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thetartan.org @thetartan April 28, 2014 Volume 108, Issue 26 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Tepper talks business, philanthropy Senate, GSA ratify 2014–15 JFC budget Rachel Cohen were typical relative to pre- Publisher vious years and aligned with projections for JFC spend- Student Senate and the ing. “I don’t see any drastic Graduate Student Assembly departure from ordinary (GSA) held a joint meeting JFC spending from previous on Thursday to hear second- years,” Foley said. round budget appeals and A difference in next year’s ratify the slate for total Joint allocations is a decrease in Funding Committee (JFC) funding for Activities Board allocations for the 2014–15 (AB) Concerts as compared fiscal year. Both bodies voted to this year’s allocations. AB to approve a total $29,467 Concerts was granted more increase in JFC allocations — funding than usual this year an approximate 1.95 percent in anticipation of the 100th increase to the original $1.51 Spring Carnival. million in allocations. The JFC approved Student Body Vice Presi- $125,000 to cover artist dent for Finance (SBVPF) booking fees for the spring and junior statistics major concert — $25,000 more Jalen Poteat gave an intro- than the $100,000 originally ductory presentation, during requested, as compared to

Courtesy of the Tepper School of Business which he urged senators and the $60,000 granted the year David A. Tepper spoke about his philanthropic efforts, how he got to where he is today, and what would become of his recent $67 million donation. GSA members to be mindful before. Next year, AB Con- of recent changes to the JFC certs will receive $60,000 Brian Trimboli School of Industrial Adminis- for the Tepper School of Busi- McConomy Auditorium. metrics. Among these chang- of the $75,000 originally re- News Editor tration was renamed the Tep- ness and the Center for Inno- Tepper, born and raised in es was a flat cap of $250 per quested for the annual Spring per School of Business. Last vation and Entrepreneurship, Pittsburgh’s East End, stayed person for travel. This year, Carnival concert. David A. Tepper returned November, on the same day formed by a marriage of the close to home for his educa- the JFC also allocated more The JFC issued final bud- to Carnegie Mellon last Thurs- as President Subra Suresh’s Tepper School of Business’s tion, earning his undergradu- money to subsidize food for get recommendations last day to edify an audience on inauguration, the university Donald H. Jones Center for ate degree in economics from events where the food relates Monday and directed orga- his vision for the new Tepper announced another donation Entrepreneurship and the the University of Pittsburgh in directly to the culture of that nizations who wished to fur- Quadrangle, answer questions from Tepper, this time of $67 School of Computer Science’s 1978 and his MBA from Carn- event. ther appeal the JFC’s decision about his business strategy million. Project Olympus. egie Mellon in 1982. Student Senate Chair and to make their case to both and, at one point, sing a few Tepper’s most recent do- “The idea is to create some After he graduated from senior chemistry major Lukas Student Senate and the GSA bars from Elvis’s “Heartbreak nation will be used to expand cross-disciplinary, synergistic Carnegie Mellon, Tepper Ronner led discussion in co- at Wednesday’s meeting. Hotel”. Carnegie Mellon’s campus by places in the Tepper Quad- worked for the treasury de- ordination with Patrick Foley, As part of the second- Tepper first made his mark building the four-and-a-half rangle,” Dean of the Tepper partment of the Ohio-based GSA president and a doctoral round appeals process, on Carnegie Mellon in 2003, acre Tepper Quadrangle. The School of Business Robert M. Republic Steel. Tepper candidate in statistics. student representatives when he donated $55 mil- Tepper Quadrangle, Tepper Dammon said when he intro- According to Poteat and lion, after which the Graduate said, will include a new space duced Tepper in front of a full See BUSINESS, A3 Foley, the JFC allocations See BUDGET, A3 SolePower aims to charge Zuckerberg lectures on smartphones with footsteps marketing, social media brian trimboli running at night safer. ters student entrepreneurs. brent heard News Editor “After the class, Matt and Distinguished career pro- Contributing Editor Hahna saw greater potential fessor of computer science In 2013 alone, Carnegie for their product,” business Lenore Blum founded Project Randi Zuckerberg spoke Mellon launched a record 36 developer for SolePower Da- Olympus in 2007 after seeing on campus about her role in startups which, combined, vit Davitian, a University of countless Carnegie Mellon the development of Facebook produce everything from 3-D Pittsburgh graduate, said via students move to California and the books and projects of printers, in the case of Piece- email. “By storing generated when they graduated to work Zuckerberg media, offering Maker Technologies, to artifi- power for later use, they could in Silicon Valley, rather than advice on how to obtain bal- cial heart valves, in the case of make a renewable, portable pursuing their own ideas as ance in a life surrounded by PECA Labs. power source for various mo- entrepreneurs. technology. Recently SolePower, a bile devices. As a hiker, Matt “We produce the best tech- Held in McConomy audi- company that makes electric- saw an immediate benefit for nological resources on the torium last Tuesday, Zucker- ity-generating insoles, has outdoor enthusiasts. Both planet, namely our students, berg addressed an audience been making headlines by of them also recognized the and as soon as we produce of around 60 attendees. earning a spot on Popular Sci- great social benefits SolePow- them we export them every- Randi Zuckerberg is the ence’s 2014 Invention Awards er can have for people living where but here,” Blum, who sister of Facebook founder List. The SolePower insole, without access to electricity.” has worked at Carnegie Mel- Mark Zuckerberg, and is cur- according to the SolePower According to Popular Sci- lon for close to 15 years, said rently the CEO of Zuckerberg website, produces electricity ence’s article recognizing in an interview about her in- media and the editor-in-chief when the wearer steps on it, SolePower, “Instead of us- spiration for founding Project of Dot Complicated, an online and stores the energy in an ing piezoelectric and other Olympus. “I could understand community and newsletter. external power pack. inefficient, bulky methods of what’s going on — if you’re Dot Complicated, as de- SolePower was born when generating electricity, [Stan- getting these great jobs, why scribed on their website, “is its co-founders, Carnegie Mel- ton and Alexander] shrunk even think of starting some- an online community aimed lon alumni Matt Stanton (CIT down components similar thing yourself? That was the at ‘untangling’ our wired, ‘13) and Hahna Alexander to those found in hand- culture.” wonderful lives.” The website (CIT ‘13), took inspiration for cranked flashlights.” Inspiration from Project aims to address shifting social their senior mechanical engi- Although the idea behind Olympus also came from conventions surrounding the neering capstone project from SolePower was a direct result Blum’s work with Aladdin, a use of communication tech- hand crank-powered flash- of Stanton and Alexander’s National Science Foundation- nologies, addressing “how we lights. They wanted to make classwork, the company grew funded institute for algorithm interact with friends and fam- shoes that lit up when the user with the help of Project Olym- research. Aladdin researchers ily, how we raise our children, stepped on them, with the ini- pus, an initiative of the School how we announce major life tial goal of making walking or of Computer Science that fos- See STARTUP, A3 news, how we find love, and Abhinav Gautam/Staff Photographer Randi Zuckerberg, CEO of Zuckerberg Media, editor-in-chief of Dot how we manage our careers.” Complicated, and sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, spoke In addition to having an on- about her role in the rise of Facebook and the growing role that social line community, the site also media is playing in our everyday lives. curates and sends a weekly newsletter to subscribers. Harvard University as a psy- I was blown away,” she said, Zuckerberg was intro- chology and marketing ma- remarking on the employees duced by AB Lectures chair jor, after not being accepted “coding around the clock.” and first-year business admin- for music. After she gradu- She said, “they had a passion istration major Narain Krish- ated, Zuckerberg worked at for what they were building namurthy, who remarked, Ogilvy & Mather advertising that I didn’t see in corporate “having grown up in the In- in New York. “I got staffed America.” Zuckerberg was ternet revolution, we’re all on a brand new team called asked to choose the startup’s familiar with the disruptive digital interactive marketing,” logo, a task which someone qualities of social media,” Zuckerberg said. Although at with years of experience continuing, “whenever we see first Zuckerberg had wanted a would be performing at an something funny or strange position in television advertis- established firm. “It was that on campus, we want to post ing, she soon saw her depart- moment I knew I had to be that to Overheard at CMU.” ment grow to be one of the part of Facebook,” Zucker- Krishnamurthy introduced top divisions in the firm. berg said. Zuckerberg, saying that she Soon after she started While Zuckerberg was would talk about how “so- working, Zuckerberg began working at Facebook as their cial media has changed the receiving calls from her broth- marketing director, she coor- way we interact online and er to join Facebook and assist dinated their live stream of with marketing. “I probably the 2008 presidential inau- Courtesy of Davit Davitian offline.” From left to right: Adam Pinson, a sophomore electrical and computer engineering major and former intern at Zuckerberg began her rejected him dozens of times,” guration and developed the SolePower; Hahna Alexander (CIT ’13), current chief technology officer at SolePower; and Matt Stanton (CIT lecture with her background Zuckerberg said. ’13), current CEO of SolePower. story. Zuckerberg studied at “When I got to California, See MEDIA, A3 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » April 28, 2014 feature photo news in brief CMU Computer Club finds Warhol art Hotta lectures on Korean culture The Carnegie Mellon diskettes. The floppy disks — University Computer Club originally used for the com- — with help from The Andy puter system and applica- Warhol Museum (AWM), tions — contained files with Carnegie Mellon’s Frank promising names like “camp- Ratchye STUDIO for Cre- bells.pic” and “marilyn1.pic.” ative Inquiry, the Hillman The format of the images, Photography Initiative at the however, was unknown. Carnegie Museum of Art, and When Computer Club mem- New York-based artist Cory bers reverse-engineered the Arcangel — recently found format they revealed 28 new several previously undiscov- works by Warhol covering ered works of art by alumnus subjects from the well-known Andy Warhol (CFA ‘49). Campbell’s soup can to Botti- Warhol’s art had been celli’s Venus. stored digitally on Amiga “What’s amazing is that by floppy disks, found in the ar- looking at these images, we chive collection of the AWM. can see how quickly Warhol Arcangel started the inves- seemed to intuit the essence tigation into the disks after of what it meant to express seeing a 1985 Commodore oneself, in what then was a International infomercial brand-new medium: the digi- that advertised an experi- tal,” Arcangel said in a uni- ment Warhol did, commis- versity press release. sioned by Commodore. The team’s process and Warhol’s work was meant to findings are documented in demonstrate the graphic de- the Hillman Photography sign power of the Amiga 1000 Initiative’s “Trapped: Andy personal computer. Warhol’s Amiga Experi- After finding the disks in ments,” which premieres Sat- the AWM’s archives, Arcangel urday, May 10 at the Carn- worked with the Computer egie Library Lecture Hall in Club to read the outdated Pittsburgh. Girls of Steel work with CMU Robotics The Girls of Steel, a group competition, the Girls of of high-school girls from the Steel designed and built a ro- Pittsburgh area, tested their bot to do a specific task; their mettle at the FIRST Robotics robot catches and throws 24- Competition Championship inch balls. The ReCap Robot in St. Louis last week. was designed with help from The Girls of Steel are al- Carnegie Mellon roboticists, ready experienced, having who ensured that it met pro- helped members of Carnegie fessional standards. Mellon’s Robotics Institute “I knew CMU’s Robotics to build the Autodesk ReCap Institute did fantastic work,” Robot, which uses the 3-D said Aaron Morris, prod- design software Autodesk to uct manager for Autodesk’s create 3-D models. Reality Solutions Group, in Rachel Round, a home- a university press release. schooled senior from Har- “That they were able to build rison City, built the robot’s this robot in only a month’s sheet-metal housing. “It time, and make it audience- was a unique experience,” safe, has only strengthened Round said in a university my appreciation for their ca- press release. pabilities.” The robot the Girls of Steel created takes data from laser scanners to create a 3-D point cloud modeling an in- Compiled by terior space. For the FIRST Brian Trimboli

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Friday Saturday Sunday Campus Crime & Incident Reports High / Low High / Low High / Low Alcohol Amnesty was secured to the bike racks, Laptop Theft Defiant Trespass Notice 57 / 45 61 / 48 62 / 49 April 19, 2014 when the front wheel was sto- April 23, 2014 April 24, 2014 Source: www.weather.com len between April 21 and April University Police and CMU 22. This investigation is ongo- University Police respond- A University Police officer EMS responded to the ninth ing. ed to 4620 Henry Street in on foot patrol noticed a suspi- floor of Webster Hall in refer- reference to a laptop theft. A cious male she believed was ence to a call for Alcohol Am- staff member stated that her attempting to enter a women’s Corrections & Clarifications nesty. Appropriate medical Defiant Trespass MacBook Pro laptop was un- restroom on campus. The aid was given and, due to the April 22, 2014 lawfully taken from her desk non-Carnegie Mellon affiliate If you would like to submit a correction or clarification, nature of the call, no citations between April 22 and April was stopped and identified. please email The Tartan at [email protected] or were issued. University Police were 23. The victim stated that, The male was subsequently is- [email protected] with your inquiry, as well as the summoned to the University while the laptop was in an sued a defiant trespass notice, date of the issue and the name of the article. We will unsecured room, people must forbidding him from Carn- Theft of Bicycle Wheel Center in reference to a male print the correction or clarification in the next print who was previously issued a swipe their ID cards to obtain egie Mellon’s leased or owned issue and publish it online. April 22, 2014 defiant trespass notice for en- access to the building. Univer- property. The male was then A Carnegie Mellon staff tering the University Center sity Police are investigating escorted off of the property. member summoned Univer- and using its facilities. Police this incident. sity Police to the bike racks arrived and escorted the male on 311 S. Craig Street after from the property, after issu- receiving a theft report. The ing him a citation for criminal victim stated that her bicycle trespass. student senate meeting minutes Second Round Appeals Discussion: SBVPF, Approving the Slate SBVPO Honorarium

Student Senate and the Ballroom Dance Club, AB received $14,190 for a trailer. Student Senate and the ness administration double ma- Student Senate and the Graduate Student Assembly Concerts, and the University Carnegie Mellon Solar Splash GSA discussed the allocation of jor Ian Glasner, the allocation GSA voted to approve the final (GSA) heard second round Rowing Club. Spring Carnival and AB Concerts were denied $4,000 total to provide hono- was removed from the budget. budget allocated in the JFC appeals from student organi- Committee received $10,500 their appeals. rariums of $2,000 per semester slate. The slate passed in both zations before the ratification at the appeal for fireworks, each for the student body vice Student Senate and the GSA, of the annual Joint Funding WRCT received $7,245 to president for finance and the finalizing the JFC budget for Committee (JFC) budget. transition to a digital au- student body vice president for the upcoming 2014–15 fiscal Among those organizations dio system, Ballroom Danc- organizations. After an appeal year. appealing were Spring Car- ing Club received $1,532 for from Student Body President nival Committee, Carnegie their Scotch Ball event, and Elect and junior electrical and Compiled by Mellon Solar Splash, WRCT, the University Rowing Club computer engineering and busi- Braden Kelner April 28, 2014 « The Tartan thetartan.org/news » A3 SolePower steps Tepper speaks about vision for Tepper Quad into the future STARTUP, from A1 ander access. “It provided Matt and Hahna with a place found applications for algo- to work as well as needed ad- rithms — what Blum called vice and mentoring on how the “basic building blocks of to start a business. Kit Need- computer science” — outside ham and the rest of the staff of computer science theory, at Project Olympus helped using them for everything Matt and Hahna on learning from mapping logistics and how to create a solid busi- distribution centers for Fed- ness plan, go to market strat- eral Express to managing egy, and other crucial aspects auctions. Around this time, of business development. too, Blum said, there was a [Dave] Mawhinney also had decrease in federal research a large role in mentoring funding. “There used to be them and helping them un- more funding for basic re- derstand what it takes to start search from the government; a successful business.” in the past 10, 15 years fund- SolePower is only one of ing has gone down, which is many successful companies really a shame because the that have come out of Proj- major innovations of our com- ect Olympus and the Center pany have come from basic for Innovation and Entrepre- research,” Blum said. “I had neurship, such as DuoLingo, this bright idea. I thought, a popular smartphone app well a lot of our products are for learning new languages, close to commercialization, and OpenCurriculum, an so why don’t I commercialize online platform for creating them and bring money back and sharing K–12 learning Courtesy of the Tepper School of Business for research?” material. Left: Tepper spoke about how he started his own company, Appaloosa Managment, after leaving Goldman Sachs in 1992. Right: Tepper shook From there, Blum cre- SolePower was also part hands with Dean of the Tepper School of Business Robert M. Dammon at the end of his talk. ated Project Olympus, which of AlphaLab cycle 10, from has nurtured close to 150 January 2013 to May 2013. BUSINESS, from A1 second gift, I thought the anybody.” thropy efforts, including his PRoblem-Oriented Business As part of AlphaLab, Sole- school needed to be elevated Audience members also work with Better Education Explorations (PROBEs) since Power received $25,000 and subsequently worked for a little bit. We need to move wanted to know what Tep- for Kids, a political action its inception. From these business knowledge which, Equibank and then Gold- up in the rankings a little bit.” per learned outside of school group that Tepper co-founded PROBEs, 99 companies have Davitian said, “has been man Sachs, where, after be- Tepper also mentioned that during his time at companies to improve education in New been founded — 76 student- much more viable than the ing turned down for partner he wanted to see the Tepper like Equibank and Goldman Jersey. based and 23 faculty- or inno- financial benefits of AlphaL- three times, he left to start School of Business be more Sachs where, Tepper said, he One student asked Tepper vation fellow-based. ab.” Davitian continued, “The his own business, Appaloosa integrated into the rest of the became head trader in only a if he ever considered signing Recently, Project Olympus program connected SolePow- Management. Carnegie Mellon community. year. Tepper said the most im- the Giving Pledge, described partnered with the Tepper er with an amazing group of During the talk, both un- Another important part portant thing for students to on its website as “a commit- School of Business’s Donald mentors and advisors.” dergraduate and graduate of the Tepper Quadrangle, learn is that they don’t know ment by the world’s wealthi- H. Jones Center for Entrepre- Although SolePower’s students in the Tepper School Tepper said, will be new ath- anything. “You’re no smarter est individuals and families neurship to form the Center current model requires a 15- of Business lined up on either letic facilities. After seeing than the market — when you to dedicate the majority of for Innovation and Entrepre- mile hike to charge a stan- side of the auditorium to ask the university’s existing ath- become a good trader is when their wealth to philanthropy.” neurship, which Blum co-di- dard smartphone, Staton Tepper about his life, busi- letic facilities earlier that day, you realize how stupid you The Giving Pledge has been rects with Dave Mawhinney, said, “The company is work- ness sense, and the Tepper Tepper noted that they “still are.” signed by millionaires and bil- assistant teaching professor ing toward a design that can Quadrangle. suck.” When someone asked him lionaires ranging from Warren of entrepreneurship and ex- charge an iPhone after less A graduate student opened Another student asked what he would have done if Buffett and Elon Musk to Bill ecutive director of the Don- than five miles of hiking and the queue of questions by ask- Tepper what he considered he hadn’t become a hedge and Melinda Gates. ald H. Jones Center. withstand about 100 million ing Tepper about the motiva- the most valuable part of his fund manager, Tepper joked Tepper remarked that he “Project Olympus played a footsteps of wear and tear,” tion behind his $67 million education at Carnegie Mel- that he could do a pretty good had been investing in philan- crucial role in the formation according to Popular Science. gift and his vision for the Tep- lon. “The education gave me Elvis impersonation, treat- thropy long before similarly of SolePower,” Davitian said. SolePower’s first insoles per Quadrangle. “The first gift a great foundation, a great ing the audience to a verse of well-known billionaires, and Davitian stressed the mentor- are on track to be released by was basically paying back the business knowledge,” Tepper “Heartbreak Hotel”. wasn’t planning on stopping. ship to which Project Olym- the end of this year or early school; I had a great educa- said. “You come out of here, Tepper also spoke about “I don’t need a pledge to give,” pus gave Stanton and Alex- next year, Davitian said. tion here,” Tepper said. “The and you’re as prepared as some of his recent philan- he said. Zuckerberg shares marketing lessons GSA, Senate, hear JFC budget appeals BUDGET, from A1 semester — $20,000 total — to allow them to negotiate presented to both bodies for for artists with higher price one minute. This presenta- ranges. They also requested tion was followed by a four- $4,250 to fund a safer truck minute discussion, then a stage to upgrade from tradi- voting process that was fre- tional stage setups. Student quently delayed by senators Senate and the GSA denied and GSA members as they ex- both requests. tended the discussion period. Finally, Student Body Among the groups whose President Elect and junior funding requests were ap- electrical and computer engi- proved were Carnival Com- neering and business admin- mittee, WRCT, Ballroom istration double major Ian Dance Club, and Rowing Glasner appealed to retract a Club. While Ballroom Dance $4,000 allocation that would Club received a relatively provide honorariums to the small increase of $1,532 to SBVPF and student body fund their Scotch Ball event, vice president for organiza- other groups received ap- tions (SBVPO), continuing a proval for larger requested conversation within student amounts. government about offering Carnival Committee re- honorariums to student gov- ceived $10,500 to reinstate ernment executives. fireworks after next year’s In light of recently de- Carnival concert. Campus nied efforts to provide hono- radio station WRCT was rariums to the student body “Only paying SBVPF and SBVPO devalues the SBP and SBVP roles.”

Abhinav Gautam/Staff Photographer Randi Zuckerberg left her marketing position at Facebook to start her own company, Zuckerberg Media, which consults with other comapnies on the —Ian Glasner use of social media and technology. The company also developed its own online community, Dot Complicated, of which Zuckerberg is editor-in-chief. Electrical and computer engineering and MEDIA, from A1 After she told her story, and founded Zuckerberg Me- of technology in his life.” business administration double major and Zuckerberg spoke about the dia. The firm consults with “Our relationship with company’s U.S. elections and culture surrounding technolo- other companies on the use technology is not 100 per- student body president elect international politics strategy. gy’s development and use. She of social media and technol- cent healthy,” Zuckerberg re- When she left Ogilvy & lauded hackathons and spoke ogy, and also develops their marked. “A lot of that is my granted $7,245 to facilitate president (SBP) and student Mather, Zuckerberg recalled, to how important they were to own publications, including family’s fault. Sorry.” its transition to a digital au- body vice president (SBVP), “My boss told me I was cra- building Facebook’s “hacker, Dot Complicated. Connected Zuckerberg spent a large dio system. Rowing Club re- Glasner also moved to elimi- zy, I was throwing away entrepreneur culture.” to this website, Zuckerberg part of her lecture address- ceived $14,190 to purchase nate compensation for SBVPF my career.” She remarked It was from a company- is also publishing two books, ing upcoming trends in the a new trailer; their old one and SBVPO. Despite his over- that people who doubted her sponsored hackathon that one of which — Dot Compli- technology world and trends broke down just last Saturday all support for honorariums have since asked her for jobs. Zuckerberg got the idea for cated — addresses content which can empower the mod- — too late for Rowing Club for student government ex- At Facebook, Zuckerberg Facebook Live, a video stream- similar to the website. Zucker- ern entrepreneur, ranging to make the request for first- ecutives, Glasner said, “Only realized, “I had a front row ing program which would berg is working on a children’s from Google Glass, to Ama- round appeals. paying SBVPF and SBVPO seat on how social media was attract celebrities and politi- book, Dot, which The Jim zon’s drone delivery program, Undergraduate solar-elec- devalues the SBP and SBVP changing our life.” cians. The program took off Henson Company is develop- to the movement to unplug tric boat team Solar Splash roles.” “We took a demand-led after Katy Perry announced a ing into a TV show. from technology on vacation, and AB Concerts were both The appeal passed in marketing approach,” Zucker- world tour from the platform, These books address the to encouraging STEM educa- denied the increases they both governing bodies, and berg said about her marketing and became so popular that role that technology plays tion for young children. requested. the $4,000 allocation was strategy at Facebook. Zucker- Zuckerberg “actually got a in people’s lives. Zuckerberg Zuckerberg tied these ob- Solar Splash requested removed. berg opened the website one call from the White House,” was inspired by her son, who servations in with Dot Compli- $11,700 as operational After voting individually college at a time, and waited when Barack Obama wanted “made me think about tech- cated, aiming to offer a “bal- funds for building its boat on each appeal, Student Sen- until there were people asking to livestream a town hall. nology in a whole new way.” anced point of view of both and hosting community ate and the GSA voted one fi- for access before spreading Zuckerberg left Facebook Zuckerberg said she had the the opportunities presented events. AB Concerts request- nal time to ratify the JFC slate the site to other institutions. after running Facebook Live “responsibility for the balance and the challenges.” ed a $10,000 increase per for the coming fiscal year. A4 « thetartan.org/scitech The Tartan » April 28, 2014

CMU wins Better Buildings contest Sailfish allows for Claire Gianakas concerns. The team, Team ber of cases which incorporate vard University, Stanford Staffwriter Everpower, won two “Best real world energy problems. University, Yale University, faster gene studies Proposal” awards for their These cases are distributed to Columbia University, and the Today, students pride solutions. the student teams, who have Universities of California, Raghunandan Avula somehow correlated with the themselves on much more The Better Buildings Case approximately three months Santa Barbara, San Diego, Staffwriter aberration. than just attending classes Competition began in 2012 to produce 10-page solutions and Berkeley. It is impractical to physi- and getting good grades. and aims to give college stu- based on the information pro- Team Everpower included A single cell is home to an cally collect all the proteins Along with classes, many stu- dents an opportunity to gain vided and their own research. students from a variety of unfathomable number of mo- expressed in a cell and iden- dents are involved in various skills and experience related After three months, students disciplines. The final team lecular interactions. Over one tify them because protein extracurricular activities to to careers in clean energy. The meet in Washington, D.C. for consisted of Matineh Eyb- trillion cells work together identification technologies supplement their education, program upholds Obama’s a one-day workshop where poosh, a doctoral student perfectly to produce a well- are not robust. To avoid phys- and Carnegie Mellon students Better Buildings Initiative goal all the teams present their so- in civil and environmental oiled machine: the human ically collecting and charac- are no exception. A perfect to reduce energy consumption lutions to expert judges and engineering; Rubén Morón, body. Scientists, however, terizing the proteins in a cell, example is the team of Carn- by at least 20 percent by 2020 case partners. a master’s student in the are fascinated with how the scientists have developed the egie Mellon graduate students in commercial and industrial This year’s culminating School of Architecture; Mat- smallest deviation from the technique of RNA sequencing who participated in the U.S. buildings across the United event was held on March 14 thew Plunkett, a master’s stu- norm within a cell can have (RNA-seq). Department of Energy’s Better States. at the Department of Energy dent in the Tepper School of catastrophic consequences. RNA is an intermediate Buildings Case Competition, The competition incor- headquarters and brought Business; Vedran Lešic, a Ful- Comparing RNA expres- molecule between DNA and an annual competition that porates a variety of different together 25 participating sion in different cells can proteins. DNA is like a recipe addresses real-world energy energy efficiency topics. The universities, including Carn- See Buildings, A5 provide an incredible amount book on how to build all the Department of egie Mellon, the of insight into these minute proteins in an organism. RNA Energy, along MassachusettsInstitute changes and understand- can be considered a messen- with other of Technology, ing how they might affect ger molecule that translates case partners, Har- the cell. Carl Kingsford, an the DNA into a language that develops a associate professor at Carn- the cell can understand. The num- egie Mellon’s Lane Center RNA produced are for the for Computational Biology, proteins that the cell is ac- and his team have developed tively making and expressing Sailfish, a revolutionary new at a given time. software that will allow sci- Scientists collect thou- entists to analyze massive sands of RNA molecules in- amounts of RNA gene expres- side a cell that range from a sion data in a matter of min- few to hundreds of base pairs utes, as opposed to previous in length. Then, they use ro- methods which took several bust sequencing technologies hours. The tool, which stands to determine the sequence of true to the speedy fish it was bases that make up the mol- named after, was highlighted ecules. However, deciphering in a report published online the RNA code to identify the in April 2014 in the reputable protein it instructs to build is journal Nature Biotechnology. another challenge in its own Proteins are the catalytic right. molecules responsible for Current techniques in what occurs inside a cell at computational biology mod- any given time. Researchers el a string search problem, want to learn how the pres- which involves compar- ence of specific proteins can ing the RNA sequences to a impact the characteristics of large database of sequences a cell and how it behaves. For and identifying the best example, if a protein is found match. While this has been to be expressed in a mal- a hot computational biol- functioning cell, like a can- ogy research topic in recent

Courtesy of Mireille Mobley cerous cell, but is absent in years, current methods take The Carnegie Mellon team for the Better Buildings Case Competition consisted of (from left to right) Matthew Plunkett, Matineh Eybpoosh, Rubén a healthy cell, scientists can Morón, Casey Canfield, Vedran Lešic, Nathaniel Horner, and (not pictured) Julian Lamy. conclude that the protein is See Gene, A5

How Things Work Dinosaur fossils are extracted from surrounding matrix Brian Trimboli tail to extract from their surround- chemical compounds are used to eats away the matrix while leaving that lived in the late Jurassic period News Editor ing matrix. Still, accidents happen: dissolve the matrix around a fossil. the bone intact and supported by and whose fossil was first found in when a fossil breaks, preparators re- While chemical preparation has its the resin, preserving the relation- the Badlands in Wyoming in 1899, While most visitors to Pittsburgh pair it with glue designed specifical- own set of risks — using the wrong ship of articulated parts after matrix after which it was acquired by An- know that the city breaks records ly for fossils. After a fossil is found chemicals on a fossil can damage removal. drew Carnegie. Carnegie sent plas- for its number of bridges and bars, in the field, it is taken to a museum the specimen as well as the matrix, When a fossil is finally free, it’s ter casts of the fossilized skeleton to far fewer know that Pittsburgh’s wrapped in a plaster and burlap skin for example — it also has great ad- connected into a skeleton and put museums around the world; casts of Carnegie Museum of Natural His- and a wooden box, a 100-year-old vantages for fossils too small or deli- on display. While most of the dino- the Carnegie Museum’s diplodocus tory houses the third-largest collec- method that preserves the fossil and cate to be extracted mechanically. saur skeletons visitors see at muse- fossil are on display on four differ- tion of mounted and displayed di- surrounding matrix while it is being Chemical preparation requires ums look like the real thing, they ent continents, according to the nosaurs in the U.S., behind only the transported. careful analysis of the fossil and are often partly or wholly made up museum’s website. Outside the mu- Smithsonian’s National Museum of There’s not just one technique for matrix to choose the right kind of of plaster casts. It’s extremely rare seum itself, a statue of “Dippy” the Natural History in Washington, D.C. freeing a fossil from the surround- chemical bath. For fossils in a lime- to find a fully fossilized dinosaur diplodocus, made during the 100th and the American Museum of Natu- ing strata. One method, according stone matrix, for example, prepara- skeleton; missing pieces of a skel- anniversary year of the fossil’s dis- ral History in New York. to the American Museum of Natural tors typically use an acidic solution, eton are usually filled in with bones covery, recreates the dinosaur in As anyone who’s seen the open- History, is mechanical extraction, which would break the stone down from another fossil of the same ani- fiberglass. ing scene of Jurassic Park knows, when preparators remove the fossil into carbon dioxide and calcium mal or a very similar species. Casts, getting dinosaur fossils from the from the matrix with physical force. ions. In specimens where iron ox- which are made using latex rubber, ground to a museum hall takes a lot To do this, they use tools ranging ide has formed a crust on the fossil are often exchanged between insti- of work. from steel needles to micro-sand- itself, preparators may use either tutions for research purposes, At the Carnegie Museum of blasters and mini-jackhammers, thioglycollic acid or the preferred or used to make the sur- Natural History, visitors can look like the air scribe on display at the Waller Method, which uses a solu- face details of a fossil through glass walls to watch the Carnegie Museum. tion of three sodium salts to break clearer. work of the fossil preparators, Fossil matrix materials can be iron down into a neutral pH solu- For many, the most whose job it is to remove fossils from relatively soft, such as chalk, silt- tion. striking part of a dino- the rock — or matrix — surround- stone, or sandstone, or much hard- If the preparators want to keep saur’s skeleton is its skull. ing them. Although fossils can be er, such as conglomerate rock and a skeleton’s structure intact, they Dinosaur skulls are, in fact, formed in several different ways, hematitics, which are described may use transfer preparation, a extremely rare, and are generally one of the more common fossiliza- on the American Museum of Natu- technique developed in the 1950s too heavy to safely mount. Instead, tion processes is permineralization. ral History’s website as “specimens and still in use today. During this a cast of the skull is attached to the During permineralization, cavi- covered in a hard layer of iron con- process, half of the fossil is encased skeleton on display. ties in organic matter that have cretion.” According to the Carnegie in polyester resin and placed in a The Carnegie Museum of Natu- been buried under layers of sedi- Museum’s website, it can take two bath of formic acid. The acid bath ral History began its extensive ment and earth are filled in with days just to work away a piece of fossil collection with Diplodo- mineral-rich groundwater. Over the matrix the size of a deck of cards cus carnegii, a dinosaur course of millions of years, minerals around a small fossil, and a few days in the groundwater precipitate and to work away a piece the size of a ce- harden the surrounding organic real box around a larger fossil. Brian Trimboli/News Editor matter, which, depending on how For some fossils, preparators decayed the body was when it was prefer chemical preparation. buried, can be just bones or teeth or During chemical prepara- even skin and feathers. tion, various Dinosaur fossils — which are roughly between 65 and 245 million years old — are delicate, requiring a gentle attention to de- April 28, 2014 « The Tartan thetartan.org/scitech » A5 Carnegie Mellon team wins New computational method two Best Proposal awards allows for faster gene analysis

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six hours to identify anywhere from 30 million to 100 million RNA sequences, depending on the number of sequences. The time-intensive step is in mapping the large string of letters to its complementary sequence in the database. Kingsford explained that “what makes Sailfish so fast is to do away with this map- ping step. Instead of matching the whole RNA sequence at one time, Sailfish first breaks Courtesy of Julian Lamy Julian Lamy, a member of the Carnegie Mellon Better Buildings Case Competition team. down the input into all possi- ble fragments of size k which are appropriately called k- health and productivity. Proposal” for both of their buildings, from A4 mers.” “The judges said it was the cases. Next, the program iden- Business; Vedran Lešic, a Ful- most realistic and complete The members of Team tifies all the different RNA bright scholar in engineering proposal, which is why I think Everpower also commented sequences in the database and public policy; and doctor- we ended up winning,” said on the benefits they person- where each k-mer could al students in engineering and Canfield. ally gained from the competi- be found. The database se- public policy Casey Canfield, The second case assigned tion. quence that has the highest Julian Lamy, and Nathaniel to Team Everpower was titled “For me, coming from an coverage of k-mers will be the Horner. “A Side of Savings: Energy engineering background, the corresponding sequence help- “Someone from [engineer- Efficiency in the Restaurant interesting part was working ing to identify the protein that ing and public policy] has Franchise Model.” This case on a real project and learn- the sequence codes for. been on the team every year,” dealt with incentives for fast- ing how I can apply technical Searching for these k- explained Canfield. “We had food restaurants to invest in knowledge to real issues,” said mers is computationally less a bunch of engineering stu- energy efficiency. The team Eybpoosh. “We had people in intensive than searching for dents interested, but we had proposed a competition be- our group from many differ- a whole sequence because it to work a little bit harder to tween restaurants that would ent backgrounds and that also is no longer a string search get people from Tepper and use cash prizes to encourage helped me have a bigger pic- problem. people from architecture.” energy efficiency through be- ture of what I have learned in The database can be con- The team was assigned two havioral changes and invest- the engineering department.” structed as a minimum per- cases. The first, titled “Picking ment in new technology. The team also stressed the fect hash table matching each up PACE: Taking Commercial “The idea is that each fact that these benefits are not possible k-mer from the da- PACE Financing to Scale,” store that participates would limited to graduate students. tabase to all the possible se- involved the development realize the benefits of any “One of the things that’s in- quences in the database that of a program and business of these measures that they teresting about this competi- contain that specific k-mer. In plan for states to enact Prop- took, whether it’s investing in tion is that there aren’t differ- computer science, hash tables erty Assessed Clean Energy new equipment or improving ent levels, so undergraduates are efficient data structures Jonathan Carreon/Contributing Editor (PACE) financing, a method their processes, but in addi- compete against graduate that store and search through Kingsford and his team developed Sailfish to study genes more quickly. of attaching loans to build- tion to that there’s the incen- students. We really wanted information. ings instead of a person, while tive to participate because of undergraduates on the team Kingsford described that and database sequence. In group released their code increasing energy efficiency. the competition,” said Lamy. because this would be a really the idea of breaking down this primitive system, some and started a forum for users As a solution, the team “It would give all stores a kind great opportunity for under- large sequences into smaller sequences will never find a to discuss their experiences. proposed using a diffusion of common ground and com- graduates to get experience,” k-mers is a technique that match and be thrown out be- Kingsford shared emphati- model to build up the pro- mon platform to invest in dif- explained Canfield. is commonly utilized in ge- cause of too many mismatch- cally that users were having gram over time and placed ferent things.” “It’s a good opportunity for nome assembly. He added, es. Kingsford explained that “very positive experiences” an emphasis on the adver- For each case, two awards Carnegie Mellon undergradu- “researchers had strayed in their new method, k-mers and that “it is very rewarding tisement of the non-energy were given out: “Most Inno- ates to get into [research] and away from applying this that have mismatches are not to go from an idea to imple- savings benefits of energy- vative” and “Best Proposal.” learn how it works,” added idea to RNA-seq because considered. mentation and then to actual efficiency such as increased Team Everpower won “Best Eybpoosh. they thought breaking the However, there are other users so they can actually do sequence caused a loss of k-mers that don’t have mis- what they want to do.” They information.” matches which will be suf- spent the past six months Instead, Kingsford and his ficient in matching the ap- working on their publication. team found that “despite los- propriate sequences. Thus, Previously, researchers ing some information, you no complete RNA sequence were limited in their RNA gain in freedom.... In some in analysis will be thrown out sequencing studies because cases, the analysis will be simply because of a few mis- of the time required for such actually more accurate than matches. intensive computation. Kings- older methods.” Rob Patro, a post-doctoral ford hopes that this speedy Sailfish is more accurate research associate working software will “let researchers because it does not incor- under Kingsford, was re- do much more exploratory porate mismatches between sponsible for the majority of analysis, test many more con- the search sequence and the the coding and testing of the ditions getting millions and database sequence into the software. millions of RNA sequences analysis. DNA and RNA can be They collaborated with and comparing them to even somewhat variable between Stephen M. Mount, an associ- larger data sets.” different individuals so it is ate professor in the University Kingsford and his team will very likely that a whole se- of Maryland’s Department of continue to improve their soft- quence will never be a perfect Cell Biology and Molecular ware, possibly enabling other match. Older mapping meth- Genetics and its Center for scientists to make discoveries ods are exponentially slowed Bioinformatics and Computa- furthering the human under- down by the errors that are tional Biology. standing of the beautiful com- allowed between the search In November of 2013, the plexity of biology. A6 « thetartan.org/scitech The Tartan » April 28, 2014 Spergel journeys through time at Bennett-McWillims lecture Brooke Kuei So what exactly does a SciTech Editor map of the CMB look like? You might be familiar with the What if you could go back famous CMB pictures, which in time? What if you could go look like an oval on which var- so far into the past that you ious patches of different colors could see the beginning of the are dispersed, that have been universe? published by surveys such David Spergel, chair of the as Planck and the Wilkinson department of astrophysical Microwave Anisotropy Probe sciences at Princeton Univer- (WMAP). These different col- sity, took his audience back ors correspond to the slightly in time at the second Bennett- different temperatures across McWilliams lecture in Rashid the universe. Auditorium last Thursday “What we want to do is with his creatively named talk, look at this pattern and study “Taking the Universe’s Baby the ‘lumpiness’ as a function Picture.” of scale. What is the character- The truth is, you are trav- istic scale of the hot and cold eling into the past each time spots on this map?” Spergel you look up at the night sky. explained. The stars are so far away that To illustrate his point, Sper- by the time the light they are gel showed the baby pictures emitting — which travels very of his own children — “Three fast, but still at a finite speed completely randomly selected — reaches your eyes, you are babies,” he assured, as the seeing the stars not as they ex- crowd chuckled — followed ist in the sky at that moment, by a more recent picture of but how they were when that them. light first left the star. “Given the initial condi- “If you were on a planet tions, you can extrapolate 10 light-years away and were forward to today,” Spergel looking at Earth, you would explained. “Now, this will not Courtesy of NASA/WMAP Science Team via Wikimedia Commons see all of us as we were 10 work with babies … but the The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is leftover radiation from the Big Bang and helps astronomers study the universe’s history. years ago — and I had more universe turns out to be more hair,” Spergel joked. It makes simple.” either there was communica- to propagate throughout the sense, then, that the farther Using computer simula- tion between the students dur- physics community. away an object you are look- tions of the initial conditions ing the exam, or the students “My reaction to this — and ing at is, the older a version of of our universe and evolving shared the same information this might be me being a bit it you will see. them forward in time, we can beforehand. of a cynic — is that important It is this concept that allows compare our predictions of the Similarly, when we look at results deserve careful scru- researchers to use the cos- present universe’s “lumpiness” the many different regions of tiny,” Spergel cautioned. He mic microwave background to actual observations, and it the CMB, all of the patches are worried that since the CMB (CMB) to study the universe’s turns out that they match re- the same temperature, with is composed of both cosmo- history. The CMB is essen- markably well. only minuscule fluctuations logical emissions and galactic tially leftover heat from the While the first half of between them. However, ac- emissions, the signal that was Big Bang. When the universe Spergel’s talk began with the cording to the standard Big detected by BICEP2 could in- was young, it was very hot and universe’s initial conditions Bang Theory, these regions of clude contributions from dis- very dense, and protons and and went forward in time to the sky did not have time to tant galaxies that were not ac- electrons moved around freely the present day, the second communicate to each other, counted for. in plasma. portion of his talk was about suggesting that they shared a In the next two years, However, as the universe how observations made in the common initial condition. The fortunately, seven different expanded and cooled, pro- present can take people back theory of inflation states that experiments will be indepen- tons and electrons began to in time to the universe’s first these regions once existed at dently working to confirm the combine and photons — that moments, a discussion which a single point, and that the discovery. is, light — began to decouple revolved around the theory of universe underwent a rapid, Between the first Bennett- from the matter. It is this light, inflation. exponential expansion to be- McWilliams lecture — which which has moved freely from “The way that I think about come the universe we know occurred in December and fea- then to now, which gives us a the motivation for inflation today. tured Alan Guth, the theorist window into the universe’s ini- comes from having taught for During this inflation, tiny behind inflation — and Sper- tial conditions. a number of years,” Spergel ripples in the fabric of space- gel’s lecture last week, gravi- “The microwave back- said. He explained the theory time were blown up, result- tational waves have already ground is a wonderful thing with an example: If you gave ing in the gravitational waves been detected. Spergel’s lec- to study if you want to under- an exam to a classroom full that the Background Imaging ture took the audience on an stand the evolution of the uni- of students and every student of Cosmic Extragalactic Po- adventure through the past, verse’s history,” said Spergel. handed back their exams with larization (BICEP2) telescope but who knows what greater

“Because it really is, I’ll argue, the same answers, one of two very recently detected, caus- discoveries the future has in Courtesy of David Spergel the universe’s baby picture.” things must have happened — ing a similar ripple of waves store for us? David Spergel spoke at the second Bennett-McWilliams lecture.

Pugwash Column SCITECH BRiefs Chernobyl birds Scientists decode Y chromosome no Corporatization is here to stay adapt to radiation tsetse fly genome longer shrinking Labs and Carnegie Mellon. This change in sponsorship Ecologists have found that Scientists have recently de- Previous research has We also discussed Carn- is not without cost. Accord- birds living near Chernobyl coded the genome of the tse- shown that the Y chromo- egie Mellon’s Silicon Valley ing to The Guardian, “Pitts- are adapting, and even ben- tse fly, an insect that spreads some — the sex chromosome campus, which according to burgh based industry group, efiting, from long-term expo- the parasitic disease, sleeping found in males — has signifi- its homepage, works “with the Marcellus Shale Coali- sure to radiation. While pre- sickness, in Africa. The scien- cantly shrunk over the past Joseph Rollinson partners in the San Francisco tion, canceled its funding of vious studies suggested that tists specifically looked at the hundred million years. Scien- Special to The Tartan Bay Area to establish a natu- a Pennsylvania State Univer- exposure to radiation deplet- genome of Glossina morsitans, tists now say, however, that ral extension for the univer- sity research project after two ed antioxidants and increased one of the species of tsetse the Y chromosome has been With the recent partner- sity’s acclaimed graduate faculty members bowed out, oxidative stress, the research- flies. The project took over a stable for the past 25 million ship between Yahoo Labs and degree programs, innovative citing bias in the study. An ers found the opposite hap- decade, partially due to the years according to a paper Carnegie Mellon’s computer research, and support for en- earlier Penn State report, also pening in the birds. A greater unique biology of the crea- published in Nature. The au- science department and the trepreneurs.” A final example paid for by the natural gas exposure to ionizing radiation ture. For example, tsetse flies thors state that in addition announcement of Google Vice of corporatization at Carnegie industry, was used by Penn- instead increased antioxi- are the only insects to nurse to sex determination, genes President Andrew Moore for Mellon is the interpretation sylvania legislators in 2009 to dants and increased the ani- their young. While other in- on the Y chromosome are in- Carnegie Mellon’s dean of and argument class that every kill a state tax on gas drillers.” mals’ resistance to larger sects give birth to hundreds volved in protein synthesis, computer science, Pugwash first-year must go through, Research can be controlled doses of radiation. The ecolo- of eggs, tsetse flies typically gene activation, and gene decided to tackle the emerg- which is taught by adjunct and skewed indirectly by the gists captured 152 birds, mea- hatch only one larvae, which splicing. Scientists analyzed ing issue of corporatization of professors and teaching assis- sponsors. sured background radiation complicates sequencing be- the Y chromosome in eight universities. We were fortu- tants at a much lower cost to After this quite depress- levels, and then took blood cause geneticists need to look mammalian species. They nate to be joined by Heather the university. ing look at universities, we and feather samples before at nearly identical or closely looked at the chromosome in Steffen, a literary and cultural Our discussion then moved turned the discussion to what releasing the birds. The re- related females flies in order animals that appear relatively studies graduate student who on to the effect of corporatiza- we can do to preserve the ben- sults of the study also helped to accurately sequence a ge- early in the fossil record, such teaches an interpretation and tion on teaching. According efits of corporate sponsorship scientists further distinguish nome. Tsetse flies typically as mice, and compared them argument course on this topic. to the American Association whilst dampening the costs. between the different species only produce 10 progeny in with those that appear later, The corporatization of of University Professors, 76 First, teachers must rally to- of birds in the area. their life span. such as humans. universities is defined as uni- percent of instructional staff gether to win back their voice. Source: ScienceDaily Source: The New York Times Source: Scientific American versities building closer ties appointments in American Adjunct faculty and gradu- with industry and universities higher education are non- ate students are increasingly acting more like corporations. tenure-track appointments. unionizing and pushing for Worry spreads over FDA may regulate Recent liquid is We began our discussion by Non-tenure-track faculty are better working conditions. naming examples of corpora- advantageous to universities, Second, universities need emerging virus e-cigarettes found on Mars tization we have run into at because they are less expen- more control over their cor- Carnegie Mellon. The part- As of Friday, there have The Food and Drug Ad- Research by scientists at sive than tenure-track faculty. porate sponsorship. For ex- been 92 deaths and 313 con- ministration (FDA) has re- the University of Gothenburg nership with Yahoo Labs was However, the American Asso- ample, if Pennsylvania State fresh in everyone’s mind. Ac- firmed cases of Middle-East- cently announced plans to in Sweden suggests that there ciation of University Profes- University had a contract with ern Respiratory Syndrome control cigars, pipe tobacco, was liquid on Mars as recently cording to a Carnegie Mellon sors remarks that the use of the Marcellus Shale Coali- news release, Project InMind (MERS). Most of the cases hookah, and e-cigarettes. E- as 200,000 years ago. The contingent faculty “damages tion stating that the funding have been in Saudi Arabia and cigarettes are devices that finding can be traced to the is a five year, $10 million student learning, faculty gov- would continue, even if nega- dollar partnership between the United Arab Emirates, and deliver water vapor with discovery of a young crater ernance, and academic free- tive results came out, the bias the virus can be transmitted nicotine. The new proposal on the southern hemisphere Yahoo and Carnegie Mellon. dom.” We then discussed the may never have occurred. Ob- It is predicated on providing between people. The World by the FDA would limit legal of the planet. The crater con- effect of corporatization on viously, these two suggestions Health Organization (WHO) purchase of these products to tains well-preserved gullies Carnegie Mellon researchers research. Steffen gave a won- are not perfect and require re- and the Centers for Disease those over 18 years old, simi- and debris flow deposits. access to real time data from derful summary of the history finement, but they are a step and Control Prevention are lar to regulations put in place These formations indicate Yahoo services to “speed up of the relationship between in the right direction. preparing for outbreaks in regarding chewing tobacco that the crater was formed the pace of mobile and per- universities and business of Corporatization is here to case the virus spreads from and cigarettes. by liquid water relatively sonalization research and cre- which only the final point will stay. Universities must learn the region, such as through While some have touted recently. ate a better user experience,” be provided here. The Bayh- to control it. air travel. claims that e-cigarettes are The research group com- said Ron Brachman, chief sci- Dole Act of 1980 allowed uni- Scientists believe the virus an alternative to help current pared the landforms in the entist and head of Yahoo Labs, versities to hold the patents Student Pugwash is a non- resides in camels and recently smokers quit, studies have crater with similar ones on in the news release. The part- for the results of research con- advocacy, educational organi- jumped to humans. Current- shown little evidence. Rather, Earth. nership also includes a fellow- ducted with federal funding. zation that discusses the impli- ly, it seems that MERS only the products might introduce ship program for students and Since then, federal sponsor- cations of science. This article Source: ScienceDaily spreads from one person and more individuals to tobacco faculty with financial support ship for university research is a summary of last week’s dis- then stops transmission. products. from Yahoo, and mentorship has declined whilst corporate cussion on the corportization Compiled By from researchers at Yahoo sponsorship has increased. of academics. Source: NPR Source: Nature Michael Setzer April 28, 2014 « The Tartan thetartan.org/forum » A7

From the Editorial Board Don’t let plans get in the way of passions that stays the same your whole life. Your looks, where you live, your fi- nances, your career, your friends, your plans, and numerous other aspects of your life are subject to THISTLES & THORNS Josh Smith change. That only becomes more evident as you enter the workforce. Uncertainty is incredibly scary. According to the Bureau of Labor It’s why people are afraid of the Statistics, people hold, on average, dark, and why death and what hap- 11.3 different jobs from age 18 to 46. pens afterward are so important to While that includes promotions and so many cultures and religions. For job changes within the same career, a graduating senior, what’s about to changing how you describe what At the close of every school year, The strides toward user-friendly access. democracy. He was awarded the No- happen in a few short weeks has that you do or who you work for often Tartan reassesses the year’s events. bel Peace Price in 1993 and as an el- strong air of the unknown. makes adhering to a plan that much We present here a list of people and A thorn to the state of Pennsyl- der statesman he worked to combat I don’t want to compare graduat- more difficult. happenings that are worthy of rec- vania for allowing the rampant poverty and HIV/AIDS. May he rest ing to death — although the black So with all of this uncertainty, the ognition. Thistles go to people and use of hydraulic fracking. The in peace. cap and gown don’t help — but best thing to do is what makes you events that had a positive effect on the fracking process is connected with graduation is a time where many of happy. Barring that it isn’t harmful campus community and the world at numerous environmental hazards A thorn to the National Securi- us are saying goodbye to a way of life to yourself or others, following your large; Thorns go to those that have such as contaminated drinking water ty Agency for not only overstep- we’ve known for most of our lives. passions is the only surefire way to negatively impacted the community. supplies and is used to drill for non- ping its bounds of surveillance We’re trading grades and homework find happiness. Your passions can be renewable and emissions-generating and data collection, but also for fail- for a salary and late nights at the of- your career, the people in your life, A thistle to the Carnival Com- fuel. ing to inform the public of many of fice. The mix of excitement and fear or what you do with your spare time. mittee and all who actively these practices. is palpable. Even your passions aren’t im- participated in organizing a A thistle to Carnegie Mellon But at the same time, it’s that un- mune to change. But adhering to a memorable 100th Spring Carnival. Dining Services’s expanded A thistle to current student certainty that drives us. Adhering to plan and having it prove impossible This year’s Spring Carnival was com- and improved dining options government executives, espe- a plan and claiming that you know will leave you worse off than find- plete with some of the best booths this year, from the healthy menu op- cially Student Body President for certain where you’ll be in five ing a new calling. There’s a line in we’ve seen in years and not one, but tions at the Underground to the ex- Lindsay MacGillivray and Student years is not only ridiculous — it’s im- Chicago Tribune columnist Mary two, artists for the Carnival Concert. tended Entropy+ hours, among oth- Body Vice President Ian Glasner. possible. The most important lesson Schmich’s famous essay, “Advice, er positive changes. They led Carnegie Mellon well I’ve learned at Carnegie Mellon is like youth, probably just wasted A thorn to the individual who throughout the past year, and The that instead of being adamant about on the young,” that this sentiment cut off the arm of the child stat- A thorn to Carnegie Mellon’s Tartan thanks them for their service. your plans, you should focus on your echoes. The line is this: “Don’t feel ue of “Walking to the Sky.” Al- Career Center for moving into resolve to follow your passions and guilty if you don’t know what you though the sculpture is often regard- the West Wing residence. West A thorn to the regime of Syrian do what you love. want to do with your life. The most ed negatively by the student body, it Wing is one of the most coveted President Bashar Assad for its Plans are subject to change, and interesting people I know didn’t is still a centerpiece visual of the uni- dorm buildings on campus, and will use of chemical weapons there’s a large number of students at know at 22 what they wanted to do versity, and one that should be re- now lose available rooms due to the against Syrian civilians in August Carnegie Mellon who already know with their lives. Some of the most spected and remain completely career center relocation. 2013. The use of chemical weapons that. Out of everyone who arrived at interesting 40-year-olds I know still intact. is a war crime, and its use against ci- the university when I did, 232 peo- don’t.” A thistle to this year’s runners vilians is especially horrific. ple changed colleges in their under- I admire people who have plans, A thistle to first-year econom- in the Boston Marathon for re- graduate career by the start of their who have goals, and who have the ics and statistics double major turning to the course in record A thistle to the legalization of senior year, according to the Office drive to pursue them. That’s the and Senate sergeant at arms numbers after last year’s bombings, same-sex marriage in Minne- of Institutional Research and Analy- case with so many of the talented Vaasavi Unnava and Student Senate honoring all those who died or were sota, New Jersey, Hawaii, Illi- sis’s Fall 2013 College Enrollment people I know here at Carnegie Mel- for a successful “The First Lectures” injured during last year’s race. nois, and New Mexico, as well as ju- Patterns Report. 203 students were lon. But when things change, when series. These lectures provided great dicial victories in favor of marriage no longer enrolled at their initial col- you divert from your “plans” — or insight from graduating seniors A thorn to the United States equality in Utah, Oklahoma, Ken- lege within the school by their third get thrusted out of them — it’s im- about finding one’s footing at Carne- Congress for the government tucky, Virginia, Texas, and Michigan. fall here, and 97 students made the portant not to become discouraged. gie Mellon and served to help rede- shutdown last fall. The fact that This encouraging forward momen- decision to switch colleges after just There’s so much that is out of our fine success at the university. partisan politics were allowed to tum is unlikely to slow anytime soon. one year at Carnegie Mellon. control that it can be scary. That’s overcome good governing is This number has only been in- why it’s important to have a firm A thorn to Russia for its human disgraceful. A thorn to the Simon Initiative creasing over the years, with 188 of grasp on your passions. Knowing rights violations, in regard to for covering too broad a scope seniors in the fall of 2012 enrolled who you are, practicing your val- the current debacle in Crimea A thistle to the incoming stu- in its goals, and for still being in a different college than their ini- ues, and letting your passions moti- and discrimination in the 2014 Win- dent government executives unclear as to how it will go about its tial college, and 157 seniors in the vate you will help you find a certain ter Olympics. — in particular, Student Body vague goal of “solving the mystery of fall of 2011. None of these numbers level of peace that those who pore President Elect Ian Glasner and Stu- human learning.” reflect how many students changed over why their plans went astray A thistle to the states of Colo- dent Body Vice President Elect Shali- majors within their initial college, won’t know. Uncertainty is incred- rado and Washington for legal- ni Ray. They ran on a strong platform A thistle to State Senator Wen- or left the university altogether. Re- ibly scary, but it helps to know that izing and regulating the sale of of targeting student unity and im- dy Davis (D—Texas) for her gardless, it’s interesting to see how whatever changes, you can take the marijuana, generating additional tax proving campus policies, and we ex- 11-hour filibuster to combat a a significant portion of people who I steps to do what you love and, in income from a drug already in regu- pect good things from them over the controversial anti-abortion bill, that competed with and against at House that, find satisfaction. lar use. Progressive drug policies course of their term. would severely limit abortion servic- Wars made a big change in their aca- have the potential to raise millions in es all across Texas. demic careers while here. Josh Smith (jjs1@) is a contributing state revenues and decrease impris- A thorn to Carnegie Mellon for The fact is that there’s very little editor for The Tartan. onment for drug possession. receiving a Title IX complaint A thorn to the violence against from the American Civil Liber- political protestors in Egypt. A thorn to the Boy Scouts of ties Union in response to a student’s The increase in violence in July America for reinforcing their complaint that the university alleg- and August of 2013 saw hundreds of ban on LGBTQ leaders and vol- edly failed to protect her from an innocent people killed, and such de- unteers even as they finally conced- abusive ex-girlfriend. structiveness should not be tolerated. ed to public pressure to allow openly gay youth to join. Equal rights can- A thistle to the overturning of A thistle to Pittsburgh Mayor not be compromised upon, and a Proposition 8 and the Defense Bill Peduto, who has been far compromise in favor of further dis- of Marriage Act in the Su- more transparent in his gov- crimination is hypocrisy at the high- preme Court. This victory was a ma- erning than former Mayor Luke Ra- est level. jor one for the equal treatment of all venstahl, and has shown a strong marriages under federal law as well commitment to growing and devel- A thistle to sophomore civil as the freedom to marry, propelling oping this city. and environmental engineer- state moves toward same-sex mar- ing major Angela Ng and Proj- riage legalization across the nation. A thorn to Arizona’s proposed ect Smile for spearheading the Mind- religious freedom bill. Though fulness Room, a space for students to A thorn to the Supreme Court the bill was vetoed due to na- relax and think introspectively and a for striking down limits of ag- tional outrage, it encouraged other place of respite within the confines gregate campaign contribu- conservative states to take similar of stressful academia. While the tions. Speech should not have mea- measures which could be used to de- room is still underused, it exists for a surable units and citizens’ jobs fend discrimination against LGBT worthy cause. should not determine the amount of clientele by businesses and other speech they have. public services. A thorn to the academic audit, which remains woefully out- A thistle to Nelson Mandela — A thistle to the Andrew Web- dated while other online tools his work as a leader in South mail update last summer from such as Student Information Online Africa led to the end of apart- SquirrelMail — a flawed and and Andrew Webmail are making big heid and the development of a stable outdated format — to Google mail. Kelsey Thompson/Staff Artist

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Colleges need socioeconomic diversity Federal government has power to tackle oligarchy

Mohammed Burny as a counterweight to the powerful Staffwriter special interests that then shaped public policy. The trustbusting and In a Tartan article published last regulatory initiatives of Presidents week entitled “Cut federal power, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wil- eliminate oligarchy,” staffwriter son illustrate the actual role of fed- Kyle Henson editorialized that the eral government in that era, and its only way to remove oligarchic in- ideal role ever since. fluence in American politics today If Gilens and Page are correct, is to shrink the federal government then the federal government today where these oligarchs exert their has relinquished its former vigor. undue influence. Into the breach have swarmed spe- Henson’s editorial was provoked cial interests of every variety, who by the release of a recent report have captured the institutions — — authored by Martin Gilens and elected and regulatory — once in- Benjamin Page of Princeton and tended to control their activities in Northwestern Universities, respec- the marketplace and the polis. Noth- tively — that claimed that “the ma- ing else explains how a majority of jority does not rule, at least not in the American people can be on one the causal sense of actually deter- side of policy debates and consis- mining policy outcomes. When a tently lose to elite minorities on the Joanne Lo/Staff Artist majority of citizens disagrees with other side. Amelia Britton that accompany these issues of docu- ties. There exists a cycle of economic economic elites and/or with orga- Henson argues that we shall not Junior Staffwriter mentation, students with unusual disparity linked to education. Every nized interests, they generally lose.” renew our democracy by restricting family and financial situations face high school has smart, driven, hard- Henson asks us if we should actu- lobbying or regulating campaign fi- Diversity is something of a buzz- a more arduous process than those working students, so universities ally be surprised by this finding. At nance. I beg to differ. word in college admissions, yet it is from typical two-parent households. shouldn’t limit the selection of their the risk of sounding naive, I would If these policies are enacted, one of the most misrepresented ele- This flaw could be construed as sys- student body to primarily well-off like to say that I am indeed sur- then we shall have taken two great ments of a school’s identity. Colleges tematic discrimination, though I be- high schools. prised. His rhetorical question is a strides toward renewing our democ- are right to focus on diversification, lieve it is more likely an accident of Colleges should promote diversi- bit too hard-bitten, and I must pro- racy. Such policies can replenish the but I believe they ignore the socio- the system. ty that is broader than race or geog- test against the casual cynicism it strength of our federal government, economic homogeneity of their stu- Carnegie Mellon’s ridiculous raphy. Policies like affirmative action implicitly conveys about our politi- now long flagging, and give it a fair dent bodies. costs are no secret. The tuition and promote racial diversity, but may dis- cal system. chance to combat the pernicious Elite universities make an effort fees of over $60,000 put a strain on regard other elements of identity. In- I do believe that our politics can influence of special interests in our to be diverse, and by many measures, middle class budgets and are abso- corporating socioeconomic data into be more inclusive and representa- politics. Carnegie Mellon has succeeded. All lutely impossible for worse-off fami- college admissions may solve part of tive — than this report claims, and Henson claims that we can only 50 states and several dozen countries lies. Financial aid makes it possible the problem, as long as the process is insofar as they fall short of this stan- renew our democracy by moving are represented in the student body, for students from less-than-elite so- transparent. dard today, I reserve the right to power downward, from the federal and data from the Carnegie Mellon cioeconomic backgrounds to attend Admissions decisions need to be be permanently surprised at their government to the states. I take Diversity Resource Guide shows that elite universities. But what does it made in the context of a student’s life, failure. special exception to this proposal. undergraduate enrollment by non- say about our student body that only instead of through predominantly More substantially, however, Historically, the federal government white and international students has 53 percent of students received aid quantitative analysis. When grades, Henson argues that if we wish to has been the only power in Ameri- outnumbered white student enroll- last year? test scores, extracurriculars, and es- lessen the influence of economic can society capable of checking the ment every year since 2002. There According to admissionsconsul- says of two students are considered elites and organized interests in power of the special interests. If the are still more male than female stu- tants.com, this percentage is on par equally strong, the context of the our policymaking process, we must federal government is deliberately dents, but that gap is closing steadily. with Ivy League financial aid. Still, students’ achievements — whether lessen the power of the federal gov- stripped of this power, then nothing As a white girl from the Midwest, the idea that 47 percent of our stu- a personal struggle, family situation, ernment itself. The logic of his ar- will stand between us and the spe- I am neither geographically nor ra- dent body can afford the full price of or educational obstacle — must be- gument is quite simple: “The less cial interests in our society. Oligar- cially underrepresented here. How- tuition seems absurd. We all worked come the deciding factor for admis- power the government has, the less chy will finally supplant democracy ever, students from high schools hard to get here, but that doesn’t nec- sion. Consider a prep school with it can do for special interests, and in our republic. like mine are few and far between essarily translate to diverse personal supplemental instruction on stan- the more democratic our society Both Henson and I would like at top-tier universities like Carnegie histories. Certain life experiences for dardized testing, and contrast it with will be.” In fact, this logic is fatally special interests to exert less influ- Mellon. I attended an urban pub- students from middle-to-upper class an urban, inner-city public school simple. ence in our policymaking process. lic high school where 86 percent of families tend to be similar, whether with a 30:1 student-faculty ratio, or The current size of the federal But Henson, in calling for a weaker students from the district are legally they come from the Bay Area in a home-schooled student from the government is the result of a centu- federal government, is actually mak- “economically disadvantaged.” Ac- California or the suburbs of Boston. rural Great Plains. An SAT score of ry’s worth of advocacy by the Ameri- ing it vastly easier for special inter- cording to a pamphlet published by A caveat: this is not to say that ec- 2100 should be evaluated differently can people for robust federal inter- ests to exert a greater influence in my school district, one-fourth of the onomically-disadvantaged students in each case, and reflect differently vention against special interests in shaping public policies. I ask him to students do not graduate high school are victims of society. Countless stu- on the student in question. our society. Progressive reformers, pause and consider an intermediate in four years. dents have overcome adversity in Some colleges already have ad- galvanized by the economic dispar- step: Arm the federal government I am proud of my high school. Our their personal lives in the course of missions policies which consider ity and political corruption of the once again to combat special inter- attendance rates are above 95 per- their educational journeys. The ar- personal history, but there is still Gilded Age in the first two decades ests, so that the voices of the Ameri- cent and our test scores consistently gument for greater socioeconomic much to be done. Beyond discuss- of the 20th century, called for a vig- can people can once again be heard exceed state averages. Not everyone diversity at elite universities is not ing the issue with Carnegie Mellon’s orous federal government to serve in the halls of power. attends college, but I wish that deci- meant to be patronizing, but rather administration, we can promote sion was made on a personal basis hopes to transform popular percep- top-tier universities in economically rather than a socioeconomic one. tions of who is disadvantaged. challenged school districts. Many Among those who do attend col- Race remains linked to socioeco- students in these districts have only lege, scholarships for “homegrown” nomic status in the United States, but ever heard of long-shot Ivy League students at local universities incen- the latter gives a much fuller repre- schools, or else believe they cannot tivize students to enroll at in-state sentation of a student’s background. afford them. Students should be en- public institutions. I believe many When we consider race alone, the couraged to consider all of their op- more students from my high school rich members of any minority — in tions. For instance, we could make it and schools like it could attend elite comparison to the poor members — better known that private universi- universities if given the resources, are overrepresented virtually every- ties offer more need-based aid, while information, and financial guidance. where. public universities offer more merit- Financial aid documents like the This is, perhaps, most visible in based aid. Informing students of FAFSA and CSS Profile are tricky to primary and secondary education, these intricacies — and emphasizing navigate, especially for nontradition- where public schools are funded the possibilities for financial aid — al families. According to the guide- by property taxes. This means that would broaden the applicant pools lines for 2013-14, any noncustodial lower-income neighborhoods usu- at elite universities. parent must submit supplemental ally have lower-quality schools and Although socioeconomic diversi- paperwork. Since estranged parents produce a smaller proportion of ty is narrowly represented at schools are considered noncustodial except students who go on to higher edu- like Carnegie Mellon, there is hope. in extraordinary circumstances, the cation. Meanwhile, public schools A holistic approach to admissions onus of tracking down these fam- in rich areas and private schools are would include racial, geographic, ily members falls to the student. A better funded, overrepresent rich and cultural diversity — all of which deceased parent also complicates a white students, and tend to send would inherently follow socioeco- student’s assets. Given the stresses more students to top-tier universi- nomic integration. Courtesy of Ed Brown via Wikimedia Commons A PERSON’S OPINION Compiled by Sara Remi Fields The Tartan can’t believe that the end of the year is almost upon us. So we asked, How do you manage stress during finals?

Shashank Goyal Andrew Yee Danielle Lehmann David Buzzell Hemanth Kini ECE ChemE Architecture ECE, Music Technology Computer Science First-year Junior Sophomore First-year Sophomore

“I play pool and play any kind of “Eat. Sleep. Play video games.” “The studio environment is ar- “I really adhere to my sleep “I make a lot of music.” sport to chill.” ranged to distress. It’s open and schedule. I also participate in social. I usually sleep or go for a group activities and socialize!” run.” April 28, 2014 « The Tartan thetartan.org/forum » A9 Bundy stands up for libertarian values Fracking is not energy ing in the footsteps of a long line of original motives, they had a signifi- American rebels, including Daniel cant impact on subsequent electoral answer for Americans Shays. Shays was a Revolutionary and legislative outcomes. War veteran whose debt-financed Similarly, Bundy’s Rebellion will offshore. Shale gas extraction by agricultural endeavors were badly not succeed. When history looks fracking is allowing new, specialized Kyle Henson affected by the post-revolutionary back on our racist cattle rancher, firms to become established, hence economy. When Massachusetts’ Gov- he’ll be remembered as a nutjob who disrupting the oligopoly that has Say what you want about Cliven ernor Bowdoin cracked down on fought the law and saw the law win. dominated the energy market for Bundy, but his standoff against tax debtors, Shays and a group of other But it’s worth noting that Bundy’s ac- Justin Yan so long. The rise of these firms will collectors over unpaid cattle graz- farmers took arms. Shays and com- tions are bringing important issues spur economic growth, creating jobs ing fees is just the reminder America pany confronted Bowdoin’s militia, to the national dialogue. Maybe the Energy has played a significant and new sectors in the energy in- needs of our deep roots in libertarian and after a few shots were fired, both federal government shouldn’t own role in economics since the advent dustry. Economists predict the shale insurrection. forces scattered and the rebellion 80 percent of Nevada’s land. Maybe of the Industrial Revolution. As a revolution to persist as methods are If you’re not familiar with Bundy’s failed. In the subsequent election, taxes and regulations are hurting the result, all the world’s economics de- streamlined and more natural gas rebellion, here’s a refresher. Cliven however, Bowdoin was trounced by little guy too much. pend heavily on energy. reserves found. Bundy, a Nevada cattle rancher, has John Hancock, who lowered taxes Rebellions like Bundy’s remind During the 1973 oil crisis, the But consider this: two weeks ago, been grazing his cattle on federal and eased regulation on debtors. us of the importance of liberty in our international Organization of the the United Nations published a re- lands for over 20 years. In 1993, fed- A bit closer to home, the Whis- country’s past, and make us think Petroleum Exporting Countries port declaring that climate change eral rules changed, and Bundy was key Rebellion of 1800 followed a about its appropriate role in our fu- (OPEC) embargoed oil, causing a and environmental destruction is required to pay a grazing fee. Twenty similar trajectory, in which Western ture. As Thomas Jefferson said of 400 percent increase in its price. becoming irreversible and that the years and several court orders later, Pennsylvania distillers opposed a Shays’s Rebellion, “The tree of lib- This price hike hit the U.S. economy next decade is decisive for the future Bundy hasn’t paid a dime. As a result, tax on bartering used grain. George erty must be refreshed from time to brutally, with central banks scram- of the global climate and its stabil- a few weeks ago, government offi- Washington, eager to flex his new time with the blood of patriots and bling to cut interest rates to avoid ity; the negative impact that humans cials tried to herd Bundy’s cattle off constitutional muscles, led a troop tyrants.... God forbid we should ever the sharp decrease in consumption have had on the environment can no federal lands. Not to be ousted, Bun- of 13,000 militiamen to confront be 20 years without such a rebellion; and investment. The crisis showed longer be denied by politicians. dy and a gaggle of armed support- the rebels, who disbanded before what country can preserve its liber- how dependent the United States The fact that fracking has started ers showed up to the scene, ready to the army arrived. Washington won ties if their rulers are not warned was on the energy market, and why to receive so much attention, and stick it to the man. The federal repre- the battle but lost the war, however, from time to time that their people the nation needed to find an alterna- the fact that many see it as a possible sentatives abandoned Bundy’s cattle, when Thomas Jefferson’s Demo- preserve the spirit of resistance? Let tive to importing oil. catalyst for the stuttering American and are still trying to figure out how cratic Republicans came to power them take arms.” economy, means that many politi- to react. in 1801 and repealed the whiskey cians and economists remain short- As outlandish as this might seem tax. Though Shays’s Rebellion and Kyle Henson (kahenson@) is a staff- “The fact that sighted. There are bigger things at in today’s society, Bundy is follow- the Whiskey Rebellion failed in their writer for The Tartan. stake here — namely the livelihood fracking has of people for the rest of this century and beyond. started to receive Nuclear energy is perhaps the New FCC policies threat to free Internet so much attention most feasible option we have right ... means that many now, while solar and wind energy of television shows. However, Dish form of media? If companies can pay require further research. In a recent Network is a direct rival of Comcast’s Comcast or other Internet providers politicians and post two professors and researchers cable television service. This rivalry for preferential service, could the economists remain at the Earth Institute at Columbia means that Comcast could essential- future Internet turn into something University state that nuclear energy ly tell Dish that it must pay millions more like the television services it is short-sighted. allows humans to mitigate other- Brandon Schmuck of dollars or else suffer from slower currently replacing? If a new social wise unavoidable climate effects streaming speeds on its networks. network, gaming, or video streaming There are bigger from fossil fuels, including natural Last week, the Federal Commu- Under current standards, net company wants to enter the industry, things at stake gas. nications Commission (FCC) an- neutrality is the idea that all Internet will large amounts of red tape and Indeed, the Fukushima and nounced that it would be propos- traffic should be treated equally. If I throttled Internet speeds cause them here — namely Three Mile Island crises show that ing new laws on net neutrality that create a blog, access to it is treated to have no chance whatsoever to the livelihood of we still have work to do, and that would allow Internet companies to the same as any multimillion dollar catch up with the big corporations? nuclear energy brings with it a charge in order to prioritize connec- website. If someone loads my blog or This proposal would open the people for the rest massive amount of risk, but it also tions to web services. This comes The New York Times, the Internet pro- possibility of Netflix becoming the brings a massive amount of benefit. less than two months after Netflix vider will give it the same priority. next NBC or CBS, and create an oli- of this century ...” The saying “desperate times call for announced a deal with Comcast to The FCC ensures that “in all in- gopoly where a college student or desperate measures” has never been install its own servers on Comcast’s stances, broadband providers would other ordinary person can no longer more true. Fast forward a few years, and networks, which would allow them need to act in a commercially reason- create the next big thing. Many lawmakers recognize the one will find that the United States to provide better streaming speeds to able manner subject to [FCC] review If policies like the ones the FCC is disparity between economic and is still being accused of waging war customers. Such a change in the way on a case-by-case basis,” according currently proposing existed a decade environmental motivations. Sev- in Iraq in order to gain access to the Internet service is conducted throws to PCWorld.com. However, should ago, perhaps Mark Zuckerberg could eral senators have taken steps to country’s oil reserves. Moreover, the many questions into the air, includ- we really trust the principles of net not have created Facebook. Perhaps reignite nuclear innovation in order OPEC crisis led to the United States ing the future of the Internet itself. neutrality with the man who lobbied Twitter, Dropbox, and other Inter- to make it safer and more acces- searching for natural gas within do- The New York Times reports that for massive cable companies? net-age companies would never have sible across the continental United mestic borders. On a parallel time- FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is con- The Internet has had such an been started. States through the proposal of a bill. line, the unforgettable Cold War, vinced that this new proposal will enormous impact on the world be- The Internet has become the The bill, labeled the Nuclear Waste along with the nuclear revolution not be “gutting the Open Internet cause it is completely different from place it is because anyone can create Administration Act, would launch that accompanied it, revealed both rule.” However, as a former cable any form of media that existed before something great without the fear of more potential sites for storage and the potential of nuclear power and company lobbyist, he was described it. It gave what PressThink blogger red tape holding them back. Until disposal facilities. The senators be- its associated drawbacks. by The Verge as “the man who could Jay Rosen calls “the people formerly now, Internet service has been treat- hind this bill cross party lines, mak- When the United States found control your digital life.” known as the audience” the ability to ed as a utility, like water flowing to ing this proposal a bipartisan effort, massive domestic shale gas re- Essentially, this new set of laws become part of the media, instead of one’s home. which is especially encouraging. serves, economists immediately be- would give Internet providers the simply tuning in. Traditional televi- However, if Netflix, Facebook, These steps forward are posi- gan to forecast what this meant for ability to charge large companies sion has become an archaic form of and YouTube can pay Comcast to be tive ones which need to be followed the future of energy. There are sev- large sums of money to have an edge media because it has failed to adapt the only services without unbearably through, as fracking does not repre- eral reasons as to why the so-called over their competition and new start- to this new idea that the audience slow speeds, perhaps that will stem sent an environmentally conscious “shale revolution” is economically ups. In addition, these laws introduce and the media are now synonymous. the flow of a free Internet as we know approach to the economic future of significant. Many of America’s oil another significant issue: the pricing Classic television as a form of me- it. the United States. giants have long deserted the na- of competition. For example, Dish dia is slowly dying. Should we trust tion’s interior, choosing instead Network and other television provid- the man who lobbied for cable com- Brandon Schmuck (bschmuck@) is a Justin Yan (jky@) is a staffwriter for to seek their fortunes abroad and ers currently offer online streaming panies with a new and very different staffwriter for The Tartan. The Tartan.

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Both tennis teams fall CMU takes 2nd, 6th at track just short of titles at UAAs and field championships Carl Glazer winning his two both in tie- while fellow sophomore Ab- Carl Glazer Senior Staffwriter breaker, 7–6 (7–5), 4–6, 7–6 bey Hamstra and junior Lydia Senior Staffwriter (7–4). Utkin each surrendered only The top-10 ranked Carn- In the Saturday finals, the one game as they each won This weekend, the Carn- egie Mellon men’s and Tartans were up against sec- 6–0, 6–1. egie Mellon men’s and wom- women’s tennis teams both ond-ranked Washington Uni- On Saturday, the women en’s track and field teams competed in the University versity in St. Louis. Carnegie took on ninth-ranked Wash- competed at the University of Athletic Association (UAA) Mellon fought well, but were ington University in St. Louis Chicago in the University Ath- Championships in Orlando ultimately no match for the for a chance at the finals. This letic Association (UAA) Out- this weekend. Both teams Bears. time, the Tartans started off a door Track & Field Champion- made it to the finals, but ul- Kirkov was by far the most bit more sluggishly with only ships. Overall, the men’s team timately fell short of taking successful Tartan, winning Pratt and Torres winning a finished second out of seven home the title. both of Carnegie Mellon’s doubles match. competing schools, and the The ninth-ranked men’s points on the team’s way to a Down 1–2 going into sin- women’s team finished sixth. team started off the competi- 2–7 loss. He and Beisswanger gles play, Carnegie Mellon The men’s team was led by tion on Thursday against the took the lone doubles victory, knew they had to take care of its strong throwers, as it was University of Rochester. 9–7, and Kirkov was the only business and did just that, tak- all season. In the shot put, The Tartans came out singles victor for the Tartans, ing five of six singles matches. senior Zachary Erra-Hernan- strong in doubles play and winning in straight sets 6–4, Cecil, Torres, Tsu and Martin dez continued his dominat- jumped out to an early 2–1 6–2. all won in straight sets, with ing season, taking home first lead after the duos of juniors The eighth-ranked wom- Cecil truly dominating with a place with a 15.80-meter Christian Heaney-Secord and en’s team started out compe- 6–0, 6–1 win. throw that was 1.38 meters Will Duncan and sophomores tition against the University Pavia won the fifth singles further than the runner up. Yuvraj Kumar and Joel Lank- of Rochester as well. The 9–0 point, but had to work for it, Senior Nathan Cheek also ford won both of their match- victory was their second in a dropping the first set 1–6 be- continued performing well es, 8–2 and 8–4, respectively. row as they looked to be peak- fore battling back to take the as he finished in fourth place The Tartans then put it ing at the right time. last two sets 7–5 and 6–3. with a 13.79-meter throw. away by taking five of six sin- Junior Angela Pratt and On Sunday, the Tartans Cheek and Erra-Hernan- gles matches on their way to first-year Nicholle Torres left faced off against the second- dez continued in the discus a 7–2 match victory. Sopho- nothing to chance sweeping ranked Emory Eagles in the fi- event, where they finished more Abhishek Alla, and first- their doubles match 8–0. Ju- nals. It was going to be a long second and third with throws years Kiril Kirkov, Duncan, nior Byrn Raschke and first- day for the Tartans when they of 44.73 and 44.32 meters, and Kumar all won in straight year Vanessa Pavia, along dropped all three doubles respectively. They switched File photo by Jason Chen/Assistant Photo Editor sets to quickly seal the victory with senior Katie Cecil and matches. Cecil took the one places in the hammer throw, Sophomore Brian Bollens competes in the steeplechase at a meet at and punch their ticket to the sophomore Brooke Tsu, both Tartan point in singles play as where Erra-Hernandez fin- Carnegie Mellon on April 5. semifinals. Kirkov was par- won 8–1. she won 6–0, 6–3 on the way ished second with a 52.19-me- ticularly impressive, only sur- In singles play, all six wom- to the Tartans’ 1–8 loss. ter throw and Cheek took ter dash — crossing the line in lien took home first in the rendering a single game in his en won in straight sets with Even though both teams home third with a 46.56-me- 21.97 seconds — and fourth 4x800-meter relay and third two sets, 6–1, 6–0. no one giving up more than left on a bittersweet note after ter toss. in the 110-meter hurdles — in the 4x400-meter relay with In the semifinals on Fri- three games in a single set. falling in the finals, the season The Tartans had another finishing in 15.68 seconds. times of 7:46.25 and 3:20.80, day, Carnegie Mellon faced Sophomore Elizabeth Mar- is not over: NCAA Champion- two-three finish in the jav- The 110-meter hurdles respectively. off against the fourth-ranked tin did not drop a single game ship draws will be announced elin throw. First-year Jacob were dominated by Carnegie The women’s team strug- Emory Eagles for the right to on her way to a 6–0, 6–0 win, on May 5. Brooks took second with a Mellon, as Chang was just one gled in nearly all aspects of go to the finals for the first 53.38-meter throw, with of four Tartans in the eight- the meet, but had a couple top time ever. Cheek in third place at 53.14 person finals. Sophomore Ben performers. Senior Jacque- The Tartans came out meters. Neiman finished third with a line Guevel finished second in swinging, winning all three The Tartans also per- time of 15.59. Boyer and first- both the 100- and 400-meter doubles matches. Heaney- formed well in the other field year Matthew Sheh finished hurdles, finishing with times Secord and Duncan made it events, with junior Mike Mc- sixth and eighth, with times of of 15.09 and 1:03.82. look easy with their 8–2 win, Dermott finishing second in 16.14 and 16.46, respectively. Junior Sasha Spalding while both Kirkov and junior the high jump, leaping 1.89 In the 800-meter run, ju- placed second in the long Bryce Beisswanger and first- meters. He also took fourth in nior Thomas Vandenberg jump with a leap of 5.47 year Kenny Zheng and sopho- the pole vault by clearing the finished in first place with meters. She also finished more Yurjav Kumar won 8–5. 4.27-meter bar. a time of 1:53.68, and in third in the shot put with a The Tartans split the singles In the long jump, the Tar- the 400-meter hurdle, se- 10.49-meter throw. matches with the Eagles 3–3, tans took home third- and nior Mike Standish finished In the high jump, first-year but moved on to the finals due fifth-place finishes, with first- in third place with a time of Rebecca Fortner finished in to their edge in doubles, win- years Don Boyer and Matthew 54.80 seconds. fourth place after clearing ning 6–3. Seifu finishing with jumps of Senior Josh Newby placed the 1.53-meter bar on her All three Carnegie Mel- 6.69 meters and 6.51 meters, second in the 3,000-meter first attempt, and in the ham- lon victories required at least respectively. steeplechase with a time of mer throw, first-year Colette one tiebreaker, and only first- Carnegie Mellon had a 9:31.06. Tano finished in fourth with a year Kunal Wadwani won in tougher time in the track The relay team made up 42.09-meter throw. only two sets, 7–6 (7–1), 7–5. File photo by Jason Chen/Assistant Photo Editor events. First-year Andrew of Standish, Vandenberg, Both teams will next com- Duncan fought hard for his The women’s team advanced to Sunday’s final round of the UAA Chang had a very good day, first-year Owen Norely, and pete in Allegheny College’s victory, going three sets and Championship before falling 1–8 to the Emory Eagles. finishing third in the 200-me- sophomore Marc-Daniel Ju- Gator Invitational on May 9.

Sports Commentary Pirates struggle through April, playoff hopes dashed Carl Glazer Sadly, lightning never strikes abysmal homestand. Senior Staffwriter twice, and with the loss of ace A.J. Hopefully his woes came from Unfortunately, the Burnett and last year's in-season trying to pitch through an injury, April has not been kind to the Pi- rentals Marlon Byrd and Justin Mor- but setup man Mark Melancon is stark reality of the rates. The start of the season after neau, the Pirates are even thinner taking over the closers role for at situation is that their magical playoff run has been this year. least the next two weeks, and de- less than spectacular as they sit in Last year’s team stayed in games pending on his performance, maybe this is the same fourth place in their division, over with a solid starting rotation and permanently. eight games behind the upstart Mil- shut down bullpen, both of which One of the few consistencies for team the Pirates waukee Brewers. were piecemeal groups of develop- the Pirates has been their offense. had last year, but After sitting put during ing talent and resurging veterans. Unfortunately, this consistency the offseason, it looked like So far this season, the rotation is not a good thing, as both this year the clock is well management was putting has been shaky at best with only and last, Pittsburgh is missing strong past midnight for their hopes on Pittsburgh free agent veteran pitcher Edinson bats at several traditionally strong repeating the strategy of Volquez posting a sub-3.5 earned offensive positions, namely first base this Cinderella taping holes in the roster run average (ERA). and right field. story. with veteran players Emerging star Gerrit Cole has To their credit, the Pirates did trying to rebuild their been shaky in his first four starts finally do something about the first careers. but shows some signs of turning it base issue by making a rare mid- It’s not too late to try and re- around before the calendar hits May. April trade with the New York Mets, capture the magic and turn things The larger problem for Pittsburgh getting underperforming slugger Ike around. Less than a sixth of the has been the bullpen. Last year’s Davis. way through the season, plenty can team was so dominant they became While Davis may look like an up- change and there are plenty of other a fundamental part of the team iden- grade, the fact that the Mets were so trades to be made. tity, dubbed the “Shark Tank,” and willing to give up on him for pennies Hot prospect Gregory Polanco is routinely finished out close one-run on the dollar has to raise concerns likely to make his major league de- Pirates victories. for Pirates fans. but in about six weeks after the Pi- This year, the bullpen has had 10 Speaking of underperforming rates maximize his team control go- save opportunities. Saves are funda- corner infielders, third basemen Pe- ing forward. mentally defined as the pitcher hav- dro Álvarez has regressed as a hitter. Unfortunately, the stark reality of ing the chance to finish out a close He has always struggled with the the situation is that this is the same game, meaning that the team has balance between hitting for power team the Pirates had last year, but less than a three-run lead. and hitting for average. the clock is well past midnight for Of these 10 opportunities to win So far, Álvarez has clearly decid- this Cinderella story. the game, the Pirates have converted ed that home runs outweigh batting Teams that sit a game out of the only four of them. Those four saves average. His six home runs have him basement in their division at the end are courtesy of veteran closer Jason on pace for over 40 home runs this of April are rarely capable of flipping Maegha Singh/Staff Artist Grilli. season. a switch and becoming contenders. Unfortunately, he is also the Unfortunately, he is also on pace I really hope Pittsburgh enjoyed its cause of half of the blown saves and for a .176 batting average, which small taste of playoff baseball, be- is currently on the disabled list fol- would be grounds for benching and cause at this pace, it may be a little lowing his back-to-back blown saves demotion to the minors for nearly while before Pirates play in October last weekend during the Pirates any other player without his power. again. Parks and Recreation Comedy wraps up its sixth season • B7 Philip Glass Composer speaks to CFA • B10 One Night in Beijing Performances celebrate Chinese Arts Greenhouse culture and diversity • B3 Local high school students showcase hip-hop and musical talents • B8 04.28.14 Volume 108, Issue 26 ...this week only 3 Beijing AARC puts on an entertaining performance that celebrates Chinese culture. 4 Quick recipes Having trouble eating healthy during finals? These quick and easy recipes will help you out. 5 Philharmonic CMU Philharmonic takes Carnegie Music Hall by storm with impressive performances. 6 Concerts Check out the great lineup of bands coming to Pittsburgh this summer. 7 Parks and Rec The season finale feels more like a series finale, but is as entertaining as ever. 8 Arts Greenhouse A hip-hop education program showcases work and unites Pittsburgh students. 10 Philip Glass 8 The well-loved musical celebrity comes to campus to give a surprisingly sage talk.

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3 Advice 13 Puzzles Everything you need to know about If your brain isn’t hurting enough on the last procrastinating and handling loud sleepers. week of classes, try a puzzle.

7 Dollar Movie 14 Horoscopes AB Films presents Monty Python and the Holy Stressed out? The stars have advice that can Grail. help you remain calm.

11 Comics 15 Calendar Take a break from finals to chuckle at this Check out the fun things you can do this week week’s roundup. in Pittsburgh with all of your spare time.

PUBLISHER Rachel Cohen EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Braden Kelner PILLBOX EDITOR Joey Peiser Assistant Pillbox Editor Jenna Bodnar COMICS EDITOR Maryyann Landlord ART EDITOR Michelle Wan PHOTO EDITOR Jonathan Leung COPY MANAGER James Wu COVER Maryyann Landlord

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Dear advice columnist Dear guy, One Night in Beijing, the annual Chinese cultural who seems to be a performance show held by ARCC (Awareness of different person every It was 3 a.m. I was Roots in Chinese Culture), was held on Saturday week (what’s up with working on a PowerPoint night. that?), on the Mac side of the CFA clusters. I thought This year, the theme of the show was “Pig Tales,” I’ve been trying to find I was the only person which featured an overarching skit billed as “an anything at all to do there, until I realized original sequel to the famous Journey to the West.” instead of study for finals, there was a really tall Journey to the West, of course, is one of the most and I mean anything: guy curled up into a ball well-known stories in Chinese literature, featuring prank calling, volunteer in one of the blue swivel the adventures of Sun WuKong, the Monkey King, work, and I even signed chairs. He was sleeping and the other disciples of a Buddhist monk, who up for jury duty yesterday. and snoring loudly travel from China to India on a pilgrimage. The Then I found out House enough to be really, really skit follows the story of Zhu Bajie, the comical pig- was on Netflix, and annoying. I didn’t wake man disciple known for his laziness and gluttony, any ray of hope for my him up this time, but who must serve time tending to a temple after he academic adequacy is what should I do if this commits a number of misdeeds. now gone. Should I even happens again? try to pass my finals? While at the temple, Zhu Bajie, played by sophomore Sincerely, information systems major Daniel Song, forms a Lazily yours, Want to Unhinge Mouth friendship with a taciturn girl named Huan Meiling, Maryyann Landlord | Comics Editor Don’t Regret Whining, of Precariously Uncoiling played by senior international relations and politics Dancing was just one of many Chinese traditions Instead Languid, Splayed Snorer and Chinese studies double major Sandra Yeh, who showcased at One Night In Beijing. Out, Noshing is being hounded by literal demons. Bajie must also Dear WUMPUS, face harsh rebukes from the deified Chinese general Dear DR WILSON, Guan Yu, played by junior mechanical engineering alumnus David Hsu’s (CIT ‘06) short film, “Fate,” about a girl who loses her boyfriend in a freak I wouldn’t do anything really and biomedical engineering double major Calvin Well, first thing’s first: mean — unless you’re Chan. The Monkey King also makes an appearance automobile accident, but gets a chance to reverse the death — at a price. The film features many Watching all eight seasons morally bankrupt, in which as a comically adorable version played by junior of House should be your case, by all means, take the computer science major Joy Lin. Carnegie Mellon-centric locales and references. At one point, Hsu worked in a reference to The Last main priority. Jury duty can risk and slap him awake, Lecture by Randy Pausch. wait; if you’re watching only to be knocked out by a The skit had a number of humorous touches, five episodes a day, as you likely member of the football including the use of “oh my Buddha” instead of should be, that’s around team. Actually, wait; don’t “oh my God,” as well as a subplot about the Bandit Many other performances also featured fan dancing, Chinese folk songs, and C-pop. The Ballroom Dance when he’s admitted to a do that. Even players on Queen, who finds the Monkey King sexy, much to mental asylum, and there’s Carnegie Mellon’s football the dismay of her husband. Club made an appearance in the performance “Toxic Tango,” a dance to the Britney Spears hit. At one no way you can miss that team have a little intimidation arc. Oh, I’m sorry, were factor. The skit also segued into the performances well, part of the show, Princess Anna from Frozen teamed up with a sea deity to sing “Let Part of Your World those spoilers? Whoops. with each performance complementing a portion of It’s probably best to put the skit. The performances themselves surveyed the Go,” a mashup of the hit songs from Frozen and The Little Mermaid. Also, why would you ever on your CFA headphones, landscape of Chinese culture, from its ancient roots willingly sign up for jury blast some math rock, and to modern times. The show also featured performances with uniquely duty? What could possibly pretend the snoring is just Chinese instruments and objects, such as the be worse than ... oh, wait, percussion. One of the best performances of the night included you’re taking 251? Well, “You Know You Love Me, I’m Your Bad Boy,” a Chinese yo-yo, the Chinese qin (a traditional stringed instrument), and lion dancing — dances better bring a good book Or dip his right hand in performance led by the Bandit King as he tried to to the courtroom. If you’re warm water, then go to impress his wife into loving him again. A dance to in lion costumes traditionally performed during Chinese festivals. feeling masochistic enough Hunt, the song “Moonwalk” by Taiwanese boyband JPM, to volunteer for such Evan “I’m Your Bad Boy” was a smooth but energetic excruciating experiences, dance performance that showcased effects such as One Night in Beijing was a show that brought together a multitude of talented performers from I recommend Infinite Jest. Need advice? Send queries silhouette lighting. The dancing was choreographed Nice light reading. to [email protected]. well enough to be a music video for the actual song. the Carnegie Mellon community and a variety of influences from Chinese culture. It was a great Remember, it’s never Its companion performance “Fragile Falling Flowers show for anyone with a connection to, or interest in, China. lupus, and Breakups,” was a graceful fan dance that Evan touched on the same themes as “I’m Your Bad Boy.” Together, the two songs offered female and male perspectives on love and breakups. Xiyu Wang | Assistant Forum Editor Also notable was the showing of Carnegie Mellon community pillbox 04.28.14 3 A couple of easy, tasty, and healthy recipes These items can be made quickly in any dormitory kitchen and will fuel you through finals

The weather’s getting warmer, the flowers are blooming, and sticky. and campus is waking up from its long winter nap. With 4. Dump into the pan, and press the mixture down. the arrival of spring comes a desire to be healthier, but 5. Bake for about 18 minutes or until light brown. Do not with campus food being what it is, it’s hard to commit to overcook — the bars will get dry. eating healthy. In honor of the beautiful spring weather 6. Cool for five minutes, then cut into squares. this week, here are a few quick and easy recipes that are 7. Serve when cooled. Store the bars in an airtight tasty and healthy. container for a quick snack.

Make them on-the-go as you explore the city or enjoy Hearty and Healthy Soup them while relaxing on the Cut. Serves 4 Source: womensday.com Fruit Smoothies Serves 4 Ingredients: Source: foodnetwork.com ½ cup of quinoa 2 tablespoons of olive oil Ingredients: 1 medium onion, chopped 4 frozen bananas 1 carrot, chopped 4 cups of frozen berries 2 stalks of celery, chopped 2 cups of milk 3 cloves of garlic, chopped 1 cup of vanilla yogurt 1 tablespoon of smoked paprika 1 cup of orange juice 1 yellow pepper, cut into ½ inch pieces 2 or 3 tablespoons of honey 1 red pepper, cut into ½ inch pieces 2 cans of rinsed chickpeas Equipment needed: 2 cups of vegetable broth Blender 1 cup of water Laura Scherb | Operations Manager 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar Whip up this hearty soup for a quick meal, or a great Instructions: Salt and pepper to taste study snack for those late nights. 1. Start with the fruit and blend it until it’s chunky. Chopped fresh parsley for garnish (optional) 2. Add the milk, yogurt, and honey. Blend until smooth. 3. Taste, and then add honey until it tastes good, blending for a few more minutes to mix it in. Equipment needed: 4. Pour into a glass and enjoy. Smoothies should be Stove, small saucepan, large pot, knife, cutting board served cold and can also be refrigerated for later. Instructions: Granola Bars 1. Cook the quinoa in the small saucepan. When finished, Makes 18 bars set aside. Source: original home recipe 2. Meanwhile, put the oil in the pot on high heat. When hot, add the onion, carrot, and celery and cover. Cook for Ingredients: about six minutes. 2 cups of oats 3. Add the garlic, paprika, and salt and pepper and stir ½ cup of brown sugar for one minute. ½ cup of honey 4. Add the peppers and then cook for five minutes while ½ cup of butter, peanut butter, or apple butter stirring. ¾ cup of raisins, dried cherries or cranberries, M&Ms, 5. Add the two cans of chickpeas and the vegetable mini chocolate chips, sunflower seeds, sliced almonds, or broth. Add one cup of water and then bring to a boil. any other add-in item 6. Reduce heat and simmer for 5–10 minutes. 7. Take off of the heat, and add the vinegar and the Equipment needed: quinoa. Oven, baking pan, mixing bowl 8. Stir, and top with parsley. Serve hot. Instructions: 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 by 13-inch Laura Scherb | Operations Manager pan with cooking spray. 2. Mix the brown sugar, honey, and butter together in a large bowl. Make a batch of granola bars to save for a few days. One of these in the morning can jumpstart your day. 3. Add the oats and the add-ins, mixing to make sure Laura Scherb | Operations Manager that everything is coated. The mixture should be thick

cooking 4 pillbox 04.28.14 Philharmonic rocks Carnegie Music Hall Orchestra comprised of School of Music undergraduates performs a challenging program

It’s one thing to read that Carnegie Mellon’s School of Music is one of the top undergraduate music programs in the country; it’s another to hear the product of student work come to life on stage. On Wednesday, the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic graced Carnegie Music Hall with impressive performances across the board. Beginning with a roaring Ruslan and Ludmila, moving into a showcase of solo talent, and concluding with the epic Shostakovich 5, the orchestra rose to the challenge of a broad and well-rehearsed program.

The orchestra launched the evening with a breakneck rendition of Mikhail Glinka’s notoriously fast Ruslan and Ludmila Overture. Conductor Andrés Cárdenes took a very laid-back style in leading the orchestra in this first piece. After his first cue, he leaned back, conducting with nothing but an occasional bob of the head or twitch of the fingers. Surprisingly, the orchestra maintained a reasonable tempo on its own, staying a unified body and resisting the ever-present temptation to speed up to the point of total cacophony.

Photo illustration by Alan Vangpat | Senior Photographer The phrasing was cloudy at moments, but overall The Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic gave a spirited performance of challenging pieces to those in attendance at sharp and unified, and the cellos were simply beautiful Carnegie Music Hall last Wednesday evening. when they took the limelight with their sweeping melody, wringing every ounce of tenderness from each bar without slowing the tempo. The Glinka proved an excellent choice for an opener: It infused the Rucinski’s playing itself was flawed at points, but musicians gave the piece the gravity and attention performance with energy right from the start and elicited overall it was exquisite. His eerie, beautiful first notes it deserves. Clocking in at roughly 45 minutes, the cheers from the audience. were made tender and haunting by a fluid, effortlessly symphony isn’t a short one — but the musicians quavering vibrato. Rucinski sometimes lacked the maintained energy and a high quality of performance The evening also showcased Carnegie Mellon’s solo volume for his sound to rise over the clamoring orchestra, throughout. The well-rehearsed moments in the talent: After the Glinka, the musicians rearranged their but his playing was no less forceful for it; during grittier performance were apparent in the clear, unified phrasing seats to make room for Krzysztof Rucinski, a master’s passages, Rucinski seemed to rage at the music, digging and well-coordinated, broad range of dynamics. The student in violin performance and the highlight of the recklessly into the strings — and snapping a few bow performance held a wide range of moments, from fragile, second part of the program. He chose to play Karol hairs in the process. creepily soft spider-web passages to roaring crescendos Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1 — a piece written that tumbled into furious musical chaos. At times, the in 1916 and often considered one of the first modern After a long intermission, the full orchestra took the piece reached very brief but deafening peaks of volume, violin concertos, for immediately obvious reasons: The stage again for Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. characterized by a fierce rumbling of the timpani. piece is beautiful but atonal, departing from traditional While not technically difficult, the symphony is one of compositions of the form. the composer’s better-known works, and an ambitious Cárdenes, too, was especially animated throughout the choice given its historical context. Symphony No. 5 was Shostakovich in contrast to his approach to the Glinka. It At first appearance, Rucinski did not have a particularly Shostakovich’s response to criticism and intimidation seemed he had been saving his energy all night for that emotive or even charismatic stage presence. Many by Stalin himself and his associates in 1930s Russia. last 45 minutes. During particularly energetic passages, concert soloists naturally try to charm their audience or While overtly patriotic — the piece gained wide acclaim he shook his fist at the orchestra, as if threatening them make a show of chemistry with the conductor. Rucinski from Stalinist authorities upon its premiere — it is with violence if they didn’t play loud enough. crossed the stage wearing all black, only modestly now generally understood that Symphony No. 5 was acknowledging the applause that greeted him. All that Shostakovich’s subtly seditious effort to make realist The piece concluded with a racing fourth movement, changed, however, when the music started. When commentary on the suffering of the Russian people while which mellowed into a full, round sound that carried Rucinski lowered his violin during the extended breaks appeasing Stalin’s regime and avoiding arrest himself. the triumphant — or despairing — last minutes of the between passages, he lifted his head up as if in wonder, It is a depiction of forced celebration: the appearance symphony into a grand swell of an ending. Immediately eyes shining — as if he were drinking in the music for of patriotism, with a strong undertone of turmoil and after the musicians lowered their instruments, the the first time. At times, he closed his eyes, as if shutting suffering tainting the happy picture. audience leapt into a full standing ovation. off his vision would enhance his hearing that much more. From Wednesday’s performance, it was clear that Rachel Cohen | Publisher the orchestra did not take this challenge lightly: The

music pillbox 04.28.14 5 Guess who’s coming to perform in Pittsburgh Catch a few of your favorite artists if you’re staying in town for work, class, or no reason at all

The semester is finally wrapping up, and it’s time to Arctic Monkeys and White Denim those not impressed by his accomplishments already, at start thinking about summer. Many students choose June 17 least give the man credit for continuing to put on high to remain in the Pittsburgh area to take classes, work For music enthusiasts with a special preference for indie energy performances even though he’s not as young as at an internship in the city, conduct research, or just rock and a soft spot for English men, the Arctic Monkeys he once was. If your heart lies with classic rock music, for convenience. Music lovers who choose to remain in are the perfect band. They will make this international check out this iconic star at the Consol Energy Center. Pittsburgh this summer are in luck — there is a great summer tour in support of their fifth and most recent lineup of concerts coming to the Steel City. There are album, AM. Similarly to the Arctic Monkeys, White Katy Perry many more concerts than the ones listed here and likely Denim is a four-piece indie rock band. This band from July 22 many more to be announced in the future; these are just Texas has a unique sound drawn from dub, psychedelic Fun fact: Teenage Dream was the first album by a female the highlights. rock, blues, progressive rock, soul, jazz, and experimental artist to have five number-one hits. This firework has rock. This concert at Stage AE promises to be a great tons of achievements and honors under her tiny belt Neon Trees show for fans of alternative music. for her fun, catchy tunes. However, her latest album May 14 Prism features darker music with more self-empowering Kick off the summer with a bang at a Neon Trees Tegan and Sara themes. For a little taste of girl power and a lot of fun, go concert. You’ve heard their songs “Animal,” “Everybody June 19 to the Consol Energy Center. Talks,” and their latest single, “Sleeping With A Friend” Tegan and Sara, a sister band, are one of those bands on the radio. Now hear them live. This tour celebrates that sound even better live than they do on the radio. Jason Aldean, Tyler Farr, Miranda Lambert, & the release of their latest album, Pop Psychology. In Most well-known for their single on the radio, “Closer,” Florida Georgia Line addition to the upbeat, danceable music, lead singer these girls are anything but superficial pop stars. Their July 26 Tyler Glenn is a high-energy performer with great dance lyrics are powerful and evocative, and they pour tons of If you are a country fan, this concert should sound like moves and a knack for putting on an entertaining show. emotion and energy into all of their performances. Not to heaven — four well-known country stars will come The Neon Trees will be at Stage AE on the last day of mention, breaks between songs are filled with humorous together in one night for what promises to be an finals. banter between Tegan, Sara, and the audience. If you’re awesome concert and a fun time. The location is great looking for a high-energy concert with charismatic too — PNC Park is a great location and a beautiful park Ingrid Michaelson performers, check out Tegan and Sara at Stage AE. that offers a spectacular view of the rivers. Get all your May 25 best pals together and head downtown to PNC Park for Want to hear great live music but don’t want all of the Monumentour: Fall Out Boy & Paramore a night of good old-fashioned country music. Just don’t chaos of a typical concert? Then Ingrid Michaelson’s July 3 forget your cowboy hat. sweet, indie-pop tunes and smooth vocals are the This concert promises to be exactly what the title of the right choice for you. Her music has the ability to make tour implies: monumental. This is one of those concerts Panic! at the Disco listeners feel like they’re curled up in a fuzzy blanket where both acts will keep you excited, dancing, and August 1 with a cup of hot cocoa and a puppy in their lap. For a enthusiastic from start to finish. With Fall Out Boy’s Looking for an alternative concert with upbeat, dance- nice alternative to the typical concert, check out Ingrid recent album, Save Rock and Roll, and Paramore’s recent inducing music? Look no further than Panic! at the Michaelson at Stage AE. self-titled album, these two bands are sure to put on a Disco. If that isn’t enticing enough, attractive lead singer great performance featuring many fresh songs, as well Brendon Urie’s fancy footwork, which includes backflips, Backstreet Boys and Avril Lavigne as familiar songs from earlier in their careers. Check out should be a solid reason to attend. Urie isn’t just all show, June 14 the bands you fell in love with in middle school that are however. He wrote almost every song on the newest Backstreet’s back, and there’s nothing complicated somehow still making great music for you to rock out to album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die, about his best about it. Take a trip down memory lane at this concert. on the radio at the First Niagara Pavilion. friend who struggled with a drug addiction. Check out The Backstreet Boys are celebrating 21 years together this fun concert with a deeper, complex meaning behind with their “In A World Like This” summer tour. Avril Paul McCartney the lyrics at Stage AE. Lavigne will be performing new songs in addition to the July 7 classics we all know and love from 2002. For a nostalgic An oldie but a goodie, no explanation is really needed for and fun concert, head out to the First Niagara Pavilion. why Paul McCartney would put on a great show. For Jenna Bodnar | Assistant Pillbox Editor

Here are a few more concerts coming to Pittsburgh this summer:

M.I.A. — April 28, Stage AE Gibbzmatik — May 30, Altar Bar Zomboy — June 11, Rex Theater 311 and Sublime w/ Rome — July 14, Stage AE

Lady Gaga —May 8, CONSOL Energy Center Bastille — June 1, Stage AE O.A.R. and Phillip Phillips — June 18, Stage AE Jack White — July 27, Stage AE

Mastodon – May 9. Stage AE Needtobreathe — June 3, Stage AE Luke Bryan, Lee Brice, and Cole Swindell — June 21, Heinz Field Dark Star Orchestra — August 8, Stage AE

Black Label Society — May 15, Stage AE Tyler, the Creator — June 4, Stage AE Journey and Steve Miller Band — June 27, First Niagara Pavillion OneRepublic — August 8, First Niagara Pavillion

Brad Paisley —May 17. First Niagara Pavillion Titus Andronicus – June 5, Cattivo Counting Crows — June 27, Stage AE Toby Keith — August 9, First Niagara Pavillion

The Head and the Heart — May 30, Stage AE Tim McGraw — June 6, First Niagara Pavillion Sugar Ray and Smash Mouth — July 13, Stage AE

music 6 pillbox 04.28.14 Parks and Recreation moving up but not out Season six finale leaves many characters on a high note, sets up seventh and likely final season

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Parks and Scott) are expecting triplets — the always-overachieving underappreciated comedy. Despite continuous threat of Recreaton season six finale, “Moving Up.” Leslie had even managed to overachieve a family. cancelation, the whole team manages to turn out quality, heartfelt episodes every week. Pawnee, Ind. is far from perfect. The people are rude To top it off, Leslie was still mulling over a major job This week was no exception. It was nice after a season and morbidly obese; the infrastructure is crumbling and offer from the National Parks Service that would require that sometimes felt like a downer to see everyone prone to raccoon infestations. But despite all its flaws, a move to Chicago. It was only halfway through the legitimately happy in their lives. former City Councilwoman and Deputy Director of the episode that Leslie decided to take the job, which left Pawnee City Department of Parks and Recreation Leslie about 20 minutes for viewers to wonder how the show Even moves that could seem like cop-outs, such as Knope (Amy Poehler) loves Pawnee with a fierce passion. was going to progress next season. Leslie convincing her new boss to move the Chicago operation to Pawnee, manage to come off as the most What would Pawnee be without her? More importantly, In fact, much of the episode felt like a series, rather than natural thing in the world. Of course Leslie would who would Leslie be without Pawnee? Last Thursday, a season, finale, as all the characters examined their own manage to move up in the world without ever having to Parks and Recreation played with those questions in its lives and voiced their appreciation of them. This show move out of Pawnee. season six finale, “Moving Up.” depends heavily on its supporting cast for humor and actual storylines, so any major decisions made by Leslie And despite the episode’s overarching tone of finality, There were a lot of storylines going into this finale, need to be examined in terms of everyone else. the final two minutes firmly close out this season and which could have made even the extra 20 minutes feel simultaneously push the show into the next, and crammed with content, but the writers managed to Set against the Pawnee-Eagleton Unity Concert, possibly final, season. merge them into one cohesive storyline. “Moving Up” saw Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) reaffirm his commitment to family life, while April Ludgate A three-year time jump gives the writers room to The NBC comedy saw Leslie tackle all sorts of new (Aubrey Plaza) and Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) reaffirm jump head first into Leslie’s new roles, both personal obstacles this season: the recall election, the pregnancy their status as the most perfectly dysfunctional couple and professional, without having to deal with all the and subsequent exit of her best friend Ann Perkins on TV. transitions. (Rashida Jones), and the merger between Pawnee and its neighbor and rival city, Eagleton. Meanwhile, former Parks employee Tom Haverford (Aziz It’s nice to see a show grow and develop while still Ansari) finally opens his newest business venture, maintaining everything that makes it great. Parks and The last few episodes took the show to a new level, as it Tom’s Bistro, with some help from his friends, some Recreation is consistently funny and entertaining, but was revealed that Leslie and husband Ben Wyatt (Adam Pawnee celebrities, and some actual celebrities. After continues to find new ways to make a small town in a few hiccups, the restaurant actually turns out to be a Indiana seem like the best place in the world. success.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail Friday, May 2 — 9, 11 Saturday, May 3 — 9, 11

In one of the most iconic films ever, the Pythonites return to help King Arthur in his quest to find the Holy Grail. What ensues are anachronistic characters, Trojan rabbits, and crazy musical numbers that somehow create one of the funniest films of all time. Directed by the brilliant Terry Gilliam, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a hysterical yet twisted take on Camelot that is highly imaginative and inspired. Warning: you might suffer from self-induced asphyxiation from the constant laughs throughout the movie. Be prepared. Free with Carnegie Mellon ID, $3 admission without one.

television pillbox 04.28.14 7 Arts Greenhouse concert gives local high school musicians the stage Carnegie Mellon’s hip-hop education program provides music experience, social support for Pittsburgh teenagers

given time. All the while, the students who were not students. We talk about a plethora of issues, from politics [ by Chloe Thompson | Senior Staffwriter] performing stood before the steps in a tight knot, smiling to music.... The passion is really what draws me.” and calling encouragement to their friends. When The voices of young Pittsburgh artists rang out over performers entreated them to put their hands in the air This environment of passion drew many Arts the College of Fine Arts lawn this past Saturday in a or sing along, they did so with more enthusiasm than Greenhouse students, and many of the students spoke combination of rap and hip-hop songs. They belonged to anyone else watching. They filmed each other with their about how Arts Greenhouse has made them feel safe the participants of Arts Greenhouse, a hip-hop education phones and took pictures to immortalize the moment. and free to explore their natural talents. Malaisha program for Pittsburgh teenagers that is affiliated with Eventually, the scheduled songs came to an end, but the Thompson, a sophomore at Obama Academy, said, “I Carnegie Mellon. The students come to campus every students performed more pieces, including a rap battle. like the freedom that we have. Every song is just ours. Saturday from September to April to practice making Well, it’s AG’s, but it’s ours.” Another Obama Academy music and to record their songs in CFA’s basement “These kids are like every other teenager,” said Arts sophomore, Jada Lowe, said “It’s a cool environment. recording studios. Greenhouse co-founder Riccardo Schulz, an assistant There’s no judgment here; you’re here to just be free.” teaching professor in the School of Music. “Except — During the performance, students in Arts Greenhouse they’re polite. They don’t say ‘like’ after ever other word. Feeling safe is an important part of a healthy teenage showcased their work from this semester. There was also They relate well to adults, and they’re not self-conscious experience, and that comfort is especially important for a cookout with free food for anyone who came to watch. about that. They are also very supportive of each other.” artistic pursuits. Arts Greenhouse gives talented local The soundcheck took a few minutes, and the Arts teens the space and the means to expand their abilities Greenhouse students wandered around the CFA steps, Schulz co-founded Arts Greenhouse with history — sometimes abilities that they didn’t even know they sometimes participating in the soundcheck, but mainly professor Judith Schachter 12 years ago. Schulz said had — while simultaneously allowing Carnegie Mellon talking and joking with each other. that he wanted to fulfill a community need. “I decided students to interact with Pittsburgh residents in a more it would be a good thing to share with the community. intimate way. Next spring semester, take a break from One of the goals of the program is to foster community There are a lot of young folks who have talent, but no finals preparation and check out an amazing community between the high school students themselves, and it place to record.” collaboration that produces some quality music. seems to have succeeded in that goal. Khalil Sellers, a senior at The Neighborhood Academy, said “[Being in Schulz also stated that he wanted to give Carnegie Arts Greenhouse] definitely impacted my life. These Mellon engineers the opportunity to interact with guys are my best friends. We’re always hanging out, people from the greater Pittsburgh community, as well making music. I’m always collabing with these guys.” as inspire local teens to pursue higher education. “I Maryyann Landlord | Comics Editor Sellers goes by the stage name K.I.P. and plans to pursue wanted to help teenagers find their identity and give music as a full-time career, though he plans to move to them the idea that college is not out of their reach. Yes, Denver after graduating high school to work in design. you can apply to college. You could go to college,” he said. He spoke of senior business administration major Other students concurred with Sellers’s sentiments. Kai Roberts, a former participant and current mentor of Naomi Dowden, a sophomore at the Barack Obama Arts Greenhouse, as an example of an Arts Greenhouse Academy of International Studies, said, “I really like the student who decided to pursue higher education at atmosphere. All these people have the same passion, Carnegie Mellon. music.... It’s an open environment that I can escape to.” Dowden occasionally sings, but her main focus is Maryyann Landlord | Comics Editor Roberts isn’t the only current Carnegie Mellon student songwriting. She stated that being in Arts Greenhouse Freestylers Khalil Sellers (“K.I.P.“) and Michaela Hammer performed at the Arts Greenhouse concert on the CFA involved in Arts Greenhouse. Several students from helped her discover her talents. “It made me realize Lawn, which happened on Saturday. history professor Nico Slate’s Sustainable Social Change the talent I have inside me. It made me realize I always class have become involved with the program this want writing to be a part of my life,” she said. After high past semester. These students include sophomore global studies and human-computer interaction double school, Dowden plans to attend college in New York City called “Love Jones.” Sellers had good stage presence and endorse cigarettes, she sang about them with a lovely major Lucy Pei, junior global studies and professional and pursue a career in acting. got his audience to sing along with him, keeping them kind of longing. writing double major Alexandria Hernandez, sophomore engaged and entertained. economics, statistics, and global studies triple major After the soundcheck ended, the performances began. Another standout performance followed Chisom’s, Jillian Ward, junior architecture and global studies The first two songs, “Groovin” and “AG’s Diner,” Next up was Obama Academy sophomore Imani Jai given by City Charter High School sophomore Montell double major Andrea Saloman, and senior global studies featured many different students collaborating together. Chisom. She also performed an original song, called “Mr. Frazier. Frazier is a rapper and producer and goes by the major Christian Manoli. Pei and Saloman work on “Groovin” showcased Dowden, Sellers, Allie Rose, Sovren Cigarette.” As Chisom walked up to the microphone, stage name Cargo FL. He performed his latest single, student profiles and publicizing the organization, while Gray, and Imani Jai Chisom, while “AG’s Diner” featured she said, “This song is called ‘Mr. Cigarette.’ I don’t called “Bad Guys.” He rapped with a soulful intensity, Hernandez teaches spoken-word poetry. Dowden, Chisom, Rose, Gray, Arthur King, and Hussein support cigarettes, though.” Only a few seconds into occasionally stretching his arms out to the crowd. “Bad Salim. The students were all talented, and the two songs her song, the wind that had been blowing through the Guys,” among some of Frazier’s other work, is available “The kids are really passionate in a way that’s beyond started off the performances well because they both had crowd pushed her skirt up. Chisom was clearly flustered, to listen to on SoundCloud. their years,” Hernandez said. “It’s inspiring to work good rhythms. but recovered gracefully as her Arts Greenhouse peers Maryyann Landlord | Comics Editor with them, not for them. They really teach alongside encouraged her to sit down and keep singing. So she sat After the last individual performance — Taylor Allderdice Top: Montell Frazier (“Cargo FL”), a sophomore at City Charter High School, performs at the concert on Saturday. me.” Manoli shared this sentiment, saying, “I like Arts Though the group songs were quite good, the on the stone CFA steps and restarted her song. She had High School junior Sovren Gray performing a song called In addition to collaborative work, he sang his latest single, “Bad Guys.” Bottom: Students from the Arts Greenhouse because it transcends the traditional individually performed songs that followed were even a truly enchanting voice that stood out even among her “FUBU” — the show returned to a more collaborative Greenhouse project hang out in front of the CFA building after their concert. classroom. The students are the teachers, and we’re the better. Sellers was up first, performing an original song talented peers, and even though she may not personally format, with four to five students up on the steps at any

feature feature 8 pillbox 04.28.14 pillbox 04.28.14 9 Philip Glass reflects on his compositions Celebrated classical music composer gives a talk sponsored by the School of Music

Kresge Theatre was abuzz on Friday afternoon in of the legacy he will leave — as well as a sensible anticipation of a special guest talk. The last time this understanding, acquired from a lifetime of composing guest was in Pittsburgh, it was 1964, not long before his — that “very few things live beyond the maturity of the works began to gain popularity. Since the 1960s, this artist.” In his opinion, composers will always find their man has been a major figure in propelling classical music distinct sound. “Losing your voice is the hard part,” he to an entirely new world. said. “You’ll be working on that for the rest of your life.”

Musical celebrity Philip Glass shuffled on stage a few Witnessing a cherished composer speak of his minutes late to tumultuous applause. He walked with own music in an era that acknowledges him for his the slow ease of a man in his later years, and greeted contribution is a rare and precious occasion. It was the audience with the familiarity of a musician who is especially relevant to the performers in attendance, no stranger to the stage. His casual mannerisms and who were able to get a firsthand understanding of what modest attire did not indicate his fame for composing exactly the composer wanted. Glass described how beloved compositions such as Einstein on the Beach, 10 separating notes into their respective measures can symphonies, and a series of operas, nor that he’d won get in the way of the music-making; he sees his music a Golden Globe and has been nominated for several as grouped into twos and threes instead. He explained Academy Awards for his film scores. how rhythmic structure is the ultimate driving factor in his compositions. His compositions often don’t contain Richard Randall, assistant professor of music theory any clear melody. Content is not Glass’s strength (or and researcher in the College of Fine Arts, followed the perhaps content is simply not his point), but rather it is composer on stage and began the conversation. Glass the overall form and the progression of one section to the was witty, comfortable, and likably straightforward in his Courtesy of Pasquale Salerno via Flickr next that he focuses on, causing the listener to feel like answers. He admitted how he changed concentrations Celebrated composer Philip Glass spoke to Carnegie they’ve gone on some sort of ambiguous journey. at The Juilliard School from flute to composition Mellon students in Kresge Theatre last Friday. The audience had a chance to experience this journey firsthand as the interview portion drew to a close and because, frankly, he was better at the latter. He insisted the Matisse String Quartet, the School of Music’s honors that, although some of his most famous works contain string quartet, took the stage. Made up of graduate and electronics, he still adheres to a pencil and paper for postgraduate students, they played a clear, engaging composing. rendition of “Glass String Quartet No. 5,” one of the gems of Glass’s chamber music repertoire. The piece is When speaking about hearing one of his early pieces on bookended by an elegy-like theme and filled in with walls the radio whilst in Pittsburgh, he casually remarked, “It of lively harmony driven forward by perpetual rhythms. wasn’t as bad as I thought it was.” Glass continued to It is head-bobbing music, but with subtle changes here display remarkable modesty throughout the interview, and there that make it impossible to predict when the most notably when Randall acknowledged his role in head should bob. creating the tonal, repetitive, and easily accessible genre of classical music called minimalism. Rather Needless to say, Kresge Theatre was swept along for than accepting this credit, Glass argued that he was the ride as the student ensemble deftly and artfully not the only composer moving toward something new executed the piece. The cellist, master’s student in at the time, and that it was the culture as a whole that cello performance Marlene Ballena, and violist, master’s demanded classical music move to a new place. student in viola performance Si Yu, were the soul of this performance. They played synonymously in articulation Regardless of what Glass claimed he did, the effect he and color, and weren’t afraid to drive the quartet has had on classical music is enormous. Even Pittsburgh forward. While the upper strings didn’t quite achieve the has felt his influence: Nancy Galbraith, composer and same blended sound as their counterparts, there was no professor of composition at Carnegie Mellon, writes mistaking the brilliance of their performance. music tinged with recurring motifs and crystalline harmonies reminiscent of Glass’s style, and the Carnegie The audience was quick to enthusiastially applaud. The Library has more early Glass scores than virtually any defining moment occurred when Glass himself walked other library in the world. onto the stage to shake the hands of the students, smiling widely. He seemed immensely pleased with As the interview continued, Glass revealed a knack for their performance. Seeing the five of them bow together dropping unexpectedly wise advice in such a nonchalant offered a rare and special moment of unity between a way that one could easily miss it. On the subject of never renowned composer and student performers. turning down opportunities to work, he commented, “You don’t get anything from saying ‘no.’ It didn’t hurt Bach, it won’t hurt you.” He exhibited awareness Alyssa Wang | Junior Staffwriter

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puzzles pillbox 04.28.14 13 Horoscopes Take a 10-minute walk: Walking helps clear your head aries and boosts endorphins, which reduces stress hormones. march 21–april 19 Consider walking somewhere with lots of vegetation. Trees naturally release chemicals that boost your immune system and relieve stress. Try doing some yoga: Breaking exercises help you relax taurus and reduce the built up tension and stress. Yoga is april 20–may 20 characterized by deep breathing, as opposed to shallow breathing that stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, which creates stress. gemini Eat a snack: Stress-eating isn’t always a bad thing. The gut-brain axis is the connection between the gut and the may 21–june 21 brain — more and more researchers have produced data that pegs the gut as a major mediator of stress response.

cancer Buy yourself a plant: Houseplants don’t just beautify a june 22–july 22 room. They can actually help you calm down; simply being around plants can make you more relaxed.

leo Step away from the screen: There is a direct coloration between stress and late-night computer use. Make sure july 23–aug. 22 to take frequent breaks when you use your computer throughout the day. Crossword courtesy of BestCrosswords.com Across Down Pucker up: Kissing relieves stress by calming your body and virgo 1. Distributed cards 1. Comedian Carvey creating a sense of connection. Kissing releases endorphins 6. Slave 2. Thames town aug. 23–sept. 22 into your bloodstream that combat stress and depression. 10. “Hard ___!” (sailor’s yell) 3. Env. notation 14. Essential oil 4. Legal science 15. Dressed 5. Insignificant Put on some music: While classical music has a particularly 16. Dweeb 6. Lug libra soothing effect by slowing down your heart rate and 17. In spite of 7. Ultimatum word sept. 23–oct. 22 lowering your blood pressure, it also decreases your level 20. Abby’s twi 8. Phooey! of stress. Any music that you love will flood your brain with 21. Valleys 9. Rx watchdog good-feeling neurochemicals. 22. Clear the boards 10. Peace Nobelist Sakharov 23. Leeds’s river 11. “Star Wars” princess 24. ___ kwon do 12. Sea eagles Spend time with friends: The best way to wind down after a scorpio 25. Put to a wrong use 13. Periphery long day is to talk it over with your best friend. Friends are oct. 23–nov. 21 32. Art supporter 18. Diamond cover great for both fun and comfort. 33. Bothers 19. Approaches 34. Conk out 23. On the briny 35. Final Four org. 24. Toll rds. Craft: Repetitive motions like the fine motor skills used to 36. Bridge declaration 25. PC shortcut sagittarius knit, make jewelry, or cross stitch can soothe anxiety. It puts 38. Cambodian currency 26. Designer Mizrahi nov. 22–dec. 21 the mind in a comfortable, easy state. 39. Man-mouse connector 27. Gaucho’s rope 40. Med school subj. 28. Surgery sites, briefly 41. Wharves 29. Old French expression meaning 42. First appearance of an influential “goodbye” Drink green tea: Green tea contains theanine, an amino phrase or idea 30. Layers capricorn acid that gives the tea flavor and promotes relaxation. It 46. Mom-and-pop org. 31. Congers dec. 22–jan. 19 counteracts the stimulating effects of caffeine that can 47. ___ expert, but... 32. Hydroxyl compound worsen stress response. 48. Form of lyrical poem 36. Member of a great Peruvian people 51. Dined at home 37. Amigo 53. Monetary unit of Bulgaria 38. Puerto ___ Open the window: Just looking out your window can have 56. Divide up 40. Fall bloomer aquarius a relaxing effect. Looking out at a city landscape or a nature 59. Depilatory brand 41. Resembling a feather jan. 20–feb. 18 scene slows down your heart rate. It’s a lot more effective 60. Legal claim 43. Bring up to current moment than looking at a picture — the brain is not so easily fooled. 61. It’s human 44. Yellowish brown pigment 62. Actress Heche 45. Struck, old-style Work out: Working out is a great way to take a bite out of 63. Injectable diazepam, in military 48. Dame ___ Everage lingo 49. Hammer head tension. When you are mentally tired, intense exercise can pisces 64. Short literary composition 50. Not closed feb. 19–march 20 make you more stressed. Light-to-moderate exercise won’t 51. What ___ mind reader? improve your fitness, but will lighten your mood. 52. Adolescent Maryyann Landlord | Comics Editor 53. Untruths, tells falsehoods 54. Poet Pound 55. Extremely 57. Pampering, briefly 58. Acapulco article horoscopes 14pillbox 04.28.14 MONDAY 4.28.14 Pierrot Lunaire. George R. White Studio at Pittsburgh Digital Hand. 709 Penn Gallery. Opera. 8 p.m. Through May 25. Justice is Mind Screening. Giant Eagle Auditorium. Arnold Schoenberg’s famous setting of Albert Giraud’s This exhibition includes works created by Pennsylvania 5 p.m. Pierrot Lunaire poems will be performed live in its entirety. State University students exploring the sculptural This film, set in a time when fMRI technology is readily Admission is free and open to the public. possibilities of digital fabrications. Admission is free. used to decode a person’s thoughts, follows the trial of a person accused of a double murder who doesn’t Cluster Truck. CFA Lawn. 5 p.m. Electrified. Wood Street Galleries. remember committing the crime. This event is free and This outdoor art installation features eight College of Through June 22. open to the public. Pizza and refreshments will be served. Fine Arts students using eight U-Haul trucks as their Artists Edwin van der Heide and Alexandre Burton personal gallery to showcase performances, sculptural pay homage to the work of Nikola Tesla and his Carnegie Mellon University Jazz Orchestra. installations, and participatory works. This event is free pioneering experiments in electricity, X-rays, and wireless Carnegie Music Hall. 8 p.m. and open to the public. communication in two installations seeing their North The orchestra will be performing jazz classics in a big American premiere. Admission is free. band style, with special guests Lincoln Park Performing FRIDAY 5.2.14 Arts Center Saxophone Group and Carnegie Mellon’s The Occasional Market. 707 Penn Gallery. JIVE (Jazz Improv Vocal Ensemble). Admission is $5, but Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Music Through June 22. free with a valid Carnegie Mellon ID. Ensemble. Kresge Theatre, CFA. 8 p.m. This art project by artist Tom Sarver turns the 707 The ensemble will be performing the works of Charles Gallery into a communal gathering space, a place where TUESDAY 4.29.14 Wuorinen, Simon Steen-Andersen, Marian Marquez, and stories are told and relationships established, featuring John Adams. Admission is free and open to the public. unscheduled activities and drop-ins from the artist himself Lucky After Dark. Giant Eagle Auditorium. 4:30 p.m. and various drawings, sculptures, and collections of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Arts in Society will host OPENING objects. Admission is free. a lecture by Carnegie Mellon’s director of the Humanities Scholars Program Timothy Haggerty and the center’s Actual Size. Miller Gallery. Through May 17. Candida. O’Reilly Theater. Through May 18. own artist-in-residence Harrison Apple regarding the This exhibition of graduating-senior artwork spans Presented by the Pittsburgh Public Theater, George upcoming exhibit of the same name that will explore the video, performance, drawing, printmaking, photography, Bernard Shaw’s Candida tells the story of Candida, who role after-hours nightlife in postwar Pittsburgh played in painting, sculpture, interactive, and code-based works, is caught in the middle of a romantic war between her establishing and shaping gay and lesbian identities. This and more. There will be an opening reception on Friday, practical husband John Morell and the passionate poet event is free and open to the public. May 2 from 6–8 p.m., and an artist and faculty talk on Eugene Marchbanks. Tickets start at $23 and can be Tuesday, May 6 from 1–4 p.m. Admission to the Miller purchased at trustarts.culturaldistrict.org. THURSDAY 5.1.14 Gallery is free and open to the public. Compiled by Joey Peiser | Pillbox Editor Lucas Barkley, Collaborative Piano. ONGOING Kresge Theatre, CFA. 8 p.m. Want your event here? Master’s student in collaborative piano performance RACE: Are We So Different? Carnegie Museum of Email [email protected]. Lucas Barkley will be performing a recital featuring the Natural History. Through Oct. 27. music of Franz Schubert, Francis Poulenc, and Johannes This exhibit explores the experience of living with race in Brahms. Admission is free and open to the public. America, using interactive multimedia components.

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Josh Smith | Contributing Editor Last Thursday, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Kevin Garrett gave a free performance in Skibo Café. The event was sponsored by the Activities Board and signaled the end of a great academic year for the organization, which brought Chiddy Bang, Icona Pop, and many others to campus.

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