Students shouldn’t worry so Women’s basketball defense Exhibit features works by much about finals • A7 stifles opponents • A9 London-based artists • B8 FORUM SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan December 3, 2012 Volume 107, Issue 13 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Foreign languages speak to students As his term ends, LEAH PILEGGI sity. Susan Polanski, the head historically most popular lan- Carvalho has seen not just Special to The Tartan of Carnegie Mellon’s modern guages — Spanish, French, or an increase in enrollment in Cohon looks ahead languages department, said German — those who want to Portuguese courses at Pitt With a new semester ap- that at Carnegie Mellon, it’s try something different will (which now offers a minor in proaching, most Carnegie 52 percent. find a long list of languages to Portuguese), but also a broad- Mellon students are finalizing According to the MLA, in- choose from. And that list is ening awareness of Brazilian their schedules. For those stu- terest in language study has growing. culture, particularly music, dents who still need one more been steadily on the rise since The study of Portuguese, dance, and food. Pitt’s Brazil class, foreign languages are a the late ’90s. Executive Direc- in particular, is gaining popu- Club — the Brazil Nuts — be- trend that seems to be increas- tor Rosemary G. Feal said in larity. According to Ana Paula comes more active each year, ingly worthwhile. an MLA press release, “Stu- Carvalho, the University of recently hosting an annual According to a Modern dents increasingly see their Pittsburgh’s Portuguese lan- Brazil festival. Language Association (MLA) futures taking place in a mul- guage coordinator, one out of Last summer, Carvalho led enrollment survey, more than tilingual world, and they want two Latin Americans speaks a group of 14 Pitt undergradu- 1.6 million undergraduates language preparation to help Portuguese, as it has always ates in a unique study-abroad who attend American colleg- them function in that world.” been an important language. program in Brazil. es and universities this year Which foreign languages But now Brazil is the sixth “Over six weeks, the stu- will take at least one foreign are American undergraduates largest economy in the world, dents conducted research language class at some point studying these days? While 70 which has led to more de- studies in Brazil. They didn’t in their college careers. That percent pick one of the three mand for Portuguese speak- take classes. They set up in- works out to a national aver- ers in both business and terviews and used question- age of 9 percent per univer- international rela- naires, and then they finalized tions. their research papers after they returned to Pittsburgh,” Carvalho said. Students in the group were ma- joring in engineering, linguistics, and political science, and there was even one student from the dental school. File photo by Jonathan Carreon/Photo Editor Carvalho said, Jared Cohon answers questions about the presidential search. “Fourteen students BRENT HEARD a parking garage will have to were chosen out of 50 Assistant News Editor be spread evenly across park- applications, and all ing locations, being sure to of their expenses were Jared Cohon, president of emphasize that University covered.” the university, discussed the parking operates on a break- Another language presidential turnover and the even system. that students choose status of Carnegie Mellon’s “Yes, we know that’s the to study is Mandarin international campuses dur- site for Spring Carnival,” Co- Chinese. Enrollment has ing one of his final town hall hon said, adding, “I’m really risen in U.S. universities from meetings last Tuesday. glad the next president has to The event was held in deal with that.” Madelyn Glymour/News Editor See LANGUAGE, A3 Rangos 2 and had approxi- Cohon discussed Carnegie mately 80 attendees, a large Mellon’s international pro- increase from past years. grams, saying that, “Qatar Students and faculty were has already expanded this invited to submit their ques- year” with a new undergrad- Trejos discusses inequalities of trade tions ahead of time. Almost uate biology program that all of the questions pertained the university has created in ALVIN MATHEW stead of providing a classically to pressure smaller nations WTO led to difficulty in trad- to the upcoming presidential partnership with Cornell Uni- Junior Staffwriter American vantage point of the into accepting deals that they ing relations between coun- transition. versity. “We never thought WTO, Trejos spoke from the may not completely agree tries. In order to fix this issue, In response, Cohon said, we’d be teaching biology Former Minister of Foreign perspective of Costa Rica, a with, but are often forced to the former Minister of Foreign “I’m not involved in the there,” he said. Trade of Costa Rica Alberto financially weaker nation. accept due to their low finan- Trade proposed a more or- search,” but described how The university has almost Trejos presented a lecture Because Costa Rica’s fi- cial status. ganized system with clearer “the presidential search com- reached the end of its 10-year about the World Trade Orga- nancial standing does not ap- Speaking of Costa Rica, laws for trade. mittee reached out broadly agreement with Qatar, but it nization (WTO) last Friday at proach that of the European Trejos said, “We cannot push Matt Moses, an informa- to staff, faculty, students, is set to renew if no changes Hamburg Hall. Union or the U.S., Trejos not- control or lobby.... For us, tion security policy manage- alumni to find the character- are made. According to a university ed, his nation was different negotiations are very impor- ment Ph.D. student, was in- istics people thought the next Cohon moved on to men- press release, Trejos “was from “successful countries in tant.” terested by the alternative president should have.” tion successes with Carnegie Costa Rica’s lead negotiator at trade who do nothing where He stated that a major is- system proposed, remarking Cohon said that these re- Mellon’s California program the WTO and negotiated Cos- international negotiations are sue in the WTO is that high that the lecture made him sponses were then used to and the Heinz College’s Aus- ta Rica’s membership in the important to their strategy.” barriers, such as tariffs, are “think a lot about mechanism create a job description for tralian program which had Central America Free Trade Trejos claimed that larg- being used in order to nega- design [and] unanimity. It the next university president originally faced demand is- Agreement.” er nations are able to bully tively affect smaller countries. was refreshing to see someone and was used to create the list sues, but thanks to “creative Drawing on his knowledge smaller countries by offering He felt that barriers should be like him.” of candidates, which has now and aggressive efforts” is now of the international trade, deals that may help smaller kept low for exchange with Trejos disapproved of how been narrowed down to a few doing well. Trejos provided an innova- nations in some minor ways, other countries, because “na- trading rounds used by na- final selections. Addressing the campus in tive take on the issues facing but are far from preferable. tions want to play by the same tions are confronted with From there, staff, faculty, Rwanda, he said, “Rwanda the WTO and potential solu- By using such tactics, he rules.” Trejos also stated that and students will be able to is off to a good start aca- tions to these problems. In- said, larger countries are able the lack of organization in the See TREJOS, A3 interview the candidates. demically, but the neighbor- Cohon’s term as university hood they’re in is flaring up president is set to expire in again,” referring to conflict June, but the new president in the bordering region of the CMU CS professor spreads her wings is scheduled to be selected by Congo, which is embroiled in March, providing some over- a conflict with a Rwandan- BRIAN TRIMBOLI leaving the university in Janu- working at Carnegie Mellon the research goes, it’s really lap in leadership. related rebel group. Staffwriter ary to take a job as the head for the past 27 years. She be- helping to guide the faculty in In addition to discussing Cohon insisted that the of Microsoft’s international gan her college career at MIT looking out for new research the upcoming presidential university was assured of Jeannette Wing, head of research labs. as an electrical engineering directions and hunting oppor- transition, Cohon also spent the safety of its students and Carnegie Mellon’s computer Wing, a graduate of the major; Wing said she only be- tunities, so basically I stay in time addressing questions on staff, of which there are “26 science department since Massachusetts Institute of came interested in the field of the background and cheer the current plans for Carnegie outstanding masters stu- 2004, announced that she is Technology (MIT), has been computer science when she faculty on and support them Mellon’s growth and the state dents; all but two or three are took a required course in the in any way I can.” of satellite campuses. Rwandan, with the others subject and “fell in love with According to Randy Bry- Cohon said that the insti- from Kenya.” it.” ant, the dean of the School of tutional master plan, which The new graduate pro- According to her page on Computer Science, Microsoft was recently approved by the gram in China and a pilot the computer science depart- has been “wooing [Wing] on city of Pittsburgh, was “a very undergraduate engineering ment website, Wing’s general and off for all this time, and good one, an exciting one,” program in India were also research interests are “in the I guess this time they finally adding, “We’ve acquired a lot briefly discussed.