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What's New in Dining? Ed Board: Harvard lawsuit Astronaut plugs spacecraft Men’s Soccer wins close Fall in love with Crazy spurs debate • A4 hole with thumb • A6 game, 2-1 • A10 Rich Asians • B12 FORUM SCITECH SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan The Tartan September 10, 2018 Volume 113, Issue 2 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 What’s New in Dining? Chartwells’ plan Skinner leaves for State Department WILSON EKERN those of former Carnegie Copy Manager Mellon Chief Technol- ogy Officer Jeff Boleng, Kiron Skinner, the who left Carnegie Mel- founding director of the lon in April 2018, and Carnegie Mellon Institute Robert Behler, former for Politics and Strategy Chief Operating Officer and Taube Professor of and deputy director of International Relations the Software Engineering and Politics, started her Institute, who left in Dec. new role as a senior pol- 2017, both for positions icy adviser to Secretary in the Department of De- of State Mike Pompeo on fense. Sept. 4. Skinner was addi- Students in the Institute tionally appointed as the for Politics and Strategy State Department’s new had their own takes on Director of Policy Plan- Skinner’s appointment. ning. Eoin Wilson-Manion, a According to the State second-year International Department website, the Relations and Politics ma- Policy Planning office is jor, said that it is “hard Simin Li/Staff Artist responsible for “striking for me to get behind any- promised renovations at free of growth hormones, a fine line between [the] thing about the Trump numerous dining loca- artificial flavoring, and day-to-day requirements administration,” but that tions, more flexible meal antibiotics. The focus, of diplomacy and the de- he “[does] think, on a sur- plans, two new dining said Director of Dining velopment of long term, face level at least, that it locations in the Tepper Services Pascal Petter, is strategic plans.” This role, is good for CMU to have Quadrangle, and further on health and wellness. therefore, makes Skinner people [representing it] investments in sustain- “Our strategic plan, and one of the people shaping in the real world.” This is ability. On July 1, just the university strategic United States foreign poli- especially true given the GABRIEL BAMFORTH Education. This change six weeks after the email plan,” he said, “is to pro- cy, and includes the power enormous Department of Junior Staffwriter came at the end of a was sent, the contract vide facilities that are to “bring constructive, dis- Defense contracts, such nine-year contract with officially began. engaging, social, and pro- senting, or alternate views as a $732 million dollar, 5 On May 15, Carnegie CulinArt Group, a name With class in session vide healthy options for on... foreign policy issues year award to the Software Mellon students received that had become as fa- and dining locations full, students.” to the Secretary of State.” Engineering Institute in an email from Dean of miliar to upperclassmen the changes are appar- The redesigned The power of Skinner’s new 2017, or an $80 million dol- Students Gina Casalegno, as the Cut or the Black ent. Pure, a new dining La Prima Espresso in role was acknowledged by lar award to the Advanced announcing the school’s Chairs. concept located in the Wean lobby and The Carnegie Mellon president Robotics Manufacturing new primary dining ven- In addition to the new Tepper Quandrangle, of- Farnam Jahanian, who Group, an initiative led dor: Chartwells Higher vendor, the announcement fers a variety of meals See DINING, A3 said of Skinner's appoint- by Carnegie Mellon. Ac- ment that “being called to cording to the Carnegie serve the nation...exempli- Mellon’s 2016 annual fi- fies the growing role CMU nancial report, sponsored faculty play in shaping the projects like these account Dean Andrew Moore departs from SCS policy and research agenda for 33.3 percent of the op- at the national level.” erating revenue, totaling ADAM TUNNARD 211 students this year from The final shape of almost 400 million dollars. Operations Manager just 139 students in 2014. that policy and research Trevor Lazar, a second- On the issue of things he agenda remains to be seen, year International Rela- Carnegie Mellon Univer- wished he could have seen however. According to the tions and Politics major sity’s Andrew Moore, Dean achieved, Moore said that right-wing blog Breitbart who worked as a research of the School of Computer the department “worked News, “a person close to associate for Skinner’s Science (SCS), announced on a bunch of things but I Skinner described her as International Relations de- that he would be stepping never really got started on a ‘Trump loyalist’ who is partment, said he “greatly down from his position the central issues of [the] not going to deviate from respect[s] her knack for on Aug. 28, after serving ultra-important question Trump’s ‘America First’ quality research and the as Dean since 2014. Dean of the quality of life for agenda,” while in a state- strength of her convic- Moore will pursue “a new our graduate students. ment given to Breitbart tions.” When asked about professional opportunity,” Many useful steps forward News, Skinner said that Carnegie Mellon President as told in a Carnegie Mellon happened, but we never got “[effectively implement- Farnam Jahanian’s com- University press release, around to making it a major ing] President Trump’s ments about the grow- after finishing the calendar annual focus for SCS as it America First vision means ing influence of Carnegie year as Dean. deserves to be.” thinking through the Mellon faculty over Carnegie Mellon Presi- That being said, since President’s ideas and good national policy, Lazar said dent Farnam Jahanian Moore took over as dean, instincts with the serious- that he thinks “CMU faculty spoke high praises of the graduate and under- ness that they deserve.” bring a unique perspective Moore’s tenure, saying graduate computer science These ideas range from the to policy grounded in re- “Andrew Moore has been programs have remained separation and detention search and science that is passionate about the im- some of the very top ranked of families seeking asylum unique to the field. I believe pact of technology on so- in the world. to an expansive wall on this will be an important, ciety and a leader in the In response to the new the southern border of the fresh perspective on the way technology enhances “President’s Task Force on United States. national level.” Lazar and people’s lives. At this pivot- Campus Climate,” estab- Skinner has worked Wilson-Manion both com- al time for both the School lished in the wake of two with conservative politi- mented on how important of Computer Science and SCS faculty resigning this cians in the past, serving on diverse ideological per- Carnegie Mellon, we will August after alledging pro- various boards and politi- spectives are in the Inter- make sure the momentum fessional harassment and Courtesy of Andrew W. Moore cal campaigns for George national Relations and Pol- he built will continue.” sexism Moore told The Above: Dean Andrew Moore, who is slated to leave his position W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, itics department, and it will Moore has been with Tartan that “campus cli- as the head of the School of Computer Science at the end of the year. and Mitt Romney, as well be interesting to see the im- Carnegie Mellon University mate issues around gender sector work, with profes- Times, in an article on the as President Trump’s pact such an experienced, since 1993, when he joined harassment, bullying, and sorship at Carnegie Mel- future Amazon headquar- transition team in 2016. competent person like the faculty as a professor unintentional-but-damag- lon University, directing ters, raised the question Skinner’s new role in Kiron Skinner can make in of computer science and ing unconscious bias are a Google Pittsburgh, be- “could the dean of Carnegie Washington, D.C. follows such an influential role. robotics. In 2006, he took really serious issue.” ing the Vice President of Mellon University’s School over as director of Google He went on to specify Engineering at Google of Computer Science Pittsburgh for the opening that this goes beyond sexual Commerce, to his current be resigning to run a of their Pittsburgh campus. harassment, for which position of dean. Pittsburgh HQ2?” The His last four years have “well defined protocols Moore told The Tartan Tartan has no further infor- been spent as the fifth Dean are in place,” to something that he learned a lot work- mation on this connection, of SCS. known as “professional ing in industry, specifi- but regardless, Moore’s In an interview with sexism — one example is cally a heightened sense of future likely sees a salient The Tartan, Dean Moore the phenomenon described urgency, but he also adds assignment. expressed his satisfaction in the title of the Atlantic that “one of the biggest In the Carnegie Mellon at the increased diversity article: ‘Pushy Is Used to things in my role as Dean press release on his of the department, saying Describe Women Twice as is getting to know my stu- resignation, Moore stated “SCS has the capability Often as Men.’” dents and realizing that “I want to express my deep- of moving the needle on As for whether Carnegie the middle of the century est thanks to the amazing increased participation in Mellon is better or worse is probably in good hands.” students, faculty and staff computer science under- than other places in this Referring to his future of SCS,” continuing, “this grad degree by underrep- regard, Moore is unsure, employment opportunity, school is extremely strong resented minorities from but he does state that he Moore quipped to The and remains a thought- around the U.S.” knows “everyone on cam- Tartan that if he “dropped leader in computer science Under Moore’s tenure, pus wants us to be signifi- even the slightest hint, and robotics.
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