dining Hundreds of thousands of birds not live in battery cages than en- to cage-free eggs for about four know that Carnegie Mellon has at healthy and humane plant-based Services should be commended may live in one huge, putrid shed. dure all of the above. years. An organization named least stopped supporting one of foods at Carnegie Mellon has for switching to cage-free eggs. Birds in battery cages are not “It takes a chicken living in Student Animal Liberation Ac- the myriad abuses facing farmed never been easier. Beginning this semester, Dining able to nest, dust-bathe, or carry battery cage conditions about 24 tivists (SALA) formed in 2003 animals.” is using eggs that don’t come out any other natural behaviors. hours to produce just one egg. Su- to persuade Dining to work with It’s important to consider the Michael Croland (H&SS ’05) runs from caged chickens. Only cage- Instead, between fi ve and 11 permarket eggs cost about a dime suppliers that adhere to an animal origins of food before it winds up a blog about Judaism and animal free eggs will be used for both chickens are stuffed inside cages each,” stated author Erik Marcus welfare auditing program, with a on our plates. Production stan- protection issues at heebnvegan. liquid and shell eggs. The move so tiny that a sole bird wouldn’t in his book Vegan: The New Eth- primary focus on the conditions dards that don’t live up to one’s blogspot.com. Locked in the bedroom: Miscommunication with Housing and Dining

phone, and me standing in front of her, I found it suspicious that she couldn’t ask him which door. Rachael Clemmons Thus, I was led to believe, since my question was never answered, Usually, I find it unnecessary that if he did come, he came to to launch complaints against the the front door. And that would system — the system that pro- be another instance of a lack of vides my housing while I attempt communication. When I called an education that will hopefully Housing, I relayed that I lived in launch a successful career (which Margaret Morrison Apartments, will, in turn, pay off my student and that I was stuck inside of loans for housing and education). my bedroom. My message may However, launching complaints have been lost in translation, against the system became nec- because the only door he could essary after I had to climb out feasibly have knocked on without my bedroom window in order to me hearing would have been the leave my room. front door. And, surely, I wouldn’t My awkward encounter with have been able to open the front the construction men who won- door when I was stuck inside of dered which window I had my bedroom. climbed from wasn’t the first Despite the questions I asked, issue I have had with Housing I received no answers or reas- and Dining Services. Not that surance that I wouldn’t be stuck there have been many — they inside of my room again. The employ me, which I greatly mystery maintenance man prom- appreciate. Still, the first major ised to come to my apartment problem occurred last semester later that day to fix the door. I with a representative of Housing assume that he eventually made services. He shall remain name- an appearance, because my door less, yet it is important to know isn’t stuck anymore. that his job was to settle issues I don’t blame the individu- within the dormitory: in my als that work for Housing, but case, a quickly intensifying feud instead the system, or lack between my roommate and I. thereof, for relaying messages. Instead he exacerbated the prob- Housing should learn to com- lems, and my general cynicism, municate better with students, when he decided to scream and the college, and within its own yell at me. Although his level departments. The campus com- of disrespect intrigued me, as I munity, as a whole, should was convinced he wanted me to emphasize the significance of report his behavior to a higher Michael Menchaca/Art Staff communication. Housing must authority, I decided to let the not have cared that I was stuck in situation be, since finals and the course of action was necessary representative from maintenance had had to go to such extremes as ing area and a kitchen, and, in my apartment, nor did University like were quickly approaching. even though I called University was on his or her way, and the climbing out my window. I want- my apartment, the bedrooms are Police — that much is clear by Since my second negative expe- Police at 9:30 a.m., and Housing second time that the representa- ed someone to explain why no downstairs. So naturally, I asked the responses I didn’t receive. rience with Housing was much at 9:45 a.m., and they had both tive had already left and would one had come to my apartment, her what door he knocked on, Their lackluster efforts make me more tragic, I’ve decided to take assured me that they were on be arriving any minute. I am still why I had waited two hours (to to which she responded, “I don’t wonder what other messages are action. their way. waiting for that representative, no avail), and why I had to sacri- know, I don’t know the layout of lost or jumbled along the way to On August 14, 2007, I was Well, University Police didn’t two weeks later. fice my pride and my bladder. Maggie Mo.” students and back. locked into my room. My door exactly manage to break down my Naturally, I was frustrated. If A representative from Housing There was silence on my The most tragic part? Well, was jammed and I was unable door, because they never showed Housing were free, I wouldn’t and Dining’s explanation, on behalf. Where is the communi- there was my recycling bin, and to get out. Despite the fact that up. I had called Housing twice — feel the need to complain. Since the behalf of the maintenance cation?! I wouldn’t expect all the fact that my bladder was no my bladder was bursting, and my the first time to introduce them Housing isn’t free, I personally employee: “He said he knocked Housing staff to know the lay- longer pulsating by the time I nose was bleeding, I didn’t get to my unlikely problem, and the don’t think that maintaining on your door.” out of all dorms and apartments, scrambled out. out of my room until 11:30 a.m. second time to introduce them to doors is too much to ask. For those students unfamiliar that would be ridiculous. But, — when I decided to take action the necessity of immediate action Well, the staff at Housing with the floor plans of Margaret as the Housing representative Rachael Clemmons (rclemmon@) and climb out of my window that to resolve my unlikely problem. I noticed I was irritated with the Morrison Apartments, there is a was alternately speaking to the really hopes that she still has a job might serve as a fire escape. This was assured the first time that a situation, and furthermore, that I main door that opens into a liv- mystery maintenance man on the when this article comes out. A PERSON’s OPINION Today marks the first day of the fall semester. So we asked, Compiled by J.W. Ramp and Andrew Peters What are your most essential school supplies?

Amritha Prasad Vidhi Luthra Rachit Srivastava Christine Peters Tim Ruff Sophomore First-year Graduate student First-year Sophomore Information systems Business Computational finance H&SS Voice

“My lucky Pittsburgh pen from the “My laptop.” “Cereal bars. Breakfast.” “My Zune.” “Freshmen ... and pencils.” airport.” Sports A10 THE TARTAN August 27, 2007 SPORTS COMMENTARY Ongoing MLB outcome predicted changes to Sam Kim of the best teams in one-run games, going 21–17. Their bullpen, among the best in the athletics With only a month left in league, will fi nally help bring Major League Baseball’s regu- them back to the playoffs. lar season, the playoff buzz Even with all their rotation by Doug Fricker has begun, and while the di- struggles, the New York Mets Senior Sports Staff vision and wildcard races are continue to lead the National still very crowded, I am here League East. With Jose Reyes As another sports season be- to offer my bold predictions as and Castillo at the top of the gins at Carnegie Mellon, students to who will make the cut when lineup, the Mets’ offense can will notice many changes in Tar- October arrives. attack and score early in any tan athletics. Over the spring and In the American League East, game. Starting pitchers John summer, Athletics Director Susan the Red Sox will hold off the Maine and Orlando Hernandez Bassett initiated these changes in surging Yankees to win their continue to pitch well, and the an attempt to continue and en- fi rst division title since 1995. return of ace Pedro Martinez hance the Tartans’ successes. The Red Sox have the best rota- may be the biggest acquisition These changes include up- tion and bullpen in the division down the stretch. grades to the sites of these with an American League-best The Mets will win this di- athletic competitions as well as ERA of 3.73 as of Sunday. Ace vision, but the Philadelphia fresh faces within the athletics Josh Beckett and veteran Tim Phillies will fi nally make the department. Wakefi eld lead the American playoffs by winning a crowded Last summer’s major changes League with 16 wins. wildcard race. Even after the within athletics were FieldTurf The recent addition of Eric injury troubles, the Phillies are on Gesling Stadium and a var- Gagne has temporarily hurt the only a game behind in the wild- sity athletic weight room. The Red Sox bullpen, but closer Jon- card race. Their NL-best offense Carnegie Mellon football team athan Papelbon and setup man will be further strengthened by has never lost playing on the Hideki Okajima strengthen the the return of Chase Utley, who new silica sand and cryogenic very deep bullpen. was on the disabled list with a rubber FieldTurf; going 6–0 in The Yankees may not win the broken hand. 2006. More changes occurred division, but they will make the The NL Central is the weak- this summer and the results are postseason once again as the est division in baseball but impressive. wildcard team. The recent ad- perhaps the most exciting one. The old track was taken out

dition of pitching prospect Joba The defending champions, the J.W. Ramp/Assistant Photo Editor and resurfaced, and a new score- Chamberlain has stabilized a St. Louis Cardinals, got off to a board sits nicely where the old shaky bullpen this year, and brutal start, but they are sud- Varsity football scrimmages in a preseason game scoreboard once was. The IM the Yankees are nearly fi rst in denly only a few games behind Football and most other fall varsity sports teams open up their regular seasons this weekend. Check out the fi elds continue to be upgraded, every offensive category in the the Milwaukee Brewers and varsity schedule below for game times. and a Tartans Pavilion is being league, including batting av- Chicago Cubs. Although the constructed on the southern edge erage, home runs, RBIs, runs, Cubs have a potent lineup, the of the stadium. and hits. Brewers will edge out to win The Tartans Pavilion will be a In the AL Central, the Detroit the division. Fall varsity sports schedule 4100 square foot, glass-enclosed Tigers currently trail the Cleve- The Brewers have arguably eatery, which will open up to- land Indians, but they will still the best closer, Francisco Cor- Time ward the turf. When the pavilion win the division with their dero, in the division and are Date Opponent is completed this fall, students strong offense and improving expecting the return of ace Ben Sept. 1 University of Rochester 12 p.m. will be able to sit and eat pizza bullpen. Led by MVP candidate Sheets. With Chris Capuano Sept. 8 GROVE CITY COLLEGE 1 p.m. while watching a football game. Magglio Ordonez, the Tigers struggling without a win since Sept. 15 Hobart College 1 p.m. Skibo Gymnasium also un- have the second-best offense May 5, Sheets may be the de- Sept. 22 ALLEGHENY COLLEGE 7 p.m. derwent some renovations this only behind the Yankees. The ciding factor in an extremely Oct. 6 Randolph-Macon College 1 p.m. summer. The historic gym, built return of fl amethrower Joel Zu- tight race. Oct. 13 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY* 12 p.m. in 1924, will host the volleyball Oct. 20 University of Chicago* 1 p.m. CT maya from the disabled list will Led by NL home run leader Football team this fall and then the men’s stabilize what was considered Prince Fielder and potential Oct. 27 WASHINGTON (MO.) UNIVERSITY* 12:30 p.m. and women’s basketball teams in the best preseason bullpen. rookie of the year Ryan Bruan, Nov. 3 Bethany College 1 p.m. the winter. 1 p.m. The Indians possess two poten- the Brew Crew is fi ghting for Nov. 10 WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY Carnegie Mellon also welcomes tial Cy Young winners, Fausto more than the division title; it Aug. 31–Sept. 1 Ohio Northern University Tournament 3 p.m./9 a.m. two fresh faces to athletics. In Carmona and C.C. Sabathia, is fi ghting for its fi rst playoff Sept. 5 St. Vincent College 7 p.m. late April, Matthew Kinney was but their offense continues appearance since 1982. Sept. 7–8 College of Wooster Tournament 5:30 p.m./10 a.m. hired as the new head men’s and to struggle. Their offense has Without a doubt, the Arizona Sept. 12 POINT PARK UNIVERSITY 7 p.m. women’s swimming coach. Over scored three runs or fewer in Diamondbacks are the best in Sept. 21–22 CARNEGIE MELLON CROSSOVER 6 p.m./12 p.m. the summer, the women’s soccer nearly 50 games this season. the West. The D’backs have Sept. 29–30 UAA Round Robin #1* 12:30 p.m./9 a.m. program hired Betsy Warren as If the Indians do not start scor- the best record in the National Oct. 5–6 CARNEGIE MELLON INVITATIONAL 6:30 p.m./11 a.m. a full-time assistant coach. War- ing, they will be out of playoff League since the All-Star break. Oct. 13–14 UAA Round Robin #2* 10 a.m./9 a.m. ren replaced Tony Mohammed,

contention soon. Last year’s Cy Young winner, Volleyball Oct. 17 LA ROCHE COLLEGE 7 p.m. who took a head-coaching job at The Seattle Mariners will Brandon Webb, continues to Oct. 19–20 Juniata College Tournament 4 p.m./11 a.m. Wellesley College. surprise the Los Angeles Angels be unstoppable of late with 42 Oct. 26–27 Wittenberg University Tournament 6 p.m./11 a.m. Kinney was the head men’s of Anaheim to win the AL West. straight scoreless innings for Nov. 2–3 UAA Championships* TBA and women’s swimming coach at The Angels’ failure to make a the D’backs. Although the Pa- the University of Mary Washing- Sept. 5 Washington & Jefferson College 5 p.m. big trade-deadline move for a dres have playoff experience, ton in Fredericksburg, Va. for 12 Sept. 8 WESTMINSTER COLLEGE 7 p.m. hitter will hurt them consider- the D’backs have played well years before taking this Carnegie Sept. 15 Juniata College 1 p.m. ably. Especially with the loss against them head-to-head, go- Mellon position. Sept. 19 PENN STATE ALTOONA 7:30 p.m. of Juan Rivera, the Angels ing 7–4. During his stint at Mary Wash- Sept. 22 MOUNT UNION COLLEGE 12 p.m. do not have much protection At least 15 teams have a shot ington, he led the men’s and Sept. 25 GROVE CITY COLLEGE 7:30 p.m. for cleanup hitter Vladimir at making the playoffs this women’s teams to a combined Sept. 29 Washington (Mo.) University* 7 p.m. CT Guerrero. Garret Anderson year, but I predict that solid Oct. 6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO* 11 a.m. dual record of 182–59, with 22 continues to put up mediocre pitching will lead both the Red Oct. 9 LA ROCHE COLLEGE 7:30 p.m. combined Capital Athletic Con- numbers while catching com- Sox and Diamondbacks to the Oct. 12 University of Rochester* 5 p.m. ference (CAC) titles. He has bination Jeff Mathis and Ryan World Series. In the end, the Oct. 14 Case Western Reserve University* 1 p.m. coached 88 All-American per- Budde has barely hit .200 in Red Sox come out on top and Men’s Soccer Oct. 19 St. Vincent College 4 p.m. formances and was named CAC the bottom of the lineup. win the World Series in fi ve Oct. 22 POINT PARK UNIVERSITY 7:30 p.m. Coach of the Year 12 times (seven In addition to their strong games, with home fi eld advan- Oct. 26 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY* 5 p.m. times as women’s coach and fi ve offense, the Mariners are one tage at Fenway Park. Oct. 28 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY* 11 a.m. as men’s). Nov. 3 Emory University* 11 a.m. Kinney graduated from Kenyon College in 1993 and is a native of Team roster size is a seven- Sept. 1–2 Johns Hopkins University Tournament 2:30 p.m./1 p.m. Canton, Ohio. At Kenyon he was player minimum and 13-player Sept. 8–9 Otterbein College Tournament 12 p.m./1 p.m. a three-time All-American for the Sept. 14 COLLEGE OF WOOSTER 7:30 p.m. maximum. There will be a Lords. Sept. 17 PENN STATE BEHREND 7:30 p.m. mandatory rules meeting at Named captain his senior sea- Sept. 22 DENISON UNIVERSITY 2:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sep- son, he was also a part of three Sept. 26 Washington & Jefferson College 7:30 p.m. tember 6, in the Arena Room NCAA Division III National Sept. 30 Washington (Mo.) University* 12 p.m. CT in Skibo Gym. All teams must Championship teams. Oct. 3 ALLEGHENY COLLEGE 7:30 p.m. Administration have a representative at this While obtaining his master’s Oct. 6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO* 1:30 p.m. meeting. degree, Kinney served as an as- Oct. 12 University of Rochester* 7:30 p.m. Director: Mike Mastroianni, sistant coach at Western Illinois Oct. 14 Case Western Reserve University* 2:30 p.m. x8-2214 or mma8@ Volleyball — The matches are Soccer Women’s University. He has also coached Oct. 26 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY* 7:30 p.m. Assistant Director: Mike Grzy- played Monday to Thursday at the Macomb (Ill.) Senior High Oct. 28 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY* 1:30 p.m. winski, x8-2214 or immike@ School and at the Macomb County nights from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Nov. 3 Emory University* 1:30 p.m. Secretary: Amy Kiryk, kiryk@ in Weigand Gymnasium. Roster YMCA. Student President: Akil Simon, size is a seven-player minimum Sept. 1 Duquesne University Duals TBA Warren served as an assistant asimon@ and a 14-player maximum. Sept. 15 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Invitational TBA coach at Ashland University for Sept. 22 St. Vincent College Invitational TBA the past three seasons, and before Important Dates Tennis — Matches are played Sept. 28 Paul Short Invitational TBA that served as an assistant at Bryn on the courts by the UC on Oct. 13 CARNEGIE MELLON INVITATIONAL TBA Mawr School for Girls, Dundalk Thursday, September 6 — Monday through Thursday Oct. 27 UAA Championships* TBA Senior High School in Maryland, Rosters due for fl ag football, nights from 7 to 11 p.m. The Nov. 10 NCAA Regionals TBA and also Pulaski County High volleyball, tennis, and co-rec matches consist of two singles Cross Country Nov. 17 NCAA Nationals TBA School in Virginia. badminton in the IM Offi ce by and one doubles match. Those Warren was a three-year starter Sept. 14 ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY 2:15 p.m. in college at Radford University 4:30 p.m. playing singles cannot play in Sept. 14 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY 5:30 p.m. and enjoyed tremendous success. the doubles. Roster size is a Sept. 15 Allegheny College Invitational 10:30 a.m. She was named captain her se- Thursday, September 6 — minimum of four and a maxi- Sept. 29–Oct. 1 ITA Regional Tournament TBA Men’s Tennis nior season, and she helped the Mandatory rules meeting for mum of eight. Oct. 11–14 ITA National Championships TBA fl ag football at 4:30 p.m. in the Highlanders win the Big South Arena Room. Co-Rec Badminton — Matches Sept. 8–9 CARNEGIE MELLON INVITATIONAL 12 p.m./9 a.m. Conference tournament and are played at Skibo Gym on Sept. 22–24 ITA Regional Tournament TBA regular season titles. Radford Upcoming Events Monday through Thursday Oct. 2 CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY TBA also earned a bid to the NCAA nights. Teams consist of one Oct. 6 GROVE CITY COLLEGE 9 a.m. Division I tournament during her Flag Football — Games are male and one female. Tennis Oct. 7 WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY 10 a.m. playing days. played with six players per side. Women’s Oct. 11–14 ITA National Championships TBA Last year, the men’s swimming and diving team placed third at The games are played Monday Rosters can be submitted in Sept. 18 Ohio Wesleyan University Invitational 8 a.m. UAAs and the women’s team took through Thursday from 4:30 person to the IM Offi ce or elec- Oct. 1 Westminster College Fall Invitational 12 p.m. home fourth place. The women’s to 11 p.m. and on Sundays tronically. All e-mail rosters Golf Oct. 14–15 ECAC Southwest Championships 12 p.m. from 12 to 5 p.m. on both the are due 24 hours prior to stated soccer team fi nished last sea- intramural and stadium fi elds. due dates. HOME EVENTS IN ALL CAPS son with a record of 8–7–1 and a *University Athletic Association contest sixth-place fi nish in the UAA. IN YOUR ELEMENT inside: Get your cheap on Holler at your boys Fresh food 08.27.07 3 by Selena 46 Volume 102, Issue 02 Beckman-Harned by Sanyu Kyeyune by Amanda Cole ...this week only 4 Philly-Harmonic Philadelphia musicians make the grass look greener on the other side of the state.

4 Infi nite Absolute A Carnegie Mellon art professor plants Seeds on mountain tops and Mediterranean floors.

5 CD Reviews Amy Winehouse released “Rehab” just in time, and the Gym Class Heroes grow up.

6 Restaurants Check out some of Pittsburgh’s newest places to eat.

10 Photo Editing 8 SCS researchers develop new technologies to help jazz up those family albums.

4 5 6 10 ...feature 8 Orientation Zn? Kr? Pb? Get “In Your Element” with a photo spread of this year’s week for the freshies. ...regulars 3 Advice Learn how to find love on the World Wide Web and tame messy roommates.

5 Paperhouse Enjoy a playlist of music as cold as ice for the last few weeks of summer.

7 Dollar Movie Two weeks’ worth of movies, from Zodiac to Rang de Basanti.

15 Calendar Get excited for Nakashima Revealed, the newest exhibit at Purnell’s Miller Gallery.

PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Shawn Wertz MANAGING EDITOR Liz Schwartz PILLBOX EDITOR Sarah Mogin ASSISTANT PILLBOX EDITOR Matt Siffert COMICS EDITOR Gene Kim PHOTO EDITOR Deren Guler ART EDITOR Dave Kjos COPY MANAGER Matt Campbell LAYOUT MANAGER Ariane Simon COVER J.W. Ramp

The Tartan . Box 1017 . Carnegie Mellon University . Pittsburgh, PA 15289-1017 . www.thetartan.org . © 2007 The Tartan yGet your cheap on Everything you need to know Dorm decor for the desperately drained About dating and dirty dishes Dear Myrtle, Dear Myrtle, Can’t afford any Picassos to adorn your dorm Art: D.I.Y. Look for old canvasses at yard sales room? Can’t even afford the $9.99 shipping and before the weather gets cold and buy a couple What do you think about I live off campus, and my handling for that 1 cent Picasso print being tubes of paint from the art store. You don’t online dating? I tried finding roommates are sweet and all, auctioned off on eBay? Don’t fret — you can keep have to be an artistic genius — just swirl a girls in real life, but it just but they seem to be incapable yourself out of white cinder block hell without couple colors you like together and you’ll have didn’t pan out. It’s all so much of washing dishes. The sink breaking the bank. Try a few of the ideas below. something nice to look at. easier online, and you can is always crammed full, learn if somebody would be attracting flies and stinking Make a postcard wall. Get all your friends Make a paper chain. Cut up some colorful compatible with you before like hell. I can’t even get in to send you postcards from their hometowns paper and tape each strip into a ring. If you’re meeting them. What do you the sink to do my dishes. or vacation spots and create a globe-trotting feeling symbolic you can even write some kind say? When my roommates’ dishes display. of message on each link of the chain. Or, make are all dirty, they use mine! one ring for each school day in the semester and —Online Dating Devotee And, Myrtle, we even have Get festive. Raid Target after Christmas to get rip one off each day. Hang your completed chain a dishwasher! I’ve talked to ridiculously cheap lights and wacky ornaments around your window or bed. Hey there ODD— them about it; and when I do, that will look totally sweet year-round. they get better for a couple of Read the funnies. Cut out all your favorite I’ve done some online dating days, but then the sink is full Raid the toy box. Poke around in the attic the comic strips and make a funny wall to cheer you in my time (have you tried again. What do I do? next time you’re home and pick out some of your up during those long nights when it’s just you okcupid.com?) and it defi nitely most awesome toys or childhood art. Why not let and biochem. has its pluses and minuses. —Frustrated in Squirrel Hill Spiderman hold one of your favorite photos, or Sure, it seems like you can get else line a shelf with trolls? Now, go forth and be creative! some idea of your compatibility My poor FISH, before meeting the person, but Go for a theme. If you and your roommate can that doesn’t mean it’ll turn out Been there, man. One of the agree on one thing you like — the beach, Paris, Selena Beckman-Harned | Staffwriter the way you think. You might problems with living off campus robots, vampires — why not go for a theme have a lot in common with is that you don’t have an RA to decoration? If you’re both into the beach, find somebody who turns out to be mediate tough problems for you. some shells, invest in a couple leis and fake palm an ultra-weird eyebrow-fetishist It’s time to call a house meeting tree posters from the party store, and go wild. Scientologist (unless you’re into and explain clearly what your that, in which case, woohoo for problem is, why it bothers you, Hit up the color printer. Instead of buying you) or somebody who turns out and what you would like them to posters of your favorite paintings, print a couple to be a 500-pound middle-aged do; but don’t dictate — discuss. out in a cluster near you (CFA or the fourth floor guy named Larry, instead of a 19- Try to tell them what’s wrong by of Hunt Library). year-old blonde. Besides, there’s explaining how it inconveniences always the chance that your you — fl ies, hard to do your own Make a collage. Rescue some magazines and blind date will kill you — always dishes, etc. — rather than calling newspapers from the recycling bin, cut out take your fi rst dates to well-lit, them the disgusting, disrespectful anything that looks cool, and glue it down. Make crowded places and/or take slobs they are. Make it clear that a whole collection of eyes to put near the fridge along a burly friend. That being you would prefer them not to to make sure your roomie doesn’t steal your milk, said, online dating can be a great use your dishes without asking; or put Bush’s head on Britney’s body. Or, make way to build up your confi dence, focus on yourself and what you some angst-filled poetry cut from newspaper and you might actually meet need. If that still doesn’t work, headlines. (Post-Gazettes, of course, not Tartans.) somebody great. So, I would say or if tempers run high, you could keep it up if you’re careful, but I try bringing in an unbiased party Make your own paper cutout wall art. Get advise joining a new club, taking (a friend of a friend, perhaps) to your Matisse on. Invest in a pack of construction up a new sport, or volunteering help mediate. As a last resort, paper and cut out some shapes, then slap them somewhere; trying something you could get a crate and stack on the wall with a little Scotch tape. Cover your new is a great way to meet new the dirty dishes outside, where walls with flowers, cityscapes, stormtroopers people, not to mention a great the fl ies can feast as they please — whatever tickles your fancy. way to learn about yourself. and the sink will be clean. Good luck! Frame things that aren’t paintings. Save old —Myrtle scraps of fabric and wrapping paper, then just —Myrtle grab a couple frames from Goodwill, and voilà! Instant art. Need advice? Send queries to Light it up. A colorful lantern or two will cut [email protected]. right through life-sucking fluorescent lights. You can find some at thrift stores or at Target, and if the lanterns you find aren’t colorful enough, help them out by gluing on cut paper, pressed leaves, or pictures from magazines.

Jennifer Kennedy | Art Staff

living 3 pillbox 08.27.07 Tales of the Infi nite Absolute Art professor plants Seeds, sends waves into space

You are holding two small metallic eggs, one in each hand. world... there is one blooming for each week of the year, an or Lagrangian point, between the Milky Way Galaxy and One is in your left, one is in your right. They are curious ever-blooming flower, a flower of flowers.” the Andromeda Galaxy, a point of zero gravity that Burgess objects, as you are unable to determine whether they believes represents a true sense of freedom. occurred naturally or were created by mankind. To you, they Many of the materials that have been distilled were collected feel powerful. Now you place them to rest, one at the top of by Burgess himself, such as samples from rivers including the Burgess hopes to send two sets of radio waves to this point, the Taygetos Mountains, the other you let slide from your Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Ganges, Mississippi, and the Murray one from each side of Earth, creating an interference pattern fingers into the sea. in Australia. The collection and method become part of the which he describes as a radio hologram. This project, which experience, a ritual for understanding our position between will take place some 1.1 million light years away from Earth, While this may sound like a fantasy-imbued dream, it is opposing infinities. is another demonstration that art can take place anywhere, the culmination of 30 years of work by Carnegie Mellon art expanding our own reality by expanding the locations where professor Lowry Burgess. As the sixth piece of Burgess’s Both seeds have now been placed: The seed at the bottom artists can work. Quiet Axis project, Seeds of the Infinite Absolute seeks to of the Mediterranean will be sucked into the Calypso display and try to understand the power of infinities. Deep, where the African continental plate dives beneath For anyone interested in experiencing Burgess’s work inside the Eurasian plate, and where the seeds will eventually be of our galaxy, check out Forum 61, running from November Over the past 30 years, Burgess has planned and then crushed; and the seed in the mountains will slowly erode. 10, 2007, to March 2008 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, collected the elements that compose the seeds, his two They were placed there, each pulling at the other so that, as an exhibition that will contain a number of his large-scale metallic eggs. Each is purified from the emotional and Burgess describes, “between these two infinities, the one paintings from the past 40 years. physical substances that define our reality, including the of crushing pressure, and the one of release, is most of our blood of artists, sap from 44 types of trees, and crushed reality.” vermillion, the last of which was placed in a room where 60 Patrick Gage Kelley | Dossier Editor pairs of people exchanged telepathic plans for the future. With the completion of Burgess’s work on Seeds, he will focus These elements were chosen to represent a distillation of on deep space. In 1989, Burgess was the first artist to have his our reality into a purer form. Burgess explained, for example, work taken into space as an official payload by NASA, and he “with 52 flowers, which were collected from all over the is now again exploring space, specifically the balance point, Holler at your boys Philly thrillers bring the party to the people

Having friends in the music business has worked to the Philadelphia DJ pool and enlisted both Diplo and Spank Rock’s advantage of Philadelphia-based emcees Diplo, Hollertronix, talents, resulting in the releases of Fabriclive 24 and Fabriclive and Spank Rock. Diplo (real name Wesley Pentz), whose 33. The two compilations include remixes of Aphex Twin, upbringing in Mississippi factors into his melding of dirty Ludacris, Chicks on Speed, and Hot Chip. Especially since South and Miami bass beats with current hip-hop and rap they debuted merely a year ago, this was a commendable tracks, fuses music styles from Tel Aviv to Rio into danceable honor for Spank Rock. mixes. Laying rapid-fire rhymes over bass-heavy electro-rap In 2004 Diplo released his debut full-length album, Florida, an beats, the Spank Rock collective — comprised of Armani 11-track smorgasbord spanning such genres as Brazilian baile XXXchange, Chris Rockswell, and Spank Rock — never fails funk, instrumental hip-hop, and cinematic electronica. The to stimulate a crowd with their vibrant sound. Since Spank single “Diplo Rhythm” was featured on Grey’s Anatomy and Rock’s 2006 debut album YoYoYoYoYo exploded onto the exemplified Diplo’s ability to smoothly incorporate seemingly flashy Philadelphia party scene, the group has been hailed by disparate styles of music. As of 2006, Diplo added impresario critics, among them Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, who to his credentials by founding his own label, Mad Decent. The lauded the album as one of his favorites. The group has toured DJ wunderkind’s lengthy list of collaborators includes British with Hollertronix and M.I.A. and opened for Beck and Björk, singer and former girlfriend M.I.A., for whom he remixed but Spank Rock’s accomplishments do not stop there. Xfm several singles for the compilation Piracy Funds Terrorism. London named the group’s single “Bump” Single of the Year in 2006, and the hip-jerking anthem “Backyard Betty” appeared Along with DJ Low Budget, Diplo has branched into the in the video game Madden NFL 07. mashup genre under the moniker Hollertronix. This year alone, the duet released remixes of Peter Bjorn and John’s Philadelphia new schoolers Diplo, Hollertronix, and Spank indie-pop tune “Young Folks” and Daft Punk’s techno blaster Rock have quickly made a name for themselves in the City “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.” They have sampled of Brotherly Love and beyond, turning concert venues into everything from Three 6 Mafia to Modest Mouse and sweaty dance parties where anyone can be, as Spank Rock ingeniously interweaved The Clash’s “Rock the Casbah” with puts it, “an ass-shakin’ competition champ.” Missy Elliott’s “Gossip Folks.” The boisterous Beat boys have amassed a following of party-hearty trendsters as a result of their accessible yet creative mashups. Sanyu Kyeyune | Staffwriter Courtesy of www.fabriclondon.com Mississippi-born Wesley Pentz, also know as Diplo, creates Taking a hint from the buzz surrounding these danceable music by blending fusions of multiple genres. up-and-comers, London dance club Fabric dipped into the 4 art pillbox 08.27.07 CD Dropbox Paperhouse Winehouse is full of soul, and Challengers faces challenges On cool-down music Amy Winehouse, Back to Black The album’s other tracks seem to be a portrayal of Gym It is impossible to have a conversation without someone bringing up Class Heroes’s move to the mainstream, with catchy the heat. Relentless sunlight boils our fl esh and swampy humidity With most of Hollywood in rehab this summer, Amy lyrics and beats that skim the surface, refusing to go as makes even typing a sweaty affair. My pink is peeling off and my Winehouse’s infamous summer anthem “Rehab” arrived deep as Chronicles. Still, it was School Children that put brain is in a liquid state — and, reader, I am sure you feel the same. with perfect timing. The remainder of Back to Black, Gym Class Heroes on the map. With that in mind, here is a playlist of songs for suckling popsicles. her sophomore album, is a surprising blend of old soul and new R&B. Winehouse matches her unexpectedly Bauhaus, “Mask.” In “Mask,” Bauhaus sends you directly inside the bluesy voice with background vocals and instruments Rachael Clemmons | Assistant Layout Manager thick stone walls of a subterranean dungeon. Peter Murphy moans played in the fashion of ‘50s and ‘60s super girl groups in pain, with cymbals crashing like whips. It’s all dark and gloomy with a twist; instead of dwelling on lost love, Winehouse and goth until the 2:40 mark, when a beautiful, light guitar melody manipulates her vocals to sing about other topics: the The New Pornographers, Challengers replaces whips and moans. “The shadow is cast,” Murphy cries. troubles of unworthy men, her addiction to booze, and, Hurrah! I need some shade. in “Addicted,” her refusal to share her weed. The biggest problem with The New Pornographers’s latest record, Challengers, is that many of its songs Junior Boys, “Double Shadow.” The Canadian duo’s beats are Winehouse has the ability to connect with her listeners would sound far too fi tting in places where respectable, always icy — especially this one, which has whispering vocals that with honest lyrics and a language so completely worthwhile music rarely gets played. If someone were are not warmly romantic. Instead, “Double Shadow” begins with unanticipated. This album’s old-soul feel is more eating at Wendy’s, watching the credits of a romantic some unromantic insults, and then launches into an understated beat pronounced than Winehouse’s debut, Frank. Back to comedy, or shopping at Target and one of Challengers’s with a compliment: “you good fuck.” At least whoever this song is Black shows a more gutsy Winehouse, as she trades songs came on, it wouldn’t seem out of place. The tearing to shreds has that, right? That, and a surprisingly soulful track in her first effort’s hip-hop for blues, as evidenced by music is a little too “feel good,” even maudlin at times. complete with handclaps in their memory. various stand-out songs, from “Tears Dry On Their This is not to say that this music is vapid, or even that Pluxus, “Solid State.” This Scandinavian electro track begins with a slow, jingling beat, reminiscent of ice cubes clinking in glasses. Quickly, other synthetic sounds roll in, sounding like the best parts of summer — clicking cameras, an oscillating fan, the hum of insects If someone were eating at Wendy’s, watching at nightfall, a carnival melody, the plinking of coins into a fountain. Still, the mood is not nostalgic. This slow, dark, and fi zzy song seems the credits of a romantic comedy, or shopping at tired of the summer heat.

Target and one of Challengers’s song came on, it M83, “Teen Angst.” What goes together better than teen angst and ,, the dying days of summer? Ethereal male vocals, a throbbing beat, ‘‘wouldn’t seem out of place. and hazy guitar washes make this an ideal song to listen to during a dusk walk amid the mosquitoes.

TV On The Radio, “Wear You Out.” “Wear You Out” begins as a vocal-driven track, with Adebimpe’s voice fl uttering effortlessly above Own,” to “Me & Mr Jones.” Her modern twist on classic all music that blends harmlessly into the background is simple drumming. Soon, gentle chimes, horns, and bass arrive and music is versatile enough to attract different audiences somehow innately bad, but it’s defi nitely not a trait that his voice swoops back down to sensually meld with the chugging, — by no means an easy feat. an indie band wants associated with its music. bluesy orchestra. After a blast of heat, TVOTR cools it off with an icy fl ute jam. Gym Class Heroes, As Cruel As School Children Fortunately, The New Pornographers are very skilled at crafting pop songs. Songwriters A.C. Newman and The Flaming Lips, “Bad Days.” Just when students start dreading This summer, Gym Class Heroes made a surprise Dan Bejar offer fun and whimsical melodies that are the start of class and the onslaught of work, Wayne Coyne reminds appearance on the mainstream music scene with their catchy in a good way. Their lyrics are creative and us, “You have to sleep late when you can, and all your bad days will infectiously glorified single, “Cupid’s Chokehold.” But, clever, nonsensical in a way that is never intimidating end.” Take heed from this surprisingly low-key Flaming Lips track. like Amy Winehouse, Gym Class Heroes are more or pointless. The instrumentation on Challengers is Sleep will be torn from our sweaty grasp all too soon, and when the experienced than the new artist label they have thus far also impressive. The New Pornographers manage cool fall comes we will be wishing for summertime once again. attained. As Cruel As School Children is the third album to incorporate a multitude of unusual instruments featuring the dynamic vocals of frontman Travis McCoy, — shaker eggs, French horns, and strings — that never Caitlin Osbahr | Special to The Tartan who acts as the representative personality of the group. sound superfl uous or intrusive. The guitar effects and (Gym Class Heroes was, as the name might suggest, tones are worth marveling over for their appropriateness formed in McCoy’s and drummer Matt McGinley’s and ingenuity, most notably in the song “Entering White gym class around 1999.) The indie group perfected its Cecilia,” and the riffs are as much as an indie rock fan top 10 on WRCT 88.3 FM effortless blend of hip-hop and rock somewhere between could ask for. 1 most played albums of the last week The Papercut Chronicles 2005’s and the original release 2 As Cruel As School Children Wilco, Sky Blue Sky of in the summer of 2006. The sheer talent of The New Pornographers is what 3 allows this record to work. But, the frenzied exuberance The Stooges, The Weirdness 4 The group’s newest album, upbeat and optimistic in of previous albums like Twin Cinema and Mass Sonic Youth, The Destroyed Room both rhythm and lyrics, is an absolute reversal from Romantic (think of the song “The Bleeding Heart Show”) 5 Graham Parker, Don’t Tell Columbus Chronicles — a more somber record, successful in is lost. So, while The New Pornographers remain a 6 John Doe, A Year In The Wilderness its contemplation of drug addictions, family deaths, superior group, the undesirable meekness of their new 7 The Gothees, Meet the Gothees and broken hearts. McCoy’s soul is less evidently in sound is causing them to stand out less and less from 8 GeoMATA, GeoMATA School Children , but his catching vocals are almost your average pop band. 9 Bill Callahan, Woke on a Whaleheart overwhelming, especially in tracks like “Viva La White 10 Artichoke, Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols Girl” — which, McCoy assures his audiences, is not about white girls, but a metaphor for his love of music. Steven Weinberg | Junior Staffwriter Various Artists, Woodlab Vol. 4 music 5 pillbox 08.27.07 Fresh food New spots for bites in the ’Burgh

At the start of a new semester, there are a lot of new things appetizers, entrées, and desserts, and offers a variety of (around $5–$10) to order a few. Tusca also serves a few full to experience: new classes, new professors, and new friends, unique fl avors. Everything is made entirely on site, including entrées and several desserts. to name a few. With all of these fresh starts and exciting new salad dressings and desserts. Sassy Marie’s is open for lunch opportunities, why stick to the same old food? Check out and dinner daily, with a brunch served on Sundays. Live jazz Mojo Bistro 172 Lincoln Ave., Bellevue. 412.761.2828. these new restaurants in Pittsburgh for a taste of something performances are held on Friday and Saturday nights, usually different. with a small cover charge. This new restaurant in Bellevue serves Thai-Cajun fusion cuisine. Mojo Bistro itself opened as a coffee shop last Marzoni’s Brick Oven & Brewing 4643 Route 8, Allison Tusca 2773 Sidney St. 412.488.9000. February, but has since been converted to a full restaurant. Park. 412.486.9291. Mojo Bistro opens daily at 8:30 a.m. for customers. Dinner may Tusca, a new European-style restaurant on the South Side, be pricey (up to $50 for two people), but lunch choices are Popular beer and pizza destination Marzoni’s recently opened specializes in tapas. The tapas are diverse, with infl uences more affordable and a great way to try out the restaurant. a second location in Hampton. In addition to pizza, Marzoni’s from many European and Middle Eastern countries including serves a variety of other foods, including Italian-style entrées, Spain, Italy, Morocco, and Greece. The tapas are big grilled meats, and seafood. The company brews its own beer, enough to share with a friend or two, and cheap enough Amanda Cole | Staffwriter which is shipped to Hampton from the original location. There are six different brews to try, and if you’d like to try them all at once (and are of age), they offer a sampler. Prices here are moderate with the most expensive entrée costing about $22.

Imagines 631 Painters Run Road, Upper St. Clair. 412.221.0350.

While Imagines itself is new, the food isn’t. Imagines is located in Upper St. Clair, and it recently took over the old restaurant Pasquarelli’s. Despite the new name, many of the favorite dishes from Pasquarelli’s are still being served. In addition to the Italian dishes carried over from before, Imagines serves a variety of creative new entrées and meats. Entrées run $9–$28, and the price includes a full meal with bread, soup, salad, vegetables, and either pasta or potatoes. Both lunch and dinner are served daily.

Palate 212 Sixth St. 412.434.1422.

Located downtown in the Cultural District, Palate is a modern bistro serving a variety of foods in the French-fusion style. The prices for dinner and the theater tasting menu aren’t cheap, but the bistro offers a happy hour with $5 appetizers and a few sandwiches. The bar menu hours are 4:00–6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.–1:00 a.m. Palate also offers a variety of desserts, and the restaurant includes a lounge area in addition to restaurant seating.

Muriel’s 856 Western Ave. 412.322.0476.

Muriel’s, a small restaurant on the North Side, recently won a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reader poll for best American cuisine in Pittsburgh. Located in a Victorian house, Muriel’s has a small dining room in addition to the outdoor seating area. The food is relatively inexpensive and healthy. Muriel’s serves lunch and dinner Monday–Saturday, and a popular brunch on Sundays, which includes a complimentary mimosa.

Sassy Marie’s 422 Foreland St. 412.246.0353.

Sassy Marie’s on the North Side offers American regional cuisine and live jazz performances. The menu includes Jennifer Kennedy | Art Staff

6 food pillbox 08.27.07 Did you know? The sports section includes an instructional article on how to dollarmovie 100 swim. The average swimmer-to-be, Sarah Mogin | Pillbox Editor says the writer, requires six to 10 September 18, 1907 lessons to master the art of not drowning. The author makes a The Lookout Grindhouse Zodiac Day Watch point to discourage the age-old Thursday, August 30 Friday, August 31 Saturday, September 1 Sunday, September 2 technique of throwing a kid in a river and (assuming he survives) 8 10 12 6:30 10 7 10 1 7:30 10 12:30 teaching him to swim. Scott Frank, the screenwriter If paying $1 for a movie is If you changed the plot of Russian fantasy Day Watch behind Minority Report, a bargain, paying $1 for All the President’s Men to might not make sense A Tartan writer enrolled in Margaret makes his directing debut two movies has got to be a portray a homicidal Richard unless you’ve seen Night Morrison Carnegie College in the Memento-like thriller steal. Grindhouse channels Nixon, you’d pretty much Watch, the fi rst of the series, 50 complains that none of her classes The Lookout. After losing his the drive-in horrors of the have Zodiac. It has all the but here goes: Anton, the have any boys in them. Sure, she short-term memory in a car ’50s, offering a duo of fi lms glamour of a smoke-fi lled hero from the fi rst fi lm, September 24, 1957 writes, the boys don’t want to crash, Chris Pratt (Joseph by cult heroes Quentin ’70s newsroom, where we returns to his role as the take cooking or sewing, but they Gordon-Levitt) adjusts to a Tarantino and Robert watch the employees of the middleman between a pair wouldn’t be so out of place in mundane life consisting of Rodriguez. First up is Death San Francisco Chronicle (a of contending groups called classes like English and history. physical therapy and a night Proof, Tarantino’s serial- snappily on-point Robert the Light and Dark Others, 50 years later, take a seat behind job as a janitor. All of that’s killer fl ick with the predator Downey Jr. and an adorably humans with supernatural one of those all-work, no-shower fi ne, or at least manageable, using his car as the weapon obsessive Jake Gyllenhaal) powers on the respective boys, and you’ll see why some until a smooth-talking new of choice. Then there’s try to fi nd a serial killer fronts of good and evil. people thought it was a good idea friend convinces Pratt Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, a without so much as a dial- Anton canoodles with to separate the sexes. to play a part in a bank zombie thriller worth a watch up connection. Keep in love interest Svetlana (no, robbery. Intriguing plotline if only because we go to mind, though, that the movie not the girl from The Real aside, the movie is worth it school in Pittsburgh. tells the story of an unsolved World), and the pair seeks An ad appears for roller-skating on the Cut, $1 per hour on a Friday for Gordon-Levitt alone — in mystery — so don’t expect out something called the a tightly stitched ending. 25 afternoon. Why don’t we still do case your 10 Things I Hate Chalk of Fate, a super-sweet fun things like this? I know I’m not About You DVD is skipping. writing implement with the the only one who’s sick of Dance capability to rewrite history. September 7, 1982 Dance Revolution.

An article reveals that Carnegie Mellon does not own the acronym 10 “CMU” — it belongs to Central Michigan University. Well, at least September 2, 1997 we still have dibs on gems like Red Road Spider-Man 3 Rang de Basanti Plan 9 From MCS, SCS, H&SS, CFA, and CIT. Thursday, September 6 Friday, September 7 Saturday, September 8 Outerspace OMFG. 8 10 12 7:30 10 12:30 7 10 1 Sunday, September 9 8:30 10 11:30 Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Spider-Man 3 continues Bollywood! In Rang de Pillbox releases its first issue, Red Road follows a CCTV in the campiness of the Basanti, some college Many people consider Plan encompassing the former Arts & (closed circuit television) series’ part deux, primarily slackers agree to participate 9 From Outer Space to be 5 Living and Entertainment sections operator named Jackie. in its setup. Newcomer in a documentary about the worst movie ever made. in a single tabloid. The name We get a vibe she has a Thomas Haden Church the Indian Independence It might be worth it to see August 26, 2002 “Pillbox,” says a letter from the tortured past, but the real falls into a sand-fi lled Movement. The students Plan 9 for that reason alone, editor, is supposed to represent trouble starts when Jackie particle accelerator, which, play characters involved to make yourself feel better “something hip and innovative.” recognizes a man she sees instead of killing him, turns in the revolution’s terrorist about all the slightly less-bad Well, that might be true — but on the job (he lives in the him into a super villain underbelly, and they are movies you’ve seen. If not, in 2007, the name Pillbox is Red Road fl ats — hence called Sandman... with soon inspired to ditch their here’s a story: Writer/director more likely to connote something confusing, mysterious, and vaguely the name). Jackie starts the phenomenal power to apathetic tendencies in favor Edward D. Wood Jr. wanted medicated. watching him and stalking disintegrate into sand. And, of patriotic passion. History Bela Lugosi to be in his movie him obsessively, eventually some alien ooze latches repeats itself, and the group so badly that when the actor seducing him, fi ling a false onto Peter’s moped during takes on a corrupt defense died mid-movie, he hired his A Tartan writer rails against a staple rape charge, and landing him an evening under the stars minister in the spirit of the wife’s chiropractor to stand in of many people’s college diets: in jail. The intriguing part is with Mary Jane (talk about characters they play. The 1 for the role. ramen noodles. According to the that we don’t learn until the an awkward date). The result is largely successful, article, one package of ramen end how Jackie knows this ooze later climbs onto though a little forced at the August 28, 2006 contains about 1800 milligrams man, or what she wants with Peter’s costume and alters fi lm’s end. It’s two hours of sodium. It’s death — just add him. his personality, which is and 37 minutes — bring a water. illustrated by the suit turning bedpan. black. Deep. Sarah Mogin | Pillbox Editor

movies 7 pillbox 08.27.07 Getting ‘In Your Element’ []J.W. Ramp | Assistant Photo Editor Convocation, House Wars, and the talent show help fi rst-years settle in

Above: The blue team takes time for a dance party during House Wars on Friday.

Right: The green team passes the sponge as part of the Guerras de Casas (that’s “House Wars” in Spanish.)

Opposite (clockwise from top left): New House first-years in the School of Drama perform a song by the Spice Girls in Saturday’s talent show in Rangos; What are those cylindrical objects sitting upright next to Kris Cecchetti, an educator with Health Services?; First-years in SCS dress to impress with funny glasses during Convocation on Thursday.

8 feature pillbox 08.27.07 feature 9 pillbox 08.27.07 Photo editing is a great way to turn a realistic photo into something... slightly less plausible.

Like Photoshop, but easier J.W. Ramp | Assistant Photo Editor Graduate students bring photo editing to the masses

People always bring back the same couple of things from Art. Lalonde’s method uses images divided into categories, other programs. In terms of what you can do, said Hays, “the family vacations: tan lines, empty wallets, made-in-China such as people, cars, and trees. “We want to add specifi c sky is the limit.” souvenirs, and — of course — photographs. And no family objects,” he said. The program asks its user to click on a album could be complete without the requisite duds: Mom’s photograph’s horizon line, which it uses to defi ne criteria And in a way, it always has been. One of the earliest photo poorly timed shot of Lake Winnipesaukee, obscured by that for the images that someone might want to add. At this controversies dates back to 1858, when Henry Peach boat that sailed into the picture; Dad’s artsy still of Abbey point, if a user clicks on “car,” the program will show all Robinson published a photograph called “Fading Away.” The Road at sunrise, looking eerily vacant instead of serene. of its photographs of cars in an ordered list; the ones that picture showed a young girl dying while her family watched Hoping to remedy such photo faux pas, researchers at closest match the original image’s lighting and camera angle and wept, but there was only one problem: It wasn’t real. The Carnegie Mellon developed two new photo editing techniques conditions are listed at the top. people in the photograph were all actors, and, on top of that, that could help the next family album earn its place on the Robinson created the image by combining the negatives of coffee table. Photo Clip Art is especially useful for people interested in fi ve separate photographs. modeling projects, such as an architect proposing a building Ditching the sailboat plan or a screenwriter working on a storyboard. An architect, “The public got really upset. They got duped,” said Charlee for example, might be interested in seeing how the lawn of Brodsky, a professor in the School of Art. It’s easy to think James Hays, a Ph.D. candidate in SCS’s Graphics Lab, created a prospective complex would look with people on it, Lalonde that new technology in photo editing is going to change a system called Scene Completion; he designed the technique explained. photography forever, or at least its credibility. But, as Brodsky around fl ickr.com. Scene Completion may just be the perfect explained, the Scene Completion and Photo Clip Art projects solution for a botched Winnipesaukee scene — the software Aside from the specifi cs, the overwhelming benefi t of both are only newer and easier ways to create effects that have makes it easy to fi ll in a photograph’s holes, whether from photo editing projects is that Mom and Dad can actually use been possible for years. “I think that what people might not physical damage or the removal of an object (an obtrusive them. “Our goal was to make this not completely automatic know is that we’ve had trickster photography for a long time,” sailboat, for example). It considers the colors and textures but as easy as possible,” Lalonde said. Users need not said Brodsky. “We had photographic manipulation in the of the spot surrounding the hole, in addition to contextual understand Adobe Photoshop — or even Microsoft Paint — to darkroom.” factors; it won’t suggest a giraffe to fi ll a lake, for example. use the software. With Carnegie Mellon’s tools for the technology-defi cient, Using this criteria, the Scene Completion method presents Credibility Mom and Dad could become the next Henry Peach Robinson. its user with a list of up to 20 images that can fi ll in the hole. So, Mom can choose to add a kayak, another sailboat, a With this kind of accessibility, there’s a risk that editing swimming tourist, etc. Not all of the 20 photographs will fi t in photographs could become too easy. If Mom and Dad can Sarah Mogin | Pillbox Editor the picture (some might not match the lighting, for example), add a car and subtract a sailboat from every family picture, but two or three likely will. “The method has a low success the entire album could lose its credibility. Moreover, if rate,” said Hays. “It needs a lot of data.” The accuracy of photojournalists can add, say, an exploding warhead to a Scene Completion increases with the amount of images it can photograph of Iraq, it could lead to credibility problems that search from. eclipse even the Jones’s Family Album.

Populating Abbey Road “There’s been reason to be suspicious of photos for a long time,” said Hays. Although the techniques coming from For Dad’s deserted Abbey Road, graduate student Carnegie Mellon may be new, the results that they achieve Jean-François Lalonde created a technique called Photo Clip have long been possible through tools like Photoshop and 10 photography pillbox 08.27.07 Interrobang by Selena Beckman-Harned Insight by James Hounslow [email protected]

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cancer Pay attention! The first day of classes is when they go over the rules jun. 22–jul. 22 you’ll break.

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sagittarius Yes, Mountain Dew for breakfast. COMICS STAFF nov. 22–dec. 21 contact [email protected]

capricorn You try to be a sweet person, but only bears will love you. dec. 22–jan.19

aquarius Taking a nap on the grass is the best outdoor activity when you’re jan. 20–feb. 18 laying in poop.

pisces Your friends are back! They don’t remember your name. feb. 19–mar. 20

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J.W. Ramp | Assistant Photo Editor Bananas of the world unite! Senior ChemE Kris Aiyer, an RA for Morewood E Tower, got a little fruity during House Wars on Friday. Unfortunately, Aiyer’s costume was not enough to win his team the prize; the red team won this year’s competition.

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