University Center Plans to Expand by Fall 2016 Alvin Mathew Final Product

Prepare for this week’s BOC iOS 7 brings major change Tartans win home football and TOC • A6 to Apple devices • A11 opener • A13 BOC/TOC FORUM SPORTS thetartan.org @thetartan September 16, 2013 Volume 108, Issue 4 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 University Center plans to expand by fall 2016 ALVIN MATHEW final product. We want to hear Staffwriter from everybody.” Centor said that the project The Carnegie Mellon ad- showed a “commitment to stu- ministration hopes to develop dent experience.” the University Center into the The first level of the Uni- space facing Forbes Avenue versity Center addition will within the next three years, feature heavy and light free with additions including an weights, strength training, exercise area for strength service desk, locker rooms, training, cardio exercise and a meeting room. rooms, a cycling studio, and a Centor was a strong advo- multipurpose exercise studio. cate for a better weight room. A town hall presentation “Right now, our weight area was held by the University and is at the very back end. If you Cannon Design on Wednesday want to do serious strength in Rangos 3 to discuss Carn- training, you can’t do it.” The egie Mellon’s future University facility on the first floor will Center, part of the University’s therefore have newer, heavier 10-year master plan to expand weights and machinery. and renovate its facilities. The first floor will also Students and faculty at- house a new studio theater. tended the meeting, looking Elizabeth Vaughan, director to learn more about the proj- of student activities, said that ect and voice their concerns the studio theater would be and opinions. multifunctional, to be used for According to Associate Di- dance rehearsals and perfor- rector of Athletics Josh Cen- mances, music concerts, and tor, the athletics portion of the small theater productions. master plan has three phases. Greg Hanneman/Senior Photographer “We’re bursting at the seams The first phase has already The University Center addition will occupy the space in between the current building and Forbes Avenue, seen above. in terms of rehearsal space,” been completed with the in- Vaughan noted regarding the stallation of new turf on the progress; the third phase will scribes as “meeting the needs change the dynamics of cam- well as shelf space in the Uni- problems currently faced by soccer fields a few years ago. focus on renovations to Skibo of the campus community in pus by shifting the center of versity Center basement. many dance teams and per- “It has more than doubled oc- Gym. the realm of fitness and ath- the Pittsburgh campus. Ralph Horgan, associate formance groups at the uni- cupancy,” he said while com- Wednesday’s town hall letics” in the future University The new addition is ex- vice provost of campus design versity. plimenting the new fields. meeting focused on the sec- Center. According to the cur- pected to include a new fitness and facility development, not- The second phase is still in ond phase, which Centor de- rent plan, the renovations will center and studio theaters, as ed that the meeting “is not the See UC, A3 CMU research Students serve Nicaraguan youth KATE APOSTOLOU May, reflected on the group’s ways going to be glamorous group members’ desire not featured on PBS Junior Staffwriter success in gearing its work- and big,” Han said. “Some- just to complete projects but shops toward the needs of times it’s going to be small but also to reflect on the meaning LILAH BUCHANAN from Carnegie Mellon Univer- Members of Juntos, a the Nicaraguans, rather than really significant.” of their service. Junior Staffwriter sity’s School of Drama inter- cross-cultural service organi- imposing its own agenda. The Juntos co-leader Juan “We [Juntos] are really nalize specific emotions under zation, spoke about their ex- locals appreciated this atti- Acosta, a junior professional emphasizing the bigger ideas Advances in neuroscience an fMRI scanner. From these periences volunteering in Ni- tude, Juntos members said. writing and Hispanic studies and computational learning scans, researchers developed caragua last Thursday during “Helping others isn’t al- double major, stressed the See ABROAD, A3 developed in the basement of a computer-generated algo- the Tartans Abroad Showcase Wean Hall will be featured in rithm to identify emotions in the University Center. the second episode of the PBS that actors were portraying. The student group, which series “Brains on Trial with “It turns out there is focuses on service initiatives Alan Alda,” which airs this an enormous commonality in Rosa Grande, Nicaragua Wednesday. across people. This was never — as well as in Pittsburgh — The episode, narrated by known before — that our neu- recently received a Tartans actor and science advocate ral representations of objects, Abroad scholarship, which Alan Alda, features collabora- of emotions — of other things, helped members travel to Ni- tive research among Carnegie are common. Our brains all caragua last May. Mellon University’s profes- use the same code,” Just said. While there, students took sor of psychology Marcel Just “One of the most amazing part in various community- of the Center for Cognitive facets of this research is that building projects. In an edu- Brain Imaging, chair of the when you think of what an cational initiative, Juntos machine learning department apple is, things go on in your members developed mul- Tom Mitchell, and assistant brain, and you have brain ac- tiple workshops on how to professor of social and deci- tivation patterns,” Just added. use Microsoft Office, which sion sciences Karim Kassam. “...[T]he amazing thing is it’s they shared with Nicaraguan Just, Mitchell, and Kassam’s the same thing that happens professors. An art initiative research revealed unexpected in my brain.” took the form of a collabora- similarities among people’s These neurological pat- tive mural with village school neural representations of terns exist not only for objects children. concrete objects and specific like apples, but also for Junior business adminis- emotions. Just and his col- tration major Grace Han, who Briana Williams/Junior Photographer leagues had method actors See MIND, A3 traveled with the group in The Tartans Abroad Showcase featured students who had volunteered in Nicaragua as part of Juntos. FEATURE PHOTO Suicide Prevention Week Caribou Coffee closes, Peet’s to open next month BRIAN TRIMBOLI News Co-Editor “I’m excited for Peet’s .... They Carnegie Mellon students have really good pastries, their have been grieving the loss of coffee is really good, and they the Caribou Coffee on Forbes Avenue in Oakland, as well have really cool coffee mugs.” as Caribou Coffee locations in the Waterworks Mall and —Alice Borie Southside Works on East Car- son Street, all of which closed Sophomore information systems major on Sept. 8. Peet’s Coffee and Tea will Minneapolis and founded in formance by market to make replace many of Caribou Cof- 1992, has over 500 company- decisions that best position us fee’s current locations. owned locations across 16 for long-term growth.” “I like it better than Star- states and Washington, D.C., Sophomore biology and bucks; I’m not quite sure along with locations outside chemistry double major Jill why,” said sophomore biology the U.S., according to its Jaycox remembers an inci- and psychology double ma- website. dent when Caribou Coffee jor Nina Hill. “Starbucks is so According to the Pittsburgh made a positive impression commercialized, like, ‘Oh, let’s Post-Gazette, Mike Tatters- on her. “One day [I] was run- get some Starbucks.’ It’s like field, CEO of Caribou Coffee ning and got really thirsty, so the way people refer to Band- Co., wrote a statement that I went to Caribou Coffee and Aids, like instead of [calling “over the past few months, we they gave me free water. It Kate Groschner/Photo Editor them] adhesive bandages, at Caribou have revisited our was very nice — I’m a fan of Last Wednesday, suicide prevention group To Write Love on Her Arms planted black flags near the Fence to it’s Band-Aids. It’s branded.” business strategy, including bring attention to National Suicide Prevention Week. Caribou Coffee, based in closely evaluating our per- See COFFEE, A3 A2 « thetartan.org/news The Tartan » September 16, 2013 FEATURE PHOTOS NEWS IN BRIEF Delta Gamma hosts charity event New associate dean for research in engineering Carnegie Mellon recently as we seek to create enduring announced Gary Fedder, the innovation for the region and Howard M. Wilkoff professor the global marketplace,” Fed- of electrical and computer der said in a university press engineering, as the new as- release. sociate dean for research in Fedder played an impor- engineering. tant role in research that al- Fedder earned his bach- lowed Carnegie Mellon to elor’s and master’s degrees in become part of the U.S. De- electrical and computer engi- partment of Defense’s new neering from the Massachu- National Additive Manufac- setts Institute of Technology turing Innovation Institute in 1982 and his Ph.D. from (NAMII). the University of California, The Youngstown, Ohio- Berkeley in 1994. based institute is helping to Fedder will also continue develop additive manufac- as director of the Insitute for turing technology, commonly Complex Engineered Systems known as 3–D printing. with support from associate James H. Garret Jr., dean director Burak Ozdoganlar, of the College of Engineer- professor of mechanical engi- ing, and Thomas Lord profes- neering. sor of civil and environmen- Fedder came to Carnegie tal engineering, are pleased Mellon in 1994, working in with Fedder’s appointment. both the department of elec- “I am extremely pleased trical and computer engi- that Gary has agreed to be neering and the Robotics In- the first CIT associate dean stitute.

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