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Monday, November 15, 2010 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Volume 105, Issue 12 Proposed speed bumps in Schenley Student group hosts Park create concern for Sweepstakes two-day conference CLAIRE GUSTAVSON That community is clearly Junior Staffwriter growing. By last Thursday, at least 200 people had signed This past weekend, Carne- up for the conference, com- gie Mellon played host to the pared to the total of 150 last annual Asian Student Leader- year. The event spanned last ship Conference (ASLC). The Friday and Saturday where ASLC hosted a range of events initially it was simply a sin- aimed at promoting unity and gle-day event that included involvement among Carnegie only one keynote address and Mellon students. The event two breakout sessions. is a two-day affair, which, This year the ASLC fea- according to cmuaslc.org, tured a range of events, “incorporates intellectual, so- including several keynote cial and political discussions speakers, many smaller about the role of the Asian breakout sessions, and two and Asian-American experi- live performances. One fun- ence in the United States.” damental goal of the confer- The conference began ence was to bring an intellec- three years ago and has tual focal point to November. grown since its inception. By bringing in keynote speak- Initially, the Asian Students ers, the ASLC hoped to en- Association hosted the event. gage the campus in this ex- Now, ASLC has a committee ploration. Courtney Wittekind/News Editor unto itself, and the confer- This year, the program in- JACKSON LANE Master Plan, a 20-year blue- section of Schenley Drive and ence has grown to incorpo- cluded a keynote address by Staffwriter print for park restoration and Panther Hollow Bridge. The rate more people and more of Suon Cheng, global strategic management. current version of the Master the Asian student organiza- real estate analysis manager Recently, many Carnegie The plan lays out restora- Plan calls for an ornamental tions on campus. Members of for Google; a keynote address Mellon students have ex- tion projects in Frick, High- roundabout to be installed the Asian Student Leadership by Wong Fu Productions; pressed concern about how land, Riverview, and Schen- at the intersection. However Conference committee are and a comedy routine by Ali speed bumps will affect the ley parks. Now 10 years into some attendees at the meet- carefully selected with the Wong. university’s 90-year-old tradi- the plan, the Pittsburgh Parks ing at Schenley Park, which intention of creating a lead- According to Shernell tion of Sweepstakes. Speed Conservancy will be updating was held on Oct. 23, have sug- ership group with a range of Smith, the staff advisor for bumps in Schenley Park were and revising the Master Plan gested other devices, includ- views and backgrounds. ASLC and coordinator for suggested as a traffi c-calming after collective input from ing speed bumps. Dawn Wang, a senior multicultural and diversity method at a meeting hosted residents at a series of public “After discussing these studying business adminis- initiatives at Carnegie Mel- by the Pittsburgh Parks Con- meetings. questions, our attendees tration and the student advi- lon, the variety of breakout servancy regarding revision of “We held meetings in each walked through the park, sor for the ASLC committee, sessions, such as “Strategies the Pittsburgh Regional Parks of the four RAD-funded parks: assessing conditions from said that the event “brings 4 Life” by Timothy Liu and Master Plan. Frick, Highland, Riverview, Phipps Conservatory to the unity to Asian organizations “Silk Screen Festival” by Har- The Pittsburgh Parks Con- and Schenley,” said Laura Panther Hollow Bridge to on campus, where there is ish Saluja, allowed the con- servancy is a nonprofi t organi- Cook, marketing communica- Frew Street by CMU,” wrote some rivalry. We [Asian or- ference to “address lots of zation founded in 1996 to ad- tions coordinator at the Pitts- Melissa McMasters, online ganizations] are not that aspects of Asian experiences, dress deteriorating conditions burgh Park Conservancy. and community advocacy united. Yet, the conference bridging the walls around in Pittsburgh’s parks. In 2000, Attendees at the Schenley manager for the Pittsburgh shows that there is a lot of one another.” the organization released the Park meeting voiced concerns commonality with which to Pittsburgh Regional Parks about traffi c around the inter- See SCHENLEY, A3 create community.” See ASLC, A3 CulinArt initiates Pumpkin Olympics

Society of Women Engineers EMILY DOBLER receives award and recognition Assistant News Editor Halloween may be offi cial- SARAH ZAKRAJSEK to meet SWE’s strategic pri- nical Opportunities Confer- ly over, but pumpkin season Staffwriter orities. ence (TOC). “I think that is still in full swing. CulinArt, Sixteen women from really makes our section along with co-sponsorship The Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon attended outstanding, and it produc- from Lipton Brisk Ice Tea and chapter of the Society of the SWE national confer- es outstanding women.” Carnegie Mellon’s AB Con- Women Engineers (SWE) ence in Orlando to receive “I think for our SWE sec- certs, will introduce a new received the gold award for the award. Among them tion it [the award] means annual event, the Pumpkin “Outstanding Collegiate was senior electrical and that we are doing stuff Olympics, to campus on Sat- Section” two weeks ago at computer engineering ma- right,” Harding continued. urday. It is scheduled to take the SWE national confer- jor Rachael Harding, presi- “We’re being successful, place in Donner Ditch from ence in Orlando, Fla. The dent of Carnegie Mellon’s and we’re being recognized 2-4 p.m., followed by free Carnegie Mellon SWE chap- SWE chapter. for that on this interna- pizza for all participants in ter was one of only two col- According to Harding, tional stage. That’s exciting Tartans Pavilion. legiate sections to receive several things contributed because sometimes mem- Shelby Cole, student ac- this recognition for its “out- to Carnegie Mellon’s SWE bers lose their motivation, tivities director for CulinArt, standing overall program” chapter’s recognition. Two the higher goal. ‘Why are initiated the idea and creation for the 2009–2010 year. of them are the annual High we doing all this outreach? of the Pumpkin Olympics. The highly competitive School Day and Middle Why so much professional “The idea for the Pumpkin Outstanding Collegiate Sec- School Day events, which development...?’ So to have Olympics was my brainchild. tion award was given based expose high school and this pinnacle, this plaque, to When I initially pitched this on applications submitted middle school girls to dif- show this award, shows ev- to my superiors, it was going by each chapter. ferent fi elds of study within erything we do culminates to be the ‘Turkey Olympics,’ The application assessed engineering. and integrates together to being so close to the holiday several important focuses of “SWE has expanded its meet this mission. It’s more season. We didn’t want to of- a SWE collegiate chapter, high school and middle symbolic of our success. I fend anyone, so we decided to including outreach, profes- school programs.... This think in a way this is going Isaac Jones do the event with pumpkins /Comics Editor sional excel- past year we were able to to inspire us to keep doing Smashing pumpkins will be the main focus of Culinart’s new event. instead,” said Cole. lence, and really focus on these girls. professionally managed The Pumpkin Olympics off some steam and enjoy the evaluate the use of pumpkins, diversity. We stood out because events in the future.” will have three main events college experience.” Culi- but the team that scores the Applicants we’ve been expanding this Also in attendance at the centered on the infamous nArt hopes that the Pumpkin most points in the three events were judged program to include more SWE national conference squash: bowling, relay races, Olympics will become a favor- will receive a $100 cash prize, based on these women,” Harding said. “We Nov. 4–6 was senior electri- and catapulting. These games ite Carnegie Mellon tradition four backstage passes to Sat- criteria as a mea- also stand out because of cal and computer engineer- were designed in response to relieve stress before fi nals, urday’s Dr. Dog concert, and sure of the chapters’ our professional develop- ing major Michelle Stolwyk, to students’ assumption that in addition to the already fa- a Lipton Brisk Ice Tea prize ability ment.... The breadth of peo- the Carnegie Mellon chap- pumpkins only have limited mous annual primal scream pack. The concert, hosted by ple we were able to get as ter secretary. uses and that, once Hallow- by the Fence. AB Concerts, will be held on speakers last year, and how “Getting this recogni- een is over, they are irrelevant Even though the event the same day at 8 p.m. in the it impacted our mem- tion is a big deal. It lets us and no longer of much use. has not yet occurred, it has Weigand Gymnasium in the bers, stood out.” know we are doing the right However, all of the games cre- already garnered attention. University Center. Harding also re- thing,” she said. ated for the Pumpkin Olym- Will Pettijohn-Hernandez, In anticipation of the fl ected on the oppor- Stolwyk shared what pics go beyond the traditional a senior fi ne arts and creat- event, Anne Dirkes, a sopho- tunities that SWE SWE has meant to her as a uses of pumpkins for carving ing writing major, said, “Two more mechanical engineering members have to member throughout her un- and eating. words: Pumpkin catapult. major, said, “I’m really excited organize profes- dergraduate years at Carn- As the bowling, relay race, I know I don’t need to say for Pumpkin Olympics. This is sional events egie Mellon. and catapulting events im- more, but a bunch of games something that I think a lot of such as the “I was completely lost as ply, pumpkins can be used as based on a squash sounds students can get into and have annual Tech- a freshman, and now I feel the object for a multitude of pretty ridiculous and very en- a lot of fun with. I especially entertaining games in which tertaining. Halloween never can’t wait for the catapult See ENGINEERS, A3 they are smashed or thrown. gets the credit it deserves in event and seeing pumpkins More importantly, the event Pittsburgh when it goes from hurled across Donner Ditch!” was created to allow students summer straight to winter; we Pre-registration is required to relieve stress before fi nals go from Halloween to Christ- to participate in the Pumpkin week and to simply have fun. mas. Punctuating the season Olympics. The event is limited Cole further stated that “we with gratuitous amounts of to the fi rst 25 teams of four are not only trying to provide pumpkins helps us take back that pre-register. Students students with quality food, the month of November.” can pre-register by emailing but also provide them with Not only will the Pump- Shelby Cole (scole@andrew. events that will allow them kin Olympics offer a healthy cmu.edu) with their team the opportunity to break means to relieve stress and name and all of the names of Courtney Wittikend/News Editor away from studying and blow offer students a chance to re- their team members. A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » November 15, 2010

CAMPUS NEWS IN BRIEF Statistically Undergraduate programs Video aims to encourage now open to Indian scholars better choices towards sex Speaking Although Carnegie Mel- by SSN faculty trained at Julie Downs, an assistant ease. By building on our re- lon has an existing partner- Carnegie Mellon. In addi- research professor in the de- search about what goes into Last week, the FDA released 36 proposed covers for ship with India’s Shiv Na- tion to their studies in India, partment of social and deci- their decisions, we can craft cigarette packs with intentionally graphic pictures and dar Foundation to provide students will also study at sion sciences, has recently something that will be ex- threatening captions in hopes of dissuading smokers graduate-level education Carnegie Mellon’s main Pitts- received a $7.4 million grant actly what they need to avoid from continuing the unhealthy habit. Even though the through a program in ad- burgh campus. According to from the U.S. Department of these negative outcomes.” effects of smoking are widely known, the cigarette busi- vanced software engineer- the university, admission and Health and Human Services. “I’m delighted to see such a ness is still a multi-billion-dollar industry. Here are some ing, the university will soon academic processes will have The grant funding will be dis- strong funding endorsement statistics about the habit: use this partnership to make the same rigorous standards tributed across fi ve years, as of the application of quality undergraduate programs in that are in effect on Carnegie Downs produces a sequel to behavioral decision research mechanical engineering and Mellon’s Pittsburgh and Qa- a previous DVD she created to the design and testing of electrical and computer en- tar campuses. to discourage sexually trans- key interventions,” said John 1.1 billion gineering available to Indian “India’s engineers consti- mitted diseases and preg- Miller, the head of Carnegie smokers in the world today students. tute a large proportion of key nancy among young females. Mellon’s department of social Under the intended pro- scientifi c and research estab- Downs’ fi rst video was titled and decision sciences. gram, the fi rst class of under- lishments worldwide,” Carn- “What Could You Do?” and The new video is intended graduates will begin studies egie Mellon President Jared was proven to increase absti- to help teenage girls make bet- in June 2011. Accepted stu- L. Cohon said according to a nence for teenage girls. ter decisions regarding sexual dents will study in India at university press release. “This “Our goal is to create a tool activity, as well as lower the 1.6 billion that will help teenagers make costs of teenage pregnancies estimated smokers by the year 2025 Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar new alliance enables Carn- (SSN) institutions sponsored egie Mellon University and better decisions for them- and disease treatment for by the Shiv Nadar Founda- the Shiv Nadar Foundation selves,” Downs said. “For the health care agencies. tion. The students will fol- a chance to offer India’s stu- most part they don’t want to low a curriculum designed by dents a distinctive edge and get pregnant. They defi nitely Compiled by 10 million Carnegie Mellon and taught international recognition.” don’t want to contract a dis- COURTNEY WITTEKIND cigarettes purchased each minute in the world 8 Delta Delta Delta holds House of Pancakes event milligrams of nicotine in an average cigarette

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Lecture Preview Andrew Mason, CEO of Marshall Scholar. Groupon Today at 4:30 p.m. Race and Punishment Mellon Auditorium, Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. Posner Hall Giant Eagle Auditorium The Donald H. Jones Cen- (Baker Hall A51) ter for Entrepreneurship in The Literary and Cultural the Tepper School of Business Studies Colloquium and the presents the James R. Swartz Center for African-American Entrepreneurial Leadership Urban Studies and the Econo- Series with Andrew Mason, my present Robert Perkinson, the CEO of Groupon. Grou- the author of Texas Tough: pon is a website that high- The Rise of a Prison Empire. lights daily deals, localized According to the author’s to major cities in the United website, the book focuses on States and Canada. Mason the “history of imprisonment, is a Pittsburgh native who race, and politics from slav- attended Mt. Lebanon High ery to the present, with an School. He continued on emphasis on Texas, the most to receive his undergradu- locked-down state in the na- ate degree from Northwest- tion.” ern University, majoring in music. To RSVP, visit www. tepper.cmu.edu/faculty- Pittsburgh Darfur research/research-centers/ donald-h-jones-center- Emergency Committee for-entrepreneurship/index. Presents Jendayi Frazer aspx. Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Doherty Hall 2315 Former U.S. Assistant Sec- Assistant Secretary of retary of State for African State Kurt Campbell Affairs and Distinguished Angel Gonzalez/Photo Staff Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. Service Professor Jendayi Delta Delta Delta held its third annual House of Pancakes event yesterday. The event offered a pancake dinner from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. in Rangos Hamburg Hall 1000 Frazer will speak on the criti- 1 and 2. The event is the fi rst of many to take place during Delta Delta Delta’s annual Philanthropy Week, which will run Sunday to Thursday. All proceeds from Philanthropy Week will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Center for Interna- cal South Sudan and Abeyi tional Relations and Politics referenda, and she will out- and the Heinz College pres- line what the future will hold ent Assistant Secretary of for Sudan. State Kurt Campbell. Camp- Campus Crime & Incident Reports bell took his position as the assistant secretary of state for Grammar and Armed Robbery to use her ID was a policy vio- Public Drunkenness Public Drunkenness East Asian and Pacifi c Affairs Punctuation Primer: Nov. 5, 2010 lation. Nov. 6, 2010 Nov. 7, 2010 in June 2009. Things You’ve Forgotten Carnegie Mellon Univer- University Police found a University Police, Carnegie Prior to holding that po- Since Sixth Grade sition, Campbell was the sity Police along with City of Noise Complaint male lying on the sidewalk on Mellon EMS, and Pittsburgh Wednesday at 9 a.m Pittsburgh Police responded South Craig Street during a EMS arrived in Hamburg Hall CEO and co-founder of the Rangos 1, Nov. 6, 2010 Center for a New American at approximately 3:15 a.m. routine patrol. Upon further for a report of a male who University Center A loud party was reported Security. He also previously to a report of a robbery of a investigation, the male was had passed out. The male was in Donner House. University served as the director of the In this Learning and De- Carnegie Mellon student at found to be highly intoxicated; transported home by Univer- Police cited six students for Aspen Strategy Group and velopment seminar, Karen Dirthridge and Bayard streets. he was cited for public drunk- sity Police and cited for public underage drinking. as the chairman of the edito- Beaudway will discuss the Both agencies are still investi- enness. drunkenness. rial board of The Washington most common grammar and gating the crime. Quarterly. punctuation rules that people Underage Drinking tend to forget over time. The Public Drunkenness Disorderly Conduct Campbell attended the Nov. 6, 2010 University of California, San class will be hands-on and Suspicious Person Nov. 7, 2010 Nov. 9, 2010 Nov. 5, 2010 Diego as an undergraduate will provide a set of hand- University Police respond- University Police respond- University Police was called and then received a certifi cate outs. University Police respond- ed to Shadyside Hospital at ed to a report of a male passed to the Carnegie Mellon Card in music and political phi- Students wishing to at- ed to Stever House for a report the request of UPMC security. out on the sidewalk at the Offi ce for a female who was losophy from the University tend should register online at of a suspicious person. There When offi cers arrived, it was corner of Fifth and Morewood extremely upset. The female of Erevan in Soviet Armenia. https: hr-apps.as.cmu.edu/ were apparently two unknown explained to them that a male avenues. became verbally abusive and Finally, he received his doc- hrlearn/HRLearn2. males who were believed to Carnegie Mellon student had The male was treated by physically threatening toward torate in international rela- be using an unknown female’s been found asleep and intoxi- Carnegie Mellon EMS and es- staff members. Compiled by tions from Oxford University, ID card to gain access to the cated on a medical stretcher in corted to his residence by Uni- University Police escorted where he was a Distinguished COURTNEY WITTEKIND building. The two males were the basement of the hospital. versity Police. He was cited for the female out of the area, located and found to be guests University Police escorted the public drunkenness. and she was issued a citation of a resident. The resident was male home, and he was cited. for disorderly conduct. warned that allowing others Corrections & as “Courtesy of Guillermo Clarifi cations Gómez” rather than cred- ited to Gómez as photo WEATHER staff. The feature photo “Bar- If you would like to becue kicks off Homecom- submit a correction or ing weekend” (News, Nov. clarifi cation, please e- 8) was incorrectly credit- mail The Tartan at news@ ed to Celia Ludwinski. 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ASLC, from A1 to Wang, the broader com- dents at other local schools munity’s participation is inte- such as Chatham University The emphasis on commu- gral. “Asian student organiza- and Duquesne University. nication about real issues was tions, and others, are seen as The hope of the Asian Stu- fundamental to the events. a side part of student life.... dent Leadership Conference “I didn’t expect [Ali Wong] You don’t see their infl uence committee, as well as many to be so open about what she every day. This comes from of the affi liates, is for the con- was saying, talking about fear, stereotyping, and lack of ference to grow outside of controversial topics such as community among different Carnegie Mellon to become a sex and race. During the Q & Asian groups. The conference Pittsburgh event. Other cities A she inspired us to take risks. is important because of those already have similar events, She could be a role model, be- connections,” Wang said. where they are able to bring cause there are not that many Among other things, the schools together to address Asian comedians who address events of Friday and Satur- the mix of Asian issues that real issues,” said Sara Lee, a day clearly drew in a broader are prevalent today. fi rst-year in computer science. swath of students than in pre- “Pittsburgh is on the “The focus on stuff that actu- vious years. cusp of being a place where ally matters is what made this While the conference in- people could imagine some- different,” Lee said of the en- cluded many non-Asian and thing along those lines,” said tire event. non-undergraduate students, Smith. Despite its title, the Asian more remarkably, it also in- According to a promo- Student Leadership Confer- cluded non-Carnegie Mellon tional poster, “The vision is ence isn’t just for members students. The inclusion of stu- for students to explore issues of the Asian community. dents from other Pittsburgh of race, identity, the modern Members of the ASLC com- schools indicates the direction implications, and inspire stu- mittee emphasized that the of the Asian Student Leader- dents to craft and pursue their conference, while dealing ship Conference. dreams.” The success of the with Asian issues, is primarily This year, the committee event is a strong step in the about leadership. According made efforts to include stu- right direction. Carnegie SWE chapter receives

Michelle Liu/Photo Staff praise from national organization The proposals for building speed bumps and other traffi c-control devices on the traditional Sweepstakes route in Schenley Park would create potential problems for campus Buggy teams. ENGINEERS, from A1 events that there is some- wonderful.” thing to offer for absolutely Harding also praised her SCHENLEY, from A1 the racetrack. “The buggies driving for the Sigma Alpha like I could navigate the wa- everyone.” chapter. “Our SWE members are going really fast, 30 miles Epsilon fraternity. ters of the professional life, Sophomore Zeinab Mo- are really sought after in the Parks Conservancy, in the or- per hour,” said senior material Milisits also pointed out thanks to SWE’s professional hamed, a chemical engineer- industry because we’re so ganization’s blog. “After wit- science and engineering ma- how the speed bumps may development.” ing and biomedical engineer- well-rounded; we have all nessing several potential acci- jor Jane Son, who is a former not even need to be installed She also recommends SWE ing double major, is currently this exposure to professional dents near the Schenley Park Sweepstakes mechanic. “If [a within the current Sweep- involvement for any woman the SWE community service development, [and] we’re Café, it became even more buggy] hits a speed bump, it stakes track to calm traffi c. in CIT. chair. very active in the community, obvious that Schenley Park will go fl ying.” “If getting people to slow “There are so many things She said that attending which is something that com- (with the most roadways cut- “Buggies roll very close down near residential areas is that SWE does. Even if you the SWE national conference panies also look for. We come ting through it of any park in to the ground and would not the goal, then you don’t need are not interested in profes- in Orlando “was a great, en- from Carnegie Mellon, so we our system) has a bit of a car be able to roll over the speed them down towards the end sional development, there riching experience. We had have a lot of the depth. We’re problem.” bumps. Even if buggies could of Schenley Drive because is other stuff too: mentor- lots of great opportunities to really well prepared for going Unfortunately, the cur- be redesigned to make this there aren’t houses there. The ing, service opportunities. network. It was also my fi rst out into the real world after rent Sweepstakes track passes possible, speed bumps would houses are all at the top of We have so many types of time to Orlando — it was university.” right through that intersec- be a painful obstacle for driv- Schenley Drive and Forbes,” tion, and some Carnegie Mel- ers,” said senior mechani- she said. “If the speed bumps lon students worry about how cal engineering major Laura are up past Tech Street and any proposed speed calming Gurwitz, who will be driving not on the buggy course, it’s methods will affect the al- one of the Student Dormi- not really a problem.” most century-old university tory Council’s buggies in the Others at Carnegie Mel- tradition. spring. lon, as well organizations Started in 1920, Sweep- The risks associated with with similar concerns such as stakes is an annual racing speed bumps might very well the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand competition between frater- make Sweepstakes too dan- Prix, advocate for less intru- nities, sororities, and other gerous to continue. “Putting sive traffi c calming devices. campus organizations in speed bumps along the Buggy “Stop signs and other caution which teams build small bug- course would make it impos- signs can be an effective way gies to race down Schenley sible to continue the sport,” to slow down traffi c,” said Drive and Frew Street. Since said Gurwitz. “I think it would Gurwitz. Removable speed 1920, the typical buggy ve- be sad to see a 90-year tradi- bumps and barriers have also hicle design has evolved into tion end this way.” been suggested. a small, torpedo shape, which Others are less worried While worries about speed minimizes air resistance. The and feel that Sweepstakes can bumps may only grow as driver usually lies prone in- adapt. “We can always modify Spring Carnival draws closer, side the vehicle. buggies and put on bigger Cook stressed how the idea While the torpedo design wheels that would roll over has only been discussed at is advantageous because it the bumps better, and some- meetings. can reach the speeds of a car, how change buggy to have “The important thing is some students predict that people re-pushing after the that there are no proposed Kathryn Kukla/Contributing Editor the design will pose a seri- bumps,” said sophomore me- changes, only public discus- A group of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) members attended the SWE national conference in Orlando, ous risk of injury to drivers if chanical engineering major sion about ways to calm traffi c Fla. two weeks ago, where Carnegie Mellon’s SWE section received the gold award for Outstanding Collegiate speed bumps are installed on Lauren Milisits, who will be in the park,” she said. 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Professor works to discover particles that may answer big questions

DANIEL TKACIK standing the properties of ticle collision. Staffwriter those particles, but we still “Two protons hit each don’t understand why nature other and they can make lots “What are we all made of?” did all of this. It’s a very com- of different things,” Ferguson asked Thomas Ferguson, a plicated system,” Ferguson said. “It turns out a lot of the professor in Carnegie Mellon’s said. interesting things that you’re physics department. Scientists The general goal of particle looking at decay to muons.” have yet to fi nd a clear answer physics is to study the most The goals of the CMS are to to this profound and puzzling fundamental particles that discover particles that no one question. Many fundamental make up matter, and a particle else has ever discovered and to questions have been motivat- accelerator is one of the most measure particles that have al- ing scientists and engineers common tools used in reaching ready been discovered, but at for centuries to try to under- this goal. The European Orga- a much higher level of detail. stand how the world around nization for Nuclear Research In working on the CMS, Fer- us works. How do forces work? explains that an accelerator’s guson is also accompanied by What gives things mass? And general operation involves Carnegie Mellon physics pro- of course, possibly the most accelerating a particle, such fessors James Russ, Manfred puzzling inquiry of them all: as a proton or an electron, to Paulini, and Helmut Vogel. Why does nature work the way speeds near the speed of light One particle, the Higgs bo- it does? and causing a collision be- son, has been predicted to ex- Ferguson has been working tween it and another particle. ist, but no one has been able on answering these questions The result is essentially a to actually see or measure it for over 30 years, beginning subatomic explosion that re- yet — something that has kept with his graduate work at the veals all the smaller pieces particle physicists on their University of California, Los that made up the two original toes. It is the only particle de- Angeles (UCLA) in the early particles. These pieces are ob- scribed by the Standard Model 1970s. This was an exciting served by detectors and heav- that has not been confi rmed time for particle physics re- ily studied. The most power- through experimentation. The search, as a particle called the ful particle accelerator in the Standard Model is a theory Courtesy of Thomas Ferguson charm quark had just been dis- world is located near Geneva, that is useful to particle physi- Thomas Ferguson, a professor at Carnegie Mellon, poses with the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, which works to detect subatomic particles such as the elusive Higgs boson particle. The covered at the Stanford Linear Switzerland. This is where cists, as it has predicted the Higgs boson particle is the only predicted particle in the Standard Model that has not yet been discovered. Accelerator Center, where Fer- Ferguson currently spends his existence of countless forces, guson and some other UCLA summers. particles, and interactions, complete it, and we want to can only exist under a certain boards,” Ferguson said. researchers later performed This particle accelerator thus gaining a reputation of make sure that the theory is as range of energies, and this al- Although it would be excit- experiments. The discovery of in Geneva is called the Large being a theory of almost ev- complete as can be,” Ferguson lows physicists to focus on this ing if the Higgs is discovered, this quark added to the under- Hadron Collider (LHC), and erything. The discovery of the said. range when performing ex- Ferguson explains that experi- standing of the fundamental it is roughly 17 miles in cir- Higgs boson would explain The challenging part about periments. If the Higgs boson ments will not end there, as pieces that make up matter. cumference, making it the why certain things have mass, discovering new particles is never found and physicists more questions will always Through not directly involved, largest particle accelerator in which would be an immense is that physicists only know have conclusive evidence that and inevitably arise from new Ferguson was hooked on par- the world. Ferguson began improvement in our under- limited information about it does not exist, then the Stan- discoveries. “Each time you ticle physics after witnessing working there over two de- standing of the world around the particle. Fortunately, the dard Model will be fl awed and answer a question, you’ve got the discovery. cades ago, helping construct us. Standard Model that predicts the understanding of subatom- 10 more. It’s a continuing at- “We’ve been at it now for the Compact Muon Solenoid “The Higgs is the last un- the Higgs boson’s existence ic particles will be at stake. tempt to understand what’s about 30 years. We’ve made (CMS), a large detector that discovered particle in this gives physicists a few clues. It “It would bring all of the around us. It’s a noble goal, tremendous strides in under- captures the products of a par- beautiful theory. We want to predicts that the Higgs boson physicists back to the drawing and it’s fun.”

Research aims to remove pharmaceutical contaminants DYLAN MORI the United States and found detect- Washburn has been working with that water can pass through them onomically viable as it stands now.” Staffwriter able levels of many antibiotics and small molecules that can digest more readily. However, this technol- Steinbrenner Institute research other substances. large organic compounds, such as ogy may not be ready for large-scale will continue in the future, but Pharmaceutical drugs have be- Because of this discovery, con- those found in pharmaceuticals. use. “If you want to purify 200 mil- Dzombak warned that the problems come so common in our lives that cern has risen regarding similar These small molecules, known lion gallons of water for Pittsburgh,” are much closer to home. “Here in they sometimes appear in surpris- chemical water contaminants, and as tetra-amido macrocyclic ligands Washburn stated, Pittsburgh and in other cities, we ing locations. Researchers at Carne- the U.S. Geological Survey has con- (TAMLs), act as catalysts to oxi- “it’s not ec- still dump raw sewage into our riv- gie Mellon’s Steinbrenner Institute, ducted new surveys approximately dize and digest the impurities, ers. Abandoned mine drainage is which focuses on environmental every fi ve years to observe new but their small size causes the biggest water quality problem in science research and safe environ- trends. them to move with the Pennsylvania,” he said. mental practices and policies, have The Centers for Disease Control current of moving wa- However, he remains hopeful. performed extensive work in deter- and Prevention have conducted sev- ter. To compensate for “What I would like to see is for us, mining the effects of pharmaceuti- eral national surveys in which blood this, Washburn ad- as a society, to take more aggressive cals in public water supplies. samples were taken from people of hered the TAMLs to action on longstanding problems David Dzombak, a professor in different race, sex, and age distribu- a carbon surface so that we have not solved yet. It takes the civil and environmental engi- tions, and researchers found that political will and money to do it, but neering department and faculty di- these pharmaceuticals and antibiot- we’re doing it; we’re making rector of the Steinbrenner Institute, ics were present in trace amounts in progress.” expressed concern at the inability their bodies. These surveys, in addi- of waste water treatment plants to tion, are taken frequently. remove these pharmaceutical com- According to Dzombak, they ad- pounds. Although he has performed dress questions such as, “Are some no specifi c research in this area, he of these chemicals decreasing? Are has worked closely with interdisci- some of them increasing?” Dzom- plinary departments exploring wa- bak also wants to discover if their ter quality problems. presence may have any deleterious “[These contaminants are] in health effects. very small concentrations, but we’re Interdisciplinary fi elds are work- ingesting them,” Dzombak said. ing with the Steinbrenner Institute “Many of them don’t break down to gather data on water quality and very well, or at all.... We don’t know what can be done to improve it. The what that means exactly, and so Center for Environmental Impli- people are investigating the toxicity cations of Nanotechnology works as well as ways to remove them.” with carbon nanotubes and silver These problems were brought nanoparticles, for example, in con- to the public’s attention in the late junction with Duke University, and 1990s, according to Dzombak, es- studies “how they get distributed in pecially concerning compounds the environment, how these parti- known as endocrine disrupters, cles are moving in the environment, which are present in many pharma- what their potential for exposure is ceuticals and cosmetics and affect to various eco-receptors — plants endocrine systems of people and and animals.” animals. In the early 21st century, Other researchers are working the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed to improve the quantity of technolo- various sources of surface water, gies available now. Carnegie Mellon Adelaide Cole/Assistant Art Editor such as streams and lakes, across organic chemistry professor Newell

HOW THINGS WORK Wire transfers: Technology allows effi cient way to send money

COURTNEY CHIN of the fi rst telegraph company. a telegraph would be sent to There is also usually a limit the institutions to identify the between the respective fi nan- Sports Editor A few of these companies are the receiving end, instructing to how much money one can amount of money sent and cial institutions involved in the still in existence, such as West- the local WU branch to deliv- transfer — Citibank puts a cap where to send it. transaction are real-time gross In today’s fast-paced world, ern Union (WU), a former er the money to the receiver. at $50,000 per transaction. The next step is for the settlement systems, which transferring money needs to telegraph company turned Nowadays, this transaction is The delivery date and process- sending institution to contact means the payments are in- be fast and secure. Wire trans- fi nancial service company. Its handled online. ing time window also varies the receiving party using a stant and irreversible. The only fer is one such method that main service, a wire transfer, Online money transferring from bank to bank. secure online system, such as organizations who have access is commonly associated with is used hundreds of thousands is relatively simple and quick. To transfer money, one Fedwire, a Federal Reserve to these services, according to modern online banking, but of times a day between indi- The transaction involves tak- would go to a fi nancial ser- Bank-operated company, or www.fraudaid.com, are Fed- its history is longer than many viduals, businesses, and even ing electronic money from a vices company such as WU Clearing House Interbank eral Reserve banks, its related believe. the government, according to bank or fi nancial services in- or a bank and request a wire. Payments System (CHIPS). If institutions, and foreign banks A wire transfer is when www.westernunion.com. A stitution and sending it to a The sender would provide the approved, the money will be within the United States. The money is sent digitally from hundred or so years ago, an second location, either in the receiver’s account information relayed from the original bank Federal Reserve board web- one bank to another, and the individual would approach a United States or abroad. Usu- and number. The institution to the receiving bank. site states that in 2009, there concept of this system actu- Western Union offi ce and re- ally there is a fee for sending would then assign Interna- According to frbservices. were $631.1 trillion moved ally predates the 20th century. quest a sum of money be trans- or receiving a wire transfer, tional Bank Account Numbers org, Fedwire and CHIPS are within the United States using The system of wire transfers ferred across the country. That depending on which fi nancial (IBAN) and Business Identi- companies that ensure secure originated with the creation person would pay WU, and services institution one uses. fi er Codes (BIC), which allow wire transfers of information See MONEY, A5 November 15, 2010 « The Tartan thetartan.org/scitech » A5

HEALTHTALK Amnesia: Condition disrupts pathway of memory formation, retrieval

BRIAN LEE hippocampus. Many amnesia are retrograde and antero- divided into two categories: neurons via chemical or elec- but scientists are unsure of the SciTech Editor patients similar to Wearing grade amnesia. These terms explicit memory and implicit trical signals. According to specifi c roles of the structures. have had their hippocampus describe which memories have memory. Discovery Health, neurons in Furthermore, different types “I’ve never seen anyone at damaged, which has led scien- been erased in relation to the Explicit memory involves a the brain are constantly form- of recall exist, including rec- all. I’ve never heard a word tists to believe that this region present time. Retrograde am- conscious recollection of train- ing new connections and re- ognition, where subjects are until now. I’ve never had a is in some way responsible for nesia, according to neurology. ing, such as learning a fact. moving old ones. Neurons that asked if they have seen an item dream, even. Day and night forming new memories. health-cares.net, occurs when Wearing’s erased memories interact form stronger connec- on a list before, and free recall, are the same — blank. Precise- While Wearing can no lon- memories are removed prior are explicit memories and are tions between each other over where subjects are asked to re- ly like death.” ger remember the tastes of to the events that caused the memories of events. Implicit time. By practicing a piece of call the items on the list in any Clive Wearing, a famous foods, such that every bite is a amnesia. Anterograde amne- memory can be thought of as music, for example, a person order. amnesia patient, gave this de- new experience, he functions sia prevents new events from unconscious memory, such as causes the same neurons to When someone has am- scription of a severe form of no differently from a normal creating new memories. Since a habit or skill. Wearing’s abil- fi re together. Therefore, the nesia, part of the pathway in- amnesia, or memory loss, in person in actions and speech. Wearing does not remember ity to play the piano is an ex- connections between the neu- volved in forming new memo- a video segment by the BBC. Before his amnesia, he was a some events prior to the virus ample of implicit memory. It is rons that fi re when practicing ries or retrieving old ones is In 1985, a rare virus infected professional musician — his attack, and since he also can- thought that implicit memory are enhanced, strengthening a damaged. Neuroscientists are his brain, causing damage to skills at the piano are undi- not form new memories, he is diffusely spread across the memory. trying to determine what the important brain structures. As minished. His wife is the only has both retrograde and an- brain, which is why destroying Memory retrieval, such as pathway is, in order to under- a result of the disease, Wear- face he recognizes, and every terograde amnesia. a region of the brain, like the an individual remembering stand how memory works and ing’s memory now lasts for a moment he sees her, he feels It is important to appreci- damage caused by the virus specifi c events, is not widely how amnesia might be cured. maximum of 30 seconds, after like they have reunited after ate how memory works when Wearing contracted, will not understood. Studies have Studying patients like Wear- which he feels like he has just decades, even though she may understanding amnesia. Ac- remove the memory. shown increased activity in ing, while sometimes heart- woken up. have just left the room for a cording to the book Brain and The basis of memory for- certain structures of the brains breaking, can yield great in- One of the regions of Wear- moment. Behavior by Brian Kolb and mation involves neurons, of participants who were sight into the workings of the ing’s brain damaged was the The two forms of amnesia Ian Whishaw, memory can be which can interact with other asked to recall a list of items, mind.

SCITECH BRIEFS Supercomputers may shrink to size of sugar cubes Transferring money online has

IBM scientists have reported that new developments in supercomputer processors could allow basis in the history of banking supercomputers to be made the size of sugar cubes. This would allow the energy consumption for MONEY, from A4 great portion of their business count with member bank the computers to decrease, a major goal for scientists who feel that supercomputers will soon be online. institutions, and banks, de- evaluated by energy consumption rather than speed. The cost of computer parts has decreased the Fedwire and its subsidiar- For example, one can pay pending on their size, can be to the point that electrical consumption cost, which is mainly from cooling the computer, will ies. Besides ordinary money bills, transfer money between required to maintain up to 10 dominate the cost of computing hardware. transfers, a large bulk of the linked accounts, manage Indi- percent of their capital physi- The computer design involves stacks of computer pro- transactions are the collection vidual Retirement Accounts, cally within their vaults. The cessors with cooling water fl owing between each stack. of taxes and sales of U.S secu- or even set up credit cards other 90 percent is loaned out A prototype called Aquasar has been built that is rities or federal funds. Federal through the Internet. Banking to other banks or lenders with already 50 percent more effi cient than the lead- funds are money a bank bor- still has the same rules and varying interest rates. ing supercomputers, but is the size of a large rows from a second bank to regulations, however. The While the technology of refrigerator. Scientists are using water be- maintain its reserve require- Federal Deposit Insurance banking has become increas- cause it can remove 4,000 times more waste ment. Corporation (FDIC), run by ingly electronic, banks still heat than a system that cools using air. One Besides online wire trans- the government, still insures maintain some of their roots main problem is reducing the size of the cool- fers, banks have also moved a up to $250,000 per bank ac- from their early history. ing equipment needed — a possible solution takes ideas from the human body by branching the water lines, similar to the body’s circulatory system. Another problem is making the circuitry waterproof. Scientists predict that a sugar cube-sized super- computer may be working in 10 to 15 years.

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Source: BBC

Iron Man suit being developed

Raytheon Sarcos, a defense contractor in Salt Lake City, recently showcased the XOS-2 exo- skeleton, a kind of metal suit that allows the wearer to perform feats of strength. Rex Jameson, Sarcos’ test engineer, demonstrated the suit. Since the suit follows the user’s movements, it was able to imitate Jameson as he shadowboxed, and it increased Jameson’s strength by 17 times. The suit is powered by an external hydraulic power source, and it activates by a user stepping into its boots, reminiscent of a real-life Iron Man. The suit supports its own weight and responds to forces exerted by the user’s feet, plus actuators that control the hands. The suit is designed for use by the U.S. military for tasks such as carrying heavy boxes of am- munition and other military supplies, up to 16,000 pounds a day. It was reported that one person wearing a suit could replace up to three soldiers. However, current battery technology prevents the suit from working without an external energy source, and malfunctions can be dangerous.

Source: CNN

Energy bubbles observed in space

Scientists at NASA’s Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope have discovered two bubbles of en- ergy with diameters of 25,000 light years. The energy contained within the bubbles is equivalent to 100,000 supernova explosions, a truly astronomical amount. The bubbles extend outward Tommy Hofman above and below the center of the Milky Way galaxy. However, the researchers do not yet know /Assistant Photo Editor Wire transfers originated in the 19th century and still provide a safe and effi cient way to send money. what caused the bubbles to form. Some postulate that star births and star deaths promoted their formation. Another possibility is that a black hole at the center of the galaxy released the energy. Regardless of the cause, scientists are confounded by why the bubbles had not been suspected earlier, given their size. Initial discoveries of high-energy haze of particles led to the discovery of the bubbles. The haze was thought to be composed of concentrated dark matter around the center of the galaxy, but it was then discovered that the high-energy particle haze had distinct boundaries, just like bubbles. The current understanding of dark matter shows that it does not confi ne itself within boundaries, so scientists are working to understand more about the energy bubbles.

Source: The New York Times

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Courtesy of NASA This simulated image shows the energy bubbles on the top and bottom of the Milky Way galaxy. The bubbles each extend 25,000 light years outward. A6 « thetartan.org/forum The Tartan » November 15, 2010

FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD Modern pirates need new response

MICHAEL KAHN

A couple that had been in pi- rate captivity for more than a year was released last Sunday, report- edly after paying $750,000 in ransom. Piracy has been increas- ingly problematic in recent years, particularly in the area around the Horn of Africa. Navies from countries around the world have been dispatched to fi ght piracy and protect shipping. However, most of these efforts have been and will continue to be ineffective. Piracy is no longer the domain of deserters and renegades,

Celia Ludwinski/Photo Editor which were largely eliminated in the Atlantic and Caribbean cen- turies ago. Instead, it has become Suu Kyi’s recent release deserves celebration, but not complacence an advanced and developed busi- ness plan. Old methods of fi ghting This past Saturday, the Burmese lows a decades-long history of politi- fi cial vote, election laws reserved a for political reasons. Amnesty Inter- piracy will not work against these ruling military government released cal oppression and systematic geno- quarter of seats in these two cham- national said such prisoners “were high-tech criminals. pro-democracy leader and Nobel lau- cide of ethnic minorities — makes it bers of parliament for the military. being held in grim conditions, with reate Daw Aung Sang Suu Kyi from only a small step toward an improved Any constitutional change will re- inadequate food and sanitation. house arrest. The 65-year-old woman situation for much of the Burmese quire a majority of more than 75 per- Many were in poor health and with- Piracy is an has spent most of the last 20 years population. cent, meaning the military would re- out access to proper medical treat- occupation with in some form of detention because Suu Kyi’s release has been widely tain veto power regardless of election ment and had suffered torture dur- of her efforts to bring democracy to accepted as a result of an increased results. On the other hand, the NLD ing their initial detention.” high payout and military-ruled Burma. feeling of security on the part of the refused to participate in, or contest The release of Suu Kyi deserves In 1991, a year after her National military government. A BBC corre- the results of, the election. Many had celebration, but it is primarily a not unreasonable League for Democracy (NLD) political spondent in Rangoon said Saturday hoped the NLD would gain a major- public relations move by an illegal risk. party won an overwhelming victory that “it is unlikely the ruling gener- ity of votes, mirroring the country’s government attempting to appease in an election that the military junta als would have freed Ms. Suu Kyi un- last election in 1990. However, elec- the greater international community Most pirates in the Indian later ignored, Suu Kyi was awarded less they felt confi dent she no longer tion laws forced the group to disband and distract attention from an obvi- Ocean and Gulf of Aden are of the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite her represented a threat to them or their and relinquish its status as a political ously unfair election. Her release Somali origin. Somalia is a failed imprisonment, she remained a sym- plans for the country.” entity, which, by extension, stripped was not brought about by any sort state with a virtually nonexistent bol of democracy and freedom for Burmese media has widely re- Suu Kyi of her previous role as party of political process and was certainly government. The average Somali her country’s people. ported that last week’s election re- leader. not representative of a shift in policy family lives on about $500 per year. While Suu Kyi’s release is certainly sulted in a secure position in both Furthermore, until she was re- or practice. These are key issues to In such an environment, piracy is an event worth celebrating, the fact the People’s Assembly and House of leased, Suu Kyi represented only remember, and while we celebrate an occupation with high payout that it has come just days after last Nationalities for the military-backed one of over 2,200 other individuals, with Aung San Suu Kyi, we must be and not unreasonable risk. An at- week’s election, which was widely Union Solidarity and Development according to Amnesty International, careful not to be complacent with the tack leader makes about $15,000, agreed to be a sham — and that it fol- Party. However, even before the of- who remain imprisoned by the junta current government. according to an NPR investigative report. The operations are normal- University’s global expansion should take past failures into account ly funded by Somalis living outside the country, who reap the majority of the payout. India has become Carnegie Mel- As with all of Carnegie Mellon’s in India. will be suspended due to low enroll- In this business environment, lon’s latest target for global expan- previous moves at creating a more Although the vision that the cre- ment. Similar problems could crop stopping individual attacks is sion. Last week, the university en- global campus, this expansion has a ators of this program have in mind is up in India, and this would severely completely ineffective. The only tered into a partnership with the number of benefi ts, and we applaud great, we fear that it may not be as limit the usefulness of the program. true way to discourage piracy is to Shiv Nadar Foundation in India that the university for taking this step. In- successful as hoped. The program A Carnegie Mellon location in In- punish the outside investors and allows undergraduate students to dian students who normally would has ambitious goals — it will start dia would be extremely useful for stu- stabilize Somalia and neighbor- study in India based on a curricu- not be able to afford a foreign educa- next June with around 10 to 15 stu- dents in Pittsburgh as well as those in ing countries. These are enormous lum developed at Carnegie Mellon. tion will be able to receive high-qual- dents and, by the end of fi ve years, India, and we hope that the univer- tasks, and they will require much Currently, the program is open to ity education at a more affordable the university wishes to have up to sity takes suffi cient efforts to attract more planning than simply send- students studying mechanical engi- price. On the other hand, students 100 students enrolled in India. Cur- enough students to the program. The ing a fl eet to intercept hostile ves- neering or electrical and computer in Pittsburgh who wish to later on rently, Carnegie Mellon is having university should learn from its ex- sels. engineering. The classes will be work for companies in India or ven- trouble fi nding enough students for periences in Australia and make sure The small risk of capture for a taught at the SSN College of Engi- ture into a more global market after its programs in Australia. The uni- that enough students want to enroll Somali pirate pales in comparison neering in India by faculty trained at graduation will also benefi t from in- versity recently announced that the in the program for it to be sustain- to the ability to feed his family. Carnegie Mellon. teracting with faculty and students Heinz College degree in Australia able for many years. The few times a hijacking makes the news, it is typically due to a ‘Brag a little’ a poor choice for Carnegie Mellon marketing campaign rescue attempt, such as when the U.S. Navy took back the Maersk As one of the top universities As much as building an effective about Carnegie Mellon, we prioritize stick a window decal on our cars to Alabama in 2009. But the major- in the world, Carnegie Mellon has brand is important for Carnegie Mel- external recognition: Nobel prizes, declare this, are we really being too ity of hijackings go unnoticed. The many things to be proud of. Its pro- lon’s future, we question if bragging prestigious awards, high paychecks. proud? ransom is paid, the hostages are fessors conduct groundbreaking is truly the direction this branding The third item offered is a “Future I don’t think so. returned safely, and nobody gets research, and it draws the bright- should take. There are plenty of Nobel” magnet. Unlike the other two Our university has been criticized hurt. est students from countries across ways to promote our university in a choices, this does not promote the for not having enough school pride Modern piracy is not the cruel the globe. With this kind of success, constructive tone. university’s uniqueness. Instead, it — and although it may not seem like world of Blackbeard or the inven- though, it is easy to be more than a In fact, the current campaign has makes us seem pretentious. Carnegie much, I think that displaying our tive one of Jack Sparrow. It has little arrogant. That is how we see examples of this. Two of the three Mellon’s culture is worth celebrating school spirit in small ways can help order and planning, and stopping Carnegie Mellon’s recent marketing bumper stickers and decals that are and spreading, but bragging is not improve that situation. I think this is it requires a reasoned response. campaign, “Brag a little.” This cam- offered celebrate Carnegie Mellon the right way to do it. a great fi rst step in asking students Instead of sending ships to Soma- paign offers free decals to students culture: “Got my kilt on” and “My to express their love for Carnegie lia, we should be working with to declare their school pride. Ac- other car is a buggy.” This is the kind Mellon. the nations of the world to lift that cording to the campaign webpage at of branding we like to see. It recog- Editorial Dissent More expression on the students’ country out of poverty and give its www.cmu.edu/bragcmu1, the goal nizes Carnegie Mellon as an experi- Shweta Suresh part means more realization of how citizens a better choice. is to “get the conversation started. ence. the university has impacted their Let the world know what university It is the presentation of this cam- Carnegie Mellon is a fantastic in- lives, and a higher chance that they Arr, Michael Kahn (mkahn@) do be you call home.” paign that bothers us. By bragging stitution; and if we put a magnet or will give back in the future. Forum editor for The Tartan, matey.

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SF healthy meal rules parallel smoking regulations COMMUNITY OPINIONS Meal plans do not give ISAAC JONES good value ALEXANDER MOSER San Francisco’s Board of Supervi- sors, a governing body similar to a city council, voted 8–3 last week to Campus meal plans are a waste enact “Healthy Meal Legislation,” of money. Required for fi rst-years, which restricts toy giveaways with presumably strictly for Carnegie any kind of purchased meal. Mellon’s economic benefi t, the The legislation proposed by the meal plans have little to offer for board would, according to www. anyone else. A fi xed number of gizmodo.com, require the meal to meals that do not roll over after contain fewer than 600 calories, have each two-week period, infl exibility at least half a cup of vegetables, and in choosing meal components, and meet sodium limits and a multigrain other rigid rules are all frustrating, requirement. In addition, less than but most damning to the meal plan 35 percent of the calories in the meal is the fact that most plans actually can come from fat, excluding nuts, cost more than the sum of their in- nut butters, and low-fat cheeses, and dividual meals. breakfast meals may offer half a cup Take the popular Red Plan, for of fruit instead of vegetables. instance, with 22 meals per two- This legislation is in line with week period. Assuming that each San Francisco’s recent campaign meal is worth $8 — actually an in- to fi ght obesity, particularly child- fl ated number as shown by a curso- hood obesity, using methods such as ry look at the actual posted prices Shape Up San Francisco, a program of most common meals — and ac- to reduce chronic diseases that can counting for 11 meals for each of be prevented with proper physical the 16 weeks of the fi rst semester activity; Soda Free Summer, a pro- of this year, the Red Plan’s cost (not gram to encourage the substitution including fl exible dollars) is over of high-calorie soft drinks with wa- $200 more than the actual value ter, milk, and other healthier drinks; of the meals. Even the fi rst Green and Sunday Streets, a series of block- Plan, which requires that one con- party-like events to promote walking sume 38 meals every two weeks, and physical fi tness instead of driv- has a value more than $50 below Celia Ludwinski/Photo Editor its cost by the same metric. This is ing with free events like yoga, tai chi, Under new regulations in San Francisco, all meals that come with toys will be required to include healthy components. and rock climbing. unacceptable. However, all of the aforemen- to Wikipedia, over 7,000 articles States. In 2009, 20.6 percent of dismiss San Francisco’s legislation The food available on campus tioned programs offer incentives that linked smoking and tobacco adults aged 18 years and older re- against unhealthy meals including cannot generally be described as to participating individuals, un- use with cancer and other diseases. ported being current smokers, which toys and to support Mayor Newsom’s bad, but perhaps “underwhelm- like the Healthy Meal Legislation, Shortly thereafter, legislation was is a dramatic decline from the 40 veto, after some analysis, it seems ing” is an apt characterization. which seems to favor the stick over enacted that forbade advertisements percent reported in 1965, according to me that advertising Happy Meals Dining options provided by local the carrot. Though the health risks that obviously targeted children and to the Centers for Disease Control in their current state to children de- companies are frequently good but of obesity are well documented, required warning labels on packag- and Prevention (CDC). Though this spite the known risks is not much invariable, and the recent adoption this legislation is still seen by some ing. In particular, the “Joe Camel” is an accomplishment to be proud of, different from advertising smoking of CulinArt as the primary pro- as needless. Although I agree with campaign was the subject of a class- obesity has increased from between to children, and I support San Fran- vider for dining services has also San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom action lawsuit, and Camel, the com- 10 and 14 percent in 1985 to 33.8 cisco’s attempt to remove the “lure” brought little substantive change. when he says “Parents, not politi- pany behind the campaign, was pres- percent in 2009, according to the of a toy from obviously unhealthy CulinArt’s food is mostly practical, cians, should decide what their chil- sured to end the campaign by the CDC. meal choices for its citizens. Howev- if lacking in variety. None of the dren eat,” I also believe we can draw Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. This massive rise in obesity has er, I also agree with Mayor Newsom’s dining locations managed by Cu- an easy parallel between the obesity Congress, and various anti-smoking come during a period in which the support of programs that encourage linArt extend far beyond the com- problem and another problem that groups. In addition, the Motion Pic- detrimental effects of obesity are be- health education, as the same chil- fortable sphere of standard grilled is now acknowledged by the public: ture Association of America is autho- ing discovered. According to a RAND dren must be educated about healthy or deli food, and they provide very smoking. rized to give a fi lm that glamorizes Corporation brief published in 2002, eating since their parents will not al- little in the way of ethnic diversity In 1964, the surgeon general of smoking outside of a mitigating con- obese individuals suffer from a 67 ways determine their food choices. — the one Asian-themed location the United States released the Sur- text a more restricted rating. percent increase in chronic condi- from CulinArt, Stir Crazy, silently geon General’s Advisory Commit- This response has contributed to tions, while smokers suffer from only Isaac Jones (ijones@) is Comics editor vanished over the summer, and the tee Report on Smoking and Health, a massive decline in the number of a 25 percent increase. for The Tartan. He accepts all reason- promise of a new Asian location a document based on, according individuals smoking in the United Though my initial reaction was to able responses. “opening later in the year” has yet to materialize. Also highly questionable is the recent “meatless Mondays” initia- LETTER TO THE EDITOR tive, seemingly an attempt to fur- ther Carnegie Mellon’s environ- mentally conscious image. Having Only youth political involvement can stop shellacking myself at one point attempted to JESSICA THURSTON much language, and often so little legislative actions since taking offi ce. ing marine ecosystems on the West avoid meat one day a week, I can at- action, that it is diffi cult to assume Despite low voter turnout rates Coast, reach out to Save the Bay and test to the diffi culty involved in such In his Nov. 8 Forum article, the entire citizenship of the nation — and a supposed return of young voter donate your talents, even from Pitts- an endeavor. I have since converted “Obama’s shellacking leads to word’s not just its president — has not been apathy, I believe young, politically burgh. If you believe women’s rights to actual vegetarianism, which has revival,” Patrick Gage Kelley ex- shellacked. active, or otherwise socially aware may have been compromised by the proved to be far easier. For the ma- plained that President Obama’s re- As Kelley noted, President Obama voters are tuned in to what is hap- election of anti-choice representa- jority of the campus community, newed responsibility to the populace blamed himself for the Democrats’ pening in the political realm. Wheth- tives, ask Planned Parenthood where which presumably has no such am- is to not only push his legislation, but “shellacking” following the midterm er you still wear your worn-out “Yes they could use volunteers. No matter bitions, I imagine the initiative will to sell it — and, I would add, to get elections and the Republican resur- We Can” T-shirt to yoga on Saturdays what you believe, and on what side of go largely ignored. I do, however, young voters to sell it, too. gence in the House. In an interview or are considering naming your fi rst- the political divide you fall, don’t let give Dining Services credit for pro- Since leaving Carnegie Mellon with 60 Minutes, the president back- born child Rand, you, as members of defeat be part of your vocabulary — viding vegetarian options. Almost and moving to Washington, D.C. to handedly complimented himself, ac- the Carnegie Mellon community, are and proactively ensure you will not every dining location offers mul- work for the federal government, knowledging that his administration not shrouded in the constant shel- be on the receiving end of the shel- tiple vegetarian meals, and most I’ve come to feel overwhelmed by a over the past two years has done too lacking of the Washington anti-activ- lacking in two years. offer vegan options as well. constant shellacking of elected of- much of the doing, and not enough ism community, and I implore you to I hope that CulinArt and Dining fi cials, and the joy seemingly felt by of the talking, for the likes of Wash- take advantage of that fact. Jessica Thurston Services continue to improve their those doing the shellacking. That is, ington. In a way, he is right, as Kelley It is evident that fringe groups, HNZ 2010 service and products. Their fi rst the sheer number of current politi- explains — a president whose 2008 not necessarily political but indeed step should be making dining plans cians, hopeful politicians, former campaign was so well executed and controversial in nature, will play an Editor’s Note: Jessica Thurston was fair and economically sensible. politicians, and political hangers-on carefully articulated should have increasingly prominent role in the 2008 Forum editor, 2009 Art editor, clouds the discourse of this pseudo- understood the need to consistently 2012 elections — so get involved ear- and a 2010 contributing editor for The Alexander Moser Southern city. They fi ll it with so clarify the tone and language of his ly. If you have a penchant for preserv- Tartan. SCS 2012 A PERSON’S OPINION

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SPORTS COMMENTARY Changing coaches midseason rarely has the desired effect FIRED, from A10 that only 6 percent of mana- team to turn around a few nius of Bill Belichick, who is midseason coaching change, It’s time for owners to real- gerial changes during mid- after some tough losses, may considered by many to be the it may be the Denver Bron- ize this, and to acknowledge coaching pool because of the season have resulted in that have saved his job last week best active coach in the NFL. cos. These guys need some when a lost season should just rest of this season. He de- team making the playoffs. with a huge comeback vic- However, McDaniels has yet new direction as soon as pos- be played out by the failing serves better than this, as he Long season or short season, tory to keep Minnesota in the to show the intelligence and sible. coach. I’ve come to this con- knows all of the players along coaching changes just don’t playoff race. savvy that Belichick had to With the success rate of clusion: Unless your coach is with their tendencies. work. McDaniels, on the other win multiple Super Bowls. midseason coaching chang- McDaniels, you shouldn’t be Along with the bad im- Either way, we all know hand, is not having the success In fact, McDaniels has driven es, it’s clear to me that “shak- happy if your favorite team pression that it will leave on that midseason changes will he expected when he took his two best players away ing the organization up” just just changed its coach mid- the interim coach, there is happen in every sport in ev- the Broncos job in the begin- through heated stand-offs won’t work most of the time. season. also an extremely low chance ery year. We’ve already seen ning of last year. After start- and eventual trades to other of success in a season with one change in the NFL this ing the 2009–2010 season teams. If any team needs a a coaching change. In fact, year, and there are rumors with a perfect record of 6–0, no NFL interim head coach that there will be a few more McDaniels has led his team to has made the playoffs since to come. Two of the coaches a ridiculously bad 4–14 mark 1970, and no interim head that are feeling the burn since then, which caused coach has ever made the Su- of the hot seat are Vikings Denver to miss the playoffs per Bowl. What’s the point of coach Brad Childress, also in 2009. McDaniels is a clas- changing midseason when known as “Chilly,” and Bron- sic case of an unproven coach you won’t see results? We’ve cos coach Josh McDaniels. coming into an organization already established that the Childress has had a season- while overestimating his own team won’t be comfortable long soap opera with famous coaching skills. When he was with the change and the au- quarterback Brett Favre offensive coordinator for the dition for the coach won’t go while also bringing in prima Patriots, McDaniels had suc- well the majority of the time. donna wide receiver Randy cess coaching under the ge- An argument I hear in favor Moss before waiving him of midseason changes is the just last week for detrimental fact that the NFL is such a conduct to the team. In fact, short season. Oftentimes, three different Vikings play- people say in a longer sea- ers have voiced their displea- son like that in Major League sure with Childress, with one Baseball, which is 162 even saying anonymously on games, managerial changes www.espn.com, “We win in have a big chance at turning spite of him.” Although it isn’t the team around. However, uncommon for players to dis- little do these people know like their coaches, you don’t often hear them declaring so in public. Childress, who has gotten his

Courtney Chin/Sports Editor Cross country’s Emily Wobb takes third at Mideast Regional; MY PARTY PLATTERS men’s team fi nishes third overall MAKE CATERING JONAS ALTMAN-KUROSAKI ney Baker’s time of 22:48.0 was fast enough for 23rd Assistant Sports Editor was good for 14th place, and overall, a mere 0.1 seconds Laura McKee claimed 72nd behind 22nd. Evan Gates was The Carnegie Mellon with her 24:25.3 fi nish. Not the fi rst non-senior to fi nish SO EASY, YOU’LL men’s and women’s cross far behind were senior Dan- for Carnegie Mellon, as the country team traveled to ielle Morse (24:39.0) and sophomore crossed the fi nish Cooper’s Lake Campground sophomore Eva Humphrey line in 26:09.6 before senior WANT TO CALL THEM in Slippery Rock, Pa., to host (24:41.6), who fi nished 81st Justin Kurp and fi rst-year the 2010 Mideast Region- and 86th, respectively. Mike Standish rounded out al this past Saturday. The While the men did not the Tartans’ top-50 group at women, led by third-place fi n- have a top-three fi nisher, they 26:29.6 (43rd) and 26:29.8 isher sophomore Emily Wobb, had six of the top 50 fi nishers, (44th), respectively. Junior placed sixth overall as a team, leading to their third-place Matt Jacob, who joined Addis, while the men had three top- fi nish as a team. Haverford Allera, Bussiere, and Kurp on 25 fi nishers to take third in College ran away with the last year’s NCAA squad, fi n- the team standings. competition with fi ve of the ished 70th at the regional in Wobb, who fi nished sixth top seven fi nishers, including 27:00.8. SMARTY at the regional last year, led champion Anders Hulleberg. This marks the last com- the Tartans with her third- The Tartans’ seniors outran petition in the cross country place time of 22:00.3 in the their teammates, led by Nate season for both teams before 6k, a mere 3.1 seconds behind Bussiere, who improved on the NCAA Championships on PLATTERS! champion Cecilia Furlong of his 19th-place fi nish from Saturday at Wartburg Col- Johns Hopkins University, 2009 to take 10th overall at lege in Iowa. Last year, Wobb whose team placed fi rst in the this year’s 8k in 25:33.9. Dan was the sole competitor for team standings. The Tartans’ Addis was only 1.2 seconds the women’s team, while the two senior captains fi nished behind in 12th place, while men’s team placed 12th over- next for the team, as Court- J.P. Allera’s time of 25:53.2 all. ( ( ( ( Sports gets all the action.

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Swimming and diving teams defeat Grove City College SPORTS COMMENTARY

SWIMMING, from A10 First-years Terrence Wong and Cliff Lee Joshua Chen achieved times icz did not stop thinking about of 51.55 and 51.86, respec- ways to improve. “Our work tively. As new members of the is a good ethic could be higher overall team, they contributed to the as a team,” he said. His goals revitalized feeling of the team purchase for the Tartans include setting this year. YANKEES, from A10 team records during his last “Last year, we had a lot of year swimming here. good seniors, with most of as most pitchers tend to fall In the women’s 200-yard them going to nationals for victim to shoulder ailments freestyle event, senior Molly their respective events,” said and even shoulder surger- Evans won the race with a senior Josh Plotnik. “This year, ies at some point in their time of 1:53.81. After indi- we have 24 guys that have to career, especially by their vidually reaching nationals in work for each other. We have late 30s. The Rangers may previous years, Evans’ goals to go one to 24 to beat these be hesitant to sign Lee to this year are more focused on teams.” an absurdly long-term deal the team. “We’re swimming The Tartans look forward for that very reason; how- a lot faster in season. We’re to the upcoming Nike Cup In- ever, they may be forced not afraid of competition, and vitational, which will be held to, as the Yankees have we’re not afraid to get up and at Kenyon College Dec. 2–4, proven that short-term suc- race,” she said. “Our goal is to as well as hosting next week’s cess is the only thing they get a team to nationals.” invitational against Franklin & care about, and money and The men’s team took both Marshall, Washington & Lee Isaac Jones/Comics Editor years are just formalities in fi rst and second place in the University, and the University Senior Rebecca Usai shoots off the block during Saturday’s meet against Grove City. The women’s team the process of signing a big- 100-yard butterfl y event. of Rochester. managed victories in the 200-yard medley relay and the 200-yard freestyle events. ticket guy like Lee, regard- less of the potential long- term consequences. That said, as problemat- ic as it may prove in the fu- ture, the Rangers would be Fall Athletic Honors unwise not to go all out for As the season draws to a close for many fall varsity sports, many hardworking athletes bring one important principle promoted by the University Athletic As- Lee. As it stands, they have sociation (UAA) — the concept of a student athlete. The UAA has released its list of student athletes who have earned All-Academic Recognition this fall, plenty of young talent that selected from three men’s and three women’s teams. To qualify, each athlete must have been in school for one year and have a minimum QPA of 3.3. The Tar- will not enter the free agent tan congratulates the following 61 students from Carnegie Mellon who were recognized: class for a few more years. Lee would provide enough short-term reward that Women’s cross country Women’s soccer Volleyball Jake Nardone, sophomore it would be a historically Elizabeth Augustine, senior Lissie Arndt, sophomore Emily Baddock, junior Philip Nicolaides, sophomore good move to keep him on Courtney Baker, senior Nicole Bayley, junior Kristin Castellano, junior Nathaniel Ondeck, sophomore the staff, and it would be Amal El-Ghazaly, senior Brianna Magill, sophomore Aislinn McCloskey, senior Sean Painter, junior good for baseball if a team Susan Hannes, sophomore Alice Mayfi eld, senior Emma Olsen, sophomore Owen Parker, sophomore not owned by the Stein- Eva Humphrey, sophomore Emily Overstreet, senior Maddie Rosnick, junior Richard Pattison, senior brenners signed the biggest Anna Lenhart, senior Elsa Wu, junior Justin Pratt, senior free agent on the market. Laura McKee, senior Mike Shedlosky, senior While baseball fans world- Christine Warner, junior Football Graham Spicer, sophomore wide may ponder the possi- Men’s soccer Dave Birsen, sophomore Sam Thompson, sophomore ble success of a rotation that Ben Bryant, sophomore Bryan Connelly, sophomore Brandon VanTassel, senior includes Lee, Sabathia, and Men’s cross country Brad Edelman, junior Chris DeFrancesco, senior Eugene Wu, senior Phil Hughes, the offseason Kyle Andrews, junior Ian Epperson, junior Mike Ghormley, sophomore would be boring and frus- Chris Baldwin, sophomore Nick Gianopoulos, junior Clayton Hamm, sophomore trating if the Yanks walked Nathan Bussiere, senior Josh Heuslein, senior Ray Johnson, junior away again with the kind of Josh Eickmeier, senior Mark Lacy, junior Billy Joraskie, junior purchase that the 29 other Evan Gates, sophomore Carmen Minella, junior Nick Karabin, sophomore Major League franchises Justin Kurp, senior Zach Stahl, sophomore Ross Lapkowicz, junior would deem irresponsible. Billy Littlefi eld, sophomore Dan Tomko, junior Victor Martinelli, junior That said, I expect to Rob Morhard, junior Robert McInerney, senior cringe when I see Lee in a Andrew Medenbach, junior Compiled by pinstriped uniform come Angelo Morales, senior COURTNEY CHIN spring training. Happy off- season!

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Swimming and diving teams emerge victorious

CARINEH GHAFAFIAN CLAIRE USIAK FAST FACTS Junior Staffwriters The Carnegie Mellon swim- Men’s Basketball ming and diving team contin- Saturday @ Milwaukee School of Engineering ued its strong opening of the 2010–2011 season with a de- Women’s Basketball fi nitive win against Grove City Radisson Classic, Skibo Gymnasium College last Saturday. Both Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. the men’s and women’s teams kept up their performance af- ter the win over Clarion Uni- Swim and Dive versity on Oct. 30. Next Meet: The women’s team started the day off strongly with a Friday and Saturday - Carnegie Mellon Diving Invite victory in the 200-yard med- ley relay. Senior Molly Evans, Cross Country sophomore Breanna Stillo, fi rst-year Megan Garvey, and Next Meet: NCAA Championships senior Brianne Burton all con- Saturday @ Wartburg College tributed toward the winning 1:48.95 time. The men did not start off with a win in the 200- Volleyball yard medley, but gained mo- mentum after a victory in the Senior Cameron Griffi n, All-UAA 1,000-yard freestyle by senior Senior Aislinn McCloskey, All-UAA, All-Mid-Atlantic Frank Olechnowicz. Even af- ter the strong win, Olechnow- Isaac Jones/Comics Editor Senior Justin Whaley swims for the Tartans during the meet last Saturday. Carnegie Mellon beat Grove City Women’s Soccer See SWIMMING, A9 College, and the men’s team won both the 1,000-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfl y events. Senior Alice Mayfi eld, CoSIDA Academic All-District Junior Elsa Wu, CoSIDA Academic All-District SPORTS COMMENTARY The Cutoff Man: Yanks seek out a Cliff bar JONAS ALTMAN-KUROSAKI sealed his fate on getting quite fl exibility for the many years baseman Alex Rodriguez to a Assistant Sports Editor the handsome paycheck for on his eventual contract. The 10-year, $275 million contract Football falls to Case the foreseeable — and even Yankees also have the ability extension. I’d like to think that this the unforeseeable — future. to offer Lee a chance to pitch The Yankees may end up Western in fi nal game headline’s pun is one of the It’s not that Lee is guar- alongside former Indians not having much competi- more original ones out there anteed to sign with the Yan- teammate C.C. Sabathia, who tion for Lee’s services to begin ALEX TAPAK 7–0. The Tartans fought regarding free agent pitcher kees. That the Yankees have had also previously dominat- with. Most baseball analysts Junior Staffwriter back, but gave up the second Cliff Lee. Or at least more entered the Lee sweepstakes ed the Yankees in the playoffs have predicted that the Rang- touchdown of the game on original than the corny “Cliff- — and they certainly have, before they blew other suitors ers will be the only team com- In its last game of the a turnover. This brought the hanger.” with GM Brian Cashman al- out of the water by offering peting with the Bronx Buyers season, the Carnegie Mel- fi rst half of the game to an Lee, the centerpiece in a ready having fl own down to Sabathia a seven-year, $161 to land Lee. The Rangers, lon football team fell to Case end with the Spartans in the trade deadline deal for the see Lee at his Arkansas home million contract in the ’08 off- Lee’s current team, would be Western Reserve University lead 14–0. second July in a row before — means that the bidding for season. To further illustrate wise to lock up Lee for many 28–0 on Saturday, but man- The Spartans came out on helping the Rangers to the his services will start high and my previous point, though, years as a pillar to build their aged to surpass the Spartans fi re and proved unstoppable World Series this year, can end higher. The Yankees have the Yankees also added two young rotation on; at 32 years in net yards rushing 231–84 in the third quarter. Carnegie start buying new Rolls Roy- the obvious advantage here in other huge contracts to their of age, Lee still has enough and in possession time by Mellon still did not give up, ces by the dozen as he head- that they can essentially of- payroll that offseason, signing good years ahead of him, nearly 13 minutes. but continued to fi ght. Down lines this offseason’s free fer Lee anything he asks and pitcher A.J. Burnett to a fi ve- barring injuries, to ensure a The loss wrapped up 21–0, the Tartans stuck with agent class. Lee is not only the more without truly compro- year, $82 million contract and high reward for at least the the season for the Tartan their game plan, waiting best pitcher available on the mising their ability to sign or fi rst baseman Mark Teixeira next fi ve years. The problem, team, which fi nished 4–6 for a chance to enact it. The 2010–2011 market, but he is trade for other lineup studs; to an eight-year, $180 mil- though, is that any deal be- overall and 0–3 in the UAA. Tartans were ahead of the a guy who has done one very any other team entering the lion contract. Not that their yond fi ve years for a pitcher Case Western Reserve was Spartans in terms of rushing important thing: He has dom- Cliff contest will at some point payroll wasn’t already huge is unwise and unnecessary, a strong opponent, as the yards, but the Spartans were inated the Yankees on many have to consider the impact of to begin with — the previous See YANKEES, A9 Spartans fi nished their sea- topping the Tartans in total occasions. That pretty much Lee’s salary on its fi nancial offseason, they’d inked third son 8–2 overall. A few indi- yards, and that made the dif- vidual performances stood ference. The Spartans came out in Saturday’s game: Of- up with a fourth touchdown ATHLETE PROFILE fensive leaders senior Justin near the end of the third Pratt and sophomore Jake quarter. This brought the Nardone recorded 77 and 52 score to 28–0 leading into the Max Tassano already making an impact yards rushing, respectively, fourth quarter. and defensive lineman senior The Tartans held the Spar- Mike Shedlosky bagged 10 tans off for the entire fourth VLAD BOUCHOUEV tackles. quarter, and the fi nal score Staffwriter The Tartans played a remained 28–0. strong fi rst quarter by having The game ended the fall For many, getting admitted to Carnegie Mellon is an accom- solid offense and defense. 2010 season for Carnegie plishment in itself. The fi rst semester allows recovering victims of The Spartans were unable to Mellon football. It left the senioritis a modest transition from high school to college. But for penetrate the Tartan defense team fi red up and ready to the fi rst-years on the Carnegie Mellon’s men’s soccer team, coming initially; however, the Spar- set new goals for next season. to college meant business even before the school year began. With tans increased their level of If the Tartans to continue to such a large pool of players trying out this year, it was clear that offense in the second quarter work hard in the gym during not everyone was going to make the fi nal roster for the 2010 men’s and blitzed to the end zone, their offseason, the team and soccer season. But if there was one name that seemed to resonate scoring a touchdown to put its fans can expect improve- in people’s ears during preseason, it was that of fi rst-year forward them on the scoreboard at ment next season. Max Tassano. Having lost speedy forwards Ricky Griffi n and Pat Lutz last season, Tassano, at an imposing 6'2", brought an extra dynamic SPORTS COMMENTARY to Carnegie Mellon’s attack — it was clear from the start that the tall and skilled Tassano was going to play a key role in the Tar- You’re fi red, Coach! tans’ season. As a fi rst-year, Tassano gradually became a starter for Carnegie Mellon this past season and impressively was the team’s JEREMY KING coaching changes. In most leading goal scorer with seven goals. Staffwriter cases, the season is lost and “By the end of the year we had four or fi ve freshmen starting. there is no reason to try and The freshmen are all a very tight group and we’re all really good We see it every year and in turn the team around during friends ,and clearly this was refl ected with the chemistry on the every sport. A team starts to the season. Take this year’s fi eld,” Tassano said. “I think it was because of this understanding struggle with a talented ros- Cowboys, for example. Start- and familiarity amongst the freshmen that made it easier for Joey ter, and as the season starts ing off 1–7 in the NFL is ba- [Paladino] and I to get on the score sheet throughout the season.” to collapse, owners start to sically a guarantee that the Like most student athletes at Carnegie Mellon, Tassano chose panic. After a while, it gets team will miss the playoffs. his university based on both academics and athletics. Having won to a breaking point, and a With the fi ring of Phillips, state and regional championships with his Philadelphia-based club coach or manager gets fi red, infamous owner Jerry Jones team Lower Merion Velez throughout all of high school, Tassano whether for good reason or promoted offensive coordina- attracted a lot of attention and was able to keep his options for col- just to be a scapegoat. Just tor Jason Garrett to coach the lege open. But after visiting Carnegie Mellon his junior year, he this past week, Wade Phillips, team for the rest of the year. knew early on that he would commit. who was the Dallas Cowboys’ This change just isn’t neces- Similar to most of the guys on the team, Tassano follows in- coach of almost four years, sary. Garrett, who is basically ternational soccer. He enjoys watching London’s Arsenal Football was unsurprisingly fi red after a disciple of Phillips’ system, Club and tries to emulate the style of play of English star forward leading the Cowboys to a 1–7 doesn’t seem like he’ll be able Peter Crouch, whose play and body type are similar to Tassano’s. start. Although the fi ring was to make drastic changes. I However, it was not always clear that soccer was going to be Tas- defi nitely needed, it leads just don’t see a point in hir- sano’s sport of choice. Baseball also took up most of Tassano’s ath- to a debate over midseason ing a new coach when he is letic life. But after he broke his arm twice, Tassano started to focus coaching changes. Should put in a losing situation. Most more on soccer. owners wait out the storm likely, the players will give up With his fi rst semester already a large success here at Carnegie until the end of the season on the season (it looks like Mellon, Tassano has even higher aspirations for his collegiate ca- before making a change? Or they already have), and the reer. should changes be made im- rest of the season will just “I really think that we will be strong contenders for the national mediately, in order to salvage be a disappointing audition championship in the coming years. This is our goal, and we think some lost seasons? for Garrett’s coaching skills. we can make a really strong push even as early as next year,” Tassa- Even though I am a very When the offseason comes no said. “As for myself, I guarantee you that I will be in the weight impatient fan when it comes around, Garrett will be an room throughout all of this winter and spring. For me that was to sports, I am a staunch be- afterthought in the potential defi nitely the biggest difference in college-level soccer. 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Dr. Dog is coming to Carnegie Mellon on Saturday, turns into a positive attribute. The band members Dear Hoskins Brothers, Dear Hoskins Brothers, courtesy of the Activities Board. These psychedelic expanded upon these jam-band melodies with We rockers are a quintet made up of Toby Leaman, All Belong. Lyrically and sonically, they reached I have a huge man-crush I’m visiting my girlfriend’s Scott McMicken, Frank McElroy, Zach Miller, the ultimate in sunny-pop. Tracks glisten with on one of my professors. family for the first time and Eric Slick. Dr. Dog isn’t a bar band — some happiness, and beats implore the listener to move. He’s so cool! But he has no over Thanksgiving. Is this of the popular acts it has toured with include the idea who I am. Is there any a good idea? Do you have Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket, The Black Keys, Most recently, the band released Shame, Shame. way I can get him to notice any tips on ingratiating and Wilco. The band has appeared on Late Night Speaking about the album, McMicken said in an me? To say my name? To myself? with Conan O’Brien and Late Night with Jimmy interview on d.drdogmusic.com that “With our last hang out with me? Fallon. Currently, the group is promoting its latest record [2008’s Fate], there didn’t seem to be the Sincerely, album, Shame, Shame. next logical step with the general set of sensibilities Sincerely, Pass the Gravy and aesthetics that we’d been working from up until Odds Against Me The band is made up of Pennsylvania natives and that point. It felt like a closed book.” And what an Dear PTG, was formed in Philadelphia. Its first four albums album they released. Shame, Shame is a dramatic Dear OAM, were made in a home studio, an odd attribute that shift in focus, and provides the listener a great Bad move. Thanksgiving is adequately describes each of those albums. While insight into the massive energy that will come to Ah yes, the professor crush, probably the worst time to the band may sound at first as if it is a product Pittsburgh this Saturday. a college classic. He’s smart, meet the family. All that stress of the ’60s, it experiments with altering its music funny, and when you look into and fatty food does not make beyond the typical guitar/drum/bass combination. Dr. Dog’s signature style isn’t meant to technically his eyes you get lost for hours. a good time. Her family will be The band has the sonic experimentation of the impress. Instead, the band seeks to get the crowd I’ve been there, my friend. making 10 different dishes, Beatles, the beautiful harmonies of the Beach Boys, moving. The members employ hooks that are so The key is to try to spend time entertaining the kids, keeping and the electrical oddity of Beck. infectious that they practically beg the listener with him. For example, go to the adults liquored up, and to dance and be happy. On their tour with the office hours. If you don’t have interrogating you mercilessly. Carnegie Mellon should prove to be an excellent Raconteurs in 2006, the band members nearly any homework or lecture It’s just too much to handle. venue for Dr. Dog, as the band’s psychedelic outclassed Jack White — a feat that most would questions, tell him you’ve Eventually, her mother may harmonies and jams will mesh with the small venue. deem impossible. There is no better way to loved his class and ask what snap, yelling, “Dammit! Why Wiegand Gymnasium is small enough that Leaman celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving Break than courses he recommends you am I the only one cooking!?” and McMicken will be able to directly interact with by seeing a band whose aim is to make everyone take next. You could reach and waving around the the crowd, rather than relying on a microphone. happy. The concert will be at 8 p.m. this Saturday in the holy grail of professor- carving knife. Wiegand Gymnasium. student relationships by doing Toothbrush is the most jarring of the band’s albums. research for him. Read up on If you’re still going through Its lo-fi quality sounds as if it was recorded on his research interests and with it, here are some tips. an answering machine. However, this quality Christopher Jarrett | Staffwriter learn about them beforehand Offer to set the table. It’s an contributes to the album’s charm — and the — if you’re knowledgeable easy job that will keep you melodies are so good that the potential downfall and interested, he’ll be more out of the kitchen with all its likely to accept. knife-waving. Depending on the family, you may be asked Or you can just stalk him. to lead them in prayer or say It’d be pretty easy to find his what you’re thankful for. My address online. Show up at go-to prayer is “Rub-a-dub his house and invite yourself dub, thanks for the grub. Yeah in. He won’t mind. When he’s God!” Say you’re thankful for not looking, steal a family this beautiful family letting you photo, Photoshop yourself into their home on this special into it, and then return it to its occasion. That should get proper place at a later date. you enough brownie points Take every course he offers, for a second slice of pie. even that one-unit course for grad students. Eventually he’ll Don’t take a turkey leg talk to you, if only to inform unless no one else wants you of the restraining order. it,

Stop staring dreamily at Patrick Hoskins him, Need advice? Send queries Brian Hoskins to [email protected].

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Dr. Dog, pictured here at the 2008 Treasure Island Festival, is coming to Carnegie Mellon this Saturday.

music3 pillbox 11.15.10 Tales from abroad: El Cope One writer shares his experiences while working with a team on the Panama Project

¿Por qué? and no electricity is used — and our portable bathroom it had already been a week. The team left, fi lled with all seemed diffi cult and unfamiliar. Nonetheless, our excitement and high hopes on the future onset of the That question — “Why?” — was posed to me by one of energetic team began the week with hopes to connect project. When we returned to Pittsburgh, we evaluated the architectural engineers, Nicolas Fernández Muñoz, with the family. what we had done and explored what we needed to do from Patronato de Nutricion — a partner land-grant — so we decided to go back. non-government organization with whom my teammates The idea of empowering other people who were in need and I came to work. Nicolas had been working with of help appealed to me. As a fi rst-year, being part of In 2009–2010, six returning members and seven new rural communities fi lled with subsistence farmers in El a development project where we see real growth and members made up a 13-member team that went back to Cope, Panama, to alleviate the income disparity between change in the lives of others made me feel that I, too, continue where we had left off. But when we arrived at the modernized urban society and the lagging rural had something to offer to the world. I tried pulling out the farm, we didn’t just say hello to Alejandro. We rushed communities. He was our driver, as well as our guide for all of my knowledge that I had gathered in Principles of over to give him a hug. And instead of referring to me the community. Economics and other classes to contribute to creating as Corea (“Korea”) as he had previously called me, he a business plan. Yet the problem wasn’t that we were referred to me as hijo (“son”). Stepping off the four-by-four Toyota pickup truck, I incapable of helping. It lay in the fact that we lacked recollected how my teammates and I all fi rst joined the trust from the family. Alejandro told us that other “So, why?” asked Nicolas. Panama Project. As a fi rst-year, in 2008, I interviewed students came before us to help them, but made no real to be part of Global Business Brigades, a nonprofi t change and shortly left to never come back. He was Why did we raise so much money, invest time and effort, organization that aims to empower students in afraid that we would do the same. to help these people in Panama? sustainable development, whose Carnegie Mellon chapter was started by Carnegie Mellon alumni Dhruv In the following days, we ran a series of workshops I simply replied, ¿Por qué no? (“Why not?”) Mathur and Kate Edgar. As part of the Carnegie Mellon focusing on fi nance, operations, and marketing that team that consisted of 10 undergraduate students and would help increase the effi ciency of the farm. Aside two graduate students, I felt anxious working with from the workshops, other members executed immediate Yong-Gyun Choi | Special to The Tartan people I had never met before. But before I knew it, we deliverables by building pathways and signs in Spanish had fundraised close to $21,000 to travel to Panama and English for tourists. These initiatives, ultimately, over spring break and assist a rural subsistence farmer, drew us closer to gaining the trust in the family. This Don Alejandro, in starting an agricultural/eco-tourism cycle continued on until we arrived at another dilemma. enterprise. Once the community members heard about us coming In the mountainous region of El Cope, approximately into the region to assist Alejandro and his family, they, 2,000 miles away from Pittsburgh and fi ve hours away too, came with their hands open asking for help. In a from Panama City, we arrived in a rural community matter of days, our project went from helping a single located in the National Park Omar Torrijos, named family to an entire community. Overwhelmed but after the late Major General Omar Torrijos Herrera. I optimistic, our team decided to help soaked up the sights of the lush green serenity, whose them too. But by the time we magnifi cence left us all captivated. At this point, it was had fi nished surveying the just my team members, the Panama Project, and me. other community members’ projects and attractions, My fi rst encounter with Alejandro proved to be more diffi cult than expected. Alejandro’s grey hair whispered years of knowledge. His enormous, brawny hands and bare feet sinking into the muddy earth represented scars of pride. We had seen pictures of the landscape and had been told what Alejandro was like, but reality was different. Our presence in a foreign environment — where almost no English is spoken

The team of Carnegie Mellon students poses for a picture while working for the Panama Project.

Courtesy of Yong-Gyun Choi

4travel pillbox 11.15.10 Indie icons release records Paperhouse Belle and Sebastian and Sufjan Stevens have new albums On Dreaming and Playing The Library Catalogue Music Series is Sufjan Stevens’ label These past two weeks were exciting ones for those As a group, Belle and Sebastian have been referred (Asthmatic Kitty) recently-created series of albums. For music enthusiasts who have been tracking the most to as a relatively one-man show, headed by Stuart those of you who are intrigued by Stevens’ recent electronic recent album releases on the indie music scene. Murdoch, the main singer and front man of the compositions, you should know that much of the music in With new albums from veterans like Michigan-born group. The greatest thing about this album, and this series is part of the same lush electronic lineage. I highly singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens and the influential what really sets it apart from the band’s past albums, recommend exploring the series, as it’ll open your ears to the Glasgow indie-pop band Belle and Sebastian, there is that several of the tracks feature not only the goings-on of Asthmatic Kitty. has recently been plenty of new music to listen to various members of Belle and Sebastian, but also and critique. several guest artists. One prime example of the diversity of this series is Kristin Miltner’s Music for Dreaming and Playing. For starters, it’s Sufjan Stevens — Age of Adz While the album has been well-received in the warm, playful, ethereal, and devoid of lyrics. The album is all typical Belle and Sebastian fashion for its elegant about mood. If you’re looking for some contemplative touches After the release of his third album, Michigan, in melodies and detailed song-writing, if you’re a of digital femininity, pop this album into your CD player. 2003, famed American singer-songwriter Stevens fan of the group’s classic sound, be prepared for unveiled to his fans his intent to record 50 albums something entirely new. The songs on this album As the album’s title would suggest, the album has two distinct in his lifetime, one for each state within the United are obsessively cheery in subject and tonality. sections: dreaming and playing. The dreaming portion States. Though the musician’s ultimate goal may While most would assume this sound to get old consists of the fi rst four tracks, while the rest is play of the have changed in its specifics, the founding idea fast, surprisingly it doesn’t. There is something video game sort. Imagine that you’re listening to little morsels behind this artist, his love for creating new music, about the album that, though pop-oriented, is of music that Miltner has created for the soundtrack of some remains unchanged. In a feat undeniably impressive incredibly enjoyable. It’s exciting to see this iconic warm and fuzzy indie game, and you’re there. for any musician, mid-October marked the release group expand its repertoire and venture into some of Stevens’ newest album, The Age of Adz, bringing uncharted musical territory. “Altamont Pass” is the most outstanding track on this album the total number of albums created by Stevens to 10. for those looking for an acoustically rich experience.

Though this newest album includes sounds and Meela Dudley | Pillbox Editor To describe this song in more lush language: Harmonics pulse characteristics that are undeniably “Sufjan,” there in and out, resonating and creating a shroud similar to muted are aspects of this album that seem to set it apart. bells. As a listener, you are now wandering through a desert Stevens has always been praised for the quirky in your dreams where purple and white clouds drip by slowly qualities of his songs, including references to and the hologram horizon seems to fl icker. Harmless ghosts, historical figures and detailed pictures of American about your size, their auras tinged with nacreous greens, culture within his lyrics. In this new album, Stevens pass through you. As they pass, you can see clearly into their seems to be focusing less on external ideals and muted neon robes. They’ve been precisely where you are. more on the processes of his own mind — and They’ve made the journey and they’ve watched you pass. listeners are loving it. Possibly the most talked-about song on The Age of Adz is the album’s final track, You are neither hungry, thirsty, lonely, tired, happy, nor sad. “Impossible Soul,” which at around 25 minutes You simply are observing. comprises nearly one-third of the entire album. This song, though described by One Thirty BPM Hugs and kisses, reviewer Rob Hakimian as a bit “bloated,” is an epic proclamation of love that brings listeners along on its bold journey. Juan Fernandez | Staffwriter

While reviews of the album have been mixed, the consensus remains mostly positive. In his 10th album, Stevens has reached outside of his norm to create an 11-track album that allows listeners top 10 on WRCT 88.3 FM a glance into the inner mind of this indie-folk superstar. most played albums of the last week 1 The Dandy Warhols — The Capitol Years 1995–2007 Belle and Sebastian — Write About Love 2 Underworld — Barking 3 The Chapin Sisters — Two Having originally formed in 1996, it’s no surprise 4 Apparat — DJ-Kicks that Belle and Sebastian have been able to release a 5 total of eight albums throughout their career. Their Belle and Sebastian — Write About Love 6 most recent album, Write About Love, released in Dungen — Skit I Allt Courtesy of AndyP. on fl ickr 7 Michael Gregory Jackson — Clarity mid-October, is the first thing listeners have heard Sufjan Stevens performs in Barcelona in 2006. from the group since The Life Pursuit, released right 8 Gonjasufi — The Caliph’s Tea Party before Belle and Sebastian took a five-year break. 9 Various Artists — Babylon Central 10 The Vaselines — Sex With An X

music5 pillbox 11.15.10 Ben Folds entertains crowd at Club Zoo Witty lyrics and clever covers abound at alternative rock legend’s recent performance

Songs about tambourine players, Bristol Palin’s rapping and playing the piano while his bandmates and told a story about a clarinet-playing cab driver boyfriend, a hallucinating music fan, and getting sleazy? provided accompaniment with bright harmonies, that he met in Pittsburgh. These interludes were still You must be at a Ben Folds concert. percussion, and a glockenspiel. entertaining even though the sound system within the Zoo was not the highest quality, making it sometimes The last time Folds came to Pittsburgh, he performed After his Ke$ha cover, Folds started playing some older, diffi cult to hear Folds speak. in regal Heinz Hall with the Pittsburgh Symphony more well-known songs, including “Still Fighting It” and Orchestra. This past Thursday at his concert at Club “Gone,” all of which the audience greeted as though At one point in the show, Folds’ four bandmates left Zoo, his location and accompaniment may have been they were old friends. With each familiar song that Folds the stage and Folds made up a song on the spot with a less formal, but what it lacked in formality it made up for began to play, the audience members would cheer with maraca and the piano. Then he played the loving ballads in energy and entertainment. recognition and begin singing along. “Luckiest” and “Practical Amanda,” the latter of which Hornby had written for his wife. Folds came to Pittsburgh as part of his Lonely Avenue Folds was sometimes a little off-key in his singing, and tour, promoting his new CD of the same name, for which his voice seemed to give out at a few moments in the After closing with a series of high-powered numbers, British novelist Nick Hornby wrote the lyrics and Folds show, but what he lacked in singing he made up for such as “Rockin’ The Suburbs,” “Army,” and a cover of wrote the music. In honor of his new album, he began with his piano playing and entertaining stage presence. Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze,” Folds left the stage, only the show with a few of his new songs, including “A Occasionally he would break into improvisational piano to come back fi ve minutes later due to the unceasing Working Day” and “Doc Pomus.” These unfortunately solos between songs, or even in the middle of songs. cheers of the crowd calling for an encore. Folds played didn’t seem to catch the audience’s attention much, After a performance of the song “Effi ngton,” during a cover of “Bitches Ain’t Shit,” a Dr. Dre song, followed since most attendees appeared to be relatively unfamiliar which one of his band members dramatically played by the Ben Folds Five song “Underground.” Overall the with his new material. However, Folds recaptured their the tambourine, Folds started improvising a blues song show was an entertaining evening full of witty lyrics attention when he announced that, in preparation for about the tambourine. He also took time between songs and high-energy music, both of which are concepts that the show, he had decided to do a cover of the No. 1 to talk to the audience, stopping to explain the history Folds seems to have perfected. song on iTunes, which at the time was Ke$ha’s “Sleazy.” behind several of his songs. He also confessed his love After solemnly explaining the song’s message, Folds for Pittsburgh to the audience — he incorporated names broke into a cheery rendition of the song, featuring him of Pittsburgh neighborhoods into one of his songs Anna Walsh | Assistant Pillbox Editor

Ben Folds plays at Club Zoo this past Thursday. His high-energy performance, while not perfect, showcased his skill and stage presence as he performed songs from his new album.

Anna Walsh | Assistant Pillbox Editor

6music pillbox 11.15.10 Harry Potter fans prepare for fi nal movies Deathly Hallows fi lms represent the conclusion of a franchise that marked a generation

Midnight Thursday night marks a long-awaited moment an entire universe that forms the backdrop for her two parts. Part one covers Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s for fans of the Harry Potter series, as thousands will novels. This includes everything from the fundamental search for Voldemort’s horcruxes, while part two attend midnight screenings of Harry Potter and the conception of magic to extensive family trees, essentially leads up to the fi nal battle. There are few Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Those who have spent more innumerable spells, and wandlore, and three books cast changes for the penultimate fi lm. Well-known than a year obsessively stalking MuggleNet.com for detailing a new sport (Quidditch Through the Ages), British actor Bill Nighy takes on the role of Minister press releases, video clips, and photos and visiting sites an entire animal kingdom (Fantastic Beasts and Where of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, and despite rumors to such as HarryPotterFanFiction.com for their Potter fi x, to Find Them), and children’s bedtime tales (The Tales the contrary, Emma Thompson and Jason Isaacs are in a state of frenzied excitement that can only be of Beedle the Bard). In a Deathly Hallows interview reprise their respective roles as Professor Trelawney likened to religious ecstasy. The upcoming two-part fi lm with The New York Times, screenwriter Steve Kloves and Lucius Malfoy. Kloves noted that there are some adaptation of the fi nal Harry Potter book, Harry Potter commented on this, citing the wealth of information plot differences between the book and the movie: the and the Deathly Hallows, has prompted more speculation Rowling possesses about the Potter world. “I once audience actually sees Hermione protect her parents by and emotion from fans than the six movies that have e-mailed her and asked her what were the 12 uses of modifying their memories, and Harry’s birthday party is preceded it. dragon’s blood, and she wrote back in 30 seconds what cut. Adjustments such as these, however, can always they all were,” he said. be expected. Ultimate faithfulness to the narrative is the The Harry Potter phenomenon is one that has swept reason millions of fans will be waiting to judge the fi lm, millions into the fold. The highest-grossing franchise in The seventh book rightly represents the climax of all eager to see whether the fi lm stays true to the book that, history, it has even defi ned a “Harry Potter Generation” this knowledge. The 700-plus pages are dense, packed for many, was symbolic of the end of an era. — those who grew up from 1997-2007, the 10-year with important details, wonderful characterizations, period during which J.K. Rowling published the seven and intense drama. The desire to justly appreciate and books which comprise the series. In a manner often capture the complexity of the novel compelled the fi lms’ Divya Krishnan | Junior Staffwriter likened to that of J.R.R. Tolkien, Rowling has created director, David Yates, to split the fi nal installment into

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Insomnia Inception Batman Begins The Prestige Thursday, Nov. 18 Friday, Nov. 19 Saturday, Nov. 20 Sunday, Nov. 21 7:30 10 12:30 7 10 1 7:30 10 12:30 8 10 12

Insomnia is a 2002 thriller remake of Inception was this past year’s big Before the 2009 blockbuster The Dark The 2006 drama The Prestige has it the 1997 Norwegian fi lm by the same blockbuster to say the least. Hyped Knight, there was Christopher Nolan’s all: magic, mystery, romance, and a name. Al Pacino plays an LAPD for about a full year prior to its release, 2005 movie Batman Begins. Starring star-studded cast, including Christian detective — has Pacino been playing the movie stars some of the best Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, the Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett a detective for the last decade or names in show business today, movie documents the origins of Bruce’s Johansson, and David Bowie. A is it just me? — who assists local including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Batman persona. After watching his friendly rivalry between two young police with an investigation into the Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, and Joseph millionaire parents get brutally murdered magicians soon turns vicious and murder of a young woman. Robin Gordon-Levitt, to name a few. We as a child, Bruce travels the globe to obsessive as each struggles to top Williams steps out of his comedy follow DiCaprio’s attempt to perform learn about the world of organized the other’s tricks, sabotaging and comfort zone for a couple hours by “inception,” wherein a memory is crime, and ends up training in Asia with spying on one another, until their playing a creepy crime writer who planted into the mind of a man or the vigilante group League of Shadows. competition culminates with a violent may be involved in the murder. This woman to make them think what you He returns to his hometown of Gotham and tragic end. This beautifully shot smart psychological thriller was well want them to think... I think. The plot City, a cesspool of corruption and fear, fi lm was well received by critics, and received by critics and moviegoers may be somewhat confusing, but the to clean up the town and become the the surprise ending will shock even the alike. movie is worth it. It’s an imaginative kick-butt billionaire superhero we all most careful movie watchers — and piece of cinema from a fantastic know and love. even if the magic doesn’t interest you, director with great casting. Go see it. perhaps the lovely Johansson will.

film7 pillbox 11.15.10 Gay and Lesbian Neighborhood Development Sports Pegasus, formerly located downtown, now located north Association (GLENDA): www.glenda.org of the city near Brighton Heights. Some other places of Pittsburgh’s many LGBT-friendly resources GLENDA is a Pittsburgh-based organization with the Steel City Softball League: interest include: www.steelcitysoftball.org goal of providing volunteer services with a message of The longest-running sports organization in Pittsburgh, Discover the variety of gay-friendly shops, clubs, and organizations around the city diversity and inclusion. The group, made up of LGBT the Steel City Softball League holds its season from April Cattivo Lounge. 146 44th St. in Lawrenceville and straight individuals, is located on Grant Street to August. Real Luck Café. 1519 Penn Ave. in the Strip downtown. Images Bar. 965 Liberty Ave. downtown Steel City Volleyball League: Sidekicks. 931 Liberty Ave. downtown []by J. Eliot DeGolia | Special to The Tartan Lambda Foundation: www.lambda-pgh.org Persad Center: www.persadcenter.org Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays www.steelcityvolleyball.org Pittsburgh Eagle. 1740 Eckert St. near Brighton Heights Located between Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze on The Persad Center offers psychological counseling for (PFLAG): pfl agpgh.org When one thinks of Pittsburgh, “gay-friendly” might Wilkins Avenue, the Lambda Foundation focuses on LGBT individuals and is the second-oldest organization The Steel City Volleyball League is an all-inclusive group PFLAG provides anonymous and free group counseling for volleyball enthusiasts and players in the Pittsburgh These venues are all 21+; however, some places that not necessarily be the fi rst phrase that comes to mind. raising funds and sponsoring various organizations to provide these specialized services in the United for LGBT individuals and their families. It holds monthly are open during the day have no age restriction during However, the city has an abundance of gay-friendly in Pittsburgh for the LGBT cause. It also funds a States. The center is located on Penn Avenue in area. The league has two seasons: one in the fall from meetings where anyone is invited to participate and September to December and another in the spring from certain hours. shops, sports teams, and restaurants, as well as plenty of scholarship program for college students and Pittsburgh Friendship. gain support or create a network. LGBT organizations and resources available to provide Crime Stoppers, focused on raising awareness of hate January to April. Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network Campus organizations community and support. crimes in Pittsburgh. Steel City Stonewall Democrats: (GLSEN): Pittsburgh Frontrunners: chapters.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/pittsburgh/ stonewalldemocrats.org/steel-city/chapter_news Gay and Lesbian Community Center: www.pittsburghfrontrunners.org There is also a wealth of resources on our own campus. Shops www. home.html The Stonewall Democrats publicly endorse candidates Frontrunners is a gay-friendly running club in Pittsburgh SOHO, Carnegie Mellon’s primary LGBT resource center, glccpgh.org Pittsburgh’s GLSEN is located downtown on Grant and act as a resource for gay and lesbian Democrats in that runs a course through Schenley Park. It is a is located in Room 325 in the University Center (just Dozen Bake Shop This organization strives to provide a resource for LGBT Street. This organization focuses on educating students Southwestern Pennsylvania. people and their families with opportunities to increase about the issues surrounding the LGBT community. It year-round organization that also holds various social above Skibo Cafe). The room includes a collection of The well-known and loved pastry shop, Dozen Bake visibility, understanding, and equality for the LGBT also works to ensure a safe learning environment for all events throughout the year. LGBT books and magazines, as well as other resources Shop, is gay-owned. The bakery is famous for its Renaissance City Choirs: www.rccpittsburgh.org community. The center also holds events for students students in schools regardless of their sexual orientation. regarding personal well-being. More information about cupcakes as well as various other fi ne desserts and The Renaissance City Choirs includes the historic men’s under 21, as there are a limited number venues in The Pittsburgh organization is a chapter of the national Restaurants and bars SOHO can be found on the group’s Student Life website, artisan breads. The headquarters for the shop is in choir as well as the equally fantastic women’s choir. The Pittsburgh available to underaged people. It recently GLSEN organization. www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/student-life/glbt/soho. Lawrenceville on Butler Street, and Dozen also has an choirs hold seasonal concerts throughout Pittsburgh and moved from Squirrel Hill to a new location downtown on additional branch in Oakland on Craig Street, which include LGBT and straight members of all ages. For more There are a number of gay-friendly restaurants and Grant Street. ALLIES: https://allies.andrew.cmu.edu opened in August of this year. information, visit the group’s website. bars in the Pittsburgh area. Many of them have an age requirement of 21. Some favorites are Spin Bartini/Ultra ALLIES is the campus-wide LGBT and straight organization that aims to promote diversity on Carnegie Gertrude Stein Memorial Bookshop and Saint Lounge and 5801 Video Lounge and Cafe, both located Mellon’s campus. The group also holds various social and Elmo’s Outwords on Ellsworth Avenue in Shadyside. The only 18+ (and historically well-known) gay-friendly club in Pittsburgh is activist events both on campus and in the Pittsburgh These two bookstores have a grand selection of community. The largest events include Pride Month in LGBT-related reading material to pique anyone’s October and “Gaypril” in April. interest. Both shops are located in the South Side on Carson Street, with Saint Elmo’s being closer to the Out@Heinz: www.heinz.cmu.edu/student-activities/ Birmingham Bridge and the Gertrude Stein Bookshop student-life/student-organizations/outheinz being further west. Either shop can be accessed from the The Heinz School has its own graduate student 54C bus route that stops at Craig Street. organization with the purpose of creating an open and welcoming environment for the community in the Eons Fashion Antique school. It also seeks to promote awareness of LGBT If you enjoy fashion and all things vintage, this place may issues and to provide professional development tools for appeal to you. Its unique selection of designer clothing Carnegie Mellon students. is hard to come by. Whatever your tastes may be, Eons probably has what you’re looking for. Comparable to Out@Tepper: tepper.cmu.edu/current-students/current- Avalon Exchange, this gay-owned storefront is a gem graduate-students/student-clubs/outtepper located in Shadyside on Ellsworth Avenue. The Tepper School has a similar organization to Out@ Heinz that, in addition to promoting diversity and Community organizations awareness, holds educational and social events for its members and the students in Tepper. Delta Foundation: www.pittsburghpride.org The Delta Foundation is responsible for organizing Pittsburgh Pride every summer in June. The foundation holds events like the Pittsburgh Pride Parade, Splash! (a summer party on Mt. Washington), and a gay pub crawl.

ALLIES, one of Carnegie Mellon’s LGBT organizations, The ALLIES’ office is located in the third floor of the has participated in many advocacy events, such as University Center. 2009’s civil rights march in Washington, D.C.

File Photo Christina Chen | Photo Staff 8feature feature9 pillbox 11.15.10 pillbox 11.15.10 Did you know? Ordinary Madness bewilders “Are Technical Students Ignorant?” asks the headline of an article that wonders Insanity and creativity come together in new art exhibit 100 if technical students have a bad attitude toward economics, politics, and ethical There’s a new exhibit in town just down the road at Nov. 16, 1910 practices. If that’s how you define the Carnegie Museum of Art. Running until Jan. 9, ignorance, most CS students would be 2011, Ordinary Madness will surely leave you with considered village idiots. raised eyebrows and a feeling of bewilderment.

The exhibit is divided into two parts. The fi rst, featured on the main fl oor, is tucked away in an open A blurb ran this week for people room off the main walkway. An info panel describes interested in working on the advertising the life and work of James Lee Byars, an artist who 50 staff of The Tartan. It noted that all those seems to be a perfect personifi cation of the phrase willing to work would be accepted due “ordinary madness.” Most defi nitely a leader and not to a shortage of volunteers. Honestly, Nov. 16, 1960 a follower in the world of art, Byars drew inspiration that ad could run today for writing. from his former home of Japan, particularly Shinto Help us! ritual and Noh theatre.

Byars blurs line between insanity and creativity. The Crime and Incident column notes When he sent a 118-foot long scroll of addresses that a student caught trying to steal a to Gustave von Groschwitz — the director of the 25 Carnegie Mellon parking lot sign has Carnegie Museum of Art from 1963 to 1968 — was had his case turned over to the dean. he not all there upstairs, or was it just too creative of a project for most to understand? When he had Nov. 19, 1985 Oh, come on, can’t we chalk this up to boys being boys and call it a day? a woman dressed as a nun unfold a 1,000-foot Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art roll of paper in a zigzag pattern across the Hall of Christian Marclay’s Symphony No. 2 (Mr. and Sculpture, was it artistic or absurd? Byras pioneered Mrs. James H. Rich Fund, 2006.50) is one work this sort of performance art, which he called displayed in the Ordinary Madness exhibit. “happenings.” A Forum writer rates Carnegie Mellon below our neighbors in State College The second part of the exhibit, residing in the Heinz 10 after a recent trip he took to Penn Gallery, features even more seemingly nonsensical Among the other peculiar pieces is Edward and State. I must humbly disagree — where works from various artists. The explorative nature Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s “The Billionaire,” a Nov. 13, 2000 else can you pay three times as much of the exhibit is investigated because, as an hollowed-out TV set with a detonator-looking and get half the number of attractive information panel states, “The ordinary is in fact device inside, with a red neon counter increasing people? laced with the contradictory, uncanny, and surreal.” every second. Then there’s Peter Campus’s “Three Transitions,” which is a video that seems to show Trisha Donnelly’s “Sea Battles” looks like ordinary the artist “wiping” away portions of his face and A News article cites a study showing pages of sheet music, with chords of notes etched ripping open his own back, only to crawl out of it. that students are the worst enemies in. But the music notes are strategically placed: 5 for their own personal computers. Donnelly transposed wartime naval confrontation One of the pieces that might be recognizable Apparently, apathy and recklessness plans onto sheet music, where each note represents from billboards is a photograph of two young a ship. twin girls standing on a couch beside a creature Nov. 14, 2005 from people like us are some of the main reasons why that computer virus that resembles Yoda from the Star Wars movies. deleted everything on your hard drive. “The Temptation of St. Anthony - The Forms” by Lina Bertucci’s “Haim Steinbach, 1988” features Tim Rollins brings the characters inside a story so all Steinbach, a fellow artist, wearing a mask of Yoda, spectators can see. Rollins and his students took 42 the only oddity in the otherwise-normal photograph. copies of a page from Gustave Flaubert’s book The The monochromatic tint adds to the haunting A Sci/Tech article reviews a seminar Temptation of St. Anthony — specifi cally, a dialogue eeriness of the image. where a former Marine Corps officer with Death — and combined blood, alcohol, and 1 lectured on how best to detect liars acrylic to produce a grid of emotion on the page that Ordinary Madness is bizarre. It’s strange. Quite through subtleties in speech and was hidden inside the author’s text. frankly, it’s madness. But who’s to say: Is it anti-art, Nov. 16, 2009 movements. Let’s just hope your or art in its purest form? professors didn’t go to that lecture: Your In the center of one of the rooms sits Benny Le Va’s “my roommate took a hammer to my “On Corner-On Edge-On Center Shatter (Within computer, so I couldn’t write my paper” the Series of Layered Pattern Attacks).” Composed Nick Guesto | Staffwriter excuse might not work anymore. of four piles of fi ve panes of shattered glass, the piece was not very remarkable because glass art is something we’ve all seen before. But for some Jesse Kummer | Personnel Manager reason, the geometry of the panes, the cracks that seem strategically placed in the glass, resonates some beauty. 10 art pillbox 11.15.10 Movie Science by Jorge Cham [email protected]

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If you are a Taurus and know the password, you may enter taurus this horoscope. Otherwise, you will have to wait in the april 20–may 20 hallway until someone lets you in.

Your professor is indeed a wizard — and is in fact very gemini advanced. He or she is able to inflict pain and fear without may 21–june 21 saying a single word.

Come on, admit it: You were happy when your acceptance cancer letter came for Carnegie Mellon, but you would have been so june 22–july 22 much more excited if it came by owl.

leo Question: What spell do the boys of campus wish they were good at? Answer: Engorgio. In my opinion, they have been Crossword courtesy of BestCrosswords.com july 23–aug. 22 aiming that spell at the wrong place. ACROSS DOWN 1. In reserve 1. Designer Cassini Using Unforgivable Curses on your professor may not be 6. Attention-getter 2. Approach virgo illegal, but in this day and age you might want to watch out 10. Scottish Celt 3. ____ boy! aug. 23–sept. 22 anyway because a good lawyer might win by arguing intent. 14. Admit 4. Terra _____ 15. Analogous 5. Flags 16. “Rule Britannia” composer 6. Corded silk fabric 17. Bridge positions 7. Lose traction Teaching your dog to respond to Accio is a good use of your 18. Gossip 8. Fathers libra time. sept. 23–oct. 22 19. Nothing 9. Big bang cause 20. Appreciation 10. Published 22. Chemically inactive gas 11. Ain’t right? 23. Pearl Mosque city 12. Sign up 24. Saliva 13. Sierra _____ You’re an RA, not a prefect, so take off that stupid robe and 26. Backward tidal movement 21. Horse’s gait scorpio stop patrolling the hallways looking for students who are out oct. 23–nov. 21 29. Centrepiece of the human face 22. Capital of Shaanxi province, China of bed. 31. Bran source 25. Explosive sound 32. Aussie hopper 26. Ashtabula’s lake 33. Cease 27. Emerged I know you’re a Twilight fan! We don’t appreciate those types 34. Soul 28. Derrick 38. Camaro model 30. Form of lyrical poem sagittarius in this part of the magical universe. Go back to your overcast, nov. 22–dec. 21 40. Teenage lout, to a Brit 35. Caspian Sea feeder lake-filled world and stop sparkling in our sunlight. 42. Remnant 36. Office note 43. Tangle up 37. Stravinsky ballet 46. Actress Moore 39. Wine bottle cabinet Please try to refrain from talking during the movie this 49. Latin 101 word 41. Sheets and pillowcases capricorn weekend. I know that your Harry Potter knowledge is 50. Meadow 44. Thin stratum dec. 22–jan. 19 51. Dutch cheese 45. Gives birth to extensive, but people are going to get very angry at you. 52. Actor Chaney 47. Letters, e.g. Save it for the Internet, where someone might actually care. 53. Curved sword 48. Artificial tooth 57. Edges 53. Parlor game Don’t believe the guy at the Harry Potter after-party; that’s 59. Garfield’s middle name 54. German submarine aquarius not butterbeer. 60. Mattress of straw 55. Vestige jan. 20–feb. 18 65. Crowd sound 56. Secret agents 66. ___ Fein 58. Long stories 67. Come to terms 61. Against 68. Fresh-water fish 62. Mex. miss Protect yourself from obsessive Harry Potter fans. If 69. Network of nerves 63. Scorch pisces your knowledge of the boy wizard and his friends is not 70. Birth-related 64. Electric fish feb. 19–march 20 encyclopedic, saying something wrong may get Ruptispectis 71. Editor’s mark 66. Hindu title cast on you. 72. The doctor ____ 73. Autocratic Russian rulers Nicole Hamilton | Staffwriter 14comics pillbox 11.15.10 MONDAY11.15.10 FRIDAY11.19.10 MONDAY11.22.10

Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey. Consol Energy Center. Pittsburgh Job Fair. Marriott City Center. 11 a.m. Buddy Valastro: Bakin’ With The Boss. Heinz Hall. 7 p.m. The Rink At PPG Grand Opening. PPG Place and 7:30 p.m. New Works By Robert Strovers. 5151 Penn Gallery. Plaza. 12 p.m. 7 p.m. The Granati Brothers. Roberto Clemente Bridge. 4 p.m. Giada Valenti: From Italy With Love. Cabaret at Etta Cox and The Al Dowe Trio. Market Square. ONGOING Theater Square. 7:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Light-Up Night March and Season Of Lights A Retrospective: Photographs of Pittsburgh. Irma Unveiling. Downtown. 6:15 p.m. Freeman Center For Imagination. Through Nov. 20. TUESDAY11.16.10 Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey. Consol Energy Center. Beyond Realism: Later Portraits By Irma Freeman. 7 p.m. Irma Freeman Center For Imagination. Through Nov. 20. School Of Art Lecture Series. College of Fine Arts Silvia Ziranek. Waffl e Shop. 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Making It Better. Rivers of Steel Visitor Center. Through Building. 5 p.m. Mr. Pleasant. Regent Square Theater. 9:15 p.m. Nov. 30. Bright Green. University Club. 5:30 p.m. Light-Up Night Fireworks. Downtown. 9:38 p.m. The Morini Strad. City Theatre. Through Dec. 12. Author Cheryl Chakrabarti. Joseph-Beth Booksellers. 13th International Exhibition of Botanical Art. Hunt 7 p.m. Institute For Botanical Documentation. Through Dec. 17. Benise: The Spanish Guitar. Byham Theater. 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY11.20.10 Audio Space. Wood Street Galleries. Through Dec. 31. The Reverse. Melwood Screening Room. 8 p.m. Fighting The Fires Of Hate. American Jewish Museum. MLJWC Shopping Extravaganza 2010. Mount Through Dec. 31. Lebanon United Methodist Church. 10 a.m. WEDNESDAY11.17.10 The Joe Negri Quartet. Market Square. 11:50 a.m. Author Ronald J. Van Wynsberg. Cranberry Public Wanted: A Few Brave Entrepreneurs. Pittsburgh Golf Library. 1 p.m. Want to see your event here? E-mail calendar@thetartan. Club. 5:30 p.m. Saving Face. Gay & Lesbian Community Center. 7 p.m. org. Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey. Consol Energy Center. ADD FEST 13. The Shop, 4314 Main St. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. Metropolis. Regent Square Theater. 7:30 p.m. Bombay Bellywood. Byham Theater. 7:30 p.m. Ken Whiteley & Friends. Carnegie Lecture Hall. 21st-Century Rock and Roll. Howler’s Café. 8 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Dr. Dog. Wiegand Gymnasium. 8 p.m. Borgore. Rex Theater. 9 p.m. THURSDAY11.18.10

Myth Connections With Carrie Kennedy. Penguin SUNDAY11.21.10 Bookshop. 11:30 a.m. Entrepreneurial Thursday. Little E’s. 5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh Steelers Football. Heinz Field. 1 p.m. The Other Irene. Cathedral of Learning. 7 p.m. Sunday Poetry and Reading Series. Carnegie Library Casino Jack and The United States of Money. of Pittsburgh. 2 p.m. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 7 p.m. Sunday Night Jazz. Rivers Casino. 6 p.m. The Gypsy Strings. Gypsy Café. 8 p.m. Cornucopia of Sound. Heinz Hall. 7:30 p.m.

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Tommy Hofman | Assistant Photo Editor

Tommy Hofman | Assistant Photo Editor Part of the Pittsburgh Gigapanaroma Project, New Perspectives of Pittsburgh is an exhibit on display at the U.S. Steel Tower that includes gigapan prints of Pittsburgh. The exhibit is the fi rst of its kind, boasting the largest collection of gigapans on a single theme. Many of the gigapanners contributing to the exhibit are part of the Carnegie Mellon faculty and staff. 16gallery pillbox 11.15.10