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Volume 101, Issue 7 Carnegie Mellon’s Student Newspaper Since 1906 October 16, 2006 Homecoming win puts football at 6–0 Tartans are unfi t Magazine puts university on ‘probation’ for physical fi tness by Alexander Dileonardo Junior Staffwriter Students at Carnegie Mellon are used to receiving a pat on the back from media publications. But this month’s issue of Men’s Fit- ness magazine put Carnegie Mellon on “academic proba- tion.” The issue, which contains its annual list of the 25 fi ttest col- leges, evaluated schools based on student surveys about diet and exercise, availability of healthy food, and the quality of fi tness facilities on campus. Carnegie Mellon was among the eight most underachieving schools in fi tness, according to the publication. Fellow Pennsylvania school Dickinson College attained the status of most fi t college. Neal Robert Kaminski/Photo Editor Boulton, editor-in-chief of Men’s Robert Gimson #21 safeguards the ball and escapes tackles while charging down the field, leading Carnegie Mellon to its 20–10 victory over Fitness, believes that Dickinson’s balanced Case Western Reserve University at Case’s Homecoming game on Saturday. See story on A12. approach to campus fi tness is what sets it apart from all the rest. According to Boulton, students who are serious about fi tness as well as those who only occasionally exercise could fi nd ev- University takes a stand European Parliament erything to meet their needs at Dickin- son. “They provide a very balanced life- against using sweatshops members speak at Pitt style within which anyone could exist, use of sweatshop labor in the whether they’re kind of cheating a little by Claire Morgenstern production of apparel featuring nuclear proliferation. He said or in a fi tness mode,” he said in an October Assistant News Editor the team’s logo. by Matthew E. Campbell President Bush has tried to re- 3 USA Today article. “Baseball is the best at mak- Assistant Copy Manager build ties with the EU after fall- Susan Bassett, director of athletics for Pittsburgh’s anti-sweatshop ing money from their logo,” said ing out over Iraq. Lambsdorff Carnegie Mellon, was surprised that groups held a public hearing Kenneth Miller, a Pittsburgh na- European Parliament mem- also pointed out initiatives that Carnegie Mellon scored so low. at a City Council meeting last tive and co-founder of the cam- bers Graf Alexander Lambsdorff the EU has taken on the world “I think the portrayal is a little Wednesday to enforce the city’s paign targeting the Pirates. of Germany and Antonyia Par- stage, such as leading negotia- unfair,” she said. “I don’t anti-sweatshop ordinance. For Colleges aren’t bad at turn- vanova of Bulgaria spoke about tions with Iran over its nuclear support, activists looked to ing a profi t either. According to foreign affairs at the University programs. See FITNESS, page A4 File Photo Carnegie Mellon, whose licens- Miller, the same sweatshops that of Pittsburgh’s European Union Parvanova discussed Bulgar- ing coordinator, Jay Marano, has produce Pirates apparel are also Center of Excellence on Tuesday. ia’s tough 10-year process of held such regulations for univer- making collegiate apparel for Lambsdorff, a former mem- joining the EU. The country had Stress levels feed unhealthy sity merchandise fi rmly in place universities across the country ber of the German Foreign Of- to make many reforms, she said, for the last decade. — but not Carnegie Mellon. The fi ce, serves on the delegation for and it is behind on environmen- The hearing was the most university is one of more than United States relations and is a tal issues. Bulgaria was also eating habits public announcement of new de- 175 colleges and universities, substitute on the Committee on forced to close some nuclear velopments in the way activists including Pittsburgh’s Duquesne Foreign Affairs. Parvanova, only power plants, which hurt the more, and some people’s appe- want the ordinance, originally University, who are members of an observer until Bulgaria offi - country’s economy. There are by Karin Xie tites will completely disappear,” passed in 1997, to be imple- the Workers Rights Consortium cially enters the European Union also concerns about the volume Junior Staffwriter said Paula Martin, a registered mented in Pittsburgh. Activists (WRC), a group committed to in January, is involved with the of crime and money laundering. dietician who works with Stu- have found a new poster child the public disclosure of factory environment, public health, and Parvanova, a pediatrician, is With a poor dining and exer- dent Health Services. “We are for their cause: the Pittsburgh locations where illegal sweat- food safety committee. interested in health care in the cising regimen, Carnegie Mellon especially concerned about stu- Pirates. Local activists and base- shop labor may be being used. Pitt’s EU center is one of 10 EU. She supported a proposal students are sitting at the bot- dents who avoid eating when ball fans alike have been peti- centers in the U.S. funded by the for European citizens to have tom of the fi tness grading curve, they get stressed.” tioning the Pirates to stop the See SWEATSHOP, page A3 European Commission. free choice of health care across according to Men’s Fitness. According to Martin, a lack The European Parliament is the EU. ALDE is also working on In addition, the campus was of caloric intake hinders cogni- the only EU institution whose a bill of rights for patients. ranked seventh in the Princ- tive abilities like memory, leads members are elected. The EU’s Both speakers addressed au- eton Review’s “Their Students to unhealthy weight loss, and 457 million citizens are repre- dience questions. Lambsdorff Never Stop Studying” category, drastically weakens the immune sented by 732 members of Parlia- agreed that the EU has a “demo- suggesting that the campus system. ment, according to the EU’s web- cratic defi cit,” calling EU poli- community’s stress level have An individual who eats more site. There are seven political tics “opaque” and “hard for the some connection to students’ when stressed tends to eat parties within the parliament; average citizen to follow.” eating habits. quickly, without experiencing Lambsdorff and Parvanova are Enlargement — adding new In a study carried out by the In- the food. A distracted multi- in the Alliance of Democrats and members to the EU — is a con- stitute of Psychological Sciences tasker usually overeats since he Liberals for Europe (ALDE), the tentious issue. Turkey’s efforts at the University of Leeds in the or she is disconnected with the third-largest party. to join the democratic, primar- UK from 2003 to 2005, research- feeling of hunger and fullness. According to Lambsdorff, the ily Christian EU have been ers found that a high stress level The study also narrowed down party supports economic liberal- blocked. is associated with fl uctuation groups of people whose diets ization and closer integration as Lambsdorff feels that, for the in food intake levels, as well as make them vulnerable in stress- well as a constitution. EU to succeed, there needs to be changes in food choices and eat- ful situations, including dieters, Lambsdorff said there is an EU public with a European ing patterns. “broad agreement” between identity. He said he is opposed “Some people will want to eat See STRESS, page A4 Max Jordan/Photo Staff the EU and the U.S. on terror- to Turkey joining for “demo- Activists discussed anti-sweatshop laws Wednesday at Pitt’s Posvar Hall. ism, a “transatlantic issue,” and cratic and fi nancial reasons.” Heinz review journal examines health care issues members and has just released zens, which I’d say is a basic hu- rural, in all countries.” by James Tetlow its fi fth issue, which focuses on man right.” Anyone interested in an Staffwriter global health care issues. The issue focuses on a wide issue’s topic can submit an ar- According to Robert Gutier- range of topics, including cross- ticle, though the most common Every publication has to start rez, the editor-in-chief of the border health care between the contributors are still Heinz fac- sometime. HSR and a master’s student in United States and Mexico, AIDS/ ulty and students. The HSR staff For the Heinz School Review public policy and management, HIV prevention, price controls on has been trying to network with (HSR), that start was in fall 2003, this issue comes at an important pharmaceutical drugs, and men- other existing policy journals, when six students came up with time for health care in the United tal health parity implications. including The Public Record, a the idea to create an online pol- States. “It’s a global issue as well,” said journal published by the Lyndon icy journal for the Heinz School “The nation is still wrestling Deepti Gudipati, an editor for the B. Johnson School of Public Af- of Public Policy and Management with many of these diffi cult is- HSR and a master’s student in fairs at the University of Texas at as part of their “systems synthe- sues,” Gutierrez stated. “Ulti- public policy and management. Austin. The HSR is also planning John Gross/Art Editor sis” project. Now in its third year, mately, it comes down to looking “You see a gap between the rich This month’s issue of Men’s Fitness rated colleges based on students’ level the HSR has grown to 15 staff out for the well-being of its citi- and the poor, the urban and the See REVIEW, page A3 of fi tness.