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Volume 101, Issue 4 Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper Since 1906 25 September 2006 Housing: Tartan football wins fourth consecutive game A fi nancial look Why students choose to move off campus

by Michael R. Fitzgerald Staffwriter

Most students pay $5500 a year for a room on campus and take nothing away four years later. A few investment-minded Carnegie Mellon students, though, are looking to put their living space to work. The lure of land ownership has a few students turning the college experience into a quick profi t. Private bathroom and utilities included.

Pittsburgh real estate agents Chang Glasgow/Photo Staff are reporting more parents buy- Sophomore offensive guard Kurtis Meyer carries the ball down the fi eld in the Tartans’ 34–14 victory over Franklin & Marshall College on Saturday. See story, page A14 . ing houses or condos for their college-age children, according to a September 17 article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “It’s more common this year than in the past,” said Cliff Students recount experience at Darfur rally Schultz, a manager of the How- ard Hanna real estate agency, in In all of the excitement of the the Tribune-Review. “[Parents] by Patrick Pettibon rally, Abimbola and Larcom inad- see the cost of housing go up at Staffwriter vertently got into position near a universities, and they say, ‘I can group of photographers standing make an investment and turn it As their friends prepared to near the barrier. around in four years and make go out to parties the night of “[I realized] no one’s VIP here, a profi t.’ ” Saturday, September 16, Timi so I just pushed my way to the The proximity of hospitals Abimbola and Megan Larcom, front,” said Abimbola. and other universities to Carn- two fi rst-year students, boarded A photo of the two amid ralliers egie Mellon’s campus may make a bus for the Big Apple. The trip graced the September 18 front for a wise investment. resulted in a front-page photo in page of The New York Times. “It’s not infl ated as other mar- The New York Times. The accompanying article kets, but the university area is Abimbola and Larcom traveled noted some of the most recent above average for Pittsburgh,” to New York City to participate in developments in the crisis in said Jeffrey Myers, an adjunct a demonstration that was part of Darfur, the western region of Su- professor in the Tepper School the global “Day for Darfur.” dan. Tens of thousands have been of Business. Abimbola, a student in politi- killed, the article stated, and “It’s important to have that cal science, international rela- more than 2 million people have infrastructure in place.” tions, and French, said the jour- been displaced from their homes. Navigating Pittsburgh’s home- ney to New York was a whirlwind Confl ict in Darfur began in 2003, ownership terrain comes with adventure. when rebels began fi ghting the a set of risks, particularly for David Rosenberg of the Pitts- government. The situation has those in their late teens and burgh Darfur Emergency Coali- been deemed the world’s most early 20s. tion, a group with the Thomas serious humanitarian crisis. “I basically pay the bills, Merton Center, organized two Currently, the only peacekeep- and it takes a lot of time to go busloads of demonstrators from ing force in Sudan is a group of through a lot of stuff yourself. Pittsburgh. The group departed 7000 African Union troops You have to go through the com- Pittsburgh late Saturday evening whose mandate expires on panies and set everything up by and returned early last Monday September 30. Demonstrators Deren Guler/Photo Staff yourself,” said Angela Huang, morning. around the world demanded a First-years Megan Larcom, left, and Timi Abimbola, right, were featured on the front page of The New York Times a sophomore industrial design Abimbola and her roommate mandate for a United Nations for attending a rally for Darfur. major. Larcom, a business student, peacekeeping force in Darfur and Last year, Huang, who now marched in the demonstration support for the poorly equipped percentage of people killed be- fi nes the term “genocide” as cally the government does not lives in Shadyside, lived in New with between 20,000 and 30,000 African Union troops. fore an event is considered a commission of any variety of acts get involved in strictly humani- House. Overall, she is happy others in Central Park Sunday. The United Nations has recog- genocide,” said Jay Aronson, an with the intention to destroy, in tarian issues. with her decision to move be- “Timi ended up pushing her nized the situation in Darfur as assistant professor of history whole or in part, a national, eth- “[The United States] has no cause of the space her Shady- way up to the front barrier,” genocide, but many do not fully whose major fi elds of study are nical, racial, or religious group. direct national interest [in Dar- side condo affords compared to Larcom said, noting that many understand the term. science, technology and society, By those terms, genocide may ex- fur], so we’re not doing anything. of the demonstrators were from “A big misconception of geno- and human rights. ist without anyone being killed. See HOUSING, page A6 Darfur. cide is there has to be a certain The UN Genocide Treaty de- Aronson also said that histori- See DARFUR, page A5 Shooting at Duquesne University injures five basketball players

Brittney Jones, a Duquesne criminal conspiracy in the shoot- by David Chen sophomore, has been charged for ing. The two men are suspected & Eshna Bhaduri allowing two armed men to enter to be the gunmen. Junior Staffwriters the dance though she was aware Jones has also been arrested that they were armed. and charged with criminal con- On Sunday, September 17, In fact, Jones had asked on- spiracy. Jones is suspected of school shootings hit a little closer duty police guards if they were playing a key role in the incident to home. patting down guests before enter- and has been suspended from the Five Duquesne University bas- ing the dance. university. ketball players were shot and in- One of the suspects began fi r- The three suspects will be ap- jured by two gunmen at around ing on Academic Walk near Vick- pearing for a preliminary hearing 2 a.m. September 17, after they roy Hall and Duquesne Towers. this week. attended a Black Student Union About six to 12 shots were fi red Ashaolu is currently hospital- dance on the Duquesne campus, a from a semiautomatic handgun, ized in serious condition at Mercy private Catholic university in up- according to the Pittsburgh Post- Hospital. He was the most seri- town Pittsburgh. Gazette. ously injured victim, as one of two According to a statement re- The Pittsburgh Bureau of Po- bullets fragmented and lodged in leased by Duquesne University, lice has issued a statement that his head. According to The New the basketball players, juniors two Penn Hills residents, William York Times, he is now breathing Sam Ashaolu, Stuard Baldonado, Holmes and Brandon Baynes, without the support of a ventila- Shawn James, and Kojo Mensah both 18, have been arrested and tor and is able to talk softly. Olga Strachna/Photo Staff and sophomore Aaron Jackson charged with attempted homi- Baldonado, also hospitalized, Early on Sunday, September 17, two gunmen opened fi red at fi ve Duquesne University basketball players on were shot and injured after leav- cide, aggravated assault, carrying campus. The shooting happened after a dance in the Duquesne Union, above. ing the dance. a fi rearm without a license, and See SHOOTING, page A5 www.thetartan.org A2 THE TARTAN • SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 Weather Executive Privilege

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